skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how do we know the robovans were not remotely operated?

How do you even know they were anything? It is fairly easy to mock up a concept vehicle (I mean it is still a lot of work, but nowhere near what it takes to build an actual one). You can build the shell and interior and put it on any chassis you want.

And let's be real, that robovan couldn't survive a pothole. If you watch the video of people walking out it does not look like the clearance is meaningfully different than their shoes. It is also suspicious that it doesn't seem to rise much after all the people get off. I don't have good angles from that video, so just a flag but not enough to conclude without more evidence (but this is exactly what you'd see if they built it like you do a parade float).

For the robots, I thought it was obvious they were teleoperated. Just the way they talked with people was far too natural.

Don't get me wrong, Tesla and SpaceX have done some great things. But how many times can you c̶r̶y̶ ̶w̶o̶l̶f̶ promise self-driving vehicles next year before people stop trusting you all together? I get you gotta hype (but do we? and how much?) but you gotta fulfill those promises. In 2015 he promised FSD in 2017, in 2016 he said <2018, in 2017 he said 3 but no more than 6 mo, then later that year said 2 years, and I think it's been "next year" ever year since. It's a hard problem but you can only over promise so much. And over promising like this just makes him seem like either a conman or out of touch/naive.
$10M? $30M? $100M? The redefinition of the super-rich
> The problem is nobody knows, because the proposed rules are unwritten.

Under US law, trademarks can be used by other companies under fair use:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use_(U.S._trademark_law)

It'll ultimately be up to the courts to decide what the extent of this fair use is.
Grandmaster expelled from team chess championship after phone found in toilet
Option 3 anyone who can add Ai to their career with be even more highly paid because of the productivity boost.
If you read TFA you'll see that the x-37b does have "cross-range" capabilities in orbit. It has enough fuel for some orbit changes, as reported in previous news, and in this instance it uses aerobraking to alter its orbit significantly at the cost of very little fuel.
The takeaway here is that rather than invent some high tech wacky thing, just target some existing cartels/government monopolies. Hotels (AirBnB), telecommunications (Facebook versus AT&T Bell), taxi services (uber/lyft), broadcast television (netflix), radio (spotify), and spaceflight/rocketry (SpaceX) come to mind as successes.

What else is there?

- Boeing - Just need to invent a better commercial passenger airplane

- Lockheed - The day of 150 million dollar manned fighter jets is coming to an end.

- Electricity distribution - PG&E or Southern California Edison. Only way to crack this is with decentralized power
distribution and batteries

- Waste Management - Trash collection, recycling, and processing

- DeBeers Diamonds - Diamonds can basically be synthesized in the lab at will now.
Agreed. By next year they’ll be able to outsource the puppetry to a nearby developing country.
Seems to be a unique American anachronism. None of my cards (issued elsewhere) even have a signature panel on the back anymore.
cf. wordle
I'm not sure how that's entirely relevant. Success of another platform doesn't imply failure of another platform. It's also relatively common for different regions of the world to settle into different social media networks and messaging systems. See: Whatsapp vs iMessage, VKontakte, WeChat, telegram and so on.

There's plenty of metrics to support the fact that Threads is a successful launch.
No one is angry about anything. It's a meeting of minds here, now.

Antagonism in response to previous antagonism is, at the very least, understandable.

Next question then: was the response ... proportionate? You know, blockading a a whole city, so that nothing can get in, not even diapers or baby food? That's like, an act of war, right? In response to -- currency reform?

More specifically: would you say the Soviet response to that situation was -- "understandable"? Would you now?

