skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a matter of breaking down the components themselves, the quality, the processing, the amplifier, etc -- and miniaturizing it.

The quality of the amplifier shouldn't matter much here. I'm confident that Apple has the capability to make amps with equally low distortion to commercial hearing aid providers, and those shouldn't be expensive at the small amounts of power we're talking about for an in-ear device.

As for processing, Apple is capable of making software that's just as good as commercial providers, and probably capable of making in-device signal processing chips which are even better. Their H2 chip is built on a 7nm node process, and it's probably capable of quite a lot of processing for that form factor.

When we talk about "the quality", that's quite vague. What specifically is better?

> Also, real hearing aids generally have about 2x as many microphones and speakers.

I just looked up some spec sheets and I didn't see any that had more than 2 mics per ear. In contract, the AirPods Pro 2 actually have 3 per ear.

See this, for example: https://www.atlantichearingcare.com/unitron-hearing-aids/#:~....

> Just look up the spec sheet and validate if you don't believe what I am saying.

Again, I don't see anything that confirms what you're saying. I see lots of features that the AirPods don't have (ex: telecoil) but I don't see anything which suggests to me that they can achieve better hearing correction or better audio quality per se.

I'm still open minded if you want to find some specific references that disagree here.
I agree that this goes hand-in-hand with DI, but are you for or against it? E.g, Is Go simple because it allows switching out real DBs for hashmaps in unit tests, or because it forbids it?
I'm mid-career in security, and having written a book is probably worth 3-6 decent certifications at this point. I should probably coauthor one with ChatGPT before common knowledge of how easy that is gets any more widespread.
Back in windows and powershell days, this was my favorite "security reminder" prank. Everyone who forgot to lock their machine and walked away got this script executed on their machines.
TLDR: it schedules a task "Security Reminder" to play "I'm watching you" via voice synth, every 30 mins.

```

$action = New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute 'Powershell.exe' -Argument '-NoProfile -WindowStyle Hidden -command "& {[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(""System.Speech"") | Out-Null; (New-Object (""System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer"")).Speak(""I''m watching you"")}"'

$period = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 30;

$trigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -RepetitionInterval (New-TimeSpan -Minutes 30) -RepetitionDuration (New-TimeSpan -Days 1024) -At 9am -Once

Register-ScheduledTask -Action $action -Trigger $trigger -TaskName "Security reminder" -Description "Security Reminder"

```

You can imagine people faces, especially many were sitting in headphones in open space offices. Those were the days...
Multi-touch per se has been pretty common even in tiny junk trackpads. The problem is that it's not particularly useful in that case.

What makes Apple's trackpads so nice is a huge and solid surface. I came from Thinkpads myself and honestly didn't expect that to be as much of a thing as it turned out to be, but yes, they really are that much better. There are a few PC laptops these days with similar trackpads, but you definitely have to look for it when picking one.
I can't stop thinking about this throwaway parenthetical at the start of the blog post:

> [...] for many writers, writing a book is about the last thing they should do (unless they feel a book bursting out of them, much like a facehugger).

Now, as we all know, the aliens that burst out of people in the Aliens franchise are called 'chestbursters'. "Facehuggers", by comparison, are hatched from alien eggs.

So in this metaphor, since we're told that novels are facehuggers, the writers must be the eggs. And by process of elimination, we can deduce that the innocent starship crewmembers being attacked by facehuggers (novels) are innocent readers.

The metaphor actually contradicts the author's main thesis, since every egg (writer) does in fact contain a facehugger (novel). But contrariwise, all the human characters (the rest of us) would be much better off if those novels just stayed inside the writers and didn't insist on being written or read.

Metaphors are like scissors; they're twice as much fun when you run with them!
He gives clear and actionable definitions, which is what makes it remarkable and different to everyone else saying or implying what you wrote.

You can't strip out the valuable content from a sentence and then claim it was always identical to valueless sentences.
People taking calls from cars (and thinking it's OK in the first place) is exactly why we're going back to 5 days in office. People are simply taking too much advantage. You're being paid to work those 40 hours a week, not do whatever the hell you want to during the day and try to cram in work while you're driving from one errand to the next.
It means that there are two problems: one, to formalize the problem as stated while capturing all relevant details, and two, solving the resulting formal problem. Until you solve problem one, you can't use formal methods to say anything about the problem (it's not even clear a priori that a problem is even solvable).

Unfortunately, the task of a formalizing an informal problem is itself an informal problem that we don't know how to formalize, so we can't say much about it. So overall, we can't say much about how hard the general problem "given a problem statement from a human, solve that problem" is, whether any particular system (including a human!) can solve it and how long that might take with what resources.
Well Americans keep voting in the successors to a a racist, segregationist openly pro KKK party (and I’m obviously not talking about the Republican party). I don’t see any fundamental problems with that, though. People and organizations change over time.

