skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d like to see a source for that. I don’t really see how it could compare to WW2 or the Three Kingdoms War or Taiping Rebellion or Great Chinese Famine or Black Death or either the Justinian or Antoine plagues.
Possible future development I'm excited about is something like GPT but for real world interaction - i.e. robots that take input from sensors and are able to physically navigate and manipulate the world.

Fine-tuning would then be used for specific environments (human hair, an apartment) and robots (robotic barber, cleaning robot).
Short answer :no.
A bit longer: no, all your mentioned problems have been solved. In both many COTS solutions as well as many FOSS solutions. Take one and improve the pain points that your potential users struggle with. Why not join a large FOSS cms project that is already working on these issues?
Anything Physical will outlive most digital media.
To have competition you need a market. What are these robots are going to do exactly? We already have robots replacing humans in almost any hard physical work. The rest of the physical work requires intellectual adaptability. Good luck having delivery robot for example, we can't even have cars that drives themselves.

Don't get me wrong, these robots are cool (and scary) but I don't see a huge markets for them, at least in the medium term which is what investors are interested in. What happens in 20 years they couldn't care less.
It's down to cost benefit. If life has taught me anything is to never be an early adopter, unless you absolutely have to. It applies to many things but specially in tech: never buy the first version of a device (in fact, you'd be spending more money for a worse experience), never use the .0 major version of something important enough, never use the beta version of something unless you must do (e.g. you're a dev and you're preparing your apps for the next version), never learn a language or framework that just came out because there's 100% guarantee things will change a lot and it may as well die within a year, etc. However, I do learn new stuff all the time but they're things that have been somewhat established and solve problems I have.

There's also the thing that one may be depressed for one reason or another and then feels like doing nothing new anymore and just want to play with the known - which is a quite natural reaction, but shouldn't be confused with getting old.
Hey! Thank you. I appreciate you response! That was wild run. Emotional roller coaster. Anyway, I made mljar AutoML open source, it is available in our github https://github.com/mljar
Worse than the fall of the Roman empire, the decades of black plague, and ancient cataclysms that wiped out entire nations? Wow
Why do we say fine then?
As I get older, I just care about boring technology.

I want things to work without me having to faff around or spend too long configuring them. This applies to both software and hardware.

The only tool I still use with non-trivial config is my text editor, but that's going to be pared down over time.

Switching from zsh to fish a few years ago left me with a nearly identical shell with a 20 line config instead of hundreds. I'm trying to use this approach wherever possible.
> It's type confusion caused by duck-typing

No it's not. This is such a typical and braindead HN take.
In this case its not about clearance, its about immigration status.

I'm not an expert on any of this but my understanding is you can work straight away as a refugee with a pending status. This is fine for normal companies but it gets very tricky for companies under ITAR.

If the asylum application gets rejected, the work the person did when on pending status could be a violation. All the work they do after rejection would be an ITAR violation (so the company would have continuously monitor status).
How would you go about paying tax in Europe while in the US? The European countries I'm familiar with will not consider you a tax resident while living abroad, so they won't allow you to pay taxes.
Only temporarily. Every Eastern European country, including Albania, now has much higher life expectancy than it did during the communist era.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ALB/albania/life-expec...
Who get to decide, other than the individual, what to do about that?

A bunch of bureaucrats in EU?

Thanks but no thanks.
The world is designed around humans, so a humanoid bot can replace humans in all scenarios instead of many specialized bots. (Or so the thinking goes)
What you think are two sides of a spectrum, others might consider to be completely orthogonal.
Media attention. You would have never heard of the company otherwise.
Can I add that being wary of the devs who love all the shiny new things is kind of a tag along of the original feel.
> What does that mean? By what measure is "too much"?

It already seems intuitive to me that people are far too obsessed about storing anything and everything, from photos to notes to random thoughts and more. To me it seems pathological. I saw one estimate that is around 500 exabytes already... it looks a lot like those people whose basements are full of unused junk, only in virtual form. I also noticed for sure that people keep way too much stuff they never use...I've rarely met anyone who doesn't. That certainly carries over to their virtual life too.
i have never cared about them
Now that you mention it, it seems quite clever. This seems to be targeted at people who run businesses, who already spend a lot of time & money thinking about their estate & leaving it in a good state for their children to inherit. I wonder if the price point was figured out based on that (like as long as it's ballpark similar to paying attorney or whatever to provide this service for your house & business, then it makes sense to pay something similar for your digital wordpress assets)
Driver support. For example on Ubuntu I can’t use touch gestures on my touch screen and can’t assign all keyboard keys. Ok, not everyone uses a Japanese laptop with a European windows, but that works pretty well…
Read the complaint. There were specific instances of job applicants being turned away because of this imaginary law. If the DoJ wins the suit, they’ll require SpaceX to look back through their records and put together a full list.
For the folks who are outside the US, this robot is literally nothing new. Boston Dynamics and Honda's 90s robot are more impressive.
Being able to operate in spaces designed for humans and being able to operate things designed for humans. You can have other form factors - and indeed we do in the vacuum robots - but they can't generally interact with the environment the same way we do.
> But some things are very, very much worth preserving and we don't necessarily know what those things are in the present.

