skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like you're conflating (in)fertility levels with fertility rate. Fertility rate has been dropping steadily, particularly in developed countries; however, this doesn't mean individuals are slowly all becoming infertile. In fact, studies have shown infertility rates have plateaued in recent decades, at least among women [1].

Fertility rates are dropping for different reasons--fewer individuals choosing to enter into long-term relationships and have kids, and families choosing to have fewer children on average than previous generations.

[1] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/...
As someone who also speaks four languages, I agree with most of your post but here are some more advantages I can think of:

* Access to more media

I regularly consume newspapers, subreddits and similar in other languages to get different points of view on things.
Then there's literature and films (especially the ones that don't have translations)

* Ease of travel (this is highly dependent on the languages you know)

* Connecting with people.

Simply switching to someone's native tongue gives you a familiarity with someone that takes much longer to get if you're speaking their 2nd (or 3rd) language.

* Bragging

Especially in the US/UK you'll get a lot of positive comments from people because they think you're some kind of genius (which the study above disproves...)

Before I started working, I thought knowing this many languages would be helpful in the business world, turns out I have barely ever used them as the working language is always English.
Even as an Aussie I have to disagree with you here. The commenter at least put Fahrenheit in the degree.

People are allowed to communicate in a way that they're familiar with. If they have used F their entire life and so has everyone around them, then its fine.

The US demographic represents roughly 41% of Hacker News, I think its fine if they use their own measurement system.
> This article uses terms that de-legitimize certain types of discourse

What bothers me most about this delegitimization is how it's only ever applied to the right. Left has literal communists pushing an ideology that caused famine, misery and oppresion worldwide, radical feminists tweeting KILL ALL MEN all day... Nobody bats an eye. It's like the right is perpetually scrutinized
ever since Hitler but people couldn't care less about the oppression and destruction brought about by Soviet Union style subversion.

I don't even consider "radicalization" and "extremism" to be bad things. "Radicals" are simply those who refuse to compromise on their ideals. There must be a truth out there, we're all seeking that truth and it sure as hell won't be found by compromising on some middle term that neither side is happy about. There must be some kind of resolution.
I don't like to speak for others, but the educated Russians I'm in touch with are universally against this invasion.
> I almost never find myself accidentally sticking English words into sentences, but I will frequently mix words from my second and third languages.

Which is perfectly valid english.
“ and these effects all disappeared when the groups were matched to remove potentially confounding factors”

I would be interested to know how they managed to remove the potentially confounding factors.

To me, it seems clear: bilinguals whose language isn’t a major language of the country often come from immigrant families. Immigrants have a great work ethic and teach their kids in the foreign language. Then the kids work hard to fit in and learn the other language, too. They tend to be less interested in “decadent” activities and end up overachieving. This is especially true for immigrants from formerly Communist countries that prioritized STEM.

In the past, people learned Latin or German to access scientific literature etc.

Not to mention that learning two DISPARATE languages enables people to triangulate better on other languages and ways of thinking
It's a very difficult hike. I did it in 2008 and between the ladders, knee-deep mud, timing your hikes with the tides, and general swampiness, 6-8 days is average. There are sections in the South end of the trail where it's not unusual to only get 8 km in.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=15251117179700741...
Most people live in countries that are basically monolingual ("dominant" as you say), though not in the the naive, sheltered way that the US is.
Very true, but in all fairness the proposed solution of using Turing machines is pretty reasonable. I think the title is a play on Scott Aaronson's "largest number" game.
I highly recommend any programmer seriously using ChatGPT to go through this entire guide:

https://learnprompting.org/docs/intermediate/chain_of_though...

Providing context, getting GPT to explain the steps before doing them, creating feedback loops, etc is super helpful when doing this stuff.

It's still useful to just go "write this function in x language" but anything beyond a Stack-Overflow type copy/paste script it helps to do a lot more hand-holding. The ROI is worth it.
I’ve been using Copilot since the beta and it does cause dependency, which can be dangerous because you have to be constantly vigilant of errors it might be introducing. It’s a good idea to turn it off sometimes and try to solve problems manually.
There's a whole German word for that color and noise you see: Eigengrau.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigengrau
The DMCA bans that too.

> (2) No person shall ... provide any technology ... that...

> (A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;

> (B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or

> (C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201-
Hugging Face themselves did say the takedown request was not a formal legal request from the get go:

"Company StabilityAI has requested a takedown of this published model characterizing it as a leak of their IP

While we are awaiting for a formal legal request, and even though Hugging Face is not knowledgeable of the IP agreements (if any) between this repo owner (RunwayML) and StabilityAI, we are flagging this repository as having potential/disputed IP rights. [...]"

