skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What kind of furniture lets the robot vacuum under it and around its legs in the place it typically goes? What apartments and homes are large enough to have a robot-width distance between walls, corners and everything that is on the floor?

This isn't actually a problem.

If the robot vacuum cleaner is 10cm high, any furniture where the gap below it is <9cm the robot will detect with its bump sensor and avoid. Any furniture where the gap is >11cm high, the robot will clean under no problem. The only problem is furniture with a gap in the 9-11cm range. For that you can either buy a different sized robot, or raise or lower the furniture.

Of course you'll have to avoid leaving trailing cables on the floor - but that makes your home neater anyway, so no problem.

You can buy a Lidar robot if you want, of course - the classic random-driving-around Roomba is very much a product of its time.
Brin wrote:

>> "You all believe that widely diverse points of view have merit, right?"

I wrote "consider" using it in the sense of "to believe" rather than "to evaluate". "Consider" was my word. Brin used "believe".

And, I do believe he was talking about cultural relativism. That specific phrase has unpleasant philosophical and moral booby traps, however, so the left-leaning intelligentsia and fellow travelers of the time ignored these traps by subscribing to the concept without actually using the term.
Ubuntu alphabetical names help if you keep up with it. I can name various releases of the past, like debian, and don't know which is the latest one.
We can innovate our way out of it. I don’t want to imply that anthropogenic climate change is not real, but the topic is moot anyway because world has been through much more dramatic climate change before without the help of humans. Sooner or later, with or without anthropogenic climate change, we would be forced to solve all climate change or die as a species.
OK, then let's focus on the fact that my interlocutor seems to believe he can see how to make it much better than it is now, which is very different from its being possible, but none of us in this conversation can see how to do it with any confidence.
AFAIK such books are not directly profitable anyway. It's about getting recognized and subsequent gigs/clients/employment opportunities for authors.
FYI I have a project that has been running for a few years now that injects that NIST Randomness Beacons into the Bitcoin chain, along with a few other random beacons: https://github.com/opentimestamps/nist-inject

Bitcoin itself is a good randomness beacon, depending on your requirements for timing. But injecting the NIST beacon into Bitcoin improves the security of various statements you can make about Bitcoin blocks, such as knowing that a particular block was created after a point in time. This is relevant to applications using Bitcoin for timestamping, as it prevents undetected back-dating of Bitcoin blocks.

It's fair to say this is a real world use-case for the NIST Randomness Beacon. Though AFAIK no-one has ever had to actually use it in anger to validate a contested timestamp.
I'd doubt it. Installing an app for a dark screen overlay is so much less work compared to disassembling it and then somehow getting it to boot again and being able to control it to trigger Shazam continuously
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French + German
> they.. should have

Believe me, "they" tried. Just finding him was hard and he moved to a remote location. Gave away all of his possessions, including cell phone. Lived in a temperate climate where it was easy to get "lost" in the vegetation and live off the land.
Things like validating or limiting possible React code you can write such that these effects are impossible, in the same manner that abstract data types in programming languages attempt to define data structures that are correct by construction, or the same way that reactive programming enforces a programming paradigm that attempts to minimize unwanted interaction glitches.
I've fallen in love with Shin-Hanga ("new prints", the new wave of Ukiyo-e in the early 20th Century). It feels as though it was inspired a good deal by Art Nouveau (which itself was inspired by Ukiyo-e, Wikipedia calls it "Japonisme").

Hasui Kawase is a fave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasui_Kawase

Man, the shadows from the trees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasui_Kawase#/media/File:NDL-D...
The more I look at modern gaming and the culture around it, the more I like playing my N64, alone.

I can't imagine I'm unique, though there are far too many people committed to new shiny to see this create the drop in active users necessary to lead to changes.
Can you share your chocolate cookie recipe?
I believe what you are probably looking at (I'm having trouble loading it) is probably debris in the Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_transfer_orbit

Edit: I believe that you are looking at a group of debris that is in an orbit close to GTO. This response [1] has a more detailed answer.

[1] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/48911/what-events-...
Okay, yeah, I see where you're going with this. I guess, you can compare IDEs and musical instruments, in many aspects, there's more overlap in two areas.
> He and his assistants trapped rats on the streets and marked them, usually by clipping off some of their toes.

