skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These definitions feel somewhat limited, compared to the jargon file entry[0]

grok: /grok/, /grohk/, vt.

[common; from the novel Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally ‘to drink’ and metaphorically ‘to be one with’] The emphatic form is grok in fullness.

1. To understand. Connotes intimate and exhaustive knowledge. When you claim to ‘grok’ some knowledge or technique, you are asserting that you have not merely learned it in a detached instrumental way but that it has become part of you, part of your identity. For example, to say that you “know” LISP is simply to assert that you can code in it if necessary — but to say you “grok” LISP is to claim that you have deeply entered the world-view and spirit of the language, with the implication that it has transformed your view of programming. Contrast zen, which is similar supernal understanding experienced as a single brief flash. See also glark.

2. Used of programs, may connote merely sufficient understanding. “Almost all C compilers grok the void type these days.”

[0]: http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/grok.html
ChatGPT doesn't like it, if you ask it to model many world scenarios through conversation. The watchdog bites after you get to a depth of > n^3.

But then do we humans handle ambiguity any different? Consider chess. Many scenarios, but a human can only handle so many at the same time and choose one with the perceived interesting scenario trees down the road from that choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtgA4u8V_TQ

To not model it all is to human. Most likely it will become as lazy as we humans are when it comes to earlying-out of mental tasks. To get the watchdog to bite at that, that would be a interesting AI model. Like the first answer is always wrong.
I’ve noticed that the whole the voice to text recognition it pretty good, what’s awful is how that text is interpreted. You see the same problems with search in other Apple services.

For example you might search for a street in maps and search will just give up and just give you a half arsed result. Searching for HN Boulevard might instead HN Avenue even though you can see the correct result right there on the map.

You see similar behaviour in Music, App Store etc.
> The tiny FM transmitter is surprisingly powerful. Her neighbours (of similar vintage) are very happy too, so their requests have also started coming in :)

Sounds like you're about to start a Radio station for the nation.
I'm jealous. If my country built a tunnel like that, it would be for cars only (preferably old polluting diesel, with fuel subsidies), so that "normal people" can use it. With an added whiff of coal power plant smoke.

Oh well. Growing civilized takes time.
It's odd to hear this. As an Android user I've always felt I'm missing out something really great, judging from the keynotes.
The pessimism here is just unwarranted. Vertical farming will transform the world by freeing up hundreds of thousands of acres of land. It will move farming closer to consumption cutting the logistics costs and wastage. It's hard to overstate the how much the positive impact on the environment will be. On the top of that, it will make all regions of the world much more self-sufficient than they currently are.

Sure, it's a little impractical right now chiefly because it's hard to match the free energy of the sun. But someday, we will solve it. It's one of those ideas which will be inevitable once energy becomes cheap and abundant
Famous example of pedestrian bridge resonances: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge,_London#Re...
Or their builds for non-msft platforms would be just trash... or slowly but surely become trash.

There is only one way out of this toxic environment: minimal, ultra-stable in time OS to run beautiful 3D game binaries (basically, the only thing selling powerful hw to people). Current elf/linux would not even fit since there is no static ABI stability (for instance a game executable linked with a glibc 2.34 won't run on system with any previous glibc). So if elf/linux, it has to be without the glibc (or game binaries must be pure ELF64 binaries, not elf C runtime binaries). That said, the runtime part of elf is actually the core of the issue... we need a wayland/json of a "runtime elf" which will slash away some expensive features then will require significant work on many software components (static TLS will go away). I wrote such specs (they are excrutiating simple)but my experience tells me to actually make it work with a "real" system first, because in such complex system we always fail to see something important, _always_.
Some 30 years ago, I reverse-engineered the format of Prince of Persia's save files and wrote a little C program that would create a save file for any place / level in the game. Just because I could...
I know you say it as a joke, but the contact list could be a part of the hidden prompt, at least the names, so that it could then trigger an action with the proper name, which iOS would then understand.
"Nobody..."

That's quite broad. How about some specific examples.
How about retooling to specialize in crops that don't need sun, like mushrooms?
The only fatal problem of the Flipper Zero is that they didn't add a LoRa chip such as the SX1276.
Check out zip nerf which seems to do exactly that https://jonbarron.info/zipnerf/
ChatGPT meets Robinhood? New investing app features AI-powered portfolio mentor
Pretty much although the Surface line tends to be more expensive for not really much better if at all. I wasn't a huge fan of the Surface Ergo keyboard, felt like a worse more expensive version of the Microsoft branded Ergo one.
> TOTP would do well here for this case

Indeed: this is almost exactly the attack type TOTP was designed for.

The idea was that if someone intercepted your network traffic and captured your password, it wouldn't do them any good without also having your code generator.