They didn't hint at an account hijacking by a third party if that's what your team intended to convey to them however.

To add to that, your CIO addressed the community at the time and characterized RunwayML in the following terms: "[...] We also won't stand by quietly when other groups leak the model in order to draw some quick press to themselves while trying to wash their hands of responsibility."
The "like bacon around eight stalks of asparagus" was particularly ham-fisted.
It's trivial in the extreme cases, but similar logic was used to implement the floating points - it compromised on the accuracy of results, but gave us a number system that's useful across a range of scales.

If we could find some set of staggeringly large values, perhaps even infinite, with some useful set of operations that could be performed on them (and mapping back to the set) then we can come up with ridiculous answers that aren't necessarily useless.
CSS has lots of non-layout-shifting animation techniques - obviously there’s stuff like only changing colours, images, backgrounds, and effects like box-shadow, but things like animating the transform: property are also “layout safe” and very high performance because they’re applied after layout: https://web.dev/animations-guide/
This doesn't answer my question, and I didn't say anything about "freedom of expression" because it doesn't apply here.

Again, do you have a documented instance of an individual manager, preferably at a company larger than ~100 people, getting personally sued after a dismissal of one of their direct reports?
Interesting note to see that Paul Graham initially hated the name Reddit lol
I think we might not be getting the best data, but I do think that struggling to survive can weirdly blunt suicidal behaviors. However there's a strong urge to not believe the death of a loved one is a suicide.
How does one, practically speaking, curate article publication in a world with arXiv?

Curation kind of requires gatekeepers, and good gatekeeping is a full-time job that needs to be paid for. In the days of print journals, there was both a motivation, because you can only print so many articles per month due to materials costs, and a steady revenue stream to pay for it, because everyone has to pay for the journals to get any access to articles at all. The Internet's been eroding both of those factors for a good quarter century now.
On Firefox on my Android phone it's phrased much better: "Use this device with screen lock".

But that doesn't sound like something I'd ever want. Obviously I want to be able to log in on my computer too?
Having lived in Japan for over a decade now I can say they have always been a culture that leaves things to computers if possible. Vending machines are everywhere and many places had vending machines that would give you a ticket to get a service or product from employees. In the last six months a few places I shop at have gone full self checkout (complete with those who couldn’t understand or work the machines causing slowdowns). However, having an AI tool run city hall is something of a bigger jump. The article doesn’t really go into detail on what it does. I wonder if they tried to hire humans first for decent pay or just had the unicorn hunt then concluded AI wins the job.
You need the extension "Clickbait Remover" - it just grabs a random frame from the video and sets it as the thumbnail, will change your youtube life:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clickbait-remover-...
The author is the editorial page editor at the local newspaper. You expect them to install more plugs? I don’t think that makes sense.
You 2 are the enlightened few...
Assimil Dutch is an amazing course! It brings you to B2 in about 45 hours of applied study (just doing as the instructions tell you!) I really like Assimil courses in general but the polyglot community widely believes that the Dutch course is their best of all.

Good luck!
On the website I just click the X next to that section and it disappears for a month.
Remind me of an article where three anthropologists were debating what does mean to be civilized. "Knowing one language makes us human, knowing more than one language make us civilised." is the only thing I now remember from that reading.

Does knowing more than one languages make you more reflective/liberal?
You are among the few that are enlightened ...
More dead people? Wow that was really easy to answer. It's so frustrating when these conversation turn into philosophical defenses of suicide.

Huge issue on reddit, and IME the people that insist on debating these issues will repeatedly refuse to listen to quite simple and reasonable explanations.
What a strange article. The bulk of it tells me it isn't helping you...yet you conclude it's changed the way you code?
I have an Intel I219-V adaptor on a Windows desktop. I had a hell of a time trying to figure out the problem when I upgraded to Verizon FIOS internet; upload speeds were abysmal. The chipset has a hardware bug making it incompatible with the Verizon Optical Network Terminal. The workaround is to disable checksum offloading in the network driver advanced settings. It sounds like this is the linux version of the same thing.
They called out the costs incurred:

$30 - dataset generation (OpenAI GPT 3.5-turbo)
$24 - llama 7b fine-tuning (8x A100 80GB instance costs)
$84 - llama 13b fine-tuning (8x A100 80GB instance costs)
Russ Roberts (host of Econtalk podcast) says: take the teacher, not the class, meaning (at least in economics) you'll get more value from a great teacher of a boring topic than from a poor teacher of an exciting topic.

