skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Musk was really serious about this, he would start with smaller steps:

0) Finish the tentacle charging robot they demoed in 2015 (roll out to superchargers)

1) Build delivery robot on wheels using FSD (like the Starship Technology's robots). These could be used on hospitals, possibly warehouses, pizza delivery, cleaning streets, painting lanes on roads, ...

2) Build dog-like robot, like Boston Dynamics's spot with a "hand".

...

3+n) Try to build humanoid robot.

Each smaller step would provide Tesla with the experiences needed to take the next step, as well as an actual sellable product.

This is what a sane CEO would do.

I get that Honda and Boston Dynamics have humanoid robots, but they've worked on them for 30 years, and they are not talking about selling them as a generic product.

Musk is not serious about this. Just like the boring company (see Las Vegas Loop as example), he is selling a _sci-fi dream_ to people either as a distraction, to pump the share price, to attract new talent, or to brand himself, Tesla and the other Musk-companies.

As a shareholder, this actually makes me quite concerned about the sanity of the leadership, the distraction it will cause internally in Tesla, and about the fact that they are starting R&D into something new, while there is still plenty of other more reachable products, they have presented but still haven't delivered. Tesla is a vulnerable company, and they are losing focus.

The worst part is, I suspect that he will (need to) present an even more impossible thing in 2022/2023 to keep the hype-train rolling.

Now, where is that charging robot that actually looked like it worked in 2015?
No, just pointing out that the first part isn't as strong as Apple seem to think it might be. The rest of it might well catch this, yes, (and that's good!) but it doesn't obviate that "only considering images from two or more providers" can be subverted, possibly easily, given the pressure USGOV can bring to bear on their partners.
That ticket price is very, very optimistic. With it's 1200 t of fuel, the starship eats 240 t of methane and 960 t of oxygen. The price for methane is around 80 cents per litre, 240 t is 520 m^3 ish, so thats $420 000. Oxygen on the other hand seems to cost $10.6/kg, giving you a number of $12 000 000. Rounds out to 12 million per a single fueling. If the Starship carries 40 people that's just enough to bring the fuel cost of the LEO -> Mars trip down to $300 000. The first trip to space must cost the same amount in Starship fuel only so that's at least $600 000 per person in fuel. And this is all ignoring the Super Heavy, which will probably raise the cost over a million, in fuel alone.
> I find it harmful to jump to a conclusion too early and blame the victim.

The only victims I can possibly see here are those employees that had to review nude images inappropriately stored on a work computer.

Apple absolutely does not require that you use your personal iCloud account on your work machines, and any professional should know that it is inappropriate to browse, share, or store nude photos (of anyone) on company-owned hardware, and should never have placed their colleagues in a position of having to deal with those images.
>>Using a secret link sent to an account's email address as a way to implicitly log in instead of having to remember a password is increasingly common and also an interesting idea in terms of user experience

The user experience with this is terrible if email is not set up on the device you want to log in from
You can do it with js but that assumes that google is not running any js which is probably not a safe assumption.
They already do this. If you send to an invalid address gmail will respond saying the email can not be delivered.
Sad, lonely people more likely to be ‘natural’ social psychologists (2018)
Office 365 calls this "safe links" and it's a feature in Outlook and teams. They have a page describing it and everything.
"Elite overproduction" is real, in that only about half of college graduates now work at jobs that really require a college degree. The article seems to have gone off on some other subject entirely.

This isn't a new phenomenon. Eric Hoffer mentions it in "Working and Thinking on the Waterfront", written in the 1950s. He is unimpressed with intellectuals who don't do real work.
> It sounds like we may end up handling Covid exactly like the flu, with annual vaccines tailored to whatever strains seem most dangerous for the upcoming year.

