skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, but I think you're right and this vulnerability comes to mind:

"Forgotten" debugging registers enabled Triangulation exploit against iPhones: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/forgotten-debugging-registers...

"While all of the vulnerabilities were zero-day bugs when patched, one attracted particular attention, because it turned out to be an undocumented hardware vulnerability.

Larin described the bug as “insane”, saying it’s a hardware feature in Apple’s A12 to A16 Bionic system-on-chip (SoC).

The feature, he said, allows attackers to “bypass the hardware-based kernel memory protection” in target iPhones, if they write data to “unknown memory-mapped input-output (MIMO) hardware registers” that Apple’s firmware doesn’t use.

Larin said the research team found six undocumented MIMO addresses used by the Triangulation exploit, which “basically, bypass all hardware-based kernel memory protections”.

He said they appear to be ARM/Apple CoreSight debug registers for GPUs, since they’re nearby identified MIMO registers.

In a statement, Larin said that "due to the closed nature of the iOS ecosystem, the discovery process was both challenging and time-consuming.”
Did you consider any of the boox tablets? On first sight they seem quite similar, epaper with android, but maybe there are important differences I am overlooking?
Agree with your comment. I almost didn't click on it because I wouldn't be interested in a C# or .Net project and was very pleasantly surprised. I don't love the name.
Bit of a niche topic, but great article!
Without clothes, houses, heating and running water, fertilizers, tractors and specially bred crops, Earth would be pretty alien to us today.

I wonder what technologies we will have at our disposal in 500 years.
Agreed, my girlfriend has a biochemistry degree and works in such a lab. It involves some physical work like collecting, preparing and inputting samples, doing basic maintenance of the machines, some analysis and then some administrative/secretarial work in feeding the results into a system or by phonecall to the doctor.

All of which can indeed be automated in my view.

I would say it really depends on where you are though. In the US it probably makes sense quite quickly. But she lives in a small EU country where salaries aren't high, and this is very much a junior position with a lot of students looking for such a job. Her position costs about 25k a year.

The NPV of a $1m investment with a 25k cashflow is negative at normal discount rates. Once you get to replace a $120k salary with a $1m robot, it does make sense.

Further I do still expect there to be some jobs in overseeing the robot (e.g. your average factory manager). That makes sense for large centralised production locations, because you can have 1 human job overseeing many robots. It doesn't necessarily make sense with many small decentralised production locations. And that's the nature of most labs, I believe due to the time sensitivity of a lot of lab work they need to be everywhere and close to customers. But maybe that will change.
having just one seems like it's not going to help much tbh. he needs a second why to teleport to.
also not sure if concrete based gate will work... never tried that.
I wish they'd do away with compound interest. Why not some flat % like other loans? Maybe like 8-12% and I'm sure everyone wins.
Fun fact: Audrey Tang, creator of Ethercalc, went on to become Minister for Digital Affairs for the Taiwanese government.
Dino Game with ML
I the discussion about climate change we often forget that by not decreasing emissions we create truly great shareholder value.

Seriously though, we were supposed to decrease emissions by 40% by 2030 to keep things under control. I recently saw in the news that we are on track to just make it to 2% drop. It's not looking good.
It is very much an open question just what an llm can solve when allowed to generate an indefinite number of intermediate tokens and allowed to sample an arbitrary amount of text to ground itself.

There are currently no tools that let llms do this and no one is building the tools for answering open ended questions.
I love that he openly discusses the paths he went wrong and how more accuracy could be found. Detection threshold from the sensor or avoiding accidental synchronization to the monitor are not obvious pitfalls.
The mini ASCII histogram is something I need myself - nice thought!

I remain puzzled on the goal.
Does he optimize his setup for a good coding experience? (this should definitely include the actual keyboard in the measurements!)
Is he optimizing editors? Picking a new monitor? As a learning excercise?

I'm all for "because I can" as a valid reason, but that often leaves my projects dangling halfway complete. Are we there yet? Don't know - not sure where I want to be.
There is also more of a spectrum between straight and gay than gets talked about at a high level in these discussions.

