skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can blame Duolingo for making outsized promises in their marketing.

You're making a lot of assumptions about other people. Not everyone is as savvy as you. I know people who used Duolingo to learn French so they could move to Montreal. It didn't work. They can't have conversations and they can't remember vocabulary or syntax outside of specific cues. Is that "Duolingo's fault?" not entirely, but they definitely were under the impression that "15 minutes is all I need!"

Duolingo is great at getting you to use the app. That's fantastic. Use it if you find it helps. Just don't expect it to make you fluent by itself.
I agree, but also CP/M to DOS wasn’t superficial. When Paterson did the Z80 port of MS-DOS by running it through an assembly language translator he’d written for the task, the resulting MSX-DOS could run quite a bit of CP/M software without issue. The only major problem was MSX-DOS disk formats using Microsoft’s FAT filesystem. This isn’t unusual though since many CP/M machines had incompatible disk formats anyway.
Lazydocker – A simple terminal UI for both Docker and Docker-compose
I wonder in what conditions this is true for.

I can imagine that moving the mouse to open an app from the macOS dock is about the same speed as using the Cmd+Space or some shortcut.

I can't imagine using the mouse to go to the start/end of line is quicker than using an easy to reach keyboard shortcut to do so.

I'd also wonder about differences in general computing literacy/etc. between 1989 and now. -- I'm not sure "people new to the mouse" describes a meaningful subset of professional computer users these days.
> Does the cheaper energy come into play with such a large onsite solar system?

Legos are made out of petroleum
And what would be an example of such a neighborhood? The afore mentioned SF and NYC do not appear to be so, other, often mentioned in such thread locale, Tokyo in Japan appears to be also quite large too (Tokyo proper is 850 square miles).
Yay, figure out some way to contain it, then task it with manipulating thousands of people. Could never go wrong
Things open source developers say because they don’t have experience with binary analysis. Not to say that Apple’s reviewers are going to be looking at IDA or Ghidra dumps, but they can see added capabilities, frameworks, symbols, or assembly and call graph changes.

Not that it matters, because they don’t have the time to manually review source code changes either. At best there’s likely some automated static analysis for undocumented API symbols and common malware signatures.
Some additional recommended reading...

Lynxline's Inferno Labs on porting Inferno to the Raspberry Pi:

https://github.com/yshurik/inferno-rpi
(the related web site http://lynxline.com/ is currently not reachable)

David Boddie's port of Inferno to the Ben NanoNote, a tiny MIPS-based handheld from 2010:

https://www.boddie.org.uk/david/www-repo/Personal/Updates/20...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_NanoNote
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU Burns Up, Kills Itself and the Asus X670 Motherboard
Globally speaking, German is useless, unless you're European and trying to find a job in Germany because it pays better than your home country. The only German speaking country is full of educated people who also speak fluent English. You'll never meet an internationally minded German who doesn't speak excellent English. Spanish, however, is spoken in an entire continent, which also has a very low level of English, plus several other countries and is closely related to other latin/romance languages, giving you a head start on learning/understanding those.

Chinese/Mandarin might be super useful if you're living in China or a nearby country, but a) why would you want to live in China if you're not Chinese? And b) the language of international business in China is still English.
I sympathize, but is this not just something you as a parent/consumer can control? i.e. why don't YOU stick to lego classic, and let lego do what they want.

I guess received gifts would be a problem, but it seems presumptuous that your way of doing lego is the right way.
That’s just politics
I don't have this issue at all. All my recommendations are pretty accurate and I don't see much mindless content. I have been using YouTube for years now, have over 1000 videos on my Watch Later list, and probably watch multiple hours of YouTube a day. Maybe it just knows me better.
If you have a good, compact inexhaustible source of clean energy that gives you megawatts of it, you should be able to turn it into delta-V.

