skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always have a definitional problem with predictions. I mean, it's moot whether a specific prediction is right or wrong as long as it doesn't help us to understand the big picture and the trends.

Take, for example, the prediction about "robots can autonomously navigate all US households". Why all? From the business POV, 80% of the market is "all" in a practical sense, and most people will consider navigation around the home as "solved" if they can do it for the majority of households and with virtually no intervention. Hilarious situations will arise that amuse the folks; video of clumsy robots will flood the internet instead of cats and dogs, but for the business site, it's lucrative enough to produce and sell them en masse.
Another question of interest is how is the trend? What will the approximate cost of such a robot be? How many US households will adopt such a robot by which time, as they have adopted washing machines and dishwashers. Will we see a linear adoption or rather a logistic adoption? These are the more interesting questions than just whether I'm right or wrong.
(That quote doesn't seem credible. It seems quite unlikely that Waymo would use H100s -- for one, they operate cars that predate the H100 release. And H100s sure as hell don't cost just $10k either.)

You're not even making a handwavy argument. Sure, it might sound like a lot of money, but in terms of unit profitability it could mean anything at all depending on the other parameters. What really matters is a) how long a period that investment is depreciated over; b) what utilization the car gets (ot alternatively, how much revenue it generates); c) how much lower the operating costs are due to not needing to pay a driver.

Like, if the car is depreciated over 5 years, it's basically guaranteed to be unit profitable. While if it has to be depreciated over just a year, it probably isn't.

Do you know what those numbers actually are? I don't.
It’s the same as applying flux separately, the flux is displaced by the metal.

If you’re applying fluxed solder directly there’s not much point applying separate flux to clean metal. Of course the flux will boil off pretty quickly so you need to use extra if you’re doing something where the solder wire doesn’t directly touch the components, or if the metal is old or previously soldered.

The only advantage to non-fluxed solder for most hobbyists is being able to choose your flux, but for most of us rosin is fine and fairly non-toxic.
for cars - mostly yes, for public transport - debatable, depending on area
Beware when relying on Google Takeout for e-mail backup if you have old e-mails in other encodings than utf-8 : it permanently breaks some characters, which are replaced by 0xEFBFBD (that issue does not occur when doing backup with IMAP or GMVault)
I have been using Syncthing fork since before the official app was discontinued, and can vouch for its quality. My favorite feature is that it allows conditional pausing of folders based on phone state, such as if the phone is charging or connected to WiFi. Just be warned that the version on Google Play was no longer updated last time I checked (Googles fault), so you're better downloading releases from the Github repo.
Agreed not sure it exactly fits the prompt but this is a really fascinating book. One of those things where I didn’t fully bring into conscious awareness until reading it: statistics are tools that didn’t always exist, and had to be developed alongside multiple philosophical revolutions.
As much as folks in the software world believe in complete software development freedom, you can't just build whatever you want and release it. Laws exist that regulate what you can release as much as folks might dislike it. Health apps are just one example.

The problem is that OP literally mentions "medical caregiver" as distinct from "families" which can be interpreted to mean someone that operates as covered entity. That alone puts OP under the risk of being sued and being punished with a very large fine. All a user needs to do is put their data there, share the info with their care assistant who works for a health company. Once that happens, OP is breaking the law.
You don't carry around the screen/peripherals. You arrive at a workstation and just plug in your phone. The monitor/mouse/keyboard are already there. You can work while on the go or out/about and then setup at a workstation instantly.

Dex is actually useful and I see people using it in business settings somewhat often. Basically anywhere a chromebook is useful Dex also fills that niche surprisingly well.

on android there's also windows connect or whatever it's called so you can pretty seamlessly use your windows laptop and samsung phone side by side. Everything syncs nearly instantly, including texts/phone calls. It's pretty rad when it works properly.
Elon Musk's xAI starts hiring in London after setting up shop
tl;dr TB4 to TB5:

- 40Gbps => 80Gbps, up to 120Gbps

- min 100 Watt - 140 Watt max => min 140 Watt - 240 Watt max PD charging

This is great, finally there will be 240W charging hardware. There wasn't any last time I checked.
It sounds more like tidal energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_power
I sometimes wonder why we have to be so gradual?

