skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> after several attempts to cancel the contract, I cancelled the direct debit.

They did do that.

But, the issue is if it accumulates without a resolution, it'll reflect badly on your credit score.
The Reagan canard is, well, wrong.

It has way more to do with the ACLU suing Florida and the resulting SCOTUS decision was that it was illegal to involuntarily commit someone. Yes, that means you can't put someone who's out of their mind into an institution until they're actually dangerous and they commit a crime. The longest psych hold (5150) is only about 72 hours, its not long enough to treat a serious condition.
I think the terminal output is the figma viewer. I have a hard time seeing the point of the role and software if a front end developer has to hand translate the design to actual code or styling.
Generally speaking, the NYPD operates under the executive branch (the mayor) and the legislative branch (City Council) can declare whatever powers they want to oversee, but they do have to be explicitly declared first.

The separation of powers in NYC/NYS is very messy so this doesn't surprise me.
OK, so "tough" is undeniably proounced "tuff", the "-ough" suffix here being "uff".

What should we infer from this? To one way of thinking, the "-ough" suffix is "uff"... well, mostly... and this says nothing about (say) "gh" as a prefix, which has its own rules. But to another, clearly "gh" can sometimes be pronounced "f"; and, since we have "tough" and "bough", by extension we can assume nothing from (say) "ghost".

Either way, whatever you think of "ghoti", "bough" vs "tough" is (in my view) enough to demonstrate that the current state of affairs is what you might well spell "er kluctureghoucc".
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes"

-Dijkstra
I wish I understood, are you agreeing with me, or your quote is a contradiction?
There are some popular multi-day trails in New Zealand that do this. You have to register months ahead of time to get a slot, and a rescue deposit is required.
Chess is an interesting example. If you want to get good at blitz, playing 1min games over and over is a terrible way to do it in my experience. Playing 3hr games and studying theory is painful and annoying yet way more useful for real improvement. I think the same concept applies to many things - learning an instrument is another example. Performing a piano piece at full speed over and over is fun, but focusing exclusively on the hard parts one hand at a time slowly is far more useful.
>I'll take it a step further and ask, do adages actually contain any signal at all? If you have a saying "try try again" and another saying "don't bust your head against a brick wall" which one wins? When?

Yes, they do and there are certain factors you need to consider before saying they don't contain any signal.
Some factors are:

1. What is it really trying to say?

In your example, try and try again does NOT mean try and try the SAME thing again. It just tells you WHAT to do and not how to do it. I don't remember a single invention being invented on the first attempt egs the light bulb.

On the other hand, don't break your head against a brick wall is usually used in the context of trying to change someone else. This adage is a derivative of the observation that human beings don't change unless they want to, which is the absolute truth. This adage is a corollary or a derivative based on that absolute truth.

2. Has it stood the test of time?

I cannot find a source for this particular adage but it would be safe to say that it has stood the test of time.

3. Who said it and in what context?

This ties in well with the second example of my first point.
I could come up with a pithy saying which could be true in a very specific context. This does not make it false it just makes it irrelevant to your context.

So yes, they do contain signals you just need to know how to apply them.

>Who says writing is in the former camp? Prove it.

As far as writing goes, you can certainly improve leaps and bounds by writing more. You write some, get feedback on your work, improvise, rinse and repeat. This is certainly true. Why you may ask? Just consider the number of authors[1] whose first language is not English but they write in English. They certainly did not start off by being great English writers, Ayn Rand being the most prolific of them which HN crowd would be familiar with.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exophonic_writers
Its probably because its supposition disproven by facts.

You can give someone who's homeless a home, but that gives them zero tools to keep it. There's an assumption that the person doesn't need supplimental support to have a productive path forward, and thats just wrong.

SF presumed that putting more public toilets on the street would keep people from defecating on the street, that was disproven in several areas, people would just relieve themselves wherever they felt like. I unfortunately would routinely see someone drop a #2 on the street less than 100 feet away from the very well maintained public bathroom.
" it’s not practical here. There are many overheight trucks that have to be able to drive right up to the bridge and turn onto Peabody St. in order to deliver supplies to several restaurants. Making Peabody St inaccessible from Gregson St would make the restaurant owners and the delivery drivers very unhappy." [1]

at the end of the it seems most of the trucks are often Rental Trucks drive by people that likely should not be driving a large truck in the first place. In the US you do not need a CDL or special endorsement to rent many of these UHaul type trucks since they do not have Air Brakes, all you need is a normal operators license.

[1]http://11foot8.com/11foot8-faq/
Finnish society is extremely different, their solutions are non-transplantable to the US.
Ah, an adverb...
I'd hate to be a truck rental company near that thing.

Random weekend movers peeling the tops off your fleet.

