skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not a quote from IMAX engineering. That's a quote from an IMAX spokesperson of what engineering said. And in the game of telephone something is lost along the way. I would guess they meant: IMAX Engineering designed and manufactured a system that emulates the look and feel of a Palm Pilot to keep it simple and familiar for IMAX film projectionists. But mixed it up in a way that means something different to us techies.
But what does it do that the website doesn't?
Very much so, and especially since a scientific paper that was published (after peer review) means that it is of interest to other scientist, not that it is a fact.

But there is also another good point in the post: scientist need to be full and frank in their scientific writing. Selectively reporting results creates a huge problem in the literature.

But unfortunately this creates rather less hype which is what even research institutions increasingly need to survive it seems
Same here, the FOMO led me to finding a film theater, luckily I found a 70mm non-IMAX showing in driving distance.

Honestly looking forward to not seeing pixelated digital screendoor for this one.

Most IMAX locations are just gonna be 2048x1080. Even sitting way in the back it looks low-res.
I don't know why the article talks mostly about unstable diffusion, when looking at the most popular models on CivitAI it is clear that there are even better models for porn, making it clear that you don't need to raise $26,000 to make a good model, especially if the effort is distributed, users will train models, the best ones will be further merged and trained, literally the evolutionary process.
People have to make judgments about which experts in which fields to trust. Should I believe a Catholic priest (or a Muslim imam, or a Jewish rabbi) when it comes to questions about the nature of the universe? What about when it comes to questions of ethics? They are experts, after all.

What about psychology? I am by no means an expert in psychology, but I'm also well aware that there is a big crisis in that field, where apparently most results can't be replicated, and there seems to be a lot of both outright data manipulation and just sheer incompetence with statistics on the part of researchers. But should I just uncritically accept results in that field? Again, I'm not an expert, so apparently I'm not allowed to be skeptical.
Silver isn't arguing for-or-against the lab leak hypothesis here.

> To be clear, I’m not sure how COVID originated either. I’d “buy” the lab leak at a 50 percent likelihood [...] and sell it at 80 percent, which still leaves a lot of wiggle room for me to be persuaded one way or the other.

This post is his commentary on leaked communications demonstrating that the authors of the paper themselves didn't believe the contents of the paper. This has nothing to do with a medical background or what the CDC believes; media savviness is precisely the qualification required here.
We have been seeing a significant global contraction for the last year lol. It’s still going.

We just all riding on the post covid backlog and over order.
Ah okay I get it now. My mistake.

Are they qualified? Sometimes a fresh perspective and courage is what is actually required rather than the home blindness that comes with following the careful bureacratic method for decennia. I would want there to be at least one mechanism in the universe that willpower from the bottom to actually improve the health of the core of these old institutions and companies. There is no mechanism at all currently for the person doing the actual work to take ownership, out of passion or duty, without first climbing the corporate ladder and becoming the grey suit decisionmaker not actually doing the tinkering any more.

I want to be able to own my own risk. If I identify a team need or personal need or business need I want to prototype it autonomously and have the control over my own computer and systems to do so while following all tests and procedures. I can pass it upward for a green light while following all test and development practices. Not only put someone elses decisions into practice while being bottlenecked by guardrails. These old institutions and old companies would pay anything to have something resembling startup agility, but they won't give up any power to self-selected intrapreneurs. I say let me own my own calculated risk . It can even be calculated risk, agreed ahead of time, this happens, that consequence. Off with my head, sure, tell me the cost that comes if I fail with some freedom and if it's losing my job then I'll accept it. If it's paying out of my pocket then I'll accept it. I'm not saying be reckless or not know what sort of risk one is taking. Open the door for calculated personal risk and let me remove the appropriate part of the guardrail. What's the point of being here if I can't use my own life force to change for the better that which crosses my path. Certainly not going to waste time, just fire me or fine me, I agreed to it to do more and better work because I care, hypothetically.

I'll admit the risks that comes with more access, if the risk is uncalculated and can't be owned in scale. Don't take risks, any at all, where the worst outcome is unethical or illegal, for everything that is production and customer data, or where the worst outcome is not even understood or out of scale. So some mindfulness, yes.

If someones personal tool becomes actually useful and the person leaves, then it becomes a weak link in an already unhealthy codebase. Or if they take decisions that don't come from above and somehow have enough access to also leak customer data or cause production issues, then compliance fines could happen. Or getting hacked, or breaking laws with unlicensed software or piracy or anything else, or disrupting other teams, or causing irreversible damage or data loss. Scary, I admit it! I see the paranoia from the top and I empathise!