I don’t exactly disagree. But this sounds a lot like hoarding.
The constant drive for 'more'. When the field was young and smartphones exploded you could easily make money, as well as provide something of big new or unique value - even if it was just entertainment.

Now that we're long past the peak of low hanging fruit of productivity and value, we arrive at the inevitable results of late stage capitalism - extracting the most value possible out of the end user through manipulation and coercion.

It's bloat, it's enshittification, entrapment into rampant rent seeking and it's the low key subversion that has been happening for years.
This mention of Hudson was a blast from the past! I honestly couldn't remember whether Hudson sprang from Jenkins and failed to gain mindshare or whether Jenkins sprang from Hudson and took all the mindshare. We used both of these on a project I working on from '08 to '13, and I guess we must have started out on Hudson and then migrated to Jenkins. So you're right to be concerned about peoples' memories fading!

(I honestly thought both projects worked very poorly, but also better than anything else we could find at the time.)
The reason I've been told is that the built world is made for humans. You gain access to places to work via vehicles, doors, and ladders, etc... that are made for humans.
Ting Disrupting Mediocre US Broadband by Partnering with Annoyed Cities
Mu guesses:

* A lot of engineering in low skill labor infrastructure is already designed around humans

* More marketable to the mainstream

* Less intimidating than a giant steel arm for other workers
Apptronik’s Humanoid Robot, Apollo
Austin-based Apptronik announced their new humanoid robot, Apollo.

Looking over their website [1] they only have renders so far-- looks pretty vaporwarey-- but they are pursuing real-world business cases for humanoid robots, which is interesting.

> He describes an approach of moving from one task to three to four, and from there, “400.” Even getting to three or four will take an abundance of testing, first in Apptronik’s makeshift warehouse facility in Austin and then with select partners. These things need to be battle tested to an absurd degree and then battle tested some more. Having a system fail on the job isn’t in anyone’s best interest.

This quote from the article really encapsulates it for me. I'll start getting excited about robotics again when these companies can release the kind of videos that show their products standing up to intense real-world problems. The feeling I got the first time Boston Dynamics showed robots dynamically regaining their balance, it really felt like we were on the verge of something.

... And the thing is, with where deep learning models currently stand, maybe robotics is in for another step change. But some part of me can't help but feel like there's an impossible distance to go to beat the fully loaded costs of minimum wage workers. Without a revolution in battery tech can they even be competitive? And even then, what do the increased electric costs look like?

So I'm not exactly excited by this announcement but I do see it as food for thought at this juncture in AI history.

1. https://apptronik.com/news-collection/hello-apollo
So what? Other personal biases stated here are that everything should be preserved...it's an opinion. If I wanted a place where incontrovertible facts were written down, I would publish a math paper.
Of course it is.
Start your own business and see how far you get without a quality advertising product.
They could invest that money and use the returns to fund development.

That’s not going to happen, but such a small percentage of customers would sign up for this it’s effectively a non issue for the viability of the company.

Honestly, I think some regulations requiring some kind of independent trust should be required for any ‘lifetime’ subscriptions. Sorry we uhh renamed the product, your subscription is no longer valid. Sure, then refund my money.
Ask HN: What do non-technical founders need to know about software dev?
I myself am a freelance developer and I regularly work with non-technical founders to bring their ideas to life.

I feel like matching the expectations of your client or partner is crucial in the beginning of a project.

It’s important to lay out the groundwork, process & technologies while not including the tedious details. Communication is key etc etc

I’m keen to uncover my blind spots and see what other HNers with experience in similar circumstances think is most important when working with non technical business owners and founders
Patterns for Reactivity with Modern Vanilla JavaScript
National origin is a protected class.
Since EUV is "7nm feature size", I guess they are stuck to DUV, unless they do their R&D and own photolitographer.
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‘Flat’ company structures rarely work, but some firms aim for middle ground
Or there’s an AUR -git equivalent
> Why are people still putting so much effort into making humanoid robots?

