skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you read Foley and Van Dam's "Computer Graphics, Principles and Practice"? I think the narrative you're missing could be the history and theory of computer graphics research, and the recognition of the incredible ongoing contributions of artist-scientists in this field.

Photography has a deep and storied history and terminology and humanity emerging from experiments with a medium... That's what gives it life, and gives us things to discuss as photographers. But computer graphics has that same kind of story - thousands of research papers, experiments, and the work of millions of artists using and advancing the tools.

Generative art is a subset of computer graphics and is intertwined in its history. It is far more than artists playing with random numbers, the same way that photography is far more than pointing a sensor and pressing a button. There is an endless history of past attempts to build on, and huge amounts of mathematical and artistic theories to build, in both cases.

If you need help to see this as an art, consider reading Foley and Van Dam, and work to see the development of computer graphics techniques - and their application - as a form of art in itself, where we develop and explore experimental media and subject, without the constraints of physical reality. I believe that by working with graphics algorithms, as an artist and coder, you will see how the artistic and technical beauty of these algorithms combine to create a beautiful and compelling form of art.

I hope that after this, you will get endless joy from contemplating computer graphics, the way you get joy from photography. And I hope it will give you enjoyment of the more abstract and experimental side of things, and even the work in image AI, which challenges our identities and livelihoods as artists. Imo it's a very amazing time to be alive as an artist!
And, almost as a contrary, Tolstoy, My Religion. For example, he claims that
- the teachings of Jesus are a reflection of human needs; break them and you will suffer,
- every form of oath taking is forbidden; every time you align yourself with some external authority, you will suffer or do evil,
- no form of judging another is ever allowed; even the criminal justice system is against the teachings of the Christ,
- any form of non-monogamy leads to suffering; even just fantasizing about a woman who is not your wife will lead to suffering.

There’s more.

I’m not a Christian or religious. But this is radical. And interesting.
https://nylonmanila.com/big-bold-brave-awards-2024-favorite-... vote "SB19" 1000× A DAY"
From that article: "In fact, the only real purpose the guidance served was as a justification to suppress Americans’ free speech."

Criticising fact checkers is one thing and can get me partially on board, but any article sprinkling in such conspiracies automatically disqualifies itself to me as it is just clearly a propaganda machine with its own political agenda.
Topics of the mind are self-referential and so make most people self-select into three groups, in order of decreasing religious fanaticism:

1. Monistic physicalists. Here because of the school. We studied physics so everything looks like a nail: reality is made out of atoms, consciousness is an illusion, etc. The most vocal and fanatic crowd in tech.

2. Cartesian dualists. Soul vs. body, etc. Here because of the church. Surprisingly, there can be some degrees of rigour here. In tech circles, members are on average a bit less reluctant to switch to another group.

3. Monistic idealists. Here via critical reasoning, so could switch to another group if there was a good reason. See not only topics of the mind as self-referential, but every other topic as implicitly mind-referential.
Lovely bit of history. Thanks for sharing. There is an interesting undercurrent of the blind and the history of hacking. Iirc Cap'n Crunch learned about phreaking from a house of blind people who could also hear and whistle the control tones.
Parallel function calling agent without OpenAI
This is not a Christian belief, Augustine and Aquinas (among others) openly believed animals, plants, even stones, had souls. A lot of mistakes regarding Christian theology is people mistaking something they heard '30 years ago' with a millennia old religion
Knowing when you're at the limit of what you're able/willing to do and ducking out to go have a happy life strikes me as more mature, not less. Certainly he was a hobbyist and certainly he got lucky but what he did was still impressive for the time and choosing to step away is admirable imo
Kind of, it hasn't replaced anyone though. 3DCG just became good-enough basis for artists to build on, what AI bros have been fantasizing and advocating for couple years by now, yet completely ignored and mocked over.

Which tells, AI hatred don't necessary come from what pro-AI thinks where it comes from, people potentially just find AI art rage inducing.

Like, not even specific technical aspect of AI is bad or could use improvements. It just sits at the wrong side of the uncanny valley, and arguments clump around that.

That's the real problem with generative AI.
I mean, here's Time Magazine:

> There’s also a risk that grain yields will be curbed even more across western Europe, particularly in France, Spain and Portugal, according to Paris-based analyst Agritel.

( https://time.com/6187780/summer-heat-wave-europe-2022/ )

Or even more explicitly:

> Meanwhile, xenophobia in Spain is comparatively low compared to the rest of western Europe.

( https://time.com/4904858/jihadism-in-spain-history/ )

Here's the Washington Post:

> A historic and deadly heat wave has been scorching western Europe, killing hundreds in Spain and Portugal.

