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by api | 2025-12-29 16:23:11+00:00
In previous eras there were many purists who considered photography not-art, sequencer and synthesizer made music not-music, other forms of (non-AI) digital art less legitimate than their more manual classical counterparts, etc. This is the same discourse all over again.

Is electronic music where the artist composes it on a screen and then hits 'play' music? I think it is, of course, but I have had experiences where I went to see a musician "live" and well... they brought the laptop with them. But I think it still counts. It was still fun.

AI slop is to AI art what point and shoot amateur photography is to artistic photography. The difference is how much artistic intent and actual work is present. AI art has yet to get people like Ansel Adams, but it will -- actual artists who use AI as a tool to make novel forms and styles of art.

(I used an emdash!)

This is an outstanding read: https://medium.com/@aaronhertzmann/how-photography-became-an...

Anti-photography discourse sounds exactly like anti-AI discourse to the point that you could search and replace terms and have the same rants.

Another thing I expect to see is novelists using AI to create at least passable live action versions of their stories. I don't think these will put real actors or actresses out of work for a long time, but I could see them serving as "sizzle reels" to sell a real production. If an author posts their AI-generated film of their novel and it gets popular, I could see a studio picking it up and making a real movie or TV show from it.
by saidnooneever | 2025-12-29 16:23:15+00:00
most daws allow you to map hardware to the dials so u dont need to tweak by mouse. that being said, good automations are a fair replacement depending on your style of music. lfos, adsrs and pattern tools for automation lanes aswell as ability to record automations (to keep em consistent, modify manually etc ), and ofc humanization algorithms that u can apply to automation lanes.

i never use 'hardware', totally happy doin what i do. (thats music i think. enjoying your craft). most ppl i know using similar tools do have midi controllers to have more of an instrumental interface. theres tons of options. no need to discourage anyone...
by spankibalt | 2025-12-29 16:23:27+00:00
> "[...] this sounds more like the typical German philosophy of strictly following the process -- as absurd as it might be -- and refusing to take initiative for anything that is not explicitly defined as one's responsibility."

Neither absurdity nor "German philosophy", but just stock-standard safety and security culture in action. Or more specifically in this case: generelle and objektspezifische Dienstanweisungen (general and location-specific administrative instructions or regulations) [1]. You don't follow them, it's you who's on the hook. :)

And when was the last time anyone here visited a railway control centre in a metropolitan area? Yeah.

1. [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienstanweisung]
by daveguy | 2025-12-29 16:23:42+00:00
Maybe next time just look one one more click into the ownership.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBT_Media

IBT Media was owned by the parent company of Newsweek for 5 years 2013-2018.

It is now owned by followers of this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jang

So... Yeah.
by thebbapp | 2025-12-29 16:23:56+00:00
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by Saline9515 | 2025-12-29 16:24:52+00:00
Please point what is false. Does the EU, as an institution, produces technology? No Europeans do, did it before the EU, and don't need the EU to do it. WWW was created in Switzerland by an English scientist. Not in a ugly "bureaucrat-grey" building in Brussels.

What you are saying here is false: EU regulations are directly applicable, and don't need to be transposed into local laws.

It's the case for directives, which are required to be incorporated within 2 years. If the State doesn't comply, it faces an infringement procedure (Article 258 TFEU:), sanctions and fines (Article 260 TFEU).

The EU itself is not a real democracy, given that at every step obscurity and backroom-dealing is preferred to transparency. Chat Control is an excellent example of it: it was recommended by officials whose names were redacted. Even when the European Parliament said no in the past, they try to push it again - those fools can't anyway vote a law preventing the EC to do it!

More formally, the only directly elected institution (the parliament) doesn't have initiative power, doesn't hold the pen during trilogue negociations, is highly corruptible[0] given the proportional election, and can just "accept" the head of the European Commission. The EC is the only permanent body and can arbitrage rotating presidencies, pressure parties, and do screening on MPs to get what they want.

