skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This paper completly misses the point of linguistics as a discipline that generative grammar operates in.

We have known that it is possible to understand language without innateness. That is what linguists do.

If you look at how linguists know about innate features, the answer is almost always by first discovering them explicitly while analysing language data; not by opening a brain to see what is innately inside. [0]

The point about innateness is that it takes generations of linguists to learn from a blank slate properties of language that children learn in just years.

There are also numerous other arguments for innateness. From the way humans seem to spontaneously develop language in a language deprives environment, to the way language aquasition works being more consistent with other innate behaviours, to the pressence of weird properties that seem to be present across languages for no apparent logical reason.

The only insight I see from LLM is the same insight we have seen throughout macine learning. It is not nessasary to understand something if you can throw enough compute at it. This is powerful, and it enables us to do a lot, but it should not be confused with understanding.

[0] There are some instances leveraging MRI and other cognative research teqniques to get some insight into the inner workings of human language processing, but their role in developing current linguistics theory is thus far limited.
PE is just a rebrand of Corporate Raiders. The fact that this worked is a testament to just how much of our media is directly controlled by Wall St.
And every single diagnosis is reduced to rote procedure. I have no less than 3 lingering issues that I've been dealing with for YEARS that I cannot seem to get cleared up. I'm pretty sure more costly diagnostics (cat scan or colonoscopy) will pinpoint the issue, but they refuse order them and instead shrug off the problem because "all of the lab work looks healthy."
Yeah, an open source architecture sounds like it could be a game changer for the SBC market
I always see arguments for working faster.
Never arguments for taking your time to get solutions correct even if it doesn't produce something immediately visible.

...I'm sure there is no economic correlation
Sure, but shouldn’t they all not be on Reddit by definition?
pretty much the same. slightly worse at following instructions
This feels like the natural endpoint of a couple of generations of students being subjected to word counts as the primary endpoint of essays. Most of k12 english education in the states is a game of learning how to fill pages with meaningless fluff even though it's the opposite of good communication.
OpenSCAD is a problem even with 96GB ram.

Something is very wrong with their build on Apple Silicon. It works fine for me on other platforms.
Well if you're learning computer science, what does it matter what is industry standard? Computer science doesn't really have very much to do with the programming industry.
ROCm just doesn't have the support these days.
Supposedly people are working on getting stable diffusion working on it.
https://www.videogames.ai/2022/11/06/Stable-Diffusion-AMD-GP...

But it's just too much of investment for me on something that MAY work.
I ended up just buying a 4080rtx
What's your time frame on "long form articles are more popular than ever"?

And are you using relative or absolute popularity? E.g. "medium form" articles in pop magazines were probably always more popular than longform ones in literary mags, but were they more relatively popular than "tweets" or "tiktok videos"?

Would a three hour film like Doctor Zhivago ever sell 248 million tickets today? And that number has a lower total population size to pull from! For a focused experience without your phone, or work, or anything else (compared to listening to a podcast in the background while working or driving)?

There are groups that still enjoy, or are learning to enjoy, longer stuff still. But that's not the dominant trend.
.NET 8 Preview 5
I Wrote My First Software Design Doc to Win New Project
How's the quality?
I think the EU is at least a bit more aware of this kind of tracking, and trying to do something to stop it. If I became aware of some (EU) company collecting my location info on that scale, at least I have the right to get to know what data they have on me, and to ask them to delete it. Of course I don't believe all is perfect in the EU, nor that all those rules are always followed, but at least we are trying...
Reddit's main asset is its community, so it is odd to cast the community as their opposition.
Asp.net Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 5
> I have seen many cases where the “just let the votes sort it out” method leads to things being upvoted, presumably by those users scrolling their main feed who don’t even notice what subreddit it is from, and then comment sections full of “who is upvoting this junk” “this is the third time this has been posted this week” and “mods can we please do something about all of the X posts?”

Also known as the "all unmoderated subreddits eventually become /r/pics" problem. It's why a lot of major subs opted-out of being default when that was still a thing.

I've heard a lot of argumentation along those lines from users that seem to really not care what really made Reddit a special place on the Internet. To them, Reddit is another Instagram/TikTok/Facebook clone, and it seems that's a viewpoint the company is trying to support. It seems completely brain-dead in terms of understanding why the website got popular in the first place, but it seems there's a good number of "satisfied" users that want it that way.
Interesting article, but very clickbaity. Here's the gist:

> The best time to schedule a meeting is at 11am Monday morning... this time period has the least potential for conflicting with other meeting invites.

> Avoid Wednesday and Thursday afternoons... the potential for conflicts is high.

