skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly the problem. Most companies put 90 plus percent of their effort towards maximizing profit once they go public. Your reason for existence as a company is to serve customers and provide for employees, not only to make money.

Besides regulation for some industries, societal pressure and norms were the means of keeping companies in check in the past it seems. Boycotts would still work if people coordinated and cooperated on a massive scale.
While I am all for hosting elsewhere (and do so myself) I will admit to being one of these asshats. Lots of projects have semi-common names and Google/DDG will often surface irrelevant results. I often find it easier to find projects by just searching GitHub instead.
Then it becomes a smear campaign.
Maximizing profit is great if the side effects are beneficial. Currently maximizing profit means shoving as many ads down people's eyeballs as possible and that's the root cause of blogspam. Google is obviously not going to fight it when they often take a cut of the ad money shown on blogspam sites.

We have to move towards a system where profit maximization closely correlates with consumer good.
I think that actually raises an interesting question:

Should downvotes be used when a comment states a fact, but the voter knows or believes that fact to be false?
A Ubiquity ERX with 1 gb wan support can be bought for $60. CM4 compute modules are hard to find or overpriced at the moment. Not sure what the point is spending close to $100+ on this when there are cheaper options out there.
Editorialized Title.

Stock market likely to see it negative due to possible continued rate hike by the FED. Also...Needs further investigation.

A Recession could cause persons not likely to look for jobs, like for example a recent mother who decided to focus on raising kids, or a student, to look for a job. Maybe inflation would cause the household to not cope with bills anymore, if just one member of the household has a job.
1 the I cant believe is not cement sure looks like cement on a 360p video they provide. Guess BGates ventures cant afford a good camera.

2 walls are soo thin, 2-3x too thin for European standards. Maybe they target hot climates?
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> The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
Based on the comments here I did a quick look at Amazon and was surprised to not even see a single vacuum only robot from Evovacs. At least not prominently showcased.

Why are there only mixed models and what are the benefits?

If I look at my place the ground floor is tiled and the top floor is all carpet.

That means I would need two vacuums anyway as they haven’t learned yet to climb stairs.

Why wouldn’t I want a vacuum only model for upstairs?
For downstairs the universal model is great obviously. But upstairs?
I started using as a test drive (as I have been a happy DDG user before that).
I really like the fact that there is no ad, I can easily rank the pages or even block them (be gone w3schools) and ultimately I don't ever have to go to google anymore. The result are quite solid, even for local non-english searches which DDG struggles a bit.
Yeah I had a Roomba 10 years ago. It was starting to age a bit (still working! but would always get stuck). So I was thinking.. it's been a decade.. time to buy a new model, surely they improved!

Nope, nothing is better, absolutely nothing. The "AI" (if we can call it that) to vacuum hasn't improved one bit. It somehow seems so suck a lot less on the carpet than the previous one. It's somewhat better to manage my cat's hair, but that's about it. Sure now I have wifi on it, to re-start it because it often stops too early before it's done. But nothing, no improvement in 10 years.. in ROBOT TECHNOLOGY!
It’s not like Ma Bell had any competitors they could buy, even if they wanted to. Because they were a complete monopoly. And despite this supposed strong anti-monopoly enforcement, they milked that monopoly for decades.

But hey, at least we got C and Unix out of it.
I don't feel like I can really comment on this till I've tried it. It's too different from other devices.
> The startup ecosystem is one of USA's greatest economical strengths.

Scaled up, this is only true because some of those startups grow up to be big companies that earn profits. The counter-argument is that if a large company is allowed to buy all of its promising competitors when they are small and inexpensive, our overall business ecosystem will get weaker in the future due to that big company not having to be competitive.
I miss when you could jump to the cached version of a page which would have all your search terms highlighted in different colors on the page. Peak Google search.
I'd say it was more like Europe had world class technology and much better growth. In Asia you could find pretty good technology too, it's the growth mindset that didn't take over there as much as in Europe.

Anyway too few data points and too much speculation to be able to say that advancement of civilization is casually dependent on the climate.

We have agriculture/cities/empires/writing/some technology that developed independently in many parts of the world, and the rise of Europe from the Reinessance. Very few data point for "civilization advancement events"
In Berlin, the inside smoking laws are pretty much never enforced. Some bars have dedicated smoking rooms, but many don’t. As for clubs, you can mostly expect smoking indoors. A lot of people smoke, so you _will_ encounter smokey environments when out and about, especially during the winter
No. It is a sign that profits and profit margins are low and not expected to grow much anytime soon.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/IRBT/irobot/net-pr...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/IRBT/irobot/net-in...
This was my preferred approach for several years. The tests were in a repo separate from the code under test, and each declared its prerequisites, either as a feature or a version pattern.

