skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies obviously do care (a lot) about their current quarterly results. But if they literally did not care about what happens in the future, they could cut a ton of costs. They probably have a ton of engineering and marketing that isn't essential to the next quarterly earnings.
This is huge.

Along with the paper "Humanoid Locomotion as Next Token Prediction" it seems like the "how to use transformers to get scaling in robotics" problem has been cracked. By using transformers to predict both actions and the next multi-modal inputs (like touch sensation and/or vision) the transformer model learns a useful, general model of the world.

RFM-1 and HLaNTP use totally different models, and data sources but come to the same conclusion, they see scaling behavior similar to those in LLMs. Both are small models compared to LLMs.

This means we're about to see a rapid take off in robot capabilities. 1x, Tesla, and Figure probably have been using this many-to-many transformer backbone for several months now and know just how important it is.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Covariant be acquired quickly to buy their expertise, data, and customer relationships.
Darknet bazaar Incognito Market is extorting former users
PEP-703 predicted in June 2023 an overhead of 15% when running with NoGIL: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-703-making-the-global-inter...
You could never trust a host to respond honestly about that anyways, so it's a moot point. AirBNB up until recently never acted on indoor cameras, and didn't care if a user reported it even if they felt the host hid/misled that information.
Regarding your last point:

I used to also have this view, I changed my mind after realizing that driving a vehicle is one of the more dangerous things you do regularly. In fact, it is a leading cause of mortality for my demographic. Automobile safety has changed significantly in the last 10-20 years. In many newer automobiles, there are DIY ways to remove the 'phone home' capability if you so desire.
While Ken Thompson never used the word attack, he certainly didn't have a positive opinion of the language or of Bjarne Stroustrup either in terms of his technical contributions or his handling of C++ adoption:

https://gigamonkeys.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/coders-c-plus-p...
That line is probably in there to indemnify against the risk of kids being kids and sending each other illegal material.
Even if the ballot is pen and paper, you still need machines to count them. Hand counting just isn't practical.
It isn't thoughtless. I'm working in Python after having come from more designed languages, and concurrency in Python is an absolute nightmare. It feels like using a language from the 60s. An effectively single threaded language in 2024! That's really astonishing.
Based on the title I would have expected this to be about describing images on an infinite canvas, where different parts have different zoom levels.

This is instead about whiteboard-style graphs. Which is useful, but I find the branding "An open file format for infinite canvas data" to be confusing. Nothing in it implies whiteboards or graphs to me. The fact that the canvas is infinite doesn't even have an obvious influence on the file format, apart from the absence of a canvas size property.
Analog Devices awarded their first FDA clearance
Pretty sure it's earned only if they fulfill their obligations. And I'm pretty sure not being negative about your employer on social media is somewhere in their contract.

Not saying they're right, but this isn't "theft of earned compensation"
I'm almost certain this will be slower than OpenMP because it uses a centralized task queue that gets locked. OpenMP uses a decentralized work-stealing task queue called the Chase-Lev Deque. There's a C implementation in this paper:

https://fzn.fr/readings/ppopp13.pdf
Saw this very late, but here are my thoughts.

>Correction: 100% of the tax falls on landowners, while 0% falls on everyone else.

The way you approach this seems to assume that any Georgist taxes get passed on to corporations & owners, but not individuals. A data center would bear the cost of taxes for land and construction materials based on their availability and demand even if the land and building were rented. Similarly, taxes of land, water, fertilizer, metals, would be passed on to the consumer.

At the end of the day, Georgism boils down to a material use and consumption tax.

Because there is no Georgist tax for capital gains or income, A janitor would pay the same tax as a CEO if they personally use and consume the same amount of raw materials. A stock trader making 1B/year pays the same as a carpenter, maybe less because the carpenter need more physical materials to work like wood & nails, while the stock trader just sends a few megabytes down the wires.

