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by codekansas 1y ago
Yea, we built everything ourselves and tried to stay as low-cost as possible. In my opinion, humanoid robots are not very capable right now, so we sell it for a bit above cost for the time being. As the software capabilities improve we will
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by codekansas 1y ago
Yes that's correct, we're working with Robstride. We're gonna release the full hardware spec in a bit, will live in this repo -> https://github.com/kscalelabs/kbot
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by codekansas 1y ago
Oh sorry about that, actually we are still putting together the hardware specs for the robot - we just launched the software SDK today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44022106 Planning to make an announcement about th
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Show HN: Train and deploy your own open-source humanoid in Python(github.com)
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Robotics Predictions for 2025(ben.bolte.cc)
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K-Scale Labs (YC W24) Is Hiring a Chief Operating Officer(ycombinator.com)
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Humanoid Robots Wiki(humanoids.wiki)
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by codekansas 2y ago
Hello HN, I recently created an open wiki for humanoid robots. I think there's a good chance that general-purpose robots are the next compute platform, analogous to the personal computer or smartphone for an AI operating system, and I
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by codekansas 3y ago
Very cool! How is this differentiated from ChatGPT voice?
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by codekansas 3y ago
Exciting times for humanoid robots!
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by codekansas 3y ago
Written by Bard?
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by codekansas 3y ago
It's really interesting for me to see AI voice cloning taking off. A few years ago I worked on a paper called HuBERT ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07447 ) which has since really taken off for doing this kind of stuff
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by codekansas 3y ago
Time for a break :)
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by codekansas 3y ago
XKCD for this https://xkcd.com/720/ Less tritely - I do find it fascinating how problems that would've been independent research endeavors can now be subsumed by large language models. Rather than building a big d
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by codekansas 3y ago
As a US taxpayer, I would love if Europe started carrying it's own weight militarily rather than having our taxes pay for European security. The Ukraine conflict at least seems to have woken some Europeans up to the fact that they need
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by codekansas 3y ago
Well prices for those customers were relatively inelastic (think, business flights being comped by the employer, airlines having quasi-monopolies on routes) so the airlines knew they could raise prices without impacting demand. Conversely l
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by codekansas 3y ago
The US used to have a fixed prices for flights, set by the Civil Aeronautics Board. There ended up being a lot of gimmickry with how airlines competed with each other - for example, airlines would do stuff like fly more flights than they ne
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by codekansas 3y ago
It is a tightly integrated trading block though. Mississippi and New York are very different but it is much easier to move people and money between those two places than between New York and London.
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by codekansas 3y ago
This is great - I have a suspicion that large chunks of high-quality computer science Twitter content is posted while people are in the middle of coding, or doing some other project. Mobile-only was a small to medium barrier to posting good
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by codekansas 3y ago
From my experience the best people are usually state school undergrad (e.g., Berkeley / UIUC / UNC / UW / GTech) plus selective grad school (Harvard / Stanford / MIT / CMU). At the graduate level those sch
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by codekansas 3y ago
The "schedule at the mercy" issue has more to do with really bad estimates of commute times. The bus rapid transit in Seattle has good estimates so even though it might be slower it is at least predictable. My understanding is tha
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by codekansas 3y ago
Seattle's growth in public transit ridership is the best in the nation (or at least was up to 2017) [0]. I remember one year Seattle and Minneapolis were the only two cities in the nation to have a drop in car commuters. NYC has way mo
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by codekansas 3y ago
Well the article includes things like lost productivity due to sitting in traffic, so I think it's fair to point out that there's lost productivity due to train delays. The MTA creates a lot of its own issues though. The bare mini
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by codekansas 3y ago
MTA's issues aren't really funding issues, it's just not done very well in comparison to other large cities. For example, for legacy reasons MTA cars can't be automated like the cars in subways in most other places that
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by codekansas 3y ago
I moved to NYC a year ago and I really don't like using the MTA. It's dirty, chronically delayed, and randomly alternates between swelteringly hot and freezing cold. Getting anywhere here takes half an hour. Outside of a few choic
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by codekansas 3y ago
It's very possible that ranking will be a lot better for threads though, simply because NLP models are currently so much better than what exists for video
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by codekansas 3y ago
https://ben.bolte.cc/ I mainly write about machine learning, and occasionally random thoughts.
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by codekansas 3y ago
Also regarding international policy - good luck getting Chinese citizens to pay the US AI tax. Effectively you'd be nerfing anyone under US jurisdiction
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by codekansas 3y ago
I don't think a model trained on a single company's data would be nearly as helpful as a model trained on all publicly licensed code on the internet. But suppose it were... What if I'm not a massive corporation with millions
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by codekansas 3y ago
1. How would this not make tools like Github Copilot exorbitantly expensive? Why should I have to pay a tax to everyone else in the United States to use something that was disproportionately trained on my own data? 2. Given that the interne

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