Or, perhaps, we'll do better. People who had SARS-CoV-1 and subsequently were vaccinated against SARS-COV-2 have been shown to have potent immune responses not just against all known variants of SARS-CoV-2 but also the entire genus of Sarbecoviruses. This implies a pan-coronavirus vaccine is at least possible.
A16Z leads $4.6m round in Philippines' Yield Guild Games
it can have more than one purpose
which, anyone naysaying bot v1 doesn't see it. Think about moving a dishwasher. Up and down stairs, over and across pathways which are just a little too narrow for the furniture dolly so it keeps riding into the dirt. The target market for v1 is going to be slim, because I bet it won't be cheap. But it will be endlessly useful, and doesn't need to solve really hard general AI grade robotics problems, just some computer vision things, and without the self-driving car crashing penalty.

The question is: how much? Price it too high and the market just isn't there. Furniture dolly's don't have the same cachet as sports cars. I'm hopeful, because the technology is so close.
You're absolutely right. However a cow strategy forces you to rewrite parts of the tree _anyway_ (typically the path from the node you're updating to the root). So you might as well rotate an out of balance node in that path. The rewriting also causes you to shy away from high fanouts because of the overhead.
I for one am glad that journalists help curb illegal content at OF and PH. These companies tolerated this stuff because of greed.
Making the mRNA in volume is the easy part. They can turn that around extremely quickly-- large prototype quantities in days, and begin ramping sharply in weeks.

The hard part is the formulation chemistry and microfluidics and nanoparticles, which don't change based upon variant mix.

Of course, the really hard part is approval, but we feel we understand influenza viruses and vaccines enough to have developed an expedited approval process each year. We should be able to do the same for COVID-19.
Im 100% sure Tesla can mass-produce the hardware for such robots. But the biggest challenge is in software, And then the FSD debacle comes to mind.

There's major advances in AI needed to get to full self driving and even more advances for a useful autonomous humanoid robot.

But then again, those will not come to fruition just by waiting, someone has to work on this and if Tesla advances the state of the art, I can only welcome them. But I don't expect a Tesla bot in the way Elon poses here in the foreseeable future.
Is it not okay for women to sell their labor, services, performances, to anybody they choose to?
Imagine costing everyone a bit of privacy all the time.

Does that sound consistent with how Apple has positioned itself in the market?
There are plenty of men with OnlyFans channels.
An experienced functional programmer can learn F# in a minute, which is fine for console programs. But I tried to write a basic GUI program in F# on Linux and gave up after I reached my googling limit.
It’s 100% ok for women to pay men to do what they want as well, what people make political is really just basic economics.

If you can flip it and it sounds right then you can’t have it both ways, that’s hypocritical.
American absurdity. Selling violence and killing off thousands of people with their arms is no big deal, but a bit of nudity is.
Great, FreeBSD might actually get big.little support now.
I've been wrong many times before but still have trouble believing this would be more efficient than just having two separate buildings. Even in places where land is very expensive.

How many dark stores would you have to run in a city like Boston to get the same efficiency you could get from a signle warehouse with a similar system to this?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZ_8cqfBlE

And if you insist on doing that multi-use concept - it still seems like a robot on wheels and with much different than human arms would be more efficient.
Wow great work, I have profound respect for Princeton. This is amazing to recognize the benevolent and altruistic capacities of each and everyone of us instead of imposing dubious low quality moralities to make certain people feel better
Tesla FSD might end up getting good enough after a hardware upgrade in 5 years or so. The humanoid seems at least a decade or two away.

That said, I truly enjoy that he's investing time and money in these futuristic sci-fi projects rather than trying to optimize the next quarter earnings.
Or link them to a page with a POST form that actually performs the action. That way you only add a single click to the flow, and no remotely sane software will automatically perform POST requests to arbitrary urls.
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Staff Augmentation vs. Project Outsourcing: Which to Choose?
Staff Augmentation Vs Project Outsourcing
What is Staff Augmentation?

