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Listen, that works in engineering but I know people who try this all the time in more replacable occupations and it just gets shut down.

On that note, the main page https://millionjs.org/ is weirdly janky/slow when scrolling. Doesn't make sense to me since there's barely much on it.

I agree, but since this question is about 10 years from now I can totally see how it might get like way way better within that time.

Then they'll be A/B tested and possibly even without human moderation since you can filter bad content by just checking with CLIP what it contains.

It literally is

These things really are out of the bag at this point. Google and OpenAI won't release their checkpoint but it's really just a matter of time (not long, just months probably) before some random group of people with enough patience and data (you really don't need insane compute if you just have patience on the scale of a few months) releases fully working text to video models ready to use.

Exciting times.

I totally get this argument. The only counter argument I'd put forward is that once you've set up that boilerplace once (which you've now figured out), abstracting that into a little library file of your own that you understand isn't too much work (and easy to extend in the future). Another argument is that learning raw webgl and getting comfortable with it (which repeated boilerplate setup and general comfort with all the API calls creates with long term use) is likely learning that will transfer over to future projects more than mastery of p5 in particular would.

I'm mostly saying this as if talking to an earlier version of myself since I spent a lot of time learning threejs when I in hindsight now realize doing it with raw webgl (while building up a little boilerplate abstraction library and generally gaining comfort with the API) might have been a better use of time (especially long term). Kinda depends on what you overall goals are though too (and how eager you are to make the idea you have come into reality) etc etc.

This is way more intricate than it needs to be. Game coders have all these old ideas floating around like quad trees and aabb collision detection which has gotten a lot of improvements over the years (a lot of which is just conceptual improvements). I really like PBD as a good alternative to the formulation linked above: https://www.youtube.com/c/TenMinutePhysics.

People anthropomorphizing AI and me not having any control over the sense making madness that these advancements could grow into scares me almost as much if not more than any real AGI invention.

I'm not mrdoob.

They're not really wrong. Imagine the vast vast amount of energy that'd be required to power the worlds compute using 90s hardware.

There was a cool tweet using this on that note a bit ago: https://twitter.com/MrmoTarius/status/1527281714371866626

I really wanted to play with it but never did because I had to buy a whole thing (that I might only use once and there wasn't many people developing for). With it being available on the web (without a device) things might be different since the the bar to try it out is much lowered. (After all oculus has tons of fun games and things that use hand tracking so I don't think you can conclude the idea doesn't have potential.)

I wish more people experimented with hand input since this has essentially been solved in recent years due to advancements in computer vision: https://mediapipe.dev/. Yeah it might be awkward to ask the user to activate their camera, etc etc. But right now I'm barely seeing any experimentation in this direction which is a shame.

Part of me wonders if it's just that people don't know that this is solved on the web, so make sure to go here and try it out and make something if Brets article appealed to you: https://google.github.io/mediapipe/solutions/hands#javascrip... + https://codepen.io/mediapipe/pen/RwGWYJw

To be blunt about it I feel like that's a battle he could have stepped into but was too cowardly to do so. Now he's expressing remorse in hindsight about not doing so but that doesn't earn my respect.

Probably a decade or two premature but can't hurt to hedge the bets (there's definitely opportunity to make software that makes fpga and asic compilation from higher level languages easier though - only reason it's not happening is the high talent required and low amount of people at that intersection, there's no way verilog/vhdl is the global minima).

It'll be exciting if the clock cycles keep stalling like they've basically been doing in the last few years and we end up having to learn and do things at this level again to squeeze out what we want happen out of a long-term fixed compute budget.

He said he think trump should have been let back on the platform (I'm agnostic on the matter) but he's had a year to take that action and hasn't. Point is that he's expressed remorse about several things that he easily could have made an executive decision to change but somehow hasn't. Hope does interesting stuff with crypto though.

Kind of crazy how fast this guys' reputation has been cleaned up despite being the main cause for the mess that twitter has been up until when paraga took over only a few months ago.

Factorio but like age of empires (i.e. resource gathering with humans instead of machines and an infinite playing field and no RTS component - just infinite empire building).

Wasn't he a long distance runner. I wonder if he wore it then too.

Games

I wish I hadn't bought into the functional programming cult so hard as a younger programmer. I thought it was the future and sacraficed learning and gaining mastery of OOP for that when OOP is a much more widely used and honestly now in hindsight probably better tool in most cases.

For the very skilled yes. But a lot of low skilled artists of content creators will have the rugs pulled out from under them. (And how will we ever get high skilled artists trained in the future if they can't make a living from their lower tier output before they reach mastery.)

This is my theory as well. There'll be a short period where some of us at the forefront will enrich themselves by flooding the internet with imagery never seen before. That'll be a bubble where people think "abundance" has been solved but then it'll pop as people start to not trust anything they see online anymore and as you say, only trust and interact with things in the real world (wouldn't surpise me if regulation got involved here too somehow).

I don't buy the ethics but I do buy the obvious PR nightmare that would inevitably happen if journalists could play with this and immediately publish their findings of "racist imagery generated by googles AI". That's all it's about and us complaining is not going to make them change their minds.

I've been playing around with something similar recently and I'd encourage you to look into doing this with pure webgl rather than p5.js. It's surprisingly simple (this would just be a `gl.drawArrays(gl.POINTS,...)` call it with some buffer setup and texture `texelFetch` reading) and freeing and empowering to work from the groud up without frameworks. It's also really nice to offload player offset and zoom to the gpu/shaders (it handles it really smoothly and with basically more straightforward than you'd have to do to only draw things that's on the screen with canvas rendering).

Yeah I'm seeing tons of "free money is over" articles lately but it feels like only a small percent of SF residents had that experinece in the first place. I doubt more than a tiny fraction of HN readers will be affected by this new development at all.

Almost as if the STEM shortage wasn't a shortage in the first place hm..

Certanily makes it really difficult to focus on skill development and improving as a coder. I get that some people can handle it and I'll probably be selected out from the field for my lack of ability to ignore the macro distractions if this keeps going though.