skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Isn't the original PageRank (...) defined by what Google engineers believe to be a relevant and informative webpage?

No, quite the opposite.

The original PageRank was defined by what other internet publishers considered to be a relevant and informative webpage. Specifically, the original PageRank was weighting content by the links (and content around the links) it was getting. The trust was placed on the internet publishers linking to it. The trust was distributed and also transitive to a degree.

Which, if you think about it, is pretty close to what journalists do - they prop up the good ones in various ways. And also reasonably close to the peer review process popular in sciences - equal peers judging relevant materials and marking / linking the ones they approve.

All in all, the original algorithm was effectively a "wall" between Google engineering and the actual content, as ranked & searched. It was clear delineation that "we don't editorialize search results".

Granted, the later incarnations of Google Search take into account much more than just the original PageRank, and thus stray away from the idealized original formulation - and also get much closer to editorial decisions.
Bose has a “hearables” line in this vein. I know 5 or 6 folks in their labs, and it’s sounding (hah) promising. They aren’t medical devices, yet, but beamforming earbuds are a thing now.

I expect to see full medical devices that do this in the next decade or so.

DeLiang Wang's group at Ohio State is doing great stuff for speech extraction in complex environments, as are some of my colleagues in other universities in collaboration with Starkey.

It’s coming along!
But is that because they can't find a better job, or they just can't find a better job in academia? I find it hard to believe that someone with a Masters or PHD in stem could not find a high paying job in the tech industry. (disclosure: I didn't read the article; I'm just curious about these anecdotes I keep hearing about PHDs)
Maybe a giant list of websites in alphabetical order?

(joking - we don't need another DMOZ)
That would be a pretty bad thing to jump the species barrier given the proximity of us and our pets and the apparently high mortality. This is the one thing I keep coming back to: we are but one small mutation away from some very bad disease jumping from cows, pigs (very likely due to anatomical resemblance), fowl (chickens) or pets such as cats or dogs to us humans with disastrous consequences. And we'd be about as prepared as a sitting duck is for acute lead poisoning.

Large numbers of cases like these in pets are always scary for that reason. See also 'avian bird flu' for another example of this as well as this one:

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-pig-virus-potential-t...
"In most cases where several dogs live in the same animal care, only one dog has become ill. This may indicate that the possible disease is not so contagious from dog to dog. For the time being, the Norwegian Food Safety Authority's advice on restricting close contact between dogs remains valid."

I'm looking forward to seeing what caused this. Really strange (In my non-expert mind) that it hasn't made its way to Sweden.
Can you really offload per-packet processing to a connected Bluetooth device without injecting a frustrating amount of latency? Bluetooth isn’t known for being a fast protocol
I don't understand the hype around WeWork.
Nothing it does is innovative or different.
Its strategy and product can be easily replicated by anyone with enough cash to burn.
It seems less like a business and more like a rent-seeking scam to loot money from investors until they've sold to the greatest fool they can find.
I admit that some companies are better than other about being mission-driven, and concerned about their impact on society. But I'm not sure we can generalize about the tech industry as a whole on that level, even if the general public does exactly that.

Working in this industry, in particular if you are not in SV, you see the variety of people, purposes, and goals that comprise tech companies.

As far as what I do personally, I've focused my career in the public sector since 2012, writing software that saves money for school districts. I watch the pricing models that our sales team comes up with to be aware whether they cross the line where our fees are greater than the cost savings, and therefore would cut into student funding. My side projects focus on building tools to help the creative efforts of my children. In short, I try to avoid work that is purely money-driven.
Can you think of an example with lower energy to secure than the best attack?
There's some strange vehicles parked in front of the house too
Thanks! In tests with a high quality headset mic, I've been able to get up to 98% (intent) recognition accuracy. Keep in mind that this is for a closed domain with only ~600k possible sentences. I'd expect performance degradation with a free-standing mic like the PS3 eye, but I don't have any measurements yet.

