skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Example: It’s a felony federal crime to throw away someone else’s mail. That includes mail that is addressed to a previous occupant that was delivered to your home (unless it says “or current resident” or similar). Penalties are up to five years in jail and fines.
I worked in California for a while and something that kept throwing people off was that I pronounce my "t"s in the English way rather than drop them to "d"s. So it's buTTer and not 'budder', thirTy not 'thirdy', etc. Once I started dropping them to "d"s too, things improved significantly, and I can see why a lot of British YouTubers and geeks develop this 'trans-Atlantic' affectation.

Another funny one I ran into a few times was how for a time like 8:30, we'd say "half eight" in the UK, but when I would casually say this in the US people would be like "half eight? you mean four?" It had never occurred to me this common British parlance would be unintelligible elsewhere. Of course, there are just as many things the other way around, although watching a lot of US TV will take care of that.
There are two kinds of cities.

One of these cities is ideal for the automobile. It is spread out, to avoid creating traffic bottlenecks. This sprawl is further exaggerated to make room for parking. Unfortunately, personal cars are exclusionary because of cost and necessary license restrictions.

What's worse, sprawled, car-friendly cities are unfriendly to pedestrians and public transit. You get bus stops that are simultaneously too few and too many (a bunch of stops with only one passenger). A city full of skyscrapers is terrible for cars, because your roads clog up whenever the drivers try to enter or leave (welcome to LA!) but it's great to pedestrians, because you get so much available in a short walking distance.
Is there any open source application alternative for opinion polling?
Benjamin Franklin too was an advocate of reforming spelling, and phonetic spelling.

Seems to be a recurring theme for English because it's such a difficult language owing largely to its awful spelling.

But it has never, and probably will never, take off, unless, perhaps, we first have a Jacobin Revolution in the U.S. and UK, complete with a Terror of our own. God forbid. (Though even that didn't fix the French language.)
See if Andrews & Arnolds would work wherever you move to. I've been with them for a few months now and don't think I'll want to switch anyone else afterwards.

https://www.aa.net.uk/

Checking an address on their website will require active BT phone line at the address, but if you call them up they can check the area for you (I did that).

I was asking their salesperson about static IPs addresses and all sorts. Answered every single one of my question with legit technical information.

I was actually speechless at the end of the first call. Was the first time I've spoken to an ISP and had all of my questions answered.

Didn't want a phone line and they didn't require one, 300GB usage as standard per month (can be upped to 2TB for a tenner I think?). They dont filter content on their network either. Speeds are decent enough for one person on FTTC (just got 70Mbps). And apparently they purchase above and beyond the capacity they might need from openreach to avoid peak time drains on the network (I've experienced none).

They also do FTTP as well. Or there's the G.Fast option which seems to be new (wasn't there when I ordered).

One of the things that still amazes me - they send me an pgp signed email whenever my internet connection drops, and another when it comes back online. If it's dropped overnight, I wake up to an email about it!

Then there's the amazing logs which you can see about your order. I can actually see the status of any issues relating to my account -- including what openreach may have logged about it!

Had a dodgy moment when initially setting up the router (unexpected downtime on their end).

Called support and they answered straight away - and it turned out to be the person I was emailing when purchasing my order! Knew I was doing set up, quickly checked logs and we got it all worked out.

No major issues since then. Only issue is the socket in my flat, but that's an openreach engineer job.
I really think that any effective anti aging therapy is going be something that is specific to, or based on information from, the specific patient.
Here’s my logic: if there was some molecule or hormonal tweak that would defeat aging in every individual that was given it, then the improvement would be heritable. And some organism at some point in earths evolutionary history would have found it by now, which means we would know about it. So, there likely is none.

So, if there is an anti aging therapy of some kind, it must be something that is not a simple heritable molecule to be synthesized. That means some kind of genetic or stem cell therapy.

I’m not a biologist though so ymmv.

