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> So what's the main barrier to using these industrially?

In an industrial setting, a purpose-built robot will outdo these robots, or a human, at nearly all tasks. And whatever these things are doing, likely a human can do it better with a little bit of training- that's low capital cost compared to these robots.

Carrying things around? Conveyor belts. Picking things up? Robot arms. Going up and down stairs? Elevators and/or conveyor belts. If your aim is to make money, a general purpose robot is rarely the best choice.

The only real purpose I can see for these things is being able to travel quickly in rough terrain. Military applications, basically. Just picture a small army of these robots, armed with tasers, chasing you through the woods. While dancing.
I have certainly missed how for example Scandinavian countries fits with this:

> In every instance I've seen, redistribution does limit mobility - as well as introduces a middleman (the redistributors that steal/war/lie/oppress), corruption, politics, and extreme inefficiencies.

Care to explain? Or are you just being childishly contrarian which your last sentence seem to suggest?
An expedition led by Dr. William Dyer uncovered the remnants of such a civilization in Antarctica in 1930. Tekeli-li!
tbh I don't thnk that's a reason any more. It's not like anyone goes "oh no the Germans are at it again" if we could actually repel and deter Russian or Iranian attacks in cyberspace. In fact our allies have been asking us to actually build up our capacities both analog and digital for a long time now. It's much more mundane, politics just doesn't care. I know a few people who went to do IT careers in the military and it's just bad on all fronts. Payment is bad, they recruit the absolute bottom of the barrel, the resources aren't there, and the infrastructure is neglected.

In the US or Israel a lot of highly qualified people go into military service and it's a priority, here it's a third wheel.
What I’m seeing is a model that has no concept of slippage. I suspect what they’ll do is have the fleet collect data to predict that coefficient of friction.

Seems plausible that they could ask all the cars this winter to report instances of wheel slippage, accompanied by video rewound with the spot the wheel slipped on annotated. Could have a prediction for mu at each point on the road ahead of the car. All the pieces are there, it’s just math and NN work.
“What makes the inner product 'inner', and the outer product 'outer'?”
>What if your mom took responsibility for the risks of her own choices self quarantined permanently

> common argument of blaming those who don’t want a vaccine is an abdication of personal responsibility for one’s own safety.

My mom is extremely careful does take responsibility for her own safety.

What you are saying, that she should have to self-quarantine for years because people are unwilling to EITHER take the vaccine OR choose accept the restrictions on their movements that society requires to stay healthy.

If we had taken stronger steps to contain this, we might not need to push everyone into vaccinating. The same people who pushed back against those steps are now complaining that we are in a situation where mandatory vaccination for certain types of activities has become necessary.
Loop quantum gravity seems like an important contender, although as you say it isn’t developed far enough yet to make any predictions.
Improving the privacy of DNS and DoH with oblivion
It pushes the ultimate decision higher up the chain of command, for one.

If a general orders a platoon of soldiers to commit a war crime, the soldiers still ultimately have to decide whether to pull the trigger. There's conscience and self-preservation at play. The robots don't have second thoughts.
There's also a lot of inertia behind the raspberry pi at this point. Everything supports it; when people think aarch64 (up until pretty recently with arm macs etc.) they think of the raspberry pi.
I’m not convinced that voting for overall fairness (global, national, state, community) is opposed to making your life the best.

Those Chinese peasants will become the US problem (see the rise of China in the last 50 years).

Those Chinese corporations are what made “your life the best” with your cheap cars, electronics.

Your point sounds like you want to have your cake and eat it.
Somehow, I doubt it, seeing they're all still active.
>No, large transaction volumes aren't going to be an issue either way.

elaborate?

>This makes zero sense. Anyone can choose whatever combination of whatever they want and most people never touch the normal chain. This is the reality right now, there are lots of choices, people can use any or all of them. Why would transaction volumes change any of this?

