skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what I said. I said, especially in conjunction with correct medication.

You're not arguing in good faith, and haven't everywhere you've commented in this thread. You've been nasty, short, and insulting to everyone you've engaged with.

Equating the benefits of meditation and learning to exercise the muscle of attention to "vagina crystals" is pure ignorance with an agenda.
Oh, he committed a crime? Can you link us to an article about the charge and the conviction?

Or is it the case that neither one of those exist at this time... And you are judging him for a crime that he has not yet been charged for, let alone convicted... One might almost say... For a pre-crime...
> I am describing my experience living in working class conditions in the rust belt, before moving to the coast.

> Describing that as a "mythos of the working class that obfuscates reality" sounds detached from reality, honestly.

No, what is detached from reality is asserting lived experience as universal experience. In response to someone benignly acknowledging that their material conditions ease satisfying their social needs, you made an assumption, rather abrasively, that they don't wish to associate with poor people and that they think poor people are incapable of creating/maintaining community.

> I really don't think that's as big of an issue as you - or the original commenter - are making them out to be.

Of course not, your lived experience doesn't allow you to see it that way. But there are experiences other than yours, such as the person in the part of my comment which you didn't quote: they are often stuck building their safety and security in the hierarchy of needs. If your mythos of the working class only includes your experiences rather than a culmination of varying experiences, it obfuscates reality.
title really should just be "Blender 4.4"
I think you misinterpreted the comment you are replying to. It didn’t say anything about the phrase being discriminatory.
Umm, surely you've heard of exchange students, right? Foreign student comes, stays with a family for a semester or school year. Helps with the chores.

We had exchange students in our school.

There's also sites for people who want to host foreign visitors.

https://justlikehome.com/become-a-host/

> Our homestay program is designed exclusively for our international visitors. Hosting international visitors is the best way to experience the world without leaving your home! Hosting provides families with the unique opportunity to share their cultures and learn about different cultures, all while being in the comfort of their own homes.

https://www.workaway.info/en/hosttype/family

> With Workaway you can find 14136 local hosts and families for volunteering around the world. Low cost immersive travel without having to pay expensive agency fees.

The entire idea of couchsurfing is that people will let strangers into their home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CouchSurfing

> The idea arose after Fenton found a cheap flight from Boston to Iceland but did not have lodging. Fenton hacked into a database of the University of Iceland and randomly e-mailed 1,500 students asking for a homestay. He received between 50 and 100 offers and chose to stay at the home of an Icelandic rhythm and blues singer.

CouchSurfing is the real sharing economy, not the BS that Airbnb pushes.

Don't look only to your own feelings to deny what other people clearly do.
Generally not the worst assumption, but these guys have been around for a decade plus
Maybe with excess solar, to some extent.
> Not one open source project larger than a library has gotten anywhere major without corporate sponsorship.

Let's think on this statement a little. From top of my head:

- VLC
- Darktable
- rsync
- KDE as in the Desktop Environment
- Clementine Music Player
- MusicBrainz Picard
- GIMP
- Zotero
- GNU Octave
- Kid3
- KMail
- etc, etc...
The fact that you can unironically put the "only" modifier on a training time of 2.8 million GPU hours is nuts.
Interestingly it transforms the page into markdown for navigation.
Adjusting the length of an array is a basic operation that should be in any language that has arrays/vectors.
Because the thread was discussing CG becoming a commodity and Toy Story was the first thing that popped into mind for 90s CG; I have a vague recollection that it was the first feature-length full-CG film.

I only checked its production budget while writing my comment.
Obviously Autodesk is massive beyond Maya and animation.

Do you expect this to influence their profits significantly? If yes when?

Did they already "react" to Blender (e.g. by speeding up development)?
What / who is the leading edge of 3D AI? I took a look into it last year and the best tools were still a very long away from producing usable results (couldn't keep tri count under control, spiderweb rigging, shape jank, etc).
And it goes the other way too, one crappy update means complete chaos.
#1 has an easy fix.

