skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So I guess this is a US thing. Is 'auto-pay' the same thing as setting up a monthly direct debit to pay either your minimum payment, a percentage, or to clear the full balance?

There are a variety of things someone could mean when they say "auto-pay" in the US, including:

1. Authorizing a merchant to keep your credit card info on file and to charge that whenever they want to bill you,

2. Providing a merchant with your checking account information and authorizing them to take money from there whenever they want to bill you,

3. Many banks include a bill paying service for free with your checking account, which can be configured to receive bills electronically from many merchants, and to automatically pay them from your checking account. Many banks will allow you to choose whether to automatically pay the full bill amount, the minimum due amount, the full balance amount, or a fixed amount, and will allow you to set a maximum amount.

4. For merchants that can not send bills electronically to your bank's bill paying service, many banks will let your configure the bill paying service to send the merchant a fixed amount on a regular schedule.

5. For bills for credit cards issued by the same bank where you have your checking account, there is often an auto-pay feature to automatically pay your credit card from that checking account.

This often means that there are several ways to auto-pay a given bill. For example, I could auto-pay my electric bill by method #1, method #2, or method #3. If I used method #1, I could auto-pay that credit card with #2 and maybe #3.
> The joy of understanding/mastery/comprehension is gone.

Yes, and is also not rewarded. Deeply understanding a problem has much less career value than job hopping + leet code practice.

We're creating a generation of senior developers who do not understand problems deeply. (And are also "senior" within 1-2 years...)
> they should apologize for that for their own benefit

Whats the benefit though?
It's not 1960 lol, there are not vast swathes of the country where that happens, since the liberal left has almost total control via the Federal bureaucracy for enforcing their values everywhere, not just in blue states
I wouldn't be as pessimistic—they invented VP9 and were important to AV1, and continue to promote both and use them everywhere.
> Is there a difference between calling someone a word and using the word to make a point about that word?

In my opinion, yes, absolutely, there is a gigantic difference. Though I certainly understand that times change and a large segment of the population no longer feels that way.
> I'm not sure how much money you think lives up at the top, but redistributing it is not sustainable, and it's certainly not enough to magically pull everyone out of poverty indefinitely.

People just do not understand this. You could take away every penny from every billionaire in this country. If you sold everything they had, you would not have enough money to fund the federal government for even one year. And now the money is gone; you can no longer collect tax from the ex-wealthy.

Nevertheless, "just tax the rich" is treated as the solution to all problems. I guess people hear all the talk about the "top one tenth of one percent" and they imagine literally bottomless bank accounts.
And this is why we can synthesize different instruments electronically. Reproduce the overtone patterns and you hear the same instrument.

Not to mention, two different pianos or two different violins can sound very different.
I always found it amusing listening to my Chinese colleagues chat, because it always sounded they were talking about "n**as" and "young hoes." They were tickled pink when I explained this. I forgot what phrase they were saying that I heard as the latter but I remember it being very common in conversation.
What I want to know is whether Lyra takes any longer to encode than the alternatives.

Because as far as I can tell, nobody cares in the slightest about latency.

Phone calls are getting to be like writing postcards to each other. Speak in a whole paragraph. Wait several seconds for the latency to clear. Then the other party responds with a whole paragraph, waits several seconds for the latency to clear...

Improvements to fidelity are nice-to-have, but I would like some real-time in my real-time communications, please.
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Completely unrelated but damn so they need to update the illustration at the top of that page. It's hideous.
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You're arguing that a politician demanding the enactment of policies and programs that numerous other quite-wealthy countries enjoy, and people who agree with them, shouldn't be treated seriously?

Hell of a take.
Purely anecdotal, of course, but:

- If macOS is the only OS that you use regularly that gets in a fucked up state, then either you're not using Windows or it's gotten a lot better in the last few years. :) (I mean, it undeniably has gotten better, but I have Windows-using acquaintances who still kvetch about this issue pretty regularly.)

- I've been using Macs since 1999 and I don't think I've had to reset the PRAM to fix a problem since my Titanium MacBook Pro circa 2007. I've had to nuke other settings on occasion, but still generally have markedly fewer problems than I did in my Windows-using days. (Which were more recent than 1999, but still not that recent, so back to the "I'm sure it's better now" disclaimer.)

But, Apple definitely needs to have a better mechanism for managing config file updates than "yeah, we've put a few old config files in subfolders of this 'RecoveredFiles' folder, maybe they're useful, maybe they're not, good luck."
The difference from the gambler's fallacy is that standard gambling systems do not have memory and keep giving the same random results, but the physical system of Maxwell's demon does have an innnate trend towards equilibrium. In the game Maxwell's New Demon is playing, the dice have memory - the more it has won, the less likely it is to win some more, and the more it has lost, the more likely it is to win in the future.

