skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A week before Thanksgiving I went to the Fry's in Roseville. The Northgate (Sacramento) location has always been busy (haven't been back since 2018). Fry's has always been my go to for last minute electronics (i.e. I can't wait for next day shipping).

The entire computer/networking section was bare. They had a wireless IP camera and a $400 "small-business class" Cisco router (can't remember which model). No cable modems, no other routers, nothing. The only stocked shelves were media (CDs and Blu-ray). The Christmas shoppers were disgruntled they had made the trip.

A sales associate I talked to was confounded. When asked whether Fry's was going out of business he said they were told no. He mentioned there had been no deliveries in months and the storage they did have was empty.

I don't think it can be attributed to just Prime or better service at Best Buy. The market is saturated with tech. Everyone has a cell phone, laptop/desktop, TV, smart-device, etc. Fry's should've been downsizing about 10 years ago. It's possible they could've done more with their service department (the tire, car audio system installers always seemed busy)

I'll always remember Fry's as

- being packed during the holidays

- having ridiculous long checkout lines b/t 1998-2016 even an hour before close

- being able to find cool/rare last minute gifts

- massive selection of photography equipment

- in recent years (?) having price-match guarantee
> https://killedbygoogle.com/

Looks like they are missing DejaNews / Google Groups (it started as an index /browser to Usenet, but was transformed as a tool for mailing lists)
I created the exact same thing 3 years ago.

Main difference is that you don't need to configure anything with mine :P
I have a 13" XPS and a 15" Macbook Pro. I wanted to like the XPS but the Mac is just much better hardware. First, there is no comparison between the quality of the touchpads. The MacBook one works great but the XPS is terrible (imprecise movement, accidental movement/clicks from palm). The XPS wifi card is unreliable, it frequently disconnects. I understand a lot of people replace it with a better one. The screen is not great. There is no way to disable the automatic brightness magic going on (terrible for doing photograph processing). There is no way to turn of the eye blinding charge light on the front, under the touchpad. For a laptop that is premium priced, I'm disappointed with the hardware quality. I prefer my Lenovo X230 over the XPS 13.
Humans are all very close generic relatives, compared to humans vs. other terrestrial animals, and even humans and the most distantly related terrestrial life are close genetic relatives compared to humans vs. extraterrestrials. The idea that human-human interactions have anything to say about relations between species from different worlds without common origin based on relations between genetic lineages ignores the radically dissimilar situation with regard to genetic lineages.

Now, I don't think genetic lineages should be the prime determinant of whether you should murder another life form, but if you are considering that question, you can't use interactions between close genetic relatives to explain what should occur between non-relatives.
List of Websites That Support OTP, WebAuthn, FIDO2 and U2F
The article I read (this was a few years ago) wondered if the reduction in cycling (due to helmet laws created on safety grounds) actually ended up with the opposite effect. Fewer people outside cycling, more people in cars creating smog and getting fat. They didn't provide any data, just posed the question. I can certainly envision circumstances where that would be true, but you'd have to already have a very safe cycling culture (Amsterdam), I'd think.
They must like the money.
BF 5 is awesome on PC, especially with the Pacific maps. It definitely has some issues and a lot of people hated the 5.2 patch, but they seem to be trying to address them. I've never had an issue finding a server
The Pixelbook is/was a Chromebook with top of the line hardware. (IMO the best convertible notebook) and never was sold with cheap price in mind.

I bought my i5/8g/128g variant for <$700 USD.

You can definitely find a Chromebook for ~$200 USD.
You've got a few responses spelling out a few ways it can be done.

Almost all of them are based off something called "WinPE" or the Windows Preinstallation Environment. [0]

This is a similar OS, used when installing your OS. It usually shares the same kernel, but with everything stripped away, including useful things like the desktop, etc. You can add some, but not all, of these things back.

As WinPE uses the Fat32 file system by default (you can change it with some difficulty), most of these installations will be less than 4GB.

Building a WinPE-based environment is a fun weekend project. Totally against the license agreement to make it into a useable OS, but that shouldn't matter if you never share it and are just using it to get to grips with how WinPE works.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactur...
Which is not the point of OP's question.
Seems like this trend is only starting to begin...

https://earnestcapital.com/investment-memo-fund-2/
Not rude at all! Thanks for the question. My background is in Statistics not Machine learning (that came later) so I covered these topics without reference to ML applications. I suppose I never learned to connect these ideas when I was learning about ML, it was only when I went back to my old material I realised how these ideas relate. I agree with your point about teacher material, when I was learning about ML it was separated from raw Calculus.

A short answer to your question - yes I took those courses before I started looking at the more integrated material.
- Differences between pytorch and keras.

