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Whisper AI | Sr. Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco or REMOTE | Full-time

Whisper is building a new kind of hearing aid. By far the biggest problem people with hearing loss have is understanding conversation in crowded, noisy environments like restaurants, parties, and the like. The classical DSP algorithms that traditional hearing aids run have difficulty in these situations because the noise has very similar statistics to the signal. Deep learning can do far better. What we do differently is that our hearing aid comes with a small pocket unit which has 1800x the compute of a behind-the-ear hearing aid. This allows us to run much more sophisticated deep learning models to remove background noise.

We launched our first generation hearing aid more than a year ago and now are hard at work on the second generation product which will be smaller and produce even higher quality audio.

The company as a whole is around 60 employees, mostly engineers, and there are four of us on the machine learning team. You would work on every stage of the ML pipeline, from data collection and preprocessing, to designing new model architectures, to deploying trained models onto hardware.

There are so many ways we can use ML to improve hearing aids: beamforming, feedback mitigation, personalization, the list goes on. We're only at the beginning of what we believe we can do.

If interested, please apply on our careers page: https://whisper.ai/careers/
Theoretically possible, but we should want a lot more data to support that conclusion. There seems to be data that suggests that at least certain types of plastics have a deleterious effect on humans, and probably other animals as well. As long as the ecological effects of plastic aren't completely understood, it's probably better for it to wind up in landfills than in the food chain. After all, plastics are derived from petroleum which came from underground to begin with.
Medical science is amazing, able to save this man from, well, horror.
Nice product.
The UI looks quite similar(90%) to splitbee.io
If that page was authored by Douglas Adams then yes that’s where you read it.
The latest God of War just needed more actual bosses.

Feels like the queen bitch valkyrie was the only encounter where they actually decided to push the combat. Imagine if Sekiro or Souls games only had a couple of bosses that felt like real bosses.

Overall a phenomenal game, though.
Wouldn't making the emojis more font-like be less confusing to someone who has difficulties with computers?
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I felt myself chaining the words together, so I think it was still associative, but I skipped 3 or 4 until I found myself hopping to something that felt pretty different from the previous word.
> their total bottling amount equals the total residential (which includes municipal) water usage in the state

From the article you linked

"The International Bottled Water Association says that about 3.1 billion gallons of water are bottled in California annually. Nestle, for example, uses 725 million gallons of water annually at its California bottling plants.

But that volume is dwarfed by the 4 trillion, (with a "t,") gallons used by residents every year."

So those 110 companies combined use 0.00077 of the water residents use each year, and likely pays the same per gallon as other ag and industrial consumers, and this is considered a problem worthy of attention?
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The core thing I (and I suspect the original commenter) struggle to get past is the invetiable twist that in this post happens halfway through this post's part II.

> If it’s a very smart mesa-optimizer, it might think “If I throw the strawberry at the streetlight, I will be caught and trained to have different goals."

It seems to me that this is a category error, like having the very smart mesa-optimizer start thinking about how it can find other models to marry. Why would gradient descent produce this very specific concept of goals-based identity? It's not even a human universal - many people don't have a particularly strong attachment to their current set of goals and hope for God or Buddha to help them get different ones.
> But what if you cover them in edible wax instead? Whats the footprint of each decision?

"states that ban plastic straws" generally use something biodegradable instead.

The policy, IMO, is pretty simple to figure out. The reason plastic is used everywhere is because plastic is uber cheap. Those peppers are wrapped in plastic because it adds less than a penny per unit and gives them a much better shelf life.

So, the simple solution isn't an outright ban of plastics, but rather a plastic tax. And what's the easiest way to impose that? Via a fossil fuel oil tax.

This would allow companies producing these products to evaluate their individual cost benefits of wrapping everything in plastic.

The rub is, this would have to be a global tax. Otherwise, we'll just be outsourcing our pollution problems. You'd also have to increase shipping taxes to a point where local manufacturing is the better financial option so bad actor companies don't simply manufacture in a nation with no oil tax.

Unfortunately, I think anything else is just posturing that will fall short. If businesses don't feel a squeeze, they won't change behavior. And the only squeeze they feel is financial.
In what way do you feel V8 is not "embeddable on its own"?
Show HN: Push Notifications and the Tyrany of Stolen Attention
The hard problem is not declaring that the Pareto distribution applies; the hard problem is identifying the critical 80%.

If anyone could do that accurately and at low cost, all of our problems would be solved.

