skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also have a tendency to edit, remove episodes, etc. And it does not even need to be for political correctness either. It could be licensing rights to music in shows. They will sometimes edit a show to remove the music or remove the episode altogether. (This happened with Scrubs.)

They will remove content that involves people talking about suicide. They will remove content that is offensive. They have even gone back and edited previous episodes and content. This has happened in Stranger Things (actual edits with no notice) and Arrested Development (a redesign of the fourth season that is far worse than the original version of it). (I could not watch the fifth season. It was way too terrible.)
The article is unclear and IMHO confusing and badly written.

The forgeries are fake fragments made in the late 20th century of the very real, authentic and ancient Dead Sea Scrolls.

See my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34258102
The Playpilot app helps to get an overview over where (on what streaming services) a movie or show is available.
> Any findings that overturn what a large group of scientists have spent their careers working on won’t be well received.

Hasn't that always been the case?
It's said science advances one grave at a time.

I suspect that there isn't a single cause but a cluster of them.

One possible issue is that high level science needs more and more energy (like LHC) and more and more intelligence to crack (most science prizes are teams).
I don't really see how that Steam link is supposed to be helping their case here... Yeah sure, you can change the settings on the mod called "Whites Only", and we are supposed to be like "oh, ok, I guess thats fine then"?
> My first assumption on encountering a table field with a standalone "n" would be that it's an abbreviation of "no". So I'm surprised people are assuming so strongly here that this is instead code for a racist word. This is quite a harsh accusation, given the lack of evidence.

So I loaded up A111, selected the 'n' category, and ran a few pictures using random artists from said category.

The results were all black. The category itself is actually useful to me, now that I know it exists — I use the AI to generate illustrations for my fanfiction, and getting non-white, non-asian outputs is difficult at best — but labelling it "n" is, uh, suspicious.

In combination with everything else, I don't think there's really any doubts about his thought process here. :(
I love how when you want to watch something specific, you proceed to search all 5 services I subscribe to and none of them have it.. what am I supposed to do if not pirate..
> the now dominant thought that Electric Vehicles = Lithium BEVs

In popular media, perhaps. Research, including industrial R&D, continued on other fronts.

That said, the periodic table seems to limit us to hydrogen, lithium, sodium and perhaps potassium. Life chose hydrogen (with carbon). We’re transitioning from hydrocarbons to lithium (with carbon; some are trying silicon). Sodium is close to being a viable contender, but it’s heavier than lithium, which barring a chemistry breakthrough will relegate it below lithium.
New State Dept Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology
Indeed. But this option will only be available if a critical mass is also willing to pay a few dollars more for human narration.

In times of flat-fee Audiobook platforms the pressure to bring down audiobook production costs will only increase, funding a full-fledged Audiobook production for each book will only become harder to justify.

Moreover, looking at what Apple describes here, they seemingly want to establish digital narration (quality) as a metric for competition between Audiobook marketplaces, not publishers. So if this works out, the major platforms will compete on digital narration and publishers will have less incentive to actually produce an Audiobook with human narrators...
Its pointless to make everything a political topic, with you being the righteous one and everybody else wrong (or worse). Ie am neither on any scale, agree with some aspects of each and reject some other stuff, its easier not being in US where society seems extremely polarized and the other group is always to blame for all one's misfortunes.

EVs generally currently don't make that much sense, we just fuck up environment in a different way. Maybe you don't see those open pit mines in 3rd world, child slaving for that cobalt in your batteries but I do and I do mind. This isn't some potential issue in far future, but right here right now. Any tesla is running a bit on child labor, now everybody can please get off their high horses for a while? EVs being charged by electricity from coal power plants - sure its transitory, so lets start having a discussion when its about to stop being so.

What is an actual solution is very good and cheap public transport. Some less smart part of population in less developed places like US get knee jerk reaction to even suggesting it, but simple fact is - as long as everybody will want to drive in their own ever more massive block of metal and chemistry, we will have numerous issues and will keep shooting ourselves in our own feet long term. No EV is going to fix that, not this century.
It is rarely the identified group complaining and instead almost exclusively rich, no problem in the real world, people and or trolls.

The impact is overwhelming power transfer to racists.

This makes sense given the skewed overlay of people who are now "social justice warriors" that were once incredibly prejudice clowns.
May be. To me it's easily worth the hundreds of Euros in savings from not having running subscriptions to more than one service at a time. Oftentimes I have no running streaming subscriptions at all. I guess I watch a lot less than many people do.
> I think that part is often overlooked.

On the contrary, it is one of the most popular bad faith arguments against EVs.

