skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's difficult to signal genetic fitness without actually being genetically fit.

There are proxies to genetic fitness that are frequently and successfully mimicked, though. See e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batesian_mimicry
everyone knows the Stripe founders tho...
Yes, a phrase that's used in English that has a different literal meaning than a slogan in another language with a similar phrasing but different meaning is literally not the same thing. I doubt the majority of English speakers are even familiar with the original Arabic, but it's also irrelevant because it's not what it being repeated. If people meant that they would say that.

They mean something different, so they say something different, and keep refuting loudly and repeatedly the baseless accusations of antisemitism lobbed at them by those who want to silence their message by policing the language used to communicate it.
Sorry to hear that you developed an irrational phobia. But lets try to see the positive side of this history: more octopus for me.
Beyond Chinchilla-Optimal Accounting for Inference in Language Model Scaling Law
British hits differently

> Modernising complex legacy systems is a fraught business, but writing off £31 million in a year for getting it wrong, whilst continually funnelling tens of millions to the software provider that helped co-deliver a colossal miscarriage of justice is, arguably, a poor look for all concerned.
So solvers are now much faster, but I haven't found a single hint in the article as to how they got faster (aside from the "more memory", "more CPU" aspect).

Was there a major theoretical development in the solver field that allowed this to happen ?

Or is it a bunch of tiny tuning heuristics ?

If so, how are those even possible given that the solver is supposed to be a generic tool applicable to a large class of problem ?

Are there problems whose structure fit a recognizable pattern where optimizations are possible ?

I confess to being left hanging by the article.
That was actually one of my very first encounters with Linux, it was a debian based distro called "storm linux" that had it as one of the default options.

I've gotten back to it over the years, but it seems.. odd somehow, slightly on the janky side and a bit slow too.
Before uring, Linux AIO was kind of fake; most operations were blocking. It makes sense that Java would use a thread pool instead of attempting to use Linux AIO.
I know making a game engine is hard, but how the hell do they even have 7,000 employees in the first place? What are they all doing.
Codeowners: Managing Code Ownership in GitHub
Yes aircraft fasteners are often torque marked, and almost all safety critical fasteners have an additional preload locking mechanism. Often these fasteners use mechanical locking features such as cotter pins, safety wire, or safety
cable.
Optimal is overblown for business problems in general. Knowing there’s a mathematically optimal solution, people want it. Even if it’s practically impossible to get. It feels like if you have the optimal, you don’t have to consider trade offs (not usually true).

Having a solution within 1% of optimal with ten nines of confidence is usually indistinguishable.

Anyone ever notice how these CS problems are rarely famous business problems? It’s because the pure problems don’t usually matter and the approximate versions are usually quite easy. You almost never need the shortest route for a salesman, or need to pick a secretary with no chance of going back.
This is not really related to AI though?

A company that was before 400 people, can now be 200 people. But people will rarely make meaningful bonds outside of those 5 people closest to them (Dunbar's number).
The same part was used on the 737-900 for quite a while and didn't (as far as we've heard, at least) have any similar issues there.
I think the term cost can only be specified with respect to an entity.

A given good has multiple cost, up and down the supply chain. A widget can have different costs to the original manufacturer, the wholesaler, retailer, and finally consumer.

It makes no sense to say the cost of a widget is X, without specifying cost to whom.
5FP32 TFLOPs, if not doing sparse low precision inference it seems to be about in line with mid-high end 2014 Nvidia consumer card performance (gtx 980), one decade old.

For running sparsified/quantized llama2 it might be good, not sure about for fine tuning. I didn't see any FP16 numbers.
Which AI services does Duolingo use for the translations? It seems like they're satisfied with the outcome. Curious about the cost of the AI service as well.
>Presumably most ships owners would look and discover that the US navy is the largest in the world and thus switch their flags to the US - they would then pay taxes to the US (and have to deal with a lot of other US laws that they don't now). Either that or they would pay a lot more insurance.

You've just described mercantillism. Post Bretton-Woods is the first time in centuries the world hasn't worked that way. The dream of free trade and globalism was that everyone had equal protection on the seas. I fear you're correct that we're returning to a darker time where autarky reigns and trade is restricted to essentials.
OWASP PTK 8.7 supports all types of JWT attacks
PTK version 8.7.x supports:
1⃣ Null Signature attack: Explore null signature vulnerabilities easily.
2⃣ None Algorithm: Navigate security protocols efficiently with expanded support for "none" algorithm assessments.
3⃣ Brute Force HMAC Secret: Brute force techniques for HMAC secrets with custom dictionary support.
4⃣ Key/Algorithm Confusion: Enhance testing scenarios by manipulating keys and algorithms seamlessly.
5⃣ JWK Injection: Delve into injecting JSON Web Keys (JWK) with precision.
6⃣ JKU Injection: Investigate and manipulate JSON Web Key Set (JKU) URLs strategically.
7⃣ Kid Parameter Injection: Seamlessly inject Key ID (kid) parameters for advanced testing.
Watch the video - https://youtu.be/YuhUocQ6pmU
Nice. Always like a game of Sudoku. Did it in 6:10.
Virtual Threads, under the hood, cooperatively yield at IO boundaries (on supported APIs)
It's complicated.

