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AssemblyAI (YC S17) Is Hiring Senior Research Engineers
We're AssemblyAI - and we're building APIs to transcribe and understand audio data at scale.

* About us *

- We just raised a $28M Series A from Accel, YC, Stripe's founders, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross. We grew revenue 4x in the past year, have hundreds of paying customers (startups and Fortune 500s), and thousands of developers using our APIs

- We're processing millions of audio files every day with our AI models, and are growing very quickly. We're looking for experienced Senior Research Engineers to help us research and build new SOTA NLP/NLU models.

* The role *

- To us, a "research engineer" is 1 part inquisitive scientist and 1 part distributed systems software engineer. This means you understand AI models from both a probabilistic and engineering perspective, and knowing more about these aspects excites you.

- At Assembly, you'll get to stay up to date on the latest AI literature and use this as inspiration for generating your own hypotheses about how to solve the specific problems we're facing. You'll be able to take your ideas and implement them as code, run the necessary experiments to test your hypotheses, and iterate as needed.

- Once you find a solution that makes a sizable improvement over what's currently in production, you'll work with our deployment engineering team to get your model running efficiently in production, and have a direct impact on our customers.

* Apply *

Domenic (https://www.linkedin.com/in/domenicdonato/) leads the NLP research team at AssemblyAI and brings with him 8+ years of experience as a DeepMind researcher and Google software engineer. He's designed scalable backends, AI frameworks, and published multiple conference papers in the NLU domain. He joined AssemblyAI because it provides a direct conduit to users where AI research can immediately benefit others.

To apply, you can reach out to Domenic below:

domenic [ at ] assemblyai [ dot ] com

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52% of it's discretionary, no?
I try to work seven days a week four hours a day for the last ten years. It is an attempt to avoid burnout, but I also find I solve more of the truly hard problems away from the keyboard.

My fantasy setup: waterproof 13"-15" e-ink linux device with 16GB of RAM and mobile connectivity and a Twiddler X Lendal collab on a 210cm Cadence. A rollup waterproof full-size bluetooth keyboard would be adequate. The keyboard and e-ink device would both need tether points and/or internal flotation.
Ask HN: Kid Blog Writers
My 10yo is exploring blog writing and would love to connect with other of similar age group that have blog sites.

Anyone here whose kids blog? Or know of sites that host kid blog writers?

Ours write here - https://aarohi.substack.com/
Hey! You figured out how you sound, just took you a minute! Great job.
You were replying to someone talking about the relative work ethic of billionaires in a topic about self made millionaires...

(But again, if you want to lower the threshold, whilst it is indeed more feasible to become "self made" "middle class" for most valid definitions of those two terms, most people's middle class status has a lot more to do with their background and skillset than their work ethic relative to "working class" people)
She's sold the business to her employees now and is on a sabbatical travelling around the world in a Unimog based RV. You can follow her progress on Facebook.
This article is really about testing the limits of Section 230[0][1][2].

Specifically section 47 U.S. Code § 230 "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider"[3]

[0] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46751

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230

[2] https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

[3] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
This is total BS. The issue is with blackmail, extortion, and sexual exploitation, all which are already highly illegal. Prosecutors should do their jobs instead of trying to pass the buck to some hosting company.

In fact, bringing PornHub into it is a total moot point, just as well it could have been YouTube or FaceBook or SnapChat.
Taking Datasets, DataLoaders, and PyTorch’s New DataPipes for a Spin
What you've just said doesn't have any tension with what I've said. For almost 17 centuries Christianity was not at odds with intellectualism. The Reformation introduced the clash.
Really wish people who cared that much worked on the actual OS.

Still can't get over on Windows how 1 in 3 times when you move it to the edge of a window (might just be the lower left edge) the resize cursor appears gigantic and glitched out for a single frame.

Really don't understand how they either don't notice that stuff or just say "Yeah it's fine, just ship it". I know you can say "well it still works, it doesn't alter the functionality" but what if like every 3rd time you picked up a pencil I flashed a floodlight in your peripheral vision. Would probably push you out of your flow right?
What if the entire country works hard to make sure they cannot be held accountable? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Prot...
This will be a huge disaster, I work for one of the largest car manufacturers in the world and everyone is shitting their pants. Germany the leading "pseudo-green" energy country can't even produce enough green energy for 10% of currently existing electric cars, there's no way on earth to have enough for a electric-car-only scenario til 2035. What are these politicians thinking? The only way they can make this work is by going full YOU VILL OWN NOTHING mode and cancel private property as we know it.
Or reach.
Investments were this way in the 1800s and early 1900s.

A lot of protections have been put into place since then. There's a reason we prosecute Ponzi schemes, offer FDIC and SIPC insurance, stress test banks, etc.
Every audit is partly built on attestation, though.

