skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a meta analysis coming to close conclusion: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8641133/

The interesting part being it's done on children still in their learning phase. The current article targeting 11000 makes me think it's done in a similar setting (catching 11000 adult working people for a study is just complicated).

In general when people are arguing about side effects of bilingualism, I think they care more about adults who more or less reached their full potential.
Maybe not as human as it could be.

Perhaps like a lingering pre-Neanderthal obsession with possession.
I know you’re jesting, but he’s singing the praises of those channels in specific and YouTube in general.

Unless the author meant or even linked in the original but the editor cut it out, which is actually probable, considering it’s the financial times.
>Someone who understands python and C++ would be trivially able to understand a massive swath of modern programming languages. I see little that having some deeper theoretical background would help.

Yes, they will be able to quickly pickup related languages with relative ease just as someone who knows a romance language will be able to pickup other romance languages without much difficulty. But that person who knows C++ and Pynthon with nothing of the underlying workings will have a more difficult time learning assembly, Forth or Lisp than a related language just as the person who knows a romance language will have a more difficult time learning Swahili than another romance language. Not a non-sequitor at all. When you look at CS or linguistics and how they relate to the languages they deal with what they really are are the study of what those languages have in common and understanding that will decrease what you need to learn when learning new languages.

Understanding a language and using a language are very different things and this is why toddlers can pickup languages with more ease than others, they do not care so much about understanding, and this is the primary limitation of our first language(s) and why being bilingual offers little cognitive advantage for most people.
> pretty sure “turn of sentence” does not exists in English

We do say "turn of phrase" in English, which means something similar. I wonder if both have the same origin.
It wasn't a benefit to coworkers who were allergic to or uncomfortable around dogs.

Many people love and feel responsible for their elderly and incapacitated parents. Should companies allow workers to bring their parents (possibly with dementia) to work with them?
One benefit if you know another language, you are more likely to have experienced living in a different culture. So you may take a more meta and critical view of the current cultural trends, not feeling as much pressure to conform.
Hardly.

Apple made their app store incredibly restrictive and took a massive cut of any profits that anyone was making. Not just app sales, any profits. (This happened to hey.com, they wanted a cut of the subscription that users were getting outside of their app). Sometimes apple would just outright steal developer's apps by making their own version, then blocking the original developers by claiming that they were making rip offs of Apple's apps (you'll find a few stories of that happening here on HN).

Then to really rub salt in the wound, they started telling developers in essence: "If you don't like the way we run our app store then you can always make a web app", despite the fact that they had purposefully hampered web functionality on their devices to force developers to use the app store.

It's really strange how their browser only started getting better all of a sudden when they were getting sued for their anticompetitive behaviour and the EU said they were drafting up legislation to break their monopoly.

It is directly due to the efforts of the EU that Apple has been dragged kicking and screaming to add functionality to their own ecosystem that is objectively demonstrably superior to what was available before.
I must be watching too much Spaceballs
Well, this happens for every service over time, as companies decide to put profit over their users: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/enshittification
Good write up, and I'm impressed by his preparations for a first-time backpacker - especially his food dehydration. Most people, especially newbies, will just buy prepackaged meals.

Although I had to laugh at his "green sand"[1] — beach glass?

[1]: https://static-images-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/blog-21...
Peter Pan syndrome is just a scientific-sounding way to call someone a man child. Especially in the context of this article full of 30+ years old women complaining that men haven't stepped up to marry them yet. They use that term to literally shame men for doing something else with their lives as if we're obligated to "man up" and marry them.

I'm sure you deserve better than to describe yourself this way.
I am not sure whether it applies to this case, but you might try turning on ‘Reduce motion’ under the Accessibility settings, which eliminates some animation delays.
Le truc c'est qu' «une phrase» en français veut dire "a sentence" en anglais.
You had said "the dating market" so I was talking about dating apps.

Language-learning apps don't broadcast your zipcode or filter suggested friends by zipcode or distance.
I speak French, English and Spanish. In that order.

Some concept exist in one and not the other. Addressing someone in a formal way. Addressing a group a once ( “y’all” )

But I know bits and pieces of German, Latin and Polish… those have lots of grammatical differences that force you to think about the structure of your sentence. Recognize a datif from a ablatif. That type of things.
It actually help with writing correct French.

But I’m not sure it would make me “better” like learning a functional language or ASM made me a “better” developer.
> We should sue each and every of these entitled tyrants.