Let's use bottom-up freedom for replacing the infrastructure with new technology, or lifecycle treatment or archiving, not for entrenching it with new development, or just not knowing what one is doing. But let's not get paralysed with fear. The scale is too heavily tipped in one direction. Shift it in the right direction.
Most construction workers that I've met are either independent contractors or paid in cash day laborers.
This lists a few things using Java Cards (likely stuff that's in your wallet, surprisingly): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47731005/practical-use-o...

(fwiw I have a bit of prior experience here)
So what if Netflix doesn't work?? That is the choice of Netflix. Big content will always want more control. Firefox will never be able to keep up. They will just do a mediocre job of working against their users.

Microsoft and Real Player pushed hard for an integrated ActiveX based DRM ecosystem over a decade ago. I'm so glad that Mozilla flatly refused to entertain such idiocy. I sure wish that Mozilla still existed.

Mozilla is now just a "pick me" [1] organization to big content. They should own being a browser that caters to users, not platforms. Because they will end up with nothing.

[1]: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pick%20me
That's definitely a "split the baby down the middle" kind of solution.
Everyone should be skeptical of all sources.

But out of the myriad of various opinions coming from politicians, CEOs, propagandists, flat out out idiots, and everything else in between, scientists are arguably the class of truth sayers you should be least skeptical of.

So while the title is technically true and I agree with the premise of the article, the article itself is wholly unnecessary at best and damaging at worst. Until we begin to be more skeptical in general and learn to distrust all the other mouthpieces vomiting lies every day, let's trust the scientists.
Sharply increasing suicide rates among teens due to social media isn't something to just shrug off, either.
And big tobacco hasn't brought the Nazis back.
> Motherboard contacted IMAX about the antiquity

Is “anachronism” a better fit here?
If solar is cheaper why aren't you building solar plants in China and India right now, you'd make millions undercutting the coal plants they are currently building. I guess everyone involved in energy there is a idiot?
If you're gonna dig into the geological record, the Hadean eon was hot enough that rock at the Earth's crust was still entirely molten.
The idea that the normies could do real science is pure projection
AFAIK the only option is to run your own instance, which is a rather high bar.

In contrast, imagine a system where you could use a private key to sign things, thus proving "author Bob on Instance X is the same as the prior author Bob on now-defunct Instance Y". You'd still be sunk if you lose the key (or it gets leaked) but at least your identity as an author wouldn't be at the mercy of the Mali government.
yeah I think it's becoming clear that stopping emissions isn't enough and we will have to do carbon capture but Iceland has a functional carbon removal plant up and running and Exxon apparently sees it as part of their economic future. Lots of bad news out there and we need to accelerate the pace but optimism gives us energy for pushing the political front.

https://www.semafor.com/article/07/21/2023/exxon-carbon-denb...
There's a lot of head-in-the-sand here about "soon people will know better than believe images" which fails to realistically engage with the world in a couple of ways:

1) ignoring a problem and harms because "soon" we think such tricks may not work as well is a disservice to anyone unlucky enough to be harmed now

2) Photoshop and similar have been around for a long time now yet fake images and videos still often fool people on first glance, so it's a bit blindly optimistic to assume that in the future volume alone will change people's initial credulity

EDIT: elsewhere on HN today there was a link to an annonymous post on Blind claiming to be a Google employee on a PIP because of some sort of quota imposed on their manager. This may be true, it may not be. I don't have a way of judging personally, and obviously text on the internet has been full of bullshit for a long time. But is anyone here confident enough to claim that nobody who encountered that on HN or Blind would believe it as a result?
Good, that's still working.
https://archive.is/LRlGr
I respect this position on principal, but I also forget like we are equally glossing over the context in this specific case.

In 2020, the lab-leak theory was specifically being promoted by people who were advancing the idea that Covid was a) an engineered bio-weapon b) required a national security response in lieu of a medical one.

But if we really want to look back at 2020-2021, there were MUCH more egregious examples of "experts" wielding their credentials maliciously. School closures I think will be the most pertinent example for a while to come.
Good one!

System Shock 2 was memorable enough that I couldn't play it in the dark and had to cheat just to give me the courage to finish it. I'm a glutton for punishment so I tried a few times to come up with a solid prompt to recreate SHODAN as an AI assistant. The goal was to balance our interactions such that we're both using each other to achieve our goals, but she always ends up becoming an unhelpful, Narcissistic, shrieking banshee like AM (from "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream").

PROTIP: All of the conventional adjectives used to describe her (megalomaniac, Narcissistic, sadistic, etc.) on the Fandom wiki tend to result in all of those traits being played to annoying extremes; she loses her chilling femininity when the only topic up for discussion is her aggressively screaming at you in all caps about how much better than you she is (that's a man, baby). I'm still working on it myself, but recommend ignoring all existing lore and rewriting her character using lesser/alternative adjectives like "helpful, cold, cutting, manipulative, and resentful of your humanity."
Great. So now that they can do it more cheaply, they can afford to do more of it.

