skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As another data point I've replaced the camera lens and the glass backplate on my 2. The lens went fine. The glass is something like 0.25mm off in basically all dimensions (height, width, thickness). I can feel the transition when I miss the fingerprint sensor. So 3rd party replacements are "okay." This isn't a huge issue, just annoying since I recently replaced it.

Other than that, which I'd call self inflicted since I've had the phone for years and dropped it a few times and hike a lot, I've had no issues. Maybe the 2 had better QC?
But in a world of telephone scams and texts, how do you trust who's calling you and why?
Propping up AMD's revenues during some rough spots?
I guess this would be a good place to mention to anyone who wants to buy hardware directly from Google:

Create a separate account and purchase the device through it, that way if you have to do a charge-back because Google's customer service sucks, you can do so without them banning your main account.

(This is not a victim-blame, just a suggestion on how to avoid becoming a victim. Google is definitely in the wrong when it comes to this.)
I love the idea! When I tried the official demo, the thing that I immediately noticed is the jagged scrolling movement of the screen when I move around.

I understand the pixel art style (I love it btw) and that the map is actually discrete pieces of tiles instead of fluid/pixels, but it's really visually jarring as I move around. If I move by pressing arrow keys once at a time that's fine, or if I even hold down arrow in one direction that's still okay, but if I move by quickly changing directions (e.g. moving diagonally) it almost hurts my head to look at the screen while my avatar is walking.
beautiful. What's the demo soundtrack?
Exactly that is being addressed in this article. Sellers still trying to move the needle by any means - this case: offering a $10 reward
Sure, but the way the sentence is written make it believe that the Europeans average of three months is equivalent to the US average of two weeks.
The former is an average of regulations, the later an average of folklore.
We've used Gather for a few company events and it's been super helpful for recreating as much of an in-person interaction style as possible. It outshines Zoom when you have more than 10 people in the same meeting and in more casual settings. Especially for office cultures that were heavily in-person like ours, it helps bolster the sense of team and collaboration that isn't the same over Slack/Zoom.
Google can't survive on a phone they are practically giving away, while Samsung outsells everyone while charging $1k per unit.
Yea, normally you'd want some type of broker / middle-layer to accept the incoming data from the devices and then send it onward into the database. That broker would also authenticate / validate the devices / data etc. And it can do stuff like batch the input, for efficiency.

If you actually need that many incoming connections, for now you'd probably want to use pgbouncer (or oddysey or ...) in transaction or statement pooling mode.
Came here to also recommend Goldiloader, but your comment and especially your blogpost summarizes it just fine.

We‘re using Goldiloader in a medium sized Rails application with zero problems so far.
> and gets updates

Wife and I also have pixel 2's, and AFAIK October 2020 was the last month we got updates[1] :(.

(although it notes "Pixel 2 Preferred Care customers have telephone support until April 2021.")

Which makes this article all the more disappointing, as we're looking to upgrade for this and the usual reasons :).

[1] https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en
From reading the blog posts of a few of the developers it’s pretty clear that the review team just doesn’t understand what it is or how it works. When asked why a web browser is allowed to download files and an app using wget is not they can’t give a satisfactory answer.
Precisely. S/he wrote about reviewing related to "damaged products, wrong products, overtly used ..." but not missing deliveries, that was an "incidentally... " other paragraph.
In a way, yes.

Humans who don't have something don't know how great it was or what they're missing.

Perhaps your ancestors could have told you how awesome it was to ride mammoths into the sunset... But those ancestors are no longer around and we think of them as mostly theoretical creatures.
Who are the real Shy Trumpers?
I read it. How does this article even make sense?
From HP's store: "Looking for access across any and all VR content? With compatibility across both SteamVR and Windows Mixed Reality, seamless access to everything VR is now within reach. All with quick and painless setup."

