skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's totally amazing. It's like a space shuttle. It's the culmination of decades if investment and decades of some of the smartest people in robotics working tirelessly. It's a modern marvel.

Others have been trying for years. The latest big player is J&J who faces an existential threat due to robotic surgery overtaking conventional surgery, and therefore one of J&J/Ethicons core business. They bought Verb and Auris and a few other smaller companies in the space and smashed them together. There are others in the space trying to do the same.

Ultimately Intuitive has a pretty big moat. They have a lot on the technical/IP side, but also just business wise. These hospitals and surgery centers pay millions for a robot, then need to keep it busy doing cases for several years to pay it off. There is a lot of risk and not really any clear advantages to changing to a new challenger. That new challenger would need to demonstrate some key advantage, which they have yet to do.

It's hard, its akin to trying to compete with space x or similar, starting now.
This is apparently a myth, and the Nova sold just fine in Spanish speaking countries.
The First Stable Release of a Memory Safe Sudo Implementation – Prossimo
Ok, but even if you ignore all of the PAGES2K data, the data since 1850 leads to the same conclusions about the proper societal course of action.
Are you saying the points matter the inbetweens don't? It doesn't matter what's happening in rural America or the middle of Africa, or Siberia, you have an average of various distributed points across the globe?
https://archive.ph/VJ3eW
Every exceeds expectations review that does not come with cash (or at least stock) you need to ask why.
I don’t understand how this story is being framed as the union letting the workers down, when it is the employer who failed to pay the workers properly? And the Union has forced them to implement a workaround?
This is why automated driving is untenable, just like why LLMs are untenable with copyright. Capitalism is so awkward that it requires these contradictory legal frameworks to give an impression of rationality or naturalistic logic. The contradictions come to the foreground more with new technology, but they have always been there.
Local kids do use them to get around, which is only an issue when they don’t know the traffic rules or when they’re too small (aside from it being against the TOS).

Tourists on Lime scooters riding on sidewalks are a daily (hourly) sight in the center (I go there quite often), especially in the evening. Maybe I’m more sensitive than you, as I said, I’m an escooter rider myself and I care about “our” public image.
Keyword is can. There's a reason why most university level physics curricula defer quantum density matrices (and by extension tensor algebra) to more advanced classes. There's a lot of mathematical legwork required before you can actually make use of that.
As a kid I would set the charcoal chimney above a box fan after getting it started a bit. You’d get a pillar of fire coming out the top in no time at all.

Nowadays I am lucky to have just enough room in my apartment for a folding bbq, but every time I have to use those starters I think about how much more fun that chimney was.
How much I love it. And I mean _alone_ alone. Not with roommates, or a partner. Just me and my cats. I feel a special sort of peace that comes with the quiet privacy of being the only human in my own home.
Exactly. Economic forces dictate the outcome. Often I feel my local politicians sound more like shamans. I don’t think giving them a bunch of power over sinners is going to change the weather.
Just trying to understand this better… how would this even work if a country were trying to foster innovation?
Plenty of games can and do work fine with just text. But there's a hell of a lot of money in existing AAA franchises that have always had voice acting. If the next Halo or Far Cry or Call of Duty or GTA launched with text-only dialogue, fans would flip their shit, and the big studios know it.
>Most UHNWIs have the majority of their liquid wealth in public stocks, real estate and bonds

Not clear if you’re trying to refute me, but that aligns with what I said.

I cited a leading UHWNI research firm which has a sample size of 1200+ (very good for this hard to find, small audience). Do you have better data?
They're using Rust, which is a great language for this sort if hardware: It can run on hardware itself, and can make responsive, PC applications to interface with it. Perfect excuse not to use a web UI, but this article is demoing one anyway.

EGUI is ideal for this sort of thing. Can make hardware interfaces (eg using USB as a serial port or HID device) into a fast GUI program. Add WGPU if you need anything 3d rendered.
In a well functioning economy things are supposed to get cheaper to raise the relative net wealth of everyone. TSLA has been overpriced for years according to the CEO.
The hero talk is really cringy. Other than that, it's not going to be long until we don't need anyone controlling it and for us to find it barbaric that we used to expose ourselves to factors like "trembling hands" or other such nonsense inside our guts.
I haven’t seen the studies you mention, but I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if in a few years some of these studies are revealed to have had some bias due to being funded by commercial landlords.
GP is criticizing the narrative focus. A robotaxi causing a new, less serious problem is the focus over a commonplace very serious problem caused by conventional cars.
> And keep sane having some sort of structure (when to wake up, when to go to bed, when to eat), monitor tidal changes.

Though you could just stick a piece of wood into the sand, mark shadows thrown at sunrise sunset and divide the circle's span however you want for your time system..
Monkey business with button lables, and redefinition of language--again

>> Now, let's talk about the prompt message and the buttons ...

