skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You learn the vocabulary, you learn pronunciations and you learn how to listen and comprehend. I don’t see what’s so bad about it. It’s never going to be able to compete with a native speaker just speaking to you in that language but nothing will.
Why wouldn't you? Anyone and their mother could get a long code number from Twilio for $1/mo, without any kind of verification or KYC process.

Meanwhile, a short code would run you $4500 for three months (IIRC, memory is fuzzy, and it's probably changed), and you had to go through an approval process with all the mobile carriers (that is, Verizon, T-Mobile, etc. had to individually approve the short code) where you explained your use case and promised not to spam.

(Obviously things are different now with the campaign registration and approvals requires even for long code numbers. But short codes are still harder to get, and the approvals more rigorous.)
Please refresh and look at my edit.

If a missing some major required component aside from finetuning and frames per sec, which will require a few years for everything to be fast enough... please let me know what it is.

Wait, oh it will be understanding of time... the sequencing of the frames. That is missing for now, right?
Fair enough. Maybe I just didn’t notice it during the WWDC presentation. I had the impression it would stick out a lot less.
Lego Vacuum
Interesting, that appears to be brand new (as of December, anyway), and they certainly aren't advertising it widely. Could be worthwhile if you don't mind subscribing to your OS and losing access if anything ever happens to the account.

I wonder if what it really means is that LTSC 11 is now enshittified.
I love how you continue to ignore the fact that ired produces incorrect results.

Also:

You can use -F to make the argument to ripgrep be interpreted as a literal. No knowledge of regex is needed. It's a standard grep flag.

You also aren't using PCRE. You're using ripgrep's default engine, which is the regex crate. You need to pass -P to use PCRE2. Although I don't see the point in doing so.

I find your overall comparison here to be disengenuous personally. You can't even be arsed to acknowledge that ired returns incorrect results. And every benchmark I've run has shown ripgrep to be faster or just as fast. There's no jank.

I already acknowledged that the rg binary is beefy. It is actually statically linked by default (although it may dynamically link C libraries). I don't care if rg is 5MB. If you do, then rg isn't for you. You can keep using broken software instead.
Dupe:

IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38912125 - Jan 2024 (210 comments)
I knew a few people who would cheat, but not that many people. It also seemed there were fewer opportunities to cheat with in-person tests and stuff. Many of the take-home assignments had multiple versions or required long form answers that should be unique. I guess a lot of people would have used ChatGPT for that if it existed then.
True. It's usually in mice. Nice change of pace!
The country of registration is separate from the country the ship was built in, and separate from ownership or nationality of the crewmen.

A ship can be built, owned and operated from outside the US but still be registered in the US.

You may be thinking of the Jones Act, which implements cabotage in the US, a fairly common practice among seafaring nations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabotage
I am not sure if there were any practical async apis for files. There was only for networking I believe?
What is the "current pace". Last year? Last 5 years? Last 20 years?

If you mean the last year, is that pace maintainable?
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38917820 ?
Why do people pay more for slower transportation?
Firefox on Android is worse experience than Chrome too, at least for this app. The app is harder to install (no prompt), the icon looks worse, and the icon has a Firefox badge on it.

I wonder if that's down to config for the PWA or a Firefox shortcoming. Anyone know?
IMO, you and the GP are onto something with the term "celebrity CEO". In Jeff's case, he seems like a celebrity CEO for his employees/developers, who we identify with, though not for his customers, who we are largely not.

His customers probably expected better products, whereas his developers expected another round of amazing perks and fun work.
The same response as to the sibling comment that asks the same.

I think this question is mostly asked by people who have no idea how it works.

ChatGPT can actually on demand give me a list of 20 idioms related to finding directions, something a human tutor would have to find in some material.

And yes, of cause I learn language to communicate with people which also corrects my misunderstandings.
If you are learning Polish, how do you know that ChatGPT is the better tutor of Polish?

I guess you could ask the same question of a human tutor, however this seems to me the sort of thing a chatbot could very confidently give BS or incorrect information, and you would have no way of knowing unless a human who already knows Polish pointed it out.
Unused 7 days of annual PTO. And there are companies with "unlimited" vacation which means no unused vacation.
1989: Odd that the superminicomputer that cost hundreds of thousands had 8MB RAM and managed 1 MIPS, while my Acorn Archimedes cost $2000 had 1MB (and you could get up to 4MB) and managed 8 MIPS.
It's deceptively ineffective. Sure, it can teach you things, but it has not been a good use of time for me personally (I'm not OP btw).
Not sure that Strive for Consistency should be a golden rule of all interface design. Software maybe. But the reality is the world is inconsistent and humans mental model of tasks are inconsistent. Sometimes its better to design an interface that conforms to the world or the mental model.

