skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Costco is great for this I found out. Free audiogram, and all name brand hearing aids.

I used to be like your father-in-law, pride, vanity, stubborn, not wanting to be told what to do, whatever it was. And my dad was like this too (the hearing loss is heritable), I used to mock him about not wanting hearing aids before my own hearing declined. When I finally got fitted, it was shocking to me how much my hearing had suffered. Suddenly I could hear birds and crickets again, and most importantly speech!

Maybe you can get your father-in-law to first play around with AirPods as hearing aids to win him over to get proper ones. The latest generation hearing aids, like the AP's, have amazing AI signal processing that will suppress noise and enhance speech. It's always cool when my Phonak's detect noise and shut it down.

The important thing about hearing loss in elderly, especially if someone has an elevated risk of cognitive decline, is the resulting social isolation, and the increasing risk of dementia [1]. It should be addressed sooner than later.

To sum it up, the AP's have the potential to provide an affordable on-ramp for more hearing impaired people to experience hearing restoration and warm up to better ones (hopefully covered by insurance). I don't think AP's would a permanent hearing solution, other than for people who are uninsured and can't afford real hearing aids (sadly).

Edit: I could not imagine wearing AP's all day, great as they are, while I don't even notice my receiver-in-ear hearing aids anymore.

Edit: While AP's are not perfect, having any kind of hearing aid is a 100% improvement over having none, which is probably also why the FDA allowed OTC hearing aids.

Edit: [1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/hearing...
Of course I'll ask once we've achieved an appropriate level of intimacy to discuss such topics.
> I thought Sun was just a little misguided and naive and then they sold to Ellison and I realized they were a bunch of fucking morons. WHY? WHY DID YOU DO THIS??

Whatever you think of Oracle and the One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison, IBM as a company are likely worse. Sun had a "west coast wheeler-dealer" vibe, as did Oracle. IBM had an "east coast button-down shirt" vibe. IBM had first dibs and Sun said "no, I may be desperate but I'm not that desperate"

If Sun had to be sold (which it did because it was consistently losing money hand over fist) and there was a choice of IBM, HP and Oracle to sell it to, and only those three, which would you pick?

If you've never experienced the IBM culture, this is a great essay about Don Estridge (father of the IBM PC) which will give you a good flavour of the company: https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-misfit-who-built-the-ibm...
Maybe the plan is to replace all FB users with bots but keep charging advertisers anyway.

"But how can anyone tell?"
It’s a couple of lines of high-level code on hardware that already exists. Doesn’t need market viability or regulatory approval.
It's still wrong if the majority is wrong, isn't it? Like propaganda on major channels which praise the same thing, is consumed by a major part of the population which then assume that it's the right thing and continue the misinformation, which then propagates to the AI model.
> it feels like you could have said the same towards people buying pricy concert tickets when there's royalty free music abundantly available.

The analogy holds. Most people don't pay concert tickets for the music itself. It's the experience, the crowd, the physical presence of the artists, etc.
It's a valid point, though I don't think the article says it (OC does.) The question is if changing the designation will actually do more good than harm. My skepticism here is completely uninformed and if there's a track record of beneficial changes then I am wrong
Isn’t the function of the application to compute aesthetic variations on inputs?

To be fair the video linked upthread clarified things for me by showing me the app’s full ambition. Like you, I at first thought the whole thing was the keypad app, and that they meant the name in the clunky sense of “it’s a computer, but it’s ‘aesthetic’ because of its glitch-retro style.”
>possibly carrying firearms regardless of any rules

Carrying long guns is legal on all BLM land. Discharging them may be restricted in some areas, though.
I think this is the main issue with these tools... what people are expecting of them.

We have swallowed the pill that LLMs are supposed to be AGI and all that mumbo jumbo, when they are just great tools and as such one needs to learn to use the tool the way it works and make the best of it, nobody is trying to hammer a nail with a broom and blaming the broom for not being a hammer...
This is a non-article.