As much as one might dislike someone like Meloni she isn’t exactly Mussolini or closer to him in almost any way than to liberal/moderate politicans.
To keep property prices high across the board. If one part breaks, the whole front collapses. Meaning that the banks who own the government and own the population will loose their grip on power.
Glad someone pointed this out, this whole article oozes no confidence. Burst into tears at the first lesson? Come on.
Why is this a Show HN not a launch HN? Is it simply a concept and not yet fleshed out?

Hard sell to choose you especially as a full on editor replacement (as well as a copilot replacement) without a demo or even gifs.
> We have mathematically proven that transformers can solve any problem, provided they are allowed to generate as many intermediate reasoning tokens as needed.

This is also the case with plain and regular RNNs
So obvious! But _no_ I haven't done this even though I have messed up remote servers where this would have helped. A bit embarrassed I didn't think of it myself, but thanks for the tip nonetheless!
One reason that waterfall method I mentioned actually managed to produce a working system was that the customer (together with all the companies working on the project) put extensive effort into the requirements phase. Working on the requirements and removing requirement conflicts (a very common thing), understanding of requirements, feasibility of requirements etc. etc., and, at the final stage, a week-long meeting with everyone (customer, companies) to work out the last kinks. Only after that did the next phase start: Creating software requirements from the system requirements, and from there, an architecture and so on. And, as this was something involving many companies in many countries and even continents, having everyone on the same page was essential. And it did work. Of course in the years following the project there would be bugs etc, but not fatal ones (which are typically caused by errors in the requirements- and architecture phases).

(We had several projects of the type above, and those which had more problems were those were the requirements phase wasn't as extensive)

EditAdd: Just to be clear - I don't think the pure waterfall model is the best way to work. However I did learn a lot from it, particularly how important requirements are. And the forth-and-back-and-forth-and-back on this which can happen in Agile projects isn't really the solution either.
I don't know, it let's your mind wander - especially if you can walk near water or better, the sea.
For me it was newspaper delivery kid. You worked 7 days a week with only Xmas off - rain/snow didn’t matter. I got the papers at 5am, folded them and bagged them and was on my route by 545. Delivered them on my bike and then rode to school at 7am. And then once a month had to go door to door to collect the money, which was a pain. But no other way to make $100/month at age 11.
> you were genetically more gifted than they

No scientific basis in this whatsoever.

> It is the rare person who has been obese for most or all of their lives and prefers it that way or has never thought about or done anything to try and fix it. That is not how people show up at doctor's offices to ask about Ozempic. They show up in tears, at the end of their rope, or having completely given up.

If this was the case, there would have been no drug shortage. Instead, everyone is showing up asking for it because it's the easiest way out. No diet, no effort, nothing. Just take the pill or do the shot, boom. I wonder if you are being serious or just so much deluded. There is no drugging out of thermodynamics.
A content preview of a few pages might lead to more sales.
There is due process. It's just not the same standard as a criminal case. Usually it starts with the prosecutor mailing out a letter, which if you miss it means you're screwed.
That's mainly because the state of the reality that the discourse is about is also really lacking.
Excellent question, I changed the icon to a dog face one, it's the "emergency card" quick access. I need to improve my UI/UX skills... :/
When you touch or click that icon, it will show you a card with all the information you might need to have at hand about your dog (owner info, allergies, medications, vet contact, etc.) You need to add this info into your dog's profile first.
I will try to add a new section with more screenshots and update some of them.
Feed forward NNs can approximate all functions f: X -> Y only for closed domains.

But recurrent neural networks can do solve any computational problem given enough precision.
I think the prior commenter’s point might be more clearly stated as “why hold rank and file employees responsible for overall conditions within the company, rather than those actually responsible for overall conditions within the company [management].”
> I would have appreciated a deeper discussion of why OpenAI's revenue isn't a data point toward generative AI having some business value. Presumably if nobody was using generative AI in a way that gives them value, OpenAI wouldn't be using all those GPU hours. That's what I was missing from the article personally.

Firstly, the revenue numbers are rumors. I have no doubt OpenAI has significant revenue, but both reported numbers are imprecise suggesting they likely are estimates at best.

Furthermore, a non-trivial amount of OpenAI's revenue is certainly coming from other AI startups. They in turn are likely burning investor cash, which isnt an indication that OpenAI is providing business value, its an indication that they provide a tool to speculate on future value. Or, more cynically, the provide a tool for companies to convince investors to give them more money.
> Anything you actually want to write about, you have to shoehorn into the crime novel.

Isaac Asimov figured that out!
Metapatterns Overview
Four major desktop hypervisor upgrades arrived at once
I agree with your points.

