skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternative alphabets have been kicking around for ages as a way to make it easier to learn English; mainly because our existing alphabet is inconsistent and doesn't have a 1-to-1 correspondence of letters to sounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet

Sequoyah famously brought the Cherokee from 0% to 90% literacy in a decade after he invented a syllabic writing system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah#Teaching_the_syllabar...

Literacy could be much easier if we switched orthography and now with technology everything can be auto-transliterated.
I agree there is a development path to learning to read. My son is learning and during the phase of learning the phonics he would use the pictures a lot to help get context. You could tell because he would pause on each new page as he observed the graphics.

But as he became more proficient he started using the graphics as a crutch to guess the words rather than sound them out and blend them. So I started covering the pictures with my hand as I turned the pages and his progress jumped ahead in the following weeks.

He is still learning and falls into guessing patterns too easily. However through accompanied parent reading every night he is progressing well (IMO).
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If you’d suggested LLMs in some way I probably would have caught it.
Something that is socially unacceptable to the point of deserving cancellation.
I'm worried about Chrome's web dominance: they are already dominating the desktop web. With these changes I can only imagine that they will do the same for the mobile web with these changes. Apple's mobile market share in EU is way lower than Android's; web developers will start caring even less about (mobile) Safari.
Might sharing the link to vps provider, please?
I've heard that rationale.

The trouble with it is how are you going to look up an icon in a dictionary? People aren't born with the knowledge of what that wretched icon for on/off means. Or that a drawing of an ancient Mesopotamian oil lamp means oil pressure.
1Ø GOTO DARKMODE
All Tarantino movies.
I found that I actually only really like a movie or tv show if it is infinitely (aka a lot; more than 50x without getting bored) rewatchable (for me obviously); not many movies are. Some favorites which fall in that category; Alien, Aliens, The Thing, Das Boot, Cold Lazarus (the Dennis P one), ...

It is very personal as looking through what other people mention ; many of those I couldn't sit through once, but if friends tell me to give it another go, I watch 2-10 times to see if it grows. Rarely it does, but there have been cases. Notably everyone likes Pulp Fiction; I saw it at least 15 times and find it unwatchable.
I wanted to record more of my life, but I found that the act of noting it down was too cumbersome. Looking to minimize friction, I created a Telegram bot that saves all messages you send it into a Google Spreadsheet.

Hashtags can be used to split the text into sheets and columns, if so desired. Besides jotting down quick thoughts, this is very handy for short-form journaling such as tracking expenses, workouts, mood, period, weight, diet, etc., with the added bonus of easy charting and summarization from within the spreadsheet. It also supports pictures and other attachments that are uploaded automatically to Google Drive and linked into the spreadsheet.

Feel free to check it out, all feedback is appreciated: https://t.me/gsheet_notes_bot
I had the exact same use case two weeks ago but I had received a pdf file from school and was sitting at a cafe with only my phone.

I use ChatGPT, and while the article is correct to say that it will claim that it cannot generate .ics files directly in the code interpreter it is however very much capable of solving this particular problem. I did the following (all on my android phone):

1. Had it extract all the useful dates, times and comments from the pdf
2. Prompted it to generate the ics file formatted content as code output
3. Prompted it to use the code interpreter to put this content into a file and save it as a .ics extension

It complied through and through and I could download and open the file with the gcal app on my phone to import all appointments..

For completeness, the claim that the code interpreter cannot "generate" ics files is because the python environment in which it runs doesn't have a specific library for doing so. ICS files are just text files with a specific format, so definitely not out of reach.
Not the OP, but there’s another poster in this whole thread who says that he studied “16 hours per day” and that his former college mates, much gifted than him but who hadn’t studied as much, now live “mediocre” lives.

Which is to say that this is the competition that lots of people who study in a professional environment (i.e. not for fun) have to grapple with, I feel sorry for them because I don’t see an easy solution for all this madness (because it is definitely madness to study 12-16 hours per day).
My car has a bunch of acronyms on the buttons. I’d rather have icons for a lot of them.

Should I press the SRH button, maybe the RAB button, how about BSD…
Unattend.xml can be used in both editions, as there is no more separate install image for home edition since windows 8
Because search in different languages needs to be aware of that language's peculiarities.

Including but not limited to things that English doesn't have or only has in vestigial forms like grammatical cases, complex word morphology, declensions etc.
This is phenomenal! And also highlights a design pattern which I'm hoping becomes even more popular because of AI: interoperable human readable file formats! Things like .ICS files. I'd love to see more websites/apps prioritise supporting these sorts of things, since it make it really easy to plug/play and use AI, but also just empowers more people to get creative/build extensions.