( https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/1... )

This isn't exactly an obscure question. I'm not sure where you got the idea that Spain might not be part of Western Europe, but it wasn't by contact with reality.
Mercedes Benz will keep charging you for subscription to their GPS service after you sell the car, because "you signed up for the full length of the contract". How is that legal?
F-1 was a design based around the limits of its time. The engineers were concerned about the challenges of controlling a large number of smaller engines, plus concerns about reliability with large numbers of smaller engines. It also had to be designed 'by hand', computers were not advanced enough to do much of the simulation driven refinement used nowadays. So, they traded off efficiency for large size, potential combustion instability and high thrust.

Now the technology has caught up, we can make small, highly efficient, powerful, reliable and restartable engines, and can control large numbers of them. Raptor being at the very peak of this, mass producible, cheapest in its class, throttleable, electrically restartable, very efficient and the highest thrust-to-weight ratio of any rocket engine.

Put differently, the F-1 has been beat in all measures that matter.
But any other app that would get big enough would end up just like that.
All those behaviors are just what happens when power gets concentrated (in a single company/group/hand, whatever the case may be).

So, what is actually needed is an interoperable standard so that people have choices to go and leave as they please depending on the behavior of the developers/companies.

Which is exactly what is being done, so that's convenient.

Now I wish we could legislate a way to make a new standard for email and allow people to run it from their home (just like personal mailbox) to remove that power from big tech.
The technical solution is probably not that hard but getting adoption without some sort of leverage is almost impossible...
If laws change; laws imply that things always work the same, but they don't. At a micro level the universe is describable in the aggregate, but seemingly unpredictable.

Science can change sure, but it cannot predict the unpredictable. You're not wrong to say science adapts but to say that quantum uncertainty hasn't caused the metaphysics of science (or at least some scientists) to change, is intellectual dishonesty.
I've got a tea kettle going on my gas stove right now and I feel fine.
Why need a login/account at all? What core functionality actually requires a server to be involved, from your point of view?

What we've seen again and again is apparently well-intended founders who say something like this.

Fast-forward a few years and for whatever reasons, the company transitions ownership, and the founder and original team are out of the decision-making loop. After which the already-gathered data gets increasingly exploited and the gathering of data from users expands, contrary to promises and intents of the founder.

By being stricter in your original implementation and application architecture as can be observed externally and from the point of view of the client, you make it harder to for silently break user trust without a way for users to detect it.
Hadn't heard about this either. Chris claims he left the Swift language committee because of toxic behavior claiming he got yelled at on a conference call.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30416070
Indeed, opening the full specs of the components and forbidding the DRM would solve the problem. I wish it was done.
Woz was a great engineer. He was years ahead of any other engineer on the planet in terms of building awesome PC designs. Millions of the computers he designed and programmed were sold, for billions of dollars. The computer he created was the "Model T" of the personal computer industry. It's hard to be more technically accomplished as an engineer.

He could not have done it without Steve Jobs. But Steve Jobs could not have done it without him, either.

Steve Jobs was a major believer in the idea of the 100x engineer. During his entire career, he always tried to hire them.

And why did Steve Jobs believe in hiring 100x engineers? Because he knew and worked with Steve Wozniak.
No, the orthodox advice is to get your information from your doctor or, if he's a doofus, directly from the local professional association (e.g. American Heart Association), who do the work of reviewing and weighing the literature for you.
Follow the money. Maybe Artemis is inneficient but it will still make some people a lot of money.
Why require a login/account at all? What core functionality actually depends on a server to be involved, from your point of view?
Parsec uses whatever server you tell it to.

Parsec will discover servers on LAN and/or with a port open and display them as distinct entries in the connection list, usually positioned in front of the central server options.

So there's no default as you're always the one choosing.
It should be obvious that the linear no-threshold model of radiation danger is so weak that other findings are possible. After all, the human body has some repair mechanisms. Vitamin D is just the most well-known positive effect of sunlight.
I have one of the classic severe photodermatoses and, well, tough luck for me, I guess. I must take some fairly annoying measures if I wish to avoid pain and disfigurement.

As to the Vitamin D angle, the more I look into it, the more I see that it is a balancing act, and you need other supplements in a particular ratio for it to be more effective.
Then you must be old. Even in western countries Spy x Family (which the character is from) has sold millions of copies, while most people read mangas online and won't be counted. In the country I am from I frequently see people wearing merch of it, mostly because Uniqlo has had a successful line of it. And that is just one manga/anime out of hundreds of popular ones.

Using anime characters is similar to boomer nerds referencing Marvel/DC comics , Star Wars etc.
You can also go middleground and for example for GNOME use one of several tiling extensions. I use Forge and its working great.
I feel like I probably agree with about 80% of this. It also seems like this would apply fairly well to C++ as well.