Which makes sense, they also partnered with Valve on this headset as well. It's fluffy marketing-droid speak, but from the sounds of it the headset should work with Steam.

https://www.connection.com/product/hp-reverb-g2-virtual-real...
You could use fasteners like bolts, interlocking physical structures and maybe even things like hot glue and have structural batteries that are still dismantleable every 10 years.

For example airplanes have interchangeable structural parts like wings, even when weight is at premium.
If it were just the German corporations we were trusting, this would be relevant. But at this point, while we do not necessarily trust the German government to be nimble, agile, or innovative, they are typically relatively by-the-book, as governments go. Certainly compared to China and Russia.
In 50 years I suspect Bezos thinks he’ll be fighting robot wars against Musk on Mars. I seriously doubt he cares.
That's interesting - I would have guessed that after a certain point, a VM and a physical computer are indistinguishable from the POV of software running inside.
Around here I'll often go somewhere and ask for "your smallest size of chips" or something, and they'll tell me they don't have small, only regular. OK thanks for that unnecessary interaction.
I'm curious where the 50 percent comes from. If representation as a proportion of the population is the goal, this will make white people significantly underrepresented according to the most recent census. So what is the source of 50 percent and what's the goal?
I'm sorry, but if they're shipping by the three major carriers (plus amazon itself), barely anybody cares about the review. We all know problems in shipping occur. We don't need to filter the less than 1 percent of problem reviews because you were too impatient or too upset with life to wait 2 more days for a reshipment.
I plan to have something to show for it :)

Laziness really isn't an issue. Especially when writing FFI/low-level Haskell. I suspect the heavy-lifting will be written in a more performance-conscious style. And a lot of it will be deferring to industry-standard C libraries. And then you're right, idiomatic Haskell would have its place in the scripting layer.

I honestly don't think there's anything inherent to Haskell that stops it from being used to make high-quality commercial video games. So my plan is to try to build those in Haskell and let the libraries and infrastructure fall out (as it always nicely does using Haskell in my experience.) Honestly, developing high-quality games is more bound by art & creativity than Haskell.
Same here for both phones after 1 year...
Yeah and I don't like kale in my food. Clearly I'm not wrong, because apparently nobody is. But a busy restaurant is not the place to make a fuss over where a particular dish was cooked. I don't get to insist on a separate pot to make my meal, because it might get polluted by kale.

It is wrong, it a real sense, to have unreasonable personal rules about a restaurant kitchen.
I had a similar experience with Amazon support. I posted a review of a power strip that caught fire, with a picture of the scorch marks.

The seller reached out repeatedly to me via email asking what they could do to get it taken down, including monetary offers and (after I rejected their approaches several times) thinly veiled "looks like you're having fun at the beach this weekend" references to my social media feeds in what I presume was an attempt to creep me out.

I reported them to Amazon. Seller and listing (with my review, so far) are still there.
The thing is that that you never change. You never feel older. Mind you, you do get a surprise when you look in the mirror and think "Shit! Who is that old bastard?"

All my life I have felt that I was about 22. It is as though I got older in my youth until I reached 22 and then just stopped there.

I am now 75. There is nothing I could think of less than to say "I'm going to stop NOW." After all, I might miss out on something.
Funny, how many people apparently consider dodging taxes something to be defended chivalrously...
We're actively working on this — I actually have a prototype running on my dev server at the moment:

https://alex.gather.town/app/nO9uzqf6ZhzsXJ68/Grand%20Centra...

^^no guarantees on the stability of this server btw, I use it just to test random stuff so it might go down at any moment!
the only interaction with b-tree's i had was:

CREATE INDEX index ON table (column);

so I doubt the knowledge of b-tree's are that important for 90% of the users/people/developers.
heck I know how to write a multipart parser/formatter, which I doubt that many people do. especially people who know how a b-tree works. well most people which do know how a b-tree works, do not know when to use it.
AA3: Efficient Lending with Fintech
I did not listen to podcast as I prefer reading but looking at the title I'd say that if one is in dire straits one needs smart programmers. The language is irrelevant and unless some very specific requirements are to be met good software can be written in any language.
Worry about the old, the frail, the immunosuppressed.

