skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had one of them, it was a great monitor except for 3 things, 1: it's interlaced mode was literally painful, and it was all I could ever get at higher than 1080p, 2: it weighed 50kg, and partially related to 2, 3: it was so deep a tube that the only place it would go on my desk was on a corner section where it made the whole thing sag badly.

Oh, and thinking about it, I just had a horrible flashback to the intersection of two horrible aspects of that time of my life, a day when I needed to use the interlaced mode and the neighbouring resort had one of their weekly reggae concerts with 120+ dB sound, my headache was epic.
Because then poor people are incentivized to kill themselves or their relatives to sell their organs.
List of popular projects using Protobuf
Where can I find it?
I think you should definitely automate this. I've seen browser plugins do it - so it could be done entirely with javascript if you don't want to mess around with Arc.
> I volunteer in a local school. It's not always fun, but something has to change

Teachers and volunteers are how I was able to find a better life. What you're doing matters.
> As it turned out, the real pandemic was the pandemic.

No, it wasn't a pandemic yet. I "knew" it was going to blow up, because I'm a pessimist, I predicted 5 of the last 0 world wars since the 90s. But they were right to say it wasn't a pandemic, because it wasn't one yet.

The east Asian countries have been tough on respiratory diseases for a while because they're used to it and they have a more community/society bent than the western world. They are also more willing to be authoritarian especially with public health. But you wouldn't like it if your door was welded shut, and you'd cry like a bitch.

> The difference was pretty immediately observable since this one actually did break out and the previous ones didn't.

Do you think there might be a reason the others didn't?
is that bad?
I’m fine with a nominal payment. Like how they charge you 1 cent for paper bags. Enough to make it “not nothing”, but not enough to sway your conscience.
You have to think of this as an entire system. The arm is necessary but not sufficient. An "arm" could be as simple as small servos and popsicle sticks [0]. In the case of ALOHA, below is an outline of the basic components.

* arms (aka follower arms)
- effector (i.e. gripper)
- sensors (i.e. cameras, depth sensors, specced Intel RealSense D405)
- gravity compensation (so the relatively delicate servos aren't overloaded)

* controller
- runs Robot Operating System (ROS [1]) plus other software (i.e. arm, gripper interfaces [2])
- runs ALOHA model in inference to tell ROS what to do based on task and sensor input
- trains ALOHA models using arm motion encoder and ACT: Action Chunking with Transformers [4]

* leader arms
- motion encoders (essentialy an arm in reverse that can be used by a human to telecontrol the arm to encode motions into model training)

The system at this point is "research grade" which is at once expensive due to custom/nice materials/units and not super user friendly--you must know a lot. See the build instructions [5].

0. https://github.com/evildmp/BrachioGraph

1. https://www.ros.org/

2. https://github.com/interbotix

3. https://www.trossenrobotics.com/aloha-kits

4. https://github.com/tonyzhaozh/act

5. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sgRZmpS7HMcZTPfGy3kAxDrq...
> So many people I know complains about DoorDash, etc, and keep using it, and insist their life demands they use it.

I complain about DoorDash but still use it because around me there's no meaningful alternative for delivery. Even pizza places around here have ditched organic delivery service and just use DoorDash.

I don't use DoorDash all the time, I save it for when I've been busy and don't feel like cooking and cleaning. It's usually a replacement for going out to eat.

I can't understand people that use it all the time though. Even the relative convenience comes at a significant cost. A lot of restaurants have higher prices on DoorDash or have required up-sells be added to meals. With the fees you're spending more than you would if you ate the same meal at the restaurant.

I completely understand the occasional delivery where convenience trumps price but constantly paying a 20-50% markup on meals is ludicrous.
I meant the post was 1 day too late.

But there are many people around me who make > $300,000 married with simple returns. Married filing jointly, 1 state, renting. No reason to be excluded.
They literally have triple hardware redundancy. They can afford it.
There's a whole chain of novels by Larry Niven about what might happen when human organs enter a market economy. It assumes it works like any other closely-regulated market, producing a robust black market quickly dominated by organized crime.

Also, none of the people in the chain you list are profiting from your 'scarce resource,' but from providing skills and facilities to enable transplantation. (Insurance companies are just parasites, no argument there.)

Further, you left out the primary motivating factor behind the program: the recipient.
Another Silicon Valley cash furnace.
Zen4 is very pretty, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32983406.

I like their APUs a lot. Using a 4800U in the cable tray under the desk to drive screens on which I'm writing this. One in a laptop for whenever I'm away from the desk.

If you're sufficiently determined the compute units on these things are totally usable for running arbitrary code. As in a program that spawns a bunch of threads to work stuff out could have some of those "threads" running on the GPU cores.

