skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so for movies, the marketing budget and press junket tours end up costing as much as the film production itself. Music is also pay-for-play, but buying off radio stations and promotional spots on Spotify is not nearly as expensive as movies.
That's inline with my impressions in general.

Dogs, humanoids can better interact with the environment but even back in the day the Boston Dynamics dog marketing was to a large extent automated infrastructure monitoring with things like thermal cams and less so the actual intervention which means you can just get drones with thermal cameras and skip the whole walking issue/cost.

On the other side if you need interaction you can just get an arm. My current employer is looking at the humanoid robots more so for the marketing that they can do things "magically"/without careful preprogramming and adapting to conditions but if you can do that with a humanoid, you can do it with an arm for cheaper still.

The space where you need monitoring, interaction and movement to me seems very limited and even undesired. There's a reason we avoid having people do the entire process from start to finish and like putting them in as short as possible loops..
Im sure I’m overidealizing, but I’ve wanted to live off grid, or maybe in a small community.

I watch these historical farm documentary tv shows, and they show how everyone in a town had a purpose and worked together, the blacksmith, the tile maker.

And I do often think the limiting factor to a life like this is the “market” so if you could create these communities, and could be an artist/artisan/builder, without strictly having to worry about making enough to live.

I met someone recently who lived in the Galapagos islands, and she seemed to sort of live this community oriented, trading anarchocapitalist lifestyle, and I think most people would be happier if they're small capitalist or socialist community involved direct interaction with people rather than dealing with soulless corpo's all the time.
If I think about robotic autonomy, I imagine a sort of layer cake:

1. Intent and Planning -> What am I doing, What will happen when I do it

2. Macro Implementation -> What are instructions down to all my parts

3. Local Implementation -> Given Instructions, let’s move my leg

4. realtime / reactivity -> OK, I’m 3 degrees off expected on this foot, need to rebalance everything.

Figure et al are demoing 1-4, but slow and without motion - just heads and hands.

Tesla’s robot day was demoing 4 only, as far as I can tell — engineers with controllers did all the macro planning and movement requesting - but there’s no way you can rebalance a robot live with a handheld controller - that seems certain to have been live from code.

BD has always existed in this kind of liminal space to me, where it’s not clear that they’re doing anything more than 4 with their demos. Extremely impressive mobility demos, to be clear. But, I’ve never seen a humanoid demo from BD that’s not in what looks a pre-scanned and planned room.

And we never hear claims about 1, 2 or 3 for humanoid robots from BD as far as I’m aware.

I think for years the low level mobility part has been so hard, BD has felt way ahead, the planning and environment responsiveness was just science fiction. Today we see that the top part of that layer can be gotten with vision models, and we’re seeing dual architectures where those vision models instruct small fast models for layers below. My guess is that this architecture is going to be relatively resilient, changing the cost structure and opportunities for robot companies.

So, I guess if I add all this up, we have a race between mobility experts and agile ML teams with robotic experience. And that adds up to some early launch products; I’d imagine they will be clumsy, and that BD will be a late launcher if it ever goes after consumer at all; it may just decide to license. Anyway I’d like to buy one, so the next few years should be interesting.
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As part of this collaboration, SCANOSS seamlessly integrates with Theia’s intelligent development environment, allowing developers to automatically analyse AI-generated code for similarities with existing open source projects, identify the origins of detected code and its associated licensing terms to make informed decisions.

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One of the key concerns is that large language models (LLMs) are often trained on publicly available code, which may lead to the generation of output that is substantially similar or functionally equivalent to pre-existing open source software. If an AI-generated snippet constitutes a derivative work or an exact reproduction of code under a restrictive license—such as the GPL—developers must adhere to the license's obligations, failing to do so could result in licensing violations, even if the match was unintentional.

SCANOSS addresses this challenge by providing real-time code analysis. For example, if Theia Coder generates a code snippet that closely resembles an existing project under a specific license, SCANOSS will highlight the match, allowing the developer to investigate further before integrating the code.

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This approach is ideal until you try to grow your design team. People will poke at your code for money but it takes a while for them to orient to doing things without their heavy environments.
Okay, I get it now. So Linux that's treated like it's GPLv3 but is actually GPLv2 only by not locking down the bootloader or providing the necessary private keys to unlock it is real linux.
In big tech these overly-granular, arbitrary systems are designed specifically to avoid this kind of variance in promotability from how managers infer the rules. If they're designed badly, you have to lie to get your example through the pipeline.

