skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general I have been a huge proponent of the task-specific robot. Humanoids are hellishly complex. Or at least, they have been... I have been really impressed with Agility Robotics and their Digit robot (and Cassie before that). They make humanoids seem like a realistic thing.

https://www.youtube.com/c/AgilityRobotics/videos

The problem with purpose-built robots is that every problem needs a team of engineers working for years to solve a single problem. Super hard! That approach is obviously going to be the best approach for a lot of problems.

But recently I designed and built a robot arm. No real goal in mind I just wanted to experiment with a new planetary gear concept I had come up with so I designed a four axis robot arm with brushless motors. (no I am not looking for employment please do not ask thx)

https://twitter.com/TLAlexander/status/1455320442642714625

Once I realized I was actually going to have a robot arm of my own, I had to start thinking of what I could use it for. And you know what I realized? One robot arm can do a lot of different tasks! Maybe instead of designing a bunch of purpose built machines I should continue work on my arm and use a bunch of arms for stuff.

I think over the next ten years, we will see a lot of those AI problems get solved. Probably not every AI problem, but previously difficult things will become solved problems as we saw in the last decade. I do really like Tesla's Dojo system for solving real world navigation and I think it would work well for a humanoid. We still need to solve the motivation problem, but I think we will make a lot of progress there.

Companies already find lots of uses for $50k-200k robot arms, so if Tesla could produce a Digit-like Humanoid for $80k, we may find applications for them. Who thought robot dogs would have a market?

In the end, you will have some classes of problems best solved by purpose built machines, and a lot of problems solved by general purpose machines like humanoids or dogs.

I just think the tech is finally coming together that we've gone from "humanoids are overly complicated and can't do anything useful" to "humanoids are affordable and somewhat useful". Or rather, I think they can be somewhat useful in maybe 5 years time, in which case investing now and building the system early could potentially be smart (but still very risky) positioning for Tesla. We do know Musk likes audacious risky bets.
I don’t know anything about fonts. (Aside from irl routing…) Why do people use fonts with which you can’t tell I from l (and sometimes 1!)?
> by definition, the bloody revolutions would not have been bloody if the people in charge just acquiesced to the demands of the revolutionaries, and gave up without a fight.

In other words, if the actual facts had been different, we would use a different word to describe what happened. Yes, indeed. That's why we have different words: to capture meaningful differences in the facts we are using the words to describe. If we simply called every change in government a "revolution", the word would be useless.
Really interesting thing about the Grateful Dead is back in the 90s their tour was the distribution network for the Bay Area organization that made virtually all of the US market’s LSD. Back then the DEA actually published their internal research on the Internet. Their research conclusively showed it was a single lab making it all. It even discussed how impossible it was to infiltrate the network because they were spiritual zealots and not mercenary drug dealers. I miss those days.
Mice have supported 1KHz since the 90s; They are merely set to 125Hz by default. The problem is some can handle low sensitivity and some cannot (due to slow sensor sample rate afaik): http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1265679. This of course is no different than the "gaming" mouse market. Some can handle fast movement, some cannot.

4ms latency is basically nothing (Relatively. Yes, it should be zero). Games already add 10s of ms, modern monitors all add around 3ms-10ms for no reason at a bare minimum. And the latency of each pixel varies depending on the start and end luminance level of a pixel moreso than the [0,8] ms of a mouse at 125Hz being sampled at an arbitrary position in your game cycle (yes, even on many "240Hz" LCDs). Though, it's unclear to me if you get other undesired effects from resampling the output of already sampling the mouse.

1KHz+ mouse sampling's primary benefit is that panning is smooth (perhaps on a properly configured system with a CRT and non-bloated stack then the 8ms max latency becomes an issue). If using a 125Hz mouse polling rate, you circle around an object while keeping your crosshair it, it will be easy to see how wobbly this is. At 1KHz that mostly goes away. Higher mouse DPI on low sens additionally visibly adds to the smoothness.
for some reason, the idea of intentional outages as a form of pr for growth hacking is kinda cool to me.

i know it's extremely unlikely, but that kind of cleverness would be pretty cool.

"our new sexy feature x went down for an hour today."

"wait, what? they offer x as a service now?"
Using low-code tools might be a great idea to build frontends without coding at all. If you are using open-source frameworks such as https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet , you can save some significant time building your application.
There are a few alternative front ends tha uphold the spirit of the old UI. Both web based and mobile apps.

But they might of course try to shut them down as well.
I haven't heard of Stripe Atlas. And it actually sounds like a good idea.
I'll take a deeper look, but you could have a company in Brazil that interfaces with the company you create with Atlas. In none of my comments in this thread I am trying to aviod taxes BTW. Would be great, sure, but not the objective. I am impressed by the lifestyle the original poster, it inspires me, to the point I would like to be able to do it. Taxes need to be part of the equation, but being viable and practical would be the main issue.
Apple's buggy PDF decoder, and use of the poorly vetted xpdf open source product made its users susceptible and vulnerable.
> The only way to avoid struggle is to be rich - and that's because the rich had set it up that way.

