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Ask HN: Could AI be used to create semi-coherent code for movies?
I wonder if movie studios could use AI to create more realistic code or commands for movies and hacking scenes. Someone who is not technologically literate could just describe what is happening in the scene and have the AI produce realistic code or terminal outputs for what they want.
A maximum frequency of once per hour unfortunately.
Because not everyone has a pc/home server they can just leave on 24/7
The Bottleneck of AI Summaries
Sure, you can freeze and unfreeze an organ. But that doesn’t work with the brain the electricity and the connections between the neurons are you. Cryogenic freezing will never work, until the structure of the brain can be preserved. All current methods kill the brain. It’s expensive snake oil.
Not exactly what you are asking for, but jcodec is a pretty readable codebase written in Java. (The readability part is often, ahh, lacking in the source for codecs, in my experience.) It might be a good candidate for rewriting in Rust. https://github.com/jcodec/jcodec
I used to have the same curiosity, but now I just want to see our daughter grow up and maybe get grandkids someday. Having a kid really changed my perspective in life.
Well, first, their explanation for why "user" might be problematic has nothing to do with that pejorative use. It's

> While often associated with one who uses (software, systems, services), it can also negatively be associated with those who suffer from substance abuse issues or those who exploit others for their own gain.

which seems to bizarrely ignore the fact that common words have many different meanings that are distinguished by context.

Second, I would actually argue that the techie pejorative usage of "user" is a good example of the shortcomings of this "words to watch out for" approach. "User" has an extremely common neutral meaning, and also some people who design or operate systems use it contemptuously - without even really changing what it means, just with the implication that most users aren't very smart! The problem there is not with the word at all, it's the attitude with which it's used.
For your dependency/versioning issue, use a virtualenv per-project and pin your dependency versions in requirements.txt
I was surprised this wasn't because it could evoke thoughts of gun violence.
Crypto’s Onetime Fans Are Calling It Quits
And we know the truth of this how ?
So, to his fans paying 8$, primarly?
This is such a great précis of estimation, which I try to avoid at all costs but which people insist on me making. And like you I keep them from my team.

The only real problem is if, regardless of having a thick skin, you work for people who have little experience in the field and value planning over actual delivery. In my experience you are then well screwed.
This one seems fair to be honest, it's not just about those with non standard pronouns, but also women.
Perhaps the "crypto" fans never really understood how crypto work, and never actually read Satoshi's original paper on Bitcoin. That is, the value of the blockchain comes from essentially a distributed, immutable source of truth that no one owns, not from buzzwords.
Let's say that truck roof covers about 41.5m² (the area of a standard 53' x 8.5' trailer roof). Let's further assume that 41m² of that is covered with PV panels. Using current technology (~21% efficiency silicon cells) and assuming standard irradiation of 1000W/m² this roof would produce ~200W/m² for a total of ~8.2kW. Add a 40' trailer (~31.5m² roof area, ~6.2kW) for a total of ~14.4kW. Using 31.5% efficient cells would raise this to ~22.7kW. Taking the newly releases Tesla semi as an example (~1 kWh/km, ~900 kWh battery pack) this would add about 14 km of range per hour using current cell technology or about 22 km per hour using these new cells. Assuming an average road speed of 80 km/h this would extend the range of the vehicle by up to ~25% for the new cells, ~18% for current cells during daylight hours with standard irradiation and no shading.
5-4: a wonderful podcast about the supreme court of the United States: https://pca.st/podcast/e14f0f00-2e7f-0138-96e0-0acc26574db2

They've covered a few of the decisions in their episodes. It's an excellent listen
This has nothing to do with fragility, and there is nothing bad about showing honest fragility (although “showing off” is rarely productive).

This is about controlling speech and revisionism, while using sensitive people as an excuse for it. Why? Because it makes you more relevant, if you set the agenda. You get to choose who is good or bad in this absurd moral system where words, not their meaning or your actions, is the basis for judgment. Ironically, this is about good old self-interest and power.

Moralism seems to be inherent in humans, there are always those who self-select to police the behavior of other people. What’s scary with this stuff is that this particular flavor of it has a blind spot (apologies for ableist language, 10 lashes for me) among our current intellectual gate keeping class – most of them just let this pass through and even think it’s a good idea. That’s the only reason this BS can get amplified in influential institutions.
Probably because “trigger warning” itself can be a trigger so that dangerous language has to be replaced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32010941

Also there is a high turnover of PC words - every few years the “correct” word changes to something else, because reasons.
Strange, my POV is completely different. Humans can adapt to everything, look at those native tribes in Brazil.
I am certain that once humanity fully decrypted its own genes, immortality will arrive with all the implications one can‘t now even imagine.
I also believe that this discovery was inevitable, it is literally in our genes and was already waiting to be discovered when the first stone tool has been made .
Immortality is the destiny of this species. It will transform everything, altough I’m not sure it would all be good. Unfortunately, chances are that I won‘t live long enough to see, unless cryo. A minimal chance that it would work, but better than no chance at all…and I would die -well rather not die- to see how everything continues. The world now is different than the world when I was born, it‘s constantly changing in small and big ways and I‘d love to see it.
One day, the white house will look like the forum romanum.
Another benefit of these is that, as a pedestrian, if you need to go diagonally across the intersection, you can just do so, without having to make two crossings.

