skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The company said the highlights could be packaged in about 7 million different ways, pulled from 5,000 hours of live coverage in Paris, effectively making AI (the artificial intelligence, not the man) a significantly more efficient way to deliver personalized recaps.

Another example of genAI's biggest use case being mass production of marketing slop.

This will about as personalized as those emails that start with "Hi {{NAME}}"
That's not what is happening though.

Millions of companies and indie developers have a platform to make money. This never existed before.

Amazon, Google and Apple also employ thousands of SWEs that make a good living building these services for customers.

Bezos doesn't "make all the money".
Not realistic.

The county granted a flawed permit. The builder built on the wrong site. The new buyer skipped a formal survey.

There's a web of lawsuits that have to play out in courts to seek insurance or pass through of damages.
I appreciate the sentiment, but territorial boundaries are enforced by violence among almost every species on the planet and we're not that much better than any of them. Law is something we use to put hard limits on violence and sometimes it's inadequate to ensure the obviously right outcome. I do hope that leads to a modulation of where the limits are placed rather than a loss of trust in the whole endeavor.
Good luck maintaining a civilized society without the rule of law underpinning it, with enforcement.
FTA: “athletes on Japan’s volleyball, track and field, and other teams will be competing in outfits made from a new fabric that can better absorb infrared light”

If it is hot (fairly likely, in Paris in August), won’t that be disadvantageous?
Not necessarily. Because each container is an atomic unit, you can presort at the origin or some other point.

I’d envision this like the old USPS Railroad system. In those days they’d drop a sack of mail at each station and pick up outgoing mail with a hook without stopping. You’ll have small stations and you send the pallet off the main conveyor. That might be directly delivery, or a van or some other arrangement.

The big thing is you avoid cross docking and middlemen, LTL type freight.
Well, they had a dominating browser for many years, so they know the benefit. Apparently they decided it is cheaper to just focus on the "user experience".

Now they can still control what buttons there are and whatbis shown on the home screen by default, but do not have to bother so much with all the expensive technical details.
one of the phrases they used @ their example page maybe reads pretty clear :D

> there are no text or logos in the video
The house was not worth $5,000,000. Let's be super generous and assume that's $500,000 worth of house. The land itself, the location, that's worth $4,500,000. Why should a $4,500,000 plot of land be kept out of production without anyone paying?
Sounds like a reasonable judgement - even if the parties didn't come to a compromise themselves - would have been to just swap lots. Lots 115 should be empty, cause the building that should be there is on 114. So, swap the deeds and be done with it.

(Unless lot 115 is completely different to 114, but doesn't sound that way)
I'm sure they are. Their dev costs have probably gone down since 2020, but I imagine their sales have too. They might even be losing more money now.
- Very helpful: your ratings of all the current docs.

Made some updates. Thank you.

> If you want more, you can sponsor breckyunits lab for

There's an easter egg there ;).

And there's a cheaper option: https://scroll.pub/wws.html ($100 for 10 years :) )
> Then why are you writing C? You could be writing some other, higher-level language instead if performance is not your top priority.

This goal seems somewhat oxymoronic - if the "goal" is to be keenly aware of what the compiler will do and double check all assembly, then you shouldnt use C. If the goal is to ignore assembly and not pay attention to these sorts of things, then you shouldnt use C.

The only valid niche I see is where the goal is to use C, not really have to worry about the assembly, have it do the "right" thing on your platform. I.e. no undefined behavior, just underperforming (and called out as such). Then you can go in and "approve" various optimizations.
cyan: selling lobbies 100gp
> That appears to be the purpose of these inquiries

Strong disagree. I’d say these drip drip disclosures are swaying public opinion and we’ll end up in a position where the public are clamouring for blood.
Someone is paying, that's what that pesky property tax bill is.
No, land rights (NOT property rights, you should be entitled to all of the value you produce) should be determined by a market system. I'm fine with her keeping that multi-million dollar plot of land for herself, but only if she actually pays society for everything being taken away.

A tax on the value of land - something people didn't produce, but comes from the value of society - is the proper way to raise income. You get rid of speculative leeches like this.
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Someone should really do a study to compare private infrastructure works vs public ones.

