skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computational language models (LMs), most notably exemplified by the widespread success of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot, show impressive performance on a wide range of linguistic tasks, thus providing cognitive science and linguistics with a computational working model to empirically study different aspects of human language. Here, we use LMs to test the hypothesis that languages with more speakers tend to be easier to learn. In two experiments, we train several LMs – ranging from very simple n-gram models to state-of-the-art deep neural networks – on written cross-linguistic corpus data covering 1,294 different languages and statistically estimate learning difficulty. Using a variety of quantitative methods and machine learning techniques to account for phylogenetic relatedness and geographical proximity of languages, we show that there is robust evidence for a relationship between learning difficulty and speaker population size. However, contrary to expectations derived from previous research, our results suggest that languages with more speakers tend to be harder to learn.
Have you tried using some other speech recognition software to do the transcription afterward? In my experience Otter.ai and YouTube (uploaded as a private video) both work great for this.

I think OpenAI also has Whisper (https://openai.com/research/whisper), but I've never used it.
"The pen is mightier than the sword"?
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Meanwhile, on Mastodon’s feed of its most liked recent posts, I have repeatedly seen posts of the slogan “If you see someone shoplifting food, no you didn’t”. There definitely seem to be a lot of people in the tech world who believe that supermarket shoplifting should not be prosecuted or even reported.
FHD resolution in 2023 is dead in the water for anything but children or gamers on low end devices.
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Aiven is a DBaaS company, delivering among others fully managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, Redis, and Clickhouse, as well as some ancillary services like connectors and Flink for Kafka.

We have a number of roles open in different domains and regions, my team specifically is looking for Senior Software Engineers who want to work with Kafka and Flink.

I think Aiven is a pretty exciting company to work for, where one can have quite large impact, and work on actually interesting problems. If it sounds interesting, check out our job postings:

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(Development happens in EMEA, but I believe we have open positions in all timezones)
Don't personally see it as much of an insult or overly harsh to be honest.

Qualifying as an "insult" are another category of terms to me, but obviously subjective.
No place for science in anthropology or when ideology overrides objectivity. Anthropology is among the fields which are the hardest hit by the incursion of ideologues who have replaced the scientific method with post-truth dogmatism.
String iteration should be based on whatever you want to iterate on - bytes, codepoints, grapheme clusters, words or paragraphs. There's no reason to privilege any one of these, and Swift doesn't do this.

"Length" is a meaningless query because of this, but you might want to default to whatever approximates width in a UI label, so that's grapheme clusters. Using codepoints mostly means you wish you were doing bytes.
It's not triggering, I visit HN everyday and I never see similar posts about Foxconn, Amazon or Boeing. I see them all the time for Tesla.
I have no idea if there's a legal distinction, but I've heard of people firing contractors, and customers for that matter, so in the vernacular it seems fine.
https://nitter.net/satoshi/status/1708886029636137256
I'm curious how this works out in the privacy of people's homes. A lot of couples wind up arguing about who really said what. I wonder how it works out for them when someone produces the recording that settles it for good.

While we would hope that it settles the argument, it doesn't address the emotions. And therefore I suspect that it would just make people's arguments worse.
FCC enforces first space debris penalty in $150k settlement with Dish
Why thankfully? Are you a furry?
No third party keyboard transmits information without you permitting it.
What could possibly go wrong? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You )
Well for one thing, the need for better consensus, conflict resolution, and fact (or dictionary) propagation in society is obvious and likely never-ending, considering how many corners of life it's applicable. I've been considering trying to find a way to study sociology/computer science fusion in grad school for a moment now myself.
Black mirror references aside, how useful would this actually be?

If you’re using it to solve arguments with your spouse or at work then maybe more technology is not going to be a panacea for you
This is a "destroy on sight" item. I don't want you covertly recording me at any time.
Epic lay off 830 people thanks to “unrealistic” metaverse ambitions
Read the statement from one of the members of the withdrawn session that is posted in another response. It clears things up.
This looks solid. Love the transparent cards. Good work.
I think part of this too is that the top universities are really good at metric hacking. I do agree that the biases are baked in, but the other aspect is the compounding effects. E.g. MIT students have a better "foot in the door" for internships, research opportunities (especially at undergrad), and so on. Not only does their name do lifting, but they get more recruiters and the universities themselves do a lot of lifting. We know many internships are provided not through blind applications but connections (often grad students get internships via their advisors). These will definitely make the resumes look far better, but don't necessarily correlate with skills.

