skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too am in awe of the audio engineering challenges and opportunities here.

But I don't necessarily know that Meet is trying to tackle all this? Are they using the mics as a microphone array & processing signals across phases? Could be missing it but I don't see that they said so. Perhaps they're just picking the loudest mic for a given speaker? Or any of a dozen other simpler tactics?
Bottom of https://tldr.fail
Few things have ever made me feel as horrible about myself as trying to meet women on dating apps.
>disheartening episode about smart people only caring about getting richer.

Didn't Simons donate prolifically to math education?
Including that language might improve performance on certain tasks, even if “reasoning” isn’t something LLMs are capable of. Heck, they’ve even been shown to sometimes perform better when you tell them to “Take a deep breath”: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/telli...

As the old saying goes, “If it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid”
Winners only in the short-term sense.

Short-term validation, but have uncommitted relationships, which arguably harms women most.
Wow, the list of apps they own is long:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group

Also, if memory serves, the first thing Match did after acquiring OkCupid was take down some of their blog posts, including "Why You Should Never Pay for Online Dating".
I typically work within Jupyter Notebooks since it’s easier to build tutorials with text and markdown. But I agree: even looking at the code output I can tell almost immediately it’s made up.
I don’t intend to ever use a dating app but even I feel an aversion to wanting to use one if there’s even a chance I could be talking to a bot. Even worse if you’re a man and you suspect the girl is just looking for free food.
Make me wonder if, when forcing it to do structured output, you should give it the option of saying "error: invalid assumptions" or something like that.
Nokia 3210 relaunch celebrates the "dumbphone"
Available to read online, I read it last year: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
My $2.2k laptop can't drive two screens
And then there are apps/OSes that set the mic gain at like 5% of max, so everyone else has to put their volume at 95%.

We should probably get off hacker news and just start building a teleconferencing app.
I feel like it’s cringy and performative to do that. You never know what’s in people’s heads or what that callout means to them.

Treat veterans with respect. Whatever our political or moral beliefs are, every soldier or sailor made a personal sacrifice in service. Soldiers don’t make policy, and I wouldn’t assume what every individual believes or doesn’t.
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Architect the program yourself in your head. Then use gpt to write one function at a time. For obscure libraries, paste in documents directly to the context window and give links to example GitHub repos. Paste errors in to troubleshoot as needed. Architect for many small libraries in their own files so it's easier to compartmentalize and let gpt work with smaller blocks of code.
>men just have to suffer and shut the fuck up.

Welcome to being a man.
Not really. The world of Bayesian modelling has much fancier tools: Hamiltonian MC. See MC Stan. There’s also been Gibbs samplers and other techniques which support discrete decisions for donkeys years.

You can write down just about anything as a BUGS model for example, but “identifying the model” —- finding the uniquely best parameters, even though it’s a globally optimisation —- is often very difficult.

Gradient descent is significantly more limiting than that. Worth understanding MC. The old school is a high bar to jump.
No there isn't. There's no serious debate and no evidence for the carbohydrate insulin model of obesity.
> While we've been looking into this, it can be a bit tricky in a university context to do the engineering leg work required to build something robust...

I definitely hear you on this! As a grad student who is one of the only developers with actual professional dev xp in my lab, it can be brutal being tasked with turning academic spaghetti code into something semi-productionized/robust.
>I have spent far too long dealing with this as an RNG supplier

Is there much of a market for that? I thought random.org had it all sewn up.
That's how I give advice and it can be a huge struggle when working with people out of their element, or in a job they frankly didn't earn.

It's really the only way a productive design conversation can go, but those who can't contribute from their side of the fence will get frustrated. Saying things like "you just need to tell me what to do".

On the flip side, those who think they know better will have pretty much already made up their mind. Which makes things even worse if they don't know better, but for the competent ones this is the easiest and most effective setup of them all.
A more charitable read is that women are the product that these apps are selling, and men are the paying customers who want access to this gated marketplace.

It's reminiscent of how clubs will let women in for free, because without them the spendy men, willing to impress the ladies with bottomless overpriced champagne, will not bother coming inc, and the club ends up making no money.
This is due to the nature of the apps that maximize revenue generation over customer success. The apps can otherwise trivially be structure with throttles to ensure that almost everyone is getting matched, not to excess, also that only active users are matched, but this would greatly hinder revenue generation. The revenue exists in exploiting the male wallet with shiny things and false promises. If empirical communism buys you mass murder, empirical capitalism buys you rampant monopolization and relentless exploitation.

Perhaps we need something like a non-profit donation-driven Signal Foundation but for free dating. It would use concepts from distributed systems, namely backpressure, throttling, and rate-limiting to ensure that almost everyone can feel a winner.
90 days isn't enough time to close enterprise deals. The whole point is that the firings demonstrate that she was never set up to succeed by the organization.