Or was it more like -- dumbshit recklessness?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Blockade
This company was always a grift.
I dont beleive university professors should be allowed to run startups while they are still teaching.
Wrong on both counts, in Australia at least - fast internet makes possible remote telepresence on brick laying robots and semi autonomous haul paks .. both of which we have here in Western Australia.

https://www.riotinto.com/en/mn/about/innovation/automation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6IQB5S1N5I
Ah thanks for pointing this out - was not familiar with that rule

Deleting and moving to regular submission
And for additional context, VWAP in this setting means "Volume-Weighted Average Price" (ie the average price of the transactions in some time window weighted by their quantity)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume-weighted_average_price
It's up to everyone to decide how much their privacy is worth. It just needs to be enough people for services like Kagi to be sustainable.
> X-37B has been to space many times without triggering a retaliatory strike.

But not "at the point of hostilities", as GP put it.
Didn't they? The Lumia 950 launched at about $500ish and supported Continuum.

Continuum wasn't exactly full convergence, but it was kind of close. As I recall, they had a desktop dock and a laptop like dock, that you could pair your phone to (wireless or wired).

Microsoft was big on their 'universal windows app' concept at the time, where universal meant actually only ran on a small fraction of windows devices. sigh
Might be your connection due to the site serving http only. I’ve verified the site from several networks and none exhibit what you mention.
> too many of them fell

How many of them fell? Tried searching this up and barely any fell. Very few deaths too.
They still haven’t shipped the new roadster despite taking a pretty huge investment from customers for it.
If it is a serious game, I’m surprised they don’t examine the chestnuts first
>profits after costs

Did you mean revenue after costs?
AI is a pretty broad term - its been used for generations to mean something intelligent seeming that isn't human. Certainly, computers running precompiled instructions also falls in that category.
> Advent of Code, are so heavily focused on making clever use of math, data structures and algorithms

I've done a fair amount of Advent of Code and I wouldn't say it's at all "focused" on this. The vast majority of the questions use hash tables and graph traversal as the full extent of their use of math/DS/algos.

There's always one or two puzzles every year that require some particular math/CS insight but most of them just need you to know BFS and/or how to write a parser.

Your examples are also not bad, but they seem to be primarily concerned with "getting familiar with a new programming language" in the context of writing a web server, which is one of the parts of programming I try to stay away from. Most of your examples require less familiarity with the language's features and more with libraries you might use, which is less interesting to me personally (then again, I'm a PL fan and I write compilers for a living).

Meanwhile, I like AoC because I've used language features to take the fairly straightforward potential implementations and write them more elegantly in the language I choose. e.g. I use Monads in Haskell, or use Rust's easy threading to parallelize solutions, etc.

For me, learning a new programming language is largely uninteresting unless it changes the fundamental "shape" I think in, rather than what the exact names of the libraries I use change to. e.g. I already know Java so I'm not really going to bother "learning" C#. I already know Python so I don't really bother diving deep into Ruby, etc. However, I learn Haskell, Rust, Forth, Erlang, Scheme, etc.
https://dignif.ai/
So just like half the world’s population then. Pretty much a total failure.
But the problem is the majority of people buying and hyping TSLA are not working or have close experience with robotics to see what’s real vs human controlled. That’s intentionally deceptive.
Honestly, it feels like faking demos is the status quo in tech right now. I can perfectly understand "illustrative" demos where you're clear that this is what you're imagining, but if you say this is how it works -- or heavily imply or demonstrate under very limited conditions while implying this is what you can expect -- it is no wonder so many people have low sentiment around tech. But do we really have to do it this way? If you need smoke and mirrors to get funding I'm not convinced that the smoke and mirrors ever stops. (and why are big players doing this? Google doesn't need funding. You're playing with fire)
You Can't Make Friends with the Rockstars
nah I found cannabis to be counterproductive in my case. It was never only a "tinge" of paranoia. It always comes up in bouts. And it was a slippery slope. I'd often keep getting distracted with other things like YouTube, games and social media to keep the anxiety and paranoia away.