What nasty people.
Yeah, I've been running my Fedora workstation with preempt=full for years now.
-Appeal to worse problems

-Gaslight and hand wave

-Slippery slope

I do agree that women are disproportionately affected by the over prescription
Well of course, fjords should have a narrow meaning. That's kind of what separates them from bays isn't it?
Actually, much of the commercially collected evidence is not strong in court if it is admissible in court at all. One can simply reject it claiming that it is a mis-association, but only if there isn't further objective data that conclusively ties one to the collection. In practice, usually the government finds evidence that is more directly incriminating, and the the commercial evidence is then secondary to the case.
I do overestimate user count But sharing links was a big thing in twitter . And for cluster for someone who has zero traffic , ten or a hundred traffic makes a huge difference . I do intend to leave twitter but as my previous comment indicated there aren't any .
I used this last year, with a relative success. I was asked to fix a Python code written by an intern that was no longer there. The code used external libraries, but did not declare any. I had only a zip of the source code, without any library. pipreqs was able to identify the 22 required libraries. Unfortunately, there was a runtime crash because a library was at the wrong version. So I had to let a real Python developer handle the next steps.

BTW, this tool is not a dependency manager. Many sibling comments seem to misunderstand the case and promote unrelated tools.
Keeping your A-Team together with developer AI
I applaud the real support for TURN (and TCP ICE) and the emphasis on explaining the (IMO very common) issue properly unlike so many other WebRTC projects that think the majority of people will never need it.

I know Firefox now supports outgoing TCP ICE, but what about incoming TCP connections? I wasn't able to find an answer easily from googling.
Human population is going to decline, soon, and quickly. Should be really exciting for those doomed to witness it firsthand.
I'll take a look at it, thank you for the suggestion.
> The only reason to have a professional camera is to be in full control of all settings

I don't _want_ a "professional" camera. I'm not getting paid for pictures (and btw, the "professional photographer" market is saturated now).

I want a camera with good changeable lenses that can provide reasonable optical zoom, so I can take a picture of that curious bird on a tree branch. Or to take a macro picture of a really nice flower. And maybe a beautiful picture of the moon hanging just near that waterfall.
Those who choose to buy, use and develop for Apple systems supposedly know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard - free after H.L. Mencken
Isn't that true of anything a web browser can do?
Uber the company was profitable last year, for the first time[1].

But I am doubtful that the larger enterprise that is Uber (including all the drivers and their expenses and vehicle depreciation, etc) was profitable. I haven't seen that analysis.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/8/24065999/uber-earnings-pro...
You’re moving the goalposts a little here. In your other post you implied you were using OpenAI for its technical properties. “But getting better and cheaper and faster over time.”

Whether something has more name recognition isn’t completely related here. But if that’s what you really mean, as you state, “any common mortal about AI and they'll mention ChatGPT - not Claude, Gemini or whatever else. They might not even know OpenAI. But they do know ChatGPT,” then I mostly agree, but as an outsider it doesn’t seem like this is a robust reason to build on top of.
I suspect the conditions that led to massive over-hiring won't come back. A lot of software development got commodified. Lots of work out there on legacy codebases and in non-tech companies, but those jobs don't attract as much interest, and inexperienced programmers with narrow skills won't get considered by companies that can't or won't mentor junior people.

After the last two tech crashes -- 2000 and 2008 -- I fell back on enterprise logistics and maintaining legacy code. You don't see a lot of juniors looking at those jobs. If you want to stay employed and value a paycheck more than a sexy employer or following your dreams, learn Oracle or Salesforce.
They certaily are common in America. The unit in the video is made in Brazil and is very common not only there but in many other American countries!
Have you considered electing better representatives for yourself to Congress

It's easy to blame to Congress, but in my view US Congress nowadays is a perfect reflection of the electorate, where all sides approach all problems as "Someone [not me] should do something about this thing I do not like." Congressmen are then elected and approach it the same way.
Feel free to correct me on that, but here's my understanding. The comprehensive support products cover four main sub-products:

1. FAQ/Knowledge bases with search functionality.

2. Conversational mediums and agent notifications (e.g., live chat widget, messenger support).

3. Ticket management systems and agent management, which is the core of Zendesk/Intercom. This is the most difficult to operationalize as it requires process architecture, SLA management, etc.

4. Orchestration and workflow management, which can be done inside #3, though some products are available as well.

Most new post-LLM startups target #2 but face platform risks as they rely on companies covering #1, #3, and #4 (e.g., Zendesk, Intercom, Gorgias).

I feel InKeep doing some combination of #2 but emphasising that you can support client whenever they are (ie Github, Discord, Slack) instead of asking them to submit tickets in the website widget.