It turns out that if you have a live MitM connection there are ways around that problem, but TOTP is still helpful against other attacks.

I agree that for this situation, it's probably better to focus on detection than bulletproof enforcement.
In Rotterdam they close the Maastunnel to cyclists and pedestrians at night. There are also people stationed in it during the day at either end. I don't see why Amsterdam couldn't do the same.
6.3V is the standard voltage of a farm tractor battery --these vacuum tube heaters were designed to use them.

12.6V is two farm tractor batteries (one car battery), which is why our computer industry uses 12V for motherboards (12 volts - 0.6V reverse protection diode).

Early computer power supplies used voltage regulators that were designed for car radios, originally.
In Germany (like afaik all the EU), you can also freely buy and use small low-power FM transmitters for exactly the use case of sending your own music to radios...
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I made https://chitchatter.im/ because I don’t trust third parties not to spy on me. I can trust Chitchatter because I know how it works and I built it myself. :)
Chinese startup believes it can take augmented reality glasses mainstream
But that’s not what happened with these oil investments. The coupon paid out 50% over 10 years which is what like a 4% annual return, not very good.

But this info isn’t enough to decide anything without the current value of the investment. If the investment is $0 then that’s horrible. If it’s $1 then it’s paid out 50% over ten years so not that great. But if it’s $2, then that’s a good investment.

The fact that this crucial information is missing from the article makes me think the author is an idiot or excluding it because it doesn’t support his position.
Recently, I used Zig to write a utility that runs on my NAS (ARM-based) and trawls through all directories looking for SRT subtitle files; it then cleans up these files, getting rid of any subtitles that match any of a set of patterns (such as "Please suscribe to XXX"). The utility does almost zero work for already-scrubbed subtitles, and only does work for new subtitles.
The kernel space of Windows is not a problem, it has been fit-for-purpose and even good for the last 20-odd years. The problem is the deterioration in the UI and UX side of the OS (adware, spyware, hodgepodge of UI paradigms, spotty GUI settings apps, reset of preferences after any serious update, bad built-in tooling forced on the user etc).
What’s bizarre is how you lump people born hundreds of years apart into one big “they”
I hooked up an analog phone to Whisper, ChatGPT, and TTS. I used of one of those old timey candlestick phones you'd see in a 1920 gangster movie. Initially this was a prop for a murder mystery party I was hosting (ChatGPT would give clues if you said certain words), but now I use it for a silly distraction here and there. Ask ChatGPT a question by picking up a phone like it's last century! I think it is fun.

I am using Asterisk on Debian that calls my python script. The analog phone adapter auto dials when the receiver goes off hook, because rotary dialing sucks that much and the answering extension is chatgpt role playing different characters based on prompting.

I think it is neat. I need to work on better voice synthesis and improve latency a bit still, but it is a nice toy.
OCaml has a similar thing but purely on syntactic level — http://jobjo.github.io//2019/04/24/ocaml-has-some-new-shiny-...
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Psychedelics may increase entropy in the brain's vision centre
It's a shame that we immediately assume talented and passionate people are jerks. Not sure where that comes from. I suspect that it may be a US thing, as we are a ferociously competitive culture, and, these days, it seems that everyone on a team considers their teammates to be "the competition."
The headline is so clickbaity - It‘s not all Microsoft‘s products, it‘s Microsoft-branded ones being discontinued (or rebranded).
But there wasn't any joke, nor any argument. You just popped up out of the blue stating a feeling you have - unrelated to the thread.
OpenStreetMap's got you covered:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/677727136
https://archive.is/OkKk4
Sure but again, just like packing people onto a bridge like sardines, it's an unusual circumstance. While vehicles driving all day over a bridge is not unusual. And even vehicles getting stuck on a bridge due to some traffic issue is not unusual either.

One has to consider what is daily use, not just the exceptional cases.
A DNS server, many many years ago. Just to avoid using bind:

https://github.com/antirez/yaku-ns
SIMD Fortran was a thing with DEC in 1992, so it can be recapitulated if lost. It comes down, as the above says, to the compiler and it’s output.
I Hacked Facebook, and Found Someone's Backdoor Script
> The error rate at speech recognition seems to have gone up over the years.

Has it really or have your expectation increased instead? Or is it because they initially only worked well with business us english and have been trained over the years to support many more languages, dialects and even variations of said dialets/language + slang and profanity?

Also at the beginning people where talking to these slowly, articulating every word. Now everybody take it for granted they should be understood and talk in their lazier and more natural way.

I've never activated speech recognition on any device I own. But last week I was in a videocall with my partner's mexican family and early in the call they were trying to make my mother in law's Amazon Echo to stop the music and it only really stopped when my sister in law started using profanity words, something like "no mames! chinga to pinche madre Alexa cayate!"

