skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That level of access guarantees amateur-level code, and the rigor Kay is suggesting would kill the software industry as we know it.

I don't believe this follows. The level of rigor he's lamenting could be constrained to certain categories of software, based on their impact or information content. Amateur or informally specified systems can still satisfy everything else. There is no reason for most systems that don't touch PII or critical systems or other similar categories of software to have serious engineering behind them if people don't want them to.
I'm not so sure.

1. [EDIT: IGNORE THIS POINT] They've done this before. [1]

2. To get more specific, look at the robot's legs around 0:09-0:16. They don't seem to be moving normally.

I don't have professional video analysis chops, but I'd put some money on this being fake.

Happy be to be proven wrong, though.

EDIT: It appears I remembered this story incorrectly, and posted a link without reading it. I retract my first statement. I'll leave the link for posterity, though.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/6/17/18681682/boston-dyna...
> Each queen honeybee may be accompanied by up to eight attendant honeybees.

I wonder what happens if you sneak a few more non-queen honeybees?
Thank you for sharing Ferret Lang. I'm excited to try this one out. A year ago I went on a quest for something lisp-like on the Arduino. I came across u-lisp but it seemed limited. I ultimately landed on Forth (not a lisp), which was a great learning experience. I think Ferret was what I was looking for at the time.
Meanwhile the rest of the world outside the US and EU are still starving for any vaccines at all.

But America pays more so they get doubled-up, even though their real problem is all the unvaccinated.
Surely it's cheaper to dispose of it with your other garbage, or take it to a local dump, than paying postage to "mail" it?
Some of the nicest, most generous, good-hearted people I know are Fox-addicted boomers. THE biggest assholes I know are liberals. My objection to Fox and it's audience is not personal. Fox is exactly like heroin: it's dangerous to the users, but it doesn't mean the users are bad people. In fact the users are in a lot of pain and are doing their best to manage it with the drug.

Fox represents an extraordinary disconnect from reality - and increasingly, just watching it, and buying into it, represents an act of proud American defiance, even if it's wrong. And yet the underlying goals are sound: they want a safe, healthy, wealthy country. Yes, they also prefer white people, and Christians, and resent being forced into accepting crazy diversity shit like new pronouns (one I agree with, actually - only transfolk should get to switch pronouns!). They see the way the left attacks men, and masculinity, the way #MeToo equates allegation with guilt, and object to it by going too far in the other direction. But the resistance to liberal excess is real and comes from a good place - and liberals themselves can't do it lest they be lumped in with rapists and abusers and ostracized.

But goddamn, those Fox lies, big and small, come fast and furious from Fox, 24/7, and it's terrible. Their agenda is clear for anyone to see, and there is nothing Fox won't say, no tortured argument or shameless innuendo they won't make, to forward that agenda. It's actually painful for me to watch, even if I think there are plenty of valid things to criticize modern American liberalism about.
That's why they sell them to the police and military and put guns in their hands instead.
Wash your hands for 20 seconds: Physics shows why
> OK, so basically humanity so far was in the wrong for not wearing masks for cold, flu,

Masking in flu season isn’t uncommon in some parts of the world, and it was a lot more common during the 1918-1920 pandemic, so, “humanity” as a whole is not a constant.

Cultural variation aside, different respiratory viruses have different combinations of infectiousness and deadliness and responses to various countermeasures, so their are rational reasons the reactions to each, given a constant utility function, would differ. The common cold, the 2019 seasonal flu, the 1919 pandemic flu, and COVID-19 are all very different things.
FreeBSD is the first operating system testing OpenZFS with KMSAN
Why Is Everything More Expensive? Let This Stuffed Giraffe Explain
China and Russia prepare to accept Taliban rule
Why writing for outlets isn't worth it
Thank you. We have more great news to come. Glad to answer any questions anyone might have.
Interesting. Maybe my formula only works for rural and suburbs. Maybe get enough people and they become the vector for the ticks.
so, use boring tech to work on hard "real world" problems
What can I do to defend myself against killer robots?

Seriously, is there something simple that I can put in my glovebox of my car to use in case these robots start getting scary? Is there a simple household good that will work well against these, until they start explicitly shielding against stuff?
I get some Black Mirror-esque vibes from this sort of tech, too. The 90s kid in me also gets MechWarrior vibes, too.

Also, I looked a while ago but is there anything up and coming in the anti-facial recognition space? I know that some guy created an almost life-like replica of his own face for sale, and then there were some sort of reflectors, but anything that cannot be outlawed, like a full face covering, would be cool.
> Nonpoisonous Insects

So it's legal to just, say, mail a bunch of stink bugs and roaches and fruitflies to businesses that send you junk mail or <insert business you hate>?
It may be that the vaccine side effect severity is proportional to the severity of the disease it prevents.

