skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Humans can’t process multiple audio streams simultaneously.

Yes they can, they can process two, and no more than two. Being able to listen to a conversation where multiple people are talking at the same time isn't processing different audio streams. It's assigning a set of sounds heard over time by timbre, subject (meaning) or relative volume to subsets representing different theoretical sources. People have very little problem doing this with a small number of potential sources (probably another seven plus or minus two thing.)

Even in large crowds, we can often pick out a few individual voices of interest (if distinctive enough in timbre, position and movement (judged by volume and pitch changes), or accent/wording/subject, and follow those voices while disregarding the rest of them.

edit: we might suck at multitasking, but that's not a problem a computer would have. I can't follow multiple speakers at once if they're not interacting with each other, and they're speaking quickly and overlapping, but that's a problem with context switching. With a computer I can just route the separated voices to systems that will handle them. Everybody gets their own waiter.
> What I discovered was that most of these brilliant people would not share a lot of their knowledge

I'm someone who has spent a lot of time training up juniors. TBH I dont have a lot of show for it. I really wish I spent my time trying to learn things myself, many of the people I've trained have much better careers than I do. I'm guessing your group of successful smart people are that way because they don't waste time trying to share their knowledge.
I generally keep all of my computers. I have an extensive computing collection going back to the mid 90s; 1ghz slot cpus, super socket 7 boards, 3dfx cards, a handful of ISA soundblasters, etc.

When I buy a piece of computer hardware I try to think of how it will be perceived in the future for someone whose loves these devices. For example I just retired my main desktop with a 2600k with the original GTX Titan. It’s packed away and I may bring it out someday to make a powerful windows XP rig.
But are these things any worse than what other major apps do?

Other social networking and entertainment apps are crammed full of tracking code, analytics, advertising networks, that all collect excessive user data, don't put it in their privacy policies, etc. And similarly, we hear about bad use of cryptography and SQL all the time.

Apps can be pretty bad in general with these things.

Now obviously, apps and code in general should be improved.

But the question here is, is TikTok really that much worse? That it's such a worse threat than others, that it needs to be banned? Because that's what I still don't see evidence of.
I think there’s more of a philosophical disagreement between you two about what makes a given word “Japanese” and how orthographic renderings are determinative of that. You highlight lossiness of many loan words and I personally think that when they’ve reached this level of divergence in Japanese, they become equivalent, regardless of orthography (because the Japanese writing system contains within it Roman script). Are “naive,” “ナイーブ,” and “ｎａｉーｂｕ” all Japanese words for example?

I don’t think it’s a settled question one way or the other, but is highly variable on context and history. For example, there have been several pushes, beginning with the Meiji to Revolution, to switch Japan to writing exclusively in romaji. If any had succeeded, we’d view this debate quite differently:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27756125?seq=1
> If you ignore healthcare(!), you can actually live on that pretty well and put some cash away for emergencies.

For sure. I didn't understand the comment I replied to to mean those who work though. That (including healthcare) is what you have in Europe if you don't work at all.

I wasn't saying that tax money is wasted, quite the opposite, I was saying that most of the money is not in overhead, that is, it's reaching its intended recipients. As for cutting the defense budget in the US, I'm torn. On the one hand: easy savings. On the other hand: a lot of the US' economic position in the world depends on being a/the super power. I don't know how much and how large the military edge has to be, so it may be possible to cut the spending by half and not lose a lot in economic advantages, but it may also be much closer coupled.
The 2nd Amendment is a lot more than someone's hobby. Gun rights are minority and womens' rights.
Filezilla isn't bad. I just already have a bunch of scripts set up for working with aws.
How thick does the breading have to be before fried chicken is a dumpling?
So do their flagship Precision series laptops. Dell knows how to cater to their professional user base.
> data structure and associated algorithms

That's the thing. 99% of programming is Big Data (and windows, thereof), so everyone is on about that.

I tend to write stuff that is on a much more humble scale, like device control software, or systems that are used by thousands (not millions) of people.

I guess that I could say that "Any programmer should know about ring buffers," as that was a staple of my device driver stuff (I came up through hardware). In point of fact, only low-level drivers need concern themselves with ring buffers. Even programmers dedicated to writing device control software don't have to mess with them. The same with hardware handshakes, IRQs, etc.