https://www.helpside.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Vacation...
it’s been going down in quality as an actual teaching aid for a while, beyond maybe sentence structure memorisation, so it’s sad to see this accelerate further
How do you know for certain that you're not being taught by a confidently incorrect tutor?
YAML Parser for Dyalog APL
What an amazing choice of new word - it's "Generation Alpha's first foray into internet culture" https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Skibidi_Toilet
This title seems to need to be fixed
"IT Employment Grew by Just 700 Jobs in 2023, Down From 267,000 in 2022

Despite business and investor hype around generative AI last year, information-technology hiring slumped as companies laid off workers and sought to cut costs

The information-technology sector grew by only 700 jobs over 2023, a drastic slowdown from the 267,000 jobs added in 2022, even as artificial intelligence and ChatGPT spawned huge interest from businesses.

Job losses in the first half of 2023, including layoffs at technology-driven companies that dominated the period, hurt overall hiring for tech jobs in all industries, said Victor Janulaitis, chief executive of consulting company Janco Associates. The firm bases its findings on data from the U.S. Department of Labor."

Once companies see how much they can save by spending less on IT, they might not go back to overspending.
Stephen Malinowski's musical animations turned into fractals: A Collaboration
This is the first collaboration between Stephen Malinowski and the Light Herder using the Video Feedback Kinetic Sculpture.
i mean that's cool, but from my background i would say since the input is "variable", assign it to a named variable and run the function with the variable assigned to 2, then again with it assigned to 4. that's doable in most any REPL.

or even take the function, and map a range of values to the function, to get a range of outputs. again, doable in most REPLs where the language supports some sort of mapping syntax.

can you help me understand what makes this unique? i'm not an APL user, so maybe it's just a different mindset altogether that i'm missing.
Such a crappy aircraft - can we just get rid of these already?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maLBGFYl9_o is a good video explaining how the bolts/doors etc are supposed to go together.
People don't change their behavior much when things like this happen. When it comes around to the next big travel weekend, people will continue to book on whatever airline gets them to the right place at the right time for the right price.

Even when people have a direct ability to change what vehicle they travel on, like with car sales, safety incidents/features/records/etc have little impact to no on sales.

This is one of the reasons why transportation safety is regulated rather than being left up to market forces. Market forces don't really have an impact until the safety risk reaches some extreme levels.
Most city subway systems can similarly be utilized when closed (or off-peak) if you know your timings.
Wasn't one of their initial monetization ideas that crowdsourced translations - from amateurs, not even paid contractors - would outperform AI translation? The translation thing never came close to panning out, from what I can tell.

Back in the day you used to be able to see a mini discussion thread about any exercise. The comments in these threads - from unpaid users - were frequently much more helpful than the official teaching notes. But they got rid of those a while back, too. At the time people suggested it was because they wanted to push people into some sort of paid tutoring offering that they'd announced. But I don't see any hint of that around. Now I'd guess it's because the questions are no longer hand crafted by people, and are now autogenerated by AI, leading to an inability to have discussions about specific questions.
And the argument that disclosing the "number of requests made" should be a state secret is...?
Oh right, it would expose the plenitude of the misbehavior by our government.
> but they could likely pull off a single fast attack on Cairo or Suez if they were so inspired.

No. They couldn't. Yemen to either is like three times the range of the SU-22 on a shortest distance path, which would take them through Saudi Arabia and close enough for mistakes of intent to Israel, either of which—as well as Egypt—has Air Forces more than capable of intercepting and destroying them if they magically gained the range to try to pull of that kind of flight.

The Houthi Air Force is useful for their civil war, and not a whole lot else.
It's a door design that dates back to the 707.
My take: ignore the pandemic. The stock price was around $90 before the pandemic hit, which isn't much higher than it is right now. Twilio was basically the perfect remote-work-enabling pandemic company. And the market piled on and thought Twilio was a great place to put money during a global pandemic, when so many other places seemed risky or disastrous.

After mid-2021, that $400+ stock price started looking a little silly. And the broader market downturn in 2022 hit Twilio even harder than it hit the broader market.

And, meanwhile, Twilio's growth numbers -- while still being an unprofitable company! -- look worse than they did at the beginning of 2020. $75 might be generous for how the company is actually doing.