It's Tom's Hardware linking to a 3rd party article which is a hidden ad for Iron Mountain enterprise services, except they manage to somehow have even less information than an ad article, despite being a "tech" news source.
Actually, thinking about Tesla is appropriate. No one really thought starting a new automotive manufacturer from scratch was possible, but Tesla did it. Yes, it's very hard and you'll probably fail, but if you do things different you might actually have a chance. The reasons all the old aircraft companies failed is probably the same reason Boeing is struggling. Don't copy what they've done in the past, make your own way. Yes, I know that building aircraft is a much higher hill to climb, but I think it might be worth it.

They could also join some of the small aircraft startups that are trying to gain a foothold. Maybe a cadre of experienced aircraft engineers would help them raise money and get a product to market faster.
I suppose that hinges on what "a lot" means in that comment. If it's "a lot" in absolute values, that's very plausible. If it's "a lot" as a percentage, OnlyFans would have to have a high rate of account closures.
Even if you don't engage with the content that gets recommended/shown in your timeline gets weird real quick.

I used to have an account for marketplace and our local neighborhood group and that's my experience.
Interesting concept. I wrote something very similar but for ZFS and in Bash. Zfs even supports zero knowledge incremental encrypted backups. The backup target can verify the integrity without ever needing the key
Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder
Sure. It's a failing of the ecosystem. That observation, a cup of coffee, and 1-3 years will get you a Kenny Paterson paper stunt-breaking your system. I feel where you're coming from, but, respectfully: it does not matter.

My thing here is just: learn the math! Or do something else. I did! There is so much to do in our industry.
I keep waiting for one of their models to just start the answer with "FWD: FWD FWD: FWD: BLAH BLAH FWD ON"
The Use of Symbology in API Documentation
In law it also depends a lot on how what rank in your class you were.
Amusing but a large part of the training data other LLM models is social media platforms.

I mean hop on chat GPT right now and ask it to come up with any kind of novel joke. I can almost guarantee it will either be some kind of word play or other equally low hanging kind of pun that you would find on Reddit fifty replies deep.

Where's the Mensa member only social media dating platform for a properly erudite and snobbishly arrogant LLM to train on?
Honestly not having to use Puppet or Ansible are among my reasons for using Docker. I do some basic stuff in cloud-init (which is already frustrating enough) to configure users, ssh, and docker and everything else is just standard Docker tooling.
Meta just created the dumbest object known to mankind. Quite an achievement given our current political landscape.
Well, there are certainly good uses. I do not think every microtransaction is bad, I wasn't clear enough above.

But back to the rest of your reply, regarding the QoL options, don't you think they impose an insidious incentive for companies to not strive for a well paced game but one that has enough filler to make people pay to not go through it?
Why?

A statement that extraordinary would be interesting if it had some reasoning alongside it.

Also, Facebook posts aren't really "in the public sphere" / publicly accessible, but that's a nitpick.
https://trellis.law/case/36047/524049-2023/nunez-yugely-v-be...
I believe this is Circle C++ with a new domain name. See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40553709 - Circle C++ with memory safety (2024-06-02)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23086227 - Circle – A C++ compiler with compile-time imperative metaprogramming (2020-05-05)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19224176 - Circle: The C++ Automation Language (2019-02-22)
Enabling Fast Flow in Software Organizations
One of the worst embedded OSes ever.

Sure glad i'm not still stuck in this hell in 2024...
I've known a lot of rich people and the reason to want to live forever is never to enjoy worldly possessions. It's always one of two reasons:

1. Control of whatever they have created to shepherd it into the future (sub category, my inheritors are going to fuck this up or only I can keep this following my vision, my inheritors probably won't destroy this but they will redirect it towards something I think is stupid)

2. They are smart enough to figure out they are just the software for the meat machine they are residing in and the meat machine is the old model that will get retired soon, which means the software will be shut off and deleted, which is way scarier than going to hell to many, so they want to avoid that outcome.

