skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hollywood the actors and writers are on strike because Hollywood, the money making machinery decided to replace them with a product from SV.

this is slightly incorrect. the WGA was talking about a strike, then the AMPTP made it clear that they wanted to reserve the right to replace people with AI, and that escalated things quite a lot. but a strike was already on the horizon before that happened.

the analysis in the original LA Times article is all about streaming, and barely touches on "AI" (ML). this is correct, in my opinion, because the role of ML in this is kind of an attention-getting red herring.

in fact the article's way better than I expected when I clicked the link. I basically endorse its reasoning top to bottom.

a little context on that endorsement: I built a decent chunk of Hulu when it launched, and I've worked for an actor whose name you'd all recognize.

I have a vaguely insider-ish perspective on this, and I would really urge you to consider the fact that Hollywood's extremely visible, but also quite opaque.

this is the most important paragraph in the article:

It’s been noted, and correctly so, that entertainment industry labor disputes often erupt when there’s a change in technology — from theaters screening projected films to the cathode ray tube of the home television, say, or the rise of YouTube and other online content in the 2000s — and that happens for a reason. Historically, executives and management use a disorienting new technology to try to justify lowering wages of their workers, and they have done so since the days of the Industrial Revolution.

they definitely want to do that with AI, but they have been doing that here in reality with streaming.
It's still there, although it too got rebranded: https://sitereport.netcraft.com
Beyond 1000ppm cognitive decline occurs. We dont have an air exchanger in our house (yet) and with us spending so much time working from home the co2 levels regularly build up to above 1000. The gas range is the easiest way to get it to 1500 in a few minutes…

I’m not scaremongering, i just don’t like working with an inhibited brain.
Alternatively leverage LLM and feed the papers to the LLM, massage for impact, tweak for demographics and print and publish my dude
I've been interested in these backyard methane producers https://www.homebiogas.com/product/homebiogas-4. I see people make homebrewed ones out of IBC containers and stuff like that. One of these days I'll get my hands on one of these things. For as cheap as natural gas is it'll take forever to pay for itself if it ever would. But it's a cool idea for self sufficiency sort of things.
feels like playing fallout
Don't people run their Hepa filters when the smoke gets going?
If Hollywood wants to full body scan me so my likeness becomes famous forever, I'm all for it. Fly me down, give me a day pass to Disneyland, and I'm good.
I haven’t seen anyone talking about how this supports Tauri yet, so I’ll start: that’s pretty great!

For anyone who hasn’t heard of it yet, Tauri is a really nice Electron-like alternative that uses the system webview instead of shipping an entire copy of Chromium, and it’s written in Rust, so I’d presume there’ll be some way to call out to Rust from PHP.

I’m excited to see Tauri get more adoption. I’ve been building/selling a video editor with it for the past couple years and while it’s not always perfect, it suits my needs and I like that native performance is always an option when I need it. I’ve yet to run into a performance problem that is completely out of my control. Not to say my app is perfect, just that where it’s slow, it’s not JavaScript’s fault.
Clearly everyone possesses the capacity for bitterness, as they are able to agree on its meaning. Otherwise they couldn't possibly know what the word means.

Clearly natural selection has selected for this capacity.

You pretend to disprove the adaptive nature of a trait by trotting forth "fatal cancer in infants" which clearly natural selection would not systematically select for without good reason. Perhaps artificial human doctrines have the capacity to selectively advantage "fatal cancer in infants" but brutal natural selection wouldn't. Natural selection is the abacus of the grim reaper.

You may call it a dark calculation, but do you know whats worse than a "fatal infant cancer"?

Two or more cases of this "fatal infant cancer"!

I know almost no one who has "fatal infant cancer", yet I have never met a person without the capacity for bitterness.

Your argument is devoid of logic.
You can have script interpreted by a binary. Without a browser involved.
I have no idea what in my comment you're responding to. I'm saying that practicing homosexuality has always been victimless, whereas practicing narcissism is not.