Fortunately, science has long since come to the rescue. In the dirtiest coal-burning power generating region of the US, an EV is still ~20% less polluting than a car that burns gasoline directly. That is your worst case. Most US power generation is far cleaner.
I pay $0.60 per month, per connection for an iptv/vod service that has everything....so, I'm all in on piracy.
Trying to prevent common cheap components that almost anyone in the world can order online from falling into the hands of adversaries is a lost cause. It would require shutting down over half the economy and instituting a draconian and virtually totalitarian control regime. The Biden administration seems to be playing from a 1960's era playbook that makes zero sense in the 21st century.
1. Each set of parentheses adds 10% to the weighting of the term in a stable diffusion prompt
2. That particular term is in the negative prompt, signaling the model to avoid inclusion of matches for that in the produced images.

Context does matter.
I second this recommendation, Inigo Quilez is amazing!

If you're interested in learning the fundamentals of some of the math he uses, I can highly recommend the CMU computer graphics course. It's free on YouTube.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9_jI1bdZmz2emSh0UQ5iOdT2...

The professor, Keenan Crane, puts out a ton of super interesting, high-quality research as well. His website is awesome.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/
> I'm curious did Itanium fail because the model of pushing the complexity onto the software and a human failed or did it fail because of lack backward compatibility for a world that was largely x86 at that point?

It's closer to the truth to say that Itanium caused the world to become largely x86. In the 90s, while the personal computing market may have been dominated by x86, the workstation and server markets (which was the segment Itanium was targeting) was definitely a lot broader and competitive. HP canceled its own architecture line to focus on Itanium, and a couple of other architectures saw roadmaps dwindle because of it.
Looks like it has indeed.

Can't edit the title of my submission now. Oh well!

Edit: Thanks whoever updated the title!
Train tickets include track maintenace, but if you travel by car, you usually don't include road maintenance, car purchase, etc in the travel price (as they're often hidden and include many subsidies and tax breaks).

Additionally, a train always costs the same amount to run, no matter the number of passengers, so in countries where trains don't see much use (like the US), they'll be much more expensive than they should be.

If you look at how DB sells the vast majority of their tickets (Sparpreis and Super Sparpreis) in the 9,90 / 14,90 to 49,90 price range (including for 1000km long distance journeys), train travel can be relatively affordable (but obviously still more expensive than car travel if you travel short journeys, fill the car with 7 adults and don't include the road maintenance paid for by regular taxes)
Export controls?
Sure. I'm Irish. I've been a professional writer for about thirteen years. Formality of sentence construction is context dependent. In prose there's usually little purpose and no solid grammatical rule for retaining superfluous words. Depending on the pace and rhythm of the piece - which in turn dictate interesting things like the readers perception of time. For example you can make time flow faster by using brief, truncated, staccato sentences. Or stretch it out with more formal, grandiloquent sentences. You can also convey the informality of a relationship, or even the physical structure of space or an object in much the same way. These are elements of voice - the character or tone of the sentence or paragraph, which is contextualised by the overall piece.
I'm not articulating theory here - more trying to convey how I and other writers intuitively learn to play with prose.
Why would any company fire anybody if they are generating money for them?
What do you mean? Shah was installed by the US and got overthrown by protests only for current radical clerics to take control.
If I had to guess (as an ex-MS employee, but not on Bing), legal and compliance.
But keeping people employed because "we have money" is a really good reason.
My first PC was a 486DX50 from the bargain bin (with no box or accessories) at Best Buy. I never had a fully new system again, as each newer configuration still had many parts of the old ones. Very Ship of Theseus.
Did he add the 'n' tag or did he just accept a PR with changes made to artists.csv ?

That's quite a important distinction.

As for the mods, I have no problem with those, he made the WhiteOnly mod as a response to existing mods which removed white people, and I can't argue against the George Floyd riots being anything but peaceful.
I used to subscribe to Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video. The other day I wanted to watch Harry Potter (so not some obscure movie) and couldn't watch it anywhere in my country.

I bought a Plex lifetime pass the day after and cancelled all my subscriptions, except for Apple Music and Crunchyroll (for animes) who both fit their role for now. I can't justify paying +30€ per month for not being able to watch what I want.
Those components are mostly dual-use and not that exciting.

And they probably don't get as many of them as they like, and they have to design around their lack of access. All of that already imposes costs on them, which is felt in the drones being more expensive and less capable than otherwise possible.
But that's literally (literally 'literally', not an annoying turn of phrase) a monthly 'chore' to sign up for (and cancel) the next one.
There were a couple of movies I just can’t get without pirating. Already had Netflix and Prime, but to watch Chunking Express I would have needed to subscribe to HBO Max just for this one movie. There was no option to buy/rent it one time on YouTube/Amazon. This was true for at least 4-5 movies I wanted to see (yep, I’m that snob that doesn’t watch the latest and greatest).

