MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by apeytavin | 2025-10-07 21:10:55+00:00
Our servos come from Asia. If you can find a platform with everything we have for around $1k BOM happy to review it but we've been pretty deep in picking our components.

Also, fair to say that if indeed you're the kind of person who likes to assemble all of this yourself, you're not directly in our target :)

This is more for AI / software folks who don't want to have to assemble and calibrate everything and risk having an arm that is not repeatable and thus can't actually properly learn. We have seen many folks spend a weekend or more trying to put these together and end up with a barely working platform and then be disgusted of AI robotics
by olokobayusuf | 2025-10-07 21:11:13+00:00
We should collab! We prefer to be the underlying infrastructure behind the scenes, and have a pretty holistic approach towards hardware coverage and performance optimization.

Read more:

- https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/compiling-python-to-run... - https://docs.muna.ai/predictors/ai#inference-backends
by krychu | 2025-10-07 21:11:22+00:00
I implemented HRM for educational purposes and got good results for path finding. But then I started to do ablation experiments and came to the same conclusions as the ARC-AGI team (the HRM architecture itself didn’t play a big role): https://github.com/krychu/hrm

This was a bit unfortunate. I think there is something in the idea of latent space reasoning.
by JohnFen | 2025-10-07 21:11:27+00:00
> it's up to the wielder of a tool to use it well.

Wouldn't "using it well" include not using it to puppet dead people unless they've given permission to do that?

> "recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed" strikes me as similar to complaining about mashups.

Mashups are very different because that's actually using the work of the original artists in a different context. It's not creating counterfeit work the original artists never made.
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-07 21:11:41+00:00
From what I understand, the written translation, in the form of subtitles, that accompanies the original language audio are have their own copyright and are licensed separately to the translated audio version and its closed captions. If they were to include the dubbed audio alongside the translated subtitles, to be compliant with all applicable copyrights, they would be on the hook for licensing costs twice over, which is why the legitimate streaming sites rarely do that, nor do they even expose such a dual-mode capability via the user interface.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-10-07 21:12:33+00:00
Old internet was most decentralized but since the platforms weren't scaling up to ridiculous heights moderation wasn't that big of a deal. It was also "gatekept" in a self-selecting way; now, everyone is online. Conspiracy beliefs have drastically shot up in adoption, through social media exposure.

People always had irrational populist and conspiratorial beliefs, but that was mediated by popular media generally not platforming kooks. Now you have the top 10 podcasts allowing people to mainline validation for conspiracies.

I don't see how centralization helps. Allowing (or demanding) that a media provider to regulate more could lead to less platforming for conspiracy theorists and populists.
by bitpush | 2025-10-07 21:12:37+00:00
> market dominance to harm consumers.

If Google decides to abandon Android tomorrow, or go all in on Windows Mobile OS, is that an "abuse of market dominance"? In reality, private companies are free to make decisions that make sense to them.

There's no law that says things should be "free", or everyone should be "happy" with a companies decision.
by bsimpson | 2025-10-07 21:12:48+00:00
I was riding my motorcycle the other day, and asked my helmet to "call <friend>." Gemini infuriatingly replied "I cannot directly make calls for you. Is there something else I can help you with?" This absolutely used to work.

Reminds me of an anecdote where Amazon invested howevermany personlives in building AI for Alexa, only to discover that alarms, music, and weather make up the large majority of things people actually use smart speakers for. They're making these things worse at their main jobs so they can sell the sizzle of AI to investors.
by apeytavin | 2025-10-07 21:13:07+00:00
The jitter is some demos is arguably because of bad connectivity, we will retake those.

You can see however in these demos: https://docs.innate.bot/main/welcome/mars-example-use-cases

that it is indeed pretty smooth.

Also, sorry the arm specs were not there! You can now have them at: https://docs.innate.bot/robots/mars/arm
by jzebedee | 2025-10-07 21:13:52+00:00
It's good to see more open models approaching on-device inference. We need more stops on the fast<>good quality spectrum than just piper and VITS.

