skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the article, it wasn't in a case for the first month, but more importantly, the magnitude of the damage is what makes the Samsung assessment remarkably suspect. Certainly seems like a really bad experience with Samsung.
> this scratch is probably caused by a grain of sand in my pocket about a month ago
Well... All of my keyboards have their capslocks keys remapped as escape. There literally hasn't been a capslock key on any of my keyboards for years. This has been a great boon to how I type.

Originally, I remapped the keys this way due to my macbook's touchbar that removed a functional escape key. The frequency is far higher for me to use escape than capslock, which I realized that I actually never used. When I need capitalization, I use the shift key.
The peaceful Tuesday morning as seen live via webcam of Sophia Square in Kiev says not yet.

https://balticlivecam.com/cameras/ukraine/kiev/sophia-square...

I'm tired of the Military/Industrial/Corporate Media Complex tail trying to wag the dog.
There was a diagram of the solar system recently shared (like in the last few months) that really threw of my image of how close Mercury is to the Sun, especially relative to the Sun's size. Thanks to badly scaled diagrams, I'd always envisioned Mercury's distance to the Sun as being less than 2 solar radii (so a daytime sky would be pretty much all Sun). It's always a little surprising to realize just how much space there is in space.
I remember fondly when I had an iPod, the one time I had an issue with it (can’t remember what, honestly), I just walked into an apple store and probably 5-10 minutes later walked out with a new device, free of charge, no questions asked (after they tried resetting it once)

I’m sure someone in these companies has made a spreadsheet that shows permissive repair and replacement policies cost $X million a year, but it probably doesn’t take into account that the experience with the iPod directly led to me purchasing multiple iPhones and Macs.
When I was 22, I encountered my 17 year old self in the basement bar of a youth hostel in Athens. He dressed like I did (when I was 17), he talked about the same things in the same way, he looked broadly the same. I considered an intervention, since he was clearly booring those he was talking to (another confirmation that it was truly my 17 year old self), but decided that the question about time travel could become awkward.

What happened to that timeline, to that other just slightly younger me, I do not know. Perhaps things sped up and we joined together (I'd guess at about age 27 if I had to). Or perhaps the timelines have diverged, and there's another version of me somewhere both so close and so far, doing what I do and leaving me very glad that I cannot watch him do it.
Who in the EPA has done that? And who did it in this case?
Youtubers and tech sites get devices for free, play with them for a week and give rave reviews. The rest of us have to live with the device for years worth of wear and tear. What could possibly go wrong with bendy screens?
What do you expected from Android phones? I wouldn't recommend iOS devices either.
He says she says about damage to a device, congratulations.
Yup, they're paying for the privilege to test their product
I have never understood why Markdown has gotten so much attention over the last decade while ReStructured Text - which is a similar format but actually standardized and more developed than Markdown - gets so little.

Tools like DocUtils and Sphinx allow one to do quite a lot with ReStructured Text, and I believe Pandoc can convert it to Markdown without any issues.

If you aren't familiar with it, a good hard look at ReStructured Text may be worth your time.
Chris Lattner leaves the Swift core team
How much of the EPA is political appointees and how much is career professionals? How are the career professionals insulated from politics? Who has what power?
The examples given are pretty extreme (except the first one), but 40% and 60% keyboard are common for keyboard enthusiasts.
The headline seems inflammatory - "most Americans" (65%) live in a home that is owned by someone in their household.[0] The text of the article seems similarly questionable: "That confluence of trends has taken the dream of homeownership well beyond the means of middle-class Americans." Many middle class americans own homes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United_S...
Technically everything is aging, unless you have a process to halt time.
I did some popcorn in cod liver oil the other day. Lots of vitamin A, but it gives the house a bit of a nautical atmosphere.
> decision making skills as a CEO of a crypto firm

> really good at calling bullshit

Maybe one of those things can tell us about the other?
Nobody in the EPA is under the direct influence of a politician. The head is appointed by a politician and confirmed by others.