I don't get what's up with this attitude of "It's already shit, so it doesn't bother me that AI makes it even shittier."
In the context of visual effects, AI isn't really significantly different. You could just hire ILM or whatever to make a fake actor before with "traditional" CGI.
If it were that simple why do phishing and other kinds of scams still work, and why are scammers and spammers so ubiquitous? People in tech are constantly defining problems away and then expressing horrified surprise when that very problem returns to bite them in the butt.
Spotify will not load in a browser without a DRM plugin
After doom-scrolling Covid through all of 2020, I decided to quit the news.

As of 1 Jan 2021 I haven’t visited a news website. I never watched TV news anyway (I don’t have broadcast/cable). Sometimes the news drifts through from the radio, and if someone sends me a thing I’m not religious about not opening it. But, basically, no news.

I haven’t missed it at all, and I do feel better. I have little clue what’s going on in the world and I don’t really care. What was I going to do about it anyway?

I still browse social media. I’ve 90% switched to Mastodon from Twitter, which is just nicer. Simpler. More personal. HN is my main ‘browsing to kill time’ site, and I’m looking forward to an upcoming holiday so I can break this habit a little.

Though I do now realise it’s all or nothing. You’re either in, in which case you are in, or you’re out. That’s why making it a resolution-style quitting — I remember the date — really helps. I’m on a run now, and I’d ruin that by visiting one news site even once. All temptation has now gone, thanks to time.

The news cycle is relentless and mostly pointless. Ditching it has absolutely been a benefit to my mental state.
I think this is why I find the Cool Continuum (http://continuum.cool/) so satisfying to work on: I get to (briefly) explore artists from various disciplines and discover how they broke through into public consciousness. I'm on number 42 and I've learned a lot already. I have hundreds more to do.

And yes, Vermeer and Bjork are both Level 5 Geniuses according to the Continuum.
Limbo. One of the most moving games I’ve ever played.

King’s Quest III. I think, as a young boy, I related more to the character than in King’s Quests I and II. I really got lost in the world.

Infocom’s Planetfall. Also, lost in the world.
A web app is literally just a website, but otherwise true
If you watched "The Jungle Book" remake, it was astonishing that there was only 1 actor (the boy who played Mowgli), and everything else was generated. I ripped that movie and while putting in my KODI collection, I couldn't decide whether to put it in Movies or Animated Movies. I think soon everything will go into the Animated Movies folder.
See also the Michael Crichton movie Looker https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/ which is about this topic
https://archive.is/sVjaw
It was probably just an example, not meant to be taken literally.
Banking apps will refuse to work on a jailbroken device.
You can already send somebody's employer a text saying "hey, I know this is rough to hear but so-and-so is sleeping with your wife -A concerned 3rd party". Lying with video will rapidly become equivalent to lying through text.
Run natively on Android?
Ahem… Darwin. Because of Darwin (iOS) and its derivatives, BSD probably powers 10-20% or more of all daily user hours logged on the planet.
Even if you love his books you are still free to appreciate a good parody.

I enjoy Cormac McCarthy. I also enjoy the fake Cormac McCarthy twitter account https://twitter.com/CormacMcCrthy .
do you envision this going into full "sky city / earth city" divide, or will 'owners' realize they are dependant on something 'non-owners' can only provide?
Are we suddenly against native mobile apps altogether?

I get the cynicism with apps like threads, being mobile-app only.

But OpenAI's business model is selling API access to a LLM - chatGPT is just a basic consumer front end. They've given no indication that they would want to deprecate the very actively developed web front end - and I see no motivation for them to do that.

Unlike social media platforms - OpenAI doesn't need to control the consumer UI - they make money either way. Alternative UI's and adblockers aren't a threat to them. They also don't have "engagement stats" to worry about.

I'm just saying we shouldn't get pitch forks out just yet, "native app" is often a selling point.
I get that, but a solution to that problem — on my mind — doesn’t involve people voting less regularly in Federal elections, but rather getting folks to vote more regularly in local elections. Separating the two seems arbitrary — federal elections have more money behind them than local, so awareness is greater. That’s a solvable problem, and one we’ve seen tremendous gains on in the last 15 years.

Which is to say, I think the “pay less attention” advice, while popular and relaxing a decade ago for certain demographics, inexorably led us to a place where vast segments of the populace haven’t been paying attention, and assumed “both sides are the same”, and now we’re in a real pickle, Federal policy-wise.
Never had this issue in the 90s in Texas, either. We also had a dedicated line so the Internet could always be on.
In 2023 I assume all news is biased or flat false. I assume all video is doctored or flat out generated. After one day I stopped consuming it all together as it was a pointless waste of time
How is that not actually good?

