skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the abstract of the paper [1] summarised in the linked article, "Children learn language more easily than adults, though when and why this ability declines have been obscure ... [the evidence supports] the existence of a sharply-defined critical period for language acquisition." The paper was published in a leading cognitive science journal, and your claim that it is well-known among linguists that children are no better at language acquisition after controlling for learning time is not consistent with what I remember from my undergraduate linguistics studies. Can you provide a citation or clarify your claim?

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001002771...
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Bodybuilding is a great example of a discipline that's become much more efficient at turning pain into gain than it used to be. Having to put in effort is fine, but it should be the right kind of effort.
Maybe it is limited but you can't hit the limit in a lifetime.
I don't understand why there's not something that just allows the pilots to completely turn off all autopilot systems without also turning off hydraulic supports? It seems like if they turn off autopilot it makes the steering become not powered or something?
My favorite English accent is African.
JS also is a compilation target for languages that aren't JS, so that is no advantage. What advantage there is boils down to 64-bit integers and 32-bit floating points.
> more likely

Both? A coworker at a former job comes to mind. He kept pointing out a problem that everyone else was ignoring, and they kept ignoring it. He gradually got minimized until he left on his own, and the problem remained.

He definitely rubbed people the wrong way. The problem definitely existed.
I don't strongly disagree with any of this. But again - we don't exactly have better options in C++, and especially not if you want native platform widgets. That is the baseline you should compare it to, not the experience of Delphi developers.

Creating a fresh C++-centric API is much harder than it sounds, and maintaining it over time, even more so. Go to any old online catalog that covers programming libraries, and look in its section for C++ UI stuff. There's scores of dead frameworks there that nobody has heard about. I don't see why it would be any different today with any project of that scope - so the only hope is to reduce the scope.
Because failing to present material information accurately to current and prospective shareholders is securities fraud. That’s the allegation—not that they did something stupid, but that they misrepresented their risk exposure.

I’m of the opinion that they should pay for that. Who better to receive the proceeds than those who lost money investing based on flawed disclosures?
Usabilty depends on the problem you are trying to solve. If you wanna browse websites and do basic things IOS is easy. If you wanna backup your photos to a windows machine, things start to get hairy. If you want to do anything professional it takes a special kind of dedication to stay with IOS.
This is true in Mandarin too, to some extent. A bunch of my casual speech patterns come from talking to my wife and I've had Chinese friends say, "You are talking like a girl." I am always happy to hear them say it because (a) if nobody tells me, I'm probably never going to figure it out on my own, and (b) "You are talking like a (Chinese) girl" is a compliment compared to, "You are talking like a foreigner."
I don't see much of this within hybrid companies and don't see why it would occur. The whole point in a hybrid setup is you get to choose what suits you. If you want to work in an office with people, choose that. If you prefer to be remote, work remote.
What kind of problem was it, did he/she try to fix it on their own, did others acknowledge that was a problem and needed to be fixed?
The area I live was fine until the FAA allowed planes to fly lower over the mountains into/out of the local airports now I can hear them from 5AM til 2AM every day (this is the SF Bay Area so I don't have AC to drown them out).
Are you going to some place with no airports? That seems to be the only solution to this sort of noise pollution.
I admit that it does sound crazy. My only knowledge of that kind of situation is anecdotal via places like the reddit careers group, so who knows...

A strongish opinion I'm starting to hold is that we are hitting peak software engineer and that with all the weirdness going on in terms of interviews, ageism, lotsa people getting pushed through college, lotsa general buzz, it's probably time for people to look elsewhere.

The tricky thing is to ferret out the business and skill set that is still young and getting ready to take off...or become a plumber instead.
There are a remarkable number of unsupported assertions in this comment.
now that is pretty dangerous if i may say so... what happens when a search result for something totally innocuous turns up shady webpages that you never click on but get pre-loaded and cached by your browser?
helium only liquefies at ultra low temps, way below that required to liquefy most components of air.
It was certified though so it seems we agree that the stability control system was not robust enough and the training for it was not sufficient enough?

