skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The brush attachment is actually quite good on rugs/carpet, but most of our house is hardwood or tile. The hard floor attachment we have is basically a soft roller that is supposed to sweep debris backwards and funnel it to the actual vacuum inlet. This doesn't work particularly well and will sometimes fling debris out the back, and the design also seems to mean that it works best pushing forward, rather than just vacuuming in kind of a W motion. I have a theory that this is worsened because our house is old and the floors are not that even, so maybe it's not able to trap debris as effectively? Our other normal vacuum's hardwood attachment is the super simple suction cone type thing, and that will suck up basically anything in it's path.
You should consider looking into Prolotherapy. I had increasing levels of lower back pain since I was twelve. It had gotten so bad I couldn't roll over in bed without sharp pain.

My neighbor was a naturopath, I helped him photograph some before/after xrays of a 70 year old woman's knee (before was bone on bone; she regrew her meniscus and bone spurs disappeared)

I did three prolotherapy sessions (they're painful) with him over a few months and I have been pain free for over fifteen years now. I actually started playing rugby after my first session.
AI is doing a lot better now than in the 1980s. AI back then was groups at MIT, Stanford, and CMU, and a few small groups elsewhere. Almost all the 1980s AI startups went bust.

This time, there's enough success that the field is self-funding. Cynically, because mediocre machine learning is good enough for ad targeting.
"At the end of the day, people showed up and voted for something. Twice (basically). That means something."

"Voted for something and it means something" is the portrait of Brexit.

A question was posed to the public but it was never explained properly, and so nobody knows what it means. Did people want a border in Ireland? A third-party status for UK products imported to EU? A separation from European scientific collaboration?

These are just a few of the hundreds of open questions. The UK government hasn't figured it out in three years. Yet the vote definitely means "something", so "something" should happen.
Improving Fairness Through Connection Throttling in the Cloud [audio]
Agreed. In fact, some of the best social organizations are the ones forced on us by random chance... neighborhoods are like this.

Any social group based on a common interest (including board games) won't be a cross section of any culture, simply because it selects from a subset of people in that culture.

The default in most neighborhoods now is to not know your neighbors, everyone meets new people to talk with online, and that takes care of that impulse.

I've often thought it would be good to develop some sort of geographically based system of community for the Internet, where everyone is included in communities and sub-communities based on their physical location. So, a group of people formed by you and the people whose houses border your own, another group overlapping with that one for your neighbor's house and the ones that border it, a bigger group for the block and surrounding blocks, a bigger one for your part of the city, etc.

Edit: Forgot to explain... you'd chat, post pictures, etc social media style within the groups, and you'd be able to direct your visibility by choosing how you chat. Kind of like being in an MMORPG game, where you can use one kind of chat to talk to your group, another for your guild, another for the zone you're in, and another for the whole world.

Each person could publish anything that interested them, from pictures to links to information, and send invites to people in the local area for events or discussions.

The hard part is that people have to be automatically attached to these communities - there are a lot of people who won't care enough to opt in, there are still a lot of people who don't have internet access, there has to be policing and moderation.

It'd be necessary to work out in detail and law how to avoid its abuse, but that's true of most technology.
> You can literally say anything you want and just say that it's a thought experiment

My fucking post started with "Imagine you are...."

> clearly biased against Hong Kong and trying to sway the opinion in China's favor

An explanation of something is NOT the same thing as an endorsement of it. I literally said I totally disagree with them:

>> I'd like to note that I do not support the Chinese Govt in any way and think the world would be a better place with an independent, democratic HK - a city I genuinely love.

If you still don't understand I'm sorry but I'll have to leave it there.
I second (third?) Paglen’s work in this space. His book “I could tell you but then you’d have to be destroyed by me” is excellent.
Grisp: SBC that runs Erlang on bare metal
these strange outrage-inducing style comments read like 'internet water army' type stuff -- and weibo has been a pretty traditional battleground for them.
Squirrels and birds seem to have a selected desire to horde nuts in a similar way to people hoarding extra resources for lean times. Cache Spacing or having various hordes of food spaced around in hidden locations seems like a rough analogy for having various Swiss bank accounts and the like. Ravens in particular are clever and will deceive potential raiders by moving caches, and raiders will try and appear disinterested.

As an aside cats are slightly odd for domestic animals as they're arguably semi-domesticated versus dogs or farm animals. African Wildcats look and act a lot like house cats in videos and are genetically similar, which I think is part of what makes them fun as pets.

https://www.livescience.com/53571-suspicious-ravens-detect-t...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4260561/
The cold war isn't a great example. It encompasses violent proxy wars, involving plenty of ground combat (e.g. Korean War; Vietnam War).
How technical should you be as a manager?
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Not really. The offset reads given specific primers producing entirely different results, perhaps, for steganography.
Yes, because guns are only useful against zombies, not looters.
I believe the prevailing thought on the audible cracking is that it is the bubbles in the fluid between cartilage and nothing to do with the cartilage itself.
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I wonder if that's working for them as a core selling point. Does having an open firmware really steer people into buying one of these laptops?

