skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting a startup can be a life-consuming endeavor, much like having a child. As a co-founder of my first business at the age of 16, I found it to be a fantastic start to my career. However, I also had to sacrifice a lot of the typical experiences that most late teenagers have, such as partying, attending university, and developing social skills. While there is no right age to start a business, it is essential not to rush into it. It's important to enjoy your younger years in the way that's best for you, as you still have many years ahead of you to start a business when you're ready.
Where else would it come from? It’s just using the normal meaning of “to grok” [0] (or its present participle), which is a well-known term of hacker jargon [1].

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grok

[1] https://foldoc.org/grok
I'll tell them it was me to protect Spartacus.
Where I live, this is absolutely not the jaywalking of RF violations. In Germany, if it is proven that your signal was potentially interfering with emergency services, you will be liable for any damage to victims in civil courts. And if somebody dies in your area because the emergency services couldn't get there on time, you will be criminally charged for "negligent manslaughter."

I wouldn't play at all with non-approved RF frequencies personally.
Memories Within Myth
What does NTMA mean?
What is weird about this is that even if AI works aren't protected by copyright, under Feist a collection of uncopyrightable information can be protected if they are selected coordinated and arranged. That is almost certainly met when creating a comic book or graphic novel.

The monkey taking a photo isn't a good example because they never tried to register it in the US, they never actually ruled on it. There is plenty of other case law showing "the modicum of creativity" is a low bar, copyright does not require "sweat of the brow".
Many countries have been forced into mono culture plantation crops by IMF and World Bank, due BS globalisation comparative advantage policies.

There is plenty of arable land it's just devouted to non staple production. And so they're stuck buying food with dollars they have no control over.
It's the escape tunnel for a tram tunnel with an extra coat of paint: https://www.lifeinnorway.net/bergen-cycle-tunnel/
Back in the day, when I had a Minidisc player, I heard in Japan, there were Minidisc drives for PCs as data storage. I would have liked to have one of those, but if that was true, they didn't find their way to Europe.
They were very pretty and I liked the haptics.
> If somebody were interested in contributing some elbow grease that would help the case for open source,

Sent you an email! I've been wanting such an ML powered RSS reader for quite some time. I'd love to help make it open source if possible.
Light mode / dark mode theme button
As far as I know, Servo wasn't ever really intended to be a production browser. But significant parts of Firefox have been rewritten in Rust since, and those parts have included bits from Servo.
Perfect timing with Bing API increasing its pricing prohibitively!
I remember when Siri came out and people wanted to show it off. It understood maybe 10% of commands. So Apple is improving it, just very very slowly.
What bugs me the most about this is how fixable it is.

Apple is now at a point where even the oldest supported devices on their latest operating systems have either decent dedicated ML hardware or are Intel-based machines with enough compute power that they should really be able to do a much better job with inferencing locally (and the server component is irrelevant to local device capabilities anyway).

It should’ve been possible to bin Siri’s backend and rebuild something better from scratch by now. That Apple is swimming in money just makes things like this more jarring.

It’s honestly my greatest gripe with Apple as a software company. They put a lot of effort into polishing what they release but seemingly very little into maintaining it afterwards. macOS is the worst offender, where basic and fundamental things stay broken for years on end (settings not being applied after selection in the UI, permissions being set in the UI but not actually taking effect despite being set, continuity stopping working silently in FaceTime and iMessage. It’s gotten so bad I just accept that some former tentpole features no longer exist because they’ve become so broken and no-one cares to fix them).

Back to Siri though, it’s gotten substantially worse than when I used to use it on an iPhone 4S. That’s a decade plus of consistent regression while Google Assistant continues to progress. It’s so bad, and can’t be replaced, that I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a leading cause of people exiting the eco-system altogether.
It's kinda strange, I tried to sell my Flipper Zero and was wondering why people name them weirdly. As it turns out, ebay doesn't allow to sell it. If anyone has an idea where I can offer it (Germany, Europe), let me know.
What is people’s experience with Tesla’s voice recognition system? I’ve previously used it to activate the windshield wipers, which worked. But recently I tried to get it to play music and various other things, none of which it was able to do… I was driving and haven’t had time to play around with it since.
I've no doubt it's true that the "digiboard" allow richer content than a blackboard, but the real question should be do children learn more effectively this way? And I don't have the answer to that, but there's surely research on the topic.
What a cool device. Small word of advice to whoever maintains the FlipperZero website ("webmaster" in the old days): clicking on the logo on any of the Blog pages leads to the blog index, which is not terribly helpful for someone who – like me – landed on a blog article page and then was wondering what this was all about. It would make more sense if the logo, like the "Home" link in the navigation, consistently lead to https://flipperzero.one instead of https://blog.flipperzero.one. Same thing goes for https://shop.flipperzero.one fwiw.
Sorry doesn't look like your are getting it. Its not about AI its about personal data. Whether AI is using this or any other program, EU citizens have a right to know and request removal of that personal data.
Open AI need to allow users to do this same as anybody else if this reveals trade secrets then so be it.
Nice approach! I added a very basic keyword filter in my rss reader (https://github.com/lallassu/gorss) to do some sort of "cleaning". But having a section in the reader that would filter out the articles more intelligent would be very nice, and maybe bundled them into clusters.
> It will cost an additional NOK 500 million to upgrade the tunnel from an emergency service to one that can be used daily.

