skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The typical user would probably not even care (or know) if their photos were stored on the phone or in the cloud.

This is already true. I use iCloud Photos and I have local thumbnail and some local full res stuff that I looked at, but the software manages all of that. I don’t actually know what’s local. When I want to look at a photo or video, it downloads it on demand. The only time I ever notice it is with videos on cellular in rural areas.
I think people are getting a little tired of being held ransom to kdb/q and kdb consultants. Even if you have 'oil barrels' of money, eventually it is annoying enough to look elsewhere.
First mistake: move to the EU and get French citizenship. You can’t have an asset that’s critical to some of the military operations in the largest European armed conflict and reside in the EU. Should have stayed in Dubai.
Been working on a small temperature and humidity sensor using cheap components and a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. Using https://gokrazy.org/ to turn it in to a little appliance.

I've gotten quite carried away with a web interface and custom on-disk (on-sd card?) storage format based on Facebook's Gorilla paper.

I've realised that where it'll be deployed it will only have access to a public guest WiFi, so a remote server hosting the dashboard makes sense. So now it sends the compressed time-series over a TCP connection to a server component, hoping to bypass WiFi captive portals. Might need to use UDP to make it look like DNS or perhaps NTP. I haven't tested it on-site yet.

It has been a very fun and rewarding project so far. Looking forward to deploying it and getting remote updates working if I can get it to work with Tailscale on the guest WiFi. If anyone has any tips on circumventing captive portals and sending really small amounts of data through, I'd love to hear it!
I'm sorry, but as a mathematician and educator, the comparison to Common Core is unwarranted.

When you say it sounded like something to you, you communicate that you didn't understand what it actually meant and deduced the meaning through pattern-matching - which is exactly the problem here.

Common Core aims to rectify the problems introduced during the "New Math" era (and before it, too), which, like the "three cueing", took sense out of the art of reasoning and imagination we call mathematics.

To understand what I am talking about, I beg you (no exaggeration) to read Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart[1].

It will give you an immediate understanding of how we teach mathematics wrong - like the article we are discussing exposes how we teach reading wrong.

[1] https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician'...
This is a huge gap we have these days. Everything out there is incentivized to suggest the most selling stuff rather than unique and interesting stuff.
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> unrelated, irrelevant other statistics.

Risk I regularly take are hardly irrelevant to me. I consider this kind of comparison to be foundational to rational behavior.

> completely separate bucket than other subsonic commercial airliners

It didn’t have the worst history compared to other subsonic commercial airliners flying at the time when they grounded it. What it had was the potential for improvement.

If you actually care about safety knowing what the actual most dangerous aircraft are would be the rational decision. And today the 737 Max has had 20x the flights and still the same number of accidents. So if you’re concerned about safety how does it stack up?
Erm the Space Shuttle had a reusable first stage 40+ years ago.
Ignorance is bliss. It literally takes 4 sec to perform a search and find plenty of such cases - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PXZxaKMl9Y (Sky News Investigates: Sweden's deadly gang war)

"How has a peaceful European country ended up the gun murder capital of the EU?"
"Things got so bad that the government called in the army to help the police. And there's a new deadly trend emerging in this battle. Gang members as young as 14 are increasingly using explosives to target rivals as they fight over drug turfs. "
I'm working on a single-file executable version of Fivetran you can run wherever you like, for free, without needing an account. It may or may not be OSS, we'll see.
A stock price analytics webapp. That gets data from various sources. And is able to bulk analyse historical data. Made for a friend. But now used by more peeps.

https://stonks.aeonax.com Only for India tho
Hey. I’m building https://www.unwrangle.com to make it easier to scrape data from ecommerce and other sites that are hard to scrape.

It’s like Apify but my goal is to make it easier to use

Currently, I have APIs and scrapers that work with platforms like Google Maps, Yelp and Amazon. The APIs are useful to get data immediately and scrapers to extract information from many URLs.

The plan is to add more general purpose APIs like an HTML API, Markdown API and eventually features to build your own api and scrapers with AI.

There’s a lot of tools in the space nowadays but imo they are all flaky. My intention with unwrangle is to offer a way to scrape any site that just works without the need for any config or complicated pricing. The project is at a little over $1000 MRR. Marketing it has been and continues to be a big challenge. I’m bootstrapping solo and hoping to reach 5-10k MRR in the following months. Plan for that is to consistently improve offering and conduct marketing experiments.

What I find interesting about it: I’m offering easy ways to scrape sites on which antibot is really hard to bypass like Twitter, paywalled sites, LinkedIn, etc. The ability to build crawlers without writing any code is kinda cool. User who would normally not have used web data are scheduling scraping jobs and using the data for analysis. For the HTML API I’m thinking of doing an interesting spin on what others like ScrapingBee are doing and abstracting the needless config like premium proxy etc. and just effectively offering a higher # of requests. Also for the build your own scraper, offering users a way to create a parser with a prompt and use it in a single browser session to collect data from many pages saves hassle compared to a synchronous API approach
Retraining as a math teacher here, so I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how kids learn stuff at the moment.