And then I’d have to remember to cancel HBO Max.
> the microchips and other small devices ending up in so many of the Iranian and Russian drones are not only inexpensive and widely available, they are also easily hidden.

I think the fact they can bypass sanctions to get these sorts of parts is expected- after all, they are the ones securing their borders. The OP is right, it would be more worrisome from a military perspective if they further had the capabilities to produce all this themselves.
You are my hero. <3
I don't think anyone is stopping anything, really. It's just functions doing work: If one thing get's easier and cheaper and safer and is building a track record, all at the same time and without signs of stopping or running into any obvious issues, we are increasingly less incentivized to think up alternatives. I don't think that's unreasonable. In the end, the issue is mostly a very, very small number of people in all of existence, who are capable of meaningfully developing new technologies (and always at the cost of not advancing something else, because they would all be capable of working on something else).

We have been good about increasing the number of capable people, so it will not be one or the other, but even so, right now, it's harder to imagine a world with an abundance of top engineers making new technologies actually possible, than it is to imagine new techologies.
Your points are what they are, but I have to say that I find major sports to be the about the least empathetic target you could have chosen. Even college sports in the US are awash in money and we somehow end up using public money to build stadiums for teams of deca-millionaires owned by billionaires.

I get that there are plenty of working stiffs who put it all together, but I think they'd be better off asking the bosses for more of a share than admonishing the anonymous masses who just want to watch a game once in awhile.
Music is a non-issue with services competing on features rather than exclusive content.

I pirate games that cost more than ~$20 and don't provide a demo. If I enjoy the game then I'll usually buy it after an hour or two, especially indie games.

I'm done with movie/TV streaming services. Their business model and user experience is garbage while piracy provides a significantly better ease of use, overall UX and content quality. I'll reconsider paying for these services when they start competing on features and pricing rather than content exclusivity that varies by geographical region.

I'll buy e-books as long as the price is "reasonable", don't expect me to pay more for an e-book than a physical copy.
Just because Hershey's is here in the USA doesn't mean that's all we eat for chocolate lol
It's a list of artists who, if applied to stable diffusion prompting, generates art of black people. Not a list of black artists.
The true test would be if propagating a culture of hatred against men, heterosexuals or white people would be penalized equally.
The CHSH experiment measures more pairs of entangled photons passing through two similarly oriented polarizers than two orthogonal ones, regardless of the source's angle of polarization, though the effect is small enough that it can only be seen statistically. Rotating one observing polarizer should then cause an immediate change in the number of photons passing the other observing polarizer, regardless of distance. It seems absurd, but that's the current understanding.
True, but what percentage of software engineers work on those?

The only pool of software that both employs a large number of engineers, has an engineering life measured in decades and isn't rewritten every 3-5 years to a large degree is enterprise software, in my experience. Think C/C++/Java/.NET middleware type stuff.

And I imagine 90% of HN actively runs away from those jobs :-)
Is there any evidence that this has gotten any worse over time? Planck's principle[0] is nothing new.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle?wprov=sfl...
Interestingly, I haven't had Prime since maybe 2016, and my experience was that Amazon is only capable of two day shipping, but if you don't pay for it, the item just sits on the shelf for three days, then ships.
Self driving cars can park themselves far away, clearing the streets for traffic. For commutting, people need to own the car for the same reason farmers own their equipment: they all need it at the same time so it isn't economical to rent it.
There's a geothermal well near the Salton Sea in California where the scale that builds up in the pipes is high grade silver ore. The wells there are also being targeted as lithium sources. I've wondered if storage of heat in underground rocks (a cheap form of long term energy storage) could be combined with drilling into promising formations to extract traces of useful elements.
I agree with everything you wrote. We keep Disney+ because their family content is untouchable by anyone else. HBO/Apple we trade off every couple of months depending on what's new and what we are most interested in.

Netflix I subscribe to for about 1 month per year to binge the latest of whatever I'm watching (this year: Stranger Things, The Crown) and then cancel. Anything else (Hulu, etc) is a 1 month and churn kind of situation.

Netflix especially seems to be in a content death spiral of sorts. They cancel their original content so aggressively and often in such unsatisfying ways for the audience that I've decided I don't want to watch anything on Netflix until after it is an established success with multiple seasons produced. I wish they would put more wood behind fewer arrows. Or maybe just make a move toward miniseries so at least the audience can have a satisfying beginning, middle, and end to something they've invested time in watching. I would so much rather have 5-8 episodes that form a cohesive story, than a Season 1 that sets up a world and then never gets to go anywhere because some algorithm decided the show wasn't successful enough to continue.
This takes me back, although my first computer was a 486SX 25 MHz. At some point I inadvertently over locked it (long before I heard that word) because there was a jumper to change the bus from 25 to 33. I couldn’t believe it just… worked!
> An EV is much heavier

The most popular EVs in the US are roughly 0-10% heavier than the comparable ICEV. Yes, some EVs are much heavier.
Luckily - and for now at least - it looks like A1111's account has been re-enabled.
I'm sure it depended on your social circle/age group.

