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Show HN: AI generated daily tech news digest
I was searching for a short and concise tech news summary for years but couldn't find any. so I built an AI-generated tech news digest by going through a lot of the news sources and produced a podcast based on the most important ones.
It's "AI Briefing Room" on any podcast platform. There are Spanish and Chinese versions available too.

let me know what you guys think!
GPGPU programming seems to be in a really good spot with the widespread adoption of C++17 parallel algorithms by GPU vendors.

Now, I can just program against this API using standard C++ code, that interacts with CPU heap allocated memory, and get really performant computation on it using standard map-filter-reduce semantics.
>Critics say forced sedation should be strictly limited or banned, arguing the medications, given without consent, are too risky to be administered during police encounters.

I've been a volunteer EMT for 20 years and in that time I've been punched, cut, choked, and bit on multiple occasions-- and I'm in one of the most affluent counties in the US. People in poorer areas have it 10x worse than I do.

I'm a very tall, very strong, fully grown adult man. Most of the paramedics I work with are very small, not particularly strong, women. Practically everyone I work with is young.

If forced sedation is banned the critical nationwide shortage of EMS personnel will become much worse than it already is.

Have you ever had a 30-year-old man who's lying on the ground bleeding behind a vape shop at 3am try to repeatedly bite you every time you come within biting distance?

It's either: I hold him down and the medic gives him 5mg of midazolam or he's the cop's problem.
automatically expose my email to any random marketer with a single button click? I can't imagine why anyone ever thought this would be a good idea.
Find a way to get humans to love each other.
… and monetary reasons :)
Yeah I wonder why people who feel like they are getting poorer and poorer while their bosses get richer and richer, stopped giving a shit.
The contemporary view of the Mediterranean is distorted by all manner of historical events that had yet to happen. The East-West Roman schism and subsequent fall of the western empire, the early Islamic conquests, and later the sprawling Ottoman empire added a lot of cultural distance between the European Mediterranean, Asia Minor and MENA that did not meaningfully exist earlier.
Hm, I wonder if that explains the Pixel's huge jump in the last year. Japan must be hungry for no-bloatware Android phones.

https://9to5google.com/2024/03/06/japan-google-pixel-sales-i...
AI Landscape: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Quest for Disruptive Innovation
Artificial Intelligence is sparking widespread interest and debate due to its ethical, economic, and social implications. As businesses explore AI’s potential, IT professionals are eager to lead internal adoption efforts driven by perceived benefits and the positive effects of its institutional storytelling. However, the importance of pragmatic approaches to its adoption, clear goals, and strategic planning cannot be overstated, as they provide a solid foundation for understanding AI’s limitations.
Most people get money back from the IRS. If anything, making tax returns optional for people with just employment income would mean the IRS would keep more money.
Hahaha. Yeap. And project dependency analysis and library feature detection quickly demand the GNU variant, autotools (gasp!), clunky scripts, or something else. Use make for simple things and simple things only.
Google layoffs hit Flutter team
Interesting article would appreciate the including VR controllers.
Interesting stuff, but I think there's one more string he could have pulled. What was the MS software that ended up in the Saturn? I would bet emulator devs have done a lot of reverse engineering here already. Even if it doesn't lead to an obvious answer, there's bound to be more clues.
I love that Google+ is included in the "share this to social" functionality. Very retro
except it's actually labeled "gmail", so it is totally expected. Unlike the random form on unknown website.
I agree on principal and instinct... but then I realize how often people add quotes from Wikipedia or 1st or 2nd results from a google search.