So if the demon wants side A to be hotter than side B but currently there's a random fluctuation that's not in its favor, then unlike a random walk or a gambler in a coin-flip game the long-term expected value is not the current status but the equilibrium with equal temperature on both sides, so if measurements would be free, then this now demon should work. However, they aren't, and apparently the cost of knowing if it's winning (and thus should quit now) or losing (and thus should continue) is larger than the energy value of "the winnnings".
What you're asking about is the magic at the heart of Materialize. We're built atop an open-source incremental compute framework called Differential Dataflow [0] that one of our co-founders has been working on for ten years or so.

The basic insight is that for many computations, when an update arrives, the amount of incremental compute that must be performed is tiny. If you're computing `SELECT count(1) FROM relation`, a new row arriving just increments the count by one. If you're computing a `WHERE` clause, you just need to check whether the update satisfies the predicate or not. Of course, things get more complicated with operators like `JOIN`, and that's where Differential Dataflow's incremental join algorithms really shine.

It's true that there are some computations that are very expensive to maintain incrementally. For example, maintaining an ordered query like

SELECT * FROM relation ORDER BY col

would be quite expensive, because the arrival of a new value will change the ordering of all values that sort greater than the new value.

Materialize can still be quite a useful tool here, though! You can use Materialize to incrementally-maintain the parts of your queries that are cheap to incrementally maintain, and execute the other parts of your query ad hoc. This is in fact how `ORDER BY` already works in Materialize. A materialized view never maintains ordering, but you can request a sort when you fetch the contents of that view by using an `ORDER BY` clause in your `SELECT` statement. For example:

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SELECT * FROM v ORDER BY col LIMIT 5 -- order and limit computed ad hoc, but still fast

[0]: https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow
I too love it when people go overboard on a stackoverflow question and get pedantic. Usually someone else gives a tldr; but I go down the rabbit hole and try to learn something ina addition to the short answer along the way.
one tiny college versus the other 5,000 colleges where hyper leftist values predominate!

Could you be any more disingenuous?

And no one has ever suggested that other groups don't engage in this sort of activity when they're in power.
Related, I really wish threads had a tooltip with a tldr of its contents. Sometimes it's impossible to tell what the article talks about without clicking on it.

Which can be subtly exploited by using clickbaity titles, or 'fixed' by using editorialized titles (which also are a problem on their own).
Can't you just install it yourself? (Haven't worked with DEV1-S yet, so I don't know.)

Of course if you do it under time is money principle that's a trainwreck compared to using their image. But if you do it for the fun of it...
Is anyone actually calling for that, though? Because if not we're just conjuring up things to worry about.
Lol? ROCm is a mess.

It's awful. And it is not even supported on RDNA and RDNA2. They even dropped Polaris support last month so that it's only supported on Vega.

And that's very much not a high quality GPU compute stack, sorry...

CUDA isn't a dead end and isn't going away any time soon.
“We knew T-Mobile couldn’t be trusted,” union says after 5k job cuts
If they add it to WebRTC as they suggest, it will get auto-included in nearly all videoconferencing applications (most use webrtc under the covers, and a simple git pull will get it included in the next release).
I honestly think that this attitude to shutting things down, plus their piss-poor customer service, is killing any chance that Google Cloud has of succeeding. I'm just not willing to invest any time into the Google ecosystem where there's a high chance that the service will be discontinued or I'll get locked out of my account.
I read Slack about the time it was written, and this theme has stuck with me through the years. I start feeling it whenever I'm trying to go faster than I know that I can go. Both the stress and this "law" remind me to pick the high priority thing (requires some wisdom) and the rest will have to wait.

So the minor thing the article leaves out is that DeMarco cites this as Lister's Law: People under time pressure do not think faster. I couldn't find a nice primary source for that. Here's the best I found:

https://medium.com/@jasonrigden/the-eponymous-laws-of-comput...

It's nice from time to time to turn your mind out to pasture and lazily reflect on just whatever. Those times can be surprisingly productive and refreshing.

But for me at least, if I'm trying to drive my brain through productive knowledge work, whether that's designing an api or algorithm or implementation, there is a top speed. And unless I'm kidding myself, I can work at that top speed as a choice of will. And no amount of pressure can make my mind put the pieces together faster. Now pressure to a point will keep me from letting things like HN distract me. Beyond that point, additional pressure will eventually hurt my ability to concentrate, and might even cause me to bail. Just being transparent here.

Edit: BTW, DeMarco's book was written mostly from the perspective of managers and the pressure they place on others as they organize the workplace.
> to explain why, for example, [...] is not a promising approach to NLP and general understanding

I am not aware of any definitive proof or at least convincing argument of why this is not possible, though. Timnit's paper takes that as a given fact and illustrates consequent dangers and high-level workarounds.
`sudo --edit` also works
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Kyle Poyar [1] has a great article [2] on why usage-based (i.e. having that monthly payment change with usage) is more optimal (and arguably more fair).

In some deeper sense though, I commiserate with your point on technology being alienating through its strive to over-optimize everything. Except, I think much of this friction will inevitably have to be solved by further application of technology itself -- it's always a double edged sword..

