skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's the best way/resource to get an honest/pragmatic view of where things stand with the "robots market" in general and how much and fast things are really progressing?

Like with every other market check if the product is available for sale and at what price point. And then look up what failure points people actually using the system are complaining about. (Because every system has problems and weaknesses. If you don't see reports about any then the system hasn't left the lab where the PR of it is controlled.)

worked examples:
washing machine (that's a robot alright, has a computer, actuators, sensors). Readily available commercially for 200-500 GBP. Usually works reliably, occasional reports of flooding the room.

robotic vacuum: Readily available commercially for 300-1k GBP. Works okay, reports about it spreading pet's poop around rooms.

spot from Boston Dynamics. Not as readily available as the above, but can be purchased. Reported price 74,500 USD[1] Seems to trip over its own legs sometimes in a hard to explain way: [2][3] (not to count as a dig against spot, seeing these issues is actually a great thing. It means third party people in the real world use it.)

atlas from Boston Dynamics. You can't buy it. No price advertised. You can't see third party reports of it malfunctioning. Not because it is perfect, but because nobody has access to it.

1: https://spectrum.ieee.org/boston-dynamics-spot-robot-dog-now...
2: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8bTo9Q3FWzE
3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJHAJm3uMEI
How long before we have the YouTube remixes of this video with horror film music and a jump scare in the end blackness after the Boston Dynamics logo fades away?

Is feels like they almost designed this video with that eventuality in mind. Like that wanted a second wave of organic 3rd party viral advertising.
To me the killer app would be basic house chores: cleaning, doing dishes, etc. For industrial applications I suspect we will retrofit factories for whatever robot tech we have, instead of needing humanoid robots to use interfaces designed for humans. The same goes even for commercial applications like stocking grocery shelves. Driverless cars are an obvious example already. But people probably don’t want to significantly retrofit their homes with less human-friendly interfaces.
>why not sacrifice where the end goal eliminates the problem rather than exacerbates it?

It doesn't eliminate the problem. Covered by others, but it's a collective action problem. The fact that a few people "scam the scammers" doesn't actually make the industry unprofitable. So unless you can get a tipping point where lots of people are willing to spend inordinate amounts of time "scamming the scammers" (you won't), it doesn't do anything to eliminate the problem, and probably makes things worse.
Actually, Session-Lock does offer some protection against some MITM attacks in the form of a timeout that would be triggered with most MITM attacks, but its purpose (and that of Chrome's DBSC proposal) is to protect against cookie stealer malware, not MITM. This is malware that steals session tokens from the device's filesystem. Take a look here to understand the threat: https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/phishing-campaign-...

The premise of Session-Lock and DBSC is that even if the token gets stolen, it would not be useful to the attacker because the server would reject it if it doesn't have the correct signature that's generated using a private key that should only exist on the legitimate device. This private key has to be difficult or borderline impossible for the attacker to exfiltrate, unlike the session token.
Would you bet any money on this?

Boston Dynamics is not run by bozos, they have a pretty consistent track record of showing the real stuff.
If you live your whole life in the blue tribe, if your state is a blue tribe breaking out of it and understanding the world from the other side is liberation.

Then yes after that we need a bit of both, both sides have their pathologies.

We live in a narative whether we like it or not, but once we understand that we can more easily take control of it.
I bet it cackles quietly while plotting your demise. All while it's looking the other way.
Maybe if flight attendants were actually getting paid while passengers are boarding they might be more attentive
You can make the higher level person liable for their passcode usage. It’ll only take a few examples to be made for them to change their approach.

This whole two person security thing being untrusted seems silly however, as that’s what nuclear missile silos typically use to avoid rogue actors. Why it won’t work here seems odd, if you put the right punishments in place.
> The United States is not, nor is it intended to be, a democracy.

It is more nuanced than that. Technically, the constitution establishes a federal democratic republic form of government:

- federal: union of 50 states

- republic: ultimate power held by the people and their elected representatives AND has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch

- democratic: governance by officials elected by voting of the population

Representation in a republic may or may not be freely elected by the general citizenry. In our case, representation is via electing representatives of the people, i.e. democratic.

I am not yet sure why there are these soundbites of "democracy" vs "republic", since we are both.

One interesting feature of our setup is while we are a democracy, we also have inalienable rights that the majority cannot vote away.
This guy seems less creepy than his predecessor. He looks more like a hobby servo-motor robot. I liked the aesthetics of hydraulic Atlas better - somehow fitted well with the character they gave him in all the choreographed demos.

I can't see them really being creepy unless/until we get to "uncanny valley" territory with realistic faces and expressions.
How much did Big Blueberry pay you?
Does it need 32-bit windows? Can't it run in compatibility mode in standard 64-bit windows 11?
are you crazy? it means they are aware, and WANT that for the population, but not themselves.

cogs are NOT in motion to fix this for the people, they are in motion to DO this to the people.
2x slower than bandwidth between two 3090 with nvlink
> Imagine what environmental impact you would have if you optimized Python's performance by 1%?

