skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they do recommend pouring water on burning EVs, but this does nothing to extinguish the fire, it just keeps it under control, keeps it from spreading, until it burns out on its own. That takes 40 times more water and more time than extinguishing ICE car fire - one of your own links explains it.

Actually, the most practical solution to transporting electric cars by ferry might be to dump them into the sea in case of fire :)
There was nothing in his comment that alluded to anti-communism sentiment. In my opinion, the parent comment was categorically anti-fascist. Current day CCP conforms to the definition of fascism far more than the definition of communism.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on how they were being anti-communist or fascist in your eyes.
> _very different_, when the user's environment is different. And 1) you haven't seen shit if you think you can perfectly control the user's environment. 2) every new user is a chance for the environment to bite you.

Can you provide some examples of this? I'd like more info here, because off of the top of my head, I can think of the following counter-examples:

1. This isn't a new problem. User environment has been an issue ever since software as an industry was born. Specifying minimum specs is a pretty typical thing. And while I don't have depth of knowledge on these challenges or their history, my understanding is that it's only become less of a factor over time. So why is digital software different in this regard? If the industry was able to sustain itself before it went digital, what about the change to digital makes it unsustainable now?

2. Computer games, which are probably a good candidate for the most resource-heavy programs that need an appropriate environment, still largely adhere to a pay once business model. Doesn't this indicate that offline experiences aren't affected by environment to such a degree that a single payment business model isn't problematic?

> You do your engineer best to try and fight that. But there's absolutely a marginal cost, which is what I was responding to.

It surely has a marginal cost. But is that cost significant, is the question. In particular, significant enough to warrant a recurring payment business model.
Oh yeah, I forgot about YouTube, some of the best stuff I’ve found in recent years have been on channels that curate/promote music in particular genre. I have one for all sorts of punk genres, as well as one for doom metal and its related genres. They’re great, because they have all sorts of stuff, old and new, and help cut down on the cruft.

My only complaint about bandcamp is the mobile app. As far as I can tell, there’s no way to change the sorting when you’re looking through a genre, so it’s usually filled with albums and artists I already heard years ago, but their website is much better.
I think it's mainly hitching on to a pop culture moral outrage, vs an actual pressing issue.
"At least I'm not a war criminal" - The Googler's Conceit.
Yes, ok, but it is too similar to Rust: that is the problem!
> a category of ineffective, bitter malcontents and that’s not what we are

There are enough top voted people demanding harassment in this and other threads to say that well, maybe that's what HN is, actually.
Kirk Gibson’s walk-off homer in the ‘88 World Series.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N4nwMDZYXTI

For context, Gibson injured both legs (left hamstring and right knee) during the playoffs and it was unclear if he could even hit the ball. He wasn’t even planning on playing that day and was doing physical therapy during the game with the broadcast on in the background. Vin Scully (the commentator) remarked that he was “nowhere to be found” and that motivated him to suit up and tell the manager he was available to pinch hit.

You can see during his at bat how weak his legs are — his legs shake visibly and he stumbles after his swings. Moreover, he’s facing a future hall of fame pitcher. Nobody expected he’d be able to hit a home run, the manager was just hoping he’d hit a long single to tie the game. However, Gibson knew, thanks to the coaching staff, that the pitcher had a favorite pitch when the count was 3-2 and he crushed the hell out of it.
There's no need to use the likeness of current actors.

Actors need a unique combination of assets: they need to have the right looks, the right voice and the right skills. That makes them expensive.

But with AI, we can combine one person's likeness with another person's voice and another person's acting, and use this to create new virtual actors.

Finding someone who merely looks good and is willing to sell their likeness will not be hard. Even that might not be necessary, since AI will soon be able to generate photorealistic human models that aren't based on anyone in particular.
You need to win a judgement in civil court first and try to collect on it before you can attach a lien to someone’s house in almost any jurisdiction in the US.
Could someone who took EE please remind me... how many drums of water could a fully-charged Tesla boil?
> The crew receive some cursory training in basic firefighting every once in a while.

That is EXACTLY part of the problem. You put people with lots of flammable stuff under their asses on a ship in the middle of nowhere, with no help readily available, and hope that some sprinklers will be good enough to do the job.

Don't you see a problem with that, that should be tackled?
If you are not paying you literally deserve nothing.
I’ve left jobs under similar circumstances where later I thought “huh, I didn’t have a problem with the company… I was just emotionally spent and fragile at the time” and wished I didn’t quit when I did.
I don't understand the "economic" model.

If I'm a developer and get to chose what to charge, that means I can ask people for $0.01, and they would get access to everything from all developers of this "platform"?

The example on [0] where a developer pays credits when they get a subscriber is confusing. Should Devs "top up" somehow?