Ummm, no? Not really? You think "the rich" could just magically end the need for work if they chose?

We live in an age of abundance relative to the past, but not to the point where we don't have to struggle for our existence, at least somewhat.

(Though to be clear, I am personally incredibly well placed in this society, and though I have to work, my profession is way easier than many other people's and my compensation far greater, as is true of many people on this forum)
> after you’ve been deplatformed

> Write the messages onchain to an address your users know

Ah yes, for those fans who are literally too lazy/disinterested to leave YouTube for long enough to tap your name into Google but are motivated enough to grep the blockchain.

Deplatforming has never stopped fans from finding content.
Half the comments in here boil down to "I would stop using Reddit if they discontinued old.reddit.com" and it really rubs me the wrong way.

It's like saying "Facebook will die if they start charging users to post to their wall".

Like, okay, sure. But Reddit has repeatedly said that they will not depreciate old.reddit.com. They have zero reason to, as many of their powerusers rely on it.

In fact, I don't think Reddit has a history of deprecating anything! Freaking. .compact is still around from god knows when!

https://www.reddit.com/r/all.compact
Many commenters have concisely addressed the main contentions I have with your claims. So I will illustrate other dimensions that haven't been considered.

1. In the US at least, I wouldn't say there's a housing problem. Just an unwillingness to move out to the boonies. The urban monopoly on well-paying jobs has contributed to this reluctance. However, COVID and remote work showed that workers are more inclined to live in cheaper, farther-out areas so long as they can make approximately the same income and have access to a fast internet connection.

For the rest of the world, housing being a global problem does not imply a globally accepted solution. Building houses en masse requires resources, interest, and sanction by communal mores. Those are not distributed in an equally advantageous supply across the world. There's also the issue of regulations (both written and unwritten) that prevent one from building out housing even on one's personally owned land. When individuals are politically and economically disenfranchised from building out their own property, how do you expect companies to sell housing?

2. I would say that health issues of all kinds have been better addressed in this century than they have at any point in history. Last I checked, vaccines are a much more effective alternative to bloodletting. You'll have be specific as to what first- and third-world issues haven't been acknowledged, but suffice it to say, people have been living longer and healthier today than in centuries past.

3. Why is income inequality unacceptable? How do you think differences in opportunity should be remedied? You are probably aware people give different values to different kinds of work. Thus not all work is this the same in payment. The best rewarded work is the one that's done quickly, efficiently, and at large scales. Only a few industries accomplish this.

There is a way to achieve equality of the kind you want to pursue. But historically, it's involved bombs or mass disenfranshisment.

4. There are startups that focus on crime (e.g. Citizen), but the lying and "being assholes" bit is a matter of personal freedoms and expectations. You can't legislate or sell kindness. It must be chosen for the right reasons.

5. Like other commenters have mentioned, tech has gotten rid of bullshit jobs. No other industry has automated away so much unneeded labor. So much so, that it's likely contributing to complaint #3.
The United States is a truly despicable place.
Ouch, this could mean big changes for the site. Once they come under investor scrutiny the wild wild west activity will likely get banned.
The movies adhered relatively closely to the books. The books have a lot of detail, so the movie required that too.
Yes, unless you’re one of those people who considers anything less than human-level AI to not count.
No, you can't.

Because too much code is completely broken if you do.

The only things that make use of overflow being UB are optimizing compilers, and they have reliably broken code for because of this for 20 years. This means most developers have realized that pretending non-twos-complement architectures still exist is nonsense, and both C and C++ have significant pressure to actually define overflow as being 2c.
I benefit by sending my child to a school where the teachers are incentivized to teach them reading, writing, and arithmetic, while leaving their politics and activism at the door.
VPN. I've been pleased with Mullvad.
Reddit routinely shadowbans me and roommates because we'll see a post on /r/all and comment on it. It was way worse when I lived in a dorm. My upvotes/downvotes and submissions were completely broken. Took months for whatever anti-abuse system they have to unflag me.

Their anti-abuse is really bad. I once reported a serious doxxing with a death threat towards another user and after three weeks received a canned message saying something along the lines of 'Sorry, there's nothing we can do about the post. It will stay up.' This was circa 2019, when they already had a formalized 'anti-abuse' team. What exactly they do, I have no idea.
I wasn’t aware I could turn it off, guess I’ll go do that.
It would make for a great SNL, however.
Hey, yourworldoftext creator here! It was launched here on HN. Thanks for the mention.