The lack of judicial consequences regarding Van Der Leyen after the sms affair is quite appalling for a commission that yells about "compliance" every day of the year.

[0] https://www.ftm.eu/articles/european-parliamentarians-involv...
by publicdebates | 2025-12-29 16:25:13+00:00
As far as I can tell, the whole web components umbrella came into being because React/Vue got really popular, and the spec/browser people said hey let's bring the core common denominator of those into native HTML/JS, as if it would bring us closer to having native Vue/React. Which of course never happened, partly because HTML is fundamentally incapable of having anything but string attribute values, and partly because reactive DOM is basically a hard problem that can't or maybe shouldn't be solved natively.
by chfritz | 2025-12-29 16:25:14+00:00
> the most critical sensor logs often get lost when a robot loses power

That seems like a bizarrely niche problem. I've been working in robotics for many years and I don't think this has ever been a problem for us. Why would a robot suddenly run out of power? Conversely, why would something interesting be happening right before the battery runs out? Are you perhaps focused on a very specific kind of robots like drones, where a physical crash can also knock out power?
by estearum | 2025-12-29 16:25:29+00:00
> Absent that we'll need to wait for population growth (not happening, if anything we're going the other way) or immigration (ha) to fill our cities up to NYC density.

Nope: One need only wait for the financial collapse that is fast approaching nearly every municipality in the US due to the relative scale of infrastructure buildout + maintenance as compared to its tax base.

The "standard" American city is 100% unambiguously completely financially impossible.

This is obscured by the fact that cities traditionally account for their infrastructure as depreciating assets whose value goes to zero rather than as perpetual liabilities with exponentially increasing maintenance costs, where the expected maintenance burden of a road already far exceeds its "asset value" on day one of its creation (when it's added to the city's balance sheet as "an asset.")

The American sprawl pattern is financially impossible.

Nice snark though!
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-29 16:25:30+00:00
If someone is interested in running golang projects on niche hardware perhaps, one pro tip I can suggest but there is way to convert golang 100% into wasm (no js shim or anything required) and the only thing you would need is a wasm library

You have to use golang from source (see the stackoverflow page https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76087007/golang-to-wasm-... )

go install golang.org/dl/gotip@latest
gotip download
GOOS=wasip1 GOARCH=wasm gotip build -o main.wasm

Although the way I did it is going into the gotip folder and then the binary folder which would contain the go compiler binary and then just use that path with

GOOS=wasip1 GOARCH=wasm ~/sdk/gotip/bin/go build -o main.wasm

Note that I forgot the exact path but it was similar to this but the point being that its super easy and simple :)

I tried to do it and I can tell you that it works and it works for even the most latest versions of golang, all you need is a wasmengine which I suppose can be ubiquitous.

I have built a solution where golang code gets converted to wasm and then we run a ssh server which then runs that wasm all in sandbox to create sandboxed mini golang servers :p I really love it although its a more so prototype than anything
by oleggromov | 2025-12-29 16:25:46+00:00
Good project, nice write-up.

However, to me as a person with an anti-library as well, this kind of defies the purpose of having it in the first place. I can't say I browse my books too often but when I want to find something, I'd rather browse physical things on a shelf rather than some out-of-date UI with fetched thumbnails. Of course the organization happens in physical space too: this is why we have shelves, labels and such.

Obviously no judgement or criticism for the author, just sharing thoughts.
by the__alchemist | 2025-12-29 16:25:47+00:00
Her primary thesis, if I understood correctly, is to clarify that none of the books with Feynman listed as the author were written by him, and that they were transcribed from interviews, lectures etc with editorializing. For example, by Ralph Leighton. Her secondary point was that she hates the "autobiographical" ones, and finds parts sexist, and thinks most of the stories are mostly false/lies/storytelling.

