skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this discussion absurd. Here's a paper that most people have not read and then add their own subjective anecdote to it to confirm their personal opinion.

Has anyone bothered to look at the tests that determine cognitive ability in this context? Here's one(or it's advanced version the double trouble test):

“assess the ability to inhibit cognitive interference that occurs when processing of a specific stimulus feature impedes the simultaneous processing of a second stimulus attribute.”[1]

What this test is basically saying is that being bilingual doesn't give you an edge at playing Lumosity, because as we have learned from past discussion these brain improvement apps don't actually "improve your brain"(whatever that may mean), they just train your performance on certain tasks. Why does measuring concentration relate to being bilingual?

What the personal comment below does in fact try to remind people of indirectly is that being natively multilingual actually makes it harder for a person to be controlled and directed and by extension give you access to vastly different perspectives on a lot of topics especially when those languages stem from different language families.

[1] https://lesley.edu/article/what-the-stroop-effect-reveals-ab...
I love to joke to my kids that twitch is just AM radio for their age group... they get mad on that one cause it's pretty on point.
and from many senior devs, and definitely from outsourced dev teams. Outsourced code is like swiss cheese of security and UX-unusability nightmares
Do you have a specific issue with one of this takes?
Do you include professional jobs in “all types of labor?” Software Engineer?
And now it’s come full circle with scheme in excel https://www.codemag.com/Article/2207071/The-Excellent-Scheme... ... it’s a commercial plugin, though
I always had to clean up my own lego and if I got parts mixed and wanted to rebuild from the instructions later, you better believe I had to dig around for hours (probably less than 10 minutes, but I was a kid ;)) to find it.
Funny how this is the same misleading language that tripped up Bard during the Google demo [0]. What's with telescope image headlines and the use of ambiguous language?

[0] https://twitter.com/astrogrant/status/1623091683603918849?s=...
Or maybe 30k for a new grad software engineer in London is a joke.

What is your salary? Salary transparency empowers us all.
Government has been doing this for decades, with minimum parking requirements. I don't ever hear businesses complain about how those cut into profit margins.
It might be true, but it only means that don't learn/teach languages to gain cognitive advantages.

As a tool language is useful for many things. Gaining access to other culture(s) is one of the most amazing ones for me.
"Pan" is about it.
So many things like this come out but I've rarely found a way to actually implement any of these things, so they don't become actual learnings or takeaways. Skimming over the paper it just doesn't seem applicable.

Perhaps someone has a list of interesting innovations from recent research we can actually apply at work with data, programming or such?
Having both, ICE and EV tech under the hood means more technology that can fail. Heavier than either, less EV range, possibly no subsidy in some jurisdictions, things like that.
I agree that German isn't especially useful globally, but you're wrong on a couple points:

- There are several countries with German as an official language, and a few other with German-speaking minorities. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg and Belgium all have it as an official language (though the last few are not terribly significant). There are also around half a million native German speakers in Italy. It's also useful as approximately the root language of Germanic languages, and makes it faster to pick up e.g. Dutch and to a lesser extent the Scandinavian languages.

- All internationally minded Germans do not speak English. Large swaths of Germans speak no, or only basic travelers' English. That everyone speaks English in Germany is an illusion that English speakers experience in Germany because they largely mix with only one social class, and the non-English speakers are invisible to them.

(I'm a native English speaker and fluent German speaker who's lived in the US and Germany for equal amounts of my life. My girlfriend, for example, is not comfortable in English, nor are quite a few of my friends, particularly those that are blue collar, somewhat older, or from the east.)
This made me laugh, however, it’s awesome hearing how he was in the same time period that the original post is about. Definitely relevant.
I really try to leverage builtin apps as much as possible. For example, I don't have a music playing app. I use "Files" and "Podcasts" which were preloaded. Files can play music for me just fine, because I don't have any playlists or sophisticated playback needs (I lied, I do have a few playlists made out of folders with files arranged just so.)

I don't really try to solve problems with 3rd party apps, like I don't have any adblocking, but I use NextDNS so the private DNS blocking is built in and I can use that from anywhere. I just use my default web browser and my default email reader and all that.

I think it's a fundamental type error that people tool up their little mobile device as if it's a desktop computer full of software. Again, I have little storage space to give over to a bunch of third-party cruft. So I use the preloaded apps to the best of their abilities, and I load stuff as I have a fundamental need or there's a paid service I'm accessing with them.

I uninstall apps frequently too. It is essential security review to reduce attack surface. I like how the Android 11 will revoke permissions that haven't been used in a while. It's good practice to remove your unused apps because then you are less likely to succumb to supply-chain attacks, among others.
I had a similar experience.

