skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it has to do with the fact that they so front-and-center showcased the very un-human-like capabilities, whereas the other one almost seemed to try to just be an exceptionally athletic human.
>Billions upon billions of funding for research

That's a hint at the problem. We spend a lot of taxpayer money to train some of the best researchers and scientists in the world, only for them to work for US or Chinese companies boosting their economy instead, because they pay more than the European companies.

Just look at Nvidia, Huawei and Apple, they have an R&D centers next to every top university in Europe or next to every ARM/Nokia/Ericsson office.

The problem isn't the money spent on training/education, it's the lack of top economic opportunities/companies we have in a lot of parts of Europe resulting in our tax money boosting the economies of our economic adversaries, who are less risk averse and more hungry about innovation and monetization.
"Have a bright future as a (job)"

"(job) can earn (x) dollars a year!"

When in reality that career is losing jobs and less than 10% of graduates get one. Anything what would have you work in a museum would probably meet this criteria.

Alternative is they told the truth, everyone went in with eyes wide open and everyone is responsible for their own student loans.
We converted our product (which I'd say is medium-sized - it's not a sprawling enterprise codebase but it's the work of a team over many years) to use Meson for its C / C++ components and I've been very pleased with it.

It's pretty straightforward to understand, has good documentation and it's fast.
Look up a consignment shop in your area, take your stuff to them, they'll handle it and give you like 30-50% of what they sell it for, done.
Also involved with some of these industries, no academia/government though, so my perspective may be incomplete. Anecdotally I can’t remember hearing this term used.

After reading the Wikipedia page and a couple corporate pages about cyberphysical, I think it looks like it’s more about rebranding existing systems that contain interacting heterogenous elements with different RT needs, rather than introducing fundamentally new systems methodologies or technologies. It kinda reminds me of Agile, where a shift in mindset and terminology was hyped way more than any legitimate improvement in the underlying systems being built, and engineering “Agile products” became so important for some businesses.
Recovering from supine position is a known tough problem in bipedal robots. It makes sense that they would want to show off this capability.
Well done. I finished the second paragraph before I realised. It the was the opening of the third paragraph ("In summary") that made it completely obvious to me.
Bummer, I always enjoyed joking about this

“Tell your data to get Trucked”
"nails that grow backwards to not have an advantage (prolly a disadvantage), where nails that grow forwards have an advantage (climbing, clawing, scratching)."

That still doesn't describe the underlying mechanism of the growth itself.

Looking at the work of Dr. Michael Levin regarding electric communication of cells, I tend to believe him that the main factor in actually creating tissues in their intended, correct shape, is incessant electric chatter among individual cells.

An interesting corollary would be that cancer = cells that don't cooperate/communicate with their neighboring cells anymore.
> Well the company is not a monolithic entity, it is after all a group of people.

A group of people...in a clearly defined structure. In Google's case that structure is a hierarchy. The issue passed through this structure and a decision was made. Now even hierarchical companies often have some mechanism to make appeals based on ethics, safety, etc. but either this wasn't done or their appeals were rejected.

> After all it was decided to pursue by some execs, and it is jot that hard to withdrawfrom it

Mr Pichai was probably at the very least aware of a billion dollar contract I would guess. If they wanted to withdraw from it, they would have done so.

> It is not the core business of Google.

I think Google would like very much to succeed in the cloud. A billion dollar cloud contract will certainly help with that.
>I manage a tech team, and one of my direct reports replied to a negative feedback received from a member of our sales team with support from ChatGPT.

You're allowing sales people to give negative feedback to your people? Aka you're letting the sales person manage your people for you? You're allowing them to damage your team's morale? Yikes I'd be putting a stop to that asap.

>The content of the response was good, as it acknowledged the negative feedback and demonstrated a desire to improve.

Then the way I take it is that this direct report hasnt done anything wrong, there's no policies violated and so the new discussion is why the sales person is spitting in your face and disrespecting you as their manager.

