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Show HN: A curated literature program for K-12
Pageturners is a new product for school-going students from Great Books Homeschool, which I started based on my experience designing a secular literature-based homeschooling curriculum for my kids.

Schools typically don’t allocate enough time to simply reading great books, and the majority of students don’t read for enjoyment. As a result, kids don’t get the exposure to literature that they need to read more challenging works in college.

Pageturners aims to fill in the gap with a curated reading program that gently progresses from picture books in kindergarten to adult classic literature in high school. It’s customizable but starts with sensible defaults that include the most iconic works of children’s literature and Great Books, both classic and contemporary.

The kindergarten level is free. For other levels, there's a free trial and it's currently priced at $3.99/month paid annually thereafter.
That explains it, I was wondering why things suddenly worked. Not just relevant for devs, but also people who want a better and/or more private android experience than what vendors offer.
Microsoft banning Xbox accounts for clips of Baldur's Gate 3 with nudity
a lot worse for cloud providers hosting generative AI

the models can be fine
This looks pretty neat! I especially like how well it composes with other tools.

Wonder how well it compares with fastmod [0]? That's what I've been using for large scale codemods/refactors. ripgrep is ofc insanely fast so ripgrep+ren would probably fare favorably.

[0]: https://github.com/facebookincubator/fastmod/
That one runs WASM binaries interfacing (via WASI) with the native iOS AArch64 environment and some clever built-in bindings that make iOS look not entirely unlike a normal POSIX.

Very impressive (and faster than emulation, since WASM can be JIT compiled by iOS!), but not Linux :)
Haskell in Production: Chordify
You could always work in advertising instead
Depends on the language, looks like this one can't do pattern matching? Makes you appreciate languages like Zig, Rust or Odin a lot more
In the pursuit of solving increasingly complex problems and pushing the boundaries of computation, the worlds of quantum computing and machine learning have collided to give birth to a revolutionary field: Quantum Machine Learning (QML). This powerful fusion combines the principles of quantum mechanics with the computational prowess of machine learning, promising to unlock unprecedented possibilities in data analysis, optimization, and decision-making.

This fusion has the potential to accelerate innovation, reshape industries, and address previously intractable problems, paving the way for a quantum leap in data-driven technologies.

In this article, we explore the fundamentals of QML, its potential applications, and the challenges that come with harnessing the power of quantum computing.
BYD Overtakes Tesla as Most Popular EV Maker
Delivery apps make it harder to tip after New York minimum wage law
Chess hustlers in central park don't play for money, or for a competition, they play for the fun of it, for the sake of chess itself, for the sake of exploring the game, the thrill of finding a solution.

It has nothing to do with whatever "value" the capitalist system assigns to the act as a side-effect.
Of course. It's the same reason why Global Worldwide top posts on Reddit overlap a lot with the Top posts for USA users.
Apple controls the JS sandbox in Safari, whereas they don’t control the ScummVM scripting sandbox. In theory it’d allow the execution of arbitrary scripts that can do anything native code can do, although I don’t know - maybe ScummVM checksums the games you load into it and will only run code it recognizes (and if so, maybe that’s why it’s allowed).
Makes sense if the 2nd waymo identified the 1st. If I drove around waymo cars enough, I would probably consider driving around them like this at turns like this where gaps in traffic were typically long enough for humans but not waymo.
hate to be the bearer of bad news but i would now literally puke if i have to see ads in VR.
Nothing like good old monk humor about sex.. Unless druggy humor by the notoriously drug free..
This is super interesting, thanks for the detail! I bet the LLM experiment will be very interesting for you and I hope you share the results here on HN!
> No. That isn't printing life, that is taking already living cells, priming and transforming them into something useful.

Which is absolutely sufficient for the usage I described upthread. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it's mandatory for the point I was making, as — fun though bio-printed werewolves, dragons, and fae would be — my point only works if you get humans out of the process rather than some other species. A bioprinted horse is probably slightly harder than a bioprinted human, but the latter isn't getting any squatting rights.

I could've linked to work on synthetic genomes and nucleotides to give evidence for lower-level creation of live, but they don't matter for the same reason:

My point is that there's a pathway heading off into the distance, and somewhere in the distance but before the horizon can be found bio-printed humans with all the same moral issues we're now just beginning to taking seriously thanks to AI being conversational, and if we had something completely customised, that's cool and all, but it doesn't make anyone go "oh, they're people" the way a humanoid body with human DNA getting off a table saying "hello, nice to meet you" does.

