skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Refusing to pay.

Every scummy telco that makes it impossible to get in touch will suddenly try to call you and even work within your terms (in a normal situation, asking them to call back at a specific time tomorrow is a no-no, but suddenly when they're out of money they'll be more than happy to do so) once they need something from you. As a bonus you will typically speak to a competent person instead of a monkey.

Of course you need to make sure you're legally in the clear. In general, if they're not delivering the service promised and reasonable efforts to resolve the situation amicably were unsuccessful then it's fair game considering if they want to take it to the courts they'd need to first explain and justify why they weren't receptive to those efforts.
It’s more like they both divulged from a common ancestor, and are both equally different and alike.

See also: humans didn’t diverge from chimpanzees, but both from a common ancestor.
> IITians LTAOs

Sorry, but what does this mean?

Also I don’t know which “Indian” accent you mean, but I find Welsh English and Hindi have a similar prosody
A lot of these are toothless - Comcast seems to be getting away with overcharging people for a decade now.
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You know I've been playing this for a week now, and until reading your comment it had never occurred to me to put a volumeNode in the middle of the webaudio path.

I just thought I had my speakers too loud :)
I independently had the same thoughts as geocrasher during similar experiences (and haven't told my friends the question annoys me), and I would say your reaction is uncharitable. Just because you can't relate doesn't mean "some people can find a reason to get upset over anything".
I was listening to a podcast interview, two people who live in different countries met on Twitter and started a online business and are doing very well. They have never met in person.

We can call it luck, fate, law of attraction or whatever. But these things do happen. Maybe not that common.
I hate SPSS, SAS and other GUI enhanced statistical software because it makes it too easy for the blind with no sound training to analyze data and come up with laughable conclusions. This is a nightmare.
Not sure how you had the idea any of this was about the US? In one of the mentioned examples (Germany) the constitution says that the government has to protect also the rights of the future generations. If any government breaks the constitution (also in the US afaik) constitutional/supreme courts can decide to take on a case brought forward by people affected by this.

I am not an US citizen but your constitution is valid in all of the US isn't it? And if a government breaks one of your constitutional rights you can sue the government in a court of law? Same principle.
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The problem is that a lot of the time it feels like meaningless platitudes. Like they feel they have to say something out of politeness but don't actually want (or able) to help you.

What would have been better? To just say "I'm sorry you're having a hard time". If you don't mean something, don't say it.
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i was surprised about the c++ choice, considering all i've read on the subject about its supposed issues related to memory management ( i think related to destructor ?) or complex features that made it unfit for OS development.

i've reed a bit of the faq and it seems Andreas originally thought about using C and then realized it wasn't a good idea.

Any opinion or more infos on that point ?
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I've been told by an eminent authority that it presages a techno tribal and positively primal shamanic, anarchistic, archaic revival.
Ever heard of string theory?
> DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources,[45] including Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Yandex, its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot) and others

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Search_results
Gravity is just a constant acceleration downward, so nothing special there.

I have the footstep sounds ready to go, but I found that I really needed to limit what sounds I played because they get overwhelming pretty quickly. There's now a pretty tight radius to the player for what gets played.

First cut was to have all 200 players' flapping sounds audible to everybody. That was suboptimal...
I can't comment on this specific product, but if the transparent proxy is causing you so much grief why not just explicitly configure your machine to use the HTTPS proxy?

HTTPS proxies are not voodoo. There are plenty that work quite well.
The interconnect on a tightly-coupled machine like this means it performs substantially better than the naively-equivalent distributed compute resources.
I think you are confusing science with philosophy. In science, solving a problem amounts to building a (quantitative) theory that allows us to predict phenomena and outcomes in the real world. We say that we have understood a phenomenon when we have a self-consistent theory that makes predictions validated in experiments.

The ultimate question of "why" reality behaves in a way that is congruent with a given theory is left to philosophers.

Your claim that a theory of consciousness would simply "shift the problem" is only true with respect to these philosophic (arguably unscientific) types of questions.

Consider the problem of gravity. Very coarsely, we have moved from
Aristotle's theory of gravity: the natural place of things is on the ground and things like to stay in their natural place, to
Newtonian gravity: objects are attracted with a force that is proportional to the product of their masses, to
general relativity: objects follow geodesics in curved spacetime, with the curvature determined by the energy content of space.

Our grasp on gravity has certainly improved greatly, but the "why" questions have simply been shifted.

Consciousness is a natural phenomenon and as such can be subject to scientific study. The ultimate question of why the laws of nature are as they are is not part of this project and is best entertained after closing time.
Thank you. Your macro idea is interesting, but I definitely want to be able to defer to the compiler on things like this. I want my scope restrictions to also be a form of embedded test. Similar to typing.