Maybe most of the bad vibe comes from the "wall of text" and "tone" ChatGPT outputs.
Does is translate the element or actually redraw it?
Slightly OT. Why did browser gaming ended up having such low variety and no "hits" for so long?
I’m for this. China cannot be trusted to let TikTok simply be a business running an app. This can and will be weaponized against the US whenever it benefits China. Which is to say likely right now.
So why should it be that you and I get along so awfully?
Surprised this is being discussed here. It's worth noting that SVGOMG runs SVGO 3.0.0 while the latest version is 3.2.0 (so run SVGO locally for the latest optimizations), but I understand that once https://github.com/svg/svgo/pull/1943 is merged Jake will release an updated version of SVGOMG.
Well, for example, my (sighted) cats have a toy that spins a wand in a circle, but does so at a constant speed for a few minutes then turns off. I'd like to build one that moves in less predictable patterns, sporadically, over a longer period of time, without using much battery while not moving.

The hardware components aren't that hard to assemble, the programming is easy, but I'm at a loss with where to begin for building a simple housing where a motor can attach with a wand mounted to it. I'm sure it's very basic fabrication stuff, I just don't know where to begin.
> And why are you picking a 45 minute commute if work is picking up the tab for a hotel.

I've had work trips where the only decent hotel was an hour away from where I needed to be.
My C-corp taxes took about half an hour with turbo tax (just software development contracting).

It really puzzles me what is so complicated about filing taxes as someone who only has employment income.
I think if you prompted an LLM and explained what’s really going on with Mornington Crescent, it would probably do a reasonable job of playing the game.
These kind of places always seem so surreal. They’re like a place you’re not supposed to go, a place where deleted things end up. No humans around except for a few scavengers. Where are some other interesting remote dumping grounds like this where piles of discarded items just sit around abandoned? Is there a dry desert somewhere with a bunch of old beige computers just laying around?
MI5 warns UK universities China is targeting its sensitive research
That’s because there is a double standard when it comes to speaking vs writing things down. When a boss tells you to do something dubious within an organization is completely different than when they write that same thing down in a traceable manner. If it’s not in writing everything devolves into your-word-vs-mine, and the top chain of command quickly washes its hands from any blame.

As the saying goes: “Get it in writing”
> Why are you quoting things that are not in the article you linked?

It is literally the title of the linked article. So the problem is not with the quoting.

That being said the article very much does not support their own title. The title makes it sound like these vans capture people and then immediately kills them. When the rest of the article makes it clear that these offenders are convicted following the legal process, and they are executed only after.
Ok so what is your point? That's the carrier.
this was something that was more commonly used in the late 90s/early/2000s, an early internet feature, but still works to this day.

there are some niceties that have been added or maybe they were always possible - you can add a subject and message body, possibly cc etc.

i used it just last year to make an easy contact form for contacting local municipalities from a single website for my wife's NP
A substrate for CPU chips. In fact a lot of the synthetic diamonds for gemstones is a way to bootstrap the R&D for that end goal.
Do you have machines with no backups? Why?
Wow. useOptimistic is seriously cool. These are all really great tools to eliminate more and more boilerplate. Can't wait to put it all into use.

Gotta say, I really love what the react team has been doing, sure it hasn't always been perfect, but it really feels like inching closer to a very smooth developer experience very time.
The Chinese company Geely bought Volvo and most of the Polestar hardware is actually from Geely. And Geely is not from Norway.
Most people above the age of 30 are very unlikely to go to a protest. Between 18 and 30, they are just unlikely.

There is no one size fits all security best practices, you should analyze how much you are at risk before deciding what safe practices would be useful.
Ah makes sense. At another MAANG, there was a code mod template job with a half dozen subvariants. I recall using a variant that supported ripgrep piping to sed -i for a simple replacement mod. There were jobs properties controlling how many mods per diff and whether it needed human approval or not. I think I did one batched by 1000 running once every 2 weeks to keep noise down.
People that get business from the Internet don't care about reputation. You can always just buy fake reviews, sometimes you can pay to have negatives removed, or you can just start a new company name and buy fake reviews.