> In your example you are talking about being able to bioprint a person(they have to be a person to have that right) to squat a property. Bio printing an organ isn't an example of that, it's not even close. Saying that we are anywhere near being able to print a human to squat a property is pretty ridiculous.

I wrote "an entity fully 3D printed out of tissue […] is a way off, but it's foreseeable" and compared bio-printing today to a nearly 50 year old computer, and one of my references was a link to a youtube channel where someone is attempting to do a small-scale prototype thing along these lines with a handful of organs made from mouse cells grown in his own lab (and mouse cells rather than human because of the disease risk not because something magic happens with human cells). You're mixing up what I think is foreseeable with what I say already exists, and using the nonexistence of what I think can be foreseen to argue against what does exist.
Do we have evidence or proof about "no two alike" or is it more like an educated guess?
What does cute mean ?
It's immaterial. Auto manufacturers' product designers and executives aren't being held responsible for rising pedestrian deaths because their oversized killer vehicles keep running over people when driven by humans. Self-driving is responsible for almost no deaths or injuries, most likely net-negative.
I can categorize them easily.

The only invalid reason is because you need to feed yourself, and the fact that we need to do that, we need to pay artists and everyone else just to survive, shows our failure as broader society.
> renew it and cancel it immediately

This is the way I use most subscription products. There are a lot of pieces of software that I think do actually make sense to charge a subscription for rather than a one-time payment; almost all the software I use daily in 2023 has some kind of server-side component or ongoing maintenance/development costs and I don't mind paying for that. It's the auto-renewal aspect and all the dark patterns associated with cancellation that I really despise.

One thing that I do now is try to use iOS to initiate subscriptions as much as possible, since the Apple-mandated subscription mechanism there lets me easily and immediately cancel auto-renewals for a new subscription as soon as I sign up for it.

I don't love that the walled garden approach seems to be the only way to restore sanity here and would love to see something standards-track and cross platform emerge for signing up for, listing, and cancelling software subscriptions in one place as part of the functionality provided by your OS. Basically, "passkeys for subscriptions". Maybe someday!
> 2.5.2 Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps. Educational apps designed to teach, develop, or allow students to test executable code may, in limited circumstances, download code provided that such code is not used for other purposes. Such apps must make the source code provided by the app completely viewable and editable by the user.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#phy...
Bandcamp, for example (and there are a few smaller ones like it). It will be more expensive than streaming subscriptions, but knowing how poorly artists get compensated by these (and how the payout per stream further dilutes over time), makes one see the whole streaming model as corrupt. It led to artificially lowered expectations on what music should cost among the general public, and now of course it has become very hard to compete with the streaming platforms because of this altered consumer behavior.
Ahh yes, the old drmgs.
I think you misunderstand something here. Torrenting movies and generative AI don't really have anything in common, I'm not sure why you bring that up.

If you sold the output of a true random number generator, eventually you'd also by definition be reselling copyrighted works without permission. The courts wouldn't mindlessly say "no more random numbers", and I doubt that they'll do the same for GenAI, especially given the recent decisions that are headed that way.
One of the first times I've heard of someone starting with QUIC! Exciting and promising tech. Love to see it.
Thank you for this. The greed-fueled magical thinking around AI is absolutely out of control at the moment.
> Isn't the whole point of delegation as a language feature to avoid that?

Yes but Kotlin delegation is implemented for objects and interfaces, not functions. Compose is React inspired so it uses functions with keyword arguments for everything, so if a new keyword argument is used, you have to manually forward it.

> Or it breaks

It can happen for any kind of API upgrade, especially where you can customize large amounts of complex logic. I don't think it's unusually worse for inheritance based designs. Obviously that's predicated on there actually being a design, but that's not a problem unique to Java (e.g. C libs that export non-stable symbols is a perennial issue).
> If the inventor has no incentive to invent

This is not correct. It's a failure to understand that invention does not come only from external motivation, but also, possibly mostly, from internal motivations. The motivation to understand the world, to improve people's lives, to build something cool, useful or meaningful. It's a huge motivation behind the success of OSS.

I don't understand how people can just completely ignore all of the evidence that the world would not collapse if IP rights were significantly relaxed or even eliminated. People wrote, painted and composed music long before copyright. Sometimes this work was commissioned, sometimes it was done purely for pleasure. Some of the most creative periods of human history took place when there was no notion of IP rights.

> Do people forget that copyright was made to protect the investor first, and then to progress society second?