There's been a bit of a trend to more silo'd data, and a deemphasis on files entirely in the last ~decade in the name of "simplicity". I'd love to see that backtrack a bit.
If you're part of a conversation, and want to capture part of it, is it really that hard to ask the other parties whether they're cool with it? If you don't, you're effectively spying on them, regardless of how much you sugarcoat it or whatever some states consider to be legal.
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Broad C/C++ vulnerability management support in OSV
I’m working on a macos virtual microphone app that lets you take a real microphone input and apply audio processing effects on it like raising the gain, reverb, etc, then using that as your microphone in other apps, like for video calls

Comes from my own desire for something like that. Right now I’m using a hacked together solution using blackhole and a random vst. It was a pain to set up initially, trying to make it easier for other people.

I know there’s loopback but it costs too much for what i need and has a lot of extra features i don’t care about, plus i’d still need to bring my own vst to it
And yet, give them something as innocuous as

$$
\frac{\frac{a}{b}}{c \times \frac{d}{\frac{e}{f}}}
\times
\frac{\frac{g}{h \times \frac{i}{j}}}{k}
$$

And watch 98% of them fail to bring it to normal for a simple fraction.
> I have no idea why you added this remark telling me that I should try it, when you clearly didn't.

You are hilariously hostile here, I don't get it. si_errno is the second field in the struct after si_signo, saying "si_errno etc." is obviously in reference to the rest of the fields in the structure...
Free speech is not unrestricted speech, nor freedom from consequences. The market is also not free when it’s uncontrolled, that would just result in blatant manipulation.

And hate speech is a serious crime, not sure why you believe otherwise. In many aspects, most EU countries have much freer speech than the US.
This is interesting; using NER for PII/secret filtering as bridge between secure systems and networked APIs.

Over the last six months I built what seems to be the world's first desktop application providing a vault with encryption at rest for secure offline interaction with local LLMs. First public release soon.

This idea of yours is pretty great. Something like it could open the door for me to market my app to enterprise customers from a couple of great new angles.
This is cool, it reminds of when I would get bored and make little games as batch files for the windows command prompt a long time ago.
Really cool! It's also really good at creating all kinds of mermaid diagrams. I have a prompt to create learning resources based on YouTube transcripts including visualizations in mermaid. It's awesome.
The problem is that some kids respond very badly to parents teaching, and very good to a third party.
> Don’t know, will have to wait and see.

You should have started and finished with this.
The main valuable content of the metal alloy from which metallic asteroids are made is given by the platinum-group metals, including osmium and iridium.

Of all metals that could be extracted, osmium and iridium are those for which there is the greatest difference in abundance between the surface of the Earth and the metallic asteroids.

If the temperature is not high enough to vaporize the platinum-group metals, they will remain as solid grains, which are likely to damage any centrifuge.

Making a centrifuge from a ceramic material like hafnium carbide is unlikely to work, due to its fragility and low tensile strength, especially at very high temperatures. A ceramic coating of the parts in contact with the hot gas might work, but even if there is a lot of experience in making such things nobody has made parts working at temperatures so high as needed for this application.

The problems for making such a gaseous centrifuge are similar to those for making a high temperature gas turbine.

During the last century, tremendous resources have been dedicated for increasing the maximum temperature of gas turbines. The working temperatures have been slowly increased, but more and more slowly in recent years and there is very little hope that it is possible to increase the working temperatures much beyond what has been already achieved.

A metal separation centrifuge would require working temperatures not higher by 10% or by 50%, but temperatures at least 3 to 6 times higher than for the existing gas turbines.

Based on the existing experience in improving gas turbines, I believe that this separation method can be safely dismissed.

While a centrifuge is not feasible, there are chances to use a part of your proposal.

Heating the metal alloy at a temperature high enough so that iron will sublimate quickly (together with nickel, cobalt, gold etc.) while platinum-group metals will sublimate very slowly could produce an alloy highly enriched in platinum-group metals with a mass many times lower than the starting mass.

This method cannot separate any individual metals and it would lose the gold and other possibly useful components, like germanium, gallium or cobalt, but it could reduce the mass enough so it may make sense to take the concentrated alloy with platinum-group metals away from the asteroid, to a place where it could be processed with more selective methods.

While such a method has some small chances of being profitable, it is very wasteful. Real asteroid mining must separate the metal alloy in all its components, because all can be very valuable, less for being brought back on Earth, but for building any kind of structures in space or on other planets/asteroids.
It sounds like you take issue with "whole icons" rather than "whole words".