My age group, mid 20s during Netflix creation, everyone I knew have a Netflix DVD subscription. We were raised with VHS rentals, so DVD rentals were the natural next step when DVD players got cheap.
We are talking about pasting code into another, where both can fail to be correct at the time and you may or may not want to output to be correct. Nonetheless, your intent can’t be determined due to multiple ambiguous “good” outputs, e.g. should insertion start at the current level and keep at it, did the copy happen from a “dumb” medium without leading whitespace so that it should be tried to be indented first, etc. Sure, you can have a look at the resulting code and fix, but we all know that humans err a lot, this is something that works braindeadly easily with non-whitespace ”aware” languages.
He has a wife, you know.
These aren't really "from" the US companies. They're commodity parts that US & other Western companies design that are manufactured in Asia and sold around the world. The parts are used way too widely to be tracked in any meaningful way.
I think free-trial periods are mostly good enough.
I've heard another interesting argument, at least for disruptive science/research from industry.

Lower corporate taxation incentivizes the hoarding of cash. Prior, corporations were incentivized to allocate more funding towards their industry research (IBM, Bell Labs, etc).

Would love some counterarguments, here!
> After all, COVID deaths went up there

Weirdly, before the border restrictions that did exist were lifted.

> as opposed to most other countries

That's a stretch[1], but by all means, feel free to claim that a highly virulent respiratory virus transmission rate and a large population's immune response should remain uniform. Make no effort to check excess death figures either. As they say, never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself.

Meanwhile, an article[2] early in the pandemic that looked at why Japan was doing so well has this to say:

> Nor has Japan had a lockdown on the scale or severity of Europe. In early April, the government ordered a state of emergency. But the stay-at-home request was voluntary. Non-essential businesses were asked to close, but there was no legal penalty for refusing.

> Many paragons of Covid strategy, such as New Zealand and Vietnam, used tough measures including closing borders, tight lockdowns, large-scale testing and strict quarantines - but Japan did none of that.

and later in the article, after much speculation:

> A recent report by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found people with underlying medical conditions such as heart disease, obesity and diabetes are six times more likely to be hospitalised if they get Covid-19 and 12 times more likely to die.

> Japan has the lowest rates of coronary heart disease and obesity in the developed world. Still, scientists insist such vital signs do not explain everything.

> "Those kinds of physical differences may have some effect but I think the other areas are more important. We've learned from Covid that there is no simple explanation for any of the phenomena that we're seeing. It's a lot of factors contributing to the final outcome," says Prof Fukuda.

Well, the professor was shown to be too conservative as we now have more data and know how strong the effect of these physical differences are. You know, facts, those inconvenient things that are better than (incessant) speculation. "It's a lot of factors" is true but attributing a cause to factors that don't exist is a weakpoint in any argument.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53188847#main-heading
They think these 18,000 aren’t helping making enough money to justify the costs.
Good luck selling that idea (in America, at least).
Interactive map spewing sewage over-flow into English rivers
Article from The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/05/interact...

In summary privatisation has lead to a serious lack of funding for development and repairs. So now England’s rivers are filling up with shit.
I tried and failed to read up on what pragma queries are. Would you like to elaborate? This wasn't able to inform me https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html
People have absolutely injected themselves with what's known as "Miracle Mineral Solution", which is essentially bleach. It's more frequently drunk, of course.
And rather cutely, the only place in the UK that's given its name to a chemical element.
"installed by" in a fairly indirect way though, right? (by first installing the Shah who then caused a revolution, leading to the current regime coming to power very much against US wishes and interests).
Just torrented Unreal Tournament '99. Indended to buy it, but Epic apparently wants to erase all traces of their old games from the web ...
That's the hardware equivalent of the evil bit (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3514.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit).
Alternative theory: we've pretty much nailed the basics and it takes a PhD before people can even understand the frontier of most scientific fields. These frontiers are manifold, highly technical, and extremely boring to the layperson. Number theory is a very clear example of this: go read the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. Come back in a decade after you understand the Tate–Shafarevich group. (hahahaha just kidding, if you understood that you'd have proved the conjecture)
That would be a great place to live, and several decades from now, it may exist.

Several decades from now is too long to wait for an energy transition.