Edit: on that note: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/03/old-human-cel...
First one, you’re right that’s a bug. I should fix that in the article (and it’s another way generators and lists aren’t interchangeable)

On saving off the judgements var, I think I disagree that’s as much an issue. “With” is the languages feature explicitly designated for safely managing resources/variable lifetimes. One could save a file off created using with in the same way. The language basically tells you doing that with a var created with “with” is a bad idea. The articles solution makes lifetime of the generator more explicit.
Police have their hooks in every level of government. Police unions have very large coffers and money talks.
Please reevaluate the assumptions you've made about this situation.

I'm not sorry if I made you uncomfortable because this is an important issue that should be adressed.

Could you please explain what in my statement makes you self conscious as well as what you mean by "'like us'"?
The thing that kills me with these stories (and if you read the comments there's plenty more) is that customers _remember_. I'll never use Videotron again after the crap they put me through when I cancelled.

I'd love to blame monopolies (sure, pick the other guys, but you'll be back in a few years when they piss you off) but the other big offender here is gym memberships, and there's no shortage of choice there. I think there's at least 4 different brands within a 5 minute drive of my house.

Consumer protection laws should be: You can cancel anywhere you can sign up. You allow new signups online, over the phone, and mall kiosks? Great, you also allow cancellations online, over the phone, and mall kiosks.

When adding a customer exit survey to our cancellation workflow the hard and fast requirements were "you cancel first, you need to understand that the cancellation has been completed. Then we can show you the survey". Don't be jerks, then hopefully people will remember you fondly if they need you later.
I think we need to make it more obvious when account-access occurs for users. If they can see their request logs they can investigate themselves, maybe even identify the cause or instigator.

I think letting users define restrictions on their accounts would help too, like a firewall for which countries or cities etc can access their account, schedules for when signing in can occur or when it is disabled etc. Most people could just select their city and waking hours.
I sympathize with the author's disdain for brutalist and some deconstructivist work. But to suggest that all contemporary architecture is a movement towards creating deliberately alienating and impractical buildings, seems to me very wrong. I think Zaha Hadid's work (which the author critiques) is aesthetically pleasing to most people, not alienating, for example https://assets.newatlas.com/dims4/default/e09670a/2147483647... . The author expresses a uniform disdain for skyscrapers, but many skyscrapers are popular with the general public, for example, the Gherkin in London https://i.pinimg.com/474x/b5/78/c0/b578c0732b532b91b5e8455de... or say, The Empire State Building. Personally I do not find the shiny glass and sleek curves of many of these buildings unsettling or alienating nor, I think, do most people. In short, if we accept a basic premise of the author's: that what is good architecture is what is pleasing to most of the people who view and interact with it, then the author's critique is (I believe) too broad because many of the architects and buildings the author implicitly or explicitly criticizes are in fact popular.

Furthermore, something that the author does not address is the movement in contemporary architecture to carefully consider the practical effect of building design on the people within it. For example, how the flow of people is directed by the building, how the layout can help its occupants interact with each other, how interior walls can support privacy or erode it, and how to cater the response to these concerns to the function of the building. This is the opposite of the approach in Eisenman's house design mentioned in the article.
Thanks, I intend to give it a fair try
It is not clear what country this page is addressing... I can guess the UK but you should be explicit or use a country domain name.
My Pi 3B is a media server right now. I have it hooked up through HDMI, converted to composite, and run to my Commodore 1702 so I can watch cartoons. It has probably around 80GB of movies and another 80GB of music, 10GB of books, and a couple gigs of pictures on a partition of a hard drive that's hooked up via a SATA bay. Over the years it's been an IRC server, a Tor webserver, an emulation station, and a backup computer to watch South Park after my old one died.
On one hand you say browsers are to blame because they went too far too fast bypassing the OS DNS and on the other you say browsers are to blame because they didn't go far and fast enough bypassing the OS DHCP client.