>It’s not about not asking questions

If the spec says 'doesn't ask questions', it is!
This is an interesting way of thinking about it compared to the common definition that uses "scope" (which outside IC roles is a synonym for to headcount)
Interestingly, it also poses great challenges for LLMs. GPT-4 can translate Perl into Python almost flawlessly, but its Lua is full of off-by-one errors.
How many Big Macs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diné_Bahaneʼ

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_myth
It does have a readme. Click the "View all files" button.

But you don't have to. GitHub shows the readme just below the partial file list. That's what all the same-page docs on GitHub/GitLab repositories are.

Full docs are linked from the readme.
I think that's the point being made in the banner message / plea.

Here we are, still able to see that content.. and so can search engines and AI.

No one here at HN has done anything to remove the content that only exists to attack and demean, even though it looks like troll accounts.

We down vote it, flag it, hide it, but it's still there.

I don't know much about this particular situation, but I can empathize.
12 bytes is IPv6, this was the joke. "widespread use" should have given it away.
> When I was a high school teacher you either had to belong to the union (CTA) or pay the same dues anyway

The Unions that created this system essentially became the system themselves. The government will sure like it and stamp over it. If the Union gets paid regardless, then it'll essentially become useless. Unions where the syndicate has to fight for its salary will act as paid gangoons. They are essentially the police version of the workers.
Not for weeks, but I was 'detained' for 24 hrs and then escorted in handcuffs to a plane back to Germany about 20 years ago (2002 or 2003 IIRC) for a 2 week overstay in 1998 (and since then I've been kicked out of the visa waiver program and on each followup visit interrogated in a backroom each time I wanted to enter the US for visiting GDC or E3 (basically 2hrs waiting time for 5 minutes of pointless questions and staring at my visa and passport) - I've since given up trying to travel to the US, it's just too much hassle.
> It's funny how often engineers say "it depends"

Then just wait until you speak with lawyers.
nah.

China built several -- several, like 8+ -- landing ships designed to support an amphibious assault. if soft power was their goal and primary method they wouldn't have spent the resources.

while they may not ever do it, a very direct, very violent invasion is absolutely on the table. Taiwan may only even be a secondary objective, since #1 would be sinking the US Navy and shifting the hegemonic balance; they'll get to Taiwan when they can after that.
I’d be happy with just being able to accurately position the cursor.
I have a 56-bit prefix which cannot be shortened. That alone makes it very tedious to type by hand, never mind when the host has used SLAAC.

ULA makes it somewhat better, but not that much.

In my view, IPv6 requires DNS for all hosts to be manageable. We have mDNS which, when it works, makes that easier for internal hosts, but for external IPs using DynDNS is required.
That makes sense; in the diagram of the 4-element array, 3 points at the same point as -1.
Sure, but does that mean the framework shouldn't exist? Something can be flawed and still provide some value.

In the case of leveling, I'd suggest the levels are guidelines and not policy. As soon as they become policy, management cannot work around them adequately, and they begin to detract value.

For example, at my employer, we have levels (within job families, I haven't seen a level grid that has engineers and personal assistants). But, I've never had to tick every single box to get an employee promoted. I have to make my case, and I do use the levels as a guideline, but I've never felt it necessary to absolutely follow every item.
Tesla's fate hangs on balance in US/China relations. Xi has Musk by the balls. 20% of revenue, all growth hopes, and Tesla's access to battery technology depends on China. The largest Gigafactory, a new battery pack plant is in China.

If China starts invading Taiwan, Musk would advice not to interfere if China leaves Taiwanese factories intact, and let it be quick fast so that business can go back normal.
It's also frustrating to see people "rationally" telling us to "wait and see" what DOGE will deliver. Sure, I have preexisting biases against DOGE. I guess I shouldn't ask who has preexisting biases for DOGE, but I don't know if I need to. But I don't think it should take partisanship to conclude that even if DOGE is doing some good, it's also throwing the baby out with the bathwater (e.g. NOAA, NNSA [which maintains our nuclear weapons], DoD, IRS). Is there bureaucratic waste? Sure, I don't doubt it. But DOGE is just slashing jobs without a care in the world. And that's without considering its clear political agenda. So I guess some people will take the middle ground all the way until we "somehow" end up at a terrible outcome. They're not actually taking the middle ground and making a stand, although even that is questionable; you're walking (knowingly or not) towards a side. Rationality is not achieved solely through platitudes. Look at the world around you and make an honest assessment, as unblinded by your biases as you can. Especially since we here tend to be very privileged.
From Roberto Ierusalimschy himself [0]:

"one of the design goals, was for Lua to be easy for nonprogrammers to use"

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/lua/comments/w8wgqb/complete_interv...
Ironically, I've been buying more DVDs than ever in an attempt to ensure that I'll be able to watch the things I enjoy as we move into the future.

