skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not a conspiracy if the people (who are ‘keeping it secret’ according to the conspiracy people) doing it are saying everywhere they are doing it and everyone knows about it. This is not a proof for ‘chemtrails’ in other countries; those are conspiracy theories with 0 credibility.

Edit; also, in other news; these floods weren’t caused by cloud seeding it seems
Sounds like an argument for direct democracy to me. The will of the people was implemented, even though it's politically incorrect.
Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot goes electric
You can do this without pasting. Ctrl-Q Ctrl-J at the bash prompt inserts a newline into the command line without executing it. This is useful for multiline scripting commands.
If you want something similar, but for games:

https://github.com/EricLengyel/Terathon-Math-Library
HN thread:

Boston Dynamics Retires Its Legendary Humanoid Robot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40063766
The IDF has the quadrupeds and there has been some videos of them being deployed. Can't search Twitter for you, but if you have an account there you'll likely be able to find some examples.
`keyCode` are just raw Windows codes, which are a mess if you ever stray from Windows or US English. `VK_A` does not necessarily correspond to an ‘a’ and does not necessarily correspond to the same position as A on a US keyboard — in general there is nothing you can reliably say about it.

`code` is useful for key positions, e.g. for WASD movement in a game. `key` is useful as the interpretation of a key, but primarily for non-text keys, since IMEs and virtual keyboards mean that text does not necessarily correspond directly to keys.
Wait, do you have big blueberries? Are they for sale?
For sure! It's always great when a new feature falls out of an upstream dependency (in this case, matplotlib 3.6)
The overwhelming majority of my posts from this site get flagged even when they hit the front page immediately
OMG. When he got hydraulic lines raptured or severed his foot I felt like I was watching human being hurt. Insane.
Whistleblower 'would not' put family on Boeing 787 jet
> The United States is not, nor is it intended to be, a democracy.

Even if that were true, it's not really up to the people who intended it to be something else 200 years ago. It's now on us to figure out what kind of nation we want to be.
> 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.

That's a theory.

But as a former Fed, let me propose a different hypothesis: The people who want to do good work, want to grow, and want to push to the next level (whatever that is), don't go into government. Or if they do, they don't stay.

But don't believe me: if you know any US veterans, ask them about their experiences with the VA. Ask them if they've ever gone when it wasn't the only option.
Once again, per Jamie Kellner, your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots, otherwise you're stealing programming.
No, the words just have extremely different meanings. A child opens a Christmas present and starts rejoicing - nobody would claim 'Ah, look at him - he's so content!' One could even take this a step further to add that children, in general, cannot be content.

Contentedness is not happiness. And happiness is most certainly not contentedness. They're are just entirely different states of being.
> How old?

Old enough that the data was already abundantly clear that it wasn't worth the amount being charged. The only justification was for access to the dating pool college offers, which may have been worth something, but not debt-inducing amounts. With Tinder competing on much the same ground these days, it suggests that it isn't worth any more than maybe $50 per month, tops.

> Did you attend college

No, of course not. The numbers didn't make any sense. Had I attended college, I no doubt would have ended up like my friends who did: Struggling financially.

Why should I bail them out? They had their fun in their 20s while I was busy building wealth. I would like to have my fun now. But you want me to sacrifice again so that they can continue to have fun?

> Anyone who attended college a couple decades ago benefited heavily from a subsidized system

Those who attended college a couple of decades ago are the millennials (the group referred to in the original comment). Have we already forgotten that millennials are well into their 40s now? How does this fit into the conversation, exactly? I'm not sure I quite understand the applicability.
It has a proper term for it in political science. I wish I could remember what it is. I think its something like offshoring democracy but I'm really not sure.
They aren't going after the app but the user:
"rather than going after the projects, Google says it's going to start disrupting users who are using these apps. The post writes, "Viewers who are using these third-party apps may experience buffering issues or see the error 'The following content is not available on this app' when trying to watch a video." "
There also was https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean but it seems it's deleted now...
I think you're unnecessarily short-circuiting your imagination.

For one, there are many applications in dangerous environments that could benefit from the dexterity and ability of bipeds - rescue missions, mining, space walks, etc.
Worth noting that none of this points exclusively to bipedalism. It's possible bipedalism is one of the more difficult ways to solve these problems.
hi, thank you for the comment. We didnot build any components using AI.
The link you provided if you choose the language and framework you will see the actual code of the component.

There is proper way we follow
> design components > make it HTML Tailwind > React Tailwind

And all are free to use.
Paying the plumber or janitor to spy is as old as dirt.
Unfortunately what you've said is just not true.

