skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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>Challenging the dispute would at the very least involve contacting the customer and letting them know what the charge is for, at which point it can be determined whether it's legitimate or not.

It isn't that easy - The credit card company does not spend much time on the case and will not get involved in examining complicated evidence. Also, the company does not have to contact the customer, the company just submits a statement and possibly a supporting document with a list of charges. I've done two (won one and lost one) The one I lost was based on an illegible receipt.

The writer didn't mention if this was a business or personal credit card. In the US, chargebacks for a business credit card have different rules - If there is an ongoing business relationship, there are no chargebacks, only third party fraud reversals. [I have read the Credit Card Act - many consumer protections are excluded from businesses.]

>So what? The debt has yet to be determined as legitimate....

This depends on the type of collection agency. [I've dealt with two types for my old business and for some friends who needed advice.]

A collection agency that collects on BEHALF of a company will often act as a mediator to figure out what is going on. I dealt with two of these for disputes over debt amounts and both were reasonable. [One was initially very aggressive and started the conversation by filing a lawsuit to "get my attention," but we discussed the situation and worked it out.]

A collection agency that BUYS the debt doesn't care about fairness. They paid a fraction of the debt amount and they want to make money. In one case, I was getting double billed under two account numbers. The collection agent repeatedly lied, harassed and threatened me (carefully scripted to just barely stay legal). I sent copies of the duplicate bills and they didn't care. [I finally got them to back off due to some regulations specific to the type of bill - They knew debt collection law, but the regulations I threw back at them would require them to do a lot of research]

Another problem with a debt that is sold to a collection agency is that when they give up, they often make back some on the money they paid by selling the debt to another agency. Then you start again..... [I was getting collection calls to my new phone number for the previous owner of that number. I would tell them the situation and they would accuse me of lying. When they finally gave up, a few weeks later another collection agency would start calling. This lasted over a year.]
As a programmer, every time I try to nail down the flow for a new program, I quickly realize that I'm just writing pseudo-code - and often, just straight code.

Maybe the problem is English. Maybe there's a way to structure English sentences in a more precise and meaningful way with hypertext linking and structuring like a legal document? ...but for human-to-human communications?
It has nothing to do with technology and it isn’t relevant because of the Insurrection Act. At best this link is just misinforming people. See the Reuter’s article below.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-protes...
Did Neanderthals draw? B.C. researcher to test DNA in old cave art to find out
“Peaceful Protestor” Car Runs over Cops in Buffalo
SEND IN THE FUCKING TROOPS!
Stitch Fix to Lay off About 1,400 Employees in California
Protest in a way that doesn't harm others.

It hasn't been working, bud.

Also the government might try to go after you legally or kill you even if you do things peacefully. See: COINTELPRO, Aaron Swartz, etc.
> will annoy about 50%

Why? I'm conservative but I've taken tips from Obama and Bill Clinton. A good idea is a good idea. That Obama and Clinton are successful is all the more reason to pay attention when they give productivity advice, even though I disagree with several of their policies.
True, but sensors do not generally output data at fixed intervals, which is why the most common method is to have the control loop run on a timer interrupt and to have it sample the sensor.
It's condescending to assume I don't care already.

This makes the maintainer feel better and that's it. Pure theater.

A donation to an anti police brutality legal fund would actually accomplish something. End qualified immunity.

Lemmings and their moral posturing.....
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Even a current i5 is more than double as fast per core, and likely has 12 threads instead of 2. So as a roundabout figure let's say 8x the effective speed.

VT-D makes your Core2Duo better able to emulate Windows or Linux in hardware, but not Android.

Like I said, I don't believe that a Core2Duo isn't slow for everything you mentioned. I had one at home. I wasn't doing anything wrong - I know how fast it isn't - we had hundreds at my work. Have you noticed that other commenters are saying the same thing about Core2Duo speed as me? You must have more patience to wait for your PC than myself and the other commenters.