> politicians who can be bought through campaign contributions and lobbying

Some, and to different degrees. Who was bought regarding the EPA and what influence do they have?
I haven't used a Mac for a while, but, IIRC, one of the modifier keys (Fn, Cmd, Opt?) turns the "delete" key into an actual delete.
Interesting, I don't like my morning routine but I'm not certain about what to do about it though. I usually get water, bathroom and scroll through apps or jump on my work laptop until I figure out something to do that day. I'm not sure how to effectively use the morning, but I feel like filling it with scrolling isn't ideal
I believe you, but what are you typing in all caps that requires key combinations???
Every time this comes up, I can only think about how Irken society in Invader Zim was supposed to be absurd, but human nature looked at absurdity and decided to make it a parody.
We're jumping all over the place I'm afraid. If you're talking about writing standard/portable C then data races are undefined behavior and hence there is no portable manner in which a data race can be observed. A C compiler is free to produce any observable behavior whatsoever in the presence of a data race.

If you wish to discuss x86 or ARM, well a data race can occur in a C program through the use of SIMD instructions or writing through an unaligned pointer. If you want to pick an architecture that does not allow unaligned accesses, sure we can discuss the PowerPC 500 series where unaligned accesses are a bus error, but then reads and writes of 32 bit values are not atomic and hence can produce data races.

We can't mix properties of one architecture with properties of another architecture and also discuss portable C. Any consideration of data races or undefined behavior in general must be specific to a particular architecture and we must apply the rules of any given architecture consistently.
I’ve been using the WHOOP tracker for the last few months. Initially did some work to determine what my baseline was, but every morning you answer a journal (it’s most differentiating feature, imo) where you add things like alcohol, caffeine, melatonin, etc consumption and other things like airline travel, sleeping in same bed, etc.

After seeing what is correlated and not, I have had an extreme increase in sleep quality. Notably, melatonin doesn’t do much for me (I thought it did), working out less than 45 mins doesn’t have much correlation, lots of alcohol is inversely correlated with sleep (a surprise for me, always felt like it put me to sleep faster, which it seems to but st lower efficiency and quality). Plane travel kills my sleep, as does not sleeping in my own bed (hotels).

Overall, and anecdotally, highly recommend the approach of tracking things. Also highly recommend a WHOOP[1] activity monitor device, which is free itself (but data subscription). One particularly interesting thing is it doesn’t take into account weather, though it seems like that could be low correlation since I sleep in climate controlled environment.

Interestingly, more anecdata, a friend found out they had Covid before they were able to test positive based on whoop data changing. I realize I may sound like an advertisement, but I have zero affiliation, just very satisfied.

[1] https://www.whoop.com/
I have never used rest, took a look and feel that manual underlines for sections are very clunky. And tables, one of the parts that I think markdown isn’t doing well, rest isn’t really better
The sad point is that in the current state, you get two leetcode style questions for round interview, and that's it. Good luck with that;

There is 0 interest in companies to improve the quality of the interview process. 0. They'd rather increase the funnel, instead improving the rate of good talent detection.

There is enough new fodder to go through every year, that improving quality of detecting good engineers, is not that important.
There you go. Never buy the first edition of a new product innovation or technology. It is guaranteed to end in disappointment and they are essentially beta testing.

Better to wait for it to mature first in newer versions than to jump into the hype squad and leave disappointed.
We're not buying Samsung devices again for a completely different reason.

We got a home remodel, with Samsung appliances because they looked decent and were priced reasonably enough for what we wanted. Mainly, a Samsung Refrigerator, Microwave, Stove and Dishwasher. Around the same time we also bought a Galaxy Note9 smartphone.

2 years later, only the Refrigerator and Microwave have survived. The Dishwasher broke after a year, and was replaced with a new Samsung which also broke in a year, and we replaced it with Bosch. The Stove's burners just stopped working and couldn't be fixed by the repairman, so that was replaced (with a non-Samsung one).

