skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat, I did research in this area over a decade ago for the same customer as the people in the article. It is a really interesting area of theoretical computer science and we know more about it than the article conveys.

This all started with the problem of analyzing real-world graphs with several trillion edges, back when big data was barely a thing. We used supercomputers, in fact, but those did not make it make it much more tractable. At that scale, it really exposed our poor understanding of how to reason about and expose the deep structure of graphs. Initially, we couldn’t even handle simple graphs at that scale.

A core part of the problem, touched on in the article, is literal data model representation. There are dozens of ways to express a graph in theory (not just the standard three in undergrad CS) but most of them have weaknesses that get exposed when graphs become large, complex, and with a lot of high-order structure you need to access efficiently. And the real-world produces very messy high-order graph structure. Hyper-graphs are neither here nor there; you need a theoretical basis for algorithms that can inductively organize all of that structure in a scalable system.

IBM Research provided the first crude ideas of how to level this up but other people ran with it. There was an evolution through spatial, high-order embedding, topological, moduli space, etc representations trying to surface and capture deep structure in an efficient way. Some of it worked very well but I don’t know if an ideal “final form” was ever arrived at by anyone. Almost none of this research was ever published, though I understand why, and as far as I can tell by talking to people some of it may actually have been lost through people attrition and lack of information sharing.

I really enjoyed working on these problems. Very pure and abstract exotic CS intersects hardcore low-level scalability.
This is a complete joke of a company and CEO. How do they get away with it?
> Anecdote: every single iphone user I know has iCloud sync enabled by default.

Yeah, but a lot of them have long ago maxed out their 5 GB iCloud account.
Shitty ethics and overreach aside, that's also very bad operational security, as the attack surface on the account multiplies.
I see bipedal robots as sort of a PC of robotics. They don’t need to have great AI, personalities, or any sci-fi jazz, just basic collision avoidance and programmability. Lots of spaces and tools are shaped for humans; this means a specialized robot is no linger needed for every task. It doesn’t mean, as Elon suggests, they will be shopping at the grocery store per se but it could mean they could load a laundry bin and carry it downstairs. With adequate programming, it could learn how to fold specific garments and identify flaws. Like video and spacial APIs, not goal seeking.
It's quite interesting how people keep betting against Elon. The HN crowd should consist of mostly risk-tolerant personalities, but the majority of comments are negative. Regardless of what one might think of the feasibility, no other company in the world today are as ambitions as SpaceX and Tesla (+ Neuralink). Feels like what Apple used to be during the "one more thing"-era.

Both Tesla and SpaceX has been discounted so many times before, and despite proving time and time again that they will and can deliver, they keep getting discounted.
>If both systems agree, then you have additional reliability.

Andrej covered this in a previous talk. If both systems agree, then nothing would be different if you did not have the 2nd system. If the systems do not agree then you ultimately still have to pick one in most scenarios.

IE if you are travelling down the highway at 80mph with a car close behind and your lidar+radar system says there's an immediate obstacle but your vision system says it's an overpass, do you emergency brake?
Girls on Afghanistan's robotics team rescued
Yea anyone who hears Alex on a podcast and thinks “now here’s a guy I should listen to” was already lost

And anyone who wants to limit my freedom to listen to bloviating conspiracy theorists is no American in my book
That hasn't really worked in practice. I think of Tumblr which basically stopped all growth and innovation the moment they banned porn.

The company is probably assuming they can pivot, and maybe they can, but I doubt it
I think it’s an intentional distraction. The vector map stuff is a reply to last week’s news cycle where the FTC and
the NHTSA are both probing the safety of the self-driving systems, but the robot announcement is to make sure no one discusses the “gosh we made the AI better” claims.
> on record

That is, in 71 years.
I wonder how this will affect internet culture as a whole. What will the sex workers do now? There can only be so many successful bathtub streams on Twitch
my cutoff is whether I would send the email to my grandmother or not lol. I would never merge a personal and work account. They would just have to hand me my pink slip if they didn't like that.
It’s a thing that happens, but in this case, it’s worse because Apple seems to strongly encourage/insist on merging work and personal accounts.

A cautionary tale to remind everyone that work and personal accounts, hardware and software should never merge under any circumstances.
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> If I had to make a bet on when it was possible, I'd say 25 years. Maybe 10 if Tesla goes all-in on robots and spends tens of billions on it, Manhattan project style.

I have a decade of experience in robotics (including both humanoid robots and self-driving cars) and I think this is optimistic.

