skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article actually doesn't say that LLMs are causing us to rethink human language acquisition. It says that LLMs are causing us to rethink whether Chomsky's universal grammar is a good candidate for a necessary substrate for language acquisition.

For example, it says:

> Universal grammar enthusiasts have long argued that no other biological species can have language that has grammar and recursive composability, because they don’t have universal grammar.

That seems like a reasonable characterization of the universal grammar viewpoint as I understand it, and the existence of models which have acquired impressive language skills without a universal grammar substrate - by using instead a vast quantity of input data - certainly calls that view into legitimate question.

It may be that Chomsky believes that he never said the universal grammar was the ONLY way to acquire language, but a lot of computational linguistics research in the Chomsky school certainly took that as an assumption. An assumption that the success of statistical modeling with no universal recursive grammar substrate certainly calls into question.
The YouTube channels for ATC incidents have certainly been rather busy too.
Because Amazon has no reason to risk Twitch profitablity. Twitch is not a profit maker it's a profit guarantee. Twitch doesn't need to compete with Kick or Afreekas. Amazon makes money.
> There must be more to it than I realize.

PDF material comes with different information density. If you have a lose collection of 100 manuals, and you need to find a snippet of information that could be in 10 different ones, I'm guessing something like this can help you navigate and locate what you need.
A therapist should be able to spot an undiagnosed case of something like bipolar or BPD from a mile away though. Young adults messing around with psychedelics for fun may not be so wise. It's not fun when you and your friends are all coming down except for the one person in the group whose been launched into the mother of all manic episodes.
https://steamdb.info/tech/ how many years do you think it's going to take?

Godot is behind engine I don't even heard of.
So now one day hence the new light is even brighter!!! Interesting that this 5th column can have so much power over so many U.S. institutions and be able to bring down university presidents.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/09/business/upenn-board-of-trust...

Doesn't seem coordinated to me...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stefanik-applauds-resignati...
I am sure the middle easterns were the bad guys during the Gulf war too.
They used to be quite bad at common-sense-reasoning type tasks like HellaSwag: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.07830.pdf but it seems like they're creeping up into the high-80s for % of responses correct now.
I wonder if any of the major Linux package repos collect statistics that let you search for apps that are both (a) widely used and (b) unmaintained/feature-incomplete.
Greed. Tragedy of the commons. Out-of-control capitalism. Selfishness. Externalities. Carelessness. Short-sightedness. Stupidity.

Need I go on? People are driven by primitive instincts. We still have a lot to learn if our species is to ever 'transcend' into something higher/better.
Before the pandemic, I was told by private equity people that if a job can be done from home, it can be done from India. And the job I had back then is now more or less done from India.
Interesting, Replit's widget does demonstrate how custom a UI component could be. Applejak's swipe and tap is definitely max minimal. Thank-you for these.

Between this and the comments¹ from 082349872349872², there's plenty of inspiration to go on.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38581769

² https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38587775
yeah but so far these are all separate microcosms with no clear common model
The argument that humans make mistakes therefore whatever mistakes machines make are irrelevant to whether they approximate humans is absurd.

You presumably use these systems all the time, are you seriously saying that they don't routinely make mistakes that humans don't make?
Also really good developers overseas are not that much cheaper, especially when you add the cost of hiring and managing that far away.
Some of the RC psychedelics can be brutal, I remember 2C-E being super fun and visual, but it also felt like having a dammed ice pic jammed into your head.
Good chances are Firefox is not at fault here as many people run it without issues for months in a row.

Maybe you should check it for suspicious DLLs using Process Exporer or outright attach a debugger and see what the UI thread is blocked on when it stops responding.
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Maybe you should get a job in New Jersey.
I’m sorry but I still don’t get it either. If it’s hot enough, you’ll know it’s ready when it starts melting whatever you use to solder. Why would one need anything more?
100% agree with Allen Holub. If your policy is no-ship-fridays because you're worried about things breaking and having to work the wkd, then your code quality is shit and you need to get better at being a software engineer.
2023. HP: Our printers are made to be less hated
Yeah there was a big push towards this in the 90s, I seem to remember the Wing Commander games and Ultima Underworld trying it. It's a similar tragedy to voiceovers in games - RPGs had increasingly interesting dialogue systems, Wizardry and Ultima would let you talk to NPCs using keywords or whole sentences. Voice acting killed that entirely. One can only hope that the era of LLMs brings back some of this interactivity.
Federal stuff is going to be p25 phase 2, usually AES encrypted. Harris or Motorola, and at one point Thales (previously Racal.)

Some other brands end up being used like cobham or bendix but those are usually for aviation.