>However, the salesperson noticed that the reply he received was clearly generated through ChatGPT, and he was somewhat frustrated by this.

Whether or not this is true, using tools to more efficiently do your job is a pro, not a con.

>Do you think using ChatGPT in this situation was inappropriate?

Communication skills are never going to be perfect across your team. You should encourage people to use chatgpt to better understand what the other person said and to better formulate the answer they are going to give. The world is rapidly pushing people to use "AI" because of the obvious benefits. Society is not going the other direction which the sales person is attempting.

This to me has virtually nothing to do with this direct report in my opinion. This is a sales person managing your person over you. I would immediately go their manager and express the morale damaging negative feedback is to be directed at you from now on.
Tailwind CSS Anti-Patterns to Avoid
> Why would the super villains operating these armies of human-capable robots bother paying into an upside down pension system?

Because the governments will, in order of effort needed for compliance, fine them, eminent domain their robots, arrest them, shoot them for resisting arrest, or fire a cruise missile into their secret volcano lair.

Also because if you have a self replicating robot army, you can give every man, woman, and child their own personal O'Neill cylinder and still have 99% of Venus left over, let alone the remainder of the solar system's resources.
Natural Language Processing in Bash
I don't fear it; I just don't think it's necessary. Just as I don't fear state funded lawnmower manufacturing.
Yeah a minidisc is 64mm, I couldn't find the exact measurement in the README and can only dig so far on my mobile but even just eyeballing it and measuring a deck of cards it would be a lil too big.
That's the case with many roles in many industries. Films are largely made on a project basis today rather than stars being tied to a studio.

In US tech, companies today generally prefer some degree of continuity/culture of employees and many employees prefer some degree of stability but it's hard to argue that there isn't less of both than in the past.
It's interesting that a lot of people, including here on HN, find this new Atlas (does he/it have a name?) a bit unnerving or creepy.

Historically what people have found creepy about robots is when they become too human-like, especially facially - the "uncanny valley" where the face is so close to human that the slight differences give the feeling that something is wrong - like a dead body brought to life, perhaps.

What's unexpected about people feeling creeped out by this new son-of-Atlas is that it seems to be because of how un-human it is (opposite of uncanny valley!) in it's ability to rotate its head and torso and perform these double-jointed types of maneuver. Maybe in a factory setting this doesn't matter, but it's relevant in terms of robots used in other settings like hospitals. Japan seem to have the right idea in terms of making robots slightly smaller than humans and with friendly faces so that they seem non-intimidating.
https://archive.ph/xErdf
It’s not “dragging our feet”; it’s momentum. Most Americans have had cars for generations now. Most Chinese still don’t have cars. We have a whole world built around the particulars of ICE vehicles, including where we live. (In China, most people don’t live a couple hours drive from grandma’s house.) In China the biggest competitor to EVs is bicycles. In America, it’s the whole spectrum of ICE vehicles that everyone already owns, including the hand-me-down cars many people have who couldn’t afford a new car.
Looking back, one of my regrets is that I didn't make my own Window manager, or at least customize or skin one with longevity and stick to it. I am pretty much tired of being jostled around by UX engineers repeatedly reinventing the wheel in dozens of lumpy ways. The fads just keep going around and around and around.
Journalistic objectivity is not real and has never existed.

It is much better when a journalistic outlet acknowledges its plausible biases and lets the reader make up their own mind. This ideal gets further stretched with "citizens journalism" where normies do their own journalism. You expect to some system to emerge that allows for audiences to converge on the "truth".

Anyone that espouses these idealistic ideals of "objectivism" has drank the koolaid. And of course, The Objectivity always somehow accidentally converges to the status quo. Is it because the status quo is? Unlikely.
>“NPR has formally punished Uri Berliner, the senior editor who publicly argued a week ago that the network had "lost America's trust" by approaching news stories with a rigidly progressive mindset.”