Also so many businesses have sufficient barriers to entry that there is a considerable under supply of service providers.
> in person

I'm curious how using Signal in this way is any different from talking in person. Nobody considers a private conversation during a walk in the park to be destroying evidence just because it wasn't recorded.
Would it not be better to allow arbitrary login IDs? Then you don't even have to store email addresses?
What are the biggest questions you ask yourself?
Just doing research...
Charging networks are a huge problem that may require regulation to fix. The hodgepodge of networks is awful. Tesla still has a big advantage here.
I just tried it too. lol
True that! LA is probably the most "powerful" math tooling available to UGRAD students. Speaking from my own experience, I survived a degree in ENG, PHYS, and CS
coasting just on my knowledge of linear algebra. It's like the rosetta stone of math concepts...

For anyone interested in knowing what concepts are commonly learned in a first linear algebra course, check out this concept map from my book https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/linear_algebra_...
This is kind of a silly argument. If a physical business trespasses me for shoplifting, I can just put on a disguise and go back and shoplift more. Why do business think they have control over shoplifters?
Whats a good example of a library that Java has that's missing in .NET? I really can't say I've ever had to worry about library support in C#.
And neither is Volvo, they’re Swedish.
> If the judge finds that Amazon was negligent in failing to preserve data tied to the case

I think there's several big obstacles the prosecution would have to overcome in order for that to happen.

For one, someone would have to violate their own Fifth Amendment right and admit that they used Signal intentionally to hide things relevant to the investigation.

Also, how is "disappearing messages" any different from a private IRL conversation? Nobody is calling a casual chat in the park "destruction of evidence".
On Windows, I rarely use Emacs because I have never figured out how to get dired to follow the Windows symbolic links that I often use to organise my folders and files. If I remember correctly, the last time I tried, I could only find a rather outdated example without much explanation that I could not get to work. If anyone reading this knows how to do it and has also some talent for writing: It would be very worthwhile to have a tutorial that explains in detail how to do this in a beginner-friendly way.
It's interesting how in some cases, text communication isn't allowed to be recognized as official communication in the eyes of the law.

I am referencing communicating with a landlord about a fault in the building. I have gotten screwed in the past because I didn't put the information sent to a landlord in a email.

Goodbye security deposit. I guess you can crush a stone, mix with water, and turn the dust into a blood slurry after all.

If only the city held these deposits and the landlord would have to prove in court that they deserve it.
Meanwhile, I rented a Model S from Turo (essentially Airbnb for cars) and had a great experience.

The car was clean, well maintained, fully charged and already parked in my hotel’s parking lot. Charging was free at any Tesla charger over the three days I had the car…I just had to plug it in and tell the car how much charge I wanted. When I was done with the car, I just had to snap a few photos and leave it in the same lot. And because the pickup/drop off point was at my hotel, I avoided paying for the car for the day I flew in and out since the hotel provided a shuttle to/from the airport.

It’s amazing that some guy named Marco who bought 6 used Teslas can do a more competent job of renting EVs than a multibillion dollar rental agency with huge economies of scale.
> It arrived one year later, in 2008

I want to say that this was deliberate. The iPhone was a new product that needed the general population to adapt, and mental models around its use. An App Store at launch would have been hot garbage. Touch apps at that point were shittacular PocketPC apps.

The HTML5/Web Apps recommended by Jobs were also deliberate in order to get developers to move toward formatting sites for mobile.

This was 5D Chess.
> I lived in California (both SF and LA) for 20 years and haven’t heard “y’all” once. I’ve started hearing “folks” rarely in 2010s when my liberal coworkers wanted to stress how are they compassionate with the “poor folks” only, i.e. nobody used it as a general collective noun

I’ve lived in California for more than 45 years (periods in each the central part of the Central Valley, LA basin, Bay Area, and Delta), I’ve heard “y’all” a fair amount throughout that time, particularly from Southern transplants and African-Americans, though increasingly common outside that; its common to both Southern dialect and AAVE, and from about the 1990s there’s been more migration from AAVE to more general use in California, not just for that term. “Folks” as a generic collective noun has been even more common.
"What the fuck am I even doing with my life?"
Why choose? There is such a thing as diamond aerogels:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-05/new-diamond...
People can be corporations.

