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Show HN: GLB2PNG – Screenshot API for GLB/glTF 3D Models
Hey fellow hackers!

I’m the creator of the GLB 2 PNG screenshot API: https://www.flowkit.app/glb2png

I aimed to create a fast and easy-to-use API to create screenshots/renderings of 3D models.

Example:
https://www.flowkit.app/s/demo/r/rh:-45,rv:15,s:512/u/https:...

This URL renders a 3D model (specified at the end of the link) with:

- -45° horizontal rotation

- 15° vertical rotation

- 512px size

Feel free to tweak these values in the URL and see the results!

Use cases where this could be valuable:

- Configurators: Generate images or thumbnails for different material variations or add-ons (my background).

- Marketplaces: Automate the rendering process for uploaded 3D files.

- IP Protection: Safeguard your 3D files by displaying only rendered images.

- AI Integration: Combine with APIs like OpenAI’s Vision API to categorize or analyze 3D files.

Thanks for reading! I’d love to hear your feedback or suggestions from the HN community
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And I’m arguing, rhetorically, what if your name produces a syntax error—or worse means something semantically devious—in the query language I’m using? Not all problems look like script tags and semicolons.
The question was what he censored, not what was allowed. Allowing something is not a case of censorship.
> Both of those things cannot be true at the same time. Either school is important, in which case both the parents pushing their children and the children pushing themselves are doing the right thing to improve their chances of later success, or it is NOT important, in which case it doesn't matter anyway which school the other children end up in.

Trying to get a less academic kid into grammar school isn't going to help them. Maybe I can provide a bit of context.

The grammar school is highly academic. The kid is certainly above my level of attainment when I was his age. I went to a non-selective international school, ending with the IB.

The kids are tested, every week, in a variety of subjects. I don't think a week has gone by without some sort of test. It is a constant grind of math, multiple sciences, humanities, and three languages. Not every kid enjoys that kind of thing, or even benefits from the pressure.

If you manage to Fosbury Flop your kid into a school like this, you're actually doing them a disservice. They will hate being constantly pushed academically, and they will not find fellowship with the kind of kid who enjoys it.

At the same time, there will be poor kids who didn't know the tricks of the exam, and didn't get in, who would have been better off at the school.
Sounds like the types of projects I can make with a Pico will be rather limited if I am a beginner. Thanks!
"How do you know" teaches us something; "how do you perceive it" does not.
There should really be a name for this phenomenon; put basically anything on the internet, and sooner or later people will try to host arbitrary files on it.
Well, the labels of input fields are written in English yet user enters his name in native language.

What's the reason of having name at all? You can call the person by this name. But if I write you my name in my language, what you (not knowing how to read it) can do? Only "hey, still-don't-know-you, here is your info".

In my foreign passport I have name __transliterated__ to Latin alphabet. Shouldn't this be the case for other places?
Show HN: Secured Env – Utility script to source env variables from 1Password
They should call them 'eras'. Then they can explain that epochs did not lead to a new era in the language, but eras will mark the next epoch of C++.
You buy F-35s to protect yourself from the mafia .
There are some valid reasons to use software in English as a German speaker. Main among those is probably translations.

If you can speak English, you might be better of using the software in English, as having to deal with the English language can often be less of hassle, than having to deal with inconsistent, weird, or outright wrong translations.

Even high quality translations might run into issues, where the same thing is translated once as "A" and then as "B" in another context. Or run into issues where there is an English technical term being used, that has no prefect equivalent in German (i.e. a translation does exist, but is not a well-known, clearly defined technical term). More often than not though, translations are anything but high quality. Even in expensive products from big international companies.
I find it so weird that people constantly speak as though public transport is this hypothetical maybe like a moon base or something. I use exclusively public transport, bikes, and walking. My whole family (with children) does. It's just not a problem.

Children walk or cycle to and from school. By themselves. When they're very young their parents did go and pick them up sure, but then its a small school within walking distance.

We rented a car and a trailer for a couple hours recently to move a double bed. It posed no problem, and was dramatically cheaper than owning a car for a month would be even if the car itself was free.

I got a nice cabinet for my friend recently. We are going to take the drawers out and move it to his place on a bus. I don't think it would fit in your car.
So, the reason I think the argument on Turing completeness matters here, is that if we accept that an LLM and a brain are both Turing complete, then while you're right that there can be Turing complete systems that are so different in performance characteristics that some are entirely impractical (Turings original UTM is an example of a Turing complete system that is too slow for practical use), if they are both Turing complete the brain is then both an existence-proof for the ability of Turing machines to be made to reason and gives us an upper limit in terms of volume and power needed to achieve human-level reasoning.