My first impressions of it:

* The cloning was decent at imitating voices, but the prosody is quite bad

* There's noticeable crackling in the GGUF models and the quality drop from base model to Q8 was significant

* Q4 models are apparently bugged on platforms outside of Linux

* The speed is nowhere near realtime even using all the latency reductions (Q4 backbone, pre-encoding, ONNX codec decoder), it was still lucky to hit a real-time factor of 4x

> Optimised for on-device deployment - provided in GGML format, ready to run on phones, laptops, or even Raspberry Pis

All of this testing was on a beefy 24 core AMD with 64GiB of RAM. There's no way this model would even come close to realtime on any Pi I know.
by maxlybbert | 2025-10-07 21:13:56+00:00
I actually find that a decent argument, but I believe it’s already been shut down. When police used thermal imaging to “observe” a house, without doing anything they thought required a warrant, the Supreme Court decided it was too intrusive ( https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/533/27/#tab-opin... ). But if I understand the ruling correctly, if the police make it well-known that they have the ability to do something intrusive, then they don’t need a warrant.
by freddie_mercury | 2025-10-07 21:14:15+00:00
That has git integration, like bat does? That shows non-printable characters like bat does? That allows you to concatenate and page multiple files at once like bat does? That supports the --line-range option like bat does? You can pipe the output of tail -f through your alias?

I guess if all you did was read the headline of the post you could assume your alias does all the same things as bat.
by tstrimple | 2025-10-07 21:14:23+00:00
> Then autoshops are exposed to the risk that mechanics report/sue them for "employee misclassification" and unpaid wages.

I don't think that is a very high risk for the "employer". There's a reason that things like this go on for so long: https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-fro...

Those billions are just the reported amounts.
by npteljes | 2025-10-07 21:14:25+00:00
Safety is not binary. One of the most common attacks is an automated probe for vulnerability, whereupon a successful discovery, the machine gets backdoored and joined into a network, awaiting instructions. These botnets, or services built on them are then rented out on the black or grey market. Patching regularly practically prevents this.

The smart thing to do is patching regularly AND having a good security posture. Neither can be given up, really.

Also, even risky things can work for a long time. An individual can go a lifetime of speeding, doing drugs, things like that, and not be majorly impacted. And on the flip side, another individual can have a stroke of bad luck despite their good posture.
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-07 21:14:48+00:00
The rendered visual layout is designed in a way to be spatially organized perceptually to make sense. It's a bit like PDFs. I imagine that the underlying hierarchy tree can be quite messy and spaghetti, so your best bet is to use it in the form that the devs intended and tested it for.

I think screenshots are a really good and robust idea. It bothers the more structured-minded people, but apps are often not built so well. They are built until the point that it looks fine and people are able to use it. I'm pretty sure people who rely on accessibility systems have lots of complaints about this.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-10-07 21:15:04+00:00
A few dozen kg is quite generous. There's 160 g of lithium in a kWh of lithium batteries. A typical household uses less than 30kWh per day. At 2.6 people per household, let's round to 10 kWh per person per day. So 1.6kg of lithium per day, 11kg for a week. But you don't need that much battery -- solar produces power even on cloudy days.
by Citizen8396 | 2025-10-07 21:15:04+00:00
> the dollar has lost 51% of its value in the past 12 months.

It has not. The article says gold has increased 51%. USD isn't doing great, but you're way off:

"The value of the U.S. dollar against other currencies dropped about 11% in the first half of this year, the biggest decline in more than 50 years, ending a 15-year bull cycle ... Morgan Stanley Research estimates the U.S. currency could lose another 10% by the end of 2026."

https://www.morganstanley.com/insights/articles/us-dollar-de...
by RobinL | 2025-10-07 21:15:21+00:00
I'm generally pro nuclear and think it should be a significant part of the energy mix. But an interesting point is that the floor price of nuclear is the cost of the turbines, which are surprisingly expensive, and aren't really getting cheaper. Solar can go much cheaper than that, potentially at least. More on this point in the recent Casey Handmer interview of Dwarkesh.
by denysvitali | 2025-10-07 21:15:36+00:00
IIRC Tesla has Disney+ too, an if it doesn't, you have a Chromium browser. Of course you can't use it while driving, but passengers on the back sit should be able to use the streaming services even when the car is moving.