We do have some power, but the system is absolutely intended to suppress the power of the masses. The senate as an institution, the cap on the number of reps in the house, the electoral college, representative rather than parliamentary legislature elections, dark money/super PACs/Citizen's United (and other things that look even closer to outright bribery) and first-past-the-post are ALL anti-democractic institutions intended to preserve the status quo for the already wealthy and powerful.

As for having more power than any other society? Delusional. There are far more democractic electoral systems.
By compelling one of the endpoints to cooperate - this type of law right here. The first will be bringing non-E2E centralized web services into the fold, roughly sorted by size/prominence and whatever bleeds. Then they will move towards pressuring ever smaller "services" to give up plaintext. Simultaneously the push to censor E2E software will have also progressed (made feasible by centralized app stores). Then, assuming that panopticon for the corporate-mobile-first 90% of the population isn't enough (and it's never enough), they'll move on to criminalizing publishing E2E apps directly, since having long censored the app stores, those will be only something weirdo criminals use.
Quite scary, but can't hold a candle to this one ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RIHnK0_NE
how does adding salt to a storm help increase rain fall?
But you've still got to shuttle that data to the browser and it has to be decrypted on the GPU. I think you'd be hard pressed to find that anywhere in the wild.

Modern CPUs can decrypt AES with specialized instructions at a rate that's practically measured in GB/s. Especially for streaming video that doesn't need to decrypt the full stream at once (and where you're probably already using the GPU to, you know, render the video) why would you use the GPU for AES?
This is the mentality that they desperately want you to have. Their game plan is to push more and more laws like this until we are too exhausted to push back. First ACTA then FISA and now RISAA. If you roll over and say "well they're gonna do it anyway so what's the point of fighting", you've let them win. If we all took this approach then the internet would come apart at the seams. Stand up for what's right and take action, otherwise you lose your right to complain about the consequences.
That's still very anecdotal.
Java has always been conservative about maintaining backwards compatibility and introducing new keywords, but the java.* and javax.* packages have been growing larger and larger since day one.

I do think Go and Kotlin have kicked the Java community into high gear, though. A lot of the recent (or upcoming) features are direct answers to features found in those languages.
Also feel the need to drop a note here about the incredibly bad-faith conflation of "freedom of speech" with "freedom from consequences of speech." The government does not and should not have the right to imprison you for saying shit, even the worst shit I've ever heard. That being said, if saying it loses you your job, your business clients, your friends and family, and whatever else because they now think you're an asshole of an incredible caliber, I have zero issues with that at all.

If you find it inconvenient to hold shitty principles, I'd suggest you find better principles, not uselessly get upset with other people who no longer want to put up with you.
I guess the big news is, that it runs on batteries
I'm not sure I'm particularly convinced that this is an issue with the method of factor analysis and by extension psychometrics, per-se. Unless one specifies a causal model and actually tries to do a risky test of their theory, any other method is liable to the issue of arbitrariness and subjectivity. Psychometrics itself has come a long way and there have been many advancements to put it on firmer footing. If anything, the issue isn't with the method, but by the user of the method. I don't know if I agree that it's an issue of understanding a method, rather than an over-reliance on data (analysis) over theoretical guidance and trying to take a hammer to theories.
I work for a private employer who pays a private insurer who then contracts with private doctors - where am I getting any sort of public subsidy?
> If you're looking to save some RAM, this ain't it. Not because LXQt is memory hungry, but because Plasma is so damn efficient these days.

I doubt it. Have you got any benchmarks?
I've been reading Matt Strassler's blog for over a decade now.

I really like how unlike other science communicators in many of his articles he assumes you have some university level education. It explains concepts I have not found outside actual textbooks but in a way that is very understandable to an engineer such as myself.
Here's the democracy that you are living in:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-co...

The capitalist West was not 'totalitarian' only because up until recently, it was possible to condition or distract the public through the corporate-controlled media. When the people gained the means to share information and organize and the corporate media was not enough to keep them down anymore, the system showed its true nature and stomped down the Occupy movement on the pavement. Sure, they did not jail them for their 'free speech', but they fined tens of thousands of dollars each for 'trespassing on PUBLIC property', effectively bankrupting many students, working-class activists etc, and sending a message to everyone else who 'had ideas'.

Some say that 'Angloamerican democracies are flawed of course'. The above is not flawed. Americans say that neither their vote nor their opinion has any effect on policy (~70%+ on polls each) leaving aside the recent research that shows it to be so, and when they try to change anything, they get what was done to Occupy done to them. Its not democratic

And for those who think that there is more freedom in Europe:

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/16/germany_palestine#:~:....