That's why the org took heat online for it.
Ask HN: Have you ever encountered Doppelgänger-Code?
I have often wondered about if other devs stumble upon code where they really think they would have written it exactly the same way, almost as if it was their own?

Or do you know of a case where some code of different people were exactly alike? To the point that it would seem like plagiarism.

I haven't encountered that. Not even in simple webdev stuff, where there aren't too many ways to do things (excluding some CSS & HTML).

Interested to hear any stories or anecdotes.
Sometimes HN warms my heart.
Yes, and I think the argument could be made that code is the exact opposite of language, since it's a set of machine instructions that lay out what the computer will do and can't, or won't or shouldn't, be a metaphor for something else as happens in the domain of language.
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There are books for every theory, this isn't one that any scientist in the actual field takes serious.

But fringe theories are always popular among certain people, same as conspiracy theories.
True enough, except that's not the name of the page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_price
And no color highlights either!
https://archive.is/FWnlT

(yes it's an archive of an archive. But linked archive page is slow)
(Male) One thing that really changed my thinking of these apps was asking myself a simple question:

"could I find my best friend through an app like this?"

Once I realized this, I was able to quit them and make that quit actually stick. Instead of being in the cycle of uninstall, be lonely, get back on, frustrated, a few lackluster dates, maybe get laid, feel more frustrated, quit, rinse, lather, repeat.

I met my current partner through a friend (who also set me up with my previous partner, which did NOT end well). This is the woman I intend to marry and both her and I knew we had something different pretty quickly. I don't think this would have happened if we met on an app weirdly enough. But I think if you're in a relationship, try to set up your friends. Truth is, a lot of them want it (get their permission first obviously). It's still a roll of the dice, but the odds are better. It's kinda like the same reason you prefer to hire someone through a recommendation from a current employee or someone you know/trust. There's more signal. But also, these types of setups can be softer and more natural, allowing you to get your feet wet knowing the person.

And let's also be honest, sometimes you got to meet someone a few times and dating apps lead to a lot of first dates and very few second dates because you get the idea that if you're not a perfect fit (might be an off day for either of you) that there's plenty more people to choose from.
Great point, the sigmoid approximation works well for certain problems and that's in fact what I used in the exploratory papers that lead to this work. The downsides are the lack of a clear interpretation how the original program and its smooth counterpart are related, and the difficulty of controlling the degree of smoothing as programs get longer. What DiscoGrad computes has a statistical interpretation: it's the convolution of the program output with whatever distribution is used for smoothing, typically a Gaussian with a configurable variance.

On top of that, if the program branches on random numbers (which is common in simulations), that suffices for the maths to work out and you get an estimate of the asymptotic gradient (for samples -> infinity) of the original program, without any artificial smoothing.

So in short, I do think it is slightly fancier :)
One of the things I like most about tmux is the scrollback buffer, which you can scroll through and search and copy/paste any text in the shell output with vim-like keybindings (you have to configure it for vim-like keybindings, otherwise it's emacs style). It makes my workflow very efficient. I haven't found a terminal emulator with such convenient features and keybindings. And searching, copying and pasting are things that I do a lot in my terminal.
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Article mentions Sheryl Crow "...maybe it was the weed...I remember thinking that Sheryl Crow sounded incredible, crushing tunes like If It Makes You Happy and..."

If you ever have a chance to see Sheryl Crow live, I promise you that she and her band will blow you away. Weed not required.
The risk-reward calculation for women is dramatically different than for men.

For men,

risk: not get laid, deal with rejection.
reward: get laid, possibly meet soul mate

For women,

risk: person you matched with rapes and murders you.
reward: get laid, possibly meet soul mate

And before anyone tries to rebut this with the tired argument of "sometimes women commit murder" yeah that's true but exceedingly rare. The overwhelming number of violent crimes are committed by men.
Balancing Advocacy and Inquiry
> Women are the big winner of dating apps

I think this is wrong. Both genders are dying from dehydration; just one is dying of thirst in the desert and the other is in the ocean. The person in the desert might envy the person in the ocean but that doesn't change the fact that neither have drinkable water.
That’s an excellent point.