It's never the pretty baubles they have collected over the years or the comfortable existence they are living.
Google scholar ?
It's funny because the entire Facebook ecosystem is designed to disincentivize meaningful posting. Just keep watching the ads and short form videos, user.
Or, the delta depends on the nature of the problem/prompt, we’ve not yet figured that out, there’s a relatively narrow range of prompts with large delta, and so finding those examples is a work in progress?
I see you're one of the ones that wouldn't download a car.
Presence may be necessary, but researcher-driven weighting of different sources of content can still introduce bias. For instance, [0] suggests (sources are unclear) that OpenAI boosted by 5x the weight of their WebText2 dataset, which consists of sites linked to by upvoted Reddit comments. Reddit, in this sense, with all the biases of its various communities, was artificially elevated in importance. (Per [1], there were well-thought-through reasons for this around previous failures due to overreliance on Common Crawl, but it's nonetheless a choice that was made by humans to go in this direction.)

[0] https://gregoreite.com/drilling-down-details-on-the-ai-train...

[1] https://insightcivic.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/language-mod...
> As for predicting the future: I think within five years ALL vehicles on public roadways will require a beacon for travel, simply to alert other self-driven vehicles & intersection controllers. This process will be gradual, akin to "insurance discounts" for allowing driving habit monitoring (e.g. without a beacon, traffic lights won't auto-cycle for you).

I personally think within 5-10 years, forward facing cameras will be mandated on all vehicles, starting with commercial/heavy duty vehicles. Yes, there's some degree of a privacy argument with it all, but the safety and liability boosts dramatically outweigh them.

Assuming that happens, either your suggestion could also happen, or a visual solution to the same thing could also be in play.
I think it's just rough no matter what. I've worked with a lot of junior devs and the thing is I haven't noticed that the 24 year olds with a fresh CS masters do particularly better than code school grads who were working at walgreens or whatever the previous year.

Software development is a discipline in its own right that only very partially overlaps with a university CS curriculum.
Using Helix as a Vim User
And it's even more annoying when people use it to say that open source is bad.
> The US is starting to realize that Europe has neglected its own defense in favor of social projects, while relying on US taxpayer defense spending.

It's not that simple. Our social programs matter more to our citizens. The US wastes a lot of money on feeding its military industrial complex, including waging totally unnecessary and inconsequential wars like the second Iraq war or Afghanistan. As soon as they pull out after wasting trillions, things are back the way they were. And in the case of Iraq a lot worse (ISIS). The money for those wars would have been better spent on health and education, and less lives would be lost as well.

What is most important for our safety against countries like Russia is the nuclear umbrella. And the US doesn't want to see more than France and Britain have nuclear capabilities.
There's also an episode on effective altruism, which the author is a proponent of, which is pretty important in casting light on this frame of analysis.
The mustard second coming as predicted by C-wave theory
That's interesting to me. Very cool.
This is also an argument for ad blockers and torts. Facebook should be named in the class action suit if it's not already.

Torts are often the only way to get bad corporate actors to change their behavior.
I’m pretty sure I could do 95% of my job without the advanced classes I took. The important things that I learned since I started my career were not taught at university.
Same case without the paywall: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/DocumentList?docketI...
There is something like the pinephone where a portion of sale price was donated to the OS it ships with. But it is free to use any OS such as postmarketOS but you can donate as well.

The hardware is too slow to use as my main phone (it's like 10 years behind normal phone HW), but I assume that as the performance needs of average users plateaus "10 year old hardware" will be more than enough eventually. Look at how modern phones have not changed much in the past 5 years.
I, in UK, book things on Eventbrite, they email you with a calendar invite. Same with other booking systems for events IIRC. You can probably add people to an invitation? Maybe if you can exploit such a system then people would have them in their whitelist in any case?