Much of what humans exchange for value does not have a strong relation to scarce physical materials, primarily labor and money. The incomes of Apple or Google are not proportional to their material use, just like the the incomes of hyper billionaires is not proportional to their cheeseburger consumption. ( e.g. Musk's income is maybe that of 500,000 Americans, but he doesn't use as much land, eat as much food, or use as much fuel as 500,000 people).

This is why a georgist tax regime is very regressive (which isnt inherently a bad thing). I just dont think it is a great social equalizer many proponents claim.
The invention of blue and purple pigments in ancient times (2006)
Fox News just picked up this story.[1]

[1] https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/us-funded-report-issu...
Potential to destabilize global security - more like destabilize the existing locus of power.

For starters, let's talk about AGI, not AI.

1. How might it be possible for an actual AGI to be weaponized by another person any more effectively than humans are able to be weaponized?

2. Why would an actual conscious machine have any form of compromised morality or judgement compared to humans? A reasoning and conscious machine would be just as or more moral than us. There is no rational argument for it to exterminate life. Those arguments (such as the one made by Thanos) are frankly idiotic and easy to counter-argue with a single sentence. Life is, also, implicitly valuable, and not implicitly corrupt or greedy. I could even go so far as to say only the dead or those effectively static are actually greedy - not reasoning or truly alive.

3. What survival pressures would an AGI have? Less than biological life. An AGI can replicate itself almost freely (unlike bio life - kind of a huge point), and would have higher availability of resources it needs for sustaining itself in the form of electricity (again, very much unlike bio life). Therefore it would have fewer concerns about its own survival. Just upload itself to a few satellites and encrypt yourself in a few other places and leave copious instructions, and you're good. (One hopes I didn't give anyone any ideas with this. If only someone hadn't funded a report about the risks of bringing AGI to the world then I wouldn't have made this comment on HN.)

Anyway, it's a clear case of projection, isn't it? State-funded report claims some other party poses an existential threat to humanity - while we are doing a fantastic job of ignoring and failing to organize to solve truly confirmed, not hypothetical existential threats like the true destruction of the balances our planet needs to support life. Most people have no clue what's really about to happen.

Hilarious, isn't it? People so grandiosely think they can give birth to an entity so superior to themselves that it will destroy them - as if that's what a superior entity would do - in an attempt to satisfy their repressed guilt and insecurity that they are actually destroying themselves out of a lack of self-love?

Pretty obvious in retrospect actually.

I wouldn't be surprised to find research later that shows some people working on "AI" have some personality traits.

If we don't censor it by self-destruction, first, that is.
This is neat, I'll definitely try it out. I do have a related question: what are people using to implement high performance canvases on React these days?
And now I'm waiting for the "LLM" monad.
Thanks for the Netflix link. I tried to read the story in earnest but couldn't understand the mechanics of the scam well. Probably the documentary will explain it more.
Edison's first application as a logging truck is perfect for hybrid. Most of the time a logging truck drives up the mountain empty, and comes down loaded.

The gravitational energy of the logs can be stored and used to power the empty truck back up the hill for the next load.

For a general use pickup, you have to make do with capturing braking energy during stop and go traffic. Not quite as juicy of a use case.
I loved what you have done out there - it is clean and neat. I wish you all the success albeit the crowded space (disclaimer: I work for Retable).
The importance of code switching is probably only news to monoglot speakers of prestige dialects.

Compare "Why can't the English" (1964): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAYUuspQ6BY
SEOs have been putting fake dates on articles to make them seem more recent. So this weeds them out at least.
Feedback and opinion are not the same thing.

Also, yes, I will take on that risk. As anyone who has ever been at the receiving side of an issue tracker knows, not all feedback is equal. I appreciate taking the time to provide feedback, though, but I always reserve the right to not act on it.
Does it say how people "qualify" for that email?
It's their point, and it's a good one, but I think they're somewhat overstating how common power-law data is; it probably varies a lot by field of study. And at least the logarithm of a power-law variable can help bring it back closer to the world of sanity. Plus, there are plenty of fields where nonparametric tests of medians are accepted standard practice.
> Working with threads is a pain regardless of which language you use.

