skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> immersion only works if you're a relatively extroverted person (IMHO). Immersion turns language learning into a social activity. If you're more introverted, you won't get that social exposure

I'm a native English speaker, but I live in a country where the native language isn't English. This means I have to speak that other language every single day, not because I'm an extrovert, but because I have to if I want people to understand me.

To me, that's the incentive you're looking for.
> pre-processing LLM models that transform more accessible amateur prompts

Dangerous! It looks like instead of driving directly, you are tapping on the shoulders of the one at the steering wheel.

Which is useful for children, and frustrating for drivers.
I think, in an age where ChatGPT can point you in the correct direction in niche questions, that popularity of a tech stack becomes irrelevant to whether you can find answers or not.

iOW, as long as a large enough userbase and codebase exists, popularity doesn't matter for getting answers.

Might matter for shaking out bugs, enhancements, etc, but not for learning resources.
Can't you already sideload in the US, with a few restrictions like 3 apps max, you need to refresh the install every week?
Pimsleur has an app. It's an incredible loss imo, gone are the days we could easily and safely permanently archive the mp3s to cloud drives "just in case". Now you'll have access to the expensive program for as long as you and Pimsleur have good luck.
You don't "learn learnings" I agree but in my mind you _get_ learnings from the process of learning stuff. The same way you get findings from the process of finding stuff out. I'm a Swedish speaker and we have a dedicated word "lärdom" that we use like "learning" so that usage is very natural to me. "lessons learnt" is clunky to me and there we have another saying, "lära sig en läxa" that has the school connotations.
Passive voice writing often grits in the teeth. Just like that.

Most writings that feel fresh or novel have an active voice that asserts something. In journalism, you’re taught to write in an active voice. If you can’t assert someone did something, then you shouldn’t be saying anything at all.

In any case, I think this is why I like noir writing so much. It doesn’t fiddle faddle with getting something across. It either happens or it doesn’t.
On this note, the data-set available if you start collecting today is tainted with experimental AI content. Not the biggest issue right now but as time goes on this problem will get worse and we'll be basing our simulations of intelligence on the output of our simulations of intelligence, a brave new abstraction.
I installed Fish last night, first non-default shell I've used ever, because I saw Scott Hanselman's very pretty prompt and realised I'd been missing out. Those custom Bash prompts back in the day were positively primitive compared to what people have been doing with custom fonts and Unicode emoji symbols.

Researched a bunch of themes/prompts, initially wanted oh-my-posh (which Hanselman uses), then Starship.rs because it was fast, then powerlevel10k because it was faster, then saw opinions in favour of Fish over Zsh, sidetripped to r/UnixPorn along the way, and finally settled on Fish + Fisher (plugin manager) + Tide (a Fish port of powerlevel10k) + Catppuccin Fish (a pastel theme). The configuration wizard in Tide makes it very simple to pick the prompt's design and colours, and further customisation is easy too. Quite a rabbithole, but I'm pretty satisfied now!
As far as I'm concerned if you 'bought' something, it should be yours to do as you please, including reselling and destroying it. If you didn't buy something, but rented it - for example a game on Steam or Epic Games store - then it should damned say so. It's a straight up lie to say you purchased something if you didn't.
This feels like a silly idea but if you take a glass of fresh milk and a glass of spoiled milk, would you be able to distinguish them? Would smelling them side-by-side maybe recalibrate things?
What was the last big successful product Google released that’s still around?

I honestly don’t know. Search, Gmail, Maps, GCP, and Android is all before 2010.
Apple already has a system to set the region of a device. Go to Settings > General > Language and Region > Region.
So, "in the future" how do people create programs expressing their intent? They'd write or speak in some natural language, right?

1. In order to avoid ambiguities they'd need to use concrete vocabulary.

2. Any non-trivial program will need to consist of multiple input statements. Those input statements will have some kind of relationship to each other. This is roughly what a grammar is about.

3. Those future programmers will somehow need to check if the program does what it's supposed to do. They'd run it with test data.

Combine 1-3 and see that we just described, what a programming language and its ecosystem (compiler, runtime, etc.) do. Thus, programming languages are nowhere near to die out, they will just shift things higher up the layer lasagne.
Effective typescript is a good start which is framework agnostic and focuses on the fundamentals:

https://effectivetypescript.com/
> Apple limits my choices and I like that. I like having less choices. I don't want to have to think about software security

How does this conflict with other users having a developer mode? Because you want Apple to have more unilateral authority over what other businesses are and aren't allowed to do?

It sounds like you have left the domain of "what's right for the market" and headed into the realm of "what I prefer". That's fine and decent anecdata, but completely useless to regulators who's job is to save the market. If Apple is stifling innovation or competition, even for a good cause, then we must codify the goodness and end the monopoly. That's progress, arbitrary corporate grudges are not.
Oatmilk is extremely popular here and everyone refers to it as oatmilk. I don't understand why you need a different name for it, as long as it is clearly qualified. So you have the weird situation where everyone says "oatmilk", and the package for legal reasons needs to be labelled "oat drink".