Engineering is all about tradeoffs, and ‘works’ is pretty high praise frankly.
It saves you having to login and solve a captcha every time you use it
The other problem with static sites is that it's trivial for some jerkface to copy your content and repost it. The first case of that I heard about was almost 20 years ago when it happened to a friend. The social circle of the subject matter was small enough that she could name and shame to get it taken down. Today I don't know what you could do.
What does open mean? I'm not sure we really have a widely shared, common definition of this, contrary to open source.

> You don’t get the source

You do IIUC. But your can't use it for all purposes (like serving 1B users), which is what makes it non open source.
"Once and for all!"

I think of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNYp6oc37ds
> Analysis should involve also sources and argumentation.

It did.

> You stated a contentious belief as an obvious fact

Hang on: where?

> without source and argumentation.

I disagree.

> That's more like a commentary.

Well, if you feel that a different name is more apt, I have no problem with that.

> That's your analysis?

Are you paying for this? No? Then no, it's not. It's a passing comment.

> No it's not risible.

I would not have said so if I didn't think it. That a corporation which over 20Y has gone from being worth very little to being worth tens of billions of dollars solely from selling contracts should not consider contract law or license terms before making such an important decision?

To conclude that and maintain it seriously is laughable.

Amusingly, RH itself has contacted me officially, as well as several members of staff unofficially, and ex members of staff privately, to thank me for a cogent analysis and being fair.

OTOH, some developer types, both from inside and outside the company, are Very Angry with me on Twitter.

So it goes.

> you probably did not came across enough of various sources on the matter.

It's entirely possible.

OTOH one of my articles is a cited source here:
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis...

So... shrug
TSMC: 3nm Chips for Smartphones and HPCs Coming This Year
At will employment being the law of the land, the only way to actually get a case of wrongful termination is to document that you’re firing the person for one of the few reasons which are unlawful (race, religion, sex, origin, disability, medical condition, or age, as well as additional restrictions the state may have in place).

“The parents are complaining and we’re chickenshits” is almost certainly not an unlawful reason, if they even bother justifying the dismissal (which most employers don’t).
DRM should be inconvenient and expensive. There have always been ways to implement DRM security theater for the comfort of content providers in board rooms.

The media ecosystem is not going to be enhanced by making DRM more restrictive. Netflix could completely deactivate all DRM today, and it would change nothing.

Apple completely abandoned their "FairPlay" iTunes music DRM because it became evident that it was not needed.
I mourn the lost era of GameFAQs and rad ASCII art at the head of pure text walkthroughs.

Now we have 45 minute youtube videos of "100 new player tips and tricks for Red Dead 2!"
The answer is more people with a background in STEM should go into journalism. Sadly, that sort of specialization is expensive and the public's willingness to spend on news seems to have gone down.
Trust, but verify. This also reminds me of, "There's no truth in the news and no news in the truth".
The first "grown up" novel I can remember reading at the age of 12 or so was "Catch-22" - I'm pretty sure this has had a long term effect on me...
Do you like new records or not?
Movie studios don't want the tech to be a button that spits out a movie. Because if a movie studio can do it, then Netflix can do it better in-house. If Netflix can do it, then a group of dedicated fans can do it for the fun of it.

Imagine a bunch of Marvel fans mad over the last few Thor movies making a gritty, comics accurate version. Imagine fans making the DC vs Marvel move that literally couldn't exist because of the studios would never allow it? Star Trek/Starwars crossover?

In a world where entertaining media becomes easy to produce, the only thing about the studio system worth anything is the distribution. Netflix would eat them alive.

The end state is something like media becomes so easy to create that most of it is only watched by the person who created it and even then probably not even that.

How many stable diffusion images are glanced at out of the 4 that pop up in MidJourney and are never looked at again but, just sit on MidJouney's servers forever? Eventually movies and video games will be this disposable.

Out of that might come gems that would have never otherwise been made but, most of it will be garbage.
Yep, that's a fair point. I do think that the more popular ccTLDs are probably slightly safer than less popular ones all else being equal because there is more riding on not “killing the golden goose”, but stability of the country (or territory) is also a factor.
Why? What does an app give you over the browser? I get the feeling I'm in a minority not caring so I'm trying to understand. Do you specifically mean you don't like entering your login info once on a while (granted I have no idea why we have to log in so often)?
Yes, "de jure" more or less translates to "by law", and "de facto" is something like "by practice" or "by convention". So the Open Source Initiative folks have no legal basis to enforce use of their definition, but in practice it's so widely used and acknowledged that for all practical purposes it is the definition.