skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you trying to prove my point? The Fury UGV you link to is a gun on wheels, which I see as infinitely more usable and viable than this Palletrone contraption. And in cases where you would want flight capability, why wouldn't you just use a standard aerial drone (obviously used already to great effect in the Ukraine war)?
One thing that struck me when visiting Tokyo (as an American living in San Francisco), was that it was not uncommon to go to a restaurant or bar on, say the 3rd or 4th floor of a building.

In America and Europe, restaurants and shops are basically all zoned to be on the ground floor, with residential or office units above. This gives the density a different feeling, because commercial/dining space extends upward.
The lack of respect shown to bodies is probably pervasive. There have been articles about it in the past, and it seems to be an issue in many universities around the world. Things like playing with body parts, making sexual comments, vulgar/inappropriate jokes, etc. A lot of that is probably because it is students dealing with cadavers, not people with more life experience.

That lack of respect can also stretch to parts belonging to patients who are alive. For example see the recent skull flap fiasco (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/23/us/atlanta-brain-surgery-...), where a patient’s skull was partially removed for an emergency surgery and then lost due to mishandling. That person had to deal with an artificial skull flap, which then got infected, and he had to go through repeated procedures as a result - all at his expense, despite it being the hospital’s fault for losing the part. Investigations showed that the hospital had a broader problem with respectfully handling and cataloging body parts.

Coming back to the linked article, the fact that bodies were cut up and sold without consent is not surprising when I connect the dots with these other situations. People in general lack basic dignity these days. I want to blame social media, but I don’t know if that is it. Although I am an atheist I do wonder if this is a vacuum left behind by religion? Or is it simply economic pressure to survive? Either way, I feel sad for family members who have to think about their loved ones being dismembered and sold.
> If we want to put AI into the hands of as many people as possible, we need to drive down the cost of compute and make it abundant (which requires lots of energy and chips). If we don’t build enough infrastructure, AI will be a very limited resource that wars get fought over and that becomes mostly a tool for rich people.

i think this is the prevailing wisdom but theres an angle that openai doesnt value and therefore isnt mentioned. There's far more compute sitting idle in everyone's offices and homes and pockets than there are in the $100bn openai cluster. it just isnt useful for training because physics. but its useful for inference. local LLMs ship this-next year in Chrome (gemini nano) and Apple (apple intelligence) that will truly be available for everyone instead of going thru OpenAI's infra. they'll be worse than GPT4, but only for a couple more years.
You're right. But I'd still go far with the ability for things to stay roughly where I let go of them, for about a minute or two.

Velcro is nice too, but it also depends on the microgravity environment - even if I lined every object and every vertical surface I could find with velcro strips, many of the objects would be too heavy to remain in place in 1G.
I like Sam's philosophy on this and I generally agree with him. However, I do not like how all the wealthy AI people are hand-waving the massive labor market shift in the coming years.

> As one example, we expect that this technology can cause a significant change in labor markets (good and bad) in the coming years, but most jobs will change more slowly than most people think, and I have no fear that we’ll run out of things to do (even if they don’t look like “real jobs” to us today). People have an innate desire to create and to be useful to each other, and AI will allow us to amplify our own abilities like never before. As a society, we will be back in an expanding world, and we can again focus on playing positive-sum games.

It's very easy as an extremely rich person to just say, "don't worry, in the end it'll be better for all of us." Maybe that's true on a societal scale, but these are people's entire worlds being destroyed.

Imagine you went to college for a medical specialty for 8-10 years, you come out as an expert, and 2 years later that entire field is handled by AI and salaries start to tank. Imagine you have been a graphic designer for 20 years supporting your 3 children and bam a diffusion model can do your job for a fraction of the cost. Imagine you've been a stenographer working in courtrooms to support your ill parents and suddenly ASR can do your job better than you can. This is just simple stuff we can connect the dots on now. There will be orders of magnitude more shifts that we can't even imagine right now.