Clone the dependency you want to use in the directory of your code.

Instruct it to go into the directory and look at that code in order to complete task X: "I've got a new directory xyz, in it contains a library to do feature abc. I'll need to include it here to do A to function B and so on"

The weird version mixing bug will disappear. If it's closed source, then just do the documentation.

You need to line up the breadcrumbs right.

#2 is "create a patch file that does X. Do not apply it". Followed by "apply the previous patch file". Manually splitting the task fixes the attention.

Another method is to modify the code. Don't use "to-do" it will get confused. Instead use something meaningless like 1gwvDn, then at the appropriate place

[1gwvDn: insert blah here]

Then go to the agent and say

"I've changed the file and given you instructions in the form [1gwvDn:<instructions>]. Go through the code and do each individually.

Then the breadcrumbs are right and it doesn't start deleting giant blocks of code and breaking things

#3 You will never start anything unless you convince yourself it's going to be easy. I know some people will disagree with this. They're wrong. You need to tell yourself it's doable before you attempt it.

#4 is because we lose ownership of the code and end up playing manager. So we do the human thing of asking the computer to do increasingly trivial things because it's "the computer's" code. Realize you're doing that and don't be dumb about it.
The beginning of the article answers to your question.
except for Maya, Blender, etc it’s mostly about making assumptions based on past tooling

I think you're mistaking the necessity of not straying too much from the actual math going on underneath with an attachment of old tools.

eventually there will be a Logic to change those bad habits!

Go ahead and give an example of 'a Logic' so you can show some evidence for this.
> "disabled later" because "it caused problems"

;-(
That abstraction layer that does not exist today looks a lot like the many high level architectural design languages that were hot in the 90s. Never heard of UML?
> It’s a tradeoff like anything else.

Could not disagree harder with the sentiment. Selling your kidneys for $20 is a tradeoff too. You can't just throw "it's a tradeoff" around as a go-to discussion and critical thought ender.
I’m so tempted to use a car insurance app, but in the end I don’t want to run a tracker
WOW PCA. That is some old ML right here. Last time I did PCA was for flows in an undergrad paper. It's been 15 years!
Correct! Hence the need to switch to single-payer healthcare, to get companies out of the system.
Interestingly that’s the same thing that’s happening to school in general
With a distribution like this, percentile would be misleading, though
I'm very comfortably leaning heavily into "local first," and "persistence last" with vite, preact, and peerjs. I'm honestly looking into hono.js literally because of that meme video, and because I like the idea of workerd. But the more I look into building out a hono app, the more I miss Rails.
On my birthday while attending Arisia January 2010 I wrote a single rc script with about 30 non-boilerplate lines of bash (the 3 functions) that does:

* start all enabled containers on boot
* stop all running containers at shutdown (ie gracefully wait for them all to shut themselves down before letting the host proceed to shut itself down)
* start/stop/status any specified container on command
* list all containers (known/configured, running or not)
* every container has a gnu screen console
* simple config file per container to define network & root dir etc.

(these are the latest versions of the wiki page and the referenced rclxc package, but I created the wiki page and the script on Jan 18 2010, despite the wiki history. The weird link for the rpm is because home:aljex no longer exists on the opensuse build service)

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:LXC

https://anna.lysator.liu.se/pub/opensuse/repositories/home%3...

Whopping 3 files in the package, and one is just a symlink, and the other is just a single rmdir command. No daemon, the script only runs to do something. Not even systemd, just plain old sysv init.

I never developed it beyond essentially proof of concept because my companies owner listened to vmware salespeople, but I did use it in quasi-production for a year or two. (some developer vms, a few internal services, 20 or so customers)

But to me it did prove the concept and I would have liked to just work on that instead of using vmware or anything else. I completely gag when I look at kubernetes or even just podman when I had this so long ago and got so much function out of so little code and complication.

