skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Duolingo has the same incentives problem as dating apps - once someone is sufficiently fluent in the language they want to learn, they stop using the app. So instead of efficiently teaching the language, Duolingo makes the process as slow as possible while tricking the user into feeling that they're quickly learning.
The typical person does not have the information about these failures, won't prioritize better odds of survival over short-term savings, and do not have enough money to choose alternatives anyway.
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It took me a few times to understand their sentence correctly.

What I think OP meant to say:

All pupils found success. My success could be explained by being primed for success with 18 months of duolingo, but all pupils had similar success.

As written, it reads like "all pupils [...] primed for success by duolingo" which is perhaps why you tried to look for irony to match it with their conclusion.
This seems to be a scaling issue for all of these online language/SRS learning systems. Every single one of them scales and then starts dialing back/deleting/hiding all of the user-generated content that helped the platform get to where it is today.

Almost a decade ago "smart.fm" was a thing and the best thing about it was all of the user-generated content (blogs) offering discussions and explanations for so many various languages. From grammatical concepts being explained to people asking questions and having users provide answers in public Q&A style format. Then smart.fm got rid of all of that and became "iknow.jp" and deleted everyone's blogs and hard work built to create the smart.fm community (many of whom then moved to Memrise).

Memrise was originally about using user-submitted mnemonics and it had a vast library of them being created. Nowadays, as far as I can tell, none of the mnemonics are around anymore and they're no longer the focus. The focus is on monetization and gamification of their Pro user stats (of which I have lifetime membership until the year 9999 due to my help/work during their Beta testing years).

Because mnemonics were the focus - words across all of their courses had to be combined so that the mnemonics between courses would carry over. Myself and a number of (unpaid) volunteers spent months combining all of the words for every popularly used language (I helped with the Japanese dictionary) across all existing courses at that time.

Hosting (and moderating) user-generated content is an issue at scale. At the start when you have mostly good faith actors and few trolls it works quite well. But after a certain scale moderation becomes a massive issue.

At least I got a cool staff-only T-shirts out of it. Ben is an awesome dude and when I donated to the Memrise bus tour godfundme I asked if I could have one of their staff shirts that I knew they had - and they actually sent me one instead of one of the bus tour shirts!

The better funded of these sites seem to last a bit longer/scale a bit larger but it seems the death of user-generated content is inevitable after a certain point.
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The Boeing MDD merger was before my time. Airbus sure does rely on contract manufacture for everything from wings over fuselage sections to doors so. Often using the same suppliers Boeing does, the market for these tier 1 manufacturing suppliers is small.
"Hey ChatGPT, give me a list of 30 subreddits where I can find startup ideas"

(...)

(Beep. Boop.)

["r/startups", "r/leadership", "r/GrowMyBusiness", "r/venturecapital", "r/AdvancedEntrepreneur", "r/marketing", "r/LadyBusiness", "r/productivity", "r/socialmedia", "r/startups_promotion", "r/Entrepreneur", "r/EntrepreneurRideAlong", "r/Entrepreneurship", "r/advancedentrepreneur", "r/startup", "r/crowdspark", "r/sideproject", "r/InternetIsBeautiful", "r/Plugyourproduct", "r/Imadethis", "r/growthmemes"]
> then you'll be able to use whatever client you want to follow Threads users.

I'm willing to gamble insane amounts on that's never ever going to happen.
Sounds suspiciously like Israel's theory of operations for Gaza, which has little evidence for its correctness at this point.
Not sure that is the best comparison because it removes the mechanical need for leverage, even with power steering.

Now that we have more electric steer by wire... maybe.
I've actually went and looked over the sub reddit and it's a great resource for exactly what I was looking for (thanks even more for the Google Sheets).

Given the pricepoint and specs of the BeeLink, its availability for shipping in France, and the all-in-one design of the SER7 with USB-4, that seems like a great option to explore.

I will take a deeper look at their other offerings as well.
More rampant speculation!

Some quotes from this article: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spirit-ae...

> As part of the production process, Spirit builds fuselages for 737s and sends them by train with the special door assembly “semi-rigged,” one of the people said.

> “They are fitted but not completed," the person said.

> At its Renton, Washington, plant, Boeing typically removes the pop-out, or non-functioning, door and uses the gap to load interiors. Then, the part is put back and the installation in completed. Finally, the hull is pressurized to 150% to make sure everything is working correctly, the person said.