[0] https://1sub.dev/about/how-it-works
Not unlike software engineers objecting to their code being used to train their AI replacements.
> if you do it with anyone you don't agree with completely

Where did I say that?

> Outside, in the real world, I can sit and have a very pleasant conversation on TV shows or Lisp interpreters with someone with terrible ideas or belief which are inconsequential to the matter at hand and are not part of the conversation. I can sit for a beer with childhood acquaintances that I know are racist, bigots or generally idiots, because we're talking about something else than the things I know we don't see eye to eye. And that's fine.

Good for you. We're multinational company with thousands of employees, I personally been witness to situations where incompatibility in views caused issues during work.
In my free time, with my childhood acquaintances I can talk about anything, during work with my colleagues I want to have productive workday - not arguing about current flavor of racism or whoever-knows-what's opinions about anarchy.
Nor was the injunction. No one's had their proper day in court on this yet.
Note that Kusto Query language is open source see https://github.com/microsoft/Kusto-Query-Language
And in the meantime it landed to the Nest Hubs ... I think Google will try to abandon Android.
That's a bit of it. The more immediate term is a studio who can feed in all the scripts they have ever received then have a single writer use an LLM and make more scripts. Eventually they wouldn't need a writer, just a person good at prompts.

The problem is the writers have zero leverage. We just came out of a time of huge overspending on content where we all have thousands of hours we still haven't watched. Adding AI is on the rise and the writers may never get back what they had pre-strike. Similar thing happened last time which led to the rise in reality TV.
Even before that, there was “The Digital Imprimatur”: <https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/>
In order to have secure client-side storage, it seems like you would need to be able to verify that the client-side application that is accessing it is unmodified -- which is what WEI would allow for.
He came up with it more than 9 years ago, during which time no such war has been generally apparent, and if anything, the conditions for general purpose computing have improved.
One of the reasons actors are striking is because they are worried that their work will be replaced with deep-fakes, but also because they have already been offered that kind of contract at a rate they deem far too low (one day of work).
Yeah this reads like satire. I hope it is, anyway.
People here are being complacent.

I’m willing to bet all my money that a savvy startup will log all your keystrokes and train an AI model on all the code you’ve ever written - for your employer or otherwise - and create an AI agent that can code just like you. You will no longer be needed.

And it will be far easier to implement than an AI actor.

All of it will happen within 10 years. Which, as far as job security goes, isn’t a whole bunch of time.
So because actors and writers are striking engineers should be paid less? Maybe start by looking at actors' $50M salaries for 2 weeks of work instead..
Building the Digital Abacus, an Open-Source Mathematical Modeling App
> Mozilla opposes this proposal because it contradicts our principles and vision for the Web.

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852

I guess they would.
>It's just trees, you idiot

I suppose this is why we distinguish between wives and friends. Also, compassion is not a new invention, nor is the absence of compassion in people. It sounds like your great-grandma was a jerk, even for her time. They called it "shell shock" back then, btw.
That doesn't necessarily mean there are people working at their office in SF.
If you’d like great and reasonably priced coffee check out The Coffee Movement near China Town. They do a $3.50 Cappuccino and it’s where barista’s go after work. They’re also on the same street as the free Cable Car museum.
That's a sociopathic way to think about someone who has made one mistake and developed a lifelong chemical dependence.
In theory, Congress should already know about the existence or not existence of aliens/UFOs, so what's the point here? To show that congress isn't being informed?
I find this inspiring. Goes to show there is no limit to how far we can go no matter the constraints. Power in limitation.
Because it's breaking at least an implicit promise - that your account is under your control.
I've been using the "Hacker News: Mark All Read" Firefox extension since 2015.

It simply hides, or change the color when I read the post, without having to click on "read" by myself. Thanks a lot to the author and people whio adapted it to Firefox <3
But who has the budget for particularly recognisable extras anyway?

It's not like famous enough to be mass-recognisable actors are getting paid to be extras anyway, and why would you bother to copy someone unknown's likeness when you can just have your AI generate something new anyway? And I'm not convinced you'd want recognisable extras, it'd be distracting wouldn't it? And detract from who your actual stars are when they don't have more of a part?
What I like about this article is it subverts Marx's ideas of capital and markets and how the proletariat are being exploited/alienated/dehumanized to enrich a capitalist and if they'd only wake up to this fact they'd do a people's revolution.

But, Marx assumes people are stupid. They aren't. They realize that free markets, as noted by Locke in the article, create abundance for everyone. An acre of land becomes 100 acres when an ambitious person owns it and works it. We all do better when we allow the exceptional people in society to do their thing which betters themselves and then everyone else. That envy at their success expressed through confiscation and redistribution is counter productive.

History is created by the heroic and it is why we build monuments to them.
As someone else said, the amount of water needed is a non-issue on a ferry…
>Actors protesting AI protections remind me of factory workers protesting against automation setting in.