Tetra isn’t used by us LE. There are military encryption schemes, some of which are classified or controlled occasionally used by feds. Mostly tho you're looking at encrypted voice over data using mobile phones tho. Cellcrypt Inc, for example. Not many investigators lug around a radio to call agents in the field unless they need interoperability with other agencies or tactical communications using local infrastructure.

During the Obama inauguration the Thales liberty triband was used with AES. I think most agencies dumped the Thales Libntry for Harris tri band radios or Motorola now, which is sad because as a result the liberty is basically a dead end platform
It’s great advice for anyone designing a practically successful protocol or system.

It works much better than on paper designs with rigid u
I/o.
> It's impossible for engineers to foresee every possible failure mode and program for it.

Playing devil's advocate: you don't have to. It just has to be better than a pair of experienced airplane pilots working together. Which is still very hard, and there's still a good chance we won't see it in our lifetimes, but at least it's not impossible.
For me it is almost exactly this. I was not a heavy indulger, but that’s what I came away with. It has stuck with me for nearly 20 years since.
I don’t see how anything you said contradicts anything I said, which was just a more general summary.

And there is a significant effort by a lot of people to split California into two or more two states but it’s all talk.

The Jewish relocation happened because of the British Empire.
As someone who has degrees in both, I can firmly say this is wildly incorrect.
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That is an amazing story, thanks for sharing it. This part leapt out at me:

> Rescuers did not identify the debris that was the remains of the cockpit, with the four crew members alive inside, until 35 minutes after the crash.

I can't imagine spending a half hour waiting to be rescued, not knowing whether any of your passengers had survived.
What do you call someone who typed their dissertation in Word?

Doctor.
If you didn’t think there was some validity to the reporting, you wouldn’t be posting it.
It's not computing or swapping. Plenty of memory and CPU time available. It's just Firefox doing its own disk I/O. I cleared history, and that didn't help.
The bit in question only prevents automatic sleep, not the explicit order to sleep AFAIK.
We have long term pain and the Internet. It wasn’t inevitable. Making stuff just about work as quickly as possible was key to bootstrapping a global open network.

I don’t have evidence for this, or much of an argument. Just a hunch.
GC pauses are one thing but you have to keep in mind thata large part of your cpu time is going to be garbage collection.
Oh, they mean to never release on Fridays. I first thought that it is about shipping. I once bought something a little temperature sensitive and asked the seller to not ship on Friday so that the parcel has less time to be exposed to the temperature.
I agree it sucks. It ads a complex & flimsy step to an already brittle login process.

A big problem is captive browser cookies. Gmail for example uses a captive browser for links. The flow from Safari --> Gmail --> captive browser means that your login session is lost in captive browser limbo.

Authentication is so kludgy, and all the attempts at securing it lead to horrific UX.

How many screens does it take to log in:

1. enter username,

2. enter password

3. enter 2fa,

4. verify email

5. open email inbox

6. open email with code

7. Open captive browser

8 ( if you are lucky) Open the original browser to log in.

8 screens that each could succeed or fail or the user can get lost.
I spent my whole grad school procrastinating by working on a system for publishing my papers, which turned out to be the only marketable skill I got from my PhD, so I wouldn’t knock procrastinating.
Well dang! I didn't realize it was that big. That is impressive and definitely changes my opinion a bit. It's quite unfortunate to have such low paid numbers with that many downloads.

By logseq's on-disk format, it is local first but it's a stricter subset of markdown with a handful of extensions. The strictness is because Logseq parses all the markdown into an in-memory graph database, and in order to make that work with markdown the top-level has to be a list and needs some IDs and other identifiers in order to properly link/embed blocks and pages and such.
Jira takes 10s for certain pages to load for me on a gigabit connection with an M1 Mac. I doubt a dial-up connection could even load a Jira backlog page in under an hour.
Another factor improving productivity is AI tools. I for one, am more productive writing code with the help of a generative AI.
https://archive.is/dQJNS
I’m hearing: Buy our CD of Numbers Stations’ output that is essentially uncrackable.

Question for the audience: Is it spam?
Government bodies have done a fantastic job of torpedoing their reputation on their own.

If mine would act like a legitimate fucking ally and spend its money on its people instead of Israel, I'd have more respect for it.
do you still actively see this or is it a behaviour that occured a few months ago? I remember https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1840665
You said "routinely contradicting yourself", not "make mistakes humans don't make". I know plenty of humans who routinely contradict themselves, sometimes without realizing (or at least admitting it). Also, the fact that LLMs now make a class of mistakes doesn't mean that LLMs in X years will.