Gay men & women often arrive at that position after having had hetero sex. Heterosexuals often "stray" or whatever other euphemism people care to use.

Not all sex is as consensual as it should be, etc, etc.
Personally I really love the combination of both. I want to use physical buttons for things like signalling, lights etc. And I want to use software on screens for things like navigation, music, analytics etc.
Calling an LLM Spicy Autocomplete is like calling an iPhone 14 a digital walkie talkie.

Gave me a good laugh, though, thanks.
Any benchmark which isn't dynamically generated is useless for that very reason.
Thunderbird mobile as default mail app in iodéOS
any link to an easy demo, to try the product?:)
Is my knowledge out of date, or is this a step change in robotics capabilities? Boston Dynamics robots are impressive, but this seems way beyond what their robots have been able to do.
by that logic, programs have no algorithms either, they have to be executed by the hardware.
Try it. It's not. The best case scenario it might make some huge corporation generously throw you some peanuts for your patent so it can use it for protection against other's creativity and to extort them.

Other corps will just use your invention and just skip the markets where you have a patent. And yet their product will find its way there organically.

Many individual inventors that got patents openly talk about how useless and expensive they are.
But Rust shows that static detection is possible if you add constraints to the language, and this is exactly what one can do it C too. Rust was inspired by a C dialect after all. The situation with UB is not actually as bad as it sounds (I analyzed all UB in the core language).
Somehow I thought it was still on the rise, this is not the worst news I've heard this week.
> A Berkley sociologist writing about how Trump voters are resentful because minorities jumped the line

It is also a theory which (very wrongly) presumes that no member of minority groups voted for Trump.

Consider Starr County, Texas – at 97% Hispanic/Latino, it is the most Hispanic county in the 50 states. In 2016, Clinton won it 79.1% to Trump's 19%; in 2020, Clinton won it 52.1% to Trump's 47.1%; in 2024, Trump won 57.7%, ending a 132 year streak of Democrats winning it in Presidential elections.

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2024/11/06/starr-county-flip...
Awesome project! Looking forward to following this.

I've been looking out for projects like this over the years and I'm glad to see that this one takes Excel compatibility seriously! Also love the choice of Rust and WASM!

For me Dynamic Array support is a blocker and I can't play with it until you've got that. Very glad to see that's your top priority though[1]! That and everything in the Logical, Lookup and Reference, and Information sections (in that order). That covers probably over 95% of my work and I spend most of my time in Excel.

1: https://docs.ironcalc.com/
Are you not looking for ssml with ipa tag? I think you might be. It’s part of all your standard OS tts - including espeak-ng on Linux. Also in Google cloud, azure, Watson, and Amazon Polly voices.
https://i.ibb.co/Jt7mjXW/screenshot.png

Sorry, here is screenshot of a prototype IDE in browser with live preview.
Maybe we should add some bones, bury the skeleton again and wipe all records of what we did.
true, when the biggest economy in the history of the world votes for climate deniers, i don't know what much hope is left
What would be quite cool would be a small utility that one can run over ones workooks and that produces a csv or json file of all the Excel functions used and their count.

People could submit those and you'd get real usage stats of what functions people actually use in real world workbooks rather than guessing.

Users could also then use this to run a compatibility check to see if they could move over to your engine or not.
Defo. I should skim vN's book today, but a priori I'd say it's a mechanical instance of generators and structures; the more universal the universe of structures, the larger the class of generators. (and on the flip side, all members of the empty set are universal constructors, capable of making any other member)

To make a uC you need a quine and some generators; the galois connexion above ought to pick out the fixpoints/closed sets. (in particular, we're usually interested in cases where the latter are infinite but the former are finite — the XX continuation of angels* dancing on medieval pinheads)

Lagniappe: https://www.xkcd.com/974/

* I guess now we would say they expended a great deal of intellectual energy on attempting to discern if angels had 0, finite, or infinite measure?