> Providing three meeting slots will suffice. [The article actually says seven, but only because it's content marketing for an app that lets you offer seven slots]

> Time of invite matters. Adding a last-minute event to someone’s calendar probably won’t be well-received
And it won’t work anyway because the phone will detect and reject the sensor and just fall back to PIN authentication which is how it worked before the update
Versity open-sources S3 gateway with no poison pill
until you mentioned it though
Vercel Is Down
The top 250 has 8 dead projects from 2023. Of those 8, 5 are not dead at all, 1 is alive but has an expired certificate and only 2 (the lowest ranked) are dead. This does not seem like useful data.
If you reduce it to bytes, yeah, humans are unreasonably efficient learners. But that's not how it works, there's loads more information embedded in a real human speech context.
Just a special form of whataboutism. It may be seen only in old anedcotes (anecdote in Russian language is a short funny story as a literature genre).
If you're up for building it yourself, delete `update_features(fnt)` from `Scripts/fontbuilder.py`: https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/blob/996150820b98a...
Doesn't work on the three different browsers I tried just now .. I see only grey bars arranged rather like conversational text posts would be.
I frequented /r/cfb and /r/collegebasketball, which are terrific and very on-topic. Very little drama there. I can easily imagine those going to the dumpster without their mod teams.
> For example, how is the fact that language models "work" contradict the innateness of language in humans?

It doesn't. Also, the author doesn't seem to actually understand Chomsky's writing about language, because learning language via exposure is how humans learn languages and he fucking mentions that in his writing on the subject.

UG (universal grammar) is the purported facility in the human brain which makes language possible - it has a innate structure, but it learns particular languages from exposure. Chomsky doesn't state exactly what that structure is because he doesn't know - figuring that out is goal of his work.
> Is there really much of a disadvantage?

Granted it's probably nothing too big in absolute terms, but does feel a little unfair, because vehicles usually get a few seconds head start for free due to being able to call a signal as soon as they reach the location of the green extension detector, which can be a few tens of metres in advance of the stop line.

(On the other hand yes, I do acknowledge the because "turning lanes" don't really work for pedestrian traffic, it's often hard to detect pedestrians much in advance because you'll have no idea which way they'll want to turn at the intersection. But it still feels a little unfair :-) )

And unless the default state of an intersection is "red for all directions", switching the lights will always take a few seconds even in the best of cases. By giving the traffic lights controller some advance warning of somebody approaching, it's possible to switch the traffic lights just in time so that that user doesn't have to stop (if traffic conditions allow it of course – with heavy traffic it's unavoidable that somebody will have to wait eventually).

With semi-flexible traffic light designs (where phase length and whether a phase is called at all depends on traffic conditions, but otherwise they still always cycle through the phases in a fixed sequence), there are also situations where a signal can only turn green (if called) until a certain point in the cycle no later than X (in which case it'll remain green until let's say for example X + 10 seconds). If you miss that time X, you'll have to wait a whole signal cycle until the signal can turn green again. If it just happens that you're reaching the intersection at a time X + 5 seconds, it means that if you could have called the signal while still six seconds away (i.e. at X - 1 second), you still could have crossed successfully (because in that case the signal would have been green between X and X + 10), whereas without that possibility you can only press the button at X + 5 seconds and now have to wait one whole signal cycle.
Looks like us-east-1 is mostly down as well
PE has been hated since at least the 1980s, when capital was very far from free.
The closest biological analogue for an artificial parameter is a synapse. Even then, Synapses, and the brain in general, have more degrees of freedom than just a single floating point parameter allows.

Humans have some 50 to 100 trillion synapses. Who knows how far scaling goes in a transformer but simply increasing the parameter count increases performance so far.

Either way, we're not really close to emulating the complexity of the brain especially when taking neurons into account (one human neuron is far more complex than any one artificial parameter)

In other words, simpler building blocks and smaller sie. Of course, how much complexity is needed for Intelligence is unknown.
React doesn't do its own styling though, and since email will not run js, you are basically talking about css at this point
Editing to remove my comment; I’m done arguing with narrow-minded libertarians about effective government. It’s like arguing with a carnivore about why they should eat vegetables.
Netherlands too. Really grateful I'm super comfortable in water.
There's really no good data to support this claim.
I mean since apollo users are a subset of reddit user your comparison seem pretty mundane.
I'm getting married next month, a relationship started from a date found in possibly the worst of all the apps (Match, if you can believe it).

I dated for a lot of years and, despite having some positives outlined by this article, I was also divorced and have a son. That made it massively more difficult to find a long term match given that many women flatly reject that combo.

I learned though to be upfront. About your life. About what you're looking for. You're not looking for 95% of women to be attracted to you! You're looking for one. It sounds like you're optimizing the search already, so don't waste time worrying about 95%. People always say be yourself and I didn't appreciate what that meant until I started taking control of my dating journey.