I’ve realized that I sometimes read code in more of a “story” mode, where I’m just looking for the gist of what’s happening and what it is “about” rather than the nuts and bolts of how it actually works.
Ah, thank you, my understanding was out of date. It looks like these were implemented only these past few months.
Built-in aliases are guarateed to be present, so you can depend on them. There are other features, like shortened parameter names that might become ambiguous when new parameters are added, that aren't guaranteed backwards compatible, but aliases are stable.
Not sure how your comment is helpful. You could make your point by actually making it instead of putting words in someone’s mouth.
Every customer is in violation of the tos if you read the html-only section

They know this
Do you actually talk to women about dating apps? I have, and they basically have to walk around variously unhinged, landmine men who are still in the dating pool (the good ones are obviously snatched up quickly). I'm talking demeaning language, fetishization (especially if you're black or asian or latina), the "hey" followed by "you fat bitch" if you don't respond fast enough, etc.

Also if you're a fat woman your dating chances suuuuuck.
Maybe consider that women are picky and the mediocre fruits get unpicked.
Smiley Face Murder Theory
Success would be to stop using the app. Which is exactly what they don't want you to do.
Do you have (or plan to support) a Wasm build of the compiler so you can compile from within the browser?

Given you have includes I guess you'd need to provide a loadFile(filename) callback to provide it with data.
Funny (not really) - you are obviously correct about the statistics, but the only person I know who was murdered by a partner was a man.
Not really. The illusion of choice is designed to keep you sticky and anxious. It’s pretty obvious - when you match, you’re off the app.

Most of these systems have to approached in a calculated way. Walking away is always the best technique. Men get boosted briefly when they pay. You attempt to match 8-10, and wait no more than a week then cancel the sub. If no luck, wait 4-6 weeks and wash, rinse, repeat.

Most dudes are dumb. They match everyone and have no plan. Women look at the first few, then compulsively swipe for snarky entertainment. It works out to be a compulsive behavior most of the time.

I’ve had success 3/3 times with doing this, including my late wife of 20 years. Probably spent less than 5 hours working the app each time.
>> Making programming languages superficially more like human languages is one of the classic rookie mistakes

one of the least productive programmers I've worked with was obsessed with Groovy
"there's nothing illegal about using OpenEMR regardless of who wrote the code"

Indeed, in your area this may be true. However, the health authority can't legally purchase or use these projects without the ISO certs, and thus it is a moot point.

I think we will have to agree to disagree, as there are two truths here. And people seem to be getting emotional about their egos. =)
My comment was an appropriate use of derision given the extremist nature of the original argument. Advocating for the elimination of humanity is a dangerous fringe view that contradicts fundamental moral values. Treating it with intellectual seriousness would legitimize an abhorrent position.

Suggesting OP volunteer to go first, I exposed the glaring ethical contradiction in their argument. If they truly believe in eliminating humanity, logically they should be willing to start with themselves.

In extreme cases involving manifestly unethical ideas, derision is justified to decisively reject the premise, highlight its incoherence, and affirm community values. Engaging respectfully would be counterproductive by dignifying an view that deserves no respect.
I’m a single guy and buy mostly veggies and fruit and I still can not believe how expensive it has become. I’m spending hundreds more every month.
Exactly this. A great example is apps like Coffee Meets Bagel which sometimes tout themselves as the "solution" but then have a separate section of "select" candidates that you have to pay to talk to. So basically if you have a desirable profile (in this case it's basically if you're hot because that's the primary part of a profile), they monetize you without your knowledge or permission and charge the other side to initiate conversation.
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I’m not sure why this is phrased in such a way as to imply that men are fine with how the “dating app scene” operates and women are the ones being hurt by it.

As a man who has used all the modern dating apps and who knows many other men who have also used them, I think I can say without hesitating that the experience almost universally sucks.

As a man, even if you’re on the better looking side, with a good job etc, the numbers look something like: swipe right on 150 women, of that 150 you might get 10-12 matches. Of those matches, 3 will probably write you a single message. Of those three, one will go on a date with you. And there’s a fair chance when you go on the date, the person doesn’t look at all like their pictures. (This has happened to me twice)

In one of the apps I used, Hinge, I have about 203 matches. I.e. the woman chose me and I chose her. Out of 203, I ended up going on five dates. Of that 203, 50 of them never responded to a first message.

So, while I agree the experience isn’t nice for women, it’s equally soul crushing as a man. It seems more like a game where people are trying to “collect” matches like they’re Pokémon, and getting more matches fills some strange sort of immature psychological need.

The whole thing deconstructs the fairly beautiful idea of falling in love or meeting someone wonderful and levels it down to some base and insidious numbers game, while also creating a sort of “dating picture” arms-race of filters, choreographed pictures, etc to ensure you stick out in a world where image becomes everything.

We talk about how “objectifying” others is bad… well, dating apps are practically training us to objectify others and treat them as fungible entities to treat our loneliness and low self esteem.

The whole thing is depressing, what’s worse though is that since most of the western world is less social, alone more often, has no “third space”, etc this dating app world has become many people’s only option for finding a meaningful relationship.