I'd have free-take-one warning maps with a big red X at the checkout counter.
I’m curious if you have heard about Gnu Solfege. I just read about it here recently via the recent “Ask HN: I'd like to learn vocals, any suggestion on how I can do this?”

https://www.gnu.org/software/solfege/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23359096
wait, YOU said that it's obvious

your words:

> I'm not referring to a deep secret. This is well documented. Just search the Internet for H1-B "prevailing wage" loophole and you'll find some.

and in the next sentence you seem to imply that it is not obvious,
again your words:

> but it is quite nuanced and I don't remember the details
Excellent article, but I had to look at the HTML to find out it was published on September 27, 2016.
I believe the "errors" in this context are generally not actual corrupted packets, which are rare, but dropped packets seen in the context of a larger data transmission.
I obviously can’t speak for the country as a whole, but at least in Milwaukee the schools in those areas are often fine to great, it’s the “school report cards” that are terrible.

The number one predictor of a school’s rating is the average income of its parents. Broadly speaking a rich kid at a mid-tier school will do just as well as a rich kid in a “good” school. City schools have poor kids and lower average test scores, but I don’t know anyone who chose the city schools by me and has regretted it.
I’d be a bit surprised about that. Apple likes to keep things like this unified because it drastically cuts costs across the board. Additionally the chip design is going to share a lot with their mobile variants. I would expect the entire lineup to be replaced for laptops. It’s less clear for things like the Mac Pro line (or if they’ll even bother continuing that line).
> They are monopolies that aren't regulated

They are actually heavily regulated. But they use that regulation as a way to prevent new competitors.
Yup, they do need an approved I-140 in order extend beyond 6 years.
I would argue America had far more to do with that especially as Europe was still picking up itself. It did a lot of the heavy lifting during the cold war, rebuilding germany and france. Then export culture and increase military spending to the point the USSR collapse because of unreast.
> Because of dangerous impurity.

Now we are getting somewhere. Yes, dangerous impurity -- that is part of it. But the act also prohibits selling "misbranded or adulterated" food or drugs. For the purpose of food, the act defines "misbranded" as:

```

First. If it be an imitation of or offered,for sale under the distinctive name of another article .
Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the
purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the
contents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed
in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such
package, or if it fail to bear a statement on the label of the quantity
or proportion of any morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta
eucane, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, or teetanilide,
or any derivative or preparation of any of such substances contained
therein .

```

Key points here:
1. "If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the
purchaser"

2. "if the
contents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed
in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such
package"

If you did indeed make the assumption that the point of the act was to limit and only limit dangerous impurity, then I think it's important to challenge that, because it seems to be an error by omission. The full text of the act clearly references not just dangerous impurities, but the whole spirit of deceptive dilution of purity with filler.

And this is why I think it's important to know the history behind it as well. The act did not fall from the sky. It was not merely a matter of people dropping dead from poisonous adulterated products. There was a broader spectrum of adulteration, from lethal danger to deceptive but unlikely to be dangerous to anything but your pocketbook. And either way, there was a national uproar about it, and people had decided they'd had enough with it and they pressured legislature for redress. There is a reason that said legislature didn't just stop at prohibiting dangerous impurities, and that is because there wasn't just an element of physical grievance, but moral grievance as well. I think that arguments which presume that the market itself is a good enough mechanism end up missing this element of the act.

The act was set up not just to protect consumers from physical danger, but to protect society from dishonest, anti-consumer business tactics which are intended to deceive. It is the latter part which I believe your argument misses.

[1] http://library.clerk.house.gov/reference-files/PPL_059_384_F...
THE POINT IS that the height difference isn’t that “massive” as you describe it - LOOK AT ALL THE VIDEOS (that’s right: plural) - it’s clear that the lack of clearance is not so obvious.
Yes, it's the UK.

I picked that domain because Virgin Media domain is .com: virginmedia.com (Virgin Media provides internet only in the UK).
From what I can tell googling around, there's no support provided for the provocative "three felonies a day" claim.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22530/does-the-...
How do you know they don't mind? Have you given them the option? Cause I'm pretty sure there isn't a single place in America where people are allowed to build as densely as they are willing.

In fact, the very existence of these zoning laws shows that people would be willing to live more densely than they are currently allowed to. They wouldn't exist if people didn't want it (you don't need laws to prevent density if nobody actually wants density).

And the fact that they are fleeing looks a lot more like it is due to high costs than actual quality of life. I grew up in suburban America...it was boring as shit and I'm never going back. Literally the worst quality of life you could possibly present me with.
This is not true. Using 'they' as a third-person singular is incredibly common, is becoming increasingly so, and has been in use for hundreds of years.
Do you object to the fact that the spelling "th" invariably means /þ/ or /ð/, and not /th/? Or mapping "sh" to /ʃ/ and not /sh/? I highly doubt you do.