I mean it would obviously get larger and more complicated as it grew to handle more cases and supply more features. I think I just always want to stop at the 90/10 place where you get 90% of the functionality with 10% of the code, and the remaining 10% of the functionality requires 10x the initial code. I feel like once you cross that point you have wandered off the track and are now doing bad engineering in some way and need to go back and figure out where you started driving in your sleep and get back on track solving the problem of getting the necessary job done in some sensible way.
TOML is nice like that... elegant like INI, only with lists.
Nah, what you are saying is vague and dismissive but doesn't hold up to the reality of fast flexible tools like these. Have you used maya, XSI, nuke and houdini?
“Agentic” coding?

I suppose it is Thoughtworks after all working to expand mindshare by defining buzzwords.
Blender has come a long way since 2013 when i had passed out my collage. Kudos to developer standing against few like Autodesk giving designers to try something for free.
I've been learning Blender to make reference objects for my drawings, so this is definitely true. It's simultaneously pretty easy to learn the basics, and also extremely daunting because of the breadth of the features lol.
ASCII has characters more or less designed for this

0x1C - File Separator

0x1D - Group Separator

0x1E - Record Separator

0x1F - Unit Separator

So I guess 1F would be the "comma" and 1E would be the "newline."
There was a problem in SF with a Waymo not avoiding a parade. Somebody didn't enter the parade in SF MUNI's list of street closures. Nobody was hurt; it was just embarrassing.
SpaceX reportedly has a secret backdoor for Chinese investment
Turbo TUIs we're beautiful to my 13 year old self and still are to me.
Tseng Kwong Chi
The linked paper is strongly biased towards the ownership class--and the think tank is labeled "libertarian-conservative" on wikipedia, so I'm skeptical of the conclusions.
I’m slowly learning Go, but I’ve got a solid C++ background, is this something like template specialisation, where the compiler can select implementations based on the types passed into a generic class/function?

I wish more languages supported that, we did some crazy things with template metaprogramming.
I am a believer in the long term (and potentially now even the short term) safety benefits of this tech but I do worry about the social side of things. I really don't want the startup business model to set in where service X comes out cheap, kills the alternatives then drives the service quality down and the costs up. I also worry about the fact that this makes it even hard to travel with anonymity. I want to get from point a to point b and not be tracked. The idea that that will even remotely be possible with this type of service is laughable at best.
Volcanic eruption filling the atmosphere with ash. Acts of war or terrorism. Could be physical or cyberattack.
The US has gone through a dozen constitutional crises in the past 2 months and you call that functioning "just fine"?
Thanks in turn for the thoughtful reply. I still hold to my own view, but you've dramatically raised the quality of argument I'd have to make to give a satisfying reply. Which is what I think Hacker News should aspire to.

My interest was largely to point out what I saw as the meta trend around discussion of Daring Fireball posts, so I'll leave the debate there or we could be here all night. But I wish you well
+1 hear ye hear ye
Rate limiting individual addresses seems like a possibly useful, if not perfect, idea since it forces the bots to spread out over more addresses. It does penalize humans behind NAT however.
OpenResty Lua, MariaDB, ValKey, JavaScript, Pure CSS
The only macs I used were work issued ones, and all of them have been terrible. I can't imagine spending your own money on those. I went through 5 in a 4 year period, through no fault of my own.

At home I was Linux for the longest time, running VFIO passthrough to a windows VM. Once WSL2 got released, Im fully on Windows. WSL2 does everything I need in terms of Linux, so now I pretty much have the best possible setup since I can run any software. Pytorch with GPUs within WSL2 works great as well.

You do have to get Windows Pro though to be able to disable a bunch of stuff, but once you do its a pretty smooth experience.
I, for one, would very much like to see US be more neutral.

But as an outsider (in Europe, but in one of those countries that has been "policed" by largely US-led initiative), I think you are seen as discounting the net economic benefits US has enjoyed from taking on that role in the past.