I mean thunderbolt 1 spec was released in 2013. Thunderbolt 5 is the 5th revision in 11 years. Thunderbolt 4 spec was published in 2020, you cannot possibly think about all future needs/usages but couldn't we have anticipated in 2020 that 5k and 8k screen would be a thing and that people would want more bandwidth than 40gbps?

All these standard changes every 2.5 years just create a compatibility mess and confusion for the consumers who don't understand why monitor A doesn't work well with computer B with cable C.

Couldn't we have jumped from thunderbolt 1 to 3 to 5 capabilities directly? Would our life have been more miserable had we had to wait a little bit more from an upgrade from say thunderbolt 3 but if it meant that thunderbolt 4 had been released in late 2021 or 2022 with capabilities of current thunderbolt 5 already? Like trading latency for higher improvements over generation? Does that even make sense or where there limiting factors that prevented thunderbolt 5 capable equipment to be built in 2022 already?
it's most likely because you didn't have insurance at all. if you had travel insurance you should have forwarded that to them. (but see below about calling an ambulance that is not needed)

if you don't have insurance you have to pay for everything of course. the surprise in your case comes from the unusual situation that the people who called the ambulance didn't know that you had no insurance, or more likely and you weren't even aware of how your situation is going to be handled.

it's unlikely that anything will happen if you return since the ones issuing the bill would not be notified in any way that you entered the country.

it is also possible that you could have disputed the payment since you didn't call the ambulance yourself (and i assume didn't ask anyone to call them). on the other hand if you had insurance you should have gone to the hospital because apparently insurance doesn't pay if an ambulance is called but not used. so actually, you didn't receive a surprise medical bill, but a bill for calling a service that was not needed (and potentially inconveniencing someone else who might have needed the ambulance, but now had to wait).

however, if you didn't ask anyone to call the ambulance then the bill is inappropriate because the law here is that if you call an ambulance but you don't need it, you pay, but if someone else calls the ambulance without you asking them, and it turns out to be unnecessary, then nobody pays.

since i lived in china i also don't have insurance in europe, so when we were visiting and needed treatment for a burn we had to shop around different hospitals to find out which one charged the least. costs for an ER visit ranged from 80€ to 250€ if i remember, and later we found a special hospital that was funded by a charity for the uninsured were we could go for after care for free. that works because the number of people without insurance is extremely small. mostly foreigners who somehow fell through the gap.
The letters from Francisco de Orellana: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Orellana

https://en.scribd.com/document/647918681/The-Voyage-of-Franc...
I find reading books about how people did hard things to be very motivating and therapeutic, especially when facing a difficult task myself! I’ve enjoyed all of these; they were all recommendations from HN.

Showstopper - Windows NT

Losing the Signal - BlackBerry

Made in Japan - Sony

Piloting Palm - Palm

Sweating Bullets - PowerPoint

Folklore.org - Early Apple.

The “Mac Folklore Radio Podcast” [0]. Has a few interesting stories of people innovating and solving challenges.

[0] https://macfolkloreradio.com/
Nice! On a tangent, I thought this sort of "animated star field" effect had gone out of fashion 5 years ago - I rarely come across a website using it nowadays.

My example is part of the testing suite for my canvas library: https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/particles-006.html
That patent shows the kind of screen they use in those phones that you fold in and out.

Like for example the Samsung Galaxy Fold Z phones.

https://www.samsung.com/en/smartphones/galaxy-z-fold6/

I wonder if they use the same kind of folding/rolling screen or not in that laptop they show in the OP article.

When I last looked at these kinds of phones in the store I found the screens super underwhelming. Maybe it has improved since.
I'll wait for a crystal ball display. Now that would be cool.
> if we jump across imaginary moral bars some people set up

Aren't you you the one setting up imaginary moral bars for what kinds of features a car should or should not have? And for what people should or shouldn't want in a car?

Aren't you the one believing "we're only allowed to combat human extinction" if we jump across your imaginary moral bars?
"The Soul of a New Machine", by Tracy Kidder.
All of the author's books are great imo. If you like cold war spy stories, you'd also enjoy Billion Dollar Spy.
> Side note: incredible that a small team like Kagi's can somehow use LLMs more effectively in search than a company that has years of search experience (i.e. Google)

But Google is not a search company. It used to be, but now it's an ad company. I'm sure their LLM use serves their purposes right.
Have you used Kagi? It’s easily 10x if not 100x better than Google.
Agreed, this is probably the most gripping non-fiction I've ever read
lc: List files in categories (and columns) – from Coherent Unix clone
Calculating Polygenic Risk Scores from Whole Genome Sequencing Data
What conspiracy? CIA had spy pigeons among other animals half a century ago, which is public info by now.[1]

They are very proud of it too.

> While many of the animal programs studied by CIA were never deployed operationally—or failed for a variety of technical, logistical, or behavioral reasons—collectively they demonstrate the incredible innovation and creative thinking that has come to characterize everything that our Directorate of Science and Technology does.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/natural-spies-animals-in-e...
I love it. My filesystem is a dungeon anyways, lets fill it with enemies to fight.
I don't want to start a holy war, but the JBC system with integrated cartridge tips is at least comparable to Metcal for high thermal mass joints and (IMO) superior for very fine SMD work. The JBC system has the advantage of allowing one-handed tip changes while the tip is still hot. It's also very affordable to get in the door, thanks to the proliferation of cheap Chinese stations that are fully compatible with JBC tips. I do agree that the traditional style of iron with a separate heater cartridge and tip is obsolete.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006568050453.html
I sugest to add a few samples to the landing page.

Are all boards public?
Stand on a corner and approach some people holding a big plate with tasty things. If those things are tasty enough, you will have some free advertising to their friends (almost like influencers, but more organic).
Nothing that flies in the air is that safe for its passengers or its surroundings - not without restrictions placed on it and having a maintenance schedule that most people would not be comfortable following.

Most components are safety critical in ways that their failure can lead to an outright crash or feeding the pilot false information leading him to make a fatal mistake. Most cars can be run relatively safely even with major mechanical issues, but something as 'simple' as a broken heater on a pitot tube (or any other component) can lead to a crash.

Then there's an issue of weather - altitude, temperature, humidity, wind speed can create an environment that makes it either impossible, unsafe, or extremely unpleasant - imagine flying into an eddy current that stalls out the aircraft, making your ass drop a few feet.

Flying's a nice hobby, and I have great respect to people who can make a career out of it, but I'd definitely not get into these auto-piloted eVTOLs, nor should people who don't know what they are doing.

Edit: Also unlike helicopters, which can autorotate, and fixed wing aircraft, that can glide, eVTOLs just drop out of the sky.
How many coffees can you drink in a day? How many services and even standalone apps that don't use server resources want a measly 10/month from you?
True. But for the highest-grade nasties, where median life expectancy is unfortunately short and progression near-universal, you don't need much signal to get above the noise.

Anyone surviving more than a handful of years with something like that is an outlier such as to merit a full work-back, and at that point it's no longer bro science.
“Wars of aggression are bad” is more of a moral/ethical position than a US foreign policy position.
Robert Kurson's diving books (Shadow Divers and Pirate Hunters) are some of the best books on startups I've ever read. They're stories about some of the most ambitious wreck divers out there.

It might not seem analogous, but there's a lot of parallels, i.e. you have limited air (aka runway), you need to choose the people on your expedition wisely and can't bring too many, you need to be extremely ambitious (seeking more than just touristy diving), etc.

The writing is incredible, too.
UNKNOWN isn’t always correct though. Let’s say your data is input by users filling out a form and some of the fields are allowed to be left blank. NULL captures both the case where the user intentionally left the field blank but also the case where they accidentally skipped that field.

So NULL can capture multiple distinct concepts: unknown values (say, as a result of a calculation), not applicable (where the data has been deliberately left out), and missing data (possibly due to instrumentation or user error).
AMD laptops cannot use the term "Thunderbolt" as it is owned by Intel and they do not want AMD to use it.
Previously unknown jellyfish discovered in a pond in Hong Kong
I really hope cable management has improved at LLNL since the 70s when that picture was taken.
Ultimately the CTO pays the bill but my boss, the head of Tech Ops, effectively pays the bill for cloud, even though almost all the users are not in his reporting line. Our division is a service to the business as Platform Ops.

Our bill is so big that no one engineer can significantly move the needle, but we have people going around and looking at costs (both Arch and FinOps) to identify what appears to be inefficient spend. We're also quite happy to tell AWS we want something zero rated or discounted if we don't like the cost of it. At a certain size the account team from the cloud provider are somewhat on your side when it comes to negotiations.

Generally architecture reviews and engineering peer reviews should avoid designs which cost a lot, but the most common cause of inefficient engineering practices is when time is more important than money. Then 6 months later someone looks at the cost and says "Why the hell are we doing search that way?", "Because you said you didn't have any time to change the API, so we just made it work this stupid way."

Any new engineer can join and find 5 ways of saving more than their annual salary within a week. But corralling all the teams to actually change the code? That takes leverage.
I wonder what David Graeber would have made of this. Would he have said that the staff to be reduced were doing "bullshit jobs" anyway? Or is there even a significant overlap between the reduced staff and the bullshit jobs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
AMA, am Hyppönen.
There will be more companies to absorb the labor force changes, think small boutique-size (read: nimbler too) companies; the greater number of companies will create further competition in the market and further raise standard-of-living for all besides initially raising standard-of-living due to making at least non-blue collar work easier due to AI.
Most people I know can afford some of the luxuries you list, but only barely. If you have to choose between having a drink once a month at a place other than your own home, and having an ad-free search engine that actually works, you'll find that many people are thick enough to go for that drink.

For context, this is speaking from the Netherlands, where housing is relatively expensive.
Hard disagree, from at least an ergonomics perspective. Just because we're not accustomed to seeing it as consumers doesn't make it 'wrong'.

For context: I've been carrying a separate keyboard/mouse around alongside my laptop for quite a long time - not because I don't like my thinkpad keyboards, but because it lets me flatten the laptop hinge to 180 degrees and stand the laptop upright, bringing its screen to eye level (something like this pic[0]). It is incredibly comfortable, and for me it's worth the inconvenience. But having a display that would let me bring my primary content up to eye level, without all that faff, and with some gratis screen real-estate for secondary content I can just glance down at, is something I would definitely spend my money on.

I'm obviously in the minority here, but the ergonomic implications are universal. Nobody likes that crappy pain you get between your shoulderblades from hunching over your laptop in a cafe for 4 hours. They just put up with it because the _current_ alternatives are too impractical for most.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4khwpt/hotdesking...
Only psychopath children: “I’m not bullying him, I’m just saying if he does anything I don’t want him to do I will bully him.”

Allegedly astute observers of European history: “Russia isn’t an aggressor, it just will aggress if its independent neighbors do anything Russia doesn’t like.”

Yeah bro that’s still called “starting a war.”
Flux in flux cored solder is rosin, rosin is distilled from pine sap and is a permitted food additive. It’s as a glaze on chewing gum and pharmaceuticals.

Rosin is also used on violin bows to increase friction, and it’s the white powder you’ll see gymnasts and baseball pitchers apply to their hands to improve grip.