(Often what happens, in my experience, is that the team spends 50% of the cost debating which 80% to implement.)
>Caught me a bit by surprise as well, as Intel seems to have stagnated a bit as of late

The best place for an engineer to be (in my observation) - is at a company that faces a fierce competition. To envision, design and build a pipe pumping gold vs to exploit such a pipe when it is built - requires different skills.

>I recently worked with another hardware vendor, who were initially friendly and supportive but after evaluations of their technology went poorly became bullying and misleading.

I wonder who this is.
Its not even certain that they are few. Whats rather unsettling is that with these local moves of SGD the parameters settle on a good enough local minima in spite of the fact that we know that many local minima exists that have zero or near zero training loss. There are glimmers or insight here and there but the thing is yet to be fully understood
perhaps if there is order to the expansion of the universe and all its things you could contract it and theoretically cause all particles to shift back to their older states. i guess noticing is dependant on how much our consciousness is coupled to the physical
Your friend's kid sounds spoiled tbh.
> suspect it has something to do with the maxim that people are reluctant to question things on which their salary depends.

I once worked on a team that spent a lot of time building models to optimize parts of the app for user behavior (trying to intentionally remain vague for anonymity reasons). Through an easy experiment I ran I ended up (accidentally) demonstrating that the majority of DS work was not adding more than minimal improvements, and so little monetary value and it did not justify any of the time spend on this.

I was let go not long after this, despite having help lead the team to record revenues by using a simple model (which ultimately was what proved the futility of much of the work the team did).

Just a word of caution as you

> start to touch and stumble into the invisible cultural walls that I think make people "afraid" to talk about limitations
Ada Health | SysOps Engineer | Fulltime | Remote US, CA, UK, or EU.

The SysOps team at Ada Health builds and manages the infrastructure and tools used to manage our fleet of macOS and Windows endpoints, while maintaining a consistent and seamless user experience for our employees. We value building over buying and employ modern engineering principles to ensure quality, reusability and auditability in all the things we do.

We are looking for a SysOps Engineer to help shape and define the next iteration of the infrastructure that manages Ada Health’s IT and endpoints, leveraging configuration tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Munki, and a range of enterprise software. We focus on automation, running at a global scale and most importantly, providing a seamless IT experience for all our employees.

If you are interested, applicants can apply here: https://ada.com/careers/job/?id=6010117002
Standard Notes.

Simple. Free. Open Source. E2E encryption. Basically, No frills.

Their idea is to make software not with most features but the one that stays until the next century.

They have a great blog on this philosophy. https://standardnotes.com/longevity
It definitely does.

> [T]wo original IPs, Tomb Raider and Deus Ex, have sold AAA units of ~88M and ~12M, respectively. Embracer sees an opportunity to invest in these franchises, as well as the additional acquired IPs such as Legacy of Kain, Thief, and other original franchises.

It's pretty much Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, and footnotes. Looks like Embracer picked this up for cheap because the business has been mismanaged, the base case involves running at breakeven for at least 2 years before they have new releases:

> Embracer’s base case financial plan implies that the combined acquired companies will be breakeven or have a smaller Operational EBIT contribution to the upcoming two financial years driven mainly by sales of the back-catalogue titles. This could change positively if the company decides to enter a deeper strategic relationship with one or more platforms around the upcoming pipeline. When the product pipeline matures in the years thereafter, Embracer expects the acquired companies to generate on average at least SEK 500 million in operational EBIT per year with notable upside potential.

So 6X multiplier a few years out if they turn it around. Notably, they're financing this at 1% interest, and seem to have extremely low debt ratios. Still, I'm surprised it was this cheap, especially with the gaming IP land grab going on these days. Makes me wonder if there's weird additional commitments like not firing anyone, or if their recent financial performance is much worse than implied.

https://embracer.com/release/embracer-group-enters-into-an-a...
Repeat | Venice, CA and Remote (US) | Onsite | Remote OK | https://www.getrepeat.io

Repeat is the B2B SaaS solution solving customer retention for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands. We focus on increasing consumer agency in the reordering process, with features like pre-populated carts and a frictionless checkout experience. Brands like Dr. Squatch, Olipop, and Nuun, see unique analytics and insights, increased long-term customer retention and churned subscriber win-back, improved conversion vs. standard on-site experiences, and increased AOV.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/repeat

All of our open roles are here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/repeatinc?t=376f265c4us

Some key roles we're hiring for:

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* Senior Data Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/repeatinc/jobs/4421535004?t=376...