You can use atmosphere as the propellant. And accelerate as much as you need at the upper levels of atmosphere. Potentially you can use aerodynamics (basically fly inverted) to get to even higher velocity than the orbital velocity. Then, you can stay there at the upper levels, as long as you need to, and charge your tanks (you can initially take off with an empty tank of propellant). Once this is done, you can adjust the angle of attack and ease of into the higher orbit, switching to space flight.

It involves hypersonic flight, but there is nothing impossible here.
Valum: Web micro-framework written in Vala
This looks very nice.

I’ve been quite happy with Hatch, which I adopted about 3 months ago on the strength of the PyPA’s recommendation. I sort of like where they’re coming from philosophically - sticking as close as possible to standards - and find the API pretty nice. I’ve never used Poetry so couldn’t compare.

One concern I have is that it seems to largely be the work of a solo dev who also has other commitments. Absolutely nothing wrong with that in principle, of course, but I wonder how sustainable it is. I have just noticed that PyPA owns the repo - not sure if that was always the case or if it’s a recent development, but does bode well.
Well all the major browsers are on board—it’s really in the hands of the dev/product community now.
What exactly is the point of using two models, both far from state of the art and saying, "LLMs are not useful". I mean, what's the thought process here ?
Their product is literally made out of oil.
I feel this response. If voicing your opinion is a risk that needs calculating, it's not worth trying. It's sad to see a small team's chat be bullied into a stream of just :eyes: :raising_hands: :party_popper:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireside_chats
I'd argue this is one of the okay uses for petroleum as it's converted directly into a high value product and not emitted as pollution. I assume people don't do a lot of throwing away of Lego bricks. Going into the future I predict petroleum will be used to make material products a lot longer than it's used to make fuel. Even after we stop mining petroleum we'll still be turning farm crops into the same material.
Parrots are Facetiming each other and they give us a 3s clip. Thanks for that.
I’ve used GPT-4 as a pair programmer actively for over 40 hours now. Using it to do things you have 90% of the solution for is a bit of a waste of time.

Using it to help trouble shoot errors in logs when you’re feeling frustrated, and get a basic framework up from scratch to start modifying toward the your goal are the best use cases I’ve seen. The ability to get yourself unstuck in minutes is life changing. The biggest constraint right now is short term memory loss. It can nearly always recognize on a second pass through what mistake it made.

Keep in mind 32kb token requests are already in beta… and 4kb requests are what you have access to now. So… the memory thing is potentially a dead point soon. Though at 6 cents per 1kb if it actually has to volley 32k over to you it’ll almost cost $2.00 based on current API pricing.

That 32k option would allow GPT-4 to hold every non-monolithic project I’ve ever worked on in working memory. The pertinent parts anyway, it wouldn’t need to read CSS files or imported modules unless it really gets forced down a specific rabbit hole.

This will be one more reason new projects won’t be monolithic architectures. Easier for the AI to help out.
I’ve been saying this for years: Build housing; any housing. Low income, medium income, high income—it doesn’t matter. If there becomes an over supply the price of housing will eventually go down.

Somehow we have to complicate it or abstract it to make it an issue it isn’t.
Try using https://www.phind.com on expert mode. You will probably have better results.
This comment captures the actual efficiency of the bee. The article measures it by time-per-plant.
I agree with you. I once had an argument with a monolingual English-speaking person who was convinced that language is necessary for thinking, or that thinking somehow comes from language, which couldn't be further from my experience where I will have an abstract thought and then try to put it into words.

However it took years for me to be conscious of the abstract thinking. I started out by thinking in my native tongue, then thinking in my native tongue and mentally translating into English, then thinking in English, before finally not thinking in any language at all.
Is the fire important? Not being American, it was interesting to learn that the first "fireside chats" were by a president during the 30s and 40s, broadcast over the radio.
But if you don’t know what you are doing, you have to worry about its hallucinations slipping pass you.
I've found that you get what you pay for in the App Store (although my experience describes the Play Store).

