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Robotics @ XIAOMI

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Post-training aims to align the strong action-generation capabilities acquired from pre-training with real robot embodiments and natural-language instruction following along two axes. Embodiment alignment uses high-quality cross-embodiment real-robot data to map the general action-generation ability onto actual robots. Instruction alignment shifts the model from "generating actions given a description of scene state transitions" to "understanding a natural-language instruction and executing it directly."After post-training, Xiaomi-Robotics-1 can be used out-of-the-box to perform a wide range of mobile manipulation tasks in the real world. We evaluate the post-trained…
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How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in

How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in

✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In the previous article, we explored the importance of standards: how the unspoken agreements governing electrical sockets, paper sizes and file formats form the foundations of a world in which choices remain open and power is not concentrated in the hands of a single player. We concluded with a question: if open standards are so beneficial, why aren’t they universally adopted? The answer, in the case of document formats, lies in a single page produced by Microsoft Office. Getting rid of it is harder than…
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Saivineeth147/lora-speedrun: Speedrunning LoRA fine-tuning: frozen task, frozen hardware, public wall-clock leaderboard. modded-nanogpt for fine-tuning. · GitHub

Saivineeth147/lora-speedrun: Speedrunning LoRA fine-tuning: frozen task, frozen hardware, public wall-clock leaderboard. modded-nanogpt for fine-tuning. · GitHub

💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: How fast can you LoRA-fine-tune Qwen2.5-1.5B to ≥ 57% on GSM8K — on a single L40S? This is modded-nanogpt for fine-tuning: a frozen task, frozen hardware, and a public leaderboard of wall-clock records. Every record is independently re-run 3× with fresh seeds on identical hardware before it counts. Attempting and verifying are free: official timing runs on a Modal L40S sandbox, and Modal's free monthly compute credits cover full runs — so anyone can compete, and anyone can re-verify any record with one command.…
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Natural experiments prove phytoplankton carbon removal works

Natural experiments prove phytoplankton carbon removal works

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Never in a million years would the craziest of the mad geoengineers dream of adding a fraction of the iron the Sahara dumps on the North Atlantic every day. Adding nutrients to the ocean so tiny ocean plants remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is an idea that people aren’t used to. Unfamiliar ideas make us uncomfortable. That gut level “I’m not so sure about this” is natural enough. It comes out as an inchoate sense that such a thing must be risky, that we’ve…
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C64 BASIC Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack! (C64 BASIC Part 8)

C64 BASIC Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack! (C64 BASIC Part 8)

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In part seven the dungeon was full of goblins that were about as threatening as garden gnomes. They stayed exactly where the map generator dropped them. You could walk up, poke them, take five points of damage and stroll away, and they’d still be standing there in the same spot when you came back.This time they chase you. A small change in code but big step forward in feel, and getting there dragged me into a weird and nasty memory bug that corrupted my…
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hgaiser/moonshine: Headless streaming server for Moonlight clients, written in Rust. · GitHub

hgaiser/moonshine: Headless streaming server for Moonlight clients, written in Rust. · GitHub

✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Moonshine lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight. Your keyboard, mouse, and controller inputs are sent back to the host so you can play games remotely as if you were sitting in front of it. Isolated streaming sessions: Each stream runs in its own compositor, completely separate from your desktop environment. Your host PC can still be used for other things while you stream. No monitor required: Works on headless servers — no HDMI dummy plug needed. Hardware video encoding:…
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HMD Touch 4G | Smart features. Small phone.

HMD Touch 4G | Smart features. Small phone.

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Currently only available in India.All rights reserved. All specifications, features and other product information provided are subject to change without notice. All images are for illustrative purposes only.Google, Android and Google Play are trademarks of Google LLC.Apple, the Apple logo, and App Store are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.IOS is a registered trademark or trademark of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries.The Bluetooth word mark and logos are registered trademarks…
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AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found

AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TL;DRResearchers found AI advice suppressed judgment suspension from 44% to 3%, accuracy from 27% to 9%, while confidence rose from 30% to 76%. People trusted wrong AI answers. Researchers from three French and Italian universities found that access to AI advice collapsed people’s willingness to say “I don’t know” from 44% to 3%. Accuracy dropped from 27% to 9%. Confidence, meanwhile, rose from 30% to 76%. “People became much worse, the accuracy was only one third, but they were twice as confident,” said Valerio…
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Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise Into Answers

Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise Into Answers

🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Probabilistic computers might one day tackle certain problems well beyond standard computers while at the same time avoiding the many hardware challenges that currently vex quantum computing. Now scientists reveal they have created the largest probabilistic computer yet, one with 1 million “probabilistic bits,” a new study they suggest reveals the way forward to building even bigger machines.Probabilistic bits, or p-bits, bridge the gap between the bits underlying regular computers and the qubits upon which quantum computers are based. Bits symbolize data as either a…
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“We Want Texans to Know Their Rights”: Q&A with Mayday Health on the Impact of Surveillance on Abortion Care

“We Want Texans to Know Their Rights”: Q&A with Mayday Health on the Impact of Surveillance on Abortion Care

🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion. ALPRs are promoted as tools for keeping communities safe by finding missing persons and locating stolen vehicles, but this case showed how ALPRS can be weaponized to investigate people’s private healthcare decisions. And these aren’t the only tools in the surveillance arsenal: others include location tracking tools like Locate X, which can…
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