I don't think this is correct either. The whole purpose of giving inventors/authors these rights was to promote progress. The inventor comes second, not first:

> The Congress shall have Power [...] to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

In other words, "we grant these rights to authors and inventors in order to promote progress of science and useful arts", ie. these rights are conditional on the understanding that they promote progress. If they do not promote progress then they should be revised or rescinded.
What’s the FPS of human eyesight? How long did Timmy spend looking at Mario, more generally other cartoons and even more generally human forms? Do the math and you’ll find he’s got a pretty big training set as well, maybe not quite the same size but nothing to sneeze at.
i was just wondering yesterday what happened to this guy
My understanding of the case law on checkpoints is that it started with inland immigration checkpoints, and similar reasoning got applied to checkpoints meant to catch drunk drivers. I consider it an evisceration of the fourth amendment, as did Justice William J. Brennan when he wrote as much in his dissent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Martinez-Fuer...
I've felt incredible hunger and pain. I've had a lifetime of voluntary fasting, sure, but I've also had an experience this year where I spent weeks starving while already underweight and sick as hell withdrawing from a couple drugs, unable to sleep for more than 20-30 minutes tops, and suffering from a (still mostly mystery) intestinal issue.

I was SO hungry, it was indeed one of my dominant thoughts other than wanting to kill myself (or distract myself with hot hand warmers in between puking). It virtually never truly went away, other than when I was distracted by even worse senations.

What I then struggle to understand is why my obese and well-off father with a LOT of free time can't make the decision to stop eating fast food, can't consistently stick with not buying presumably very immediately gratifying and pleasurable fast food that often makes him feel sick later. Why I could actually have made radical changes to my diet years before I ever had that level of extreme suffering, or consistently rejected taking any opioids or weed even when my tolerances were probably more reset 1 or 2 weeks in and they could've provided substantial short-term escape from that hell.

I ask in this manner not to try to "brag", as if there's some achievement in meaningless and random suffering, but rather to ask about and understand how you might interpet it. I feel like I've experienced severe and truly engulfing hunger + pain. Coming out of that, I don't understand why some people can't escape the "addiction" of overeating unhealthy food, let alone too much of it, and others can escape the throes of drug dependency.

What could be so alien about someone like me compared against my own father, as opposed to his being in an active refusal to try?

Ultimately, it all seems to me like the issue isn't one of avoiding pain so much as refusing not to experience constant cheap pleasure, and yet given the same opportunities of similar constant cheap pleasures I've mostly avoided them in seeing the longer term pain lying in wait behind their facade. I feel as though the only definitive observation I can make there is that most obese people can't seem to see their condition similarly. They can get hyped up selling themselved and those around them a meme "diet plan" while its easy in their mind, but once it comes time to do the hard work of rejecting harmful habits all the cheap fun imagining the future disappears and they quit, simply ignoring all the downsides by trying to embrace even more pleasure.
I haven't learned VHDL, designed a chip, and submitted it to the Google chip shuttle. I've started looking at VHDL, and it's not as knarly as I thought. The chip itself might only be 2 pages of code when I'm done.

Seriously... a grid of cells consisting of a 4bitx4 look up table RAM, with latched outputs, and 2 phased clock. How long could it be?
> I'm sure there are a select few who find this appealing

That’s really all you need dude. And yet both private and public sector intelligence jobs are selective. Supply and demand might help you reconcile your other points.

You slightly underestimate the pool of extremely patriotic or nationalistic smart engineers and scientists around.

If your basic thesis was correct no video games would get made either. Most of them could go get that FAANG money for arguably better work life balance. People have more motivations than you realize. And the idea that all the smartest engineers and scientists exclusively work for FAANG is a contrivance only believed on this dumb site. (The equally idiotic corollary is that all the smartest people work in software).

I also think you are underestimating the lifetime earning potential of top intelligence workers. 9 to 5 government jobs don’t have to be forever.

Finally, the sophistication of state level attacks such as in Iran is clear. The evidence exists, and you are wrong.

And you’re missing the point, it isn’t even that this attack wasn’t sophisticated it was that clearly no one sat down for even a few minutes to discuss how it would be detected. An organization, even a private hacking group, would have discussed this.
The Crypto Theory of Everything
Reminds me of the Unhook extension, which I use and love. It disables all youtube recommendations, leaving only channels you've subscribed to,
I would prefer 2) and 3) but I think 1) will happen unfortunately
Related question: I know it won’t be the fastest option, but are there good battery-powered SSDs that connect over WiFi, for convenient use with laptops?