Probably unionization is a better path.
I mean them colonizing the USA.....
You know I was about to do that but I noticed a few quality of service issues with the music I wanted to listen to. You of course were talking about YouTube Premium and I am referring to YouTube Music which also charges a monthly premium. I wanted to point out that previously there was an abundance of ripped albums at high quality that were obscure (it seems to depend on genre). I noticed some records from larger acts sounded pretty bad for some reason if you are speaking about quality. My sample size is still small and I am referencing a popular RHCP record but than I tried another funk track that should bump in my car as they have previously and I was disappointed. I think we take for granted something about signal chain and someone is trying to capitalize on that or the algorithm. I guess with good enough equipment anything should sound good I mean you can really mess stuff up with gain or normalization. Now I have been tremendously pleased with other larger obscure records I have learned about from wwww.rateyourmusic.com as there music has consistently been available on YT Music which is awesome. Some of those artists are not represented anymore and not available on Spotify or were not initially. If you are talking about quality what I am saying is that you can't just pick any upload from algorithm.
This post didn't feel particularly braggy to me. Also, having connected with Ben (I cold emailed him about something he referenced in one of his earlier blog posts), he seems like a person who is genuinely just trying to help and share his knowledge when useful.
Speaking more than 2 languages might be such a sign.

But where I live (in San Francisco) speaking exactly 2 languages is usually a sign that you or your parents are immigrants.
Probably depends if your view is outside of a popular language looking in or inside a popular language looking out.

If you only speak English you probably aren't lacking access to to many fields of study. If you a one of the few who only speak Koro, you probably feel differently about to volume of knowledge available to you.
Europeans will do anything to justify their abysmal salaries, won't they?

>Current: Labor activism.

lmao
> but in no way will they impart to you a deep understanding of any subject.

Technology Connections will provide deep understanding of the refrigeration cycle, how different types of gas lamps work, how heat pumps work, and how developing film works.

And those are just the video series I can remember.
> we can [weigh] the different possible explanations by plausibility

that's not science. we have no idea what is plausible or not, really, and we should not forget that. we can make up reasons that seem reasonable or which makes sense when combined with other unproven hypotheses but we simply do not know and we should not be offering up any words other than "we don't know" when asked for explanations.
> People with gas cars have range anxiety, too, and you need to be strategic about placement of gas stations to ensure that they don't get stuck in a place where they can't charge.

Right? But I can’t buy 5x20l canisters and fill them up with x kWh of electricity. I can to that with diesel or gasoline.
Human is also animal.
Other animals also do not produce B12. They have it either from bacteria or in case of modern farming: supplements.
Most of these people we are talking to online do not deal with code and logic. They rely on others to spoon feed them information, like little babies, but with fancy suits on. Many of them are very accustomed to the existing system working very favorably for them. They cannot comprehend how corrupt and dishonest it is, as it provides for their every want and material need. There is a lot of effort going in to discrediting crypto because it is the first genuine threat to the status quo. That sort of fundamental purification of the underlying mechanisms attacks the heart of a vast, powerful, and unimaginably corrupt piece of society.

Let the talkers talk. They are acting in bad faith by speaking as if knowing something when knowing the thing will 100% convert you to its side, unless you are a bad actor that profits off the corruption. There is a beautiful elegance to that. Since most people, I think, are "good," then naturally the conclusion is rightly just ignorance.

People who read the code and understand what the real deal looks like will profit. Fighting against math is always a losing battle.
That's the thing about cars: their real test (or importance) is not the 90% of the time spent in the "happy path" (short, planned drives after a full night charge). It's to address those edge but critical cases - long trips, unexpected drives, off-the-beaten-path routes.

Another thing rarely raised is the correlated nature of traffic issues. Charging is fine now, mostly because it seems there is a huge over-provisioning of chargers compared to EVs on the road. What happens with busy days? An evacuation order sending 1M people on the same route at the same time? For ICEV there is an easy solution. Not for EVs.
Thanks, I try to speak for everyone whenever I do utter any sentence.
I think the most logical explanation is that app review is largely automated, perhaps with a permissive algorithm, while some sampling of apps are reviewed by humans with strict standards, which may be applied inconsistently because that’s how humans do.

It’s really not that surprising to me, given the scale of the App Store.
Your “anecdotal” snark is unwelcome.

What’s your purpose here?

It’s been communicated that Duolingo is the only thing that works for me and others, and you continue to make time to berate the tool. It comes across that you’re a language learning snob, a gatekeeper, or both.

Kindly let me enjoy myself in peace.
I wonder if there might already be enough datasets laying around that even if we stopped making new ones, models can generate entire new datasets on their own, process/label them on their own, and generate new and improved models in a closed feedback loop. The only data that's really needed going forward is information on current events.
Yup. Ours was an odysee system. That started it for me. Been gaming ever since
The presence of English in India is pretty clearly due to the efforts of the British, not the Americans. Same thing in Australia.