A little adjacent to your question but relevant enough I think.
A tsunami in a remote fjord rang Earth like a bell for 9 days
Explore AMX Instructions: Unlock the Performance of Apple Silicon
Thanks for the reply!

My question was more of a "WTF is Firefox doing in the ~700ms between when the HTML has finished a network transfer and before the .css file is requested?"

I just tried it today and things are, in general, much faster (presumably due to the reduced load), but there is still over 500ms between when the .html completes the download and the .css is queued for transfer.

[edit]

I just tried it in a private window and most of the delay disappears, so I suspect extensions.
Says in the thread that it only cost $15k in (unrecoverable) legal fees.

we need to be prosecuting cases of barratry more often and with much stiffer penalties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barratry_(common_law)
HR / Recruiter setting up interviews? The person doing the inviting might be different from previous calls/emails.

Customer meetings I get invited to often come from someone I’ve never dealt with before, but include others who I work with who were responsible for bringing me into it.
You can avoid the SyntaxError by abusing boolean expressions a bit:

> obj = {}
{}
> obj != null && (obj.bar = 42)
42
> obj
{ bar: 42 }

Not as pretty as your LHS case, but it works.
People are frequently wrong in the same way in environments where they are easily influenced by each other like social media. That's part of why these models, especially early on, exhibited so many racial and gender biases.
People just submitted it.
I don't know why.
They 'trust me'.
Dumb fucks.

-Mark Zuckerberg

Things change, but this never stop being a concise summary of Meta's ethos as a company.
They won't stay away, but they're more likely to not smash your front door in and cuff you immediately, preferring to just have a look around instead.
Kids will get around restrictions. I think the best solution is an iPod nano and Garmin etrex. The mp3 player with airtag glued isnt bad either, or put it in the internals speaker out.
I’ve had the opposite experience: terrific use with modifying existing codebases. But then again I’ve been using GPT4 to code for over a year now and so I’m used to writing out prompts with my eyes closed.
They were a top indie publisher who you could rely on releasing interesting and quality game. Sad loss for gaming.
Isn't FP32 sufficient for audio processing? Even though we have 24bit DACs and ADCs these days I feel like 16bit was really good enough. FP32 with 24bit mantissa should avoid rounding errors at the 16bit level right?
No need to prepare for a new era when you can just bomb everyone into a previous one.
There isn't a "Docker runtime", and the daemon is not a runtime any more than systemd is a runtime. They're both just managing processes. If you want to argue that Docker containers have an overhead, you could maybe argue that the Linux kernel security features they employ have an additional overhead, but that overhead is likely to be marginal compared to a less secure approach and moreover since you're Very Concerned About Security™ I'm sure you would prefer to pay the security cost.
I worked in the CC system and I am a huge advocate to what they bring to market--a low cost alternative to primary institutions, cutting the high cost of a Bachelors degree by at least 1/3; but, those CCs were primarily focused on getting students to take their generals (call it what it is: an Undecided major). While this is great and all, most companies are expecting even their interns to have a 'hit the ground running' ability; right or wrong.

The only way for ANY college student to do this is through real-world experience (from an organization that is willing to take on someone very green or private repo work/portfolio). I am regularly asked by randoms on LinkedIn and/or my network as well as interns and/or candidates what they can be doing to improve their chances to get an internship or FT role. In those instances, I always recommend that these folks:

1. Come up with a project, end to end.

2. Develop the code and post it in a repo that can be accessed by companies during the hiring process.

3. Be able to explain the why behind the project, the entire process end to end, and--most importantly--why the work was important to do.

These are the items I believe will put those green students toward the top 20% of their competition in the market. I find entirely too many candidates who have a lot of coding and theory courses and not a whole lot of application of those learnings. By being able to show management of a project from end to end, be able to explain the development process coherently, and provide the potential business value it brings is a big way for those folks to stand out from someone who can just write code.