At one point in the article it states that indeed the trio of semantic/syntactic/graphophonic cues are used by readers. The article kind of dances around the point that even if these cues tend to be used by competent readers, it doesn't mean that training them directly is how novice readers need to learn.

I'm really coming round to this belief that there is no substitute for the "rote" drilling of basic skills.
My wife and I are building Spruce, a Slack app that autocorrects typos in your messages: https://spruce.so/

The motivation behind this was twofold. Firstly, we're both the type of people who often edit our Slack messages (or any other messages like WhatsApp) to correct mistakes. Secondly, my wife is a PMM at a tech company, but she can't code. I've been telling her that anyone can create a decent product with the help of LLMs and tools like Replit, but she usually just rolls her eyes. So, on a flight from London to SF, I suggested we build Spruce. The idea was that she would take the lead and rely on LLMs (ChatGPT + Ollama for when the wonderful Delta internet wasn't working), and she could also treat me as a [more intelligent] LLM. After ~12 hours and a few small arguments, Spruce was born. :)

Some random learnings, top of mind:

1. A non-technical person, even with current LLMs (GPT 4.5), can't go from idea to shipped product without at least some help from a technical person.

2. I now make even more typos because my habit is to type as fast as possible, often without even pressing the space bar. Spruce autocorrects everything in Slack, but when I'm using other products, I feel incomplete.

3. Although I'm practically a native English speaker, it's still my second language. I've added a feature to Spruce, just for myself for now, that DMs me if I make really obvious grammar/English mistakes in my messages. I decided to do this after one of my colleagues, who is very English, said "for prosperity" instead of "for posterity" in several messages, and another said "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes." It's been a very cool development, at least for me! It's fun because a) it has a nice tone, and b) it's not verbose and only nudges you on major mistakes, and only up to twice a day.
Anyway, feel free to give it a try: https://spruce.so/

P.S. This Slack app necessarily needs the permissions it has because it needs to be able to read and edit your messages everywhere (e.g., public channels, private channels, DMs, etc.). Don't install it if that freaks you out. However, it's easy to remove Slack apps, so there's no harm in giving it a try.
Путь домой is an active channel. It has 53,690 subscribers. There is a "FAKE" label (first time I've seen that...) and an associated warning: "Warning: Many users report that this account impersonates a famous person or organisation[sic]." There are regular posts, the most recent being 31 minutes ago. Translating about 10 of them, I see a many parents complaining about the treatment of conscripts.
What is A20? I guess I'm not a hacker...
Anyone who uses a CPU for inference is severely compute constrained. Nobody cares about tokens per second the moment inference is faster than you can read, but staring down a blank screen for 5 minutes? Yikes.
For the level of development I would consider preAlpha, I would count myself lucky if it built on any given night.

I think of it as, "hey, this one doesn't immediately implode. Let's let people look at it"
Or if you write it by hand at all, use RCL, then you can also abstract away the repetitive parts: https://github.com/ruuda/rcl/blob/master/examples/vega.rcl
This looks fantastic! Love the premise & well done for what looks like an incredible solo effort. I was tech lead on Ozymandias & have another minified 4X in the works at the mo & putting out feelers with publishers etc. Sounds like you plan to self publish this one but I’d love to chat & see if there’s any way I can help with your launch, whether just through advice or via introductions etc. You can reach me at biggles (at) bravobravo.games though I may end up finding a way to contact you directly first :-)
As an android dev: the work hours I spend talking with iOS colleagues is the same as with AND ones. Usually you want to sort of be up to date with the other platform as well.
This is awesome. Even though many think it unpopular, I've always found that a certain measure of rote learning is beneficial, if not straight up necessary.

> Having them memorized and at your fingertips is great for sanity checking ideas.

This is essentially the reason. There are certain idea pathways you simply cannot traverse if you constantly need to check specific values. And I think that it might be possible that your subconscious simply won't "give" you an idea until you have specific facts memorized.

Just think how much more difficult your life would be if you had no concept of a kilometer/mile, and constantly needed to do the math to check how far something is in... meters/yards, or something.
I joined a car forum a couple years ago and it was like a blast from the past. An actual community on the internet. People acting with respect generally, active and reasonable moderation, full control of the platform. Users coming together for a shared interest and knowledge but also just a hangout for like minded people to socialize. Plenty of people meeting up in real life, well known members who passed memorialized and getting long threads of how peoples lives were touched.

