skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello fellow hearing-challenged person.

First let me say I purchased OTC hearing aids for $799 (Jabra Enhance) out of frustration and the particular ones I use are adequate at best. They tune to your hearing loss via a crude test which only has three frequency ranges categorized as high, medium and low frequency bands. They additionally have three modes that change the mix of in room sound to help to adapt to different listening situations.

The biggest frustration with them is they aren't particularly discrete around amplification or rejection of sound: want to hear someone speaking? You're going to get lots of room noise too because of the wide bands which just amplify everything rather than say just speech and/or where your specific hearing loss is deepest.

In fact even though my insurance does cover hearing aids, it's through a certain discount supplier, and their offerings strike me as lower-end. As you've discovered the most expensive options are eye-poppingly expensive, but they are also have the most features. For example I was quoted between $5k and 7.5k for the best performing hearing aid. And here's the frustrating bit: for that difference in price it's the same fucking hearing aid, just with features unlocked! The audiologist told me the real difference in price is mostly more discrete bands. lol. From memory it tops out at twenty four bands.

I'm currently debating between going to Costco and using my insurance with Amplifon. I suggest you investigate both as Costco's hearing aids get decent reviews. Also apparently the prices vary by state, but here in Texas the cheapest ones are $1,499; less than half the price you quoted.

Good luck!
This "unlimited number" argument is a common dog whistle. If the Dept of Labor is certifying each one of the qualified immigrants and vetting the credentials, how is this unlimited?
They have done some of that actually. Tolkien will be public domain in the nations that are at aithors death+50 in a few days. Sadly, it will be a much longer wait in mine and many others.
Biofuels produced by growing plants is limited by the available biomass. Brazil powers it's automobiles with biofuel, but not ships. And more importantly, Brazil is a huge country with massive amounts of arable land.
> Most supplements are garbage. Since they don't actually work, most people would never know if you replaced their magnesium or calcium supplement with chalk.

Whether or not that's true, if you replaced someone's magnesium supplement with viagra, you could seriously hurt them.

>> FDA confirmed through laboratory analyses that the [...] products, purchased on www.amazon.com, contained [...] the active ingredients in the FDA-approved prescription drugs Viagra and Cialis, respectively, used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED). These undeclared ingredients may interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs, such as nitroglycerin, and may lower blood pressure to dangerous levels.
A personal example:

- I order a large tweezer for cooking etc

- It works great!

- End up losing it so "order again" a year later and it's clearly a different product/manufacturer etc
What framework/libraries did you use while making the game?
As described in my other comment, Clash is not like Chisel in that Clash compiles Haskell source code directly, while Chisel is an EDSL (in Scala)

Since you’re more familiar with Haskell, perhaps have a look at Blarney: https://github.com/blarney-lang/blarney/blob/master/Doc/ByEx...
It’s an actively maintained EDSL for circuit design using Haskell as its host language.
I'm not sure what you qualify as good but Oregon does not have great social programs. In fact, it lags behind on many indicators. California and Washington are pretty well off. Oregon is often in the bottom 1/2 of most metrics.
> Hearing aids are specifically designed to compensate for loss, not simply to filter out background noise and boost voices.

Can you explain what "compensating for loss" means in this context? How do hearing aids work beyond filtering out noise and boosting voices?

From https://youtu.be/X-CqJFSWkHk?si=xLV3eTmZ-5GV9Iq2&t=227, it sounds like it's doing what an equalizer would, just tuned to particular ear's response. Can't an app test that too and adjust the output accordingly?

I mean, real hearing aids are being sold COTS now, aren't they? Do those still require a medical consultation?

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Actually, this has a much better overview of the kind of calibration they do for real hearing aids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSQemYlC80 (not sure if the COTS stuff do anything similar)

The Airpod calibration is nowhere near as thorough.
I understand your point, but I just think the headline.... "No new iPhone? No secure iOS" is misleading, because iPhone xR and xS, iPhone 11, iPhone 12, iPhone 13 and iPhone 14 models are all not new iPhones, but they receive secure iOS updates. The headline suggests only brand new iPhones are secure, but when you click they are talking about deprecated devices more than 5 years old that most users know do not receive updates just like Microsoft/Android or any other vendor, Apple explicitly stated they won't update these devices and most users are aware of this fact.
> Did you take any action at all? Sounds serious enough for legal action.