Robotics is a wonderful field if you like to work on hard research problems. It is a terrible field if you're trying to invent a profitable product.
My question was more, if I create a free account and it is linked to an organization, is that a paid account? The company didn't make my account, I did.
FSD has not been rolled out yet, so you’re attributing to FSD some errors that are actually made by humans. Yeah maybe these humans were confused by marketing to think it was FSD, just as you think it was FSD, but that doesn’t make it FSD.
"legal forced me" and "permanent evidence locker" = these texts are part of a legal discovery process (e.g. somebody sued Apple and their lawyers get a certain kind of access to Apple's corporate data)

If there's value for the other side to present the boob pictures as evidence in trial (e.g. in an attempt of character assassination), it will be rather hard to have them not passed around in court now that they're part of the "evidence locker" (as they call it) even though there were 100% personal and unrelated.
Boston robotics is valued at 1.1bn. That's nothing. Musk could easily buy them from Hyundai without even thinking about it.
I said this in another comment, but how do they get away with it? People are in this very thread making serious comments like Tesla has even a thread of a chance of actually doing this…

I’d love it if Boston Dynamics recreates this dance with Atlas.
Tesla is not without problems. Poor drive quality. After spending 40K+ for the car, I was cited for not having front number plate. I had to figure out how to tape the frame, spend more time appearing in court. I prefer not doing such things than having automatic s/w update for fine tuning fart noise.
zram is amazing. I love it. Makes my 16GB machine feel like a 24GB, no noticeable downsides. I've totally turned off regular swap, even.
I mean you need an undetectable virtual machine for a phone really. That's the reality: I'm content with my phone running some type of hard to crack secure element so companies can convince themselves it's secure, but what I want is that thing isolated and it's network and cellular access gated.
Both are technologies we've expected to have for quite a while, yet here were are, still waiting for anything that's not just a tech demo.
Have you even watched the announcement? Has anyone commenting here did?

He clearly said the bot v1 won't do more than carrying simple things and will be super slow and weak. It will only have very basic grasping hands, even likely with 3 fingers.

It will be what grasshopper was to Falcon 9.

And about autonomous driving, Tesla autopilot seems to be almost as good as Waymo, except with pure vision. And I'd bet a great sum Tesla will move faster forward.
You've left out manufacturing. Building a car factory + supply chain is quite the challenge.

Tesla had the best and the brightest - I've worked with them before they were acquired by Tesla on a daily basis: https://teslagrohmannautomation.de/en/

and still had trouble scaling. Manufacturing is considered to be one of the hardest things about building cars - electric or not.

Edit: What's with the downvotes? Disagree? Comment below then.
Some people don't want any boundaries, and that's fine too.
Depends on what OP is familiar with. If they know/like functional programming, I'd recommend F# highly. If not... Yeah go with C#.

Then later learn F# because it's absolutely kick ass :)
This is just not a good outlook. Class traitor is ridiculous. If someone is of marrying age and/or child rearing age, are they a traitor to their class because they choose to work instead of whatever your preconceived notions are? People are different and have different work/life conditions than you. You're just going to need to come to terms with this.
That's not what people are talking about, they're talking about fully merging your personal and work accounts for things like iphoto, email, etc like Apple is talking about above.
The person uploading may or may not be in the video, or the other participants could be under age. Figuring out the age of people in a video is lot harder.

Also stripe identity really works for US users the most , with a global audience like OnlyFans that could be limiting as well
In the US, you may not have freedom not to participate in a legal proceeding if discovery includes items on your personal device. Even if you quit.
Agree the UI story has been rough. .NET MAUI seems promising, yes?

Outside of JavaScript, what other (good) multi platform UI frameworks are out there? And I’m hesitant to call JS good, with the amount of slow, laggy, resource intensive apps I’ve come across.
It’s hard to take this comment seriously. There are oodles of tech companies with actual novel technology that actually works.
But "useful humanoid robot" is way more forward-looking than anything else he's done this with

I think flipping a giant rocket on its way back down to have it land upright sounded just as nutty as this awhile back, let alone a startup competing (successfully) against the military industrial complex.

The entire car industry is also adopting electric. No, I think Musk has enough notable wins to get a pass here.

It seems as though a lot of people (not the GP) really want to be apart of the narrative change on Musk, whatever humanity’s obsession is with building up and then destroying someone, followed with the redemption story.