Again are your arguments actually about DoH causing centralization or are you just talking about browsers causing positioning centralization irrespective of the technology?
I wish my ISP they would give me the option to prepay... I would
Youtrack by jetbrains. They have recently introduced new cheaper plans , for small teams it’s really free.

We switched from JIRA. Best decision ever.
One more alternative for people in the UK: https://www.zen.co.uk/

Also not affiliated with them in any way, just a happy customer.

Coincidentally, I switched to them once I managed to break free from Virgin. The major selling point for me: Lifetime price guarantee. After being with Virgin for 3 years and tolerating 2 price bumps, that was a breath of a fresh air.

Yes, the speeds are nowhere near what Virgin is offering, but for me, all the speed in the world cannot make up for obnoxious customer service, the terrible security and the shady practices they use to keep you handcuffed to them.
Which OS? There is an issue open for Firefox on iOS: https://github.com/team-video/tragopan/issues/3. Is yours different?
The winnowing theory only makes sense to people today, because we have such a massive demolition industry. But when things were built with old construction techniques, taking a lot more time and effort, using stone and brick - you built once and it remained long term. The rate of demolition was probably much lower in the past.
Um, what? We don't have enough data to confirm or deny the existence of average group differences between major races, but we have pretty good data to be able to eliminate large differences. Even Ashkenazi Jews, who are supposed to have average IQ 1 standard deviation above the mean, aren't a superrace - sure, they are overrepresented amongst Nobel laureates, but many of them are still stupid.

Basically, a small +-5 IQ point difference doesn't change the big picture that much - still most people between 80 and 120, and some outliers below and above that.
https://archive.vn/hFSCI
We had a Zen account for a while. They were terrible - absolutely hilariously incompetent at getting us connected, expensive, and minimal bandwidth at busy periods.

I'd used Zen about ten years earlier and they'd been much better, so I was very disappointed.

My experience with Virgin was fine. The product was fast, there were a couple of short outages but no serious technical issues, and I had no problem cancelling when I moved a few years ago.
That's still clunkier than

await first
await second

So lots of people might not ever think to do it the other way. If you don't have intimate knowledge of how promises work and what async/await really do, you might not even realize that this is wrong.
The bridge across the river Wear right next to Dunelm house is an example of building with concrete done right. Use the properties of the material to make a structure that is light and airy, pleasing yet practical.

The soviet bunker that is Dunelm House itself though. Bring on the day of its demolition. Please let me push the plunger and set off the explosives.
We'll be better at social in 20 years it just takes some practice ... like not smoking cigs ... social is really important, it's letting the people unionize against the state
I use Axure to prototype enterprise apps, i.e. lots of forms and data grids.

Last time I checked, Figma didn’t support interactive form elements or prototyping conditional branching based on what you type in a form field.

Being able to prototype business logic without having to get developers having to develop something, saves a lot time at early stages when you explore new features with business users and you can also iterate faster and it’s better for user testing as well, as it’s more than just clickable hotmapped images.

I know you could achieve the same with Framer, since you get access to the code, so that’s useful for designers who can code.

Axure is great for designers or product folks who can’t code.

Is the above possible in Figma now?
I get it, just like an iPhone can track the health of an installed battery, an oem laptop manufacturer should be able to track the effectiveness of a cooling solution and know that the fans are worn or dirty or you've blocked the vents.
It's not that easy to get a contract either...

First they said "health and safety", they can't get a man to bring the cable up to 2nd floor. I said fine, how about I buy that cable, I drill my own walls, and bring you the cable down to the ground, can you connect that? "Sure, let's set up a date for engineer visit". All is ready, engineer comes carrying a modem... wtf... you are supposed to connect this to your box outside the property. He goes back, they cancel my request for service outright. I call them, and an utterly rude person tells me that the cancellation is final, there is no one to complain to, I can't talk to his manager, goodbye.

The UK broadband is in such an appalling state, that if you want better than ADSL you have to subject yourself to humiliation by Virgin Media who hold near monopoly over fast (for UK, anyway) lines as BT/Openreach are utterly disinterested in being part of the 21st century.

