skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link, that looks like it'll fit the bill whenever I scrounge up a vacuum.

Although I think trying to convince vendors they want less data seems a little naive. More likely they'll lock out work like this entirely to make sure the free floor maps of your house (and schedule, and pet presence, and...) keep coming.
Does the Omni handle rooms with big area rugs? Our issue is a hardwood main floor that has a bunch of rugs.
That's basically the herd mentality I'm talking about - people wanting to live in the same areas. People don't want to live there because nobody is moving there and making improvements. It's easier to just move where everyone else is moving.
I recently went from a Roomba S9+ to a RoboRock S7 MaxV Ultra and it was like night and day. The RoboRock has not gotten stuck on a single cat toy, cable, or sock yet. It doesn't bump into furniture repeatedly. It is considerably quieter. I feel like it is the first time I can actually safely start running a robot vacuum while not at home, and not worry that I'll come home to a robot tangled in some random object.
I found this sentence to be hilarious:

> The color-accurate 2.5K slim-bezel NanoEdge Dolby Vision screen is also PANTONE® Validated with TÜV Rheinland-certified low blue-light levels.

It's the second sentence on the page, prominently at the top. Do they expect the average consumer knows what any of that means?

There's more made up marketing BS there than English.
This is pretty much the Apple model.
Why does it matter? In grand scheme of things there are now more people who have access to cheaper and efficent cleaning systems.

All companies are reverse engineering the Universe anyway. It's not like you build these technologies out of thin air.
I read code which is not highlighted with little want for color, except certain cases like mixed php and html where I find it really helpful to have the two separated into different hues eg. green/blue and yellow/red.

So I find the trend for color schemes with many lexical types colored differently, unpleasant to the eye and usually of little practical advantage.

The more different things we try to distinguish in a color theme, the harder it is to produce a comfortable aesthetic and the harder it is to make things which should advance or retreat from the eye, to do so.

Keywords can take pleasant color slots which are not the most easily read, because their color confirms they are typed correctly. There is little advantage and much overhead in theming keywords of different types differently.
Strings types can all share a hue similarity with small difference to help notice single or double quotes etc. Escaped chars are good to stand out a bit, within the appropriate quotation hue.
Comments should be in color range which retreats from the eye a little and is well separated from the executable hues.

I feel its all window dressing, plain text is just a little harder to scan for things than nicely syntax highlighted. Busy, un-finessed syntax highlighting is more of a quirk to be tolerated than it is a comfort.
Probably the same reason doping is banned in sports. There's a threshold in the number of people using performance-enhancing substances, that causes it to stop being a choice for the rest of the people, and the situation becomes worse for everybody. A new baseline is set, and if you're not on them you can't compete. Something like that happened in pro cycling:

"Armstrong, on the other hand, was a cyclist competing at elite levels during an era in which doping was rampant. And in such a setting, it does at least arguably matter that “everybody does it.” It is an unfortunate fact that in the world Armstrong competed in, for every individual cyclist doping was a necessary evil, a way of keeping the playing field level. Any cyclist not engaging in doping was effectively relegating himself to the back of the pack. That’s not an excuse, but it’s an accurate description of the facts of the case. So doping was, in a sense, non-optional for the elite cyclist trying to do his job properly, because after all his job is to try to win." - https://archive.canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comment/lance...
> Good or bad, that is the norm now and if you don't let your kid access to a tablet while all the other kids do, that child will be lacking a lot of confidence and practical tech skills.

I'm pretty sure most of us on HN grew up without access to iPads, but still somehow developed practical tech skills, including the ability to learn to use iPads.
True. Taxes and utilities do add up. Some neighborhoods also have HOA fees. A lot of people are living month-to-month on their paycheck, so expense is key.

Note: I own my home outright. I bought it in 2000, before the real estate bubble really took off, had a 15 year mortgage, paid it off early.
It's still the symbol for the phone app, so even if it doesn't make sense to a young person, they likely still understand it as the phone symbol.
> The chinese roborock is so much better and they get better after each release.

Are you buying multiple robots over time?

Christ, and here I am thinking $1000 CAD is a lot of money.
Why not both? Improve the UX which they do regularly and introduce ads which developers have been screaming for.

With or without ads in the app store, the problem about being out marketed exists outside the app store.

What this is merely apple’s privacy-protecting solution for what is seen inside the app store.

Im yet to see an argument which isn’t just some thinly veiled distaste for apple.