Some people are single-person corporations. Or they run corporations where every significant act by others is directly approved by them. Or they lead corporations which act according to their every whim, stated desire, implied wish, or anticipated future demand.

Are they literally corporations? No, but the line is hard to draw.

EDIT: or maybe I don’t listen to enough Depeche Mode?
Can you not use the existing toy and modulate its motor how you like it? That's my first option, and my second option is to design and 3D print something. The latter isn't that hard to learn either, you could make something decent in a few hours.
Who cares what apps are designed for? "That's what the shredder was designed for, officer."
The shock value should come from the fact that the US scores very low among developed countries. The UK, Canada, and most of Europe score much higher on literacy tests.

The US has exceptional universities and colleges, but its K12 education system leaves much to be desired.
what are the possible security problems in this case (grab all form data and stuff to database)?

The only one I can think of is SQL injection, but that's trivial to fix with placeholders.
Our distribution grid isn't designed to handle it.

Which is totally a solvable issue, it's just that we as a country are seemingly incapable of large infrastructure projects like that anymore. First you spend years arguing that such an investment is even necessary to spend people's taxes on. Then once the political will is there, it takes even longer to get through the permitting process, ecological reviews etc.

Kind of insane really because something like this would really be a net win all around - lots of new construction and manufacturing jobs for years, and at the end of it all, a highly resilient grid that can tap into cheap power at its source and bring it to where it's needed.
Young generations have prevailed during times of famine, conquest from outside forces, cataclysmic events like volcanos and ice ages, and populating new territories.

I wonder what's different?
The FICA system, of which taxes are one component, also pays out a lower proportion to higher earners. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/bendpoints.html It is incorrect to describe the system as regressive.

It's a little weird to lump it all together as FICA taxes, too. Social security is more of a mandatory pension program that caps both contributions and benefits for high earners (in addition to progressively lower benefits for higher earners on the back end). Medicare taxes are straight up progressive -- there is an extra 0.9% tax bracket on higher W-2 income and the 3.8% NIIT investment income tax on stocks.
The amount of EV misinformation in this thread is staggering.

There's heaps of Tesla cars that have done very significant mileage. And as battery technology improves, early generations have been covered by very generous warranties.

Here's one such story, finding others would be a low effort undertaking:

https://youtu.be/1m5gs8mki8o?si=jfDT9NyZTdCL5rmm

Those with 300-400k mileage cars, being earlier generations, a good number have had their battery replaced under warranty with new units. Reliability has only improved over the years, and again, the warranty time has been generous - unlimited km on earlier ones.

(My '22 LR3 is 8 year /192k KM, I've only done 19k KM over 2 years, so the limit won't be an issue. I plan on having it for at least that long. Oh and that's at least ~70% charged by rooftop PV).

Also: Other manufacturers are clearly playing catch up to Tesla, but they are getting there.
Fuck. This is such a waste to people who need clothes and of material. This reminds me of the recent ABC (US) investigation about bag recycling where most of the bags were going to incinerators, landfills, or being covertly shipped to Indonesia and Malaysia for "recycling".
Throwaway economy: I haven't been able to find anyone to turn a rotor in ~10 years, but Amazon will bring me brand new ones tomorrow.

Sure, quality has gone down, but, well, that's why it's not worth turning them anyway.
You can die and respawn on level 5 kill all the monsters and be left keyless and stuck.
It's very dependent on which car and where you are. A Tesla (any model) is best because their charging network is very reliable. And in most major US cities there will be many of them. In cities far from interstate highways, not so much.
Internet is distracting them
Philosophy of religion is not the same as theology or religious philosophy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_religion
I have been using a self-hosted SearXNG instance and I have been ejoying it so far.