It says: "With your permission, we'll collect and use ...". Now, the reason for this prompt is because I disabled this very option in the browser. But Microsoft seems to not like that, so it prompts me to reconsider, every now and then. Your choices are to click either Got it! or Learn more.

The latter takes you into the Settings, ergo disrupts your browsing and usage flow. You are FORCED to interact with the browser's shitty attempt to force you to give up your data, instead of you browsing like a normal human being. The former is worse. It TOGGLES the option on. So it's not an explicit YES. It's a vague indirect approval, which supposed stems from your "understanding" the message "With your permission" and that you're OK with it. <<
You make $500k/year from freelance contracts as a solo developer?

What kind of companies and tech stack do you work with?
Cars are just as impressive, just a century older.
> Working for yourself at your own pace is.

> As an industry we're surprisingly very behind in normalizing this.

This is great for people whose own pace is reasonable and matched to their compensation. If you’re paying someone 50th percentile compensation and demanding a 90th percentile work pace and output from them, you’re just going to have endless turnover as you burn people out.

Conversely, if you’re paying 90th percentile compensation and you have an employee moving at half the speed of their peers, eventually you’ll get fed up and replace them with someone better matched to the position.

But this all breaks down when you get into the weirder ends of the market. Self-pacing works great for you because you can put in the work to deliver $500K/year of value and companies appreciate it. It doesn’t work for many people whose idea of a workday is to put in 1-2 hours of focus and then browse the internet all day, which is a larger portion of the developer population than I would have guessed before becoming a manager. Other people can’t help but wander through tasks, get distracted by rewrites or new frameworks, needlessly refactor working code, or otherwise do a lot of activity without producing a lot of work. Both of these fault modes benefit greatly from the pacing and structure of management.

There’s no one size fits all approach. I think solo dev contracting is a great option for some people, but the type of person who can self-manage, sell themselves, network, and retain self-discipline isn’t all that common.

I think this is a great example of how different people thrive in different environments.
Comfort != "stuff". Yes in some cases stuff brings additional comfort, and what stuff does that varies by person but there isn't anything inherently contradictory in what they said imo.

I moved from an area where I needed a car to an area where I don't and doing so increased my comfort. If areas like this were more accessible I think a lot of people would willingly degrowth and become more comfortable at the same time. Of course people shouldn't be forced to lose their car or move to a denser area if they don't want. And I like my gadgets but it is pretty ridiculous that their lifespans are artificially shortened to prop up profits. I have a computer from 1984 that still works, I would bet a huge amount of money none of the devices I buy today will work in 2062.
Have tried to use this a few times but it's a big lift. Like adding unit tests to an existing application, it's a good idea to start small. And vale doesn't make this super easy (at least I couldn't figure out an easy way to do this). If I could wave my wand, I'd want a way to:

* apply vale to just the doc I was working on

* have a minimal set of rules

* add to them over time

At $curjob, we have a detailed public list of rules of doc ( https://github.com/FusionAuth/fusionauth-site/blob/master/Do... ) and as our team expands, I'd love to have them be applied rigorously. vale seems like a good fit, but there's an activation energy that I haven't been able to get over yet.

I am not aware of any other cli tools similar to this, though, so totally admire the team behind it.
> However, what annoys me the most about Upwork are agencies larping as solo guys. Anytime I evaluate a guy who has a solo freelancer account and then mentions he has guys he works with that bill through him, I cut them lose.

In the UK, you need to collect evidence that you are a contractor and not an employee of a company. One of the ways you can do this is by hiring people to do some or all of the contracted work on your behalf. It might be unlikely given it is Upwork, but if those freelancers are repeatedly doing big or long jobs for the same client(s) then this may be a legitimate tactic to avoid falling foul of the taxman.
Climate change is a problem that needs to be solved, but things like this to me are a much more pressing issue. We are poisoning ourselves because of industry and no one seems to think about it.

We can't eat fish more than once a week because fish are so poisoned. I have a close friend who had to go through chelation therapy because her blood had so many heavy metals from eating sushi 2-3 a week for a year.

Industries that create pollution need MORE regulation, not less and things like this is depressing, where industry is able to corruptly change laws to benefit themselves and poison the people around them.
Someday I'm going to write a paper that achieves SOTA results with a nigh-incomprehensible mishmash of diverse techniques and title it "All You Need Considered Harmful".
Doing new things is experience. Repetition in one area is also experience. This concept you're describing is just made up.
> Maybe I should just take it more easy but I feel like I'd float under the radar for possible promotion then.