Because Rhasspy combines both a speech and intent recognizer, transcription word error rate isn't as important if the correct intent/named entities can still be recognized. When your intents have more distinct vocabularies, your recognition rate will be higher.

I've had folks with British and Australian accents use Rhasspy successfully (with the CMU English 5.2 acoustic model). Some recent tests with an nnet3 Kaldi model have produced better results (https://github.com/gooofy/zamia-speech), especially with noise. I plan to add this model to Rhasspy in the near future.

If you're specifically thinking of an Indian accent, I noticed that CMU recently published an Indian English acoustic model (https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/files/Acoustic%20...). I'd be happy to add this to Rhasspy if you're interested.
CD sampling is 44.1kHz. 22.05kHz is used in plenty of HAs. I haven't seen anything lower (but wouldn't be surprised to learn otherwise)

22kHz sampling isn't a problem in practice as:

- HAs focus on speech comprehension, not music. Speech doesn't high much content above 5kHz, so even 22kHz is double the Nyquist rate.

- Music is perfectly enjoyable at 22kHz (but obviously better at 44kHz)

- People getting hearing aids have hearing loss, and the majority of hearing loss is in the high frequencies
Would consider using this if there wasn't a 500GB minimum.
We have lots of abundance. The problem is that the future is, as they say, not so equally distributed.

It's hard to solve things like poverty when a tiny minority is hoarding most of the increase in wealth, and in fact often profits or draws political power from maintaining inequality in its various forms.
Don't only blame cats:

https://www.livescience.com/27330-dogs-disrupt-wildlife.html

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/gardening-...
Is an ancient Chinese cultural concept mixing with the “model minority my (cont)
It does, but for full effect it's important to have a family trait of being dirty old men to go along with it.
I wonder how much troubleshooting and debugging strategies in early designs play into the long term niceness of systems. Software and hardware developers who love debugging wicked systems may likely lead to the development of wicked products and processes. If debugging is a first class deliverable of the project then maybe the end product will be less wicked?

I have seen so many complex systems that are wicked to debug as they had absolutely no formal debugging strategy. Many failed as a result of this.

Needless to say, I am a big debug first kinda guy.
I don't know about the technical tradeoffs in hearing aids, but the other stuff in this article is breathtakingly ignorant.
This is sometimes called the “cocktail party problem”, or more formally “Blind Source Separation”. It’s tough, especially with one or two sensors. You’d also need a fairly unobtrusive way to choose the source, which is also tricky.

That said, I had a classmate with a hearing impairment. His device had a tiny wireless microphone that preferentially fed his hearing aid (I.e., he could hear other stuff too, but the mic was loudest). The teacher usually wore it, but it would be given to you if you were working with him on something. It was certainly a little clunky, but it did seem to help him a lot. Perhaps something similar could work for your dad?

Unfortunately, I have no idea what the device was called—and it was a long time ago- but maybe this is enough of clue for his audiologist.
I'm still not sure about this—the amortized time of insertion should be O(1) on any one of the usual hash table-type-structures. We're not inserting a single item to an already-built hash-table, but rather k of them into an empty hash-table, with elements being uniformly drawn and bucketed using a good hash function. All of this should give O(1) average time for insertions.
Sustainable as in much more low key and not trying to grow a lot? How would that sit with investors? No less Softbank’s $9B investment into it and 30% ownership.
To a large extent they already do, albeit unintentionally. We can discuss whether that should be the case in the first place, but Google has been shaping the news industry ever since "Google" became a verb.

With that shaping now irreversible, and with shutting down being the only way to stop it from continuing, it certainly seems like the right thing for Google to think seriously about the rewards their engine offers. While Google is definitely prone to abusing their influence, this move seems very reasonable.
Not disputing, but could you please provide a link or two that argues they are profitable in existing markets?
I’ve only looked at their S-1, and there wasn’t hard information (e.g. single building operating statements) for me to conclude this.
I read it as irony/sarcasm. Crimes commonly perpetrated by lawmakers and people of influence are punished very lightly... "for some reason".
I know this, as I work in crypto.

