DethNinja

I suppose it is a great way to launder money. Other than that there is no other value. Or you can try to scam some people by pumping the value of NFTs you own.

Why not change the license to a revenue share agreement with a cap on total amount of revenue?

For example, if a company uses ffmpeg on their products and product generates a yearly revenue of 1m then they will pay you 1k.

Current open source agreements do nothing to help smaller companies or the maintainers and honestly I find it stupid and destructive.

Charge larger companies more depending on their revenue and let small size companies with less revenue basically use it for free. Isn’t this more ethical than letting FAANG use these software for free?

It doesn’t have to be indoctrination. Logic is a mathematical concept, and can be thought in the classes, along with common logical fallacies.

Teaching critical thinking at schools would solve this problem instead of spending huge amount of resources on censorship algorithms.

Finally, now they just need to add networking then C++ will have a “good enough” standard library.

What if universe inherently limits the possibility of singularity?

I think there might be a limit to potential intelligence of a system due to physical constraints such as speed of light.

Perhaps such inherent limitations logically prevent the destruction of the universe by a singular organism.

You don’t need a supercomputer.

You can actually hook algorithmic art from Houdini to GAN models and bake 3D art for later use.

Problem is that GAN models are still not good enough to produce human level realistic images.

It can generate trippy images but these are not very useful for commercial products.

We still need better models or a completely different approach for computer generated realistic art.

TOML is pretty good but it gets too verbose when you add bunch of arrays.

All we need is to revise official JSON standard(ECMA 404) to include comments.

There is a trend with larger companies trademarking single word names like: Meta (Facebook), Matter (Ubisoft)

I’m sure large companies have figured that they can eliminate a large segment with single word trademark route.

I bet this is what Facebook is planning too, eliminate every company from using any word with “meta” in it.

I don’t want to dox myself but I’m currently solo developing an application that would’ve took a company of minimum 100 to build just 15 years ago.

People are amazed when they see the stuff I solo built and imagine there is a huge company behind it.

It is all because of advances in DevOps, cheap server infrastructure, and good quality open source libraries.

It is actually scary to see this first hand because human productivity is increasing at a such a rapid speed, it will result in extreme levels of excess productivity in future.

So an economy without scarcity is getting closer to our reach but political landscape, general populace, and influential people try their hardest to prevent this from happening.

Inflation can also happen when a country’s productivity falls compared to other competing countries.

I think this mostly a hedge-fund/VC driven insanity, similar to insane amount of money placed on ML.

Somebody sold the idea of Metaverse to someone really rich and now they are going to pour all the money to this stuff.

There is no consumer demand for Metaverse and there won’t be any demand for quite a while until they craft comfortable AR/VR eyeglasses that don’t weight a ton.

That being said I’m sure all those billions spend will produce valuable stuff like GPT-3 of today but is it really cost effective way of advancing the tech?

It is pure speculation but I don’t believe Epic’s Verse language will be a functional programming language.

Verse is more intended for Blueprint people and there is no way people working on the Blueprint code will be able to move into functional programming.

Also I don’t get the investment into Verse language itself, why not just fund LuaJit, do we really need another scripting language when LUA nailed some many things right?

I guess Epic will craft a pretty fast scripting language and try to lock game developers to their own ecosystem.

Another alternative:

Economy have never recovered for the Main Street since 2008 crash and all these news about labour shortage is just to manufacture consent to suppress wages even further.

Any of the FAANG workers here please tell me why all the large companies are trying to create metaverse?

I’ve been playing MUDs, MMOs since their very beginnings and literally metaverse doesn’t interest me. So who is their target audience that they can spend billions on this metaverse?

And how metaverse will be different than Second Life?

Give us some insider knowledge please.

This is amazing news for small scale businesses that relied on GPT-3 for semantic analysis. I guess smaller model size should permit in-house hosting.

I just use Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Gitea, NewRelic, rclone, and some custom build services with GoLang for DB backups and maintenance, that’s it.

I’m fairly sure I can maintain up to 50 servers as solo developer with the above mentioned tools.

Why not just convert numbers like 1 to i or l then check with a manually created bad word list?

Would regex be really much faster than checking it against a 1000 or more bad word list?

Also bad word list can easily get updated by moderators as well, I really can’t understand the logic behind using so much regex.

Coming soon to a country nearby you…

Plebs cannot be allowed to have access to sound money, otherwise financial parasites can’t exists.

Is this really AI generated though or do they use traditional 3D modelling?

Here is a western version of this with traditional 3D modelling for comparison: https://80.lv/articles/stunning-photoreal-renders-in-blender...

That is pretty amazing.

I really wish that entire science would just move on from usage of symbols to algorithms, it would considerably reduce the total information one needs to know before starting to study some fields with more esoteric symbolic notations.

I think people are over-analysing this issue here at HN.

It is far better for upper class to ensure that people discuss and focus on issues like gender and skin colour than the class differences. Hence, they ensured that this is the issue plebs would hear all over on the media and shift their attention from class divides to gender and skin colour.

There is one particular thing I don’t understand about this Apple policy:

You can buy a SIM card and send images to your enemies/competitors through WhatsApp, and these images automatically gets downloaded to iPhone and potentially uploaded to iCloud.

What precautions are Apple taking against such actions? Or will it be some kind of exploitable implementation where you can easily swat any person you want and let them go to courts to prove their innocence?

Real scary next step is locking all PCs to MS Cloud and preventing consumers from accessing high performance computers.

Mechanical Engineering is a very saturated field and it is very hard to open your own company. If you want to become self employed in that field then you need good connections more than talent. I would recommend switching to software engineering. Not that software engineering is much better but at least self employment will be a bit easier.

Why this needs to be about anti-vax, as a company it is common to hire influencers to bad-mouth your competitors, could it a be campaign from a vaccine manufacturer?

Metaverse seems like the new buzzword for the VC companies. Nowadays everyone is building metaverse type games just because of Roblox but reality is it is a limited market with high competition and only few players are interested about such games.

Believe me they got a pretty good idea, they know knowledge is power and they want to limit the access to it.

This can be kinda achieved with git submodules.

I’m currently using a monorepo with submodules and it works really well.

Dependency management is not a huge issue too, at least if you don’t have hundreds of submodules.

You can actually do it yourself, there are lots of book out there how to navigate the patenting system. You don’t need to hire a lawyer if you spend some personal time but on the EU you don’t have that option at all.