I imagine this would also increase the complexity of the python intepreter by more than 1%, which in turn would increase the number of bugs in the interpreter by more than 1%. Which would burn both manpower and CPU-Cycles on a global scale.

(I assume that optimization, that reduce complexity are already exhausted, e.g. stuff like "removing redundant function calls". )
>I think the divisions are of domestic origin and this argument is more or less FUD.

I agree, many divisions are definitely of domestic origin. However we definitely know that foreign interference has been at play to identify and amplify those divisions.

>If so, which message, what topic and who was targeted?

5G - weird one I know, but agitators gonna agitate.

Climate - Russia was a massive oil exporter, de-carbonizing efforts threatened that.

Atomic power in Germany - Russia definitely didn't want Germany achieving independence from their gas imports.

BRICS - China would love to de-dollarize the world.

>And no, you will hardly ever get rid of surveillance powers once established without serious political shifts.

And this is the advantage of democracies, big shifts can happen. With Dictatorships however it usually takes violence. A lot of violence.
> I have a chemistry degree that's technically from a liberal arts college and it was super confusing to my immigrant parents how that could happen.

I kind of get it. The english words "liberal" and "arts" used to mean entirely different things for hundreds of years, and have been redefined into something else only recently (past ~30 years) via common usage.

My degree program was in "Liberal Studies", and my parents consistently assumed it meant "studying how to become a Democrat voter", when in actuality, what it meant was "if you can justify it well, we give you permission to merge two-or-more different degree paths into one"

The university eventually had to rename the program to "Integrative Studies", because too many people simply don't know what "Liberal" means in an traditional academic context, and couldn't shake the modern-political framing of the word.
Google Drive website getting a dark theme [U: Official]
Well, on their website they say that it's 720p right now, and you can order it. If that info is false, then it's just straight up scam.

Granted, they indeed don't write anything about brightness, apart from the class 2 classification, which they could very well meet. Just not bright enough to be very usable.
"For rough terrain, why not just fly ? "

Weight

(You need way more energy to do anything)
How would you know that you are correctly forced to do such espionage? Couldn't some fake agents knock at your house and tell you to get some data of some CEO's office and turn it over to them?
Nothing to worry about here.
My point with the original comment is that flight pricing today shows that people do know and care to avoid Boeing. The market value of a 737-MAX-9 flight is about 1/3 of what a flight on any other airplane is, and even at that price they couldn't fill the plane. The scheduling was relatively convenient too, and my leg out (on Air Canada) was also a 737-MAX-9 that was discounted by about 2/3. That shows that consumers actually are actively avoiding the aircraft and factoring it into their purchasing decisions.

And TBH, if pricing were equal there's no way you could get me to fly on a 737-MAX. My thesis is just that everybody else is valuing the risk much higher than it is, and that 737-MAXes have likely had every bolt combed over at this point, and the systemic issues found indicate that really it's every plane made in the last 25 years that is risky.
I tried out DaisyUI and I think it had kind of best of both worlds and was pretty ergonomic. IMO the main issues with it were that it's just CSS (not much accessibility etc. thought out for me), but the design isn't that great (in practice writing custom components without DaisyUI could have gotten the same results).
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/947955.1083808

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/947955.1083808 [pdf]

Hurray for more open access from ACM, here's the original publication with the 10 missing epigrams.
If the recommended course of action to contribute here is to involve the police and inform them there might be human remains on your property, then I strongly doubt you're gonna get many people willing at all. If this is a genuine and serious potential source of fact finding/analysis that is of value to the field, then the field needs to find a less... lets call it polarizing, option.
> the web is a terrible platform that made basic reusable components far harder than they ever needed to be

I think it made them just hard enough to ensure continuous employment of lots of web developers :)
But how many bathrooms Neanderthals had?
DRM-encrypted streaming video, perhaps? Gigabytes of encrypted data that needs to be decrypted and displayed?
We spend over $30k annually just on premiums. On top of that, we pay for most doctor visits, tests, prescriptions and procedures out of pocket.

Edit: everything we pay out of pocket we can deduct from our taxable income (it's an HSA plan), but still.
Their previous humanoid robot, Atlas, was using hydraulics. But Spot (the dog like one) is not.
Maybe I'm pessimistic but no law is going to stop this type of abuse. The intelligence agencies already have us exposed 5 ways to Sunday.