(Full disclosure: former employee for ~10 years, and I still have a few shares left.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation:_Mindcrime
And the health insurance.
There isn't really a need for human translators in language learning. Machine translation is good enough at translating into one's one native language and the translation quality doesn't really matter as you already know your native language.
Duolingo should be on borrowed time, as a method to learn a language it’s inefficient to the point of being ineffective - it seems to serve as an acceptable reason for fiddling with one’s phone, like a Guilt-Eze pill.

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.

Unless anyone has had a different experience, Duolingo is an exercise in self-deception. No doubt there will be people in difficult situations that have managed just fine with Duolingo, or in spite of it, but it doesn’t feel like a growing market.
Yeah, it really comes down to the question of how we advance on just-bits vs constrained-environment robotics vs open-domain robotics...

Some interesting work here on using LLMs to improve on open-domain robotics:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/embod...
For everyone who wonder what the quality is like:

it is impossible -even for native speakers - to pronounce certain words and in particular numbers I think in a way that makes duolingo accept them. This seems to be true for more than one language (think I have heard / read about it from both a Norwegian testing Norwegian and a Ukrainian testing Ukrainian language.
I really wish they would do that.
It is wild how people in one of the richest and developed country have so little working rights and are ok with it.

Especially wild if you consider health insurance is tied to the employment.

3-6 months notice period is standard in EU countries. Unless you are sabotaging or always drunk there are no ways they will fire you quickly.
There is no distinction
Is it possible that all of the post office franchisees were freemasons that were skimming off cash from the books and actually were stealing cash from the post office and the horizon software gave them the ability to input their loses and gains manually into the horizon software and the horizon software used merkle hashes and the merkle hashes weren't matching up if they actually were taking cash out of their businesses without declaring it but because they were all freemasons the uk court system took the side of the franchisees and said it was due to a software bug but that evidence was never made public so the royal mail never had to pay compensation?
I was replying to the statement that education spending dwarfs infra spending, by providing evidence that the two are on par with each other.

Around where I live, schools are in financial troubles, and infra is in financial trouble, nothing is doing well.

West Coast cities are older (rising costs) while also being low to medium density (low tax base) and honestly outside of LA and SF, don't even have a large population for how much area they take up.

It isn't a great combo.

In regards to city vs school funding, the two are separated in WA state because of how schools are funded, except that cities pass special levies to fill funding gaps, which is a separate political problem.

Of course city residents rarely understand how funding works, and they yell at the city council when schools start falling apart. (Quite a few of the public schools I went to had broken heating and crumbing walls, and from what I grok, the financial situation of the district was better back then compared to now!)
There is an analogue to this in manufacturing as well. We lost something when we moved all of our manufacturing to whatever the race to bottom place was of the moment instead of understanding how to make our things from top to bottom.
Lack of disease and disease treatment. Mostly Vaccines. I got sick like 2-3 times grand total growing up, and only once any more than mildly. My parents and their parents all got badly sick more than that growing up, and both have stories about being on deaths door, e.g. my dad got german measels at 17 and was bed ridden for a month; I didn’t get my last growrh spurt until I was 19.
Considering how we use jails/namespaces and other similar technology, your analogy sounds off. First of all, security is always set up in layers. A different user and chroot doesn't exclude the use of jails, or other kernel level security systems like AppArmor/SELinux. They are layered on top of each other as necessary.

Also, namespaces is not solely a security mechanism. Yes it allows isolation, but it allows resource limitation, too. So you can partition your system to slices and show a particular set of resources to an application (I'm sure you're way more knowledgeable than me in that regard).

On the other hand, security starts with application itself. Then you start to add extra containment barriers if you don't trust the software in question.

What I understand is our realities are completely disparate, and this is not how we hold the mechanisms I talk about. This might be due to the environment each of us live in, or due to our requirements, I don't know.

But, what I know is, the state of security is not as bleak as you portray, and necessity is mother of invention. Except SELinux, AppArmor, and FireJail all of the technologies we talk here are essentially built as virtualization, or virtualization-like technologies. They bring additional security as a secondary effect, and they're good at that.

> Software cannot take anything for granted anymore.

This is why we have stat calls, defensive programming, APIs and exception handling. The first rule of system programming is to never take anything for granted.

