skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) discussed his use of very high-end hearing aids on his Youtube Channel. He has hearing loss and he's of course pretty clued in when it comes to hearing aids. He did a review on the specific brand he's using. From what I remember, he was quite critical on the lack of access to good products for most people that need to get these via some insurance coverage. It would be interesting to get his perspective on airpods.

Because of all the legislation, it's actually a hard market to break into and the resulting products aren't necessarily very good or competitive. The focus is on keeping the insurers happy and getting approved; not the end user. The better products can get really expensive too. So the FDA approving consumer grade products could be a big deal.

Apple's airpods probably have quite a lot of non trivial tech on board that probably overlaps significantly what some hearing aids try to do. For example, AI that isolates sound and things like noise suppression that work in a very targeted way are game changers. Instead of just amplifying sound, selectively blocking some sound is probably very helpful.

Thankfully I have no issues but I know some people that do that wear hearing aids. Despite that, talking to them can be challenging and they have all sorts of issues communicating in loud places.

I imagine these could be useful for people that are completely deaf even. They wouldn't hear anything but they might benefit from e.g. live audio transcription; which is something that's probably not that hard anymore for the likes of Apple or Google.
My wife and I are going to summer vacation to Swiss towns that are on the river Aare for this exact reason. To me, floating in blue, transparent, super clean water on a hot day is heaven. Swiss are also individualist folk, so there is always many almost individual options to enter and leave the water or stay by it. It is depressing to come back to Berlin’s Spree and Havel that are both filled with cyanoalgae and Spree is also used for waste water when there is too much rain. It is lovely to see this initiative, perhaps there is hope for a clean swim in Berlin too.
No. YAGNI

In my time at my current job we've scaled PHP MySQL and Redis from a couple hundred active users to several hundred-thousand concurrent users.

EC2+ELB, RDS (Aurora, Elasticache). Shell script to build a release tarball. Shell script to deploy it. Everyone goes home on time. In my 12+ years I've only had to work off hours twice.

People really love adding needless complexity in my experience.
Thanks a lot. I had a suspicion about bring shadowbanned, but couldn't prove it.
Feels like product managers talking about what they think is good software
The US is a big place. If you live anywhere within a 2 hour drive to the beach, then its common to have weekend trips where you spend some time swimming in the ocean.
There must still be a substantial risk that someone would find out at some point? Once one person knows gossip spreads.
This is the free market, check your moral reservations at the door.
Stock is sold and bought all the time with no tax. It's in the investor's intrest to sink a company for short-term profits. When the s*it hits the fan, they can sell the falling stock, short-sell even, to some clueless pension funds and invest the money in a competitor instead. When only one company remains, profit +++. This is how stock markets work. Why are you surprised?
Please ignore this submission, as it's already being discussed elsewhere:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41526086
> "Oh they wanted to kill OpenSolaris!" No, the lawnmower doesn't care about OpenSolaris, the lawnmower doesn't think about OpenSolaris, the lawnmower _can't_ care about OpenSolaris. The lawnmower can't have empathy.
Can you expand om what of code duplication you deem reasonable?
Nations (in the western definition of the term) didn’t exist before the French Revolution.
I just don't get it - surely homes in the U.S. also have measuring scales? Outside of the U.S., we just go for measuring ingredients by weight which completely gets around the issue of settled ingredients or the inconsistency of measuring things by volume. Why can't recipes just use metric measurements (I'll allow the substitution of grammes for weight rather than newtons) and also provide the quick'n'easy and inaccurate cups measures too?
The issue would be battery use. The batteries in these things are tiny, and using them as hearing aids could mean longer use.

Having a phone lockscreen indicator of status would be a good way to show this.

