skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you for language learners.

I built and ran the academic side of a language school for four years, worked on two language learning startups and also learned two languages in different language families from my native language (and from each other) to a pretty fluent level.

In all those years I’ve never met a single really successful learner who made SRS a major part of their studies, though some used it as a small supplementary practice.

The thing is that words aren’t usually discrete pieces of information in the way that names of capitals or things a med student has to memorize often are (unless your goal is just to play scrabble with them, in which case SRS is great). Meanings don’t map one to one across languages, collocations are important , etc, etc. Putting sentence cards into Anki is better than isolation words with translations but even then, you won’t get as much cultural information or even raw quantity of input as you would from extensive reading and this is a topic L2 Acquisition researchers have covered in depth.

I think part of the problem is that SRS sounds really compelling to engineers and it’s generally easy to build into an app, so that’s been the focus of most language learning apps for the past 20 years.

There are some better ones that exist mostly to help learners handle native text and audio, though. LingQ, Language Reactor and language-specific apps that do similar things are great.
Is it mostly downhill from now on? Or will we see a good rebound somehow?
> Their strategy is to make sure Americans feel the pain too. But they are likely to focus on what experts call precision strikes against U.S. exports from Republican strongholds and industry groups with political leverage in Washington.

> Late Saturday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country would impose 25% tariffs on more than $105 billion of U.S. goods. “We didn’t ask for this, but we will not back down,” he said, warning that American jobs in their auto and manufacturing industries were at risk.

> A first wave, set to take effect Tuesday, will hit $20 billion of imports from the U.S., including alcohol, coffee, clothing and shoes, furniture and household appliances. On Sunday, Canada released a list of tariff targets, including products from Republican-leaning states, such as whiskeys from Kentucky, oranges from Florida and appliances from South Carolina. Government officials on Sunday also said they were targeting motorcycles in Pennsylvania, which has a Harley-Davidson plant in York, Pa.

> A second wave on an additional $85 billion of goods would include tariffs on cars and trucks, agricultural products, steel and aluminum and aerospace products. The second phase will begin in three weeks, to give businesses enough time to stockpile and find alternatives.

https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/canada-mexico-want-america... | https://archive.today/WRDZt
I think you intended to reply somewhere else. This isn't responsive.
With Neo4j properties and list members cannot be complex objects just like DB table rows. I was thinking that my dream DB would be a hybrid of MongoDB documents with Neo4j type relationships between them.
And a lot of people are downplaying the severity of what is currently happening.
Trump largely won the election because of inflation, which hurt incumbents worldwide last year.

And one of his first acts is to engage in a pointless trade was that will unilaterally raise prices. And that action was clearly telegraphed during his campaign - he said again and again that he would do exactly this.

Absolute own goal from all those who voted for Trump because they bought the lie that he would fix prices.
There were comments like that on HN, assuring us all that Trump has serious people figuring out a rational plan for tariffs.
do you think the crazy is going to stop?
To be clear, I think you're asking whether maybe the drugs just provide a temporary "lift" but then the disease continues on the same basic trajectory, just offset a bit?

The studies aren't statistically powered to know for sure, but on lecanemab figure 2, the between-group difference on CDS-SB, ADAS-Cog14, ADCOMS, and ADCS-MCI-ADL (the four cognitive endpoints) widens on each successive visit. Furthermore, while not a true RCT, the lecanemab-control gap also widens up to 3 years in an observational study: https://www.alzforum.org/news/conference-coverage/leqembi-ca...

On donanemab figure 2, there is generally the same pattern although also some tightening towards the end on some endpoints. This could be due to the development of antidrug antibodies, which occurs in 90% of those treated with donanemab; or it could be statistical noise; or it could be due to your hypothesis.
The Impoundment Act doesn’t require the president to make any specific grant unless Congress specifically says so.

The Act says the president needs to seek recession: “Whenever the President determines that all or part of any budget authority will not be required to carry out the full objectives or scope of programs for which it is provided.”

Congress typically provides for these “programs” to be quite broad with a big bucket of funding. The president can’t just shut down a program and refuse to spend the money without seeking rescission, but nothing stops the president from canceling specific grants that the executive decides to make out of some larger program.
Recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes
First time I saw one in the wild was in Colas Nahaboo's LISP wm. (I think) -Written at INRIA for early X10/X11 systems.

I hated it. In general, there's a very strong "Principle of Least Astonishment" about menus. If you can do it down low in the entire stack, Great. If this one app does it, and nothing else, its .. awful.

I also want to say unkind things about CHI. I think they set off down many roads with good intent, but also kicked a lot of dust up into the streetscape and wound up popularising some very bad ideas. Remember, it was CHI people who proposed re-sorting menu order to reflect "the most common choices" rather than maintain consistency of placement of menu items. It was CHI people who took us down into Skeuomorphism, back out, into material design, and now we live in a world where it can be virtually impossible to predict ab initio which things you see on a screen are clickable, touchable, reacting.