With that in mind, I think we'll agree it's not relevant here, as these seem to be handwritten notes by Feynman himself.
by pgryko | 2025-12-29 16:25:50+00:00
We are now moving to a post human economy. When AGI automates all human labour, the consumer i.e. the bulk of humanity stops mattering (economically speaking). It then just becomes Mega corps run by machines making stuff for each other. Resources are then strictly priorities for the machines over everything else. We are seeing this movement already with silicon wafers and electricity.
by thih9 | 2025-12-29 16:27:44+00:00
> Golf cannot be played in tidy 1-yard increments.

Sure, but it requires tidy increments of effort and practice. At least according to advice from a reddit thread about golf[1].

> To make a golden necklace, you must start with gold.

But maybe practice with silver or copper necklaces first, or you’ll waste time and money for no good reason.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/golf/comments/sgppbe/whats_the_best... e.g.: “Get a lesson to identify flaws and get drills to work on said flaws. Go to the range and practice those drills to get them down. Rinse. Repeat.”
by sometimes_all | 2025-12-29 16:27:52+00:00
Becoming? They were always unliveable. The difference is that the dysfunction is a lot more visible than before, and even then it was a disaster. The problem is that in India things tend to get very visibly worse before they get _much_ better, and then there are other things that pop up which are also visibly bad; the cycle goes on. It is highly likely of our current problems will get solved in the next 20 years, only to be replaced with other problems of a similar magnitude, and thus the country will keep getting tagged as unlivable even though efforts do get made.

This is primarily because most of the problems have their roots in the very flexible mindset Indians tend to adopt; it's basically the antithesis of the "Deutsche Bahn" issue pointed out in another HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419970.
by foldr | 2025-12-29 16:27:54+00:00
The point is that a dynamic language will in some cases enable code that is simpler and more readable (and hence probably more reliable) because sometimes the simplest code is code that wouldn’t type check. Even if statically typed languages are more readable on average, this fact invalidates your claim that statically typed languages are strictly better in terms of reliability. This can only be true if you artificially restrict attention to the subset of programs in the dynamic language that could have been statically typed.

By the way, could you tone down the rhetoric a notch?
by pama | 2025-12-29 16:27:59+00:00
Totally reminds me of Manhattan subways deciding to skip 6 stops after making some static noise on the speakers that nobody understands, and leaving you on a station that you have to pay reentry fee to go back the five stops you overrun (or run the lottery of staying for longer in case the next stop has an easy transfer.) Hopefully some day these absurdities of modern life will be fixed.
by wslh | 2025-12-29 16:28:00+00:00
> I grew up in 3rd world country and if this were to happen, train would literally stop somewhere, anywhere.

In many places without rigid rule enforcement, that kind of flexibility can actually feel more humane in practice, even if the overall system is worse. What frustrates me in the US (and sometimes in Europe) isn't rules themselves, but how aggressively and impersonally they're enforced in very ordinary situations.

For example, a friend of mine in New York casually crossed a line at a small PlayStation event and was stopped by a bodyguard as if he were bypassing airport immigration. I had a similar experience at a small event, maybe 300 people, where I tried to cross a line to get coffee and was abruptly blocked by security (they were just preparing the snacks).

Compared to more informal cultures, this kind of hyper enforcement can feel oddly hostile, especially when it's disconnected from any real safety concern.
by daveguy | 2025-12-29 16:28:04+00:00
No bigotry at all. It has nothing to do with his ethnicity. Just that the guy and his followers are notably biased. Sorry you misunderstood as bigotry my pointing out the clear bias of the owners and your incorrect attribution of ownership. Look at the content section of your original link about IBT. The rag is clearly not run on sound journalistic practices.
by hackyhacky | 2025-12-29 16:28:11+00:00
> The one big reason why CEOs exist is trust.

This sounds a lot like the specious argument that only humans can create "art", despite copious evidence to the contrary.

You know what builds trust? A history of positive results. If AIs perform well in a certain task, then people will trust them to complete it.

> Trust from vendors/customers that someone at the company is trying to make a good product.