I'm not at all forgetting the millions of people persecuted for something that harms no one.
This is not realistic due to the costs associated with training the models. At least for the foreseeable future.
I just ate a dinner off of a plate that's been sitting on my shelf for a few days, using utensils that have been sitting in my drawer for a few days, accumulating whatever residual particles have been floating through the air settling on them.

Like most people I lick my fingers after eating chips and don't sterilize my hands in advance, hands covered with whatever I've recently been touching (including the plastic bag that the chips came in...).

I have an air purifier at home, but there's all sorts of detritus kicked up in the air from materials around the house that my body is constantly inhaling (not to mention the exhaust and tire particulates that I get from cars driving by me or whatever is being produced in the construction site down the street).

I absolutely agree that there are plenty of things out there that are bad for you, at least in sufficient concentration. But every breath you take and every bite you eat is consuming at least some trace amounts of particles that your body doesn't need, from all sorts of sources.

It may well be that nanoparticles of plastics are particularly bad for you (in the concentrations that are normally consumed) but my heuristic is to not worry too much about things like this unless given concrete reason to.
Fungus gnats are also an issue if you keep indoor plants.

I recently discovered that you can water your plants with mosquito dunks in the water, which will put the bacteria (aka: BTI, bacillus thuringiensis strain BMP 144) contained in the dunks into the soil. The bacteria then paralyze the larvae growing in the soil and they die.

Doing even more research, it seems there is a newer strain of the bacteria (AM 65-52) that you can buy in 16lbs! buckets for $570 off Amazon (or people have broken it into smaller batches on ebay).

This stuff really works like magic. Once the adults die off, no more appear.

Gnatrol Biological Larvicide Fungus Larvae
Accidentally leet name.
Dance with Dragons atleast had some plot progression. Feast for Crows on the other hand...
that site gave me a ton of hope and inspiration, thank you for sharing.
I think humanity self-destructs if it gets close to the singularity while still in a capitalistic society. You either immediately transition to socialism or have civil war erupt in every country simultaneously.
Yah, and in this particular case it’s not.

Bummer. Quick and dirty desktop app in php might be something interesting
Have you ever played the janky yet excellent JRPG Xenogears?[1] It's about exactly that, even including the phrase "become as gods" (at least a close paraphrase).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0KI-2QxLXc
Start a regular exercise habit and don't worry about quitting until the exercise is well established.

I quit smoking, almost inadvertently this way. I started running not really planning to quit smoking and eventually the physical drain of smoking weighed on me enough that I decided to give it up. It was still horrible to quit but I had exercise to fall back on as a "healthy" habit that kept me distracted enough to deal with quitting. That plus a lot of walks whenever I had a craving.

Ymmv of course. Personally I think cold turkey is the only way once you decide, anything else is lying to yourself.

Expect it to take years to get over it, but it does get better.
...assuming the launch vehicles are good to go.

> All told, Amazon has purchased 77 launches: 38 Vulcan launches, plus nine flights on ULA's soon-to-retire Atlas V, 18 Ariane 6 rockets, and 12 New Glenn missions, with a contract option for 15 more.

All three of the new launch vehicles have seen repeated delays. Also note that Vulcan and New Glenn both use Blue Origin's BE-4 engine.
One strategy I considered is setting 60 minute timers throughout the day, and practicing refraining until that timer is up. I’m not a physician so this might not actually help the physical side of the addiction, but possibly help me build up a tolerance of self control, in theory leading me towards setting more “refrain timers” in a day over time.
You don't need anything that elaborate. I've been cooking since I first moved out in college. A hot plate, a single pot and a fridge does the job.

Be efficient with your prep and you can prepare enough for 4-5 meals in a hour. The rest is leftovers.
prone to error (or relapse?)

