skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it can even perfectly translate endangered languages like Occitan

I’m continually surprised by the ever increasing hype surrounding AI. How could this statement possibly be true? Does ChatGPT have any Occitan texts in its training corpus? Are you fluent in this language to be someone qualified to make such a determination?

Every comment I’ve read from someone employed as a translator says it still doesn’t get the human nuances of languages. Yet, it perfectly knows this language?

Wikipedia even says “Occitan does not have a single written standard form”[1]. If that context is true, how could any thing possibly translate it perfectly?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_language
> I spent 18 months on it and the learning was soundly thrashed by three weeks in a classroom, and for all the pupils, not just me, primed for success by 18 months with Duolingo.

I wonder how well you would have done if it hadn't been for that 18 months. Because 'three weeks in a classroom' sounds suspiciously to how I learned Polish: I seemed to be making zero progress for years and then in a very short amount of time (a couple of weeks at most) it suddenly 'clicked' and I started to make sense of what I heard. I probably was learning at some level that wasn't accessible all the while thinking I wasn't making any progress at all.

Duolingo is 'infotainment', it gets you from zero to a little bit above zero and it may give you some useful number of words to recognize and maybe even to use actively. But it won't help you to speak a language, for that you need to progress beyond it. This is pretty much the same story with every other language, nobody learns to speak and use a language actively by reading the dictionary. But it certainly doesn't hurt to have a basic 200 or 300 word vocabulary on which to build.

Personally I use Anki for such learning rather than commercial services, it allows for far more customization and you won't be sucked into silly gamification for the sake of extending your subscription because there is none.
I don’t know what Boeing do, but you typically see torque markings on many of these bolts on small planes (and cars, roller coasters, other things).

If the painted seal is broken or misaligned, you know the nut has moved.
The first several sentences from your article:

> Neurons do not work alone. Instead, they depend heavily on non-neuronal or “glia” cells for many important services including access to nutrition and oxygen, waste clearance, and regulation of the ions such as calcium that help them build up or disperse electric charge.

That's exactly what homeostatisis is but we don't simulate astrocyte mitochondria to understand what effect they have on another neuron's activation. They are independent. Otherwise, biochemistry wouldn't function at all.
Happy accident at first, though there are some possibilities around grandparents increasing survival rates of younger children, so that would ultimately feed back into the gene pool.
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That's precisely the point the parent was trying to make to your GP post, namely that

> "There is no more evolutionary pressure on lifespan after you have children"

is an inaccurate oversimplification.
Maybe because your brain made new connections, but was "primed" by what it knew from Duolingo.

A bit like you plan a holiday, read the guidebook, then you go to the destination. Your knowledge of the place was thrashed vs. reading the guide book. But the guidebook helped with some foundational knowledge and was still useful.
You were the one to mention "legal implications", are you a legislator?
> Is this the first time these planes have been inspected?

Most likely weren't checked since the planes left the factory yes.

To quote from: https://theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatches/united-finds-loose...

"The five aircraft were delivered to United between November 2022 and September 2023, according to ch-aviation, and would likely not have been through a heavy maintenance C check that occurs every 4,000 to 6,000 hours or two to three years."
See, now, the Orange Pi 5 works marvelously with the correct installation, and also handles up to 13B LLMs at the right quantization real well.
I have found it helpful, even as the central foundation for learning languages, but you have to remember at the end of the day it is *you* who is learning the language and you absolutely must mentally engage yourself, it can definitely lure you into a path of scoring points without making real progress.

I will pause my lesson and jump over to Google or ChatGPT, and usually end a session with a pen and paper writing out any phrases I was less familiar with. You also need to make sure you’re being challenged, with some languages I get into a phase where it is really easy for a long time, when that happens, you need to skip ahead because just scoring points is meaningless. I still think the gamification is useful and unique and can help keep your overall learning efforts progressing. Also I always supplement with Pimsleur, an audio-only program that is great for listening while you’re at the gym or biking or otherwise unable to read or interact with a screen.
Being a slave to your phone or an app, or even a game or a book is perfectly correct use of the word.
We even have an example of what a train wreck it is in Canada, with stagnant productivity, a housing bubble and overcrowded public services. But we're determined to make the exact same mistakes.
Apple loves their curveballs but the base MacBook Pro with the M3 no-adjectives does, so it seems safe to expect https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/
Count down to "prolong" treatments like in David Weber's books?
I don't know if previous versions of DuoLingo had different approach, but on iOS, Android and Windows, I just said "No" to every option when first using it, and I don't get ANY of those. I declined notifications, widgets, reminders, everything.