For podcast apps, IIRC Apple Music and for sure Spotify are supported. Still not convinced that Android Auto / CarPlay is superior, sorry.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-10-07 21:16:00+00:00
> I mean, the right to privacy is already enshrined in the EU's human rights.

The constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (i.e. North Korea) famously guarantees freedom of expression as a fundamental right for the people. That hasn't stopped the government from trampling all over freedom of expression, though. The EU is of course nowhere near North Korea in terms of what is considered acceptable, but don't ever trust that the words in the constitution will be enough to keep the government from doing something.
by mholt | 2025-10-07 21:16:27+00:00
Great comment, thanks for the questions.

> unless it's a machine at home,

This is, in fact, the intended model.

The problem with any other model, AFAIK, is that someone else has access to your data unless I implement an encrypted live database, like with homomorphic encryption, but even then, I'm sure at some places it would have to be decrypted in memory in places (like, transcoding videos or encoding images, for starters), and the physical owner of the machine will always have access to that.

I just don't think any other way of doing it is really feasible to truly preserve your privacy. I am likely wrong, but if so, I also imagine it's very tedious, nuanced, error-prone, and restrictive.

(Or maybe I'm just totally wrong!)

> - Could index and storage backend be decoupled, so that I can host my photos etc. elsewhere and, in particular, prevent data duplication?

I know this is contentious for some, but part of the point is to duplicate/copy your data into the timeline. It acts as a backup, and it ensures consistency, reliability, and availability.

Apps like PhotoStructure do what you describe -- and do a good job of indexing external content. I just think that's going to be hard to compel in Timelinize.

> Support for importing Polarsteps trips, and for importing Signal backups (e.g. via https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools ) would be nice!

Agreed! I played with Signal exports for a while but the format changed enough that it was difficult to rely on this as a data source. Especially since it's not just obvious what changes, it's encryption so it's kind of a black box.

That said, anyone is welcome to contribute more data sources. I will even have an import API at some point, so the data sources don't have to be compiled in. Other scripts or programs could push data to Timelinize.

Just to reiterate, one of the main goals of Timelinize is to have your data. It may mean some duplication, but I'm OK with that. Storage is getting cheap enough, and even if it's expensive, it's worth it.
by pfdietz | 2025-10-07 21:16:46+00:00
> The amount of lithium it would take to handle an unusually cloudy week would be astronomical.

Unusual events shouldn't be handled by high capex, high efficiency storage. They should be handled by lower capex, lower round trip efficiency storage (as should long term/seasonal storage).

I will once again point to Standard Thermal.

https://www.standardthermal.com/

https://www.orcasciences.com/articles/standard-thermal-copy

https://austinvernon.site/blog/standardthermal.html

Ten cents per kWh of storage capacity!
by lucb1e | 2025-10-07 21:17:03+00:00
there's also Palm OS (Palm, '96-'09), Maemo (Nokia, '05-'11), Moblin (Intel, '07-'09), webOS (LG, '09+), Bada (Samsung, '10-'13), Ubuntu Touch (Canonical, '11+), Tizen (Linux Foundation, Samsung, '12+), Firefox OS (Mozilla, '13-'15), KaiOS (FirefoxOS fork, '17+), Sailfish OS (Jolla, '13+), LuneOS (WebOS Ports community, '14+), postmarketOS (Oliver Smith, '16+), Mobian (Debian, '20), EMUI (Huawei, google-free since '20)...

yeah "Google has pretty clearly done an extremely bad job" at making competitors obsolete. Intel, Samsung, Nokia, etc. are all tiny companies who had no chance anyway, especially at the time before Android was firmly established as one of two platforms mobile developers bother making software for
by dimatura | 2025-10-07 21:17:28+00:00
I feel like the raspberry pi pico is more of a competitor to the arduino than the raspberry pi - there's quite a few applications where having a whole linux operating system is a hindrance compared to running on bare metal, especially anything that needs real time control of signals. (Although you can get around this on the pi by connecting peripherals via USB/serial/i2c which themselves might use MCUs).

