skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you want to do any good to a newspaper, buy a subscription.

My point wasn't that you shouldn't subscribe to the content you want—you should. It was that I have zero interest in sacrificing anything to lower advertising costs for some random company. Nor do I care to increase Google/ Facebook's earnings potential because they spy on me.
> I would expect with English it might be best to consider the different major dialects separately, but at any point there's a tradeoff and someone gets the short end of the stick.

That seems like a bad idea to me. Standard Written English (which varies only slightly, with minor spelling differences) is fairly intelligible across speakers of different dialects and even quite a few time periods.

If English didn't already have a written standard, all of this might be worth considering. But actual reform would take massive effort for pretty minor benefits, which wouldn't endure long anyway given the ever constant presence of language change.
A science podcast you can try is Physics Frontiers. It gets pretty technical.
I imagine there could be a good business in the automation of the creation + address discovery + delivery of such letters. Like automated DMCA takedown notices, but C2B rather than B2C. “Pay a dollar to have our lawyers cancel a subscription for you.”

(Even better if you really do have a team of lawyers willing to work on contingency to take these sure-bet claims to court if necessary—just their existence would be an extra layer of deterrence.)
Typically (in the US) the company that set up the recurring subscription that you pulled out from under them just sends your account to a collections agency. My credit card number changed and the New York Times did that to me.
Can vouch, they've the most competent customer support I've ever dealt with and especially they respect technical customers.
I've been a happy A&A customer for 15 years now. They're not the cheapest, but you get what you pay for. Excellent tech support, no nonsense attitude.

Edit: as an example, a bunch of years back I detected a routing loop. Emailed them the traceroute. Got a response back in a few minutes saying they were looking into it, and it was fixed shortly afterwards. So nice to be able to communicate with someone who can actually fix problems. The only other times I've had to contact them have been related to diagnosing problems in the underlying BT copper (not really their problem), and they were super helpful there too.
5+immune+boosters+to+help+keep+you+healthy+amid+Covid-19+outbreak
I've not had working broadband for six months since moving house and signing up with Virgin. After explaining the issue to the fith rep for the third time one day I was told my 600m/s latency and packet loss was because I had a monthly usage of 500GB on a 100mb/s connection which was therefore five times as much as I'd paid for and that I needed to upgrade my package.

There's a reason these lot link your account to your credit rating and good luck escaping them even with a regulator judgement in your favour, because they'll just ignore that too.
AFAIK in the UK, Virgin Media will open a credit account in your name, which appears on your credit report. So it wouldn't matter what kind of payment you used. Although I think you can opt out of this, maybe.
On the other hand, there are Americans who firmly believe that highly educated people like yourself from poorer countries shouldn't be giving your knowledge and work to first world western countries that are already wealthy. They think that people like yourself should be back at home, trying to make their own country better, rather than coming to make some other country richer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_drain
See the comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23578910. tl;dr: the press doesn't understand how immunity works.
A friend of mine spent a few months in Japan, and he said the strangest part was learning that speaking simple, slower English with a strong Japanese accent was often better for getting around than using his broken Japanese.
what are you making in NIM? Finance stuff? Websites? Database tools? Science/Space?

Kinda curious what you've done "using Nim pretty intensively for several years"
AA have a good reputation. Zen do too. I'm not sure why anyone who'd done market research would go with one of the bigger name ISPs these days. Well, OK, I am sure: AA and Zen both tend to be a bit more expensive. But this is one of those areas where you get what you pay for, I guess.

Ironically, the one major exception to this is Virgin, because they do offer an alternative product with technical advantages, whereas almost every other landline ISP is ultimately just backed by the same physical BT infrastructure. But given the speeds you can get in most parts of the country from that BT infrastructure now, the difference isn't going to be as important for most people as it used to be a few years ago.
> Social media is messing us up. I don't think we're missing some new take on it that's going to make it all better.

This is a fair point, and one I think is very important to consider. When I wrote the original quote, I was not thinking of another facebook, but rather a platform that would work on issues like providing access to local government meetings, and probably be closer to what we now think of as "journalism". Which the lack of is a major problem in many parts of the country due to the declining newspaper industry.

Small towns and rural America is in trouble, and although it's naive to say there are simple solutions, I am optimistic that it is possible for technology to solve some problems.
The problem isn't with the algorithm encoding it. The problem is with other software mangling it.

Base 64 has punctuation, it's case sensitive, and trimming a = off the end will (counterintuitively) result in a longer payload. All of this makes screwing around with commit hashes more complicated.
The names aren't usually relevant. Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata was actually a funereal piece written after the death of a friend, and was named by a critic, not by Beethoven.

Performers are relevant, but you can ignore them until you can hear the differences between them - which may take a while.

Enjoying the music is the best way in. Like a piece? Remember the composer. Find other pieces by the same composer of the same kind - such as Mozart piano concertos. Find a guide to the most popular examples of that type and listen to those first.