- Spiking neural networks.

- Tensorboard

- Kubeflow

- Apache Beam.

- Knative.

- MLflow.

- Graph genomes.

- Traditional statistics.
Topological mechanics of knots: new mathematical model predicts knot stability
> ...without winding in a decarbonisation scheme that doesn't actually do anything

I take issue with this. Australia's contribution to GHG emissions does contribute to warming. Even if it's only 1.3% (greater if you take exports into account [0]) it has an effect.

Also, more than 20% of global emissions are emitted by countries with lower overall emissions than us [1]. If they all used our excuse [2], do you think that would be acceptable?

We also have among the highest per capita emissions in the world [3].

And I haven't even talked about historic cumulative emissions, which have to be taken into account for an equitable solution.

Australia is already suffering from the effects of a climate emergency, with conditions predicted to get orders of magnitude worse this century. We should be taking a lead in the decarbonisation effort so we can urge the rest of the world to do the same, for our sakes, as well as theirs.

Instead, our government sabotaged negotiations at COP25 [4], and is acting for the short-term benefit of a few fossil fuel miners, even to the point of wanting to make secondary boycotts illegal [5]. They are criminally negligent at best, and an absolute disgrace.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/08/fossil-f...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...
[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-01/australia-called-a-fr...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
[4] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-16/australia-climate-car...
[5] https://reneweconomy.com.au/morrisons-crackdown-on-climate-p...
San Francisco recently voted to shut down the main downtown road (Market St.) to private cars. I think taxis and buses will still be allowed, but otherwise it'll only be bikes!
It's really funny how PC OEMs copied the broken Apple arrow-key layout from 2016-18...
Thanks for the bug report. Added an issue and will fix it asap: https://github.com/minthemiddle/tailwind-button-playground/i...
Assuming you need a majority to ban and teams are equal, everything?
I for one prefer having one-key access to the PgUp/PgDn keys to be able to Ctrl + PgUp/PgDn to move between browser tabs, but at least from the article, it looks pretty clearly like the PgUp and PgDn keys are not squished above the arrow keys in the new design and instead require you to press Fn + Up/Down. [1]

[1] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/xps13...
I've considered doing this; my concern is the windchill. How do you manage that?
OP does not talk about data parallelism vs task parallelism at all.

SIMD instructions and GPGPU has come a long way and while clock rates have somewhat stagnated, we can solve many problems on consumer hardware today that were impossible in Pentium 3 days (big ML models, augmented reality, live ray tracing, ...). It was a painful transition from existing computation models, but it has been a gigantic success imho.
> The freedom to use open source software should stop at limiting other people's freedom to use it.

Since the people protesting ICE's use of open source software, are trying to limit ICE's freedom to use open source software, then they should not be able to use open source software.
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I'm hoping Thinkpad follows this lead and also moves to something not 16:9
We have never found a 300 ft boulder in Earth Orbit.

Perhaps you mean in a solar orbit near the Earth?
dear C, unfortunately you lack: a memory safe compilation mode for gcc and clang, non-clunky syntax for iterators and abstractions

dear python3, unfortunately you lack: print statement, fast/any type checking, concurrency, speed

dear java/golang/javascript et al., unfortunately you lack: named parameters, default parameters, predictable performance

dear nearly everyone except ada/oberon/et al., unfortunately you lack: sensible numeric types/subtypes and ranges
There is still a (small) competitive community around DOOM's deathmatch
Touchpads on Mac are stellar but have gotten too large. They often detect my palms as I type and move the mouse into the wrong spot.
No I just said you can use it for saving and borrowing which have nothing to do with speculation or money laundering. Also it’s impossible to tell what percentage of transactions are related to money laundering in crypto and you can’t outright dismiss legit use cases because of this.
Your argument is disingenuous.

Most aaa titles have significant dlc that hardly expands the game. Gtav is an exception, and that's only because stupid/rich people whale on shark cards. Also repeat purchases from banned players.

Cod is now $120/yr. Without and iaps. If you don't buy the dlc you'll have a hard timemaking friends and playing pvp.

Most games are like that now. Looking at title prices is a flawed metric. A good metric total cost of all iaps. If there are unlimited purchases available then you can be sure that the game has been crippled to coerce vulnerable players into spending irrational amounts. This trend is unethical and everyone involved in allowing this to continue is no better than the sacklers.
I was referring to this, and turns out the data on the upstream is much more accurate: https://twofactorauth.org/

(based on my limited cursory glance).
Data normalization is the 101 of any respectable machine learning course.
Chocolatier: A 3D Chocolate Printer
I'm specifically talking about Tampa. I haven't lived there in over a decade but went back in the last few years and completely forgot that you could smoke in bars there. It was so gross. And of course some drunk burnt me with their cigarette while walking through the packed bar.