EDIT: if you haven't already, consider that quinoids don't have to exactly self-reproduce, don't have to be quines: one can program "objects" that, upon receiving a message, reproduce themselves and all their response methods (essence) — but with a new state (accident).
It was used quite a bit of speech to text - but tts it’s not that great.
I don't get it. Their reply looks normal to me.

Is it because they disagree with you?

I take these instances as learning opportunities and that makes me want to comment more, not less.
fugly syntax is one of the biggest reasons i will never touch rust. zig is not far too off, unfortunately. i i needed non-gc language, i would go for odin. not perfect but closes to usable. it's just too hard to do anything but Go, once you get comfortable with it. they got too many things right to see grass being greener elsewhere.
A couple of suggestions.

A clearer mechanism to indicate when a dragged component will fit into a cell of another node. Quite often when you drag the highlighted drop area is obscured by the node you are dragging.

pow(a,b) and abs(b), max(a,b), min(a,b) nodes would add a lot of functionality.

Then you could do something like.

(((1 / abs((((0 - (y-0.5)) * 6) - ((sin(((((x-0.5) * 6) + time) * ((cos(time) / 3) + 2))) / 4) + pow(((x-0.5) * 2), 3))))) / 9) + (0 - pow((1 - min(abs((x-0.5), abs((y-0.5))), pow(9, 9))))

Which should generate a field with axis lines in negative numbers and a plot of x^3 modulated with a slight wobbly sine wave as positive numbers.

as seen at https://c50.fingswotidun.com/show/?code=10v-6*u6*t%2Btc3%2F2...

(note - in my thing u and v are shorthand values for 0.5-x and 0.5-y respectively)

A perlin noise can add a lot too but not as trivial to add. I have a compact perlin generator in the first few lines of https://c50.fingswotidun.com/fastStackie.js
which uses hashing to generate indexed random numbers, rather than a lookup table that sometimes gets used for Perlin. Feel free to use the code if you understand any of it.
Keep in mind that workers in the EU work for around 6 hours a day, a robot works for 24, so it's replacing 4 of them, not 1.
Indeed, it's weird that nobody has brought node-based editing to regular image manipulation before our project, but that's our goal with Graphite. With the equally important goal of making the node aspect optional for users by building such capable tooling that it can abstract away the node graph for all conventional image editing use cases, allowing users to work purely with the WYSIWYG tools that secretly manage the node graph behind the scenes. Until they're proficient enough with the traditional tools to start learning the power of node-based editing.

That said, we've been building our engine so far with a focus mostly on vector editing. There are some raster nodes but they're pretty limited right now (no GPU support yet, more engineering to do until that's production-ready). The raster compositing and image manipulation nodes + tools + infrastructure will be a big part of the focus for next year on the roadmap (https://graphite.rs/features/#roadmap).
Misleading title: Ford has kept transient stock underground since the 60s. The article isn't about vehicles kept since the 60s.
How tightly coupled are the React app and the Rust backend?

I hope the backend engine can be used standalone embedded in other apps.
Fascinating work.

I never thought about what we could do if instead of trying to do work in real time we slowed robots down for non time critical tasks to latencies which current transformers can deal with on real hardware.
I guess more randomness in rolls, even in a weighted die. Floating in a fluid, if it's asymmetric, it will be up on the same side all the time.
Oxcel ?
I still mumble the main theme to myself from time to time..
How Google used AI to build Open Buildings dataset
Production version of these robot arms would not be anywhere near $1m
My github. I like tinkering with software and hardware. I have enough old (70s) to new (last week) hardware, docs and software to get my own village internet going.

Ah, and currently I would also preserve some current LLama to tinker with.
Lol, had to Google it.

Indeed!
Another facet of this is: should insurance pay for it? Or should the patient bear the financial burden when they want to try a shake-oil cure? Especially in this case when the drug is now FDA approved?
I’d like a iPhone 17 mini.
Straight men would „stray“ just as much, but they are confronted with dating economics where 80% of them are considered below average looking.