An intersection in Honolulu near where we usually stay when we visit just recently (in October) switched to "pedestrian scramble" mode, and it's amazing. This intersection was excessively annoying, because previously one of the four possible crossings inexplicably disallowed pedestrians entirely, so if you wanted to get from "our" corner to the opposite one (where there's an often-visited ABC Store), you'd have to wait for three pedestrian light changes to get there. Honolulu is annoyingly pedestrian unfriendly (traffic light cycles are very long and favor cars), so it could previously take 4-5 minutes to make that simple crossing.
Money is a surrogate for labor. It costs labor to build cryogenic tombs, and to maintain them in perpetuity. This labor is a cost the living incur, which some may argue could be better spent on, say, educating people about biological science and the realities of cellular degradation.
It's 2022. If you don't have at least one 3D printer, I'm afraid you'll have to turn in your "self-respecting tech worker" card.
The George Carlin bit on shellshocked comes to mind.
As an alternative to Spotify - I've been working on TidalFS as a way to mount Tidal like a local filesystem. You can then use literally any music player to play your music as if it was all local files. You can even search.

https://github.com/bjesus/tidalfs
That seems unlikely to be honest.. just grab an old one if you don't want to use your main one for it.. but if it's cron, its probably not so important that it can't survive missing a single run due to some reboot or whatever?
> Environment variables are still by far the most popular approach for storing secrets

And `password` is still by far the most popular password.

Why not just call it environment management, and warn ENV is not secret, so you don't spread the wrongness?
There was apparently a recurrent Wikipedia hoax based on

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

where someone asserted that there was a radar detector detector detector (so that you could tell if authorities were positioned to detect your use of a radar detector).

Some versions of this hoax are described in

https://rationalconspiracy.com/2016/06/02/radar-detector-det...
>achieves 20-25 PSNR at around 200:1 compression, which is better than most lossy formats because that's in a quality/data-size that most image formats consider out of scope.

according to https://cloudinary.com/blog/contemplating-codec-comparisons#... google leaned hard on AVIF ability to produce small garbage in its comparison against jpeg xl
Take a look at ConnectPro video emulators [1]. Mentioned [2] and praised [3] here on HN before, but there are limits on their KVM's [4] to watch out for so just a caution to don't hastily ascribe the same performance from their emulators to their KVM's if you're also messing around with switching configurations.

[1] https://connectpro.com/collections/video-emulators

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24362388

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24362975

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26906688
I've never heard brave used as a noun. Can you give me an example?

I guess I can see it used in an infantalising way.
It can produce boiler-plate code right now, although the depth and integration to actual libraries and frameworks seem a bit lacking. However, I guess the question is if any movie producers or studios would actually care to make scenes showing code "more accurate." My guess is there's not much value there from the eyes of producers.
Check out the Wikipedia page to get a summary of the children’s crusade if you haven’t already. It was more akin to a religious-revival/evangelist movement than a military expedition afaict. Still your point stands, very plausible for young teens to be heavily involved in such things.
The need for express the category doesn't go away with the word, so new words replace the category, and banning the word does nothing to the underlying category

Best seen with the transformation of terms around disability, where even transformations as late as differently abled are now derogatory and to be avoided.
Would it not be reasonable to assume that the first anti-aging therapies that are approved will go to the privleged? Then they would be commodified and provided to the less economically fortunate.
Maybe the company won the deal because the CTO and CPO said "yep - we can do that in 12 weeks" whereas the competitor said "we need to confer with our building teams to estimate the full project timeline" and promptly lost the deal...
A former coworker (Chinese) said "Chinese girlfriend? Six months. Alone? Two years." That was ten years ago.
> I don't think they have put much work into this yet.

Thank goodness, there's still a chance they can come to their senses.
> So while there is for sure xenophobia in Germany, I would not say that it is particularly a German thing.

You're missing the point of the article, and I guess you're German because you feel accused of being racist, so you feel the need to defend yourself. The point is that Germany is having labour shortage while immigrants are out of the labour market, singling out an inefficient resource allocation.

>Of course equivalent education should be more accepted where possible, but when it comes to medical staff or other safety-critical jobs, I expect people to be at least well-tested before they can start to work as a doctor in Germany. There are countries where degrees can be bought for money, while Germany indeed has pretty high (and famous) standards for safety. Many wealthy foreigners come to Germany for surgeries.