Staff augmentation is the act of hiring temporary members to a project to meet skills requirements and deliver faster results. The new staff will work closely with permanent employees, forming an extension that completes tasks on time.
Advantages Of Staff Augmentation

A different approach that is seen as a positive change to businesses today is staff augmentation. This benefit is driven by the integration of public and private sectors of their organisation. In some fashion, staff augmentation is seen as a strategic advantage, as companies seek a more efficient way to manage their people, industries needless, and they can win now.

There are two main advantages to Staff Augmentation. First of all, when you hire and deploy a virtual employee. You can sign a contract with the company but have no overhead costs, which means that you only have to worry about paying your salary, which has never been as cost-effective as staff augmentation experts are promising.

Another advantage is that you slash the revenue you pay out in your Open sub-account to less than half and only pay a fraction of your services fees than going to your in-house team as a private contractor. In return, the cost of providing your services, your overhead costs are cut down, and the downside of less profit, enabling your staff.

Also, you are maintaining open lines of communication with your virtual staff, which is crucial in today's ever-changing business environment. The flexible workforce allows companies to scale up or down according to their needs. For example, when a company is experiencing rapid growth and doesn't have enough skilled employees on its team, it can hire temporary staff with that specific skill set for the project at hand.

Temporary hires also add reliability because they bring hands-on experience from working in different industries across various projects over time--their versatility adds value by increasing an employer's ability to handle challenging tasks efficiently.

The recruitment process is a temporary one, which means we can minimize unnecessary hiring costs and liability. This allows all members to coordinate as they know the other staff member's responsibilities to work together on projects smoothly.

Large-scale companies are not always the best option for small businesses to go with when it comes to finding a reliable provider of resources. The cost structures tend to change and won't consider savings from economies of scale or other benefits of having more staff employees.

In addition, management overhead will increase by bringing in an industry expert who doesn't work at your company full time because they'll be expected to do what's needed without getting anything back if you're unable to do so yourself as well.

What is Outsourcing?

Outsourcing is an excellent way for companies to gain the benefits of getting new and fresh perspectives on their projects while also removing any pressure they may be feeling.
Sure.... my whole comment is about slimming down the kernel and cross-compiling not feeling authentic. If you can't really self-host, what's the point?
There's no option to disable on mobile Gmail
Their privacy page[1] certainly suggests they have been since 2019 - "pre-screening or scanning uploaded content for potentially illegal content, including child sexual exploitation material".

Do you have some source to indicate definitively that they have not been scanning iCloud Photos for CSAM?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190701000647/https://www.apple...
Hard not to when you virtually own $500K in Tesla supercars provided Tesla doesnt go out of business before releasing them. https://electrek.co/2019/01/17/tesla-roadster-free-killed-re...
This is very nice and I really like the CLI aspect.
I would have one feature request: Serve the model via GrPC.

Im running ML in production for the last 4 years in the field of biology and need > million predictions per hour. Load-balacing on multiple servers (and staying with http request based predictions) is not an options as the latency would kill the application.

Am I in such niche? Or other question: are there many more people that run fine-tuned TF servings/TensorRT servers to keep up with the production need?
You can have the procedural/functional code only tightly coupled to the datastructures but loose coupling between the other bits.
If he surrounds himself with the right people and sticks to his spacex production rules:

Step 1 Make it less dumb

Step 2 Delete a part of the process - If you're not adding step in 10% of the time, you're not deleting enough

Step 3 Simplify or Optimize

Step 4 Go Faster

Step 5 Automate

He may very well excel yet again...
They tried to move to a non-quarantined subreddit first, but yeah? We're not in disagreement on that.. The scenario you just described is very different than the one you were talking about a post ago, which is why I called it misleading. They weren't banned over the Media Matters story.
On the philosophical level, gotta love the unashamed "starting wars is a good thing, never mind the pain, destabilization and suffering you caused" in that sentence.
> Many with the ability to do so have confirmed it.