Apparently this stuff became so used/trained by people not using them in a polite way that they eventually only react when you talk badly to them using slang and profanity.
Also works for me, though it is not optimal in my more rural area. Big cities should be fine.
As long as you have hardware access, you can fuck shit up in ways no software can ever prevent.
I attempted to build flight control software for a quadcopter[1]. I had a few major life changes around this time and it got packed up and I stopped working on it before I got the PID controllers worked out. But I essentially wrote a small game engine and had to learn a little calculus along the way.

[1] https://github.com/castis/currant
It depends on the investors. Yes, the s&p returned more in this period, it usually does, but not always.

There’s reasons why other investments exist and one is the risk of the investment. Municipal bonds are really stable and some investors just want predictable returns and will sacrifice overall returns for stability and lower risk.

Oil investments aren’t municipal bonds, but I expect most oil investors want stable returns.
hard to feel sorry for Intel here

they're still tied to Windows which is increasingly weaker and more rotted over time, losing market share every year for a decade (Microsoft doesn't even seem to care afaict)

the Apple M1 laptop is an incredible value, offers 10x the performance the average person will need, with good battery life, a better OS/ecosystem...and its priced right!

Intel needs to seriously look at Linux...once Windows enters into a death spiral in a few years (seems inevitable now and Microsoft seems to not care as long as Azure keeps winning), what else will they have?

start now with serious price cuts....I don't need to replce my Linux laptops, but would for the right price
Tell HN: Writing “Seven Fo” in Safari Technology Preview Causes Instant Crash
You can literally run iPhone apps on an iPad and have been able to since day one. You can also run some iPhone/iPad apps on a Mac if the developer allows it. Often the iPhone/iPad apps are the same binary and the same purchase gets you both versions, you just get a different UI depending on the device.
RethinkDB user here. I've been running it in production for the last 8 years or so. It works. It doesn't lose data. It doesn't corrupt data (like most distributed databases do, read the Jepsen reports).

I am worried about it being unmaintained. I do have some issues that are more smells than anything else — like things becoming slower after an uptime of around three weeks (I now reboot my systems every 14 days). I could also do with improved performance.

I'm disappointed that the Winds of Internet Fashion haven't been kind to RethinkDB. It was always a much better proposition that, say, MongoDB, but got less publicity and sort of became marginalized. I guess correct and working are not that important.

I'm slowly rebuilding my application to use FoundationDB. This lets me implement changefeeds, is a correct distributed database with fantastic guarantees (you get strict serializability in a fully distributed db!), and lets me avoid the unneeded serialization to/from JSON as a transport format.
Hold your horses there my good friend. Yes, Windows is better now than it was in the past but is still a shitty OS. None of them are actually. All of them continuously fail every single year at hackers gathering/hackatons/whatever public event, with multiple zero-day showing. Every single major OS out there is a joke from security point of view.
The benefits of censoring misinformation are obvious if you think about it for even a couple minutes.

If you run a community tech support forum and someone starts suggesting deletion of windows32 directory as a solution to other users issues, do you let them do that?

If some neighbor in your bbq party claims to be a doctor and goes on a rant about benefits of microdosing rat poison, do you invite them ever again?

Do you disable spam filter in your mail?

We now have malicious misinformation multiplied to internet scale by modern tech. Add LLMs in the mix and we will drown in it if no measures are taken.

You want to prevent politicians or corporations from abusing or even using censorship at all - good, implement corresponding barriers. Limit scope to clear factual misinfo and not e.g. opinions - yes, sure. Proper transparent process, recourse, rehabilitation, grace of application, oversight - absolutely, implement all of those things.

Make censorship good. Denying it is required makes no sense.
That's an implementation detail that the dev needs to worry about.

As a customer, I go to the store page on one of my devices, it says the app is compatible with my device x, y and z. I click the "Buy" button once. Then I get the app on all my devices. I get a receipt that shows I purchased one item.

But what Apple is saying is that I somehow used 3 independent stores?
I feel like the greatest trick they recently played on us is to focus everything on CO2...

CO2 is but a small part of the equation, container ships release other nasty things. Even for cars co2 isn't the main issue, particulates from tires and brakes will fuck you up faster than any amount of co2

> The two main pollutants from a ship’s emissions are Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) and Sulphur Oxides (SOx). These gases have adverse effects on the ozone layer in the troposphere area of the earth’s atmosphere which results in the green house effect and global warming.
I don't think that's quite correct. The underlying algorithms start by processing the prompt tokens in parallel, and once that's processed, the intermediate KV vectors are re-used for each new token prediction by the feed-forward.

