skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Printers are synonymous with trouble. The market is saturated with shitty printers with anti-consumer products and features.

There's a huge void in the field of OSHW printers. I imagine a decent effort to make an OSHW laser printer would gather a lot of interest. Even if the first printer were to be slow, expensive and had poor resolution.

If you need a printer now, by all means, avoid the bad brands, and go for a laser, preferably monochrome, with an ethernet port, postscript support and IPP support.
Democratic has a well established meaning of 'being available or appealing to a broad group of people'. Democratization is the process of making something democratic and my use (and the wider use of the term to mean 'make accessible broadly') has been pretty well established for a long time now.

The printing press (and printmaking in general) are both examples of democratic art -- making art accessible to the masses.
I feel the same way. The beauty of Vim is that it's not only
flexible but also respects the user; unlike most IDEs it doesn't
blindly make assumptions, auto-format code while it's being
written, auto-close brackets and tags, it has no "plugin XY has
a new update!" popups. It just reacts to input and nothing more.

Vim can have most of those things if needed, but after years of
usage my tolerance for "smart" features declines constantly.
Which in turn made me gravitate towards using more CLI
utilities, as those follow the same philosophy and go hand in
hand with Vim. The "no automation but efficient shortcuts"
approach just feels more reliable and predictable.
US and UK may over order, but they will not get deliveries. Medical companies tend to have policies in place that will distribute to Africa ahead of richer countries if the richer countries are not seeing outbreaks. Obviously there is more money in the richer countries, so the early delivery will skew that way. However once enough are vaccinated (from all potentially passed vaccines) that a country can safely open they will start redirecting vaccines to poor countries.

Once the world is open the US and UK will be happy to say that they were able to cancel some unused vaccine supply if it turns out not needed. (which will be easy - between focusing on poor countries and moving production to something else (or winding down) as they recognize the need is gone they will be willing to end those contracts not completely filled. Politically it is a money saving move.

Of course the above assumes best (or at least) case. There are many ways things can go wrong. If all approved vaccines need a booster every 6 months things will be very different. (this is an unlikely but still possible very worst case)
Librem is expensive and has less features than an android, but a lot of that cost went into more open hardware. It’s not cheap to do that
> Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome.
> Sorry this is an incoherent argument (generalizing from a single data point). I've heard plenty of anecdotes of this stuff (maybe a couple dozen?) but even that's not nearly enough for me to feel confidently say "this is a widespread problem".

I had the opposite reaction. I was a bit surprised that OP was surprised this was happening. Roughly 20% of my amazon purchases have had some kind of card in them with an offer of money for a good review. I guess I just figured it was widespread thing. I only ever get cards with cheap mass manufactured items under $30, mostly electronics like cables or adapters along with a few cat toys.
Lifelong meat eater here. I'm really happy about this news and hope it sticks over the long-run. These new plant-based burgers are basically zero penalty ways to eat more responsibly. They taste about as good as the normal "ok" burger from FastFoodJoint(TM), cost about the same, and are less worse for the planet and everybody on it.

It's also more accepting for people who have various dietary restrictions and opens up an entirely new, mediocre, but fast/cheap dining experience.

One thing to note is that after some initial offerings, Burger King has yet to really keep their plant burger in the weekly coupon deluge I get. Meaning if I want like 2 entire burger meals I can get it for under $10 with the right coupon. But if I want their Impossible Whopper I still end up paying full-price for it.

So yes, if the plant burgers were cheaper than the alternative there really wouldn't be much of a reason to eat the originals any more.
Farm subsidies are very popular; public choice is a real thing, but not the cause for farm subsidies.[1] Steel tariffs are similar.

I am not a democratic fundamentalist. This is to say that I don't value democracy as an ends; it is a valuable means, but saying that something is democratic doesn't change my view on the policy. I don't care how direct it is.