Rosin vapour is a lung irritant, so avoid breathing it by using a fume extractor, and for some people it can cause contact dermatitis.

Yes it’s horribly sticky, that’s the worst part about it really. Isopropyl alcohol will dissolve it.
> An agent, or something that has agency, is just something that takes some action, which could be anything from a thermostat regulating the temperature all the way up to an autonomous entity such as an animal going about it's business.

I have seen "agency" used in a much more specific way than this: An agent is something that has goals expressed as states of a world, and has an internal model of the world, and takes action to fulfill its goals.

Under this definition, a thermostat is not an agent. A robot vacuum cleaner that follows a list of simple heuristics is also not an agent, but a robot vacuum cleaner with a Simultaneous Location and Mapping algorithm which tries to clean the whole floor with some level of efficiency in its path is an agent.

I think this is a useful definition. It admits a continuum of agency, just like the huggingface link; but it also allows us to distinguish between a kid on a sled, and a rock rolling downhill.

https://www.alignmentforum.org/tag/agent-foundations has some justification and further elaboration.
>You don't carry around the screen/peripherals. You arrive at a workstation and just plug in your phone. The monitor/mouse/keyboard are already there. You can work while on the go or out/about and then setup at a workstation instantly.

At that point, why are the peripherals not just accompanied by device with a CPU & internet connection?
Fedora Stakeholders Have Been Debating Whether to Retire GlusterFS
Likelihood of this happening in the internet era, for something with an order of magnitude more rapid progression than HIV/AIDS?
Haven't lowriders worked on this for years now? I think they are further concerning angle of attack and elevation but behind the whole "while driving" thing. It's not really my field of expertise.
Citation needed. The word reasoning isn't describing everything that the brain does, and "just following the most used neuron" is not even wrong.
Indeed. I think focusing on the social commentary in these kinds of films is kinda missing the point: it's simply one kind of setup to get to the premise of the film, a deadly free-for-all with arbitrary rules. It can hit or miss the mark on that without really affecting what the actual focus is.
can't help to think about Brave New World where they basically do that for inferior-cast humans. A great read. I recommend the sequel Brave New World Revisited

Those looks like to be the full texts (didn't verify):

https://www.huxley.net/bnw/index.html

https://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/
Seems like you have have not bought a TV at all...
You're just describing programming with the extra step of going through a high entropy and low bandwidth channel of natural language and hand waving that problem away.

We can "just" write code as well, as we have been doing for several decades.
Not if you learn something out of it! And thank you for the legal advice (:
My monitor endgame, as unrealistic as it is, is '5k' 120hz 34" ultrawide. There's some 4k ones out there that might suffice, but 2880px tall is my goal.
I was wondering why were they beta testing folding screens on their users for so many years now. Personally I wouldn't mind more screen real estate, particularly if it reaches eye level.

I expect it to cost as much as a laptop + screen though, so unless the user insists on portability, it won't be cost effective.

The fact that it's motorized hints that users could not be trusted to unroll it manually, meaning it has to be fairly fragile.
I think you missed my point. Microsoft BASIC is a dialect consisting of a couple dozen BASIC implementations:

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

And clicking any of those will list them as a "Microsoft BASIC" dialect. This list lists them independently as their own dialects. I just found that slightly humorous. It wasn't intended as anything more.

If you want to be serious about it, I agree with you. Each of those is different enough that they certainly could be considered their own languages and "Microsoft BASIC" a superset (akin to Pascal, Ada, Oberon, Modula, etc all being "Wirth-languages") vs "dialect".
Tell me they had to pay significant contractual fines that were at least enough to install all the required chargers.
River of Doubt - Candice Millard

https://www.candicemillard.com/river-of-doubt.html

Covers Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon expedition. To the comment about "weren't people living in the Amazon" - read the book. The Brazilian government was scouting and mapping the terrain for the project of connecting the coasts with telegraph lines. This was uncharted territory and the chance of not returning was high.

I cannot recommend enough.