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> in hyper-realistic detail

Last time I heard this kind of talk, they butchered Lion King with the CGI remake. Getting similar vibes here.

Or when DVDs introduced that feature where you could switch camera angles. Well, turns out you don't want to do that because selecting the angle is part of the storytelling. So the feature basically died.

The "bottleneck" for movies is not so much the realism. There are strongly diminishing returns going from filmstrips* to movies to color films to HD to 4K to 3D, at each step you gain less and less. The core is still the story, the characters, the worldbuilding etc.

We see the same thing with video games. Until sometime in the 2000s, we would always ask about a new game "how is the graphics?", and we'd marvel at the new graphics capabilities. This is not really that big of a thing any more. Going from GTA 3 to 4 to 5 didn't increase the fun in proportion to the graphics quality. I mean, just look at the popularity of minecraft.

The real problem is that the entertainment industry is bankrupt creativity-wise. They have no idea how to make really new stuff. Everything is a remake. Note that they aren't introducing this new medium with a new story, they are refurbishing an old movie.

*filmstrips used to be kinda like a slideshow where you'd insert film into a projector and manually twist a knob to go to the next one, each slide showing a still frame and some text, telling a story. Fun times as a kid, not sure if it was as big in places other than the Eastern Bloc countries. Like here https://kultura.hu/uploads/media/default/0003/04/thumb_20396...
One of the good things to happen in emacs was the inclusion of `seq.el`. It makes easy functional operation over sequences, so no longer need `dash.el` or `cl-lib.el`. (dash still has many more functions inspired by clojure which is awesome when you need them)

But I still wish the emacs community could adopt a modern data structure library. It's difficult to consolidate usage of sequences (lists/vectors) with alists and plists. This would make it so much more accessible.
Which doesn't exist and is hardly possible in Paris.
My mom used to this year round, in every weather and temperature (incl. -20C), when I was a kid several decades ago.

Honestly I don't know how she did it, but she did. It helped that we had separated bike lanes pretty much everywhere. It is entirely possible if the infrastructure supports it.

This sort of thing is why I'm personally a big fan of the 15-minute city concept.
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, it’s literally, objectively true.

The only reason Carnegie built 1500 public libraries is because he knew otherwise there was a good chance some vigilantes would take things into their own hands and he and his family would hang.

Yes, it sucks that the only way to reach the rich and powerful is to harm women, children and property. But at least the rich and powerful of old knew this, and preemptively prevented it.

New billionaires are far too cavalier. They believe themselves invisible, and it shows in their utter disrespect onto the average people. Where is our philanthropy? Why do you not fear for your life?

We have become too civilized, and allowed the evil to laugh in our faces.
Plenty of Europeans have cargo bikes and make do with 2-3 supermarket trips per week for families of 4-5 peeps.

Only bulk drinks (crates of beer/soda/...) are challenging. But for those, very often delivery systems are in place that surely are more efficient than individual trips anyways.
A Remarkable Newly Deciphered Hittite Tablet Sheds New Light on the Trojan War
But what about that wants to be multi-platform instead of picking one an specializing, probably picking up some more optimizations along the way?
Same with their ‘’ quotation marks. I've had cases where I was searching for "'something'", and it didn't find anything, because it was printed as "‘something’".
“I didn’t mean to kill anyone” only counts if it wasn’t obvious you were going to kill someone.

The outcome here was obviously what was going to happen. They promised these actions.
Many cities in Europe have introduced climate zones in the past ~20 years, mainly to ban older smoky diesels like that. Petrol cars have also gotten more efficient; smaller engines (1 liter 3 cylinder ones are the norm now for smaller cars), smaller cars, more efficient engines, stop/start systems, hybrids and EVs (especially good for city traffic), etc.

That said, when I was in Paris last there were a lot of motor-scooters; while they also have small engines etc, I can't see them being much cleaner than well-designed cars, only due to their smaller size. Given time, I'm sure the range on their electric counterparts will become good enough as well to become a practical replacement.
Bluesky itself is a commercial brand
"A Deep Dive Into SVG Path Commands" by Nanda Syahrasyad [0] is really great for understanding how SVG paths are composed. It's from almost 2 years ago now and really opened my eyes to all that SVGs can do and exactly how they're doing it.

[0] https://www.nan.fyi/svg-paths
Joel was wrong about one thing, they also work at startups. My roommate worked at a startup where the senior frontend developer was basically building react in svelte + zod. Once a week he would see all his work deleted and completely rewritten in a fever dream PR that the senior produced. Completely impossible for grug developer to follow what's going on, his job eventually became "running this guy's code through chatgpt and adding comments and documentation".
Little reminder that there once was a "C++ error message competition" [0] where your score was measured as "the size of the error message divided by the size of the source code". The winning entry had a score of 5.9 billion.