Not that I wouldnt have gladly marched down those roads, had I not fallen into another path of work.
Still not seeing access on my account.
That seems more likely than the unhinged press release on whitehouse.gov. Tragically, as exports and opportunity decline, workers might turn to opiates more. Yet, the programs to reduce that kind of harm aren’t mentioned at all.
Given the title I would have expected an article about how to make syscalls to the kernel.

What Ingot is an article about how to use libc bindings to make libc issue syscalls.

That’s not the same thing.
When did I suggest it's not serious? I suggested you can go be serious elsewhere. Humanity has lots of horrific things to offer which are serious yet don't belong cluttering up HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You might want to read "What to Submit." Did you submit this because good hackers would find it interesting, and it gratifies your intellectual curiosity? Or did you submit it because you're angry and it's "fucking serious?"
>Meta question

I think you have to prefix the query with "@Meta AI", hope this helps
Yes, but "Hiro Protagonist" is objectively hilarious.
I sadly failed long ago. The company itself did not weather the storm.
Many many people believed there was a rule permitting Hansom cab drivers to piss against the rear wheel, Drivers side. Their horses didn't feel many restrictions.

Why London Taxi drivers do or don't pee against the back of their black cab is sort of now distinct from what might (or might not) have been the norm.
As I read it, they're making a case that one does not always have to understand all levels, and that's literally the story of human progress in a nutshell.

People are still free to understand the joys of computer programming "by hand", if they are so inclined, just like some people still know how to build internal combustion engines. It might even be very fulfilling, lead to a great career as a car mechanic, engine designer etc. – but I think it's fair to also just want to be able to drive one and take a trip to somewhere amazing, and I don't think we need to morally gatekeep anything.
I was thinking more along the lines of simply the Hollywood movies where the dynamics are set by the enormous market forces which basically filters against anything which isn't lowest common denominator.

When you get down to comic books and animations, the market forces aren't quite so vicious and your "10% okay vs 90% of everything is crap" doesn't get so filtered out. Consequently, you get more of the standard curve--some stuff is bad, most stuff is average, some stuff is good, and a few gems poke up every now and then.
I'm well aware of that. That is not what openai calls "deep research".
A demo on your website would be more beneficial I think. Not that I don't trust you, but I like to see what the results look like before I go and download my Goodreads days and upload it to yours.
I wrote something like this for fun years ago, although I don’t think I published it. I think my library had a scale defined by a root note and a set of steps. A chord could be constructed from a scale and a root note, with modifiers such as inversions and others like X7, Xb5#13, etc. The scale has the blueprint and the notes follow. You already have the primitives with notes and intervals.

Parsing chords from notes is more difficult, as are most parsing tasks.
How can someone in good faith try to “recover” a nation governed by laws by publicly flouting the law?
What does that have to do with the price of tea in China
"synthesize large amounts of online information" does it heavily depend on the search engine performance and relevance of the search results? I don't see any mention of Google or Bing. Is this using their internal search engine then?
Sounds like an ABS or ASA blend ?
It’s already happened. The avian flu has driven supplies down and prices through the roof for eggs. My local deli is now charging an extra surcharge of 40c per egg.

Strange, considering bringing the price of eggs down seemed to be a key message in their campaign? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BPT3xe6jbk
You can basically get the same experience as aider with an MCP server like https://github.com/rusiaaman/wcgw. It's not perfect - sometimes has trouble with exact syntax of find/replace. But it's free to use up to your regular Claude subscription usage limit. I actually use it more than Cursor, because it's easier to flip back and forth between architecting/editing.
They are identified in the linked Wired article...Good job though, you are keeping on top of things.
they explicitly stated it in the launch
Sam Altman: OpenAI plans to develop a dedicated AI device to replace smartphones
I think they mostly started with geolocation-dependent names in the early 2010s, e.g. Kashmir and Palestine.
they're not giving it to us lowly $20/month users yet :( gotta take out a second mortgage and throw them 200/month if you want it now
None of that makes a legal difference. The legal distinction is whether Congress has specifically appropriated money for something or not. Congress didn’t specifically appropriate money for this refugee charity. So the President doesn’t have to spend that money.
Do you mean in 01999, in 02002, in 02006, in 02013, in 02014, in 02015, in 02016, in 02017, in 02019, or last July? There are a lot of events in Venezuela that vaguely resemble your description but none that really match.

