skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> That person who did that could spend their time inspecting the stamped parts, loading the material and supervising the robot instead of wearing themselves out doing a repetitive task. Automation doesn't have to replace the complete manufacturing process, just the easy parts.

Automation always reduces labor costs. If the company wants to spend the savings on a human doing something else that's an option, but the notion that automation creates more jobs is false.
I'd start with reading the Matrix spec, you'll want to know how the syncing protocol works, and this will give you enough familiarity that you can start playing around with curl to actually see it in action. I'd highly recommend understanding how conflict resolution works, the "Analysis of the Matrix Event GraphReplicated Data Type"[0] lays it out pretty well.

Matrix-CRDT posted here should abstract most of the nitty gritty stuff, but there are no shortcuts to designing with CRDTs so familiarizing yourself with those is important.

Other than that, just start playing and asking questions! The #matrix:matrix.org room is full of friendly and helpful people and I'm sure you'd be able to get answers.

[0]https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.06488.pdf
The venn diag of israel seems to be:

Military -- Government -- Corporate/tech -- Religions <-- All encapsulated under the intel umbrella.

All seem to be seamlessly aligned within Israel..

--

I mean this is basically what all governments strive for, just that Israel has turned it into an art+science.

The amount of amazing technical innovation that comes from israel is quite stunning.
20 years ago you were lucky to get ten shots. 10 years you'd have been lucky to get 100. Today depending on your print, you may be lucky to get 1000. In ten years, you'll probably be lucky to get 10k (which starts to reach life of barrel). 1k is a little low vs manufactured firearms, but then again some firearms like RAS-47 (american made shitty cast AK) often last only that long. You see where this is going? [ and most gun owners probably don't even put 1k rounds through their gun ]

>since it's what allows people who aren't fools (i.e. people who have the sense to avoid doing things that could land them in jail even though they personally think they should be able to do those things) to own and use a gun.

I don't think I'd call say someone who got caught with a scary mushroom 10 years ago a fool for wanting to be able to defend himself and his family.
Facebook back when I had it. It was a taboo to come against religion within your social circle (and it still is).
I actually print out my favourite photos and put them in albums (mounted on little sticky tapes). Safe against all digital corruption, and provides a nice little hobby for evenings in front of the TV. Of course I have the digital versions on a couple of hard drives.
this buyout is a direct result of the sexual harassment suit (causing a 40% drop in share price since it started)

the company is rotten from the very top, through the middle to the bottom

they're going to have one hell of a time cleaning that up
So I worked on robots for a fair bit of my career before quitting because the reality just didn't mesh with the hype. I've worked on self-driving cars, computer vision applications for automated surveillance, physical robots for warehouse automation similar to what is being described in this article, and more.

This is ignoring all the problems with these systems. Workplace injuries are completely ignored, and I have never worked somewhere with a physical robot that did not harm someone at some point, no matter how seriously safety was taken. The reality is, with current tech (which is always improving!) that robots are more dangerous - full stop.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54355803

It talks about the simplicity of these systems which is true, but the problem is they're so simple something as weird as changing the color of the box can completely break the system with no resolution. I made up that example because I can't talk about real things that broke the workflow for warehouse automation companies due to NDAs, but they were equally stupid. Basically if you wanted to change anything then the robot usually had to be scrapped and redesigned, which costs millions and takes months or even years.

It mentions the theoretical gains of using cheaper robots to replace expensive labor, and this is how these systems are sold to everyone who has never really worked with robots. Speaking for the robotics company, the upfront cost of the robot was usually more than they ever recouped from revenue. When you factor in the cost of maintenance (these robots are monitored by people that make a lot of money), not to mention the R&D then it never turned a profit. Speaking for the warehouses, they would frequently complain about the robots breaking, the inability to get work done, and the biggest complaint was "it's worse than the humans it's supposed to replace."

The technology just isn't there yet. I don't know when it will be. If you are interested in research then robotics is a fascinating field. If you are trying to make money by solving real problems that aren't subsidized by VC then it's demoralizing as hell. Most robotics companies never make a good product. Amazon has Kiva Systems which work great, but you'd be surprised that most of their competitors still never figured out how to have positive margins on their products. iRobot had the Roomba which is still going strong with lots of competitors. There are a handful of companies that sell robotic arms that make money. There are a handful of companies that sell sensors that make money (a lot less than you'd think). There are contracts you can get with the military that usually go nowhere. Rodney Brooks, who cofounded iRobot, failed with his cobots approach at Rethink Robotics. There are lots of other failures I haven't mentioned as well.