He really doesn’t have to prove anything anymore in my book.
I could be wrong but I dont think it is reasonable that a humanoid would ever track in price with a washing machine. A washing machine only has a few moving parts while a humanoid is going to be more similar to a car in terms of complexity (though less on parts)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C76osXtpLeM

There are some machines that fold laundry. They don't seem that impressive now. But I imagine if they haven't already - laundry pick-up/delivery services will roll these out.
>I don't do that 'argument from authority' thing

i get what you're suggesting here, and i would be inclined to say that i don't really appeal to someone I would personally consider authoritative as a means of validating my argument, but that being said, citing someone who was fairly prominent in a specific field of study in order to make a point based on their work in that field of study isn't really appealing to authority. it's like if i were to cite Stephen Hawking to make the claim that black holes slowly radiate out their content over time, that wouldn't necessarily be appealing to authority, it would just be citing someone who happened to be an expert in a specific field for their work in it. granted, there are better, more objective things to refer to than the hypothesis of hawking radiation to demonstrate the accuracy of it, but I think the analogy stands.

>So according to pierce, my interpretation of this as not as art is as valid as you thinking its art, since that's how im interpreting it?

precisely. that's the nature of the relationship between interpreter, signs, and the signified.

>It doesn't seem like a very self consistent idea.

that's because the idea isn't necessarily one specifically used to justify the validity of what constitutes art, it's more about categorizing the relationship between an interpretive entity and that which is being interpreted as a triple, namely as a sign (the conveyed meaning or intent), the signifier (the thing which the sign is referring to), and the intepretant (the personal interpretation formed by the interpreter in response to the sign+signifier.)

(note: apologies to anyone reading this if I haven't represented it fully accurately, im still in the process of integrating it completely, but I am confident my summation of it is generally correct)

the connection I made to the subjective interpretation of what constitutes valid art is just my own invocation of this idea in the specific context of art and the criticism thereof. it definitely is a very generalized approach to things, but it's important to note that this process of semiosis isn't about the specific outcome, but rather about the process that leads to it, and therfore despite our personal experiences with it being contradictory, the process itself that leads to it is self consistent, it's just that you bring something different to the process of interpretation than I do because of your own experience, your own Bayesian Net as it were.
Salaried workers don't get over-time.

Also what's a class traitor? it's not like I'm working so hard not to become filthy rich. All my colleagues are doing the same.
No no-no

This type of reasoning simply does not understand the market competition. Once there is a market, the goal is to win the competition, not to hit some technical bar.

Is there a better player in the industry in building humanoid robot? I rarely see any that is better than Tesla. Modern cars are essentially a robot, or the closest thing in tech stack.

Is Musk stretching himself? Of cuz, that's how new things are created...
Why should they? All that stuff is easily managed locally under your own control.
Google confirms it's the end of the road for Android Auto on phone screens
I suggest trying to find a "retro arcade" which has older machines, often with discounted rates (eg, two credits for 100円 for a game which originally just gave you one). Obviously these will usually be in more out-of-the-way places than standard arcades; I fondly recall one from my days in Nagoya that was on the top floor of a shopping center that had to have been built in 1975 at the latest.

Granted, I'm sure some of them have also been hit by the troubles, but if you can find one, you can have the Japanese arcade experience without the newer gimmicks.

That said, I didn't mind the cards. I think I still have a Wangan Midnight in an envelope my "Japan Stuff" folder, patiently waiting for the day when I can finally get my butt back to Tokyo.
Why we run Data Pipelines as Containers
Is it just me that’s completely creeped out by how it looks? It’s supposed to be humanoid but yet it’s missing all facial features and the black head with completely white body doesn’t make it any better.

Not to mention that I feel super uncomfortable near any cameras that are connected to Musk (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/27/tesla-s...)
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I read that sex-workers have lost their livelihood during the pandemic due to lockdowns and have become more vulnerable. Then I read the interview of Aella, A OnlyFans creator making 5-figures on IndieHackers[1].

I always felt porn was an exploitative business so was never into it, But I gained respect for OnlyFans as a platform because it enabled people to move from dangerous, risky work to relatively safe work. As with any content platform, I understand that only perhaps top 5% might make sustainable business out of it but still it's a choice available.

Now they've blown it, In order to chase after scale OnlyFans has decided to sacrifice their original customers. Fans of those music artists who are supposedly joining now should inform them that OnlyFans is robbing the livelihood and would be pushing many back to dangerous physical-sex work.

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This is what Samsung Knox is. I use it for my company email and slack etc.
Ah, great point. I remember hearing about a case like that, though I also don't remember which specific service it was.
Yes, definitely I should have worded my comment more clearly.
This isn't too hard - Git supports folder path separated config settings, so usually I just have a "foss" and "work" profile.

More annoying can be commit signing, but this is actually something GPG has baked right into it - I issue and sign a new key with my work email address while I'm there, and when I quit revoke the key as superceded (and set the expiry to roughly my contract renewal period/performance eval period).