[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/30/poll-indicates-som...
Interesting tidbit on camera sensor and output. I forgot how much ahead of its time the Nokia 808 PureView was! Its sensor size still dwarfs the latest and greatest from Samsung - and especially Apple's new 1/1.7 on the 12 Pro Max.

Pixel 5 using the Snapdragon 765G also grosses over the fact image processing is no longer being handled by Google's custom Visual Core (in Pixel 2 & 3). Inevitable perhaps given performance parity, but shows how much of its photography lead Google has relinquished.
Just had to get warranty exchange on a 4XL due to hardware issues. Probably the last Google phone I get. I really miss the Nexus 5
Braft: An industrial-grade C++ implementation of the RAFT consensus algorithm
MusicSync: An Android App Alternative to Google Play Music
Then again, that's what everyone said about "proper meat replacements" as well a few years ago.
Janki Method
Security scorecards for open source projects
How out of touch you are with tech reviewers :D (who obviously follow each cycle). While there's plenty people buying new phones often (or at least in some places getting them regularly replaced through their phone plan), plenty people do not always go for the newest thing too.
Creating a software program is only 10% of the work. The rest is marketing, promotion, sales, support, accounting, paying taxes, attending conferences, creating manuals and videos, etc.

Most developers fail because they stop after getting the program to work.

"Build it and they will come" is a stupid Hollywood myth.
> The credibility of your school went down by the same amount.

That was the point I was trying to make.

This is not a problem of a single school, or a single university. This is happening across the sector. The success of contract cheating websites, and the inability of universities worldwide to deal with them, attest to that.

> If cheating is rampant, either the culture is broken or you are selecting students wrong.

Sure. People are willing to risk jail to get their kids into top universities. A kid whose family borrowed money to send them study in a Western institution might not see honor as their top priority. It is not a student selection problem: the culture is broken all the way down.

Lest I come across as pessimistic, I am not. Academics may not be able to fix the structural problems, but we have more control over our own little part of our world than in the private sector. I, for one, don't rely on exams anymore for the time being and have not seen a GPA increase in my course. A honor-based exam system is not something I rely on, however.
Simple approach to time series spike detection, using website visits data
In this case, the meaning is orthogonal -- it's about accessibility to the tools, and the accessibility of the tools. That could be centralized or decentralized, as long as the tools are easy and available to the masses.
As an aside, I keep trying to get my team to stop using faker so maybe this will help with that
Now that I got a Pixel 4a I'm never spending more than $400 for a phone ever again. It's fantastic.
I've developed my first video game ever in 2020 thanks to Pico-8 (and thanks to the COVID and the lockdown, too)
I was impressed by how it was easy to learn. Once you understood that everything revolves around a big gameplay loop, you can really just focus on what matters (gameplay, art). I like that it encourages trade-offs and workarounds. I've never felt blocked or stuck too long.

Also, as a software engineer, I wasn't afraid of the development part of the game, but I was very skeptical of my capacities to draw characters or levels. Pico-8 helped me to achieve something without feeling ashamed. Because I knew that I was, by nature, limited in my sprites, it helped me releasing my inhibitions and drawing as if I was a 5 years-old boy proud of his drawings. Same thing for the music and sounds.

Another cool thing is that even when writing code, I didn't feel like I was doing the same thing as during the day. Just writing code, in a closed and stable environment, with a very modest API, and finally the ability to release and convert your game into a JS file in just one command is infinitely satisfying. After a day spent struggling with CloudFormation on AWS, it was a blessing!
No, I'd rather have them tell me its fake meat. The vegetable oils are most likely carcinogenic, amid other health issues (GI, heart) [0]. Red meat is not [1]

Further, these fake meats, Impossible Burger namely, have been linked to kidney failure in mice studies [2] (one commissioned by the Impossible Foods manufacturer). In particular:

"
* A rat feeding study commissioned by the manufacturer Impossible Foods found that rats fed SLH [soy leghemoglobin] developed unexplained changes in weight gain, changes in the blood that can indicate the onset of inflammation or kidney disease, and possible signs of anemia
* Impossible Foods dismissed these statistically significant effects as “non-adverse” or as having “no toxicological relevance”
"

I understand these aren't as good test subjects as human studies, however it seems under the guise of the green movement, this evidence has been willfully ignored, or just not known. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

[0] - https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/why-vegetable-oils-are...