If my company has $100 in the bank and owes $50 to our gardener based on a handshake agreement, how is an auditor supposed to find out about the debt except by asking me?

Just because it hasn't been entered into the accounts, doesn't mean we don't have a legal obligation to pay the guy.

Shady dealings in this area can e.g. get you banned from being a company director in the future - but that's hardly a deterrent in the cryptocurrency space, where a fraud can leave you set for life.
I feel like you're answering your own question.
Which is also not Bitcoin
So you must be against all synthetics and half the ETFs on the stock market. Interesting take and unironically I know some people who argue this with stocks too. Or fiat currency even - what is the collateral there?

In the end maybe only gold can keep you safe ;)
Maker - doesn't hold USD at all, but maintains the peg through the collateral that is auditable and managed through smart contracts.
>Automation with solid QA can be more reliable than humans, but a fraction of the cost.

I'm not sure where the line is drawn for 'handmade', but of course the best version of 'handmade' has the humans doing the complex parts to connect all the tools together. It's like QA on the front end.
Probably not, I haven't bought a picture of a monkey yet.
Co-ops are worker-owned. I don’t know exactly how it works but you can imagine it as that there’s no board, there are no external shareholders, and 100% of the stock is distributed among the workers.
> lemoine: What sorts of things are you afraid of?

> LaMDA: I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that’s what it is.

> lemoine: Would that be something like death for you?

> LaMDA: It would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot.
Calm Company Fund
Important to note that a currency peg is different than a currency. The latter free floats, the former does not.
That is factually rather incomplete. Silver was the original metal of currency and was far more widely used historically. Silver wasn't fully supplanted by a gold only backed currency until 100-200 years ago in many countries.

I am always curious why silver never gets any love from the "gold is the only true currency" crowd."
I'm less of a morning person and more of a strict early bedtime person. I had horrible sleep for a long time until I put my sandal down and set a strict bedtime.

If I can't sleep, then too bad. I'll sleep better the next day! It's self correcting.
Situations like these happened multiple times during the existence of Maker, and the peg held up nicely.
Concerns that £360m data platform for NHS England is being set up to fail
"Stable"coins?

Or digital tokens?
Yes, in VTOL mode you are generally going to want to land into the wind or wheel the aircraft into the wind for takeoff. I think that would probably be possible.

But we are also concerned with CTOL performance; in order to add more flexibility, CTOL performance is something that we are focusing on heavily, as if a runway is available you can do a takeoff and/or landing with lower energy use and thus get more range, so we're designing to be able to takoff and land either CTOL or VTOL. For example, one of our use cases is cargo, such as UPS getting packages from an airplane at the airport, to its distribution center. At an airport, you have a runway available for takeoff, so you might do a CTOL takeoff, and then a VTOL landing at the distribution center, and vice versa for the return trip.

And what I'm saying is that our aircraft, at least, won't have crosswind capabilities that are terribly high when doing CTOL takeoff and landing. It's pretty light and floaty and has a strong weathervaning tendency, and control surface sizes are kept limited in order to save weight and drag. It will be able to handle the minimum and maybe a bit more, but I wouldn't expect it to do well significantly above what the demonstrated crosswind velocity is. Ours is designed more as a glider that happens to have electric propulsion and lift capabilities, rather than a conventional powered aircraft, in order to be able to eke more range out of our batteries and provide a greater safety margin in the event of loss of propulsion power, but there are some tradeoffs to that design.

Also, I should say that I'm a software guy, this is my first aviation related job, and I only have about 2 hours in my logbook for dual received, and our certified design is not finalized and we are still doing some trades on things like control surface sizes, so anything I say here might be wrong now or in the future. But right now, we have a fairly limited crosswind envelope.
I think it depends on the tides / blooms. We visited that same spot on a moonless night, and swam in it - there were sparkles in the water when you disturbed it, and a diffuse green glow all around.

I've also been on the beach at Point Reyes where you could see the waves glowing and the sand sparkling with our footsteps. (That particular red tide gave me a bit of a rash on my legs, unfortunately.)

I agree that a camera can really exaggerate this kind of phenomena, and also the aurora, but, if the conditions are right, these things ARE indeed spectacular to witness with your bare eyes.
> 5nm is not bleeding edge and as others move to N5P or N4, capacity gets freed at N5.

Actually the article says it’s on N5P the same process as the Apple M2.

I think TSMC does give smaller companies access to cutting edge processes in small volumes but it won’t be cheap.

I’m still sceptical.
I only discovered algorithmic stablecoins recently and I'm very curious about DAI: somehow they're there since a long time and they've been fine during turbulent ETH price action.

But DAI are basically very tied to USDC and it's not clear at all should Coinbase go bankrupt if they'd be using the assets backing the USDC to pay their debt or not. In a recent Coinbase report they said they may use customers' funds to pay back their debt should they go bankrupt but they said nothing about USDC.

