skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially considering that pretty much every network capable piece of closed hardware/software we already use phones home regularly, officially for improvements and security updates, although a lot of them have been already caught multiple times exfiltrating personal data (phones, "Smart" TVs, closed operating systems and software, assistants, etc).
We don't even need to fall to any government conspiracy theory to imagine what is going to happen since selling bulks of personal data and profiling potential customers is already a huge business, and frankly I wouldn't believe any company promising to respect my privacy. I want either 100% open code and hardware, or simply stop talking about privacy and security because there would be none of either.
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Anywhere in the south china sea is not a great strategic choice. Apart from mainland China itself this will be the first area of the world where China will reach military parity with the US. The US has a lot more firepower but that's deployed globally.
Why is "Available Spare Threshold" showing as 99% on these M1 SSDs? I believe normal SSDs are more on the order of 10%.
On the other hand, if Xi decides to blockade Taiwan then he can't pretend that it won't hurt the US, so it will be seen as an act of aggression. Of course, the US may grumble and let China take it... or it may not. That prospect should give any wannabe Taiwan taker a pause.

Japan ostensibly started the Pacific War to secure its oil supply. Supply chains are serious business.
It's going to be bad. Like 500ms probably.

Scrolling is pretty much worse case. The more of the display you repaint the longer it's going to take.

There's also a trade off...getting faster refresh means worse resolution and contrast.
Is this all of frys or just the electronics stores? Those have been whithering away for a long time but the last time I went to a fry’s grocery store it was running as normal.
"triggered" is one such potentially-but-not-really "group identifier" loaded term used in the ongoing American culture war between the vaguely-political-party-aligned opposing teams.

Not belonging to either of those groups, nor being interested in that culture war very much, my use of such terms is occasionally fraught because of the likelihood of culture war brawlers to, well, brawl.
That chapter ended when the world lost Lew, imo https://cucurbite.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/courses-by-lew-we...
Such a huge fan of her writing
I'm not suggesting that. I'm saying that the "golden age of liberalism" was not as golden as is often portrayed, especially in comparison with the current state of affairs. You could, and people were, effectively persecuted for stating their opinions - not in the court of law, but with very real consequences nonetheless.

That people believed it was more real than it actually was, is another matter. But this invites the question - was it really the social consensus? Or consensus among some subgroups of society that simply didn't run afoul of speech taboos?

(FWIW, I'm borderline free speech absolutist, so bear this in mind - I'm not arguing that extreme liberalism in these matters is a bad idea. Only that the past is not a good example of what it should be like, once you set the propaganda and cultural distortion aside.)
There was an electronics surplus shop near Caltech in the 70's. It was full of cool stuff. I wish I'd bought a couple of the core memory modules. A mesh of wires woven through little magnetic rings :-)
How has the transition been?
That is a link to Chinese satellite launch mission. Would the booster even be noticeable in the US at aircraft altitude?
Related thought:

https://commoncog.com/blog/get-numb-get-good/
I haven't heard that, my PC runs NTFS on an M2 SSD and I have no complaints about the filesystem. The fastest SSDs get over 3600Mb/s using NTFS.

Is your use case something odd? I wouldn't expect to hit filesystem limits on a laptop anyway.

[1] https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/
I don't know if I'd call it an unwillingness to roll over, or simply political theatre. Here are some quotes from [0]

>“He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win,”

>“Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do.”

>Bolton says he was so alarmed by Trump’s determination to do favors for autocrats such as Erdogan and Xi that he scheduled a meeting with Attorney General William P. Barr in 2019 to discuss the president’s behavior. Bolton writes that Barr agreed he also was worried about the appearances created by Trump’s behavior.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-asked-chinas-x...
I really miss the weekly/month maker market that used to happen in the parking lot of the Palo Alto store. But this was a long time coming, last time I went to Fry's they had huge pallets of cosmetics and cheap junk in the middle of the store.

Are there even any good stores left in the bay area for small electronics? Best Buy usually only stocks popular items and even then a lot of the smaller items are vastly overpriced. ($20-40 for basic cables really?)
It's considered an uncontained failure if debris leaves the engine through a hole that didn't previously exist - if it falls out the back (or manages to bounce off the containment structure and exit the front), that still classifies as contained. Obviously the difference to people on the ground is pretty semantic[1], but the assumption is that a contained failure should have very little chance of putting the aircraft at risk.

[1] Well, as long as the failure doesn't result in an entire plane landing on their neighbourhood instead of just a few parts
> It's never been used otherwise.

Absolutism will not get you anywhere. You're not omniscient, and do not know the minds of (literally) millions of people who use the phrase.
Because "trigger" itself also has a meaning referring to "being triggered" or requiring "trigger warnings", which is itself mostly a concern that's expressed using those terms by a particular group or subculture.
"The only thing I know about how to be more prolific? Write about the thing that means the most to you, then write about the thing that means more."