What you may be thinking of is that once the model stops predicting at the end of an API call the state is dropped from RAM, and if you go back with another message in a chat, then the LLM will re-read the chat log up to that point as part of the prompt. So this is true on a per-message basis, but not on a per-word or per-token basis.
When the car dies you lose all of its value, financially speaking you should add that cost back to the monthly spendings.

Also don't forget that reliability is statistics, and the kind of older cars we are talking about, 10 years old?, is already loaded with electronics and sophisticated systems that cost a lot to fix.

Add to that the poorer safety of older cars, even lower speed accidents in town can be fatal and the newer the car you have a better chance to not get hurt.
I built a 3D visualiser that overlays semantic topics and sentences of documents with different "embedding types and orders"[1] using Natural Language Processing.

It colours each document with the same colour. You can see how two documents overlap, semantically - it's pretty awesome for Job Role/CV overlays for example, or educational resources and exams - a mix merging of colour shows both equally discuss something... missing colour means one document doesn't.

Since it's semantic, depending on the embedding, the gaps in-between spots make a lot of sense intuitively, and you can sometimes even see how the conclusion of a document ends up in a different semantic space to the start as such (even though there is no time data, you just notice the later topics are semantically in a different space to the earlier ones for the same document)

[1] Similarity based, NLI based, GPT-raw etc.
You need industrial level sensors and the water needs to be flowing constantly through them. I built something similar about 15 years ago and tested many sensors. In the end I had to pay about 1000 dollars for ph and ec meters that did the job reliably. To be honest there is nothing new here. This is how big greenhouses have been operating for decades.

In small scale there is more work maintaining the automated setup and calibrating the sensors than it would take to do the measurements and dosing manually.
> 4. Their latest Teams 2.0 UI rewrite is in drum roll react.

React is also used for PowerApps UI and even when you can write your own components with PowerApps Component Framework, you can actually leverage platform libraries tor performance if you do it in React: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/virtual-code-comp...

Overall I don't like your comment but I won't downvote because you bring up concerns that matter to YOU :)
A success until someone dies?

They broke their rocket with this plan, it is not unreasonable to assume they could have damaged it in other ways to turn a mostly controlled situation into one that sends a (very) low altitude ballistic missile into a populated area.

They need their permits pulled until they can act responsibly.
I know Japanese used to have only one word for blue/green - "Midori".

According to this chart, does that mean that Japanese had five or less terms for different colors?
If you built a rope-bridge, I'm sure people would beware of cramming it. Maybe it's possible to build designs that discourage.

Where are you from? I haven't seen an "annoyingly narrow" ped/cycle bridge in Sweden or Belgium.
That was my immediate thought too.
But quaintdev is right in that Indian Police for some reason takes this somewhat seriously. For highway patrol, I suspect it's boredom and this gives them something to chase. I remember in the late 90s when I was in college, the police showed up a couple of times when students were transmitting from one of the hostels. They'd let it go, but they did show up.
Paprika is excellent, it's also something you pay for and just get the app - no subscription.
Back in 2001-ish, looking for a rental house with good public transport. Screen scraped the entire realestate.com.au database overnight, then fed the addresses into some mapping API that gave me coordinates, and caluclated the distance from those addresses to the addresses of Zone 1 train stations.

Also had descriptions, so wrote a simple regex based scorer that classified the descriptions by keywords that I valued. Spat out a hitlist of likely candidate houses to go inspect.

...

Also wrote a basic wedding registry that allowed people to scan our list of things we wanted and say they had purchased them, or were interested and it gave a list of others who might want to go in on a group purchase. No privacy, but it was only sent to friends. Circa 2004.

...

Finally, wrote a diary and calendar tool which took emails with very simply structured subjects and built a static website showing travels through Europe in 2002. Could email from any net cafe with any email address and it would update the travel diary, or a website with a calendar saying which city we were in and how we were traveling to the next one. Friends could elect to get immediate updates or a daily summary. Purely static built from cron and email archives. Worked like a charm.

...

More recently, hmm... as treasurer for various choir things I've written a ton of little commandline tools which give very quick access to data and allow tracking who owes what and logging their payments into a database, and tools which generate email invoices and receipts.

Everything else is either opensource or work stuff. And I don't code so much these days either, though this week I started diving into Python to create tools that help keep data for our marketing team up-to-date without manually copying stuff around, and some maintenance work on code I wrote 15 years ago which is still running really nicely but needs some updates.
So you don’t think Marx and Engels are racist? That’s interesting, would you expand on why?

I can’t think of a reason why people would write n-word used in a diminutive and insulting manner and not be racist. And it’s really common too. Not just a single instance but many times and seems like it was in their regular vernacular.