It gets worse because this metric hacking is everywhere. As a researcher I honestly believe that were I at a higher ranked university more of my papers would be published in conferences (instead of arxiv or dead), I'd have to refine less to get published, and I'd have double the citations (university evangelism. Just being a MIT student will get you more Twitter followers than being a UT Austin student, so more people see when you post about your work). None of these things have to do with the actual quality of the work. Though of course, they can also tend to do "better" work in the sense that they have more resources. In a world where we have ill-defined goals and metrics compute becomes a large edge because instead of performing nuanced analysis you instead perform a more exhaustive analysis (the sledgehammer approach). Which is not necessarily better, though can (often) have lower entropy.

As I posted in a sibling comment, measuring and evaluating things is insanely hard. Idk why as our world is increasing in complexity we've adopted to simplifying things more and more. Maybe the double edge sword of access to knowledge is feeling more knowledgeable than we are.
how did you get a visa w/ a us job?
I think making the distinction between 'reducing the unpleasure' vs having pleasure is an artificial thought, not more than a philosophical idea.

We strive for something, which is building up tension, and once we are able to do it, there is a relief of that tension, which feels pleasurable. We do this repeatedly until we die.

A footballer strives to score a goal. As long as there is none, frustration is felt. When they score, that frustration is replaced by intense happiness.

Or am I wrong?
It sounds like the speaker was trying to argue against the usage of sex estimation. As you say, sex estimation seems like a good and working solution.
From what I understand about DALL-E 3 is that it integrates with ChatGPT so you can ask it to change the image with simple language.

So if you generated, say, a picture that ended up including a bush, you could ask it to change it from a boxwood to a rose bush, and it could do it.

As it is, MidJourney already has the the ability for you to select an area of a generated image and make it regenerate it. You can even change the prompt, though it won't always do what you think.

I think a lot of the challenges you're describing won't apply to DALL-E 3's ChatGPT integration.
Optimizing the 400M
It's only because of the mindnumbing exercises that you can sit down with a pen and paper, and use algebra to solve something, when you're 45 years old. :)
When one party stops goodwill arrangements to a contract, typically the other party follows suit.
For those liking seized cars auctioned... A french businessman was recently convicted for misappropriation of company assets and six cars were auctioned off in late june. Five of the six cars sold and four of them sold for one than one million EUR each.

All six were old, incredibly rare, Porsche (scroll down to see the six cars):

https://www.glenmarch.com/auctions/results/2134
>This notion of equating words with physical violence is so confusing to me.

Nothing in what you quote is equating words with physical violence.

You seem to be confusing the concept of “harm” (which is what is referenced) with the much narrower concept of “physical violence” (which is not, except by you.)
What a dreadful existence! It'll end humanity just out of spite.
Machine learning engineer, about to graduate (MSc AI) but with a previous degree in CS and software development experience.

I'm proficient with Python and JS/TS, and pretty decent with Java and C++. I consider myself a generalist, and my AI research interests are RL, safety, NLP/LLMs (in no particular order).

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The quality of life feature that's missing is a finger print sensor.
It's always funny to me when people cite old American case law and try to wrangle their heads around how that can apply to a situation which the case's participants couldn't have possibly imagined. Shouldn't the correct way to do this be new legislation being created after consulting interest groups to answer the modern problems which exist due to modern realities, like what the EU is doing? It seems much more sensible of an approach instead of wondering how a 15th century ruling's ruler would have applied his thinking about something they couldn't even dream of.
You're conflating "perceived quality of life" with "actual demand in the job market". That's the distinction I was trying to make. I don't get the impression the migrants necessarily know (or have much opportunity to care if so) anything about the job markets at their destinations. They often don't even know where they'll finally end up, let alone what kinds of jobs they'll end up having to take -- or, as many discover, be left unable to take and have to end up on the streets. They just know where they don't want to be (in an impoverished country, in the middle of immediate threats to their lives, etc.), and they know they won't have the same problems they had back home irrespective of whether/how they earn an income, so they solve that part and worry about the rest later.
I don't understand why it is so radical though. Even when I was a bored kid I could pick up a stick and whittle out a face not to far from what was in the article with a decently sharp knife and some time. Doesn't seem like a huge jump to do it in stone if the stone is easy enough to shape with a harder stone/mineral...
Whisper works great, but there was a bit too much friction going from voice memo -> transcription -> notes.
The problem is that you're assuming search is deterministic.
They do this with Android... follow certain specs (and other requirements) and you can have the Google suite of apps + Play Store access. If you don't, you're own your own.