Few companies have sane compensation policies. by all means put in extra work when you have an opportunity to learn some new skill from it. but once you get to a pint where your skills are valuable, either jump ship to a another company that pays commisserate to your new skill level or start or join a startup where you get enough equity to eat at the adult's table when the ipo or acquisition happens
I mean, surely such a thing is harder in VS Code considering you can't really do it.
Would be nice to have a Linux phone where one could run ios and google android in a vm. Same way I run my computer. Level 1 hypervisor and all flavors on top. Max control, max options, max nerd.
For Linux get one of those thick Linux bibles and read through it, digest what you can, note what you can't, bookmark parts that pique your interest. Doing this, I got a much better understanding of what Linux is about and capable of, also when I need to know more I have a better idea of what to look for.
Depends if on the setup.

If you are married, it depends on what your partner earns.

If you are not married, after tax and social contributions (health insurance, unemployment insurance, state retirement fund and some other insurance) roughly 30k. Your kid is health insured for free. And you will get some money from the state each month for the kid.

Also at least 20 days of PTO, parental leave and a lot of potential sick leave (20d/y if you have a kid) for that purpose alone.
Unfortunately to the best of my knowledge it does not.
Work on getting the contracts first. Then when you're ready, pivot. Then there's nothing to fear. If you can't / don't get contracts, nothing changed.
From my experience, e-scooters are much more annoying and dangerous than e-bikes. Mostly because e-scooters are anecdotally more likely to be used on the sidewalk, and by more reckless drivers.

I am not entirely sure why that is, but I think it's a combination of the smaller frame and the ease of hopping onto them by simply stepping up that makes them feel more like "enhanced walking" (with an illusion of control) than an actual vehicle.
Do you work for a lot of different clients at once? How do things work day-to-day?
Who on Earth thought that a mass produced car could be turned into an "appreciating asset"?
Tried the app on two different phones with two different USA numbers. Never received the OTP on either. What if this happens when executing a transaction that requires OTP?
> this isn't far off from how the human brain is believed to work

> No one knows how the brain works

You sound very hostile, but I think OP agrees with you.

And I'm not sure why you're trying to dunk on them here. Perhaps at a high level the approach is very similar, even if the mechanics are very different. Would you scoff at someone saying "the robot moved its arm" and say "Ha! Robots don't have muscles, and humans don't have batteries! It's totally different!"?
I thought most tumors could be operable soon by destroying them with some kind of focused ultrasonic energy at a specific point?
Cash is there to be used when everything else goes to hell. The point is to always have enough money at hand to buy low (and to reduce the overall volatility of the portfolio). Browne's portfolio doesn't make sense until you start to look at it as an allocation that maximizes the effect of volatility (the other 3 assets are very volatile, by design) and rebalancing.
Regarding this topic, I know many people (myself included at the moment) that do not want the burden of freelance, starting their own business, etc. For these people, there are other alternatives.

For me, I have been working 4 days work weeks for multiple years now, and love it. The experiment went so good that the rest of the engineers in the time have Friday's afternoon off now.

You can do this, even if your company never had this type of working schedule or even if your team still works 5 days a week. You will not be left out nor called lazy. In my case I actually deliver more, and higher quality, since I started because previously I was developing physical pain in my hands/arms (because of work and sedentary life). I have started the process of working 4 days a week in 2 companies, a big (unicorn) one that is part of NYSE, and a small one of less than 20 employees. This works on all scales (not guaranteed it works with all companies).

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I've been thinking about this today. Function equivalence is one thing, but detecting similar code fragements is another?

Like why not assign a character to each keyword: 'if' = 'i', 'while' = 'w', 'true' = 't', etc. Then reduce code to this, removing all whitespace comments and identifiers. so `if True: while True: pass` would become `itwtp`.

then the similarity is just an edit distance between two given strings?
Do you use any tools to track these metrics?
>4-aco-Dmt and shrooms are both pro drugs of psilocin so they’re functionally the same molecule

except 4acoDMT doesn't have to react with your stomach acids, causing other second order effects, which have been attributed to the stomach ache, puking, and body load.

>2C-B is another less overwhelming option for beginners

Yes, sad to see it was one of the first things banned.

Far, far more dangerous phenethylamine (25x-NBo(Me|H|T) analogs on the spectrum between it and Mescaline are filling the void, killing people due to vasoconstriction, and because the threshold dose, normal dose, and fatal dose, are only a relatively and absolutely small difference.
> With the recent advances of turning CO2 into other substances, such as propane, should we be focusing more on closing the carbon cycle and simply be producing fossil fuels from the waste products of yesteryear?

Being able to do that cheaply is still science-fiction.

Wind and Solar are here right now.
If capturing CO2 would be done at large scale, obviously it would be done using solar energy, like the plants, or wind energy.