I could not answer that. Addiction behavior varies by person. What works for some may not for others. Some people try to find other habits to replace it but I have no idea what that might be for your case. I've seen people chew on various things but I don't want to suggest other bad habits. I like version_five's suggestion of exercise. If that works for you that would be a healthy replacement.
> That is all to say, no, SV is not the root of the problem here.

In 2015, %80 of people watched network tv regularly and 50% had streaming accounts. That has flipped in the last 8 years. Total television revenue has declined 35% in that timeframe.

What’s happening to television now is what happened to newspapers 10 years ago: low-cost distribution alternatives disrupted the major networks and created new business models to control distribution and make employees take the financial hit. The fact is that Netflix was first to adopt streaming and did so with vast venture capital backing. This analysis does a pretty good job of looking at the financials of television in the streaming era.

0: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PRk5_ohCB70&pp=ygUeU3RldmUgcmF...
As a sober alcoholic, trained by 2 long term therapies and aftercare, i can say nicotine has the highest addiction potential. After it the list continues with alcohol and cocaine.
To stop an addiction, its important that you stop consuming.
In the human brain, the nucleus accumbens is located that responsible for the neurotransmitter rush we have when having sex,eating, getting promoted etc.
Drugs influence the way and how often such transmitters were produced and emitted.
Drugs put the whole brain upside down by this and the addiction stars by repeating the consumption and increasing the amount consumed.
If the substance is not consumed, withdrawal sets in and with every consumption a new, the brain thinks its ok to drink a bottle of booze because my human feels better after it.
When i dont get booze i dont know how to produce neurotransmitters on my own.
Thats your hangover.
Back to stop smoking, quit and dont try to only smoke 3 cigs a day...wont work because of the brain that must learn to balance the chemistry on its own.
You cant be half-addicted like you cant be half-pregnant.
There are strategies when craving sets in, i got ammonia sticks, little ampulse that contain the strong smelling stuff that distracts me from getting another bottle again.
To be honest, relapses occur, thats addiction. But its worth trying.
My english is not the best, hope you guys get it.
Most the writing on TV today is just awful. I support living wages and fare compensation but the quality of programming and writing seems to be at an all time low. Dune was probably the last solid movie I have seen in years … and that’s because it mostly stayed true to a novel written decades ago.
If they didn't then maybe they could write some kind of computer program to find them.
> I could as easily say they are on strike because the economy is contracting, and they are the least shielded from the contraction.

The writer’ and actors’ problem is not a contracting economy (if that is even true). Their biggest problem is people now have tons of cheap entertainment options other than movies/TV, such as TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp, and arguing on forums like Hacker News.
Apparently it's both. There's a bunch of experts, and then those output many alternatives, of which you see the "best" one as selected by a final quality-check neural net.
The link doesn’t load for me but in my experience eGPUs are buggy whether it’s a Mac, PC, Lenovo, Dell… in fact Thunderbolt in general is a buggy experience everywhere. It had so much promise.
not only did they have support, they offered an egpu/vr goggle pair around 2017.

the support eventually improved and was dropped with apple silicon.
If you enjoyed this, you'd love The Da Vinci Cod. It's hilarious:

https://www.amazon.com/Vinci-Cod-Fishy-Parody/dp/0060848073
Meh. Compared to electron itself it’s probably not much.
But calling it native is kinda weird.
indeed, how bizarre that saying "half" (not "roughly half", as you are now saying), a literally factually untrue statement, garners responses pointing out that it is.

are you sure you're on the right forum for you? This community generally values accuracy over flamebait.
Blimey. You lot are in trouble.

I'd say do something about it, but your corporate overlords won't let you!
> I doubt Apple will be our savior here. Apple is in a great position to implement this spec: their secure enclave and the systems they've developed around it are practically the state of the art.

You are probably right, but there is one self-interested reason why Apple might resist implementing this - Apple doesn’t like the web competing with apps, and this is basically giving the web a capability that right now only apps (effectively) have.
Meta already have multi tasking on the Quest Pro. What they don’t have is a significant app ecosystem outside of games

Consider that the Vision Pro not only runs iOS and iPadOS apps without modification, but also the fact that you can modify those apps to progressively adopt visionOS features.