Late 2019 I started writing on a topic I'm passionate about- cheap entry into amateur radio. I wrote more than ever, about 12000 words. Not much by novelist standards, but more than I'd written on any single subject before it. And I have a lot more material to write, once I can find the brain power to sit down and fix it up. One of the subjects of my writing was a product that's been since discontinued (the BITX40 if anyone is wondering) and so it's stagnant- but it's all there and I have more writing to do.
also very present in the hyperion Kantos of all places
> I am a big fan of using contentious terms but then in close proximity expressing views slightly incongruent or even outright contradictory to those held by a stereotypical member of one of the term-using group

If done well it can induce some cognitive dissonance in the reader and really make them question their positions. It's also a good way to weed out people who you couldn't have a conversation with in the first place. IE: if someone will reject your entire point because you use the phrase 'intersectional' while making an argument, then chances are they're more emotionally invested than intellectually invested in the ideas. At which point you're working with an ideologically driven reader. They tend to be more unwilling to reconsider positions.
>Surely we can track any and every physical mechanism in the brain "accessible" to consciousness

To add to other replies, there's a gap in our ability to measure these mechanisms.

We can see the big picture with bad resolution (e.g. lesion studies, EEG, fMRI), or take tiny keyhole peeps with somewhat better resolution (e.g. single-neuron recording or MEAs). Moreover, each of these methods gives us just a narrow kind of indirect data (e.g. blood oxygenation, or electric activity at few synapses) out of a rich functional context.

They are amazing but perhaps still far too limited to inform truly detailed models and understanding.
All of this is because none of it adds measurable value to the user over other products, and when it does, it doesn't apply universally. Using Linux on the desktop won't be a better experience than Windows until Proton is at 99% compatibility with all games and Wine runs all windows applications seamlessly, so until then, we're stuck with Windows and the scripts[0] Windows users have built up over the last 20 years. And, until a fully-open-source phone means you can be just as productive (or unproductive) as you can be on an iPhone, consumers are going to pick the better product. Social media is the one breakthrough with Mastodon being a fairly widely-used product, however, most people really don't care about "can I see what my social network is doing" and just want a place like Twitter to grow a following or a place like Parler to spread conspiracy theories.

This is, of course, because FOSS doesn't have money. Apple spends billions on R&D and talent a year, and because of that they continue to make absolutely breathtaking technological leaps that directly increase consumer value (see M1 battery life and performance). FOSS, on the other hand, doesn't have a few hundred full-time developers and thus something like a non-android open source phone operating system becomes a delusional pipe dream. Unless you can really sell privacy and openness to the masses, you're not gonna win when it comes to consumers choosing the best product (and Apple is already hoarding the buyers who value Privacy over configuration/openness).

0: http://agaponzie.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-are-mental-script...
Maybe I would try to rewrite the article in a less condescending tone, then share that instead.
Every part of this is a made-up, unsupported, bad-faith, outright lie. No part of this is “more likely” based on my 30 years of experience of actually dealing with Apple. What’s actually more likely, in my experience, is Apple going above and beyond to cover repairs, even out of warranty, for issues that are even partially their fault.

“Attempting to upsell” doesn’t pass the laugh test. And it’s incredibly crass and irresponsible of you to toss around words like “intentionally grenade the hardware” without the slightest hint of evidence.
Good link, thanks. But I don't find the points/comments reliable indicators of things I want to read. For example, I only read one out of the Top 10 today.
I understand that part, but not the joke. Could you explain the joke?
Dasung recently revealed 25 inch eink monitor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTok6imfgoM
If it's fair to refer to M1 as an SoC, then it's defensible to say the RAM is on the chip.
This makes me sad. When I was working on a startup with a hardware component, Fry’s was the place where I was able to wander and find pieces that would help me build what I needed.

And then I’d find something else that would help inspire a fun personal project. There was so much geekiness there that inspired me to experiment a lot and learn.
Not per se, but gives a really powerful tool in the hands of those willing to use it for wrong purposes.
Don't get me wrong. Technically speaking I love the idea of 5G pervasive connectivity in small devices; it's just fantastic, but this development really call for more openness both in hardware and software to ensure those devices aren't being used to mine common people personal data.
If you can, run iosnoop in background and note every program that writes 4kb chunks a lot.

These are wearing your SSD down.

And no, they will not be combined together because most of these shitty apps have O_DIRECT flag set or call fsync() after each write(), making the OS obligated to hit SSD with 4kb write.

SSD's don't operate that way, though, a 4kb write is guaranteed to become a bigger write since SSD cell/block is usually either 512kb, or 1mb, or 2mb, or hell even 4mb. So one 4kb per second becomes 4mb per second, and that's 345.6GB/day.