Then again, one of the more accessible (IMO) ways of using pi picos is with the arduino environment, or its cousin platformio. I do think that even if in some ways the arduino abstractions can be limiting in some ways, in practice it's often a big timesaver for more casual (and not so casual) applications. It gives you easy access to a large ecosystem of libraries across a lot of hardware platforms.
by DamonHD | 2025-10-07 21:18:16+00:00
I picked those two because they happened to come up in news items in the last 48h or so and were in my head.

The UK also has a huge amount of roof-top PV potential, outside the very dense city cores, plus enough golf course space to cover all our PV needs and some I think.

Spain and France and Italy are also doing well with PV and are nowhere near done.
by godelski | 2025-10-07 21:18:40+00:00
If you're running an Android phone open settings > Network & Internet > Internet > click on your network (e.g. Google Fi) > turn on 2G network protection (at the bottom).

Alternatively: Security & privacy > Advanced Protection > Device protection. That does other stuff too though

I'm not aware of a way to do this on iPhones...

I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that many of these attacks work by performing 2G downgrading.
by nicbou | 2025-10-07 21:18:42+00:00
I don’t think that toil makes good art, but choices do. Artists make choices and those choices add up to something unique and tasteful. The choices are influenced by constraints and the desire to communicate something. There is a “why”, not just a “what”.

I find that AI art misses both of those, and that makes it feel soulless. No decisions were made by a thinking, feeling human. There is no “why”.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-10-07 21:18:45+00:00
I don't think that this is really relevant to my point. My point is not that the proposed EU laws are good or bad (frankly, I don't know anything about them and I'm not in the EU so it's not my business), but that this topic can't be definitely settled for all time. No matter what resolution is reached in the EU today, in 5 years' time someone will be fighting to change it. That's just how it goes.
by Atlas667 | 2025-10-07 21:18:56+00:00
This applies to either.

The democracy we need threatens those in power.

What say does the average poor person in your town have? To endorse someone they cant control? To choose from amongst the few candidates that the big interests have developed and then cross their fingers??

Letting individuals control production creates a divided society, one of workers and one of owners.

Where one has unequal leverage over the other but are supposed to (on paper) exist on the same democratic level.

Mom and pop shops may come your mind, or someone who owns a franchise or small business, the truth is that even small business owners are nearly wholly beholden to large capital and huge finance capital.

What say does a walmart employee have compared to the owners of walmart?

While you were learning about what the hell the electoral college is, some others were being trained on how to lobby effectively.

Mass democracy threatens the status quo almost entirely.

There does not exist a party for the people. And if it were to exist it would be outlawed and threatened like they have been in the past.

Would you suppress a peoples party if you had billions on the line?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-07 21:19:27+00:00
> much easier for Obama to do it because there were not throngs of protesters trying to stop his ICE officers

Yes there were [1][2]. New York City Council members were arrested [3].

Obama's ICE was simply more focussed on detaining and deterring illegal immigrants because immigration was a political liability for him. For Trump, efficiacy isn't as important as messaging.

[1] https://www.voanews.com/a/barack-obama-immigration-raids-pro...

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3793700

[3] https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/protest-arrests/211895...
by js8 | 2025-10-07 21:19:27+00:00
Basic english is about 2000 words. So a small scale LLM that would be capable of reasoning in basic english, and transforming a problem in normal english to basic english by automatically including the relevant word/phrase definitions from a dictionary, could easily beat a large LLM (by being more consistent).

I think this is where all reasoning problems of LLMs will end up. We will use LM to transform problem in informal english (human language) into a formal logical language (possibly fuzzy and modal), from that possibly into an even simpler logic, then we will solve the problem in the logical domain using traditional reasoning approaches, and convert the answer back to informal english. That way, you won't need to run a large model during the reasoning. Larger models will be only useful as a fuzzy K-V stores (attention mechanism) to help drive heuristics during reasoning search.

I suspect the biggest obstacle to AGI is philosophical, we don't really have a good grasp/formalization of human/fuzzy/modal epistemology. Even if you look at formalization of mathematics, it's mostly about proofs, but we lack understanding what is e.g. an interesting mathematical problem, or how to even express in formal logic that something is a problem, or that experiments suggest something, that one model has an advantage over the other in this respect, that there is a certain cost associated with testing a hypothesis etc. Once we figure out what we actually want in epistemology, I am sure the algorithm required will be greatly reduced.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-10-07 21:19:31+00:00
That's a good idea in spirit but seems a little over complicated to me. I think it might be simpler to just categorically ban any and all technical measures designed to prevent users from controlling or modifying software on devices that they own. Distributing binary code without the source and build tools would count as such a technical measure. This would be an even more radical change in many respects, but also a lot simpler and more principled.

Curious to hear if there are any unintended consequences to this that I may not have thought of. Think of this as a strawman proposal.
by reorder9695 | 2025-10-07 21:20:09+00:00
Honestly KDE probably gets close enough to windows. I have only used it on top of arch, which was a decision knowing that I'll be messing about more with the system, but if you installed KDE over something like Debian, it may be very close to the Windows experience. It certainly feels like Windows 10, and KDE's settings page has most of the important configuration in it.
by anonym29 | 2025-10-07 21:20:22+00:00
Most US-based companies aren't conducting MITM attacks that capture plaintext traffic for something like 20% of all global internet traffic.

Accordingly, most US-based companies are not in a position for bulk data collection and assisting the totalitarian surveillance state.

Cloudflare, however, is, and does. They are not a trustworthy party here, no more so than Flock itself.
by wonderwonder | 2025-10-07 21:20:24+00:00
I'm on 200 mg of testosterone. Perhaps a tad over TRT for some but really in the ballpark. We can call it TRT++ to avoid argument :). My heart is fine, pulse is perfect. BP is perfect. I get blood work done every 4 months.

The thing that irked me about the colonoscopy is that they initially refused, said the doctor didn't do it and when I said cool I'll find another doctor, they suddenly discovered he did. They passively aggressively try to force it on you.

Walk around the airport sometime and look at all the people enrolled in the standard medical system. I can promise you my labs and health are better than 99% of them. This is in no way an attack on those people. I don't know any of them and wish them long lives and happiness.

Intent of this thread though was not to cast stones, I was just really curious if others are doing the same. Appears so far that the answer is no. I think modern medicine is incredible, I just don't personally like the method in which its applied.
by k310 | 2025-10-07 21:21:02+00:00
The S&P 500 index fund is cap-weighted.

By contrast, the The S&P 500® Equal Weight Index (EWI) is the equal-weight version of the widely-used S&P 500. The index includes the same constituents as the capitalization weighted S&P 500, but each company in the S&P 500 EWI is allocated a fixed weight - or 0.2% of the index total at each quarterly rebalance.

https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/equity/sp-500-equa...
Show HN: Gabriel Operator – record a task once, rerun it as a browser agent
by vipin-tanna | 2025-10-07 21:21:14+00:00
Founder here. We built Gabriel Operator, a “teach-by-demo” automation tool. You click through a task once (navigate, fill forms, download/export, etc.) and it becomes a reusable workflow you can run with parameters, loops, and branches. It executes in your browser, step-by-step, so you can see and edit everything.

Why we built it Most of our work happens in sites without good APIs (vendor portals, legacy back-office tools). Instead of wiring brittle scripts or begging for integrations, we treat the browser as the contract.
by carlosjobim | 2025-10-07 21:21:21+00:00
There's no book recommendation system in the same way that we have music recommendation through Spotify et al, and video/movie recommendation through Netflix, YouTube et al.

The best way to discover books is when they are mentioned in other good books, but this does nothing for new books.

A book recommendation system will need to have access to full-text search within the books to work well. That will solve the problem.