skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last year I did a lot of research on Reddit and other sites and finally settled on the Roborock S7 Pro Ultra. Some learnings I had along the way:

- Software quality is crucial, and new models are often iffy. Badly programmed vacuums (and almost every brand has those) are incredibly annoying, because they get stuck constantly, fall down stairs, leave dirty areas, can’t find the way to the base station, etc. Roborock seems to be one of the few who nails this.

- Suction power should be maximized, or you’ll spend time cleaning up after the robot. The S7 I bought has 5100Pa and I think that’s acceptable, but I still need to do two runs sometimes (which is low effort for me, but it means more noise).

- Since we wanted a vacuum that also mops: Those mops, if not managed well, get moldy and start to stink after just a few days. Build layout and engineering quality are big factors here - ours almost never stinks even though it has no drying fan (some do).

- A base station is needed for real hands-off usage, and those are damn expensive when bought afterwards. And do change the water tanks regularly, they can get quite smelly, fast. It’s the one non-negotiable maintenance we have to do every week.

- I was looking for vacuums with explicit mention of HEPA filters, but it seems the more expensive ones have decent filters without ever mentioning HEPA. I’m still not sure what grade the S7 filters really are, but it seems allergy friendly (likely also owed to the mop and the usage of a filter bag in the base station).

- Even if the manual says to wash the filter, don’t; they will often degrade. Better to use compressed air (carefully) to clean instead.

Overall, we are still happy with the S7 Pro Ultra after a solid year of usage. It’s been a time saver rather than a time sink, and apart from getting stuck sometimes laying around, it has always done a solid job.
I slightly would like to expand what you are saying, that you are cynical about cynics. ;)

In your description the individuals appear cynical "to seek public validation and importance" and as "social signaling and the appearance of social importance".

I believe most do not fall into what you are describing. But, it is anecdotal, my personal opinion.

I am cynical because I am jaded and in general distrust the internet and distrust of the integrity or professed motives of those on the internet. [paraphrased from the American Heritage Dictionary]

Alas, I am cynical because I truly am jaded. I am distrustful because of my experience online, not because I need validation. I am aware I need social interaction, but I do not need anything from anyone. To ingeminate "honey badger Don't give a 5h!7". :D
no common definition of free/open source software (such as the debian free software guidelines) would permit a use restriction like that
Well, I'd at least be able to buy a house, and sustain a family with a single job
Reminds me of how hacker scenes are portrayed in Hollywood films
The iPhone 8 was sold new less than 3 years ago. Okay, new features shouldn't be expected, but patching known vulnerabilities should be required.
Applying Findings on Opinion Spam to Legal and Forensic Discourses
It's really dependant on the industry. Docs for a retail audience get low usage. Docs for developer tooling get high usage. It's a whole spectrum.

As for the title, well, it's a draw for the reader and needs to be spicy. Really when I wrote it, I meant from an organizational or project perspective.
Stop Saying "Technical Debt"
Rise of Rust: Is It the Future of System-Level Programming?
Heavy oil ships are already being banned from numerous ports. That will only accelerate. Shipbuilders are gearing up to build anhydrous ammonia fueled replacements.

Anhydrous ammonia will be produced at massive scale in tropical synthesis facilities for delivery worldwide. This is why long-term storage is not considered important.
Matic keeps both static (historical map) and dynamic constant live mapping. So it constantly observes changes live all the time — just the way we do. And it keeps merging these changes in the slam graph/maps.
> I don’t think we will be able to say the same thing about an iPhone 12 or 13

The wildcard here is local LLM use cases and any new hardware that increases their speed by orders of magnitude.
Yeah, that factor may be significantly higher than 6x depending on locale.
Sure, that is something that has to be avoided. The problem is that "commercial" is so broadly defined that basically everyone is covered, even non-profit organizations or single developers. A lot of those that want to release open-source stuff suddenly have to comply with all the requirements, which means having to spend a lot of time or money that non-commercial entities often don't have. This effectively kills nearly all of open-source in the EU. A sibling response mentions some improvements, but it still contains stuff like: (10a) "[...]Similarly, where the main contributors to free and open-source projects are developers employed by commercial entities and when such developers or the employer can exercise control as to which modifications are accepted in the code base, the project should generally be considered to be of a commercial nature."
"every previous version"

No reasonable person is asking for this.
The US's biggest strength is it's decentralization.

It creates multiple redundancies from the local level all the way to the federal level.

For 70-80% of QoL, most of that is impacted by your City Council, County Board, and School Board. There are so many of those that it's logistically impossible to influence.
Slight tangent, but I really looked forward to (and enjoyed!) the "This Year in Crypto" talks given by DJB and Tanja Lange at past C3s. It was a fun way for a non-cryptologist like me to keep track of all the major happenings in this field. Sadly they stopped giving them a few years back.