Took a while to kick it out.
They are missing out on a golden opportunity, North Carolina disaster could be where they shine and show the world what they can do!!! Someone needs to advise these folks, they are desperate for non-road transportation up there... (western NC AND Eastern TN).
> Quran 17:1 mentions Muhammad’s supernatural “Night Journey” to the “Farthest Mosque”, which Islamic tradition identifies with the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

The Farthest (Al-Aqsa) Mosque being in Jerusalem is a recent invention. The night journey is said to have happened in 621, but the Al-Aqsa Mosque was built in 637 when the Muslims captured Jerusalem. So the Al-Aqsa Mosque of the Quran is not the one currently called the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Media Creation Tool (MCT) I downloaded from Microsoft but running it on Windows 7 gives an error message and won't run on W 7. But I have a computer with W 11 that might run that MCT.

Thanks!
> Silos are immobile.

But mobile launchers aren't. Russia and China use those, but we don't.

> presumably obsoleting strategic bombers

We'd have to have hundreds of warheads in orbit at all times to obsolete strategic bombers.

If the x-37b is to be used for carrying (or deploying) orbital nukes, then at least for now it has to be a very few nukes. Re-entry vehicles are visible because they glow white hot as they re-enter, so while surprising (because there is no boost phase to detect, and because the detectable flight time will be less than half that of an ICBM) they will not provide enough plausible deniability to be worth using at all. This is why I doubt the x-37b is being used to carry nukes.
> the geniuses that block off their whole day everyday on their calendar

as someone who leaves themselves open to hear out others with their "hey do you have a second to check this out" ideas

y'all are missing out
Russia, China, and the U.S. all have MAD capabilities.
He is approaching the end of his life and been competing for decades but never won. Risk vs reward.
> It'll ultimately be up to the courts to decide what the extent of this fair use is.

That's the unquantifiable platform risk that has been added.
> it’s a game where you take turns swinging a chestnut on a string and trying to hit the opponent’s chestnut and break it.

Sounds like a British version of pencil break - but with way more scandal, apparently
I emigrated to Britain. These sorts of things mystified me for the longest time.

Yes. Picture some British parents and their child on a walk near a pond, river, canal or whatever. The child sees a swan. The parents will say something like "don't get too close dear, it could break your arm".

Swans are aggressive so it's probably not terrible advice, but not because they go around breaking people's arms specifically.
Which makes their use of "volume weighted daily VWAP" ambiguous between a typo or an integrated VWAP, e.g. volume weight each day's VWAP to come up with a period VWAP.
Your implicit assumption is that every person causes about the same level of environmental harm. That is not true; it is a power law.

We only solve the problem if there are fewer high polluters, the top five percent of the population by income.
Ye and the queen eats swans for breakfast or something like that.
A Man and the Crowd (1928)
Show HN: Drive-GPT, self driving cars in <100 lines of code
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Exactly. It costs a lot of money to run a bullet train, and every seat is very valuable. They don't have space to waste on a kitchen or restaurant. They do sometimes have little food carts they'll push up and down the aisles that you can purchase meals from, though this depends on the route and time.

Riding a shinkansen isn't like riding some old-time long-distance train in Europe or North America; it's basically just like riding in an airliner, but on the ground and without TSA and the seats have more legroom. It's all about speed and convenience, not luxury.

There are, however, some luxury trains in Japan on some routes. They're not bullet trains though, and usually meant more for sightseeing travel.
My wife was diagnosed with ADHD when she was very young, and this rise of people believing they have ADHD is something we talk about a lot. We think most of this comes from social media and ADHD memes. Many of the memes touch on things that are connected with being ADHD, but are more so just things that are human or are about living in the modern age with distractions and entertainment. People connect with these memes, and then have something that they can blame for when they forget to do the laundry or get distracted doing the dishes.

Like dexwiz says, we are not machines! And I think with the rise of social media and these relatable memes, it provides the perfect scapegoat for the distraction that is modern life.
Airships don't require a runway; a century ago they could moor to skyscrapers, or ships at sea.