Try some other types by the same composer, or the same types by different composers. It helps a bit to know a little about the history and the different periods - early, baroque, "classical" classical, Romantic, modern, contemporary, and so on - but only because most people like music from some of the periods more than they like others.

It's not an exam. The object isn't to remember all the details, but to keep exploring so you can find the pieces and composers you enjoy.

Eventually you'll start hearing shades of emotion and expression in pieces you're already familiar. Mozart often sounds sugary to beginners, but he's also quite sarcastic and sometimes has unexpected dark undercurrents. I got a lot more out of the music when I realised composers weren't unapproachable geniuses, but they were very human - and that's what the music is really about.
There are 3rd party replacements for USB-C MagSafe connectors if you do ever need to upgrade. Don't know if they get the sweet spot for retention force that the old MagSafe connector did but I have seen some co-workers use it without issue.

1: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=usb-c+magsafe&crid=20NMLJRE2HMRI&...
So they can't charge you but will still try to 'collect' and ruin your credit rating I suppose? Well, doesn't solve a lot then.
Isn't that how it's spelled in Greek too though? Well, with the Greek alphabet anyway. I think it's Δελφίν.
Looking for fiber in London next month. I guess VM won't be it.

Reddit seems to think Hyperoptic is where it's at. With VM as second. That's on raw speed front.

So if VM can't be trusted I guess I need to apartment hunt by Hyper...sigh.
I do think this is a great point but I do think the idea is fun to consider anyways. My first thought would be some (silent) {super,sub}script symbol/letter to indicate distinction between them. Obviously this feels like we'd be right back where we started but if every non-homophone was neatly standardised (and, as my sibling comment pointed out, every homonym made unambiguous) that seems promising! This is, of course, operating under the assumption that homophones are primarily edge cases (or that the other words in the homophone group are not often used in the same context, or at all).

Minimal research turned up two lists. One only lists groups of n > 2 (88 triples; 24 quadruples; 2 quintuples; 1 sextet; and 1 septet) [0]. The other is for British English (441 groups) [1].

Your example, by the way, is a particularly interesting case! From the Wikipedia page [2]: 17% of Americans (primarily in the Northeast and most clearly in Philadelphia, New York City, and Rhode Island) pronounce each distinctly, with a further 26% merging only 2/3 pronunciations. Accordingly, their distinct IPA pronunciations are /ˈme(ə)ɹi/, /ˈmæɹi/, /ˈmɛɹi/, respective to your ordering (the last, merry, is the one we've converged on). More frustrating still, the list of "multinyms" in [0] excludes this example so it's especially difficult to know how many there may be in practice.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160825095711/http://people.sc....

[1] http://www.singularis.ltd.uk/bifroest/misc/homophones-list.h...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes...
The Wells Fargo model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_account_fraud_scan...
I am not imposing any reality.

The status quo is then when you buy console devices e.g. gaming, cars, TVs etc you can only install apps that are approved by the manufacturer.

People think of phones as console devices not computers.
I cancelled quite easily, because I explained that I was not only moving house, but moving into a house that already had Virgin Media broadband. I guess that moved them to the part of their script where they actually go through with the cancellation.

I would probably use that again in the future, even if it were a lie.
Am I misunderstanding something here or does this imply that up until now the city of NYC did not have full access and transparency concerning the capacities of the NYPD?

How is this even a thing? I don't know much about the US political system but how is it that the police is not entirely subjected to civic government and why does a law need to be passed to control what the NYPD does?
In the UK you can simply cancel the direct debit (most regular payments in the UK happen using direct debit, not by credit card).

But as far as I understand not paying for a contract may result in damaged credit history, so the mortgage can become more expensive for example; or they may sell your "debt" to some collector company, who may start bothering you (I heard these stories from friends).

So because of these reasons, I decided to try to explicitly cancel the contract instead of just stopping paying them.
Racial Differences in Marijuana-Users' Risk of Arrest in the United States
So, this didn't help me with Virgin Media in the past (though I did get it sorted by finding someone relatively senior and bothering them until they got it sorted), but it usually does, as you say.

In general, I don't allow companies messing me around to profit from it. Even if it takes longer than it is worth, I make a point of principle that I somehow get more back from them than I was cheated out of or they neglected to deliver. Usually this ends up costing them much more than just behaving reasonably in the first place. I find finding a way to do this cathartic. It isn;t always entirely legal though.

If more people did this, it wouldn't be worth companies messing people around.
The Hamming Question
REBO – Save the World (2020)
Spending one day to learn to restructure STEM to increase its innovation and output is of the utmost reasonableness.