You might not believe it, but as someone in the field myself, most of the time it is because both investors AND senior management are the old generation (call them boomers/genX if you like) and those prefer to see things that resemble what they watched on scifi movies back in the day, so many cases I witnessed where we bring a better UGV design, reliable, and efficient, then it gets turned down in favor of another UGV that looks like Johnny 5 with eyes (aka PTZ camera) on top, “yeah!! This looks cooler!!” And it gets approved..
Gutenberg is attempting to be a Frontend / UI style site editor (example here: https://wordpress.org/gutenberg ). An amazing example of this type of editor is Webflow. Lesser examples include Square Space and Wix. What these other plugins, Divi/Elem/Avada/Salient, do is provide professional templates that allow users to build from along with a visual editor. These push WP output, that is what is rendered in your browser, from simple blog to an actual website experience. They also all provide something similar to what Gutenberg does but they built it 10 years ago on the original WP PHP backend (Gutenberg is all React). WP pushing to Gutenberg has actually kind of screwed them a bit, but I digress. You can think of them, and Webflow imo, kinda like photoshop for websites, or maybe Figma for web development. They allow designers to learn a tool instead of CSS / JS. What I think the WP theme builders really excel at is getting something that looks modern and fast really really quickly. I'm happy to talk about the market and who buys licenses for the WP theme builders but this post would be a book! haha.

Vanilla WP is excellent for beginners who aren't trying to do anything fancy, in fact I think its one of the best things to ever happen to the web. Yes there are exploits etc but that comes with all software. But most other software doesn't run something like 30-40% of the web though so their bugs are really magnified. Same goes for the WP plugin theme builders I mentioned above.
Who decides here? A bunch of corporations that will always put humans last? Thanks but no thanks.
So is it perspective or chemical imbalance?

I mean your partner could be leaving you because you can't go to the bathroom by yourself because you are permanently disabled for the rest of your life? You'd live to 90 but unable to move by yourself?

So yeah I guess you could have a brain chemical imbalance that tells you pain is lucky because it could be worse or permanent and you might get away with it being temporary?

Somewhere between overly positive and depression is the right balance.
Except PHP isn’t dead - in fact it’s probably going through a renaissance.

The language and tooling have improved a lot over the last few years - to the point where starting a new CRUD web project using Laravel is a good default choice unless you have very special requirements.
DOJ will win. This case looks simple to win. SpaceX will likely get a slap on the wrist, a few million dollar fine, and importantly, change their hiring practices. More exciting would be someone blogging/interviewing after getting a job at SpaceX with this special visa status. I like how barista was one of the jobs used as an example. That seems like a good role for someone who has limited language skills upon arrival as a refugee/asylee. I am sure Starbucks has training manuals in at least 50 different languages!
It does not mean they are moral, it means it's more likely they are moral because they know more (know to check their sources, follow the money, less susceptible to conspiracy theories etc) and also they due to being smart don't need to worry as much about financial security or where their next meal comes from and can worry about higher things

Working on lunar landing is great but when you have the smarts to see that all your work ultimately props up the thieving violent elites you have to think about your values and whether you'd enjoy to work on lunar landing in a democratic country more
This is my experience with any linux distro I've used, I'd prefer a smaller, regularly updated repository instead of my (2023) distro being shipped with ancient versions of, e.g. node, python, openssl, etc...
This is preposterous.

The 100 with the Earth in the middle is the cherry on the cake.

In a 100 years, the problems of Earth will be much bigger than accessing blog posts of this time. Besides, isn't archive.org taking care of this for free?

A better investment would be to plan 38K USD worth of planting trees and environmental ventures.
The representatives of the people of the European union.
Self-hosted gaming platform for DRM-free games
That's actually a subplot in Office Space (spoiler alert):
https://f.clip.cafe/videos/just-remember-you-hang-in-there-l...
Where you “download” videos and they reach into your device and wipe them from your phone’s file system when they’re removed from YT.
The Cancelling of Andrew Huberman [video]
I think your pushback here is appropriate and valuable. But I also really like their response to it, essentially: Don't trust us, watch us.

This group of people has taken a leap of faith. They aren't asking us to leap with them, they're asking us to pay attention to where they land, and come along if it looks like the water is fine.

I applaud their approach.
We've come full circle with me opening that link on my greyscale E-ink device before realizing what was happening!
Building rockets doesn’t require citizenship in the US. Refugees and asylees are eligible for employment at SpaceX under US law, but SpaceX falsely claimed that they weren’t. That’s illegal. You can have your own take on what the law should say, but excluding a class of people that the law allows to work for you is illegal discrimination.
Alone drinking never really helped me with anything, social drinking was always a good time and a way to alleviate stress on the other hand.
The paper sounds interesting, but without the code being available, it is difficult to say whether the idea is really viable.
Scaling Vector Data with Postgres
That is interesting, and kinda weird.

Where is the line I wonder?

If Netflix effectively says “you seem to like watching gay stuff, here’s more gay content”, is that wrong? Because it seems like that’s not Netflix targeting a user’s sexuality, just their viewing preferences.