We tend to view everything through the lens of what we know.
Not necessarily. For example, see Three Ballot, a paper voting system designed by Ron Rivest.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/rsa-cryptographer-ronald-rive...
The fundamental problem this argument has is that computers are in the world. Probably not to the degree required and certainly not up to AGI. But, self driving cars and Boston dynamics exist. The gap between "in the world" and not isn't some insurmountable barrier. It's an engineering problem that's been solved to varying degrees by engineers and hobbyists.
The article is missing mathematicians who do not publicize their results. These would mainly be mathematicians working for agencies like GCHQ, NSA, etc.

If you want to work on certain math problems, don't mind working for the government, and don't care about being published you can get good jobs with these kinds of agencies.
> Nationwide NRC is different from NRC for Assam.

Wrong again. You aren't even trying that hard dude. This is not reddit. BJP govt has said in SC officially that they'll like to spread NRC to the entire country. Even though there is no real proof that illegal immigrants are flocking to India. Even bangladesh is doing well in GDP terms than us.

They did their little trial in Assam and now they want to burn down the entire country because they don't have a leg to stand on, now that Ram Mandir got so little response.

> It doesn't mention anything about your grandfather's papers

you don't seem to know anything do you? At least do a google search before commenting and making an ass of yourself.

link: http://www.nrcassam.nic.in/admin-documents.html

The first requirement is collection of ANY ONE of the following documents of List A issued before midnight of 24th March, 1971 where name of self or ancestor* appears (to prove residence in Assam up to midnight of 24th March, 1971).

SO before 1971. I sure as hell wasn't born before 1971. My documents which I got in the 2000s don't mean SHIT to the government as I didn't get them before 1971.

(1) 1951 NRC OR
(2) Electoral Roll(s) up to 24th March 1971 (midnight) OR
(3) Land & Tenancy Records OR
(4) Citizenship Certificate OR
(5) Permanent Residential Certificate OR
(6) Refugee Registration Certificate OR
(7) Passport OR
(8) LIC OR
(9) Any Govt. issued License/Certificate OR
(10) Govt. Service/ Employment Certificate OR
(11) Bank/Post Office Accounts OR
(12) Birth Certificate OR
(13) Board/University Educational Certificate OR
(14) Court Records/Processes.

for all those born after 24th march midnight 1971 they're all illegal immigrants unless they have their parent's birth certificates or 1971's govt documents.
For me, uBlock origin is the only thing that makes browsing the web even remotely okay on mobile. Its ability to block large images is a complete game changer for me.

Maybe it's because I've got an "old" phone (4 years ish), but Chrome's insisting that I must download everything a website throws at my made it extremely difficult to use comfortably. As soon as I found out Firefox had extensions on mobile, I switched both my desktop and mobile browsers, and it's been great.
> Nitpick but it's "median" not "average".

“average

noun
1.
a number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number.“
I'd be curious to know what % of us here:

read an article fully, then

give it due consideration, then

read the entire HN comment thread, and then

add thoughtful comments in the HN thread
>Just because you worked for the Stasi automatically makes you a bad fit for a certain job.

I am sorry, I am from Russia initially, the KGB-land. No, it's not an over-generalization.
This may destroy viruses but it does not kill them as viruses are not alive.
Self-driving startup built a “car without wheels” for remote driving
The Impact of Working in Loud Environments on Your Hearing
That's far from the only example of conservatives banned by Visa and Mastercard, and there are plenty of people who care, they've just been disenfranchised. That you think nobody cares indicates the extent to which they already control the flow of information.
Maybe use a better translator? It's "by 2030", not "until 2030".
When I was first looking into buying Lego sets for my kids I felt the same way, but I've completely turned around. Legos are way better than they were when I was a kid. Check out the 3-in-1 line. They're brilliantly designed. A few of my favorites:

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/deep-sea-creatures-31088

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/mighty-dinosaurs-31058

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/underwater-robot-31090

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/riverside-houseboat-31093

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/outback-cabin-31098

I also used to be bummed that Lego retired their standalone fantastical space ships line, in favor of making everything about starwars, but instead they've now based their space line on actually realistic spaceships, and it feels like a much better fit. When my son builds Lego rockets now, it makes him want to learn about all the NASA missions they're based on. He ends up learning about the parts of real rockets that are reflected in the Lego models.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/deep-space-rocket-and-lau...
This isnt so correct. If no ones names are on the papers, everyone is ticking, or numbering boxes and using supplied stationary then there's not much you can differentiate on to de-anonymize the system.

The last step would be to encourage everyone to fold their ballot and place it in the box that get's tumbled a few times before counting in public.