We can tell our elected leaders all we want but nothing is going to happen. The forbidden fruit is just too good.
At least you can hear it coming.
Thank you - I was looking for direction on what the substance of the issue is.
Ha! I just mentioned it in a comment[0] last week. Dune2 was a masterpiece.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=39980574&goto=item%3Fi...
There's also "give a too-high estimate" which tells you that they are out of your league.
They've sold some of their robots (particularly the dog) to PDs and manufacturing companies. Not sure if they've ever been profitable, though.
Not even just SMS, some sites are doing the same with email.
or hows about the government stays the hell out of my chat groups?
Just to expand on this - ElectricSQL and PowerSync (and some others like Evolu) use a simple but quite effective approach to get reactive queries:

1. Listen for updates to the table(s) used by the query, using SQLite's update hook or similar approach.

2. When a table has changed, rerun the query.

There is no incremental updating of row results, no smart detection of whether the updated rows have an effect on the query. But it works with practically any query, including joins, aggregates, and even views and CTEs in the case of PowerSync and Evolu. And in most cases, SQLite is fast enough that performance is not an issue.
...and 80GB of very high speed VRAM.
> The government is rarely the service provider for most of what they "provide" - roads are built by construction firms, medical care is mostly private doctors (the VA and HHS has some), the TSA is replaced by private firms in some places, and even nuclear missiles are manufactured by companies.

That's a deliberate policy choice. It doesn't have to be that way, but our politicians tend to be corrupted by campaign contributions and lucrative post-political jobs or (inclusive or) free-market ideologues who demand contractor bidding for any government services.
I’d never own a OLED for desktop use due to burn in.
thanks for the clarification. Do you know if WAG-D20 chip issues have been resolved? Back when i had first looked into replacing the BGW-320 505 with my own ONT setup, the WAG-D20 instructions I found were straightforward. The newer setup process with ONT like the WAS-110 seem to be a bit more complicated to me.
Not directly related to this, but I'm trying to migrate to Tailscale now from OpenVPN, and it doesn't seem like there's a way to use one "account" (for example, Google auth) for multiple tailnets. Our use case is to have the user be able to select whether they want to connect to staging or prod.

Are people just doing this with time-based ACLs within the same tailnet? Curious if there's something more obvious.
Maybe I didn't do a good job of stating my point, and my example reenforces that college is ultimately a good thing. So please let me clarify:

The point was that everyone graduating high school in the 1990s and onward were constantly fed this idea that you graduate high school and then do your four years (even if that requires racking up a ton of debt) that you'd live a successful, productive life making enough money to at least be comfortable. The averages are proving this to not only to not be true, but that debt incursion is causing major drags on the entire economy.

Incursion of debt without a plan of payoff is ignorant. No bank would ever lend money to you for a business if your business plan didn't contain sufficient enough detail of how you planned to pay them back. Working while in school (and thereby avoiding debt) is IMO the best solution to those who want to attend college but may not be able to get full-ride scholarships and aren't financially well off.

To be fair, many (if not most) university systems do not make this easy. Night classes are generally hard to come by, there are tons of fees that non-traditional students don't see benefit from, many coursework plans are so rigid to the point where pre-reqs will derail schooling for semesters at a time, etc.
> the fact that their country is so insular, tightly controlled and technologically backward

A totalitarian country can invest billions of dollars from the federal budget into propaganda in another countries. You don't need technological supremacy to pour money into something. Tight cotroll and insulation makes the task easier, not harder.

> that it surprises me that they can allow a portion of their society to roam and participate in the internet freely without infecting the rest of their country.
Isolation and elimination of infected individuals helps prevent the spread of the disease through hte population
shadcn is fantastic. Bit of a learning curve vs component libraries (like Flowbite), but you can just go in and make the changes you need as necessary.

It also helps that the New York style is very nice as well.
JetBrains Qodana analyzes code in the CI pipeline of open-source projects
They're wearing a black shirt because they're bullshitting people into believing they're the next SJ.
The same reason people had a sit-in at the Woolworth's diner instead of just eating elsewhere, presumably.
Gravity is a "consequence of the curvature of spacetime" in a particular theory that we know can't be the foundational description of reality, because all it has is mass and spacetime in it. Since it's a known-incorrect or known-incomplete theory (pick which one you like), we are not in a position to declare that gravity is absolutely, positively "curvature in spacetime" and nothing else.

Moreover, quantum mechanics comprehensively lacks gravity. It isn't just "oh, well, maybe this system is also accelerating due to gravity but we can ignore it". It's, if atoms are in a superposition of "over there" and "over here", what is the gravity of the resulting system? We know we can produce such superpositions in the real world, and when those systems exist, there must be some answer to that question, even though we don't know what it is. What impact does very, very high gravity have on the non-superposition-related aspects of the standard model? How do energies of all the various bits of the proton change in such a field? And so on.