As a random example: You could have an interface on a car that is almost entirely touch screens. You might see replacing the steering wheel with a touch screen interface. That would be consistent but not a good mapping to people's mental model.
People in leading positions who leave for competitors get told to not show up again, but of course get paid so it is a paid holiday.
Bolts can be loosened, or fail to be tightened on any aircraft. I suspect this may be a problem with people and/or procedure.
Well, these days, Google Translate is pretty bad as machine translation services go... it's much better to ask an instruction tuned multilingual LLM to translate for you.
Never is a very long time, I suspect you’ll be able to chat with an AI assistant, in a language of your choosing, within 5 years.
I feel like you’re saying “primed for success” ironically but I’m not seeing the irony.
The trick is to teach French learners that this word means something in French and at the same time to teach English learners that it means something in English.

So you travel to France and practice your newly-learned French. You run across a French person who has been learning English. You use the word thinking that it’s French, and the person you speak to has already heard it as an English word and thinks that you don’t know the word in French but they know what you mean thinking it’s an English word.
Treetable: A case-study in q (2010)
This is a lot more compelling when you consider what it takes to survive this generation is not the same thing that was needed to survive last generation. This was more obvious with, for example, the peppered moth.
I think this was mostly just my personal slightly-paranoid aversion to political risk, but it always astounded me that someone was willing to use the Libyan TLD during the days of Gaddafi to build a link-shortening business.
Show HN: Merkdir – create Merkle trees from your directories
Its not really related at all. Loom allows java thread to in certain cases block, but then yield to run a different thread's code. That principle is unrelated to File IO.
I'm sure it's not the best language learning tool around, but it has taught me enough of three different languages to visit a foreign country, ask for directions, order things, etc, with a number of conversations never falling back into English. And all for the price of free.
OpenAI claims The New York Times tricked ChatGPT into copying its articles
Exactly! The hard part was to find a type system that we can map most (if not all) Elixir constructs to, and set-theoretic types have been a great fit so far and we were able to develop the theory in the areas where it lacked.
They were sending dogecoins. Both the coin and “sending it to the moon” were meant to be a joke in the first place.
Long may higher education be around. It was around in the times of
Plato and Aristotle. In central India the first universities
flourished thousands of years ago. Then in Bologna, Paris, Oxford and
Cambridge in the 11th century. They were all but destroyed by
inquisitions but bounced back in time for the renaissance. They've
been sacked by Vandals and burned down by Popes.

Higher education will be here in 2124 and in 2224 and so long as human
beings seek knowledge and wish to transcend our parochial epoch.

This shitty little period of sad human history, where they've
disgraced themselves so far as become nothing but certificate issuers
for their industrial masters will fade away like leaving little or no
trace in history.
I'm about 18 months in as well and feel like I don't know crap. I just can't memorize thousands of new words. I honestly have no idea how anyone is bilingual.
As someone else has said in response, my vocabulary, pronunciation, and understanding of grammar rules are solid. I believe I've already learned 3000 words of Spanish at this point. I will need immersion to gain the speaking and listening skills, but I was never deceived about that. I figured this would be a small daily investment for a few years that I would eventually need to actualize.
In all recent US wars civilian casualties vastly outnumber military ones. In the Ukrainian war civilian casualties constitute less than 10% of overall casualties. Outstanding precision for a rusty hatchet.
Can an expert explain some context here?? This seems like a less-well-phrased version of Norman’s principles, which were the ones I was taught in HCI class.

The author is clearly some sort of textbook author so they know what they’re talking about, but these principles seem like they were written without considering past work. Like “short term memory load” seems like a phrase that would be replaced by “cognitive load” by most authors, even if it’s technically a little bit less specific. Some of the principles are pretty much identical (consistency), while others seem oddly phrased (like “prevent errors” instead of “constraints”).

Obviously these principles are great, just seems like there has to be a story about the academic drama here.
We have extremely detailed and well-tested models of climate. It's worth reading the IPCC report - it's extremely interesting, and quite accessible. I was somewhat skeptical of climate work before I began reading, but I spent hundreds of hours understanding it, and was quite impressed by the depth of the work. By contrast, our models of future AI are very weak. Something like the scaling laws paper or the Chinchilla paper are far less convincing than the best climate work. And arguments like those in Nick Bostrom or Stuart Russell's books are much more conjectural and qualitative (& less well-tested) than the climate argument

I say this as someone who written several pieces about xrisk from AI, and who is concerned. The models and reasoning are simply not nearly as detailed or well-tested as in the case of climate.
I don’t see the connection. Liberal democracies risk the lives of their militaries all the time. Does Egypt have a history of selecting strategies that needlessly waste military strength in service of their social structure?
My Manabi Reader app is a browser

https://reader.manabi.io
They use other methods, like Rosetta. Duolingo is trash.
Go live, date, and work in a country that speaks the language you are studying. You will find that you don't need to start from ground zero and you will gain speaking and listening skills quickly.
> But the learn rate is so fast, that you get sufficient coverage to fix it up in actual conversation.