If you are not a scientist and did not bother to find out what the day was about, why are you prejudging it?
It is fundamentally impossible to have secret ballots[1] in a digital system along with provable integrity. Secret ballots are necessary to prevent vote buying, intimidation, and coercion. If no one can prove which voter submitted which ballot, nor what choices a voter indicated, the voter is free to choose without risk of repercussions. The breakdown of any digital voting system is always with verification.

With paper, the voter can see that their ballot is securely stored under the supervision of the election operators, and they can see that representatives from multiple parties watch the movement and counting of the ballots.

In contrast, with a digital system it is impossible to verify that your ballot was delivered with the choices you intended without also being able to show that proof to anyone else. It is important that the voter is unable to show proof of their vote for the reasons mentioned above. Unlike a paper-based process, you cannot directly observe the functioning of an electronic circuit, the transmission of data over cables, or the storage of bytes in memory, and neither can anyone else trying to verify the integrity of the process. You'll never know if someone has replaced any of the hardware or software components with malicious versions designed to fool voters and rig elections.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot
Please be really careful doing this. Cancelling a payment authority is not the same as cancelling a contract, even if you have a right to do the latter under your terms. If you just stop making payments for something you do owe, you are the one in the wrong, and you can end up with a bad credit history, legal action taken against you, specialists chasing you for the debt in increasingly scary ways, etc.
That's going to get destroyed by every 13' truck that smacks into it. The bridge is just on the other side of an intersection. The other three paths from that intersection are perfectly fine for 14' trucks to drive on.

And those bumpers might not cause structural damage, but I'm sure you wouldn't want random plastic objects scraping across your roof when you drive, right?
This sounds like the perfect solution, a few swinging bars, thin enough not to knock something over but enough to make a loud banging noise.
They have them in more than one place, in some cases they have to stop traffic so the truck can back out.
Correct, I meant all immigrants, not just H1-B.
I think most of these buildings are great. What I can’t stand are the contemporary “modern” mixed-use buildings sweeping cities such as Seattle. You know the ones: multi-colored, multi-setback, multi-material. Awful.
Yes, with a service like internet you are paying for the previous months service, not the next month so the money is owed even if you cancel the credit card. Netflix bills you for the month upfront, so when you don't pay them simply remove access to the service and you owe nothing.
Watch AMD Threadripper 3990X Use 128 Threads to Render a Video in Task Manager
https://privacy.com/ is a provider of these that I often see mentioned.
But that's part of my point, people will be hired based on their abilities and how much they contribute to the company now. That was not necessarily the case in the past. And the reality now is that there are parts in the US that have a low cost of living that are now open for people to work from.

I know that I would be willing to work from a low cost coast city if I only need to show up to my office 1 or 2 times a month. I'm even willing to get paid a bit less.
There are a few options out there and I’ll try to cover the ones I’ve used. Privacy: I’ve used this a few times for disposable cards but they act as a debit card such that withdraw from your bank. There are some goofy limits around making cards but it’s a pretty good service. Citi credit card has one that uses flash for a front end that works great but I believe they’re ending the service soon. Capital One credit card is probably the best out there and uses a chrome extension to generate cards per-website. Stripe seems be testing a solution but for third parties and BoA killed their VCC program last year.
For the life of me, I just can not see why WSL is necessary.

If you want to run Linux, just run Linux. If you want to run Linux while also using Windows, then run Linux in a Windows Virtualbox. Or perhaps run Windows in a Linux Virtualbox.

But WSL is this weird jumble just like WINE is, that's neither one pure thing nor the other.
> I don't think consumers actually directly suffer any consequences from having a hacked device

You surely must be joking.

Why do you think there is such a large market for anti-virus and malware applications. Or why do you think Apple and Microsoft invest so much time and effort in security their platforms.

Because it directly impacts consumers. Scammers run apps on user's devices which mine Bitcoin. They steal data. They hold people to ransom. It just goes on and on.
Incredibly dumb that they're arguing we need to dump the ubiquitous ice cream truck jingle. Leave it to an outlet called "obscura" to find reasons to jettison innocent, enjoyable, commonplace aspects of childhood for all kids.
Right now, so many people's social outlets are work, which seems the bad part. Take that away and either now there's nothing, or norms change and people make more social outlets to meet people outside of work. I'm sure hoping for the latter, which I see as better than the status quo.
It's not unlike HN when the topic of discussion is politics. Flip a variable or two and most humans behave similarly, thanks to evolution.
Indeed. I add the CFR 14 (the FAR portion of the FAR/AIM) to the mix. A fun game to play is 'is this a reg or a recommendation from AIM'. Most students think that standard left turns in the pattern are a recommendation but they actually made it a regulation a few years ago.
Odds of communicating with 36 other possible intelligent civilizations are small
I’m not sure what that fuss is about. I just stop paying whenever I run into these kind of issues. It’s easier than what people think. I wanted to cancel my gym membership and they wouldn’t let me before I finished my year membership. So I just stopped paying. Some numbers were calling me but I never answer unknown numbers.
The last time I changed my mobile phone number I did it to get away from the incessant harrassment from a gym after I canceled my membership (canceling was itself extremely difficult).
Hou tu pranownse Inglish: http://www.zompist.com/spell.html

EDIT: Just realized that the link is already mentioned elsewhere.
Well for one thing, I think as written the solution code is buggy:

with judgments_open('judgments.txt') as judgments
gather_features(judgments)
train_model(judgments) # <-- bug.

