skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human level touch/somatosensory system is one of the key breakthroughs needed to make humanoid robots truly useful.

As this articles details, touch is a lot more complex than simply “is there force on this spot” and the sheer amount of information our bodies process subconsciously throughout our everyday activities is staggering.

Ever wonder why it’s so hard to use a pen to write something if your hands are too cold, or if your arm has “fallen asleep”? Robots are in that state all the time, and we have to use a lot of fancy tricks to get them to manipulate objects without being able to feel them very well.

Whoever can solve this problem, with a product which is relatively cheap, reliable, and high resolution, will be creating a multibillion dollar opportunity for themselves.

As someone who works in robotics, I’d put my money on arrays of MEMS or microfluidic channels embedded inside a gel membrane.
There's also a lot of other use cases! For example, if you have a train schedule with stations and times, you often aren't told how the train will navigate between those stations. In some countries it's straightforward but for instance SNCF TGV services in France sometimes go hours without stopping at a station, crossing a lot of distance. In that case a solution like this can help you find an educated best guess to show users on a map.
> The Irish and Germans didn't have potatoes.

True, but fwiw I wouldn't consider potato to be particularly important in German cuisine. Sure you'll see it used quite a bit, but many of the more iconic dishes don't really need them or can be replaced like with bread dumplings for instance.
beaconDB is currently the only publicly accessible project, but I am currently discussing working together with various other projects and organisations.

The project was originally on GitHub, but it has now moved to Codeberg.
What parts of DC, Baltimore, and Loudan county did you live in?

Culture isn’t easy to find objective measurements but politically things are objectively similar between Baltimore and DC with extremely strong Democratic leanings. 2020 DC voted 5.40% Trump, 92.15% Biden vs Baltimore City 10.69% Trump, 87.28% Biden vs Fauquier County 57% Trump, 40% Biden.

DC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...

VA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...

MD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...

Poor parts of DC are much closer to poor parts of Baltimore than the rich areas of Loudan county etc.
Strange how this has so many different kind of triggers for different people. Makes me wonder if this really one phenomenon, or multiple with similar symptoms.

For me, it took years to identify two triggers: Relieve from stress, and overly exhausting sports or sauna. I used to have a stressful job, and regular intensive training on sunday mornings, and would very often get migraine at exactly 4pm. Since changing the job and doing moderate sports, it became much more infrequent.

Also, I have never had an optical aura. But I have observed yawning, and an increased sensitivity in my nasal passages (basically I feel every breath much more detailed, but not painful) as forewarnings.
Certainly, I forgot this time.
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What implications?
No science here, but...

Isn't it munching on ice cream at 10pm, video games, and other indulges are for that? Also at work, I am (thankfully) able to tinker a lot while delivering value, and not under constant pressure to just grind, in a dry, too serious environment.

I think I do embrace (quite often) the inner child in me, but I definitely separate the "productivity" of my life from that: things that need the diligence, I do take seriously, and maybe this is what gives me this dissonant feeling when I look at this design language in the context of making me more productive.
Way too many false accusations these days means we might have relaxed these standards too much.
I totally agree, you can actually buy stuff with the coins if you press ESC but it's not fully functional.
I don’t have a problem with people knowing the timestamp - it’s only precise down to the second.
Yes, it’s a strawman even in ‘93, and time already ran out in the context of ‘93.

It’s a strawman, because it’s so simplified that they lost all meaning. Except the first one which means even more than what was originally meant to be, but it’s not surprising from a “spritiual leader”. It’s easy to construct situations which contradicts the notion that anybody ever thought these things, or the opposite of these (e.g. the future matters, I give you 100 dollars now, but I shoot you in 10 minutes).

When people says that we need to act now, or there will be consequences, the consequences are already happened in context of ‘93, or 100% they will happen (like collapse of Atlantic currents are certain now). Today, the consequences are wildly different.
Works where archive.is is blocked:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=5059020920596126&w=O_9GpTf...
Someone should make a documentary about the history of StarCraft and where it's going next

I also wish we saw more AI leagues and gameplay

One of the best games of all time.
Do you know https://wokwi.com/ ? I have found support for the -C3, and even Rust development. Although it's online, if you are looking for local stuff I don't know if what they use is available, or if it's a secret sauce.
One less talked about thing when discussing StarCraft, that might be more pertinent to HN audience, is that this game was almost endlessly hackable. And I mean that in the truest sense of that word. Many a careers were launched by playing around with OllyDbg and learning to reverse engineer code all so you could create an awesome plugin [0] for the community.