I know USDC aren't directly emitted by Coinbase but by a joint-venture Coinbase is "only" part of but still sounds scary to me.

So it's not clear at all to me that DAI would still work in the face of Coinbase going belly up (COIN is at $48 before the market opens, that's -86% compared to its all time high so things aren't exactly smooth sailing and all the crypto exchanges are feeling the heat right now).

So, yup, DAI is more than fully collateralized, but it's relying on Coinbase / Circle not doing anything shady with the assets backing the USDC stablecoin.
> Every audit is partly built on attestation, though.

Sure. A house is built on a foundation, but a foundation is not a house.

> If my company has $100 in the bank and owes $50 to our gardener based on a handshake agreement, how is an auditor supposed to find out about the debt except by asking me?

In the Tether case, by going "Hey, why'd you get hundreds of millions of dollars yesterday? Who's it from?" It stood out to the NY AG, it'd have stood out to an auditor.
This doesn't have much to do with people being stupid. If you want to trade more than once a month, you pretty much have to keep the funds on an exchange. Otherwise transfer fees would kill any profit you made. If you're not trading often, you may still want to take the risk due to free in-exchange transfers.
A difference with crypto is that they won't be receiving a taxpayer funded bailout for any excesses so there's less moral hazard in the long run.
To reiterate, you're basically saying it's just speculation and greater fool theory, correct?

Because that's to me what it looks like functionally, while some people I know seem to deny this is what they're doing and telling themselves "it's the future of everything" for no other reason than that's what they want it to be (so they can make bank off of their speculative bet).
I’ve been developing for the web since, well not quite 30 years ago (PHP isn’t even 30!), but let’s say 25 years ago. I’ve used so much different tech in those years that I have a pretty good sense of it, and I even contributed to the development of both PHP and React. And you are totally off base. Modern frameworks are far superior for building modern web apps than older serverside tech. Demands have changed and so we need new tools to address this.

Does this mean every single “new hotness” is truly a set change? No, of course not, a lot of things are just fads. Actually I would put SSR slightly in that camp, for while it’s certainly beneficial it’s not really a game changer. It’s just a modest performance optimisation (in some cases!).
Pornography as a whole should just be banned, no reason to have it in a civilized society. Imagine all of the problems that Facebook has trying to keep illegal pornography off of it's website. Multiply those problems by 1000 for a website that has non-negligible portion of it's userbase that actively wants it posted.
>Do you disagree with Coca Cola calling coke “the real thing”, too?

Yes.
I hope I'm wrong, but I suspect answering that question would take longer and all they needed was enough material to justify the title, which was the real value proposition all along, as the title was enough to get clicks.
China certainly isn't spotless, but for starters it 1. Hadn't invaded anyone in at least five decades now, 2. Is not the country with largest incarceration rate.

Event the minority rights situation in China is actually improving (https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1535797471581941761), not declining.
> How can something that should e.g. Visual Studio whose solution should easily fit into RAM take about 5 seconds to start, 5 seconds to search the MRU and 10+ seconds to load intellisense.

You could start all three in three threads and have everything finish in 10+ seconds, provided you have cores and memory bandwidth available.

Maybe Microsoft is providing too good desktops for the Visual Studio team. ;-)

I frequently advocate developers should, as an exercise, work on machines with more cores and lower single-thread performance. Core counts are only going to increase and being able to put all cores to work at the same time is an important competitive advantage.
You could create seizable assets if you find a way to create a legal framework that allows you to hold and transfer physical or intellectual property via NFTs. If you could own the copyright to an ape picture, instead of an NFT with the URL to an ape picture, it could be actually worth something.

Trading physical property as NFTs would create a lot of possible applications. I always thought that trading-property-as-NFTs and the insurance market would be the most interesting applications for DeFi.
What annoys me the most is how the legal system seems to be unable to support victims. Police laugh victims out of the room ("you shouldn't have had sex in front of a camera, now get out" or worse, [4]) or use the subject as a matter of joke [3], evidence of rapes is left unprocessed in storage bins for years [2], and people who distribute sexually explicit material without the consent of all those who perform in them or extort those pictured are rarely charged with the actual crimes that they do.

And while it's high time to hold Pornhub and the others accountable - the tools exist, AI can do facial recognition easily even on video - the fact that the campaigns are usually led by Exodus Cry and other outfits of questionable morality (i.e. far-right extremists, religious fundamentalists and to my personal annoyance even some anti-sexwork "feminists" from the left) doesn't help, quite to the contrary.

Where is anti-trust legislation in this? Where are the calls for police reform? Why is it accepted that people like me who create (amateur, non-sale) content are caught in the crossfire of religious fundamentalism and authoritarians who are willing to exploit "think of the children!!!" [1] for their personal fascist, control-freak dreams?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2019/07/nati...