Lots of opaque, white fluids have traditionally been called "milk"...
Pratically, it's The A-Team.
Not sure if Chad agrees
That actually makes sense to me. Duolingo is "gamefied" which is code for "works just like an addictive drug". It's designed to be habit forming by providing scheduled rewards. I'm not sure if it's actually the case but it wouldn't surprise me at all if this strongly associated the learned information with the app itself.

I really hate that part of Duolingo.
Honestly I'm not sure; I think it has to be down to personal preference. I once had tap water in the Midwest that made delicious tea, conversely NYC's famous water was fine. The variation, plus the bonkers amount of contaminants in tap water led me to get a tank with the "lead plus" or whatever filters. It's definitely more "sterile", but on the theory that lead, PFAS, a slurry of medications and a smattering of other minerals is delicious, I'm fine with that.
It survived Max Q on the first launch with older (and different iterations) versions of the engine, what else is needed to make the demo of a first try a success?
A bit of both, I guess?

The whole thing was a test. The ship and rocket themselves would always have been scrapped afterwards, and the goal of the whole endeavor was to get back as much data as possible.

They succeeded in launching the rocket, having it take off and reach max-Q and got valuable data on all that. That's the successful part. They also learnt some hard lessons on launch pad construction.

Then the ship failed and the test was aborted - and they never got to test stage separation, which they had planned to do as well. That's the unsuccessful part.

So, did they get the data they wanted? Not all they wanted - but an important chunk of it.
Catharijnesingel
HN thread from 2015 for the last time SpaceX had a notable failure

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9793555

I think sometimes it's good to look back and learn from posterity
As the developer of a subscription app, if unfettered side-loading is allowed I'd be worried about cracked versions of my app being distributed.

We've done everything in the client for privacy and reliability, but the obvious countermeasure would be to move functionality over to a backend. This would be history echoing the transition from boxed software to SaaS.
Sundar is not coming up with all the product ideas. Nor is he vetting all the ideas. Ideas come up from product leaders under him. Surely he must have vetoed dozens of bad ideas every year. There is latent talent in these giants and experiments fail.

Could Sundar be more ruthless? Yes; Does this and other articles have valid criticisms? 100%;

These articles going after Zuck, Sundar, etc are needed. But we do not see the other side.
The thing is the launch likely failed for reasons that were known beforehand and were noticable even to a layman.

They purposefully chose not to have a flame diverter, instead they were hoping to get away with simply blowing up the launchpad beneath them. I respect that they're trying to push boundaries, but this just seems foolish.

For a company so focused on reducing cost through reusability, why did they choose to blow up the launch pad upon launch? I understand building a flame diverter for a rocket this massive is an incredible amount of work, but if it makes subsequent launches cheaper then wouldn't that amortize the costs?
It wasn’t a complete failure. SpaceX will learn a lot from this launch. But I believe this design is not super reliable. Synchronizing 32 rocket engine is not easy. Perhaps this will be a great cargo ship. As for carrying astronauts to Mars, I’m not so sure. Only time will tell.
Sometimes the term "królówka" is also used within the context of chess.
Also available is Ableton's online course. Much shorter, shallower, and interactive: https://learningmusic.ableton.com/
Elon had previously ruled out the trenches because of cost right? This was an expensive learning exercise.
What many don’t realise in academia is that your reputation is more important than your results.

The two are of course related but those who are dishonest mistakenly think their results are more important.
The "failed decisions" list is bizarre and does a terrible job supporting the argument.

- Gmail Inbox
- Directing company’s resources towards messaging apps. (Remember Allo, Duo. Exactly)
- Virtual assistants
- Now LLMs

None of these were large bets, nor do they relate to the major cash cow that is search. Further, LLMs are in their verrrrrry early days. We don't know how much impact they'll have or how they'll impact Google's business, but not exploring them would be a truly insane choice for the CEO of Google.
eSIM is a potentially smoother setup process if the alternative is getting a card through the mail, but physical SIM switching is better than having to contact your carrier.
*33 engines.
Is OpenAI interview considered particularly hard?
Curious to know if the demolition of a 12 lane highway made traffic better or worse?
You think you're a pedant, but you haven't yet encountered someone with such a thorough knowledge of Indo-European grammar that could tell you that not only is nominalizing participles common in our family of languages, it is so common you see it in practically every language in the family and it doesn't violate any rules of grammar. "beating" is a present participle, like "learning." It would be fine to say, "the beatings of the man," but you may be confused about whether it is a subjective or objective genitive--is it the man who is being beaten, or the man doing the beatings. Likewise, I think what makes you uncomfortable about the term "learnings" is not whether it conforms to any grammatical or syntactic rules, but that it is rather ambiguous--it can be taken as transitive or intransitive. You "learn" something, but you also learn by being taught by someone. To say, then, the "learnings of the man," could refer both to his education, and to his teachings (and you see there, "teachings," is no different from "learnings" grammatically, except that "to teach" is definitively transative).