The real problem is corporate IT doesn't understand encryption or signing beyond how their vendors pitch it too them as "secure" so trying to extend any of this to actually support business processes is a losing battle.
>There is no combination of email, spreadsheets, and enterprise surveillance webportal that can prevent a malefactor from doing harm

What do you think is used for audits and oversight if not email and spreadsheets?

Or are you just saying that everything everyone does, doesn't really work?
The key term in their comment is "unpaid overtime", that's the part that makes them a traitor to their class.
In the case of child pornography the law - in many countries - explicitly makes it the platforms responsibility.
Like I said, there are thousands of tools designed for humans. There are vehicles, ladders, protective suits etc. designed for humans. There are lots of spaces designed for humans in which it needs to move. It makes sense to design the robot so that it is compatible with all these.

And there's nothing wrong with human shape, it would be hard to design a better one.
And they’re going to do this how, exactly?
> their lawyers get a certain kind of access to Apple's corporate data

Whose lawyers? The plantiff's? Or the defendant (Apple)'s?
+100 to the entire way of thinking from the original post. work/personal should be treated like church/state where they are kept separate.

yes, if you read your personal email on a corp device, then there's a good chance corp is reading your personal emails. and 100% yes, the corp can/do read your corp email. they are required to keep copies of every email sent by employees, so just assume at some point some corp lawyer can/will be reading them.
If you want to write a game, there’s Unity.

Or you could make some kind of REST API with ASP.NET Core or gRPC.
Something like putting dishes away --- lots of carrying things short distances, changing heights, changing angles, reaching around.

I don't think machines are very close, but bipedal locomotion with human arm like articulation and grasping softish fingers is a reasonable way to get there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZ_8cqfBlE

I feel like a lot of factories are going to go in this direction. Lots of complex automation but ultimately very simple mechanisms with a strong framework to make sure nothing goes wrong.
We definitely will be interested in adding converters to/from other formats.
Pine Phone and Pine Tab, and soon Pine Note. These devices use GNU/Linux and seem to perform well so far.
How is redux a giant global anti-pattern exactly? It does create a single source of truth, but I am not quite following. Can you explain this more?
Arizona is already nearing the edge for what constitutes livable. If something isn't done to mitigate Climate Change soon, I can start to see land being abandoned. This is such a critical factory and a disruption will have massive ramifications. They probably built it there due to tax breaks that may not matter anymore in the future if climate change wrecks havoc.
I like Musk, and I've been following his progress since 2011. I always thought he seemed very intelligent and seemed to really understand what he was doing.

However I have to agree with the person you are replying to. There has been the sort of myth going around that making rockets is hard. It used to be hard... 50 years ago. That is literally the technology Musk has been using for the last 20 years: 50 year old technology (and yes that includes reusability). He has just been doing it cheaper, which there was no incentive for anyone to do before because it wasn't a free market.

The reusable stuff is still misunderstood by most people too. Musk is losing money because of the reusability of his rockets. If he had never pursued reusability he would have made far, far more money from his launch business. Only now, after 10 years, are his reusable rockets just starting to break even with the cost of an expendable rocket (after reuse not before). He is pursuing reusability because it is his passion project, not because there is any money to be made from it.

Since Musk, another 4 private companies have reached orbit, or will reach orbit this year (Firefly, Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, and Virgin Orbit). All of them took almost exactly 6 years from founding to orbit, just like Musk did.

Furthermore, if you have been following closely, you would have seen the huge and humiliating mess ups he had with Tesla where he literally flushed billions and billions of dollars down the toilet. Any COO from another company would have had no problems setting up these manufacturing facilities without trouble, but Musk though he was smarter than everyone else and proved it was the other way around when it came to a competitive business like auto manufacturing.

The man has vision, but this whole AI thing is just Musk getting lost in his own marketing.
This is actually a good idea. Maybe can convince apple this won't work.
Viral evolution is one of the primary factors around pretty much all virus progression and disease. It’s a major study in the field of epidemiology.

Given that there’s still a lack of belief of evolution in the general public (polls put it around 40-50% in US) it’s not surprising that it’s not more talked about in the media.

But in the scientific and medical community it was not even a question that the virus was going to evolve through multiple strains.

Viral evolution is why we have yearly flu shots rather than 1 to cover a lifetime. Its also why HIV has been so hard to create a vaccine for. HIV is able to handle lots of mutations and still function, so it means there’s a multitude of strains.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_evolution
These are pretty good and well put together . I highly recommend anything by Eric Lander https://www.edx.org/bio/eric-s-lander
On some of the other photos, there's a Google watermark on the map right above the controls in the lower left corner.