* Senior Front End Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/repeatinc/jobs/4356270004?t=376...

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* Product Manager (Senior): https://boards.greenhouse.io/repeatinc/jobs/4452444004?t=376...

Tech Stack: Ruby/Rails, React/Typescript, Postgres, Snowflake, SQS, Heroku
Best of luck!

Gabriel and the team are really awesome and this product is a genius idea - I'll definitely be using it at my company as it could save us a ton of work in setting up our testing pipelines.

- Alejandro :)
Man, I just want more of tye big world FF 7 through 12 type games.

Anyone doing titles like that anymore?

My wife and I really enjoy a big one and will play one all the way through. Miss that type of experience.

The MMO is completely uninteresting and addictive as hell from what I see can happen to players.
Not quite. Carbon fiber is a composite. Structural integrity is not one dimensional, and while carbon fiber frames are great in their intended loads, they are bad in puncture and abrasion, and that is inherent to carbon fiber.

It is so much easier to wreck a carbon fiber frame than an alu frame. It just takes one pointy rock or one bad slide. Whereas an alu frame will only receive cosmetic damage
I believe I read that Tokio was a "hacky" way to add async to Rust - similar to the solution in the Python space... - is this not the case?
What do you mean by zero-content? I mentioned the paper, her attack on LeCun, and her attack on her co-worker as documented in the reddit megathread. Please feel to verify the facts.
Wouldn't that be expected when it also delivers more throughput and better latencies? It's handling more requests concurrently, so I'd expect the CPU usage to be higher, how else could it serve more requests faster otherwise?
Datawheel (datawheel.us) | Front-End Engineer | Cambridge MA, Conception Chile, or Remote | Full-time
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I built a scroll experience library for react
Ok, thanks for clarifying.

Agree wrt paradigms.

I have zero clue about plant-based plastics. Guessing you mean stuff like starch packing peanuts.

I don't know if removing subsidies would reduce meat consumption. Am eager to try. I'm tired of paying for corporate welfare.
I don't see Airtable here yet. That team managed to make relational databases user-friendly to a consumer market without compromising the core features a power user might expect. Hats off to them!
I think the troika connection to OSR is somewhat tenuous, but the game system is inspired by the Fighting Fantasy series of “interactive” novels that were popular in the UK in the 80s. But I think it is essentially a cliquey thing. It is general approach or attitude, plus just who is friends with a game designer that makes something OSR. It’s a scene.
Yikes, that Twitter feed: "Thoughts and prayers for the deep learning fanboys," as if ones admiration for DALL-E 2's achievement is something to be mocked... I feel like this sentiment is the way we're going to get I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream. There's just something in there about negative AI minimalists or AI alarmists (same coin different side).
IMHO SolidWorks is terrible. Single core performance limitation, huge disk IO, no out of box support for STEP GD&T export, ridiculous drawing-oriented BOM export UX, half-measure built-in RCS/VCS system, collision-prone namespace, etc.
c is the render speed of god's GPU
Do you recall what this user said downthread? They seem to have deleted their other comments.
As in write to each requested memory location to guarantee physical allocation? No, that would be really slow. It’s not like heap memory where you probably want to memset it first, with stack you have a stack pointer so you know whats been written by you and what’s random garbage.

Java just requests the memory and linux just smirks and always says “yes sure, whatever you need” - it can do that even while the OOM killer is trying to decide which process looks like it has completed the most useful work so far :-)

TLB entries dont really come into it (the size isnt an issue from our stack usage but even if it were, we could use larger pages).

TLB flushes could be an issue with that many threads floating around but that’s a different story and not really a memory usage so much as a performance and latency issue.
How well does this setup cope with HTML mail?
Right, it's an unhelpful qualifier.

I'm reminded of the comments of chemistry experts about the UK government using the phrase "military-grade nerve agent"[0]. Firstly, no military would ever admit to owning the stuff (since even the permanent members of the UN security council are signatories of the Chemical Weapons Convention), but, more obviously, there's no such thing as a civilian-grade nerve agent.

I suppose what they meant was "no medical, industrial, or commercial uses", or "requires the resources of an entire country to create and manage", but those aren't attributes that you would want for your security software.

[0] The Financial Times, 2018 - https://archive.ph/0eZl8
Had this experience - worked in a role where I was mostly a very senior IC but also managed a small team for strategic projects. Interviewed at FAANG and got convinced that corresponded to an L6 sort of role, definitely should have held out for L7 though.