It doesn't help at all to simply reiterate the theory of relativity. The conflict between relativity and QM is deep, real, and very very challenging.
These are also terrible if you need to go back because you mistyped. Shift+Tab brings your cursor back to correct it but their code pushes the cursor right back into the next empty box. (And they do this with a lot more than just OTP.)
A way to "misuse" MySQL in fun way – Displaying images in MySQL
Yes, and such research should help increase society's engagement with this issue. Childhood need to be protected.
It's also cool to see it tuck in its appendages when it falls; to prevent that.
I’m pretty sure the next iteration of “AI chat” (multimodal generative models) will enable the next iteration of robotics.
As someone who worked on CUDA 15 years ago - it’s amazing to me that someone on the internet posted this statement.

Did GPUs win?
Robots can also learn about their environment and the results of their interactions in a direct way. Embodied learning and competence, if you will.
Continuing with the Neanderthal theme:

> how is babby formed? How girl get pragnent?

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-is-babby-formed
> But if we agree that we should pay for stupidity because that's the nice thing to do, why stop at college? What about the dumb kid who bought a Ferrari he can't afford? Are we going to pay for that too? Logically we should. There is no difference.

Because there's generally societal safeguards that prevent an 18 year old from taking on crushing amount of debt that they cannot pay back, and even if they do, bankruptcy is an option.

The real issue isn't that we let a bunch of people take on debt that they shouldn't have, the issue is we let them do it and the government ensures the loans in as many ways as it can, most importantly excluding it from bankruptcy. It dramatically reduces the risk to the lender for giving out a student loan, so they'll give them to just about anyone for any degree at any college, even if the career prospects for someone at that school are not favorable.
I too think it's a distraction too but it's won't be the limiting factor. Planes don't flap their wings, cars don't have legs yet are faster and more powerfull than animals.

The important part lagging is the brain. Understanding the world, reacting to it learning. Even an ant can navigate the world pick-up objects and do tasks.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/16/germany_palestine#:~:....
Which kind? I'd shill for these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilberry which are the local kind in scandinavia; solid blue inside.
That's kinda a weird conclusion to reach. They discontinued this (old, hydraulic) humanoid robot to focus on their new (fully electric) humanoid robot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ECwExc-_M
TensorWave doesn't compete with Nvidia but with CoreWeave. I bet they might even have the same founder lol.

CoreWeave is doing the same stuff but with Nvidia. Also using collateral. But CoreWeave did it last year when H100 was way more valuable for collateral than it is today. And CoreWeave has actually been backed up by Nvidia and Microsoft in some funding rounds.

For Nvidia HW there are like 10x as many AI startups doing what TensorWave is doing. TensorWave is going a more risky way to go with AMD instead of Nvidia. Being among few startups might give them a large benefit but it also depends a lot on AMD support in the SW field. I wouldn't bet on that, especially not with AMD HW as collateral.
It's what people want, so they feel better about things. It's pointless and silly, because it's all fungible.

In general the public doesn't like how the sausage is made, and if you reveal parts of the making they get angry about it - even if everyone involved basically agrees it's for the best.

(Ask the random Swift fan how much the A/V company is paid to manage the equipment and they'll probably be off by an order of magnitude or more - the most famous example of this kind of thinking is "I can make eggs at home, how come a restaurant is so expensive?")
The Terminator 2 effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pq9F5f8kyE&t=119s
That's all a symptom of the current state of affairs. If citizens would hold their government accountable for their actions on EU-level, the ruling political parties wouldn't send people to the EU who are ill-equipped to communicate/execute.

But it's also an inherent problem of the EU.
In retrospect, they shouldn't have left communication with citizens to the EU-members, expecting that they would communicate based on common interest.

As it turns out, the local governments are much more comfortable to celebrate themselves for everything positive, and blame everything negative on these "EU overlords".

The EU charter should have included the means for the Union to communicate directly with citizens, i.e. the basis to have their own local news-channels.

I can see improvements in communication nowadays, with EU press-releases and announcement carrying over into local (online) news at least. The fact that none of those messages are already carried by the local government speaks volumes...
>> Is there a follow-up on Plan 9 OS?

Don't forget about Inferno too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)

A follow-on comic about Plan 9 and Inferno would be welcome, but this appears to be the latest one:

https://fosscomics.com/all_posts/
What could possibly go wrong using an open source project for authentication against your bank accounts? Where have we seen this before?

You best audit the shit out of that code if you actually use it. Every. time. they. update.
When he says "internet" he actually means "US intranet" right?
holy crap you people are HUMORLESS. so sad.
I (well, my parents) had a monitor that could do 1600x1200 in IIRC 1994 or ‘95. By 2001 or so I’d grabbed a pair of CRTs for $50 each (used) that could do 2650x1920.

This is why lots of us were slow to adopt flat screens: they were a big step backwards in pixel density for quite a while (plus typical picture quality was shit on them until the late ‘00s or so, resolution aside)

[edit] just providing context for those who weren’t there and are used to retro gaming being stuff that displayed on CRT TVs.