Robots have a long way to go before they're seriously competing with humans.
Being DRM-free and Linux gamer, this has no impact on me, but MS still gobbled companies like inXile and Obsidian in the past. So I don't see it as a good trend. MS feels like a black hole in this sense. It swallows everything. Nothing comes out.

At least they didn't mess up Minecraft on Linux so far.
Let me give it a shot...

> Why do some “gym rats” build their muscles well past the point of being a way to attract potential mates?

Margin of safety. Many would probably disagree with the author's assessment that they're well past that point.

> Why are some people willing to free solo climb icy mountains despite the danger?

Conquering new land is deeply embedded into our psyches for evolutionary reasons. The species that's not afraid to do that will probably be more successful in the long run. Conquest of more land is generally correlated with better survival chances.

> Why are some people willing to have fewer children in order to pursue career goals?

Perhaps many, like myself, are aware of how expensive kids are but unaware of how difficult having kids gets later in life. So they optimize this wrong. I wish I had started earlier, but I put it off until later because I thought I'd be able to provide for them better. This thinking was correct, but having them earlier would still have been better, for me at least. The point is, it's certainly not due to a lack of evolutionary interest in having kids.

> Why are most billionaire tech CEOs interested in space travel and extraterrestrials?

See conquest of land above...
All the things you mention are problems. The stakes are high and the chance of a mistake is as well.
That's a lame backup frequency though. One year of data is significant loss.
I have ( a completely unverified ) view of this trash.

Every foundation/organization initially to influence politicians (i.e. what happened here through government funding) wrt end-to-end encryption is at most two bank transactions away from getting funding from either Hollywood or the military.

"Save the children" (c) , because some organization is controlled by a power mad narcissist, for whom privacy is a luxury you shouldn't be able to afford.
Some people may not be aware that the Maytag family makes excellent cheese, or did, not sure if they own it anymore.

https://maytagdairyfarms.com
There's plenty of work to do: maintaining public infrastructure (buildings, parks, gardens, etc) and taking care of people (sick, elderly, disabled, young).

I guess we will have a lot more public sector jobs.
Tesla does not promote FSD as being autonomous, the driver is going to have a hard time blaming Tesla:

https://www.tesla.com/support/full-self-driving-subscription...

Note: These features are designed to become more capable over time; however the currently enabled features do not make the vehicle autonomous. The currently enabled features require a fully attentive driver, who has their hands on the wheel and is prepared to take over at any moment.
>> AI powered interceptors could be a game changer

Nope. AI wouldn't make any difference. The problem in shooting down an inbound maneuvering hypersonic isn't reaction time. It doesn't matter how quickly you see that the target has changed course. Hypersonics are a matter of commitment. Once the interceptor is launched it is committed to very narrow cone of potential trajectories. If the inbound hypersonic makes a slight turn, it is then outside that cone. The interceptor cannot physically alter its course enough to hit the new trajectory. It lacks the energy (delta-V) to make such a change. AI cannot create delta-V out of thin air.

A computer can spot a track, project its likely path and guide an interceptor missile. But that isn't AI. Computers in the 1950s were capable of such things before any notion of what we now call AI.
Clearly the solution is to force people into meaningless toil instead.
I imagine the same issues would be presented if they embedded chrome or webkit with how often both of those have RCEs.
That's what WSL2 is, no?
I apologize, clearly I was misinformed. Unfortunately I am unable to edit the comment, thank you for correcting the record.
> The downsides do not make criminals more scary.

Eh, I'm not sure. Assuming that the government keys never get leaked (which is possible even with the key-split method you propose). And assuming that the local municipal police departments and groups given access to those keys never get hacked. And assuming that products never get restricted to less-secure schemes as the technical world evolves around them.

Maybe the UK has a better track record on this, but off the top of my head a lot of the key-escrow systems I've seen in the US are quite bad. We have systems for TSA locks, fireperson access to locked buildings, etc... many of those systems are not secure, they just don't get abused very often because the prizes for doing so aren't large enough.

Key-escrow systems are less risky in terms of criminal activity than just banning full E2E encryption entirely, but I don't think I agree that 'less risky' is the same as 'safe'.
OK, fair point that I could have phrased that better.

I meant 1 out of 3 types of tests present in the first batch, not 1 out of every 3.
What was your second best culture?
Don't overthink this one. Go online and make a note of job postings that seem interesting and desirable to you. Then, note the kinds of things they ask for and focus on those.

Re: how important stacks and specialization is, that really depends on the hiring manager and the culture of the company you're applying to. Generally speaking though, it shouldn't be overly important for more junior roles.
Knew I forgot something!

