skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quiet vacuum cleaner is one of the best surprises I had when moving out and buying many things new, thus making appliance decisions myself for the first time.

It doesn't have to be loud!

I literally vacuumed under my sleeping girlfriend (and it's not like she sleeps that deeply on the sofa, it just wasn't louder than the running TV). The loudest part is, unless you turn it to max power, the scraping of the thing over the floor. Compare that to the upstairs neighbours, who we barely hear except when they vacuum.

My mom's first reaction, when I excitedly told her, was "yeah but those don't have any power". Not sure, I've used a bunch of vacuum cleaners over the years (old or second-hand in student rooms, newer stuff at my parents' house) and this one doesn't do any better or worse than others. The EU also reduced the max power of new vacuum cleaners, apparently they're overspec'd for the job and people just buy what they think will get them done faster I guess? Haven't read up on it, I just remember reading that the max power allowance went down as of some recent year. Perhaps the loudness is subconsciously a proxy for performance since an ordinary person can hardly measure suction directly?

In the EU, appliances have a score card. In the case of vacuum cleaners it contains things like how well it vacuums, how much dust comes back out while vacuuming, how loud it is, how much power it uses, and another stat or two that I don't remember. They're all roughly the same (I just walked through the store from vacuum to vacuum for each stat to see what the best is you can get per price category) in pretty much every stat except noise level and power usage. In those two categories you can win a bunch for virtually no extra money and I'm super happy with it.
Not certain I succeeded, but I was trying to word it as a general comment rather than an indictment of this particular article, which does a reasonably decent job in that regard. This class of article suffers from that problem often, and something about that has always bugged me but I couldn't clearly express why.

There's a fine line between "France did X and the sky did not fall," and evoking Us-vs-Them emotions. Some people will bring that energy no matter how you state it, but let's try not to invite it in.
As a non-American, how would they be able to enforce something like this? Is it related to the HTTP specification?

What stops me from encrypting things?
Everyone should be able to read private politician's correspondence and what they are up to. We should also know their bank accounts and their location at all times. Why should government know those things about us but we can't know that about them? That's a modern slavery.
Not all Scandinavian populations had blonde hair. I know a blonde person of unmistakable Scandinavian extraction who, it turns out, possesses a Y chromosome haplogroup from Northern China, presumably inherited via the Sami or a similar herding society that moved across Siberia. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_people AFAIU, because of how the inheritance traits for hair and eye color work, a population could have a relatively persistent fraction of people exhibiting non-typical phenotypes for some time even with a temporary infusion of alleles, not to mention regular contact.

In general, people got around more than one might think. The Inuit reached Greenland shortly after the Vikings from the opposite direction; both ended up displacing the existing inhabitants. The Age of the Vikings is pretty much modern times in terms of speed of migration and population mixing; not much different from today as compared to when many stereotypical phenotypes originally arose.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/60709400/571787 states otherwise with recent Linux kernels + glibcs.
"David Hasselhoff, Flavor Flav, and Carole Baskin explain AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker"
I created an extension for GNOME a while ago to add custom multitouch gesture actions on a workspace scale which seems a while off for this project: https://github.com/mpiannucci/gnome-shell-extended-gestures

I would love for them to progress enough so this extension is no longer necessary. Making great progress!
I think you're a bit confused by what Google Analytics is. It's not a service API, it's got nothing to do with the back-end. You put a snippet of JS on your page, and then the agency that does your SEO can log in to Google to see a dashboard of site traffic. There's no back-end involvement, and back-end developers never need to know that analytics is occurring at all.

In terms of what happened to get us here? Analytics became a marketing and BI function. Your choice of front-end analytics is going to be made by your CMO, not your CTO. I mean, your CTO can decide whatever he wants for logging & application analytics, but the CMO is also going to want an analytics suite. For a variety of reasons, this favors hosted front-end-centric JS-based solutions rather than logfiles.

The other major thing is that the industry consolidated from 2005-2010. There were like a dozen large vendors, but Omniture bought most of them and then Adobe bought Omniture. By 2015 there are basically two that anyone cares about: Google Analytics, and Adobe Analytics, and GA is free which makes it the default. In both cases, they are part of larger "suites" that package other tools, like campaign targeting and A/B testing.