Sadly, it's the best we got right now.
>If Google was really existing in service of its employees rather than its investors

But then it wouldn't make that kind of profit.
+1 -- we moved to XCPng when citrix played this same game with xenserver a few years ago, and it's been a very positive move.
I think we’re already in a low-trust state of affairs, at least with respect to the relationships between individuals and goverments. If the government trusts you so much, then why do they compel yourself to verify your identity to them so often? Why do they constantly threaten you with punishments?
> I've never been a big fan of mandatory message retention. To me, it just seems like punishment for the literate.

You could see it in a different way, such as being a requirement that only catches the dumbest of criminals, repeatedly.
Considering Walgreens is still fighting shoplifters, it’s obvious they’re not in a position to restrict their merchandise. They must not own it.
Human consciousness is capable of it, but since most humans aren't in it much of the time, it would appear that it's not a prerequisite for true sentience.
Prevention of what?

Regardless of what we do, there will be people who are out of control and pose a danger to others. That will never go away.
Scams on GitHub have gotten out of hand
Step 1. Solve the precariousness of existing on planet earth

Step 2. Emergency medical personnel no longer in fear of bites
Good thing we're alerted to it, we might've missed it!
Flow Field Pathfinding
> Following tax forms is so braindead simple

One year, I had to spend a good deal of time working around a cycle in my taxes--VA wanted me to do my CA taxes first and CA wanted me to do my VA taxes first, and the instructions that explained how to handle this situation were only one on the one form that needed to be used to solve it, with nothing telling you maybe you should look for that form instead.

Furthermore, there's quite a few cases where the instructions basically tell you "fill in the number that belongs here" without giving a good idea of what numbers actually belong there. Here is an example of such an instruction in its entirety:

> Enter in line 5 the amount of pension, annuities, IRA/Keogh distributions not taxed on your Massachusetts Form 1.

The hard part of taxes isn't knowing whether or not to add or subtract two lines. It's knowing which lines shouldn't be 0!
> What is this North Korea or China?

No, there they'd just beat you into submission or perhaps shoot you (and there would be little domestic uproar about it, unlike in the US). Sedatives, Tazing, pepper spray — these are all attempts to avoid physically injuring the subject more than what's absolutely necessary to stop them from doing whatever it is that is problematic (e.g. attacking people).

If avoiding injury isn't a concern, a good ole' baton works pretty well, as do firearms.

> Holy cow what could be more dystopian than police wielding sedatives and needles.

Tanks, a la Tienanmen Square, that's what.

The problem is that phasers set to stun haven't been invented yet. Mechanisms for subduing combative individuals currently range from bad to worse in terms of risk to the subject (and sometimes to officers, because if they don't "work" then often the fight is on). It's a terrible situation and unfortunately there aren't any obvious solutions.
The "not caring" aspect has been a problem in the US for a long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial ?
Thank you for the input :) appreciate your take. I 100% agree not even computers or code is perfect hence the continual iteration of systems and machines year after year.
> and decades of strange antipathy towards them.

Historically, my pain with SOX has primarily been related to:

1. Poorly written control procedures that hamstring process but nobody wants to fix them, since typically the biggest point is your process is reasonable, documented, and followed... changing it can be fine.

2. Having to fill out time sheets for my work and having to use a flowchart to know what to put in the Capex/Opex column for my time on a given task, so accounting can follow reporting practices.
This is when you implement signed local web app components that cannot change unless authorized.
Car rental is awful in general. I just use ride share and don’t rent unless I need to do a lot of driving.

These companies seem horribly managed dumpster fires. I’ve never had a good experience. Acceptable most of the time but often bad.
i vote all hn submissions get a summary by ai trained by on comment. then i won't miss /.
It's worth noting that this particular competition considers additional factors that (I assume) aren't relevant in traditional cheese contests.

Based on the headline, I assumed the news was that a vegan cheese won in purely traditional criteria