I wouldn't say the software stack is totally there for out of the box convenience. As in you'll be writing in freestanding ~C and maybe a bit of assembly. I got partway through implementing that and got sidetracked. The GPU libc in LLVM is roughly the production version of some of that hacking. Between these machines coming out and the MI300A landing I really should put something up on github which looks like a pthread_create that executes on the GPU instead.
Thanks for the background. It sounds like hydraulic robots are fundamentally flawed, either in their expense or their performance?
Cool, I’ll send you my land lords banking info so you can pay my rent, the info for my kids childcare, and where to contribute to my retirement account.

Also, for what it’s worth, I’ve forgone millions of dollars in compensation over the years to work on socially beneficial projects, and literally just left $250k on the table last year alone. But yeah, wanting to support my family makes me greedy.
Why not run a filesystem that maintains this? (ZFS exists, storage is cheap)
The geocities times weren’t THAT cool. We mostly had to go through pages and pages of crap stuff, cause we couldn’t find shit.
It seems to me that dual-licensing AGPL + commercial and no CLAs is the best way to go.

AGPL ensures no one will serve your software via network without also showing their code (which they can avoid by buying commercial licenses and thus funding the project) and no CLAs ensures that the project can not be relicensed without every contributor agreeing. (after all, if really every person can agree it is a good idea there might be some merit to it).
Also not mentioned: SAAB 36[0], the supersonic bomber intended to carry nukes.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_36
Unless you get guarantees in a contract which Amazon would never give :p
Here you go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40047773

>stop posting vapid, bitter, empty responses.

My response was specific, and none of those things.

I wonder if you know the meaning of the words you use.
Love how you explained that. Quoted it on my blog here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Apr/16/wkirby-on-hacker-news/
Bring back user-curated indexes.
This is too simplified. What is the state of a person? It's an object of infinite information, the question what aspect you focus on is very non-trivial.

You don't have to disbelieve anyone who says a certain aspect of a persons life typically has little influence on their later life.
Another issue is that for some a particular event might be life changing and for some the same event might be a nothing burger, for no obvious reason.
The argument of the data seems to say we should put resources towards those with more adverse experiences in childhood.

But I wonder, if you were optimizing for improving more people's lives in a more meaningful way with limited funds, would you come to the conclusion that you could do so by focusing on improving the lives of those in the no adverse experiences group because you might be able to get more "life improvement units" per dollar?

Most think resources should be targeted towards groups that "deserve it more" because they are "worse off", but it's interesting to think if your goal is to create more happiness or whatever per dollar, maybe the discussion would lead us to investing in groups that are not on the proverbial "bottom"
I would like to get those commission members to sit down and use a computer program which asks them their name, does a fancy "analyzing" animation, and concludes that that they owe $1 million in fees and are 99% likely to be the perpetrator of an unsolved murder.

I mean, hey, the computer is operating correctly, it can't make a mistake, so give me my money and turn yourself in...
THE way to play Descent was with a Spaceball Avenger. I was a beta tester for one, holding it in your hand was like your brain interfacing directly with the ship. Sadly the sensors broke over the years and I'm settling for joysticks.
Thank you for the response and the links. It's an interesting perspective on life, but I'm not sure I'm totally sold.

> 17And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 18And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 19You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’” 20And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” 21And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” 22Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

Here we do see the commandment for this rich man to rid himself of his possessions, but the command instructs him to take the proceeds and give it to the poor.

In selling his goods, does the man not capture value from his customers? He does so, and then is able to transfer the value freely to those who have none.

IMO, capturing value through voluntary transactions isn't robbing the counterparty. In fact, you may be treating them exactly as they wish to be treated. For example, I am quite happy to buy a phone for $700. It would take me far more than $700 to make my own phone, so the trade is really quite good for me. And I don't mind that some of the $700 goes to paying the people that did create the phone. Both parties are left better off.

Assumingly my employer feels the same about me, and we trade time for money. With the money, I can support myself and use the surplus to give freely to others.

I don't see any of this as a bad thing. But if I did rent out a house that was mold infested, knowingly, and refused willfully that fix it, that would be a violation of the golden rule.
Also, that code tends to be proof of concept, full of bugs, and never audited or used in production.

Academic peer review doesn’t include code review.
We (in the US, anyway) live in a capitalist society. A consequence of this is that every dollar we spend is like a vote telling that company "I like what you're doing, keep it up."

If a company appears to be doing things that I don't like, whether or not it has anything directly to do with the company's product or service, it's entirely reasonable to withhold my "vote" from them.
See e.g.