Is the cause for that just oversight then? And further exacerbated by similar behavior leading to even less training requirements?
For me the main reason has been EasyList support instead of some kind of home brew list (they’re pretty much always based on EasyList anyway, but with a homebrew list you explicitly rely on the developer updating that list).
I wonder if it cost money to make such a claim if the number of claims would reduce.
I read a brief post by someone why made decent money smuggling drugs in a prop plane across the US. He only did it a couple of times (didn't let greed take over). He didn't go into details, but I imagine some people feel like they can mitigate the risk, or don't have much to lose.
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My sister lived in a medium-sized city in the Netherlands for several years and tried hard to learn Dutch, and found it super frustrating. I saw this myself when I visited her there. She would start off speaking Dutch with someone and they'd respond in Dutch until the moment she made even the slightest most insignificant mistake in her speech, at which point they would invariably switch to English and refuse to speak another syllable of Dutch to her.
The authors of the study under discussion explicitly claim (in the abstract even) that "the results support the existence of a sharply-defined critical period for language acquisition." You should address that argument (or cite the other "recent articles" that refute it), rather than simply dismissing it as poor statistics.
This is true, helium is present in basically all natural gas wells (it emanates from radioactive decay deep in the earth, and gets trapped in the same spots natural gas does).

Currently it is just vented out into the air, because capture isn't profitable.
Not the first explanation I would reach for. (What would have to be in those tanks? Nitrogen would be very noticeable and wouldn't do anything, oxygen would presumably help rather than harm, and so on.)
> And if it is wrong, then so is wearing make-up at work.

Women I know wear makeup at work because many people view makeup as a "professional" or "put together" look, the same way a man might neatly comb their hair, not because they want to look sexy.
Coinbase banning Milo is much worse. They have no reason to ban him.

Now that they’ve banned him, they’re worse than say PayPal or the banks. This is a betrayal of the community’s founding principles.
a few of you have new and interesting takes on the issue for me to consider. but what about the millions of tons of plastic that have worked its way into the oceans? and if landfill space isn’t an issue why are we shipping it off to foreign countries? seems like recycling is a very loose loop but if we keep at it, it could become tighter. i think it would be cool if various resources, some day, could be recycled on a household level- like water foremost and eventually plastics, organics
We had a couple thousand people participate if I remember right. It was a moderately high percentage of the student body. This was 2014 era.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19888683 and marked it off-topic.
It sure is personal. But is it a personal computer?

I knew IOS was nothing for me when I couldn’t access a file system, there was no way to switch between open applications and the backups were not backups of my photos, but some special format only meant to be played back onto another iphone.

Things might have changed since, but the iphone I had never felt as if it belonged to me, it felt as if I belonged to the phone.
The "false accusation" is trivial to verify. The stars never change, not on the scale of human lifetimes anyway. All you had to do is look up a chart and you could prove it for yourself.
That works for people you meet socially, but may be less accepted for business. There's also the case of e.g. Uber drivers calling you to ask for directions to where you are.
That's a growth industry nowadays. :-(
If such features can be implemented via runtime type erasure on JVM, you can still do that on CLR - it's not like it prohibits that technique, it just doesn't use it for generics. You can even have different languages agree on how they would implement it, so that they could fully interop. With modopt/modreq, you can capture it all in metadata, as well.

It wouldn't interop with C# generics (although I don't see why it couldn't interop with C# by other, less convenient means). But if it can't be properly mapped to them when they're reified, why is there an expectation that it should? It seems to me like the gist of the argument here is that we can conflate two features into one, if only we remove all the conflicting bits of one of the features - which also happens to be the one much more broadly used at the moment. It's a strange trade-off.
I’ve known people who did small time smuggling... nothing approaching millions of dollars. The decision is usually economically rational, i.e. they need money for something and the risk of getting caught is low enough that it’s worthwhile.

Of course I imagine people who are knowingly moving millions of dollars either are reckless risk takers or think they can outsmart the weather, law enforcement, mechanics and whatever else can go wrong.
I wish California would implement something like a revenue neutral cost shift on registration. Louder vehicle pay more (progressively with how loud they are, quieter ones pay less-- adjusted to be a net increase in cost over the median and a net decrease under it. (With louder defined using their noise at 0-25MH speeds)

I'd certainly feel better about the irritating motorcycles if they were subsidizing all the quiet EVs. The bikers say the ear splitting noise is useful to improve safety? Okay, they can pay for it.

Like other forms of pollution we don't need to immediately stop all of it to make an improvement.

Now lets talk about dark skies...
In another model, the inundation of Doggerland began with the'catastrophic release of water from a North American glacial lake'. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/maps/doggerland/

(In which case, the flooding might have been relatively fast.)
My primary language is English. As a teenager and into my 20s, I learned German. As an adult, I learned French, then Attic Greek, then Latin, then a bit of Hebrew. I started with some Mandarin, but I didn't go far in that. Now I am learning Swedish.

I have found that my ability to learn a given language has been almost entirely independent of any of the other languages I've learned. At least that is my perception of things.