Also, these vaccines were very rapidly developed so perhaps the next generation of them will be a bit easier on the body.
When we automate the last jobs that can't be offshored we'll have to ask some questions as a society.
You could mix it into food or salt licks or even hire people to hit them with medicine darts.

I thought I’ve heard of that for deer birth control before?
I love lists like this. I remember waiting for a Greyhound bus and reading the list of prohibited items and imagining the stories behind each one. It ran on for pages. Human heads were not allowed, even if frozen. Martial arts weapons like swords, nunchucks and throwing stars got a section all their own, separate from guns and knives. Each type of bodily fluid was listed separately, lest someone assume that their jar of urine didn't count.
I came in thinking "ug" like this will go anywhere. Then I looked at imba.io and it totally made the case for it. Great job! Now I want to try it.
Thanks, I do know but in general English speakers use the word karma and then ascribe the Hindu reading to Buddhism, so I was answering that.

As to the cause and effect part, again, I wasn't about to start on a "there are no causes and no effects, only conditions…" path as it would only muddy the water for the person I'm responding to, but I don't mind the nitpicking, it's a good point and glad to see reasonable challenges in the comments.

Edit, I didn't mean to put this all on the English!
I would guess even the more mundane "bad robot" scenarios, like the various interactions with police bots in Elysium, might also play out.
> 1. They've done this before. [1]

Your link says nothing of the sort.
Initial economic impact will be harder for those whose job is simply moving things/people around. And those people, obviously aren't aware of the problem they'll face in a few years (5-10?).
Thats the real problem in the near horizon.
Particulate emissions from large fires very much do. I live approximately 2500 kilometers from the forest fires in Russia, and air pollution in the last two or three weeks has been intense.
Thank you for the encouraging words. I will hopefully be posting it at the end of the year and keep you updated.
I don't know about short sighted. More like preparing myself for a long hard slog. Even solar is fighting a battle now against cheaper in the short run natural gas installations and massive PR firms/lobbyists.

It's not like if fusion breaks even power wise we will instantly have investors flooding in with the trillions of dollars necessary to commercialize. Also there is no guarantee we won't see the environmentalist blow back that fission did. If people can be mobilized against 5g radio towers, think about how they will feel about hypertech like a fusion plant. All you need is a PR firm and 10 million dollars to turn a large project like that into a no-go.
If this [0] is what you're talking about, at the moment yjs and automerge are significantly more full-featured and used by many major companies.

[0] https://github.com/dkellner/chronofold
Heh, the middle one there is from me. I had searched before submitting, but I had searched for "Dallas police", so had missed the one about "Dallas PD" and the one about "Dallas cops".
I noticed around the 50 second mark there is some fluid leaking out of the robots bum. Wonder what that could be?
Like you said, it's anec-data. Among my friends, two were very sleepy the following day and otherwise fine. I had a sore arm for two days, and no other effects. My parents didn't have any noticeable effects.
Someone is as much anti-vax for not wanting the mRNA vax as someone is anti-Linux for not wanting to run the Gentoo nightly build as their operating systemm.
If they were ever deployed as auxiliaries to law enforcement, my hope would be any weapon would have to have a human approve a request.

Robots should be able to swarm and restrain uncooperative suspects so there should be less need for lethality unless the perpetrator is an active threat against other people -a hostage situation, mass shooting, etc.
Branch has secured over $540M to accelerate flexible workforce payments
One of my favorite YouTube niches is turtle unboxing videos.
What makes this really interesting is that all this is achieved with very little or no "AI" (in the context of current machine learning approaches). Purely heuristics based approach to something as complex.
Fry Labs is listed on Quackwatch's list of "Laboratories Doing Nonstandard Laboratory Tests":
https://quackwatch.org/related/tests/nonstandard/

The CDC warns against nonstandard testing:
https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/diagnosistesting/labtest/otherlab/i...

You'd be surprised how little regulation that some lab testing gets:
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/new-fda-regulatory-role-thr...

There are a lot more predatory labs than Theranos out there...
Spray can of sticky expanding foam for the various sensors?

Edit: Like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es2rVHLKS3g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVy5Vm43X_A

There's also bulk rodent glue, if you could figure out how to shoot it :) https://www.domyown.com/catchmaster-bulk-glue-can-p-15693.ht...
The military will just use aerial drone slaughterbots. The Azerbaijanis did this in the recent Armenia/Azerbaijan war and it was a total blowout against 20th century tech.