I love what you've done--lots of great features here. Curious to hear more about how you deal with spam. And generally happy to chat/brainstorm anytime.
I do not even know what the problem is. Being able to create as many accounts as one wants? How is that used for "command and control" though? I am missing something here I think.
Unless the pandemic is never over
If you think it's your IP you could try pulling the plug on your cable/DSL modem for several hours or over night and you might get a new IP address.
So what is the solution to all of these cloud outages?
I just logged in to my oldest Reddit account. It was opened in 2006. I have kept it around just to be able to read some of the posts I made over the years. I'll delete those now, close the account, and move along. I have had so much fun but I think the time is right for a change.
I use old reddit on mobile too. It's legitimately a better experience (just make sure to turn off the font size boosting feature of mobile Chrome which interacts poorly with the layout).
Mark Seemann has a good talk on this called the "functional pits of success" -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US8QG9I1XW0

Of all the languages I've used nothing is quite as fun as refactoring an F# app down to nothing. Expressive power is king in F# with the whole .NET ecosystem behind it.
I've seen IT Security vendors do this as well, in the space of vulnerability scanners specifically.

There's this new trend that big players (vendors with the size enough to appear in Gartner), that are investing heavily in bridging the gap between them and the end user, at the expense of the small players (independent IT Security consultants and boutique firms).

Their new SaaS offerings are marketed as next generation, while making it seem that their previous product is just legacy and no longer recommended. However, it's the legacy product what got them the growth to be there today.

Their On-Prem offering is still for sale, but at a cost very hard to justify. Almost no small player can afford such a cost.

I understand the business rationale behind a product management decision like this. But not because it was the right decision at the moment, automatically I have to feel great about it.
Depends on the size of the joint.
That doesn't stop other subprojects currently in the monorepo.

Rui, regarding -- "a sponsor who wants to purchase the copyright of this work and relicense it under a more liberal license such as the MIT license." Would you accept sponsorship for someone who wants to relicense under LLVM(apache)? And do you have a ballpark asking price?
I don't see how that's an issue.

You can take their argument at face value, then deconstruct it and refute piecemeal.

Rationalisations generally fall apart under further scrutiny, and if they don't, then maybe they aren't just rationalisions after all.
> Because too much code is completely broken if you do.

Any code that gets broken by that already has a security bug.

> The only things that make use of overflow being UB are optimizing compilers, and they have reliably broken code for because of this for 20 years.

Exactly! Code that can be broken by this is already broken. Using -fwrapv won't make it any more broken, it just makes the way it breaks safer.
Yeah I think people will have a diaspora to discord/matrix which only sorta fills the same itch with very limited history. The day they require emails is the day I quit.
Love your python site and its really cool.

I definitely subscribed
There are also other models that are more open. NovelAI uses GPT-J IIRC.
I like the looks and functionality of the new reddit but it s just dog slow compared to using old reddit and RES
I've been here 8+ years and I don't feel like it has changed much. It probably has in some way that hasn't been very noticeable to me. Just my personal observations.
They did make Symbian open source[1], but I don't think it's still available. And I'm not sure if it was complete. I think when the Symbian Foundation disbanded and Nokia took over (again), they may have done some more work in closed repos.

Possibly here https://github.com/SymbianSource

[1] https://www.wired.com/2010/02/symbian-operating-system-now-o...
Just like “server side rendering”, the kids didn’t know we started with server side rendering.
> My other compression format is turing-complete!
Also our regular work schedule, but people can retire earlier would be another nice form of balance.

IMO it's simply that money is a better motivator than equality. Money is tangible with easy to understand value, while equality is intangible and dubious in value, according to some.

Once you realize you can beat the guy working 20 hours a week by working 40 hours a week, you quickly find yourself optimizing for productivity over anything else. The rest of us get swept up in the current of the people that want it the most.
> The world failed to establish any rules or explain itself adequately.

Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy is a masterwork on all counts. Its lore, world building, character development, thematic juxtapositions, and pacing are all incredible. If it has one pronounced flaw, it's that the denouement could stand as a film on its own, but taking it away would be an injustice.

A film that failed to explain itself or the rules of its universe is Denis Villeneuve's Dune. That's the film to watch if you want a visual aid to the novels that has zero character development and is wholly a visual spectacle.
What if they are working on both?
Decentralization of some sort?
Kobayashi’s Maid Dragon Translation Notes
> But Reddit has repeatedly said that they will not depreciate old.reddit.com. They have zero reason to, as many of their powerusers rely on it.

Let’s be honest. Every company says this. Some actually try to stand by their statement. Public companies very often wipe those statements from existence because some MBA found a way to increase profits 27% this quarter (who cares if it the company borders on bankrupt in 2 years) or some intern found a way to double clicks.