A lot of people don't have time, or money, to risk legal action.
No, Xiaomi is crazier, they send something every 5 seconds once the phone is awake and every app of their built in app suite will do the same. I've observed this with a dns filter app. I've owned many phones and I've never seen anything this crazy
My 2017 CRV started bricking itself, of course right at the 5 year warranty mark. something was wrong somewhere and the electronics & sensor system didn’t know where so it was designed to shut all the electronic systems off, like cruise control, emergency braking, road departure mitigation, etc. etc.. about 20 different sub-systems, each one got it’s own separate loud annoying beep in succession every time the car started.

We took it to the dealer many times, and they couldn’t figure out what was wrong either. That didn’t stop them from trying, by replacing whatever part was their best guess and charging us for the new one plus labor. During our final visit to the dealer, only a few blocks away, the car broke down. It limped, smoking, to the dealer where they found the AC compressed had seized causing the timing belt to melt, which then took out the alternator and several other components. After a $5,000 repair and assurances the problem must be fixed, we took it home and had a nice month’s worth of driving, and then it started bricking again. We couldn’t sell it fast enough, what a nightmare.

To their partial credit, Honda later reimbursed half the repair cost, and the dealer admitted the vehicle failure was design flaws that were out of our control. We also found out after the repair that the AC compressor had been recalled, but unfortunately the new one didn’t fix the problem.

Tl;dr I did before I bought it, but I personally no longer believe Honda to be more reliable than any other brand. One major problem across the industry now is that they know how to make good reliable engines and powertrains, but none of them are any good at computer software reliability, and computers have very suddenly taken over all critical systems in the car.
I bought a lotion from Amazon recently that smells like Windex. I need to go to the store and see if the lotion in store has the same smell. I have a feeling it could be counterfeit, as I can't see this particular maker making a product with that smell.
I worked on the policy side before I entered tech.

You can't "command economy" human capital. It just doesn't work.

Upskilling has a 5-10 year long lag time.

Immigration is the only reason America hasn't stumbled like Europe, Japan, or Korea demographically.
Do they, though? It depends on how the combat works.

Suppose, for example, that each side has 5 hit points, and repeatedly you roll a 2:1 die to decide who gets 1 point of damage, until one side reaches 0 hit points. The chance of an "upset", where the weaker side wins, is not 1/3; I compute it to be roughly 14%. If both sides start with 10 hit points, I compute the chance of an upset to be 6.5%. The law of large numbers means that, the more die rolls the combat involves, the less likely an upset is.

Or. Suppose that, at each step, one side has N soldiers and the other has M, and repeatedly a random soldier gets a kill; so that's an N/(M+N) chance that the first side gets a kill, and M/(M+N) that it's the other side. This would make advantages compound within the battle. Then I compute that a 2:1 initial matchup has a 5/6 chance (83%) of victory, and a 10:5 matchup has a 98.8% chance of victory.

(edit) I guess you could say I'm challenging the idea that "unit strength", such that when strength A fights strength B it's decided in one step with probability A/(A+B), makes sense as an abstract concept.

(defmemo meh (a b p)
(if (is b 0)
1
(is a 0)
0
(+ (* p (meh a dec.b p))
(* (- 1 p) (meh dec.a b p)))))

(defmemo nub (a b)
(if (is b 0)
1
(is a 0)
0
(+ (* (/ a (+ a b))
(nub a dec.b))
(* (/ b (+ a b))
(nub dec.a b)))))
> I'm in the process of getting a new Mac

Well, there it is. Need more storage - honestly? Build a PC. Don't like Windows? Use Linux.
Is there a similar list for coal plants?

Also, skimming the list of USA incidents, there are a great deal of bullshit "incidents" in recent times. Most related to natural machanical breakdowns in non radioactive systems due to everything being operated decades past its expiration date. Wouldn't be happening if new NPPs had been built to replace these ancient designs.
This has mixtral support! Can't wait to see the next wave of local MOE models. Perhaps cheap fast and local GPT-4 performance is not too far off.
I stopped buying health and beauty stuff on Amazon altogether due to the counterfeits or people returning items by replacing the actual product with something else which I ultimately end up getting. I had too many instances with vitamins and such where the labels and seals were sketchy, damaged, or didn't exist. Same with shampoos, lotions, face-washes, soaps, detergents, hot-tub supplies, etc. Reporting to the seller or Amazon was a pointless exercise as often times they'd shrug it off.
I often see reviews for a model that's similar but still different. Not being a seller, I'm guessing the exploit is around labelling a different model / product as a colour variation of the product they're trying to leech off, and voila: now the crappy product has the same rating / reviews as the original, better product.
>Now that I'm over 40, I do everything right (daily exercise, eat healthy, get sleep, etc) and still feel like shit most of the day....same with most my age...