The other things are used without a second thought are Firebase (and Firebase Analytics is now merging with Google Analytics), and Facebook tracking pixels.
I've got a hideous feeling that there will be a lot of places -- at least in the US -- that discourage mask-wearing as seeming "unfriendly" or "distrustful". Will a restaurant owner tell their wait staff not to wear masks, for fear of making their customers think that they're not safe?

Even aside from the political lines that have been drawn around mask wearing, I suspect that there will be a push to go back to "normal", as in "the old normal".
The same exact products from the same manufacturers are priced in this manner. Quality is not driving the price higher.
BCD was outdated when I got my first Amstrad CPC (1984). The assembly language textbooks all said “this is a weird holdover from the 8080, don’t bother with it”.
Oh man, what a user friendly solution
The ESXi-Arm Fling
If you add up every hour I spent debugging celery in a production system, I could probably just rewrite it with the few features I was actually using.

It's a terrible piece of open source as it "looks" fine from the outside, you integrate it and then you start getting weird stability issues that are super hard to debug.
Thanks for mentioning Render, I had not heard of them. I've been evaluating options over the last few months as we may outgrow Dokku hosted on DigitalOcean soon (both of which have been very reliable and a delight to work with). Render looks excellent.
Shrimp with the shell on.
I am also attending the launch event tomorrow! Great to see it here! I have worked with the PlaceKeys (n) a bit already and it is amazing to have a standard that is decipherable. Rather than some long string of characters that seemingly have no rhyme or reason, it is nice to have a code that stands for something on the user end! The native inclusion of batch processing made the work flow much much faster as well! Looking forward to the event on October 7th!
There's also no timeframe for implementation, lacks specific implementation details, and the only teeth it seems to have is that these Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) may potentially be excluded from grants.
> "once they run out of criminals, they'll just start catching people they don't like".

Or, just as likely, "once they can catch the people they don't like, they won't need to bother catching the people that you think are criminals".
Also, shouldn't higher levels = more demand = lower prices?
I'm not entirely sure if it's built into Plasma, but I remember having a (hacky, not with direct response) workspace switching gesture on Manjaro (Wayland, of course).
I've tried this with an Apple Magic Trackpad 2 (the best stand-alone trackpad/touchpad available). It doesn't work smooth. It is very strict on the gestures (low fault tolerance?), unlike the very same device within a MBP (2015) on macOS.

I wonder about this though. To me it seems this is very important to get to work for alternative Linux-based smartphone OSes such as SFOS, pmOS, UT, PureOS, etc etc.
Love the concept.

Consider adding poems, too:

• many already like to memorize poems, to drill their ideas/emotions, improve one's own prosody, & be able to perform for others

• quicker feeling of success than just being a page/chapter into something massive
The problem I have is not with the model, but with the fact it is so difficult to cancel the standing charge. If it could be done from the web UI, and/or there was an interlinked pop-up when zero droplets are deployed, fine.
Yes. Literacy.

I saw many beginners who treat a compiler like a black box and attempting hand fuzzing until it happened to match the well-formed syntax and behaviour they wanted, while they literally holding a paper text book or opening a browser tab for a tutorial which clearly explain how it works and what they should write in a plain natural and native language of theirs.

One time, I was told by a beginner who copied an example code from a text book that it doesn't work. I looked at it. It was a fizzbuzz code, less than 10 lines. And she typed it wrong. Not just an ordinary typo. She conjured up really strange ill-formed syntax she believe it works somehow. There is a parse error message but she ignored. I pointed out the place on display with a finger and she still didn't get it. I place a text book beside the display but it requires a considerable effort convincing her the cause of the error.

Other time, I was asked why for(;;) ; else ; doesn't work in JavaScript. I kept saying because there is no syntax like that in JavaScript. You have to accept it as is or create your own language.

Sometimes, I wonder some people read natural language text by simple keyword pattern matching. People like above example weren't dumb. Far from it. They are smarter in their field than me. Yet, they failed at this basic literacy level.
Dare to Be Good Enough—You'll be Happier for it
Do you have a link to Muse? Can't find one that fits this general topic.
I think both our premises differ so much this conversation can't continue.
I've had to stop interviewees and if they've seen a question before - it's pretty obvious when they have.