I can assure you that I, as a consumer, have absolutely no truth in any CEO that they are trying to making a good product. Their job is to make money, and making a good product is merely a potential side-effect.
by bogzz | 2025-12-29 16:28:25+00:00
I don't believe that there is near enough room for creativity to shine through in the prompt-generation pipeline, and I find the mention of a talent like Ansel Adams in this context asinine. There is no control there, and without control over creation I don't believe that creativity CAN flourish, but I may be wrong.

Electronic music is analogous to digital art made by humans, not generated art.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-12-29 16:28:28+00:00
I recently bought a device through my carrier (secondary device, secondary carrier; luckily not my primary device) to replace my existing one.
Old device was still physical SIM new device only eSIM. I paid for it in a store, but it had to be shipped because they don’t have it in stock, even though it was in stock on their website (including after I left). It arrived late, the day before I was set to travel. The rep said I could just turn it on and follow the prompts and it would auto activated. It didn’t. Luckily it didn’t deactivate the old SIM. At least it didn’t until I called tech support and got their help. They said hang up, restart both devices, and the new one should work. Of course it didn’t work and both devices were now unusable. Had to go into a store and have them sort it out there.

On the flip side, being able to have a primary I never change and a secondary that I swap out for international travel has proven to be extremely valuable to me. So you take the bad with the good.
by colanderman | 2025-12-29 16:28:37+00:00
A gentle FYI for casuals interested in Meshtastic / MeshCore in the the USA: the default radio settings promoted by both these services are actually outside the parameters permitted by the FCC for unlicensed spread-spectrum operation, which require that such signals be spread over at least 500 kHz of spectrum [1]. Meshtastic "LongFast" spreads over only 250 kHz, and MeshCore "USA Recommended" over only 125 kHz.

(500 kHz bandwidth is indeed a valid setting for the underlying LoRa protocol, and is used when the radios get certified.)

Unfortunately the community meshes in most/all US metros have coalesced around these settings, meaning one is forced to choose between linking with "the" mesh, or operating legally.

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/part-15/section-15.247...
by thomassmith65 | 2025-12-29 16:28:50+00:00
The lessons of the Cold War, a substantial duration of which I lived through, should not include "actually the American system and the Soviet system were equally bad".

The term "useful idiot" has no expiration date, and is more relevant now, in the age of social media, than ever. The world's major powers still attempt to propagandize their rivals.
Ask HN: What B2B SSO solution are you using and do you like it?
by scottndecker | 2025-12-29 16:29:24+00:00
Seems like there are quite a few options out there. Looking for recs on something that can handle the various identity providers of a B2B context (e.g. Azure AD, Okta, etc), don't cost a fortune, and are straightforward to implement and support.
by sroerick | 2025-12-29 16:29:26+00:00
I'll add in addition - the skeumorphism here is generally pretty functional, you touched on this when you said "everyone is used to them"

But the layout of these buttons, while certainly not standard, is generally familiar across various filters, etc. So if you are dealing with a complex interface the skeumorphism absolutely helps to make the input more familiar and easily accessible.

This is what skeumorphism is for and this is a great place to use it.

Imagine if the symbols for "play" "pause" and "stop" were changed simply because it no longer made sense to follow the conventions of a VCR, then multiply that by an order of magnitude.
by mayanraisins | 2025-12-29 16:29:37+00:00
My wife and I recently switched from T-Mobile to Noble Mobile and it was painless with an eSim. I didn’t have to try to track down my sim slot key, I didn’t have to go to the cell store or wait for a sim card in the mail, I just followed their onboarding instructions and made the new eSim my default. It took about 5 minutes.
by Waterluvian | 2025-12-29 16:30:25+00:00
I think this very quickly gets into semantics and then philosophy to the point that it’s not really a useful thing to disagree on.