I learned German really well -- that is my most proficient besides English. I don't especially feel like learning German helped me much with learning any of the other ones or now while I learn Swedish.

Edit: Nor do I think that learning multiple languages has hurt my ability to learn more, for whatever that is worth.
Movie stars are in a guild, not a union. Much like doctors.

Unions have personally screwed me out of hundreds of dollars of month in payment for pensions I'll never see because they've forced me into inappropriate position titles to the benefit of legacy members.
Earlier today I wanted to search for info concerning whether a person had to turn in everything they found in the street. Which one returned any relevant results?

Bing: https://www.bing.com/search?q=do+i+have+to+turn+in+everythin...

Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=do+i+have+to+turn+in+everyth...
Phd Graduate students seem to like labor unions - they have been organizing and striking for them a lot recently. And classical musicians (The Chicago Symphony Orchestra recently went on strike). Are they all stupid and listless?
I don't even have a napkin to write on so this will be the most back of the hand of calculations.

One floating point calculation for a human would probably take on the order of 2 minutes. That's 1/120 FLOP. Let's round it to 1/100. It's not like we're accurate here.

Let's say a GPU is 1 TFLOP. That means the GPU is 100 trillion times faster than a human. With 10 billion humans on earth (again, let's just round these numbers), that makes the GPU 10000 times faster than the combined power of all humans.

I don't think computational requirements scale linearly with resolution, but let's just assume it does. Your regular 1080p screen has roughly 100 times the pixels compared to your 160×120 screen. 10000/100 = 100, which means that the framerate of your manually computed game will be 1/100 of the performance of a regular GPU playing in 1080p.

I welcome someone else to make the same calculation. It'll be interesting to learn if I'm close to a reasonable answer.
How do you recycle plastics? What you call "plastics" fall in thousands of different polymers or mixes of polymers that have vastly different properties and characteristics. There is no way you will be able to recycle any of that easily, or even less at home.
> there are already options at all price points

Not even close. There are a lot of people who cannot afford EVs. There are a bunch of people who cannot afford a new car at any price. Most of the people you see on the road driving 20-year-old cars are not doing it by choice.

There are also a lot of people who could afford an EV but do not have a place to charge one, because they live in an apartment complex without chargers or need to use street parking. No, charging your car at work is not a good solution because there would not be enough chargers if everyone had to drive EVs.

The burden of banning internal-combustion vehicles would disproportionately fall upon renters and the poor, who are also the people most affected by noise pollution.
Some places are doing something about that: https://www.marinij.com/2016/11/11/marin-voice-why-larkspurs...

http://claycord.com/2018/12/06/group-looks-to-ban-gas-powere...

The trimmers and leaf blowers were the worst part of living in mountain view for me. My apartment had no AC (didn't really need it 99% of the time), so that meant open windows... and almost every day had a different neighbors lawn service blasting noise in the morning. Sometimes waking me up, almost always making it impossible to work from home.
Almost every country in the world agrees deal to cut plastic pollution except US
With respect to pronunciation, I think it’s a trait different than language learning(grammar, vocabulary) itself.
For example, I learnt Japanese(not fluent) when I was 25, and people in class were surprised at how good my pronunciation was. Same with when I learnt German(limited proficiency) 3 yrs ago.
Recently. I taught myself to sing a few French songs. When people listen to me sing, they get surprised that I don’t speak french.

Perhaps I have an advantage in this area, as I grew up speaking three different unrelated languages, introducing me to wider range of phonetic sounds very early in life.
I meant that the stridently negative comments appear more often on this topic, as on a few others.
If I remember right, Best Buy did get some heat years ago for setting their online prices higher if accessed through their intranet compared to their public website.

Shady to say the least.
> People might not be as patient with you, and especially if you know English, people will just switch to it on the first hint of a struggle, making immersion hard to attain.

Just go places in the world where people don't speak English, then that fall-back option doesn't exist.

I learned French quickly while driving through West Africa!
The notion that you can fix an aerodynamic stability problem in software by making a software program mimic the flight characteristics of an older plane is fundamentally flawed. And the notion that we can just patch the system later if it turns out you did it wrong is dangerous. You're betting with human lives that this time you've got it right.
No, OT can handle decentralization without issues. It’s just usually far more desirable to centralize it.
Do you really need to? Or do you think you need to?

I left my first company after college only after 3 years, despite the pay being great. I moved to a tech company, which longer term ended up being absolutely the right decision. At the time, I only left because I felt burned out. In retrospect, I worked nights and weekend, pulling in closer to 60 hours, but it was never expected of me. If anything, I set that expectation, and it wasn’t fair to my colleagues who couldn’t work more than 40 hours a week because they had a spouse, kids, or other responsibilities that I didn’t have outside of work.