The reason I replaced my Core2Duo was because it was slow, and I replaced it around 8 years ago!
I second PyCharm, not only from a debugging perspective but as a whole. I don't understand people struggling with generic text editors, development oriented text tools (sublime etc), or even vscode just because they are free when there is a much better tool money can buy (and PyCharm has a free, community version as well).
Criticising antifa does not imply support of fascism. Many of those proclaiming to be antifa have committed acts of violence, and there are still some people left in the country who believe in peaceful protest and find violence distasteful. You can be completely against fascism but disagree with the violent tendencies of many who associate themselves with the antifa label.
It's pretty much the same (non organization) argument that could apply to most terrorist groups... They're generally confederated.

If course most of this that are in or support antifa are well intentioned and not probe to violence. There are also enough influencers and leadership, or what passes for it in the ranks that insight a lot of damage.

It's not dissimilar from the various socialist groups in early 20th century Russia, and has some of the same origins.

For dissenting opinions, I'm not a fan of fascism or communism. They are responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths.

While there are violent white nationalist groups, antifa otherness them by a massive amount… over 70:1 iirc.
Why is this stuff getting upvoted? All we see is a Tesla that rammed into an obstacle on the highway, with evidence of anything else. We don't know that it was on autopilot, and the driver in this case would say anything to try and get his insurance money back. The car started to break when it saw an inevitable collision, but otherwise, it's pure speculation.
The problems with tags last time I searched were that they weren't really that robust, some file systems don't support them and the applications that manipulate files may erase them. Have you ever encountered such problems ?
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>It's never going to fix actual systemic issues, but perhaps burning witches is good enough, given our history, and going in circles indefinitely is the way of this species.

Counter point - the Civil Rights Act of 1968. People pay attention when they are forced to. I won't pass a moral judgement as it's not my place, but nothing will change until force is applied. I think that is the lesson history teaches.
I use NoteSelf, which is a variant / add-on / expansion of tiddlywiki. It requires an accessible CouchDB backend hosted somewhere on the internet, but once that bit of infrastructure is setup it's almost universally accessible.

I've barely scratched the surface of tiddlywiki's features, but linking ideas together is easy, in that you can link individual "ideas" (in the form of individual articles, referred to as tiddlers) from each other, and it also supports tagging, and there are built-in scripts for iterating tiddlers with chosen tags.

No affiliation, just a very happy user.

https://noteself.org/
1. Is there such evidence? I don't consider articles to be evidence.

2. How MUCH more than the flu? 0.00000000000000001%? Any amount is enough to justify mass hysteria, right?
No, we can't. There's simply no stable state where cities are abandoned to looters for weeks. Someone will inevitably deploy force to reestablish control, and if that someone isn't the government then there's gonna be a lot more indiscriminate killing.
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I'm a broken record on this, but this is yet another example demonstrating that it's basically impossible to compare cities along political borders. "Chicago" covers 234 sq/mi at the center of Chicago, whereas "Minneapolis" covers about 54 sq/mi of the center of Minneapolis, so an officer in Minneapolis and one in Chicago could be living and working in nearly identical environments -- they may, for example, both be living in an old, majority white inner-ring suburb a couple miles from Downtown and policing a majority black area they have no history in -- and the Chicago officer would be counted as living in Chicago, but the Minneapolis officer would not be counted as living in Minneapolis.

Their day-to-day experiences, their relationship to the communities they serve, their physical distance from Downtown, the built environment of their own neighborhoods, the socio-economic make-up of their friends and family -- and on and on and on -- could be practically identical, but we'd count them differently in your list.
Nice article. In particular the -i flag seems really useful.

I'd like to add two packages I learned about recently that I like A LOT: pyrasite and PySnooper.

Use pyrasite to "attach" to an existing running Python process (i.e. you forgot to instrument the app, but it has a bug in it, how can you debug?)
(1) Install pyrasite
(2) Get the PID of the running process
(3) Run `pyrasite <pid> dumpstackz0.py` where dumpstackz0.pycontains `import traceback; traceback.print_stack()`
(4) The stacktrace will be printed in the stdout/stderr of the running application

Use PySnooper instead of print-debugging—just add a decorator to any python function to get detailed debug info like you normally would get from a full debugger:
(A) code: https://github.com/cool-RR/PySnooper
(B) pypi: https://pypi.org/project/PySnooper/
(C) talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5imOJc_TE
(D) podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUZvgJJKor0
So imagine a typical teenager from Brazil that is finishing his (very bad quality) public high-school and has some interest in technology. He likes to tinker with things, electronics which he can find books in Portuguese. He has access to a computer and manages to install Linux, wants to start about programming.