I wish more IDEs had the ability to chunk code like this on-the-fly. I think it's technically possible, and maybe even possible to insert artificial blocks automatically, showing you how your code layout chunks automatically... Hmm.

You know, once I'm less busy I might try implementing something like this.
This is exactly how "How are you?" is meant in American culture. It's not fake; greetings are culturally determined and especially the most common greeting phrases in any culture should not be treated literally but instead as part of a ritual exchange.

"How are you?"

"I'm well, and you?"

"Great, thanks."

It's just a ritualistic exchange.
Isn't that not just Java all over again, but this time with JavaScript?
You’re on Hacker News, which is exactly the opposite of Reddit for the reason you describe. dang reminded me the other day of this comment of his where he lays out HN’s position as a non-siloed site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098
What do you like about nteract over Jupyter's frontend? The website is devoid of details.
Being surrounded by talkative people helps a lot, and then you get to learn the actual constructs, not the theoretical grammar. Not being facetious, I think that's the main thing behind "it's harder to lear a new language as an adult". I think it's less due to ability and more to do with the contexts and opportunities to practice.

(Though yes, by how they learn you notice what they get easily and what confuses them)
Who’s financing the ‘anti-gender’ movement in Europe?
I don't need nuanced and varied conversations.

I don't care about @JohnSmith's political stance or what pizza he likes.
Allow me to present to you Optimus Prime with voice controls:

https://youtu.be/JmlQSegO5pM
Somewhere in there, the results of "Autobots roll out" is extremely satisfying.
Who is going to classify all zillions of goods offered by a modern market economy into “basic” vs “non-basic” necessities? Is triple-ply toilet paper basic? What about bananas? Beef? Coffee? A cellphone? A smartphone? After all, modern life is increasingly difficult without a Web terminal of some sort. Some luxuries become necessities over the years. It’s just utterly impossible to draw a line.
This is brutal and similar to what some claim is happening in China now to Uyghurs.

EDIT: Here are references in NYTimes, BBC, etc. for those downvoting me because I mentioned China and Uyghurs:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/us/politics/trump-china-x...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-uighur-xi...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53220713

https://www.insider.com/birth-rates-plunge-china-defends-for...

https://www.newsweek.com/gynecologist-exiled-china-says-80-s...
Either that, or the research has been done -- privately by industry -- determining the mental tolls that modern workplaces take on people, and companies are planning to have moats ready to push back on and mitigate future litigation. Also cost saving, to your point, but from a slightly different angle.

(I'm fully supportive of people seeking wellness programs and therapy, but I squint and become cynical when employers offer it themselves, because the long-term alignment of interests isn't always clear)
One bad advice I hear is "get over it" or "you will get over it". Why would anyone do that? You lost somebody you cared about, why would you get over them?

Your loved one will always be with you, in your memories, in your life experiences. If you get a smile while thinking of the things you did together, then they are not really dead.
I'm not an expert but according to Wikipedia the main culprit was tuberculosis[1], which at the time didn't have an effective cure.

These deaths could have been prevented if all the students were not concentrated into these schools.

Also it appears that the indigenous population was more susceptible to TB.

It appears that TB in the indigenous population is still a problem:

"The TB rate among Aboriginal people was almost six times greater than the overall Canadian rate in 2008 and in Nunavut, it was more than 38 times the national rate (184.4 cases per 100,000 population)." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...

[2] https://www.cpha.ca/tb-and-aboriginal-people
I don't believe you. How are you is almost never an honest question and you know it
Yeah, shame I wasn't around when this got popular (I actually submitted it on Tuesday, but HN must have automatically resurrected it for a second try).

The whole thing is running on a $5 Digital Ocean Apps server (well, two actually, one in New York, one in Frankfurt so that I can get low latency here in France), so it's amazing that it survived as long as it did.

Had I known it was going to get this much love, I would have spun up a dozen more servers.
I'm tempted to try this for our logistics forecasting. PID seems perfect but it really breaks the KISS principle.
I think it has changed a bit since then. There was not a lot to smile about in Russia in 2002. Not that now we smile at each other every time, but we do this more often and even if we don't faces are a lot less grumpy :)
No. After work, at home all I do is sit in front of computer. Does that count as overwork?
Judges interpret and use the law. Yet if you have a constitutional law that says every citizen has to treated with dignity this might mean something entirely different in the year 1800 than it does in 1950, 1990 or 2021. It might include/exclude different people, it might have practically no impact or a lot of impact etc.