If you acknowledged that more openly, I think people would take more gladly to your arguments: yes, it will hurt both US and EU as the countries move away from this mutually beneficial arrangement (which helped keep US a global economic leader, and helped EU focus on society development — greatly simplified summary so obviously flawed), but I do agree with you that hopefully we end up with a nicer state of affairs in 20-30 years. I am not necessarily confident this happens though, which is also what you might be seeing play out (fear of this unknown future).

You are also simplifying things, which does not help: if EU had a defensive force so it needed not depend on NATO/US, what else would have been different?

Note that people do complain about other countries doing the things you see them complain about in the US too (eg. China's state sponsorship of local companies with reduced taxes and oversight), though I understand how you, as an American, feel those towards the US more strongly. And yes, they are even more common against the US because we have more US people engaging in discourse on the same platforms (mostly US ones), so they are unsuspecting "willing" listeners. Not much sense in arguing about China when everybody agrees, and Chinese do not feel the liberty or have any desire to participate.

And that's perhaps the core point: the two cultures value these same human rights, which does mean that you need to hear the shit people dislike a lot more (and there's even the term for it in "vocal minority").
Given how YAML does magic and sometimes accidental type conversions of potentially nested objects, I think TOML is the well-defined sucessor to .ini
I never claimed it was a good idea. You made a list of reasons why it doesn't work and left off the primary one I've heard of. I mearly responded with that option and didn't add any cometary on if it's a good idea or not.
When I’m driving the speed limit and everyone is going much faster I feel fine… they all just flow around me… if they weren’t able to flow, they wouldn’t be flying past.
“At no time were RAAF Base Pearce’s flying operations impacted.

I'm also a pilot .. that RAAF base is mostly low traffic and my reading of everything published is they scheduled the media event for dead time and didn't have to abort or turn anything about.

I'd go further and guess that had the base been required for anything (sudden emergancy landing, etc) the media event would have been shut down and pushed away.

None of which supports the hyperbolic aspects of the original GP claim above.
First, congratulations on your success. GI trouble is a real issue most HN readers have not had to experience. I've never had it. I've only talked to people who have spent a week or two in the hospital with it.

Second, I agree that we don't fully understand the gut. I do think it needs more research. There's a lot of reporting that zepbound decreases urges for alcohol and gambling, from what I understand.

We also know that gut bacteria send signals through to the host system.

It would be curious if we could solve gambling addictions through antibiotics or some kind of probiotic treatment. It is sort of weird to think about gambling addictions being a disorder of the gut.

And if gambling issues are a disorder of the gut, what other disorders can the gut cause?
> That said I will never trust my life to a Tesla robotaxi that uses visual cues only and will drive into a wall painted to look like the road ahead

If you can visually detect the painted wall, what makes you think that cameras on a Tesla can't be developed to do the same?

And are deliberately deceptive road features actually a common enough concern?
Melbourne specifically is cooked by the rate of growth, and declining tax revenue per capita.

When we funded the majority of the big infrastructure pushes our rate of growth was lower, and gdppc (and revenue/PC) was exploding. This generally ended with the start of big multicultural Australia policy in the late 60's.

So in comparison, the amount of infrastructure we need to build is greater per capita, as it has to try to cover the future population predictions, it needs to be done over less years as well.

Then we can get into the migration policy that's causing a decline in gdppc.
Yeah! Just steal new Boeing 6th-gen stealth fighter from slides.
I think there had been an easier path for Go to solve those problems. What's making C++ and Rust complicated is that they strive for much more generality than Go does.

Requiring a value to be provided at usage/definition site would go a long way. Also, of course, having to provide a default value by hand when initializing an array. Go also has easy-to-use callbacks, so having also APIs that take a callback returning a sentinel/default value should be easy enough. The problem isn't having defaults, but having pervasive defaults that are set in stone by the language itself, even in places where it doesn't make sense.