To someone like Sam, everything will be fine. He can handle the massive societal shift because he has options. Every a moderately wealthy person will be OK.

But the entire middle class is going to start really freaking the fuck out soon as more and more jobs disappear. You're already seeing anti-AI sentiment all over the web. Even in expert circles, you can see skepticism. People saying things like, "how do I opt out of Apple Intelligence?" People don't WANT more grammar correction or AI emojis in their lives, they just want to survive and thrive and own a house.

How are we going to handle this? Sam's words of "if we could fast-forward a hundred years from today, the prosperity all around us would feel just as unimaginable" doesn't mean shit to a family of 4 who went through layoffs in the year 2025 because AI took their job while Microsoft's stock grows 50%.
This is really excellent UI.

One suggestion.

When zooming in, eventually the stores turn into a uniform blue dot. A light blue icon.

I'd like to see the individual icons keep the color of the convenience store when zoomed in.

Know the map color changes, but it isn't as obvious as the icon.

There is bit of a disjoint in how my eye is tracking the colors where some icons are still a color of the store, but some have turned blue.
Can confirm I know some folks who rip their DVD/BluRay collection to stream in the home.

There's other use cases as well:

- DVR'd recordings

- Public domain videos

- Archived web content

- Home videos / Phone videos

I actually use JellyFin for all of these use cases, and also rip my movie collection using Handbrake. Do most people use it for pirated content? Probably.
It looks like this is a new subdomain that has never been used before today: https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://ia.samal...

Surprisingly complicated HTML source code for a simple blog post.

Here it is as:

Plain HTML: https://hub.scroll.pub/sama/index.html

Text: https://hub.scroll.pub/sama/index.txt

Scroll: https://hub.scroll.pub/sama/index.scroll
Do you think this counts as an argument? Because I'm quite sure which device I think is analogous to the Nomad in this situation...

If you have any actual thoughts on how a device like this could ever be relevant in the real world, I'm all ears.
> I prompted chatgpt to make it more human and casual

I'd love to see your prompts, if you don't mind. My Gmail username is the same as my HN username if you prefer to not post them here.
You could go back in time and use these exact arguments against the labor movement for the 8-hour work day. Would you? What's different?
Heh, the Geerling family is far from royal, it's just something a lot of families in Europe seemed to do (heraldry), and the idea is pretty neat—try to add symbols to your family crest that you want your family to try to strive for (like honor, strength, love, peace, etc.).

I think we even did a thing in one of my art classes on heraldry once, and the idea was to try to figure out what symbols you would choose for your own personal crest, based on what kind of things we'd see in historical ones.
Bambu Labs has the AMS, Automatic Material System that sits on top of the printers and makes multicolor printing pretty easy, holds 4 colors but you can link units together for up to 16. There's other companies that provide other multi-color solutions for other printers but Bambu's P1 and X1 series with the AMS really took off in the last 2 years.
If Bitwig would add user-modules to the Grid, along with a scripting language, it would be perfect.

Where they both fall down is in less capability for the piano roll and midi for more complex compositions and styles (orchestration) and although Live has made some moves towards improving that recently, they're both still way behind in that area.
I’m not worried about offending the ghosts of the ancients. Let’s try another analogy: if the Mona Lisa were damaged, should we “improve” it with “modern bling”?
MI couple running out of time to prove they found Great Lakes' oldest shipwreck
It's also very common now for even superficially fairly minor danger to total a car because there's so much custom electronics all over a car that replacing the parts and wiring costs thousands in parts and days of labour, even if you can get the parts. Repairing aggressively unibody pressed frames with their aluminium and composite construction that can't just be welded is almost impossible. And even if it is, the insurers won't touch it because the manufacturers can't, won't and don't want to know how to agree that it's safe.