Which brings me to my next point, which is that the community aspect of StarCraft is a huge part of why it remained popular for so long. As previously mentioned, there were hackers and programmers developing awesome tools that helped the scene, but also there were map makers which were essential in keeping the game balanced. One little known fact about StarCraft is that the last balance patch released by Blizzard was in 2001, at the early beginnings of the pro scene. After that, the game was kept fresh and balanced by community map makers.

Combine that with people who created websites where you could follow news about Korean pro scene (TeamLiquid has its roots here), talk with other people about StarCraft, and other people who organized tournaments and did everything else; and you get a formula which almost ensures the longetivity of the game. I wouldn't be surprised if there are people playing and following this game in 20 years time. I know I'll be one of them.

[0] - https://github.com/TheEngineeringBay/Awesome-Broodwar-Resour...
I just published an article on my blog about the emotional rollercoaster I faced after selling my company.

The impostor syndrome hit hard as I transitioned from being a founder to navigating a large corporate environment. I dive into the insecurities, the struggle with accountability, and how to find a purpose in this new setting.

Give it a look!
Provably false accusations should carry mandatory prison sentences. And life long mark disqualifying from any job that requires any level of trust.
An example of interesting comment that unfortunately happens to be very easy to wrongly attribute to a LLM if only given a passing glance.
Google Brain and Google Research are not DeepMind (an acquired company based in London). Transformers came out on 2017. Last year DeepMind was told to merge with the rest of Google AI (kinda). But it looks like they are still quite independent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Brain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind

https://research.google/teams/
If it’s all about thinking then being restricted by the vocabulary of your language[s] might be a limitation. As a bilingual, a common question from friends in primary school was what language I was thinking in. My answer was I don’t think words, I think images. I later read Edward de Bono Lateral Thinking. I might be out of context here but I thought someone might be interested in the book.
even with KMZs supplied, this still happens. complications in some cases. but an IP product (like starlink), i dont see the same equivalence. at what point does fate sharing analysis end in such a scenario?
It’s not the researcher’s fault if the libraries they use make breaking changes after a month; proof-of-concept code published with a paper is supposed to be static, and there’s often no incentive for the researcher to maintain it after publication.

At this point, venvs are the best workaround, but we can still wish for something better. As someone commented further up, being able to “import pytorch==2.0” and have multiple library versions coexist would go a long way.
Volunteers who lived in NASA's Mars simulation for over a year emerge today
> Typically we don't refer to matrix multiplication as arithmetic calculations

You don't? Didn't you do them in school? Everyone calls that arithmetic's, you are just adding up and multiplying a bunch of numbers.
Undoubtedly! :D
In some sense, isn't making flawed arguments an intelligence flaw by definition?
You could operate the ejection mechanism by hand both on optical and floppy disk drives with an uncurled paperclip (or a SIM card ejection tool were they to exist at that point in time). But I wouldn't ascribe the introduction of the motorized tray to the fruit company, it was the wordmark company: https://youtu.be/bujOWWTfzWQ
The basic rule I think of it that everything must be voluntary, and well-informed, except in self-defence.

You can't force people, you can't trick people, unless it's self-defence, then all bets are off.

I think the State to the extent it adheres to this acts justly, and to the extent it does not, does not.

So when I say that forcing others to do what you want generally ends badly, I mean that but taking this rule into account.
Also not to 0.38g gravity.
You can add "I won't wear that - it makes me look old" - this from an 88-year-old who won't go the local club because "it's full of old people".
In medieval to modern times we try to balance this with having high burdens of proof, presumption of innocence, beyond reasonable doubt etc.

In very recent times, the erosion of those values together with the ease of making baseless but effectively ruinous allegations lead to situations where we see ancient Babylonian codes as providing a solution!
Full quote:

> Coriander leaves fell even further out of fashion than the seeds because their distinct flavor clashed with the trendy imported ingredients of the time, such as rosewater. In 1544, physician and botanist Pietro Andrea Mattioli described the leaves as smelling like bed bugs or stink bugs, a comparison echoed by later authors.