I’m nearing 40. Are you sure it’s normal to feel terrible most of the day when eating right, exercising, and getting enough sleep? This doesn’t sound normal to me.
This is the actual truth. What it sucks for is for citing the data, but GPT-4 doesn't do that to start with unless it's directly from a web result and not the weights.
Oh, non-intermittent CO2 free energy sources that we have now and can just build?

In the quantities required?

Why are we building out solar and wind then, this is so much better!

All ears!
This makes it rather attractive for sellers to add in some cheap fakes - thanks for the explanation.
But that probably isn't the function you want, because that will return -1 if the input is negative.

What you want to return is a boolean. And in that case the code generated is much simpler https://godbolt.org/z/5dq7MnrEx
Previously posted on a different blog and discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34092749 (Dec 22, 2023; 319 comments)
It occurs to me that I make fun of sovereign citizen types, but in tech we have our own set of rituals for getting large organizations to do what we want. While those people are still boneheads, maybe I should be more empathetic about their motivations and why they think that this time it might work.
There was no real build out since the, what, 80s? And no projection I have found hinted at one in the future. If those policy changes are supossed to any effect by 2035, those new NPPs would have to be at least in planning stage by now, which they are not.

Unless you assume all those future reactors are magically planned, approved, built and connected at a fraction of the time all others are. In which case, please specify how exactly that is aupposed to happen. Otherwise, all you have is claims, unfounded ones at that, and pipedreams.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-conversation-boost/
I find it especially helpful when I don't know the topic enough to even know the terminology "what's that thing called where ..."

Another good one is completing lists "who are some artists similar to ..."
I am not aware of any lawsuits against distributors/retailers but supplement companies have been successfully sued in the past. One famous case is Yoel Romero vs Gold Star Performance Products (https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2838434-ufc-fighter-yoel...).
iPhone 0-click spyware campaign 'Triangulation' detailed
Wait... That's not ASCII!
Community Onboarding Report
A lot of the garlic in yhe US is from China, so if you ate in a restaurant you likely had some already.
If you mean the existing H-1B lottery, see sibling comment linking the Forbes article which says "However, attorneys say attempting to reorder the H-1B lottery from highest to lowest salary by regulation, as the administration has discussed, would be unlikely to survive a legal challenge."
Oh, Firefox on the Mac is a wild and badly understood beast. It's worse on iOS.

I have no idea what you are supposed to expect there.
even (https://www.npmjs.com/package/even?activeTab=dependencies) pulls is-even.

is-even (https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even?activeTab=dependencies) pulls is-odd.

is-odd (https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd?activeTab=dependencies) pulls is-number.

sigh
If it's just export controlled stuff(radar, dual use stuff), technically you can hire non US citizens, and IIRC it's actually discrimination if you only hire US citizens. But you need to get export licenses, which they might not grant based on the country of citizenship, and they require permanent residence.

But let's be honest, it's pretty standard practice to require US citizenship.
And yet, that is the thing that happened here.

Maybe those other places were affected by factors that exist there.
We host in a datacenter and sending from their IPv4 or our own /24 IPv4 block has no issue. We also have the volume to keep things going as well to build up the reputation.
India to block crypto exchange Binance, Kraken websites
I'm 45, walk, weight lift, eat well, sleep well, and feel better than I ever have. My dad says he didn't start to "feel" his age until 80: it may just be genetics?
Sorry for my poor drafting. I agree with your comment.
Hey friend. He's not saying they're stupid. He's saying they're irrational. And he's right. Humans aren't rational beings and our expectations differ from simple mathematical probabilities. When making Civilization 3 in the years leading up to 2001, his team had to make changes to the game so that it felt better to the players. They improved game design as you say that they should have, but made it an internal change so that the presented numbers "felt" right. They learned from this experience and he's presenting this learning in a lighthearted presentation to an audience containing some of the very players he's talking about. They got the humor in the situation fifteen years ago and thanks to that, you, me, and other people making and playing games today expect better presentation in our games.
> Calling for Amazon to be banned from selling supplements is extreme

If a physical store near you sold fake everything, including supplements, you’d think it extreme to shut it down?
Why? Reaganomics. It's the late 1980s--they shut down the plant and shipped your job overseas. Real wages flatten and stay flat. But not to worry! The products you love are now cheaper (albeit slightly crappier). You buy the cheaper thing more out of necessity than real "choice," since Baumol's cost disease is making everything but consumer goods outrageously expensive. There are more expensive versions of some products, but they're often just overpriced faux-luxury trim on the same junk. Luxury goods stay good, since the wealthy have several orders of magnitude more than you ever will in 1000 lifetimes. There used to be...what did they used to call it? A "middle class"...
Ignoring the obstacle:

* It may be reasonable to assume the brakes produce the same force on both cars. With both cars weighing the same, this produces the same acceleration. Then the speeds decrease at the same rate, which means the faster car is going 100 - 70 = 30 kph when the slower car stops.