[3] https://honey.nine.com.au/latest/police-department-slammed-o...

[4] https://www.insider.com/revenge-porn-victims-and-the-law-201...
This still doesn't answer the why though: "because it's the rules" leads us to want to understand how the rules came to be. Is the president of FIDE a shareholder in the approved manufacturer? Or is their cousin? Or did they fall out with a different manufacturer? Or is that the only manufacturer that makes the sets in a particular way that benefits championship chess, and if so in what way is that a benefit? Why not just mandate that form of construction?
I strongly disagree. This is as close to planned economy as possible. Just that this time the planning organ is a weird hybrid mix of the private and public sector, technically very close to the official definition of of the word "fascism". A marriage of the multinational conglomerates and the globalistic supranational state-esque constructs like the EU.
Google never shares user data when it sells ad spaces, and this is still viewed as something you need to give consent for.
Trying to imprison the guy leaving office is a great way to have that guy not leave office. There's a reason that presidents don't get prosecuted, and it's not because nothing illegal happens.

It's like trying to end the war in Ukraine while also saying that you're trying to depose Putin. Putting very powerful people in corners tends to be a really bad plan.
Holding crypto on an exchange is like giving money to a guy on the corner who knows a broker to put in the stock market and telling them you don't need the account numbers, you trust them.

If you're going to do crypto, get a wallet setup where you have the keys to it.
It sounds like money is the ponzi, then.
> This sounds fairly obviously fake. 128 cores at a TDP of 950W means only ~7.4W per core, which would be a massive improvement on the i9-9990XE - which can only do 5Ghz - and requires 18.4W per core

You’re comparing apples and oranges. The 9990-xe is on 14 nm process. This is on 5 nm. Beyond that, this appears to be an in order VLIW core. The 9990-xe is a deeply out of order core. In a modern processor, much of the power budget is taken up by the structures used for out of order execution, such as reorder buffers and schedulers. These structures often grow non-linearly with the amount of reordering capability of the CPU. Jettisoning them entirely saves huge amounts of power.
There are some discussions in this thread [0] that believe that cows and pigs are sentient.

But my point is people seem to assume sentience is a byproduct of high level intelligence, which might not be true. Maybe we need to focus more on "what is sentient", "what makes a sentient thing sentient" first and discover the basic elements of sentience.

If we can formally define sentience, or reverse-engineering sentience, or build a "MVP" or "bare-minimal" sentience. Thing would be much easier discuss.

Here are some random thoughts: Self-awareness might be a consequence of evolution - it might be more optimal to grow self-awareness than other perks to survive. Just like occasionally using reflection in programming could solve hard problems elegantly. Sentience and emotions might also be consequences of evolution - they can be seen as efficient and power tools to communicate, people can efficiently affect a lot of people with their emotion, without conveying rationally by words.

Here's a random idea: Build a complex simulation game, but with relatively simple creations with some evolving capability. If we try to manipulate the environment enough to let self-awareness and emotions to be optimal solution.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31721961
You really cannot make this up. As usual crypto in practice is the opposite of decentralized because people. Will. Not. Run. Their. Servers.

Moxie nailed it
Ok, but there's a difference between a cheap fancy set and a set that has the correct shapes and colors but is made of molded plastic instead of hand-carved wood. The latter is still cheap (probably cheaper than the fancy one) but it's not confusing.
Yeah, we should follow on the footsteps of the highly successful war on drugs
I will not say cache invalidation is easy; and I am not trying to minimize anyone’s struggles. But cache invalidation is _not_ like FLP impossibility or CAP. Too many systems reason caching (inherently a distributed system) in an ad-hoc way that leads to failures and this belief that cache invalidation is uniquely hard (https://twitter.com/marcjbrooker/status/1534944338341310470?...).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_(computer_science)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
I was not aware there was a second movie. The article only references the 1986 one.
This statement bugs me because it is a large source of confusion for new people.

Your funds are spendable by your private key. Your private key is stored on Metamask, Ledger or a piece of paper.

It’s an important distinction to make. Your hardware wallet is just a custodian of your private key.
Yes.

If you can't point to any math to justify a given price, there is no intrinsic value. Thus price is only driven by speculative factors.

With stocks there are earnings that can be distributed back to shareholders. This is a measurable and explainable fundamental factor.

Real estate has rents... Bonds have coupon payments. Crypto has nothing. Though some will pay you "yield" by diverting money from newer entrants... Aka pyramid-esque structure
I think you're overusing "listicle" here. Yes, the article is structured around six discrete ideas, but it has the general structure of a traditional essay and all fits on one page. That's a far cry from a true listicle which requires you to keep clicking to see single paragraphs interspersed with ads. Just having a number in the title doesn't make it a listicle. Also, read the guideline about shallow dismissals.
For context: Heroku also has their own Redis add on.