skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You still can, yes. But as of last year, the UI for doing this in Settings has been removed - Pro is only allowed to defer updates for up to 35 days, the same as Home.

To go any longer than that, Pro users now need to dig through Group Policy Editor, which lets you defer updates for 365 days.

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/237087/windows-1...
Why speak then?
Is there a difference between calling someone a word and using the word to make a point about that word? More importantly, is it relevant for me as a non-POC to dictate how this word affects someone else?
Fair point, and you're right.
www.idealo.co.uk

www.idealo.de

www.idealo.fr

www.idealo.it

www.idealo.es
They don't need more than a full minute of advertising every load.
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Nothing about licensing or patents. I assume the worst (read: unusable for small businesses)?

10+ years ago I worked in a small voip shop, where we had very high quality (low jitter), but low bandwidth connection. I researched many codecs of the time (2010-ish).

We liked speex, because it can be used "without strings attached". Also, I can choose the quality depending on the bandwidth. Although for low bandwidth g729 was better. Which we couldn't use because of royalties (but allowed myself to test it).

We chose alaw/ulaw when bandwidth was not a concern, and speex when it was.

Since it does not mention usability outside of google, I also find this comparison unfair or incomplete: if you are comparing a proprietary codec, compare it to g729. If you are comparing a codec to speex, it should be open/free.

Edit: grammar
Wouldn’t use this product considering that it’s Goldman Sachs backend. What a horrible company and a damn shame Apple partnered with them.
Policing speech is a weapon for everyone. How often did you hear swear words on TV 20 years ago? Do you think it was the left keeping 'fuck' out of year shot of any impressionable teens? Did the Dixie Chicks get canceled by the left for saying that they didn't support the war in Iraq?
I hear this a lot and I understand people make mistakes trying to rush but this is not accurate for me. I can absolutely will myself to think faster. Maybe this comes with experience doing some meditation but when I have a difficult problem where the solution is not immediately obvious, I can sit in my chair or take a walk and focus very intensely on the problem. I get my whole mind to just focus on this one thing and I keep my mind there without getting distracted or daydreaming. I don’t try to have any kinds of thought in particular. I just focus on the problem. After doing this for a certain amount of time I will come up with my conclusion.

I could do this over a longer period of time and create much less mental strain but when I’m in a time crunch, it’s very useful.

That said if the problem is actually beyond my reach and capabilities I won’t get much of an answer.
OK, over-simplification.

Perhaps: Language in-class variance is small (C# ~= Java, C++, C, RUST are close-ish). Cross-class variance is big (JS vs Rust). Therefore, recruiting a programmer from the same problem / language class is more important than the particular language.
Shouldn’t be true because that should go in the next month
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Actually Cosmopolitan doesn't support threads so Java, Go and Rust won't work at all on top of it. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/runtim...
Surveillance devices which need to compress audio down to almost nothing in order to hide its data traffic?
There's plenty of zero-percent consumer credit lines. Interest rates are certainly not the only way to make money by lending money, particularly if you have something to sell.

In this instance: https://www.apple.com/apple-card/monthly-installments/

Buying a Mac on credit is considerably cheaper than buying with cash. 12 months of the time-value of money + you get 3% cash back.
Maybe its just the FAANG companies that are hiring only those from prestigious universities?

I still hope I can land a decent software engineering position someday without such a degree, even if its not at a FAANG company and doesnt pay as well
I've had Apple Card since day one. I'll tell you what makes me certain that this is not intentional and is in fact not even happening as the user is implying:

-Apple and Goldman Sachs' service with Apple Card has been exemplary in every detail

-Apple went out of its way throughout the early months of covid to let users skip payments for any reason. No extra interest charges

-Apple Card doesn't even have any late fees, or annual fees, or fees of any kind. And the app for the card goes out of its way to keep you from paying any unnecessary interest charges

-This sort of punitive action just does not jibe with the entire nature of the product or Apple's service in general
Original poster observed A, then observed B, and concluded causality
You're welcome, and that's really cool to hear.
What is really difficult is to reduce pressure so you can think clearly, but maintain a culture of urgency, or perhaps the right word is "momentum".