This should really be emphasised. Correctness might not be entirely on every time. But learning pace and engagement is so much higher, that it more than makes up for it.

Especially engagement is a point where ChatGPT wins over all human teachers.
Sandboxing Applications with Bubblewrap
>Buffet didn't become rich through stocks.

That is untrue. That's exactly how he became rich.

Although his dad was wealthy he deliberately took no money from him and started from zero. He started stock investing and ran an early hedge fund, the Buffett Partnership investing for others and taking a cut of the profits. In the 1969 after becoming a multi millionaire and closing that he moved to running Berkshire Hathaway. At Berkshire there is a mixture of stock investing and running businesses.

He was briefly ranked the richest man on earth but started giving his shares away to charity. If it was not for the charity thing he'd be up there with Elon.
> Debug everywhere or google controlled, those things seem diametrically opposed.

That's what I said.

> the compatibility issues are pretty much a thing of the past on any browser

Because there is only one meaningful browser left: Chromium. It is not a solution to cross-platform, it is just pushing for a monopoly. Just like a few years ago you could have been advocating for supporting exclusively Internet Explorer: that solves the compatibility issues too.

Now PWAs are not trying to kill other browsers (it's done already), but other platforms. That's just the next step.
~1K API Costs: ~$150

$150 for 1000 API requests? Isn't that way too high?
How do you know a human tutor is not confidently incorrect?

I know it sounds like a glib answer, but in reality the answer to both questions is you don't know for certain in either case. Honestly I would say both are incorrect for at least some portion of their responses, but you seem to be insinuating that humans are closer to 0% while the LLM's percent is higher. In my estimation the LLM is probably less often incorrect but that's just my opinion. I am sure a more rigorous study could be conducted though.
People who are more into it usually prefer human made puzzles since they often have a logical path that you're supposed to find, which can be quite satisfying. Generating sudoku puzzles is actually quite easy. Just put random numbers on the board until you have a unique solution. It runs surprisingly fast. The tricky part is deciding on the difficulty. I made a program that would identify all the different sudoku techniques needed to solve each puzzle (x wings, pairs, all the way up to chains), then set the difficulty based on what techniques were required. Code is here for anyone interested: https://github.com/magnusjt/sudoku/
Sadly I don't think anyone would pay millions for this anymore
They've fired so many employees that they (the employees) may as well band together to create a new game engine.
That is helpful context which disambiguates an otherwise confusing title but I also suspect that the submitter ran into a character-length limit on the title. It would be hard to fit that statement into a certain length without omitting some relevant detail.
It seems like AI, deployed against a few hundred learners, ought to be able to discern what the most efficient path to learning a new language is. Then you can just create a new app that does exactly that
To be fair, manufacturers are trying to discontinue the ability to 'buy' a service manual and make you pay for x amount of time of access. And IIRC they don't format the page into something that's offline friendly.

It's still doable to get the full manual off, just not easy anymore.
If they were actually primed for success then 18 months of Duolingo should've given them a significant head start on the other students.

Judging by the tone, I'm assuming that didn't actually occur.
This reads like propaganda. The US military does a fine job of destroying entire countries
I know of some people who have learned languages through Duolingo. I also know some people who took classroom courses and accompanied those with Duolingo – and they believe Duolingo was helpful in that sense. I know people who learned foreign language by a combination of Duolingo + staying in a foreign country at the same time.

I myself have used Duolingo to learn some rudimentary basics of a foreign language and I haven't forgotten those.

I doubt Duolingo is the most efficient, but that doesn't mean it's useless.
I don't think it's generational per se, but I've noticed a declining level of concern for safety in product design compared to even like 20 years ago. I think people got used to the idea that everything is generally very safe and now there's less of an emphasis, so given enough time we'll start seeing dangerous products again and the cycle will start anew.
> In December 2022, Google updated the metrics it uses to assess the quality of the content it serves up to searchers. Previously, the company looked for expertise, authority, and trust in webpages — now, the company said it would tack on experience to the rating system. In SEO parlance, it’s called E-E-A-T.

So this is why so many websites are filled with pointless drivel no one can ever bother to check...
Elixir, and Erlang before it, has always essentially had gradual typing through pattern matching and non-overloaded operators, they just get caught at runtime. This is bringing those checks to compile time.
At the same time, it also seems to accept unintelligible grunting as a correct pronunciation for many questions, and not just German.
Agreed — while we’re at it, let’s break Boeing up into multiple firms. It has been “too big to fail” for too long.
You're of course unlikely to get the same read, but I find it crazy that their source of cryptographic entropy is on public display from the street!
OpenAI's GPT4 https://blog.duolingo.com/duolingo-max/
Just got algo'd a YouTube video of someone on a similar rail car cruising along an abandoned section of track in SoCal.