But I’d have never considered using it for this - it doesn’t register in the brain as anything other then crypto.

Awesome solution, thanks for hacking my brain.
emotional thinking > practical thinking
>Me, My Shelf, And I.

Peak book title. Superb. Hats off to whoever thought of that.
How do Bluetooth headphones compensate for the latency?
I met a guy today I knew years ago, when he was 23,
And he was married to a widow who was as pretty as could be.
Now this widow had a grown-up daughter who had beautiful hair of red,
And this guy's father fell in love with her and soon the two were wed.
Now this made the guy's dad his son-in-law and changed his very life
For his daughter was his mother because she was his father's wife.
Now to complicate the matter even though it brought him joy,
He soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

Now his little baby then became a brother-in-law to his dad,
And so became his uncle and though that made him very sad,
For if the baby was his uncle then that also made him brother,
Of the widow's grown-up daughter who was of course his step-mother.

Now his father's wife had a son who kept them on the run,
So he became his grandchild for he was his daughter's son.
His wife is now his mother's mother and of course that makes him blue
Because although she's his wife she's his grandmother too!
They went digital because "sound colors" doesn't exist.

Also: Niquist-Shannon.
Weekly warrant canaries too!

https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
When people insult Americans are they being racist?
I have profound hearing loss, wear hearing aids on both ears since early childhood. I felt immediate palpable improvement when switching to digital hearing aids. Only for listening to music I switch them to "analog-like" mode (which, nevertheless still applies the 20-60dB equalizer and compressor I need). Of course some people might have opposite experience, I am not trying to invalidate anything.

The big picture is: sadly we don't really have any way to objectively measure hearing quality and its improvement due to hearing aids. We can push buttons whether we hear tones or not. We can count understood/misunderstood words. But the results don't have clear relationship with real-life hearing situations. For example, in my case, in silent room tinnitus appears which interferes with testing. And sometimes I hear better, sometimes worse.

Unlike vision, it's very hard and time-consuming to test with any repeatable/reproducible patterns, or to accurately explain to another person problem with quality of the sound.

Also, the hearing aids market is very tightly controlled by oligopoly of manufacturers and doctors. There is no way to self-adjust them. I'd very much buy user-programmable BTE package capable of 80 dB gain which I need for some frequencies. But there is plainly no such thing available without any strings attached. I have played with jackd under Linux, too, don't remeber clearly but it was problem to set the equalizer with 60dB differences.
There's two points here, one good one bad. The bad one everyone has already spotted; the claim that digital is inherently worse.

The good point though is the one about the industry lacking participation from people with hearing loss themselves. The "nothing about us without us" argument. Plus a sub point about the US healthcare system being expensive and not actually consumer friendly.

(Hearing aid wearer here who works for a digital audio company here! But I get mine from the NHS, so I pay nothing and expect no choice. They work well but not perfectly - the multiple sources problem is still big)
You raise an excellent point.
It also made me stumble across his interview from a couple years back talking about the "why" but I didn't dig enough to find out of the unbroken glasses are purely a time-series thing, or if he finally got tired of it and got his glasses fixed / got new glasses.
> You mentioned fascists. Did you go see fascists? I did, and they are probably much friendlier than you imagine, and they have convincing arguments. It requires some amount of detachment to see the flaws in their ideas.

Yikes
You select N from M, in order, where M is "too big" and N fits in memory / swap / disk. You then shuffle your N selections to get random ordering.
> Salmonella sp. and Campylobacter sp. has not been identified.