$46M USD, to save cyclists 5.5km/20 minutes; that seems like a pretty good return.
Perhaps the ambiguity arises because we are omitting words: I'm afraid to tell you that the cat has been hit by a car. Now the question: What are you afraid of? has a non ambiguous answer: To tell you that something awful has happened.
A common opinion held in the field of psychoanalysis is that its goal isn’t even to cure people because they claim it isn’t possible. Escaping accountability by saying accountability doesn’t make sense.
Uh-oh! I offended some Windows apologist!
<Dusts off Ham Licence> Anyone can use amateur frequencies in a genuine “no other communication options available” emergency, if I remember the regulations correctly.

Edit: “§ 97.403 Safety of life and protection of property. No provision of these rules prevents the use by an amateur station of any means of radio communication at its disposal to provide essential communication needs in connection with the immediate safety of human life and immediate protection of property when normal communication systems are not available.”
Boring, repetitive code should be generated. Devs are a lot more expensive than compilers, and bored devs start seeing patterns that aren’t quite there.
Where were you 25 years ago?
Did you meant WTO? I don't think the IMF can force a country to specialize, but a 'free' market will (at least according to Smith).
>The copyright office issued specific guidelines saying that AI-generated content is not copyrightable.

The copyright office doesn't say that at all.

"In the case of works containing AI-generated material, the Office will consider whether the AI contributions are the result of “mechanical reproduction” or instead of an author's “own original mental conception, to which [the author] gave visible form.” The answer will depend on the circumstances, particularly how the AI tool operates and how it was used to create the final work. This is necessarily a case-by-case inquiry."
Let's not forget that runtime revolution, now called Livecode (https://livecode.com/) still exists and is likely the functional, modern successor to HyperCard. Hypercard Stacks as far as I remember work out of the box too.

Historically there was HyperCard, then cross-platform Metacard, which eventually became Runtime Revolution, which apparently is now renamed Livecode!

Don't have any skin in it, just sharing as it seems to answer the wants/needs of many of the comments here.
Cool! :D
In football, training club compensation is mandatory :

https://www.easportslaw.com/news/training-compensation-and-s...

Sure, this is a FIFA regulation (and not state or EU) but let's not act like this is purely voluntary.
The whole point of creating C was to make UNIX portable, there were already other efforts with the same purpose going on the industry since JOVIAL creation in 1958.
> No censor calls censorship "Censorship".

The Catholic Church does. The office of Censor is still part of the official legislation (Can. 830 CIC).
My point is that there's nothing particularly special about this name of foreign origin, compared to any other word. Every word has lots of variations in how they're pronounced.

The audio clip the person posted was for a true German pronunciation, which happened to be very different than how 99% of English-speakers would say it.
I am not really sure why people buy into this. These devices cost next to nothing to make, the royalties to the tax haven holding co and the private jet fuel are thrown in to the "cost" as a write-off and a tax dodge.
> I have severe burnout

Just a comment on burnout. I'd say - burnout is a fact of life. In many professions, over 50% of people in them report as "burned out". We in IT can just quit and have fun for a couple of years, whereas people in less-paid professions can't and just have to trudge along, in spite of their burnout. Which indicates that it' wasn't as bad as one may think.
Not really interesting per se, but useful when dealing with large recursive and sparse archives:

A python script that recursively searches through zipped files within zip files (within zip files...) to find files by name and content. The goal was not to unzip the recursive structure to the file system, since the unzipped files contained hundreds gigabytes of sparse data each. Instead it works directly on the file stream and keeps the memory requirements constant.
Oh great, why don't you just implement automotive user interfaces in PHP? ;)

"I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say "Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that." I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests." -Rasmus Lerdorf

"We have things like protected properties. We have abstract methods. We have all this stuff that your computer science teacher told you you should be using. I don't care about this crap at all." -Rasmus Lerdorf
Oh I'm sorry. I didn't know it was AI that got us OUT of the dark ages in the first place.
I like to play Factorio, but too often lose track of time while playing. There's no clock in the game's UI, and no way to access the system's time through the mod API. So I made a script that runs as a process on the host machine that every minute, sends commands to the game's process to build a clock in the center of the map out of concrete. Its pretty cool because you can also clearly see the time from the mini map.

https://gitlab.com/smew/factorio-clock
I view it as a long march.