[0] https://tgceec.tumblr.com/post/74534916370/results-of-the-gr...
The infrastructure changes required to get cars out meant to reduce the flow speed of cars. As a result, even buses, who have dedicated lanes, are much slower.

[EDIT]: since I'm being answered that it isn't true, here is a chart made by the city hall about the decreasing speed on Paris' roads:

https://cdn.paris.fr/paris/2024/07/12/original-4ee2d20dafdc9...
Diesel engines are also more efficient.
The world is chaotic, but that doesn't mean power is symmetric between everyone.
fwiw I used it the other day to help me figure out where I stand on a particular issue, so it seems like it's already there.
> Get Rust performance without having to learn Rust

I do that by using the Python C-API, no rust, no fuss...

Thinking about it, I haven't tried to see how well the robots do with wrapping C libraries -- though I usually use pybindgen to generate the initial py-module then fiddle with the code manually.

Other than that lisp implementation has anyone used the python api which lets you register a module as the 'compiler' for external file types? I forget what it's actually name is.
True, but the metro space is closed, so pollution can attain a very high level there.
I love what you have done here — it's very graceful.

I was feeling great but now I think "I have a lot to learn — I'd better get going!"

If you are interested in SVG animation, I wrote a program to do it from within Adobe Illustrator — see examples and how it works at https://svija.com/en/animation
>Here in the EU we screwed ourselves too haha.

Eu-person: how? (Pleas stay relevant to your whole comment).
It's (I'm pretty sure) Gen Z slang. I only started hearing it sometime this year.
See A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy: https://web.archive.org/web/20080708220307/http://shirky.com...
No, no it’s not. lol.
> m68k might be a bad example to pick. I was using gcc to target m68k on netbsd in the mid 1990s. It's very battle tested.

That was 30 years ago! Having worked on LLVM: it's very easy for optimizing compilers to regress on smaller targets. I imagine the situation is similar in GCC.

(The underlying point is simpler: explicit is better than implicit, and all Rust is doing is front-loading the frustration from "this project was never tested on this platform but we pretend like it was" to "this platform is not well tested." That's a good thing.)
To the extent that their past spending was debt, interest on that debt that should already be accounted for in calculating their net income.

But the way it usually works for Silicon Valley companies and other startups is that instead of taking on debt they raise money through selling equity. This is money that doesn't have to be paid back, but it means investors own a large portion of this now-profitable company.
Was it really ever true when you heard "you must declare illegal crime income to IRS" don't worry they can't use that data to arrest you.

That must have always just been a sucker thing right?
> It currently dwarfs the number incarcerated by the Soviet Union during the 1930s.

Not really. Estimates for the number of people in labor camps, labor colonies and prisons are all over the place, but based on their own fragmented records reached about 2 million by the end of 1938. That doesn't count pretrial/administrative detentions or the hundreds of thousands that were simply executed that year or all the people exiled to inhospitable settlements. And of course, the mortality rate in their penal system was extremely high.

> In the Southeast United States, incarceration rate of the Black population is 7%

Nowhere in the US is there anywhere close to incarcerating 7% of the black population.

That said, the US incarceration rate is ridiculously high and we should be ashamed of it.
> enforce quick and draconian response to petty crime

In the Bay Area the median response to petty crime is zero consequences for the criminal. This is because in practice criminals are not caught or punished.

If the cost of having laws enforced is that we need better surveillance (read: more security cameras) then guess what? We are already heavily surveilled.
> Competition happens within the same type(s) of goods, not across them.

Not true, for example smart phones replaced home computers for most people. Those are two very different goods, but since they can accomplish the same thing for the average person they end up competing.
The French have got you covered there [0].

There's also plenty of other, more practical / affordable microcars [1] on the road around where I live, they're considered equivalent to mopeds in terms of legality / requirements but you don't need a helmet, they seat two people and some groceries, etc. They used to be mainly popular for elderly people but they seem to catch on to other people too. Great for local traffic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Twizy

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcar
Hades relies too heavily on meta progression. You are supposed to grind before winning. The game is not balanced around your original state. I personally hate that because I view it as the game wasting my time but I can understand how it’s supposed to be enjoyable.

Balatro has a different issue for me. Despite having a lot of joker it sometimes feels very RNG reliant and limited once you reach high stakes. Plus the difficulty rises somehow artificially by withdrawing options rather than expending the challenge.

Slay the Spire remains unbeatable for me. No other game has the same level of complexity. You get all the tool to limit variance but every choice becomes very significant.
If you read the article you'll see this is a status report and not a pitch for a final product.
Violent resistance isn't a successful strategy at this point because the Axis of Evil has already won. The correct strategy is to take the moral high ground with nonviolent, peaceful, moral courage in forums other than where there are snipers. It will be risky but the same-old, same-old isn't working.