I read this as "Cilantro fell out of fashion due to it's incompatibility with other popular flavors at a time, and since people love following recent trends, they started describing it in a negative way". In other words, people saw it as "stink-bug-like" because the fashion changed. This happens a lot with food (e.g. Jell-O texture now being repulsive to a lot of people) but in this case, it has nothing to do with fashion, because to a lot of people cilantro does actually have such taste, and this shift in popularity is much better explained by the shift in genetics.
This is similar to my symptoms. So far I haven't found any over the counter painkiller that helps me reliably. At least not in the doses you're supposed to take.

A few years ago I read something about a theory that migraines have to do with the body's heat regulation, and it was suggested to try a hot shower. That does seem to help me. So nowadays when I get a migraine (thankfully only about five times per year or so) I run a hot bath and stay in the tub for two to three hours. It's not fun, and for the first few minutes the headache gets worse and really starts pounding (blood pressure changes due to the heat maybe? I don't know). But then the heat does seem to take a lot of the edge off, and after a while the pain actually stops. Which it doesn't reliably do with painkillers only. Much better than lying around in bed, unable to sleep.

Not medical advice, your mileage will vary. But might be something others would want to try. If you're going to suffer and wait for it to stop, you might as well consider doing that in the bath.
it barely ran on 486 fwiw, it would have a major ongoing pause every 2 seconds or so at beginning, getting worse as game progressed. -anecdote from a boy that badly wished for a 586.
Hey! quite accurate, it was a mix of i just wanted to try to see how hard it would be and wanted to know more about jq. I guess it has limited practical use other than as a learning tool. But i've used it to prototype features for "original" jq like how eval could work, regex literals, some object literal syntax enhancements etc. Also i found a bunch of bugs and confusing behaviours in jq along the way :)

btw i didn't follow what you mean by "overlooked the 2 characters"?
I'm somewhat surprised that the article's list of conjectures didn't include one: that Italian Parsley may have just been viewed as superior for all use cases (which IMHO it kinda is, outside of Mexican recipes.)
Math is full of specialized problem-solving skills. Like, "oh, this seems to fit the pattern where we can integrate by parts". If you don't know that, you don't even know that you don't know that; it's an unknown unknown.

General problem-solving skills aren't a substitute for special skills.

General problem-solving skills have limits; one of the outcomes of general problem solving is the conclusion "I don't know how to solve this; it may require someone with special skills".

Without properly honed general skills, you may waste time avoiding this correct conclusion (among other mistakes). General skills let you undestand what the problem actually is, what a solution looks like, and whether you are getting closer.
Every time I go through old NVME/m2 drives in the bins in our IT cage, I sigh and think what could have been.
Welcome to the Era of the A.I. Smartphone
From https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/the-starcraft-path-finding-...

> whenever harvesters are on their way to get minerals, or when they’re on the way back carrying those minerals, they ignore collisions with other units

Maybe that's part of the fluid behaviour you noticed.

The blog contains more technical posts about StarCraft 2, so you might find that "special sauce" somewhere else in there :)
"thanks" :)
Microchip releases PIC64 radiation tolerant RISC-V CPUs for space applications
Not every part of your ideas need to be novel and unadulterated by the rest of human progress. If your ideas need to fit in to some wider context (e.g. you need to produce working code) then it is very helpful to be able to look up important facts about that wider context rather than guessing.
If so, great, if not, I’ll still take it because otherwise someone else will have it, and they very rarely live up to my standards.
The rugpull is the community giving content for free to these corporations. Perhaps for the next big public forum we should require better licensing. Or just avoid these VC-backed sites altogether and go back to something like Usenet.
I'm not sure someone citing pseudo science is in position to criticize researchers who spent much more time doing the real work. I'm pretty sure they know what is the tricky thing with studying the human mind and behavior. I'd really advice you to give their research a better read. Usually the state of art section of a paper is quite enlightening.
No, because we don't have access to the ideas of those who don't write them down.
Yeah, I always find this fact + people saying "America" has no unique food culture to be quite funny in tandem.