Pretty scary how one shitty app can ruin your ssd so fast, huh? I saw google drive app do 50 small writes per second. That's ~2TB/day.
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Just Fry's Electronics. The grocery stores are not affiliated (although TIL they were started by members of the same family!).
The PS2 did not come with a hard drive, it was an accessory that few people had. The Xbox famously had one though. Another big innovation of the Xbox was the included ethernet port.
Maybe "unwillingness to roll over" was over-embellishing it a bit. He's a combative person who gets into conflict with others easily, and it just so happened that this time it was appropriate (while it lasted). I never meant to suggest he was doing it out of principle, though I can see how my phrasing might have come off that way.
/rant Substack has literally one job: to display written information on a webpage and provide good typography for writers. The most commonly used font - "Spectral" is a complete mess. Kerning is off, letter spacing is too much and word spacing is too little. If someone is reading this at Substack, please for the love of god consult a professional typographer and ask them for a recommendation. If you can't then just use one of the many Google Fonts such as Source Serif Pro. Here is a comparison of how bad it is:

Original, Spectral: https://i.imgur.com/SBS8iQG.png

Source Serif Pro: https://i.imgur.com/AM8KSUC.png
The systemd line is weird too. People who use systemd are probably in agreement with you here, any privacy issues there are a different breed than platforms controlled by large companies.
Thanks for the link, what a weird bug.

Big same re Catalina.
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>History's complicated, isn't it?

Yes, but in the end it's he who pays the bills who decides. Without them it's lights out.
Yes, if you had something like a RGBY display, you would probably use a high-gamut RGB space to encode the data and do a transformation prior to display.
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Haven't seen this mentioned: I wake up to a double digit GB Finder process every other day. I leave it plugged in during the night. Wear is 3% or 48TB of writes.
I'm in a state that never had Fry's, but I was amazed when I finally got to visit one. Motherboards plugged in and on display, whaaat! All those PC parts I always thought you could order online were right there on the shelves at Fry's. They also had sweet looking telescopes and the biggest TVs I'd ever seen at the time. There is something sad about our turn to websites and Amazon warehouses over visiting the store and seeing and handling the product you want before buying.
Galaxy M are made in Brazil, in Brazil (just like any other Samsung HW here)
Precisely. I'd prefer that those who can't appreciate nuance just get annoyed or confused and go watch TV or something instead of trying to engage with me or my ideas.
It scares me how much of a cult following Bitcoin specifically has. I just saw a post go up on /r/bitcoin about a butter who sold her house for freaking Bitcoin.

I'd hate to be her when (not if) this goes tits up.
I accidentally used a contentious word in an explanation about how I intentionally use contentious words. Trolling whilst not trolling explaining my trolling.
Which is neither here, nor there.

People still do it, and they still call it JSON. Heck, many JSON parsers, who otherwise work fine with regular JSON still accept it.

Even parsers using a different name like JSONC still allude to the JSON connection - and still are an argument that people found a lack in JSON.

Etymology/originology never produced much benefit over pragmatic non-prescriptive examination of how people use things. If anything, it helped confused the situation with pedantic objections.
That's what they used to say about rocks falling from the sky. Right up until 1803. https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/L/L_Aigle.html

"Ernst Florens Chladni, was the first to publish (in 1794) the idea that meteorites might be rocks that originated not from Earth, but from space....The scientific community of the time responded with resistance and mockery." - Wikipedia
Nuclear + renewables = 0 carbon and a consistent reliable base load ... sounds ideal?
Because sneak sometimes consciously uses loaded or contentious terms in order to make people rethink their associations, but here accidentally used the word "triggered", not for that reason.
Hello from California. We have blackouts every summer when it gets hot. Texas is not the only state that has this problem.
Windows RT devices launched in 2012, will get updates until 2023.
3.2 year old 16GB MBP w/ 1TB on Intel (heavy developer workload):

Percentage Used: 5%

Data Units Read: 498,780,988 [255 TB]

Data Units Written: 265,225,887 [135 TB]

Host Read Commands: 6,633,264,962

Host Write Commands: 2,911,463,422
> "Show me the incentives, I’ll show you the outcome."

That is spot on, and generalizes well.

"iot vendors make post-sales money if they collect data from their device"

"phone vendors make money if they bundle terrible apps with their phone"

"robocallers make lots of money, with historically no fines paid out for violations"
If a team has a set of coding standards and for some reason does not have automated linting tools to enforce them, then nitpicks in code review are the only way to really enforce the standards.

Overall, this makes the codebase much easier for the whole team to work on. That's why we make code standards in the first place.
I remember when Toshiba first showed us the R5900, which was a real screamer for its time. They couldn’t tell us at first whom they were designing it for. This was perhaps 2-3 years before the PS2 was publicly announced (at, IIRC, E3) and even before it had been discussed with any 3P developers.