Another issue for AI support startup is the verticalization/horizontal trap. Most LLMs require solid tuning per client, especially for enterprises like us. Startups often avoid this initially, opting for a more horizontal general path (e.g., AI support for Shopify merchants). This is where enterprise players are more beneficial. Thus companies like ServiceNow, Zoom, and Oracle offer products for support and implementation services.

Neat business imo.
What's the median price for a condo?
Sorry, I'm on Android.

My running schedule is a challenge. I run basically whenever I can. Which amounts to about 3-4 days a week. I try to get a mix of short&fast, medium, and long&slow. (Though these days it's "short&slow" and "long&even slower".)

It would be nice to get in a bit more precision. I'd give an app a try, especially one that was smart enough to deal with my haphazard schedule.

Good luck, and lemme know if it ever comes out for Android.
> me hating standing still, waiting on things, etc. ... But maybe I just haven't found something I enjoy cooking to get on that wavelength yet

Hmm. I've always loved cooking, so I don't know if I'll be any help, but have you tried cooking a stir fry? It's pretty active and no downtime: chop veg, fry protein over high heat for a few minutes, add veg and fry for a few more, dump in your sauce till it thickens, eat. Rice recommended but optional. You can mix up whatever veg you like, try different sauces, etc. I think it's an actively fun meal to cook. Throw on some music for extra fun.

> Lately I've been digging up my favorite restaurant foods and trying to replicate them but I always lose out on some of the sauces that seem like a pain to make.

Yeah, do be careful with trying to duplicate restaurant food. You can do it, but it usually involves like 3 cups of cream or 2 sticks of butter or 2 cups of sugar or 1/2 cup of salt. Also remember that they're cooked by people who literally do it for a living, so it's going to be tough to clear that bar.
Try counting the number of your red retina cells that are firing while you look at a painting.

Don’t need to be exact as firing is statistical, just give us a good average.

Hard? You can’t count?

Computers count pixels no problem. So weird you can’t.

Dementia? Not an AGI? /h

—-

This is what is happening.

Here are the “Reasons”.

In your vision system, the raw information from individual retina signals is munged into a different representation before reaching a level where you have flexible processing.

Likewise, in LLMs, letters are munged into tokens before LLMs “see” them.

When they sometimes get that “simple” question right, it’s actually a bit of an amazing feat. Given how they are constructed.

—-

Now try counting R’s as you read at a normal rate, or listen to someone speak.

You can’t do that either, during normal processing.

When we add spelling to LLMs training examples, they will do it easily. Just as you learned to do it, only after special lessons, after you had already learned to listen and speak.

Spelling is its own special practiced skill, in humans and LLMs.
He's mostly good, and is the main guy fixing housing and transit in CA.

But yeah, there are some issues he's just wrong on (AI and the recent restaurant fee problem), others which are controversial (decriminalizing HIV transmission), and then some trans rights issues that some commenters are being hyperbolic about (should transwomen be in womens or mens prison?).
In my opinion, the problem with the strawberry question is that it is both a bad example because you don't need an LLM to count the number of r's in a word, and it's a bad measure of an LLM's capabilities because it's a type of question that all LLMs are currently bad at.

Having said that, the 40b model wasn't able to answer any of my real-world example questions correctly. Some of these (e.g. "how do I add a sequential number after my titles in an HTML page using just CSS, without changing the page") are questions that even some of the better small local models can answer correctly. It gave very authoritatively sounding wrong answers.
Also humans would revert to explicitly using an algorithm and external storage like a sheet of paper with tally marks or a spreadsheet or even a computer program if you scale the question up to a full sheet of text or a whole book or a collection of books (we probably do it at a single word size too, but it's more intuitive than explicit behavior for most folks when the count sum is around 8 or less).

LLMs can't effectively execute algorithms similarly in their context, nor can they memorize new data or facts it was given without providing it tools like function calling or embeddings. If you give LLMs tool calling and storage mechanisms then counting letters in words becomes pretty damn reliable.
I am a man with very curly hair, and for many years women have told me how jealous they were.

It's a massive pain in the butt. It tangles any time it gets wet.

I suspect that women are used to putting in a lot more hair care than I'm used to. I kept my hair short for most of my life, and it took nothing more than a desultory shampoo. (Now it's long because more than one girlfriend like it that way.)