I can imagine a diffusion of responsibility as to whose job it is supposed to be to tighten those hinge bolts. Spirit is installing the plug in a “semi-rigged” state. Boeing is removing the plug to load the interior, then reinstalling it. I’d hazard a guess that Boeing is not removing the hinges, because the plug can be removed without doing so. What if, when reinstalling the plug, Boeing workers just redo the stuff they removed? They tighten the vertical movement arrestor bolt, put the pin through it, and believe they have done their job? If they never messed with those other hinge bolts, they don’t bother tightening them?
would you have opposed industrial revolution?
Some good stuff here, but generally I’d disagree with:

> Prevent errors: As much as possible, design the interface so that users cannot make serious errors; for example, gray out menu items that are not appropriate and do not allow alphabetic characters in numeric entry fields (Section 3.3.5

This sounds nice in theory, but in practice too many guardrails like this will just confuse users. “Why can’t I type text here??” It’s often better to allow mistakes but also offer immediate explanatory feedback if something is incorrect.
The founder's academic work is literally on using games to get people to generate training data for AIs. I watched his lecture on this in ~2007.
How are you using the service on a boox tablet? Follow-up, what kind of battery draw does it have on the tablet?
> However, the company maintained its long-standing position that in order for AI models to learn and solve new problems, they need access to “the enormous aggregate of human knowledge.”

They forgot to mention they need access to everything "without paying for it" while "charging for their service". Why don't they "solve new problems" on their own and make that their business instead of a super-powered chatbot?
"Unless anyone has had a different experience"

I've tried classroom instruction, and teacher-driven courses, multiple times in my life. They never really stuck for me.

Duolingo has worked for me where other techniques haven't. I'm now at a stage where I can read a newspaper article in Spanish and understand ~90% of the content.

(5 year streak, but that's 5 years of 5-15 minutes a day which turns out to be exactly the commitment that works for me.)
Yes, we might need to shoot at them.
What is the reason behind this thought? I know that most people think like this. Train should be cheaper than air.

I guess it has to do with planes replacing plane, hence plane must be better, hence more expensive.

But the reality is that the plane won because of two things: speed and cost. Air is free. Miles of miles of railroad is very expensive to build and maintain.

Trains are a bit cheaper than planes. But they travel slowly. So cost per mile per passenger is lower for a plane.

Even when subsidized, the cost of rail travel is often more expensive per mile than air travel.

So when Europe and Asia now are building a lot of high speed rail, it's not to make it cheaper, but to lower carbon footprint and to make a more pleasant experience.
Just subscribe to ChatGPT and tell it to teach you whatever language you want to master including meaning of each sentence in your own language. There are plugins for voice input/output as well so you can learn while doing a workout etc.
Like many things, circumstances will differ.

One thing that I deem a falacy though, is comparing it with e.g. an expensive paid for classroom or personal lessons. It may well fail in such direct comparison, and no surprise!

People then use that comparison to claim "it's worthless", and I disagree with that.

If the claim is "30min of structured learning with duolingo will get you no closer to learning a language than 30 min of mindlessly scrolling facebook cat videos", I don't believe that's true. And THAT is the correct comparison :)

One thing to note though, is how you use it - note I used the term "structured learning" in previous sentence, not "doing match madness for points" :)

Personally, I spent first few months learning on duolingo, and it was wonderful; had some small chats with people who speak that language at work, occasionally wrote a sentence or two in that language in emails, etc. Then I spent next few months preserving the streak. I did the challenges and matches and got thousands of points and first places... but learned nothing. In fact, my knowledge deteriorated.

Then after 200 days, I lost my streak and... breathed a sigh of relief. I am now making sure I do the lessons and practice and learn, and purposely avoid the competition part of it or activities which give many repetitive points but don't increase my knowledge. My familiarity with language is increasing again and I can make more and more sentences on my own.
> Let's say you get only 10% of those - since you're not the only person on the market - to pay you $100 (if you save a significant amount on taxes, paying $100 for it would make sense, won't it?) - that's $260M, or about as much as the government says their whole system, for all 100% of taxpayers, would cost.

TurboTax is ~$39. Also, the cost of developing the system doesn't depend on how many people use it, and those are only the development costs, not anything else a business has to pay, like marketing, billing or interest on capital.

Moreover, suppose a business could actually get away with charging $100 and that would be enough to cover their costs. Why would you want this as opposed to releasing the source code, which reduces their costs and allows them to get by charging $25, while driving the market price down to that level by reducing the barrier to entry?

> It is. But there are multiple businesses who already have been doing it for years, so it looks like a solvable problem.