Presence of English in France and Germany might be more due to Americans.
Is this well educated labour force the part of the voter base of the two biggest parties across the pond? if yes then I wish the very best to the manufacturing trials there.
We already have seen the quality of Us manufacturing recently with Tesla cars. The times that made in America was synonymous with good quality are long gone.
Better Candy Crush than slot machines?
I created open source version of my project, if open source version is successfull, I am planning to build its cloud version, So how differently can I measure if it successful or not?
sun activity synopsis is antiquated
I agree, there are several channels that I watch regular because of the algorithm show them to me.
Huffman also seems to be the guy who edited a list of co-founders to remove Aaron Swarz. [0]

He also said - after Swarz's death - that Swarz wasn't a co-founder. 'Unpersoned', I think is the correct term for such as this.

So... I'm left wondering why anyone is listening to this guy. Especially on a subject where he has been caught lying and rewriting history multiple times.

0 - https://web.archive.org/web/20201005184849/https://www.reddi... - Archive link necessary as the original has a deleted user, a deleted post, and many deleted comments. In fact, the entire sub (watchRedditDie) was ended, partly because Huffman reneged on a promise to reinstate Swarz on the founders list [1].

1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/vd2wj8/were...
Yeah, I remember those single game machines as well. But like most kids , including me the time , the first exposure to a home console was when the Atari 2600 was released. It seemed liked everyone had one. Of course there were few kids that had the ColecoVision or Intellivsion box (with its weird funky controller)
> The academic discussion of potential counterfactuals, usually to be found in conferences and certain blog webs, were often misconstrued by content producers, conspiracy mongers, and others driven by less-then-truthful motives

Don’t care. Price of a free press.

> As this causes very real harm

History shows that the people who suppress free speech are never the good guys, especially when it’s the US government or their complicit media.

Also, thanks for engaging in good faith. If I’m wrong, I want to hear it from you, not a censor.
Moths have mouthparts, butterflies generally don't. They have a specialized nectar sucking tube type organ with a "tongue" in it.

Moths can rob flowers, which means they cut a small hole inside the bottom of the flower's nectar reservoir and then lap it up. Butterflies can't cut flowers.
You may well have a point. But: I know several people with a degree in linguistics and while it may help them to have a better idea of the structure and deeper understanding of languages in general it doesn't seem to help them at all in day to day communications with people in other languages. They tend to get hung up at the details of grammar and the finer points of sentence structure whereas what matters is to keep up the flow of information. Function over form any day. You see the same with music: people that know a ton of music theory can be very good musicians. But there are plenty of musicians who have a fairly shallow understanding of the theory but they pick up an instrument and start making music rather than to wonder about the theory behind it.

Language and music have a lot in common in that respect, it's perfectly possible to be proficient at either without having a very deep understanding of the theory as long as you are willing to put in the hours, and having that deep understanding is - as far as I've been able to discern - absolutely no guarantee for being good at making music or communicating with other people. It may help some but I doubt that it is the kind of thing that works for everybody in the way that you assert. It's hard enough to get kids to learn a new language, even if it has some direct applicability. Getting them to learn an abstract science which lays a foundation that they then may be able to apply to learning another language may well be one demand too many.

Still, for whoever it works it may be worth the extra investment in time and effort.
> For finetuning godot_dodo_4x_60k_llama_13b, eight A100 80GB GPUs were used.

$300k of hardware! Guess it answers my previous comment from Hetzner server https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35662925
Do you have any insight to how other educated Russians feel?
>or that they're old enough they can do things on their own, like get themselves to school and go to the bathroom on their own.

Kids can do these things by the time they're 2-6 years old (bathroom earlier than school of course). Dogs never can: you're basically signing up to take care of an invalid for 12-15 years. And kids can use diapers before this age.

>And I work from home so I don't have to pay for doggie daycare.

Yeah, that's a luxury most working people don't have. So as I said, dogs are pets for rich people.

>My dogs are much less expensive than children

Children aren't pets; they're actual human beings and the next generation. Dogs are just animals and pets.

>My wife also had to Uber home every day, costing about $500 extra per month, because we only had (and have) one car, and could only drop her off at work in the mornings, but we also did that for eight months, despite it also being inconvenient.

This is what you get for living in a car-centric society with no public transit. Again, rich people problems.

>I'm far from unique here.