A local Hofer (=Aldi) here can repave a whole parking lot and the access road in basically a weekend, while the same thing (parking lot) for a local government office can take a year or more, at approximately the same size.
Very far from the only working one. I have a working one, for now, but we don't know how much longer I will be here because I am currently dying from a government paperwork error that nobody in government has the authority to fix.
There are a lot of doubters in the threads here and I think a lot of it has to do with the generative art that accompanies the article. They haven't picked a technology and it may actually end up being driverless cars on dedicated lanes, or automated rail technology. The point is non-stop driverless tech. The country is very well aware of the coming labor shortage and is going to rely heavily on automation in the future.

Anyone who has ever stepped on a Shinkansen can understand that Japan has a way of getting shit done. It may start a bit later than other countries, but when they finally decide to execute (and this is still in planning stages so it might not), it happens surprisingly quickly.

I've watched them totally revamp Shibuya station over the past 10 years in ways that make it utterly unrecognisable to someone who hasn't been here since then, all while never taking down-time. There is another article on the HN front page titled "Why it takes NYC nearly 10 years to install 500 feet of pipes" right now... that's perhaps coloring people's expectations of the possible.
Well I mean calling any of this diffusion/LLM stuff "AI" is a misnomer to begin with.
Look at all those people getting stuff done on their projects and making consistent releases. What fools! I pity them!
Some people sail for fun. Same with circuit design.
> We should’ve done that during the Warren court and stripped the Court of jurisdiction to challenge law on social and moral issues.

Without the Warren Court's decisions in Brown v. Board or Cooper v. Aaron ("separate but equal" schools), we likely would have had even more race-related social upheaval in the 60s than we actually did. Robert Caro's books on LBJ recount how he (LBJ) had to work very hard and skillfully to get civil- and voting-rights legislation past decades-long Southern congressional blockades — Southern committee chairman, plus Senate filibusters — and even then it was a near-run thing.

Without SCOTUS- and Fifth-Circuit intervention — back then, the "Mighty Fifth" was far more liberal than today — desegregation would have taken years longer, maybe even decades. The race riots and other violence we saw in the 60s (which I remember very well from childhood, including living in a Washington D.C. suburb during the riots after MLK's assassination) would likely have been even worse.
And also missed out on a suggested Bishophood (this actually happened)
Turbo Pascal IDE also supported WordStar keyboard shortcuts which was one of the factors of its popularity, IMHO. You could get along with the editor instantly.
International roaming outage for US cell carriers
Happen to be in France and can confirm (along with many others on Reddit) that cell service is indeed out. Interestingly it’s not one carrier but seems to be all the major ones (VZ, ATT, TM) and has been this way for 24 hours.
And that's why many indie projects fail before they start because people think they have to do something like this and build for scale before launch day :P
There is also https://www.cst.ch/, which I think is still active.
But if all that never results in actual consequences for those responsible, what good was it? Seems like theatre to make us feel good, then.
> Some kind of systems to allocate scarce resources is needed. This doesn't have to be property.

I should not be coerced to give output of my labor (whether physical or mental) to others based on some burocrat’s allocation system or my neighbor’s wishes. That would be immoral.
""The theme of this book is that workplace bullying worsens morale and productivity. To screen out the toxic staff, it suggests the "no asshole rule". The author insists upon use of the word asshole since other words such as bully or jerk "do not convey the same degree of awfulness".[6] In terms of using the word in the book's title, he said "There's an emotional reaction to a dirty title. You have a choice between being offensive and being ignored.""

PS. I am sure there's an in-between somewhere, but, fair enough.-
Thankfully, this sort of action would get you a mistrial in the US. The prosecutors must disclose any exculpatory material to the defense.

Heck even a secret meeting with the judge, while it might not result in mistrial, is highly unusual in the US and could be brought up on appeal.

There are basically no circumstances where a judge should meet with representation of just one side. Especially when that side is the government.
Make money off the work of other people?

…brother where do you think the money to buy the land comes from?
Yes it does come back on HN frequently; it's worth a re-read every time though! ;-)
Even just the stated goal to 'eliminate or reduce' undefined, unspecified and implementation defined behaviour is worth a lot since it would eliminate a pretty big minefield of "unintended consequences" in modern compilers.
This is such a genuinely weird worldview to me.

Like you’re missing a huge and meaningful chunk of one of the best parts of humanity.
We seem to be in an exponential uptick phase of tech driven by hardware improvements; a few years ago this was impossible on consumer grade GPU. So in some sense there isn't a useful frame of reference, state of the art should improve out-of-sight about every 2 years and eventually I'd expect iPhones to be outgenerating Disney at movies.
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groan There's no helping you people. Communism is a society without a state, classes, or money. There's no such thing as a "Communist government".
You're exaggerating this, but there certainly used to be concepts of ministerial and executive responsibility, even for things which were not entirely within that person's knowledge or control.