I feel that describes my YouTube preferences: I'd prefer to see amazingly intelligent/engaging content on any topic than just average content on topics I'm ostensibly very interested in.
It is an interesting philosophical question, but I think the practical answer is that yes, they should feel lucky. As we don't know whether our universe is deterministic or not, we can't make the judgement call on that account. So let's ignore that possibility for the moment.

What elements can we consider when looking at whether or not the flight would've still resulted in a crash if the person hadn't missed the flight? For starters, what caused the crash? Was it an engine malfunction? Did two planes crash into each other? Did some kid with a laser pointer blind the pilots?

If it was some mechanical issue like an engine issue, that was going to happen whether or not they were on the plane. But if it was a timing issue like two planes crashing, there is more room for the possibility that they would not have crashed if the person had been on the flight.

Was the planes departure slightly delayed because they were expecting the person was going to make it to the flight? If they had showed up on time, maybe the flight could've gotten out a couple mins early. Or alternatively, if the person had shown up, but made a scene during boarding and made the plane lose its spot in the queue, the crash might've been avoided.

In any case, if I were in this situation, I would feel very lucky to have missed the flight.
Musk seems to think it's a tech company and margins are not so amazing for that industry.

If you think it should be considered an auto company the valuation is even more ludicrous.
> Romanian "salut" not French "salut"

I always loved the Romanian joke where someone says "mersi" and then you reply "oh, I didn't know you were French" but I suppose that comes up with many words.
I sync my (encrypted) OTP secrets between all my devices.
The last time you made that incorrect assertion I provided you this source demonstrating that it's incorrect: https://thegradient.pub/othello/
PrinceJS
> an extra language

I learned spanish at a young age and I find it pretty useless. The last time I used it in the past 20 years was watching Casa De Papiel

Really wished I learned something like German or Chinese instead
Training open-source LLMs on ChatGPT output is a really bad idea.
Because EVs are fun to drive.
Now that's some Damn Small Linux!
I don't think that's what this OP is about, and oh my god are we still debating the lockdown?

You say "lockdown excuse" as if it was a clearly bad idea, which it wasn't.
The person you’re replying to has kids in the single digits for age. Thinking about a college-level education for a 7 and 9 year old seems fairly unrealistic, and learning “educational” topics like you point out at that age is perfectly fine. You’re still learning addition and subtraction at age 7.
I'm curious about how french immersion works in English speaking Canada. It's something seen as "higher class"?

I live the mirror situation: french speaking young parent intending to make my child bilingual at a young age.

Here english is obviously seen as an edge and is studied a lot.
12 min per app should be plenty, but they should be rejecting a bunch of this garbage in about 20seconds.
I'm a new manager and am facing a conundrum over a supposed super star who joined my team but, at least from what I can tell, is far and away the least productive member of my team. Any ideas?
Wow, really? The project has 25k github stars and 300 contributors. They are on v2.44. Why is it not serious? What makes any software "serious" to you?
Yes fully agreed.

The scale and cadence of it seems to be different.

Also, once again Karl ideas of “ownership of the means of copying and training” seems like it will be relevant.

I have nothing cleaver to say; I agree with you. Just wanted to add some colors.

I find it sad that IP laws can be enforced ruthlessly in a case. And fully ignored in another.

Actually, musing; I have something to say:

We could force AI manufacturers to reveal what the data underlying the training; and use IP at that stage to effect some repartitions.

Raws BOM-style list of training data should not reveal their secret sauce? ( actually question )
100%. It even helps me reflect on my past managers to see what they were not great at. So I don't pick up those same habits.
Others have said, but institutionalized settings can be good for getting the "vetting" out of the way. Why do so many romances originate in school? Because each and every participant recognizes everyone else is in the exact same position he is -- a subject of circumstance.

Streets, transportation -- these are low-filter interstices. Maximum wariness is warranted, really regardless of sex.

If you're not interested in going to the club, bar, art class -- what are you interested in? Seriously. It's tough. If your hobbies are sticking your head in the sand / introspective study (mine are), you will need to jump outside your comfort zone or else expect some degree of social resignation.
I did Carmanah before they closed it and yeah it rained the entire time, we camped on the beach and it was foggy and rainy and the foghorn went all night long... good times!
I currently authenticate with my fingerprint to 1Password, which then autofills a random password and an OTP code. That fulfils my security needs, and I'm unwilling to migrate to something harder to use.

Nearly everyone I know has less tolerance for annoying security than me, so I don't see how WebAuth can possibly succeed.
It's pretty obvious to people who speak 2+ language that there are trade-offs between "going deep" in one language and having "surface-level" knowledge of many languages.