Does anyone know if there are similar end-of-year roundups that non-cryptologist s can follow to keep up to date?
>> Light text on a dark background blooms more and makes it harder to distinguish the characters.

> I asked my optometrist about the best setting for viewing comfort, and she said black letters on white background

I did some reading before I started using light themes, and the theory agrees with your optometrist, especially for astigmatism.

However, after getting an OLED screen, my experience didn't match the theory anymore: I could make the dark theme more comfortable with basic settings.

So I went back to check the research and I noticed it was not correctly controlling for ambient illumination and for the screen brightness.

I call that the 3 deltas:

- the 1st delta is between ambient brightness and the screen background color,

- the 2nd delta is between the screen background and the foreground color,

- the 3rd delta is between the ambient screen brightness and the screen foreground color.

In a dark room (at night), if you use a dark theme with a pitchblack background (as possible on an OLED screen) with a foreground of white text, it will NOT be comfortable if you leave the full brightness (usually 400 to 600 nits)

However, an OLED screen gives you precise control over the brightness: reduce it and you'll see it's possible to make the characters easier to distinguish on a dark theme than on a light theme.

I have scripts to do color inversion and different correction filters. I even have a shortcut for each, to reduce friction and try different settings for different conditions: I can go from a dark theme to a light theme in about 200ms, so I just go "click click click" on the keyboard until I find what conditions "clicks" with me :)

Unless I'm sitting in a very well light place (that I consider too bright for my preferences), I'm more often with the dark theme.

I'd encourage you to take into consideration the 3 deltas and try by yourself a dark theme while doing brightness control +- color filters, or at least to check the research (ask GPT!) your optometrist recommendation is based on.
As much as the sales of healing crystals tells me how much people value the health and anti-aging benefits of those.
Every month or so, my apartment building sends someone to knock on every door of the (admittedly small) building to offer to spray a few places (like behind the stove) to keep out pests. I hadn't thought of it from this perspective before, but it makes sense from the perspective of trying to solve the problem you mention; the only way to keep them out is to handle it uniformly across all the units, and having someone come around to offer it every so often makes sure that new people moving in get it treated and no one will forget due to having to remember on their own.
this is why bombing a house doesn't work, the roaches flee to the neighbors, they then bomb and they flee back to your house (or migrate back over time).

I absolutely refuse to live in houses with roaches, too many horror stories. I once moved out of a house and left everything I owned in it due to the roaches.
Thanks for the additional info. I didn’t intend to mislead; the quoted passages are straight off the Suica and PASMO websites, so they are only outdated insofar as those websites are outdated.
Why does that matter, exactly? What affect on scripting does that have?

You can run a script file via `dotnet fsi script.fsx`. You can load and run a script inside FSI (F# interactive, the F# REPL) via `#load script.fsx`. You can run a notebook as a script via `dotnet repl --run notebook.dib --exit-after-run`. There is no "compilation" visible or required by the user.

This is nearly identical, except that it's improved and more featureful, to how one runs a script in Python. Whether F# is compiled or not is immaterial.
There's nothing wrong with it at first glance. It's high time they start adding some liability to these corporations because way too many of them just don't give a shit.

They just need to clarify some points. They need to explicitly make an exception for free and open source software developers. Because free and open source software development will be killed if they don't. Can you imagine getting sued because someone had problems with the free software you published on GitHub? The sustainability of free software development is questionable enough as it is. If publishing a project exposes me to that kind of risk I'll simply not publish.
That is one of them, here is the second version with different amendedments by European Council: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-11726-2023-...

They are now hashing out a final consolidated version in a trialogue.
Don't let prolonged work and study sessions affect your health any longer. Schedule reminders to rest your eyes, avoid prolonged sitting, and maintain breaks for effective work.
On a per-MW basis nuclear power dropped in cost during the 1950s. See the small blue dots round the late 1950s and early 60s? Compare that with the cluster of red dots.
I don't see how. Apple is choosing to not patch known vulnerabilities on hardware sold new less than 3 years ago. Hardware they're happy to charge for repairs on.
Yep. To my read this is Open Source(tm) getting exactly what they said they wanted.
From the little I've watched this space, a big problem is that there are no good, reliable open source datasets (beyond the Enron one, which has been used extensively).
I ran some comparisons a few years ago between a SPARCstation 20 Model 60 (the system for which the BYTE UNIX Benchmark is calibrated) and Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10795324

An original RPi is who it 6-7x the performance of a SPARCstation 20 according to the benchmarks
They are competing because each dollar is spent either on solar and wind or on something else. That dollar spent on solar or wind gets you much more power than any alternative. The advantage increases every year.
> Why should users pay full bundled iOS tax that supports security updates,

I don't think I've ever seen someone express the expectation that Apple's App Store fees are for the purpose of supporting iOS development and maintenance. Mostly I've seen and heard the expectation that those fees are connected to running the App Store itself (payment processing, hosting, app review, etc.) and beyond that, vague profiteering. iOS itself isn't a subscription service, and Apple seems quite happy to sell you devices even if you don't spend money in the App Store. So you seem to be stretching a bit by attributing those fees to iOS maintenance and then turning around to say that unsupported iOS versions should get a discount on the fees for any services that still work.
"I haven't seen excitement around any product and ecosystem launched since 2018 except flutter and Firebase."