I was around ten years old, and experiencing sleep walking mixed with nightmares once every few weeks.

My bedroom was on the attic floor, as was my brothers room and a play area by the stair case.

There was a gray and white “queen of solar mathematics” who was like a ghost, following me. She would not let me go back to sleep or leave me alone unless I could trace the floor plan of the attic into squares. I had to walk on the perimeters of the squares only, and if I messed up I had to start over from the corner.
It felt like forever, I was more and more tired and making mistakes. I could see my body from above at the same time as being in it, like it was a video game.

Eventually I think I collapsed and woke up at a random spot early in the morning. My brother asked me what the hell I was doing.
< Martin briefly worked for Retro Computers, the firm behind the relaunch, but it collapsed in 2019. />

It's a bit dishonest to play down her part in the company [1] and by the sounds of it [2], got off lightly with a bit of deepfake footage, there's worse that could have been done.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2019/01/23/retro_computers_ltd_d...

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2019/02/05/retro_computers_ltd_w...
I don't think the difference between "conscious being with a purpose" and "oblivious but powerful optimization process" is important here.

(Maybe it is? A human engineer trying to design something that maximizes its inclusive genetic fitness might make it do so more explicitly. Maybe that would produce things that are better about doing it in practice than we are. But "evolution is smarter than you are" and I think we would have trouble actually doing better than evolution by designing deliberate fitness-maximizers. After all, our present best attempts in the direction of making machines smart enough to survive in the world have largely given up on trying to program particular goals and purposes into them directly!)
After a month of heavy MidJourney use, I feel like MJ really needs a conversation mode more than anything. I can get images that are 80% of what I want, or 90%, but that final 10% can take so many rerolls. It's like crafting legendary loot in an RPG and hoping for best-in-slot stats. The grind takes exponentially more time the closer you get to what you want.

So many of my favorite image creations could be fixed simply by being able to say "hey try redrawing the hand with 4 visible fingers this time" or "turn that frown upside down".

I asked in their support forums about this and a moderator (?) glibly told me "MJ is not Photoshop". Ok, and? Imagine if GPT-4 only allowed one-shot prompts and that is kinda what MJ feels like.

I expect we will get there soon, MJ needs a conversation mode soon or they will be beaten in the market by someone who does. I feel foolish for buying an annual subscription to MJ if they do not realize this... hopefully they're working on it.
José Salvador Alvarenga
This is just the type of thing everyone has to say right now to appease the 'expert software engineers' who despise the idea of writing anything that's not assembly, or the new version of this type of person that despises working with extremely high level specifications, such as these new linguistic interfaces. Stating it's not helpful is not a useful statement, unless more specific about the type of help to which is being referred.
Still just empty claims - just like the YouTube videos make. To me, if I'm your interviewer, it looks like you've internalized the fundamental anti-lesson. You can't distinguish BS from accurate knowledge, and you don't even understand that. The BS may get you by on HN but not in a serious workplace. I'm not paying you tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for that.

Every other objection still applies - including all the other benefits of college education. What about those issues?

Again, why should I trust you and your YouTube training. Also, which jobs?
I've felt that being multi lingual, a virtual form of world travel, usually benefits people socially, and society in general, but have always figured there was zero cognitive "edge" it gave me others.
When I did this trail long ago I got to meet Monique (since passed) who ran a very tasty burger joint at the mid point. She had quite the operation going with a sizable garden and food boated in regularly. Exchange students ran much of the kitchen. I must admit, I had not been prepared to find myself arguing over esoteric details of Python with her. Monique was a very interesting person who was still going to school into her 70s. I fondly recall looking back to see her resting on the beach.

While I wouldn't call it a "death hike", I've had several broken bones and been involved in a number of rescues over the years, and yet I still remember the fright from almost losing multiple fingers crossing a river in a cable car when a group up ahead thought they'd pull the cable to help us... it's a rather unique trail with quite a variety of uncommon points of interest.
On the contrary, 36 of its 60 bits are dedicated to goto labels. Although you're right that TMs cannot "call" a state then "return" to the caller, as would be expected from a reusable function. Regardless, for busy beaver purposes, most of TMs' state tends to be encoded in the tape rather than the state graph, so I suspect it's the differences in the means of data manipulation that create such a gap. (E.g., with substitution, you can easily move a term across an arbitrary amount of garbage.)
I use 1Password for TOTP. It has a screenshot option to scan the QR code during setup. It's handy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/12vn9re/twitter_au...
I find the pattern of "How are you feeling about X, 0-10?" followed up by "What would get you to a 10?" very useful. Almost nobody ever says 10 and when they do, when you pressure test it, "So, everything is 100% perfect and you want it to stay the same forever?" it gets revised down appropriately.