If someone demonstrates that old Reddit results in fewer ad views, shutting it down is a matter of when and not if.
There are browser extensions that force all reddit pages to open with old.reddit
Eh there are zealots everywhere, I got a suspension and sent in a request for them to review and I got a message the next day it should never had happened and it was unfair. Pretty sure someone just didn't like my opinion (there was no "hate" in the comment as per the original complaint, it just had a bit of libertarian bent and some admin/moderator pushed a button somewhere to get me banned)
Why do you think that? Is there a record of engineering performance going down in other companies that had exits?
At the very least, lld is pretty much drop-in. Aside from some subtle differences about resolution order (IIRC lld implicitly has "--start-group"/"--end-group"), everything just works with lld in place of ld.bfd. My recollection was that I had just about the same experience w/gold -- it was just a drop-in replacement.

All of my experience was with using clang as the driver, so I can't speak to why gcc has trouble making a similar feature work like expected.
Swartz had exceptionally good representation. I'm confident they knew how to calculate a guideline sentence. For that matter: you could too; it's not rocket science. You'll be off on some particulars, but you'll get a sense of what the ballpark is. Go look up the federal sentencing guidelines.
US Dep't of Homeland Security Offers Hackers a Bounty to Find Bugs
There's no public model of the same size as the biggest GPT-3 yet, is there? I'd use GPT-3 to see what's possible, and then try to replicate the performance with the smaller public models. With the pace of AI development it's likely that GPT-3 will be matched by an open model in the not too distant future, but it's nice to be able to prototype with GPT-3 now to get a head start.
> Are you seriously saying that github.com/somelib ..

Well, yeah, I mean if one can say Maven is best package management then I think I can get away by saying Earth is flat or stationary or some such interesting facts.
Example: the fellowship is fleeing the Balrog in the Mines of Moria. Gandalf makes his stand and is whipped by the Balrog, and falls to the edge of the precipice. The Balrog’s whip coils up from below, wraps his ankle, and drags him down to the depths as he cries, “Fly, you fools!”

Unless you’re Peter Jackson, in which case Gandalf (a) falls on his own accord, with no whip around his ankle, and (b) whispers, which sounds nice on camera, but wouldn’t be heard by his fellowship.

The movie is chock-full of this bullshit. Now, I’m not upset that Jackson deviated from the book, although I do notice — I’ve been reading LOTR since I was 9, and did research on Tolkien in graduate school. My problem is that many of his changes make things worse.

Yes, he got some things right, but the consistency of his flaws just grates on me. Faramir, for instance: in the book he does the right thing, and lets Frodo and Sam leave unhindered. This is in clear contrast to his brother, and an important illustration of one of Tolkien’s core beliefs: the evil is a choice, not determined fate or destiny.

In the movie, though, Faramir succumbs to the ring initially and leads the hobbits around for 15 minutes. I’m convinced that Jackson made this choice, and many others, only to pad runtime. He did the same thing to even worse effect in The Hobbit.

And yet with all that padding, he left out The Scouring of the Shire, one of the most important parts of the book. Screw Tom Bombadil: he was fun, and his immunity to the ring is a great moment, but the story can live without him. Leaving out the Scouring though is an awful choice; it’s a lovely and concise illustration and recap of most of the books themes, and shows the character’s growth in a clear light.
If it's only showing old.reddit.com traffic then it might not reflect everyone who is using the old UI.

You can have the old UI with the base site given the correct settings/cookies.
The PinePhone and PinePhone Pro both do this. They have a cheap “convergence” dongle breaking out USB-A, Ethernet, USB-C PD and HDMI from the USB-C port.

I had such a silly smile on my face the other day when I got Arch up and running on the PPP with Sway and external keyboard. With a bit more tweaking I’ll feel comfortable not bringing the laptop for weekend trips “just in case”.

If you really want another form factor, I don’t find it unreasonable to disassemble it and fit it in a custom case sans touchscreen and battery.
Mouse is used as a model organism for covid research.
Or just login to Reddit from as many possible public locations as you can, infecting their IPs also.
These things are subjective but I find old HN substantially and irrefutably different (and better) for the reasons I said earlier. It is so obvious to me. I wonder why so many people disagree. Something wrong with me?

I feel pretty strong about this. Usually, if I’m not convinced, I wouldn’t put it in such strong terms.
In case anyone is wondering what the OpenAI review form looks like, I've attached a screenshot here:

https://imgur.com/a/YGyWuYk
Not really. I think a few sysadmin-type tools are written in Ruby, but Python has more mindshare, and like you say they're pretty similar.
Yes, it knows the IP addresses of the clients.

The other thing it knows is that you have provided a proof that you are a member of a the group conversation associated with the group call (basically a proof that you are allowed to join the call). And that proof is based on Signal's "zkgroup" system.

That's it. Once the server has the proof, it forwards packets for you. And it doesn't learning about you from then proof (other than what the proof proves: that you can join).