The first mobile app I ever installed in 2015 was for-pay. I believe it was actually $14.95. It was worth every penny, because I'd used that website every day for years already. I was extremely eager to get the mobile app. It was a serialized podcast of sorts, and so having the app meant that I would have offline access to the podcast at the times of day (multiple) when I needed to use it.

I've purchased probably 3 or 4 apps, average price $10. And I was always happy to pay for the ones where I did, especially a fitness app where I gained little functionality but was able to support an indie programmer who'd made a really great offline-capable app.

In a few cases, I downloaded some free games, which I made sure interoperated with iOS so that my friend could play competitively. These games were sleazy, nasty, ad-infested, and probably Mafia owned or something. I needed a shower every time I played those games because, gosh, the things we did to earn coins were unspeakable. I happily uninstalled those games and I've never gamed again on mobile.

The apps I haven't paid for come in a few categories: indispensable utilities (password manager), preloaded brand apps (Android/Google properties), and paid services (my bank, my transportation, etc.)

So I don't really dabble much in free apps at all, because "free" means "ad-supported" or "freemium" or "spammers" and I just have no truck with that. You get what you pay for, and my phone doesn't have the space to be given over to fly-by-nights.
Leverage the richness of HTTP status codes
I am not yet 50+ but it won't be long now.

Yeah, I had a ZX Spectrum when I was ten.

And I am an avid Path Of Exile player with Civilization thrown in between leagues and play Splendor with my brother over the Internet practically daily.

Completely fits.
I used GPT to generate some RStan code last month and was very impressed with the initial starting point it gave me.
Similar work w LSTM-RNN models.
But the number of times it confidentially gives me output and I respond: “are you sure?” and it completely changes its answer.
Buyer beware!!
The only thing that works for me is to say that I dont want any recommendations from that channel. It seems brutal at first but actually I think it's entirely fair and solves the problem. If a channel posts a video about why the S23 is the best phone to buy then I can safely ignore that entire channel. The likelihood of him also posting christian documentaries into the same channel is basically zero.
social desirability bias. people think it's true because they want to believe it's true, it sounds plausible that it's true
I recommend experienced engineers dip their toes into management to see if it's the right career path for you. But make sure that you're able to back out if you hate it, which is a very likely outcome.
Here you go https://jez.io/pandoc-markdown-css-theme/

Source: https://github.com/jez/pandoc-markdown-css-theme

And the Jekyll version https://github.com/jez/pandoc-markdown-jekyll-theme

I'm trying to move my site to this theme and got it working locally but too lazy to transition with my tweaks, and additions or rather the removals to the bare minimum with just Pandoc and Make (or something simpler) that I'm thinking. Not in a hurry.
That's the "From each according to their ability" part.
This is a fun one:

Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8423309/
That’s pretty incredible to think about. I didn’t think that was feasible.
This paper presents a novel approach to incorporate memory into a transformer. It does not demonstrate that this approach works in a useful manner. While the approach is interesting, I’m skeptical that the RNN has enough capacity to encode the memory in it's output. I would have liked to see more detail on the synthetic benchmark they used. The memory component may be learning the benchmark rather than a generalized feature.
> On a more constructive note, MS-DOS and Windows operate on a fundamentally different philosophy from UNIX

Not sure I follow. There are many concepts in DOS that are the same as Unix: pipes, redirecting output, stdout, stdin, and stderr. DOS's batch language was limited, but conceptually it allowed for very Unix like chaining of commands. I suppose you could argue / vs - for command line paramaters... but conceptually they were similar. Unix file systems could be case sensitive or not.

I think about the only thing that philosophically was all that different was drive letters, multitasking and multiuser. Unix didn't do drive letters, and DOS didn't do multitasking and multiuser. Eventually Windows did, and grew up to compete nicely with Unix.
i think the point here was that it might be useful to have language redundancy so that brain damage which robs you of one language may leave you with some of your backups
Many (most?) states do, at least as the written law goes. Enforcement is a different story.
Have you seen the Volvo EX90? Other than the lidar sensor bump and no grille it mostly looks like any other Volvo SUV
lol check out the Kia Ev6 GT.
I’ve been battling a case like that for about a year. That’s disheartening of course; however, what’s worse was that Bing was featuring spammy proxied copies of my website on their first pages!