"What would get you to a 10" is as very constructive way to think about it as well. It's not just complaining, it's articulating what you'd like to change.

Once teams get used to this, it comes part of the vernacular, "I'm only 6/10 on this idea". The follow up is always, "What would get you to a 10"
> gradients are so well-behaved that we can learn GPT-4 level stuff

What are "well-behaved" gradients?

What type of GPT-4 level stuff?
For excellent front-end alternatives, without recommendation, see:

https://invidious.io

Click "Use invidious" and bookmark 1-2 of the choices
Always disappointed me how many TBMs wind up entombed, because extraction adds too much cost and complexity. At 150m long that's a lot of machinery for a one time project.

The lack of certainty to forward conditions was surprising. I assumed ground penetrative radar was doing things here but the article implies not.
You'll see this in the workplace too. It's very hard to explain to the not-most-productive people that the most productive people on the team are also usually making the most mistakes. They'll always be happy to just sit back and criticize the mistakes. It's the only way they can be better.
When you grow up with the internet, it can be kind of easy to take it personally when companies torpedo part of the culture like it has no value. It ends up feeling like an attack on the internet, which itself has almost an amorphous personality, behavior and appearance that can still be fairly defined at moments in time.

Really wish more sites were like HN where they established themselves, their purpose and what they believed in, then stuck to it. If HN cost $1/mo to use, I'd use it.
Í speak 4 languages and I love it: Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German and English. I have lived or worked in countries where those languages are spoken. Each language feels
like a unique perspective on life and unlocks the understanding of a new culture for you. When talking to a taxi driver or reading a local newspaper you will
be confronted with words or phrases that have no literal translation into your mother tongue. For a moment you are left without clear references and you have to make a significant cognitive effort to understand a concept that does not exist in your native culture (and therefore language). The construction of new references and meanings is what makes learning a new language all worth it. Understanding a new way to describe this world (while ideally living in a different culture) can make you a more empathetic, curious, and serene human being - in opposition to the polarizing black and white thinking that dominates most parts of the world these days.
That’s a fair point, but it still requires the production of oil and means the material will practically never break down in a landfill.
I think at that point it's a huge advantage but hopefully none of us have to be in that spot.
I would love an option in the settings to disable youtube shorts. I don't want them.
Just a heads up — you can solve that one annoyance; there are terminal commands that will reduce that animation to instantaneous.
Yes? It didn't know about the new code.
Thanks to Cory Doctorow there's now a word for this phenomenon: enshittification.

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
It's also good for putting together boiler plate classes and some other things. I had it code most of klotski for example and have used it pretty heavily in this project (and I think that is evident in the code)

https://github.com/Capsize-Games/airunner
I mean, that's exactly what my original comment said. Those adjustments are right in line with what you'd expect from a simple reduction of credit scores as a predictor. And given how often faith tends to be overextended to centralizing financial models, I'd say doing so is more likely in the right direction than not.

I haven't read any other discussion of the change other than this horrible article, and I'm not going to seek it out because the answer to culture war bullshit isn't to fill your head with both types of poor takes and try to somehow average them.
I get paid for it every time I use AI to accelerate my workflow.

A rising tide lifts ALL boats in the end. All of them. No exceptions. Just let it happen.
$2/request seems a little ridiculous. I checked the pricing and you’re not wrong… I just feel like that kind of pricing will apply even more industry pressure to develop competition. Decent open source options would be nice too.
On 2 & 3, what if you have a directory? There’s no easy way to tell whether /foo/bar is a directory or a file. FOO:[BAR] must be a directory.

I have a vague notion that there might have been the ability to have a virtual device span multiple directories, but as I think about it, this seems unlikely since it would make it ambiguous where something would be created if a directory exists in both root1 and root2, so perhaps not. It’s been 23 years since I last used VMS and 30 since it was my daily driver though, so it’s hard for me to say too much.
it's pretty unbelievable that someone would be pulling in 7 figures just for providing a list of people that worked at a company. all of that information feels so public. his clients were really willing to pay so much to... poach the employees?

this really really doesn't ring true for me.
Dismissing an important skillset by pretending it could be magical is called clickbait. The advantage of knowing a second language is to be able to communicate and understand a new segment of humanity. This is like creating a paper: being able to pump gas into your car affords no general improvement in hair growth on your toes.
I'd like to know if there's been any progress in the "memory" area of GPT. As far as I know, when you tell GPT to do something it runs the entire sequence of prompts over again from the beginning. This is obviously not practical for any applications that require ongoing collaboration, like using GPT integrated with your computer to execute commands and policies, or training GPT to be a better coding partner.
I wonder if it's different if you've studied the language vs if you grew up with it.

