skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * Robotic manipulation in unstructured situations is just, maybe, starting to work. Maybe. We're getting close to Amazon warehouses, at least, going fully automatic. We might get more general purpose automated factories. This has been expected since the 1950s, but this time it might happen. Neural nets are better and cheaper now.

How has this space not seen more action on the consumer side? Roombas came out 20 years ago then there's been basically nothing but tiny increments on the same idea since.

Seems to me like an area that could make use the sensor/3d tech from self driving, but wouldn't need to be anywhere near as reliable to still be a useful product. You could probably charge Apple margins if you cracked it first. I'd pay $5-10k for something that would last a few years and could passively clean a bathroom or kitchen to a reasonable degree.
Are you saying that spawning offspring should grant you privileges that other passengers shouldn't get?
I've been at companies where this was indeed the case.
My main criticism of this article and the article it references is that it refers to Marc Andreessen as a “not-so-bright billionaire” who “doesn’t build shit”.
Do people forgot that he built the first popular web browser (mosaic) and then built Netscape? He is much more part of “hacker” culture than other names mentioned.
Oh, the good old "the user is doing it wrong, the product is fine" with scrum being the product.

Can anybody (not PM/leader) give 1 example of a company where they saw scrum being done "correctly"?

crickets

I guess scrum is fine and people just don't know how to do it properly.
This is exactly why I hate retros. It's just a venting session. We're going to whine about some things, of which we have absolutely no power to change, and somehow that changes the future.

But people seem to love them.

I'd prefer to spend that time putting my head down and grinding through whatever sucky thing people were otherwise whining about.
Earlier:

United Airlines Taps Elon Musk's Starlink for In-Flight Wi-Fi

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41532121
The Most Desperately Needed Airplane Is Back in Production
well, carpenters "measure twice, cut once"...

also, when many people write an argument, then will also write a counter-argument to be thorough.

So "design it twice" might be ok.

Would there be other techniques that could help, like some sort more adversarial second design?
So its just ChatGPT 3.5? Always has been.
Break Amazon up
> It's entirely possible that EGS just doesn't work at really deep depths as you state here, but this seems like a qualitatively different argument to the one presented in the article.

A different argument to the one presented in the article, you say. Huh.

I suppose I can't claim to know more about geothermal than the author of that blog post, but if you check again, you'll find it does mention EGS. Apparently something made the author decide the problems with Quaise using that are non-obvious enough to need explanation.
Regardless of relative directions around circles, the sine and cosine between 0° and 90° can be described unambiguously in terms of ratios between side lengths of right triangles. You could decide to define the functions differently, but then they'd no longer be the sine and cosine, they'd be something else. The whole point of having these two named functions is that they're a common ground, independent of whatever idiosyncratic angle measurements are useful for a given problem.
To be fair, there are no good, accessible database tools around for your average non programmer user.

Access tried to be this a decade ago, until MS started to let it die. So now, your only option is basically Excel. There's a reason it's the main thing people gravitate into.
MA can stand his ground against the gardaí; Tá capall amuigh agam (Breathnaíonn sé cosúil le Billie Piper tar éis leath-unsa cóc)
Lol, yeah the prompt is definitely going to help clarify what the code actually does.
Well one of the reasons for outsourcing was the idea that becoming a service economy would improve our country and it's citizens... Unfortunately that turned out bust.
My point was pretty clear I thought: that what @gwern says is not true is actually true.
[Toybox] Impact of global struct size
My interpretation is that the parent is referring to the link between Chinese realestate buyers in Australia and criminal activity. It’s almost subliminal how the conversation shifted
I read the author's statement that they were "not out here wearing long nails for fun" to mean that they were not the one liking or invested in long nails. I may be reading too deeply between the lines, but I believe that reading the critical comments left by the "Internet Nail Police" may be more energy-consuming than the alternative of conforming to beauty standards. I felt a tone of sarcasm from the offense taken at "god forbid, there’s a smudge of dirt under [their] natural nail," which I took to mean that these comments are nitpicky and extremely likely to occur. Though it may be easy to brush off some amount of social scorn, being a public figure on the Internet comes with a volume of it that I've heard many influencers and content creators describe as difficult to cope with no matter how strong I assumed them to be.
As a previously "mediocre, but not completely incompetent, graduate student" at a top research university (who's famous advisor was understandably frustrated with him), I consider this a huge win!
https://archive.ph/phnsd
Not surprising given how bad the takes here are and how many of the users here are dumb kids right out of college who are aspiring founders.
Ask HN: Must-Read Books for Startups?
I recently read The Mom Test, and I learned something critical: before investing in your idea, talk to potential customers to see if anyone wants it or not.