Not sure the ratio of smoking/non-smoking. I was in Ybor the big club/bar area and I feel like everywhere was smoking. They even had cig machines in most if not all of the bars. It was constant smoke.
Yeah but it's 2020 and I decided that just because people are displaying their own ignorance on the Internet doesn't impute upon me the duty to adjust their attitudes. If two fuckwits on HN want to hang around and tell me that I am using the term "market share" in a wrong or unusual way, when they themselves are the ones who obviously don't know what it means, then let them do it. Eventually the accumulated mass of stupidity recorded on this site will sink it.
There's a direct link at the "x days ago" timestamp:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21935330
What everyone's missing here is that drug tests are basically a joke for everything except THC (of which the metabolites are fat-soluble and take longer to excrete).

You can just not consume nicotine for a couple weeks and then go take your test. If you're using harder drugs like meth or heroin, you don't need to wait nearly as long. Using someone else's urine is also easy, but this is a crime in many states.

Is UHaul really going to hair + blood + urine test each employee not only before hiring, but randomly throughout employment? That gets expensive fast.

Ultimately the whole thing is silly. Show up, do your work well, and leave. Simple as that. (Yes, dangerous jobs like pilots and ambulance drivers should probably be randomly tested during work hours to ensure common-sense responsibility.)
The low-code / no-code programming ecosystem surpasses the manual programming ecosystem in both developers and revenues.
I'm reminded that JS Lint used a derivative of the MIT License that included "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil."

This turned out to be a problem for the project. Who gets to define good and evil?

In the case of the Hippocratic License I can imagine it running into similar problems.

> “actively and knowingly endanger, harm, or otherwise threaten the physical, mental, economic, or general well-being of underprivileged individuals or groups.”

How is underprivileged measured? What happens when an underprivileged group is no longer in that class? Does the use of the software then change?

This matters not just for how people feel about it but in a legal sense since a license is a legal document.
My old neighborhood used to be like that - but based on the speed bumps and "Slow down" signs (both official signs and signs that parents put up) that I see in that neighborhood, the traffic has increased (looks like they filled in some former farmland with apartment buildings near the back of the development), and now it's less safe for children to play or walk in the street.
I don't think there is anything particularly different about my development environment than others, but I really struggle with only 16gb of ram. As much as I like being mobile, my MBP is "light duty" at best (real work relegated to my iMac). Thus, disappointing to see the 16gb limit on these new Dell models.
Agreed. I got very used to 16:10 when I bought my monitors as a teenager. A couple of years ago I finally decided the 19" screens weren't cutting it anymore after 10 years of service and wanted to move to 24". Spent some time looking for 16:10 but ended up with 16:9 unfortunately. 16:10 monitors were way less common and way more expensive. And 144hz 16:10 monitors just don't even seem to exist. 16:9 feels so much more cramped than it should given the screen size.
I agree about meeting madness at workplace. This takes lots of time.
Every HPC person I have talked to about it has downplayed the role of parallel I/O.

Before the 360 mainframe, computers were designed either for commercial or scientific use. In the 1980s, the Japanese launched a "5th generation computer" project to develop parallelism for commercial applications (the 'A.I.' of the time was based on large-scale databases) and the U.S. countered with an HPC program centered around physics simulations.

So the 1000x improvement in scalability of commercial clouds over HPC is a matter of specialization.
It did...but this was the first one, and we were just Best Buy. Not sure if it was just or store or what.

The iMac did get a lot of bad reviews and was $1299, in the days of $399 eMachines
Maybe one day, the chipset gods at Intel will see fit to bless us with a 13" ultrabook that has 32GB of RAM.

I can't tell if it's Intel restricting it, but it's suspicious to me that every manufacturer simultaneously agreed to not ship larger RAM configurations in this form factor.
Biggest rec. is to talk to people who have done something interesting or catches your eye. I always email people asking how they did something - people usually are really friendly and willing to share.

Websites like Indiehacker, stratchery are good. Would also recommend the innovator's dilemma if you're at a big company. There are also a few videos on Youtube by CNBC on products of the past - and I've enjoyed those.
> because if you could prove there were cost and health outcome benefits on a national scale you would be able to convert the idea into a viable business with a single corporate sales pitch, instead of trying to sell to every doctor individually.

As someone who ran a healthcare business in Canada, I can tell you that this is absolutely not the case. Single payers are outrageously conservative buyers... sure, you may convince them in 5-10 years, but no startup can spend 5-10 years burning cash without making revenue. Particularly since, unlike with drug discovery, there's no guarantee that you'll be the only one selling this if the single payer eventually approves it.