The context manager is still returning a single generator, not a list, so when you call train_model(judgments) it will have been exhausted, no?

- - - -

Second, the bug is not really solved by the proposed solution.

This code is fine.

with open('judgments.txt') as f:
judgments = judgments_from_file(f)
for j in judgments:
process(j)

This code is buggy.

with open('judgments.txt') as f:
judgments = judgments_from_file(f)

for j in judgments: # <-- bug.
process(j)

The generator must not be used after the file is closed at the end of the context manager's scope.

If you did this you would still have the bug:

with judgments_open('judgments.txt') as judgments
foo(judgments) # okay

for j in judgments: # <-- same bug.
process(j)

In any event, in this case, I would just do:

with open('judgments.txt') as f:
judgments = list(judgments_from_file(f))
gather_features(judgments)
train_model(judgments)
UDP's checksum depends on information from the IP header, for both IPv4 and IPv6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol#Checksu...

Omitting the UDP/IPv4 checksum is permitted because the IPv4 header has its own redundant checksum, but omitting the UDP/IPv6 checksum would leave the IPv6 header with no checksum at all, which is why that's not permitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP-Lite lets you checksum the UDP/IP header plus an arbitrary (possibly zero-length) prefix of the payload, but I'm not sure if people actually use that.
As someone who doesn't really use VPNs, could you expand on what makes Mullvad superior?
It's sad that 20 minutes out of your day is what qualifies as painless in this regard. The phone companies/ISPs are like cats training their owners to just accept the way things are.
Monochrome is expected. Do you say it's slow because of the screen's refresh rate, or do pages take a long time to render?

I'm kind of eying the BOOX Nova2, which is in my price range at $340. The screen is 7.8", which is ~ 2" smaller than what I'd ideally want, but not by much.
Is a shop compressor with an air gun adequate or is that air too moist or oily?
self censoring is even worse. What is happing in west now seems to me that some people don't allow others to talk with tags like racism etc, they punish others with losing job, internet bulling etc.

That's really scary!! In long run, you lost the freedom!
> neo.mjs still needs to support touch events

For taps, I recommend you always use the click event. Faking tap events using touch events causes a variety of problems beyond the one I mentioned (unnatural feel, scroll cancelling a tap, taps on foreground popovers, allowable finger movement and still tap varies by platform, accessibility, automated testing).
> I think the problem with DRM and ebooks is not the readers. It's the availability of books without DRM

I have a 'niche' interest in SFF magazines and for that, WeightlessBooks fills it well [1] by offering subscriptions to Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, Interzone, Locus (the Newspaper of the SFF world) and many others.

I also occasionally buy non-DRM books from Smashwords [2] and there are plenty of other dedicated non-DRM book/story sellers out there [3]

[1] https://weightlessbooks.com/

[2] https://www.smashwords.com/

[3] https://www.libreture.com/bookshops/
I got the 2-for-one variant of this with my 2016 MBP where I purchased a replacement battery assembly from iFixit to replace the swolen ones. In the kit, they include: the tools, a link to their iFixit video on the steps as well as some protective gear to do the job. Highly recommended! Replacing batteries is a way more involved task on MBPs, but while you're there in the early stages, you can vacuum or take compressed air to anything you see.
I agree that it's a sharp edge in the language. Or at least it seems to be -- I've written a little bit of Nim, and never encountered a case where I was actually bitten by 'nil'. The language does have a 'non nil' annotation that can be used when defining structs (and maybe in other parts of the language, I don't recall), so there must have been some thinking about the dangers of nil pointers.

I would still recommend playing with the language for a while. It's quite practical, and the performance is very good. I've used it to write some utilities where I might otherwise use Python, but either needed more speed or needed to use it in a restricted environment where the Python interpreter wasn't available. The experience was mostly positive, and I would use it again.
> No city is a zoo to preserve what life looked like 100 years ago. They are places for people to live today.

And why did we stop building new cities? It's cheaper than destroying and rebuilding old cities.
If it's only for fun sure. Otherwise no.
Makes sense ; where I come from direct debit is also widely used for such matters. Wouldn't it be awesome if when you stop paying it would simply automatically cancel the contracts within a given time period, no questions asked, no need for any 'credit rating' et cetera ... it sounds like something akin to this would be 'doable' in law? Especially with subscriptions regarding 'digital' services that are renewed on a monthly basis.