I’ve reported that and lost lots of time and hope that something can be done.
> Why do you think forests are meaningless?

I didn’t say this and don’t think it.
they may be tires, but they're not pneus, mon ami
I'd suggest doing so. Also a sleep study to see if you have sleep apnea, because it also results in frequent job changes.

I unfortunately have both (although both are now being managed and my stability has hugely improved). There was a lot of drama before the diagnoses, and I'm still working through having taken it personally...
We make pretty good Hondas and Toyotas, though. My household has a 20 year old Camry from Kentucky that starts practically every time you crank it (except when the battery is too old).
Yes, that’s right. In fact, in college we used Borland compilers.

But my first job had standardized on MSVC. So, that determined what I used on the job.

Loved Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++ IDEs in those days. Simple and fast!
And I can point out that your accusation is completely unfounded. Every single commercial language learning tool is marketed similarly. Duolingo is just the most popular/successful, so people hear about it.

Terrible planning on the part of said Montreal people has nothing to do with Duolingo. I’m sorry that their plan didn’t work out. Ironically, their forced immersion has probably done wonders for their French.

Sorry you caught the brunt of my frustration. You seem reasonable. Duolingo’s great lol.
What happened to ground based laser propulsion? Where you heat up the propellant with a ground based laser during takeoff and then use the same laser source to power your ship is space?

I remember a few videos of launching small rockets with a ground based laser from some twenty years ago. Haven’t laser technology improved since?
Step 2 for a Reddit clone/competitor would be much easier and more convincing given the current state of LLM’s.
What was hacker news before delicious/reddit/digg/slashdot... before the web bassed internet... before bbs's... what's the analog version of these?

Also I've talked about SQL, made an adobe flash joke, ML, and many other tech things at bars in the last month, with randos.

Had a good hour discussion about ChatGPT with an NFL journalist from the local paper.
Indeed, in many languages, even unrelated ones like Finnish, Greek, and Vietnamese, the word for moth is "night butterfly".
What are you suggesting? Lego isn’t a Chinese company.
My take-away from your take-away is that LLMs might well take away the one part of my job that I genuinely enjoy doing. Writing code, by hand, myself. Reasoning from first principles.

This is also one of the reasons I transitioned to developing AI models myself. At least I'll be safe until they start rewriting themselves from the ground up. And at that point we'll all have bigger worries to deal with anyway.
Existing iPad Apps May Run On Apple's VR/AR Headset
Really good point too, though for the most part I like to think if I audit the code well enough it will work? That said the other day I used it for some string manipulation based on powers of 10, and the code looked correct as per my audit of it. However in reality when I ran the code it was really bad. You might say that I my self would produce buggy code the first time around, that is true... but I also find the LLM equally frustrating because for me (and only me, a sample size of 1 calm down people)? I find I can iterate faster over an idea by hand vs using an LLM for a lot of things.
3D-printed 600-sq-ft home in Maine is the future of sustainable homebuilding
Same. It just… works.
Wait, what? Have all these streaming services really continued the traditional blast-you-with-commercials bullshit? The few times I've seen broadcast TV I just figured the sheer amount of commercials was due to the increasingly captive audience.

For the monthly price of one seedbox, luxury can be yours.
> ’ve tried to introduce them to science, space, programming, history, math, finance, nature, etc. content and they don’t want to have anything to do with it.