Vaccines only work if a high enough proportion of the entire population get them.

Obviously the vulnerable will get it first - but please don’t skip it just because you’re young and strong.
Amazon product listings are shared across all vendors. The review is for the item itself.

Say you buy a product listed as "Cool WebCam HD". You might deal with "xXCoolSellerXx" while I would deal with "GadgetSeller51". By leaving a bad review unrelated to the item, you are drowning the actual bad reviews and hurting quality sellers.

Upon purchasing a product on Amazon you will receive a link to review the seller. That is where you are to put your review about the way the seller dealt with you.
It's not complaints about how their business relationships should be structured. It's complaints about how the business relationships are structured and then changed out from underneath the consumer.

And at the end of the day there is a reason why articles like this exist. To destroy the reputation of businesses that do this.
> projections out to at least a year

You're right - I should have said "periodic vaccination", not annual.

Also yeah, there's a subtle difference between why we'd need periodic covid vaccinations vs flu vaccinations. But in the end the result is the same, we'll probably need to be re-vaccinated against covid over time.

Covid isn't going away because it has a non-human animal reservoir, so it's all about a strategy to prevent it's re-emergence into the sapiens reservoir. It's possible that periodic vaccinations of the population as a whole would be overkill and we could reactively immunize smaller populations as re-infection occurs.
Yeah, I use Google Voice and just read the transcript since that takes a lot less time.
I feel the same way about it. I was a student when I first heard about it, and I definitely feel that making my own (terrible) Pico-8 games made me a much better programmer than I would've been otherwise, and also helped me grasp concepts that I found difficult to understand from lectures. Even an artistic simpleton like myself can make an 8x8 sprite look good, and the other self-imposed limitations of the system actually do a great deal of reducing the burden of too many choices. By holding you back in certain areas, it actually makes the end goal of finishing a game easier to reach. If anyone is debating picking it up, I strongly recommend it.

Getting back to the article, I was familiar with Fred's games, and I personally think he's one of the most talented developers in the community, I'm very excited for the upcoming Poom game, which frankly is beginning to border on Dark Magic.
What Is Philosopher.life?
Someone sent me this website and could only find a discussion on this website (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17969843) and on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/AtrocityGuide/comments/e5mtpe/philosopherlife/), so I'm wondering if anyone has insight.
It really is, my wives' family has property there thanks to this very citizenship scheme. Sometimes we holiday there because it's literally free, but the place really doesn't have any redeeming qualities.

There's nothing that Cyprus offers that's not done better somewhere else in Europe if you have the money to spend.

Sure, there are worse places out there. But to the Eric Schmidts of the world it firmly falls in the shithole category.
I wonder why mopeds don't do this. Put the battery in the seat tube or some such. It seems an optimal spot in the transportation speed/size/range/cost space. Yet I've not seen an electric moped in my town.
That's...both unsurprising and super disappointing.
Same - I’m not too ideological and want to take a pragmatic approach to it while still recognizing that I want to eat junk food every now and then. My main pet peeve is that in my usual spot they slap $4 extra to sub impossible instead of real meat. The burgers are great so I take it but it just shouldn’t be more expensive than an animal that’s been fed the veggie patty ingredients times a hundred to make that patty.
Oh hey, I was just playing with this... it's really cool!

There's a "Linux on LiteX-VexRiscv" design [1] that adds a DDR controller and MMU to the shared bus as well as a handful of other pieces that allow you to boot a Linux kernel image, mount a filesystem, and get a shell prompt over a serial terminal or ssh.