I've been doing the same with music CDs as well, for the same reason.
If I weren't on vacation right now, I'd create a site to publicly catalog such posts, so that meaningful discussion could continue. We won't emerge from this crisis if we can't talk about it. It is not wholly political anymore.
> Abstracting all of this complexity away in one general tool/library and pretending that it will always work is snake oil.

Remember Meteor?
Are you using any Bluetooth headsets designed for their special sync protocol? I noticed no issues with any certified headsets but any of my nice Bluetooth headsets from a few years ago that don’t leverage the newer protocol instead only standard Bluetooth have issues syncing and such.

This tends to be an Apple issue. They introduce proprietary thing and eventually unless your hardware supports said thing it will have a degraded experience in some way
The first line in their YouTube channel description:

> Please everyone be sure to use the robot in a Friendly and Safe manner.

I guess they also have a sense of humor.
Ok, what changes based on which label should apply?

> I take it you don’t think it pointless to have an argument about whether or not something is ‘racist’, for example.

In the abstract, it probably is, unless the point of the argument is to determine whether to make meaningful change. "Are oranges racist?" - pointless. "Is this policy racist, in that it disproportionately affects X minority group?" - meaningful.

Say we all agree this is an example of innovation and not invention - now what? What was the outcome that warranted the argument at all?
And the lesson is that you want a simple UI to launch shell scripts, maybe with complex triggers but probably not.

If you make anything more than that, your CI will fail. And you can do that with Jenkins, so the people that did it saw it work. (But Jenkins can do so much more, what is the entire reason so many people have nightmares just by hearing that name.)
Not sure if he did it, but from what I heard from friends who worked with him, wouldn't be surprised if he did. Really love the guy as someone who combined creativity and tech, but these kind of things is one of least things I liked about him. It is one these Trumpisuqe quality playing hard ball, etc. Very US business like tend to be very off putting.
Clojure Electric is proprietary software, which disqualifies it immediately no matter its other purported benefits
No big changes to UK broadband regs, despite no real competition for BT
drones and EW have changed that game. maybe not in Taiwan's favor, though.

but Taiwan is a mountainous, forested island. it'll be an ugly, expensive occupation.
Why not just use Notepad in Windows and hit F5 Time/Date at need?

9:54 AM 3/21/2025

That said, this sort of thing has me wishing for something like to Services support in Windows where that could be implemented as a Service by Notepad and then used in any context where text input is acceptable.
I don't think a stored procedure that operates only on master copy of the database can reject update comming from a second copy and nicely comminicate thus happened so that the other copy can infrom the user through some ui.
I don't know when you used it, but I've used it for years and it's always had that feature in every version I've used.
Open Tech Fund vs. Kari Lake [pdf]
Just speaking anecdotally, I had the impression that math people prefer 1-based indexing. I've heard that Matlab is 1-based because it was written by math majors, rather than CS majors.
You changed your interface to not implement RFC 5735:

127.0.0.0/8 - This block is assigned for use as the Internet host
loopback address. A datagram sent by a higher-level protocol to an
address anywhere within this block loops back inside the host. This
is ordinarily implemented using only 127.0.0.1/32 for loopback.

-- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5735#section-3

An ICMP Ping is a datagram in the sense of the second sentence.
Hydrogen-ready power plants are already being built, so that’s actually the least difficult part of the problem. The current bottleneck is actually producing the hydrogen, and next will be building the transport infrastructure.

https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/hydrogen-ready-power-plan...
It is a legit problem, so there is definitely market potential with this idea.

But I'd warn you to be wary about using your prior problems as the examples of why to buy this product. I read the quote on the bottom of the page, and thought it sounded like someone who had no clue about PDF rendering, and therefore your current marketing sounds to me more like, "We learned PDFs so you don't have to", and not "We built a product that works for people who know what are doing with PDFs, but just don't want to."

You have a much stronger marketing statement in: "Every time we needed to change the layout, we had to involve the dev team" That statement is the one that will get the attention of people who know PDFs. Because the flip side of that is a dev thinking, "Sure, I can do all the PDF work without this product... but man, wouldn't it be nice to just let the business do it on their own?"
It doesn't even have to be unrelible/cheap drivers that fail. Even name brand Cree/Phillips/etc stuff have drivers that will fail rather quickly if your wall current is at all dirty.