Of course the United States does have unique food culture beyond that juxtaposition, but still.
lowkey bringing back letters of marque for the [insert current conflict] is a perennial topic
A (unfortunately still valid) running joke about German public administration is that November is the high season for fax machine sales people
New tech enables actual mind reading: Obama admin vet and researcher debate
Somewhere amongst the 90% of emloyees that do not have a strong opinion one way or the other?
Is this just some GPT drivel?
The cost of complexity is inherently wicked. We could discuss its impacts on HR, on R&D, on supply chain, on education, on manufacturing or project management. However, let's stick to the core: the vast majority of investment-related decision making systems are still stuck in a finite-dimensional reality barely evolved from a spartan economic rationalism analytical milieu derivative of double entry book-keeping functionally based upon entrenched inefficiency and a lack of timeliness. Regulators, insurance, and other aspects of society with ill-deserved critical veto capability do not just support or require but effectively celebrate this uncompromising backwardness, whereas it should actually be banished. We desperately need holistic decision-making taking in to account factors lying outside of this purview. Academics, entrepreneurs, frustrated youth, competent industrial craftspeople and environmentalists are unlikely allies at the coal face.
You realize that in this mode your best bet for survival is becoming a pet of people controlling AI/AI itself if it's self motivating ?

Why would anyone share access ? It's a one shot prisoner dilemma - whoever controls the best system first eliminates the competition and wins.
> There are plenty of great PWAs. People bring them up on a regular basis and you piss and moan when we say

1. Funny how "on a regular basis" only comes after prodding these people multiple times, pointing out Android and desktop exists, and wading through numerous complaints how no, it's not true, and Apple prevents PWAs from existing.

Even in this discussion instead of naming PWAs right off the bat you first pretended that Android isn't dominant, and completely ignored Chrome dominance

2. It's also funny how "the amazing great PWAs" are inevitably not that great, are they?

Instead of being great and amazing they are just... "usable online". Each of those significantly much better as native apps. Without fail most of them would be much faster, fluid, less janky and resource-hungry if they were just static sites with links instead of ... whatever they are. Oh yes, they are usable.

> clearly they exist and you're trying to minimize the number of apps that technically qualify.

"Technically qualify". That's a great turn of phrase you used there.

So, we went from "boohoo limits the viability of non-native apps on its mobile devices" to "usable online" and "technically qualify".

I, for one, don't want to use apps that "technically qualify". I want actual fast fluid non-janky and non-resource hungry apps that are a joy to use even if they are the most mundane apps out there. That is precisely why I keep asking: given that Android dominates mobile space, and Chrome dominates desktop platforms, how come the best examples you can come up with barely "technically qualify"?

> People refuse to take you seriously when you repeat this same tautology.

People refuse to accept PWA fanatics when they keep saying grand words with very little to back them app. All you can do is complain about Apple.

> Of course PWAs aren't popular on platforms that deliberately go out of their way

You'd think that PWAs would be great and amazing on platforms that don't have any real or perceived limitations. And yet, all you can come up with is "usable online" and "technically qualify". But sure, do keep complaining how it's Apple who's preventing you from building great native-like experiences on the web.
Are you doing those things? Then don't complain when others help, just because they don't think they did enough. Some help is better than no help.
Yes it is! see the example in the readme how to run jqjq with jqjq. Sadly you will probably need a lot of memory, it used to work on my laptop but not anymore after some recent changes that seem to have increased memory use.
So you also dispute fuel stations selling fuel for all car brands and would prefer fuel stations only supporting one car brand instead of the generic standard? And yes, this is the same. Why should BMW allow Exxon or Shell to fuel the cars when they don't get a sweet 30% tax for every refuel happening?

Considering the same company is often using the idea of free markets, yet does everything to avoid that free market where it can, the irony here is pretty strong.
Running a French restaurant in Korea, according to korean wiki

https://namu.wiki/w/%EA%B8%B0%EC%9A%A4%20%ED%8C%A8%ED%8A%B8%...
Have you tested PGO for FTS in SQLite? It wasn’t clear from all those links. Would be very interested in that.
Portugal is gorgeous and people and their culture fantastic.

But it is very expensive relatively to salaries.
I actually meant from Reddit as they hold a monopoly on online forums imo, but I'm no expert in this, was just wondering