In our case, as Abel explained, one of the things we're trying to solve are very apparent international mispricings.

Growing up in post-communist E Europe in the 90s I remember buying pirated games from street vendors. An unawareness of international pricing can easily price out many a potential client! :)

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There's no mention of OOB support. You could of course hook up something to the reset pins and serial port, but this places it categorically behind low end x86-64 servers.
We still use Picasa on Windows 7 & 10 and Mac OS X. It works easily on 10.13 (High Sierra) and with some annoyance on 10.14 (Mojave) (requires clicking 5 times on complaining popup when starting, then runs fine).

A good incentive not to upgrade.
If curious, past threads:

Some Were Meant for C (2017) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19736214 - April 2019 (176 comments)

Some Were Meant for C: The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15179188 - Sept 2017 (240 comments)
You should maybe continue reading Mill, because nowhere in his writings, or those of anybody else who used the phrase "tyranny of the majority" prior to the modern age, believed that the solution was disempowerment of the majority and tyranny of the minority.

Surely if you think that majoritarian tyranny is bad, you must also believe that minoritarian tyranny is far worse, right? Such as when a select few individuals of a particular racial, gender, and social class, have complete control over popular media, with the sole power to decide who is successful and what damaging information about powerful people can becomes public knowledge and which is kept secret?

Also, quoting Mill while claiming that an individual consumer freely choosing to not buy a product is "tyranny" is laughable to the highest degree.
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> awesome-bigdata lists a number of tools: https://github.com/onurakpolat/awesome-bigdata
Software Giant Declared War on Amazon. Will Other Open Source Firms Follow?
With good enough licensing it could possibly replace speex.

It is sad that we have to think about licensing and patents of technologies instead of only how good or advanced they are.
> Anyway, people think I'm 'privileged' now because I earn a lot of money

Any they are right thinking that,aren't they? That kind of money and wealth gives you a huge safety blanket and insulates you from most of the stresses described in the article. That's the whole point of the article, that this is a huge privilege that's overlooked by the well off.
I was thinking the same re: Storybook. Though I was trying to figure out what benefit Cosmos may have over storybook?

I'm using Storybook with React-Native, and it does feel like I'm developing web components, and then trying to use them in an app later, but that's my only real complaint with Storybook.
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About your second edit: If you live anywhere on earth that isn't in the geographical area of China it would likely be better to have data going to China than the big US corps. For most it is unlikely the data could be used against you in anything from ads to a police raid, unlike with something like Google collecting it where it will almost for sure be used and useful.
Is this mindset similar to the "Pence rule" of "never dine alone with a woman"? It seems like this could carry over to topics about race or politics. Basically, avoid potentially problematic situations that can be misinterpreted, regardless of your actual intent or beliefs?
Are you saying anyone can disable anyone else's appleid by just hammering https://appleid.apple.com with their email address and bogus password?
I think the key is to recognize what situations help you be productive, then engineer more of those situations into your life. You don't need to squeeze your brain harder, you need to be in the field more.
those people have zero cultural or institutional power.
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I don't have the citations off hand, but

> my rate of thinking has decreased over time

from my neuro 2xx or 3xx courses, this is how it works: crudely, the young brain works faster because it takes into account less information, fewer contingencies, while the older brain does the opposite.
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How come the clean reference wav file is 168KB, while the clean Lyra (@3kbps) wav file is significantly larger at 328KB?
ignorant/lazy question:

I'm a guitar player who took a few months of trumpet lessons when I was a kid. I recall that you can produce several different notes with the same fingering on the trumpet depending on the shape of your mouth. is this similar to the natural harmonics you can produce with a guitar by covering (but not fretting) the strings at certain nodes?
Right, I saw no update in the SQL keyword list, and saw some (I guess old now) talk about Materialize where the speaker mentioned no updates, sorry!
Do you mind providing citations?
This is intended for viewing some other (remote) player's jump (during a disconnect). It wouldn't touch your own (local) jump.

It's the equivalent of letting an AI take over the player when the player drops out, with the AI intended to replicate the dropped-player's playstyle until he rejoins. In short enough time-spans (disconnect-duration) you have some hope of being exactly correct.

And if you were 100% correct at predicting the remove player, all of the time, you don't even need the other player --- you could just run the AI and stay offline, and just "pretend" there's another player.
Yes, it is clear.

A cultural moment that is causing a re-evaluation on how the word is treated.

Dismissing it as "virtue signaling and fascism" is a cheap way to avoid the actual debate.
> Nothing about licensing or patents. I assume the worst (read: unusable for small businesses)?

If there's a free software implementation, and a company offering the service based in the EU (or shop around and find any other jurisdiction where software patents don't matter), it's often YOLO - but call that "legal arbitrage" if you want to sound fancy :)
I can't find it now, but someone else on Hacker News a while ago posted a study that backed you up. Age above ~20 made people worse at basically every type of cognition test except for general knowledge.

Edit: Found it. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797614567339

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