* The faster car must dissipate more energy to do this. We may assume that braking is limited by heat dissipation and that the brakes shed energy at the same rate. Then the answer is sqrt(100^2 - 70^2) ~ 71 kph.

Adding the obstacle:

* As noted in the text, brakes don't shed energy at the "same rate per unit distance". So the faster car hits the obstacle first, at greater speeds than above in each case. We aren't given the information required to calculate the stopping time or distance of the slower car, so the problem is underspecified.
It's more than just QC. When you make 3M cars per year, you get a lot of data points about what fails, and you you feed that back into new designs. You also nail manufacturing tolerances. When you make 4,000 (and a lot of those won't see the same mileage as a Honda), there aren't as many opportunities to find these issues.

Or another way: you an QC a bolt to death, but that doesn't tell you if it's undersized for the design.
You joke... but https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd-or-even
Ask HN: Who would be a programming God if they were alive today?
> Perhaps it doesn't work as well with large playlists? Me and my friends tend toward 1000+ songs in a playlist, but most other playlists I've found are rarely over 250 songs.

I think you're right. Recently I spent a bit of time writing about and playing with various shuffling algorithms, trying to see if I could find something that works better for me than the built-in shuffle.

The answer is: it's hard! An algorithm that works for a well-distributed set won't work so well for something with large clusters of similar stuff (think a mixtape vs a playlist consisted of a dozen albums from six different artists). And even when you think you've come up with a good solution, it works well six times, and then the seventh you start to find something that doesn't work quite how you like. It's a process of tweaking.

My final test case was a large playlist like you describe, since I have a few of these, too.

This is what I found worked best for me:

- (Optionally) Fisher-Yates shuffle the whole thing, then
- Slice the playlist into X chunks
- Shuffle the order of the chunks using Fisher-Yates
- Analyze the contents of the chunks
- Pick a suitable shuffling algorithm based on the contents
- Shuffle the contents of each chunk

There are lots of details around things like, how recently was this artist/album/compilation played? What's the relative tempo or genre of the most recent X songs, and how "harshly" are we willing to change it up? Is this a playlist with a lot of disparate songs (by artist/album/compilation) or is it a collection of like-minded albums and artists? Is the playlist just someone's discography? etc.

It takes a lot of passes and a lot of listening to find and tweak these things to find something that works and feels good. And in the end, I don't think the people who can do this are incentivized to actually do this. Especially considering the linked Spotify article is an entire decade old by now, and the Every Noise at Once guy was let go seemingly at random by Spotify. They care about "good enough for now" more than Actual Quality.
How, in your view, does dilution change the therapeutic index of a chemical? If a drug is effective at 20 milligrams, but at 60 milligrams has a steep rise in the incidence of hypotension, how does taking that same 60 milligrams in a larger volume of filler (e.g. water, or spread across more physical pills) change the fact that you've just taken 60 milligrams?
I don't think signing counts as a modification, or there's some aspect of your query I'm not getting.

Either way, the GPL 3 was designed with signing already being a thing, GPG had been out for 5+ years. And if signing broke the GPL, I imagine Stallman would have been raising a huge fit about it for decades.
X > Y does not imply Y does not exist.

And you are using nameplate capacity again (after a brief nod to reality)
The music business is full of examples of that.
> growing

Hello, newcomer.
My understanding is that co-mingling was originally a distribution optimization. I can’t remember if I was there under the initial rollout or they had tried it, stopped it, and rolled it out again during my tenure, but when I started in 2009 it wasn’t a thing, and people were opinionated about why it wasn’t a thing (to protect seller reputation), but it was obvious how it could reduce shipping times (if you have your inventory on the west coast, but a buyer on the east coast, picking from another merchant reduces shipping time and cost and wasted warehouse space partitioning everyone’s inventory).

However, Amazon has abandoned any idea of consistent reliable shipping or even delivery “promises”, so the only thing co-mingling does is reduce shipping costs and warehouse space at the customer’s expense. That’s the antithesis of what Amazon delivery used to be. It’s sad to see all the work we did on Prime and Delivery Experience get washed down the drain. Prime used to be a no brained for anyone who used Amazon regularly, and now I’m not even sure if there is discrete value there anymore, rather than just a mishmash of unrelated, mediocre up upsell opportunities.