Phones and other electronics are not a lot different in that manufacturers don't really want you to fix them and any sop towards repairable phones is under duress from legislation or . Hell, good luck even finding a genuine battery, I can't even get one for a ThinkPad and they're supposed to be good for that.

To be honest I'm fairly cool on repairability for phones as they're so tightly engineered, it's genuinely hard to engineer and they cycle so fast the parts go out of production in weeks.
Stuff You Should Know had a podcast last year on it with the back story of how it was created https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-stuff-you-should-know-26...
If the firewall blocks you: https://archive.is/dDjOP
If you're going to clutch pearls about literal war you're missing the point. Anything goes in war... that's the point. The concept of "war crimes" are, again, just part of game-theoretic calculations that agents make when they are deciding what lengths they are willing to go to in order to achieve their goals.

People think war has rules because most wars on television are completely lopsided affairs.

Arguable genocides in war are extremely common in war, and are probably the rule, not the exception. In recent years we've effectively seen an equivalent in the Sri Lankan Civil War, DRC, Darfur, Burma, I could go on. War is fucking terrible, and people should take every reasonable avenue to avoid them.
SMW Central does require all hacks to be submitted in the form of BPS files.

I think ROM Hacking.net had similar requirements, though given it's closed for submissions now, it's not relevant anymore.
> This makes sense if you count 20% as a “vast majority” of a group. The singular use of “serious mental illness” in that pdf is this sentence.

??? Page 5 of the PDF, the graph near the bottom right of the page: "Mental health conditions: 78% of unsheltered homeless, substance abuse conditions: 75% of unsheltered homeless".

I believe, this qualifies as "vast majority". And these are from before the fentanyl epidemic.

> You can simply believe it in your heart like a matter of faith

Quite clearly, you can't even read a PDF file with the executive summary.
I’m in NYC where we similarly have dumb anti-plastic laws that are more political than actually for the environment.

Oh the straws are paper now? All right, I’m gonna take 5 then because I’ll need to swap it out around every 5 min.

At the grocery store? Everything needs to be double or triple bagged so it doesn’t fall apart. Are that many paper bags (trees) even encmvironmentaly friendly? NYC is a walking city, and I vividly remember someone once walking with a paper grocery bag, and then everything falling out onto the sidewalk as the bag broke during a light drizzle.
... a reality where everything in software development that was previously established as robust foundation is discarded, only to be re-learned and re-implemented less well while burning VC cash.
Telegram CEO Durov Says App to Provide More Data to Governments
What sensor in my body detects CO2?

Unless you mean headache-inducing levels of CO2 which, per my actual sensor, is upwards of 3000 because at that level I still didn't notice anything. The air feels warmer, but that's attributable to me breathing in a small and enclosed space

Genuinely curious if there's something in our bodies that has been shown to serve as CO2 detector, or if you just mean "I can smell stale air and why don't you just do the same" (which I'm pretty certain relies on proxy factors like dust, mould smells like in a moist cellar, temperature, a combination, and/or perhaps other stuff that didn't come to mind)
I suppose the legislation around here has gone through a couple iterations, but I don't really know.

Decades ago I would make grocery runs on the bus, just carry an empty backpack and perhaps another bag, stuff them tightly full, and any overflow was in disposable bags. Only as much as I could carry.

I also received weird looks and attitudes at certain stores when I'd check out with a duffel bag on the conveyor belt. The checker would grimace and exhibit disdain and a reluctance to even touch the filthy thing? Gee, sorry. It often resulted in "pack my own goods" rather than a bagger willing to do it for me. My appreciation for expert, efficient baggers has grown immensely.

I started picking up reusable totes where I shopped. They're all branded! So I'd feel weird being disloyal and packing the "wrong" tote at a different store. Shame led me to purchase a variety of totes everywhere I shopped... overkill!

And, as others have mentioned, I often shop on a whim and unprepared, so those fancy bags all get left at home, 80% of the time, and I come home with more disposables. The disposables can really add up. You may find yourself hoarding if you think that you can reuse them. I clamped a limit on bag storage, and gleefully discard excess ones.