Do you really think that the proper advice you'd give to him is "Learn proper English first"? More likely than not, you are just killing his interest in learning and shooting down the best chance he would have to lift himself out of poverty.

Remind me to come back to this in 10 years when China surpasses the US in production of, say, AI Research. Let's see if HN will still be okay with the idea of "just go and learn Mandarin" to find stuff online.
> Some of us pointed this out at the time and got downvoted for saying that reality does not conform to "thing other HN posters would like."

I am completely willing to believe that some people did, but the overwhelming majority I saw were getting downvoted for (whether deliberately or carelessly) confusing "copyright infringement is not legal" (which is true, but common knowledge) with "copyright infringement is not a active moral good" (which is false, at least of the type of copyright infringement archive.org is doing), and concluding that the Internet Archive was doing something morally, rather than just strategically, wrong.
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He's an anti-scientific schmuck. I basically stopped reading this post 3 sentences after seeing the reference to JP, as clearly this person can't distinguish what's shit from what's useful, as evidenced by this over-involved note overaccumulation system.

Also sure, what's-his-face wrote 70 books, but I had never heard of him before. Quantity before volume please, is what note-taking should be about.
Use duck duck go or qwant.
New post today about why Redux may not be the best choice for your application
Tasks – Reminders meets Kanban meets Trello
Police are trained to shoot for stopping power. A head shot on a target is a missed shot. There is no excuse for the number of rubber and pepper shots that have been above center mass.

They're either murderous or have "lucky" bad aim.

Exceptions apply for swat snipers in hostage situation
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Dry. Don’t repeat yourself
The only note taking approach that's ever worked for me:

1. Read/listen/absorb

2. Write down (or tweet) ideas it creates while you're absorbing

3. Wait

4. Create

Your mind (or at least mine) finds connections you aren't even aware of and when the time comes, when the right prompt sparks, there it is. The knowledge is ready to be used.

Use search and half remembered stuff to find direct citations and brush up on details when necessary. The internet-as-extended-noosphere metaphor works great here.
> Which seems unlikely.

No kidding.

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2001-128/pdfs/2001-128.pdf?id...: The two most dangerous things in road work, accounting for half of all of the industry's fatalities, are industrial vehicles working on the site and passenger vehicles passing it.

So, yeah, you're right - there aren't any alternative systems that manage to avoid this problem. Even humans suck at it. And if even humans can't handle construction areas safely, how can you possibly expect computers to be perfect?
> Is the Chief of Police a toothless position?

Kinda.

In big cities in states with strong union laws, the burden is very high for cause to fire an officer. Even when there is a firing, the officer can appeal and sometimes be reinstated. It opens the department up to liability if they don't wait for the normal "follow the evidence, build the case" flow.

When there are big protests in big cities, the regional police departments actually share officers. I would bet that about half of officers on the riot line in Seattle were actually from surrounding suburbs or from the state police. I don't think Seattle's chief can fire one of those officers; he would have to do an inter-agency thing that I'm sure is pretty complicated.

Also, the chief has to walk a thin line of perverse incentives. He needs the department to be functional and to do that, he can't be seen as making an example of an officer (for "morale" reasons). He also has to consider that police officers will leave a department in droves and the chief ends up with more problems if crime rises due to "bad management" of the department.
Well, part of me agrees, but for argument purposes I'd say that some people will be annoyed because someone uses made up names of people who doesn't even exist. Also, I'm not sure if 50% people would be annoyed if OP would use "Justin Bieber" instead of Jordan P.

Also, taking this example further, even if we take an ideally altruistic scenario, where a person would walk on the sidewalk, and throw money away for free, so everyone could just come and pick it up, then there still would be some people that would be annoyed: 1) they didn't know about this fact at the same time as some other people, so they weren't able to come and pick up the money, 2) other people got more money than them, 3) they worked hard through the entire life and now people get money for free, 4) etc, etc.