Justices can interpret laws in a way that makes sense for the time and surrounding they live in. And they have to do it as long as the law is not 100% clearly written (which it isn't usually)
Yes, but audio records don’t have to encode frequencies below the human hearing range, whereas a video one should be capable of showing multiple consecutive black or white frames. The pickup doesn’t detect groove depth, it detects change in groove depth.

My guess is that they used AM since all you’d have to do was amplify it and send it straight to the lightbulb, no demodulation necessary.
>You pose Julia as a mighty language for everything

No I don't. It needs some work in some places.
Except there is no reliable proof of the latter.

Projection by the US, Canada and Australia does not constitute proof.

[edit] Adrian Zenz does not constitute a reliable source. Not only has his work been shoddy, he is a far-right christian sworn to destroy China. He doesn't even speak Mandarin. Of course the US, Britain, Australia, etc. would amplify his work, since it matches their material interests.

Here's a thorough piece on the topic https://www.qiaocollective.com/en/education/xinjiang
I just have.
Yeah, I had to add a Suicide Button (q) for that. It does spawn checking for players and platforms, but there must be a bug there, since you can still get stuck.
Seriously: https://github.com/benibela?tab=repositories

I have been doing it for 20 years, and all the time Pascal had null-safe strings and C-like performance. And the strings even had mutability xor aliasing with copy on write
Artificial intelligence system can predict the impact of research
Exactly my thoughts. One thing is to expect some understanding from people (and specially friends) but another thing is to expect them to be mind readers. People have their own lives and if you don't express your needs, unless they are very obvious, you shouldn't blame them for not taking them into consideration.

@geocrasher seems to not realize that the people around he/she could be taking a cautious position to avoid getting into his/her business without it being requested.
What gap are you speaking of though? Do you suspect there is some as yet undiscovered fundamental quantity of the universe which lay dormant for billions of years until the human form evolved to make use of it?
Weird, not sure why it did % instead of $ there.
Yeah, mobile safari is annoying in that it doesn't allow fullscreen mode for anything except video. And that it doesn't always leave you in a consistent scroll state or with knowledge of how much screen is visible. So the left/right buttons drop off the screen unless you scroll it a bit before hitting start.
Getting over it means simply that it wouldn't be a constant cause of sorrow or a daily life disruptor for you. "Get over it" seems just harsh in this context as if trying to rush someone, but "you will get over it" depending on the wording, while seemingly obvious advice should remind you that as time goes on the bad feelings will affect you less and less.

This in no way should mean that you should actually forget that the person existed, but more like to be "okay" with it, and accept it.

You are not getting over the person like in a break up, you are getting over the fact that they died. The "it" refers to the event and being okay with it.
Observation from a Scottish perspective: We are somewhere in between the two modes. We smile more than Russians (not difficult) and less than Americans (also not difficult), and we notice both quite clearly. I would say we used to be more like the Russians (hence why Scottish people used to often be considered "dour" or depressed), but are now being Americanised through media consumption (like many countries). That is noticeable in that younger generations smile more than older ones.
I think a large part of the problem is that the Tolstoy "All clean data is clean in the same way, but all dirty data is dirty in its own way" riff is itself an over-simplification. In practice, "clean" just means "fit for my purpose" and "dirty" just means "unfit for my purpose".

If counting the instances of a particular string is all you need to do (and it quite often is) then de facto all data is "clean", as you can get the job done with grep. If, on the other hand, you require a relational database with strict primary and foreign key definitions and NULL limitations, then you're gonna have to put a lot more work into scrubbing.

Added to that, the more stringent the defition of "clean" you're working with, the more you're going to have to deal with trade-offs. E.g. what do you do with missing required data field values? Loosen the requirement? Add defaults? Dump those rows? And what do you do with data that makes no sense, e.g. where end dates come before start dates? What if you need to anonymize the data to meet data privacy requirements? Is rounding dates to the nearest month or year fine, or will it render the data useless?