I took note when my farmer's market switched from disposables, to slightly thicker plastic touted as "reusable" but really just from the same process, and you feel like a villain when discarding them! To their credit, I believe they still have a recycle bin, where you can bring them back.

Now that I use delivery services most of the time, it's simply a one-way deluge. Often the bags are knotted and I just cut into them. Disposables are lower-quality, often with holes or defective handles, never fit for reuse. Yeah, I purchase custom trash bags, because they fit and they hold... garbage... correctly.
I've been doing WFH on and off for several decades. What I've learned is that it works well for me, as long as I can satisfy one requirement: to have a room with a door that is dedicated solely to working. If I'm in the room, I'm working. If I'm not in the room, I'm not working.
I think it's also interesting that we don't always know the applications for mathematical insights. IIRC, Euler invented graph theory (even the traveling salesman problem) and basically wrote that he knew of no applications for it.

Now we know that traveling salesman is equivalent to graph-coloring which is crucial for compliers when assigning efficient register allocation in deeply pipe-lined architectures.
It seems you don't really understand it at all. That's the problem.
Also protect is near the front of that statement. While a mission can be anything, it doesn’t make long term sense to look for new roommates when your foundation is crumbling.
Britain transferred trillions of wealth from India. India and China were the top 2 richest countries in the world before the Empire.
Dippy – Censorship free character AI
What do you call the "Overton window" of illegal behavior? e.g. In the US, you can pretty reliably speed at up to 10 mph over the legal speed limit without actually getting stopped or arrested. Similarly, you can probably get away with drinking beer in a state park, and nobody will report you to the rangers, even though it is illegal (at least in my state, YMMV).

On the other hand, if you try to kidnap your boss, people will 100% call the cops, and anyone involved would be looking at sentences including multiple years in prison.

In some stores in some cities, you can get away with small-value shoplifting without anyone really batting an eye, while if you try to steal a TV from Best Buy near me, you are going to get tackled.

I'm curious what one might search to learn more about the range of illegal behaviors that are actually tolerated in any given society.
There’s a good episode of the Mindscape podcast (hosted by Sean Carroll) interviewing one of the authors (Blaise Agüera y Arcas) about the paper:

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/08/19/286-...
GDPR, DMCA and similar laws seem to disagree.
The AI hype reminds me of the dot-com boom of the late 90's/early 2000's. It's clear that something fairly big is happening and lots of people are trying to ride the wave, either by getting a foot in the door, or predicting the end of days. However, no one can predict what day-to-day life will look like once the dust has settled in a decade or two. Some people are afraid of a future that they can't see clearly, and simply default to their own version of a worst-case scenario.

There is a certainly a race to develop the most powerful AI hardware and software, but most of that is to do with market share and bragging rights. AI not build on top of some kind of "magic" that only one person/company can control.

Yes, this technology will be used for both good and evil. Just like all the technologies that came before it, and those that will come after.

Yes, we are living in times of war and chaos and uncertainty. Humans always have been. Although we are, on average, a much more peaceful species now than ever before.

If you want my advice, don't pay attention to doomers in any market or field of study. They don't have crystal balls, they just like worrying about things and derive their satisfaction from sparking fear in others. It's a power/control thing. There is a difference between following news and following drama. Most people can't tell the difference because they're addicted to social media and journalism has all but gone to shit but that's a rant for another day.
I don’t think we gain anything from locking them up forever to be honest. But I am not saying they “can’t” be redeemed - simply that the chance is low and all the time and expense we lose to investing in those individuals (even if only by jailing them) seems like a massive waste when it could go to someone else who hasn’t broken he law. I realize this stance is cruel in a way, but I am simply weighing the trade offs between the different ways we could deal with criminals, and I think it is better for the rest of society to be highly intolerant of violent crimes. For me, violent offense includes any act involving physical violence - including most property crimes. People put their life into obtaining their property - taking it away is the same as taking years of their life away.
All Zachtronics games are a strong recommend for anybody who doesn't already know them.