It really just made me remember what the internet used to be. Reddit (or any modern site) has almost none of that. The only sub of mine I can think of that remotely had a vibe of a community of people, not just users, was r/eve and that’s only because it’s a small portal into an existing insular community of 20 years.

Niche and hyper specific hobby forums that serve as wealths of information like car model forums seem to be doing ok and absolutely dwarf their Reddit sub counterparts in volume of posts. It could be due to internet searches driving users with narrow search parameters towards the wealth of old content in those forums that Reddit could not hope to surpass? But we’re not getting any new forums of that type. New niches get subreddits and any sub that grows out of complete obscurity will be subsumed into the larger Reddit culture and lose its uniqueness and community.
The difference is that math is the only field of study of things that are 100% true about the universe. It's the most pure knowledge that humanity has, so it's normal people recognize it. You can read 100 philosophy books and maybe you will learn a few things that are correct among all the rambling, but everything you learn from the basics of math proof by proof all the way "up", you can be assured everything is true. There's something special about this field of knowledge that nothing else has.
Trying to expand on a quirky travel website populated by AI content. Working on adding countries, regions, areas (e.g. ski resorts), etc.: https://meoweler.com

The quality of the generated content is surprisingly good, but there are many stereotypes and mistakes that I'm fixing in the next mass generation pass.
Yeah, that's what I used to do, basically, before writing papersway. I was happy with it for many years.
on iOs.

These innovations have existed for many years now.
I haven't been working on much at all lately, struggling from bore-out at work. 8 hours of boredom a day is surprisingly exhausting, and it's spilling over into the rest of my life. Starting a new gig next month, hopefully things will pick up again.
The people behind the "Think of the children" type argument for interception expect people to implicitly understand that. By the same token, I would expect people to implicitly understand what with great powers needs great accountability.

However... the same governments, and here I'm talking primarily about the one I know the Netherlands, has absolutely ZERO accountability against severe human rights abuses. You will get absolutely nowhere trying to hold government abuse accountable.

In the Netherlands, it took around 25,000 victims before any kind of traction was gained and primarily due to one politician, Peter Omzigt. And others turned against him.

Even now, you have princess Laurentien coming under heavy fire for trying to help the victims of the government abuse here.

So infite powers and less than zero accountability? No thanks. It's actually less than ZERO accountability because attempting to hold someone accountable will bring you under attack.
Violating copyright means distribution - giving out copies without the right to do so.
I think price is a factor. It isn’t uncommon for someone to say, “another mouth to feed.”

When adding people to a family, food is probably the biggest non-negotiable cost going up.

I’d also expect to see a strong correlation between family size and the percent of meals eaten at home. Going out to eat quickly becomes unaffordable as family size grows.
This seems to be a reskin of the prior RDoc styles, which are visible in prior Ruby versions (e.g https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.3/). Despite the rather bold green, the overall look of the primary content feels very subdued. I think a big part of it is how low-contrast the code blocks are. In the prior style, code blocks used a pretty high-contrast syntax highlighting scheme; comments were very distinct, which is important as these demonstrate return values. In the new style, it's quite difficult to distinguish comments (medium gray) from identifiers (dark gray).

Personally I prefer the look of rubyapi.org over either of the official ones, but this new one kinda feels like a step backward from the prior one.
I would argue against this when getting old. Memorization, in many studies, has been shown to be a great factor for retaining neuroplasticity.

When you are getting old, you want to purposely force yourself to remember and practice rote memorization (poems, Shakespeare, address, songs, etc).

Same argument for muscle mass and weight training or long walks vs using helpers or other assists.
Love this! Please release it, perfect is the enemy of good
> I would prefer to fly on a plane with a better safety record than the 737 MAX.

So, I’ll ask you which commercial aircraft have still in use have worse safety histories. If you’re being rational clearly you should be concerned with actual risks not just media reporting.

Not that I actually mean this as personal attack on you, it’s just the kind of irrationality I am referring to here.
Common core math has its issues, especially with teacher training, textbooks, and bad assessments. But I wouldn't lump it in with three-cueing, which sits squarely in opposition to decades of research.

For example, I don't think that kids who struggle with common core math and then switch to the "normal way" (the way their parents learned) will have a leap in ability the way that kids who switch from three-cueing to phonics do.

At least half of the problem with common core math is that parents get a pit in their stomach when they look at their kid's homework and discover that they aren't familiar with the methods. The angst will lessen over time as we start to have kids whose parents grew up with the new methods.