It may take us a long time to get there (it's possible we never will), and it may take significant architectural improvements (so it's not a given current LLM architectures can compete on performance), but if both are Turing complete (and not more) then dismissing the human ability to do so is

It means those who dismiss LLM's as "just" next token predictors assuming that this says something about the possibility of reasoning don't have a leg to stand on. And this is why the Turing completeness argument matters to me. I regularly get in heated arguments with people who get very upset at the notion that LLMs can possibly ever reason - this isn't a hypothetical.

> And vice versa. While Deutsch tends to claim that humans will be able to run any computation that ASI will run in the future, I would claim that to the extent a human is able to act as Turing Complete, such computations may take more than a lifetime and possibly longer than the time until the heat death of the universe.

If you mean "act as" in the sense of following operations of a Turing-style UTM with tape, then sure, that will be impractically slow for pretty much everything. Our ability to do so (and the total lack of evidence that we can do anything which exceeds Turing completeness) just serves as a simple way of proving we are Turing complete. In practice, we do most things in far faster ways than simulating a UTM. But I agree with you that I don't think humans can compete with computers in the long run irrespective of the type of problem.
Any debris that gains energy doesn't get circularized so it's perigee is still low and for that reason it still deorbits quickly.

If this happens, then LEO becomes uneconomical for unimportant satellites for a few years. If you really need a really important satellite in LEO you can still put it there and just eat the increased attrition rate. Higher orbits will still be fine, particularly very high orbits like GEO where you can put most really important satellites if you really need them. Kessler syndrome in LEO wrecks commercial operation of LEO satellites for a few years, that's it. It doesn't stop humanity from launching weather satellites, military and communication satellites, space probes, etc. If a satellite really matters to society, a higher attrition rate increases costs but we have the means to launch many replacements for relatively small amounts of money. It's quite literally a non issue.

Furthermore, it's not even likely to happen anyway because ground tracking of debris is very good and these satellites can modify their orbits or even preemptively deorbit themselves if the situation becomes too dicy. The most likely circumstance that causes Kessler syndrome is a major war in which many LEO satellites are rapidly and violently knocked out without warning. But if there's a major war kicking off, the cost to humanity will be so great that crying about satellite casualties will probably get you punched in the face for being so insensitive about people dying.
From the blogpost: "wider contributions to science, engineering or medicine through leadership, organisation, scholarship or communication" He's clearly relevant based on contribution to engineering (maybe science too) through organization (maybe leadership, communication too).
By thinking, or by spending money?
If it was just scientific consensus and politics, that would be one thing — while I share the author's opinion in these aspects, I recognise these aspects are not sufficient for such a response.

To actively stir up trouble and misrepresent other scientists, and to perform experiments outside recognised ethical norms as Musk does, is much much worse.

And also very obviously a violation of the quoted rules, and brings the society into disrepute.
It doesn't seem like there was an additional recent event here, but the article summarizes the activity so far.

The ipde.com blog has many posts covering the events as they happened: https://ipde.com/blog/tag/mavexar/, the author Andrew_Russell is also on HN.
Ever since GitHub was bought by Microsoft things have got worse for me as an end user -- browser compatibility is worse and I run into bugs frequently when on not-chrome; their academic programme now requires an insanely invasive localisation check that instantly fails for me on Linux and their support couldn't advance the process as I hadn't submitted an application yet; and their tooling slowly pushes people away from FOSS and towards proprietary methods. I wish they'd figure out how to make it a hacker friendly place again.
I'd happily pay a fixed fee for a self-hostable desktop app version of this, that just uses Ollama/ChatGPT/Claude for the LLM part. Ideally open source too.

But yet another subscription? ... no thanks
Satellite phones are not some special new thing anyways
Europe is under attack from Russia. Why isn't it fighting back?
Agree.

The UI prompt was: “Are you sure you want to discard ALL changes. This is IRREVERSIBLE.”

This, after the user wanted to stage their files for the first time. What does “changes” even mean in that context?

But also trying a new tool on 5k files that aren’t saved elsewhere isn’t advisable.
Soros was a funder on some of Trump’s projects in the 2000s and donated $160,000 to his 2016 campaign. The elevation of Bessent as Treasury Secretary is not a different trend.
NFS client code occasionally triggered this in the (distant) past, but that's just how it is when 'hard' mount option is chosen and the server becomes inaccessible for a prolonged time. The solution there is to get a reliable, sufficiently capable server and network (NOT to use 'soft' mounts as that can lead to silent data corruption) (and avoid cross-ocean mounts ;-}

But yes, running a VM on a grossly overloaded (over-committed memory?) host might trip timeout warnings as this as well.
w3c recommends adding a separate field for pronounciation - see e.g. paragraph after second image in https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names...
> It's very strange to read an article complaining about the homogenization of the cultural elite that name drops the university of every author of a book/article that supports his opinion.