It makes zero sense because I was trying to infer your argument. Let's try again then: what does having multiple chains have to do with scalability?

>That makes absolutely no sense at all. A full node for every crypto currency can be run on a $35 raspberry pi with a hard drive hooked up by anyone that can watch a youtube video. Your numbers are just a lie, the entire bitcoin chain is 1/25th of an 8TB hard drive which can be bought new for $150 USD.

Those are with present numbers which have the 1MB limit in place. Clearly those assumptions won't hold if we have much larger blocks.

>Then it's a good thing that isn't true, since most people never touch it and those that do probably don't have to spend anything at all.

Sounds like you're not denying the anti-decentralization aspect at all, but rather arguing that it doesn't matter.

>These are lies, there is no truth to what you are saying and you know it.

Please follow the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Specifically "Assume good faith".

> If there was any validity you would have a better explanation than made up numbers and nothing else.

I don't get it which numbers are made up? The $90/year figure came from a sibling comment that was discussing the hypothetical storage requirement for bitcoin if it processed half of visa's transaction volume. That was surprisingly close to the annual electricity cost for the best selling refrigerator on bestbuy.com[1], so that's what I assumed you were talking about when it comes to costs. If you don't agree with these numbers, feel free to present your calculations.

[1] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-26-5-cu-ft-large-capaci...
C-level business executives generally never pay attention to the frontiers of technology. It seems to be a common theme in entropy-stage corporations. It does help churn the larger corporate oligarchy though.
I was curious so I just timed the jump at the beginning of the song about 15 seconds in.

Assuming the jump is about 30cm, and I stopwatched it at 0.3 seconds from the apex to the ground, you arrive at an acceleration of 9.6m/s^2 which is basically spot on the acceleration due to gravity.
Just wanted to say thanks for the entertaining article, I learned a lot and especially enjoyed the FAAMm acronym XD.
Can you please list a few news and public policy research organizations you find trustworthy? That will make it easier for everyone to reply to you.
Republicanism has basically become a religion. Most of their base supports the part regardless of what it does just based on faith.
I'd rather die by a IA aimed bullet than by several hacks with a battle axe.

To put it in Hollywood terms, I'd much prefer be killed by the Terminator than Conan the Barbarian.
What's with illegal migrants and US? You're from Europe like me do you even realize we dump them to remote islands to live in shitty camps and illegal immigration is not tolerated anywhere in Europe? Are you clueless or intellectually dishonest? Either way it doesn't look good.
What amaze me, is how fast Boston Dynamic is progressing, specially comparing to Honda's ASIMO that is in development since 20 years.
Boeing 737 Max flies first commercial flight in U.S. since fatal crashes
I have the same problem. A lot of people do. For me, it developed during my 20s. My mother is a speech language pathologist so the problem was identified early.

What you have is a hearing discrimination loss. It's often caused by diminished hearing of higher frequencies. Hearing aids can help or if the loss of higher frequencies is total, then frequency-transposition hearing aids may be needed. Learning to lip read can also help a lot too.

Other people without hearing discrimination loss have probably experienced what it's like if they've ever listened to a cheap TV with crummy internal speakers and had to turn on subtitles. Very high frequencies on cheap speakers are often diminished or distorted. That makes it much more difficult to discriminate spoken words even though you can hear them fine.

If you haven't done so already, go get your hearing tested by a quality audiologist (there is such a thing as a bad audiologist). It can help identify exactly what's going on and give you a good baseline to compare against tests in the future (these things often get worse with age).
A Swarm of Illegal Immigrants
At the Westfield Mall in Palm Desert, CA, a group of illegal immigrant girls are mocking people. One has a black shirt and the other one has a long sleeve lavender shirt.
And Jim and Jennifer Stolpa near Vya, NV (although they lived), subject of a 1994 TV movie.
I have the opposite problem in rural Portugal, insofar as google maps resolutely refuses to recognise the numerous unpaved trackways around here as roads, even though they are far more traffic by locals than the paved roads, which are basically for trucks and tourists, and wind like crazy around the mountains.