One thing that I'll strongly quibble with: "Use double rather than float, unless you have a specific reason otherwise".

As a graphics programmer, I've found that single precision will do just fine in the vast majority of cases. I've also found that it's often better to try to make my code work well in the single precision while keeping an eye out for precision loss. Then I can either rewrite my math to try to avoid the precision loss, or selectively use double precision just in the parts where its needed. I think that using double precision from the start is a big hammer that's often unneeded. And using single precision buys you double the number of floats moving through your cache and memory bandwidth compared to using double precision.
I thought the A1 and the A1(M) were just names for different parts of the same road?
Materialism is rather obviously correct when it comes to consciousness just based on what we know brain damage does to humans.

But what does this have to do with problem of consciousness or internal experiences? There's no reason why the latter cannot be a material process.

As for the linguists... people forget these days, but before the AI winter, there were many experiments trying to build an AI by modeling the language. And what they learned from it is that when you have enough compute and just throw it at a neural net, you get better results (there was even a joke about AI progress being inversely proportional to the number of linguists working on it). Which, to put it bluntly, means that our understanding of language is still very lacking, and quite likely to be fundamentally wrong some respects. I don't think those people are in a position to judge at that point; not until they figure out language enough to program something that can talk as well as GPT-4 does.
If not needed under 10 I'd make it manually like you say.

For above 10 I'd make a jig to either cut and punch holes in 3mm plexiglass sheets, or a jig to quickly make cardboard moulds into which I'd place the pins and pour resin into.

To me, either of the above is preferable to ordering 10k of them.
For a lot of simple and obvious things the formula should be to call and report a "disagreement". The government employee who took the call [immediately] calls to hear the company side of the story and orders it to correct it's behavior or may chose to issue a fine. The issue is resolved in 5-20 minutes. A different fine tailored for the size of the company for not responding fast enough. If the company disagrees with the verdict they may take the government agency to court. This should mostly happen if the issue is arguably not simple and obvious enough. If the customer disagrees the court is also there to figure out the mess.

> Private individuals should not have to waste their time in the legal system to defend laws that the government created.

Government should not make a mockery of it self by creating laws that it doesn't intend to enforce or is incapable of.
Surprised no one is mentioning vitamin D. As I understood it, sun exposure is one of the few ways the body is supplied with this vitamin in a usable form.

Vitamin D is essential for the immune system so a correlation between a lack of sun exposure and ill-health seems almost so obvious it's a wonder it needs studying. What would be useful is the exact parameters around sun exposure/vit D metabolism.
I mostly agree with you but we should also be realistic about people's lives and modern day challenges.

It's easier to enjoy life when you're not worrying about providing for one self and their family, though.

Some people work two jobs to provide for themselves or their family. Even here, some people work crazy hours.

You need to have enough left over lucidity, energy, and will power in you to enjoy life after dealing with life's challenges.

I'm ignoring the health aspects too, and it's becoming increasingly more expensive to stay healthy in urban settings too.
He's a JavaScript dev
You're just shoehorning in the assumption that people had diarrhea a lot, because that's the trope about medieval Europe. But if everybody lives in a well-established traditional way (and there's no current war or plague in the area) then they will also know by tradition the springs, streams and wells that yield clean water.

In Georgian times, around 1800, coal-based industry gets under way, there's a population explosion, and many cities have properly horrific slums, latrine courtyards ankle deep, families living with pigs in wet cellars, graveyards overflowing ex-human slurry into the street. This is also when we invent bottled water, and if you can't get that, beer is a good option for safety reasons.

But in calmer medieval times, avoiding the local water can't have been so crucial, because the locals probably knew where to get the clean-ish stuff (however harmlessly brown or wriggling).
This is an unfair and snide take on Woz. We are literally standing on the shoulders of giants — Woz happens to be one of them.
If a landlord has a mortgage on the property and can't afford to pay it without the tenant's money, they can't afford to be a landlord. Otherwise, they're doing arbitrage and there's no reason this shouldn't come with risk.

Why do we treat landlords as a business type that simply isn't allowed to take a loss?
Their price for the small runs already is discounted if they think they can reuse them.

You don't really want to pay full price anyway.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40341716
> What do you mean by the basic building blocks of reality?

I was thinking photons which, when passed through a diffraction grating one at a time will cause an interference pattern on average but whose individual course is -- as far as we know -- unpredictable.

This flies in the face of the idea that the universe is perfectly predictable.

> The very machine you are posting your comment from can only be manufactured because the laws of physics don't change, and these machines and their manufacturing process operate on the atomic level

Indeed.. an axiomatic religious belief that has incredible amounts of evidence and that has proven very useful, but for the reason I mentioned above, certainly could not be the case. We shouldn't confuse the laws of statistics either certainty, even if the law of large numbers usually works.