Right now I've got about two years runway, which isn't a lot but it also isn't nothing. Considering the project had barely started two years ago, and considering the opportunities it's already created, hopefully more options will make themselves available along the way somehow.
I made a pomodoro timer display using a WiFi-connected ESP32 board with a small OLED display. I put it outside the guest bedroom/home office door during lockdown so my family members could see how long until I could be disturbed.

It talked to my laptop using MQTT and of course it was triggered from emacs using org-pomodoro.
I wondered about this too, there's an ongoing tradeoff there between the cost of computing which branch to take vs. how much that improves locality.

But seems they did as well. See the graph at the bottom which compares against a (Eytzinger-style) B-tree, which is basically taking that approach. You do more comparisons per node to figure out which branch to take, but fetch less memory.

Given the overall performance they show is very similar, the question if you want to scale this basically becomes whether your system saturates available cores or available memory bandwidth first.

(Would have been interesting to see comparisons of a quaternary and octonary version as well, though as their B-tree test seems to rely on 16 branches, and maybe the sweet spot is somewhere in between)
I built this simple website https://unexploredhq.com to find interesting (less known) places to travel with my SO and family. Instead of searching for new places by name, one can search for new places in a region with simple attributes.

I have built the database by scraping some data online, and have a database of 60,000+ locations. The attributes are built with some basic ML and text processing, nothing fancy. But this is sufficient for me to do this search: find places in Europe where I can do surfing and hiking with a temperature of less than 25 degrees.
He will be allright. The focused 16 years old are very suspicious IMHO.
To be fair, I'm trying to turn it into a public product since I think the use-case isn't very niche.

I've recently started building https://responsebrain.com where I can add all my blog articles and automatically let ChatGPT generate responses to questions about my other product https://webtoapp.design

It's a pretty basic setup with a knowledge base you can feed anything you want (your blog articles, help center etc.). That gets put into a vector database and then I pass the related knowledge pieces to GPT along with the question.

I know there's lots of similar products out there, but none of them seem to allow manual editing of your knowledge base and they all seem to be focused on creating chatbots. I've adjusted the prompts to work best for e-mails.
Interesting. Perhaps someone can ask GPT to rephrase the sentence in a way that is completely non-ambiguous.

(sorry, I'm out of GPT credit :)
Your site triggered the iOS Safari prompt to allow your site access to my microphone
Well, it's just a programming language, and not a particularly complicated one. It's closer to current languages than e.g. COBOL. People can easily learn it (if they are willing). And it can easily be transpiled to a GPU supported language, so the argument that there are no GPU compatible Fortran compilers is weak.
I'll share a project I've been working on that has greatly improved my meal planning. I created a tool to tell me what and how much to eat from a list of ingredients.

Unlike most existing apps that only track what you eat, my app helps you figure out how much to eat to hit your target macros. Initially, I had created some Python scripts that worked well, but I found them inconvenient to use as I needed to be near a computer, edit the script and manually add ingredients to a dictionary. To make it more user-friendly/faster, I re-wrote it as a web app in Rust for the backend and integrated a free food database.

Now, I can quickly and easily add a list of ingredients I have at home from my phone and hit calculate.

Currently, I'm the only user, and the tool is designed entirely for my needs. However, I think it could be useful for others looking to plan their meals and eat healthier, which is why I host publically. If I were to build it for general public use, I would need to relax the constraints to allow flexibility on how close it can match your targets. I would also want to add more food sources, maybe the USDA database, but since I'm not in the US, a lot of the foods won't be relevant to me. Maybe if I get the time i'll work on it but for now it works perfectly for me.

You can check it out at https://www.macrosolver.com/. Let me know what you think!
You can operate a 2000 acre farm with 4 people. That's a family farm bub.
Whoa, this is a great resource. Never heard of it before, it looks like I'm finally able to get some proper book recommendations. Absolutely loving it.