>And you sure as daisies don't "learn learnings."

You might be shocked to learn that such expressions are extraordinarily common in say ancient Greek (which uses participles in a very similar way to English--they are related after all!) People "look a looking," an expression used to mean someone holds a particular countenance. If someone can teach teachings, why can't someone learn learnings? I don't think there is anything wrong with using intransative verbs in this way.
I would kill for 2010-era search. I suspect it's now intentionally bad, but I don't think I understand the business strategy behind it being so awful.

There was a time when I could remember two uncommon words in the same reddit post from 5 years prior, and searching those would bring it up as result #1.

The scary thing is, I suspect that search is still their most recent successful product. Just that it's not meant to help any of us.
Unrelated, but I was researching executive salaries the other day. The CEO of the Norwegian Pension fund, which has $1.39 trillion in AUM, earns a $660k annual salary - no extra compensation as far as I could find. Alphabet has a £1.36 trillion market cap, with a $200m+ CEO comp.

Makes one wonder if you really need to pay CEOs astronomical comp packages to attract the "best talent".
It was both. It could’ve ended much better, but the first stage worked for several minutes and provided a lot of data to improve in the future.
Thank you for making me realize what I don't like about "lessons learnt". I don't care about corpspeak but when you are an agile team involved in continous learning it's very important to be able to tell someone that they are in the wrong. They might have put in two weeks of hard work devolving a poc in a area the team know little about only to present it wider and get the feedback that this won't work because of x, u and z. Then you haven't "learned your lessons" because we don't yet have the right answer. BUT we got some very good learnings from this failed work that we need to remember/use in the next attempt.
> The same month, Chainalysis laid off about 40 employees, a roughly 5 percent cut.

They have 800 employees now?
It has nothing to do with coding. His failings are that Google's product management is horrendous. Sundar has completely failed to set a clear long term product strategy for the company and doesn't seem to be making any moves to fix it.
The most common way is to pay $99 and use Xcode. I think in the long run, limiting the freedom of developers to choose whichever tools they like is actually hurting Apple, but let's not pretend that there is no practical way of running your own software on iOS.
I’ll stick to Postgres
It's a very short book, takes half an hour at most to read through if you skip implementation.
> Text books are physically expensive and difficult to manage. A tablet or laptop, in theory, can reduce those costs to that of IP (if any).

Plus the cost of the laptop or tablet of course.

I don't see how it's cheaper or easier; at my high school some classes used books that were over 20 years old; that was fine because the basics of things like science or language doesn't change that fast; f=ma is still f=ma, a verb is still a verb, etc. A laptop will last what, 3 or 4 years, at best?

Books require some maintenance and management, but it was one janitor doing it for all of the school, alongside his other duties. It's a job many could learn in a few weeks.

Maintaining laptops or tablets seems significantly harder and more expensive. We had several hundred students; that's probably at least one or two full-time high-knowledge employees instead of one part-time relatively low-knowledge worker.
Because of the engine failures, thrust wasn't as high as it would be in a nominal flight, so max aerodynamic pressure was lower. It didn't hit the max Q it would experience in a regular launch.
You are masquerading personal preferences (and possibly professional interests) as rules of nature. If anything, Godlike conceit definetely applies to some ML accolytes.

In any case, with your last point "we should allow complex smartness to emerge" you essentially agree with my point that new levels will emerge from orthogonal (new) directions.

The good thing about brute force is that it summons so many resources it primes the way for smarter approaches.

For those not conceited the objective is not some deus-ex-machina but "algorithms that work".
Could have just been kept on the originating side of the border? Or would it have to leave Europe? I’m not familiar with the details of these regulations.
And then your carrier bills you 3€ for it, because they can. They can also just disable the iPhone-to-iPhone eSIM transfer functionality. Ask me how I know.

eSIMs are incredibly user-hostile because they switch the ownership of a SIM card from the customer to the provider, so you're completely at their mercy if you need to transfer over your SIM card from one device to another. And Apple facilitates this.
I think that's a reasonable response.

At the same time, if it would have taken several more months to install a flame diverter / metal plating below the launch pad, would that be worth it, or negate the progress made by gathering flight data? I'm not sure we can know that for sure.