Germany > the world, yes I've heard that theory. Until the world see it in practice with example like dieselgate, BER etc...
This goes back to the root of what creativity really is. Some say creative people don't have anything special in their "brains". They are just able to mix match stuff they already know in different ways, that others didn't consider.

In essence there is no such thing as extrapolation for the human mind. We only interpolate in new ways. We can only remix what we know, and with that generate something new.

How do we actually get new, non-interpolated stuff? By going out into the world and doing things with it. Collecting new data. Experiments, experiencing things, seeing new stuff, reading about new stuff.

That's not so different from the AI.

Our brain is not something magical that works in mysterious un-replicable ways. Much of AI field has been in fact trying to replicate how we learn, and how our brain works.
The ISS (which always has 3+ humans on it) pretty regularly has to maneuver to avoid debris nowadays (NASA is conservative and will do so if a big window has a ~.01% chance of seeing debris). You can count on your hands the number of times a major collision has occurred since the 90s, but that's probably partly because now more than ever we actively track and avoid debris.

Satellites can also be multi-million to multi-billion dollar assets. They're less like cars and more like oil-rigs.
I think that one thing you can do is to release the RTL AND a matching gate level model, AND a description of the scan chain through all the flops (so a end user can verify the gate model from outside in the actual chip).

Mind you one could still still hide logic outside the scan chain but it should still be discoverable thru scan.
As you should! :) Kudos for creating something!
I have 100% confidence that a Nazi would not have their own television show on a popular network where they spread Nazi propaganda in America.

I do not believe the American people would tolerate it. Seems like a safe bet to me. I don’t need to watch his show to know that. There are also people whom I know who do watch his show who I know would never accept a nazi perspective even for one second. So I do believe I can have some confidence that it’s a ridiculous claim used to stir up fear and outrage.

Does this sound unreasonable? I appreciate the questions and the conversation. However I can’t tell if it is sincere or just having fun for fun’s sake. I’m down for both but if you really think that I should take a closer look to confirm whether or not he is a Nazi. Please point me in the right direction. Maybe my entire world view of how things currently work needs a calibration.
The Computerphile channel has a nice series of videos on JPEG and one focusing on DCT [0]. It's a nice and easy intro to the subject.

[0]: https://youtu.be/Q2aEzeMDHMA
It's IFV with a 30mm, not a tank.

No words on what exactly caused 'the loss', though I suppose it's an engine or transmission problems?
Anthony Bourdain was a druggie and a drunk (no judgement) with a grueling working class night job (and associated schedule and lifestyle). He didn't find success beyond that until he was almost 45, and then he lived an entirely different kind of life!

He obviously serves as a cautionary tale as well. Not to suggest at all that you're suicidal, only to say that a little therapy is probably a good idea for everyone.
So I need to purchase the MP3's in order to do this? Then I need to spend time on other web sites for music discovery?

This would work if you almost never venture outside of your existing music catalog. If that's you, it's probably also a better financial decision to just purchase your own music in stead of 'renting' it.

According to my 'Wrapped' I listened to 4600 different songs this year, from 3000 artists. Most of them I discovered because of Spotify. So for me, Spotify is very much worth it and I would not be able to self host anything to give me near the value that Spotify adds. And I can't even contemplate pirating all these songs, since I find that morally wrong because the paid services (for music) are decently affordable and provide good value.
I think #1 should be read "whatever work ends up being done takes the time it takes, not influenced by the estimate" which is true. What you're saying is "the estimate influences what work ends up being done" which is also true.

In other words, there's no conflict there, just conditioning on different things.
I’m not the person you replied to, but for many of us “home” is not a first world or Western country. The opportunities there are much fewer, quality of life is lower in many tangible ways - do you like having reliable power, internet, mail/shipping, safe roads? Dangerous crime is a much more serious problem, and corruption is rife. Healthcare is subpar if you’re not wealthy. Education is generally poor, which has all sorts of consequences for society as a whole.

There’s also the fact that after living elsewhere for many years, the home you go back to is not the same as the home you left.
> The absolute state of the left.

The left is not a monolithic block of automatons. There is some large number of persons who support most progressive positions but decry this sort of top-down control of language along with the way it’s used to enforce an orthodoxy of opinion. Labelling this as an “absolute state” of the left is a mischaracterization of the positions of most progressives I know.
The Las Vegas Strip makes heavy use of pedestrian overpasses, but I don't find them to have the negatives you describe. Possibly because the area is so lit up (even at night), cars are kept deliberately very separate from from pedestrians (a lot of drunk people roaming around), and in many places the above-ground overpasses connect to the second levels of adjacent buildings, which makes them a more natural part of the cityscape.