To me, the killer software differentiator is that the Vision Pro will likely let you do most things you want within the headset. The quest requires you to take it off to do non gaming things or use often subpar web interfaces instead.
Amazons share of commerce is 37% and it’s share of commerce is even smaller.
Hm. Maybe ODBC or just shopping a PHP client library could do it. It would be a little unusual, but something like PostgreSQL might be particularly well suited.
yay, burn the books!
Most things my body consumes (even the ones it doesn't use) don't fall in to that category. And most of what you're describing our bodies are very good at ignoring. I'm bathed in radiation constantly and I'm fine (unless I stay out in the sun too long without sunscreen...). I wouldn't want to live in a house with asbestos or lead paint, but I wouldn't be too bothered visiting a friend who lived in one. And so on.

It may absolutely be that nanoparticles of plastic are so harmful that eating off of plastic plates is a really bad idea, but my heuristic would be to not worry too much about it.
Ww don't have evidence that 800,000 neurons are not capable of consciousness and pain.
All your points are valid, which is why I've come to believe the only answer is accelerationism.
PHP code is very easy for an end user to deploy.

WordPress is something that’s pretty easy for beginners to set up on a server using an SFTP client.
Interesting. This is certainly a possibility, however I need to drive about 15 minutes to be somewhere that I feel comfortable waking. I could purchase a treadmill or exceeding bike.

When I stopped smoking cannabis in my early 20’s I would do push-ups every time I had a craving. So this is definitely feasible. Although I didn’t learn until later in that physical exercise will release THC built up in fat cells into the blood stream.

The last bit of your comment gives me hope and solace though, thank you for sharing.
A few years ago I started undertaking practices to let go of emotional attachments, which I discovered after a lengthy and difficult period trying to figure out how to overcome some major life challenges.

I’ve been doing these practices consistently now for about 11 years. Even after all that time, I’m not at all free of emotional attachments; I’m working through some very deep career-related ones right now. But that’s by the by.

One of the things you start to learn when you spend enough time doing this work is that people’s emotional attachments are way more powerful than people’s ability to reason and see logic.

One you see it, you can’t unsee it. I now notice it all the time, in journalism, on Twitter, on podcasts, here on HN, and anywhere contentious topics are being discussed, people who are regarded as being as “rational” and “scientific” in their worldview will routinely argue positions that are logically absurd but they won’t be able to see it, due to their emotional attachment to the conclusion. And often their interviewer or debating parter – even if they’re somewhat in opposition – won’t notice and call them out on it because they have the same attachment to the position.

I’ve come to believe that science and logic really doesn’t hold much sway in society at all; we have positions/conclusions that are largely predetermined via people’s egos and emotional attachments, then scientific data is cherry-picked to form a "rationalisation" that feels just valid enough to pass under people's radar.
Computational Complexity of Texture Encoding
I had an occulus rift back in the day. Collecting dust and obsolete now. I've experimented with HoloLens 2 and found the dev env to be crap. Likely going to grab a quest 3 when it comes out. Anyone hacking software for it give their opinion for how the tooling is? On the rift, it felt the tooling was unity or unreal, which sucked for me. I'd rather write python or c++ code, but something not too low level (OpenGL, Vulkan seem too low level) I don't want to work at shader level but at a level where I can position and compose meshes into objects. Does that exist yet? Or is it fundamentally too hard to be expressed without high level tools like Unity?
N of 1 but that's never happened to me and I cook most of my meals from scratch.
If Netflix had stuck to that model they'd be dead.
I studied Shakespeare in school from a textbook that had two columns: the original and the modern English translation. Something like this: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/read-shakespeare-side-by-side-...

> So no, it requires no translation.

It does for most students in most schools.