Exapunks and Opus Magnum are probably the more casual ones to get into, but everything they make is awesome and pretty challenging.
I was worrying about debuggability if I started with a higher level Verilog transpiler and didn't have a good foundation of Verilog experience.

But maybe I should just do it.
Show HN: Interactive Noise-Level Map
Ya, I could bike in -20c to -40c weather for 1.5 hours a day in each direction (3 hours a day), or I could drive to work and be warm for 25 minutes and have 2.5 hours to do useful things with my life.

Bike nuts are nuts.
People are assholes. It's always been this way; where have you been?
Author here.

The main issue at play is that Matt used the blog of a GPLv2 project to attack a competitor of his own for-profit venture for playing by the rules — disabling revision posts is an official and documented WP feature. The point is: if Satan themselves decides to use and make a profit off based on WordPress, he is allowed as long as they follow GPLv2, which is the case with WP Engine. (Satan as an alternative example for a PE equity is not by coincidence, btw.)

This is unacceptable behavior for a FOSS project leader, not to mention his explicit conflict of interest by running a for-profit company rival to the one he tossed under the bus exploiting his power and position in the community.

If you can't see what's wrong here, I'm sorry, I can't make this clearer.
Not doing anything about drugs. Like, nothing. All their policy is "housing first".
Yeah, and that’s a very large volume of air for most interesting payloads. You have to move the same mass of air as the vehicle mass plus the payload mass. That’s a lot of air. Running UAVs indoors in a normal sized room quickly starts large air currents that have to be faught by blowing more air…
Yeah, 100%. I'm not a hardcore FOSS only person, but for my core workflow, when a FOSS tool exists and works well, I am not likely to use a proprietary alternative if I can avoid it at all.

So yeah, I'll use Excel to interoperate with fancy spreadsheets, but if LibreOffice will do the job, I'll use it instead. I tried out several of the fancy proprietary editors at various times (SublimeText, VSCode, even Jetbrains), but IMO they were not better _enough_ to justify switching away from something like vim, which is both ubiquitously available and FOSS.
Oh, interesting point. So when I see a marker on every block in places, that doesn't mean you can just walk off the street into them, they might be upstairs?
Yes, CRED is a satire of PRIME, the design is very similar.
Came here to say this. Will happily pay for it.
Where are all these poisoned children getting the cash to buy these things?
Ironically, by complaining about MisterBeast being a grifter and using so much loaded language, the author comes off as a grifter to me. Or at a minimum (especially looking at his other output), “old man yells at clouds.”
Yes, that's my point. You can't discuss why Britain isn't as well off as it used to be, without at least acknowledging where that past wealth came from.
> However, management bought 8 hours of your time and not 4 when they hired you.

Nowhere in my employment contract does it say that.

Realistically, I am allowed to spend up to 8 hours to work on goals that my employer says I should work on. It is also understood that if the goals are completed earlier, I am free to fill the "free" part of 8 hours with self-learning.

There's also an implicit understanding that certain life activities may happen/overlap with that free time, e.g. eating/picking up kids.

Only in the most pedantic bad take world would your statement be correct.
Why did reporters for years end their stories by writing "-30-"? (2007)
I don't know of any CPU that speculates both sides of a branch. I work on a CPU design team.

Modern CPUs speculate hundreds of instructions ahead, and with just a dozen branches you can have a few thousand different paths. It makes more sense to speculate down one path with very high accuracy.
Have you tried SSGs? For simple blogs, like mine (blog post author), it's so good: easy to maintain, to understand, and to manage. Way less features than a proper CMS, but for a simple blog they are enough. I use Jekyll, btw.
Rick Rubin Podcast with Jack Mallers