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Hi HN! I'm PLB from phospho. I’m building a dev kit for ML engineers to work with real-world robots using bearable dev tools (Python, HTTP APIs, WebSocket…)

Some Python examples: basic robot controls (https://docs.phospho.ai/examples/control), rock paper scissors against the robot (https://docs.phospho.ai/examples/vision#rock-paper-scissors), Huggingface AI models (https://docs.phospho.ai/examples/ai-models).

The kit bundles a SO-100 robotic arm, a Raspberry Pi as the server and control module, a stereo camera, all the wiring. The control module handles all the low level stuff: PID control, inverse kinematics, trajectory, calibration, torque limits… You also get a Meta Quest app to remote control the robot. This brings down the time to get started from 100+ hours to 2 minutes.

My team is making a small batch available at $495 each for early builders who want to experiment. You can buy one on our website (refundable until shipped).

I’d love your thoughts, experiences, and critiques. If you have ideas on what you’d use our dev kit for, or feedback on how to make these systems more accessible, I’m hanging around in the comments for a few hours. Let me know what you think!
Either this thread is full of "temporarily embarrassed billionaires", or there's a lot of arguing in bad faith going on.

One human having a billion is like somebody weighing 1000 pounds. It's hella unhealthy for them (does anyone here imagine that Elon Musk is happy?) and it's catastrophically bad for the rest of society to have to deal with these people throwing their weight around.

Where do we "draw the line"? I dunno, could we consider something like 200 million? Judging by some of the responses here, probably not.
That's a really good article!

Do you want to know a bit more?

Ukraine hardware best talents -> 18k/year.
Belarus best hardware talents -> 6k/year
Some part of Russia best hardware talents -> 14k/year

Eastern Europe -> hardware talent is basically free
It's horrible. Consequence of all the App Store and developer fees I guess. I hope to get out of Apple's "ecosystem" soon.
Yes Islam went into China through trade and missionaries via the silk road and sea routes.

There is a one thousand year old mosque in Beijing. There are ethnic Hans who converted (now the Hui minority). There was a sizeable Muslim community in Guangdong in the Tang Dynasty.

The same holds true, as far as I know, throughout South East Asia.

My point is simply that Islam could and did spread peacefully, like Christianity did before it. So it is difficult to draw drastic conclusions, IMHO.
> Politicians lie, constantly. All of them. Yes, even the ones you like. Saying Republicans lie and Democrats don't is practically self-propagandizing, convincing oneself of something they'd prefer to be true.

> ALL politicians are equal-opportunity liars: if there's an opportunity, they will lie. Sometimes for power, sometimes for money, sometimes because they owe a favor. It's a big club, and we aren't in it.

If you genuinely believe this, how do you determine which way to vote?

It's not like you can call a particular set of politicians (country or party) pathological liars and then take seriously election promises from any member of that set.
Any pitfalls to watch out for for Canadians on the TN? Specifically during this next administration?
They may be limited, but most folks can't even afford to enter the startup founder game to begin with.
Not trivial as long as imatrix is concerned: we've found it substantially improves performance in Q4 for long Ukrainian contexts. I imagine, it's similarly effective in various other positions.
Has not been my experience, everywhere I've been to there's grind going on at all social levels.

The exception being, as you noted, some wealthy people (not all, though).
so the greening measures do nothing by your own admission ?
The answer as a whole is serious, I said as much, read again.
A singled out this one point, because it is not.
It is akin to any other knee-jerk dismissive attitude to anything different.
Casting away a far more proven language, used for over a decade in thousands of serious, commercial projects with wide editor (and LSP) support etc over indexing conventions, is not serious.

Lua is my first 1-indexed language, i have yet to have a single bug over this. It's a irrational fear.
Also, periods are just a small percentage of the characters. Maybe we should skip them.
Let’s give it a few weeks.
From what I can tell the millionaire discrepancy existed in 2010 as well when the per capita GDPs between Germany/France/UK and the US were fairly close. The gini index for the US is much higher so it's not surprising that there's more millionaires per capita. And a lot more poor people per capita as well (once you account for the US's weaker standard for what constitutes poverty).
Plus I think most decent quartz oscillators have a drift measured in single-digit PPM (or less) so even 100ms error over a single sortie would be surprising.
>If you're assertive and the other party keeps pushing you, what is the outcome?