Ministers used to resign voluntarily. "Cabinet collective responsibility" used to be a thing. As recently as the Major government and the first term of Blair.

These days senior Tories greet the idea of responsibility with a shrug. That's how we got the Truss disaster, and why they're on course for electoral wipeout.
100km is 200km round-trip. At 100km/hour that’s 2 hours (which, reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_Japan#Summary, is the absolute best possible)

Also, they’re talking of 500 km, or 1,000 km round trip. That’s easily a day of driving.
Even if we pretend for a moment that georgism is possible, works, and was magically implemented tomorrow

You still can't build on the wrong plot and sell it.
If "ignorance of law excuses no one" is true, you would think it would be doubly so for a prosecutor.
Can we see your this years project anywhere? Just curious to what you achieved with it, how complex the film is etc.
I’d buy some parts if there was a service! Could be a good way to get the word out
I was at traffic court yesterday and before they got to my ticket they were processing actual criminal cases with defendants walking in the courtroom in hands and feet cuffs.

I was watching the public defender interact and process each case that walked in.

I was extremely unimpressed with the public defender who didn’t appear to know basic details on any of the cases she was representing.

It was a sad reminder that the justice system is still very much imperfect, and the outcome of many cases depends heavily on whether you have money to pay attorneys.

The simplest “proof” of the preferential treatment you get with a paid attorney is you’re almost always the first case on the docket if you have paid representation. Then after the cases with paid representation they move on to the public defender cases.

I would be terrified to face the US justice system without heavy weight defense attorneys - even if I’m completely innocent - because the system isn’t fair by default.
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> Smith suggested that an investigation report from the time should not be disclosed to [Noel Thomas] when it was reviewed in 2014. If it was to be disclosed, the inquiry heard, it should be heavily redacted – and Smith himself had written that Thomas should not be shown a Post Office note from 2005 which noted that operator Fujitsu was testing the reliability of Horizon.

> ‘Such a [note] may well invite a request for disclosure of the test results,’ Smith had emailed a colleague. ‘There may also be a risk that [Thomas] will suggest the investigation was inadequate or incomplete.’

Yeah, no shit.

You know, in my company we have yearly "compliance training" courses where we have to hear imaginary stories about employees who gave gifts to potential clients, illegally agreed to divide up the market with competitors, and so on. I feel like everyone in the prosecutor's office should be forced to read a certain number of cases of innocent people who were wrongly convicted every year, including all the quotes like this.
Take down their GIT Repository with perfectly valid DMCA Notice, I guess?
Questions emerging from Cyberstarts' remarkable success
For me I use the Will Smith video[0] from just over a year ago. Compared to the examples it's a pretty stark difference.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/yes-v...
Lots of good comments on the article with plausible explanations.
"that make it less than O(n^2), you've introduced tree search or spatial caching that makes your single "core" (WG) per particle diverge"

Well, like I said, I try to use the CPU side to help with all that. So every particle on the GPU checks maybe the 20 particles around it for collision (and other reactions) and not 14000, like it is currently.

That should give a different result.

Once done with this sideproject, I will post my results here. Maybe you are right and it will not work out, but I think a found a working compromise.
If that's the case, why not just state it? Why not be transparent with it and say that this was acquired fully online?

Also in NYU's case, how is an Offline Masters degree, that costs ~$70k to get and accepts ~20-50 students every year, the same and same quality with an Online Masters degree that costs ~$18k and accepts 5000 students per year? How could anyone say that these two are the same and of equal weight?

You can get an education and become a stellar engineer/professional whilst being self-taught. I've got no beef with the people getting degrees online, it's just that you can't equalize the two aforementioned degrees, cause they're just not the same. Like it or not.

And if it doesn't matter, like most of you say here, then why not just say it?
Not GP, but when I looked at the examples, I thought that those already look pretty useable in comic book-like storytelling to set the mood. I.e. in settings where smaller details of the scene are not relevant and are not taking away from the "larger product".
> i am starting to think all the great efforts were in vain

Get a grip. In developing countries these things are simply shoved under the carpet unless there’s a falling out in the political caste.