"LLMs don't think because they fail at X" is very different from "the current crop of LLMs don't think because they fail at X".
Oh wow, this is some really interesting stuff! Apparently, Trump used to regularly attend Peale's sermons as a child and Peale even was the priest at Trump's first wedding.
If you only care about the best technical solution, and don't care about economics, then you almost, by definition, only care about what existing FOSS users are doing, and I don't find that scope limitation useful in any way. I love FOSS. I've been a regular contributor to FOSS for decades. But the impact user-facing FOSS apps have on the overwhelming majority of users is miniscule, as is the comparative number of regular FOSS users. Server apps? Apps developers use to make the apps everyone else uses? Absolutely. A music player? A chat app? Nope. Software that makes a visible impression on users is commercial. That's just reality. And companies that don't consider ROI on the products they create aren't companies very long.

The most popular as-is FOSS app for users is probably Firefox with a browser market share neck-and-neck with Opera and Samsung Internet, and everything less popular might as well not exist among probably 99% of users. Why? It's certainly not performance, I assure you. It's because it's poorly designed and users find it infuriating to use. Sure, you can find people complaining about their bloated slack client being slow on their machine. You think that's bad, find a professional photographer and ask them about the one time they tried to use Gimp.

I spend a lot of time talking about how FOSS could be a lot more usable to end users, and technical supremacy isn't it. If you showed your average end user an electron app with an intuitive, professional design that gets the job done well enough, and then you show them the blazing fast linux native version with a typically awkward homespun interface, I will eat my hat if they don't choose the electron version. Sure, in a perfect world, all tools would be forged specifically for their intended purpose. In reality, you are in a miniscule percentage of people that would rather have nothing than something which doesn't perform optimally because of it's bonkers architecture. But if you actually want to maximize the usability of any giving tool, the only reason developers automatically go to performance is because to a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
The amount of data that humans are exposed to isn't enough to rule out lots of candidate grammars yet humans land on specific types of grammars.

Also, infants acquire some elements of language extremely rapidly.
> This might be a Windows issue rather than a Firefox issue

I leave multiple tabs open for weeks+ on Windows (and android), I have never experienced any issue (except when windows decides to update - but firefox always restores itself without issue, or I can press ctrl+shift+t to reopen previous tab/session). There must be something specific to the other commenter's setup, whether it be specific addons or specific pages that are causing the crash.
> [Chomsky] has never said you could not statistically approximate a natural process, in fact he has explicitly said that you probably could

Okay, but the article has Rodney Brooks asserting that

> I personally remember very heated arguments on the MIT campus between Chomsky followers and computer scientists working on statistical models in the early 2000’s. The arguments came up in computer science faculty hiring meetings. The Chomskians claimed that because of the need for universal grammar there would never be anything useful that came out of statistical approaches to language. ChatGPT has proved them wrong.

Worth noting that in the early 2000s, Rodney Brooks was director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, so... you know, he might have some context on that debate. Although I'll concede he attributes this to Chomsky followers, not to Chomsky.
huge plus for parents
Looks neat.

Just wanted to add that on Linux/Unix (including MacOS), typing "cal" into the terminal also gives you a calendar. And there are arguments you can pass in to make it display a specific month or year.
https://bertrandmeyer.com/OOSC2/ - The book being quoted is now available for free, the quote you're referencing comes from page 108. (PDF page 138)
a one-page PDF, sure. But if it's a 500 page pdf of a law and/or regulation, then definitely not.
Could also be the consequences of schooling during a lockdown.
30 years ago I was in an emergency landing due to engine failure situation (flight attendants take away your shoes, practice crash position, rearrange the passengers etc) and the thing that stuck out the most for me was that everybody did as they were told. No self righteous people; it was clear to everyone why there are flight attendants aboard and that they were key to your survival. The evacuation was orderly, though the follow up was lengthy (e.g. everybody’s passport was still on board).

More recently I’ve seen pictures of people evacuating down the slides with their luggage! Seems incredibly dangerous, not just for the slide experience but in slowing down evacuation. We had no fire in the cabin but what if we had?

Oh yeah, you know the stereotype of the press sticking their camera in your face to see how freaked out you are? It does happen in real life.
There's tech perspective tunnel vision here. There can also be an issue with the requirements the perfect code was written for, or some other non-tech downstream process.

A risk calculation exists here and included in mine is our on-call support team. I prefer no Friday releases.
Tech has caught up though. A cockroch robot or a swarm of them could enter small passages that are otherwise dificult and time consuming with other means. They could map the area in various ways, look for signs of life, etc. Oh, and they don’t have to look exactly like roaches. I know many are put off by the likeness to something we find not so pleasant
> except for waiting for every page to reload.

