skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really sure if I buy the argument that AI will equalize society. A more realistic goal would be reducing poverty and keeping the Gini coefficient within reasonable bounds. I don't think this is necessarily incompatible with your hypothetical "robot butlers and oligarchs" picture. Just because a few people get ultra-rich from a new technological development doesn't mean that everyone else suffers. China has seen an increase in inequality over the past few decades, but has also significantly reduced the number of people living in extreme poverty. If breakthroughs in AI increased productivity to such a degree that we could give everyone a basic income, raise the minimum standard of living, and keep the Gini coefficient in check, that would be a good outcome for everybody.

There is definitely a self-serving aspect to tech millionaires and billionaires advocating that we should accelerate the development of the technology they happen to be working on. But I also think there are principled arguments for accelerating economic growth. We have a lower proportion of people living in poverty today than any other time in history, and that's largely because of the economic growth caused by the technological revolutions of the 20th century.
> So I recently took at broad look at some of the old C compilers and wrote an article about it.

Do you have a link or reference? Doesn't appear to be on your blog?

https://www.deusinmachina.net/t/programming
I've learned a new language in the last 2 years.

You can't do it with just Duolingo. But I truly believe that there is no method except for full immersion which can make you learn a language alone. It's always: in person classes, reading, watching medias, changing your phone's language, going out to restaurants, language learning apps, making new friends.

Duolingo is effective, just not alone.
ah sorry poor formatting. insights found was 1k. api costs were $150 for the 15k posts processed
> upto =: 4 : 'x}.i.1+y'

Fyi: for a while now, j has supported the more convenient 'direct definition' syntax. You can now write that definition like:

upto =: {{ x}.i.1+y }}

It will automatically make a monad or a dyad depending on whether you use x or not (or an adverb or a conjunction if you use u or m or v or n).
Oh yes, there was definitely an American conspiracy to drop tea in the harbor.

But more seriously, I think that part of this is due to YouTube, et al. For most of the history of audible media, hosts were chosen in part based on pronunciation. That is essentially gone - anyone can be internet-famous and not only influence behavior but speech. I definitely see it in kids that are unconsciously emulating their favorite YouTubers/TikTokers. I'd say that what we are seeing is an agglomeration of regional speech differences, where oceans aren't even a barrier anymore.
And you seem to be assuming that the problem is in the design and not the assembly...

The latter seems more likely.
Amtrak and plane tickets are priced differently. For each class of ticket, Amtrak has X seats at price A, Y seats at price B > A, Z seats at price C > B, etc. When you check prices or buy a ticket, it will offer you the cheapest remaining ticket in that class. If you book Amtrak early, you'll find it is significantly cheaper than a plane ticket. Wait until a week until departure, and usually the airplane will cost less.
Yeah, the calculus needs to be more complex:

* not clear 2 * 50% QALY == 1 * 100% QALY

* maybe factor in "non-existence" with expected life expectancy?

* need negative QALY to factor in pain, dissatisfaction
It's an engine vs. a car comparison: while pg_basebackup is useful as a stand alone binary, a database deployment need multiple backups. To manage multiple backups you need a catalog. You also may want optimize the backup process, so instead of multiple pg_basebackup, you want some logic to copy only changed files.

Also, when restoring, it's important choose a restore point, and a tool to help on that is valuable.

This is the first time that I heard of this tool, I need to check all features. I know both barman and pgbackrest, so if someone wants to compare with other tools, those 2 worth a look.
> What’s more likely to make you think you need to upgrade—your phone shutting off all the time randomly, or just moving a little slower?

The former. The random shutdowns would make you think the battery needs replacing, meaning you wouldn't need to replace the whole phone.

The latter would make you think that modern apps aren't able to run on it anymore, or you are suffering from windows-style software bloat.
“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.”

Welcome to the outcome. When companies look at employees and employee training as an expense, and when the only way to improve your salary is to go to a new company, expect to see these companies to be hollowed out shells of untrained people.
It's possibly one of the reasons why so many people were bent out of shape when MS introduced the adaptive ribbon shenanigans that tried to 'help' by only showing the most likely options. Really knocked my ability to find stuff
> Shareholders aren't making these decisions

What are "these decisions"? I assumed you are talking about punishing people like Bezos for the activities of Amazon, even without proof he had direct knowledge/involvement of them, purely based on his position as a c-suite figurehead?
I don't want it to translate to my native language.

We happened to have a teacher who was an old Esperantist with some quirky ideas, so I learned English with the so-called direct method. That means that after the first class, the teacher and everyone spoke only English in class. The textbook relied heavily on pictures.