While this might seem obvious, it wasn’t to me. The first time I started something in my 20s, I was so enamored with the idea and its potential that I didn’t validate it!

So, The Mom Test is obviously crucial reading.

There are so many other books and resources out there. Which of them would you consider crucial? Which contain crucial lessons?
There's a difference between "I want to pick exactly where we sit and am willing to pay extra for it", and "I want my family to sit together, but don't care where that is on the plane, and I'm already paying a lot for 4 tickets, so don't have extra budget to pay more to to pick where I sit."

Also, I can't imagine people who end up sitting next to a kid whose parent isn't nearby, or the stewards who have to deal with such children would be happy about the arrangement either.
I think that sounds like a healthy approach to social ad platforms and the like.
You’re going to have to try make a case for that one.
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

Working software over comprehensive documentation.

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.

Responding to change over following a plan.

https://agilemanifesto.org/
Which is why I think the AI era isn't hype but very much real. Jensen said AI has reached the era of iPhone.

We wont have AGI or ASI, whatever definition people have with those terms in the next 5 - 10 years. But I would often like to refer AI as Assisted or Argumented Intelligence. And it will provide enough value that drives current Computer and Smartphone sales for at least another 5 - 10 years. Or 3-4 cycles.
The languages created in Denmark does not seem particulary notable?
So a few things

I'm using Bureau of Justice Statistics data, not FBI. E.g. https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/victimization-durin...

FBI / UCR covers only reported crimes at police agencies that forward data, and is a subset. BJS tend to be better at getting realistic numbers. (E.g. a majority of burglaries aren't reported to the police, and thus don't show up in UCR*)

Also robbery is not a superset of home invasion, due to the difference in definition from burglary. Burglary isn't actually about stealing stuff, it's just breaking in with the intent to commit some crime (which is often theft, but not always). Robbery implies theft, but doesn't require it to be in someone's abode. So there's some overlap, but there's robberies that aren't burglaries (because no breaking in is involved), and there's burglaries (even some of the <10% subset of burglaries that are violent) that aren't robberies, because a theft isn't occurring.

* For things like homicide, UCR tends to be a lot better, because the reporting rate is quite high.
Quit using Excel in research!
To me, they look like they are from the movie "Up".
This gets at the heart of the problem. It doesn’t produce the wrong tokens. The tokens are right. It’s the data that was “wrong”. Or at least it was weighted “incorrectly” (according to the judge living outside the data with their own context they decide is true)

If you feed AI conspiracy theories and then it tells you Elvis is still alive, that’s an input problem not an algorithm problem.

Now, getting to an AI that doesn’t “hallucinate” is a little more complicated than simply filtering out “conspiracy theories” from data, but IMhO it’s not many orders of magnitudes away. Far from insurmountable in a couple Moores law cycles.

I think human brains operate on the same principal of divining next tokens. We’re just judging AI for not saying the tokens we like best even though we feed AI garbage in and don’t tell AI what it should even care about. “AI doesn’t live here” it wasn’t born “here.”

Someday soon we’ll probably give AI guard rails to respond considering the context of society (the programmers version of society), and it will probably hallucinate less than most humans.
What makes you think the same equipment would have the necessary mechanics and capacity for realtime mass-filtering?

Even in America, I imagine there are many other budget priorities competing for a limited spook-fund, that would displace a "national censor-wall but indefinitely inactive and secret just in case we need it someday."
I totally agree, there e.g. so many companies out there who rely on fully manual processes internally simply because they cannot currently afford to hire programmers to solve the problems they have for them. The ROI just isn't there.

Reduce costs by an order of magnitude or two, and suddenly there's a whole heap more projects that become profitable.
Looks like SCRUM.
Comparing estimated vs actual survival suffers from hindsight bias in the same way that you alluded.

Though it's still well known that doctors overestimate survival. Which is why they use tools like Palliative Performance Scale [1] to address this.

[1] https://www.mypcnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/e37642_38...
You are doing agile. The agile manifesto is:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
Also K (1993) and A+ (1988) although the former only became public in 1998 or so, and the latter in 2003 - they were only available inside Morgan Stanley in the beginning IIRC.
As a Dane I'm curious which ones you're thinking of. The ones which are typically associated with Denmark are C++ and PHP and neither were developed in Denmark and I think it would be fair to call PHP more Canadian than Danish. Ruby on Rails is another but Ruby was developed by Matz.

I'm not sure BETA or FCL are really in the "Best" category. :p
> They also tend to make the stand-ups one hour long.

I'm Head of Development in a midsized SaaS company. Another team's PM went for paternity leave and I stepped in to lean in on any needs.