If a test started failing, I could annotate it as an xfail with an open-ended version pattern. If I noticed that an xfail started passing, making it a upass (I think these were blue in our tests results), I put an upper bound on the xfail version pattern.

The nice thing about this was that I could always run the latest and greatest suite against any version, although it made it a little more complicated to run them as they existed when they were first run.
The problem with the single-port router-on-a-stick is that it effectively cuts your throughput in half. 10/100/1000 is full-duplex, but since your traffic is going both ways on the same port you get 1G total rather than 1G in each direction. Having two gbe ports means you can get a full gigabit in _both_ directions at once. Not sure how often that would happen in the real world, but for some it may be worth considering...

The other question is whether the hardware can do that kind of throughput... I've run for years on an old crusty J1900 with 3 realtek NICs onboard, and while it can saturate a 1G connection with bulk traffic, it does struggle to route small packets.
When Vorwerk bought Neato, products went downhill. I hope - and assume with Amazons tech understanding - this is not the case here (Here Xiaomi has replaced most appliances, e.g. air purifiers etc. and will be our next robot too).
I personally disagree, but the answer to this question is the crux of the case. Visa is allegedly a co-conspirator because by choosing to providing a platform, Visa also benefits from the traffic generated by CSAM on Pornhub. Visa doesn't directly encourage or control what is uploaded to Pornhub, and no one is suggesting it does in a legal context either. But, Visa knowingly choose to continue working with Mindgeek properties after a NYT op-ed came out highlighting the CSAM available on the platform. There's no "alleged" with respect to Pornhub, it did host CSAM and it did make money from advertisements, and according to the case filing, also had internal software to tag and promote CSAM algorithmically. Visa profited by providing a merchant platform to the advertising arm of Mindgeek despite knowing CSAM existed.

I don't agree with the overall precedent that would be set, but it's hard to argue when Visa chose to stop working with certain parts of Mindgeek showing they knew CSAM existed. Visa made itself a moderator of content by deciding who it does and doesn't work with based on the kind of content they serve and that decision exposed them up to the consequences of Mindgeek's actions.

Payment processors are in a difficult position but I believe they should be treated like a utility, similar to electricity. If net neutrality was solidified in the US, Visa could potentially argue that it treats all data in a similar way and then the lack of moderation and Pornhub/Mindgeek alone would be at fault. But by by choosing what should and shouldn't be allowed on the platform of its customers, Visa becomes a responsible for when its customers break the law using its platform.
NYC has serious and complicated problems and it's perhaps not the best idea to hold it up as the pinnacle of a "walkable town". There are better choices to use for that example.

As you sort-of implicitly suggest, it doesn't have to be a choice between a soulless suburb with no sidewalks and a piss-soaked urban hellscape-- with NOTHING in-between.

What we do need, however, is more urban centers with walkable, complete streets, human amenities and a broad mix of different housing types for a wide spectrum income levels and NOT separate isolated enclaves for the wealthy and the poor. Especially important are appropriate and truly useable "third-places" rather just bauble shops for the wealthy, dollar stores for the poor, and distant megamalls for the middle-class surrounded an ocean of asphalt.
Does anyone know where you can actually buy CM4 compute modules these days?

At least not from scalping resellers?
Calling something a recession whilst unemployment is incredibly low (3,5% in the US, 3,4% here in the Netherlands) seems quite silly. I'm not sure what to call it at the moment, but it's hard to compare to previous recessions. I'm at least a lot less worried about it.

Additionaly wages seem to be a lot higher than they've been for a long time for what was previously low wage work.
> “I find that there must be a balance where names are clear and unique enough while not tiring the eyes too much by making them read long boring repetitive prefixes all the time.”

I have that problem, repetitive prefixes getting in the way of reading the code, and I’ve been doing some experiments with what could be described as “local namespacing”, only inside an expression or statement, with the prefix/suffix feature of the backstitch macro in my C preprocessor:

https://sentido-labs.com/en/library/cedro/202106171400/#back...

For instance, writing a program with libxml2, I write:

Next(reader) @xmlTextReader...;

which gets translated to

xmlTextReaderNext(reader);

and I find the first easier to read.

Whether that’s the case for others, I don’t know.

A longer example from the link I wrote above, this time for libuv:

@uv_thread_...
t hare_id,
t tortoise_id,
create(&hare_id, hare, &tracklen),
create(&tortoise_id, tortoise, &tracklen),

join(&hare_id),
join(&tortoise_id);

Result:

uv_thread_t hare_id;
uv_thread_t tortoise_id;
uv_thread_create(&hare_id, hare, &tracklen);
uv_thread_create(&tortoise_id, tortoise, &tracklen);

uv_thread_join(&hare_id);
uv_thread_join(&tortoise_id);
I've found that sometimes I have to also exclude specific "*.pinimg.com" (or something similar; don't recall the domain for certain offhand) domains, especially when doing an image search.
Do you have any insight on how much of the SLAM data is being shared in both the Roomba and Xiaomi robots?