I'm curious to hear from an actual buyer on why they purchased that laptop when there are so many linux friendly options available.

For web dev I've been running ubuntu on a virtualbox on my macbook pro for years. It's pretty much just as fast as my fully specced out desktop.

Consider the fact that hardware wise they seem to be seriously lacking. All of their laptops have a 1920x1080 display. My 6 year old macbook has a 2880x1800 display. 6 years old!

There are a ton of linux friendly options on the market now with 4k displays and even OLED displays.
Good to hear! If you want to play around with the firmware, you can still do so in virtualization using the qemu model.
I learned a little about this topic recently after a bad knee injury from running [torn meniscus] --

Blood supply does have a lot to do with healing-or-not -- taking the meniscus as an example, about 30% of the meniscus has a blood supply, the rest does not, so that if the injured part is of that 30%, it can actually heal, whereas if not, they can only clean it up and stitch it together like a rag doll ---

[for the curious : I got lucky and my injury healed tolerably well on its own sans surgery]
In case js13kgames is still down, see this GitHub Blog post [0] for the winners.

[0] https://github.blog/2019-10-08-js13k-2019-highlights/
The Deep Music Visualizer: Using Sound to Explore the Latent Space of BigGAN
It's Qt not QT
On the homepage, right above the Purchase and Trial buttons is "Pay Once and Use It Forever"
And if they're smart, they can make that 10m make them even more money. I just cant imagine ever needing that much money unless I did my dream of travelling and staying somewhere new all the time.
Ronan Farrow overcame spies and intimidation to break MeToo stories
While cron is a nice tool, people should not be using cron for any production grade automation.

Tools have been created to that orchestrate automation with more powerful capabilities, and Airflow has become a defacto standard in the industry.

Prefect is an open automation tool, comparable in a lot of ways to Airflow. The author of the post is an early committer to Airflow.
Presumably some of the difference is that WWI didn't involve as much intentional targeting of civilians, where WWII did (the London Blitz, Dresden, firebombing Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
I've commented about valid American analogies to what Hongkong is to China and you're accusing me of claiming that China has an "inherent claim over Tibet"? Right... I've nothing more to add.
The whole "eco friendly" thing about hand dryers never made sense to me. In fact, I think it's a marketing ploy by the air dryer makers. Paper towels are great, and they come from trees, which we can and want to grow more of.
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/

I mean...

soup.find(id="link3")
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>

Is this hard?
Bazel 1.0.0 Released
Anyone able to chime in on this with professional experience?

I always assumed that a foreign company looking to be listed public in the USA had to play by our rules at least within USA soil. Including accounting and oversight. After a little bit of reading (I'm not really into investing/SEC rules), I'm finding out that no foreign country really has to. Almost honor system like standards. And it seems to stem from '07 when the EU pushed for that. Am I really off base? Confusing facts? I've only been researching for 15 minutes and need to do a lot of backlog reading to get a handle on it since it's not my field of experience.
Corals can recover from "bleaching" and can overgrow skeletonised areas (at some extent), but neither all bleaching cases are equal, nor all of the around 3500 species, if I remember correctly) of extant hard corals are equally resilient.

The real cause of bleaching is unknown. Vibrio can invade the area and accelerate the killing of coral tissue, but is unclear if they are a cause of the disease or a secondary effect of the disease.
Okay, perhaps you are seeing predictions that number X will increase by Y by year Z actually come true. I'm talking about the predictions that the Sacramento valley will flood, as I mentioned upthread, and various other doom-and-gloom predictions that clearly haven't come to be.

> You literally have mental health problems emerging in related fields, like PTSD.

The anti-vax movement shows us the danger of correlating things like global warming and PTSD. Do you have more evidence of causation than those people do?

Anyway, I'll ask again. Can you give an environmentalist argument that doesn't involve warming scares? I challenge you. One wouldn't think this would be that difficult.
You mean AI planning and stuff?

I’m bearish on reinforcement learning right now. Is there good stuff happening in a comparable front? (Will a blocks world solver ever play Super Mario?)
Anecdotally, I've dumped TensorFlow in favor of PyTorch for almost all new work I'm doing at my organization (industry focused). Biggest gripes with TensorFlow are overly complex APIs, instability from release to release, constantly broken code in Google's repos, and poor documentation. Maybe TF 2.0 will be better, but for me, the PyTorch ship has already sailed, and I am sailing on it.
The vast majority of that first graph happened more than 1000 to 10000 years ago. Attention to endangered species seems to have only started 50 to 100 years ago.