Lots of people don't like the direct method, and I can understand why it's unpleasant, but it worked really well for me. I had German lessons in school for a long time, but never gained anything like the fluency I got in English - the German teachers varied from some very archaic grammar-translation stuff ("durchfürgegenohneum", "ausbeimitnachseitvonzu" etc.) to the ones who seemed to have no plan at all.

LLMs should be able to teach me with the direct method, though fine-tuning would help.
AI translation falls flat on its face with gendered languages, when it is given text in English and has to translate it into French, German, or Polish. How is that even a consideration for a service that's supposed to be teaching people languages?
I assume I'm being down voted by pro-native people for calling their preferred tech descending losing old-guard technologies.

Does anyone actually have any comments or reactions to what I was actually arguing about?

PWAs being such brutal downgrade over what the web browser offers seems glaringly obvious to me; I'm shocked there's not more outcry. If people actually feel otherwise, please leave some arguments out in support of blowing away the user agent.

This feels like it always has been the nexus of power where the web gets consistent enriching capabilities and affordances. It's what has made the web powerful & better, rather than every user being cast naked &bat the mercies into whatever app a company decides to cook up.

There's a submission right now on The Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design & the browser alone satisfies 6 or 7 of these, by my judgement, whereas native & PWA apps require the app to carefully construct it's own paradigm that can fully meet these user needs. The user agent is a helpful baseline, and it seems mad that PWAs throw it away to me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38916663 https://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/goldenrules.html

If people think PWAs offer anything or make any sense versus the web browser, I'd love to hear why. Tabbed design was sooo late relatively to emerge in PWA space, and it feels like just one of a million affordances that are going to be half baked recreations of what we already had in the browser. How is being an app in an OS better than being a tab in a much more powerful & competent & featureful user-agent?
I would counter the house/education one by suggesting that it's cherry picking the points that support the underlying claim. It seems like other tech related items that people engage with everyday without even thinking about it are orders of magnitude less expensive. Ex: communication, information access (especially global). But even this is missing the underlying contextual claim, and your arguments kind of highlight exactly that. Americans primarily are looking at there immediate history (one generation back) or at what others have around them. They don't typically compare against other cultures or 100+ years ago.

Real wages absolutely plummeted over time for Americans but taken in the context of non-americans is another point that was trying to be brought up.
Aren’t there multiple signoffs & inspections to see if the lock wire was being done correctly?
Force it to develop actually new airplane, not rely on grandfathered type license from 60 years ago.
The A380 had nothing to criticize?
"Are you having fun, son?"
Most startups I deal with these days don't even have offices anymore, let alone network ports. =)

But yea.. same deal with wifi. Its amazing how often the wifi password is posted on something visible. In fact I have found the password in so many public images which means somebody on the street could just connect to the wifi network fomr the street.
Think of it more like this.

On page A, you have a button. It looks like a button. When you click it, a dialog opens that confirms you want to perform an action.

On page B, you click on the button, and it's a dropdown. You now have lost a sense of the mental model of the application world.

It's possible that you may want one of three actions based on your mental model, but the visual should lead you to know "this is different."

If you have something that looks like a
Yes, so the question is:

Can an 'Evaluator' declare, "Boy, these responses sure read like John Doe whose style I'm very familiar with. Since it's unlikely he's on the other side of this evaluation....this is a definitely a bot." ?
Thanks. I get it, and generally agree with your point here. Paying for good people and giving them enough time to get the job done is generally enough. I was just trying to be fair to op's question as devil's advocate. I don't think it should just be dismissed as a joke. I have always been a huge cryptocurrency skeptic, and I just don't see the same trajectory for ML.

So back in the day, Expert Systems were a big thing at Boeing. Searching Boeing's job openings today, it's a still a word used in hiring, but I don't understand what they mean by it in terms of manufacturing. Do you have any idea what they mean by that today?
Sure, but Boeing’s current awful cost cutting management does not date back that far.
OpenAI responds to NYT lawsuit, says 'regurgitation' of content is a 'rare bug'
I advise you to educate yourself. The US killed 300 thousand civilians in the second Iraq war using their 'precision' strikes. That compares to 10 thousand civilians who died so far in the Ukrainian war. Both of these numbers are provided by the US gov itself.
I believe the original Kubernetes proof of concept was written in Java
Assimil is great.

