skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At not seeing the robot images first my first thought was human-risky tasks like changing a high light bulb or smoke alarm battery (without hands maybe not). It does have a smaller profile than people so it could crawl through tight spaces for various household recognisance, like crawling under the hose or in ducts in larger houses. Help running wire in false ceilings/floors?

Fetching important medications, water and nourishment for those with limited mobility; Answering door; going outside to check on noises; other telepresence applications with VR linkup to the humanoid's cameras and other sensors.
Are Ivy league universities worth it for undergrad? I get his point that high pressure childhood and aggressive parenting isn't the best way to educate children - but then he sent his kids to Harvard where most of the people there are just like that, care more about prestige rather than learning.
> willing to have affordable housing built in your neighborhood.

The problem here is that you can't really build "affordable housing" any more than you can build "affordable cars". At least, not in the way "affordable" is used by progressives.

You don't build affordable cars, you just build cars, which end up becoming "affordable" in the used car market. Ditto for housing.

There have been attempts at building affordable housing at large scale. We've spent the past 30 years tearing down those "projects". Similarly, plenty of countries have tried to build affordable cars, but they're only sustainable by limiting imports as market-rate cars end up being preferable, both new and used.

How about we just let real estate developers build housing. Full stop. We can use policy and public funding to fill in the cracks, but "building affordable housing" doesn't actually make any sense at scale. Not unless you do something like Singapore, which sells their affordable housing, permitting individual purchasers to leverage private market financing. You get significantly more bang for your buck that way as private finance markets have much more money than is available from the government.

Advocating for "affordable housing" is really just an excuse to oppose housing as you can always claim that a project isn't sufficiently "affordable". This is basically how most residential projects end up getting stonewalled.
I use a little Bluetooth to 3.5mm adapter and clip it on to my wired headphones. This one is the fiio ubtr which is nice and tiny tho a little more battery life would be nice. I designed my headphones to be 3D printed on a resin 3D printer and I wired them with a short cable going to a male 3.5mm jack. I can plug them in to a Bluetooth adapter or just use 3.5mm male to female extension to use them as wired headphones. I love the flexibility. I have photos and source files on GitHub here:

https://github.com/tlalexander/reboot-headphones

There is a newer design in the linked OnShape document which is smaller and uses two 3mm titanium rods for a headband. They’re really nice and they’ve been my daily headphones for what feels like a year now. I love knowing that no matter what breaks on them they can be repaired forever.
The number one rule of parenting advice is that what worked for one kid may not work for another. Pretty much the sum of what you can say about kids that works universally is making sure they have food, clothes, and shelter. Being kind and wanting the best for them is also almost always helpful. Beyond that . . . beware of blindly applying advice that worked for two children from the same genetic, environmental, and economic stock.

I don't mean that you shouldn't consider or even try whatever advice this author has. I mean that you shouldn't feel guilty if it doesn't work. If it always worked, it would be common knowledge, and you wouldn't need anyone to tell it to you on a relatively unknown Substack.
There is a more recent video from the same person (Technology Connections) that concentrates on plugs - specifically, why US plugs have holes in them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udNXMAflbU8
Sorry I guess I was more obtuse than I intended. My point was I can buy a used car for $5,000, and Honda building new cars allows that even if the new cars are out of my price range.
Classical Shor's algorithm requires 4n+2 qubits to factor n-bits number. I just read that there are improvements which require 2n+3 qubits.

I don't think that it's possible to lower qubits number without optimizing an algorithm.
There will be a major supply chain crisis if you stop importing from China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Indonesia.

It amazes me how even a bar of quality soap comes imported from China nowadays.
Budiansky is a good writer: his "Battle of Wits" about WW2 Enigma cryptanalysis is worth reading, even though it is mostly rehashed from other sources. I'll probably try to check out this Gödel biography, though the mental illness angle sounds pretty bogus.

But it seems to me, we already have a perfectly good Gödel biography, "Logical Dreams" by John Dawson, who is himself a logician, catalogued Gödel's Nachlass which probably made him the world's foremost Gödel archivist, and was also one of the editors of Gödel's Collected Works (5 vols).

Obviously I haven't read the new book so I can't compare directly, but my Bayesian prior is that if you're going to read just one, go with Dawson's.