It's an easy risk to control. And if you use a centralized voting roll you can enable people to cast votes from any place they like.

As an example, In Australia I have three places to vote that are about 1, 1.5 and 2.5km from where I live. Each election I usually walk with my wife down past each to figure out which cake stall I'm going to spend money at. It's a big day of choices.
A USPS letter carrier once asked me to say "bulk mail" instead of "junk mail." Similarly, I believe social media CEOs don't say "the angry mob" but instead refer to "highly engaged active users" (who, for a modest sum, may receive your targeted message).

It would be ironic if it turned out some huge percentage of observed echo chambers were bots and alts. Unfortunately, I may be too optimistic on that point.

pre-internet sock puppetry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Scherhorn

non-internet spontaneous angry mobs include rock fans on 12 July 1979, serbs on 24 April 1987, etc.
One can generalize this approach further to take any given loss function, not just a p-norm, and ask what statistic is achieved by minimizing loss.

A field that studies this is called property elicitation, from the idea that the loss function elicits a certain kind of prediction be it mean, mode, etc.

This field actually originated with human experts like weather forecasters - what is a loss function (or “scoring rule”) that incents them to predict accurately? Squared loss is good if by accurately we imply we want the mean.

One fact people find surprising is that squared loss is not the only one that elicits the mean. There is an entire family of losses that do, including KL divergence.
Simple answer. But the implementation is trickier.

You have to use Spot instances. Or as Google calls them - preemptible instances. These are upto 80% cheaper.

The caveat is that they can be killed anytime, so your infrastructure must be resumable.

Most likely you will need to do kubernetes. It's the only framework that supports GPU, integrates with spot instance providers and works with Ml platforms (using kubeflow)
Valve Failed to Make a Lot of Half-Life Games Before Alyx
> Beyond that, there’s some very serious privacy concerns as well with PWAs, especially with developers abusing APIs for fingerprinting

Do you think native platform APIs are more restrictive?
This. There are plenty of situations where I'd be happy with allowing an app to store its own internal data and maybe export local backups but I don't want to give permission to enumerate and read everything on the file system. Heck, I'm using Bouncer to remove permissions after I move away from apps. I fail to understand why more granular permissions haven't been a priority.
Like with a lot of political things in the US I strongly believe that none of the decisions makers really want to have a system that works impartially. They just want to have an advantage for their side because it’s about “winning” at any cost no matter how destructive it is for the country.

Otherwise I can’t explain the problems this supposedly developed country has. I am from Germany and have never heard anybody having doubts about the integrity of the system there. If the US wanted to have a system that works they could look around and see how it get countries do to. But it seems they don’t want to have such a system.
Unreal’s new iPhone app does live motion capture with Face ID sensors
shitty company that uses dark patterns[0]

[0]https://twitter.com/darkpatterns
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Secondly, you can use AWS spot instances for GPUs which costs less.
A loan has a fixed time period, and usually a fixed interest rate too. The monetary value is straightforward. Of course there's a risk you won't get paid back by the debtor, as there's risk in all business. But the monetary value of the payback can't vary wildly based on pure future speculation.

A variable interest rate alters the situation, but if interests rates vary wildly during the fixed loan period, you've got an entire economy out of control. In recent years, interest rates have been relatively steady.
I’d say Minecraft as well
Facebook's work on separating multiple sources in an audio stream is fundamentally different from prior ICA-based methods of Blind Source Separation [0] in ways that are both interesting and seem to be part of a broader trend at FB Research.

ICA-based BSS requires at least n microphones to separate n sources of sound. This work does the separation with one microphone.

What makes this more broadly interesting is FB Research has separately developed the capability to reconstruct full 3D models from single image photos[1].

Both of these reconstruct-from-single-sensor problems are MUCH harder than their associated reconstruct-from-multiple-sensors variants (ICA in the case of audio, stereo separation or photogrammetry in the case of video) so they aren't efforts one undertakes casually.

The obvious motivation for this single-sensor approach is augmenting existing video and audio clips, most of which are single camera, single microphone (or very closely spaced stereo microphones with minimal separation), and all of which people have already uploaded massive numbers to Facebook.

The more interesting motivation could be that FB (Oculus) is widely believed to be developing next generation AR or VR glasses. Most of the discussion around AR/VR headsets focuses on the displays, but if you wanted to keep both your physical size and hardware parts cost to an absolute minimum, one of the things you'd want to minimize is your sensor count.