And in hindsight: rightly so. Automation and outsourcing gutted the middle class in the US to the benefit of a handful of folks that didn't need anymore money. What's the end-game of automating every human job away if the spoils of that automation aren't shared widely?
I don't think that that's surprising. Isn't this how all proposed features work? They can sit behind a flag for years, but the goal during a proposal is to ship first.
I know im late to reply, but i definitely agree. I also think that we need to put more thought as a society into this kind of stuff.

I know there are niche communities and museums that house a lot of cool old tech and such, but theres no backup plan for much of the tech thats rolling in.

One downside or problem though would be the space, and the duplicates, required. And to add to that, I think an additional resource would be the schematics and documentation of any of that tech coming into the vaults.
Yes they can, people can (and should) have some influence over their own life.
I can recommend https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12391759-12-million-doll... "$12 Million Dollar Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art and Auction Houses" around these topics too. For someone without any background in art it's very approachable. Gagosian is mentioned many times in the book.
That’s a deal with him and his production company, Happy Madison. He’s not personally pocketing $250 million, and a portion of that will go toward paying actors, crew, and other staff. If any of the internet anecdotes are to be believed, he takes care of his employees.
Thanks Sony, I had no idea this site existed until now
Isn't this already the reality in the mobile space?

I own a rooted Samsung device and have to jump through 100 hoops to be able to use my banking app or Netflix or some rando game (which I don't actually play). SafetyNet broken, hardware fuse blown, Magisk Hide + some other havks just to still be able to do online banking.

I just want to be able to ssh into my own device or install a real ad blocker, like Adaway without losing access to real world applications.

This is all very depressing.
Oh it's just that it's been moved! Thank you for that. I was so used to the old UI I was completely blind to the idea it might have been elsewhere. Well, okay, I've switched my PyCharm to the new one so I'll get some experience. Leave my IntelliJ and Clion on old so I can get work done heh.
>Statistics makes the claim that aliens are more likely to exist than not.

"There exists alien somewhere in the universe" doesn't imply "there are aliens visiting us right now", though.
There are more than 73M children in the world.
Wow, nailed it. This is exactly how I feel.
> It was always about the right wing kind of free speech

It was always about the kind of speech that was being banned. Movement Democrats like to think of themselves as left-wing, so everything that opposes their party becomes right-wing, including people to the left of them. Movement Democrats weren't being banned for spreading misinformation, they were being encouraged.

> free to harass and insult people, freedom from consequences.

There were only consequences on one side with old twitter.
No it doesn't, and yes you can.
OK, they are 100% safe and clear to testify. Where's the UFO? Show us. Get a camera on a bus or plane or something and walk us over. This is it, last chance. UFO or shut up.
There have been numerous studies showing that omicron severity is very likely equivalent to prior strains.

The decrease in serious illness is due to prior immunity and vaccination.

Though it’s obviously a hard thing to prove either way. But certainly I do not think it should be assumed that omicron is inherently more mild.
I feel like the sensational title and the content of the article are completely unrelated. Also the author is somewhat toxic.

On the other hand, I was always interested in AI, but this listing really scratched my curiosity. What would be the proper roadmap for someone who wants to learn AI?
Huh?

What is "anti-vaxx" about that tweet? It is absolutely mundane and trivially true.

And just for reference: I myself am triple vaccinated (waited a bit too long for my 4th booster and then got it, damn), and a total vaccine enthusiast. As in the vaccines are amazing, both in general and in particularly the COVID vaccines.

For further reference, last I checked the German health authorities still only recommend COVID vaccination for children with pre-existing conditions, pretty much due to the risk/reward tradeoff.

(I personally would be more in favour than they).

And the community note didn't really make sense, as what he said was not about relative frequencies, but about the question of whether myocarditis is a common side effect or not...and even on that he didn't give an opinion.
The amazing thing is the FBI seized the server without causing any downtime for users.
AI creative tools aren't going away.

Get on the train or don't.
Smart Contract Security Field Guide
A whistleblower is alleging that information has been kept from Congress. Why do you expect Congress to know that information?
Agree. There's nothing like waking up in that hostel in the Tenderloin and going for a morning stroll looking for AI people to network with.
Where was that pointed out? To me it seems that they are not all that different on any level[0]. Not in terms of expressed goals, nor in terms of technical capabilities for capacity to exclude minority browsers or operating systems if misused. The only real difference was PATs being launched with a very specific PR spin of "fewer captchas".

[0]
https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2023-07-25-web-integri...
Because phones are treated way differently than gameboys were
Should all actors earn the same amount of money?
Even if certain actors make the studio millions while others don't?
Yes and no.