Where are you getting a genuine F91-W for 5€? A replacement 71604002 band costs me €8!
You're over-thinking it. Large PRs have a known effect of reviewers' eyes just glaze over and the PR just gets a cursory glance and LGTM :+1: on it.

That's when you know a PR is "large."

What's stopping you breaking such a PR into smaller chunks? Some arbitrary "it does what it's supposed to do" definition?
The remuneration is certainly a large part of the point, because a SWE who makes mid six figures and burns out from a high stress job has accumulated enough money to not have to work again for awhile, potentially ever, and can rest and recuperate. A cashier on minimum wage working a similarly high stress job can't ever stop working because they're never not going to be living paycheck to paycheck.
> Ignoring the many, many logical issues with your post

Please, point them all out.

> Who cares if it no longer requires effort to be skinny? Why should it require effort to be skinny? And why do you care either way?

I don't, why do you care if people say weight loss drug users take the easy way out?
Idk why Amazon employees aren't unionizing over this. A major AWS outage due to striking employees could hit them where it hurts and make Amazon's management realize how stupid they are to consider this policy change.
For what it's worth, I agree with you.
After all, none of us living in "democracies" were ever given a chance to vote about the legitimacy of the constitution, of the law codes, of the armed thugs, of the state itself...
You will be surprised by how many people are sensitive to it and plain avoid coffee/tea.
You will never please everyone.

I am an immigrant in a European country. Most people are like “wow, good for you, you’ve learned the language!”, but I have also, from a couple of gen Z folks, had accusations of being a coloniser and cultural appropriation… for learning the language of the country in which I live. I was surprised enough that I didn’t realise I was being accosted at first. As a crusty old millennial it never even occurred to me that learning someone’s language could be offensive to them. “Portuguese is for the Portuguese, not for foreigners!” was one of them. Strange how there’s this mix of anti-coloniser sentiment that actually seems to be or at least feed into anti-immigrant sentiment.

Bluntly, I think these people are idiots, and safely ignored.
The iShittification of the Mac platform continues ... I predicted this a long time ago when Apple released its first Mac mini with soldered SSD. Then the ones with security chip. And now we have soldered RAM + SSD behind a custom SoC that can only run macOS (yes, it is a macOS only system despite the PR of "ARM Linux / xBSD on M1+" because all these are crippled version of OS that cannot fully exploit the hardware because there are no literature on it for system developers, and they have to literally reverse engineer at a slow pace to make the OS run on it).

As the hardware iShittification continued, macOS too was also being slowly stripped of features to ensure Apple controlled your data and what you could run on it. Support for independent Kernel extension (outside of Apple's control) was removed mainly to cripple existing independent Application Firewall and virtualisation software. Apple-made OS APIs for these were integrated to the newer macOS and offered as replacement to ensure Apple controlled how Application Firewalls and Virtualisations should / would work on macOS. (Such restriction on the kernel extensions for independent system developers is also meant to prevent support for other filesystem, like ZFS for example - the OpenZFS project is maturing fast on Linux, Windows and macOS and can be a game changer as its usage has the potential to "free" our data from a closed and controlling ecosystem, to be used on any platform of our choice.

Whether you are a developer or a user, a "consumer relationship" with Apple feels like a relationship with a controlling and abusive spouse who repeatedly gaslights you that you are imagining things and are the one at fault because "you just don't understand them".
One question, if anyone knows the details: does this prove that there exists a single LLM that can approximate any function to arbitrary precision given enough CoT, or does it prove that for every function, there exists a Transformer that fits those criteria?

That is, does this prove that a single LLM can solve any problem, or that for any problem, we can find an LLM that solves it?
Yes, because this is a Federal government organization, so it is backed by the Federal government/US Treasury.

So "pre-funding" pensions is nonsense because the pensions will be paid out of a) the USPS current revenues, or b) US Treasury.

Just like Social Security, which effectively "invests" in US Treasuries and redeems those bonds as required to pay current recipients.
That is a bit how the Germans did all the nice things during WW2. Just remove personal integrity and go along with the flow.
The bigger the company gets, the more separate it becomes from its founder/face/whatever.

Inevitable.

(Although this document clearly sets out that this distinction should be fought at every step, so that counts against what I'm saying. It is trying desperately to ensure the company reflects the man as much as possible)
*Whoosh*

The takeaway from many folks successfully capitalizing on many tech commoditization trends isn't that old one being mined out means game over...

... but this pattern keeps happening, so go and identify the current wave and ride it

the most obvious commoditization breakthrough right now is LLMs, but there are a bunch of other 10X's happening too
Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire
There is no scientific basis that genetics affects your predilection to obesity? Uh, I have about a dozen papers to show you, at least.

There was a drug shortage because the media ran away with the story and the pharmaceuticals were unprepared.

That very drug shortage hurt both people with obesity and people with Type 2 Diabetes.