For example can you use them completely offline or do they 'need' to phone home to a remote server in order to work?
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It's a tool. Another creative outlet. I bought my kids ipads and apple pencils and they love them. My eldest, now at university bought a new iPad Pro recently and uses that exclusively as her work computer.

What you're doing is enforcing a semi-luddite position on your own kids because you can only leave them unattended with old things. Just be a parent ffs.
The reasoning on the first two points is the same, yes, simply because I agree with Ethan’s. The two big differences are: I’m aiming for perceptually uniform colour differences instead of the same luminance and my background colours are directly sampled from daylight.

For the colours, this means uniform chroma and hues that aren’t hand-picked but optimised (on top of that using a more hue-accurate colour space).

I’d argue there’s enough of a difference, especially in the visual result, to make this more than an iteration, but even if it was simple iterative, there’s nothing bad about that and it can still be valuable work without being plagiarism .
Former T-Mobile store owner netted $25M from 5-year scheme
They were born yesterday, or actually, 3 months ago.
There are something like 3000 gods, goddesses, devils, demons, etc. that humans have documented over time.

Are some of them the same? Which one is the "right" one? How can anyone rationalize that multiple religions have core tenets to convert people, sometimes with war? Just like I don't want some "trust me bro" person proselytizing to me a new agile software process, I don't want that from any religious person.

I firmly believe someone can lead a moral and ethical life without religions varying rules, ceremonies, etc.
As a Roomba owner (with a Cat), I agree with this sentiment wholeheartedly.
But there are things you can infer about a giraffe based on your knowledge of animals in general. You know that you don't know certain things about giraffes and you're capable of asking about these things and extending your understanding of giraffes (and other animals, or their environment). There is a multi-layered quality to knowing what a giraffe is that has nothing to do with having memorized minute details about behavior or physical properties. Maybe eventually DALL-E will be capable of this, but being able to reproduce images based on a word simply isn't indicative of anything other than it's good at identifying visual patterns and associating them with words and being able to reproduce a new pattern based on known patterns.

This is basically on the same level as our visual cortex and some form of memory. But our visual cortex isn't sufficient to give us consciousness.
In the Bay Area in California. I have not seen ice on the ground here for maybe 15 years, but it used to be in January you would see some ice on the edges of puddles in the morning.
There are many things for which our words aren’t enough to convey. Physical pain is one of them. There are more nuances than “dull”, “sharp”, and “throbbing”. This is one reason pain research is hard

There’s also raw speed. The speed of speech is one of the edges we have against most other species. Being able to communicate with raw thought would be even faster.

This goes beyond “unwillingness”
That's what VCs do every day by picking winners and losers. Companies like Uber would not have made it (and still might not make it) without massive cash injections. In practice, how is VCs choosing winners different than the FTC doing so?
AA president hides keyless car fob inside microwave to foil hackers
So this is where it can start to get a little complicated, but without going into the nitty gritty, taking the example precisely as given in the Jepsen report:

If r arrives at C1 before w1, w1 must witness it and take a dependency on its execution. If it arrives at C2 after w2, then r takes a dependency on w2’s execution. In this case, w1 will not execute until r does, and r will not execute until w2 does, and so it is simply not the case that w1 happened first - w1’s commit will not have been acknowledged to the client yet, and the actual order of execution will end up w2,r,w1, which is entirely correct to all observers since w1 and w2 will now overlap their execution.

> operate over all nodes in the database regardless of the shards the keys fall into

Nope, it’s all entirely independent for each shard. The (implied) dependency graph is what ties shards together, so only when they interact.
Thick walls are required in hot climates too.
Do you use it with a computer?
We haven’t built residential structures for longevity since WW2. Nearly every home built after 1945 is garbage compared to pre-war homes that have been taken care of.

The irony is that in 100 years you’re more likely to come across a home built in 1920 than in 1980. And there’s a few reasons why.

Old homes were overbuilt. The engineering wasn’t good enough to really know what they could get away with.

Old homes are built with old growth wood. This can’t be had today. This wood is incredible and is naturally rot resistant. Taken care of it will last many hundreds of years.

Plastics. They really came into their own during WW2 and found their way into construction because they work for awhile and are dirt cheap. So we have cheap windows, cheap siding, flooring, etc. Gone are the days where great materials were necessary and abundant so adding a bit more craftsmanship was marginal.

