Readit Newsbriga commented on Canada approves national standard for age verification, estimation biometricupdate.com/20250... · Posted by u/busymom0
briga commented on Canada approves national standard for age verification, estimation biometricupdate.com/20250... · Posted by u/busymom0
You are arguing in bad faith. People as individuals, including Canadians, deserve freedom of speech, without threat of fines or jail time. Most people can’t just move to another country. They can however move to another website as an alternative to HN.
I have never once received threats of fines or jail time for their speech, nor have any of the Canadians I know. Are you aware that freedom of opinion and expression is very clearly spelled out in the Canadian charter of rights?
briga commented on Canada approves national standard for age verification, estimation biometricupdate.com/20250... · Posted by u/busymom0
It’s one among a large number of forums you can choose from, not a monopoly, with no restriction by the government, who has a monopoly on violence and the ability to take away your time or money.
By that line of thinking, Canada is just one country you can choose to live in. Certainly people here have the choice to move to other countries that they think has more freedom. I have a hard time thinking of any other countries that entirely fit that criteria at the moment.
briga commented on Canada approves national standard for age verification, estimation biometricupdate.com/20250... · Posted by u/busymom0
> When the government does act against "individual freedom", it is usually for the good of larger society.
This line of thinking can be used to justify anything. That’s why it’s important to protect the individual and their rights, even in face of what a majority - who can be unjust - wants. And speech in particular, is so fundamental to the idea of freedom, that it should be almost absolutely protected. A constitutional guarantee of free speech and privacy is critical.
You're posting that reply on a message board that, strictly speaking, does not have free speech. If I started flaming you my post would get removed pretty quickly. This forum is heavily moderated. Does that make it a better, or worse, place for discussion?
briga commented on Canada approves national standard for age verification, estimation biometricupdate.com/20250... · Posted by u/busymom0
Canada has not been the greatest for individual freedoms in the last 20 years. This is another step in the authoritarian direction, and will be used to punish people for speech ultimately.
Certainly we are not perfect, but I think overall Canada has done more for the world to uphold human rights and freedoms than otherwise. When the government does act against "individual freedom", it is usually for the good of larger society. For instance because of firearm restrictions Canadian citizens are (or used to be?) free from getting shot with firearms on the streets. Is it a perfectly free society? No, but for the most part people here have it pretty good. I'd wager most of the immigrants moving here are much more free than they were in their home countries
This is a nice "just so" explanation, but I don't think it is telling the full story, or even most of it. Sure tax policy probably has an impact, but so do interest rates, AI, tariffs, inflation, geopolitical turmoil, rampant speculation and hype cycles, etc. If this tax policy is so important why didn't it save the dot com crash from happening? Why are tech industries outside the US seeing similar hiring downturns? It's a boom and bust industry, we're in the bust, and it seems unlikely that one bad tax policy is the culprit.
briga commented on ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model github.com/ace-step/ACE-S... · Posted by u/wertyk
Interesting how there is no mention of how the training data for this was collected. This does sound quite a bit better than Meta's MusicGen, but then again that model was also trained on a small licensed dataset.
briga commented on Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency github.com/KoljaB/Realtim... · Posted by u/koljab
I'm starting to feel like LLMs need to be tuned for shorter responses. For every short sentence you give them they outputs paragraphs of text. Sometimes it's even good text, but not every input sentence needs a mini-essay in response.
Very cool project though. Maybe you can fine tune the prompt to change how chatty your AI is.
briga commented on Show HN: Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro missile-command-game.cent... · Posted by u/vbtechguy
One question I continue to ask myself when I see impressive AI examples like this, (because it is impressive) is "are we solving the right problems"? Instead of training an AI to produce a tonne of JS to create something that's been done before, should we not be engineering better tools to allow people to precisely craft software without the need for AI.
I worry that because we are now able to instantly produce a bunch of JS to do X thing, we will be incentivized not to change the underlying tools (because one, only AI's are using it, and two AI's won't know how to use the new thing)
I worry this will stall progress.
In my experience, AI is quite good at picking up new tools and techniques. In the sense that the models only need to be provided some documentation for how the new tool or framework works to instantly start using that new framework
Gemini in particular is really good at this
Maybe this will change at some point in the future, but for now there's no way I would substitute a well-written book on a subject for AI slop. These models are trained on human-written material anyway, why not just go straight to the source?