Disagreement?

People do that all the time.
This isn't a response to what I posted. You said that it's a recent concept without any presence in non-Western spaces. My link clearly demonstrates that's not the case.
-I failed six startups attempts, (btw I'm multi-millionaire)

Americans are weird :)
EU forced Apple to allow sideloading (in Europe) https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/25/apple-check-iphone-eligible-s...
Try using a considerably smaller dose. I only use half a gram per night. Half of a "child" pill. It's effective in small doses, and arguably (pulling this from other conversations Ivr seen on it) the OTC doses are 10x too large. Which would certainly explain the fairly extreme effect that the full pills have on me!
RekordBox is a well known piece of s** and it's great to see someone try to enter the arena. Now we need a legit competitor to the DJM / CDJ's which cost, all told, >$10k for a standard, club-ready setup.
No? It's been pretty much a constant throughout history.
I love TikTok! Use it all the time. But sometimes, they show me political content. And I worry about the process that selects those videos.
Llama2.c LLM on Vintage Sega Dreamcast Cluster
Nice progressive port by Nathan with networking and clustering
Perhaps a rule like "first do no harm"?
The term addicted might not be a good fit to describe the body's adaptation to melatonin.

My understanding is the body adapts quickly to the initial dose(s) of melatonin. That is, what you start at is what you'll need.

Stores offer dosages that are much higher than a first-time user needs. But non-users don't know that. The result is people using a lot higher dosages than they need to.
even if someone wishes they were a dictator of the USA doesn’t mean that they are
why go all in at first?
Given that this was circa 2000, could have had provisions for 2 more prototypes for Transmeta and VIA. I doubt they would have gotten far or even start given that they likely wouldn't have very competitive options, but it's fun to think about.
Nice whataboutism. He's a fascist who even as recently as last night admitted to stealing the election with his tech billionaire cronies, and who claims to on day one wage war against an "out group" (definitive hallmark of a populist authoritarian despot). He previously did all he could to attempt to overthrow the results of a fair election.

To equivocate his actions with all those presidents who came before him is farcical. He stands alone as the greatest traitor to US Democracy since Benedict Arnold.
We were both talking about how things ought to be. I was using an example of what I wanted in a specific situation to demonstrate the general lack of patient agency.

Also, it being possible to spend an outsized amount of effort obtaining healthcare outside the system isn't really relevant to discussing the failings of the current mainstream system. Every time I've tried to even get a straightforward price from a doctor in the US, I've been met with indignation like how could I even be asking such a thing.
I expect that we'll see one of these stories approximately once a day for the next four years.
because of automation there is often a lot more engineering jobs. one 'man' with a laser cutter can do the work of 50 with saws.
Twitter was never slim or lightweight. At the time, I remember checking its page weight only to find the website loaded over 100k of scripts and other cargo. With a 140 character limit, one can only conclude that the other 99.9% was malware and anti user algorithms, probably in an attempt to replicate Facebook.
Don't use media that relies on it when you're not the one managing it. These features are cool when you control them. Digital signature verification on Redhat is great.
Do you realize the exact same things can be said about the President we had for the last four years?

It's really hard to worry about your own guy being a scumbag, when the opposition supports a scumbag too (and then lies about it).
You can decent even further, look at what labor in India costs.

Companies are already taking advantage of that and are outsourcing there.
> If the company wants people to have positive thoughts, they should do positive things!

This is I think the crux of so many modern philosophical problems. Is it possible for a corporation to do the right things and thrive? Arizona Iced Tea could be an example of this I suppose.

Do mega corporations and does Apple actually want people to think positive thoughts about them? We as consumers certainly want them to want that. But I have yet to see evidence of corporations caring about that.