Although I should at least point out that while true now, there’s nothing inherent to robots that insulates them from this. Tax policy is a human choice, so while not paying payroll taxes is an advantage for hiring a robot over a person today, that doesn’t stop human governments from enacting robot taxes.
Here is everything that you need:
https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/security-introduction
Can you have your kid or personal assistant do that for you?

Over-the-trope example: A wealthy old English aristocrat's head butler brings in his master's evening paper at the kitchen door. Then snips out any stories "which might disagree with master's digestion", before presenting the paper to the old blue blood.
Thanks for the clarification, I was misinformed on this issue.
Imagine some group that duplicates Pegasus/NSO -- compromises it but sells it AS Pegasus/NSO to unsuspecting, less-savvy nation-states and effectively uses /IT/ to infiltrate/backdoor the intelligence/LEO ops of said customer state...

Or is that what Pegasus/NSO basically already provide, as a feature?
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I spend a lot of money on things that provide minor improvements to projected outcomes for my kid. So my kid getting a vaccine to slightly improve odds of a better outcome is must.
Limited growth opportunities seems like a big problem that can kill any organization.

Specifically if leadership gets ossified and there's no realistic path for ambitious young people to rise into positions of power and responsibility.

When this happens, the ambitious young people are more likely to vote with the feet and build a competing organization that they will actually have power running.

This is especially problematic when it happens in government. What are young people in America supposed to do when the political conversation can't break out of asking which of near geriatric octogenarian who had a childhood with rotary phones should be our next president?

Our culture seems to have lost the very important feature that there comes a time when you've had your turn at the helm, and now you need to step down and support new leadership.
I don't think the self-driving technology is good enough, agreed. But the legal and cultural practices they develop to fit these into already existing frameworks and expectations is also technology.

I think they're likely to have enough expertise at these other skills to enable a national rollout of self-driving cars even if they aren't safe enough. And after all, we have a lot of practice ignoring road deaths and a lot of legal precedent placing that burden anywhere but on the car manufacturers.

I don't think a handful of preventable deaths will create any real obstacles. Like I said we already have a lot of those. Plus as usual the people most likely to be hurt are going to be non-car users in pedestrian-hostile places, which are also harms we don't really prioritize addressing.

I also think, and someone is very likely to bring it up here, the "WELL BY THAT LOGIC" argument does a lot of rhetorical favors for the self driving cars. Any argument you can make about self-driving cars being dangerous is also likely an argument about cars being dangerous. Which is true, but if you acknowledge it you get discredited as a universal car hater.

Anyway there are a lot of good reasons not to allow automated cars on public roads right now. Unfortunately I don't think any of those arguments will stop them.
AKA company culture
At least most of these don't seem to be added language features, but separate "static analyzers" that rely on inference from existing language structures.
Here's why I prefer electronic exercise devices:

- When my kids were younger, I was always nearby during a workout.

- I can comfortably work out regardless of the season, weather, or time of day.

- I can easily take a bathroom break mid-workout.

- I can do much longer workouts without getting bored, because I can watch movies or play video games during the workout. (E.g., using an exercise bike + my own computer.) This works around motivational / persistence issues I used to have.

- I can end a workout on short notice. Contrast to a long-distance run or bikeride, where I may be far from home when something comes up.
> Without basic income, robots (as an analogy for automation) will benefit only its owners.

With basic income, that's still true.

With fair (rather than preferentially lower) taxes on capital income, that potentially changes, whether or not you have basic income; funding BI with it is just a way of making sure that the taxation isn't redirected back to benefit the same elites.
When you work at a big company and put a request in for a laptop with Linux, then IT will just order you that Linux version of it - no one cares that there's $200 to be saved there by reinstalling the OS. IT doesn't have the time nor the need to do that - they will just order the Linux version and be done.
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> The only significant thing that passed was an infrastructure bill

The American Rescue Plan passed in March 2021
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Quite interesting application of tracing tools, I've only used it for build time optimizations. Do you perhaps have a screenshot to see how the end result would look like ?
Frustratingly, the safety argument may win out. But it also reflects a poor design. What the people in the article seem to want is to be able to use an Android tablet as an Android tablet, they aren't dicking around with the safety-related parts. So the sensible (but often not done) thing to do would be to offer three modes. A "gym mode" suitable for most public equipment (just get into iFit or whatever it is), a "home mode" which permits installation and use of other apps (like Netflix), and an actual privileged mode that can get into the safety-related settings. 99.9% of people at home will be content with just that home mode level, and never care about anything beyond it.
I was totally inmersed in that animation. I only wish it was longer, It must've account for half of my total reading time. The author is genuinely great and every single one of their posts are terrific.
This is the kind of thing I mean when I say "Americans give me weird anecdotes". 'Americans can't use washer-dryers because they're more fat than everyone else in the world' has got to be the strangest case of American exceptionalism I've ever had to read.
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Fully self driving cars are far further off in the future than most in the sector would publicly admit. In controlled environments there’s a lot of potential today and things like self driving trams at airports are nothing new. But self driving in the “real world” mixed with humans and all the crazy one-off things that happen in such scenarios is not something that will happen at scale anytime soon.