As an interviewer you then have to scrap that question and ask a new question on the fly. This is bad for the candidate because there is now less time and it might be a question the interviewer is less comfortable asking.
> they just want to be able to afford insulin to keep themselves alive like they’d be able to in other countries.

It's a silly argument to compare countries on a single issue though. Insulin is probably cheaper in Germany (I have no clue since I've never bought any), but our taxes are much higher as well. For somebody who has no money to buy insulin, that doesn't matter much, as they wouldn't pay any taxes. For most people however, that means something, as it would cut deeply into their budget.

All of these things are trade-offs, you can't view them isolated and expect to gain any insights.
If you're post was a wood, what kind would it be ? Would it be a Melastomataceae or Mahogany, or meaninglessquestionaceae ?
I think by definition the event horizon can only be crossed in one direction (towards the center). By this I mean nothing escapes once it is past that point. It's defined by being the point of no return

It is the point at which nothing, no matter how fast or massive, can possibly return from the gravitational pull. For instance: light, traveling at the speed of light in a vacuum, cannot escape once it has crossed the event horizon; it's pulled inevitably inward.
I believe the idea is:

1. We’re dropping the ball at the position the polls (and our models) indicate.

2. The balls may end up in a different place due to any number of unforeseen factors (the pegs).
Thanks for the kind words. We actually appreciate all the feedback.

We anticipated comments about the name Fion as well as skepticism regarding our free business model. However, we did hope to receive a bit more feedback on the design and interface. We're quite proud of what we've built.
AFAIK both Cobalt-60 and Cesium-137 are used as gamma sources for food irradiation, though Cobalt is more common.
"White guys have names like Lenny, whereas black guys have names like Carl."
Basically what Horusiath said.

I'm a big fan of C# and the .Net platform as well. Being able to mix C# code in a project is compelling. If C# had a strong native SSH(I'm aware of netssh, but something a bit more official/active) implementation, and a WinRM/Remoting implementation that wasn't hidden inside the Powershell project, I think there would be a .Net OSS tools explosion..
> Russia is a repressive country?

This is usually interpreted as a statement about the russian government, which is an abstract entity, unlike "the midwest" which is interpreted as referring to the people living there which is not.

> At some point I'd have to be listing all the individuals I had negative experiences with

This paradox is the subject of "statistics" which resolves this problem with ideas of "representative" samples. I think the issue here is that most people would consider a sample size big enough to represent an area as big as the midwest would exceed the lifetime of any individual, such that no one could prove anything from their own experiences alone.
Yes he is, here is the relevant quote:

The idea that people in the Midwest (which has a population of over 65 million people similar to France and the UK) are only friendly to white people is pretty crazy.

You quoted a different part. I'm not "laundering" anything, there are multiple statements there. I didn't get the link between "someone is always happy to butt in" and whether or not OP experienced racism in the Midwest, but I am speaking of the generalisation of those experiences to the whole area, which jacobriis covers in the above quote.

> how you can't make generalizations about anyone, when he was the one making a generalization

generalisation in original post:

people are friendly, as long as you look like them

generalisation by jacobriis:

when people say things like this they *often* do so to feel virtuous

unless that's a silent "often", the generalisation is qualified, versus the unqualified generalisation in the first case.

But it's not just that - "generalisation", or specifically "bad" generalisation takes a particular form, otherwise how do you distinguish it from a metaphor? The way the first characterises a specific area based on personal experience, versus the second which talks of "people" in general based on some personal judgment makes them different kinds of statement: the first as an objective account, the second an explicitly subjective opinion.

> that people who say that they experienced X are making things up

No, he said they "do so to feel virtuous themselves" i.e. their motivation, they didn't say anything about the actual truth of the statement. They did not say anything to suggest that they are "making things up".

Given you just accused jacobriis of saying this, I now have to wonder about your original statement: "someone is always happy to butt in to say I'm making it all up" - did they specifically say that, or was that your interpretation?
Does this make the animation follow the fingers? I think I tried this a while back and was disappointed :(
> let them sit here knowingly

Nothing was deployed. Zip, zero, zilch resources were used month-on-month. My fault, yes, but naively I assumed if this was the case, billing would automatically drop to zero.