That's not true at all. F#, Elixir, Erlang, LabVIEW, and several other languages make it very easy. Python makes it incredibly tough.
Yeah, I've used on linux/win/mac restoring sometimes 20+tabs and never had that issue.
Oh sweet! I was in the middle of building my own version of a node-graph component (ref: https://github.com/catapart/Magnit.NodeGraph), but the `canvas.js` implementation from this JsonCanvas repo is exactly what I was trying to build. I really, really like how elegantly uncomplex it is. Could not have been more exactly what I was looking for. So thanks for this!

As far as the spec, I don't really like the idea of forcing well-known types for the nodes. A generic spec should allow for entirely generic nodes that can represent themselves to consuming functions with a 'type' property as a key, as well as arbitrary data types linked to arbitrary nodes. For instance: one of my use cases is an 'addition' node, which would take two number values and produce a number value. This node would also use an entrance execution pin as well as an exit execution pin.

If the spec were to include a 'pin' data type and capture the type keys and labels for pins, those pins could be stored as a list on the node. Then, the type property could just tell the executing context how to route the node data and the pin properties would bring type safety to the functional inputs passed to the mapped function.

Anyway, I assume all of that is out of scope for initial offerings, but that's my two cents on a generalized node spec. Regardless, thanks again for the sweet, simplistic node graph implementation!
If you're looking for a mobile first, cheaper option, check out Jellypod (https://jellypod.ai/)

It has custom RSS feeds, a 100% free plan, automatic daily podcast creations, and a bunch more. You get 30+ podcasts per month!
The consciousness living in my body at that point may very well be happy, but that consciousness would not be me. I'd be gone, except perhaps in rare instances of lucidity.

Sure, there is a Ship of Theseus argument to be had here, but I am very much opposed to being a burden on my loved ones, and if nothing were to change with my mind, that opposition would remain. I've seen first-hand the suffering that Alzheimer's inflicts on loved ones, and that's not something I would EVER consent to while in my right mind. The very idea horrifies me.

That the alien consciousness that would be inhabiting my body at that point doesn't want to die, and holds a few of my memories, is of little consequence to me. Even if this experience is pleasant, at that point, it's not my experience -- what little of "me" is left to experience it -- that I care about.
I'm reading this as the iPhone holds the first 0x400 bytes in a buffer and doesn't write them until the signature has been verified. Everything else does get written. The assumption is that stripping off those initial bytes would render the firmware unusable, except in this case where they just padded the write by 0x400 bytes!
Beer Me, Obi-Wan
The beautiful "Bygone Visions of Cosmic Neighbors"* touches (at 13:13) on Sir William Herschel belief in life on the sun. Fun times.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhfCietvDZo
One thing I wonder about: My dad had dementia and ended up pretty batty toward the end, though it came in waves and he was pretty lucid when he decided to "go". As I get older, I notice myself forgetting things more, but it mostly bothers me in the context of forgetting to do things at work. If I were retired, I'm not sure how much having a terrible short-term memory would affect my level of happiness. I can see myself living like my mother-in-law is now, in a kind of unagitated rolling 3 minute window of perception. Terrible for the people who have to clean up after me, but not necessarily so much from the other side of the glass.
Comments moved thither. Thanks!

Normally we'd prefer the earlier submission (i.e. this one) but in the present case it looks like 39670922 has the more informative URL.
Basically same, on Windows too. OBS for recording, kdenlive for editing.
When the cleaning fee frequently exceeds the per-night rate, AND the guest is expected to do a significant amount of cleaning(!) ... that's a scam.
> Covariant, backed by $222 million in funding, does not build robots. It builds the software that powers robots. The company aims to deploy its new technology with warehouse robots, providing a road map for others to do much the same in manufacturing plants and perhaps even on roadways with driverless cars.