As for the surviving appliances, Samsung had the ingenuity to build the Microwave's control electronics inside the microwave door, the thing most likely to get slammed, so we're babying the microwave or otherwise that would have almost certainly died from that idiotic decision. Even though the refrigerator is still standing, the "stainless steel" is apparently so thin it's covered in dents from when children left drawers open next to it, something stainless steel should be resistant to.

Lastly, the Note9 after a year became slower than a snail crawling up a rock (crashed constantly opening even basic apps like Outlook) and no battery replacement or factory reset could revive it. Also began dropping calls randomly and constantly, and apparently it was a botched firmware update that randomly affected people with absolutely no fix. Replaced with iPhone 13 Pro.

Never again.
Many companies use proxies that do SSL interception.
My Samsung s21 ultra camera stopped working after a Samsung update. This is pruely a botched app upgrade.

Samsung wants me to try a factory reset as solution but I have too much of data to do that. Might move to pixel next.
Foldable tablet (Fold3) is great. I can't have 8inch tablet on my pocket without folding technology. I'll never back to normal phones/tablets even if it's fragile. I don't know foldable phone (Flip3) worth to trade off durability, weight, and battery. Anyway foldable screen is early technology so insurance is mandatory IMO.
Want sleep advice? Build physical things and do manual labor. I hauled 10 tons of gravel today and my wife and I chopped up a 15 ft diameter bush and put it in our trailer to be taken to the green waste tomorrow. Tomorrow digging holes for a small shed foundation.

Of course that you may not have the same problem we do but we have a 14 pound maine coon that walks all over us when we sleep at random hours of the night. That part doesn't help.
Might I recommend you check out the link that this discussion section is based around? They document many examples, such as:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3720840-PP-D0608.htm...

I wouldn't know which particular example the OP I was responding to was referring to, so you'd have to ask them
That's why the examples I listed are plausible reasons for changing the model number. For firmware, it's plausible that it warrants changing the model number because firmware can and do affect performance, as other comments has mentioned.

Also I really don't see this being something that judges will stop. You see other CYA behavior that has persisted for decades, eg. drug side effects (every possible symptom under the sun), or prop 65 warnings.
There’s a concept from compiler optimization called Local Reasoning that I have stolen because I think the name applies at least as well to ergonomics/DevEx concerns.

A good deal of bad code design comes down to not being able to predict what a bit of code is going to do without stopping everything, unrolling whatever built up state you had in your mind (from the thing you were actually trying to do) and sit and become one with the code for a time. But at least when you’re unsure what the code is doing you have a suspicion that is the case. The worse sin by far is misdirecting you into thinking it does one thing when it does something else, or even the opposite.

We like to complain about extroverted business people interrupting us, but we seem to have very little guilt about doing it to each other by leaving these sorts of time bombs in our code.
> The Dutch ACM is now trying to make its ruling apply extraterritorially by rejecting Apple’s solution of allowing a Netherlands-specific app.

I didn't read anywhere where the ACM suggests an extra-territorial solution, only that it was not adequate. Perhaps lowering that 27% fee could be the ticket, since it Apple's last action appears obstinate/playing number games.
This is why I always go with Apple. I've always just walked in, yeeted my phone at them and gotten a new one. I've had four warranty issues since my original 3GS and every time the experience has been pleasant. I've also had an AirPod replaced when it no longer kept charge and was within the warranty period. The same has also applied to other family members who have had failing devices and Apple always replaces them instantly.