That, to me, seems more convenient than a cable, especially for use when traveling (the probability of accidental disconnect might even be lower). Or does such a solution come with too many/too serious downsides?
When the machine doesn't work, I have zero recourse. And the single attendant, if available, has none either. Cashiers used to be able to manual pass an item. not anymore. So I can either leave the store without the item, or steal it and leave with what I came for. I choose the second option because it is more convenient. It only happened a couple time so far. The first time the attendant couldn't help me, so I just took it as it was for an urgent repair. The second time I didn't even bother the attendant. I did this in front of the cameras. I would pay if the system let me to.
I agree, and I would prefer to see concrete examples of LLMs being used productively and profitably in the industry in a "disruptive" manner--putting people out of work, etc--before we conclude they're somehow the next big thing. Basically, before claiming LLMs (or generative techniques, more generally) mean that we're on the doorstep of "general" intelligence, show me door!

The outline of that door might look like industrial adoption of these things for solving some actual problem other than the entertainment value of typing things into the box and seeing what comes out the other side. But so far, as far as I can tell, nobody's actually doing this?
I second this. I typed in the slashes and I had the correct answer, but it didn't accept it until I swapped out the slashes for spaces. I thought the rule was that we were separating words with slashes in this game, so I would expect it to accept the slashes as correct.
I didn't see that they said it was non-profit, and besides, non-profit does not mean "no one gets paid". Compare the sale price of any modular synthesizer with a comparable number of gozintas and gozoutas to this and it looks only a little expensive. I'd guess Behringer could make one and sell it for about $300 give or take, but they have a lot more experience in product engineering, and buy in much higher volumes than I would expect these guys to.

You could build a lot of hardwired op-amp circuits dead-bug style for $500, though, and have money left over for a base model Rigol scope and a no-name linear bench supply.
There is another HN thread to discuss that release here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38816506
Is this a problem for people? Like, do they not know how much they pay for subscriptions? I have detailed knowledge of every service I pay for and I seriously don't understand the issue.
I am constantly suprised by the amount of apologizing for generative AI infringement here. The fact that it's already being done and is a technical breakthrough is irrelevant to existing copyright law. "We are big and innovative" may hold weight with legislators, but it won't with the courts.

Remember when everyone and their dog discovered sampling in the late 80's and they all thought they could get away with it because it didn't seem like infringement to the samplers? The courts had no qualms about slapping record labels for putting out records with unlicensed samples in them. Albums even got pulled off shelves while licenses were sorted out.

These companies are charging for a service that returns copyrighted content, full stop. You can't do that whether you are AI or someone drawing Mario and selling the pictures on iStock, or putting out records that sample someone else's work without permission. It took a while in the case of sampling, but it sure as hell happened.
>Is it accusing the common person of being unable to evaluate whether something has value to them? I think all of us know the dynamics of subscriptions and are relatively clear-eyed about their value.

The self-dellusion about the above is how subscriptions, advertising, and all kinds of BS snakeoil get people.
> `pee` [...] It runs the commands using popen, so it's actually passing them to /bin/sh -c (which on most systems is a symlink to Bash).

Do not assume /bin/sh is Bash!!

On Debian-based systems, including Ubuntu, Dash is the default non-interactive shell. Specifically, Dash does not support common Bashisms.

(Not to mention Alpine, OpenWRT, FreeBSD, ...)

This is a bit of a pet-peeve of mine. If you're dropping a reference to `/bin/sh -c` like the reader knows what that means, then you don't need to tell them that "it's a symlink to Bash." They know their own system better than you.
Uh ok. Now I feel obliged to say that AlphaFold is the obvious outcome you'd get from having a company dedicated to winning games deciding to win at CASP.

To me, "solving" structure prediction (explicitly acknowledging there are areas where AF doesn't make accurate predictions), is a clear and satisfying win, although it still doesn't answer some of the fundamental physics questions around folding.

I am glad to see the existence proof but want to see more outcomes; in particular, I'd like to see a lab-in-the-loop that actually produces something of high value (higher than the cost of building the lab-in-the-loop).
I bet the recipients of his campaign donations are disappointed at this released-right-before-a-holiday news.
> There is no chance of that toothpaste going back in the tube.

I disagree - we've been here before. The same could be said of many technologies, like cheap music recording/manufacture. You can record an artist once and make records at scale. However no one would think you could record Taylor Swift once and make unlimited copies without paying her.

You should read up on the musicians strike of 1942. [0]

[0[ https://jacobin.com/2022/03/1940s-musicians-strike-american-...
At least as a native speaker, and given a long-enough example, those are (based on a gestalt guess) pretty distinguishable.
It feels like you could just as well pack the runtime/engine into the job you are requesting? Am I wrong?