In fact the secrecy before it was released was insane. Toshiba and Sony kept their technology very close to their chest and each would tell us stuff under NDA that prevented us from talking to the other about it.

I sometimes wondered if we were the only folks who could see both sides. On a couple of occasions we had to delicately get permission / forgiveness for slightly bending NDA to make sure that some misunderstanding could be resolved (think of two companies building a bridge, owithout looking across the river to see where the other guys are aiming).

Ken Kutaragi was (still is I imagine) an inspired thinker and leader and good supporter. He built a great team, some of whom are still friends.

One of the great, if grueling experiences of my life.
>And speculating what that would look like for a 256GB drive.

Why "speculating"? Couldn't they get someone with a 256GB drive to ask them?
> All those PC parts I always thought you could order online were right there on the shelves at Fry's.

Imagine what it was like when you could only get such things from a catalog.
Has it been reported how many cycles it had been since the last inspection for the plane which went down?
The Good Mythical Morning show often pits store brands against the name brand originals.. results vary a lot, but Kroger, for instance, tends to rank higher (for them) then Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s brand knock-offs.
It actually is pretty easy to move, the issue is that no other company wants to put in the effort to compete with these two platforms which already encompass 99%+ of the smartphone market. Any competitor (that isn't just a fork of Android) is going to have a hard time competing against operating systems which are completely free and raising the billions in up-front funding that would be required to have parity with these OS's. Whether or not having only 2 companies is a problem is one of choice, but the fact is that these companies are a natural duopoly simply due to the market's barriers of entry.
Out of curiosity did smart contracts gain new capabilities in the summer of 2020?
Not sure why another comment like that was killed. I found John Keats after reading "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons. I think Simmons also deserves some credit for popularization of John Keats.
I distinctly recall that location is where we bought the legend of Zelda back in the 80’s when it first came out. Gonna miss fry’s.
HSC is gone too, sadly. The last surplus store standing in the Bay Area (I think - at least in the South Bay and Peninsula) is Excess Solutions in San Jose (http://www.excesssolutions.com/)
I'd really like another "Snow" release right about now. I generally don't mind Big Sur's look, feel and function too much, but there's still quite a few bugs and the overall UI responsiveness and visual smoothness often leaves a bit to be desired.

The M1 is great, but I think Apple has left some potential on the table. Given how they perform today with Big Sur, I'd really like to see what they could do given a macOS release focused (almost) entirely on stability and performance enhancement.
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You used to be able to simply install a Firefox extension[1] or Android app[2] and automatically steal the accounts of everyone on your wifi network on every website. https stopped that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep

[2] http://faceniff.ponury.net/
Your argument makes sense, except this is somebody who published a game that almost nobody knows about. You're assuming the worst case scenario (that finding this person leads to huge amounts of harassment), when the likelihood of that seems slim to none.
> “is quite plainly an anti-refugee phrase”

legally speaking a refugee is not illegal, “illegal immigrant” is just a term for a person who enters through the border illegally in a country where there are both lawful and unlawful methods of entry, refugees are accepted by law also, and if accepted through the defined process of law are not “illegal”
Herzfeld paid the initial bills. Herzfeld said "ARPANET was not started to create a Command and Control System that would survive a nuclear attack".

Lukasik came in later, and had no signing authority or supervisory position on the initial ARPANET work.

Following your guideline, the ARPANET therefore wasn't "created to have a war-proof network for army use"; that was a design goal which came later, after the collaboration goal.
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Huh... I guess I should read the docs more carefully next time; I clearly misunderstood them.
Thank you. I thought it was obvious enough to not need belaboring and was quite distinct from the point we were actually discussing.
Then someone better start that fight as soon as possible.

Would anyone imagine any big political figure, let's say a bunch of US senators, happily talking on their super-secure phone while being spied upon by a bunch of innocent looking temperature/humidity sensors which just happen to have an indistinguishable MEMS microphone inside a chip, then send encrypted data, so that nobody can catch their firmware actually encoding ambient sounds using a low speed codec and sending them to an apparently safe server at every "update".
Defense companies are known for high prices, so I think it would have been cheaper to go with the traditional auto manufacturers.
>making these laptops use standard, replaceable m.2 NVMe SSDs

Because not using them gives Apple control of the exact specifications and capabilities of their M1 SSDs.

Else they're bound to be compatible with the lowest common denominator standard connectors and drive implementations.

Aside from profit ("paying more for custom parts"), this is also how they control "the whole widget", and how they can innovate (like with the M1 CPUs/SoC components) when others drag themselves with me-too standard parts.

Was the allure of a Mac ever that "you can build your own from standard parts"? If anything, it was always the opposite: it's not a PC.
Thank you, I really appreciate this.
My one memory of the Sacramento Fry's is buying a 5 lb GummiBear to prank a friend. Not 5 lbs of GummiBears, a single 5 lb GummiBear.

Sorry to see the stores close.