Weird though that for certain cases it spells English author names with Cyrillic alphabet. Like for instance when I center the graph on "Stanisław Lem", I can see names like George Orwell or Terry Pratchett spelled in Cyrillic. I wonder why.
GodFather Android Malware Analysis
The article discusses the analysis of the GodFather malware that primarily targets banking and cryptocurrency applications. The author utilizes the Ostorlab platform for analyzing the malware. The analysis reveals that the malware can transfer money, gather device information, intercept SMS messages, manipulate the device screen using VNC, redirect phone calls, and open URLs without the user's knowledge. The malware checks for a real device before starting its malicious behavior, disables its icon, and runs in the background. It starts a new service that implements the interface java.lang.Runnable, and its code runs in a separate thread. The malware uses USSD calls to transfer money, sends multi-part text-based SMS, steals SMSs, forwards incoming calls, and opens URLs without user intervention. The analysis also reveals that the malware encrypts data using a hardcoded key and a non-random initialization vector.
It's such a pity that they chose to use PolitFact as labelling "experts" in one of the underlying datasets. Given how extreme the political bias in academia is they should really know better than to try and make claims about politics in what would otherwise be reasonable ML research. The assumption that fact checkers are reliable is going to be an automatic strike against the paper for a large number of readers because it's so self-evidently wrong, and calls their judgement into question on everything else.

Even though they only give three examples in the paper itself the problems are already obvious. If we look at table 6 then the latter two statements are genuinely ambiguous, but they also provide this as an example of an ambiguous statement: "When President Obama was elected, the market crashed". This is called ambiguous because "the claim implies a causal relationship".

That statement isn't ambiguous. It has exactly one possible parse and meaning, asserting temporal alignment. "When A happened, B happened" doesn't automatically imply causality in English, and when people assume it does that's the famous "correlation is not causation" fallacy. Yet they classify it as ambiguous because an LLM rewrote it in one case to contain an implied assertion of causality that doesn't actually appear in the original text. In effect the political bias of the LLM or possibly the exact data fed in has been used to condemn the original speaker - exactly the sort of thing that makes self-proclaimed "professional fact checkers" such a joke.

This sort of problem is inevitable if you use politics as a verification dataset because the internet is full of people reading implied-but-unstated things into factual statements and then "fact checkers" proceed to debunk what they think people would have said, instead of what they actually said.

Although politics will have this problem frequently, a few of the other examples in their dev set show similar issues. For example, "Ralph knows that someone here is a spy" is considered ambiguous because you could potentially infer that he either does or doesn't know who it is, but you could also argue that the statement is unambiguous and it's only your attempt to read more into the statement than actually exists that makes it appear ambiguous. If the original statement was surrounded with more context then that would let you pick between the two possible outcomes but the statement by itself is not ambiguous - it just doesn't give as much information as the labeller might have wanted.
I mean, humans do that. We are remarkably contradictory when expressing ourselves, generally speaking, often without realizing it because we'll change our thinking in the moment to fit the current narrative or circumstance. LLMs just put that on blast.
Most of mine was just automation or analysis-download mp3 rips from a streaming site, scrape parse and analyse jobs so I could see the market prices (span off a web app made a few hundred quid but killed it), a trading system and crypto analysis tool, most recently scraping and analysing housing market data.
Some subjects can benefit from dynamic difficulty. A teacher can handle a limited number of difficulty levels for kids of different skills. A computer can handle many more. It's good for kids to get a subject at their own level, instead of being bored or discouraged by stuff that's too easy or too hard.
Here's some Subaru love from Damaskas Hollodan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXYKVfoJ2Gs
I'm still not sure about the exact license yet, but everything will definitely be free and open :)
This sounds like an interesting intro, but tell us more!

What exactly do you offer / sell / solve?

How are you different from “VC-backed vertical indoor farming companies”?

It’s unclear from your message.
Experimental WASM/Rust WebViewer for Computer Vision Data
Neuroscience, architecture.

No farmers. At least the marketing dude sold food before.

"How hard can it be?"
Galois theory is an inherent part of language.

https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2568
I know dozens of people that have a few goats or who 'farm' hay for the tax benefits.
GCC has __builtin_expect_with_probability now. YMMV.
This was due to the “hack the planet” stickers in the box. They’ve since removed the stickers. https://twitter.com/flipper_zero/status/1621064579349639170
Women are depicted as white on Greek pottery and referred to as white in Greek poetry for the obvious reason that women have lighter skin than men do.

The sea is something completely different, and the darkness isn't a power reference anyway. Men are not called "dark" because they're stronger than women; they're called that because they're darker than women. And, as the article notes, the sea isn't called "dark" at all. "Dark" was a suggestion introduced in the 19th century by the standard classical Greek dictionary.
I ride a motorcycle and rely on voice commands to interact with my phone since I keep it in my pocket.

Siri’s most common response to me: “You have to unlock your iPhone to do that”. Not helpful.
Yes, and even the Internet as a place of human interaction.

I mean, are you still interested in reading news, blogs, forums or others if you have a slight suspicion that they might have been written by a probabilistic machine?

I don't.
No interest in trains, but your website is great - simple, visual and effective.