So solar or wind energy is a prerequisite for CO2 capture, followed by the separation from air by physical or chemical means, followed by the reduction to hydrocarbons, either by direct electrolysis or by using hydrogen obtained by water electrolysis.
More helpfully, the background for <code> tags is #302b5f, a very dark desaturated blue and the font color is #262626, very dark gray (mostly black)
>The difference is you can sentence a person to court. A robot, not such.

People generally don't end up facing much legal trouble when killing a pedestrian in an accident. It usually requires negligence. I don't know enough about this accident (or the Cruise vehicle's behavior) to say that anyone was negligent.
A history of greed where people can claim ignorance until they are paid off.
Remote work is different from pace of work.

Going remote shouldn’t change the pace of worn. For some people, going remote causes their productivity to collapse (distractions, loneliness, feeling disconnected, less oversight) but those people should be managed individually.

But being remote or in office shouldn’t determine your pace of work.
> Some people seem to think that etymology necessarily sheds light on how the word is used today

More precisely, we think that an etymological analysis is needed to shed light on why the word is used in some ways today, and to basically reveal its core ideal meaning that allows (or contributes explaining) its uses.

It's awareness.

You have your tools, you should know them adequately well. Language is worth special attention.
Ask HN: Where do I get bank card BINs?
Hi.

I manage a tiny online shop. We process cards using Stripe.

We've been hit by a bunch of disputes. Reason stated - cardholder didn't authorise the charge. However we've always required 3DS on all payments and in theory it protects us from fraud related disputes. Mastercard network shouldn't have even allowed these disputes in the first place. But they still count towards the limit.

All of these come from the same bank. We want to ban this bank entirely, but Stripe apparently won't share BIN of the cards that were used on our site.

I've seen a couple of sites that sell this kind of databases, but the price is pretty high in $1,500 range, and we only need BIN's for a single bank, not all of them. Is there a better way to go about this?

Thanks
The Amen Break is (in my understanding) one of the more important fragments of music in modern history. As there is a common, golden thread that began seventy years ago in Jamaica. Which runs all the way up into the modern day as Drum And Bass music and beyond.

The Amen Break is part of a special story, one of fusing human cultures from around the planet into a common sound. I encourage people to do a bit of research here, it's worth your time.

Thank you for the great article and excellent subject.
Nothing with the story, but the incorrect reference to 'Strip' came from the ChatGPT-generated answer Quora provides if you click on the question on their site. Which they seem to favor over an answer from the person who literally helped come up with the name...

The AI generated answer in full (which the article apparently linked to when the first OP here responded):

Stripe, the company that provides a suite of payment APIs and tools, was founded in 2010 by brothers Patrick and John Collison. The company's name is said to have been inspired by the word "strip," a reference to the simplicity and elegance of the company's platform, which "strips away" the complexity of traditional payment systems. Additionally, the company's logo features a stylized blue and white stripe, which also contributes to the name.
I think the fact that we as a society allow for cars to be driven at all, given the number of deaths that inevitably result, proves that there is at least some utilitarian instinct. Because of course someone could always argue that cars themselves are a "centralized, attributable malefactor" (similar to, say, cigarettes). For instance we could imagine a world in which the only cars allowed on the road were emergency vehicles. In that world, your point might be stronger.

And also, AI cars are on the roads, aren't they? Sure, not all of humanity is instantly going to be ok with them, but we'll probably get there (assuming the technology gets there).
Big rainfall in the desert can get pretty nasty. One reason (among others) is that a lot of deserts rest on caliche, which is a hard layer of clay-ish soil that doesn't absorb water very well. So instead of soaking into the ground, water flows over the ground, and that's how you get flash flooding.

In Black Rock specifically, they're also setting up camp on a literal dried-up lake bed, so when the playa floods it turns back into a huge, muddy lake.
Honestly in the California case, the problem is much more about senior water rights than it is about capitalism or freshness demands.
He also played fast and loose with the word order, which was often done in older forms of English (which had a lot more inflection).

The Direct Object he would write first, and it was followed with a different word order, and still further, ere his sentence was complete.
I don't like this post. As a user of drugs when I can get hold of them (and strongly inclined to their legalisation), describing something as "overpowering, glorious, and delightful" dangerously misrepresent each person's own experience. Descriptions like this are bad advertising at best and at worst dangerously irresponsible.

I also don't like your personal recommendation of DMT over mushrooms. You're not in a position to recommend anything based on your personal experience alone, especially when it relates to serious legal aspects of non-legal drugs.

Finally, I don't like your recommendation of mixing drugs (Xanax and acid). For all I know that could lead to a serious interaction.

I don't like this post at all.
Casio Databank watches had that functionality in the early 90s I think (without the USB/IR PC link). Not that James Bond for the year 2000.
There's a 'write good' style available for Vale: https://github.com/errata-ai/write-good/blob/master/README.m...