The one thing they found which bilinguals might be better at has to do with digit recall, which actually agrees with previous research that bilinguals are 'more logical' in their second tongue and 'more emotional' in their native tongue.

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/communicating-foreign-langua...

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2006-02935-000

https://www.languagemagazine.com/2023/04/21/bilinguals-react....

So the results may have been different if each participant was allowed to take the test in their mother tongue.

The list of things they tested is way too small to conclude that there are no general cognitive advantages. What is "general" anyway?

Things they didn't test:

- the ability to learn new languages

- the ability to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words from context clues

- ability to communicate or get by in a brand new/unfamiliar environment

- ability to detect BS (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8423309/)

- ability to improvise

- abstract thinking (not being limited by a linear inner voice)

- etc...

There are many confounding factors they didn't test for. e.g., what if the bilinguals are more logical, but have weaker comprehension of the question? do those things cancel out? Or, if being multilingual makes you "overthink" prompts and maybe you get penalized on time in standardized tests, etc...

According to their questionnaire, the "bilingualness" of participants was self-reported, all you had to do was enter a number between 1 and 20 for the number of languages you speak.. It would have been better if written and spoken proficiency in each of the second languages had been tested and used to correlate with the results.

I could go on. I think this is actually one of the worst studies I've ever read in terms of "confidence of the title" vs. "what they actually tested."
The wound that never heals: https://nautil.us/ptsd-the-wound-that-never-heals-235381/
And a $3B market cap, unbelievably.

What's kind of incredible too is they actually lose money still.
The losses are growing faster than the revenue.
They've only had, what, 14 years to figure this out?
You wonder what their staff of 1000ish are working on.

Also, forgot this gem: "On January 21, 2023 PagerDuty CEO Tejada's layoff memo was criticized for insensitivity for inappropriately quoting Martin Luther King, announcing promotions of executives, and tone deafness." (from wiki)
Funny, I also believe I could see atoms. It works really well when you're outside in the sun, you look into the blue sky (but not into the suns direction) and then you'll see these atoms very clearly and it looks like you're seeing the oxygen move.

This is actually not floaters and instead is explained as the blood vessels in your eyes moving blood. Believable, but it sure does look like you're seeing random "information" rather than just pipes at certain stages of pump.

I can also see things move if I stare long enough. I can see the atoms, I can see the coloured blocks and such. I can also see the eyes "ISO" when in a dark room, I find that awesome as a photographer.
I met someone claiming to be one of Tony’s best friends who told me that he had his drug induced idea that he needed to burn himself as a death and rebirth thing. That he had a secret death cult he was trying to start.

He also said that the man who ran into the Man at Burning Man a couple years ago had his final conversation with Tony before he self immolated.

The guy who shared was a rather successful entrepreneur and otherwise I had no reason to suspect he was lying.
We frame these situations under the banner of "solve the problem you have".

Avoid premature optimisation for problems you might have. If your site only has 1000 users, there's no benefit to deploying it in infra scaled for a million users. Could you have a million users in the future? Sure, solve it when you start heading that way. Could your site stagnate with 20,000 users? Absolutely. It's a waste of engineering efforts (and money) to scale for 1 million users now.
Cool. The idea of augmenting a transformer with an RNN isn't new, but I'll take a look.

See also the threads here, mentioning other methods for scaling up context length up to the millions of tokens:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35502187
This is me though I was never really a gamer growing up. As a child I loved playing Adventure on my friend's Atari 3600 but never had a game console of my own until recently (I bought an Xbox). Now I play, of all things, Fortnite (mainly because it was free to try out, lol) and I'm not terrible... probably pretty good for my age group (absolutely slower than the kids, though). As a programmer I am still fairly mentally agile but this game feels like it helps. Doesn't hurt that our office has a Playstation and I can, on occasion, play there much to the surprise of some younger folks.
I don't think any of those channels are trying to replace an actual science education in any given subject. But they are certainly imparting a lot more than physics "factoids", and some are probably closer to intro lectures on specific topics intended for a general audience (done by a talented and engaging educator).

It's not directly equipping the audience with professional skills for a scientific career, but it is generating interest in science, and indirectly encouraging people to expand their own STEM skills and knowledge. I'm sure that dozens (hundreds? thousnads?) of people have gone into mathematics at least in part due to an interest generated by the likes of numberphile, etc.
Where do you get the 95% number from? My guess comes from observing closely their culture and the diversity they’re in , but I am curious where your 95% number comes from? BTW it was also common for folks to practice multiple profession at the same time and it was not uncommon for all families to raise a little bit of food or have a few livestock while practicing other occupations.it is still true in many of the rura areas.