For example, I stopped tailoring dates around what they wanted to do. I planned stuff that I wanted to do and if somebody I was talking to wanted to come along, awesome. If not, I did it anyhow. I stopped hiding my love for Country music and went anyhow. My wife loves Country. :)

Also, if you're honest in your profile and somebody wants to start casual.. consider it. People have a hard time in the dating scene and you can't fault them for not wanting to invest 100% right away. Have confidence in yourself and know the right one will stick around no matter what they said in the beginning. And if they don't, that's cool too. Hopefully you have some fun dates and life experience to make you a better date when the right one does show up. It does take practice.

Much of a long term relationship starts when two people are at the right points in their lives. You can't really plan it, it just happens when it does and that's why people say they feel lucky. Much of it is luck. Leave space for that to happen too!

Good luck to you.
> You’re comparing a country and seat of a world religion to a theme park.

Well, you'll notice I didn't say inside the Vatican, which is in fact a serious place with serious art treasures.

> And, even so (even if it was in Italy, that is), is it not an italian restaurant just because it’s touristic and not “for locals”?

I didn't say it wouldn't be Italian, and I didn't say Planet Hollywood isn't American. I did say they are both extreme outliers. Bill Gates is American, but his life and mine have almost nothing in common apart from language and what our passports look like. You don't learn much about American lives from looking at Bill Gates.
Give one example.
Me thinking, whilst reading the HN title for this article:

"CudaText: Cross-platform, open source code editor..."

Me: "Meh, yet another open source code editor..."

"written in Object Pascal..."

Me: (as a long-time Delphi/FreePascal/Object Pascal programmer/afficionado):

"OK, NOW I WANT IT!!!"

:-) <g> :-)
Teenagers who haven’t gone to college yet won’t be that different. When they move out and live among peers and take courses from professors with views very different from home, you’ll see how things change!
Probably a function of what looks to be an AWS Lambda outage.
(Their private status dashboard still shows everything green)
I believe it's $0.12 per month, not per year.

https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...
Sadly that is nothing new. I used to run a website gallery and link rotting is incredibly high.

Same is true for another couple of projects I’m running now. I’m collecting personal websites and quirky small web experiments and the same is happening there.

Somewhat related is the phenomenon of dead blogs. Plenty of those with a couple of interesting posts and then abandoned.
Just bankrupted instant pots and pyrex too

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/13/business/instant-brands-b...
AWS us-east-1 down
FTC forces Ring to take privacy seriously
You described gonzo journalism, and political journalism, but not gonzo political journalism — which is what the GP poster is saying doesn’t exist any more.
The impact doesn't appear to be limited to just the home console.
I have other friends whom I interact with just fine. I'm not going to go through hoops just for one person I don't care much about, sorry.

That's something this strategy helps to trim out. Who I want to talk to and jump through hoops for, and whom I don't.
The best example I'm aware of is Nicaraguan Sign Language [1].

> Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct, claims that "The Nicaraguan case is absolutely unique in history ... We've been able to see how it is that children—not adults—generate language, and we have been able to record it happening in great scientific detail. And it's the only time that we've actually seen a language being created out of thin air."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language
>I think the definition, for a lot of people, is like the famous definition of pornography - I can't tell you what it is, but I know it when I see it. This is a prime area for courts to provide some judgment, but only if they had a clear set of criteria (not necessarily a bright line, but a set of criteria as to what makes a software patent sufficiently "inventive") on which to judge software patents, which they definitely don't have today.

There's a lot more patent litigation than obscenity litigation, so I don't think that's a workable stadnard. Also with much more money at stake. And given the responses here... strong feelings as well. So I don't think that really works given the complaints here.

> This is a prime area for courts to provide some judgment, but only if they had a clear set of criteria (not necessarily a bright line, but a set of criteria as to what makes a software patent sufficiently "inventive") on which to judge software patents, which they definitely don't have today.

That's not true. Patents today have to be just as inventive as they were before.

To show how you are proving my point... I asked... "hey software engineers, help us attorneys out and tell us where the line should be" your response was "well, there is no clear line and I can't help you find one but judges should really provide one..."

I just want to reiterate that if technologists cannot delineate a clear line between the good and bad software patents... please literally explain how a judge will be able to...
> This being said immediately after a screenshot with three levels of directories confuses me.

Me too, but reading more I understand this now. A "Johnny.Decimal folder" is a folder that starts with a name like 12.04, meaning it represents a unique item. It will already be inside two other folders, the 12 folder and the 10-19 folder. The point is that while 12.04 can be a folder if the unique item is actually multiple files, you can't have more folders inside 12.04, because that's considered too much nesting.