With the tracks, the journey to our nearest village is 5km, and our second nearest is 7km away - without them, it’s 15km and 55km, respectively - as there are numerous bridges over the multiple north-south rivers here which don’t feature on google - probably quite sensibly, as many of them are in “is this is a road, or a landslip?” territory.

I mean, we’ve been here a year now, I know plenty of routes that look like they must just go off a cliff or something, but cut miles off journeys - but it’s largely been trial and error - more error than anything else when we still had a 2x4 - now that we’ve a 4x4, 30 degree mud-chutes qualify as roads.

There should be a “show me public routes which are theoretically navigable for a vehicle” option - Waze does this, but it’s hit and miss.
This sort of censorship & lack of transparency is exactly why I'm currently working on an alternative.
It says autonomy, not flight time. They may intend this thing to land and remain active as a remote camera for much ot its mission.
> Or, re the environment, from Apple’s current website: https://www.apple.com/environment/

Someone should calculate how much energy an iPhone uses for rendering that page (or any other on their website). I bet reducing that would make a difference environmentally.
So you're saying if there were multiple causes and one of them was corrected, his numbers wouldn't catch it, right?
Death to Private Chats
They are real cars. You can watch them filming those commercials all the time in LA.
Yeah, I remember reading that people were getting better results than I was. Not sure really what's the issue. I am doing some IP translation to have kind of an alias subnet for my home network when going through the VPN. So maybe that's the issue. I did note that the CPU was getting hit hard when I was running iperf, so I've assumed that my bottleneck is there.

I think I was hitting 60+ Mbps though, so it wasn't all bad. However my home connection is 1000/100, so going above 100+ isn't going to mean much. Which is why I've been too cheap to invest in a Pi 4; not too great of an improvement for 55+ EUR investment.
4wd/awd is pretty complicated. Some depend mostly on hardware (like subaru), others try to use sensors and torque control and/or brake control to put the torque where it's needed.

AWD is complicated with 3 differentials that can be a mix of open, limited slip, or actively controlled (by torque split or brake based system). It's especially tricky since it's not the actual traction that matters as much as the driver perceived traction and predictability. I've drivin AWD systems with snow tires that seemed to have more traction than my subaru with all seasons, but ended up driving more slowly because I couldn't predict what it was going to do. Subaru seems to communicate well with the driver, and making sliding just not a big deal. Other cars make it harder to tell what a given throttle/braking input is going to result in and can trigger heavy front or rear bias based on what the sensors/software tell it to do. It drives me nuts when a car acts completely differently in high traction and low traction conditions, especially when it changes one second to the next. Some Subaru folks make fun of other systems that they call "slip and grip", where there's a heavy FWD bias (minimal torque to the rear), until AFTER you start slipping.

My WRX had a limited slip in the rear, center diff was a viscous coupling (100% mechanical/no software), and a open front diff. It was reassuring, never surprised me, and even when significant slipping I could always put the car exactly where I wanted. Even when crab crawling sideways in a parking lot at 2 mph it never surprised me. Numerous Toyota, Ford, Honda, and BMW cars I tried would try to outsmart me. Limiting throttle, moving the torque around, limiting braking forces, etc. Last thing I want when climbing a hill is the car to cut the throttle because one of 4 wheels slipped for 50ms.

Consumer reports tested a Subaru forester, Toyota RAV 4, and Honda CRV in heavy snow conditions and concluded the Subaru was a clear winner despite them all having similar dry road performance and AWD.