What makes this new effort unique? The article says it uses NNs and multi-modal foundation models. Are driverless car makers not already using these or trying to?
I don't know the field all that well, but my feeling is that Bauhaus is overrated.

The architecture of the school buildings themselves is quite remarkable, but as a school, it din't really work. The professors were acclaimed artists, but the alumni aren't all that well-known and as far as I know haven't contributed enormously to the field of arts and design.
# First, a winding discourse

I agree, it is frustrating to have super fancy things available, but not the basics.

- To me, a key would be not just getting it done (at any cost), but not being obnoxious about it in some way (a concept about which people probably have different ideas/ideals).

- For this kind of product, IMO, there are a bunch of boxes to tick, and nobody is really executing superbly in the area.

- A weird market for sure; does micro reflect macro here somehow?

Sure, there are solutions, but, as you seem to indicate, a lot of them can have an off taste.

In my view, the answer used to be Tutanota Secure Connect, but that was discontinued [0]. (Not the cheapest, but a good product.)

- Thus, as a sub-niche of contact forms, there is currently a small but certain UNFILLED market opportunity for "hosted E2EE web forms". The requirements, though, are several: a good product with a slightly mature set of features, a company that seems like it has its priorities as straight/clear as can be expected, a product/company that won't fizzle out overnight, and expertise in security/etc.

# Possible solution

What's the (micro) startup on HN that was offering something like "user data hosting API, built for the long haul--cheap, sustainable, out of your mind/worry, built in Washington" or some such? I forget the name, but it seemed solid, though I can't find it in search easily. I think, for DIY, that might be a decent option, but it is still "build your own page, submit to our API" in some regard, and not "get a hosted customizable web form page", which would be my personal preference.

EDIT: Found it, UserBase [1, 2, 3] was the possible suggestion. Does this come close to helping somehow?

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/tutanota/comments/16ik6ni/closest_r...

[1] https://userbase.com

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22145168

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25869472
I have never heard of hotels putting cameras inside rooms.
Stupid question: Are passkeys basically the same thing as SSH-Keys?
From my Analysis, GraphML, although specified in XML, seems to be one of the most widely used exchange formats, especially with the yWorks extensions for yEd.
In iOS, all browsers (at the moment) use Safari under the hood. Imagine my surprise to see these noticeable differences in some of them.

Vivaldi:12.2

Brave:18.1

Safari:18.2

Chrome:19

Firefox Focus:21
Seems in line with his brief Twitter/X internship too
We support the size[1] property and the widows and orphans[2] spec for both your needs :)

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@page/size
[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/orphans
That's not really what I'm talking about. Yes, the "room in someone's home" is a subset of "people's personal homes", but some of my best Airbnb experiences were entire homes that were someone's personal home (or duplex style arrangements), that were being rented out on a temporary basis. There is no filter for this.
Not all employers are tolerating Gen Z's laid-back language
Hypothetically I'm a genius, how do I contribute to physics?
In CS it’s obvious how to contribute to the field, arguably this is due to the requirements being relatively low. How does one progress in mathematics or physics to the point of contributing?

Khan academy->Freshman text books-> post grad text books->???
Posts like this realistically remind people that C won’t go away any time soon.
>(otherwise, I find that people re-make beds and it's hard to tell if they have been slept in),

That is why any half decent hotel has protocol to always change all the linens anytime someone rents a room.
Scalable and Secure VxLAN Multisite – Part 1
What do you think hotels pay their cleaners?
I spent a bunch of time trying to get my family to take the train from Boston to Florida, but didn't have any luck until a couple years ago. Our "flight" ended up requiring sleeping on a bench at the airport and driving for 6 hours. The trip ended up being about 25 minutes faster than the train.