Here's what I'm thinking the good future looks like: Let's say I have a big back yard and would like to have that be a productive farm. AI bot comes over, surveys the land, does soil tests, orders seeds, fertilizer and garden equipment off Amazon. Plants seeds, sets up permaculture, sets up irrigation, installs monitoring, goes next door, repeats for every house in the neighborhood. That's the kind of AI future I want to see. Software codifying knowledge of an experienced practitioner to manipulate the physical world in a way beneficial to humans.
Facebook Helping Militias Spread Vaccine Disinformation and Calling Them Experts
Going to walk back my 10% here, that's just the number that don't use 'I' somewhere in their CV. There are many that just do it in an intro or elsewhere, but list projects or contributions in implied first person. Some are an ungodly amalgamation of both (I know my LinkedIn profile certainly is, but that was created under duress). I am fine with either, I just don't understand the idea that a recruiter is going to clutch their pearls at this. Anyway, my original question was genuine, I'd be fascinated to see some controlled study into this, which I understand would be hard to engineer.
Can we brainstorm how you would compromise one of these robots?

I don't think I've seen discussion about how you would stop one in an adverse situation.

Hogtie cowboy style? Taser? Paint splashed over sensors?
The deep irony here is that you wrote "its not impossible for millions of people to have long term side effects from COVID."

While it's clear from the rest of your post that you meant the vaccines, you accidentally ended up making your own counterpoint! It is ABSOLUTELY possible for millions of people to have long term side effects from COVID, the disease.

It would be a brand new thing for a vaccine to give so many people side effects so long after the shot. No vaccine has ever given people side effects that didn't show up within about 6 weeks.

Yes, some people had side effects from the Polio vaccine. But you know what was far more likely to cause lifelong side effects? Polio!
This is true but the piece is relying heavily on tropes to support its arguments.
The robot did pump its arm, but it also stumbled a bit on this simple move. It was just the slightest stutter step, something most people watching the video would never notice. But the Atlas team notices every detail and they want to get it right.

“We hadn’t run that behavior after the backflip before today, so that was really an experiment,” says Scott Kuindersma, the Atlas team lead at Boston Dynamics. “If you watch the video closely, it looks a little awkward. We’re going to swap in a behavior we’ve tested before so we have some confidence it will work.”
Paint ought to do it. Chuck a bucket of paint at one of these and the sensors will be knocked out instantly.
The thing that looks weird imo is when the robots are running on flat ground, something looks off about their feet. Can't tell what it is but they look like they're floating. Anyway it's pretty amazing, and interesting to see the improvements over the years in how the robots move.

And clearly the two robots should fight.
I read Little Brother when I was only 12, it's why I originally installed linux :p

His books are awesome, I really love the blend of plot and technical bits he drops in. I read almost all his books right after reading Little Brother and enjoyed every single one.
That CGI gag was done by Corridor Digital, not Boston Dynamics.
All these positions involve life and death decisions that freak me out.

I want the source code to firefighting bots to be public so I know whether my town buys the ones that prioritize babies over elderly. Or stuff like it’s easier to save 5 dogs than 1 human.

Nurses too have great power for good and harm. Currently when nurses decide on mercy killings [0] it requires lots of deliberation to figure out and it’s just one person. If a robonurse is programmed to put lethal morphine into a patient under certain conditions, that’s a big deal.

[0] https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122054...
That dark pattern drives me crazy. I use Zoom on Linux and prefer to use it in browser and I still almost always miss the link after having done it several times.
Show HN: Intervue – Live coding environment with built-in video calls
From what I know the damage to the Amazon rainforest is greater than ever. Some models seem to suggest that a savannah could be another stable state that the region could exist in. Fears are now that the area could undergo a rapid transition between these states because the decreasing rainforest coverage can no longer give rise to the weather patterns that help to sustain it.
The specific types of day-old poultry named in 526.31 are mailable subject to the following requirements:

Poultry that is not more than 24 hours old and is presented for mailing in the original, unopened hatchery box from the hatchery of origin.
The date and hour of hatching is noted on the box by a representative of the hatchery who has personal knowledge thereof. (For Collect on Delivery (COD) shipments made by a hatchery for the account of others, the name or initials and address of the hatchery or the Post Office box number and address of the hatchery must be prominently shown for this standard.)
Box is properly ventilated, of proper construction and strength to bear safe transport in the mail, and is not stacked more than 10 units high.
Day–old poultry is mailed early enough in the week to avoid receipt at the office of address (in case of missed connections) on a Sunday, a national holiday, or the afternoon before a Sunday or national holiday.
Day–old poultry can be delivered to the addressee within 72 hours of the time of hatching.
Day-old poultry sent via surface transportation, must include special handling service fees, in addition to regular postage.
Day-old poultry sent via air transportation must meet all provisions of the airlines. Delivery of the mailpiece is dependent on the availability of air carriers having available equipment to safely deliver the day–old poultry within the specified time limit.
Day–old poultry that is first shipped via a commercial air express or air cargo service and then presented for mailing to a final destination must be in good condition and properly packaged as specified in 526.32a-e.
Boxes of day–old poultry of about identical size, securely fastened together to prevent separation in transit, may be accepted for mailing as a single parcel, provided the total length and girth combined does not exceed Postal Service limits.
I'm not even close to an expert on chronic lyme; however, as with most things about which there is a lot of debate in medicine:

- the symptoms are vague and/or nonspecific

- any tests or diagnostic criteria for chronic lime have poor specificity (i.e. a high number of false positives)

- no reasonable pathophysiologic mechanism has been demonstrated / explained, or at the very least the pathophysiology is poorly understood
Well, for one, this happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25474372
Specialized clothes if you engage in activities that'd benefit from it, I can understand. But for most in my class these were all jeans, only differentiated in appearance, if that.
This is awesome, but until someone solves the real-time sensing and modelling problem, it'll never fly in the real world. The use case is still warehouses.

Here's my logic / assumptions:
How does the robot "know" (have sufficient model information to predict the response) that the board will hold it when it does a vault? It doesn't -- it is told to vault by placing one limb on top. As we've seen with self-driving cars, where the sensing is 99% of the problem, that's the barrier between a closed set and the real world.

Don't get me wrong. The fact that Atlas / Boston Dynamics is in a state where the sensing is _mostly_ what remains a problem is astounding.
I think the key is recognizing that these have nothing to do with true AI or replacing humans in any profession.

This is just a semi-autonomous vehicle that is bipedal or quadrupedal instead of having wheels. That's it.
In the US, it's much more the norm to start the fuel running, then go inside and buy whatever you need, and come back out to find that your car is full and you can simply drive off. Do Australian pumps not have the little latch to allow fuel to keep running without someone squeezing the handle the entire time?
Robots will be the new zip ties to restrain you while your rights are violated. It’s not a tech failure though, it’s a governance and accountability failure.
We need to stop thinking in such hostile terms. It just does not work. It's never worked. It didn't work in Afghanistan, it didn't work in Viet Nam, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Honduras, Iran, Iraq... if we want to convince anyone that the planet is worth saving it can't be done while they're looking down the barrel of a gun.
L3AF – using eBPF to provide network visibility at Walmart
Many people learning foreign languages have a goal of sounding like a native speaker from a particular area. There is nothing wrong with that.
Typescript will cover this!
I think the future headlines will be that widespread rebellions will be always put down because the army can't be convinced to switch sides. I think we're very close to a situation where current governments in power can only be deposed by external armies.
It's also 'this is broken and should go to cloth recycling, but I do not have access to any cloth recycling facility, whereas the donation centers do'.
I have run into terminals where if you do tap to pay and it fails, it won't accept the chip until the cashier re-runs the transaction. This has caused me to just not use tap to pay.
Yup, just had some meetings with my city's local government as well as local nonprofits over Zoom. Concerning from a security standpoint.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EezdinoG4mk&feature=youtu.be

This behind-the-scenes video says it is choreographed and scripted. It also contains instances where things go wrong as well.
I've seen videos about recycling where they call it "wishcycling" and point to things like lamps and umbrellas tossed in their city's curbside recycling bin. I think the wish is that someone will find a use for it and it will avoid a landfill. In actuality, it can be a waste of someone else's time and money.
I don’t know. That just sounds like pessimism about the direction of society, which means that any technology that can be used for a wide range of tasks can obviously be used for bad things. Slowing the progress of technology is not going to solve or even improve the outcomes if society is moving in a bad direction, unless you are somehow able to very precisely predict the outcomes of each specific technology and slow progress very selectively. And if you were able to do that, I don’t think technologies like this one would be a likely candidate for something that would disproportionately help the bad actors in society.
If the alternative you've got in mind is dying in the city then I'd agree. Living somewhere else seems much preferable though.

New York City is old. Creaking floors and walls, elevators that require you to cross your fingers to rise not too fast or fall not fast. Unpleasant smells and rude comments from passersby assail you with equal frequency when walking on the streets. Restaurants are over, crowded and priced. Apartments are tough to get, expensive, old and small. Walking in the streets at night you'll frequently find yourself flanked by packs of rats. The subways are nice, at least if you are unfamiliar with European cities.
If you're interested in variable fonts, the recent SF Design Week talk [1] from the folks at Google was pretty accessible! Maybe if enough folks ping them they'd be willing to put up a recording.

[1] https://sfdesignweek.org/events/typography-in-the-variable-a...
Boston Dynamics exec: "That's a sensing problem, we are a controls and dynamics company".