Many average four-year colleges aren't doing this for their students; CCs most definitely aren't.
A lot of people here seem justifiably angry at Boeing management's total destruction of an engineering corporate culture. It's unclear to me if fixing that is what the machinists are demanding or if they just want normal union things like being paid more and working less.

No hate if they are optimizing for that, unions don't exist to serve corporate culture. Just want to be clear-eyed about what the union is seeking and (potentially separately), what it will take to make Boeing an American great again.
Because if everybody had the same attitude as that, this world would be a horrible place to exist.

History judges people on how they treat the people they disagree with.
Still “impractical, academic, and niche”
The situation with law is that you need credentials from a good school, with a decent class rank, and probably a good clerkship to get your foot in the door with a well-paying white shoe law firm. Otherwise there are probably plenty of law positions but they may pay pretty poorly in many cases.
I'm a ADS200 fan, too. Bought one recently after way too many years of using a 30W Weller. Having a big choice of tips is nice. As a bonus, it's made in the US. I've been able to tackle projects that I'd never have even thought of trying with the old soldering iron.
Flappy Bird Foundation purchased trademark after original dev missed refiling
When I first started the project, URLs needed certain constraints enforced in my business logic. So I thought "Great, let me create a type for URLs". This is the type that parses URLs from user input and gets marshaled/unmarshalled to the DB.

Then I needed to ingest RSS feeds. So I found a library that handled that for me. Except that library uses another type for URLs. Uh oh. What should I do? I could change my URL type to be a wrapper type around both types, or write code to convert between the types. I chose to convert. Now I'm writing code to shuffle between the types where this RSS parsing module is used.

Then I needed to make HTTP requests. So I pulled in a library to handle HTTP requests. Of course, that library uses another type for URLs (from another library it depends on). Great. Now I have 3 types for a URL.

Then I needed to parse XML... and you know where this story is going.

So now my codebase has many different URL types.

The type-a-holics will say: "This is actually good! Each implementation of the URL type might have slightly different constraints, and the type system makes this all explicit. You should be grateful you spend half of your development time fiddling with types. The fact that `unpack . decodeUtf8` is littered around your codebase isn't code smell, it's the splendor of a type system that's saving you from yourself. You should learn to love the fact that you have to deal with String, Text, and ByteString and 4 URL types to fetch and parse an RSS feed. Otherwise your software would be full of bugs! Silly developer."

One day I finally woke up from this type nonsense. There's integers, rationals, strings, lists, and maps. The end.
It’s absurd to claim that software engineers are obsolete just because AI models like o1-preview still spew out fictional libraries and incorrect functions. These models frequently get basic facts wrong, especially when the information isn’t widely available online. The so-called improvements in reasoning don’t fix the fundamental issue: these models have zero ability to verify whether the garbage they pull from their neural networks is accurate.

Let’s be clear—software engineers aren’t going anywhere. AI might be a tool, but it can’t replace the expertise and critical thinking that engineers bring to the table. The constant loop of “You’re absolutely correct, and I apologize for the oversight in my previous response. [Let me make another guess.]” only highlights how much AI still relies on guesswork rather than true understanding. It’s laughable to think that engineers are “cooked” when these models can’t even tell fact from fiction reliably. Engineers aren’t the ones who are “cooked”—it’s the hype around AI that’s overdone.
Good to know, appreciate the review :)
The word "Investigate" is not normally a synonym for "Voter Intimidation."
BeOS/Haiku window management is so nice. Nothing is quite like it, with easy and intuitive tabbed groups and snapping. Really unfortunate that no Linux WM stole that.

Tracker is very refreshing for me as a spatial Nautilus enjoyer (and it even work right across workspaces!).

A very well thought out and executed environment.
Not only is it basically impossible to do a national minimum wage fairly, it is completely antithetical to our system of government. We are a federation of states, not a centralized national government that runs everything else. I wish people would stop trying to make the US something it isn't and was never meant to be.