But you are right that our impact on endangered species is poor; only 28 species have recovered out of ~2000 listed in the US (according to the Wikipedia page for the Endangered Species Act of 1973).
They're alluding to a nonexistent preexisting relationship so they can pretend they didn't illicitly obtain your contact information and retain it indefinitely to spam you.
OK, I confess that no one really knows what is going on in the mind of Jeremy Corbyn, possibly not even the man himself. What is unquestioned fact is that the party is split on Brexit. Known facts about Corbyn are:

- He has opposed expansion of the EU throughout his political career

- After the referendum, he urged rules on state aid to be jettisoned on the grounds they would no longer be valid after Brexit anyway

- He is a self-identified socialist and is far left, even by Labour standards

My take is that overall, he is anti-EU but has been forced into a publicly neutral or pro-EU (during the referendum) position because that is the position of the majority of his party. What are his precise motivations for this, I do not know.

Thus I read his whipping against no-deal and his new stance on a referendum as more of a forced concession to his party, and as a tool to beat the Tories over the head with, than as something arising out of his personal convictions. Especially because of how long it took him to arrive at those positions. But no one can know for sure.

Keep in mind "no no-deal", which was JC's only position for so long, is not really a position, as pjc50 pointed out. This was made painfully obvious during the series of indicative votes during the spring.
There is no "next thing." China's territorial claims have remained exactly the same since 1949, and are identical to those of the Republic of China (a.k.a. Taiwan). Actually, Taiwan's territorial claims are somewhat more expansive than those of China, since Taiwan still claims Mongolia.

It's pretty simple: China claims territories that were part of the Qing dynasty until 1911, and internationally recognized as such (except outer Mongolia). Tibet was never internationally recognized as an independent country, and both the PRC and ROC have consistently maintained that it is part of China. That was also the internationally accepted legal view. The PRC and ROC agree that Taiwan is part of China - they just disagree about what "China" is. The PRC and ROC both resented British control over Hong Kong, which is understandable, given that it was taken in the Opium Wars.

I wish people discussing the issues here knew the basic background. The idea that China is trying to gobble up territory, and will next try to annex Vietnam or Laos is just not supported by the historical facts. China's position on territory is pretty clear and has been consistent over time.
The Workplace Is Killing People and Nobody Cares
Why do you bring this up?

Because you think those things are wrong? Then they're wrong when Erdogan does them, too.

Because you think that we think that those things are wrong? Then we think that they're wrong when Erdogan does them, too.

I don't think that there's an argument you can make on these grounds that helps you very much...
The crime in this hypothetical degrades from Burglary to Trespass, not "no crime."
I got a Gazelle a few days ago, mainly because I didn't want to have to troubleshoot anything when I get it. I wanted a plug and play linux experience, and this is it.
Buy this book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JHIDON6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
A funny reason I am stuck with Tensorflow: I would love to use PyTorch, but for the moment only Tensorflow has support for complex numbers.

pytorch bug tracker: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/755
There have been a lot of changes to Rust's libstd recently for vxworks [0]. Expect it to be a bit buggy until Rust 1.42 or so.

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%...
All the gas cans I've seen for sale in the last 10 years are self-sealing to limit emissions. I don't think you can even buy the "plain" ones anymore.
My very biased opinion: you start with PyTorch because it's easy to develop and debug, and there's no point in having the fastest tools for a model that you can't train properly.

Once your model is running, and if/when you start hitting performance bottlenecks, then you consider migrating your model to TensorFlow.
We (Zenly) are, it works well!
For what it's worth, we do have a focus on making sure the hardware works properly etc.; I've always been pushing for that and haven't had any real problems there.

This particular board was a test escape. A very unique, thankfully singular (so far as I know) test escape, but there's always a chance for that -- the larger failure in my mind was the breakdown in the support process. With our new controls in place (including rapid escalation / RMA of "odd" faults observed by customer) I am confident this won't happen again.

And yes, we're updating tests to catch the newly discovered failure mode. It's an interesting one, the board is a sort of a "zombie" in that if you boot it up by looking at it just right, it'll run stably and pass our stress tests, but it should never have left our factory in that condition due to the other faults. Full stop. :)
This post is focusing on Scheduler, but the parent project, Prefect, has the concept of Flows, which are similar to DAGs. You can convert an Airflow project into a Prefect project.

One of their employees wrote about the comparison of the two:

https://medium.com/the-prefect-blog/why-not-airflow-4cfa4232...
Why not GTK? You have even less bloat than in qt.
Like this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7139797.stm

Pardon me at this point for disbelieving in the ability to accurately model very complex systems.