There's certainly a long road ahead in getting math education right, but I imagine the long-term solution will look more like common core than the 20th century curriculum.
I'd be extremely happy to be wrong, as I invest my life and my family's in the US. As for the concern, it's not about this one particular incident, but about the pattern that other countries have experienced: the government and the society has so many entangled interest that no one knows how to move things forward. As a result, the country perishes. I'm not saying that the US is in that trajectory, but I did see some aspects of institutional decay, like the cost of canon shells is 6X of Russian's, despite that Russia is a much more corrupt country, or like the country is so divided and many people simply accept that election is about telling stories and personal attacks instead of logical discussion of policies. Like it would take billions to build the next-gen battleships or planes, and we couldn't have good enough supply chain in the US. Like our medical system is so much more expensive than other developed countries, and the list can go on.
Case in point. On the iphone in 2010, if you had a repeating alarm set before a DST transition it would go off an hour wrong.

Sizable portion of society were late that Monday (most probably don't have repeating alarms on the weekend so I guess it went unnoticed for most).

Best part. After making headlines all around, apple managed to have the same/similar bug next year.
I think that interpretation of GP's stance is pretty uncharitable.

If the thing they want to delete is run by an entity that has a physical presence in that country, then they -- unfortunately -- have the right to get that material deleted.

For better or worse, we are all bound by the laws of the place where we physically reside. If we want to do or allow things online that are legal where we are, but are illegal in other countries, then we shouldn't visit those countries.

It doesn't matter if anyone "endorses" repressive governments in doing their repressive things; they are legally able to do those things to people physically present within their borders. That's just the reality of the situation.

France claims Durov allowed stuff that's illegal in France. He went to France, so France has the ability to punish Durov for his alleged misdeeds. It doesn't matter if we think that's right or wrong; that's just how the world works.
I hope Strix Halo gets a desktop motherboard (no socket :-( for the memory bandwidth for faster compiles (Go). That or a 9950X3D (like the 7950X3D).
Cutting to the chase: How can I location fake my iPhone in Australia to act as if it was purchased in and currently in the EU.

Bonus edge question: Is an iPhone visiting the EU an "iPhone in the EU" and subject to the same EU data and open OS etc. regulations as every other (local) phone?
All my kids went through this. We read a lot of books together and every kid when starting school was eagerly awaiting the time they finally read by themselves. And every one of them struggled with the phonetics part. They argued that it’s too hard and the lessons are not fun. But we knew that we learned like this and that it worked for us. So with more work it finally clicked. They are all very good readers now. They read tons of books and comics and can sound out words or names they don’t know.
I think the system of teaching the phonetics is the best way but how we can keep kids motivated during the boring lessons is something we should tackle. By the way my experiences come from a German background.
Working on visualising sailing performance by scooping data out of the onboard network (basically the same as the one in cars) and uploading it to a web app. https://www.see-sailing.com/

My race yesterday: https://app.see-sailing.com/b/nmea/2024-8-24-11-34-21
Keep going! This sounds like a really fun project that will be really satisfying when you start to get things working. Not to mention the experience gained will be valuable for sure!
Did we read the same article? They listed third party app stores, custom browser engines, replacing default apps and more, all of which alone are already great.
Still working to get my one-way video interviewing startup off the ground - http://www.vesume.net
I also agree with what you wrote here. But I have much more experience with clinical research, and know less about other fields.
Why is there only one Apple, anyway? It does not make sense to me.
Their niche is luxury consumerism + overbearing paternalism.
I don't think that is hard to replicate.

Since BlackBerry gave up on making smartphones, there is no other phone manufacturer trying for the same market. Sure you can buy an Android with cutting-edge tech specs, but you don't get the Apple customer experience and the brand recognition.
Kind of weird that you skipped right over

Third-party app stores, the ability for browsers to run their own engines, Fortnite, and now the ability to replace lots of default apps

to land on a fart noise app as the only thing of interest that caught your eye.
I believe it was tied to the Apple ID and ALSO had some countermeasures against faking location but I might be wrong.
and Typescript....
I did a similar thing with ChatGPT-4o giving it a txt file list of movie names, and it returned the release date of each one, then gave me an iCal file of all those movies with their release dates as recurring yearly anniversary events so I can watch my favorite movies on their anniversary.

I’ve done it for a few friends as well now and it’s got a 100% success rate so far, across over 100 total movie names.
Perhaps that's the emoji U+1FA94 and is thus standard, and emoji will replace spelling until we end up with a morphographic writing system. Dictionaries will work like mushroom-identification handbooks, where you find the emoji by navigating through a tree of questions.
I guess these days reverse image search might actually be easier than putting displays in each button/knob, but maybe that will also change back in the near future?

(the car I was just in had ~30 buttons and knobs on the steering wheel and console, not counting stalk functions, and paging through the languages on offer for the lcd displays I counted ~8 distinct script families)

The old-fashioned way to learn the symbols would have been to see them along with their description in the owner's manual, but that also has its drawbacks — I got a good deal on a new truck a few years ago, with the minor hook being that the only dead-tree manual it came with was in czech.