Hate apple all you like, but actually challenge the conversation with a valid argument.
I have WhatsApp as well. None of our kids have Android devices as you can't control them adequately.
These kinds of firms are one big reason we need a sales tax on stock trades. Stable, long-term investments are much better for the economy.
You could also move the camera to film the reflection from the 45 degree glass, if you’re looking for a home office teleprompter solution and not a live presentation version.
NYC is not midtown manhattan. Please go check out Queens or Brooklyn next time you visit, I promise you it's safe and full of walkable and bikeable streets.
There are people on this very page who could well afford to live in a high or low density area and are arguing the benefits they experience and their preference for high-density.

Building more housing units would lower the price of housing units. The question is, within that, how should we approach it. I don’t think plopping randomly placed high-density buildings into low-density neighborhoods is optimal compared to planned development.
I don't think there is 10-20euros travel insurance one can buy that does not exclude mountain climbing or any activity that requires specialistic gear.
1. Where there’s a speaker - there is a magnet

2. And 3. Are just class 3 appliances, that have 50mA static current allowance IIRC
"Foreigners inappropriately using words" is a ridiculously elitist description of "language use changing over time."

At the time the word "Clairet" (in English use) was adopted Aquitaine and Bordeaux were English possessions. The aristocracy of England spoke a lot of French. The wine they consumed was imported from Bordeaux and the volume of exports of wine drove the expansion of viticulture in Bordeaux, with the draining of marshes and the expansion of the ports, etc. They called the wine Clairet or Claret, because that's the colour the wine was at the time. The wine changed, but the word did not, because it came to mean "Bordeaux wine."

There's no patent, trademark or copyright that can make a word mean anything else. The French language and the French wine industry does not "own" the term, because the word is as legitimately English as any other imported French word in the language as it is several hundred years old. There are thousands of such words in large part due to the Norman invasion but also other reasons.

It's not "foreigners" inappropriately using a word. It's a historical use.

And yes, the wine changed. Bordeaux's exports in the 15th, 16th, 17th century were different. What it is known for now is not what it was known for then.

But you're lucky, there's relief for you. It's only really the British that use this term, and less so every generation. Most of us just say "Bordeaux."

My original point still stands: the predominant style of wine production of Bordeaux changed. From a light wine in the style of a rose to a more extractive, tannic, and higher alcohol wine. That production involves more skin exposure during primary, but it also often involves picking the grapes at higher phenolic ripeness.

(I have a vineyard and grow and make my own wine from it.)

Regardless, the TFA was about Burgundy, which as I pointed out is actually a more useful comparison point for harvest date since AFAIK there's been less change in the grapes grown or style of wine produced.
Let me get this straight.

1. It's a magical thinking witch hunt to suggest that local voters prevent housing from being built.

2. The Root Cause is the Jan 6 hearings and Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan.

Did I miss anything here?
I thought there are quite a few in NC, VA, and others in the area.
It's interesting because I would totally go for that if I could run all of the services locally with some digital assistant AI to tie it together and manage them. It's tragic, really. The cool future I imagined is here but there is a catch. There's always a catch.
What film is this ??
What is the best way to print these? An inkjet and some glossy paper? How does one preserve them when exposed to the sun, rain, ice and snow? Does someone yet make a consumer level printer that can print onto vinyl stickers?
> To do this, Congress should pass legislation reducing the size of Washington, D.C., to an area encompassing only a few core federal buildings and then admit the rest of the District’s 127 neighborhoods as states.

Absurd. It doesn't matter how it happens as long as "the right thing happens". It's a coup if Trump did this, to rewrite the constitution, but if "the right people" do it, then its a radical proposition forced upon us by morality and principles of equality.

Why not use the process that is meant to solve these problems, a constitutional convention.

"Because it'll never get done that way."

Ok so if you cant get what you want just get it anyway you can. I'm sure everyone will respect the new fake laws that come out of the 127 DC states.
Apparently Matthews was an accomplished designer and illustrator and did some fancifully specific diagrams of the Air Loom that was controlling his mind.

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/illustrations-of-madnes...
The real answer is to change who's in charge. One way to do this is regulations, another is socialization.
Related:

Depression is likely not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, study says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32225543 - July 2022 (32 comments)

A Decisive Blow to the Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32196175 - July 2022 (3 comments)

The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32191728 - July 2022 (129 comments)

Depression is ‘not caused by chemical imbalance’ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32186223 - July 2022 (4 comments)

The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32176401 - July 2022 (13 comments)

“No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32160703 - July 2022 (597 comments)
Notes on Creative Context
I expect the Amazon version to require wi-fi or cellular, will have microphones and cameras for “Alexa support”, and will automatically submit the stream to the police of what the Amazon operatives, sorry “operators”, deem sketchy. Remember kids if you live in a state where “it” is not legal, don’t let this thing vacuum up your shake; that’s evidence.