In any case, what I want to say is: Whether you care about cancer in males or females, males must not be ignored and HPV must not be framed as female only issue. In other words, those 20% of straight men that have the option to stray must get vaccinated as well, if only to protect women.
Indonesia and Sri Lanka require it too.
How Unikraft Cloud reduces serverless cold starts with unikernels, microVMs
More like heliopause gapped !
My career journey wasn't always smooth sailing. There were moments of confusion ("remote-friendly or local company?"), self-doubt ("am I even qualified?"), and frustration ("another rejection email?!"). But through it all, I learned some valuable lessons, which I am gonna share here.
Book Review: For the Love of Go (2023)
On Ousterhout's Dichotomy
Yeah, one thing is for sure: the robot has actually understood that it is very boring to do the laundry. Proof ? Just look at how it botches the d*n task :-) I mean, I would never ever pince a t-shirt so bad :-)
> One wonders what you see in it

It's more about what I don't see. Plea deals, bail bonds industry, treating extorted confession as a solid proof, prison sentences to add up to more than a reasonable expected lifespan, discovering truth not being a goal of the trial, electability of judges, being judged by unprepared impressionable idiots aka jury. The whole thing is a sinister theatre that tries to keep the form of wild times when people didn't know any better while introducing so many ways for the parties to suck money out of the process at expense of the accuser, accused and the taxpayer. No justice system is perfect but US (and UK) one is so far that it's grotesque.
US ordered TSMC to halt shipments to China of chips used in AI applications
It's barely functional, but I banged away with GitHub CoPilot and managed to put together a BitGrid emulator in React.js[1]

It's wild seeing something I wrote run in a web browser on my phone. I've been doing desktop programs since the 1980s. I've included a link to the GitHub repo[2].

[1] https://mikewarot.github.io/bitgrid-react-app/

[2] https://github.com/mikewarot/bitgrid-react-app
Seems excessively harsh, I suppose German museums are serious business.
This was interesting, well written and not difficult to understand, and we need more stuff like that. Thank you!
Shameless Green
Real estate.

I know people in Guyana doing real estate who may have opportunities. Email in my profile if you are interested.
The only people who could do that investigation would be China, and they seem disinclined. Or possibly they already have done the investigation and aren't telling the rest of the world their results.
Mosh helps Iain Learmonth escape from an elevator
No, no, I’m with you on that issue. But it doesn’t do anything for Ukrainian people to talk about the Iraq war now.

Let’s leave it at that, I don’t think we’re going to get together.
There’s some overlap though, space probes have (rocket) engines too. Much simpler than on a proper lifting rocket but I would still count it as a rocket engine.
David Bowie Outside
You can pay for Claude API access (not normal Claude Pro) and wire in something like Cline via your API key, but it gets expensive fast in my experience.
I hate doing laundry. Everyone gets one task they get to abhor. Mine is laundry. If I could buy this in a few generations for less than $20k, I would, pinches and all.

Perfect is perfect. Good enough is good enough.
Their?
How is it even remotely in the same category as Java?
I remember reading about this about a year ago, so I'm not sure what the source was and how reliable it was, but I found this meta-analysis of studies researching the effect of the vaccine on people who had previously already received treatment for HPV:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8879645/

This seems to indicate that the vaccine reduces the risk of finding abnormal cells and precancerous lesions for people who already have HPV.
cool project, but I don't particularly like "The democratization of spreadsheets" as a catchphrase. Like, what does that even mean? If by "democratization" you mean like, more able to be used, well anyone can go download LibreOffice or for the web use CryptPad's Spreadsheets, and if you mean that it's more open, well both of those are open source. Is this project specifically run democratically or something? It just seems like a really bad use of meaningless marketing terminology.
Whilst this is theoretically a nice idea for security/privacy, wouldn’t there be throughput/latency concerns over mobile networks if you aren’t just connecting to one server and getting all your notifications in one go? One of the biggest slow downs on mobile data is the initial handshake, so repeating that for each of your apps doesn’t seem worth the trade off to me.
All of those are just additional things ones wishes democracies to have but are not inherent in the word definition. I can certainly see that some people wish to have the definition of "democracy" expanded to mean many additional things but that really isn't the point of having that very precise word.
That's not what he said. He said they should be in support of free speech.

https://x.com/i/status/1855406084418126099
Probably much higher quality AI generated misinformation.
Great to see some actual open source!