[https://www.amazon.com/Master-Lock-Padlock-TSA-Accepted-4683...]

https://www.amazon.com/Pack-Approved-Luggage-Locks-Travel/dp...

But good point. I haven't bothered with one in a long time.
A photo or two would go a long way to setting expectations & generating interest.

Would really love more open source keyboard efforts! It's such a key but of interface. I'm ok with the big name ones but there's constant little tweaks I wish I could make. Ex, I dislike how often I have to dive into modal options to get a character.
How much money should Adam Sandler make?
Others disagree: https://sfstandard.com/2023/01/13/what-is-cerebral-valley-sa...
Wasn't able to read too far due to the paywall, but it seems that the folks who predicted that they were discontinuing the Bolt to upgrade it to Ultium were correct. Don't know why they just didn't announce the upgrade back when they cancelled the old model.
There's zero people who can do netflix shows or movies for free because of the Screen Actors Guild.

These aren't independent college movies or something you're making for your youtube channel.

WTF is this comment.
Technology can't create energy, and energy is becoming less abundant.
Direct observation of the violation of Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation
Nilered, your time has come
That’s a real thing but it’s also real that investment in artist development cratered along with the market for CDs in the 2000s.
Never stayed in Hostels before... Any worries about your stuff going missing?
There are union minimum rates [1] for actors, and a lot of people are paid as much, so, in practice, this is not an absurdly unspecified question but a genuinely easy one to answer: $250M / $1,082 = 231,053 days of work.

[1] https://www.wrapbook.com/blog/essential-guide-sag-rates#:~:t....
There are also countries where beating your wife is perfectly legal. I don’t think you should use legality to determine if something is a problem or not.
You didn't really make a comment -- you just dropped in an Asimov quote. And xNeil's interpretation of the relevance of that comment matched my intuition. If you had some other intent with that comment, maybe you should clarify?
Interesting, where I grew up school children could not use public transport (while at school at least). We had our own bus system (which was superior to the public transport) and sometimes used private for-hire buses.
> As an artificial intelligence language model, I don't have a gender or personal identity. I'm just a program designed to assist and provide information to users like you. How can I help you today?
You can add Alibre to that list. They do the JetBrains perpetual license plus N years updates for CAD software.
I do something similar. I have a binder of product brochures for every product I have built. Its worked very effectively and is more engaging than just talking about some tech, you can point to an actual product and show how it all works.
Fpdart v1 – Functional programming in dart
Obligatory material about daydreaming by a psychiatrist:

- Why Day Dreams Get In Your Way (33 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gw6gLBPvA8

- Your Constant Daydreaming Can Be Hurting Your Mental Health (42 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUSi9tzdNiE
I don’t pay much attention to the current shenanigans, but bone-headed rationalism has way too much opinions about black swan type of events. There’s never enough data to use reason in the way they think. A low expected value with high uncertainty isn’t a place to swing empiricism around like a sledgehammer.

> There are long tails in the distribution of the universe.

This is exactly the issue. There are no such “tails” on 0 data. Empiricism is a powerful tool, but it’s not universal.
No? Not really? International standards exist
Correct. We have pictures of unidentified objects.

Check and mate!
Yep. The city has begun offering subsidies to delivery drivers to get them to switch to known safer e-bike models[1]. However, the prices are high even with the subsidies; the fires will likely continue (and continue to be very deadly) until the city takes registration and regulation of repair shops more seriously.

[1]: https://nyrideclean.org/
Russian court jails cyber security executive for 14 years in treason case
Overdose deaths are mainly caused by opiates, the surge is due to fentanyl. [0]
This is also due to other drugs being cut with fentanyl.
I'm not saying other drugs are otherwise harmless, far from it, but opiates are particularly sinister and addictive.

Most people know this, but many of those who seek out opiates are in a particularly lousy spot already where they don't care if it will ruin their life.

For other drugs that are used recreationally, the rate of addicts is comparable to that of alcohol users, if not lower.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db428.htm#fig4
One of the specific things that they're striking against is that the movie companies wanted to be able to get the right to use background actors' likenesses in perpetuity to be recast as AI characters.
>there would be literally no point to this specification as it could always be faked.

I disagree. There is a point to making something more difficult but not impossible: you alter behavior at statistically significant scale in practice AND you get to point to the alternative as a reason why the change isn't "coercive". In practice, 99% of users won't know to download an altered Chrome - they have a shaky understanding of "browser" and "os" as it is. In fact, I can imagine Googlers rationalizing this as a kind of shibboleth that keeps hacker culture alive.
I don’t think they need your likeness for an extra. They can just create an army of AI extras and use them without paying for anyone’s likeness.

That’s my understanding of the strike anyway.
Not really. There is good evidence that sightings of Big Foot are actually linked to the same department responsible for dealing with extraterrestrials on earth.