Arwill

Its the curse of the two-party system. Politicians are not risking splitting from their party, because that would mean the end of their political career.

Also imagine people having their own cheap 2TB rigs at home for their own usage/inference, or a multitude of small providers serving/sharing capacity thanks to cheap available hardware.

But we cant have that, as the big guys are hoarding everything for themselves, so that you have to pay them instead.

There are arguments that the brain is quantum, as in parts of it locally using quantum effects. Which if true, might make a counter-argument, as there will be bigger data centers needed if the goal is to simulate the brain classically.

On the other side, advancement in quantum computers would make current LLM inference much faster. Because of the extreme cooling needed, i dont think the energy demand would become less.

With AI companies talking about AGI, i sometimes wonder if they really need the machines for serving inference to customers, or they have a formula for computational capacity that could run an AGI, and they just want to reach that level.

A 3D transform is built into the BVH, which the ray follows when evaluating the BVH. This adds animation information too. The upside is i think, that the animation is evaluated on the fly, in parallel by each ray. No need to update anything on the GPU, just the timestamp.

I am wondering if it would be possible to print a splat similarly as it is shown on the screen, so not voxelized, but like a hologram with overlapping transparent gaussians. It looks like the model from the outside at the given angle, but the inside is nothing like model itself.

Hate to be the one saying this, but that rootkit is there to prevent you from molesting/cheating other players. So its not an one-sided issue. It is unfortunate that the developers found no other way of fighting cheats, sure.

And by all means, if a game community is so toxic that it has to be policed by extreme measures, it is perhaps indeed better to avoid playing such a game altogether.

You don't have to tell all this to me, or try to convince me. I was just describing what the general attitude is. Oracle's behaviour is a risk, even if Java is open source.

> So I am not exactly in the group of people you are attacking.

I wasnt attacking anyone.

Developers are used to the lack of type-safety in JS, and assume that having to code in a type-safe language is something hard. Ive seen this attitude multiple times, it is a known topic.

The issue you are describing is what the author on top mentioned, the culture. It is not just Java, the "enterprise style" coding has infected other languages too. It is the result of how new developers were educated in a time when for example code performance or code readability were only abstract considerations. I fought that style myself multiple times in the past. But thankfully it is going away now.

We are more or less in "chained function call hell" now.

Once i heard a manager explain "we must get rid of anything Oracle, including Java, because of license reasons". I see this attitude everywhere since.

JavaScript people are too afraid to use Java, that is why something like TypeScript exists.

And for personal projects, C# has become a better and more fun "just works" platform.

I have this principle of "5% scripting". If the high level scripting on top of C++ consumes about 5% of frame time, then the language of the script does not matter.

A DLC and AI slop is not the same thing. Tho Steam reviews will burry both AI slop and bad DLC accordingly. And players do care about reviews.

Gamers hate AI art as it is, developers hate unreliable AI made code. Lets make something with both.

The problem is the way surface lighting/scattering is calculated, which does not match what traditional offline renders do.

My issue with UE is the opposite, the engine went too far into cinema production, and making it a performant game engine requires code refactoring. At which point an open-source engine might be a better choice. Its a mix of two (three) worlds, and not the best choice for one specific use.

For what is actually hard to do, like character animation, UE is a good choice. The lighting can be replaced more easily than the animation system.

Yes. If you get 120M+ in funding, you no longer qualify to be called indie.

I thought only organs of people dying in accidents are donated, and not someone's dying from an illness.

I had a WTF moment last week, i was writing SQL, and there was no autocomplete at all. Then a chunk of autocomplete code appeared, what looked like an SQL injection attack, with some "drop table" mixed in. The code would have not worked, it was syntactically rubbish, but still looked spooky, should have made a screenshot of it.

I read somewhere, that it might not have been a process, but a unique event. Dogs are not just gradually tamed wolves, but domestication might have been started with a genetic defect that made them tame.

>strikingly high probabilities to very high prices, along with lower probabilities for a wide range of lower prices

Isn't this describing the strategy of keeping ever high prices, then doing some temporary price cuts/sales/deals?

>see streaming companies increasing prices every few months They can do that because they are practically monopolies.

Battlefield peaked with BF3

There are libraries, like fastutil, that provide collections for primitive types.

-10 for modules is fair, only 4 for lambdas is not. My programming style changed after using lambdas in Java, even when using a different programming language later that doesn't have lambdas as such.

Substitute orangutans for Australopithecus. That is (one of) the branches that did evolve more intelligence, but didn't survive. I suppose there were lots of such branches, that either merged back into humanity (like the Neanderthals), or died out.

I am familiar with SAP, all that you say is only true if you don't know how to do it. I see this a lot, people that are familiar with "normal" technology, try to invent ways to do things in SAP. What is wrong with writing an ABAP program, or using a provided communication/interfacing method to transfer data? If you are stuck on GUI/files/DB level, sure you wont be able to do anything. You can for example generate complete excel files on the server, no need for the GUI. There is a running joke on SAP forums about how many times excel file generation was invented.

Some of the cryptic table names date back to R/2, sure, but they are the de-facto standard data model for those business data. If you have business systems communicating, for example product, business partner or financial data, it will have a mark on it of how those data are handled by SAP.

But then there are CDS views (for some time now) that have long descriptive names, and metadata to help you make database queries. You are not meant to read or write database tables directly (as of some time).

The only tool you knew about.

Who does even run Netweaver Java AS today? Apparently some do, but that was a bad idea from the start. It is an optional server component letting Java applications run in the SAP server. In my eyes it was always an unnecessary additional source of complexity, they added it to the portfolio back when Java was the hype. Now its been pwned by an unchecked upload.

But i know that HN does not have an appreciation for SAP anyhow.

I think the success is completely logical, in hindsight, when you consider that the majority of the crypto traffic is bots (to hide the traceability, money laundering, scams), or linked to plain real-world illegal activity.

I hate that everything is being pushed onto the phone. Its a single point of failure.

I think what is relevant here, is that there is a separation between the inside and the outside of the black hole. Since there is no communication between the two, on the inside it could be anything. And its not just the matter and space, even the laws of physics might be completely different. If it weren't so, then there had to be a "super-space" that communicates how ordinary space behaves on both the outside and the inside the black hole.

Mobile phone App/Passkey authentication is just a way to pass the responsibility down to users. Losing a phone today is not just losing the passkey, there are "login with QR-code" schemes too, which do not need a password at all. It is a bad trend to pass all security onto the physical phone.