Hard disagree, lol. Android Jetpack was launched in 2018. It was basically the second generation of Android development, it was a proper "tech stack" instead of everyone cobbling together third party libraries. Architectures switched over to the one true MVVM, instead of being this mess of MVC, MVP, etc.

Jetpack Compose is pretty amazing, it cut down our LOC by about half because we don't need adapters for every list. Kotlin coroutines & flow is nice. You get reactive programming, no more complex nested if/else conditions. We're not using Fragments or Activities much now either, navigation is via Compose, meaning DI is less necessary. So builds can be much faster too with a 2023 stack, and you can get UI changes rendered in the emulator immediately without even needing to update the build.

Here's a modern stack I made, should be able to spin up an app in an hour, and it shouldn't be too hard to read the code: https://github.com/smuzani/android-minimalist-template

Or if you want something production, Stripe's code is one of my favorites: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-android

Jetpack has some dark moments though, but that's a story for another day.
There you go:

https://www.valves-community.com/en/cryogenic-air-gases/synt...

But honestly, why am I doing your internet searches for you? And why don't you know any of this already?
All the ones I saw generate icons with weird artifacts. I don't think we're there yet.
Are hashes of the data ever used in known chip debugging features?

Since they're supposed to be disabled in production, what would be their point?

I'm no electronic engineer, but isn't it best for them to be fast and simple, to reduce the chance that they cause interference themselves..?

And isn't it strongly unlikely that an attacker in the supply chain (TSMC??) would be able to reliably plant this in all Apple chips from the A12 to the A16 and the M1 ??
The latest NN based approaches still fall short of ORB-SLAM - which is considered the state of the art (in terms implementations). However, it still has only 70% success rate in loop closures.

We tend to measure our accuracy with loop closures and slam graph consistency over time.

Here’s the link of Matic self and exploring and building map on the fly: https://www.dropbox.com/s/e051nmb1ci0o8nu/Auto_Explore_Mehul...
Does this count?

https://www.aao.org/eye-health/news/low-dose-atropine-kids-w...
> We used CloudEvents internally at Segment as an evolution of the existing ad hoc format that evolved naturally over time.

Is this just another way of saying "a really big JSON document"?
Did you forget the /s or do you not think that a lot of journalism is indeed reacting to other journalists?
Agreed, but also https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search for me.

I can't life without this one anymore
Exclusive: Steam Deck Chip Analysis [video]
Evidently you missed the news that it turned out to be no catastrophe at all, but just a lot of hand-wringing and pearl-clutching over a clearly hoped-for catastrophe.
If it's "trivial", then perhaps the article should've demonstrated that.
Just because a term is misused does not mean one should stop using it.
> The majority of open source contributions are people making commits while at their paid jobs.

Do you have any evidence to back up this seemingly wildly speculative assertion?

And, even if it were true, "while at their paid jobs" doesn't mean at all they're getting paid as developers at all, let alone as developers on those projects that they are contributing to.
That's also part of the problem. I don't think I could find anyone competent enough for less than $150K or so, and then we'd be losing money. Plus finding them and training them is hard.
I think you mean that it's quite possible their lawyer estimated the value of interpreting the regulations wrongly was greater than the penalty.
Useful concepts to equip you for 2024
There is one NYC subway station that is served only by elevators (and it is indeed a nightmare during peak hours): https://classicnewyorkhistory.com/new-yorks-168th-street-sub...
Is it not really claustrophobic being in a capsule hotel for 3 weeks? Spending a night there for the novelty I can imagine but 3 weeks wow.
You make a good point: since "pairs" returns all the values as it should, calling the table "corrupted" may be too harsh. It's been so long now I can't recall why the original code I found this problem in used "ipairs" instead of "pairs". It's simply not safe to use "ipairs" on a table containing a nil and the code that did that was wrong.

I think working with newer languages like Typescript have made me unsatisfied with languages like Lua which provide no clear way to prevent this sort of mistake, so I like that dialects like Pluto are showing ways Lua could be improved.
Generation Junk
Effective control methods include:

- Heat: improper heat treatment has caused house fires

- All sorts of poisons: poisoning not just the bugs

- Diatomaceous earth: Using the wrong kind, or using it improperly can cause diseases like silicosis

And all the creative yet incredibly stupid things people think of when they are desperate.