I recommend Apple phones to everyone in my family for the specific reason that if you have a broken Apple device, you can walk into an Apple store and get it fixed.
This is currently challenging because the 5K iMac is still on Intel which I’d be hesitant to buy into at this point. Hopefully resolved soon but we don’t know exactly when or what form it will take (e.g. will the 5K iMac be an “iMac Pro” and have a higher price than the Intel version?).
There are also many of us who are fully capable of providing those services and treating our coworkers like "real people" remotely. If you're working in an org that is forcing your to work in an environment that you despise, why not leave for one that better aligns with your values rather than treating your coworkers like subhumans?
If there's a Best Buy in your area, ask what hours the Samsung specialist is on site.
A year or two ago when I was using Ubuntu I liked them for certain things like jetbrainse IDEs. Easy to install, easy to keep updated. I think for desktop apps they weren't bad. I also used LXD, an otherwise very fine system, with snaps and it was a disaster due to cluster members auto-updating in an uncontrolled manner. So that wasn't great.

I don't use Ubuntu anymore so don't have a current opinion.
here's a video a youtuber showing how to do it, in case someone want a visual example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrqdHVeBkp4
They were cutting up printed images and pasting them together, in a process commonly known as “collage”.
I can't see a device that displays graphics between a person's eyes and any feature of an industrial plant being very popular with said industrial plant's lawyers.
You must not be a Google phone user, or if you are: you got lucky. I owned 4 Google phones and only the original metal-case-with-trackball Nexus 1 lasted over 18 months. It’s the only phone that I replaced due to obsolescence.

The one I managed to get repaired under warranty (Nexus 5 bootlooping death) lasted 1 week before dying the exact same way again. It look 2 weeks just to get it repaired.

I switched to iPhone. I can’t remember what number even though I’m typing on it because it doesn’t matter. It works as well today as the day I bought it. (Although I do miss Google’s keyboard)
So how about an RFID you tape to the printer that always reports "full"? I presume there is some sort of authentication of the RFID?
Folding LCDs have been a solution in search of a problem for years. Maybe they looked cool in some ID rendering or model, but I’ve never understood why anyone would want one other than the novelty factor. And as has already been pointed out, they’re destined for failure at the fold.
Why don't C programmers always use stdint.h?
Interesting take.

The ad was a remarkable novelty at the time, but the lack of replay ability is probably a big deal.

You can’t show a QR code ad on a phone, and potential coinbase users see a lot of digital ads.
There's no user(name) I'd trust more to deliver this kind of wisdom, MerelyMortal.
As companies get larger, they tend to make choices that benefit individuals within the company, at the expense of the company at large.

Somebody was told to invent a new type of phone, something that will "wow" people. That's the flip phone.

Somebody was told that the warranty claims were coming in too fast, and need to be reduced.

Same reason people at Google keep launching new products. It doesn't make Google look good, it doesn't achieve Google's goals, it makes L5s promotable to L6s.
Smart (or dumb) equipment that dynamically mis/targets jamming signal to specific locations?
> with this much money at stake, absolutely nothing, including courts, will present a balanced and evidence based view of things. EVER.

Sorry you feel that way but what basis is there for believing it? What does it mean? Nothing is perfect, of course, but there are enormous differences between, e.g., an honest person (everyone lies) and a sociopathic fraud.

And certainly we always need to read critically and think for ourselves - it's our duty as citizens, IMHO - again that doesn't mean everything is so biased.

In the past I would have just smiled at it and moved on, but now, with baseless despair engulfing our society, I am going to challenge it. The only thing we have to despair about is despair itself!
The coinbase UX is terrible. They really need some help with UI/UX, not advertising.
I would double check with your credit card company to see if there is any recourse. For example, a lot of American Express cards give you an additional 1 year warranty. You can wait until the Samsung warranty ends and file a claim.
I was reading on ropes a couple of months ago when researching emacs internals. Apparently emacs and vs code are using gap buffers. Would be interesting to know the reasons for the decisions.
What a ridiculous notion. The device costs over a thousand fucking euros! Samsung doesn't sell it with a warning that says "this device is for early adopters and won't be repaired should it fail due to a manufacturing defect." Any decent company would fix it, full stop.
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Or wake up to the fact that one of the world’s biggest companies has more leverage in this situation than the 12th biggest (by population) country in Europe.
I’m surprised that anyone finds this surprising. These foldable phones with their soft plastic screens feel so cheap and gimmicky.
It’s striking that so many stories about the triumph of metrics over intuition involve games. I’m convinced that you should put statisticians in charge if your goal is to win a game. I’m not convinced that related behaviors, like constructing a game adjacent to the problem you’re actually trying to solve and treating game performance as a proxy (like LeetCode interviews! Or KPIs!) are helpful.