Not sure about the AI checker yet; we'll see! I've used ChatGPT myself though as a wonderful language tutor to complement Duolingo, so I'm trying to not be completely skeptical / cynical :-)
To help her offspring propogate her genes is one theory I've read, coming from observing post menopausal sharkes
Clearly living longer after viable reproductive age offers something. Having grandmothers around to nurture the second generation offspring is certainly a benefit.
A thousand times this! All disabled menu items and inputs should always have a tooltip or other means of explaining why they are disabled and what to do to enable them, with no exceptions.
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Yes, but can it CIRCLE? Or you’re confident enough to teach a 10yo about adding layout div with an svg content to innerHTML to draw it and then querySelector() to handle its position? How will you INKEY, by putting some event handlers in the body? Good luck watching that kid trying to repeat that on his own later. Maybe a little project could help. To make life a little easier, we’ll get a hot-reload bundler and install vscode to edit a program. With a formatting linter of course, because there’s =, == and ===. But the main goal is not to just draw something, but to show off in school. So where does one choose a deployment target there in gitlab again?
Other than advancing some identity statement or some breakfast-movie-club-esque social categorization who cares the guy is 24? Sheesh. Always be hustling identity style is exhausting.
I'm primed to agree as I like running, and running appears to increase mitochondrial function and density. It also appears to have some anti aging effects, which would track.
My data science team evaluated Polars and came back with a mixed bag of results. If there was any performance-critical section, then we would consider employing it, but otherwise it was marginal negative given the overhead of replacing Pandas across dozens of projects.
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The 8 had the great MCAS crashes (boeing solution ? tell the pilot to turn it off when it happens !), the 7 has anti icing that burnout the engine nacelle and make it fall (boeing solution ? being exempted from the certification requirement of your engines not falling off and we will fix it in a few years !), the 9 has doors that fall off (boeing doesn't even have a solution on that one, but they know others bolts are at risk too since they warned to check the rudder bolts on jan 5), ... At this point it's a systemic problem with the MAX overall. The only one without issue is the 10 and it's because it's not out yet, but Boeing want a fast track on certification for it because obviously they're doing so good with these there is no need to fully check it.

And frankly this time we're talking about the worst of the worst, the basic first step of making airplanes : being able to ensure parts of it doesn't fall off for no reason. This is not a design issue, not a cost cutting "they didn't put enough sensors" reason, this is straight up "their manufacturing is bad and their QA is not able to catch it", ... These things have barely started flying and 5 of those are already affected (well, 6 ...), this is absurd.

Sure MBA taking over tends to kill engineering companies ability to make great product, but even Hewlett Packard is still able to make printers that print (they suck, but that's by choice from them)...
I doubt I'd have much better luck with Lenovo Customer service tbh.

But I have a strong rule of not patronizing companies that have previously screwed me.

Definitely eyeing Framework as they seem to value right to repair.
When we shipped Jupyter support in Deno, `nodejs-polars` was one of the cornerstone library for data science we supported.

https://blog.jupyter.org/bringing-modern-javascript-to-the-j...

I'm not personally a Data Science guy, but considering how early the JS/Jupyter ecosystem is, it was surprisingly quick to get pola.rs-based analysis up and running in TypeScript.

The JS bindings certainly need a bit of love, but hopefully now that it's more accessible we'll see some iteration on it.
Sure, the count is tracked by the company Duolingo, but that's irrelevant. The count is also tracked by the user, and that's what's important. Even more importantly, the commitment to keep to the count is made by the user. It's their commitment, not Duolingo's. Therefore, it's not relevant that Duolingo encouraged that commitment and benefits from it. The user is still going to be subject to the guilt and shame that comes when humans break our own commitments, and that's what makes quitting easier said than done.

It's kind of like telling a smoker to just quit because it's the smoking company who benefits. Yeah, sure, but the addiction is internal. They're not just selflessly smoking to help Philip Morris.
I think these guidelines are pretty translatable for any kind of user interface, including physical.

Machines should have consistent physical controls that make it readily apparent whether it's a button to press or a knob to turn. They should prevent errors like an exposed blade cutting my hand off.
DuckDB is publishing updates to the H20.ai benchmark: https://duckdb.org/2023/11/03/db-benchmark-update.html
> peers who were not as familiar with the literature on how computational complexity relates to machine learning. As a result, we have over-optimized for educating that audience, as opposed to stating our own results clearly and compellingly.

I wish this version of the paper could be shared somewhere, what's wrong with making a subject accessible?
Are these ceiling mounted APs suitable for a home environment where they would not be ceiling mounted? Like can I put it on a desk like I do my ancient Apple AirPort Time Capsule AP? PS the time capsule is sitting on a desk in our main floor living room and it covers basement, main floor, and all upstairs except 1 corner bedroom. It’s connected via Ethernet to a EdgeMax 4 router which has been mostly great though interface is kludgy. Some day the time capsule will give up the ghost though and then what?
This is a really weird hack to say the least. More like a flex showing that the author can implement transmute without unsafe than something you’d really use.
That's some HUGE promises.