I'm working in a small team on some software that we'll finish in a year or two and sell for x dollars. We are self funded so every day we spend on the product is another dollar we need to earn to recoup our investment. The longer we take, the greater the risk we won't ever see a return.

The product needs to be good, but we also need to build it fast.
I decided to use our covid time to go back and finish my degree. My first experience with the current crop of online proctoring software was ProctorU. I cannot even begin to capture in words how much I hated this system. Proctors invasively taking control of my local MacOS system, making tons of changes, often forgetting to return them to the state they were in before the exam. Other time blaming me for the fact that their outdated software that ran on Flash didn't play well with modern browsers... and on and on. When I finally contacted my main institution about how exams were being handled, it was a huge relief to find out they were just using Zoom.
as a muslim i can confirm you have nothing of content behind your ideology
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, what you stated is correct. https://phys.org/news/2018-12-australia-cyber-snooping-laws-...
Please don't spread unsupported rumors like this unless you are willing to back them up with evidence.
The article is going in one direction about outdoor safety, but outdoor gatherings are only safe with distance.
Fresh air and UV will disperse and destroy the virus in the open air, but there is a theoretical trail of possible virus particles we breathed out. How far should we be apart to be safe? If we all go to the park together and keep our distance there is fine, but the problem is gatherings or just congestion.
reading it I thought - if language models can be too big that could be a problem for Google given that at least one of their major competitive advantages is being able to have the biggest language models there are.

Although I don't really know if that's so (about the competitive advantage), it certainly seems like it is something Google might think from what I remember about earlier Google arguments about automated translation.
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I've seen some research on "relative income happiness" that suggest having poor(er) people nearby should increase happiness. Perhaps it doesn't apply if the income cap is to large...
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That's a very different argument from "this feels false," which is just some subjective bullshit. However, your argument is little better.

You're saying "it stands to reason that a widely used product would have already hit this corner case by now." The problem with your argument is that it's a tautology. If in fact the statement by dcurtis is the first efflorescence of the problem, your line of thinking would reject it anyway.

That's why it's useless to say "this feels wrong" or even "surely we would know by now." The guy who wrote the tweet has already said here in HN comments that he will substantiate what he wrote, so it seems unnecessary to dogpile the skepticism and "feelings" in the interim.

You don't have to accept a logical proposition in order to consider/entertain it.
Thanks for the specific numbers.

> Still has plenty of room for smaller and cheaper per-launch fully reusable rockets.

Upon further reflection, I'm getting more on board with this, with two big relevant factors: first, how quickly can these new companies work out the fully reusable mojo. SpaceX is clearly many years ahead, but having a predecessor company actually demonstrating a technology surely makes it somewhat easier to re-implement. Second: back to the physics. I don't have a good intuition for this, but I do hope that it's physically possible to efficiently do small scale orbital transport.

One way or another, I'm happy as can be that there are smart people (outside of SpaceX/Blue Origin) really pressing into this problem.
Yes, I'm a huge fan of Convox [1]. One thing that don't make very clear is that the paid "Convox Pro" hosted console is optional, and convox/rack [2] is completely free and open source. You can set everything up with a single command, and then interact with your rack and app directly through the CLI. I really like how simple and opinionated it is, even though their new v3 version uses Kubernetes behind the scenes.

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[2] https://github.com/convox/rack
> remove work

Typo of the day :D
The hit on your credit report that can last many years if you pay late is far more of a risk than fraud, IME. I forgot to pay my credit card 6 years ago, and that has been hurting me ever since, including on my mortgage. Finally fell off just this year.
Because botting is basically impossible for us to detect algorithmically (we're a tiny company and don't have the resources to engage in that kind of battle with botters), our line boils down to, "If we come and talk to you and you don't reply, you're not playing the game and that's not allowed."

It's the only standard for botting that works for us.
No interest if you pay off the balance of the card every month. Tons of people do it.
A surprise 17,000 electric Bill?