I have reached to the end of the time I have for today,

Have a nice day and a nice year.
The longer you live, the less adaptable your species is. The more generations you can have in a shorter amount of time, the faster you can have beneficial mutations that help your species survive changing conditions.
The problem is that only about a third of all Americans have a passport.
I coincidentally saw a video recently about how Duolingo's AI model was getting some French things wrong. I use Duolingo, but it's a vocab tool more than anything.
Unfortunately, there is a small problem with this approach: Pirates have guns, villagers don't. So villagers don't get to choose whether or not they harbour pirates.
How is Airbus doing meanwhile? I didn't hear about any production quality issues in their aircraft.
You never actually know that, and most people are. That's why there's so much "nous" use in French classes and so little "on" and so on. But the learn rate is so fast, that you get sufficient coverage to fix it up in actual conversation. My wife and I did a combo of another AI product (https://www.speak.com/) and ChatGPT to learn sufficient Spanish to get by in Chilean Patagonia and it did a pretty decent job (we just learned pronunciation through mimicry).

We're not experts as a result, obviously, but it helped us get around and stuff which is fun. It was pretty much a crash course started as we were landing in Santiago (which is where we entered the country).
schmibbidibbi is clearly a distinct word, different from skibidi. But also near enough that conceivably an AI could invent the word schmibbidibbi if it knew skibidi. Depending on how it tokenizes words.
Raptor (Starship) is closed cycle, and BE-4 (Vulcan) is oxygen rich, so neither should be dumping unburned methane during normal operation.
Google Perfected the Web
How do you verify that what it's teaching you is actually true? Do you spend other effort reading native Polish and speaking Polish with others?
You can set the minimum deployment to iOS 17 & then if someone has iPhone X*, 11 or SE then you can alert them to get a refund when they open the app either with a device check or total memory check. That'll set it so you remove most of the issues of older devices.

Source: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/models-compatible-wit...
Not all clunking noises are defects and not all defects make clunking noises.
LLMs are the masters of bilingual bullshit, so really Duolingo has no choice but embrace them. The LLM stuff embedded in their existing product is challenging in a different and better way.
Have you tried LFS? You can copy and paste, but you have to read the commands and figure out what they're doing.

This will give you an overall theoretical idea of how things are laid out - but you have to realise that every new version of something, there's some developer somewhere who wants to exercise their creativity and make something really clever and cool (to them), so it probably won't make any sense to you after the upgrade. That's the point you realise you're on the eternal treadmill of trying to keep your system doing what you need it to do, without freezing in the vulnerabilities.
> Then it dawned on me that the survival of the species is not aligned with the survival of an individual.

The selfish genes control, and their survival is not perfectly aligned with either the individual or the species. If aging becomes too slow, adaptation slows, and successful genes become more rare and their propagation slows. Genes are replicators, replicators need turn-over to replicate, and greater age means slower turn-over.

It may be that the advent of cultural replicators have decreased the optimal turn-over rate of genetic replicators, but they don't know that.
These seem common sense, but it's good to see them written down.

The one about giving users closure in a sequence of tasks is kind of novel. I like it.
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My bad, probably inflated by private jets then?
In the railroading business, the little cars that run on the tracks are called speeders.
> Staying current with skills is always part of an IT professional's job.

Gotta love capitalism. CEO sees some shiny new thing and all the sudden some poor shlub's entire livelihood is fucked.
So, about that Max 10 on which you were hoping to get fast-track approval...
I know that as well as with any human tutor. The main difference is that I am motivated to check the answer, eg. by asking the woman who is my main reason to learn Polish.

Also, the value of a tutor that in and encouraging way corrects my verb conjugation of być (to be) for the 500th time has a lot more value than the risk of it being wrong on a corner case.

A human tutor would semi-arrogantly have told be off and asked me to look at the dictionary (Yes, I have studied English, German, Spanish, and French in school, I have had more language teacher than anything else)
As far as I can see, there's no real way to communicate this preference to airlines. I won't book a flight on a MAX, but the airline can change the airframe at the last second and it's highly situational how willing/able I am to just refuse to fly if they swap in a MAX.
Why would I use duolingo if it has about the same product as opening google translate, moving the target language side off the screen, typing in some inane sentence, guessing what it says, and revealing.

You take a product that had the USP of “quality” and decided you’d rather play in the “AI sludge content” thunderdome where anyone with a vague understanding of web development and openAI api access can compete with you for functionally the same product.
Always refactor
How were these not noticed in proper inspections? Is this the first time these planes have been inspected?
that's an interesting idea, but I dunno if "language learners" comprise a sufficiently influential cultural group to influence language in this way.

If I learned a new word through duolingo, used it while speaking to native speakers of the language, and no one knew what it meant, I probably would be embarrassed and confused and not use the word again.

But maybe it'll happen! And along that line, I wonder if advanced language models will be able to identify "missing words" that we're lacking to discuss concepts that we haven't yet conceptualized.
This was maybe a problem on the early days of .NET Core, but from .NET 6 or so they have reimplemented (almost) all the stuff from the old .NET Framework and that in turn enabled relatively easy porting of third party libraries, so most of them are ported as of today (atleast more or less maintained ones).