Very much a "I'll believe it when I see it" scenario.
In my experience, the biggest difference is in the API. Besides the fact that it's usually faster than pandas, it also feels faster to write and easier to read.
https://archive.is/8Nq7u
`process_vm_writev` would be simpler.
Strategic bombing in Europe was a drastic failure. The only successful part of it was that it fundamentally wiped out the Luftwaffe. German military production increase annually in spite of the Allies putting so much effort into the bombing campaign.

Strategic bombing has only influenced one country to surrender.
It's not really about storage amount or convenience if the data is lost. That's no different than not surviving a fire.

The "it took longer than 2h to retrieve the voice recorder" seems one of the dangers then. And at least just as likely as many others, e.g. it's easy to imagine this happening together with "being stuck in a remote place".
This wouldn’t have happened if Zuckerberg was allowed to buy Unity.

Unity would’ve been the most profitable (least loss making) part of Meta reality labs.

Maybe he’d even have open sourced the entire thing and written it off as a marketing expense.
It's cristal clear that this page has been written for people who already know what they are looking at; the first line of the first paragraph, far from describing the tool, is about some qualities of it: "Polars is written from the ground up with performance in mind"

And the rest follows the same line.

Anyone could ELI5 what this is and for what needs it is a good solution to use?

EDIT: So an alternative implementation of Pandas DataFrame. Google gave me [0] which explains:

> The pandas DataFrame is a structure that contains two-dimensional data and its corresponding labels. DataFrames are widely used in data science, machine learning, scientific computing, and many other data-intensive fields.

> DataFrames are similar to SQL tables or the spreadsheets that you work with in Excel or Calc. In many cases, DataFrames are faster, easier to use, and more powerful than tables or spreadsheets because they’re an integral part of the Python and NumPy ecosystems.

[0]: https://realpython.com/pandas-dataframe/
I think my biggest compliant is their IPv6 support is pretty limited (compared to pfSense I've used in the past) but otherwise I have rock solid networking that only goes out due to ISP issues. I still think they're the best prosumer solution.
I’m still on my iPhone 6 and have no plans to upgrade.

Also, I’d never get a smartwatch. Casio is way cooler.
Biggest advantage I found when I evaluated it was the API was much more consistent and understandable than the pandas one. Which is probably a given, they’ve learned from watching 20 major versions of pandas get released. However, since it’s much rarer, copilot had trouble writing polars code. So I’m sticking with pandas and copilot for now. Interesting barrier to new libraries in general I hadn’t noticed until I tried this.
Depends on your work
In fact, on AArch64 there is no integer multiply instruction; there's only multiply-add, and if you just want a multiply you supply the zero register as the addend.
It's missing a critical one, which once seemed obvious: Distinguish between static information and controls.

Also, don't HIDE inapplicable controls; GREY THEM OUT. That way people learn

1. They exist
2. Where they reside
3. There's some condition to satisfy before they can be used

Related: Never, never rely on peek-a-boo UI that hides things unless the user accidentally rolls the cursor over them. I'm trying to get shit done, not explore an Advent calendar.
The statement "You make your own luck" is both true and false.

From a Psychological and Behavioral Perspective, the concept of a self-fulfilling prophecy supports the idea.

From a Probabilistic Perspective, it's false as there are external factors you just can't influence.
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I'm joking. In RedoxOS, everything is a url.
I've had the same issue with the Fitness app on my smart watch (and others like Readwise). I wanted to keep the streak alive for the sake of it, but I was starting to get hurt. For Readwise, it was just becoming mindless daily review.

Thankfully I got out of it and am much more consciously breaking streaks.

The downside is that I've clearly been exercising a lot less since I stopped focusing on the streak, so it works in some ways…

We should have a way to adjust what we consider a streak: maybe a daily streak is important to you, but maybe 3 times a week is what matters to you. Having the option for each app would be great.
That might be an interesting way to 'wire' things indoor using plugged in ultraviolet lights that send energy by wireless to other receiving devices like cameras, motion detectors, wall clocks etc.
Duolingo is a case study in how too much gamification can create a toxic app.

Recently, I happily paid $60 to use it, and after 7 days deleted and requested a refund.
pandas dataframes but faster
I don't mean to discount what you're experiencing.

The article you linked to would set off alarm bells with anyone familiar with scientific publications, or even an undergraduate level of physics education. It's more like a blog post purporting mysticism.

The cited author, Dr. George L. Carlo, is a "a world recognized medical scientist, best-selling author and attorney", as indicated here [0]--a pseudo-science website that earns money by exploiting EMF fears (and sells "WiFi blockers").

"At Tech Wellness, our goal is to be your trusted source for information about EMF and all things wireless energy. That’s no small feat, because when you start looking around you’ll see a lot of pretty crazy claims and contradicting information out there—and some of it is downright scary."