If (big regulatory issues here) you can deliver directly from one site to another, you eliminate trucking goods to the source airport & from the destination airport. A 3 hour dirigible flight is slower than a 45 minute cargo plane flight, but buffering at a warehouse to loading / unload a truck (twice) could easily add 2-3 days latency.
Hey, Do speculative applicants get a reply incase if PostHog decide to not go ahead with the application?
This all kind of takes the fun out of it don't you think?

Not every game needs to have the fun sucked out of it by endless optimization and instrumental play.

Just conk some chestnuts. Simple as.
These guys will probably be able to raise capital for their next startup easily because "second time founders are the best"!
> The moors conquered and the Catholics took it back.

This take only makes sense if you argue the Romans took it back, which would only be a valid claim from the perspective of the Roman Catholic Church, not war lords from the Iberian Peninsula.
It's a game you play as a kid. This is the first I've heard of there being a professional league.

On the other hand, we also have competitions such as cheese rolling (trying not to get killed by a giant cheese wheel rolling down a hill), so I'm not that surprised.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-gloucestershire-6...
Like, you can cheat at Solitaire, but why?
Did you know that many demos on events like Google IO are scripted or hardcoded? I'm saying that not to advocate for such practices, but rather to provide context.

For what it's worth, it was quite clear to many that the robots are teleoperated and it still serves as a demonstration of the hardware.
Thanks! On a frustating day I call some of the system management problems "mud wrestling", or, due to lack of good documentation, just throw it up against the wall a dozen different ways to see what seems to stick -- and with that nonsense hope to be running a reliable server???? Yup, "chaotic world".
The state is the owner of the DB company. If they didn't like where the company is going they could just fire the CEO and board and pick other people and then define any goal they want. To me it looks that the bund is not active enough in their oversight (as 100% owners) of the DB. I assume no one wants to take the blame because it is such a shitshow.

I can't answer why DB is doing certain things which Arriva and their cargo division.

The DB is losing more than EUR2 billions per year[1] so the managment is probably trying hard to get this trainwreck under control. Kinda ironic that their truck business is actually doing the heavy lifting. It's one of the only divisions besides energy that actually makes money subsdizing the other failing parts of the railway. Withouth those you would be looking at EUR2.6 billion losses per year[2]. Great thing they have DB Schenker going for them! I don't undestand the complaints about that.

Also I don't think it is possible to fix the DB without more government subsidies. It looks like they barely get any (sometimes discounts on power but thats it)[2].

If you check the SBB (a very well run operation) you can see from the public finances
that about half of the operating income is from public-sector funding (aka government subsidies) without that it would be in deep red[3].

[1] https://zbir.deutschebahn.com/2024/en/consolidated-interim-f...

[2] https://zbir.deutschebahn.com/2024/fileadmin/pdf/dbk_zb24_e_...

[3] https://reporting.sbb.ch/en/finance?=&years=1,4,5,6,7&scroll...
https://archive.is/R349Q
> I've never been able to find information about the composition assumed or measured when coming up with BMI numbers.

BMI is just weight divided by height squared. No distinction is made between type of mass. Muscle mass, fat, bone, water? BMI couldn't care less. It sums all that stuff up into a single value.

Think of it as a number that roughly correlates to disease. There will always be false positives and false negatives. False positives are acceptable. We want to minimize the number of false negatives.

There are nearly ten billion humans on Earth. It is not possible to fully evaluate every single one of them. Gotta run a SELECT statement. Filter them based on some criteria, and fully evaluate those that match. BMI isn't perfect, but it takes less than one minute to measure the variables and compute it. The equipment required is cheap and easy to use. Speed, efficiency, cheapness and ease are extremely important factors when you're applying this at national scales.

Patient might turn out to be a physically fit 100 kg 1.7 m 34.6 kg/m2 body builder. That's alright. Our objective is to make sure the obese and the malnourished can't escape the sieve.
Not just cheat but cheat using Bluetooth butt plugs at an extremely high level of play (https://nypost.com/2022/10/06/chess-champ-gets-butt-inspecte...).
Some people have all the fun.
This comment makes no sense. How has Threads failed? It's literally the #1 free app on the App Store right now and has been for a while.
I have no idea why you think safety laws prevent people from playing conkers in spite of the very thread you are commenting on being evidence that people play conkers and it is perfectly legal.
Rodents remotely move matter using sound to enhance their sense of smell: study
How is it banned? Banned in schools you mean?