> This seems to be per project, no? Any suggestions for a system for overall data organization?

Multi-project organization is covered later on: https://johnnydecimal.com/10-19-concepts/13-multiple-project...
>If the apps paid a reasonable rate with respect to what is reasonable to app developers, Reddit would still go bankrupt.

I know reddit was never profitable, but I'm not convinced Reddit is so short on money that they can't last to 2024. They'd probably do major layoffs like so much of the tech industry has this deal and lighten that load. From what I heard, Reddit employs 2000 workers and I can't imagine they need that many to keep the site operational (For reference, Twitter had ~4k employees pre-pandemic, and peaked at 7500 employees... I'm not convinced that Reddit's site complexity is a quarter of the largest site in the world, despite reddit having plenty of traffic as a top site itself).
It's possible. He could have also changed the rate at which it polls. ~1B calls a day isn't out of the realm of possibility.

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/comment/...

> On March 14th, Apollo made nearly 1 billion requests against our API in a single day, triggered in part by our system outage. After the outage, Apollo started making 53% fewer calls per day. If the app can operate with half the daily request volume, can it operate with fewer?

(note: 53% less calls is about going from a 6 second window to a 10 second window)

Note also that 100k users is the user base at that time and 1.3 is when the subscription ($5/month) was added for push notifications. He noted that that would be something that he would have to pay to support for a server to do those requests. It is quite likely that the number of users who are signed up at $5/month for push notifications is less than the total user base.

Having dabbled with the API, if he is doing push notifications on a short time window, he's making a call with at least that frequency.

https://apolloapp.io/notifications-faq/

> Wait, why does it cost money? I already paid for Pro!

> Apollo Pro unlocks extra features and is a one-time fee, but Apollo Ultra includes a notification server that has ongoing monthly costs to me (the developer) to rent and maintain that add up and can't really be covered by the fee associated with Pro (especially when trying to keep Pro affordable at a few bucks). I'd love to give it away as part of Apollo Pro, but I don't want to potentially jeopardize the future of Apollo. As a result I also tried to keep the price very reasonable at under a dollar a month.

And yes, the price went up when you look at the current in app purchases that are displayed on the App Store page.
elsewhere on HN today is a short article on BBedit, which has a really nice shell worksheet interface similar to the old MPW. Select the text you want to execute, hit control-return, and the shell output will appear below the selected text.
> I do not think that just learning the current frameworks will do me any good in the long run

Why? This feels like saying you want to learn assembly because you have no faith in C. Abstracted tools will be all there is someday soon, the amount of people working on the math side of things will probably be highly specialized. You could learn this stuff now, but you have to consider who you're up against and what you'd actually do with that knowledge. If you write your own LLM and custom accelerator, you're still building the same product as the guy who just calls the OpenAI API.
Chomsky did quite a lot of things in linguistics. This is about whether or not there is a universal grammar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar

There is a fairly interesting read from Steven Pinker: "The language instinct" about this topic.
correct, I've talked to merchants that said Square pushed that on them and were flabbergasted when the merchant said it doesn't make sense to add a tip for their kind of service

we should actually pressure the POS services as well as the card networks to cut this practice

it'll probably be far more effective too than trying to talk to service industry workers given the conflict of interest
Chomsky was describing how humans acquire language. The distinction seems important.
You can skip the last Enum.map/into and just use Map.new:

"file.json"
|> File.read!()
|> Jason.decode!()
|> Stream.flat_map(& &1["children"])
|> Map.new(fn child -> {child["id"], child} end)
I used to hang out on a forum where people regularly said they liked it because there was no moderation. Conveniently forgetting that if you woke up at 3am the boards had posts from Thailand, or India, or Russia and in the morning they were cleaned up.

That board never had no moderation, it just managed it in a way where most people either didn't realize, or appreciated it. Then if someone crossed one of the few lines they would start screeching about how for X years there's been no moderation and the boar has gone to shit.
That’s reasonable, though I am not suggesting a pump and dump is only going to show up in the code base just that it would also look like they described.
The nice thing about floss or picks is that they're incredibly portable, discrete, cheap and effective. A lifetime supply of floss won't cost you anything like $900 either. Now if flossing turned out not to be sufficient for oral health then I'd be interested, but as is flossing is more than enough! I'm also a strong proponent of picking/flossing after any time you eat, ideally followed by some xylitol gum.

My dentist says I'm one of only three people she's ever seen who's gums never bleed no matter what she does to them, one of those two is my mother who taught me those habits, and the third is an old Greek fellow who picks as well.
Every tiny small town in Iceland has at least one amazing swimming pool. With the free geothermal energy its just part of the culture. I loved it when I visited!