There are recurrent problems, and recurrent solutions, and the author is absolutely right to say that more open source work should be done in that area. But due to complexity and inconsistency of the definitions of "clean" and "dirty", we will unfortunately never get to the point where we just feed some library the path to an arbitrary dirty data directory, press enter, go off to grab a coffee and come back to find our freshly cleaned data waiting for us.
I really don’t see what’s different about HN in this respect vs any other social media. As far as I understand I have the legal right to delete my data if and when I want to. What seems pretty presumptuous is the idea that your personal convenience when going through old threads would somehow be more important.
I apologize, that was insensitive.
The only people that would buy dirty crypto are people with dirty cash. Even then, it would be a profoundly stupid transaction from a cash flow or security perspective. Those cryptos have basically zero value, and you just made yourself traceable in an area of technology you probably know nothing about, except some blurb on the Internet about how secure it is. If you’re going into business in ransomware or money laundering, and you’re calculating profits by the exchange rate on Coinbase, you are a moron, and you’re about to get wrecked.
The genocidal aspect of this story makes it a lot worse, but the 20th century catholic church has form on this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_and_Baby_Homes_Commis...
Again, you don’t understand the value some people find in spaced-repetition algorithms. For example, in language-learning decks involving hundreds of cards, writing the cards may lead you to remember the word on a short-term basis, but you are likely to soon forget it. A flashcard app using spaced repetition will ensure that you see that card at the right intervals so that you can retain it until you definitively internalize the word from seeing it used in context in texts.
No, actual latencies have been climbing since ddr2. Thanks for the downvote though
I’ve been abused all my life by religion, and the Iranian regime (which all evidence points to being much milder than the Chinese dictatorship). You’re no different than your predecessors; What are you doing to help people that actually goes against your bubble’s conventions? It’s not exactly an achievement to be pro-gay etc when gays etc are your bubble’s current fad.
Purely anecdotally I used to have a motorcycle that after about a year had the muffler need replacement. I was a poor student and so bought a fake one instead that was just a muffler shaped pipe.

The difference was immediate and extremely noticable, the number of near misses went down a huge amount and the few times people got a little close I could just chuck the clutch in and give it a good rev to scare anyone off.

My biking days are done for now but if I go back I will not be going back quietly.
> As a food pantry, I can't make any sense of this website.

From the website, they haven't released any actual software yet, which is even worse: they made a website before delivering anything at all.
Russians live in harsh climate, so they have to conserve energy more. Smile has been proven to employ a lot of muscles and thus spend a lot of energy.
They've taken the significantly-emptier streets of midtown-Manhattan and decided it's their playground evenings and late nights. Most of them are coming in from New Jersey. Usually it's 30 or 40 of them at a time and they ride extremely dangerously in addition to being loud.
I've never heard about Chief of Staff as an executive positon at companies before and found this super interesting.
I don't know what you mean. If china is doing it ( no reliable source but ... china bad west good) everybody should do it ?
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I also wonder about this
Just roll out ECC everywhere. It's not like the circuit density is going to go down again.
There are scumbags out their whom will drop ball bearings out there vechicle on bikers they don't like.

I friend whom told me about two incidents.

I will never understand that behavior. In my life, the loud sound of a bike is my least concern.

Plus, in my passive aggressive wealthy county, a loud bike is a F---you to my phony liberal hypocritical neighbors.
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Is this synthetic stuff what is called "spice" in the UK? I read horror stories about the effects of spice and saw it first hand while volunteering at the homeless shelter
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I agree in general, but I’d say the quick greeting form of “how are you?” is a bit more than just “hello”. It also asks for confirmation that there is no immediate problem that warrants attention.

If you say “how you doing?” to a coworker in passing, yes it’s weird if they launch into a lengthy report about some malaise in their life, or how they are feeling about something sad they read in the news - that’s not what you were asking. But if they say “A bit stressed actually - our servers just went down!” then that’s not weird at all. So a quick “how are you” really means something like “(a) hi, and (b) no major problems?”.
Bunch of nonsense, which ignores the fact of crippled trust and hostility in a psychologically crippled post-communist society. What does “cultural difference” mean? If you dig a bit of history in the last 110 years in Russia and have a basic understanding of psychology - you can easily answer why people don’t smile in Russia.
Yeah, 700b for 20 players, and normally at least somebody does something every tick, so that will go out 30 times per second. It still only works out to 24kbps, so you might not need to upgrade the modem you had back when the original was in the arcades.

I tried only sending updates every 3rd tick, but even there I could notice the difference.

You're right that it'd be worth experimenting with sending keystrokes instead, and backing off the full resync to once/second or so.
Well, the people who read or write for this site would agree: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Truthy. So not nobody.
Louder == annoying

Louder == I get woken up at 2am

There’s loud, and then there’s the thunderous roar that some of these bikes make because the owner has obvious mental issues.
Eh... Can't we just bomb them as usual? ;-)
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Germans gotta stand up for rational drug policy, yo. It's insane.

All it takes is one state: Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg — come on people!

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Edit: Bremen has a famous digital debt clock showing how much money the state owes. Perhaps there should be a similar clock showing how much money the state loses due to the illegality of cannabis (combination of criminal justice costs and expected tax receipts). That might spur the conservative rationalists.