I don’t hear about it much anymore but for years was terrified of making a cell data mistake and ending up with a 40k+ bill.
http://www.rowetel.com/wordpress/?page_id=452

Take a look at this too. Also runnable on low power devices. And there was some work of using AI to enhance the codec2 encoded bits too.
Nothing to worry about, it happens! Glad you enjoyed Achaea. :)
Thanks for the links! I am not sure how well Xor Filters would fit here because they're meant to be immutable, whereas the extension has a content script that adds any submissions from /new or the front page to the Bloom filter so you can navigate directly back to the discussion.

I had not heard of PinSketches before this, and will definitely look into them. As I mentioned in another comment: the way the project is set up, it should be possible to do a drop-in replacement with a better data structure, should one come along. Thanks!
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I'm writing this from a Xiaomi smartphone.

I know Xiaomi is not the best brand to buy for privacy, but I consider their products one of the best in terms of value for money

I own a few Xiaomi devices, I simply install Blokada on each one of them and I think you would be surprised by how many non Chinese domains it blocks, Google being one of the worst offenders.

EDIT:

see this screenshot

https://imgur.com/a/UO0BGCy

EDIT 2: paradoxically knowing that Xiaomi is a Chinese company make buyers more aware of the privacy risks involved. It breaks that false sense of security associated with electronic devices that many people believe in.
My story is somewhat similar to yours, grew up poor AF and in a toxic environment. I escaped in my late 20's, moved cross country and put myself through college and then MBA part time while working full time.

Fast forward to today I am doing well, like you I have no debt whatsoever, decent cash flow, and decent net work.

A couple of interesting things:

1. 1/3 of homeowners in the US are mortgage free

2. Read the book "The Millionaire Next door"

Third anecdotal note: I have recently switched job, and I work in a company where there are about 25 people. Well I have noticed that the amount of $ spend on lunch is inversely proportional to the pay: the highest paid employees pack their lunch from home; the lowest paid go out and buy lunch most days, and more expensive lunches.
That sounds like an improvement, but not enough for passenger air travel replacement between the cost of coach and business class (New York to shanghai), promised for 7 years from now. They need many orders of magnitude of reliability improvements over shuttle for that, though it would be slightly suborbital reentry.

The Dear Moon mission in a couple years will have full reentry at extreme speeds, assuming they weren't just ripping off that Japanese billionaire guy. I think they still planned transpirational cooling at that point?

Dragon was supposed to have at least one mission to Mars every transfer period from 2020 onwards and that seems to have been scrapped.
I come from scheme land, where that internal tail recursive function is the way to go for speed (internal definitions are easy to verify that they are never changed, which allows to skip a lookup - the same should be true for CL). I thought the same would be true for SBCL, but apparently it needed some nudging.
Thanks for your comment -- what is "garment price assistance?"

As other commenters have skillfully pointed out, this would likely have deleterious effects unless, as you say, it was implemented in a fully-downstream fashion to include the whole pool of workers including contractors and the like.

And of course, when regulations get too stiff in one city or state or nation, companies move. That is also a big obstacle in this idea. But there is at least one company that has the CEO salary capped at a certain number of multiples of the lowest-paid employee, and their culture seems to be great.
I agree. I looked at migrating our technical documentation out of MS Office documents into some diffable format and it were the diagrams that killed the initiative.

Tables are a pain, but most technical docs do not require rowspan and other things that are impossible to maintain in Markdown/reST/Asciidoc.

Diagrams are just a shitshow. PlantUML is the biggest player, and it tries to do the right thing by separating semantics and presentation, but kinda fails when your diagram grows too large.

I wish there was some tool that you could feed three separate human-readable inputs:

- styles, which let you define what your elements look like
- semantics, which let you describe your elements and relationships
- layout, which lets you manually rearrange the elements on your diagram (and is generated by a WYSIWYG tool)

Pikchr generates nice diagrams, but it's an all-in-one dialect. At least when I am reading well-written PlantUML I can understand the meaning of the diagram without seeing the rendered image.