The point of lawfulness isn’t that grift doesn’t happen, it’s that light is shed on it and those shining the light don’t end up dead in a ditch.
This ‘everyone is using it so I need to also’ logic is funny to me, given the idea of the F in FOSS is to use network effects to spread the idea of software freedom. Using and thus endorsing a proprietary platform with ever increasing integration into the software lifecycle seems to do the exact opposite of that.
Cool, I haven’t seen that one before!
Everyone is missing the point. It's not the form of the conveyor that matters it's the loading and unloading system. You need a set of standardised parcel sized containers first. Then you can design robotic handling equipment that can load and unload them easily. You can take the containers and feed them into your postal system and gradually automate more parts of the system reliably once you have standard reusable containers, bonus points if the containers are collapsible like some crates you get for fresh produce. You can imagine them clicking magnetically into totems on the street where they could be collected robotically more easily. Or in high traffic locations you might feed them hole in the wall that takes them into an underground system of some kind that transports them to a rail or truck depot. You can also imagine that parcels services might be reintroduced on local trains because you don't need an extra person to load and unload the containers at stations if this can be done robotically. There are endless possibilities for varying degrees of automation, but the key thing is that there has to be a standard interface for picking up a container of a known size. The parcel is the interface; the physical specifications of the standard containers are analogous to an API.

The technology already exists for this in airports[0][1]; when you check in a bag in a big modern airport after the gate agent sticks the sticker on the handle it won't be touched again by a human until it gets chucked into the aircraft hold. Your bag goes through the curtain and it is dropped into a standard bucket which is conveyed around under the concourse on a rollercoaster like automated rail system to screening then either to an automated vehicle for transfer between terminal buildings or to an automated storage system for people who have checked in too early or have a long transfer, finally to the stand/ramp for loading into the aircraft. Big international airports like Amsterdam Schipol, Paris Charles de Gaul, Madrid Barrajas and Heathrow all have systems like this.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVesQ07GrRY&list=PLWwq_41dNV...
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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cac411oBqSE&t=57s
If you enjoyed this, I am sure you will enjoy Rota’s funny and charming book _Indiscrete Thoughts_. It includes this essay, together with many others.
Printing pure copper (99.9%) is possible since years with SLM process using lasers with an appropriate wavelength
OP is probably asking about useful regular expressions that people might have.

You can enter something like this in ChatGPT: "Please give me 5 regular expressions that programmers find most useful."
AI is not and most likely will not be a "magic box that meets all your needs" in at least 1000 years unless something insane happens, AI does function approximation, when you scale it up it can do amazing things but you still need human creativity, you still need engineers because it can only output data not act on real-world stuff, you still need data that is generated by humans, you still need to train every model for your specific task, and tasks are infinite.

If we wanted to replace humans we'd have to fully figure out how the human brain works first, for now no one knows how the human brain truly works so how can we claim AI will replace all humans?

In my opinion, AGI is just an acronym pushed by people who have something to gain from mass hysteria, FOMO, and making people feel like "the end is near", AKA, AI influencers and founders who want investors to give them money.

Of course, this doesn't mean everyone who believes in AGI is one of the two, most were probably just fed this narrative and it sounded believable so they just went with it.

These are my two cents, sorry for the wall of text :P, but I just had to say something about what I perceive as an "AI bubble" that generates mass panic for most in order to benefit a few
> with the generative art that accompanies the article.

About that, I also noticed.-

Has anybody looked into how the lowering of the "illustration threshold" for visualizing ideas might influence how many, or which, or how hard it might be to bring them to reality? Or securing investment?

I am almost certain it is having some influence.-
There weren't two reasonable parties involved or else there never would've been a house built on land someone else owns. That is not a reasonable mistake. Unless millions of dollars of investment is pocket change, in which case losing that entire investment is also nothing for the offending party. Given that millions of dollars is substantial for the offending party then they weren't acting anywhere close to reasonable.

I don't feel there is a shred of responsibility for the offended party to try and make reasonable accommodations for another party acting so unreasonable.
The title almost makes it sound like the house was mistakenly built in the bay area instead of Hawaii.
> The relentless "Russia bad!" parroting is very exhausting.

You know what's even more exhausting? Russia being so bad.

Also, whining about 'relentless "Russia bad!" parroting'.

The way to end the "parroting" is for Russia to stop being bad.
Easy ways to run an LLM locally