You have freedom as long as you don't disturb the ruling class or go against the incumbent foreign policy.
I don't wanna classify you like an animal in the zoo, but it seems good to me to know that you're Homosapien too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HwmO_GZfzI
Can they remove or update bad legislation that is currently in place?
very wrong and I am a little sad I am getting down voted for not knowing something but here we are.
> It’s exciting to point the finger at a scary technology, but the real cause of the flooding is likely more banal: Dubai is comically ill-equipped to deal with rainfall.

Well that's a funny way to spell "human caused global climate change".
The executive becoming legislators, Montesquieu told you so with his principle of "Seperation of Powers", but the EU was built after WW2 as an inter-governmental organisation, critized in the 60s/70s for being a group of Ministers sitting in a closed room, and taking decisions for their own ministries. The European Parliament was born out of those critics (and some German Const Court decisions).

But that does not solve the core problem that the executive should not become legislator.
Duplicate of article:

An Electric New Era for Atlas

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40064105
Sorta-Artificial Intelligence
> I don't know what world view of yours that I'm challenging. Self reflect on that.

You're taking skepticism of extraordinary recall much more personally than I am being skeptical. Your remark about self-reflection is a good one for you to consider too.

I already considered the possibility that my 2yo self might have created memories I know have, and rejected it as too outlandish.

> The conversation was about early memories. During that conversation I told of my earliest memory to which my mom replied, in that conversation, that that building and appointment(s) were from when I was 18 months old.

Unless your mum has a perfect memory, it's far more likely that she mentioned it to you or in your presence as you grew, and then forgot she did. You have never considered the possibility that your mum probably forgot that you were told or within earshot when she told someone else all about that place?
I think this conclusion should encourage people to think about the current problem and how childhood can influence success in adulthood
Yup, it's a bit edgy, but I kind of understand the author. Common mistakes listed on the site plague the whole internet and it's hard not to get emotionally invested once you start to notice how many people just write incorrectly. A very interesting thing from my observations: people that make these mistakes are usually native speakers, foreigners usually lack vocabulary but don't confuse words. May be related to how the language is learned
Haha thank you for reading and glad you found it engaging! Maybe it's the benefit of being a beginner and not having any skin in the game. I did a lot of searching but couldn't find any conclusive answers for my use case so figured I may as well run the benchmarks myself.
I didn't. I just told you that driving quality is not a unique feature of EVs.

In fact most your driving experience has no relation to the engine. High torque matters for fast acceleration, which is a fine thing to enjoy, but I absolutely prefer a good suspension and handling over 3s less 0 to 100km/h.
> When the change is subtle and/or a smart improvement, no one complains.

All UI changes bring some amount of pain to existing users. People will accept that pain if the benefit of the change is greater than the cost, no matter how large or small the change is.

The thing that's become common is for UI changes to happen that bring little, if any, benefit to the user.
Here's what happens in 'better democracy implementations':

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/16/germany_palestine#:~:...
I suspect that they have something like that indeed. In robotics, there is the concept of a Whole-body-controller, and I think BD has one of these for their robots, which can be calibrated for each individual robot.
And the tools & skills to make such a controller for new robot variants fairly quick.

Such WBC then makes sure that the robot reaches both it's task goals (eg. grab something, with 1, 2 arms), as well as it's (dynamic) stability goals so it doesn't fall over. They are also capable of choreographing the robot pretty accurately as we say in earlier videos.
But what is most very impressive to me is the robot using the mass and momentum of things it grabs to keep stable or move itself. In one of the videos it grabs a big piece of wood and uses it to turn itself around while jumping. Amazing! Controlling that in terms of dynamics is... wow!
1080Ti vs 4060Ti. Factoring in nvidia's price creep and a worse exchange rate, the 4060Ti costs today roughly what I paid for my 1080Ti 7 years ago.

I'm comparing perf by looking at sites likes userbenchmark and reading/watching reviews of newer cards. I'm running into games I can't play at a level that I'm happy with, but based on reviews I don't think a 4060 or 4060Ti would make a meaningful difference.
Eh. If you want to save RAM & CPU, i3 is where it's at.
So many of his villains are multi-faceted, so much so that you start to think he actually cannot write an unsympathetic "pure evil/Sauron" style villain, and then he hits you right in the face with Carcer or Gilt.

Truly a phenomenal author. It's fun to watch how his one-dimensional parody characters take on a life of their own over the series; you can really tell he has a love for them, even if they're not his cup of tea.
I worked for a video titling company in the 80s during their transition from Analog titling to Digital titling. One key thing I learned there is that CRTs have about three times the horizontal resolution folks give them credit for. Most folks measure horizontal resolution in how many clear pixels you can go from light to dark and back. What they don't account for is the pixel-shift, you can position those start and end transitions at three or more times that resolution.