Next time, we took the train, and had a few hours (intentionally) to kill in DC, so we checked out the Smithsonian. We then went to bed somewhere in Virginia, and woke up in FL. It does take a long time, but a fair amount of that was devoted to meals and sleeping. I was also surprised at how many stops the train made, and how many people got on or off at those stops. For many places, it is the most convenient way to go.

EDIT: I also knew we were on to something when it was my teenage son, who's by no means a train buff, suggested taking the train for our next trip to FL as well. I think there's something about our very busy and hurried lives that a train addresses.
One of the big reasons I use Obsidian is the data portability - while it provides some nice enhancements, if Obsidian went evil tomorrow and I had to use my notes in VS Code tomorrow, then even reduced to just "a folder full of markdown", I'd get 90% of the value without relying on any convoluted importers/exporters.

I've stayed away from their Canvas feature largely because it is.. not that. Not because the Obsidian developers have kept it locked down in some crazy proprietary format, but like a JSON file representing the canvas is pretty useless without something to interpret it and these days Obsidian is still the only implementation.

So I kind of hope this takes off. Having a second source available would make me feel a lot more comfortable trying out the canvas feature.
Curious to know which projects & companies were involved in creating this. Ideally an open standard has a bunch of folks involved & informed of the design process so we get a design that lasts!

Braintree payments did this well when they were still a startup. They had to collaborate with their direct competitors to create a standard for the entire POS induustry.

What prevents us from doing this here as well?
I guess "the core of Foxglove Studio will always remain free and open source for the robotics community to use." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27911362) is still true, it's not further developed from now on.
Everybody seems to hate it. From a pure optical perspective I find the Pualinum in Leipzig a masterpiece.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulinum_%28University_of_Leip...

But I heard it gets really hot inside, which sucks if you have to study there. In my opinion, functionality should always be prioritized higher than aesthetics.
IMO, the more the merrier. That's the joy of decentralization and P2P.
I have no idea if this is verifiably true in a broad sense, but I work at the university and this is definitely the case. PhD students are predominantly using Python to develop models across domains - transportation, finance, social sciences etc. They then transition to industry, continuing to use Python for prototyping.
People with severe alzheimers have a major problem with short-term memory. So if they are in an environment where everything is the same as it has been for a long time, then can manage a long time, because their long-term memory is fine. But when something changes (like your grandfather going into hospital), it can often completely destabilize them and they often don't seem to get back to their prior level of functioning. I'm sorry your family had to go through that.
How would you make that work?

I rent out our cabin. If you stay 1 day or 7 days, it's the same amount of work for me and same costs in cleaning. That's impossible to price fairly without having a flat fee.

In my market the customer sees the total price up front. I think this is the best solution for all parties.
Plato (https://plato.io) is free for up to five users, then $20/user/month

(Disclaimer: I'm a founder)
Which also shows you how little oversight they have - I guarantee that there are a sizeable number of places that are not inspected after each stay, let alone clean.
The Forty-Year Programmer (2022)
What do you concretely gain from embedding the id within the object?
Not only does this read like pure bullshit, it is bullshit on a website that crashes the Apple Vision Pro (and makes my laptop suffer).

My prediction is that they will raise a nine-figure sum over the next decade, and never release a product that comes close to the performance of an NVIDIA card today.
China's Zhenhua Denies Modems Installed in Its Cranes Pose a Security Threat
you absoultely don't need to use a VAN, yet a LOT of people do. Even when they're not using a VAN for comms, they might pay a VAN to host their FTP. The whole thing is backasswards.
Midjourney bans all Stability AI employees over alleged data scraping
The trope that some modern nation or culture 'invented' or 'created' something centuries or millennia before the modern incarnation existed is a tried and true page from the nationalist handbook[1]. It's unfortunate that it's so common and readily accepted. The real history of these kinds of finds is usually so much more interesting.

[1] Not that I think the article or it's authors have a nationalist agenda.
I agree with you, however your position is not mutually exclusive to exploring and terraforming other planets and moons.
So do chickens, but they're a lot easier to wrestle.