> Similarly, do you have an example of a well defined experiment that would not produce the same result consistently?

I mean there are hundreds of them at this point. Passing single electrons or photons or buckeyballs through diffraction gratings (humans too!, we think). The stern Gerlach experiment. I can go on. Determining the individual spin states of entangled pairs of particles.

> Lastly, if someone did produce an experiment that did not produce consistent results, that is, an experiment performed twice with all variables staying the same, but the result of the experiment being different, then the theory that all well defined experiments are reproducible would be wrong

Well like I said we have lots of experiments whose results are different and who we cannot predict (some of which the math says we can never know), and yet, at the macro level we do science anyway because of our religious belief that it usually is okay.

For someone who purports to defend science, I'm shocked at the level of ignorance yet arrogance in this comment.
The problem with xorg is per monitor scaling. If your laptop is 4k and you want 2x scaling and your external monitor is a 32" 4k monitor that doesn't need scaling (or 1.25x) then you're basically shit out of luck with Xorg.

I think it's on the verge of being impossible to be honest. If you don't need any scaling then yeah, xrandr is fine. I ran 4 24" monitors, 2 horizontal and 2 vertical and xrandar handles it just fine.
I have no experience but you might like to follow Matt Bateman on Twitter.
Though a single study doesn’t create a causal link anyways. When they write that, it contributes to the meme that a study can reveal causation rather than march the convergence of evidence towards causal inferences.

All studies investigate correlation and that’s okay. Though this discussion overshadows that study’s actual problems.

I wager it’s only on HN because its title is an excuse for everyone to hone their hobby horse opinion on sun exposure.
That must be pretty location dependent. When I've used it the prices were usually dramatically lower, especially if you want something specific like AWD.
That film has one of the smallest numbers I've seen in an IMDB title URL. The director would make something like 200 more one-reel films in the next 4 years ... before his murder.
Starship HLS can lift much more than 50kg, but since Congress/NASA requires Orion to be the return vehicle, the amount they can return is limited by that, which only has a 100kg payload return capacity (and presumably a chunk of that is going to be taken up by food, spacesuits etc).

Same with why each stay is going to have to be just ~1 week. Starship can obviously carry more than enough stuff for 2 people to live off for months. But Orion is only able to stay undocked for 21 days.
I felt this little story did a good job of illustrating why a tiny space station around the Moon might not be very useful at this stage of the program, even though it sounds cool.

I’m assuming the article is not written for experts but for laypeople like myself who haven’t read much about Artemis beyond NASA’s hype. For that audience it’s useful to explain with real-world analogies why these program goals might be problematic. But If you have a better analogy in mind to describe the purpose of Gateway, I’d be interested to hear it.
https://archive.md/Os2tt
> However, if we hold the latter, manufacturing a “true” artificial consciousness may be unachievable using the means we employ (it might be just a philosophical zombie).

Coincidentally, this is why I'm generally wary of this line of thinking. It does remind me of Descartes, who was arguing that animals couldn't "really" feel pain (and thus e.g. vivisection is perfectly ethical): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes#On_animals
PowerPoint formatting and content generate with OpenAI
100% agree, Apple should play their Trump card and end up in the positions where Trump is now, sued for their user hostile and ant-competitive practices.
And if Apple does pull out of EU and let their competitors roam free in a market of 400 mil people, what could possibly go wrong for Apple?
As a army general once said paraphrased "You fly with what you have".
When will Starship and Glenn be ready to achieve trans lunar injection ???.
For certain geographies they are necessary (esp if you wanna flex). Equal trips in car+plane would take forever.
> portraying an ineffable, unobservable stream of will

I'm not sure why you feel the need to bring divinity into this. The universe is not purely a automaton not because of some purported unobservable god, but simply because all experiments indicate that we cannot predict the behavior of the basic building blocks of the universe.
Depending on the finetuning tool you're using, you can just start the training run, and then it shows you how long it'll take. Like give it 5 mins to stabilise, then see the estimated duration.

Axolotl is a good finetuning tool if you need one.
Yeah he had luck. And so what ? Good for him. He is not claiming anything else.

I don’t know if there is a real myth around him but it doesn’t looks like he is trying to maintain it.

The guy really looks like he just wants to be happy in life and would prefer not be a celebrity.

It looks like he is a worse entrepreneur than Jobs, sure, but a better father and a better human overall, that’s pretty sure. I feel like that’s a pretty mature behavior if you ask me.
Legacydns: Simple DNS server that to work with legacy IPv4 addresses
> I'm OpenAI GPT-9, and there are 13,784,312 fungible instances of me currently running

This reminded me of https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
Performance, Asynchronous, Speed Like Rust Extension