> It deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

https://www.treehugger.com/why-your-brain-can-read-jumbled-l...
Can also be used to generate Google calendar links!
> Russian controlled medium

There are a large number of highly active Ukrainian channels on Telegram, all about as anti-Russian as you would expect. There are Ukrainian government ministers operating channels on Telegram. How does that occur on a "Russian controlled medium?"

I don't speak either Russian or Ukrainian. I know none of these channel operators. Yet I've been granted approval on a number of "private" Ukrainian channels. Certainly a Russian could as well. Why wouldn't Russia's state actors, given that they enjoy "control" of the medium, shut it all down?
I am not sure I entirely agree with the premise: eg. you maybe are "dumb" (lack mathematical talent, really), but with proper instruction, you can learn a lot of math.

Let me dive deeper.

Our school system teaches math in a pretty inflexible way: "this is how everyone can get it". But even math talents don't learn it that way: as one, I was usually ahead of the school with my own reasoning (sometimes by a couple of grades) and could backtrack to the school method to understand it and apply it.

Second, if you are good at maths naturally, everything else at school becomes easier: people simply treat you as "smart" in whatever you do just because you have a natural leaning to mathematics (both if they do or don't themselves). Even rote memorization subjects like history and geography become easier since, well, you are "smart": teachers simply do not ask much of you.

And finally, I've met many an extremelly intelligent mathematician (uni professors and math competitors) who simply are outright dumb: they could not process a simple logic statement in human language, even if they were regularly working on advanced research calculus.

So, anyone can learn a lot of math, and doing so requires internalizing the foundations. However, people talented for mathematics find it easy to internalize them in various ways (not always the textbook way), so it's not hard work for them (eg. I could coast through the entire undergrad math and CS program too, cramming for a weekend for all but a couple of exams: memorizing all the axioms and theorems was the struggle, operating with them and proving them once I knew them was comparatively easy and I finished with a GPA equivalent of 3.4 or so).

But math instruction is hard because math is a formal language representing a very specific mindset that not everybody can naturally get. And instruction is usually performed by people not having attained that internalized knowledge of the foundations, thus not being able to look at it and describe it from numerous viewpoints required for individual students.

Finally, we need to fix the society not to equate "good at maths" with "being smart": plenty of smart people who have a hard time with maths, and plenty of math wizards who are outright dumb.
> I spent two seconds figuring out the icons the first time I encountered it and now it's faster for me.

You're definitely sharper than me.
I spend 2 seconds every time I encountered it.
Of course people who don't value much free speech say that they're mindful of the fact that freedom can be abused etc. Nobody will ever say "yes I like censorship because I am a reactionary".

In general, remember that villains almost always justify their action as necessary or just- only in movies their stated motive is obviously egoistical.
So echo chambers
Unfortunately, many parents do not have the time or energy to spend this much time teaching kids to read. There are parents who have to work all the time so they can feed their kids, there are single parents who work even more to feed their kids, and there are parents who are raising multiple kids and can't give much time to each individual child as a result. There are also parents who struggle with reading themselves, and therefore aren't capable of teaching their kids!

I agree that in a perfect world, all kids would receive personalized reading instruction from their parents. In reality, though, the poor/disadvantaged kids who need such instruction the most are also least likely to have parents capable of giving it to them. Well-funded public education is one of the greatest socioeconomic equalizers we have and it's crucial that we continue to support and expand it.
> in Europe breast is more or less indecent to show in public.

There is no single "Europe". I have seen many women sunbathing topless in Denmark - it seems to be totally acceptable there. Haven't seen that in France - but it has a very strong nudist culture dating back at least to the 60s. Some of these nudist beaches are actually famous e.g. Cape d'Agde.
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Yeah, Claude.ai just gave me the text that I simply saved as a my.ics file. I wonder if I could reword the prompt to get chatgpt to do it.
I’ve been working on a project to make SaaS (and really any software) pricing and packaging easier. Think things like plans, entitlements, dimensions, metering, subscription migrations, onboarding, and experimentation, all completely independent from billing and payment processing solutions. We can integrate with things like Stripe where we’ll mirror products, customers, and subscriptions, but it’s totally optional.

We’re 100% bootstrapped by way of a previous acquisition and just very-soft launched after talking to a lot of folks at companies of all sizes. Seems like most people end up cobbling this stuff together with various levels of sophistication, which is basically what we did a few times over at previous companies with varying levels of success.

You can check out our solution at https://planship.io.
…not because it’s impossible. Because there is zero incentive to do so. The money has been taken.
The article isn't completely coherent, because it disapproves of "memorizing a bunch of words" while at the same time approving of storing words in memory for instant recognition.