I would hazard a guess that in the long term, it will have been the right decision.
It will be quite undesirable to distribute apps through a means where economies of scale are not available for example if there is no US market
why - please explain? What actually needs to be known is exactly the official policy, this is more important than the exact words used. Right now, we are reliant on media to reinterpret what was said, with the inevitable decontextualisation and reframing that comes along with it. This is the practice of propaganda
Yeah it’s a language issue. There have been hacks that did express the idea but “hack” does get used broadly. Macguyvering conveys the concept well but as you say it’s reference is outdated so it’s lost some of its meaning.
Kinda funny that the author didn't draw a connection between the pad damage and the engine failures. If the rocket is blasting a hole in the pad and throwing chunks of concrete hundreds of meters, you figure some of those pieces of debris might have gone upwards and damaged rocket engines?
oh, I just remember mit 6.830, use java to build a mini database ,free.
One thing the sibling did not mention is you can use btrfs send/receive to create dead easy, fast, and simple to restore incremental backups.
The experience of writing Japanese characters by hand was magical for me.
The problem is managing those books, lockers kind of suck, Americans change classes rather than teachers, so you got to lug them around somehow. A lot of schools simply dump the problem on the student.

An iPad is pretty easy to maintain, and just a kid proof case around it, is pretty durable. The software to manage those iPads is pretty well developed as well.
"memory transactional guarantee"

This does not exist, at least those then are not ACID, what many people understand as transactions.

"ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability)". In-memory - usually (battery,...) - is not durable.
I really thought after FTX people would start to wise up to these tulips.

Most people don't care about anonymity, the acceptance of visa, Mastercard, banking and mass surveillance shows this to be true.

Cryptos is just utter fantasy, like all other fiat, human constructs that do not exist.
It wasn't necessarily Google's search that got worse.. it's that SEO became better and better leading to an arms race situtation.

The same thing will happen with the internet and LLMs. The next 5 years will probably be the golden age of LLMs followed by a flood of copyright protectionism and regulation.
OP's question:

"Ask HN: Why isn't BTRFS the default FS in home-oriented Linux distributions?"
I don't think Apple will use that system for this, since doing so would let everyone sideload just by setting their region to somewhere in Europe even if they're not actually there.
;-)

https://www.amazingcto.com/postgres-for-everything/
keep in mind this is still a prototype rocket, they have no guarantee that they won't learn anything important about how this should look like or what issues it could introduce

they used something they knew to work so there is one less variable that should prevent liftoff

at this point there is no reducing the cost phase yet, they try to test assumptions and learn what and how things can go wrong. It's much better that things go wrong at test flight than at mission flight.

if they would get lucky and none of the issues would manifest, they could assume that design is perfect and do not try to improve it. so it's good if whatever can go wrong goes wrong at test flight
It is also indicative of how their lunar starship will damage itself on descent. At least NASA came to it's senses and funded a backup plan.
There’s always the Lizardman Constant[1], and on top of that there’s people demanding unreasonable perfection of data, sure. But I think the post you’re replying to has a good point: public opinion of “public health” has taken a significant hit in reaction to the handling of Covid, as more information came out that contradicted earlier messaging (vaccine confers immunity -> vaccine lessens symptoms, most notably). It seems prudent to acknowledge the same could happen with climate change!

1: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
Ingenious!

What if a security incident happens just in Europe but not elsewhere?

Then it becomes instantly clear that Apple’s argument against sideloading was not a strawman.
I don't think things will be a problem. Distributing software is fairly easy; for most apps, uploading the app binary to their website as though it's an image file or video will be sufficient. And, then you get 30% more money for your business. It will be quite popular just for the cost savings.

(Distributing software is not always easy, as game companies that have 100GB game downloads on launch day will tell you. But, for most apps, it will be easy enough.)
IMHO, the headline is a decent philosophical question. The clickbaity ones focus on the explosion, almost ignoring the resounding success of propelling all that mass to 39 km.

Sorry you missed the actual launch! I was on the edge of my seat while at the computer.. Hard to imagine what in-person felt like.
On the topic, I think the Falcon Heavy launch has given us unrealistic perspective on the success of experimental launch vehicles.

It went so flawlessly that most people online were pissed Elon didn't use it to launch some useful payload and considered his Roadster launch a vanity project, not realizing it could have gone Kaboom just like the Starship launch, and all Elon would have to show for it would have been the shreds of his roadster.

When things go successfully, it's all Gwynne Shotwell and her team of Engineers to praise; when it goes south it's Elon and big mouth to blame for the all the issues.

Maybe we need to realize it's all a test, that has Elon wanted, there would be NO press coverage and we wouldn't even have known a Test had happened, or that vehicle like Starship even existed.

let's just enjoy the show, failures and all.
Dealing with the carrier is usually the worst part of owning a phone. Asking for a new esim is likely to send you down a path of navigating a process where they try to sell you an upgrade, or they send you a QR code that doesn't work, or a million other possible problems.
Being in elementary in the 70s I do two things:

- On paper I do 46 etc.

- In my head I always did 450 + 4*6
Any evidence or references from either side to back things up here? I could really see this going either way.