jorisboris

I'm building a dashboard for a client.

I realised how easy it is for me to build the dash.

But how hard it is to sit down for 1 hour, look at the pages, scroll through them as if I am my client, notice inconsistencies, notice where the numbers don't make sense.

Sitting down, and actually checking and comparing and thinking were already hard before AI, and they became a lot harder.

There’s an interesting case around this with the Taranto steel plant. This plant was heavily polluted. Italy has criminal liability for executives for ecological violations. The owners went to jail and the government asked Arcelor-Mittal to come in and clean the mess. Arcelor-Mittal received a shield from the government for the criminal liability. The next populist government withdrew the shield. Arcelor pulled out. Now the government is managing a steel plant while looking for a buyer.

Broadening criminal liability for executives might sound like a good idea but there are a lot of second order effects

It’s also a portal in time. 2000 years ago people were looking at that same moon

My daughter is four.

I drew a boy who lived 11000 years ago in Mexico.

His longest travel was a half day walk carried by his family to a nearby foraging ground.

He died at 4 from a zoonotic fever. Both parents outlived him.

It’s random, it’s ai generated. Makes me appreciate life nevertheless.

The mandatory labeling is actually a big issue in Europe as well, it means German products can’t be sold in the Netherlands if they don’t have Dutch labeling and vice versa. Which creates a fragmented market.

I was looking for this one

I was wondering why it wasn’t of the front page of hn already

Combined with ai, we’re on the threshold of a robotic revolution

You bring up a good point. Maybe it doesn't matter whether an ai or a person wrote it, as long as it is concise.

And because most ai's are not concise we blame ai's for faults we don't like in humans either: being longwinding

If I remember correctly the Tokaido Shinkansen goes every 3-4 minutes. I think the frequency on the Utrecht-Amsterdam stretch is on average 5 minutes?

A couple of things: 1. Direct the AI to look specifically into areas where I have a gut feel things might go wrong 2. An assessment by another model (eg Codex reviews Claude's work) 3. Manual testing

Great idea! I would love a tailored version based on Goodreads or Storygraph

Maybe it’s about the power to control the internet (and what is does and doesn’t serve) worldwide.

Kinda surprised this one didn’t get more votes

Ai going the same way as crypto, before you know you have to move your hq to Panama or Dubai

Kinda ironic