...Is it really saying that to only memorize a bunch of words is insufficient, compared to memorizing lots? Is that the point being made there? Wasn't clear.
Kind of.

I work with a lot of curricula. There are degrees of specificity. Common core is, notably, absurdly specific, and dense. It’s the US at its best, which is to say its worst. Including the fact that CC hasn’t ever really been touched since. This is seldom how curricula in actual developed jurisdictions are built.

There are also degrees to which a teacher can ‘play it by ear’ in their classroom. This is informed by their ability to do so competently, and the freedom allowed by their school, school system, etc. The existence of a curricula, even in a public education context, doesn’t inherently disallow a teacher from attempting different teaching styles to get through to a kid, or changing what they focus on in order to teach to their students’ zone of proximal development.

Schools “adapting to metrics” is very much moreso informed by the undeniably reality that, with any sizeable group of kids, and realistic constants on resources, you quickly need to start doing “formative assessment”, and doing assessment well is really hard.

Above all though, schools adapt to metrics because it’s what’s demanded of them by their bosses. By that, I don’t mean ‘educational bureaucrats’, I mean…parents, taxpayers at large, etc. ‘Hold hands under a rainbow and nothing bad ever happens’ individualised education is simply very hard to monitor, it’s very hard to hold anyone to account. Stakeholders hate this. They want measurement. They want numbers. And numbers invite systems, and putting people into boxes. We get exactly what we deserve here. Nothing more and nothing less.
My car has a button with a snowflake on it. Does it mean turn on the air conditioning? Turn on the heat? Turn on the defroster?

With some experimenting, it turns on the defroster - but only if it is in combination with another button with a bent rectangle on it.
Security management services balance confidentiality, integrity and availability. Spending more on security means you can have great availability despite the measures on integrity and confidentiality.

Look at any cloud provider. They get it right because they employ the best security management systems.
Been automatically executing playbooks (Ansible) since before you were born. I sleep fine.

This is standard SRe/ Ops practice. Monitoring system detects failures and automatically runs remediation.

You didn’t read the part where I said “using orchestration to tools”.
Interesting, maybe ChatGPT got more reluctant to spit out ics? Didn't have to try very hard back in May: https://chatgpt.com/share/0848349d-4b0b-40f8-9d24-e9c4ffc065...
There's nothing funny or wrong about this argument. In a democracy, law is a community consensus. In a tyranny it's just a rule set up by the tyrant for everyone to follow (but never followed by the tyrant himself and his gunmen).

That said, even in democracy a law can be bad, and likely is in this case.
Kubernetes is really built on the assumption that workers are in the same LAN as the control plane. Long latency between the control plane and workers affects workload reliability; heartbeats need to be configured with longer timeouts, for example. Pod-to-pod communication, where pods run in regions on opposite sides of the globe, supposedly on the same pod network CIDR, is also going to be flaky. There's a long history of projects attempting to take LAN-local designs and make them resistant to regional failure by superimposing a LAN on top of a WAN and it never works as intended. Furthermore, various service meshes already present ways of helping to direct/shape traffic between clusters (i.e. between regions), when service architecture evolves to truly support multiple regions.

You run a risk of building something that seems to "work" and falls apart for non-obvious, head-scratching reasons for many or most users.
Yes they implemented usernames earlier this year. They are fully rolled out and don't expose your phone number.

They received $3 million from the open technology fund, which is a government sponsored fund for censorship circumvention projects.
https://www.opentech.fund/about/congressional-remit/
This is cute! It’s worth pointing out that strace ships a similar feature (-e fault) which works for any syscall, even if the binary is statically linked. It works using ptrace, which is lower level than LD_PRELOAD. Although -e fault doesn’t support probabilistic failure, it does provide a flexible way to target specific invocations of a syscall. For example, to fail every second fork() call: -e fault=fork,errno=ENOMEM,when=1+2.
For cloud providers, security is their raison d’etre. On the cloud you can have confidentiality, integrity and availability that was unheard of two decades ago.
If you check the git commit example on the homepage, it for some reason describes the git command as "The stupid content tracker"
> The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.

Not without problem. Reading that next was noticeably slower and more difficult than reading ungarbled words.
I've felt this for a long time, been using Claude for over a year now internally - super impressed w/ it from the start and the 3.5 model is blazingly fast. Which version of C-GPT did you compare it to?
My experience of a lifetime in work is that regardless of what is paid, if there is no accountability for results, the output gradually and steadily declines.
Sway uses workspaces as virtual desktops. Every workspace is assigned to exactly one physical display at a time. Papersway, from what I’ve read on the linked website, lives in a workspace.