My personal favorite ressource is Lingolia [1]

[1] https://lingolia.com
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Interestingly NIST categorized jailbreaking as a subset of prompt injection as well. I disagree with them too! https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jan/6/adversarial-machine-lea...
common practice in manufacturing to use a paint pen on bolts in assembly lines to check and make sure nothing is backing out aftre maintenance/repair.
Why would they be inadequate? They are a very good metric that lets one instantly recognize the way the problem’s certain properties change with respect to some other factor. Does it give a complete picture for everything? No. Why would it? But to say that they are woefully inadequate is just ridiculous.
Profit motive
And that's pretty much the thing. Pretty much everyone I know says immersion is the thing. You can probably learn to read academically. And I'll probably do some more language courses before a more immersive situation. But for the vast majority of people "I've spent a month with this online course" fluency isn't realistic.
we can always find Apple iOS or Android critics and defenders. But the Apple fanboy is more of a true believer. That's what I'm talking about re Airbus v Boeing
Group Selection is not a thing[1].

There's an equilibrium of honesty and dishonesty. If everyone is dishonest, no one trusts, and the dishonesty doesn't pay off. If everyone is honest, everyone trusts, and dishonesty pays off all the more.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection#Criticism
As a 20 something this makes me so excited to be alive.
Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but I doubt we will have AGI by even 2100. I define AGI as the ability for an intelligence that is not human to do anything any human has ever done or will do with technology that does not include itself* (AGI).

* It also goes without saying that by this definition I mean to say that humanity will no longer be able to meaningfully help in any qualitative way with respect to intellectual tasks (e.g. AGI > human; AGI > human + computer; AGI > human + internet; AGI > human + LLM).

Fundamentally I believe AGI will never happen without a body. I believe intelligence requires constraints and the ultimate constraint is life. Some omniscient immortal thing seems neat, but I doubt it'll be as smart since it lacks any constraints to drive it to growth.
IMO this is a misunderstanding of the product.

This might be a cynical take, but I think that for most users of Duolingo, it functions more as a game than as a tool which produces substantial gains in language knowledge. I'm a computational linguist, and whenever on hearing this people ask me what I think about Duolingo, I like to say it's language-flavored entertainment.
I would class that as 'training' and 'repurposing', and the former could be loosely classed as 'practice' fighting
There are reasons for folks to wait for the PRO.

* First are the EPYC memory protection features. No other Ryzen SKU has them. I actually care about these protection and isolation features.

* Second are the GE variants. Think similar to Intel’s T and TE variants. These are super binned for extra low power consumption. An 8750GE will be binned to actually be at max performance at a 35W TDP. Yes, you could set a G to Eco Mode or whatever, but I’ve done those experiments with 5700Gs and 5700Xs, and the performance nor power consumption is not quite there compared to the GE versions.

* Last is AMD DASH support. Think Intel vPro IPMI without needing a dedicated BMC (just an onboard NIC that supports DASH). Non-PRO Ryzen SKUs do not support DASH.

I won’t be waiting regardless as my 5750GEs are good for many more years still, but the PRO variants genuinely have real differentiating features.
Some part of the process -- anywhere from specs to assembly-- had some cost cutting that led to the outcome. The root cause of this problem is something financially motivated.
Boring pedantic note: the US Navy uses the heavier catapult-launched F-35. Other nations use the STOVL F-35, which has a smaller weapons payload and shorter range.

(Only three nations in the world have catapult-equipped aircraft carriers: the US, France and China. The latter two countries are not F-35 users.)
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Also if you like jail.
That's actually the critical part and much more relevant than the exact scores achieved.

According to the linked article, the main reason Eliza got such a pass is because the testers were looking for a ChatGPT-esque giveaway. Long-winded, frightened of controversy, prone to hallucinations.

Which Eliza is not. And (presumably) not being familiar with Eliza, they thought it was another bored human test subject putting in the absolutely bare minimum effort.

Eliza didn't pass for a human - it passed for not-a-LLM.
How to AI-proof your career as a knowledge worker
The way to think about Duolingo is like another mobile phone game. Except the "universe" of the game is language learning instead of a random farming or middle ages theme. And so you learn about the language in the same way you learn about farming or middle ages from those games. Meaning if you never read anything about farming or the middle ages now you know of some things, but you'd really be much faster ahead by picking up a proper book on the subject. So it is with language learning apps.
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Train travel tend to be much more comfortable than bus, car or plane. Especially if the plane takes as long time due to airports being located outside the city, security hazel, lots of stress at the airport and so on.

The train cost more, but you enter the train in the city centre, sit down and relax, go to the restaurant car and eat a nice dinner, relax som more and you arrive in the destination city.