Here's the thing: spelling rules are context-sensitive, and if you actually understand the underlying sound rules, spelling in English is often not that bad. For example, there is a fricatization process for /t/ and /s/ sounds convert to a /ʃ/ or a /ʒ/--this is how "-tion" is pronounced /ʃən/. Or the tendency of multiple consonants in a cluster to all be voiced or unvoiced (hence why dogs is pronounced /dogz/ and not /dogs/). Even consider the velarization of "n" in the "-ing" suffix, which is pronunced /ŋg/ and not /ng/ (try actually pronouncing /ng/! It's not easy).

I'm not aware of any spelling reforms that would propose to fix the last two examples I give, but the fricatization changes is often one of most common ones people suggest changing. That's a sign that people are willing to tolerate some degree of phonetic inaccuracies.

The real issue with English is our tendency to adopt foreign words with foreign pronunciations, foreign spellings, and sometimes even foreign morphology. And sometimes we even botch that--witness words like "gyro" or "ginkgo". This means that trying to pronounce unusual words often means first guessing what language the words (or even morphemes!) comes from, and then internalizing some bastardized form of that foreign language's phonology.
FYI there are special vacs for electronics which are made to prevent the static issue; many shops have one of these: https://www.newegg.com/black-metropolitan-data-vac-portable-...
Does your company not already grow skills over time? One should already be training (or coaching) individuals regardless of their present skill levels.
Laws only work if they're enforced. It can be illegal but how much effort does it take to actually get the problem investigated by the relevant authorities?
No I haven't yet. Thanks for making me aware of it and pointing me to that thread.
You claimed a complete understanding of the fundamental properties of every kind of matter we have done terrestrial physics on.

But we still don't have a complete understanding of the properties of neutrinos, nor a definitive understanding of how to properly tweak the Standard Model to include them. They are the only area of particle physics where experimental evidence did not fit the Standard Model, and therefore evidence of that discrepancy should be no more ignored than the failure of attempts to measure ether dragging should have been in Rutherford's day.
Somewhat related to this is the problem of children being left in hot/cold cars accidentally.

When our son was very young (< 2 years old), my girlfriend/wife was usually the one to take him to daycare in the morning. Occasionally she would have to leave for work early or was running late and would ask me to take him instead. This seemed to me to be a perfect storm to have him left behind in the car when I went to work: not used to having him there, I might drive directly to work "on autopilot" and get out and leave him asleep in his car seat.

I often wondered if this was at the heart of kids being left in hot cars.

Anyway, I forced myself to get into the habit of always turning around and checking that the car seat was empty before getting out the car, every single time, just in case.

Of course, it never happened, but I can see how easy it is to forget stuff like this when you're simply not used to doing it.
This lot are my new ISP and I love it. Two phone calls to support on set up day, answered immediately. No support calls since. No peak time drains (that I've noticed). Bit more pricy, but you get technical wizardry and freedom.

One of the biggest resentments I have against Virgin is that you need the business package to support some types of VPN. Like the VPN in use by my lab. Static IPs? Business account. Anything useful? Business account.

That and the woeful password security practices they force on users. Letters, numbers and between 8-10 length? For the account login?!

AA on the other hand will generate a secure and memorable passphrase for you, which you can override but has to be tiptop secure to do that. There's even a button for "whoops, someone else could see my screen, please generate a new passphrase again".

I mean, who does that?! Genius.

Then there's the logs which relate to my account. I can see exactly what openreach have said about work on my account. When an openreach engineer was assigned and exactly what they're doing etc.

Honestly, if I buy a house, a deciding factor will probably be whether I can have AA as my ISP.
And... I assume you’ll eventually start charging for it?
It's not a fact of life, it's due to poorly made screwdrivers/bits. Unfortunately, it's getting more difficult to find, or at least be certain of the quality of tools. You can only really know that it's a good tool after getting a lot of use out of it. But by then that particular tool may no longer be sold, or it may not be manufactured the same way, or even in the same factory. So any verified reviews may be out of date.
People providing reports and sharing home and neighborhood cameras. Just making everyone aware of what happened resulted in people providing a bunch of additional footage.

It’s a neighborhood in a suburb of upstate SC.
You can't scrutinize what you don't know about. So every bit of transparency has been hard-fought.

Take the NYPD's use of proprietary "predictive policing" algorithms to identify where a crime may occur and identify individuals who may be a perpetrator.

These algorithms have long been feared to express the biases of their input data. [1]

The NYPD has obstructed freedom of information requests at every turn. They wouldn't even release their correspondence with the vendor because it "would reveal trade secret information." [2]

If we can't examine it or even know how it's being used, it's significantly more difficult to scrutinize.

[1]: https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...