If you're more interested in understanding the incompleteness theorem and the great amount of nonsense and confusion surrounding it, try "Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse", by Torkel Franzén, reviewed here:

http://www.ams.org/notices/200703/rev-raatikainen.pdf

Dawson's biography of Gödel is reviewed here:

https://www.ams.org/notices/200108/rev-davis.pdf
> permanently priced out of home ownership

The baby boomers will all die off during your lifetime. There aren’t enough people left to absorb all of their houses. I assume at some point there will be a tremendous glut of empty houses on the market which should dramatically lower prices.
What about the people that bitch when "Chinatown" is "gentrified", how is that keeping the minorities out?
BTW, a few years later when my family lived in Germany, sometimes you could see the Luftwaffe hedgehopping across the countryside. It was awesome to watch. The cold war was at its height, and flying low was how one evaded enemy radar. The Luftwaffe wanted to be well trained and ready, and the hedgehopping also let the Soviets know they were ready and able.
The article didn't say supremacy. I think the closest it came was bias. It cited a former manager of Kodak Research. And 1 of its points was holding all else constant was part of the problem.
It's pretty common for motorcyclists to wear hearing protection- as little as 18mph of wind can cause permanent damage with extended exposure.
well it's not simple, because that would mean more taxes for the rich developed countries.

their whole agenda is to deflect blame and costs to developing countries.
This conspiracy goes back further than I'd feared.
I don’t mean new features in the frameworks, our customers don’t care (and don’t know what frameworks we use, AFAIK).

They care about the features in our products and the frameworks we use allow us to do cool fast.
This is still something you need to let the market sort out. Otherwise how do you decide who gets to live in CA by the beach, job lotteries?
This is a second price auction, so the person with the highest bid pays the amount of the second highest bid. If Apple is bidding $97, their cost to acquire the customer may be substantially lower than $97 (their cost is whatever the second highest bid is), but they are forcing others in the auction to spend at least $97 to get the customer.
Netflix doesn’t pay RSU, all salary.
CO2 is good for having more green.
Buy some with replaceable cables. I use KZ ZSX and I keep a spare cable, if it ever breaks no biggie thats 4$
Pity most phone manufacturers have got rid of the headphone jack in their recent models.
If you can get in and can easily afford whatever cost you have to pay, they'll unlikely do any harm, and there's some reason to believe they'll help. High quality data on this is hard to come by, but what data I am aware of is inconclusive, and that if there is an effect of going to an elite university, it's not that large at the median. https://www.nber.org/papers/w7322
I'm pleasantly surprised to see this statement. The ACLU has really lost its way lately, shunning the principles it used to embrace and just parroting progressive talking points on many issues.
Wow! You sure back down quickly. You originally said we should use Sweden's 25 people/sq km and now you're willing to concede that in reality it's half? And sorry, but Singapore and Stockholm have the same population density in terms of order of magnitude.

Come on man. Just admit you were wrong.
You can still easily buy a decent used car for $5k.

Try buying a half-decent used home for 25% of its initial sticker price.
It will require incredible amount of infrastructure investment, and as of the present, no developed country has financially committed to it. It is hard to envision the costs can be shifted to developing countries like India or Bangladesh.
Are you talking about now ? 20 years ago ? 50 years ago ? What specific fact are you disputing from that piece ?
To me, the question would be if it's general job dissatisfaction or something people don't like in Facebook itself? It's true every company has problem points. But when you have someone like Zuck who lies constantly, buys up Instagram and Whatsapp and then covers it all with this Metaverse idea, I can see people finally deciding enough is enough. It's clear what management wants isn't what's good for the world
Why don't they just get a job that is a 10 minute commute? Even poor businesses in America want their AC running sometimes.
Your argument is just as tired. It made sense in the boomer days when a good job and hard work guaranteed a home. My dad bought his first for about $6000.

Decades of under building, greed, nimbys and their needed character, have eliminated that guarantee, or even possibility. As well as any tears for incredibly rich obstructionists to progress.
When did computer science theory get so hard?
Effective Slate Testing with React Testing Library
Yes scientific publishing is a total ripoff. University people don’t pay for reading articles, so they don’t do anything about the insane prices, and they care much more about publishing in some notorious journal than being paid for it. They hope to get career advancement from papers.

The problem is that it’s easy to setup a journal, but how to become a respected journal in the field is the hard part…
S-expressions don't solve the problem at all, you just get to fractally bikeshed all over again about what semantics they have and what transformations are or aren't equivalent. Does whitespace roundtrip through S-expressions? Who knows. Are numbers in S-expressions rounded to double precision on read/write? Umm, maybe. How do I escape a ) in one of my values? Hoo boy, pick any escape character you like and there's an implementation that does it.
Most chilling to me here is that Project Veritas is in the middle of a defamation lawsuit with The New York Times and the FBI leaked Veritas' privileged attorney communications to that very same party.