I think for normal snowy roads Subaru does it best with a mostly manual system, the ABS and traction control has a light touch that can be mostly avoided. But for heavy offroad the best thing to do (in certain messy conditions) is lock all differentials, which is something the Subaru can't do.
Quite daring to start a brand new browser with its own engine. I wish them the best! I'll try it out when I can.
Sorry for the ambiguity, I only meant that you manage installing games (and sometimes even drivers) yourself, as opposed to having a fully managed service where everything "just works" like Stadia. You're right that you don't get your own specific PC, which is actually part of the appeal. The hardware is abstracted away like in any cloud service, so you don't need to concern yourself with upgrading it or fixing it.
One thing that's different is that BD doesn't have the pressure to sell to the masses, and they've been traded off from one giant to another (Google, Softbank and now Hyundai). I think they can afford to be spartan and truthful, I suspect a lot of big-corp marketing is based on metrics and data which drives you to doing unspartan things. My guess anyways, perhaps others can shed light.
I find it absolutely aggravating there are no maps!
Anybody interested in that I can wholeheartedly recommend "Open-Source Everything Manifesto" [1]. Do not be mislead by the title. Open-source here is all-encompassing, not only software.

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[1] https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Robert-David-Steele/dp/1583944435
My bad. Message should read:

Hacker News users aren't smartly, we just type good
It's a good question. How can the GOP benefit from blocking the additional money ($2k checks) to millions of Americans who are hurting so badly.

My only response is that the majority leader of the GOP would rather use the money towards something else; military, large corporations, etc. I've heard claims that they (majority of the GOP) believe that adding the money into the economy would create more debt. At this rate, it would help in the long term.

It's also a strange game and terrible feud that they are playing and stringing along households and small businesses.
well just previously we had a story where a company was taken to task for how they implemented a test of cyber security by using an email that promised bonus money or such.

such is the issue at hand, the attackers know no bounds and it will take coordination among governments to track them down and hold them or their master's accountable.

this does not excuse the victims of such attacks but even the best efforts of many can be circumvented by the latest method, a careless employee or even a malicious one.

I am sure many have experience having access we routinely expected yanked which felt unfair but also be on the other side of the issue trying to lock down users only to have push back that we went too far; the heartache our support team got in locking out what users could do on their desktop could fill novels
"People get the government they deserve. Good, moral people concerned about others get a good, moral government that cares about people. People that are greedy, lazy or apathetic get a government that is greedy, immoral and unconcerned with the public’s welfare. In a democracy, each of us is responsible for the quality of our government.”
Show HN: Bithub.com
Happy Holidays!

This is a combination of Show/Ask HN (second try to get some feedback).

I've been working on my side project, BitHub.com, for several years now. The issue is that on the revenue side there’s a big fat zero and I'm kinda lost to where to go from here. I'd love to keep the project going, but it obviously needs a new perspective and some novel ideas.

If anyone from the community has any recommendations as to where to look for a better direction for the project, I would to love chat. I'm almost at a position to sell the domain and shut the whole project down, but something inside of me fights against this idea.
That's an extremely good idea, I'm surprised that isn't a standard feature. Do you have any STL files/firmware you'd like to share to help other people do it?
> In every instance I've seen, redistribution does limit mobility

Please enumerate these instances and support the claim that in each of them mobility is reduced due to redistribution.

Without that, this sounds like subjective impression shaped by ideological preference being presented as if it were evidence for the ideological preference that produced it.
Did you read the link? It's manufactured in the US. The other version of Librem 5 which is made in China and assembled in US costs $800: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5.
The risks of the vaccine deserve serious discussion. The person I was responding to was not doing that. They were fanning fears with a vague hypothetical without any reference to real risk assessments.

I replied in a similarly flippant fashion to make a point.
The very nature of this (preventing death from aging) means that if everything else stays constant, populations will grow since fewer people dies.