Sure, there's some grey-haired academics that insist it doesn't need translation -- but they've spent a career learning Shakespearean English!
Cold turkey is all that worked for me. Gum did nothing. Never tried the patches. No secrets, no magic. What worked for Grandpa works for us too.

Got hooked on vape too for a while. While there's very little risk to it the risk that is there is relatively unknown at this point. I chain vaped for several years. My lungs pre and post vape seem the same (medically) though I'm sure there was inflammatory process occurring. Nothing like smoking though.

Eventually you're going to have to cut the habit entirely and walk away. Honestly, if your dosage is low enough that you're not craving it you're at the perfect place to throw it all away on garbage day. At that point you should be able to differentiate between physical addiction (nicotine) and psychological (having something to puff on). I found, honestly, the psychological aspect was hardest to quit. Nicotine was relatively easy to get off of. The worst part was the first week. It was being reminded constantly of my favorite smoke spots, smoke breaks, bars, etc that was hard. The psychological addiction lasted at least a month before it let up and honestly I failed several (probably a dozen) times due to this. Increasing my exercise helped somewhat but demons come out when your mind is at rest.

If I had one piece of advice before you toss everything spend 1-2 weeks reprogramming your mind. Change where you vape even if it's inconvenient. As I mentioned the worst aspect of quitting was the constant reminder of what I used to do. If you can reprogram yourself in this way you'll save a lot of trouble.
Middle class homebuyers taking $7k mortgages planning to later refinance down
Unrelated, but YouTube is less vague when it comes to walk-throughs
Dr Russell Barkley has posted a rebuttal to the lack of play opportunities/childhood maltreatment theory.

One of the points he makes is there are twin studies and many of these twin studies that show genetics being a large contributing factor. Unless we believe these twins lived in families that neglected only one child.

He is one of the most respected researchers in this field. Watch at 1.5x speed

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7hic_eGCA_0
:) Same, I definitely do not intend my comment in a harsh way.

And I do want to stress that I agree getting the writers and actors back at the table is worth doing. Same for all parties involved, all told.
PHP itself is more native than that in the sense that you can basically run PHP scripts on top of your OS, just like Python or Ruby
As you say the studios are good at killing the goose: tv, cable, VHS: each a huge money spinner and each caught tooth and nail by the studios.

> You don't need a special license to buy a dvd and rent it out to anyone.

Actually the studios strong-armed Netflix into not distributing new disks but maintain a “release window”.

Redbox wouldn’t do this and anyway couldn’t get Netflix’s sweet deal, so ended up asking people to buy disks themselves and send them to Redbox. First sale doctrine makes this legal in the US (as you implied) and the studios could do nothing.

Now Netflix and the studios are in a Mexican standoff and the studios make less.
or ElectronLaravel
Thanks for chiming in! I actually already use ghost which is why I’m asking about this functionality here. =P
If you have evidence for what you just described, do you really think the courts would side in her favor? (Honest question)

I wish you the best of luck, and I hope you find a way out sooner rather than later.
I normally consider headlines like this one to be lazy takes but this article, while a bit overwrought, highlights some important points.
STEM students need to be heavily incentivized. When the world goes to shit I can guarantee the journalism majors aren’t going to be solving our global warming crisis. I mean, they’re already failing their one job of spreading awareness.
I don't know what the heck is going on... but is it something to do with Netflix making crappy shows and shows like Lost are lost forever?
I have a fairly new Toyota and when the "Connected Services" trial expires, I will not be renewing any of them with the exception of the remote start. It has wireless CarPlay which works wonderfully, and really, that's all that I need. Or want.

I want CarPlay and I want it to work. Not too much to ask. I absolutely do not want a car entertainment system with anything Google baked in, though. I'm slightly alarmed at things going that direction.
I tried most of the top portable induction stoves on Amazon and they all have this horrendous high pitch hum. Can anyone please recommend a good induction stove without a high pitch screech that runs on 120V?
Road to madness: charting Apple Music listening data
That made perfect sense. Thank you for sharing.