The source you linked to isn't associated with Nature, despite the URL.

[0] https://techwellness.com/blogs/news/george-carlo-wireless-em...
> I think history has shown us that we tend to underestimate the rate of technological progress and it's rate of acceleration.

It's also been overestimated tons of times. Look at some of the predictions from the past. It's been a complete crap-shoot. Many things have changed significantly less than people have predicted, or in significantly different ways, or significantly more.

Just because things are accelerating great pace right now doesn't really mean anything for the future. Look at the predictions people made during the "space age" 1950s and 60s. A well-known example would be 2001 (the film and novel). Yes, it's "just" some fiction, but it was also a serious attempt at predicting what the future would roughly look like, and Arthur C. Clarke wasn't some dumb yahoo either.

The year 2001 is more than 20 years in the past, and obviously we're nowhere near the world of 2001, for various reasons. Other examples include things like the Von Braun wheel, predictions from serious scientists that we'd have a moon colony by the 1990s, etc. etc. There were tons of predictions and almost none of them have come true.

They all assumed that the rate of progress would continue as it had, but it didn't, for technical, economical, and pragmatic reasons. What's the point of establishing an expensive moon colony when we've got a perfectly functional planet right here? Air is nice (in spite of what Spongebob says). Plants are nice. Water is nice. Non-cramped space to live in is nice. A magnetosphere to protect us from radiation is nice. We kind of need these things to survive and none are present on the moon.

Even when people are right they're wrong. See "Arthur C Clarke predicts the internet in 1964"[1]. He did accurately predict the internet; "a man could conduct his business just as well from Bali as London" pretty much predicts all the "digital nomads" in Bali today, right?

But he also predicts that the city will be obsolete and "seizes to make any sense". Clearly that part hasn't come true, and likely never will. Can't "remotely" get a haircut, or get a pint with friends, or all sorts of other things. And where are all those remote workers in Bali? In the Denpasar/Kuta/Canggu area. That is: a city.

It's half right and half wrong.

The take-away is that predicting the future is hard, and that anyone who claims to predicts the future with great certainty is a bullshitter, idiot, or both.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC3E2qTCIY8
Solar panels have nontrivial mass and this mission isn’t particularly long. Could something like a fuel cell been a better choice to power the electronics? How much energy do they need?
On the other hand, if we look at all the historical precedent for piracy becoming a major disruption to trade, it seems to me that most cases were solved only by a generous application of excessive violence, not by negotiations, as global maritime trade routes simply are a so huge strategic factor that's far more important to major powers involved than any struggle that some people may have, so if someone escalates their struggle to disrupting global trade routes, that is treated as a huge unjustified escalation and they and their struggle automatically becomes the enemy of almost everyone else, something to be eliminated at any cost, not treated as a valid concern.
Two things:

- after you reproduce evolutionary pressures have way less leverage and are limited to how an individual effects the copies of their genes that still might reproduce

- excess longevity will result in an older nonreproducing individual competing with copies of its genes leading to evolutionary pressure to die when below a threshold of usefulness to younger generations of your genes
I agree. The difficulty (in my opinion) is largely because he's writing in direct response to particular critics, and without necessarily giving a precis of their arguments. (The occasional vituperative barb - and he could be mean - is only slight relief.) He also feels compelled to drive into the ground every. single. last. objection. that anyone might have. A good critical edition can help with the former problem (and with his penchant for including long, long untranslated quotations in the many, many languages he knew), but nothing can help with the latter. Contemporaries found him hard to read, too.
I think GP is thinking that those would be AIs yes, but a A General I would be able to do them all, like a hypothetical human GI would.

I'm not saying I agree, I'm not really sure how useful it is as a term, seems to me any definition would be arbitrary - we'll always want more intelligence, it doesn't really matter if it's reached a level we can call 'general' or not.

(More useful in specialised roles perhaps, like the 'levels' of self-driving capability.)
Godot is unfortunately no where near ready for prime time, and imo also has some weird design choices that has me preferring unity
My finding as well - how I engage with DuoLingo had massive impact on my progress.

Focusing on streak, leagues, and XP/points was detrimental. I'd do the repetitive high-points exercises instead of lessons and feel "I've accomplished my goal" (of having a high score).

Once focusing on my goal of "I want to learn a language" rather than points, it was WAY better. I also create my own cheat-sheets for conjugation / adjectives / etc, and find ChatGPT a phenomenally patient tutor for my incessant "WHY, French? WHY is it thus?!?!?" questions :->
Yeah, there's really great history and some amazing stories to be heard from the interviews.
Probably you are right about that. Which brain does not like to pretend to give orders, instead of just reacting.
Other than being super useful, Dive has an underrated feature: its author is a great developer and very fun to work with.