My first thought was: tow a couple more of those cars but with solar and LiPO batteries and you can travel all day.

(I know too of people that "rail bike". That looks like a blast.)
Based on what reasoning? Do they also consider whales as source of meat as they're mammals?
> Asus ROG Ally with the Z1. $399 at Best Buy, can handle all your gaming needs, only needs a single USB C hub to connect to everything. I currently use the Z1 Extreme version (more powerful) as my PRIMARY desktop. I love it.

My girlfriend also uses a Rog Ally as her primary desktop and she loves it: it has a compact form factor, handles all the games she plays perfectly (apparently better than more classical mini PCs like Beelinks), as well as somewhat heavy software such as Photoshop.

It’s a shame it’s marketed just as a portable gaming device when it’s in fact a very capable mini PC.
Make all the merkle hashes public using eliptic curve cryptography to hide everyone's addresses and then get investigators to keep investigating who paid what to have what post sent to where and then check if they under or over paid for each parcel they sent
He said that it took multiple years of work to get this running. I wonder if such effort could be simplified somehow? Maybe from KDE side?
what am I missing? is there a way to algorithmically discern the original link? otherwise, all of the tracking info is still transmitted even if a 3rd party server cURLs the shortened link to return the full link back to you. what is this service actually doing that allows one to get the actual URL w/o hitting all of the things in between?
idk what aviation standards say but shouldnt loctite or spring washers at least be used
Dell XPS laptop gets a 2024 overhaul with XPS 13, XPS 14, and XPS 16 laptops
I’ve used duolingo several times on and off throughout my life for different languages (Spanish, German, French). Sometimes paid, sometimes free.

In the beginning I thought it was excellent and that’s why I kept coming back.

I tried it again the last 12 months and the app wasted so much of my time making me skip through promotions and do-nothing animations. Opening chests, collecting gems, all the gamified stuff.

I didn’t need it. I was already self motivated to learn without a bunch of time sinking doodads that you have to click through.

I guess duolingo is good if you are struggling with motivation.

Recently I used a paid app called Pimsleur that I liked. There’s also a lot of good free resources on YT
I am not an expert, but my reading is that epoll operates on file descriptors.
As far as I understand, at least with some designs, the fuel elements have the property that it overall becomes less reactive above a certain temperature (that the elements can withstand without damage). So it's basically self- moderating, and the cooling system only has the job to extract the energy to generate electricity. At least that's the theory.
The problem lies in the perceived benefit that the user believes. The app, through its marketing and content, leads you to believe that you can and in fact, will, learn the language of your choosing.

Anecdotally, this has not been the case for me.

Similar to the parent, I have accelerated my learning tenfold by ditching D**** in favor of reading, watching, and listening to content in my target language as well as speaking to a tutor I found online.

I've wasted a tremendous amount of time going through and ultimately completing a tree only to find myself crossing the finish line not being comfortable saying anything in that language. Is that a criticism of me? Perhaps. But, the big D once fooled me into thinking the answer to that question was that it is. Which is to say, I don't believe it's a criticism of me.
The reason why it's bad is that this is an overcomplicated process that introduces potentially unreliable bells and whistles for little upside. At the end of the day, there aren't fundamental issues with a trained employee following a checklist. Machine learning is extremely powerful but tons of issues can be solved in a straightforward algorithmic fashion, so we should really be using it where it could make a big difference.
Good catch. That might be a typo: the Prime 750 seems to date from 19_7_9.
Depends. If you would have to fetch a big layer often because of updates, that's not good. But if what is changing frequently is in a smaller layer, it will be more favorable
Will gradual typing allow Elixir to implement any new performance optimizations? Adding typing to dynamic languages like Elixir (or Python or Ruby) means developers pay a compile-time cost but still pay a runtime cost for the VM's dynamic type checking.
No human person has the stamina to spend 3 hours fixing basic conjugation tables and still encourage me.

As a European I have received extensive language tutoring and know how people teach. I also know enough Polish people that I can certify that they are just regular people without super-human tutoring skills.
I mean, you can take it quarter by quarter. If you get your vest and (even if you sell them immediately) the value is worth it to you, you'll probably stick around for another quarter to get the next one.

You don't just say on day 1, "I don't think the company is going anywhere, but I'm committing to staying another 4 years".
Why is roesetta better?
https://godotengine.org
Egypt will feel some pain, but most of it will be felt by Israel and Europe.
Egypt has closed the canal many times itself as a form of protest, the longest closure was from 1967 to 1975 after the 6 day war with Israel.

So I do not expect them to do anything.
So you don't count on the law to free you from the Apple Store (because that is the only major platform with a lock-in), but you hope that somehow magically PWAs will be distributed on iOS?

How does that work?