That was when you don't have a taxpayer-subsidized competitor providing an almost-as-good service for free.
O_DIRECT doesn't guarantee synchronous, it only skips the buffer cache.
Yeah. And that brought a whole slew of other problems (such as supply chain security and systemic fragility induced by centralization) that we just accept as worth it.
> If I want to tell Uncle Sam or a prospective employer I have no social media then that’s the whole point. :/

Not in a day where everyone's data is being sold around for pennies [1] for the private sector, and the NSA is monitoring the entire Internet anyway and I'd wager a significant amount of money that they have direct feeds to major ISPs allowing them to cross-reference IP addresses and other forms of identifiers to real persons.

[1] https://www.washington.edu/news/2017/10/18/for-1000-anyone-c...
Most recent US wars have spent most of their time in an asymmetric counterinsurgency phase, the Russo-Ukrainian war is (in style of warfare) basically a symmetric force-on-force international war.

These have very different dynamics, inherently.
What Is a GPT?
Are there any better apps for learning a foreign language?
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At least in the grassroots language learner community, there seems to be a growing sense that the most efficient way to achieve real fluency in a second language is: regular long-term effort to read or listen to text or media in the language that is just a little above your level of understanding. Notably different from how duolingo works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_hypothesis
> what the most efficient path to learning a new language is.

This is assuming that there is a "most efficient path to learning a new language" that applies to everyone.
If you gave print outs of discussions with GPT-4 to AI researchers 5 years ago, they would have told you conversation like that is 10 or 20 years out.
It all depends on one's expectations. I have no expectation of speaking a new language correctly or with a decent accent (I'm probably too old). I've being using Duolingo for some time and I complement it with Youtube videos and random texts. My French spelling has improved and I can read Russian news. I'd call it a success. Of course it won't replace a proper course and teacher, but it's not worthless.
Probably not. I've coded more for webtech, but have done native for Android (and Linux and Windows. And J2ME and Symbian FFS). Luckily very little iOS and MacOS apart from some reverse engineering.

You don't need frameworks or bundlers for simple cases. For many you need just one .html file.

For e.g. Android you need quite a bunch of files and directory structures to do even get a Hello world [1]. You need to compile and bundle and package. And install. And god knows what if you want the application distributed. And then you have to fight with the inconsistent and very boilerplatey Android APIs. And figure out which API was deprecated yesterday and what's today's one that will be deprecated tomorrow.

From what I gather, iOS native is even worse. E.g. have to buy a Mac and use MacOS. And Xcode. And faff with signing keys.

[1] https://github.com/IanDarwin/AndroidTemplate
If all we are going to get is 2D windows floating around, how is that any better than what we already have?
Dedicated desktop GPUs are significantly more powerful than PS5 and XSX chips - even GPUs released in the same year.

Nvidia’s Ampere series released in 2020.

You might not see the huge difference in performance because games are optimized around consoles. But in terms of raw specs/tflops, dedicated GPUs are much more powerful.

That said, PS5 and XSX take the cake in cost/perf. But that’s only because they are subsidized.
Not OP, but as a simple physics exercise, the fact that it's cheaper to put a metal tube flying in the air instead of hurling it down a pair of low-friction steel rails firmly attached to the ground to get from the same point A to the same point B is mind-boggling. It becomes even more so when you consider that I was easily able to find a ~$500 first class flight for the same route that is non-stop for just 1.5 hours of flight time, so flying is going to be a much shorter door to door time for half the price and probably a better experience to boot.

I haven't ridden Amtrak in a long time, but I would be absolutely shocked if the first class experience on the Acella is as nice, much less worth a premium compared to flying. Regardless, there's pretty much nothing they could offer to make it worth the price premium.
This is also my own experience. In particular, ChatGPT has deeper knowledge on complex grammatical structures (like the 7 cases polish have) than I can expect from a regular tutor – my friend was not able to explain complex consonant clusters, while ChatGPT happily babbles out resources and explains just what I need for a particular case.
Because the AI human extinction idea is entirely conjecture while climate change is just a progression on current models.

What’s the progression that leads to AI human extinction ?
A designer I worked with years ago had a great explanation for why consistency is important.

It’s not about a limited colour palette or a careful selection of fonts no one will ever notice. Chasing the specifics makes horrible software. Some people equate less diversity in their UI to more consistency.

It’s about letting someone become an expert in your software.

Microsoft office was always his example. People pride themselves on “knowing” Microsoft office. They jump between all of the apps because they have a feel for the inertia of “office”. I have the exact same feeling in Vim. I just know how things are expected to be, and new (well made) plugins tend to respect those patterns.