What actually happens is that the single payer orients itself to big, slow companies that more closely resemble it, thus devastating small businesses and rewarding large, established players. It is damn near impossible to create a startup that sells to a single payer healthcare system.
Knowing how to ask specific questions
New dendritic action potentials discovered in human layer 2/3 cortical neurons
This is what keeps me from switching. PC hardware is so far behind as far as fit, finish and touchpoints. I’ve been wanting to give a Nix based mobile machine a chance but nothing comes close.

Apple gets shit on HN constantly but their mobile hardware can’t be beat.
Fair point. I just searched for a bit, but can't seem to find a good "average revenue per user" for ad-based SaaS products. Anyone know?
Meanwhile I can get a decent tower that costs about the base price of a Mac Mini with 16GB of RAM, a decent SSD, and so on, can play GTA5 and the new Tomb Raider (a buddy of mine built a rig for like under $400 and benchmarked with those games and was surprised).
Fair enough point, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense in the real world.

It's like saying, "the guys killing Nazis are just as bad as the Nazis - they're both killing people."

I mean sure, but if nobody killed the Nazis in WWII where would we be today?

Or another example, kidnapping is illegal, but it's good for a police officer to "kidnap" (arrest) a kidnapper to get them stop kidnapping, right? The way your looking at it, the police officer is just as bad as the original kidnapper.
Maybe, but the other side of the coin is "it's not working, so let's just blame lack of funding", irrespective of if there is actually enough funding to do something worthwhile or not. The goals are always nebulous and allows both sides to complain.
Permissioned networks are a very much easier setting to design a consensus protocol for than public ones.

Describing a consensus algorithm as "Proof of Stake" simply means it uses some kind of stake to secure its decisions, this doesn't say anything about the assumptions it starts from.

Existing "PoS" blockchains don't have the same decentralization goals as Ethereum.
Those caches take up space. Or rather, if you could have 1000 cores each with 16 MiB L3 on-die cache, then why don't we see machines now with 10 cores and 1.6 GiB on-die L3 cache?

After all, there already exists plenty of software (including some I wrote) which is limited by memory bandwidth, or by latency.

Also, all of those 1000 cores would compete for the same main-memory bandwidth, so are much more likely to be bandwidth starved.
I'm still playing Quake 3 CPMA, so I guess people are still playing Quake, and Doom, and maybe even the original Wolfenstein 3D.
Helmets are a lot less convenient than seatbelts. They have to be stored somewhere, locked to your bike hopefully, and people will still screw with them just because they can. Then you have to put it on your head and somehow get it to be comfortable and not mess up your hair before you arrive at work. None of this is really bad for American biking culture: biking is a serious affair with its own work out clothes with a probable shower if they are going to work anyways. It isn't like Amsterdam where you just kick off in your suit and arrive at work.
Interesting. At the moment I'm noticing some zombie workers popping up here and there with RQ and was thinking of migrating soon to Celery or Dramatiq. I think I'll experiment a bit and decide between both (but Celery seems like the more popular option, so I'm a bit biased for going for that).
> y axis

x axis.
> Combine this with food riots being the fastest and oldest way to lose control

Is this true? Prompted by your phrase "any revolutionary government", I thought of three ways for a government system to gain control:

1. Winning a civil war (aka revolution).

2. Winning a war of conquest.

3. Organic development from a previous system.

Stipulating that option #3 isn't really a way to lose control, it still seems to me that #2 is probably older than #1.
Not exactly, it's here and technically working in multiple production blockchains, it's just less secure than Proof-of-Work. So it depends what your definition of "works" is.
Will the Real Ubik Please Stand Up? (Precognition and PKD’s fiction)
> Ctrl + PgUp/PgDn

I didn't know that hotkey. I use Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab (both options appear to be defaults in Chrome at least).
Myth-busting music blogger honored, mourned online in her final days
Is there a way to search for objects that would go in solar system plane --|-- <--. Like something that could hit Earth in a way that would accelerate it to collide with Mars for example?

Those things are caught by Jupiter probably most of the time but still I bet those are mostly recorded somewhere.

Best if those things are outside of solar system, but those are not that common I think...
The most likely explanation for me is a disinformation campaign on the part of the US government, and that these events never actually happened.
Or I just like the noise. I have the most fun with my car when I’m in the middle of absolute nowhere with no one else in sight or earshot. Your argument is way off base.
They also spoke at a lot of conferences in 2019, and are going to speak at a lot as well in 2020. None of those conferences are in the US, and they are only attending Mozilla all-hands outside the US, so...