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/sep/30/research-red-me...

[2] - https://www.gmoscience.org/rat-feeding-studies-suggest-the-i...
We were already doing mods back in the MS-DOS days, and sharing them over BBS and Usenet, before any of those languages were invented.
When it comes to spending money, I can sympathize and I do not expect people to shell out cash that they don’t have. (Indeed, when working on a free software project I hope that occasionally it finds its way to someone that literally could not get it any other way.)

On the other hand, 2-minute acts of appreciation (that cost practically nothing) are also extremely rare. Why should thank-you E-mails, app ratings, etc. come from a vanishingly small fraction of a user base, instead of almost everyone?
End-to-End TypeScript: Database, Back End, API, and Front End
Wouldn't he be able to form business ventures in Cyprus in which he could own a stake, but which would pay him very little taxable income? Furthermore, wouldn't he be able to grow those ventures and later take a distribution when his pals in US Congress abolish the "global taxation" nonsense? Or alternatively, by renouncing US citizenship?

What other reasons are there to seek citizenship in a country like Cyprus?
In my example, it was about 1/2 or 1/3 lb worth of meat, with minimal fixings, so at least some places are definitely using it in a way where the flavor/texture of the 'meat' matters.
>Whenever I read articles like this I wonder about the economics of behavior like this.

These practices are unfortunately widespread among printer makers.

They can get away with it because and only because there's a huge void in the field of OSHW printers. I imagine a decent effort to make an OSHW laser printer would gather a lot of interest. Even if the first printer were to be slow, expensive and had poor resolution.

I'd easily recommend such a printer to everybody. It'd be a really easy sell. Everybody hates dealing with printers.

If you need a printer now, by all means, avoid the bad brands, and go for a laser, preferably monochrome, with an ethernet port, postscript support and IPP support.
For GEO it's even worse. Those are very large shared "spot" beams in the echostar ka band image. From LEO starlink sats can do down to ~15km radius.
If you read the founders comment, they mention a lot of other use cases in addition to offices/work.

I would probably really dislike using this with coworkers or for "in the office." But I can imagine it being a good fit with some of the other, more social use cases.
The main difference between tensorflow and some small personal project is that the small personal project is likely to work
Funny stuff! Gotta love Pokemon papers!

That said, since people shouldn't just believe whatever they read, even if it's published in Nature or Science or something, it's a tad redundant to point out that papers published in academic formatting can be complete nonsense.

A solid peer-review can help reduce quality issues, but it doesn't mean that whatever's published is true, reliable, or trustworthy. It's weird that so many folks seem to think that journal articles are gospel. That's just not what peer-review does.

Related: People shouldn't believe things just because they're written in math or Latin.
I'm still bitter about the Nexus One I purchased 10 years ago. It was a defective model, with connectivity issues from day 1, and reports saying as much all over the internet. Google basically shrugged their shoulders and told me to fuck off. I paid more for it than the equivalent iPhone, too!
Hi all,

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I've seen such offers for future discounts or bonus gifts for reviews several times on products I received from Amazon. Increasingly, the low quality of products, the flea market like shopping experience, and concerns about Amazon getting too big/powerful have led me to reduce how much I shop there. I was thinking it would be a big challenge to wean myself off Amazon but it has actually been very easy since several competing retailers are reasonably convenient and many companies that manufacture the actual products have easy direct online purchasing options.
bat is the first thing a brew install on a fresh Macbook setup. Been using it for years with no idea it's written in Rust.
Curious if it's rich people or people who consume too much MSM?
Heavy swapping is the worst case scenario for an SSD (highest write amplification) but I doubt it'd die in a week.
Don't worry about it, you wouldn't make it past the first interview. We only accept the top of the top of the talent pool.
> nobody ever complains that cities subsidizing the construction of sports arenas

They certainly do. Many people object to this sort of thing, and say "if it's such a good idea, a private business should be willing to do it." Strangely they tend to not make this argument about things like public transport, even though it's exactly the same thing.