Office and (Neo)Vim aren’t exceptional examples of UI, but they are uniquely stable.
It is coming to all, including programming, just remember that.
I'm rarely in favor of a company self-destructing, but Unity absolutely inflicted this on themselves. It's just a shame that the first to pay the price are the furthest from that sort of demented decision-making.
Hah ok. I’m amused.
I don't really understand why people are excited about the RPi5.

The OrangePi4 is a better computer and the OPi5 or 5 Plus is significantly faster to me.
Even better, safety critical bolts on these doors are (supposed to be, at least) pinned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maLBGFYl9_o&t=523s
It's not, it's just a different style, "full immersion" where you have no clue what is going on and they think at some point you'll understand. I don't think it works well but whatever. Best is to pay for a trip to some remote area speaking only the target language and force yourself to understand it quickly, swim or sink.
I used Quickbooks until it became too much for me to do myself. Now I use Bench, and they do my bookkeeping and taxes.
I found Duolingo to be incredibly helpful.

The language I was learning had no tuition available for adults in my country and I practiced with native speakers when I could find them and consumed media from the community of the target language.

All while on public transport, when I would otherwise be on my phone. All for the price of nothing (though their model has grow much more user hostile).

This is not to advocate for Duolingo as a company or even the app as a method but I found it effective and useful as a tool.

Duolingo isn’t going to learn a language for you. You have to internalise the grammar and vocabulary.

Could I have done the same with a book? No. I could have done something different. Could I have done the same with a class? No, no classes existed for me.
No one source of language learning material will bring you to fluency. There's a great community of language learners over at the Language Learners Forum [1] (note: it's been down the past few days but seems to be back up, although slow).

One resource that seems to be universally loved over there is Assimil [2]. I've been working through one of their courses and it's been great. I augment it with youtubers that make comprehensible input videos at my ability level, as well as with iTalki lessons.

I tried Duolingo once many years ago, but there's no way that memorizing words is going to get you all the way there. You need reading, writing, listening, and speaking practice in real world situations.

[1] https://forum.language-learners.org/
[2] https://www.assimil.com
k310 is the Köchel listing, hence the "K", of a favorite Mozart piano sonata.

It's also the office number I had at Itek Optical Systems.

Must be lucky.
Japanese TV Reconstructs JAL A350 Evacuation From Passenger Footage
What is it with you people just casually argueing for genocide? Do you think this is, I don't know, tough or edgy?
In software this is a reboot or an apology to a client.

In aerospace this is dead people.
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> the business receives the stock

correct. Hence my wording

> and then award themselves options to re-dilute

It's not that executives receive the bought back stock, but that their stock based compensation plans result in no net decrease in the amount of outstanding shares.
A missing person with no memory, cold case solved using post-mortem fingerprints
> There were only 2 possible causes of the incident, either the bolts had been replaced with bolts made from an inappropriate material, so they broke, or the bolts had not been assembled correctly, and they became loose.

Or the ‘correct’ assembly instructions weren’t actually correct, or the design isn’t good enough (e.g. it uses too few bolts, or didn’t check the strength of the bolts when they get cold), or the bolts were of the correct material, but designed too thin, etc.
It's easier to think all the living things are carriers fabricated and controlled by self-replicating nano-bots. Whatever strategy the nano-bots come up with and eventually successfully allowing them to keep creating more nano-bots is the winning strategy.
Oh, they've removed those mini threads? That's a shame, those used to be super helpful.
Even on light aircraft some bolts will have a safety wire through the head to prevent it from turning. You might even see these on bolts holding the propeller on.
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>However, I also remember that they were reproduced across multiple publications which means you are implying some sort of data poisoning attack which were super nascent back then.

Essentially. I am in no way technical, but my suspicion had been that it was something not even Google was aware could be possible or so effective; by the time they'd caught on, it would have been impossible to reverse without rebuilding the entire thing, having been embedded deeply in the model. The attack being unheard of at the time would then be why it was successful at all.

The alternative is simple oversight, which admittedly would be characteristic of Google's regard for DEI and AI safety. Part of me wants it to be a purposeful rogue move because that alternative kind of sucks more.

>Funnily, they fixed by just removed the gorilla label from their classifier.

I'd heard this, though I think it's more unfortunate than funny. There are a lot of other common terms that you can't search for in Google Photos, in particular, and I wouldn't be surprised to find that they were removed because of similarly unfortunate associations. It severely limits search usability.
... At the end of the the deal with had two mac mini's with auto fail over configured via health checking. Thank goodness we got rid of the service provider that refused to let us pair with the network. Once that happened the networking team could just do normal peering with a standard router.

But yea, in the early days that mac sat on my desk. It only got moved when I pointed out the issue to our new security team and their jaw hit the floor. =)