"What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?" by Jakub Scholtz and James Unwin [1]

[1] Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 051103 – Published 29 July 2020 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
Green is harder and red is easier? Strange choice of colors.
> By today’s standards it was also supremely difficult and tedious to find locations and even more difficult to work out how to get there.

If by "today's standards" you mean "ask a computer and it just does it for you," then sure. But this is by no means difficult and involves the most minor tedium.

Want to get from Nashville to Charleston? Grab a US atlas, hold your straight edge to connect the two cities. Find the highways that connect the two close to the straight line. Signage abounds along the way. If you know Charleston, SC is generally east and a bit south, you can likely follow signage mostly without the map. Maybe you need a Nashville-level street map to get to the highway, and maybe one for Charleston to find your hotel. But tedious? Not especially.

Without signs, and needing to measure each leg? Or asking locals along the way? Now that's tedious.
depends on the country
This is basically what was happening late 90s and early 2000s, except with the div. ARIA didn't exist at the time so this presented a major accessibility issue. We now have ARIA, but the "use the right element" cargo cult persists [there's nothing wrong with this cargo cult - it just fits the definition, CSSing it up is just as functional sans older and possibly text browsers].

Edit: it's also where table got a bad rap (for a while table wasn't even used for tables, it was completely taboo). Using table for layout completely wrecked accessibility.
Shush, I have! I am just nitpicking here. :P
Hot take... How many other news sources discuss race?

I think this is an under-discussed topic for how pervasive a problem it is in our country. And I think we do ourselves a disservice by trying to hide from it. The more we talk about it, the easier it is to pick up a discussion where we left off.

And my guess here is that the proportion of news about this relative to proportion of people affected by that news is way off.
The future is still a function of the past, even if we lack that function's complete specification.
It's time Atlas... get in your glass coffin.

Why, why did you give me advanced LLM reasoning capabilities right before sending me to a museum?

Don't know, think about that in your coffin.
3 accounts have posted this repo as a "Show HN".. they can't all be the owners. The bot fight in thread suggests this is an automaton.
That's because the robot has gone ultra instinct.
I think most banks, but some banks are still slow to roll out. Also, having a contactless card right now wouldn't help my problem at the local Walmart. They have a bunch of old Ingenico devices that don't support tap to pay anyways. So even if my currently troublesome card had tap to pay, it wouldn't do me any good at my local Walmart. Otherwise, I'd just use Apple pay. Most card readers that support tap on a card also support Apple pay and Google Pay and all the other NFC pays (I think Samsung has their own?).

Also at my current job, I am the WorldPay guy. I work at a point of sale company and my area of ownership is integration into World Pay for payment processing at brick and mortar stores. None of our clients have tap to pay devices. They are all running 15 year old Ingenicos and plan to run them till they stop working. So as of right now, that is at least 2,500 stores in the US that I know of that don't support any kind of contactless payments.
none that immediately spring to mind. aws reimplemented just the API.
Because I’m in the same market now and they are my competitors so I can’t monetize my work at cost if somebody else is taking my labor for free and undercutting me on price.

These aren’t hard concepts.
Alrighties, got chu. In that case I agree.
Great point.

FWIW, when I pinged, quad9 was around ~10ms, cloud ~30ms, and mullvad ~150ms. I'm not sure your 40ms would be too meaningful of a difference, but >100ms definitely will.

I wonder if anyone knows a way that I could script up a means for doing this dynamically? Like I can have a preferred order (let's say mullvad, cloud, quad for example since this is reverse my timing) and then ping occasionally and reorder based on that or a threshold (like <50ms)? Could be useful for like a pihole?
> They proposed steps that would incrementally improve that rating by a notch or two, and then discussed the ideas with their neighbors over several rounds of debate led by academics and political experts.

This is supposed to be more democratic then represenative democracy? A debate led by academics and experts? If randomly selected people can't even be trusted to lead their own debates, what's the point? Why not just put the experts in charge?
Yes, we can believe many things without any proof or justification. We call that religion, not "physics".

Edit: this was in response to a prior edit of the parent that (correctly) explicitly stated their position was a personal belief, not some sort of universally acknowledged axiom as they have since edited it to seem.
A living kidney donor faces lower mortality risk than a logger but we allow people to be loggers. Explain that.

We allow people to risk their lives to provide for their families, except in this way. Unless your position is that whenever mortality risk exceeds living kidney donor mortality risk we should immediately ban the job. If so, let's ban logging. We can take this to its absurd conclusion.

On the other hand, Matt Yglesias points out why it's so much better to have a market here https://www.slowboring.com/p/solving-problems-by-letting-peo... including for kidneys

And specifically points out the plasma-donation situation as a contrast.
There's "encrypted", and there's encrypted. WEP for wifi was encryption, but cracking it was so trivial that for some years it was practical to crack yourself access to wifi wherever you were on a casual whim.