I learned polish from my parents when growing up and English from living in Canada and cartoons. My native tongue is English but I can speak polish fairly well and read and write it. I don't ever feel like I accidentally reach for polish or English words when I need the other.
>Joe Rogan has interviewed guests of very varied political leanings

To many on the left, this alone is "proof" that Rogan is The Other, which must be censored.

To put another way, this is exactly why Spotify hosting him was so controversial among the bien-pensant. Like the more recent attempted boycott of Hogwarts Legacy, the attempt to relegate Rogan to wrongthink was a miserable failure. Once the HL boycott failed those backing it did their best to rewrite history and claim that they never expected to succeed; did this happen with the Spotify attack?
I think the original comment is more about debian,Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.
And then separately, Arch vs Anarchy, etc.
My grandma, she's 90 something, and you can bet she's got more hours on Candy Crush than a professional eSports player has on their MOBAS or FPS.

Companies that think games are only for young people are leaving a lot of money on the table.
I don’t think poverty can be reduced to any one cause. People are poor for a lot of different reasons, often multiple reasons.

Some people have problems with financial reasoning, or other psychological money related issues (shopping addiction, gambling, etc). These are groups that do not benefit from mixed messaging about the importance of managing their credit.

Credit ratings are a way for lenders to assess risk which allows them to loan out more money, and money to those with fewer assets, than they would be able to lend without the signal credit ratings provide.

Diminishing the value of credit ratings is counter to the best interests of the poor and those who see upward mobility as a positive (obviously not everyone!)
I'd be curious to learn/chat more about how you're approaching it as a French-speaking parent. :)

I'm a native English speaker/~B1 French speaker trying to very intentionally create a bilingual household environment. It's not pure immersion, but I can (and do) narrate what I'm doing for most daily activities in French, read aloud in French, consume French audio, etc. All much to the bemusement of my own French mentor, who's validated that I'm not instilling a terrible accent, but is also getting peppered with questions in my search for French children's literature.
Someone close to me suffered something similar, she lost Spanish but kept the ability to speak Lithuanian (Her native language) shortly before her death, doctor commented that it was something he had seen before

It made treatment complex, because no one knew enough Lithuanian to communicate to the degree necesary
Unfortunately it seems to be out of print, not available anywhere. Maybe the company is going out of business?
> Not that colony collapse doesn’t worry me, it does. But if I was being baselessly told to fear agriculture production issues, I am super mad.

Maybe before getting emotionally attached to a position (again) you should understand what’s going on.
Ask HN: Design of Emacs type extensible editor based on electron?
Please hear me out: Do not consider this as some unrealistic ambitious project that I am going to pursue. This is purely a thought experiment and design discussion on the feasibility of the idea that bothers me.

I use Emacs most of the time. I do consider it a great piece of software purely due to its extensible nature. I can go on about how Emacs is fabulous, but that is not the point here.

I use VSCODE too. And it is also a great text editor based on Electron.

Electron is a great framework too.

Most of us while doing software development, use a browser. Either for browsing documentation, finding answers, checking the meaning of the error messages, etc. We copy code from the editor, shell to the browser, and back to the editor, and shell.

Also using electron we can create almost any kind of desktop application. Currently what is happening is we create/ship the entire Chrome/JS run time to create an entirely new application for each specific case.

Now let's try to put the pieces together.

Why can't there be a single editor that has a similar extensible nature as emacs but uses JavaScript as the scripting language, and develop extension using HTML and CSS unlike only a text-based extension using elisp in emacs, so that we can leverage the Chrome runtime efficiently?

Why can't we browse the web, edit text, and use the terminal all simultaneously?

Yes, anything is possible given that we solve the hurdles.

Based on your expertise and experience what challenges do you consider one may face during the design and implementation of these requirements?
Una mas cerveza por favor…
Would you get to choose who you murder or would you be provided withb list?
oh good, they can talk to each other there, and stay off the rest of the internet. Seems like a tidy solution!
China is, by far, the number one producer of greenhouse gases. Most estimates have it at about the rough sum of the following three countries, it’s really not even remotely close.
>lacking a certain level of expertise in each one.
Couldn’t you be describing the other end of the Dunning Kruger effect? As an intelligent person, you are painfully aware of the limits of your knowledge?