I'm not sure that kind of design can work everywhere, but it can perhaps be an option in some places.
>A crucifix is the cross of Christ.

No, the name itself makes the distinction.

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

>A crucifix (from Latin cruci fixus meaning "(one) fixed to a cross") is a cross with an image of Jesus on it, as distinct from a bare cross.
Slightly unrelated, but I do this for everything involving my personal finances. All of my credit cards have mobile apps that instantly push notifications whenever they are used. My bank app sends me notifications for any withdrawal or deposit. I even have alerts for my investments. I guess I'm just adamant in knowing exactly where (and when) my money comes or goes.
On Nexuses: An underrecognised utility in computing (2015)
I still have no idea why anyone would want automated light switches. Unless they are bedridden.

The conventional light switches never fail. The dimmer switches go out every 5 years or so, and I eventually get fed up and just replace them with a conventional switch.

I've had programmable thermostats, but the user interfaces on them are so terrible I eventually replace them with one with a simple dial and thermostat.
If you really want to hit your goal, multiply by π, not by 3!
That was exactly my experience with an Azure overspend at a previous startup. The real cost was forgiven but the credits weren't.
I have a 30-minute walking commute to work, and changing back to non-automated buttons has added about 5 minutes to that if I'm not super lucky with timing. The worst is seeing the lights turn and knowing it would have lit up green for pedestrians only to have to wait a full cycle for the next opportunity.
> The absolute state of the left.

not to play semantics too much, but is it "the left" or elite liberals that are pushing this kind of stuff?

it seems (anecdotally) to me that this kind of language policing is mostly pushed from the top down... maybe im wrong tho...
I'm thinking of moving my gaming box from Windows to Linux, but last time I checked, things weren't as great on the hardware tuning side of things.

I'm running a Radeon 6800 XT undervolted at stock clocks and 980 mV (+ custom fan curve) and I don't think I could keep it cool without the undervolt. How achievable is that in Linux these days?

I'm also thinking of getting a steering wheel and getting back into race simming, are these kinds of peripherals well supported, or is it a game of chance?
Stop growing almonds and alfafa in CA. There problem solved.
There isn't an exception that I know of. What I'm saying is if you download a torrent for a movie that you own you can still get a copyright notice. That doesn't really make sense to me.
It's cult/echo chamber/sub-culture in action. There are more groups of people, some probably quite large, which have a different mind set, and are not swayed by whatever the rest of the world says. People get attached to certain ideas in politics, in religion, and of course in finance, and stick to it; their social environment reaffirms them, and they reaffirm their environment. No matter whether it is ideological, or based on hope or drug-induced hallucinations, group think is real.

I'm not saying the rest of the world knows better, or is even right in this case, just that diverging opinions exist in parallel groups.
That’s neat! I remember hacking that together at an old job using step functions with a “pause until Timestamp” step.
How does it “conflate” them?
Have you tried applying that technique in an environment where you're expected to estimate every little bug fix? (some of which would often take less time to do than to agree on an estimate for!)
it will take very little time in the current climate for this to spread from the academic circles into the corporate world, where all the HR/ethics/etc deadweight departments have people with those worthless degrees

next thing you know, master is now main, blacklist and whitelist are allowlist and denylist, and so on
Can you even do you do that on AWS? Best I could find for the total spend is the cloudwatch EstimatedCharge metric, which only updates once a day (at least last time I checked)

Apart from that you seem to be limited to monitoring individual resources, or using some external service that enunerates everything
If somebody told me I was not thinking properly rather than going off the reservation, I'd definitely be more offended. I'm not Native American, I'd be interested in their opinion.
Systems of Engineering Management.

Leaving out the of makes it sound like a much more interesting book, IMO ;)
Clearly insulting religion, to be avoided!
I have no opinion on this phenomenon outside SF, but in the city proper, as a pedestrian, I love it. I know that when I'm walking, I'll rarely have to wait more than 45 seconds or so at nearly any intersection. It's also great when I'm out for a run, as stop-and-go would be crappy for my fitness regimen.

I frankly don't give a damn about car traffic; cities are for people, not cars. And I say this as someone who owns a car and drives it often enough. (Again, outside the city, sure, ok, things are different, and you really need a car to get around. That itself is another city-planning failure, but that's a separate issue.)
The Frozen Dead Guy – Grandpa Bredo
Personally I often go to Amazon to find things, google the author and check on the HP on how to buy the book with the least amount of "tax" for the author.
Added benefit: you get formats outside of walled gardens!
This is a good point. I've had much better luck estimating using the outside view, as Kahneman calls it (or willful ignorance, as Weisberg calls it).

I think the problem is people in IT (including developers) don't have much statistical training. Taking the outside view and believing it requires faith in statistical principles.

The people I meet in our field want to hear about nice narratives and specific examples, not reference-class generalisations and probability distributions.