FB Research seems to have a strong interest in things that reduce the number of sensors required to provide high grade AR/VR experiences and that make it possible to explore pre-existing conventional media in spatialized 3D contexts.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_component_analys...

[1] https://ai.facebook.com/blog/facebook-research-at-cvpr-2020/
A tangent, but this is one reason Nintendo is so successful; they know the characters sell, while at the same time understanding it’s not the characters but the quality of the game and that really matters and brings customers back for more.

That’s why they first experiment and develop a lot of game ideas looking for the most fun mechanics. Then after something is shaping up into a great game, they look at the IP catalogue and see what skin to put on top.

Edit: In general, but not 100% of the time. The Zelda team is mostly consistently the Zelda team and does set out with intent to make the next Zelda game, for example.
Industry has low standards because the users have low standards. If the application doesn't start, they are mildly annoyed and go do something else. Eventually the bug will get fixed and they use it again. This has been the case for like 95% of software written in the past decade.
I pray people wont give toys as birthday presents now. Just another thing to find storage for.
Same here. Maybe 'Scraping should not fall under hacking laws' would be a more clear title.
For the first few years of the 2000's, Apple actually supported a similar project called OpenDarwin. It was basically the open source components of MacOS. I ran it for a bit, but there wasn't much community support for it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060804104416/http://opendarwin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)#Open...
The customer is adult parent, grandparent or aunt. They have disposable income and average kid has more toys then the kid needs.
Not if I continue to use the old hardware until it is unusable.
A reason I basically just don't give gifts is that if I prefer to receive cash, and you prefer to receive cash, then what the hell is the point of it anyway?

I remember when I was little, probably early elementary, my brother gave me $5 for Christmas. I thought that was really swell of him, so I went to my room and got him $5. In the end, what was the point of it? It didn't mean anything.

I give gifts when there is something I'm excited about giving. Otherwise, I just don't bother.
As Some VCs Hunker Down, Others Are Finding Ways to Fund the Next AWS of Biology
Community of Practice for Experienced Programmers
I never said guidelines have been formulated but the Modi govt has said so in SC that a country wide NRC is necessary

"Centre Tells Supreme Court NRC Necessary, Contradicts Shah's 'No NRC' Declaration"

link:
https://thewire.in/government/caa-counter-affidavit-centre
Apple augmented reality lenses pass the prototype stage
I’ve thought about this, too (and I spent 20+ years in the U.S. Army Reserve). I think such a requirement would have a lot of benefits for the U.S. but I also think it would take a generation for it to be accepted and not seen as a political “stunt.” It would really have to be “sold” to the country as a long-term positive, and considering out current divisions I don’t know that we can agree on anything significant right now. Maybe it can be sold at the state level easier.
Performance of the generated code is always the #1 priority in both Rust and llvm, performance improvements are rarely declined, and this prioritization needs to change radically, to get a much faster compiler.
Well, knowing something is not arrogance.

Stating that you know something is arrogance, unless you take precautions. I'm not saying it's bad, I'm saying the situation perfectly matches the dictionary definition of the word "arrogance".

Everyone around here surely knows that it's often sufficient to prefix the opinion with "everyone here surely knows that <X>". Because if you say raw "X" very confidently, people immediately assume that your full implicit message is "I cannot believe I even have to waste my precious time to explain to you nitwits that <X>".
TIL: How to specify an alternative location for the AndroidManifest.xml
A filter might be easier to install in an existing forced air system. The main problem that needs to be solved is how to eliminate the virus between now and when a vaccine is available. So solutions need to be something that can be manufactured quickly and dropped in as a replacement for a component of an existing system.
> The same problem was discovered 15 years ago in Java :)

I swear go is different and doesn't need to learn from mistakes from other languages, because after all, you don't need that with go…

Instead of being arrogant maybe go designers should have listened to the people who told them 10 years ago that these issues were real, and not a product of "bad coding practices". Because this:

> . The Prometheus people try hard to do it anyway, and the result is rather messy and involves a combinatorial explosion of the possible combinations of APIs.

Is madness.
Science Backed Ways to Be Happier
The article seems to treat a PhD merely as a credential - maybe assuming that a person would be equally capable with or without it. Why? The whole point of a PhD in math is to learn to do effective research in math and there are almost no substitutes. This seems like being surprised that so many professional violinists took violin lessons. (I admit my bias here but still.)
Arcade games were so superior to their home conversions

As a general rule, this is correct, but Rygar is a glaring exception. The arcade game was a typical mindless scroller. The home version was an epic action/RPG.