Ok, time to swipe through another hundred women…
> just like a fancy conference setup.

Cool, so now I can get high fidelity audio of the guy in the corner surreptitiously trying to eat a bag of chips on Google Meet now too?
Skill ceiling is just getting raised, just look at what’s going on in IT. Massive disparity in people who evolved and those who didn’t.

The ones that can’t code or didn’t learn modern skills like container orchestration are seeing the skill floor drop with companies migrating to SaaS everything and laying off teams, and the ones that learned are called infrastructure/devops engineers and easily make six figures. Sysadmin roles that used to pay 100k+ are now 20-25/hr at most businesses because they are just glorified office managers in 2024.

Companies are all trying to be like Amazon now, they want easily trained and replaceable people, so unless you work in a high skill ceiling job you are going to just be paid less. Even teachers are just glorified daycare workers these days. The good days are over for most people who thought the good times would never end.
"I was an unusual little kid--and a girl, not a boy,"

Sorry about that, I usually write "he or she" in my comment, but thought I read something about boy above, apparently not.
That's true if the aim is a long-term monogamous relationship for users, which is obviously true for a lot of users, but these days not all of them.
+1, AIs don’t really “understand” anything, like human anatomy and deformity rates and societal norms when tasked with image generation, so you get hands with weird numbers of digits and other topological errors which even a very unintelligent human wouldn’t make. AI doesn’t understand and build knowledge in interconnected layers, it can’t “think” and link things back to first principles, it can’t really reason about things, and it’s not going to get significantly better until we start approaching it differently. This generation of AI might be useful for some things, but it’s being applied wayyyy too broadly too quickly and I see a big pullback coming.

“Expert systems” are not a new thing, and they’re still not all that useful except in some very small niches. Phone trees that can keyword match FAQs are useful for a lot of low-effort callers who put zero effort into solving their problem on their own first, but frustrating for callers who are only calling because there’s literally no other way for them to resolve their issue. Unfortunately for consumers, the cost is very low for businesses to make everyone wade through junky phone tree systems and penalize anyone who tries to mash zero to talk to a real person, even if that’s the only thing which will actually help them.
Agreed, quoting something the author wrote is not a dismissal. It’s unfortunate HN banned the OP’s comment.
Not sure which eq you refer to, but from what I understand, the network never network "sees" the correct images. Rather, the network must learn to infer the information indirectly through the loss function.

The loss function encodes information about the noise and, because the network sees the noised up image exactly, this is equivalent to learning about the actual sample images. It's worth noting that you could design a loss function measuring the difference between the output and the real images. This contains equivalent information, but it turns out that the properties of gaussian noise make it much more conducive estimating the gradient.

But point being, the information on the true images is in the loop albeit only through the lense of some noise.
Incredible analogy.
Nothing like supporting dead code forever just because you might need it some day.
Unbelievable. This "dying in sand is just like dying in water" meme is a bad analogy and people should use their brains for a second before parroting it in the dating context. Just because it sounds like an ancient wisdom proverb doesn't mean it fits in this context.

Having an oversupply of (even mediocre) potential partners is way better than a chronic shortage of potential partners.

Would you also tell the chronically unemployed person that you being flooded with job offers all day you can't keep track of, means you're dying just like him, but in water instead of sand?

No, you're not dying, you're just overwhelmed with supply, which is still better than having zero supply.
The truth is young women have fallen out of love with dating and "hookups" in general.

Many stats show that the younger generations have less friends, have less sex, etc. They value a life partner or romantic partner more for the stability and less for the "thrill" because living with a permanently online record of their lives and the viciousness of the entire Internet being able to "cancel" you for things you said or did years ago has made everyone a bit less thrill-seeking, a bit less adventurous, etc.

And that doesn't really vibe with dating apps that encourage meeting someone you don't know, your friends don't know, for what's probably going to be a short term relationship.

I think it's a bit of a pendulum effect. We went really hard into hookup culture in the 2000s (just check out all the American Pie type movies back then that would never be made today). Now people are swinging back more to wanting stable relationships that benefit on paper rather than in our hearts and all.
A friend and I were sick of all these fake couponing websites with referral links but no benefit for the customer. So we decided to make it different. We build a couponing platform with coupons that actually work and provide a benefit for the customer. Mainly we focus on exclusive collaborations because that's less maintenance.
Would love to hear your feedback!
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Seconded, I need to see some examples before I'm going to upload any of my own images
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Median family income in 1980 was $21k. Also San Francisco back then may not have been the San Francisco of today. So if you factor in inflation and increase in desirability and local wages, this would make for a more meaningful comparison.
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