This comment is getting downvoted now, presumably by people who think it's totally obvious which event in Venezuela nico is talking about, but can't be bothered to enlighten me. I wonder if the different downvoters even agree with each other about which one it is.
It’s still only at 2/3?
You would think in the war-gaming, this was seen as a benefit, not a problem. The belief would be that there are many bargains to be had, if you can perturb things in your own interests, at a time of your own choosing.

In the same sense, your least-worst outcome here might be believing you have more resilience, and will come out the otherside of the worldwide flu attack (from American markets sneezing) stronger than the other guy.

Not to drive all the way there, I bet during the post WW1 hyperinflation days somebody said "we can pay down our war debt faster now"
JWZ calls it CADT [1].
The solutions are getting worse and worse.

Also, Dan Luu[2].

[1] https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

[2] https://danluu.com/nothing-works/
Yeah I don't get this either. I've been looking for a job for like 3-4 years, even an entry-level one, since I graduated college in May of 22 and I still haven't found one. I'm probably doing something wrong (and that's a different discussion), but it's getting harder and harder to know if it's me or the AI applicants or the AI ATS system. And then we have the AI job seekers which are AI-created accounts trying to find employment -- I've already started to see a few of these pop up on Linked In. They were banned, but still, the fact it's happening all is a bit worrying if not predictable.
A surprisingly large number of people here are sensitive when articles or opinions don’t agree with them. The flag and downvote are their usual weapons of choice. It’s odd to blow off “politics” that impact trade and business on a site crawling with people who, you know, want to get rich in trade and business.
See THIS is a usage that makes sense to me. Using AI to manipulate existing code like this is great. I save a ton of time by pasting in a json response and saying something like “turn this into
Data classes” makes api work so fast. On the other hand I really don’t understand devs that say they are using AI for ALL their code.
GitHub Copilot Edit can do the second version of this. It is pretty good at it too. It sometimes gets things wrong but for your average code (and candidates typing in "C# read JSON from file" are way below average unless they never written in C#), if you give all the files for a specific self-contained part of the program, it can extend/modify/test/etc. it impressively well for an LLM.

The difference compared to where we were just 1-2 years ago is staggering.

Edit: the above is with Claude-3.5-Sonnet
You were one of them... 8 years ago?
let's be real for a sec, i've done consulting and have a lot of friends who still do. three times in four, your mckinsey report isn't super well-founded in reality and involves a lot of guesstimation.
nope, but the process is worse

- Much less resposnes

- For your sanity you want to make sure there aren't obvious signs of something being a ghost job, an H1B hire, an internal hire, or a farce because "we're always growing" (lying).

- expect longer processes. Hasn't happened to me but 7+ stage interview processes is not uncommon these days, even outside of tech

- accept that some processes will be frozen under your nose. especially because of longer processes crossing quarters

- expect less respect in the process. They feel like they do not want you. You are expendable

- don't bother negotiating in this market. You get a number and take it unless you already have a job. Even then they may simply pass you for someone more desperate. BTW wages are being suppressed; you're probably not getting pre 2023 salaries right now.

Yeah... if you're not being abused at work, I'd just weather it out.
You think Citizens United was merely about free speech and ignore these consequences that decision has had.

An unelected, non Congressionally approved billionaire is now is charge of determing which payments the Treasury Department will make and you want us to cite specific laws that are being broken? Once again you are missing the big picture.
The concept of a "guilty pleasure" is kind of weird, if you think about it.

If you enjoyed reading a book, why does it matter that some narrow subset of humanity doesn't like it? Critics are supposed to be good at judging on two criteria:

1. Will the average person enjoy this?

2. Is it actually good?

Why does it matter to me whether a book is "actually good" or not? One reason is that it's a status marker to like books that are "actually good" and not just popular.

Maybe all that "actually good" really means is that high status people like it.

But in my opinion, true high status comes from setting the bar, not following it. Stop trying to chase status by following the tastes of high-status people. Instead, just enjoy what you enjoy without apology and without guilt.
your source shows that last year 50lbs of fentanyl was seized at the canadian border vs 20,610lbs seized at the mexican border. when looking at the total seizure of fentanyl, only .2% of it was at the canadian border. it is hard to take the fentanyl justification seriously given such a dramatic difference.
Sticking with that analogy, it's like reprimanding somebody for cooking instant Mac and Cheese when they're hungry when there is a cooking class only a few minutes away, and implying that they must obviously not know or care about food at all.
State of Web Game Development in 2024
Yep. Been daily driving since September.

I love it.

No DP Alt mode.
I don't see the implication. How is it obviously woke?
That's the third time in this thread you've stated "OpenAI is in an existential crisis". It looks very suspicious.
There’s a flatpak signal that works great in FuriOS too
Commercials for beer show actors having a wonderful time. At the end of the commercial is “Please drink responsibly” read very quickly or in small font at the bottom.