We can objectively measure the properties of the radiation reaching eyeballs and we can detect sensor differences in some eyeballs in various ways. But we can’t ever know that “red” is the same sensation for both of us.

The concept of “red” is real, made concrete by there being a word for it.

But most colours can be associated with a primary wavelength… except purple. So by that definition, they don’t really exist.
by dragontamer | 2025-12-29 16:30:28+00:00
> Anywhere near the coast of China, a warship is within range of truck-mounted anti-ship missiles.[2] Lots of them.

Yes, which is why the DDG(X) class has loads of stealth built in, to make it harder for those missiles to lock on.

One of the most important tools for fighting missiles is... an aircraft carrier. Early warning air systems (E2 Hawkeye), interceptors (F35), mostly for blowing up scouting craft.

Missiles can only home into what they can detect and see. Blowbup their eyes (RADAR systems) and they are flying blind. It's a lot of ocean out there and the horizon is surprisingly short.

Flight is your best way to cover a lot of ocean and find an enemy, but anything flying should be taken out by an F35.

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I'm not so against a rail gun or any of these future weapons per se. IIRC Japan has deployed a rail gun and they are an ally, with the right R&D team / licensing we might be able to get a working design.

But you know, that depends on how well Japans Railgun works. Ditto with laser systems and whatnot: as long as we test the crap out of them it's fine to deploy.

> The sinking of the Moskva was the first demonstration of this, and Ukraine has since taken out about eight more Russian warships and many smaller craft, using various missiles and drones.

Moskva is barely comparable to a singular US Destroyer, let alone a cruiser or larger boat.

And USA deploys large teams of Destroyers to help watch each other (and protect the carrier at the core of their fleet).

I'd expect that a drone being launched at a US Carrier strike group would simply be gunned down by the machine guns of an F35, long before they get close to the fleet.

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The sinking of the Moskva is also a Russian error. We all know that the Moskva's RADAR system could see the drones. The sad truth is that the Moskva's sailors were themselves unready to watch a RADAR screen for hours, days, months. They likely got fatigue and sounded the alarm too late vs the aerial threat.

Or maybe command was not notified quickly enough. Who knows? Communication error? There's a whole slew of chain of command issues that could have happened.

But we all know that the Moskva has good enough RADAR to see all of those drones. Even in the storm they were in. So it's most likely some kind of human error along the way.

USA, and other NATO forces, have anti-fatigue measures (better software, better training). Furthermore, we run missions vs Houthis and gain battle experience, or also shoot down Iranian missiles on their way to Israel. These missions (exercises??) will keep our sailors in better shape than the awful training the Russians have.
by mpyne | 2025-12-29 16:30:30+00:00
If the net inflow of talented coworkers to the company with churn (including hi-po churn) still exceeds the level of talent you'd get at the company with stagnant workforce levels, then maybe you'd still find it preferable.

High churn doesn't necessarily mean low average talent, especially if the skills you need to be a high-performer are not specific to any one company.
by andrewflnr | 2025-12-29 16:30:34+00:00
The other reply already mentioned HIMARS. There's also ATACMS, which are larger missiles that fire from the same platforms IIRC. The US also really likes to use air power against ships and keep them really far away from home turf, so they wouldn't have a lot of use for truck-launched anti ship missiles until things are pretty far down the shitter. It's probably not a coincidence that they also often seem to think the simple and cheap solution is beneath their dignity. That said, if I was in charge we'd have a lot more missiles.
by rvnx | 2025-12-29 16:30:52+00:00
This might be the case already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

Even the multiplayer video games have bots...

Some of the users here are not real at all.

It's logical, if you want to push your product, be promoted on the first page of HN then you have to post fake comments using bots.

-> You get credibility and karma/trust for future submissions, and that's pretty much all you have to do.

Costs about 2 USD, can bring 2'000 USD in revenue, why wouldn't you want to "hustle" (like YC says) ?

Bots are here to grow, it will take time as for now the issue is still small, but you may already have interacted with bots, so do I.