Walk in the door to find that move of the L7s I've encountered have been leading 50 person teams (as manager or TL). Seems to range from more like 20-35 and, among ICs, there often not actually the only TL, just the most senior on the team.
Right. I haven't purchased anything Razer since they forced this account thing. Even before that, now that I think about it.

I was just saying they used to be very good at getting great mice in the hands of gamers when no one else would.
That's not the way it works on my iPhone (2020 SE). Move the phone over the payment terminal, it senses the NFC terminal, wakes up with my default payment card shown, I put my thumb on the sensor and payment is made.
Sony did invest close to or exactly $1B into Fornite last month. It wasn’t stated outright but they were one of two main investors with the Lego parent company investing $1 of $2B raised.

Though yeah an SE acquisition would be a far bigger deal even without being over 5x as much.
Looking at the article's source and then yours, I see no correlation. The author is clearly talking about authoring in html without any tooling, whereas yours clearly has a tooled event list. It's not an article taking about whether external files are used. In fact, the article talks how they style it to match their wiki, & that the article is not authored in DWikiText at all.

Edit: you cheated by changing uri. The point still stands for your home page
You are wrong. Such things are not forbidden, just not implemented. Again, a corporation is free to make a consumer-friendly solution that applies to everyone. But why would they? They'd expend effort just to annoy you less and let's face it, you're ready to accept any amount of annoying as long as you get what you want.

Edit: And besides, the point of this is analytics is unnecessary. As such, a company could opt not to have it. No consent required for an absence. They don't have to nag you for nothing.
If you reverse-search the second image you can find a 2018 article that gives a bit more detail [1]. It does describe the Pasig River as "Manila's most important and heavily polluted waterways".

[1]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-5806619/Manila...
`pass`, no cap.

passwordstore.org
My guess for the latter is something like goroutines and channels, though I’m not sure. So: spin up a thread per “doSomething” and then join those in your main thread.
Yes, good book on that is The Order of Time, for anyone who hasn’t read it.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36442813-the-order-of-ti...
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Auricle is a medical device company developing a breakthrough minimally-invasive neurostimulation implant to restore hearing in patients who no longer benefit from hearing aids but aren't prepared to make the jump to a cochlear implant. The company is a spin-out from Stanford and YC-backed. We're looking to fill two roles:

1) Our first full-time mechanical engineer to lead electrode design and surgical implantation. Experience with small-scale medical devices ideal, bonus points for experience with implantable devices. Role will be in-person in the Bay Area.

2) A simulation modeling engineer for a summer internship with potential for full-time role, will consider full-time to start for the right candidate. Experience with 3D modeling and Finite Element Analysis required, bonus points for experience with Sim4Life and/or NEURON. Role can be remote or in-person.

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You will need locks if you need mutual exclusion across an `await`.
Diagram!, by Lighthouse Design, for NEXTSTEP. A drawing tool that featured "smart links." I believe it pre-dated Visio. Later cloned as OmniGraffle by OmniGroup.
Saw someone wearing this T-shirt at a 10k race:

"Life is short. Running makes it seem longer."
Faster IO through io_uring (2019)
I'm posting this because, while I had a reasonable idea of how io_uring works at a high level, I had never written any io_uring-using code myself, and I thought this was a very good introduction to the concrete details of its operation.
> This is a problem in many FAANG like companies.

I think this is a problem in all companies in general.
20% of this article holds 80% of the valuable content
I have a few requirements for an email client. My primary email is through the same company I use for webhosting (Opalstack in my case). I'd prefer if other companies didn't read my email, so I don't use gmail/outlook/similar via IMAP/POP or forwarding or anything like that.

I also only send plaintext email. This sounds like it should be easier than sending HTML, but many mobile email clients only send HTML or "rich emails". This includes the gmail! (This used to be possible in earlier versions of google's phone email apps. Maybe it was Inbox? I don't remember now. But being unable to send plaintext email from gmail on mobile is what caused me to move away from gmail).

Now I use mutt on my own computer, K9 on mobile, and if absolutely necessary Roundcube webmail. (I do not particularly like Roundcube, but I almost never actually have to use it).

Mutt is wonderful, though I found it highly nontrivial to initially use. K9 is fine. One feature of K9 I like is that it has a surprisingly capable search capability given that I use it purely over IMAP --- it dispatches a search to my mail server and parses the results.