Whilst I bought access to X servers but had no way to remove the charge associated with that without contacting customer services when I decided X=0, permanently.

I mean, really? I have no problem with PAYG or PAYG to a capped amount, but PAYG for a fixed amount regardless of whether or not the resources are actually deployed is disingenuous at best.
Probably the best way to figure it out is to analyze reddit/hn for comments like "538 says Biden will win!" vs "538 says Biden might win go vote"
The media you consume is part of your peer group.
For my last couple of laptops I've used libinput first because everyone says it's the best option, but it always feels incredibly hard to perform small, precise movements. For example: try moving the mouse in a small circle (perhaps the size of the "Y" logo above). So both times I ended up switching to the old synaptics driver which seems to work better. I hope this project helps fix that so I'm sponsoring it
By all means, study algorithms and data structures but the idea of sourcing and studying specific "company questions" is silly and kinda unethical.
Agree, and I wouldn’t trade rails for a perf boost if I had to go to a horrible Java web stack (or a horrible C# web stack prior to .NET core)

Right now though, the dev ergonomics and productivity of .NET core are not actually very far behind rails at all, so you can serve your pages in 2ms instead of 200ms without suffering for it.

In some regards actually, perf helps a lot. Running a large bank of tests for example - those are going to complete a LOT more quickly in .NET which means you can iterate faster and have a better dev experience
A five year old ARM chip, the X1[1] is now far & away the best graphics one can get on an $100 single-board-computer.

Double amusing, there is now an ARM core called the X1, a heavyweight follow up to the A76 for bigger form factors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra#Tegra_X1
In that case why corruption is so rife? With so much tools available they should be able to catch some politicians that indirectly cause death and hardship to millions and yet the law enforcement is focused on catching another student who dared to use wrong plant to relax after tough day.
Potential context: I think this was posted here because Microconf just sent out the 2021 survey to their email list.
> It's a silly argument to compare countries on a single issue though.

If you can't afford to buy drugs you need to keep yourself alive, what other issues matter for you?
The top comment on the article itself suggests that the UK’s betting markets don’t have the problems that limit PI.

They are currently +-0.05$ of PI. A material but not enormous difference
As someone who is type 1 diabetic, and someone who has had insurance that required me to pay up front, and then get reimbursed after the fact - insulin was charged at ~200 dollars a vial, I can't speak for everyone, as everyone is different - but i would hazard to guess that most use 2-3+ vials a month (of rapid acting, on a pump).
No, it won't. This isn't The 100.
One of the lecturers working on this is Grant Sanderson, of 3Blue1Brown fame. Great video series so far!
Have you tried this with Apple's Magic Trackpad or al=ny other bluetooth trackpads?
I’m a software engineer at Uber and I’m voting against Prop 22
Yeah, but they aren't looking to print bulk palladium. It looks like rather than printing bulk metal as well as bulk plastic, they are printing bulk plastic and trace palladium, which serves as a catalyst for targeted chemical plating with cheaper metals.
If you click through the link there's a link to DHS https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/10/06/department-homeland-secu...
Benchmarking Language Interop with Elixir – Are Ports Fast Enough?
That was a great experience. Really well done!
The amount of opinion spewed as fact in your rant is impressive. Which makes it even more entertaining when you compare it against the point you're trying to make.
Sadly, It does not. I have thought about how to do it and its a lot of work and time I don't currently have unfortunately. Part of the reason I hope this project continues to make something like this easier
Are you mad that laws against murder (reminder: supposedly designed to protect people) don't include funding for domestic abuse shelters, food pantries, social workers, relocation programs, job retraining, college tuition assistance, and comprehensive sex ed?

This kind of rhetoric is so boring at this point. Trying to destroy a proposal via scope creep is intellectually dishonest and does little more than weaken your own sides position. If I was a senator on the fence about this bill and this was the best argument you could muster against it it would be an easy yea.
There was a lively post on reddit discussing the ethics of colorizing historic photos a few days ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/j523qi/whats_...

I found this point interesting:

"The thing about old photos is that everything about the image is part of the information we can learn from it—not just the picture itself and what it's a picture of, but how it was composed, what its medium was, the balance of lights and darks... It's all part of the document. And when you start to alter it, that's creating a new document reflecting a conjunction between the past and the present. "