>”Berliner's five-day suspension without pay, which began last Friday, has not been previously reported.”

What’s the point of free speech if you have no meaningful way to exercise it?
And if you’re craving even more telecoms history after that (as I was when I read it a few years ago) Arthur C Clarke’s “How the World Was One” goes into the history of undersea cables and other telecoms technologies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_World_Was_One
How else am I supposed to get drunk on Țuică
The problem with Marketplace and Craigslist is the time they take. I can just send the stuff somewhere and wait for someone to buy it. I need to post it, wait, hope that someone wants it at the same time I’m selling, filter out scammers, negotiate the price, arrange a meeting place, and go meet the person and hope they’re normal.

For one relative high value item that’s ok. When someone had a lot of stuff to unload, or lower value items, it’s too much work or not worth the time.
> IMO, the biggest challenge going forward is not technological, but instead it's convincing powerful, very dogmatic individuals, that what is essentially redistribution of wealth is a necessary thing.

Funny, I was going to reply about UBI being implemented with something like CBDC, that could be controlled by it's issuer and how it would be less equitable than obtaining money from labor. I was a die-hard Yang2020 person, so I'm very much in favor of UBI, but the implementation is extremely perilous because human evil exists.

Maybe we should just make Robot Unions.
'When it's this hot, time stands still': surviving west Africa's heat
Built my own CV / website tool to be ranked higher than other candidates
I’m Technical Product Owner, also worked before as Product Manager, working in IT-area around 6 years. Here is my story how I got 3 offers during several months (October 2023 - January 2024) because of having my own website (yeah, recruiters said to me directly, it was completely new approach from candidates).

The job market was crazy, and I wanted to be ‘ranked’ better than other candidates. Planned to use my own web-space, video presentation, few articles around my expertise to show that I’m better than other potential employees.

I was looking for some tool which allows me creating a personal website / CV very quickly, cheap and easy. Looks like, it will be an ad here. But it’s not

I tried a looooot: Resume io and place it via the link, Notion, Google Docs, etc. So, everything which can be shared via the link. As a conclusion, I built my own website from scratch with No-code tool based on WordPress, because nothing worked for me.

And, I decided to build my own web-app, in solo.

This is 4pm.app. This is my 1st web-app which allows everyone creating a competitive CV / website which is available via the link. Similar to Linktree or Bento, but more for professionals to list experience, portfolio etc. My no-code web-app works differently from Wix, Elementor, WebFlow. You should fill forms, edit info, settings and that’s it! Share the simple link to anyone, attach to your CV, whatever. Here is an example of my profile: https://4pm.app/herman/

I wanted to resolve my own issue: to create CV quickly for me to test different links, like which one works better, which is visited better (I created a multi-profile support and ability to add tracking via GA4). My friends, especially Juniors or not from IT-area (I have a bunch of non-IT-friends) were happy to use it. Instead of spending days and weeks to create something from scratch, you can have it in 30–60 minutes.

Benefits: if you want to have something online, you can have it for free with nice link generated based on your email + no subscriptions (optional, you can buy PRO version per profile for having more customization), no spends for domain, hosting, no time-wasting for selecting templates, adjusting padding, selecting fonts, building, coding + showing your attitude to recruiters + sending just a link with all experience, links, contacts, etc.

Check it, hopefully, it will help being ranked higher than other candidates. https://4pm.app/sign-up
That is what charity shops do in the UK. You don't make money as your stuff are donation, but the charity does when then resell. Works surprisingly well.
The faceless head is somewhat monstrous as well. I can almost see the ring going red just before the thing decides to slaughter the entire room.
Fully agreed, it's an awful choice. I had to click the Reader View icon before I'd finished reading the first screen.

The mouse pointers are a prime example of "just because you can, doesn't mean you should".
Makes sense. Storage tech has moved significantly since
Big small blueberry
Free markets as between countries is a terrible idea. Americans simply can’t compete with Chinese in most areas.
My sources say FWC and NOAA fisheries have tested the water 165 times since last fall and sent 52 fish to a university in South Alabama for testing.