Violence doesn't win political credibility when you're extremely weak, and not in control of the media narrative to manufacture consent or justifications for aid and arms shipments.
When it comes to traffic and urban planning, Paris is best understood as a city of 10+ million people. The administrative subdivision called Paris has only ~2 million people, but the city doesn't end at its borders.
The standard DSM-5 delusions are are "bizarre, jealousy, erotomanic, grandiose, control, reference, persecutory, somatic, thought broadcasting, and insertion". Those covers a sizable fraction of Hollywood film plots. That says something important about something.
Demis Hassabis says Google will eventually combine its Gemini and Veo AI models
There is a chain of command in the military, you have to follow orders even if you disagree with them (unless they are unconstitutional). You may express your disagreement to your superiors, but you may not publicly distance yourself. She would be courtmartialed for this in most militaries, and probably in the US as well in a more serious situation.
The point is that they already have to be aware of and have logic to deal with this if they do business in the relevant countries. So they've already implemented it and are intentionally choosing to withhold it in countries that do not legally require them to provide it.
Of course it creates a massive opportunity for fraud. But no one in this administration cares about fraud and scams, haven't you seen the President's namesake crypto shitcoin? Or his namesake fraudulent university? Or his namesake fraudulent charity?

The way this administration sees it, separating suckers from their money is virtuous -- if you're smart enough to defraud them, you should be rewarded for your efforts. But if you're dumb enough to be conned, you got what was coming to you. Be smarter next time or perish.

This is the new morality.
DOE Allocates First Round of Haleu to 5 US Advanced Nuclear Reactor Developers
As someone that thanks Amiga for introducing me to my passion for technology (specifically the 500), I am really impressed that active development is happening on a 35 year old platform.. But somewhat surprised.
No, the vote was pure communication by the mayor, it didn't have a budget, nor a list of the streets, nor any details. Paris' administration is rife with corruption and mismanagement, so voters weren't very mobilized for another PR coup.
They must have gotten the librarian in the video from Central Casting.
I'm always convinced that people will pick up arbitrary projects that they are interested in and might not necessarily lead to a new pitch for venture capital or the next unicorn.
The "customer union" is supposed to be the government

But of course that has been captured as well
That's an escape hatch for religion.
AI-or-not silliness aside (gets boring real fast): I find Gemini to be faster (it matters), more reliable, with quality of responses being at the same level as Claude's. Better integration with Google apps and devices is a plus.
We can do it, but it's going to be two trips. However, there's like half a dozen grocery stores within a 10 minute bike radius where I live (modern suburb). Others who live out in the countryside will need to travel further, but that's generally the tradeoff; more comfortable / quiet living in exchange for longer distance to amenities.
> These vehicles are expected to redefine how cities tackle traffic congestion and pollution

Counterpoint: no they're not.

These sorts of very large drones may well become more popular, but they're not gonna become widespread enough to impact traffic congestion. The realistic target is becoming a moderately more popular version of helicopters for the sufficiently affluent.
Absolutely, you have excessive chargebacks and you will find your credit card issuer “opting to end their relationship with you”.
Insider trading from congress, the senate, and the offices of the president is nothing new. There is a reason people have been tracking and mimicking Pelosi's trades for years.
The issue is precisely that "did the click lead to a purchase" is not a good target. That's a target for the advertiser, and is adversarial for the user. "Did the click find the best deal for the user (considering the tradeoffs they care about)" is a good target for the user. The winner in an auction in a competitive market is pretty much guaranteed to be the worst match under that ranking.

This is obvious when looking at something extremely competitive like securities. Having your broker set you up with the counterparty that bid the most to be put in front of you is obviously not going to get you the best trade. Responding to ads for financial instruments is how you get scammed (e.g. shitcoins and pump-and-dumps).
Seems clear and useful. That said, there's nothing particularly bad or inaccessible about the actual Emacs Lisp manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/elisp.ht...

Or the official tutorial: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eintr.ht... (which to be clear I haven't read, but have heard nice things about).

Of all the things for which emacs can be criticised, documentation rigor is really not one.
To pick a different topic, I know a couple of vegans. Some of them are militant about it, others simply are not. You'd never know that about them unless it really came up.
Speaking as "the other half": this is wildly condescending, ignorant, and ironic. The irony of declaring that HN doesn't understand "how the other half lives"...

...while also declaring that "used cars are a must" for poor people (if you can afford a car in a city, you're substantially above a huge number of people, and car ownership rate goes up dramatically with wealth. It rises higher than 1 car/person once you start hitting the single digits. A huge number of service industry people, not to mention students, get around on foot or bicycle. They just don't commute 9-5, and they don't live in your neighborhoods, so you don't see them)

...while also making wildly sweeping generalization about where transit does and doesn't go (in my city, poor people get busses, rich people get trolleys and light rail and commuter rail, and it's pretty clearly purposeful that it is very difficult to get to the rich residential parts from the poor residential parts)

...while also making wildly sweeping generalizations that working poor don't work downtown, and only work in "industrial" areas in cities. It really goes to show how invisible we all are to you....even when you're wagging your finger at the rest of HN for not understanding people like us, lol.