Looking at the training data. For example a prompt / response like this:

Prompt:

I want to create a Python program that takes a sentence as input and sorts all the words in the sentence in descending order based on their length. How can I achieve this?

Response:

Certainly! You can create a Python program to sort the words in a sentence by their length in descending order. Here’s a step-by-step guide to achieve this: 1. *Split the sentence into words*: Use the `split()` method to break the sentence into a list of words. 2. *Sort the words by length*: Use the `sorted()` function with a custom key to sort the words by their length in descending order. 3. *Join the sorted words*: Use the `join()` method to combine the sorted words back into a single string. Here's a complete Python program that demonstrates this: ```python def sort_words_by_length(sentence): # Step 1: Split the sentence into words words = sentence.split() # Step 2: Sort the words by length in descending order sorted_words = sorted(words, key=len, reverse=True) # Step 3: Join the sorted words back into a single string sorted_sentence = ' '.join(sorted_words) return sorted_sentence # Example usage sentence = "I want to create a Python program" sorted_sentence = sort_words_by_length(sentence) print(sorted_sentence) ``` ### Explanation: - *`sentence.split()`*: This method splits the input sentence into a list of words based on whitespace. - *`sorted(words, key=len, reverse=True)`*: This sorts the list of words based on their length. The `key=len` argument specifies that the length of each word should be used for sorting, and `reverse=True` ensures the sorting is in descending order. - *`' '.join(sorted_words)`*: This joins the sorted list of words back into a single string, with each word separated by a space. ### Example Output: For the input sentence `"I want to create a Python program"`, the output will be: ``` create program Python want ``` This output shows the words sorted by length in descending order.

It strikes me that it would easier to train a NN (or another mechanism) if the training that was more structured and the actual question/answer was stripped from the plesentaries / additional explanations.

Also keep the training data to one language (say english / python).

Ie.:

Prompt:

sort the words in a sentence by their length in descending order

Response:

sorted(sentence.split(), key=len, reverse=True)

Alternative one could use snippets like above and the synthesize "realistic" prompt / responses.
Isn't most of that revenue from F2P user hostile mobile games?

That'd be like counting TikTok as part of the movie revenue.
I doubt many people consider Candy Crush to be a good example of an art form. It’s just an app designed to manipulate human psychology to extract maximal profit.
It's super awesome of you to take the time to provide detailed feedback for a random stranger's project - good on ya!

A single suggestion:

Try using "the critique sandwich" when commenting on people's hard work - can help them appreciate the effort you've put in rather than feeling too defensive
I once had a professor who worked on magnetic fluids. They can (potentially) be used to transport the medication of chemo therapy directly to the tumor, without destroying the rest of the body.

Problem is it is basically impossible for research (without the money of big pharma) to ever try this - even though he works at a very big and respected University.

It is not even possible to try this with people who will literally die to cancer anyway and who would want to try the treatment.
Rumors! We all know it will same and we will all like it! It will have ancient tech screen for the same price
Of course, but when you'll get to build your web UI, server-side generated HTML will not be the right choice.
That seems to only account for the hardware. How much do you reckon a software license will cost for your fleet of cheap arms?
It's possible that I'm misremembering the cost and confusing the cost for a single injection with the total cost. It was a while ago.
This is tedious in Rust when initializing a struct which has nested structs. A language which has type inference at all should at least be consistent about it and allow to not mention the type when it can be inferred by the compiler.
Validating the ruble's stability by checking restaurant payment policies is like measuring global warming with a backyard thermometer. The attempt to link economic strength to 'masculine energy' is so absurd that I'm starting to wonder if this entire article is sophisticated trolling. Either this is brilliant satire or we're witnessing peak think tank theatre.