What will The monthly subscription fee to store your vacuum data in the cloud cost?

It’s a joke… Don’t ban me.
>Additionaly wages seem to be a lot higher than they've been for a long time for what was previously low wage work.

Yet another contributor to high inflation, which is a product of many factors, some good (e.g. less wage inequality) and some bad (e.g. supply chain shortages, energy prices, excess government stimulus).
Eh? Winter sports cover is a normal travel insurance add on.
What is the correct definition?
I don't know about this joke, but I can imagine how the punchline was lost in a translation with exactly these results. Probably English just lack some words like a verb with meaning "to find something by looking around a corner while eating lettuce at the same time", and without such word this joke is untranslatable. You can translate the idea of a joke, but it wouldn't be a joke.

Or it may be that the verb "to eat lettuce" sounded just like "to find something around a corner". Jokes tends to exploit peculiar facts of the language, which are mostly specific to the language and cannot be translated.
lmao he even plagiarizes tweets? Oof
And, in addition to that, a higher temperature means globally more energy in the system. Which means more extreme events, storms, heatwaves, etc.
Government willingness to piss off people combined with the fact that the wealthier people were mostly unaffected. Highways destroyed the poor areas of most cities and enabled the suburban housing boom.

There were a few successful attempts to stop the encroachment of the federal highway system into cities. I think the Bay Area was one of the first such victories.
Generalized too much. Discipline is nothing but execution on an optimization. It would be a mistake by shallow analysis to blame discipline for an optimization that is not taking you to the destiny and journey you want in your life.

She is totally right about Cross Fit, tho. That injury factory only benefits physiotherapists.
Lotus 1-2-3 had a Solver (two actually, one called "Solver" and one called "What-If") in 1989. Yes, LibreOffice has one too.

Does Microsoft tell their customers they invented these features? Just a few days ago I saw a Windows developer who thought Microsoft invented conditional breakpoints.
Not Gitlab specific.

The main page of a repository configuration in GitHub let's you enable/disable:

- Allow merge commits

- Allow squash merging

- Allow rebase merging

for PRs.

And under branch protection there is a "Require linear history" option.
I don't disagree :D
It’s kept by patenting of the process involving the bacteria and the bioreactor, I think. Google Patent query: https://patents.google.com/?assignee=%22Solar+foods%22&oq=%2...

Now CA3153196A1 is the interesting one as it names Xanthobacter sp. VTT-E-193585 as the strain of interest. You even get a 16S rRNA sequence with it for doing some taxonomy! This is not to be confused with FI129574B involving a similar but genetically modified bacterium.
Great idea! A lot of people still WFH, I guess its adoption would take some time to take off, if that was not case. Of course, it all depends if the product itself takes on the positive trajectory.
I also do not understand how people end up in this sort of state. To me, absolutely zero new code is going in if builds or tests are failing. Zero. Under any circumstances. I don't care if that failure is a flake. Go demonstrate that it is flakey and disable the test. Don't force a change through red.

But... this approach clearly exists. A while ago I was talking with a coworker about some open source upstreaming they wanted to do. They were struggling to get their code out there because they were fighting against all sorts of broken test suites. They were told that this was simply the norm in the community they were contributing to and the test suites are always broken so don't worry about it. Baffled, they made sure that their new tests passed and sent the code off for review and integration.

So there is perhaps a need for software engineering principles that apply to this situation. Maybe that's wrong. Maybe the solution is like adopting source control - it is a fool's errand to try to handle the case where it isn't present so just tell everybody to adopt it or they aren't serious. But maybe there is a population that needs tools that help them even in a world of fucked integration tests.
Google was never good enough to remove the operators, and as you said it’s gotten worse not better.

Seemingly people using operators would produce additional training for the algorithm which is currently not possible. This could also be a factor leading to the results decay everyone has experienced when trying to find something that isn’t leading popular culture. It’s that peculiar behaviour where tweaking the search terms didn’t affect the results.
Finger printer reader was first introduced in Motorola Atrix (Android). Then apple bought the company that provided finger print scanner to Atrix.
He is French after all. /s (I'm half-French).
100% ACK.
> There is no insurance company that will insure you on doing that. Unless I don't know something - for which I would be glad to hear back that I am wrong.

There's loads of specific insurance for these sorts of activities. You won't find it covered by most regular providers but there are oodles of companies out there that cover most extreme sports activities.

A quick google found this for example: https://www.snowcard.co.uk/mountaineering-insurance

But if you're the sort of person to go up a serious mountain in flip-flops you're probably not thinking about insurance anyway!
Also had terrible experience with that last year, brand new X570 constantly crashing after a year, found a capacitor leaking they kept the card for two week and sent it back without any change and with the shipping sticker directly on the box.