Downtown, who exactly do you think handles all the cleaning, maintenance, repair, delivery, food service, retail, etc in the "downtown" area of a city?

Who do you think delivers the paper towels and bottled water and k-cups? Everything around you in your office - every single fucking thing down to the carpet you're standing on - is there because a poor person put it there.

Who do you think is driving the busses and taxis and trucks and vans?

Who do you think works the "gig" "jobs" delivering everything from dry cleaning to laundry to a fancy lunch for to those "young healthy well-paid tech workers"? (and FYI, your boss/admin assistant/office manager, when they order that big lunch from the fancy place across town? They're shit tippers. And bad communicators. And take forever to show up to grab the order.)

Do you realize that even in the "boogie" (sic) part of the city, the guy running the cash register at that hip coffee joint is making as close to minimum wage as the company thinks they can get away with, which is likely, at best, a buck or two an hour more than average?

Who exactly do you think fills all the entry-level jobs, including in tech companies? What do you think the front desk receptionist is paid? The desktop support person?

I feel like you all think that someone who cleans the offices for the big dot-com or white-shoe law office...or someone who dishwashes or busses or does prep work for a fancy restaurant where a plate costs $50, is getting paid anything remotely proportional to the difference in cost from a restaurant a plate for $18 or the hourly rate of that law firm.

It's the opposite - the fanciest places and the biggest name corps squeeze people the hardest. That's how they got to where they are.
Well, you don't care but other people care, and likely not one or two people, but enough. And enough of these "little things" added up, one chooses a product over another.
There's also EVs that generally do most of their braking on the regenerative whatsit, which causes no wear on the brake pads. A lot of it can be prevented by education / driving style, and improving road designs to allow for smooth driving.
Check for reviews that test for lead levels and buy products with low lead. For example, ConsumerLab is one subscription website that does this testing, but there are many others.
Why are they only on sale for the rich? I thought everybody could buy it. When Wall Street Bets was buying GameStop was that an investment "for the rich"? And if not why can only rich people invest when markets are down, and only not rich people can invest in GameStop when they are being short squeezed?
This seems to be a matter of preference. I feel awe when I visit charming old European cities with great walkability. "Modern" is great for aeroplanes but overrated for cities.
I think you are making some assumptions there. All of the things the parent comment mentioned can come about through emergent behaviors. Every actor operating independently yet influenced towards a certain direction via the incentives/disincentives that the system provides them.
But...you still have cars fr when you need one. What many commenters argue here, and what the Paris administration is arguing is that you shouldn't own one.
I don't know if EVs and hybrids are very popular in the UK but they are all automatics.
> The word "just" here always presumes magic that does not actually exist.

The magic here is, yes, AI. If you look at the mobile app stores, they've all become much better, although false positives occur, of course.
I know this isn't the best comment, but uh...

I see a planetary suicide right now and I don't even need to look into space.
This is very cool, keep it up! I can't wait to use it
>The prices of cars have “skyrocketed” because the price is now closer to what they actually cost. Meaning, less is being externalized.

This is false. There are no “externalities” that are now getting paid. You don’t pay for the right to drive upfront, you already have a permit for that, and that permit is what pays for road maintenance, etc. Maybe the current price is not fair, but that permit hasn’t increased in price. The reality is that Europe let all manufacturers buy one another so they don't have to compete anymore. So they can do whatever they want with prices.

>Cars are inequality-creators because the drivers offload the cost to everyone, including those who don’t drive.

Which wasn't a problem when everybody could afford to drive before Europe ruined everything.
For practical purposes they are better in every way

Mostly agree, except you have to take the Apple Watch every single day for maintenance (charging). You can buy a Casio F-91W for $20 and go 7-10 years before you have to take off your wrist for a battery change. If you simply want to tell time, digital watches, quartz watches, and arguably mechanical watches beat smart watches.
We can "what if" ourselves into any position we want. The fact is that digital surveillance is here and does collect information about people in a scope that is qualitatively different than putting information in books.
I'm against how all big companies have enshitified themselves and their products in every imaginable way to squeeze the last penny from its clients using bordeline consumer practices.
I pay for Cursor but the comments here made me question the incentives. They have to cut spending. The byo api keys don’t suffer from that.

Maybe we need evals for these tools? There are benchmarks for coding abilities (swe bench?), would be cool to set these agentic IDEs.
Why does Google even have these two different interfaces?
Oh, we don't need tariffs for Russia. But we put them in for Ukraine. - the Republican administration
Probably you would want to do that with G-code.

I've been doing that sort of thing in:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview
Setinterval.