In my experience FWC doesn’t play around but that doesn’t mean they are immune to pressure from the Governor.

However, I was in the Florida Bay backcountry last week fishing and there were some suspect smells for sure. Likely sewage from a boat.

https://myfwc.com/research/saltwater/health/spinningevent/#:....
Because you don't care about security does not mean it is not important. Pretty sure you don't want your bridge/microwave oven/smartphone/you name it to spontaneously catch fire and potentially burn down your house during the night, right? So you may not realize, but security matters to you.

> Why should I not pay $50 to windows so that I can get on with the work that I want to do instead of fiddling with Linux

If you don't want Linux for what Linux is, please buy whatever you want (Windows in that case)!

I would return the comment: I find that too many people want to use Linux because they don't want to pay for Windows. And then they complain that Linux is not Windows. If you want Windows, go for Windows. I actually dislike those distributions that try to make Linux feel like Windows: I went to Linux because it was not Windows, not because it was cheaper (it is not: it requires time).
The market price for two used hypothetical coffee makers¹ (same manufacturer/type/age) is rarely the same. One has scratches, stood in direct sunlight for years, and has a few parts in need of replacing soon, the other was used twice and has sat in a cupboard ever since. Both work.

Besides, who keeps receipts for anything but expensive items that might need warrantee? Most people don't. Sometimes you acquire something through different means: presents, inheriting, thrift shop, etc.

And that's avoiding the huge privacy matter of buying something with a unique tracking number attached and linked to you.

1: I'll take mine without hypothetical sugar please.
(1) AI:

What you said is all correct, but there are some positive steps as well, for example ELLIS: https://ellis.eu/

ELLIS is a great way to compete with the top US universities. Much more is needed, especially access to computing power, just as the CERN for AI proposal suggests.

(2) EU research:

EU research funding itself is a success:

https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/statement-erc-scienti...
All the padding is because of touchscreens. It's ruined the web and now ruining desktop. Low information density, superfluous animations, icon-ese everywhere, losing tooltips, it all sucks.
I couldn't not link to https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/p1j1c/tabs_vs_...
Here's her facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hanaschank

She seems to be doing well and her writing and snark are on point. After reading her posts I'd wager 50% of you will think she's still brain-damaged and 50% will say she's never been in better shape -- such is the contemporary zeitgeist.
Stability AI to lay off staff weeks after founder Mostaque resigned as CEO
Sheep can get in a similar loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifbNL0t31Tw
Yes? That’s a big part of the judicial system. It’s a contract, not law.
I wonder if, instead of UBI, it would make more sense to give everyone a small set of robot servants. Say, 6 per person.
Lumigo: Log management 5x cheaper than Datadog
If Europe wants to finally put the Capital Markets Union and some associated bits in place properly it might indeed not be needed.

More defense spending in Europe is probably also creating some new funding opportunities.
I commented to my partner that it feels like these things will be hunting us down soon. He commented that drones are already hunting people down on the battlefield today. Touché.
It's still firmly within the uncanny valley. That effect doesn't only apply to facial features - in this case it applies to the humanoid shape of the robot, which carries its own set of instinct-driven expectations. For example, some people think owls are creepy because of how far around they can turn their heads, even though they aren't even humanoid. But you see the same effect in horror movies, spinning heads or bodies that move in unexpected ways.
> Not uio

You're so toxically wanting to gaslight me you didn't even look at the keyboards in question to see that yes, they do have the choice to use uio as numbers.

> I'm a "numpad person"

And yet you thought the top row of a PC numpad was 123...
Don't bother reading into the article. Any potentially interesting stuff is behind a "Subscribe" button (also on the archive.org snapshot).
Sam Jacobs, CEO of Pavilion, generated over $1.5 million ARR last year by publishing content on his personal LinkedIn profile.

But it took him 200+ hours to do it.