I discovered that the team of 10 people were using close to an hour a day on stand-up. A culture thing, apparently.

I joined he stand-up a few times, slimmed the scope of the conversation to roughly 10-15 minutes.

This worked for all three months of the PM's paternity leave.

PM returns, is pissed over the change and in less than two days, the stand-up is back to almost an hour a day.
Not according to the paperwork I’ve signed. ;)
But isn't it the goal? To make sure only the kids who have the brains and the right class to make value out of a degree (or don't care about value because their parents have cash), will go to study, not "just about everyone" as now. Working class kids without outstanding abilities should go to trade schools/apprenticeships and do blue collar labor. It pays decent bucks, and brings value to society too.
I still think you’d get under an investigation (at least from the tax authorities, but I can imagine police too) after years of years consistently depositing millions of wins in your bank account.
Most users only bother with quick solutions for whatever problem they have, not with any deeper understanding. They get the kind of expertise where the BOFH only has to sit on the sidelines with a bucket of popcorn, watch the user shred their own system and offer a pristine replacement with all their local data gone.

The amount of times I have seen users click past pages of apt install ouput after messing with the package sources has been well above zero.
> Regardless of relative directions around circles, the sine and cosine between 0° and 90° can be described unambiguously in terms of ratios between side lengths of right triangles.

That's true, if there are no angles greater than 90° or less than 0°, as is the case in a non-pathological right triangle. In this case, as ratios of nonnegative lengths, all trig functions are always nonnegative.

If you want to include angles outside those bounds, then you care about what exactly occurs where, and while you can unambiguously define angles between 0 and 90 to have all positive trig functions, you can also unambiguously define them to have negative sines and tangents. Fundamentally what's happening is that you're defining certain line segments to have negative length instead of positive length. Which line segments should have negative length isn't a question about angles.

> You can decide to define the functions differently, but then they'd no longer be the sine and cosine, they'd be something else.

Only in a sense much stricter than what people generally use. Sine and cosine themselves are hard to distinguish - you can also call them sine (x) and sine (x - 270). Some people might argue that the sine of (x - 270) is still a sine.

> In general, the two functions can be described by their differential equations

If you do that, you'll completely lose the information about where sine is positive and where it's negative. You can apply any phase shift you want (as long as you apply it to both functions) and their differential equations will look exactly the same.
I imagine this course is more theoretical than practical? And maybe the students already have exposure to rust in other courses? I hope so, anyway. If not, it would be like teaching an introductory web dev course in Elixir. Students would learn a lot, but it sure wouldn't help them get their foot in the door at their first jobs. I've definitely taken classes that were clearly intended to be practical in which the teacher either taught it through their weirdly specific lens of familiarity, or had pet concepts about the "correct" way to do things that weren't in accordance with the rest of the world, or assume that the weird circuitous way they learned something was somehow superior because they're just so dang smart. The worst.
This post is meaningless without clearly defining what reliable means.

Regarding ack not being received by sender when connection breaks, it's a weak and dishonest argument thinking it will strengthen their position, but completely ignoring the fact that TCP reliability is dependent on the simple and obvious fact that the connection exists!
Lene Hau (Danish physicist who stopped light)
ChatGPT o1-preview helped me learning Rust and implementing Ray Tracing
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Looks cool! Any advantages to the mini-lm model - it seems better on most mteb tasks but wondering if maybe inference or something is better.
Show HN: Spiral mini-tutorial for ML library authors
C# was developed by a Dane, but it wasn’t developed in Denmark. The creator of PHP was born in Greenland, but again the language was developed elsewhere.
I did this back in 2009 for a couple of months and it was fantastic. I then switched to Clojure because it was a little more mainstream (relatively speaking at least haha), but I feel I learned a lot from my time with Factor. It certainly made me respect the language and concatenative style.
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For example:

1. You break into someone's house and steal their crypto with no violence: burglary, not robbery.

1a. If they're present in the house, it's technically a home invasion even if there's no violence.

2. You break into someone's house and steal their crypto by physical violence: burglary and robbery

3. You break into someone's house and take a dump on their pillow: burglary (even though no theft), not robbery

4. You steal someone's crypto via violence on the street: robbery, not burglary

5. You steal someone's crypto by pickpocketing them on the street: not burglary, also not robbery
Yeah, this is what I meant.
"The sins of the father's are also the son's" are basically political orthodoxy for a large portion of the very online crowd these days.
No, tech has become no Woz and no Jobs either. You don’t get enshittification with Jobs, but the opposite. Also he would abhorre modern day process driven product management: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l4dCJJFuMsE
When the industry is all about the myth of the trendy tech founder, of course the ones who succeed are the con-men and fabulists. All jobs and no woz indeed
I picked this problem specifically because it's about "converting from one language to another". The problem is already solved in the literature. I understand that doing cutting edge research is a different problem, and that is explicitly not what I'm doing here, nor what I am expecting of the tool. I have coauthored an actual published computer science paper, and this excercise is VERY far from the complexity of that.