The tool in the OP is nice, but it doesn't let you describe the layout at all.
I have just upvoted this for you as I also loved the article :)
The way we operate is by putting countries on a curve based on their characteristics (PPP, tech salaries etc.) and find which curve maximizes your KPIs. When you say seasonal do you mean yearly seasonality? I'd definitely be curious to hear more! My email: abel@corrily.com
It goes the same for any of the "Eyes" countries. They share intelligence and tracking of citizens as well. It's not just the US, so don't act like it is.
At the basic level, does this even have anything to do with a "culture war"? More like it's simply a social weapon, apparently capable of moving the New York Times, being handed to teenagers. Of course some of them are going to pull that lever to test what they can do!
The NY Times accidentally exposed this whole charade when they attempted to justify McNeil's firing by saying "intent doesn't matter".

People immediately started pointing out all the instances where another NY Times writer (Nikole Hannah-Jones) has used the N-word. Many of those instances are tweets that she has only very recently deleted: https://web.archive.org/web/20210211163617/https://twitter.c...
> Do you think it would have been unethical for someone in the 1950s to buy a house with a racially restrictive covenant, knowing that they were not going to follow that covenant when they sold it?

It's a little unfair to judge a 1950s person on modern ethical standards. But I'll take a stab. You can't line out a clause in the covenant like you can in a contract. But you can 1) refuse to buy it or 2) make it clear you'll fight it in court if you need to.

As for what my father would do, I don't know. But I do know that he'd judge a man by his honor, his acceptance of responsibility for his actions, and his performance of duty to his country. He did not judge a man by his color, uniform, nationality, etc. And it cost him his career in the Air Force, so he didn't take this lightly.
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That quote always bothered me. Does that mean that Fry doesn't care about other people's feelings? He sounds like an a-hole.
You can start by removing "machine learning" from "machine learning API", and learn how to build APIs and add authentication (tokens, oauth, jwt, etc.). There was a recent thread on HN on API building that you can check out.

Also, most courses/blog posts are crap because they're mostly written by data virgins. I blocked the biggest Medium publication about data science and machine learning from my search results using an extension because they allow pretty much anyone to publish there about end-to-end ML/deployment/MLOps/ML project lifecycle, etc.

This is not obvious and many are catching up on the MLOps movement. There are sadly more people writing about it than people actually doing it. I would have loved if it were not the case, as we are in that field as well and had to build our machine learning platform.
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When Google's announcement [1] was posted a few days ago, I listened to their samples and heard an odd effect in the "chocolate bread" sample (the video chat example) [1], which is not mirrored in this article.

On that sample, I felt [2] that the Lyra version exaggerates the pronunciation of the phrase 'with chocolate' in a way that meaningfully differs from the speaker's original. It weakens the voiced 'th' to nothingness, and overshoots both the lead consonant and first vowel of 'choc', and then proceeds to wash the entire rest of the sentence with a peculiar brightened voice that's high, lacks consonant definition, and is close to ringing.

I'm guessing it's actually style transfer, because though the result sounds not much like the speaker's original, the result is reminiscent of the speech pattern and accent that people with East Asian and Southeast Asian ancestry adopt when speaking American English. It was surprising, given that the speaker doesn't sound like that in the original. I wonder if others hear this too.

While Lyra sounds richer and wider-band than Opus or Speex at these bitrates, the degradations and artifacts of those codecs are universally recognized (through years of familiarity with telephones) as compression artifacts and not innate features of the speaker themselves. Therefore listeners can be expected to be sympathetic to the quality issues and not attribute the whole of the sound on the speaker's person.

If AI-trained voice synthesizer codecs become the norm, and it performs well on most speakers, that expectation will go away, and the resulting audio will be attributed wholly to the speaker. That increases the impact of mistakes and misrepresentations introduced by the codec, unbeknowst to the speaker and listener.

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/02/lyra-new-very-low-bitrate-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26282519
Yes, something is definitely missing from this story!

I thought on first skim perhaps they were leaving out the difficulty of manufacturing mRNA vaccines in volume (there's a classic popular trope, especially with respect to medicine for some reason, of invention being 99% of getting something to market.

However from what limited info is in the article it appears to be something quite easy to manufacture on existing infrastructure.