You're far from unique in modern America, but go back in time 30 years and people would laugh at you. It's pretty obvious why American society is so unproductive these days and unable to compete with China.
What is the use case of having Tigris as the backend instead of PostgreSQL?
My YouTube feed is 40% videos I’ve watched in the last 2 months, 8/10 of those with a red tracking bar showing 98% ~ 100% watched to completion.
Tony Hsieh’s Friends/Family Milked Millions in His Drug-Fueled Final Months
This is what I do too and am quite satisfied with it. It seems like a lot of people don't use the subscription page, as it seems like there are frequent complaints about missing new videos unless they have hit the notification bell. I've never had that problem as the subscriber page does exactly what it is supposed to do (though I suppose if you were subscribed to hundreds or thousands of channels you'd probably run into issues)
By how many people use it. Stars are mose akin to likes or bookmarks at this point.
I didn't say they were perfect for every use case. I'm not a gamer, so I'll have to take your word for it. But look at your own phone. You really telling me most of your apps couldn't just be PWA?
at no point did you think that him saying "I was right all along and everyone who opposed me was wrong" is not a message of personal superiority? giving that message is to claim superiority over others, whether it is intentional or not.

this podcast is the most humble I have ever heard him, to be fair, but make no mistake; DC is not a humble person.

A humble person would not have said "JSON was my/our idea" or "I was right"; a humble person would not be on a podcast talking about themselves at all.
Are you referring to the req->sendf as seen in the README?

Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t use that approach for user input! There’s also support for mustache templates and JSON-API endpoints as well.

Or are you referring to something else?

But yes, please don’t use this for anything serious!
RE: wet trail. I agree. I did part of the hike in 2017 and some parts of the trail were a total mud slide. I enjoy my memories from that hike.
Ooh I hiked this in 2008 along with the nearby Juan de Fuca Trail. It was mid-spring and oh so wet. What a great memory.
I would be surprised if the majority of bilingual speakers in the US aren't first/second gen immigrants. Not exactly known to be "a sign of coming from" wealth
It's much much much easier to cook up a solution for internal use than to create a product for external use that you can sell and that caters to your customers whims and that reasonably easy to use without requiring direct access to the engineering team for support.
Ask HN: How do I stop card testing attacks on my Stripe account?
For the past several months I have been getting hit with several card testing attacks. I sell a product with a subscription (which is processed via Stripe). The problem is that everytime this occurs I have to manually go into my account and determine if it is a card testing attack and then if it is then I have to refund and block the payment. Not a big deal if it happens once or twice but has been happening very frequently on my account. I've tried everything I can on my end but it's very limited what I can do since they don't even go through my website (I use Stripe Checkout, which they say is excellent protection against card attacks - which seems untrue to me). They simply get my public key (which I've rotated) and create their own checkout session. I've reached out to Stripe SEVERAL times and it is really annoying that they are unable to stop it.

What can I do, short of switching to PayPal or another provider?

Thanks!
Sounds like it's time to get familiar with the wine-staging options to hide wine-specific exports:

https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/blob/b46dd63e024a16...
As someone that is both an individual contributor and runs a department. I find the viewpoint insightful and I am glad they shared it.
For those that cannot afford going to the West, others have migrated to Turkey, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, etc..
Your quote says nothing about a single country
ipsum lorem 2.0
> But I don't see how transit can take less time anywhere unless you literally live in a station and your destination is in another station.

Maybe its like this for because our infrastructure has been built around the assumption that you can park your car right in front of your destination AND doesn't have good transit oriented development/frequent enough service. If you had to walk 10 minutes to park your car and or circle the block for 10 minutes waiting for a spot to open up and the trains and busses ran every 3 minutes and didn't get stuck in traffic, the time would balance out differently
On the finance part, I think it's complex, in particular relative to who.

For instance, immigrants will massively be bilingual in general. We could argue there are in a better financial and educational position than those who couldn't immigrate in the first place, but then relative to the country they live, they can be on bottom of the social ladder.

On the parrallel with studying other subjects, I think it rings true, the only difference would be that bilingualism can be "forced" upon children by circumstances or environment, where math or instruments usually come later and/or on a choice basis.
100% agreed, it is absolutely awful.

They learned nothing from the Digg apocalypse.
Ha. Silly me. It’s “tournure de phrase” in french.

It actually goes to show that my command of English is limited. I know both words but “phrase” did not occurs to me even so it’s the same damn word :)
Spending $49 within a six-month time frame? Seems like not much, but might not be far off the spend of younger gamers, depending on how you define a "gamer".
As an aside, MalwareBytes blocked this page. It may have ended up on some blocklist?
Keeping the "I want it for 5 because my indie project makes no money" people happy is less lucrative than the "We are paying $1000/person in on call allowances, so what is $21 - nothing!" people.