Buy a pre-war home and invest in it. Keep the original windows and restore them.
You can use OKLch and APCA with that huetone website. See the gear icon in top right.

I don't think your efforts are obsolete though, the 2 approaches could be combined IIUC your approach is based on computing values based on color science, and the tool/website is a more visual approach, it won't design the colorscheme for you, but you can use it to validate the colorscheme, or tweak it after the fact.
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Yes, very poor on the BBC's part.

Edit: OK, they have now corrected the title.
The author missed the most important factor why cloud is dominating the world today. It is never about the actual hardware cost. It is the cost of educating people be able to use that big server. I can guarantee you you will need to pay at least $40k a month to hire someone to be able to write and deploy softwares that can actually realize the performance he claims on that big server. And your chance to be able to find one in 2 month is closed to 0, at least in today’s job market. Also even if you find one , he can leave you in one year to some others places, and your business will be dead.
I liked them until they started emailing me for my SSN... I'm looking for an alternative now
There are still so many red exit signs in my part of the world
> Second rule of housing discussions, nobody agrees on what is the "right" housing and what is the "right" location

Specifically, in any given location, the people whose voices are considered agree that their location is not the right location.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/150/

Obligatory C. S. Lewis: "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."

What the olds don't seem to get is that when young people grow up, it becomes their turn to decide for themselves what it means to be a grownup.

If I want to spend a night doing what uptight people deride as "kid's stuff" after I've put in a solid day's work at my day job, that's what I'll do. Likewise, if I want to dress in jeans, band t-shirts, and Doc Martens in my 40s when I'm not in the office then that's what I'll do. There is fuck-all anybody can do to stop me because this is America, bitches.

If Ben Sasse doesn't like it, he can kiss my ass. And he better put some heart and tongue into it.
I really wish they'd design the case of the product to be fully removable easily (ie. 30 seconds with the right tool). Then a 'refurb' can consist of switching your case onto new innards.

Since this form of 'refurb' would be so cheap to operate, all warranty claims could be handled this way no questions asked.

Send the old innards back to the factory to run the full factory test suite, and if they pass then great, and if they fail have them stripped for parts.
Ask HN: How SAFE is my MBP?
I humbly ask this naive question for 3 simple reasons:

1 - I accidentally realized ( by dropping my buttering knife ) that my MBP (2019) has 2 strong magnets on the top sides right near where I always place my wrists. [0]

2 - The other day when my son touched my shoulder, while I was resting my wrists on the laptop, he felt a strong vibrational "charge".

3 - Since using the MBP for 3 years, I have felt a very subtle vibration in my hands.

[0]https://imgur.com/a/5BMsuSG

Do I smell a class-action lawsuit here?
Or did I just get a bad apple? ( no pun )
I have a feeling I'm not the only sensitive one around here ;-)
> Although most mining pools produce relatively inconspicuous-looking blocks, F2Pool blatantly disregards the rules and uses false timestamps for its blocks. Specifically, whenever a block should have a timestamp difference from its parent which is divisible by 9 (precisely the time at which mining difficulty decreases), F2Pool hangs at the preceding second a while longer, thereby increasing mining difficulty and profits. Thus, in the past two years, F2Pool didn’t have even a single block with a timestamp which is divisible by 9.

from the medium post
I'm not seeing any mention of the drastically lower tourism for 2020/21 due to Covid. Is there any hypothesis for how this might effect things? Sunscreen? Boat emissions? They mention the tourism drives a ton of dollars, but it also has to drive a ton of contaminants.

Does anyone see any explanation beyond just weather?
First full connectivity map of the human immune system
Sounds entirely reasonable. If you are doing something dangerous you should be ready to carry the costs of failures.
What problem do folding screens actually solve?
Honestly a refundable deposit sounds like a reasonable option. Although I do wonder if it makes more sense to have some sort of permitting process if there are too many underprepared climbers.
Sounds nice, do these Chinese brands depend on the cloud or are any local-only?
If you're reading German, there's also a book on arc42 by the same author (Gernot Starke), "arc42 in Aktion".
Actual headline:

"Payrolls increased 528,000 in July, much better than expected in a sign of strength for jobs market"
https://archive.ph/MLAXn
What is the implication of the findings?
Not nearly 17", but I've found my iPad Pro makes a reasonable second monitor when traveling. It isn't really large enough to want to do work on it - I keep those windows on the main laptop monitor - but it works as a place to drop email/Slack/misc other things.
Peppa still uses an old phone https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wi... I couldn't find the exact frame in the video, but there are a few where she or a friend is using a phone like that, and also a few with a wireless phone.
If you must choose from a limited pool of options, yes, how the others behave matter.