[2]: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/cour...
They tried an electronic warning sign that lights up when a truck is too tall, but drivers still can't resist the lure of the hungry bridge: https://youtu.be/YQssl0sM9As?t=6, https://youtu.be/cZrOcCXNq5c?t=5, https://youtu.be/iQfSvIgIs_M?t=32

Might have been better off erecting a giant, no-tech billboard picturing a previous crash. But your projected water screen is awesome - they could buy one and play footage from these youtube videos while they wait on the red light.
The experience of dealing with OEMs, the cost of testing their OS with every piece of hardware under the sun, then watching the Mac guy vs Windows/PC guy ads must have contributed to Microsoft making their own hardware. And trying to create an App Store for Windows.

Interesting that the thread did not include any mention of Microsoft’s licensing terms for OEMs charging per computer, even if it wasn’t shipped with Windows, which was viewed as a monopolistic practice.
Note the bulk of the actual content here is semi-hidden behind the image links at the end, like this page on Nasal Prostheses: (!)

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/387-features/maya-clothin...
Huge discussions from earlier submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10390822

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13198567

There's probably a lot of information in those discussions, but you can't comment there, so if you have anything to add, this is the place.
Just like the ones at parking garage entrances...
You can't expect anything other than that response when it comes from a monkey getting paid less than a quid an hour and that can barely understand logic, let alone the technical implications of what they're selling.

I don't know what it is with customer service, whether it's just the low pay or if there's something else at play that explicitly selects for the dumbest idiots on the planet or is it the working conditions that cause their mental abilities to deteriorate so much?
Yes, it's true. You can see this for yourself if you turn the can upside down while you press down the button on the top. Then, it will spray liquid solvent out, which will immediately vaporize, and therefore rapidly chill anything it's on.

In my former life debugging signal timing issues on circuit boards I used to use this trick (using those "gas duster" cans upside down) to chill individual components to try to find out where the problem was.
>> regulated _as utilities_
You can create a new stream per datagram. Crazy, but it works.
tbf Hyundai, in particular, seems to attempt to go into city planning[1] and Toyota is apparently building some sort of futuristic company town[2]. It seems like Japanese auto makers are attempting to branch out into urban development so I guess it makes some sense to use this as some sort of branding opportunity

[1]https://tech.hyundaimotorgroup.com/article/ces-2020-hyundai-...

[2]https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/31171023.html
The Enemies of the Metric System
You’re hyperventilating about a $5 tool.
A stock F-250 4x4 can be has high as 6'8" from the factory with out being lifted

A factory 2020 F-150 4x4 is 6'5" from the factory[1]

So I think you have you underestimation of the size of a truck. A common Lift would be 4in, and can go to 8in.

Your attempting to paint a picture of a "redneck" truck would be be a fully lifted, when lifting the truck you would then also add larger tires that would further lift the truck

So a Fully Lifted F-150 "Redneck" truck could be closer to 7'6" to 8' if not taller

[1]https://media.ford.com/content/dam/fordmedia/North%20America...
> Those berries do not even exist in that region

The "poison berries" refer to potato seeds, no? McCandless wrote about eating them in his journal, they weren't fabricated by some writer.

> Day 78: Missed wolf. Ate potato seeds and many berries coming.

> Day 94: Woodpecker. Fog. Extremely weak. Fault of potato seed. Much trouble just to stand up. Starving. Great jeopardy.
The practical difference is that the association was in Hsu's professional capacity. That is to say, he didn't decide to join the same bowling league as Molyneux as a random guy, he went on Molyneux's show as an academic authority on the science of race and said what Molyneux wanted to hear.

I have heard Molyneux's fans say to me that they were drawn to Molyneux's racist ideas "because he just applies science" and pointed to Hsu's interviews (and others) as evidence of this. Hsu enabled that not by association in general, but in this specific form of association which some people have interpreted as endorsement.

There are plenty of other professions with ethics rules prohibiting certain associations due to how those associations may be perceived, e.g. large companies have antitrust guidelines that prohibit associations that may cause the perception of anti-competitive behavior.
When it comes to marketing there's also the issue of ISPs being allowed to advertise copper cable (whether coax or DSL) as "fibre".
Speaking from a wealthy Chicago suburb here, wine rooms are decently common assuming they are talking about a room dedicated to storing wine (usually underneath your basement staircase). My parents also have separate walk in closets.
The UVLen Phone Flash Sterilizer Is Suspicious
AAISP have been sponsoring our Hackspace's internet for a number of years now and we find them fantastic, friendly and knowledgeable - and they even implement xkcd#801 compliance.

Further more, their stance on internet censorship is laudable ("The Government says we have to offer customers a choice of censored internet. So here's your choice, if you want censorship pick another ISP.")
IME, typically damage to the roof of rental trucks is not covered by standard insurance.

I briefly worked for a Budget in Canada once upon a time and they always reminded people not to take the truck through a drive thru.