Would you happen to have a link handy? I don't mean to be adversarial. That screenshot is just so incredibly outlandish that it comes across as something from an overdone movie and I honestly find it difficult to take at face value.

Basic human decency and social norms aside, I just can't comprehend what manager would fail to recognize something like that committed in writing as a huge legal liability.
Screen recording: https://imgur.com/a/hjiNrfE
> has been used for about 5 years by FB, MS and Youtube on terrorist content

Not with the hashes provided by NCMEC, though, right?
China passes new personal data privacy law, to take effect Nov. 1
I had a lot of problems adding HiDPI support to a moderately complex WinForms application. It was a huge time sink.
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You might enjoy checking out Instaparse, a Clojure library. Its project page reads, “What if context-free grammars were as easy to use as regular expressions?”

It’s not over-promising, either. I went from never having heard of it before to getting complete and correct parse trees of some ancient JSP Expression Language in about 20 minutes. Most of that time was spent typing in the BNF description that I could find only in an image.

https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse
The article explicitly contrasts them against Blackwater. Especially by comparing the relationship to the host country.

Blackwater doesn't get supplied with tanks, Predator drones, etc by the US Army. AFAIK they're also open about where they're operating, and the US admits that they have contracts. I think there would be hell to pay if Blackwater got caught planting landmines in residential areas
I wonder if we would hear so much pearl clutching about “the elites” if every journalist didn’t believe they were one.
That's an interesting study, thanks!
It’s probably a Russian equivalent of the Tactical Assault Kit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Team_Awareness_Kit
If you want to take nixos for a spin in your browser head to https://github.com/gitpod-io/template-nixos and mash the button.

Also https://nix.dev is one of the better learning resources. Over at https://GitHub.com/ghuntley/ghuntley you'll find a workshop I created on Nix.
What are you talking about? WPF is still supported and a viable way to implement UI components. Same for WinForms. UWP never replaced them. What they are doing with WinApp SDK and WinUI is to extract features that were packaged with UWP to make them available to any type of Windows application.

Xamarin is also still a thing, MAUI will be a thing in the future, Uno is another option, Avalon too. There is a lot of options for .Net GUI, most of them are mature and maintained.
> I gained respect for OnlyFans as a platform because it enabled people to move from dangerous, risky work to relatively safe work

What about not getting into this and, thus, not being exposed to any risks? Sex-work nowadays is the matter of choice, it's not how it used to be in pre-internet era.
Flipped around, but potentially the same takeaways:

Turns out building a true FSD car is almost as hard as a humanoid robot. They've already got a Boston Dynamic's-like robot dog internally, but it sucks at getting around a parking lot.

i.e. set your expectations of the arrival of true FSD on the car to whenever you think Tesla can actually deliver this robot.
Musk isn’t actually looking for profitable products. He’s trying to be the king of vaporware. Remember the Cybertruck? Or how he said he could control pigs by putting microchips in their brains? Or how Tesla was all in on Bitcoin until it wasn’t?

He probably doesn’t even do it to bump the stock price. It’s probably just about doing whatever will impress Grimes for a little while. Then they both smoke so much weed they forget the previous never-gonna-happen idea and come up with a brand new one.
Is this much different from requiring Facebook employees to use their personal Facebook account for work?
On Windows, there are two easy ways to get started: Qt Creator and the Qt Addin for Visual Studio. Qt Creator is easier, I think. Personally, I use Qt Widgets a lot and ignore Qml, because the later has seemingly much less powerful widgets out of the box.
That's happened to several of the Arab oil states. Lots of educated people, but not with practical skills.

Egypt has a huge overeducation problem.[1] For several decades, Egypt had a policy that anyone who got through college could get a government job. Then the oil ran out.

[1] https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/publications/middle-east-brie...
oh god, why bother?
History studies do deal with that sort of thing. But, one would have to deep down into it and go on reading it in order to learn it.