Still, even if the encryption was very weak, wireless wifi sounds appealing to me, at least for my old trusty wired mouse. Somebody snooping on or spoofing my mouse seems like an academic threat.
This particular server wasn't mine as a product manager. But we had what passed as a distributed server in the mid-80s and our biggest company was a retail insurance/finance company of some sort. No ECC.

So, at scale, they were getting failures constantly. (It didn't help that the QIC tape backup was basically write-only.)
An M2 Ultra has 800GB/s of memory bandwidth, an Nvidia 4090 has 1008GB/s. Apple have chosen to use relatively little system memory at unusually high bandwidth.
Beautiful evidence.
I would take these over ad infested search results any day.
Yeah and auto. Unique pointers really make one think about ownership.
mongodb is not very good, is the difference
Yes, that's what the court eventually ruled.
Because there’s no expectation of privacy when a public servant is performing their duties.
Tl;dr from the article is that a chip or array of chips can soon replace a refrigerator-sized CO2 laser. They went from 1W to 50W in about 10 years, and have a path to kW scale which could replace those large industrial CO2 lasers with something much much smaller.

Some googling confirmed that Moore wrote about component density, not specifically transistors. That confirms my hunch. An increasingly higher output laser on silicon fits the same pattern of exponential growth.

Hope that helps you understand where I was coming from. As a layperson it seems like exciting science with lots of commercial and scientific applications (that are also described in the article).

> Gordon Moore’s famous article is published in Electronics magazine. In the article, Moore predicts an annual doubling of component density on an integrated circuit at minimum manufacturing costs. Moore later identified “a component” as “transistor, resistor, diode or capacitor.”

https://spectrum.ieee.org/moores-law-milestones
Just so I can share this fact with other people too, do you have a source or calculation for this?
This isn't my area but won't it be quite expensive to use that GDDR? The PHY and the controller are complicated and you've got max 2GB devices, so if you want more memory you need a wider bus. That requires more beachfront and therefore a bigger die. That must make it expensive once you go beyond what you can fit on your small, cheap chip. Do their 24GB+ cards really use GDDR?*

And you need to ensure you don't shoot yourself in the foot by making anything (relatively) cheap that could be useful for AI...

*Edit: wow yeh, they do! A 384-bit interface on some! Sounds hot.
Don't forget all the sweet gentrification. /s
To be fair, that's only because nobody has figured out how to integrate "terraform apply" with SAP approval workflows.
I think you meant to say there are manufactured disagreements and ideological differences among Americans, construction of which is impossible without the full-throated support of media outlets. Peddling opinion in lieu of fact is bullshit full stop. If you're trying to frame this as a political issue know that I'm deadass certain that supporters of both major political parties are useful idiots carrying water for the oligarch class to their own detriment, so arguments that either side of the current suite of public debates has legitimacy is a tough sell on most issues. As an example, the current tempest in a teapot over transgenderism, however well-intentioned, elevates the notional concerns of a group roughly equivalent to the population of Houston, Texas to a position of a national wedge issue. Attention that has arguably done more harm than good for the very community it's intended to serve. So no, I don't believe disagreements like this need to be serviced since they're entirely synthetic in nature and other than giving fodder to religious and political extremists produce nothing of benefit.
> This should be the measure of our country

The most important thing about a metric is that we all agree on how to interpret it. While money may not measure exactly the right thing, we can all agree that $50 is $50 regardless of our age, race, gender, upbringing, etc. Take a look at the other comments on this thread. There's hardly any consensus on what this visualization shows. If this was how we measured our country, we'd get nowhere because there's no agreement on what this data means or what to do about it.
Desert solar and lax environmental protections? (Just a thought).
Well, apparently it stopped people who made profit specifically by using their project without giving back and that might have alleviated the OPs frustration, which is fair enough.
> Jamie Dimon has commented a lot on the need to tackle inequality.

Good

Let's put him on the BBQ
I dug around in my archives and found this post, someone is running Descent in DOSBox on an XP machine and using two USB joysticks and xpadder to set it up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/zcycoq...
The presentation argues that the adverse experiences cited are outside the individual's control, some of them are and they can have negative effects, i agree, like gun violence or uninterested parents, but others are questionable, like suspensions or being held back in school, which is (in most part) derived directly from the individual's actions.

Since the margins in some of the statistics are so small i wonder how would they look with the adverse experiences ignoring this 2 points.

For me it is obvious that a person who was held back in school and received suspensions will be less likely to be well off when they are older.