So, everything can be argued like this, there will be people who will like something, and there will be people who will dislike the same thing. I think Bjarne Stroustrup has summed it up pretty accurately:

> There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

That's why I've specifically asked about kirbysayshi's thought process (although I secretly suspect there wasn't any process at all).
Libertarian talking-points ahead. Charles Koch Foundation = Cato Institute = climate change deniers (remember the fake IPCC-look-alike propaganda "addendum"?[0])

0. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

https://www.climatecentral.org/news/cato-addendum-tries-to-u...
>But let's get this clear, it was violent rioting that was occurring. In that situation, how are you to quickly separate the two groups?

The crowd of people slowly marching while getting shot and teargassed or the protesters. Those in the liquor store are the looters. Pretty simple.

If firing indescriminantly into a crowd makes it hard to tell these groups apart it sounds like the police tactics need work.
In 2003 there was no localStorage, it would either be cookies or HTTP requests.
I would like to see what they do for his burial site.
I'm no fan of the police, but I think it's a lot easier to say something should be deescalated when you are miles away in your home and not on the ground with some people throwing objects at you, some of which have in the past included molotovs. Mob mentality is a very dangerous thing, that goes both ways.
Learning from your opposition is one thing. "Here is a look at how John Smith furthered his goals" is a fine article. An article about another topic with an "I <3 John Smith" banner is just going to annoy people who hate him, to no end; it's completely disconnected from the article and therefore shows poor judgement on the author's part.
Culture! What is it good for (absolutely nothing?)
Let's talk about culture y'all.

I've been perplexed by the concept of company culture ever since having the first hiring conversation at my agency in the early days as to whether a potential candidate was toxic and whether he would be hired despite of it.

We hired him and it was an unmitigated disaster which only went to show me that it only takes one rotten raisin to spoil the pudding.

Since then the primary mission has been to understand what even is toxicity, what makes a company culture, does culture even matter and where can we even find a good culture.

Believe me it goes deep but the reason is I know that organizations that design software end up designing software that reflects the organizational and communicational structure of their organization and toxic companies design toxic software in general.

I've wanted to attain the zen enlightenment state of flow and toxicity is the enemy as far as I'm concerned.

Now this is a very nuanced conversation and there are many opinions but recently I've read The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle and more than any authority on the subject it puts things into clear perspective.

Essentially there are characteristics of good culture and it generally revolves around belonging and a shared future. Things you can't fake.

A lot of the hiring in our industry is based on technology-centric or superstar-centric strategies which I've never seen succeed unless there is something more pulling us together i.e. a culture of acceptance and belonging.

I want to hear your stories. How do you define culture, what is your measure of toxicity?

Have you experienced outstanding cultures or toxic environments?

Looking at the who's hiring threads can you see through the glitter to the core of what's real vs. what's more of the same?

Do you actually prefer more of the same or are you looking for something that doesn't seem to exist anywhere?
From a quick Google search, this article lists sherriff/police officer at 14th most dangerous job: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2018/01/09/work...
The most common cause is intentional injury by another person.
The police, like everyone with power needs accountability. But I don't know if being overpaid is the core problem.
People love doing things that feel like work, but aren’t.

I’m terrified of picking up new systems like this without having a purpose. I could spend hours building out a graph, admiring all of MY knowledge, but not really have any intended use for it other than telling others about it and how I’m going to use it someday.
But as the article says - why were there riots at all? Because the cops were firing on peaceful protesters!

Evidence abounds.

They committed police brutality, at the protests against police brutality. It genuinely boggles the mind.
I like this Wikipedia page for x86 instructions, because it doesn't just list the instructions -- it also shows the x86 processor in which the instruction first appeared.

If the listed processor models were released in different past years, some earlier than others, then think of this list as a tool for virtual "time travel" (well, x86 instruction set-wise!)
This looks interesting, but one potential problem with this method is that you start treating the number of notes or the size of the graph as a success metric. The author even notes how it is 'pleasing' to see their note graph grow in size. This could be a perverse incentive.