Salmonella was my first thought. The CDC in the US just issued a warning to dog owners about pig ears: https://mb.ntd.com/fda-cdc-dont-buy-or-feed-your-dog-any-pig...
In December 2018, Sundar Pichai testified under oath to US lawmakers that search results are completely algorithmic with no human reranking of search results. I wonder if they are still going to stick with this story.
eat bugs, goy
> doubly-linked list without a head pointer

Off-topic, I know, but what's the benefit of this and how does it differ from a doubly-linked list without a tail pointer?
>Java has multiple implementations, some of them happen to be fully done in Java, like JikesRVM, MaximeVM and Graal.

Yes, but most of them, including Graal atm, are insignificant curiosities (as far as developers working with them are concerned. If they were a different language, they wouldn't even be on TIOBE 100, whereas Java in C/C++ is in the top 5).

So pointing them out gives mainly "well, actually" pedantic points, than illuminates any real importance they have.
I'm feeling like I'm missing something, but why not? 2^64 is the number of cards in the deck, but that's not the number of cards we're picking. That might be just 10.
I know it’s being tried. Good question, though. I can’t imagine it’s super easy, and maybe some other protocols are in the mix.

The obvious stopgap measure is the neck-torc approach. Offload computation to a bespoke thing and use an app for tuning, or the like.
> Astronomy includes knowing when you aren't doing it and instead seeing an artifact of your instruments or weather

One would hope fighter pilots have some faculty in said skills!
All those recommendations and they are not advising to let them eat the same food as the owner?
I haven't seen them compensate successfully for anything real-time (games).

I've seen them compensate for things like movies; I assume they send Audio ahead of time, and "hold" back the video until it's in sync.
In my experience, they don't; if I'm typing on an iPhone there's a noticeable delay between me tapping a key and hearing the sound in my QC35s.
I'd want solar panels on my car for the sole purpose of running a ventilation fan while parked under the hot sun, so I don't come back to a scorching hot car. More appealingly, it might also prevent the death of pet or child (still incorrectly) left in there.
The freelancers and small businesses that use it are likely the first to end their memberships and work from home or coffee shops.

Coffee shops are great places to get work done for a few hours. But stay in one for a whole day and you start to get weird looks unless you are buying coffee continuously. And once you buy enough $5 coffees to justify sitting there for a day, you might as well be in a WeWork.

Working from home simply isn't an option for many people. If you live in a downtown area, you likely don't have the space for a proper setup. Even if you do, many people don't like working alone. Also, if you want multiple employees working together in person, an office starts to make a lot more sense.

So I actually think the freelancers and small businesses who remain in business are the last ones to leave. If you chose to be in WeWork in the first place, you probably like it, and the cost of office space there is negligible compared to payroll. The first ones to leave are the corporate customers who cut head counts. Small companies tend to have less waste, so it's hard to cut people in a downturn. Big corporations, where the people making the firing decisions don't actually know the people being fired personally, have easier time laying people off during recessions.
Matthias, thanks for making your videos. They are what got me into woodworking, which I'm guessing will be a life-long hobby.

I really appreciate your style of videos as well. Thanks for not "chasing the algorithm", and for staying true to your fanbase (as demanding as we can be).

I've learned so much from your general approach to problem-solving, as well. So, thanks for not editing out those parts.
Why indeed.

It kind of illuminates the whole system.

The fact that business shouldn't need to pay a fair, or even a living wage (in fact, they're kind of obligated not to, if possible, because, competition).

It works as long as there are people desperate enough to take any offer at all - which will always be the case because people need to eat, so they can't opt out because wages are too low. So not really a "free market" at all.
> There was a brief period when the Muslim Brotherhood controlled Egypt.

In the thats in the past. However they didn't break the peace agreement with Israel.

> Hamas controls Gaza

Gaza is not a country.

> Hezbullah controls a big chunk of southern Lebanon.

True on that but without Israel there Hezbollah would have little reason to oppose the US.

At the same time the reality is that Syria is militarly over, Jordan has made peace, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are basically allies, Turkey has no interest in attacking Israel, Egypt is incapable of true forign policy at the moment.