Had to throw the card away (out of spite, I had my own machine constantly crash for months before finding the cause) and buy a new one and X570 is not cheap at all. I'll do everything I can to never buy an Asus again for a long time, this include work where I can weight on this.

Since then two friends with a Asus MB (one same as me the other an intel one from 3y ago) went dead too due massive amount of capacitors leak, made me think they have a big problem that isn't talked about very much.
East Asian societies which have not yet let go of Confucianist mindsets are not 35% of the globe.
Hollywood’s Visual Effects Crisis
I used to love Thinkpads until I started using laptops with displays that aren't dog shit.

I can adapt to a bad keyboard, lack of trackpoint and bad touchpad, but a bad screen will always bother me.
I’m normally skewering how Google manages their physical products, but Tbf Nest declined due to mismanagement by Tony Fadel, one of the founders. Google gave Nest tons of money which didn’t lead to anything major materializing instead of delay after delay.
Its unfortunate that there seems no way to use any kind of home automation without spying.

Vacuum robots are pretty useful, but I don't want my home location, its map and many other details to be sent and used for advertising.

And it seems there is nothing like this, except maybe offline vaccum robots, which tend to be a lot more limited.
duckduckgo also has "bang operators" that allow you to specify site. An example is !r for reddit or !w for wikipedia

It's even nicer for some sites like Wikipedia because it goes directly to the page if theres an exact match instead of the intermediate search results page
Glad you seemed to have learned that you were playing with fire, since that could have easily left you with 65k in the red.
He should talk with his tax office, maybe he can recognize a $250m tax credit, and never pay taxes in his life, found a startup company.
Living many years in Japan and China and really understanding the culture?
I absolutely agree that intelligent highlighting or added emphasis to at least some part of the code is very worth investigating. I would argue it should probably be used more sparingly than colouring, but could be complementary. By combining the colours from the base and the contrast++ palette this would even be possible with Penumbra while maintaining the clean separation between colour properties.

In this area, as a novice coder, I am absolutely out of my depth though, so I’d have to defer to actual experts for the implementation.

Someone else brought up a similar point on comment emphasis but I’ve seen the opposing opinion too.
Yeah, it was like something out of a cautionary short story.

Cool, I know them.

Oh, yeah, I haven’t talked with her in a while.

Wait, who’s that guy?

Huh, she responded to one Craigslist free stuff listing 3 years ago. Who cares?

That’s the landlord we sublet from for 3 months a decade ago.

… repeat for days …

Make it stop!
The correct technical definition in the UK an Canada (and possibly other countries) is two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. By that definition, the US is in a recession, case closed. But this definition is not widely used in the US. So its "correctness" is geographically dependent.
Metals extraction on Mars through carbothermic reduction
So, they are truly trying to map everything. Between ring, echo and now this, they're basically mapping 3/5 senses.

I'm willing to bet that they'll come up with some type of map service or jump in on the VR space.

This is a level of data gathering a government coud only dream of.
>A model is not the thing modeled is a non-sequitur.

Have you ever used a map?

If not, I'd like you to get one and I want you to point out your home in every one. Can you use a magnifying glass, then look at the map hard enough to see yourself looking over a tinier map? Ad infinitum?

That is what Searle means. A map is a model of the world. The model of a world that is a map is not, in fact, in any way equivalent to or interchangeable with the thing it models. It is merely a distilled representation that provides a facsimile representative enough to be useful. So to would be any attempt at modeling consciousness.
Serialization for Games
I think there's a growing need for options in this area generally.

The issue is that even indy media sources have become broken in recent years. The Intercept of Poitras and Greenwald isn't the organisation it was when they founded it. Yet unless you are well informed or take the time to research it, the brand carries more weight than the reality.

Even with a large body of verifiable evidence, finding the right way to expose a story in the age of information overload and saturation is challenging.
There was a post on HN recently about "open source" house design but I can't find it now. Anyone have that link?
For the people in this thread who have the “this is dystopian” take, how do you resolve that humans are just fine with raising cows, chickens, pigs just to harvest their flesh? It’s probably also best not to think about what we put lab rats through. If anything doing this for medical reasons is a way more ethically justifiable reason than chicken nuggets.

What makes humans so special that growing a 50 day embryo, not even a person by pro-choice standards, is terrible?
Is it, though? I'm looking at the Fed's chart[0] and it looks like unemployment goes up right from the beginning of the recession gray bars, in pretty much all of them. Sometimes it even starts before the bar. But we're supposed to be half a year into one with the unemployment rate going down?

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE