skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Two wheeled dynamically balanced warehouse robot like that is completely unnecessary complication.

I had the same intuition, but then I remembered the toy I'm playing with - the spectacularly unstable 4-rotor copter that could not even take off without an onboard computer actively keeping it level all the freaking time. And it's rock solid almost no matter what.

As technology changes, our intuitions must follow.
The washing machine and other household appliances only allowed women to reallocate their labor time to the market rather than at home.
Ah yes, I'm showing my US bias :). I was just surprised to learn this from a (US) doctor friend!
I'm completely reliant on syncthing, termux, file browsers and such, it's literally why I prefer Android. I'm hoping most of these will be available for rooted users like myself still, but developers often lose motivation when most of their users evaporate.
Not necessarily. The US had the capability to destroy every N Vietnamese runway in the country and didn’t for political reasons, resulting in lots of US casualties. No reason it couldn’t happen again.
"We have no real (at least not this in depth) assurance that products from rival vendors are more secure"

It should be a requirement to similarly audit every supplier. Cisco has a history of backdoors and serious bugs.
I wonder why the one stacking the boxes gently lowers each box until it is in place before letting go, but the one putting boxes on the roller conveyor just gets them near and then drops them on?
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Traffic laws and infrastructure have never really be designed to consider the fact that cyclists exist though, so it's not surprising that cyclists don't follow the law to the letter.
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You still can misinform the majority of the constituents to stay in line with the interests of the small number of the people you really listen to. I would argue this is happening with health care, tax cuts and a lot of subsidies.
I'm not sure how kids factor into this, I've always heard the YouTube rabbit hole in the context of pushing people to either ends of the political spectrum.

As far as "do no harm" goes, implementing safeguard against the alleged rabbit hole has a very strong potential to do harm by making YouTube a partisan platform. Bear in mind that concern over the alleged rabbit hole is not equal between liberals, centrists, and conservatives. Many of the recommended videos I've seen people reference as evidence of the alleged rabbit hole are videos I'd considered mainstream. What it takes to placate the critics has very strong potential to violate the principle of "first, do no harm".
> with your windfall, you are going to buy yourself a crap commute in a more boring area?

Exactly, I'm so glad Silicon Valley made it up to San Francisco for real this decade. This was always long overdue.
Never underestimate Chinese low-fi engineering genius.
Great content. I've been doing freelance machine learning work for a while, and it's hit or miss. Some clients are great, others are a complete pain.

Most recent gig I had, the client cut hours and then rates... all due to the fact that the CEO didn't manage the project properly from the outset, and they were hemorrhaging cash. That fell squarely into the "not my problem" category, so I quit.

It's a tough business, and one I've not completely figured out yet.
I didn't say credit scores are an indicator for morals or wealth, or that they're a system I support. But bad debt is a possible incentive to act against your employer's interest that can be controlled against by using credit score as proxy for knowing their exact financials. I'm not saying that's fair, or good, just that that's the thought process behind it.
> I have to make sure I move aside at least three feet and slow down considerably because I know if I hit them I'll probably be spending time in prison

That's why you slow down and give them space? Because you don't want to go to prison? Not because you don't want to hurt them?
It's a cool project, but (as many other commenters noticed) most of the battery's energy is being dissipated through the resistors, so it's not going to last for millennia as built.

Still very cool, though.
Perhaps you forgot the word "and" after "Schengen area". Because these are two different things as Switzerland shows (Switzerland being in the Schengen area but not adopting the Euro).
the act of censoring something can be done by private entities, not just the government. Is it their right to do so? absolutely.
Show me a card that looks exactly like that.
Which would imply that you know that sizeof(int) * 2 == sizeof(void*). That's a good assumption for x86-64 architectures but doesn't sound very portable at all.
You forgot to mention Mormon underwear, although that would be difficult to enforce anyway.
Getting there would be lots of tedium, too.
It's absolutely surprising considering the last private price is less than half of the publicly trading price.
Are you saying that food demand is so unpredictable from year to year that we need to produce and extra 40% as a buffer to avoid famine?

And that all of that buffer produce has to be harvested, processed, distributed, and sold to end consumers?
This is just the transport equivalent of racism. I'm sure you've had plenty of run-ins with cars too but you forget them all because they don't confirm your biases and you drive a car so car drivers can't be careless right?
A2dp optionally allows multiple codecs. Anyone can make their own. Codecs are negotiated at connection time and if the headphones and device both support a given codec, they can choose to use it. SBC is mandatory, all others optional, including ones you can invent later (even after the spec is final and in use).
DL is just a legal requirement. The bigger question is should I be driving sporadically? I find that quite dangerous. Imagine a guy who only drives 3-4 times a year and that too when he is on vacation at some place he has never travelled before. That's a huge risk of getting into an accident. Driving skills just like playing the piano or any other skill would deteriorate without practice.
From the early/mid 90s all the way into the early aughts there was a subculture in punk and hardcore dedicated to veganism and straight edge. The majority of them acted exactly like this and I can only imagine how insane things would have been with YouTube available at the time.

People wrote obituaries for other people's edge when that person started doing drugs (often at 21, almost always before 30). There was even particularly militant scenes in certain parts of the country that would get violent if you were smoking or wearing a leather jacket to certain shows.

Some really, really good music got made around it all though
Why is this, and what is the proper way to learn it?
Things like this always remind me of this awesome talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVyFio8gw4

The example starting at 9:45 especially relates.
>the most important job of a UI designer [...] is how you communicate with your users.

>[...] it's too common that people [...] put aesthetics first.

While aesthetics don't need to come first in a design, they do allow a large amount of information -- that you're trying to communicate -- to be encoded in a way that's processed subconsciously and quickly:

A stranger dressed in "war paint" approaches you to sell you a coffee is going to perform worse than a Nanny wearing a warm, fuzzy, cozy, looking sweater.
Well, if you actually read Slate's "privacy policy", it's pretty horrific too. It lists vast amounts of data they collect, both personal and (what they consider to be) non-personal (which can include your geolocation and browser fingerprint, apparently), and lots of ways they use it and share it; but it's not at all clear how I'd be able to opt out of having them track me, share my history with all their favourite partners, etc.

There's no way simply reading an article creates a "legitimate need" for all that.
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I’m at the point where dishonest discussions about “free speech” online are a non-starter (Having had an illuminating exchange on this very site two days ago). It’s not as though these anonymous chats matter in the slightest, they’re had in bad faith and most of all are intellectually stultifying. The only winning move is not to play. You won’t convince anyone of your position who has made the conscious choice to adopt a dynamic series of positions to support their unstated agenda. It’s like arguing with creationists, the best you can hope for is changing their declared position of the day. Meanwhile they win just by having an audience and the semblance of legitimacy, not to mention dominating and railroading ever comment section they can to quash reasonable debate.

This is setting aside issues with bots, trolls, and brigades. In real life with people you know and can talk to there can be value in these discussions, but never anonymously and never online. It’s pseudointellectual wank dressed up as reasonable talk. There is nothing wrong with simply saying, “I’m not interested in having this conversation with you, sorry.” and moving on.
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I would suggest looking through that previous link regarding examples of where one can quickly end up in white nationalist content through recommendations. Again, recommendations are for Youtube's own growth-related ends. However, it is emphatically a choice to have them.

Regarding kids, this has been very well documented: https://www.ted.com/talks/james_bridle_the_nightmare_videos_...

https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...
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While imo the moon is probably a better immediate target for approaching space fairing status, I think Mars does provide useful opportunities.

I think on the architectural & engineering side developing structures for Mars would provide immense progress in understanding sustainability for life on earth or elsewhere. This has applications for doomsday scenarios if you care about that as well as just general efficiency and sustainability of structures.

Likewise I think Mars has benefit as a potential launch point for space travel as it has an abundance of fuel and a significantly lighter gravity well.

Another part is the whole "necessity is the mother of invention" aspect. There is no quicker way to progress than doing. Yes it may be horribly dangerous but trial by fire has been repeatedly shown as a very effective way of exploring the unknown.
No pay cut really. He went at director level in a fortune 500 company.
Nice. It's fast enough to be useful. It's all electric - the hydraulic systems are gone.

Palletizing is a routine robot task.[1][2] This is just palletizing with a mobile base. Now Boston Dynamics has to compete on price with the twenty or so other companies that do palletizing. If this turns out to be cost effective, Kuka will probably do it, too.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiuFkMkReSs
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgiUWycNFC0
This was the idea behind the late-Cold War "high/low" concept that gave us the F-15/F-16 in the US Air Force, and F-14/F-18 in the US Navy. Initially the F-35 was supposed to be the "low" companion to the "high" F-22, but, with the end of the Cold War, that changed.

One major issue that the US has run into with deploying that strategy, in the absence of great power opponents, is that the largest long-term costs are not the airframes, but pilots and pilot training. An F-16 pilot isn't cheaper than an F-15 pilot, and getting hours for an F-16 pilot isn't cheaper than getting hours for an F-15 pilot, other than the lower fuel cost for the F-16.

That said, the F-15X that the USAF is procuring is basically going to be used as a lower-cost-than-F-35 "missile truck," so not incompatible with what you suggest.
Lots of people sharing their tour anecdotes, but I wanted to add: my favorite part of the experience is when they take you inside the "lungs".

Due to the immense amount of atmosphere inside, they needed a way to handle the expansion and contraction over the course of the day, so they built a giant diaphragm roof that can raise and lower on top of an auxiliary dome. During the tour they take you inside to see it inflated, then take you into the outer shell and crack a door so you can watch the whole thing collapse.

Super simple mechanism, but it really hit home the complexity of the problem space.
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I've heard of obverse, but had forgotten about it. That is neat. Thanks for sharing.
By optionally emitting generic structural markup which you could then use to format via colorization (or whatever other means you wanted) in a terminal, a GUI, a web page, etc. That would have been more consistent with the 'one tool, one job' philosophy of Unix. So then you could do something along the lines of 'grep --emit-markup ... | colorize-markup' (completely made up switch and command names) and use aliases/environment variables/etc. so that to a user could type something like 'cgrep' to get colorized output.
The comparison between a platform with a huge network effect and a restaurant is absolutely ridiculous.
I do not use a Firefox fork but customizing Firefox with add-ons can improve privacy even if it makes you more unique when looking at your fingerprint only.
Ability to read data emitted from device is a different sort of "hacking" than ability to write data to the device in a malicious way to gain access or force an error. I don't like that the article conflated "cyberattacks on devices and hospitals" with "reading unencrypted data".
I had the opposite thought: that they are designing their robots strictly for function and letting the form follow.

To be sure they are "cleaned up" but the way the counterbalance is slung underneath, and "Wheeler"-like ("Return to Oz" reference) mobility, single arm with some kind of suction gripper .... it screams utility.
I don't understand, what would you want, exactly?

Options that can be set only for the duration of the current session?
That's unusual: whenever we got a new mortgage or refinanced (US Bank, Wells Fargo, Chase, ...), our rental income and the rental cost was included in the calculation.
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Perhaps you missed the point I'm making. YouTube does not allow hate speech on it's platform. How well it polices and enforces those rules is a valuable point of discussion, but not the one that is at hand.

The concern is that people are able to click through to the extremes of what _is_ allowed on YouTube. My point is that this is not in and of itself a valuable thing to be concerned about. Even if YouTube actively tweaked their algorithms to push people towards the center, it'd still be possible to click through to the extremes - unless YouTube totally stops all recommendations that don't lead closer to the center.
Seconded.

My beef with all this is our current Overton window has been compressed to right of center economically.

American opinion and general support for solid, center left economic policy is high and growing.

Medicare For All, and friends.

Our mainstream media simply does not report on, nor offer much opinion favorable to labor, and or framed from a labor point of view.

It used to. When I was a kid, we would compare the various points of view, learn to identify them, and discuss what having the means to society.

This lack of control is a good thing. I think we've got problems it's a struggle with, but I don't think they're as bad as what's being represented, nor do I think a nicely centered window makes any sense. I think the people should decide that.
I think that the claim you quoted is actually the less interesting claim in the article, the more interesting one is this:

> ...It’s equally — depending on a user’s behavior — likely that you could have started on a more extreme video and actually moved in the other direction.

> That’s what our research showed when we were looking at this more closely..

Now this is also a bit of a weasely claim. First because of "depending on user's behaviour" which isn't very clear (but for now I'll give the benefit of the doubt and assume they are trying to say "unless the user is actively seeking radical content"). Second because this claim could be true and YT would still be radicalizing (i.e. it could go 1->3, 3->2, 2->4, 4->3, 3->5, 5->4 in terms of extremeism giving a gradual slope towards radical while still maintaing that you are equally likely to navigate to more extreme content as you are to navigate to less extreme content).

OTOH, if I understand the article you linked to correctly, all it says it that if you keep clicking "Up Next" you'll eventually get from mainstream content to extreme content, which doesn't invalidate the above YT claim if their research shows that users aren't actually doing that. Given that you assisted with that research maybe you could make it more clear what you tested and how it shows the "rabbit hole" effect?
Lots of talk about the F-35 here lately and I've been meaning to ask if anyone caught the PBS NOVA "Battle of the X-Planes" about it back in 2003 [0][1]. It's a really interesting take on the program from that era. And it really shows you the complexity of building this aircraft. I saw it in high school and it made me want to major in aerospace engineering. That didn't happen, but I always think about this show and wonder if people have seen it when the F-35 is mentioned.

[0]: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/xplanes/about.html

[1]: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ft1qf
The last thing I would want to do is buy a home in SF if I made a few million suddenly. It's still not cheap, you'll get killed on property taxes, the house will need work, it will also likely need an earthquake retrofit. If you're already on rent control you could invest it, travel for a long time, and do whatever you wanted. Unless you have a burning desire to buy immediately or hope to make money off SF real estate (Investment, Airbnb, etc) I don't think it really makes sense.

It sounds ridiculous but a few million dollars doesn't actually go that far in SF if you're wanting to be a home owner _and_ retired. If you want to continue working I guess it would be fine but why would anyone want to keep working if they worked like crazy pre IPO?

I suppose if you have a multi unit you could rent the space and live off of that income but now you've just decreased the value of your home significantly and you've taken on responsibility of being a landlord.
It is widely acknowledged that hmac-md5 remains secure (if deprecated).

There is no problem using aes128-ctr as far as I know.

Finally, diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 is not ideal, but breaking sha1 requires vast resources.

An sshd allowing these settings can talk to very, very old versions, and the CPU usage of these is light compared to some of the more modern configurations.

I do have systems that are sensitive to CPU usage, and I retain these settings there, where I am less concerned about ultimate protocol security, and more focused on performance and a light footprint.
In my understanding that is/should be the main difference between internal/external storage. Internal/scoped/private: An app can only read from/write to its own area. External/shared: Everyone can read/write everything.
Giving people more of what they want is the optimal user experience.

People are ultimately choosing what to watch.

It's a clear conflict of interest for traditional media to blame their younger competitors for all the world's problems.
As someone who now exclusively hosts in Iceland + Finland for two very freedom of speech and arguably good privacy countries, Iceland costs me twice as much as Finland.

Put into perspective, I pay the equivalent of 100eur in Iceland for a decent sized server (64GB memory, 4TB storage, and my own subnet announced), and in Finland I pay 34eur for the exact same specifications.
It's hyperbole. Relative to larger languages, there are few users.
That 1-10 seems impossible to gauge correctly without just basing it on the profiles of a video's previous viewers.

And the crux seems to be that YouTube has a single primary interest in generating suggestions: to offer the viewer a video that they probably want to see next. Netflix recs are no different.

So, the impolite or gruesome content becomes clickbait for an ad revenue machine.
As I've detailed here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19523901), the idea is not to remove the traditional hierarchical file system from the low level, but rather to remove trace of it from nearly all human interaction. At the least, interaction with it should be opt-in, not opt-out.

You're touching on a broader subject than file organization though, and that is humanist software design. Your static web page example is a good example. That's not humanist software design, it's design that serves the computer. When you save a web page you get an html file and a directory next to it that contains the images, css, etc of that webpage. The user is now burdened with keeping that html file and resource directory next to each other for the rest of the lifespan of that [meta-]file.

Consider instead the epub format. It too is one or more html files with images, css, etc. However unlike the traditional local static copy of a web page, all of those files are zipped together and stored as a single file (an epub is a glorified zip file with a special file extension. You can extract them with `unzip`.) This unburdens the user; they no longer have to worry about keeping those files next to each other when copying it, sending it to other people, etc. Epubs are humanist design (and not only for this reason, but I'll save that for another discussion.)

Of course inside that epub is a hierarchy of files. And that's fine. A hierarchy of files serves the ebook reader well. While strict hierarchies are poor for user interaction, they're great for software. The details of a file format need not be humanist because the user is not meant to pick it apart. Of course there may be perfectly valid and common use-cases for the user to pick it apart, to pull images out of it for instance. Software that facilitates pulling data out of documents, into a format that is generally useful to the user, is humanist. Consider your common desktop web browser for instance. It allows the user to easily pull an image out of a webpage by right clicking on it and saving it, or perhaps dragging the image out of the browser onto their desktop, or similar modes of interaction. The user needn't save the entire webpage, then poke through a directory filled with numerous files looking for the image they wanted. (At least, not unless the website and browser are conspiring to behave in a manner that is hostile to the user, for example by blocking right clicking....)

PDFs and PDF readers are shoddy in numerous ways of course, and strict hierarchical file management has done little to alleviate that.
Maybe the dotcom bubble is a bad example, but 50% or more pops were pretty common.
I have a separate credit card for tracking my usage of ride sharing services. I can actually give you the exact numbers. It's cost me approximately $6000 over the last 3 years or $2000/year. I think the rides are getting more expensive with time but I can probably put up with them until they start costing more than $4000/year. At that point owning a car might be better.
Would love to hear what strategies you use to qualify candidates.
Yes, if you are going to work as a contractor and the company is telling you precisely what stack or technologies you need to be working with, that's not a red flag.