The Government colluding with private industry to subvert its own legal processes looks exactly like that dirty f-word that the NYT's main audience likes to casually throw around.
I have never heard of a universal blacklist for chargebacks (spanning multiple unrelated businesses), and I don't think it exists. I've charged back transactions for legitimate reasons (such as fraud and false advertising) on quite a few occasions, and I've never received any kind of penalty. Even if there were such a blacklist, you could simply ask your card issuer to change your card number to get around it. In fact, when you perform a chargeback for a fradulent transaction, most card issuers immediately cancel your card and issue you a new one with a new number.

Now if you file a chargeback against Apple or Google, your account with that company will almost certainly be permanently disabled, based on what I've heard from users who have done it. This is a significant setback for consumer protections, and makes it less advisable to concentrate your digital identity into either of these companies' services. However, as inconvenient as it may be to get banned from having an account with Apple/Google, it shouldn't blacklist you from using your card at any gas stations or online stores, assuming that you aren't using Apple/Google payment processing.
you can't justify going to war with a country just because they refuse to extradite an individual. that is what a bully does.
They won't fit in your bar like a massy will.
most households at/near retirement (55+, according to the fed reserve) are doing fine with an average net worth over a million (note that that's all the boomers), and almost none of them are still paying off mortgages. they aren't losing houses nor going without meals. moreover, social security income is inflation protected, as essentially is medicare, so poor elderly are no worse off. again, that's a disingenous argument, the kind often made by politicians seeking political gain, not general welfare.
Well, if our apps resembled these large tables of which you speak, maybe…. :-)

Our apps are related to compliance and risk management with a good sprinkling of custom developed workflow. Most of the screens users see are fairly light. It isn’t the amount of data that matters to our users, it’s what we do with it.

And how quickly we can new things when they realize they need new.
Why? Won't the unskilled laborers be free to choose if they want a big commute and more money, or a smaller commute and less money?
Absolutely you can name incredibly talented people who suffered from a mental illness, but that does not counter my assertion. Instead it's an instance of Berkson's paradox [1] wherein you are unlikely to consider the group of people who failed high school, have a drug addiction, are homeless, or are otherwise suffering from their OCD. The only people with OCD who have a name worth mentioning will be among the most successful people in their field.

But that doesn't change the studies that show that unlike the myth first popularized by Pierre Janet and then popularized by Freud about the positive relationship between obsessiveness and intelligence, it turns out the correlation is negative [2]. Having OCD is overall detrimental to ones ability to perform intellectual tasks and statistically people with OCD are more likely to end up homeless or in poverty, the victim of abuse or otherwise taken advantage of.

Does this mean that a mental illness is a death sentence? No and I never claimed it was. My position is that historically if you did suffer from a mental illness, you were also more likely to be anti-social or introverted, and hence dissuaded from pursuing fields that involved working with other people. As such it's tempting to look back at many of the historical icons in said fields, see that many of them did suffer from a mental illness and conclude that said mental illness must have been a benefit to them. Absolutely not, it's just that people without a mental illness who were sociable likely did not study math or physics as they would have been encouraged both financially and socially to pursue other fields.

Going forward, as more fields that were traditionally studied by individuals become more team oriented, I hypothesize that we will no longer associate future leaders in math, physics, computer science, etc... with their mental illness. Of course we will still see some talented people who do suffer from mental illness, but the mystique that is often written about it, as if these people peered into a world only accessible to them because of their madness and saw things only they could possibly understand, will be considered farcical and instead we will appreciate that these people succeeded in spite of their mental illness rather than because of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28864868/
Articles with titles like this are actually a really good indicator of a top. Markets usually crash when people think they can’t possibly go down.
That's an intelligent hypothesis, but this could go one way or another.

I'd prefer to see empirical results.
Did Google's victory in £3bn landmark Supreme Court case backfire?
I have heard of someone who has a regular job, but raises one or two head of livestock a year and sells them for slaughter. This way they get the ag tax benefits for income and their land.
Wanna pilot, launch& commercialize 5G-enabled AR/VR/XR/Metaverse apps?
> “Project Veritas has engaged in disgraceful deceptions, and reasonable observers might not consider their activities to be journalism at all. Nevertheless, the precedent set in this case could have serious consequences for press freedom.

It’s good to see the ACLU stand up for groups that are not “popular”. More and more it seems people only want civil liberties for those they agree with. But since we are all equal under the law (or at least should be), if it can happen to “then” then it can happen to “you”.
> just so happened that it worked out well for lighter skinned people

Centuries of collective effort by engineers and chemists went into these photographic technologies. If photographs of wealthy people in Rochester, NY in the first half of the 20th century had looked terrible, they would have kept tweaking the technology until they fixed it.
Marketing speak, no matter how poor taste. I mean, how long have laundry soaps been saying they make whites whiter? At my age, soaps should be making plasma if these advances held any credence.