It would be great if they could do that with Chromebooks - follow a minimum spec or otherwise <insert punishment>. Problem is, there isn't anything to hold back or punish with. Which leaves them in a situation where, other than a "made for Chromebook" endorsement that can be withheld, there's nothing to stop anyone making any laptop of any spec and calling it "Chromebook".
Because compared to the ease of use and readability of python you get 1/10th the work done with 5x the pain in the arse.
Only sold in states with one party consent? /s

Given the “insights into your life” feature, maybe it will refuse to record “new” voices without an explicit check? The implication of the marketing copy is that it understands both the words and the sentiment so it wouldn’t be that absurd to think it can also distinguish one person from another. I assume in the end Rewind’s expectation boils down to “trust us” which is not good enough for me but probably good enough for them to make money for people who don’t care.
Browser RAM usage is bad but exaggerated. You won't reach 8GB doing this. Maybe like 4.
A Fresh Look for Google Earth
Apologies - that is likely on me specifically. We are quite lean (~12 folks), and on one end, some roles get hundreds of applicants that we are slowly working through, and on the other end, applications not following our requested flow that we desk reject or that I personally have likely dropped due to, ironically, running lean.

We switched from VC funded (burning $ on HR, ...) to a profitable growth model, so a lot of our focus has been on current customers, team, & partners, and we have taken a slow approach to new folks etc.

Long way of saying: If we may be a real mutual opportunity, I recommend trying again!
1. You and your co-founder might have a lot of relevant industry expertise or a productive Rolodex to accelerate sales.

2. Have you built anything or validated the idea in any way?
Paradoxically, if you max your 401k/IRA/HSA every year, the higher your income, the less that money is going to be enough in retirement. If you earn 400k/yr and only save ~30k/yr, then that implies you spend 370k (incl taxes, so ... say, 250k) per year. You need MUCH more retirement savings than 30k/yr to manage that, unless you want to take a drastic lifestyle cut when you retire.
There's maybe a compromise between no electricity and youtube premium then?
Needed to keep Elon from hijacking his handle, probably.
Goldsky Democratizes Streaming Data for Web3 Developers
Francesca Ginos website states innocence of fraud
Show HN: A new stdlib for Golang focusing on platform native support
No gc, No goroutines, Produces small binaries while using the unmodified official go toolchain, and comes with complete Web SDK (generated from w3c/webref).

We are building `pcz` to provide a reimagination of Go the language, in an effort to make it suitable for all kinds of programming tasks, and currently you can use it to build efficient web applications in Go using the generated Web SDK (as shown with the live web demo[1]).

The journey is just starting, any suggestions? or any critics?

[1]: https://primecitizens.github.io/livedemos/10-plat-web/
This is nuts. You don’t “easily” fix education by telling over-burdened parents that now they have to both evaluate every school they can find, hope that the voucher covers the education and that the act of providing it doesn’t shut down every neighborhood school, figure out how they’re going to get their child to it, and require them to do that every single year for 14-17 years.

Especially given competing education standards, especially given the insanity of trying to find childcare at all.

And advocating online-only education is a great way to ensure another generation grows up incapable of interacting with anyone.

But this kind of thinking is what happens when we let people who know literally nothing whatsoever about education feel like their opinion matters as much as an expert’s.
Agreed. My point was that trusting images ('seeing is believing') has always been at issue whilst we might imagine it is a new thing, the scale of the issue is different -- phenomenally so -- but it's not a category difference. Many people were convinced by the fairy hoaxes based on image manipulation in the early 20th Century (~1917). They fell for it hook-line-and-sinker, images made with ML weren't needed.
Yeah, throwing a recording in their face seems like a surefire way to escalate that argument rather than resolving it. It's more about trust and mutual respect & compromise and forgiveness... if you start keeping score and playing gotchas, that only builds resentment.
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Love what Algora has been doing lately. Keep it up! Hopefully I'll manage to squeeze in some time and claim a bounty!
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-...
"Deep Work" by Cal Newport. One of my favorite productivity books of all time.

"Digital Minimalism" by Cal Newport. Where "Deep Work" focuses on attention and focus at work, "Digital Minimalism" takes it to your personal life. This book is phenomenal. He outlines the steps and procedures to temporarily remove as much distraction and technology from your life as possible, then slowly reintroduce them _intentionaly_ with explicit ground rules where necessary.
How are blind or deaf people supposed to ever interact with the world we’ve created?
Its intentional language. Lawyerspeak, if you like.