I think the phone interface for audiograms is ridiculously complex. They need to improve that.
New ChatGPT o1 blitzes Britain's toughest TV quiz
> People discriminate because of religion, etc

Which is illegal in most places.
Although for now, even switching the touring boats to electric engines, which should be easy enough (why do the private companies benefit from public space selling 25€/seat tours in the city center while spewing huge clouds of exhaust into the air and dumping oil and dirt into the river? – they should at least switch to clean engines and for a limited km range tours this would be sensible) is not done in Berlin. Even the ferries that the transport company operates are not all electric (cause they actually rent some of them from the private boat touring companies), although there they could even be tethered and not require a battery at all. Anyway, all of this is just optimistic hippie talk, I will rather just move to Switzerland than wait for Germany to clean up.
> seems like owning stock

Shadow Equity usually doesn't pay dividends. So if the stock devalues due to payed out dividends (and the shadow stock has no voting power), it's the creators paying out the investors from their share.
Who would have thought that all those big numbers in TV deals were actually underestimated by the billions. The general public is even more desperate/gullible than we ever considered possible. And OF and YT are just the beginning.
Goodness me, this is very difficult to read. This article appears to describe some serious academic fraud (highlighting issues with arxiv.org along the way) but it repeatedly buries the lede under the author's haphazard writing style.

Perhaps a TLDR at the top would be useful. Just the FAQs. The central message is too important to lose amid the stylistic missteps.

I don't want academic-adjacent writing to be anodyne, but I do want it to be clear.
Source:
https://x.com/polynoamial/status/1834312400419652079
> This has to be a joke seeing how much of a fuckup "swimming in the Seine" for the Olympics has been, but I gather this writer hasn't kept up to date with people commenting on L'Equipe's related posts on social media. Maybe they just can't read French.

The Olympics and having the Seine swimmable for everybody are different things; the criteria for athletes and for the general population are not the same. The objective of having the Seine open to swimming again still stands and should be achieved by Summer 2025, as expected.

That being said the "swimming in the Seine" during the Olympics and Paralympics has been complicated but I wouldn’t call it a "fuckup"; triathlon athletes are used to these conditions (think about Rio, which had much higher contamination levels, or Sydney which had (risk of) sharks and bacterias), and nobody has been sick after the competitions.
They did a great job, though..

From the perspective of other board members, upper management and the shareholders at the time.
New Look at Landslide Potential Shows 44% of U.S. Is at Risk
Agreed, I doubt the full squeeze would be 50% correct on new hypotheses though. Would be a fun PhD thesis if I went back to grad school :D
Not all moral codes align.

A Man's got to have a code https://old.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/t3ptd/about_the...
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41523070 1571 points 17 hours ago
Now you’re getting thumped because the dead officer was their buddy and you can’t tell one anecdote about them.

There are riskier games to play, but not all that many.
Fact as a concept, does the model have it?
Perhaps OpenAI hot-patches the model for HN complaints:

def intercept_hn_complaints(prompt):
if is_hn_trick_prompt(prompt):
# special_case for known trick questions.
Yes there is. The trick is that the more common variant of this riddle says that a boy and his father are in the car accident. That variant of the riddle certainly comes up a lot in the training data, which is directly analogous to the Schrödinger case from above where smuggling in the word "dead" is analogous to swapping father to mother in the car accident riddle.

I think many here are not aware that the car accident riddle is well known with the father dying where the real solution is indeed that the doctor is the mother.
https://youtu.be/IYaPfuTkWGU?si=Bdqp6pbCzbGMmQhk

https://youtu.be/iA2cLQ_p6V0?si=FDH_JhD5TBcPxHfP

Here you go!
Ah, good point, I agree regarding the taste, I enjoy proper espresso or go the other extreme (filter, pour-over).

Over extracted, pressurized espresso with capsules or even most semi-autos is disappointing.
> We search for relevant results from research databases, reputable news sites and searches on the web,

What sources do you use to "fact check" ?

Do you know what circular reporting is? How do you handle it?

How would this service handle the Hunter Biden laptop story for example. Once considered Russia disinfo by MSM and many spies is now known it was not disinfo and Hunter really did leave the laptop behind and the info on it is fact.