Most people struggle to create content consistently because they’re using a “push” workflow:

• Can’t find time to write
• Unsure what to write about to achieve marketing goals
• Spend 10+ hours per week or $5k+ per month

Fortunately, you can use ChatGPT to shift your founder-led content workflow from “push” to “pull”:

• Use a “ghost layer” GPT that asks you about topics that achieve marketing goals
• Record yourself talking (no more staring at the blank page and blinking cursor)
• Use a custom GPT that writes based only on your recording, and in your style

Sam's LinkedIn content strategy is great because he shares his stories and unique points of view. ChatGPT can do this for you. AI content doesn't have to be robotic.

In this video, I show you how to create a voice to content workflow for founder-led LinkedIn content.
Maybe 'new information' can be generated by taking existing data and finding new relationships between that data. If that were the case, the original embedding for that data would change (new relationships = new associations).

I agree that infinite knowledge would be difficult to generate this way, but maybe some new knowledge could be. And this process of finding new relationships between existing data might be something we can't automate yet.
Human cognition belongs on the timeline of significant events in the evolution of universe.

We may be only in the tiniest of corners (for now), but probably nothing beats it in complexity (... for now).
Not at all.

The LLM will spew out an answer in a format that most closely matches the average answer to your query in its training data. Most explanations of grammar look like your example.

You may be able to simplify the output with some careful prompts but ultimately the LLM has no understanding of grammar itself so it can't help you understand it if it doesn't contain enough training data that meets your requirements. Just like it can't answer numeracy questions perfectly.
Life is inherently suffering and has no meaning. Being healthy brings many people joy and so does smoking cigarettes; either way we're here for a limited time surrounded by things that are trying to kill us so why not enjoy it?

That's my take at least. During winter I'd probably have a more depressing perspective but the sun has been out lately.
The year is 2024 and all tech companies are required by an unwritten law to have an AI strategy, apparently.
Russia jails hypersonics scientist for seven years in treason case
That's so 1900s...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/in-the-early-1900s-doz...
You can do that with ChatGPT just prompting. Whatever tool you are looking for will be just RAG using ChatGPT.
Feds appoint "AI doomer" to run AI safety at US institute
https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/a-cs-education-thats-free-u...

YCombinator >.>
Probably differences on how different people work.

One convenient thing you can do with terminal stuff is running it in a disposable Docker container without having to install anything on your PC (assuming you already have docker):

docker run --rm -it "${TERMINAL_APPLICATION}"

I do this stuff all the time.
For all those in this thread who haven't tried Matzah, I strongly encourage you to do so. Think of it not as bread, but a cracker – a platform for spreads, if you will.

What kinds of spreads?

- Butter + salt

- Butter + jam

- I guess butter + anything

- Brie cheese

I could go on. Try it y'all!
For that small subset of "stuff" which is likely to sell quickly at a suitable profit in the local market as understood by the pawnbroker.
How do Nintendo's Mario developers bridge a widening generation gap?
Yea but it wasn't just in buildings. They were for example, part of coolants used in transformers. When those fail they leak and contaminate.
This is just ebay/facebook marketplace with extra steps and having to trust some company even more that they won't screw you over.
I realize your point may be valid because I don't know all the details... but I don't know anyone who prefers HFCS coke to Mexican/European sugar coke

The water between those 2 are totally disconnected and yet both tastes fantastic compared to American fructose coke

It matters so much to me that I have a Costco membership just to buy the stuff
It is node.js. You compose it with the libraries you want. No fullstack NodeJS backend got enough traction to be a name the community recommend.
It is insanely difficult to implement it. The idea sounds common sense, but the details are extremely difficult to get right and any mistake causes random crashes, or incorrect data (read security holes).
Frankly, while it’s obviously terrible if you ever want people to actually use it, I’m glad it’s so convoluted because I’d be majorly pissed if some other shortcut I use in some software lead my PC to accidentally also open LinkedIn.