That aside...my wife is a dark skinned person. That I cannot take a normal photo of her without blowing out the background is infuriating. Think a simple sunset pic. If I just snap, she looks like a black blob. If I click her face, she looks normal but standing in front of a nuclear blast.

Not because I think any company is racist, but because I wonder why we are still stuck with it. If our eyes see people in a way, and have for all of time, why in the age of nanobots and ai and everything else still failing so badly?
>You don't need to be disorganized to appreciate the convenience of not having to charge yet another device you want to use on the fly.

Most wireless _headphones_ that I've bought come with an audio cable just for this eventuality. (Versus earphones, like the Airpods that do not have this capability.)
That seems like a slow, one-time correction given immigration and perhaps even before then, demographic shifts changing what types of houses are needed and boomers retiring off the sale prices of their houses. Yes, things don’t normally go up forever, but it’s shocking how much things have gone up and continue to go up, in all financial asset classes. While renting is still seen as an option for many, there will be a market to buy houses (shrinking the “glut” to buy at the low) and pay a bit extra to then rent the house and make some money before selling it again. More interesting to me is whether business real estate will have any kind of dip, given recent work from home, but I also can’t see how that makes residential any less attractive for investment over the long run, unfortunately.
Parent is assuming fb pays 20k more due to poor moral reputation. I am asserting that we don't know that at all.
I think this is incredibly trivializing of both the tech and art.

So getting exposure isn't just an arbitrary value. It's relative to tons of things, so it's always been possible to shoot darker skin.

The issue wasn't just exposure though. It's actually quite possible to shoot darker skin in lower light. You just need to know how to light it and capture the skin. (E.g darker tones are more specular on film)

The issue was color calibration and education. Film was designed to highlight certain tones, lighting setups were geared towards certain demographics. Those were the demographics that a segregated society preferred to show, and in turn made it so darker skinned demographics weren't equally visually representable.

You absolutely do not need HDR photography to shoot darker skin with lighter skin. In fact most cameras have enough dynamic range today to deal without an HDR capture.
Possibly . . . it would be interesting to have more data on this. Intuitively it seems like reconditioning a glass bottle would cost not insignificant energy and labor, compared to landfilling it. But I would be happy to know.
Great job! The plugins seem very helpful for people with little coding experience.
What if we held hands and bought the Constitution together? ConstitutionDAO
That link completely glosses over the fact that UK electrical networks are one big ring circuit instead of a radial circuit. This is because during WW2 they needed the metal savings, and this is also why every UK plug is fused and quite bulky.

IMO the EU way is the best. Radial circuit, fused in groups, and the plug is either the Schuko plug (very safe since the earth/ground is always engaged first) or Europlug (relatively safe because it is only allowed for low class power appliances). Both type of plugs can be angled, although it is quite rare for an Europlug to be.
I've been forced to use it. It's Facebook, for work (it used to be literally branded with that name). Easily the worst productivity tool I've ever used.

They haven't adjusted any of the engagement levers for the workplace tool, so you get so many notifications that they become useless (and the email versions are just teasers to get you to open workplace), you get an out of order "news feed", the groups UI is hard to understand and difficult to search, messenger is enabled in the UI and you can't turn it off, etc.

But yeah, it's Facebook, and it's what they use for everything internally.
Color films used to come in two varieties, more or less. Films designed to represent caucasian skin tones in a desirable way, and films designed to make colors that pop. Fuji had 160C and 160S, while Kodak had Portra 160NC and 160VC. I think they tweaked something in the sensitivity curves of the “suitable for skin tones” product lines which reduced contrast in the relevant parts of the curve. My sense is that this would keep it looking peach-colored without going into the more brilliant reds or magentas. The sensitivity curves for “makes colors that pop” were tweaked to increase the contrast in certain places. This was great for nature photos, product photos, or photos of food, but but if you put caucasian skin in the picture, it might come out looking somewhat reddish or magenta, and skin blemishes stand out more. Worst case you get crab people.

This is just my perspective on the film itself, based on my experiences shooting and printing color film (in a wet lab). I was printing slowly, trying to get the best out of each print. I spent a lot of time looking at prints and sussing out variations in color, stuff that you could fix at the touch of a button in Photoshop, if it were digital.
Hello fellow 36 year old!

I think graduating into the 2008 mess gives us peculiar point of view. Two years older, we might have already had burgeoning careers. Two years younger, we might have avoided it altogether.

I remember so much impending doom from those years. Pretty different than the current sentiment.