People who not raised with a strong defense in the form of a responsible role model that explains that beer is not needed for fun and commercials don’t tell the truth are much more susceptible to harmful influence. The same goes for sports betting.
I don't believe all of the drop is down to this, but I do believe that its POSSIBLE more of the tech investors inside the company read it, and acted on it to lock in the actual value from the potential. They had to have held long enough to be able to, and it had to be tax efficient.

A senior I help with ICT issues who also has play money in the US markets pulled almost everything out of tech stocks including this company (he kept some tech ETF) about 2 weeks before this crunch. He believes he reads widely, he did it in a belief he'd read of impending risks in this area. I tend to think most small investors are lucky more than wise, but perhaps in this instance his luck was informed?
The current voting body has never experienced war, civil or otherwise. We have lived in peace and relative prosperity. So we cannot fathom how bad things can get when we elect the nuclear option.

It’s okay; we will learn our history lesson as the previous generations did, the hard way.
Oh, here I thought it was because every time I want to remember info about an order, it forces me back to their platform, rather than simply searching my email like I do for every other item I've ever purchased.

(And no, I don't use gmail.)
5-7 hour interview take homes is already a nightmare. LLM assistance or not, I would absolutely not bother with such an assignment unless I was far into the process. Meanwhile, I'm given such tasks half the time before I speak to any human.
By "fully AI-generated", do you mean that an AGI instance was spun-up, allowed to evolve, and decided to make this video?
constexpr "if" statements (C++20) are also a game-changer.
The tariffs take effect Tuesday, so there’s still a possibility that Trump backs off.
okay? I didn't find any of those when I was looking originally. I certainly wouldn't claim that you can't find this information with google, just that I wasn't able to.
Don’t forget that most modern version control systems are distributed. The same can not be said for ticketing systems.
Those are the three regions where literally everything enters the country.
You went as far as checking how it works (thus "requires you to set up a remote/external provider as the first step").

But you didn't bother checking the very next section on side bar, Supported LLM Providers, where ollama is listed.

The attention span issue today is amusing.
It's so crazy that we shut down working production lines without having a replacement ready to go.
> I try to start a subthread about perhaps an alternative idea, and I get responses that are all about the same blather that's already everywhere else. People here have no intellectual subtlety: I wouldn't bother commenting to elicit responses that are all the same thing that's already here. Try to say something different. Make a case.

The "reddit terminology" for this is /r/iamverysmart . If everyone else understands your comment a different way from the way you intended it, maybe it's not that they're all stupid, maybe you didn't express yourself very well.
Scotland's first 'enclosed' salmon farm to open on Loch Long
it tests syllogistic reasoning: Jason's mother was Tyro, whose father was Poesidon, whose father was Kronos. it also tests whether it "eagerly" rather than comprehensively considers something: a maternal great-grandfather could be the father of either one's maternal grandmother or maternal grandfather. so the answer could also be king Aeolus of the Etruscans.

ideally a model would be able to answer this accurately and completely.
> likely multiple diseases which are currently being lumped into the one label

You also described "cancer" what, 30 years ago?

We knew the symptoms, and we knew some rough classification based on where it first appeared. It took readily accessible diagnostic scans and genetic typing to really make progress.

And the brain is a lot harder imaging target.
This literally just happened to me last week. I emailed them to ask them how to stop this:

> I understand you want to opt out of all points and rewards and not be tracked.
>
> We're constantly working to make Bilt as rewarding as possible. Currently, we don't have an option to opt out of points or rewards. To prevent your transactions from being tracked, the most effective step is to unlink your card from your Bilt account.
>
> To unlink the card:
>
> Go to the Wallet tab > Scroll down to the Your Linked Cards section.
> Look for the card you would like to unlink and tap View all benefits.
> Click the ellipsis [:] on the top right, then tap Edit > Unlink.

Gah, I hate this service and will avoid renting on buildings that use it in the future.
The old, lost art of the newspaper column
> Also, Musk has a top secret security clearance. But I assume SSNs aren’t even classified and there’s tons of line employees with access to the databases.

Useful info. I had forgotten he had that. Considering his 420 romps, it's surprising he retains it because more lowly worms lose theirs on less cause.

But, your assumptions about line employees belies what I think is pretty well established ICT practice in government. If you can read it, your reading is logged. if you can alter it, you're in a small set and it's constrained by training/induction and also very strongly inculcated into "properly"

Just randomly dumping the entire dataset to some disk you have brought in, and telling your wizzkid to look at it bigly, would not fall into usual practices.
More than one step unless you planned to post it publically. "I need a phone number, where can I get it" is all good!
It is also an agent, so it is using you without compensation for your work.
That Biden, such a strong debater. Such a domineering force that he set up the executive branch in a way that Trump, try as he might, couldn’t figure out a fix.