So we have basically all major powers, and Hezbullah.
Yes, which is why it should be “isn't entirely impossible” not “is entirely impossible”.
> Analog aids merely amplify existing sound—a more sophisticated version of an ear trumpet—such that there is no real interruption of the original acoustic wave.

That's just false and shows how little the author understands about audio systems. The microphone and driver in a hearing aid (and their interaction with the ear canal) alone will change the sound drastically, regardless of whether the signal processing between the two is analog or digital.
Igor Sikorsky, the Man with the Impossible Dream of a Rotary-Wing Helicopter
I was thinking, it might be the cultural tendency to make really long work weeks / hours, but spend a lot of those hours slacking off (see also the thread about the boss-detector arduino thingy). As if they're paid for time, not work.
They will not only demand a rollback but also do it. Besides, low level changes at this scale require a copious amount of approvals.
Also the UK government is explicitly pro-vaccination.
Being able to rent a desk is very convenient, true.

But I don't think comparison to aws is fair. AWS can be scaled.

Renting out part of the office won't benefit in any way from the same company having offices in multiple cities.

Do you think, one landlord, owning offices in 10 cities be more efficient (better) than 10 separate landlords?
No, I'm not. I'm at the beginning of my career, and so far I have only worked for companies that collapse! For the past three years, I have not had a reliable/steady income. In my current company, we are already being told to begin looking for another place. Last year at a time like this, the former company ran out of money now this! I don't even want to work anymore. Financially stability allows you to focus more on your work.
Good catch. I can hear the snort-laugh as he typed this dad joke.
My Airpods have a mode where you can use them for directional hearing. You can set the iphone next to the person speaking and whatever it picks up is transmitted to the airpods. It would be nice for hearing aids to be able to wirelessly connect to a directional mic for situations like this.
Currently I import both the mp4 and jpg as separate assets, but I will absolutely fix the presentation to be autoplay-video-then-show-image, as it should be.
Concerns grow over tainted sewage sludge spread on croplands
I think you're being too literal.

I was referring to a mechanism of taking in investment or capital to generate a return on that investment through some positive generation process (prototypical example: manufacturing.)

But you're technically right: if you're just using money to steal / suck resources away from somewhere else, with no net positive or even a net negative on the whole, then I agree with you.
Exploring the anatomy of a high-performance convolution
It can easily turn a profit as long as it stops growing. Somehow they managed to con the building owners into leasing to shell companies which means they can break any of their leases at any time by shutting down the shells. As such once the growth phase ends they will shut all the unprofitable offices and can hum along as 3% growth real eastate company and feed the founders heirs forever or at least till the leases expire.
This just happens to be on NPR today: “Untreated Hearing Loss Linked To Loneliness And Isolation For Seniors”

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/09/12/7602312...
Deep neural networks should be able to do source separation.
Well he didn't treat his girlfriend particularly well through the film. He was never actively nasty to her, but he was dismissive and didn't appear too interested in her either.
“Yes”

It’s actually hard to separate the two. On the one hand, the hearing aid might not faithfully reproduce cues that let you separate different sources. On the other, “higher” brain areas can modulate early sensory areas (maybe even the cochlea) to make sounds relevant to your current behaviors more salient while attenuating irrelevant signals.
Most modern journalists doesn't even have 1/5th the independence of 60s-70s journalists. Many don't have the real life experience and cynicism either, they content to have a subtly more nuanced version of whatever the government/mainstream says...

One reason is it's more difficult to make a living if you're fired (not many press jobs anymore, whether online or print), and more easy to be branded for life as unwelcome.

As for going at it on your own, e.g. as a vlogger/journalist, if you get too much on the establishment's nerves it's very easy to deplatform you, not just from e.g. youtube, but even from payment platforms for donations...
"Krypton production facility"? The mascot could be a neon light.