I can think of ways around this, but none that I want to recommend, and I never hear proponents of longevity research mention it.
The Switch does have a usable web browser, it's just difficult to access. The eShop and some online features run on it, but it can be accessed and used as a standalone browser.

https://switchbrew.org/wiki/Internet_Browser
Even though I think there’s probably no causal link between video game violence and real violence, I feel I can safely condemn this study to the trash heap without reading it. There’s no chance it is at all scientific or ever had any chance of changing the minds of the people who ran it.
This. I think the large community and ecosystem around the raspberry is what keeps at the top spot. I do however think there's a lot of room for improvements. At this point all the raspberries are pretty powerful. I mean I'm running a k3s cluster on a gen2 raspberry pi and it's handling it well. What I'm really hoping to see is bringing this power to something even smaller. I have so many ideas for something the size of a regular SD card with the specs of a raspberry pi zero.
These Allwinner boards arguably have better mainline support than the Raspberry Pi.
> The final report by the State Attorney did not make a link between video games and the motive for the shooting.

From that same section of the article.
Having got one of these and a PoE -> ethernet + microusb power splitter for my 2 pis, I have to say I've been much happier with the splitter than the hat - the hat uses space that could be used to install other things and has quite an annoyingly noisy fan.
No because it's likely that when you're using Google on the VPC'ed machine you have some sort of session and/or browser fingerprint connected to your account.
"Weather the storm" implies that there is some short / medium term disruption and if they just work a bit harder then they will recover (most of their) their previous competitive position. Trouble is AMD and TSMC aren't going away or stop competing and at the moment there is no evidence that Intel are going to 'fix' their process issues.

Plus,as you know, they have a serious strategic challenge to their business in the rise of firms like Apple and AWS developing their own Arm SoCs.
“Death by GPS” is an all too common problem when depending on tools like Google Maps too much to plan routes. This has been a common problem in the Mojave Desert in California: https://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/living/travel/article25... (Edit: James Kim actually used a paper map)

I will use Google Maps to plan routes, but I will also use common sense:

• I will look at the route on the map to become familiar with it

• I will use street view to see what each turn looks like (street view is also useful to see if the road is which needs a 4x4 with high clearance and pure rubber tires which do not use air to successfully drive)

• I will memorize the map (making simplifications as needed)

• I will then use the route

If one just lazily puts in a destination and depends on their phone to do all of the work for them, they can and will encounter problems. One time, I was with a buddy who does that, and the route given to us was horrible, so I just looked at him and said “Ignore what your phone says. I know how to get there.” It ended up he accidentally left “do not use freeways” enabled.
Geese is shunting a resistor across the motor so hard?
I'm really curious to hear what the community has to say about this perspective. This is very compelling argument to me, but I've heard other compelling arguments on the other side. These arguments tend to go like this:

1. Big tech has gone unchecked for a long time and it's up to government and regulators to reign them in when it comes to privacy, offering sustainable compensation models for gig workers, limiting an increasing wage gap, and other inequities.

2. The rise of big tech has outpaced the city/area's ability to offer services at low costs. No other industry has seen such a quick rise and it's no wonder prices (including houses) have climbed so much.

I live in San Francisco, and have been disappointed, annoyed, and frustrated at many of the issues this article brings up, including high housing prices, homelessness, property crime, but it seems like an easy out to simply blame the government, or the tech industry exclusively. My guess is there's plenty of blame to go around and the answer might be more nuanced than finding a single scapegoat. What are people's thoughts?
Ten general things I learned this year
Google Maps always do that in Brazil, it's so annoying.

It recommends alternative routes to "save" you a couple of minutes. Dirt tracks, unmantained roads and sometimes danger neighborhoods (favelas).

They should fix the algo to prefer the main roads and streets. At least give a configurable threshold. It seems quite doable with all GPS data/street images they have.
And yet the millions who buy Call of Duty every year somehow keep it in check and don’t commit mass murder.
The US peoples voted into power a President who pardons war criminals. And the next incoming President supports (or has supported in the past) wars and bombings which cost the lives of countless non-combatants. Which places has China bombed? If the claim is China has lots its moral standing, then The US is not on any firmer moral ground either.