Nowadays we call that sub-pixel rendering or antialiasing. But in the 80s so many people were convinced TVs could only do 640x480. Our titling systems were typically doing 2400x480 to get good quality character aliasing and image shading on CRTs. This is still somewhat true today analog-wise but common sub-pixel rendering or antialiasing does achieve the same effect on LCDs.
Stretching a picture to fit in 2024, on an article about heuristics for dismissal.
Okay, link to your source
Even a tiny payload is very loud and high energy use
The website mentions they have 1400+ customers, yet at the same time it's a beta, and has 1 YouTube video with 8 views posted a year ago. Something just feels a little... off?

Their Twitter posts seem to have retweeted a post by "Dorik AI" which is a website which has exactly the same theme and mentions "Dorik AI Website Generator can generate a complete website for you in a matter of seconds".

I wonder if this is how these components* were initially built? They seem very mishmash and all over the place.

*: I mention "components" because these feel more like auto-generated pages rather than the granular things you'd expect a component to have.
The same people who will click allow on anything will also happily download and run a random APK or executable
Watch AI-powered robots play soccer
I think it was specifically just minarets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Swiss_minaret_referendum

Now, you might find even that a bit overbearing, but I believe the right of a community to influence the architecture of their local town shouldn't be seen as a bad thing. The feeling was that the few minarets that already existed were incongruent enough, that they didn't want a carte-blanche on more sprouting up, which I think planning permission had already been applied for.
shadcn is downright great and ergonomic
If the reason is because of abusing community, then why stop at jail - what about the business owners that get fined for illegal activity against their workers and the public (which rarely results in jail time)? The impact of someone like Galen Weston price fixing pantry staples for years has an outsized negative effect on the community, is highly illegal, but is simply dismissed by a fine. Perhaps those who receive fines should not have voting power either for the abuse they've caused their community.
I'd be really curious if that causal though. Airline pricing is an extreme black box, subject to tons of factors. Maybe the other flight is just at a better time for people traveling before/after some event? Or it's on an airline that more people prefer? So much of flying is done by corporate travel where you barely have a choice of time or layover or airline, let alone which plane you fly on.

By contrast, I was booking a flight next month and could have gotten an Airbus flight for $150, but on an airline I loathe, so I took a 737 flight for $250 because assuming I don't die, it'll be a much better experience.
SpartanEngine: MIT-licensed C++ Vulkan game engine
You want a separate robotic appliance for every thing you want done? That sounds... hectic.

I'm also not sure it's important that laundry and dishes get done at the exact same time - if it is, you should probably do 1 of those tasks yourself - especially since a robot would be able to stuff at night, etc, giving it more time to complete tasks

Also, GP mentions stairs, and adding wheel support to that. So not only do you want a half dozen robits rolling around your home, you'll also need to remodel your home to support it.

Or, of course, we could develop bipedal robots, which seems to have little downside as compared to wheeled robots.
This is a powerful story.

I nearly died drowning, too. I was probably in my late 20s, on an island in the Outer Banks of NC.

The area was (and is) prone to severe riptides - a current formation that surprises swimmers by pulling them out to sea rapidly. These are very difficult to spot visually unless you know exactly what you are looking for.

I saw a boy out in the water, far deeper than he should have been for his age (maybe 8-10 yo). He seemed OK, but I knew enough to know that "drowning doesn't look like drowning." Without much thinking I just swam in after him.

Once I started out I realized quickly what was going on. I made my way to the boy. He was absolutely panicking. I told him to remain calm, and we would be OK. I am a competent but not amazingly strong swimmer - mainly I was able to give him somebody to hold onto so he could stop swimming and wasting his own energy.

We made our way back in, but I could feel the current against me. This is the nature of rip tides. Even fully aware of the phenomenon I wasted a LOT of energy swimming directly against the current. I was worried I wasn't going to make it.

Finally I managed to move far enough down the shore to escape the rip tide, and we made it back safely.

It felt so anticlimactic. The kid ran to his family. I ran to mine, and collapsed on a beach towel. My family asked if I was all right, to which I could only really answer that I was. A few minutes later the mom came by and thanked me.

But I knew the truth. My miscalculation nearly cost me my life. It didn't look like that from the shore, but if I hadn't escaped the rip tide when I did I know full well I would have panicked and drowned.

To this day, that moment sits with me, and it keeps everything in perspective.
Wow! Fantastic tool :) I wonder if my results will be as good as your examples. But it is a really interesting tool for creating podcasts, especially for non-natives.
I live in Canada and have found many Canadians lacking drive, curiosity and will. Also far from being straight in business to the point they feel like politicians. In average dealing with USians was much more to my liking (I am originally from the USSR). There are of course exceptions on either side.