Because I can’t see how authorities could ban anyone from picking up a conker from the ground and tying a string to it.

On a different note, if you’re just pulling a random one out of a bag, what is the competitive aspect? Is there a technique involved? Or just RNG?
Yeah--I came here to highlight this too. I think all the legacy systems around international shipping won't permit direct to consumer pick up and delivery. Unless someone can show me an existing example?
if it requires swapping out "all the RF hardware", why not keep the 2M repeater at this high level site and add your new repeater adjacent to it?
As someone that played it over 60 years ago, there is quite a bit of technique involved - for example, aiming to hit the opponent's conker accurately and hard.
That's more or less it.

You make a hole through your 'conker' (horse chestnut, not the edible type) and thread a string or a bootlace through it.

Then you take turns.

One holds their string still and lets the conker hang down, the other gets a swing at it with their conker. Whoever's conker lasts the longest is the winner.

There were all sorts of rumours about baking them, or soaking in vinegar or what have you to harden them up, but effectively it's the sort of game that a bunch of kids can play under a horse chestnut tree with relatively few props.

Using a steel 'ringer' in that circumstance would be the worst sort of unsportsmanlike behaviour.
I think most people would know just from the headline.
I agree that it is an interesting configuration, but I also agree that it is click bait.

The clickbait part is the "Turn your Android phone" bit. Of course you can turn your Android phone into <x>, where <x> is a USB-powered device, for approximately the price of <X>.
Seems to happen on my computer and phone, wifi and lte. Click her photo on the main page and it goes to a page about CBD gummies. Click the more link at the bottom of the home page and it's some drug. The bottom of the art analysis page has links to valium, adderall, and tramadol.
All swans are owned by the crown and the monarch has the exclusive right to kill and eat them.

Or at least that's the way I heard it, come to think of it I have no idea at all if that's true. Stops people killing and eating swans though. Not that many would anyway these days.
I needed this cute video to tell me what the heck conker is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLGuZZraIqg

You and your opponent each attach a chestnut to a shoestring. You try to destroy your opponent's stringed chestnut by swinging your own stringed chestnut at it. The video explains different ways to cheat, such as coating the chestnut with nail varnish.
I always figure it’s just a good method to track changes in trends - not so much is this reading accurate, but how does it compare to the last 20 you’ve taken - has your blood pressure been trending upwards? Might want to get that looked at.
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conkers
> How do you handle customs inspections and duties on imports?

Probably no different from private airfields, you have to file customs paperwork before arriving, and they can send inspectors out.
All of your arguments go out the window when the foundation disappears. That’s what is happening now. Wordpress isn’t good in and of itself. It’s good due to the community of developers working on it, and likewise the plugins they have painstakingly created (despite the terrible programming environment)

That’s gone now.
Finally, some people are using basic cognition science to evaluate AI

Also they mapped an insect brain

Seems like my several comments suggesting AI scientists should peek other fields, did get some attention.

That probably makes me the most talented and insightful AI scientist on the planet.
IIRC at some point schools decided to put a stop to it (it was a popular playground game in Autumn) because of the possibility of injury.

Or that might have just been a tabloid outrage-bait headline.
I haven't tried it, but I notice that it's also in nixpkgs: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=24.05&show=tensorm... That might be a less invasive way to use it, though you'd still have to install nix.
Either it's accurate enough (most cases) or it is too wrong

Unless it's a wrist model, it should be ok.
That is mind blowing, but it’s not immediately obvious to me that it’s equivalent for n > sqrt(INT_MAX). Is it? And if so, is the compiler somehow smart enough to know that?