But done properly these techniques work with minimal risk. The same can be said of Ivermectin.
> However, the point of the article is that you can't transfer your skill level in one domain to another.

This is like the study I saw in the 90's where they concluded heterosexual couples are more likely to have children then homosexual couples.

yeah, no shit.

The point _I_ was referring to is the idea that general problem solving isn't a skill.

The absolute best you can come up with is "well it's not perfectly transferrable!".

You know what else isn't perfectly transferrable? The ability for a man to pleasure a woman, it turns out, experience with a particular woman increases that skill.

And yet, no one in their right mind would ever argue that you can't generally be more, or less, skilled in bed.

_this_ is what you're arguing.
Except when the spot around Hachiko is crammed with tourists, local or foreign because of its 100th anniversary.
Some say you shouldn’t. Others only apply to jobs so they can get the counter offer. Which is right?
Yes, this is the other side of it. But be careful: Becoming jaded often becomes a way of giving up, and that's not good (for you or for society).

Often it comes from your vision becoming distorted due to the news cycle (which churns out depressing hopelessness like sausage because it keeps you glued to their channels). Don't lose your morale; turn that shit off. There's plenty to be hopeful and grateful for. I honestly think we're living in some of the best times ever.

Being a bit skeptical is good. Paralyzing cynicism is not.
That plant is not sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide. It's using waste carbon dioxide from a nearby biomass plant. This is far less challenging than removing CO2 from the atmosphere.

But unfortunately this method does not scale. The amount of fuel produced would be limited by the amount of carbon sequestered by plants. You'd be cutting down forests faster than they replenish if you tried to fuel cargo ships with this method.

> And why don't you know any of this already?

I do, and unlike you I understand how existing power to gas prototypes are using biomass or industrial byproduct CO2 rather than direct atmospheric sequesteration. This is sidestepping the most challenging part of producing synthetic hydrocarbons on a large scale.

Prometheus Fuels are the main player in attempting to solve direct atmospheric sequesteration of carbon dioxide. But they've still not delivered on that objective.
Look at the exercises at the beginning of Knuth vol 3.
No, that's because of greed, ESG simply enabled it. Black Panther, for an obvious example, was mediocre, but it had a degree of guaranteed success because of black pride.

It seems that this is just an admission that Disney overplayed its hand in this regard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juragua_Nuclear_Power_Plant

an abandoned nuclear station in Cuba
Yes. I usually take someone assuming I’m scared of something as a slight affront. It’s diminutive instead of using a word like unintelligible in this case.
> Coca-Cola launches Water 2.0, a new bottled drink that packs 2,800 calories per liquid once, while tasting like regular tap water.

Solve world hunger with water. Genius.
“pretty scary stuff” indeed!

This would inevitably end up ingesting secrets, right? Like say from my password manager? Or API keys in my terminal?

Lots of ways for this to go sideways even if the data stays local.

What’s the plan there?
It looks like they are exaggerated because there's huge distances between each level, even the above ground building.

It's quite easy to see why it's done, so you can easily look into each level without clutter
If anyone wants to team up to commercialize this, I would pay for and handle the plastic injection molding and marketing and at-scale assembly and other things as needed. Email in bio.
Reminds me of the time I tried to leave a Japanese train station and wound up in an underground department store. Then I tried to leave the department store and I wound back up in the train station.
> Our industry desperately needs better regulations, IMO.

Can you explain how you believe better regulations would improve software (assuming you're talking about software)?
The US is riddled with "optimised" just in time supply chains that are bottlenecks; eg: meat supply during COVID

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2021.6607...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9478983/

From an outside PoV there are a number of places that can be attacked to cause nationwide upsets from small investments of time and effort.
I take it you've never been to Nagoya?
"Please don't do things to make titles stand out"

-> https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Does apple release jailbreak tools for ten year old phones?
I must say I've never really thought about it, but wording these as cloud vacuum cleaners, while correct, would have had 10 y/o me laughing my ass off if I heard the phrase back then. The absurdity of it.

Ive already elicited giggles from non technical friends at the sites tagline haha.
To be fair the CPU voltage regulators are already there, all this would require is adding a small 5V and 3.3V stage on as well. Since most of the power goes to the CPU.
The act of defining limits on language associations is putting obligations on others.

No one cares to help you define or realize your semantic utopia either.

Language associations will always be mutable; that’s my utopia. You can pound sand trying to demand others speech be constrained by your sensibilities.

Exist in a religious-like state of biology where your mental model is essential, some kind of immutable linked list? No thanks.

Edit: note I made the same argument in different language. So much for the OPs premise holding water. People do care how others label things and the aggregate will make OP beholden to that. Good luck living your bespoke utopia OP.