The effect of this is LED lightbulbs that have a shorter lifetime than incandescent lightbulbs did in my apartment. At least incandescent and halogen bulbs were just a bit of glass and wire: explicitly disposable. But LED bulbs are full of parts and boards and the like and generate far more waste.
The main job of these "managers" is repeatedly asking "when will this get done?" and "Why isn't it done yet?".

You could hire a parrot to do these jobs.
But it's based on the fetch standard and formData submission. You're literally running a server that handles those two things.
For a 1-file micro-backend this sure does have a lot of files and dependencies.
thanks for putting into words what i realised but couldnt formulate. best workers were ones where the product that they managed was a part of their identity.
> But ever since Jobs returned to Apple, it's become top-down and the engineers are no longer driving the ship. Management want the features

Were you using Macs before Jobs came back? The entire operating system for PowerPC based Macs was technical debt with parts of the OS running under emulation.

It was a buggy unreliable crash prone mess.
Obviously a made up scenario because systems engineering (as the discipline most likely to be involved in the provided scenario) is all about balancing competing requirements and dealing with design constraints such as available choice of materials, or acceptable cost to consumers, or any other number of criteria.

Systems engineers would have responded by informing this hypothetical Steve Jobs that if he wanted to make the phone smaller by 20%, the phone would lose 10% processing power and lose 30% battery capacity, 9 months and $50m would need to be expended to retool the factories, and 12 months and $40m would need to be expended to redesign software UI for a smaller screen. And for an accurate answer, those systems engineers would have needed to have been able to consult with materials scientists, software engineers, engineers designing factory tools, and dozens of other different types of disciplines.
:)

I referenced Larry as a proxy for his extreme wealth. Although it is true he’s one of the great businessmen of the late 20th century. Just not the sort you want to be in a business deal with in general.

Oracle has always been good at both adding helpful functions that developers rely on, making switching difficult, and also at teasing companies into using more licenses than they’ve purchased, then smacking them with audits and fees as a stick, and a ‘cheaper’ larger license as a carrot to avoid the audit fees.

In the 90s, this was tech like PL/SQL and Materialized views - I’m long out of the Oracle game, so I have no idea where they compete on features now vis-a-vis open source — but I will say that I have owned companies where the Oracle license was both HATED — and outlived all original owners of the company. It’s hard to replace once it’s in your workflow, and that is 100% by design.
For the first example I had the same issue, but when I tried on another example it auto-populated the correct credentials.
David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby on Rails/37 Signals) has been writing about the state of Apple AI on LinkedIn recently (as well as an additional post that was deleted for using the word "asshole"):

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/david-heinemeier-hansson-374b...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/david-heinemeier-hansson-374b...
The Shrike certainly has some deep soul searching to do here. I am frankly aghast at such a suggestion and totally agree with you that on this technicality, his ethically fiber has waived. I hope he can find a way back to the light, if such a thing is even possible after his dubious and destructive actions of, checks notes, giving publishers money but not enough to keep his soul clean.
GM - via the Cadillac brand - is coming to F1 from next season, which is also a season in which there will be regulation changes to the cars themselves (i.e., everything to play for, everyone is starting from new, almost). With several US GPs, it's a good time to be a US F1 fan. As a Brit living a few miles from Woking, it's not a bad time for me, either... :)
Among other reasons, because the employer holds all of that information and I'm not given access to it. It's an asymmetric information problem.
Hilariously, in the 2010s you didn't need to become a VP to make that kind of money. You could go the principle or distinguished engineer route and still make bank.

In many (more purely tech) companies it is not unusual for senior engineers to be making the same salary as directors or VPs, though that may now be starting to change.
Coincidences and How to Reason About Them [pdf]
Very innovative application of NN architecture in a different (physics/optics) domain !

> The key idea is that there is a strong analogy to be made between layers of a neural network, and optical elements in a so-called sequential optical system. If we have a compound optical system made of a series of lenses, mirrors, etc., we can treat each optical element as the layer of a neural network. The data flowing through this network are not images, sounds, or text, but rays of light. Each layer affects light rays depending on its internal parameters (surface shape, refractive material...) and following the very much non‑linear Snell's law. Inference, or the forward model, is the optical simulation where given some input light, we compute the system's output light. Training, or optimization, is finding the best shapes for lenses to focus light where we want it.
My feeling is the affordance students need to succeed would be better facilitated by project based learning goals. Why not give them credit for making games?
I always found the documentation lacking and it not 100% clear what was in couchbase (commercial & OSS) vs couchdb and which I really wanted