If you do feel like you have no other way, my suggestion would be to find a different team or different org at your company if possible. Otherwise, time to move on elsewhere.

Keep your skills sharp - changing jobs is stressful and can suck, but never end up in a position where you absolutely rely on the job you have now. Build your nest egg early.

This is especially true if you’re young. I only wish I had someone give me this advice but my parents both worked their entire lives, and I saw them both work sometimes two jobs at a time. I didn’t know better having grown up in a home where that was the norm (they didn’t have a choice because they were trying to support 3 children, pay rent, car payment, etc).
I’m pretty sure Emacs still does this. There was a patch committed to change it to use a more portable method of dumping state, but I don’t think that change made it into the 26.2 release.
Almost certainly, though YouTube does not want to deal with DMCA requests and would rather the entire system stay largely automated, so I’m not sure it would want to incentivize rights-holders to go the DMCA takedown route.
Here's a few wikis I like to randomize sometimes:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Special:Random

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Special:Random
Recycling is not really a unified thing. Recycling large steel structures is a huge net win. Recycling plastic bottles is almost meaningless.
JS is not a real compilation target for compilers like LLVM and to suggest to the contrary is silly.

JS is a transpilation target and not really for many low level languages.
I agree it is not as bad as the DDR was, but it is way more decadent and that may end up being every bit as effective as a police state. No one wants to tip over this apple cart under some vague notion of ethics or actual equality - my goodness no, we want to keep on being entertained and to buy crap we don't need and have stuff. We have more attachment to stuff than we have to any sense of rights let alone normative behavior for leaders. It's a classist system of neo-feudalism and any attempt to moderate it is communism/socialism. Who needs a police state when most people believe the propaganda willingly and repeat it?
The article is accompanied by several pictures, and what they show is shoddy build quality for what is supposed to be a luxury development. Would you accept that level of quality if you were having your own house built?

Given that what they're saying is the plain, visible truth, what's the objection?
"One interviewer blew cigarette smoke in my face, for example"

lol. Usually that costs extra.
The key part was when she called everyone at Richman fake then said proceeded to tell us she was pretending to be nice.

It sounds like others more experienced actual developerd wanted her job with the perks. Microsoft wanted a different face, younger/well spoken/diverse gender/etc. Because she drank the cool-aid she was able to do great at her job without being a developer. The social aspects that supported her start changing. Meanwhile Microsoft responds to the public outcry and makes everyone like her learn to code and things aren't fun anymore. She quits and finds out her support system is gone and thinks everyone is fake.
I ignore the hype (and you should too)
I have a similar thought about "biodegradable" things --- "let's make things that are guaranteed to self-destruct so we can continue spending resources to make and sell them to you".
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There is something special about language though. Existing language can be a barrier in learning new language, especially pronunciation. It is well known that some people just cannot perceive certain syllables (therefor also cannot produce those syllables) because of the language they already known. So there is something special about kids learning a language.
They seem to have gotten brighter when LEDs become common.
In many ways, the piece is basically a story about someone young and naive becoming an adult, so to speak. That process gets conflated with "working for Microsoft."

I'm a former military wife. The military does a lot of moving around. Affairs are common when spouses are separated. Etc.

So that kind of thing is hardly something peculiar to Microsoft.

It also sounds like she is European and speaks English as a second language. So going to Seattle for a while was possibly a case of culture shock. That also shouldn't be attributed to Microsoft per se.

I spent most of my early life in the city I was born in. The first new place I moved as an adult was a horrendous shock. It was trial by fire and I was so, so miserable and I hated that place. I blamed that place.

It took me years to realize that place actually treated me pretty well and the real problem was the shock of leaving everything I had ever known, so I would have been miserable anywhere. It wasn't the place per se.

She seems to make an effort to not be too blamey of Microsoft and to express her gratitude for the good parts, but the framing really fails to be evenhanded about this. Starting with the title, it attributes a very ordinary growing up experience to becoming disillusioned with this one company.
We do! It's called Fairylog, and it was on HN last month.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19701279
Fair point, you can't be sure that's the only telemetry getting included though, as per the precedent set by code/chrome.
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Work friends one on one outside of work are fine but avoid the group social. Anyone part of that will drop you because your connection is the social.
Narita airport is by far the best I've ever been to. The organization and processing was so intuitive that despite knowing ~zero Japanese I was able to navigate without looking anything up.