Do consumers at all care about how unethical a corporation is (to the first approximation; there are always protest. Remember when Budweiser went out of business? Or Harley?)? If not, this whole thing is moot.
In the context of the future of heterogeneous computing, where your standard pc will have thousands of cores of various capabilities and locality, I very much disagree.
>it's starting to sound like a mob wanting protection money

Starting to sound like a mob? He's been at this for his whole adult life.
For what it's worth, I've just heard a Chinese song in a random Instagram reel from Pakistan.
peat is a preform of coal accidic build up peat is pretty carbon storing. Unless the peat dries out.
EUV technology was developed in partnership with the US Department of Energy which is why the US can implement export controls (it was an explicit condition of original deal with the DoE). A significant part of the “secret sauce” is manufactured in San Diego.

It’s not really “one firm in the Netherlands”, it’s a global collaboration that goes back to the 1990s. Intel was involved from the beginning, they just dropped the ball.
Documentation on using Renovate with Haskell-actions
When going through crazy stuff as a founder, I always thing "this is going to make for a very intersting story some day". Looking back I doubt I'll remember them all and, while keeping things in full throttle, I wonder if I'll ever get to write about anything...

My conclusion is that most interesting stories remain burried and we're lucky to see anythign real (as in true stories) surfacing, because people that are crazy enough to enjoy these pains, hardly have any time to write about them.

Meanwhile we're presented with a somewhat skewed reality that's both less interesting, less real and overly biased towards glamor. The title of a somewhat :) unrelated book keeps popping in my head "Reality is not what it seems".
Zig is first and foremost a C compiler with cross-compilation being first class citizen so you can't really compare the two.

> Rather than developing and increasingly insular (navel-gazing?) ecosystem, it might be better to work on the root problem.

Every language has its own development budget and must focus on what makes more sense. Zig has great cross-compiling story and C is first class, Rust has a stable language, a compiler that doesn't crash and emits readable error messages, one has to set its priorities.

The good thing with zig is that you can use the zig compiler within Rust project to cross-compile C code (cargo-zigbuild IIRC) so you can have a cake and eat it too.
Sure, but think about the past thirty years of web browser
development. Every time software developers make a faster browser
with cool new features, content developers make content that uses
all that new capability. It's sort of the content equivalent of
Wirth's Law (software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware
is becoming faster.)

Developers almost always have reasonably beefy hardware setups
(because the software they use requires plenty of memory or
compute resources.) Does the OP's observation imply there's a
wider range of hardware out there? Maybe people constructing the
pages they're complaining about assume everyone will be on a
kick-ass machine with the best GPU money can buy and on a
low-latency / high-bandwidth network. Maybe it's an observation
that too many web developers don't consider consumers with more
mundane circumstances.

Also... I use Lynx and EWW a lot. The web seems pretty zippy when
you're ignoring the images and javascript. But yeah, that's not a
general solution, too many sites require javascript to function.
Hi, depends on what kind of model you want to fine-tune. Could you be a little more specific?
For a while, we had the "maker movement" and "maker spaces", and people were learning that stuff. But that all tanked when TechShop went bankrupt.

There are still maker spaces around, but most of them are now more into sewing, paper folding, and hot glue than CNC machining. Few go beyond a 3D printer.
The ones that do tend to have some kind of subsidy from a larger educational institution.
The hope is that it not making military sense prevents military action. We don’t have any such promise from reality, or much historic precedent to depend on, and in the case of the PRC and Taiwan, it is CCP leadership which is angling for a takeover of the independent nation of Taiwan and the eradication of the Republic of China.
Youtube tells me that the video is not available :(

Would someone be able to do a tldr of what this is about? Looks interesting but the title doesn't give me a clue about what it is... Llm, audio,...?
Eating a big mac and posting on Tiktok isn’t authenticity. It’s two bad health choices. Asserting someone is not serious or intelligent because they don’t post on your marketing driven social media app of choice is very pot-kettle behavior.
> It password-protected the card (using CMD42). You can remove password while erasing the card, but most devices weren't aware of password protection feature at all.

You could actually use a Symbian device to bring the cards back to life!
Thank you! I am very interested in this project and want to keep working on it, hopefully getting help from open source contributors.

I actually had this idea of using Duolingo's style exercises, but now with your comment, I realize some might not be appropriate for individual learners with different goals.

The cool thing would be to have customizable exercise types, where users can choose which ones they want and which ones they don't want!

I will add this to the roadmap in the README, pointing out this comment! Thanks again!
(when I made the comment above, most of the article was behind a subscribe-to-view wall.)
It’s not complex just gigantic, repeated sections. Definitely not downplaying it but definitely euv is damn complex !!
Or you are born to a developing country and get a remote job as a software engineer. Not much competition (at least until 2022).
Another example of whataboutism, this time about a guy who ran for presidency many many years ago. He's the one who gave attention to this now obvious unconvenient truth. Back then they criticized the energy use of his house, which still compares very pale against the consequences of this, still swept under the carpet today, inconvenient truth.
I like that you used the word "uneducated" -- many of these folks probably happen to be literate, which implies nothing about cognitive abilities.
At least someone being paid to make your life worse can often also be paid to stop. I'm more afraid of someone convinced that they're saving the world as they destroy it instead.
I was 15yo in 1977 when our two school paper terminals connected to a Milwaukee Public Schools PDP-11 provided access to the FORTRAN version of DUNGEO, aka mainframe Zork.

Memorizing the map was considered a high calling among the half dozen students who became obsessed with the games (ADVENT aka Adventure or Colossal Cave was also on the PDP).

At that time, death was just a part of the puzzles of the game. Repetition was not a hindrance.

Of course we did learn how to save, but you could only have one save file at a time.

Then we learned how to “detach” our session (RSTS/E operating system) and rename save files as well as holding a current game’s state until we later reattached that session.

Mind you this was all on green bar paper.

I’m still involved in the IF community, board member of the IFTF, and will occasionally try to play Dungeon from memory.

Even made a map a few years ago.

https://plover.net/~dave/DungeonMap.pdf

I think any gamer worth their salt should take on the challenge.

I also think Dungeon would be a great challenge for teenagers in a computer science class.
>Bob bakes bread, Alice grow apples. Everyone is better off because of specialization.

America is 300 Million. Europe is almost a Billion. These populations are more than large enough to specialize in everything.

>Everyone is better off because of specialization.

Why?
the irony in all of this, is that if social media were completely eradicated from the world and everyone had a chance to look inward in order to pursue being the very best version of themselves possible, both emotionally and logistically in their career pursuits, imagine the repercussions of this and how it would positively impact our society… but alas, i’m dreaming of a world where that could never exist again.

could not have said it better myself… I quit all social media and I cannot even put in words how much my life has improved since then. not only in personal aspect of not being subjected of nonsense of social media but also my social life has improved immensely. my friends of course are all on social media and any discussion that relates to it that spills into our group chats I am like “no clue and don’t give two shits about it” - glorious existence!
It's js devs, what do you expect
why repeat the names?

// put this in some util.ts or enum.ts file
function makeEnum<T extends readonly string[]>(keys: T) {
return Object.fromEntries(keys.map((x) => [x, x])) as {
[K in (typeof keys)[number]]: K
};
}

const SMS_TYPES = makeEnum(['bulk', 'marketing', 'pin', 'signup', 'transaction', 'test'] as const);
type SMS_TYPE = keyof typeof SMS_TYPES;
Viagra-laced 'erectile honey' is flooding into France, officials warn
The right moment to start writing down things you have regretted not to having written down in the past is now.
there is always the save restore so it is never permanent. However you can wonder around for a long time seeming to make progress only to discover it isn't possible to solve the game because of something not obvious you did a while back.
But we aren't talking about "interfacing programs with AI", and we aren't talking about "[giving] a certain command, [getting] a certain effect". We are talking about one-off invocations directly by a human. Tools like llmpeg aren't intended to be a component in your CI/CD scripts, but for the command line user who wants to casually convert some media files and who hasn't memorized ffmpeg's full CLI interface.
Talent everywhere is being wasted because we’re all trapped working for oligopolistic companies or the mediocre-talented leadership of the rich and connected.
The chances of some specific person having absolutely zero luck is infinitesimally small. But many people believe themselves having no luck. Because pessimists are very common.
Routing data back to the home network is how it can get counted and charged for.

The host roaming network is just selling in bulk, but does not own the customer.
Any good links? I briefly looked up that it models fire, electricity, cutting etc. interactions, but if you put this in the frame of a text adventure rather than a 3D action adventure, would it be fun? e.g. typing "shoot arrow at explosive barrel" isn't as engaging as aiming the arrow yourself.
Good question. I haven't revisited it in over 10 years. I think it was just too much "new" stuff to learn at once, making it feel too difficult to do anything in it at the time, especially considering I wasn't learning it full time.

Maybe now that I'm older and wiser (debatable) a revisit is in order, but lately I prefer dynamically typed languages (like Clojure and Elixir) to statically typed ones. I'll probably add it to my TODO list, but the list is long and time is short.
> The Microsofts, googles and Apples of this world excel in actually delivering results. And it can be argued that that's more important than you really "owning" a device or a service.

Not to go too Godwin here but that sounds like a "Hitler made the trains run on time" argument. There are all kinds of things that "deliver results" but with hidden costs that are unacceptable when brought into the light.
I took another look, and AFAICT you're right. The best I can do is get the value 2:

* Run procedure P into its first iteration, stopping after temp is assigned "n + 1", or the value 1

* Run procedure Q through nine iterations, stopping after the ninth has completed (n changes, but who cares?)

* Run the next line of procedure P's first iteration, so that it assigns temp's value of 1 to n; n is now 1

* Run procedure Q into its tenth iteration, stopping after temp is assigned the value 2

* Complete procedure P (n changes, but who cares?)

* Complete procedure Q, so that n is assigned the value of temp, or 2.
Why? Each one is life changing event. Just because some part of the bill is paid by the government does not mean it is any less worth worrying about.
My biggest issues are crashes in programs by someone who writes C/C++ and doesn't take it through valgrind (or even bothering to lint it).

I feel like Google's Carbon could be good, but it's still not ready for general use. I'm surprised they even bothered with Carbon since they had built golang for their server software development.
Yes,but Putin can hardly be described as non confrontational. His whole image is based on power.
European leaders and voters on the other hand are less so. (They're getting there though)
What I'm saying is that if you'll have Europe embrace a more putinistic style AND try to dominate them, you'll get a war.

Russia is already in that position, so you are already dealing with an assertive opponent who only believe in power. And you got war.

So I'm not saying that Putin's rhetoric is correct. but it is a fact that it causes war. In Europe's case it's avoidable if you don't go that route.
Dendrites can compute XOR
> Presumably some starting points would be working out how to lower the costs of fruit and vegetables and increase the cost of ultra-processed fast food.

Britain has implemented a sugar tax, but I despair when even a right-wing governments attempt to make walking and cycling easier falls victim to culture war nonsense.
> I'd love to see a big dumb TV and a set-top box or game console with a DisplayPort cable connecting them, but I don't actually expect that to happen any time soon.

It's a shame the Alienware 55" OLED gaming monitor (with DisplayPort) seems to have been a one-off.
Ordering Chinese but This Time with AI, or the Merit of Bad Ideas
I very much like the website itself, built to work without Javascript, and doesn't make any external calls as far as I can tell
My preferred one for EE folks is that reportedly the first Arduino boards (now 20 years old?) had a mistake in their eCAD where the second pair of headers was 0.05 instead of 0.1" apart. But it was too late by the time they caught it. And now, 20 years later, even high end microcontroller boards ship with that same gap to be compatible.