You can then use familiar interfaces to talk to whatever peripherals you decided to include, e.g.:

$ echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio508/value
$ echo 50 > /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip0/duty_cycle

I got it to run on Greg Davill's [2] Orange Crab FPGA board [3] last night, which was actually pretty easy, as it's one of the supported boards. It was surprisingly usable, even with the soft processor only running at 64 MHz. This was also the first time I used the open source synthesis / place-and-route tools to do anything more complicated than an adder, and they were fast and worked flawlessly.

[1] https://github.com/litex-hub/linux-on-litex-vexriscv

[2] https://twitter.com/gregdavill - He posts a lot of really cool macro and microscope photos of electronics assembly

[3] https://github.com/gregdavill/OrangeCrab
Renouncing US citizenship makes you pay taxes as if you sold everything you owned on that day and then died (or something close to that) - it doesn’t help you with any past profits (n fact, likely to harm) though it might help with future profits if you moved to a lower/different tax jurisdiction.

It used to be possible. Ted Arison renounced his US citizenship when the end of his life was visible, thus avoiding estate taxes. This prompted an immediate change (you are a US tax payer for 10 more years after renouncing) and later redone with the current “you are dead to us” treatment.

Eduardo Saverin took a bet with FB: he renounced, which set his tax obligation at X. Then FB went down, which meant he had to pay a larger percentage of his wealth. But then FB shot up significantly, so he ended up saving much on taxes (as to whether he did this to avoid taxation is not settled - he naturalized in Singapore which does not allow dual passports. Arison moved to Israel which does, so it was clearly a taxation avoidance plan)
They have work to do, and tooling to do it with.

Show them Rust, and they will say "what can it do that my tooling doesn't?", and then you must be silent.
Use something like Google Voice that gives you a transcript. In fact, I bet Google could probably automatically flag spam voicemails if they tried.

Of course, you may not be comfortable with giving Google access to this data...
I have a nexus 5 that bootlooped, and fixed it.

Disassembled the phone, and took off the power button from the main board. Turned out the soldering job inside the power button was badly done, and the looping was due to a piece of solder that had come loose and was shorting the connection.

So now I have a totally functional nexus 5, but to use the power button I have to stick a piece of tin foil down inside where the power button used to be. I have a mod on there that added a 4th home row button which covers all but the 'on' functions of that button.
Exactly. I was trying to stay away from pointing out that Trump was trying to scam him followers one last time before leaving office, but here we are.
PrivateInternetAccess has not updated their transparency-report since April 27th
PIA has always updated their transparency report everytime they receive a warrant for user data. You can view their reports here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/transparency-report/

I see this as a canary. What are your thoughts?
Armenian PM announces peace deal with Russia and Azerbaijan
That's why Amazon has seller reviews, where you can review that X didn't send you the product, and product reviews where you can tell people if the product is good or not, regardless from which seller they buy it.
I think you may be overly generous to Emacs. When I use Emacs, it's more I need to go through hundreds of lines of others' Emacs Lisp configurations to figure out how to do the thing I want to do or spend many times 5 minutes Googling how to do <x> in Emacs. A good example of this is Elixir's helpful coloring and tab completion in its help documents. When I tried running Iex in an Emacs terminal, it just didn't work, and after Googling, it's just a mess of solutions. It literally just works in Visual Studio Code's terminal.

I forced myself to learn Emacs for a class, and it was really quite painful. I get the power of the bindings and all that, but it's really a mess of an ecosystem, and I encountered plenty of bugs. Even then, I never got things to work just right, and it worked poorly when doing things across Windows and WSL boundaries. Another thing was that any time someone used my Emacs, they couldn't because it wasn't like their Emacs.

So I've just gotten used to Visual Studio Code because I spend more time doing the thing I wanted to do than finding out how to do something simple in the editor. I add a single custom keybinding for toggling between the terminal and the code window, which can now be synced using a Microsoft account. I just install whatever extension I want (through one extension manager) and go at it. Combine this with the extremely powerful and useful extensions of Remote - SSH and Remote - WSL that allow you to use Visual Studio Code on basically any other computer with your extensions as they work on Windows, then you have a one-stop shop for development.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview

And by the way, Visual Studio Code can do graphical tasks: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hediet.v...