And no, our technology has not suddenly achieved this magical ability in the last 30 years.
I'm not the OP, but it looks like it was in reply to the "cheapest way" part of the title. Incidentally, that line doesn't appear on the web site.
I'm pretty sure if they ever made electric car, it would run on gas, just like "fanless" fan.
> mostly circumstantial that Google cannot so thoroughly lock down their systems

You can say the same about any end to end encrypted service. Setting yourself up to not be able to bow to unreasonable request is the best defense and can be quite the extra effort. And I'm thankful for companies doing so.

Thing I don't understand why Apple made that decision. In their position I'd would have fought very hard to get gov (preferably HK) order the removal and then just "having to comply". But it's probably the natural consequence of wanting to curate entire availability beyond just in-store generate content (e.g. advertising, search ranking and so on). Again, it matters what you set yourself up to be.
> depletion of oil

That’s true too, barring some 1970’s-like energy crisis also I think. Though, my understanding of peak oil arguments is that as drilling technology improves we can extract deeper oil that is not previously counted as extractable. So peak oil is this constantly shifting target 30-40 years away. We will run out, yes, but no time soon. Oil companies and national economies will continue to drive up production until then.
It should be:

--dynamic_mode=off
this is fascinating. who could i talk to, with more questionS?
> unix wizards will tell me a better way of doing this

Great story. I won't claim to be a wizard, but here's mine:

grep -Eo "mailto:[^\"']*" webpage.html | sed 's/^mailto://' | sort -u

The pattern means "mailto: and then everything up to a single or double quote", and the -o flag means "only show the matches". The main benefit of this approach is that it works even if you have multiple email addresses on a line.
Because Go is taking a strong stance that smaller languages are more productive, and I think they’re right.

C# has all these features because C# has every single feature and facility that every programming language has ever had thrown into a single ungodly soup of keywords and syntax.

Don’t get me wrong, this means C# is bloody powerful but once you involve more than one dev you get into the problems of every dev understanding and/or preferring their subset of C#. Every PR is 50% policing style and structure desperately trying to keep the codebase grokable by everyone and politics about everyone’s favorite pet feature and design pattern. C# rewards cleverness with incredibly slick looking but utterly incomprehensible code unless you wrote it two minutes ago.

Not saying Go is the answer or the way but I think it’s scratching a lot of people’s itches for something high level that’s restrictive enough that there’s only one or two “right” ways to accomplish a given task.
Does anyone have any data on when candy bars started switching to plastic from the foil and gloss paper method? I'm 25 and have some hold outs on the very edge of my memory.
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Also acid rains and their mitigation.
All hand dryers are a health hazard. They're a wet, warm, bacteria incubator that can then aerosolize the bacteria.

In contrast, the mechanical action of drying your hands with a paper towel is an additional antibacterial step.
no, there is no breakthrough that i'm aware of.

i took a raw canvas and a raw data structure of a single array per series, plus one for timestamps and made a loop to draw lines on a canvas. it turned out to be very fast. the mousemove interaction has rAF throttling applied and does a binary search over the timestamps plus some basic arithmetic. there's no "secret sauce" that makes it go fast. maybe the way it calculates scales is more efficient than the others. i honestly don't know without looking into what the others do, nor do i care enough to look into it.
Hanoz - can you give some info on the coverage of the lidar data?

From viewing your map, it seems ~ 70% of England is covered at 1m resolution. Is the other 30% covered by different resolutions or are there some areas not covered at all? Any idea what the Environment Agency's thinking is? (e.g. some areas hit by 2015 Boxing Day floods are not covered at 1m).

(I'm maybe interested in using their data, depending on what the coverage is). Thanks.
BYO software is my #3 consumer electronics question (after form factor & 'does it work at all')

and drivers are an important frontier of this. SO TIRED of downloading blobs to have wifi on linux. AFAIK there isn't even a usb wifi dongle that has an open source wifi driver, much less a commercial wifi chipset.

even companies that are in theory dedicated to quality are teetering on the edge of using software to enable planned obsolescence -- and also releasing unpleasant product changes in line with security updates.

coreboot particularly interesting because of the TOTP work people have been doing on the TPM for tamper detection.
Yup, this echoes the philosophy at e.g. Tesla. Development speed matters more than performance at first.
I don't see how build2 can be in the same spirit as Bazel when it misses the main advantage of Bazel
With the introduction of cloud

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Canonica...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/42204979@N00/5266983786/sizes/...
https://thecloudmarket.com/stats
I don't quite have the time to find them right now, but there was a series of quite hilarious internal emails that were sort of exasperated about how there should never be a repeat of the octopus logo from now on
For HN's audience, no, that's not hard. But this product is clearly not only for us, and you've also cherry-picked a very simple example.

There's also the aspect of downloading the page in the first place and dealing with things like authentication and bot detection which a product like this helps solve.

I personally don't have a use for this product right now, but I won't be so bold as to say I'll never find a case where using it wouldn't be easier or more cost-effective than hacking up my own solution.