The day this ridiculous duopoly is broken up will be the day to rejoice! But I'm not holding my breath, this is a 3rd world country is so many ways that matter. (Actually, that's an insult to "3rd world" - there I got an actual 100/100Mbit ethernet connection installed in a matter of days for half the money Virgin is asking for their slowest service).
That last point is pretty hilarious!

I find writing up the minutes during the meeting and distilling to “are these the most important points?” works to grab folks’ attention.
I don't have any specific solutions either, yet I do know that I'd like the fee structure and policy to benefit small developers more than large ones. In the current system the rich developers (Amazon) get lower, while the little developers have to pay 30%.

Yes, in much of the world the rich get richer while the rest stagnate or get poorer, yet I hope for more from Apple.
So, as long as you're willing to commit fraud, you can commit fraud?

How is fraud a problem with the visa or the visa holder?
How is it not philanthropy when there are already skilled workers they could hire right now ?
Figma is great. The single biggest feature from figma is that it's shared/collaboration oriented by default. This is due to its online nature (compared to installable apps such as sketch, incision and xd).

Not all designers like this, but I love how figma makes work available across design teams, and how components becomes easily usable. I discovered my colleagues work by accident all the time.

Now, all this creates other problems, obviously: now designers also need to maintain interdependent assets just like software dependencies.
Ever missed a single down-step and fell down/got tripped up?

How could you possibly miss it??? I mean, it was right there in front of you!

I mean, it doesn’t matter that it “blended in” and wasn’t easily visible, and has no handrail, it was still right there.
I’ll second Hyperoptic. Used them for 4 years now, really happy with the connection. They used to provide free public IPv4, but now it’s £5/month for a static.

In that time they have had a couple outages of a few hours, nothing unusual compared to other ISPs. Their 100 and 500Mbit plans are nicely priced. I went for 1Gbit even though I barely break 300-400 over Wifi, just in case. Plus my previous Internet was an atrocious 6Mbit ADSL1 line which I was completely fed up with, so instinctively just wanted the most bandwidth I could get!
My all-time favorite picture for this situation is:

ON THE ROAD TO SUCCESS,
THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/c7fpl6/on_the_road_to...
Indeed, came to say the same thing. I have the Likebook Mars Android device, and it's leaps and bounds better than the Kindle.

Literally my only complaint about the device is that it runs an outdated and heavily skinned version of Android. I wouldn't recommend this device today for that reason, but there are a lot of options running newer versions these days.

It's a shame Google doesn't offer a "pixel" device like this, unlocked and without all the junk. For whatever reason, though, Google seems completely uninterested in eink.
What's wrong with the cheap generic?
Well, then they actually deserve the consequences of their ignorance. And, by the way, scams don't necessarily involve apps, they come in all shapes and sizes. Phone calls, websites, you name it.

It isn't realistically possible to safeguard everyone from everything bad while at the same time preserving their freedom.
I often do:

docker-compose up -d && docker-compose logs -f
EU should force Apple to allow a third party store for IOS. Any other outcome of their investigation is simply blackmail for money (aka toothless fines, cost of doing business).
Tried to crimp an RJ45 cable this weekend and went through 3 plugs and couldn’t get the wires to line up. I wonder if I got the plugs too cheaply but it seemed like there was nothing to keep the wires aligned. I haven’t had to crimp an RJ45 in maybe 10 years, maybe I just lost the touch.

Thankfully I had some RJ45 punch down terminators so I could cheat with that. Of course I didn’t have the little plastic 110 punchdown tool to seat the wires...
"The real thing" does not mean the absolute hardest iteration of whatever you're trying to do.

C25K doesn't start with a marathon, but it does involve actually getting your ass out the door and running. It does not involve shoe shopping, reading about stretching techniques or tinkering with your training schedule in Excel. Running is the real thing.
Maps.me. Offline, and much nicer experience than OSMand.
That’s a really interesting point. Can you think of a good reason for services like internet to be post-paid? I cannot.