There are still far too many edge cases to work out and for all the amazing things that “AI and ML” can do, handling edge cases is something this technology is actually quite terrible at relative to humans.
This comment is misleadingly reductive of complicated questions of both Copyright and Trademark, I suggest you take it down to avoid misleading people. Parts of it are blatantly incorrect under U.S. (majority of readership here)[1], other statements "you can do a Harry Potter..." are conjecture that bury the actual legal question a court would consider (likelihood of confusion), and no lawyer in their right mind would offer such a unconditional opinion without knowing specific facts of specific cases.

[1] See. e.g., https://grr.com/publications/copyright-myth-ten-percent-rule...
I like the idea and simplicity. But it's going to be hard to compete with Apollo for Reddit.
How do you give the owner a key without enabling an evil maid attack? a physical usb device unique to the phone that will unlock it to run whatever when it's plugged in? something deep in settings that requires you do a dance and enter the konami code?
The method to get into "God Mode" is the same, except now it prompts you for a code. Someone has figured out how to calculate it and actually created a website to generate codes for you.

http://getresponsecode.com

Apparently the algorithm is very simple according to Reddit
https://old.reddit.com/r/nordictrack/comments/ozkp8v/privile...

>long responseCode = new Random((long) Integer.parseInt(iFitCode)).nextInt(999999);

It's not a perfect workaround, as it resets on the next boot, but I've seen that people are installing apps such as Taskbar which float overtop the iFit app and start on boot, allowing you to still launch your apps like Netflix etc even without God Mode enabled.

It's only a matter of time before Nordic decides to block this method as well. We should also be looking into how to block updates to these devices.
Could get worse:

U.S. diplomats in China were subjected to anal swab tests for Covid-19, a Department of State spokesperson confirmed Thursday, adding that a protest had been lodged with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-diplomats-china-subje...
At this point my bending friend, that’s still a hypothetical that remains in the “believe it when I see it” phase of development.
The incommensurability of scientific theories
Show HN: I hacked my microwave with keyboard switches (and Ars wrote about it)
Depending on your carrier (I live in the US so I can only speak to them), Calls, MMS, SMS already work just fine.

As far as pictures....the Camera on the OG Pinephone is not great, I would not use it to take serious pictures (or I am bad at taking pictures, which may also be true!). The Pinephone Pro has a much better Camera, but so far, it does not work in software.
> People have been claiming that over-the-horizon missiles will obsolete dog-fighting since before the Vietnam war:

This is exactly what this article from yesterday is claiming. I have to agree with it TBH.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-40327934
A civil war would look more like The Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 90s than 1860s type conflict.
All depends on yourself and your circumstances. I'm on a 3-and-1/2-day work-week and it is awesome. Spending time with my daughter grounds me and keeps me away from tech for at least two days a week. Being with her is healthy in more than one way, because usually we go for a walk and keep moving much instead of sitting in a chair.

What I can think of is, that if you have deadlines and you mentally can't get away from tech-problems - just having a day that is free without something else to do might be not as fullfilling.
> You can get that today by simply buying into one of the many low cost ETFs available following the S&P500 index

No, you can't get an equal share with every other citizen that way, especially if you are a lower-class worker without substantial surplus income.
How is, "A poll on a single issue is not the same as electing an entire person." a tautology?

The will of the people is (usually, always federally) expressed in selecting a representative, not in any single issue, and that's by design. "The will of the people" isn't, "Legalize marijuana" it's, "My representative figures out a way to sanely legalize marijuana while balancing thousands of other initiatives and objectives according to their urgency and importance in a way I would, overall, approve of."

Very few people want chaos, so very few people are voting simply on, "I just want this done, regardless of the cost."

I don't think you're interpreting these single issue polls in a way that's applicable to how Americans want the US as a whole governed, instead you're interpreting those polls to just mean what you want them to mean, because it's a useful thing to point out as a mismatch between expectation and reality.

It is not, however, a mismatch at all.
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