The arguement is that these arenas, convention centers, transit systems, etc. enable more economic activity and generate more tax revenue than they cost. I don't know if that's always (or ever) the case but that's the rationale and it's not insane.
cashew is the best method of faux cheese. It has the creaminess and a good melt, but doesn't brown right.
No one will be upgrading from the Pixel 4a to the Pixel 5. Both phones are available now, new from Google. Instead, they're comparing your choices for an upgrade to your Pixel 2.

I'm in the same situation, and considering buying a Pixel 4a to replace my Pixel 2 now that security updates have stopped.
Samsung hardware is indeed excellent, but there's still much room to improve around delivering updates. Samsung's current commitment is to deliver 3 major OS updates after device launch [1], which is still not enough for a flagship that will work fine even after 5 years.

[1] https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-raises-the-bar-for-m...
Why the indignation and the "snapping"? Build this in from Day 1. Set the terms of your license to reflect what you want people to do with the software.
In fact, that's exactly how Python implements UNARY_NEGATIVE: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.9.0/Python/ceval.c...

If you look a bit further down in the original article, you'll see that the BINARY_ADD instruction does something similar. It pops (a pointer to) the first operand, and modifies (a pointer to) the second one in-place.

Semantically, it makes sense to define operations as popping the operand(s) and pushing a result, for simplicity. But there's no reason the interpreter has to actually be implemented that way, as long as the observable behavior is the same.

In any case, I wouldn't be surprised if an extra push/pop ended up having very little performance impact. The compiler might be able to optimize away the pointer increment/decrement instructions, and if not, the stack pointer is pretty much guaranteed to be in the L1 cache.
Hardware products available at retailers? No.

Data products available to all and sundry? Step right this way.
Not so fast with the health talk.

Vegetable oils are most likely carcinogenic, amid other health issues (GI, heart) [0]. Red meat is not [1]

Further, these fake meats, Impossible Burger namely, have been linked to kidney failure in mice studies [2] (one commissioned by the Impossible Foods manufacturer). In particular:

" * A rat feeding study commissioned by the manufacturer Impossible Foods found that rats fed SLH [soy leghemoglobin] developed unexplained changes in weight gain, changes in the blood that can indicate the onset of inflammation or kidney disease, and possible signs of anemia

* Impossible Foods dismissed these statistically significant effects as “non-adverse” or as having “no toxicological relevance” "

I understand these aren't as good test subjects as human studies, however it seems under the guise of the green movement, this evidence has been willfully ignored, or just not known. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

[0] - https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/why-vegetable-oils-are...

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/sep/30/research-red-me...

[2] - https://www.gmoscience.org/rat-feeding-studies-suggest-the-i...
I understand the distinction you're making, but I think it's fuzzier than you seem to think. Yes, GraphQL responses tend to go over the wire in a format without any type checking (like JSON). But GraphQL tooling and libraries can use GraphQL schemas to ensure that application code that consumes GraphQL responses will never see a value with a type that contradicts the GraphQL schema.

GraphQL tooling cannot literally prevent JSON from having a string value where there's supposed to be a number value, but it can ensure that application code never has runtime type errors. Is that "validation rather than type checking"? Sure, I suppose so, but my application code that consumes GraphQL responses will either get some representation of an error, or a representation of a successful response that is guaranteed to have the types I expect.