Perhaps the reason they are is specifically to enable these distasteful collections practices?
Another one from Melbourne, Aus

https://howmanydayssincemontaguestreetbridgehasbeenhit.com/
I'm curious, personally I would just put the file handling inside the function handling the file. Is anything wrong with the following much simpler solution?

def judgments_from_file(filename):
with open(filename) as f:
for line in f:
yield parse_row(line)

Why wouldn't you let the method that deals with the file also own the file pointer, and then the context manager from the with-statement close it whenever the function is done? Instead of having to do some magical stuff to make sure it closes at the right time? Is it to make unittest/mocking easier?

for judgements in judgments_from_file(filename):
for j in judgements:
process(j)
Without ad-blocker blocker: https://outline.com/RH7feg
German-as-a-Second-language speaker here -

There's a lot of ambiguity and corner cases about what's a noun in German when you drill down to it (It maybe doesn't seem a problem coming English because you don't have to decide every time you write a word whether it's a noun or not). And Germans in highschool are drilled in this apparently, so many grow to hate it a bit. For example, take 'ein Paar'\'ein paar' (a pair) - in english you say oh pair is a noun so great. But in german whether you write it big or small depends on whether you're using it as an indefinite pronoun or a noun. You can apparently use it to distinguish a pair of trousers (in Paar Hosen) from a pair of trousers (ein paar Hosen), though don't ask me which is which...

And there are some fossilised expressions where even though things are nouns they're written small (e.g. 'durch dick und dünn' (through thick and thin.) ), and there are cases of capitalising things that sure look like adjectives though...I don't know how linguistics classify the parts of speech formally...

Or another example - if say "I take part" ("ich nehme teil") in something, is 'part' a noun? The german sentence is a word-for-word translation of the english, and 'Teil' is a noun in german (meaning 'part'), but you don't capitalise it because teil is part of the verb 'teilnehmen' and not independently a noun in this context.

(here's my personal menagerie of capitalisation rules for German: https://gist.github.com/increpare/b5d652b535656b794c47a77c1d... , and here's a relevant page (in German) by Duden, one of the two main authorities on German orthography - https://www.duden.de/sprachwissen/rechtschreibregeln/Groß-%2... . It's not a short page, and not something that comes intuitively to people. They learn this stuff).

All that said, I like German orthography! I enjoy compound words and (plus or minus edge cases) its approach to capitalisation.
Urban Living Might Just Survive Coronavirus
Oh, I just meant that text-centric doesn’t necessarily mean it should be considered ”old”: plenty of nifty features of semantic markup and CSS can be utilized to make a ”plaintext” web page look and feel very contemporary. That excludes things like JS, WebAssembly, WebGL etc.
I don't believe it's going to be a 100% transition either way in the foreseeable future. Apple will move their low-end computers to ARM and keep their high end ones on x86. That way they will leverage over both sides whenever they want to get something out of them. "Hey, Intel, you know those expensive 10nm Xeons we wanted for the Mac Pros cheaper than you wanted to sell them? Would be too bad if we went with ARM this generation" "Hey, TSMC, know those CPUs for high-end MBPs? Give 'em to us for cheap or else."
Why not just have the with-statement/filehandler inside `judgments_from_file`? You're doing all sorts of messy stuff to make sure the file closes whenever `judgments_from_file` is done, wouldn't it make sense to just have it control the lifecycle of the file?

The only reason I can think of to do it the other way is if you want to make unit testing easier, allowing you to pass a fake iterable instead of a file pointer to `judgments_from_file` for testing.
AFAIU from reading their website they sell the same Openreach ADSL as the rest of providers (except Virgin or Hyperoptic which have own fibre).

So the speed is the same as any ADSL provider: 70 down, 15 up or so.
> it doesn’t matter that it “blended in” and wasn’t easily visible

It's a MASSIVE bridge, right in front of your face, and bright yellow warning bar.