Not all talks at a conference are serious; some are humorous, some are meta-commentary on problems in the field, etc. If you say you are cancelling the talk because it's not scientific or not relevant to the field, the aggrieved party can complain about those other talks. In reality it was cancelled for all of the above reasons, but the one that is most inarguable is that they are not being hostile to a minority that attends the conference.
That's a good question. Historic human societies without algebra somehow had working bean counting.

Using a credit card isn't very abstract.

You only have to use the concrete specific values in your situation, and not solve some generality.

Moreover, I don't think I had to ever square anything, let alone, cube, when reckoning over credit card transactions. Or find the roots of a polynomial, or do anything with polynomials.

I'm not saying that the intuitions gained from algebra are not relevant, mind you.
Hey, thank you for feedback.

There is not timer on length of interviews as such. Although it asks around 6-8 questions.

Yes, we're planning to add more features like an editor to type text. Curious to know, why you felt like coding? The AI shouldn't have asked you to code.
I had the same thought. As far as I can tell, they are leaning on the ability to pause recording at any time, meaning that in all-party consent states, it's up to the user to disclose that they are employing a recording device. That seemingly defeats the point of the device in many situations where the default state should be off. I would most benefit from something like this in public situations where I'm meeting a lot of people, but it'd be impractical to use it that way where I live.
Not actually mentioned in the post itself but this is the big Flutter rewrite of Google Earth hence why they have proper cross platform support now.
Human hermaphrodites/intersex people have definitely existed throughout history [1][2]. They are very rare, modern estimates put them at somewhere around 0.02%–0.05% of all births. So for any random skeleton it's probably safe to assume it isn't intersex, but analyze enough and you will find a couple that are.

Just the normal variation of humans is also an issue. For almost any characteristic, the bell curve of typical male features overlaps with the bell curve of typical female features. There are some anatomical features that are very distinct like the shape of the pelvis, but if you don't have a complete skeleton you might mistake a tall strong woman for a man or the other way around.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite#Use_regarding_hu...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex#History
I want one that has a print of the "On Air" signs seen in studios.

I honestly think that something like that needs to happen to things like the Meta RayBan glasses that do live streaming. Instead of the eyeballs that Apple's device is using, it should have a "Recording In Progress" or "On Air" across the lenses. Just because I'm in public and prone to be captured in someone's image capture doesn't mean that I have to be part of their money making venture.
In a year or less we’ll have an open source model solving captchas that you can download off of Huggingface. Heck, it’s probably there right now.
Cool website and lovely series. Any RSS I can use (not fan of newsletters)?
It says everything is stored locally with no cloud required, then requires a subscription.

If it was just a one off purchase to own device I would love it, but I've had enough of everything being a rent seeking subscription.
They're probably just piping it into ChatGPT with the instruction "Rephrase the following sentence:".
Use pyenv and let it manage Python versions for you.
That 37% makes sense in that is roughly the percentage of the population where ordinary expenditures match income (per BLS). This has some elasticity though, since the scope of "ordinary" is much larger than "necessary" e.g. spending on luxury cars, food, clothes, etc is included as an ordinary expense even if it is profligate, so there is a latent surplus that is available and people do adjust their ordinary spending when necessary.

Per another Federal Reserve study I saw, the percentage of the population where income does not exceed necessary expenditures -- people with no income surplus, latent or otherwise -- is something like 12%. Which sounds about right and is still a lot of people.
I tried their Mac app for a while, but the storage space required quickly became impractical for a retention period set to any actually-useful amount of time. I wonder how they've handled that here.
The ship for covert audio recording has sailed many decades ago, around the time Dictaphone trade mark being registered by Alexander Graham Bell.
I agree that compiling Python from source is surprisingly straight forward, but is that a serious question?

Have you ever worked in a place that uses Python? When someone says to you "hey it's not working" are you really going to say with a straight face "oh yes, you just need to compile Python from source". Come on, this is one of those obviously stupid situations that for some reason people feel the need to defend. It's not defensible.

You don't need to compile Node or Rust or Go or Deno from source to install the latest version.
My gist was that the author wants the data vacuumed up by big tech to be used to continue analyzing the questions posed by social science, why do we have inequalities, why do we have class division, that sort of thing.