When I lose firefox (usually when power outage) I just cycle through all the tabs with ctrl+tab, by the time I get back to the first one it has reloaded (and the others do so in the background). It's not a big deal.
For anyone who cares: https://github.com/earthboundkid/Watsuji-and-Aesthetics/blob...
Or that they just weren’t doing that much work in the office either.
I've not read Chomsky first hand, but the points referred in the article as "Key points of Chomsky’s Universal Grammar" seem to be a non-traditional description of a LLM, IMHO (some amount of creative interpretation required):

- Innate Language Faculty: A “language acquisition device”
- Universal Grammar Principles
- Poverty of the Stimulus
- Language Acquisition as Rule-Based

(I'm only suggesting that these points are broadly analogous, and in a very broad sense. The Innate Faculty being the LLM itself, the Universal Grammar Principles being the stochastic weights, the Stimulus being the reinforcement mechanism, and the Rule Based Aquisition being a specific methodology of how to apply stochastic methods to language flow, etc.)

From the article I understand that Chomsky is specialized in human language, and it seems to suggest that C does not believe that language exists outside of the human domain. I'm not sure if this is really the opinion of C, or if the article just makes it seem so.

Perhaps this language-learning model is really more universal than it is human-specific. We'll see when/if "Doctor Doolittle" models start to emerge eventually
Google attempts to fix Drive bug causing missing files
You know what? I think it is reasonable to believe that. I think it is reasonable to believe the expansion of NATO "provoked" war with Russia. That article is from 2022 but Putin was saying this all the way back in 2014: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/20603

> On the contrary, they have lied to us many times, made decisions behind our backs, placed us before an accomplished fact. This happened with NATO’s expansion to the East, as well as the deployment of military infrastructure at our borders. They kept telling us the same thing: “Well, this does not concern you.” That’s easy to say.

So I can believe that Putin thought he needed to invade Ukraine due to NATO's expansionism. I do not understand how he could be so stupid :(.
Is there a plane about to crash? Say 1 for not sure, 2 for normal business hours, 3 for no, or 4 for I'M SORRY I didn't catch that, say 1 for not sure...
Argparse is still a pretty solid choice, because it's so ubiquitous and well documented and fairly easy. Typer and Click are both very nice, with some good ergonomics, but I find Typer's "tutorial" style documentation to be rather hard to search to find answers to things like "What arguments does Typer.App() take?"

I have a program I'm working on right now that does user-initiated argument parsing, and argparse is a great fit for it. I'd love to have a text-based UI as an option to drop users into, but Textualize requires Click (IIRC), and using Textual directly in my code to create the UI I've spent hours on and had absolutely no luck even getting started.
My first job was working at a mro that overhauled engines a bit smaller than the Trent 900s but same principles apply.

I built qa software to digitize the forms and signature process like what’s mentioned in the article as having not correctly been signed off on.

I ate lunch with repair engineers that had dark wells of knowledge about the engines they worked on. They could talk so deep on a subject that lunch break was over and we’d resume conversation over weeks.

There’s a paragraph in this post that hits a few points that are very subtle. The missing sign offs and engineers not knowing the process and and and. I think the criticism of RR is valid here. The qa manager at the mro I worked at was a force of nature. He was feared and uncompromising. He was also the signature that could cause an engine shutdown in flight. I admired this person and still do.

There’s small issues like this that go on every day on every engine model all over the world. There’s thousands of engines flying right now that have little defects that could cause a shutdown. There’s issues that have been identified, signed off as low risk and will be checked next time the engine comes in for overhaul.

There’s engineers out there that see the same fault, a premature cracked pipe, carbon buildup, abnormal corrosion, after a while of seeing this problem, they’ll raise the paperwork which will go up the chain and sit. It may be ignored, taken for information for future designs, identified as something that should be fixed or monitored or the frequency of monitoring increased. Maybe the part life will be reduced or you will be forced to NDT the part at each overhaul.

The cheese wheel concept is great as these systems are so complex there’s always going to be some issues.

As for Qantas, near the end it mentions the plane was repaired at great cost. It’s a source of company pride that they’ve never lost an airframe. They repair planes which are BER (beyond economic repair) just to keep this record.
Is this on a mac or windows?
https://archive.is/2023.12.10-002005/https://www.nytimes.com...
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From their comment:

> They also suggest using their session restore feature after a hang, but with this type of crash, Firefox is never able to restore your tabs. It also doesn't record the crash report in about:crashes

Also the setting you suggested doesn't work if you have multiple windows that close. It only saves one window session.