And yes, there are plenty of other data formats and tools that provide the same sort of thing: some representation of a schema, some non-application code that checks runtime data against that schema, and a contract with the application code that each response will be either an error or a type-safe successful response.
Tbh if I was starting now, I would probably use one of those and be happy with them.

But I started using Emacs in 1992, and it still does what I need (thank you language server protocol).

Will VS Code exist and offer the same experience over a whole career?
What inherent trait of "processing" makes a food unhealthy?
I'm proud of the fact that many volunteer collaborators on the D project have, as a direct result, landed very well-paying jobs.
Because delivery is part of the experience. If you make a great widget but you build it to order 6 months latter, I'm fine with that only if I know up front how long until I get my widget (this is a common thing to happen with just in time manufacturing - but everyone knows when the delivery is expected).
It's been like that since the initial release unfortunately.

Realistically private companies support all sorts of government operations and have access to all sorts of extremely sensitive information. There's just something extra creepy about seeing it happen in your browser. (It's not immediately obvious what can be gleaned but most likely more than what you would gather from a cursory glance.)

Here's a few of the domains from just the front page:

adsrvr.org
advertising.com
chartbeat.com
chartbeat.net
digitalgov.gov
doubleclick.net
google-analytics.com
google.com
googleapis.com
googletagmanager.com
govdelivery.com
gstatic.com
healthcare.gov
newrelic.com
nr-data.net
optimizely.com
qualtrics.com
quantummetric.com
tealiumiq.com
tiqcdn.com

Edit: After a bit more looking I really think they need a bug bounty or something. This site has been dinged numerous times for infosec practices and it doesn't seem like the message is getting through.
Terms seem bizarrely lenient on Zoom, e.g. no financial penalties for deceiving users other than to "just fix the problem"?
>$1/year.

At that rate of printing, ink is going to dry up in the headers. Which would require running the cleaning procedures. Which use a lot of ink.

Ink printers are a really bad proposition.
There are a lot of high-quality phones in the Android ecosystem now that run a stock OS. You don't have to stick to the Nexus/Pixel line anymore. Samsung, LG, Moto, etc etc etc.

Not really any reason in switching to iPhones on the weakness of the Pixel line, unless you're trying to make some other political point.
Wouldn't this be the first mRNA vaccine approved for the public?

I know very little about the pharmaceutical underpinnings of mRNA vaccines and how theoretically likely adverse long-term results are, but I do think caution by laymen is not unwarranted for a new type of vaccine that has been fast-tracked through trials (albeit for good reason!)
Godspeed to the marketing team that has to go to market with "modified e-coli".
Take away browser plus html? Sure. Take away React? People would get along just fine imo
>According to 8008 designer Hal Feeney, "We built the carry look-ahead logic because we needed the speed as far as the processor is concerned. So carry look ahead seemed like something we could integrate and have fairly low real estate overhead and, as you see, the whole carry look ahead is just a very small portion of the chip."

This is a very strange remark. Setting aside whether Feeney actually did design it, that look-ahead carry takes up a huge area of the chip -- almost as much as the whole rest of the ALU.

If they had cared about speed, they would not have shoehorned it into 18 pins.

According to Federico Faggin (Italian: "Fah-jeen"), Intel considered itself a memory company, and the 8008 project a waste of attention. They weren't about to set up 40-pin infrastructure for such a nothing part when no memory chip would ever need 40 pins.

When FF did the Z80, he realized that the result of an ALU op is never needed immediately with an 8080 ISA, so used a 4-bit unit, and was able to cut the look-ahead logic even more.
I've used online.town before, and it's awesome to see that it's productized now with a lot of the features I wished. We used if for company gatherings and played games like hide and seek, and as a way to network with new people. The fact that things like podiums can now project voices, games are included, really make this so much more appealing. It's just a fun way to connect with people. Including random people. And you don't need many conversation starters, other than "cool platform right, want to go checkout the ...". So excited for this!