My source is first hand experience. What’s yours? Bias and assumption, or moral judgment?
Everything is ephemeral though. Not just your team at work that you enjoy, or a team at any workplace that you enjoy, but everything. So don't worry about crossing that bridge until you come to it. There's no good situation that is a sure thing to continue indefinitely, so enjoy them while they're there and then be prepared to make moves if they end.
Thanks for the writeup! It was great as you explained the tools and rabbit holes you went it to.
Lol. No politicians that pass these laws.
> But it takes surprisingly little to sell back centralization and lock-in to developers, even when working on top of a decentralized tool.

I don't care about centralisation / decentralisation in my work. What I care about is that I have the information I need to do my job.

> Unlike having to go to at least two different web applications (PRs and issue tracker)

PR descriptions can be part of your merge commit message so I don't know why you need to go to a web application if you don't want to. You can also read the full diff in git diff so I don't really see what you're upset about.
No, it's to offer them a chance to make a lot of money in exchange for a lot of work.

No one is forced to work there and they are not taken advantage of.

Any of them are free to start their own channel and outcompete him! It's literally how he did it!
Is the dialogue here that you ask questions that makes the workflow more and more constrained and then when X factors are fixed it becomes obvious that the workflow works great?

Of course I start on work that I (not the reviewer) can work on right now.
> If you ever change your HTTP server

Never needed to. Premature optimization.

> We have the same issue with the database

What issue?? Cross that bridge when you get to it...

> To change your database client – not even to change the kind of database, just the code that calls it – you'd have to rip out this hard dependency from every corner of your application.

I really doubt this is such a big deal... Bit of ctrl+f for that module and paste the new one. All database libraries have a "connect()" and a "query()".

I'm so far convinced that this article is written for people who have too much time to waste on things that will probably never happen just so they get to feel smart and good about something that's not even visible.

Imagine if we built bridges this way: yes, right now we have settled on a stone masonry design, but what if we want to move to steel trusses in the future???

Why can software engineers not accept that it is unreasonable to expect one single human creation to last forever and be amendable to all of our future needs? Cross the bridge when you get to it. Don't try to solve future problems if you're not 100% certain you're going to have them. And if you _are_ certain, just do it right the first time, rather than leaving an opening for a future person to "easily" fix it up. And sometimes? A new bridge has to be built and the old one torn down.
OceanGate is probably still a going concern on paper. They no doubt have premises, equipment, other assets, creditors, cash in the bank and so on.

This lawsuit is probably an attempt to get a seat at the liquidation table if nothing else. They will probably not get 50M out, but I don't think that's the point.

Also keep in mind that this is the /estate/ that's suing, so there is a no doubt a lawyer somewhere in the mix that saw an opportunity to increase their executor fees and make bank.
I also did not think of it myself, but had it shown to me by a greybeard after complaining about having messed up in exactly that way, and had to pay extortionate prices for "hands on" by someone at our colo facility...
What an eloquent rebuttal. I’m convinced. But for someone more skeptical, maybe elaborate how that wasn’t in effect the ruling in citizens united?
Even looking at this, I find it still very hard to see how it's computing x*y for arbitrary values of x and y...
Every streaming platform has loudness normalisation, it's not an Apple thing.

All the big ones also require a high quality master to be uploaded exactly because if any post-processing is needed it won't impact quality as much.
Getting tired of people replying to me about how it is obvious to anyone who speaks more than one language[1] when I’ve said already that I speak two languages.

[1] Which is more applicable than learning programming or math since this is linguistics.
Same reason they use crypto.
Was genuinely wondering after reading official statement on their blog.
Maybe the deal went south because Intel wanted it to be called Playstation 6 with Intel Integrated Graphics.

And with a sticker on the front, of course.
Moving everyone who realistically can work from home out of the offices benefits those who MUST commute as well. During COVID the roads where empty, cutting my commute in half, even during the later days where many was back at work.

For stores in particular, if people work from home, you can move stores closer to where people live, including those who work in the stores. It's country dependent, but there's no need to have all only huge supermarkets in the outskirts of town, when very few pass through those areas. Then smaller stores closer to the population becomes more relevant.
Four Levels of Learning
I don't know about Cloud, but I saw lots of L8/L9s get laid off in CorpEng. Basically, anyone at those levels who didn't have a significant level of scope (i.e. enough FTEs under them), and even some who did, got laid off. I don't know exact figures, but you're probably looking at at least 50 FTEs for an L8, and over 100 for an L9, as a minimum bar to not be perceived as an unnecessary level of upper middle management that can be flattened away.
It depends on what sort of club or ride you end up in. If you end up in a competitive group/club then its harder to make friends as people are focused on racing or the sportives and just want to get the training done

While if you choose to go the cafe ride groups then you'll have people just out for a ride and a chat.