The big problem there is that real historians never talk about "past generations" as a whole which is nonsense concept anyway. Historians talk about "1735 English aristocracy" or "1865 lower class women in American north" and so on. Because how the society is organized constantly changes.
Non Unix O S
Open Source software project
Twenty years on, wow
There’s a reason why they are sad. Humans in groups are particularly disappointing.
If you're working for a FAANG or any company of similar scale, it's virtually impossible for an individual contributor to move the needle in terms of stock price. So the rational thing to do is plan and review with an eye to your own promotion, and let the busy bees in Ads lift up the stock price by churning out tens of billions in revenue.
Do you have some recommended reading for the concepts you described? I've dug quite deep into hypergraphs but would like to know the broader field of large scale graph representations
Let's forget GPS.

Well, you have those options which work well enough to be usable (you don't have pinch zoom, Gnome Maps takes a while to load, openstreetmap.org does not fit very good on mobile, both require an internet connection):

- openstreetmap.org

- GNOME Maps

Then you have Pure Maps. It allows offline maps using OSM Scout Server [2]. It seems good, however it overheats my PinePhone and crashes probably out of lack of resources. So I don't use it. It could be because of Flatpak, but I'm not sure.

As for how to build a good alternative, I see these possibilities:

- contribute to Pure Maps to make it more lightweight. Maybe it's just a matter of building native packages for distributions like Mobian and Manjaro.

- Look whether KDE has a good app for that. They have Marble on the desktop but I'm not sure there is a mobile version that works well yet so porting this to mobile could be a way. KDE apps are generally very high quality though Marble could use some refinement.

- using C++ and Qt/QML with its Map widget, and find a way to use OSM Scout Server to provide the tiles. Actually, Pure Maps is a QML app.

- build a minimal web page showing a Leaflet or a MapLibre widget, connected to a backend built using a compiled language like C++ or D, itself connecting to OSM Scout Server to provide the tiles. Or to OSM Scout Server directly if it is possible.

The last option is probably the most lightweight solution, provided you probably have a browser already running on your phone. I'm not saying this out of my ass by the way, I'm building an SMS app using Svelte for the user interface and D for the backend connecting to the modem and managing the SQLite database. It's way faster than chatty. Maybe don't use React though, this is heavy (Mattermost works but is almost unusable, Element (Matrix) works way better but you still feel latency everywhere).

[1] https://openrepos.net/content/rinigus/pure-maps

[2] https://rinigus.github.io/osmscout-server/
I haven’t seen a single substantive comment in this entire thread. Way too much emotion.

Why would he announce this robot if it’s real? If his intention was to turn this into a real product, what purpose is there to announcing it before he’s started?

Even if he were just lying to generate hype, wouldn’t it make more sense to make a prototype and show short clips of its parts moving and actuating? There doesn’t seem to be any scenario where the announcement alone has any justification. Especially when he’s being criticized all the time for these announcements.
Yes we've learned a lot in the last 25 years, and it certainly isn't a good idea, in retrospect, to have the C++ API for your GUI Frame object to extend the thread class.

That said, in the days of single core, single event loop on all the major GUI frameworks (X11, Win32, Mac OS), it was absolutely a revelation about what was possible. The dovetails nicely with an earlier article about how quickly the pace of performance improvements felt magical in the early 90s, from the release of the 80386 to about 2010.
Reviewer sues Apple for termination after approving app criticising CCP (2019)
Sure, here's one: https://twitter.com/vllry/status/1427360794925158425. I am not joking when I say many, many people had access to this–while I am not at Apple, I know people who are and they could see it too. (FWIW, I was on the Radar team previously, and this is exactly what it looks like–faking it this exactly would require a lot of effort.)
Elon Musk says Tesla will build a humanoid robot prototype by next year
This is pretty important information for those finding themselves in the FODMAP division of intestinal issues.
Yes, by education.

Most people could get a college degree. It's mostly hard work. You don't need to be a genius. The few geniuses stay and do research, the normal people got out and apply what they learned to the world.