OTOH it’s pretty harrowing to hear about people in (for instance) Uganda who are outed by an algorithm and (whether it is correct or not) find themselves ostracised or worse.
I can confirm I don't get any overlays on the two videos I downloaded.
As sad as it is, it's no different from any country at any other point in time.
In the past it was letters, postcards, phone calls, now it's just tictok AND youtube, facebook etc.

Even in the UK the young move from less prosperous areas to more prosperous ones.

Globally, people need to be educated on the reality of what's behind the camera not the illusion portrayed in front of it.
Also remember bad research can come out of good universities. Remember the gzip compressor beats BERT paper that showed gzip beat bert at many KNN based tasks? Or just Google for Wansink Cornell.

So best to treat every paper like a i.i.d sample and judge them.om their on their own merits.
and it doesn't bother you that you have to delegate your participation in a decentralized network? through which you can only do what they decide to allow
Two hours of commuting in the south east of the UK is as little as thirty miles each way in the overground part alone. Quite a common commute. Far from a ridiculous one, and if you get a seat, not really very uncomfortable.

You can either drive it and do nothing but listen to something relatively simple, or sit in a train and read/work/draw/listen/play games/sleep.

(It’s not my commute; I work from home. But I visit clients sometimes; yesterday involved six hours of train/tube travel. I wouldn’t do that every day but I could do it once a week.)
BRICS group looks to expand at summit despite divisions among key members
High tensions between China and the U.S. are impacting American companies
I see a lot of Surfaces in commuter hours.
I'm so confused.

My response was not specific to border crossing or the immigration process, it was the broader claim:

"The US also has unusually large differences between the rights of citizens and non-citizens. In the European way of thinking, most rights are human rights. Citizens only enjoy a limited set of additional rights."

So I posted a link to an article showing that, no, the EU is not that different than the US in having a different set of rights for citizens and non-citizen.

Your comment about "Asylum seekers anywhere do not have the same rights as the citizens of that particular country or immigration area", which basically agrees with the point I was trying to make.
And I always despised them!
That's what I've been using but still get that error.
> Besides, isn't archive.org taking care of this for free?

They aren't an internet utility we can take for granted. A lot of things could happen in that time. They're under attack for various reasons even now, and we don't know that the tech and political landscape looks like in the future. Having the first party content host make plans for preservation doesn't hurt.
Which no one voted for because of this.
It's worth considering that we all get to individually assign value to something, and that value is mostly an opinion, which means it's not right or wrong objectively. There are certainly extremes like those who hoard, but just because others values some things more than you do doesn't make them wrong.
After working in AI for a big chunk of my career, I have switched gears in retirement and am having a great time learning to program small controllers like Arduinos. It's like going back in time - minimal OS, simple tools and direct access to the hardware. Just for the heck of it, I am building a simple robot from scratch right now and its been great getting back to the basics.
> Ever heard of the library of Alexandria?

Yes: the end of the library of Alexandria had virtually no impact on the preservation of knowledge.

The library of Alexandria slowly declined for various centuries, and was progressively replaced by dozens of libraries in the rest of the world. We don’t know how much of its materials was lost in time, but the key thing is that knowledge of that time was not preserved by libraries but by copies of documents. What we know from Antiquity is mostly due to scribes and monks who spend their life copying content, while libraries have been mostly useless for that purpose.
Not “inspiration”, I am literally talking about pure intuition. I’m sure it’s one of the few things that’s provable with just anecdotes.

You can have whatever ruleset you want, your ass ain’t making Reservoir Dogs or writing Old Man and the Sea. Now imagine either of those two writers gave you a list of rules to follow. You’d throw that piece of paper in the garbage.

It’s a like a hot girl giving you work-out and diet advice. Thanks, I’m sure that’s what really got you your beauty.

It’s from the SKY.
Come and work for us, we are a small friendly team... Which explains why people keep leaving?

An award winning agency... we spend a lot on advertising.

We are passionate about... nothing!
Thank you for the suggestion, it looks great!
That part is true, in Austria and afaik in Switzerland and Denmark too, you don't need a reason to fire someone.

You just give them their notice period whenever you feel like it and you're done with them, no need to PIP them or look for reasons to let them go.
One reason I saw people talking about is that ergonomics is designed on behalf of human, so humanoid robot can just fit into everything smoothly.

Althought I would argue that 4 arms + 4 legs will be way more useful then only 2.
I'm always dreaming of a new 11in Macbook Air...
Ok, DSA and DMA, but as far as I can remember, No DMA news on the actual technical interop grounds.

What are the reasons of that? I wonder.
Always refreshing reading Andrej Karpathy: the more he knows stuff, the more he explores the fundamentals of the science of ML in a direct and simple way. The field is full of papers that for a very hard to reproduce gain in some new convoluted architecture (in the hope to beat some state of art result) will happily fill 50 useless pages trying to make their works "serious".