He is in general very sloppy about this kind of thing. He famously said Obama wasn't able to fit in with working people, because you can't imagine him at an Applebee's salad bar. Well, Applebee's doesn't have a salad bar, so he was ironically outing himself as the elitist. There was also the more serious problem of fabricating claims about visiting restaurants and not being able to spend $20, something that was easily debunked.
> or if you have to interact with some legacy service.

Which happens almost every day in the real world.
No news; at their scale seems more likely we will see a Pico 3 than an errata only respin but that is only a guess.
Obviously, it would be much better not to have errata, but are you breadboarding a Pico to try and do custom touch sensing? This is much more an issue for custom PCBs trying to use the bare chip.
It may or may not be relevant to your case, but every time a story like this comes up I will remind people in general that fiber-optic cable is 50 cents per meter (probably $1 per meter Australian), wireless links cost equipment and a regulatory approval fee and are easier in less densely populated areas, and there are tons and tons of stories of people dissatisfied with their ISP creating a better competitor, your neighbours are likely as frustrated as you if they use the Internet, and there is no minimum size to an ISP.
I feel similarly. I agree Musk doesn't belong in the RS, but I'd have said the same in 2018 (I missed the news). It's concerning that the author has only come to this realization now that Musk vocally disagrees with her political views. I don't consider that principled at all
There's already "parasitic computation" so we could probably go for "parasitic data storage"
I mean, honestly, losing Dorsey was probably a big part of its success.
I’m not sure I understand your viewpoint.

The OP said “the most successful businessman in the world”.

Sure one can argue about how OP came to that conclusion, by what measure, etc, but the man produced a highly successful car company, in a field nobody has really been able to do it, under terms where everyone was counting down the days until it went bankrupt.

That alone is an amazing feat.

Then he went on to create a rocket company that broke barriers of space travel no one has been able to do.

Then he started a satellite company that pushed the boundaries of communication for the average person.

I’d say all those feats are worthy of praise and make him a person who stands out significantly from any other businessman in recent history.

So saying he’s the “most successful businessman” doesn’t seem like an absurd or overly hyperbolic statement.

And how you got “stroking off” or the even more absurd “bootlicking” from that statement is just bizarre. I saw zero evidence of either.

I’d say your comments are the odd ones here and say more about you than the OP.
I can't keep track of all conspiracy theories Musk has amplified or told himself, but there is another example with Fauci directly linked to vaccines in the blog post.
So some brown-nosers thought to pull Musk in because they thought it would get them some news and mentions and so on, possibly be financially advantageous in some way despite him not really being a scientist.

That seems to have been easy, but removing him now...oh...well....so difficult.

Similarly how easy it was to suck up to Russian billionaires in London and so difficult to sanction them when things went sour. We knew they were crooks back then but lots of people benefited from ignoring it.
“Hosting websites” has been possible on nostr for some time already with npub.pro …
My experience with projectors is that they are noisy, power hungry beasts with display quality far inferior to monitors. Has that changed?
The whole point of the discussion is that there would be no single answer to that question: the number will vary by location, and by the current availability of power, because it becomes a price signal.

It would likely converge on wind farm strike prices plus margin, so about 10p/kWh .. if you lived in Scotland or near the coast. Being a localized market I would expect to see higher prices in London.

But there's also a risk of spikes. You'd probably want a regulatory guarantee of maximum prices, I think during the Texas crisis it got over $100/unit at one point.
It was a long time ago that I have looked into this. My understanding from the political science is that countries where farmers votes aren't as important, also have far less subsidizes.

Groups that already have subsidizes are better at defending them. Even if in absolute terms their numbers aren't as big.
This is another example of how badly mislead people can become despite being smart. This is a man who is virtuous, true - just! Or has been for many years, in his mind on the 'good' side. And he's certainly done a lot of good. But...

He is now in the time for his /excesses/ to be called out. Research and science are great; the replication crisis and wasted time/effort were not. Excess should be called out.

Elon is directionally the agent calling out the excesses of the covid era (that's the time period Elon began his shift rightward) and he'll make some missteps - like the anti fauci stuff - but by and large a course correction is needed. Elon is mainly fighting for his Rockets to go up faster and he'll back whichever horse gets him there quickest. So do I pay attention to the guy launching the future or the guy letting his heart bleed out in a blogpost?