It’s also interesting that he brings up the blind audition here in the appendix. Blinding can of course remove biases about the person from the process, but it is still subjective. To make the “can’t manage what you don’t measure” point we would need to show that orchestra performance got better after we developed an algorithmic way of deciding how good an audition performance is. After all millions of dollars are on the line, are you really going to listen to some credentialed old man about which one he liked better? So backwards!
I do not understand how Tesla was allowed to put de-fog button for the windshield in a submenu on the touchscreen. This is a critical safety feature. The only explanation is that it is not needed often in California.
Honestly I'm pretty sure I won't ever buy another Samsung phone too, after my last experience. I bought an S20 Ultra after a price drop, it was still a very pricey phone. The camera was one of the best at the time and that sold it to me. I also bought the official Samsung hardened leather case.

The phone was a large glass-sandwich (AFAICT all their flagships still are), and within a week the glass on the side and a little on the back had cracked, just through being carried around in my pocket, in its official case the whole time.

I had a hell of time getting a refund out of Amazon ("We'll see what the manufacturer's warranty says" "no, this is your issue, you are the retailer and you'll give me a full refund because you sold me something that's clearly not fit for purpose")

Why are they selling things which are so expensive and so fragile?

I've gone over to the dark side now (iPhone 12 pro) for the first time, and while the software stack is not markedly superior on either side (IMHO), the hardware is far better designed and much more robust.
Markdown was not designed to make an end user's life easier. It was designed to make it easier for somebody to write the most generic document imaginable. It's part of the general disease of developers creating solutions solely for developers, at the expense of anyone who isn't a developer.
> Yep, it is these two dots where the paint has been chipped off.

Under the picture of clear damage to the phone.
It is unfortunate (and much more) that this purchaser is not being treated well.

I am mostly an early adopter (sometimes joking that I refuse to use software past the alpha stage)... But a foldable screen? I am deeply skeptical that this will be reliable anytime in the next two decades.
It’s Normal and It Works
Did you read all that on the internet?

Because lobbying isn't bribing.
For time series data, you don't want to shuffle, because now you are predicting the past based on the future.

I think the best way is to choose a minimum timespan you want to be able to predict on, train on that and predict on the future, then retrain, including that future and predict on the next future.

If your time series allow it (e.g. contains a bunch of independent target groups) you can train/test on a subset and leave a another subset for validation
I mean, maybe. I have had glass screens shatter with similar damage to the body of the phone.
I don't get the point of this design either, unless it's to show off deliberate planned obolescence. Two regular screens with ultra-narrow bezels on the butt edge would achieve the same effect, without the constantly stressed folding bit. I have some old (almost 10 years old now) smartphone LCDs and the pixels go right up to the edge of the glass itself.
"risk of a new technology" oh you mean the thing that has the most failures in any electronic design that includes it?

Yes, I think vendors should not have put this out on the market, but it seems people were very happy to pay for such a gimmick.

To me it was obvious this was a giant failure point. It's not risky when you know it's going to fail. Maybe a tradeoff is a better name for it.
Similar experience with the airpods. They stopped pairing right. Walked in to the store, they ran through some basic tests, plugged their diagnostics tool in, then handed over a new pair and it was done all on the same day.
What would you expect to see in the camera at 6:30am if troops start crossing the border 400km away?

I'm not across the situation entirely, but I'm not sure what that camera is supposed to show