For low-level code that fiddles with uninitialized memory buffers and allocators, things might get complicated, if zero values are not allowed. (Rust's struggles around `MaybeUninit` is a poster child example of the ensuing complexity.) However, I think that a very Go-style solution would have been that the type system allows for zero-initialized types, but everything around the provided APIs and language semantics makes creating them hard. It's a similar solution with "our strings are UTF-8, but we don't check and world doesn't explode if they are not". I generally dislike this kind of "worse is better" design, but it certainly fits Go very well.

The main problem with Go, arguably, would be what to do with null pointers. They could have gone with separate reference types for "definitely not null" and "may be null", with a specialized if-like check-and-coerce-operation, without having full generics and sum types like Rust does.

Because Go has a GC and thus is capable of having arbitrary object graphs, there shouldn't be a problem of initializing multiple values with a reference to the same object, so user providing a default value and the API cloning it to fill the array should work. And in case of a "may be null" ref, having it to be null is not a problem.
There was never anything I regretted learning.
Same with Firefox on Android...
How has Blender succeeded here where Gimp failed? Is there some unsung heroic person who has imbued Blender with a sense of taste?
I was playing with the idea about setting up something like this!
> CSV is dynamically typed

No, CSV is dependently typed. Way cooler ;)

I wrote something about this https://github.com/Ericson2314/baccumulation/blob/main/datab...
Thinking about it, it's not obviously worth making sum types non-nillable unless you also figure out a comprehensive nil-free solution for the rest of the language. Because if you include any interface in your sum, that branch will be nillable anyway. So you might as well check for nil only once at the base case, rather than on each branch.
Videos on YouTube are also not a reliable source. But your demand for rigor seems rather isolated.
> Otherwise if you replace all 80% of the good drivers with waymos and the remaining 20% stay behind the wheel, accident rates are going to go up not down.

That's a ridiculous scenario. If anything, impaired drivers should be more likely to choose an automated driving option. But no need to to even assume that. The standard that matters is replacing the average.
One big problem is becoming a manager is seen as the end goal, and pay often reflects that.

Being a great engineer or researcher doesn't pay. You won't get your name known for your work. All your achievements will be attributed to whoever manages you at best, or attributed to the corporation above you with not a single human name at worst.

People like being recognized for their work. Every great achiever wants to have their name remembered long after they leave this world. Everyone wants to be the next Isaac Newton. The next Bill Gates. The next Steve Jobs. The next Elon Musk. It's a constant downhill path from being known for using your brain and busting your ass to discover or create something, to being known for managing someone who created something, to being known as someone who bought the company that managed people who created something. Motivations are all fucked up. No matter what you discover or create these days, there's a feeling that you're not going to have your name written in history books. Your best options are join a grift or manage someone who's doing the hard work.
Why are Micro Center flash drives so slow?
#1 is going to be an issue until we have another breakthrough or genuinely innovative approach.

We all know that 2 years is a lifetime in tech (for better or for worse), and we've all trained ourselves to keep up with a rapidly changing industry in a way that's more efficient than fully retraining a model with considerably more novel data.

For instance, enough people have started to move away from React for more innovative or standards-based approaches. HTML and CSS alone have come a long way since 2013 when React was a huge leap forward. But while those of us doing the development might have that realization, the training data won't reflect that for a good amount of time. So until then, trying to build a non-React approach will involve wrestling with the LLM until the point when the model has caught up.

At which point, we will likely still be ahead of the curve in terms of the solutions it provides.
I worked on one of those too: https://github.com/cncNet/petool
Anthropic Scores Win in AI Copyright Dispute with Record Labels
If you're making technical parts, I highly recommend just biting the bullet and learning parametric cad with fusion 360. There's a ton of learning resources on youtube etc. OnShape seems like a quite promising alternative but I assume there's less material since it's newer.