I wonder if they really know what they'd be getting into if they actually had my hair.
Nothing says good vibes like "Me So Horny" at 9:03AM lol
QWERTY proves GPs point, it's a suboptimal interface and basically impossible to get rid of now, even though we've moved the underlying implementation from typewriters to computer keyboards to touchscreens
Show HN: Facad – A colorful directory listing tool for the command line
Facad is about functionality, not just aesthetics. Key features:

- Intuitive file type representation

- Smart sorting (directories first, then by extension)

- Four-column layout for quick directory analysis

It evolved from this alias:

alias ls='ls -A -F --group-directories-first --sort=extension --color=always'

Facad takes this concept further, offering more flexibility and visual clarity.
Not necessarily, there are plenty of rigorously documented cases of people being conscious without any brain activity.

This article is also pretty interesting: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.9555...
Over 50 staff layed off at Voltron Data
That’s the company that the blog post points to as an example.
It reads as a little ambiguous to me in your comment, so just to be clear:

A polymorphic type - "a type wrapping another type" - isn't the same thing as a higher-kinded types.

Higher-kinded types are what let you express, in the language, the very notion of "a type wrapping another type". A "List Int" is a type wrapping another type; a "Maybe Int" is another type wrapping another type; but we can also say that "List Int" and "Maybe Int" (and etc.) can be abstracted over as "Monad Int"s. Monad is a higher-kinded type because it's a type wrapping types wrapping another type.
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That's one of the difficult things when dealing with any sort of conspiracy theory or major discussion about fundamental issues with government - there _are_ significant issues, so straight dismissing "The Deep State" isn't possible because there actually are instances of that sort of fundamental corruption. But then you have people who jump from those very real issues to moon landing hoax conspiracies, flat earth conspiracies, etc. etc., using that grain of truth of The Deep State to justify whatever belief they want.

It's related to a fundamental issue with discussing scientific principles in a non-scientific setting - yes, gravity is a _theory_ in the scientific sense, but that doesn't you can say "scientists don't know anything! they say gravity is just a theory, so what's stopping us from floating off into space tomorrow!?". Adapt the examples there to whatever you want...

And yes, that sounds fairly judgy of me - I am, alas, human, thus subject to the same fallacies and traps that I recognize in others, and being aware of those issues doesn't guarantee I can avoid them...
You should build that!
Good. Going private is a ridiculous nuke button for mods to have at their fingertips. Years of history becomes lost once a subreddit goes private. It's not even useful as a protest, since the admins will just undo it the moment your protest gains traction.

Hopefully, next they change the "unmoderated subreddit" punishment from going private to restricted submissions and locking comments.
This feels like a side tangent, but why have you focused on technology for creative and curious childhood? I.e. Maria Montessori (founder of the Montessori methodology of teaching) did a pretty good job showing that's the natural state of kids, and there's quite a bit in her teachings about the importance of physical things, being outdoors, etc.

There's some pretty strong reasoning that technology might in fact be the problem, and while I'm sure you can make better technology with that focus in mind, it seems like a better approach might not be technology.

Here's a few articles that lead to this point:

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/honestly-its-probably-the-phon...

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/childhoods
Yes, price competition only goes so far when the underlying thing being sold is expensive and buyers don't have enough power to squeeze suppliers. Hence the CMS comment. Also, switching costs aren't zero (new cards, employee education, etc.), and is be re-evaluated only annually.

The question in this subthread is: do insurers have an incentive to negotiate pharma prices down. The answer is they do have an incentive and they do negotiate prices down.
Pricing isn’t really about $/hardship. If you actually deep dive into it, you’ll find that the correlation is very weak.

If this was some kind of app that millions would use, I guess I could have given it for free for exposure or make it very very cheap like 1$/year but I don’t think that this would happen. Now my bet is that if I can get 1000 paying users I will keep the app around and develop it further by spending time on it.

I have some more ideas. I’m currently marketing it as an app for solving this specific issue but it’s also a nice input/output switching app. Maybe it can be the app that solves all the sound issues by always setting the correct input/output? You know how there’s always someone having trouble with their sound when on call. Let’s see.
My wife had a very similar experience, except in her case, we were awaiting a flight somewhere outside the US—I think in Asia—and she carried on a conversation with a group of flight attendants in Spanish (her second language, but she's fluent).

Quite a ways in it emerged that they were from an Italian airline and speaking Italian. They were no doubt (we imagine) well used to speakers of Romance languages especially Spanish making themselves understood... she however was quite entertained.

(This being HN I suppose it's de rigeur to cite Richard Feynman's bit about Italian dialectical differences leaving room for him to entertain himself by amiably yelling made-up Italian to people in his neighborhood, who chalked up his unintelligibility to such differences, not realizing they were being trolled as it were...)