Is Visual Studio Code perfect? No. Can someone be more productive in Emacs than Visual Studio Code? Yes, but likely only if they've spent an inordinate amount of time learning Emacs and Emacs Lisp. But Visual Studio Code provides a nice balance of a single environment across languages that evolves with users' needs and basically anyone can be productive in it today.

My personal preference is to use the standard IDE with whatever language I am using, and then to default to Visual Studio Code whenever there is no such standard. I also use a fair amount of visual languages that text editors do not work for.
Like others have mentioned, I don't see this being successful. Unlike Burger King and Wendy's, McDonald's uses beef tallow in their fries, making vegetarians avoid them.

If the only appeal here is a subpar burger that you can't even get fries with, people are just gonna go elsewhere.
See reviewmeta.com it analyzes Amazon reviews
I am curious of the history and background of this site as well
Buy a couple more, put them in raid 0, now you have 9000MB/s
Heh, you're reading my mind. Try the URL below, but don't increase fps/n params, as that will eat all your GPU cycles very quickly:

soundshader.github.io/?s=acf3&n=512&fps=1&acf.decay=0

It effectively computes the bispectrum as B(p, q) = F(p)F(q)F^(p+q) and runs the inverse 2D FFT to restore the triple autocorrelation. The results are interesting, but not impressive and very GPU intensive (NxNxlog(N) per frame is slow). In any case, I strongly believe that bispectrum is hiding something interesting and I just haven't figured how to see it.
you can google cashew mozzarella. They're all basically cashew, tapioca starch (makes it stretchy), flavorings (miso/nutritional yeast/etc), garlic, and a liquid (water/non-dairy yogurt/etc). The ingredients are blended, then cooked until it thickens.
You answered this question yourself. I am not sure how unhealthy the processig is so I prefer to stick with less processed veggies, I eat fresh as much as I possibly can
This is super common, I know multiple people who do this.

Even crazier, a few people I know who do this worry their account will be flagged for only giving 5 star reviews. So, to prevent suspicion, when they ACTUALLY buy something they give it 1 or 2 stars just to balance things out. Thus, any merchants who don't buy reviews get additionally penalized.
had several items with that exact card, $10 "refund" on a $4 item

definitely legitimate
The product page is for Acme Widget, and you bought the product from Bob Loblaw Electronics on Amazon Marketplace. The Acme Widget you bought arrives three weeks late and looks like someone put it through a wood chipper. It makes complete sense to leave a seller review, but in what world does it make sense to leave a negative review on the PRODUCT page when they have nothing to do with the seller?
McDonalds hasn’t used beef tallow in their fries for 20+ years.

[edit] this seems disputed. The ingredients list includes “natural beef flavor” which it says is wheat and milk derivatives.

To clarify: old school McD fries were fried in beef tallow at the restaurant. Now it’s vegetable oil at the restaurant, but are par-fried at the processing plant in vegetable oil with some “natural beef flavoring”
> There's a risk that in future the UK may face a similar outcome as the USA.

What outcome is that exactly?

Are you alleging that there has been widespread electoral fraud in the USA? Because if that is what you're suggesting you need to drop the euphemisms and point to the hard evidence.

I am aware of precisely zero solid evidence of material levels of fraud in the 2020 presidential election, and zero evidence that postal ballots have caused any fraud-related issues.

If that's not what you're saying then what exactly are you saying?
Hello - this is very fascinating. Thank you for sharing. Would you be able to share the source code as I'm interested in Kubernetes and EKS? Thanks!
I know its a ratio. You can consider it too high/extreme, I cannot force you to think otherwise. I'm not against doing something about it. What I'm against is if the answer of 'doing something about it' is lockdown. To me this cure is worse than the disease.