How did you try to do this? This sounds like a horror story I'm scared of happening when I have kids.
I feel that this study is making a very general conclusion based on very specific criteria. While I agree that knowing multiple languages often increases cognitive overhead, and probably doesn't make me superhuman smart or anything, it's a choice that does have real consequences on my abilities. Depending on the context I find myself in, it may be more useful or not. If I'm traveling around Europe, being conversational in five European languages is extremely beneficial. If I'm taking an IQ test in a lab in Iowa, knowing five European languages probably won't give me any benefit and might actually make me slower to recall the relevant things for the test.

We get good at the skills we practice, and there is absolutely a benefit from practicing the skills that are relevant to our lives.

Personally, one of the main benefits I get from knowing multiple languages is that it helps me to reason about abstract meaning and understand how to communicate clearly across cultural and linguistic lines. That's a very useful skill for developing apps that are used internationally and for living a lifestyle where I'm constantly context-switching into different cultures.

I'm a native English speaker, and one thing I've noticed is that people who only speak English are often the worst communicators because they don't realize how ambiguous their language is, how much slang they're using, and how difficult they are to understand for someone who grew up in a different context. Is it a cognitive advantage to be able to communicate better with a diverse group of people? I don't know. Not according to this study.
I speak three and echo the above. English gets you most of the way in most places, but you can form stronger connections if you can meet others on their home turf instead of making them come to yours.

Might not afford you IQ points but it does afford you diplomacy points.
Basic premise seems wrong. From the article: “Other polls, including Gallup, ask specifically about believing in God and show a decline in young adults who believe in God.”
It's ready: https://web.concise.app
PFRC2? There’ve been some attempts to build an atomic aircraft, decades ago. Haven’t technology of compact reactors improved since?
Lately, in light of things like Substack, I'm really wondering why we don't see more micropayments. Sure, it make more sense to pay $5/month if I'm going to read everything from that author, but (at least sometimes) I would pay $1 for one article. As for services, there are a few core reasonable things to pay for: cloud storage, hosting, maybe Github copilot or Adobe. What is certain is that no one wants to pay for 500 Twitch Streamers, every author of every Substack, youTube AND Hulu etc etc.
An AI can theoretically ingest 1M token of data, analyze, summarize, indexing, and storing the condensed information in a hard drive. Then later on retrieve it based on the metadata for specific situations that needs it. At millions of token, it is basically a superhuman that can learn new things on the fly at the speed unimaginable to any organic based life.

We are so close to something amazing, and scary.
<ChatGPT> I reviewed the Stan code again and realized

What kind of data structure permits it to keep that code in particular to be reviewed? Is that part of the model? Or is this phrase a hallucination?
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Pot calling kettle black in 3,2,1:

"Examining Piranesi’s excited dreams of ancient Rome 170 years later, the young Le Corbusier was appalled: “Porticos, colonnades, and obelisks!!! It is crazy. It is horrible, ugly, and idiotic.”

From what I've read, Le Corbusier was known to make some of the ugliest Brutalist architecture, so I found it somewhat amusing that he thought the same of Piranesi's Rome. Also interesting is that there is no mention of the word "Brutalist" on Le Corbusier's Wikipedia page, even though it is featured in the introductory section of the Brutalist Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture

"The style, as developed by architects such as the Smithsons, Hungarian-born Ernő Goldfinger, and the British firm Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, was partly foreshadowed by the modernist work of other architects such as French-Swiss Le Corbusier, Estonian-American Louis Kahn, German-American Mies van der Rohe, and Finnish Alvar Aalto.[5][13]"

Many individuals seek to avoid association with certain terms- and perhaps Le Corbusier signaled late in life that he didn't want his architectural style to be labeled "Brutalist", and his most fervent supporter/biographers on Wikipedia perhaps took notice.

[5] https://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/features/list/a-loo...

[13] https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/architecture/articles/2016/ma...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%C3%A9_d'habitation (1952)
https://99percentinvisible.org/article/unite-dhabitation-le-...

Obviously there is some subjectivity involved, and perhaps constructing anything after the post-WWII era was probably good for the economy, so I won't completely write him off. But seriously, the amount of exposed concrete in his works are quite drab slabs.