> Under Assembly Bill 723, real estate agents and brokers who display photos of a home that have been digitally altered with editing software or artificial intelligence must include a “reasonably conspicuous” statement “disclosing that the image has been altered.”
It depends what you consider a problem. Deliberate trolling is probably uncommon, but annoying people regurgitating what they've been told by mainstream media was, and is, all too common.
I can see the future. In a few years, HN will consist entirely of:
1) Bots posting “Show HN” of things they’ve vibecoded
2) Bots replying to those posts,
3) Bots asking whether the bots in #2 even read TFA, and finally
4) Bots posting the HN guideline where it says you shouldn’t ask people whether they have read TFA.
…And amid the smouldering ruins of civilization, the last human, dang, will be there, posting links to all the times this particular thing has been posted to HN before.
I don’t mind the occasional joke in an hn thread. I’ve made several myself. But I’m disappointed that this thread is seemingly all jokes and no actual discussion of the article.
I’m no mathematician, but as best I can tell, this is describing a novel approach to the “lazy caterers problem”: “Given an integer n, denoting the number of cuts that can be made on a pancake, find the maximum number of pieces that can be formed by making n cuts.” [1]
Their method was to use weirdly shaped, sometimes infinite knives, computing optimal arrangements, and recognizing the resulting region counts as known integer sequences.
There are numerous typos in this piece. Somewhat ironic for an article about a company that made typewriters:
"In the 1400s, Ivrea gained small Jewish community..." That one is the second sentence.
"...the company released the Modello Portatile 1, or MP1, create by Gino Martinoli, Adriano Olivetti, Riccardo Levi, Aldo Magnelli, and Adriano Magnelli."
"In 1938, the Italian racial laws made things difficult and dangerous for his wife, Laura, and several of members of his research team."
"Phenolic resin a was cheap, heat-resistant, nonconductive, synthetic plastic first patented in 1907."
"The material ceased being used with arrival of ABS and PVC."
Cool idea and cool looking, but just want to point out that surface transmission of infections is several orders of magnitude less common than airborne transmission.
If we're talking sanitation tech: I'm personally really excited by the further miniaturization of (far)-UVC light sources [1]. Far-UVC lamps deactivate airborne pathogens, but cannot penetrate the human eyes or skin making them generally safe to use.
Right now they do require rather bulky lamps (Krypton Chloride), but last I checked there had been promising advancements in producing far-UVC LEDs [2]. Which should make installation and deployment of far-UVC both more practical and economical in the future.
(Although I did see a lot of foot-operated door handles emerge on public restroom doors during the covid years. They're mounted down low, near the floor, and you can just put your shoe on them and drag the door open without using hands. They make sense to me for what I think are a lot of good reasons.)
The Metro (trains) stations in my city have foot-operated levers (pedals) to control the elevators/lifts, doors, toilet taps/faucets (though the urinal themselves have sensors to auto-flush), etc.
Although, as a precaution, I carry a hand-sanitizer and fresh mask in my bag whenever I commute on such public transportation.
I guess the pandemic (and the eerie realisation that it can repeat anytime, since it was decidedly an artificial one) has attuned me to be more vigilant on my safety and health, so I try to be cautious and safe in public where crowds can gather.
> Under Assembly Bill 723, real estate agents and brokers who display photos of a home that have been digitally altered with editing software or artificial intelligence must include a “reasonably conspicuous” statement “disclosing that the image has been altered.”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/california-la...
reply