This works better in continental Europe, where you have shorter distances and high speed trains between the capitols, often making the train faster from city centre to city centre than air travel. Traveling from Chicago to SF by train is pleasant, but take a couple days, not a couple of hours.
With tech these bets are off, what if it can further a collective further? Say making you stronger despite your genes, or using tech to assist us. It’s already happening right now, look at all the tech around us
but shareholders got rich and that's really what is important.

> Boeing Co. (BA.N) directors authorized a record US$20 billion share buyback program and boosted the company’s dividend 20 per cent -- a sign the planemaker doesn’t intend to stop showering cash on investors any time soon.[1]

[1] https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/boeing-sets-new-20-billion-buyba...
I prefer Mango Languages, which I get for free through my public library. The progression feels better to me, it's not as gamified (sorry for using that word), and there is some (though not a ton of) actual lesson content in there. For example, learning Spanish, it gives some context on the different usages of "Ser" vs. "Estar" for "to be", and it includes discussion on gendered nouns. DuoLingo may have gotten to some brief lesson content at some point, but for me it was too grating to continue with and I quit before I made much progress with it.
i've always heard that the primary savings is in reduced number of SMS segments, otherwise just for aesthetics and time saved typing it.
I realize lots of people have learned languages by watching movies in the target language and reading subtitles in their native language, but I have found that to be highly difficult. I guess everyone is different, but given that the vast majority of people who read something while listening to something else will either comprehend something from one and nothing from the other, or worst case, get nothing from either, it seems likely that doing so to learn a language is not optimum.

I could perhaps see this method as more effective in cases where the 2 languages are similar enough that there is some "lining up" between what you read and hear, but where the words are completely dissimilar and even sentence structure is completely different, I just don't see it as any better than a brute force method of learning.
Anyone who has been employed in Big Tech should have no problem self-funding a few hundred dollars a month for small-scale server infrastructure. The problem is you gotta keep paying your $3500 rent or $9000 mortgage in San Francisco. Most of us need to work at a profitable company or funded startup to manage that.
Yes, it's within the same family, Boeing MAX.
Deploying AI-powered Django apps to Modal.com
If this turns out to be the assembly issue it seems to be, it hints at a deeper, potentially cultural, issue at Boeing. One that could affect all their planes, because why would only be the B737 MAX FAL be sloppy?
TL;DR: Its a very old counterfeit coin.
Flying cheap drones with homemade explosives into commercial cargo ships sound pretty guerilla.
A guy holding an inspection report issue
Agreed. And what percentage of the employed workforce (that 67%) are in low wages jobs compared to 1972?
It's actually worse. I read this as Russia accidentally hits civilians because they have no choice where as we do it with intention.
> if shipping companies don't trust the waters they simply won't send ships there - claims don't matter one whit

What part of removing long-range precision strike capability suggests an empty claim?
> Debian's … installer … seems quite apt

I see what you did there
Well, you can just start an exact solver on the problem in one thread, and an approximate algorithm on another. If the former doesn’t finish in n seconds, you cancel it and use the result of the latter.
Not reassuring indeed.

"most scrutinized world leader in history"
I quickly scrolled through the supported website list, and I haven’t recognized any familiar websites.

https://github.com/FastForwardTeam/FastForward/blob/main/doc...

All of these look super obscure.
They're definitely trying to replace MacOS: https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/
Language Transfer is free, non-commercial, and many swear by it:

https://www.languagetransfer.org
It's 700 net, but that's generally how numbers are reported. When we get the national BLS numbers of "178,000 jobs created in October" that number is always net. In reality, most months you'll see a few million jobs created and a few million terminated.
Then again - moving up to 68000 there's the Commodore Amiga, Machintosh, Atari ST... At least the Amiga had C compilers (I assume all of them did).
Race to the bottom propelled by the current fad here we come.

Duolingo has been completely fucking useless for me compared to spending a few hours in the country in question though. It's pretty much HOW DO I GO LEFT AT THE BAKERY level of teaching.
Presumably the "with layover" is something crazy like a Delta flight that goes via Atlanta. You can get some pretty crazy routing sometimes if you pick the wrong combination of airports and carrier. United has a non-stop with weekday first class tickets for ~$500, so I think the point stands.
Duolingo was one of the first companies to partner with OpenAI on leveraging their language models. I think they were using GPT-3 before ChatGPT was even popularized.
I will never step foot on a Boeing 737 Max. It seems this plane designed to find new ways to kill you and I'm not having that.
Not sure that would help - the Boeing subcontractor that likely played a role in the defective parts, Spirit Aero, was previously part of Boeing and spun off in 2005.