I do feel worried about the Britons. Their economy is slumping, cultural prestige waning (it'll be gone by GEN alpha), and I've heard reports they lock up people over facebook posts. I know not all of those things are 100% true but if even their Royal Society members can't seem to avoid falling to political squabble and see the long horizons of history, I worry for their future.
At first I thought you misspelled TDRSS but then I found out that IDRS is a thing: https://www.idrsspace.com/

Its too big and power hungry to fit inside 10x20x30 cm cubesat though :( More reason to go bigger
I agree a (temporary) monopoly is totally OK. Normal in fact.

But the parent comment was specifically celebrating a long term, unassailable monopoly.
It will be. We had the same issue with Matrix attachments.
> and most likely did know that pregnant women in the trail had a lot of "spontaneous abortions"

This is incorrect information

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10152171/

Pregnant women are at higher risk of getting COVID which is liked to preterm birth
No, the public gives them no money and they make money for the country by exporting.
not to git but there are bots to export to ie gitlab
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Brown: Check

Unamerican name: Check

Suitcase with wires: Check

What more proof do you need he's a terrorist?
Mentioned in the article, but the source is the excellent YouTube documentary Valve released for Half-Life 2's 20th Anniversary [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjNT9qGjh4
Tangent: my understanding is the Zuckerberg wanted to do something similar and even paid SpaceX to launch a satellite (which was unsuccessful).

It seems Musk liked the idea so much that he decided to do it himself.

To me, this (along with Zuck's issues with Apple over the app store) explains a lot about why Zuck 2.0 has been so focused with avoiding platform risk with recent endeavours.
Perhaps the very idea of having standardized evaluations needs to be questioned. Anything that can be measured will be gamed. Nothing “repeatable” can capture the whole value of a human being.
There are already services like Firsty[1] that use an eSIM to achieve this.

1. https://www.firsty.app/
The Royal Society is important because it is where the UK government go when they need good advice on scientific issues. Many people in the US might think that their government doesn't need good advice on scientific issues but, as they will find out, they are wrong.
What’s wrong with the tried-and-tested technique of flying a guy or girl over there to drop a small gadget in WiFi proximity?
If it was Musk's intent (but I doubt it was the case, because it does not fit with a lot of other things that Musk did or said that show he is aiming at Faucci role in vaccine discussions), he should have acted to avoid poisoning the debate. There were plenty of "normal" way to do it, and in fact, other members of the Royal Society have done so and have expressed concerns when similar things have happened.

To me, it sounds like "Sure, Musk pooped in his hand and thrown it to the speaker during the conference, but the speaker made a sign mistake in their equation". If someone is saying that this attitude is awful, it does not mean that this person is pretending that the sign mistake did not occur and should not be corrected.
> And not just that they exist, but that they are specified per module

Nitpick: editions are specified per crate, not per module.

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Also note that editions allow to make mostly syntactic changes (add/remove syntax or change the meaning of existing ones), however it is greatly limited in what can be changed in the standard library because ultimately that is a crate dependency shared by all other crates.
I think the world at large today could use a few more people appealing to our better natures. For that, this is a wonderful statement.

I wish there was a way to moderate our modern discourse to be closer to finding ways forward together, rather than dividing ourselves further. Elon’s entire schtick these days is to move faster than regulatory bodies can align. I hoped for an attempt at amending the RS statutes for clarity and boundaries, rather than resignation from the battle entirely. Perhaps as proof that some boundaries can be reactive to anyone regardless of influence.

I can’t think of many causes worth fighting for that can be won through resignation, certainly never within research or scientific contexts.
Going to stick my neck out here.

A lot of these "improvements" fall into the following 3 categories:

1) More complexity around issue tracking

2) More complexity around permissions

3) IDE-ness and general visual-studioification of the web interface.

Since many of the issues make GitHub bloated and more difficult to use for general use cases, they _should_ be removed.
I wonder why it's called 'Owl Lisp' instead of 'Owl Scheme'. Could make a funny parallel to Chicken Scheme.
> if your company was capable of creating a better solution to this standard problem, why wouldn't you be selling it?

Let's pretend I'm the greatest DevOps software developer engineer ever, and I write a Kubernetes replacement that's 100x better. Since it's 100x better, I simply charge 100x as much as it costs per CPU/RAM for a Kubernetes license to a 1,000 customers, and take all of that money to the bank and I deposit my check for $0.

I don't disagree with the rest of the comment, but the market for the software to host a web app is a weird market.
My esteem of the Royal Society is lessened by the realisation that it admits not just scientists, but also mere CEOs who aren’t scientists themselves. Would Henry Ford be admitted? In my opinion that inflates the prestige of membership.