Or more recently from "Jimmy Lovine" by Macklemore

"We’ve been watching you, so glad you could make it
Your music, it's so impressive, and this whole brand you created
You're one hell of a band, we here think you're destined for greatness
And with that right song we all know that you're next to be famous
Now I’m sorry, I’ve had a long day, remind me now what your name is?
That’s right, 'Macklemore,' of course, today has been crazy
Anyway, you ready? We’ll give you a hundred thousand dollars
After your album comes out, we’ll need back that money that you borrowed"
"So it’s really like a loan?"
"A loan? Come on, no
We're a team, 360 degrees, we will reach your goals
You'll get a third of the merch that you sell out on the road
Along with a third of the money you make when you’re out doing your shows
Manager gets twenty, booking agent gets ten
So shit, after taxes, you and Ryan have seven percent to split
That’s not bad, I’ve seen a lot worse
No one will give you a better offer than us"
"Mm-hm," I replied, "I appreciate the offer"
Thought that this is what I wanted
Rather be a starving artist
Than succeed at getting fucked

Yeah giving an AI the ability to completely act as you, leverage your saved credentials, and respond to prompts from content you can't reliably inspect on random web pages seems like a bad idea.

We can always fight over leap seconds.

Just move the clocks forward half an hour and leave it that way year round. We make everyone happy by not moving the clocks anymore and we make everyone unhappy because they don't get to keep standard or daylight time. Effective compromises are when everyone is a bit happy and a bit unhappy. There are many timezones in the world that are on half or even quarter hour offsets, so it would not be without precedent.

Seems to me the way to fix this, and by this I mean bad driving behavior by self driving vehicles, is to make C-Level executives personally responsible for the actions of the driving software. Find a way to "pierce the corporate veil" and issue the traffic infractions to specific high level people in corporations.

Yeah, it's a pipe dream as corporations won't stand for it and kind of own congress, but hey we can dream right?

I am not a doctor and I don't know the specific science, but intuition and common sense would suggest that early exposure to "dirt" whether that is actual dirt, potential allergens, or other things the body will have to deal with, is how robust and proper functioning immune systems are built. As humans we evolved living outside and exposed to our environment. Isolating kids from the environment they are going to live in as adults, seems like a bad idea from an evolutionary perspective.

The coins were burned as in destroyed? If they can be burned before they are given to real people, they can be burned after they are given. I thought the whole point of cryptocurrency and blockchains is that "coins" are not centralized or centrically controlled, so that once obtained, coins are under the sole control of the holder. This doesn't sound like that.

In cases where the vehicle can join a WIFI hot spot, this is true. For other cases cellular data is used and that gets expensive (I don't know if it's $66/GB expensive, but it certainly isn't free). If an auto manufacture wants to be able to confidently be able to remote manage vehicles, they can't depend on WIFI. For the bulk of the audience here (myself included), we generally abhor the concept of our vehicles being remote managed as well as anything that leads to a world of "car as a subscription service" but from an auto manufacturer point of view, an always online vehicle is a path toward remote management and car as a service. WIFI doesn't cut it for "always online".

I am more concerned about where the L2 and L3 support people are going to come from as we replace the L1 folks with AI. Same thing for developers and all other industries - if we replace entry level positions with AI, we won't have entry level people to train up or to gain experience on their own to have skills beyond entry level. I am concerned that AI is doing to seriously damage our talent pipeline.

Workers creating AI systems to replace other people's jobs are complaining that their own jobs will be replaced by AI?

You are arguing that you should be able to have your phone so that in the case of a school shooting, during the last few seconds to minutes of your life you can feel better because you can call your mom? A quick search puts the chances of dying in a school shooting at about 1 in 5 million per year. Let’s say you are the unlucky one but do get a whole 10 minutes between the time you use your phone to call mom and when you die. The statistically expected outcome duration of a "better life" would be 0.00144 seconds (10 minutes times 60 seconds times 12 years of school divided by 5 million). I would argue that in the way more probable case that you don’t die in a school shooting, having your phone locked away will make the remaining length of your life better (due to a better education) for something like 60 years (life expectancy minus time in school fretting about no phone times nearly 100% probability). Expected time of a better remaining life is about 14 order magnitude longer with the phone being locked away. Even if you are the unlucky one that gets shot, you could have been telling your mother you love her every morning when you leave home – reducing the need for that "last call".

I am personally not that crass in real life and of course being a bit facetious, but since you have a six digit slashdot ID, you are not a kid in school and are making up a scenario. It’s the tired "think of the children" argument. I am countering with what would in the big picture be statistically “better for the children” with specific respect to cellphone access in school.

School gun (and other forms of school) violence do need to be addressed and the cloud of its possibility do weigh on children – even those who never see a shooting. It’s a serious issue. Let’s not dilute the issue by suggesting that cell phone access is some sort of compensating factor.

I believe you are incorrect. NPR reports a Pew study that indicates even every if everyone eligible to vote did, Trump still would have won. So while technically a majority of Americans didn't elect Trump, a majority of those who voted did, and a majority of those eligible to vote would have. Note that this is NPR reporting this, not Fox, and that Pew Research is generally non-partisan.

In today's political world 1.5% is not really a narrow margin - it's around 5 million voters. The Democrats need to realize that they are not in the majority and this is not due to voter suppression. What the the party needs to do is figure out how to appeal to more average Americans living real lives. Republicans seem to be doing this - yes they are doing it by lying - but they seem to be connecting better to Joe Sixpack than the Democrats. While personally I am not affiliated with either party, I am saddened by the trend toward anti-intellectualism. Being a reasonably critical thinker, learning the level to which I am in the minority really sucks.

It would depend on what is required to be "certified". If the apps I create contain objectionable functionality or content (they compete with the core platform or they contain pornography or something), but I am willing to put my name behind them (and take on any related legal liability), would they be allowed? If the answer is "yes" then requiring signed code (being a certified developer and being able to get a signing key) seems reasonable, however if there are other restrictions, then the developer program is about more than "safety". Also if the cost to become certified is unreasonable then the program is also more than about "safety".

This concept should get RFK foaming at the mouth.