Could you share some concrete experience of a problem where aider, or a tool like it, helped you? What was your workflow, and how was the experience?
Someone did it a while ago:

https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-hacker-internet-outa...
Great question - we're doing a VS Code clone to have access to features like language servers, debugging, extensions, etc - these are really annoying to build from scratch. We also think it's nice for users to just be able to do a one-click switch from VS Code to Void, and hard to win over Cursor users without it. I'm curious about how you're building your editor - are you building everything from scratch?
Well I am not a marketing guy, but from the little I know, this is price discrimination between a group of 4 who do not mind sitting anywhere, and a group of 4 that must sit together. Sure, your needs may be higher, but each need has a price, and sitting together is one such need. Just need to plan the $$$$s for that.
He has a huge hard on for hating on the EU for daring to regulate Apple.

It’s been endless hit pieces about how they suck at innovation and how having Apple Intelligence is better than having Fortnite and how users having the option to install what they want on their device is the worst thing to ever happen.

Hypocritically being silent when China forces Apple to adopt RCS and has countless regulations on what they can do.

It’s almost as if he’s trying to push Apple’s agenda of why they shouldn’t be regulated anywhere. A more cynical person might even consider that he’s compensated to do so.

But then you look at his past pieces of remote work being the devil, even though he’s worked like that his whole life and the simplest explanation of him being on out of touch person seems to be the right one.
No, factory farms are indifferent to suffering. The suffering or wellbeing of the animals means absolutely nothing either way unless it affects efficiency or profit.

Factory farms optimize efficiency and profit, not suffering. That the most efficient and profitable methods tend to cause greater suffering is merely a coincidence.

There is no malice, just indifference.
Very grateful I can afford it. Shitload of preexisting conditions in my family.
Presumably this depends on the block size? GP did not specify.
that's pretty slick!
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Why would the expression 2^-2 pose a problem? There is no ambiguity there that requires operator precedence to resolve.
Note that the majority of burglaries are unreported to the police and don't show up in the UCR. You should use the Bureau of Justice Statistics for numbers on crimes with very low reporting rates.
Android Google App crashing due to color parsing error
Really more of a hobby farm. Was a dream of mine for 50 years before we bought it. Incredibly beautiful.

My best to you and yours. It can be done!
I would not say most devs.

I think ones that are against scrum are loud about it on the internet.

When it comes to have their salary paid out they will not speak up for themselves to push back against shitty management.

Like accepting ever increasing velocity until they burn out or accepting bad requirements because business is sayin “it needs to be done now” and working blind only to be scolded they did bad but requirements were bad in the first place.
Why it took us 11 months to move a single line of text
This is a good way to think of it. It would be very confusing if “0 - 3^2” and “0 + (-3^2)” should mean different things.
I tried the demo and I liked it!

I would prefer if I could pick a color in a faster way than switching to the color picker or using the palette: maybe middle click or Ctrl + left-click (gimp does that). It would reduce the mouse travel quite a bit; sometimes I happen to have the exact color I want next to my cursor.

I would also suggest putting the trailer on Steam. All I see is images in the steam carousel thing; I think the trailer being in the carousel would help.
Agreed, after trying to buy a commercial license from them I was left… wanting to avoid the company entirely.
Only two of those institutional investors have board seats. The other three don't get formal updates and don't have information rights.

My point was that they didn't ask because they were good investors and actively involved with the business, so they already knew what was going on.
Do you seriously think many people are not trading in their super expensive phones? I don't know anyone who doesn't...
This is where the US is the outlier. A very small percentage of people I know in Europe and elsewhere in the developed world drive more than that on a regular workday. Perhaps the hybrid car's batteries just need to be bigger.
You're onto it. Basically the wealthy freeze technological growth until they can understand how to make profit from it. Results are science and tech slowed to a glacial pace. We may not even be able to outengineer our problems due to this one thing.
I would imagine the normal lifetime arrangements in Rust would prevent this, the same way it prevents nesting a shorter lived pointer inside a longer lived struct when they're all from the same allocator.
Man flying in the US really is the Wild West isn't it?

For reference on Singapore Airlines, the cheapest seats don't have free seat selection ($10 SGD I think to choose, but not 100% sure I've never flown with them without a child), but if you fly with a child you do get free seat selection, and I've never once encountered any airline that would not place travelling groups together.