There is already a few "fact checking" sites out their that are very biased. For example snopes took years and after the election to to finally confirm Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists 'Very Fine People'. The timing to confirm this took too long.

I'd say this is an interesting topic, so I'm very interested in your thoughts and how to handle. Thanks!
Samba Secures a Big Investment from Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund
Even coming from mainstream religions, that's annoyingly knee-jerk. Sure, prostitution is shameful and sinful and whatnot, but what about maliciously lying to your neighbor, trying to get rich off their misfortune? Even from a mainstream religious perspective, marketing gives prostitution a run for its money, and outside that framework, arguably it's less shameful to do OF than to be a "regular" influencer, or go into telemarketing. At least with this kind of sex work, all parties to transaction tend to benefit, and all are in it voluntarily.
Wizard of Odds ᐈ Guide to Online Casinos and Gambling Games
I would argue that video of taking a shit could display video production and marketing skills better than, let's say, doing a socially unacceptable political rant.

But I agree that probabbly being super racist is currently more accepted in some social media than showing genitals. I'm not promoting it, of course.
The IRS isn't comparable to this case because there's 2 entities at play, the Irish tax authority and the EU's.

I'm not too familiar with how exactly it works in the US so excuse the probably poor example, but this is more like Texas deciding that they want to attract businesses by saying they'd lower taxes a bunch. They say to the IRS "Hey, we're going to be lowering all corporate taxes to 15% across the board, is this good with you?". The IRS says sure, not knowing that what Texas is actually doing is making sweetheart deals with companies like Apple to have them pay a tax rate that is basically 0 (0.005% as is the case with Apple in Ireland).

This tax-free opportunity is only provided to a single company. The lying here is relevant, because Texas explicitly told the IRS they'd be charging every business at 15%, only to then make a special deal with Apple that's unfair to all other businesses and Apple's competitors.

A decade later (more like 2 in this case), the IRS investigates and sees there's been a discrepancy between what Texas said they'd be doing (taxing them at 15% like they said they'd charge every business) and what they're actually doing. So, the IRS says that's not allowed, and that Apple now owes Texas that unpaid tax income whether Texas wants to take it or not.

Texas doesn't want it because it makes them look like they're double dipping. Apple doesn't want it for obvious reasons.
>$6.3 billion in gross revenues

Not sure I can name many US companies founded in the last 15 years with higher revenue numbers
Would love to see a shift towards something like deferred options for executives. Or, ya know, a fixed multiplier on median employee pay, like managers make 3x median, VPs 5x, CEOs 7x. I’m okay with people who have crazy responsibilities making good money, but it doesn’t have to be obscene.
> Once your service sees load you will want this badly.
> [...]
> The failure of one server is no longer a material concern to your operation.

Elsewhere in thread you say:

> The event volume is not particularly large as we tend to process things in batch and rarely on the edge of an event.

So the service is not actually under load, and it runs in batches so (temporary) failure is not actually a concern.

> This work took me 3 days. It's paid off 1000x fold since I did it.

Since Lambda was introduced less than 10 years ago, what you're saying here is that it'd be full time job for you for the past 10 years to maintain this (3000 days instead of three) if you have not gone the serverless way, which I find doubtful.

> Could this have been simplified into something far more fragile than what is described? Absolutely.

Considering the hyperboles in the rest of your comment, this sounds more like snark than a considered opinion.
This is something I want to share but its platform includes nakedly racist framing:

Urban swimmers are stewards responsible for protecting the health of their local waterways, working alongside Mother Earth’s closest carers, such as Indigenous peoples...
I would actually like to have a DIY nespresso machine or an option to this DIYespresso to allow for easily making use of a nespresso cup's content.
Yann LeCun slams California's SB 1047 as Geoffrey Hinton backs new regulations
I agree that it's more difficult to manage Build123D or CadQuery due to their status as Python packages with heavier dependencies. (Less of a problem with Replicad, which is a client-side JS package)

This is a little bit of why I jumped to FreeCAD from OpenSCAD -- the existence of prebuilt distributions of FreeCAD, and the realisation that I'd always be able to script FreeCAD if I needed it.

Though I think Build123D has the beginnings of momentum (I also think it's not hard to see why):

https://github.com/phillipthelen/awesome-build123d

But OpenSCAD is a terrible, obstinate "standard" choice; I wish it were not seen that way, don't you? Because it's holding everyone back.

(This does make me realise that maybe working on an Electron-based Replicad desktop app would be a good use of my time.)
It's quite common to use special language, however absurd, to signal that you are (or want to be seen as) part of a certain in-group. Any pretended meaning of such language is insignificant compared to the signal that you are one of “them”.
Refreshingly sadistic way of handling a project checklist, I love it
> we actually still don't know how unsafe microplastics are

That's the problem though. We're all test subjects for a worldwide experiment to put microplastices everywhere and see what happens. It seems incredibly unlikely that they don't disrupt various mechanisms in the environment and our bodies.
Every time I hear thr name Annapurna, I think about the ARM SoC maker...
If you interact with government or some large entities that do business with government, they have to comply with FIPS 140-2, and cannot use ed25519.
>We were told that there was minimal danger of explosion from the sweating sticks or the materials that absorbed the nitroglycerin because it required significant energy to initiate an explosion.

Thanks for the detailed reply! And sorry I just answered back now. I hadn't noticed it earlier. As for the above. I assumed that the sticks would be pretty stable unless detonated with something like a blasting cap, but I was referring to the liquid nitroglycerin leaking, or sweating out of them. Do you remember if that liquid was pure nitroglycerin or still diluted enough not to be in danger of just exploding suddenly?
What I personally hate in documentation is raw English. Give me a synopsis, a bunch of examples, a dump of typedefs, a tree/graph of connections between concept names. I can understand it immediately as long as you write it in latin script.

But if you only blah blah, blah blah blah blah <optionname> blah blah blah, blah blah, blah blah blah <value1> blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah <value3> blah blah <value1> blah blah, then screw your manual and you too.

Also, “documentation” in README.md and in markdown in general. The laziest form, especially unreadable on 4+ level headers which are indistinguishable from just text.
>Then blame the board imo

Half of them would look like job hoppers with such short tenures on their resume. Some of them have simultaneous executive positions at other companies.

If you want some evidence of short-term thinking not being a meme, it's probably that.
obviously better than fighting
For me this is all Kubernetes is. I feel like people are often talking about two different things in discussions like this. For me it's just a uniform way to deploy stuff that is better than docker compose. We pay pennies for the control plane and workers are just generic VMs with kubelet.

But I think for many "kubernetes" means your second paragraph. It doesn't have to be like that at all! People should try settling up a k3s cluster and just learn about workloads, services and ingresses. That's all you need to replace a bunch of ad hoc VMs and docker stuff.
This is likely in no small part due to CS education only really teaching the mechanics of RSA (modular arithmetic, Fermat's little theorem, etc), or at least, that still seems to be the case at Berkeley. I'd guess because elliptic curve crypto requires more advanced math to reason about (more advanced group theory, at least) and doesn't map as cleanly to existing concepts that non-math-major undergrads have.

cryptopals.com also doesn't cover any elliptive curve crypto until you get into the last set.
Apart from the operation side, there is a development side parallel too.

Two examples that I came across

- "Test" mean if it passes on CI, it is good. Failing to run test on local? Who do development on local anyway?

- Teams so reliant on "AI" because this is the future of coding. "how to sort a list in python" became a prompt, rather than a lookup on the official documentation.
Would love to play with it but for this price they can keep it.

Dont understand me wrong, love the idea, but selling it for this price is just crazy.

Consumers should be more aware that if they can afford something, this doesnt mean it is worth buying it.
In think in either case, if you already have code that's done, using that is going to be less effort than switching.

However, I ran kubeadm on a hetzner server and it's just sat chugging along forever basically. I use the cluster to run ephemeral apps where I build and deploy 1 golang service, a couple of node services in about 60 seconds ( with cache, obviously ).

As someone old enough and skilled enough to do the same with puppet, why bother when it's simpler easier that even the kids who don't understand TLS can do it with k8s?
The good thing about NASA is that they always also give you the metric measurements (and sometimes, as a bonus, some real-world thing they're comparable to). To quote https://blogs.nasa.gov/smallsatellites/2024/08/29/nasa-compo...:

> From above, the sail will appear as a square, with an area of approximately 860 square feet (80 square meters) – about half the size of a tennis court.

Not bad for a device the size of a microwave...
But you can't compare with top performers in a power law / winner-takes-all setting. Comparing random youtubers or OF-ers to PewDiePie is like comparing the guy owning a fruit stand down the street to Jeff Bezos. Owns business, owns business; the same thing, right?
Hey, I run ZebraPuzzles.com, thanks for mentioning it! Right now I'm trying to improve the puzzles so that people can't "cheat" using LLMs so easily ;-).
I'd argue most people don't even like coffee, they drink it for the caffeine.
You're speaking for all millennials?
This YouTube movie https://youtu.be/60T9TKuuujs with several of the authors, nice visuals and animations explains it in great detail. Highly recommended.

Consider replacing the link to the article with the video.
Yes, the article is not bad, but it has nothing to do specifically with the Microsoft product it mentions in its title.
As a native speaker, that sounds natural to me even outside of any business-specific lexicon, unlike the other examples being discussed.
probably that sex has little negative externalities and hence criminalizing it is not right
Depends on the service. For b2b that is already a lot.
> Results are "strong" but can't be felt by the user? What does that even mean?

Not every conversation you have with a PhD will make it obvious that that person is a PhD. Someone can be really smart, but if you don't see them in a setting where they can express it, then you'll have no way of fully assessing their intelligence. Similarly, if you only use OAI models with low-demand prompts, you may not be able to tell the difference between a good model and a great one.
Could we use this magnetic field for propulsion?
If you want to take purely moral grounds, there's nothing to make prostitution or Onlyfans "wrong", except if done with exploitation. At the same time, it contributes to the demographic crysis, and if you care about results, you have to put pressure against the lifestyles that are nudging people away from starting a family and having kids.

Drug dealers are also part of society, yet we still frown upon them.
Team, if we do a deep dive on these touch points I think we can really move the needle for accelerating transformation. If you have any issues aligning your KPIs with the pivot feel free to bubble them up to one of our rockstar SMEs. We need all hands on deck giving 110%.
Even searching 'float' on docs.python.org brings descent results.

At first the author complains about bad search implementations on the documentation sites and then judges Python by the bad google results.
No it won't, because only about 30% of F150 parts are made in the US. The rest are made elsewhere - mostly China.

This is not 1940, and the US simply doesn't have the strategic industrial base it used to.

Off-shoring made some people a lot of money and lowered consumer costs (while simultaneously cutting consumer pay.)

But it was economically and strategically unwise. The US is set up to run small-scale wars against technologically inferior opponents. It has no ability to sustain a prolonged multi-year slug-fest against an opponent with a superior manufacturing base.
Democracy is socialism is some ignorant circles.

Our betters know better. Don’t believe your lying eyes, listen to Elon. Lol. Clearly making airplanes with doors that fall off is fine, as long as we maximize shareholder value.
Thanks to the Clean Water Act, lots of the US is swimmable and clean. But we have a much bigger problem preventing it: lawyers. Lakes in State Parks will likely have swimming banned because people will not be self responsible.
A wrapper CLI that produces the same outcome wouldn't really be considered middleware, which surely should affect runtime?
SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronauts perform historic first private spacewalk [vide]o
Chatbot Pulls People Away from Conspiracy Theories
> but prostitution is still degrading

Why? Especially compared to e.g. advertising/marketing? At least in the former case, all parties to the transaction are there voluntarily, for an honest, mutually beneficial exchange of value.