skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes because Coinbase is a legit exchange. It also doesnt use Tether. That doesnt mean that their data on Tether volumes is correct.
> The NGDVs that Oshkosh will build will include both battery-electric vehicles and low-emission internal-combustion-engine vehicles, both of which will be able to be retrofitted to keep up with the latest EV tech. They will also have air conditioning and airbags—both of which the current trucks lack—as well as heat, a 360-degree camera, a front and rear collision avoidance system, and automated emergency braking.

Lots of surprises in a few sentences. I'm glad to hear that some are intended to be EVs. I wonder what the final percentage will be, or if this is just a bullet point to check off.
>What that really means is less opportunity to fix individual components

That has been the trend in the PC and electronics industry for a century though. Notice how people don't fix their TVs/Radios/etc. anymore? Heck, even in the car industry.

>Cutting off third party repair and secondary used markets.

Well, and somehow these machines get high "consumer satisfaction" ratings, and have high use periods, and retain a lot of resale value.

Something seems contradictory here...
It is just a bug that will be fixed. Literally happens with all kinds of systems and software.

In case some SSDs already have big damage - will probably be replaced for free as usual.
Yeah I have up mentoring because it doesn’t pay super well and the way things are the mentor often knows more about the problem then me because for example they are using a specific thi g like redux thunk so then I have to learn about that in spare time for free to then go help them for an hour for $60 and also just having to work on a specific time basis makes it less convenient than coding. So all in all it’s not great for the mentor.
Some sites use referer for CSRF protection. If they do that an you spoof your referer, they think you're being CSRF attacked and block it.
> but the most valuable skill one can acquire in college is how to communicate, particularly how to write well

If writing well is to do it simply, concisely, and interestingly, then I don't think anyone tried to teach me any useful skills related to writing after eighth grade. I learned more reading "On Writing Well" in a bookstore waiting for my dad to buy a book in my 30s than I learned between 9th grade and the end of my B.S.

I don't remember anyone teaching any classes on how to learn. Would be incredibly surprised if the classics had changed that much since I went to school. There are skills that are useful to learning how to learn like how to use Anki, interweaving, visualization, chunking, etc.. but all of that information comes out of psychology research so I'd be surprised if it was taught in any of the classics.
"Why the Kotlin/Native memory model cannot hold."

https://itnext.io/why-the-kotlin-native-memory-model-cannot-...
The stretch goal of structured fizzing beyond []byte sounds like property testing to me
NewsBlur[1] for syncing, Reeder[2] for reading and backing up to local OPML file (can also be done via NewsBlur's web app: Preferences > General > "Backup your sites" > "Download OPML").

[1] https://newsblur.com/

[2] https://reederapp.com/
I think HSC was sold to ES
Wow, you're not wrong.
You haven't lived the life of a late 90's bay area nerd if you've never grabbed your copy of Computer Shopper and hit Fry's, Weird Stuff and Central Computer in a single afternoon. With friends. :D
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check what's in iosnoop. I'm 100% sure it's tons of small (~4kb) writes all the time by some program.
Around a third of Freshwater Fish worldwide threatened with extinction [pdf]
The "longitude" of astronomy is called "right ascension" and is traditionally counted as a 24 hour circle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_ascension
What finder extensions you have enabled? Disable them all, see if behaviour stays.
Pascal was the first language I learned in college. It is an excellent language for CS students, because it has clear syntax and it easy to figure out when something goes wrong (unlike C). Unfortunately it lost space to C and similar languages.
I've used firebase and I would say is perfect for what you describe. No idea how it would work for a bigger project though
Tiger Woods injured by car accident
RaSCSI: A virtual SCSI device emulator that runs on a Raspberry Pi
Local Bay Area TV news channel says it has confirmed the story: https://www.kron4.com/news/national/frys-electronics-permane...
Semi-off topic but Microcenter needs to fix their online presence.

I have five Microcenters within an hour of me, the closest is practically walking distance, yet I was so turned off by the few times I've tried to use their online services I essentially boycotted them.

The first time was using their site for pickup during the pandemic... then not being told until I reached the store that this wasn't curbside/contactless pickup like every other electronics store in the state was doing: you were simply having them being your item to the front, and you would then have to wait upwards of an hour to get into the store and check out manually. (Kind of defeats the 5 minutes you save over picking it up yourself and any possible safety benefit for you and their employees)

-

The second time was trying to built my new gaming PC a few months back. I specifically wanted to buy from Microcenter to support a brick and mortar store...

I added thousands of dollars of parts to my cart, went to checkout and it wouldn't let me. It declined my card despite no fraud alerts, confirmed billing address, etc.

After two tries it cleared my entire cart.

Go through my history, re-add everything, and it fails to checkout again and again until my cart is cleared again and I give up and go to Newegg.

When I brought it up people said this was common, and the fix was to use another card because sometimes it randomly wouldn't accept certain types (!)

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I get Microcenter is "physically-oriented" but I don't get how long they can stay relevant with their abysmal online presence.

You shouldn't be losing sales because of a crusty checkout flow in 2021...
Filippo Morghen's Fantastical Visions of Lunar Life (1776)
But we're talking about vernacular usage, not legal.
The first nuclear power plant was a nuclear sub on a pier.
Fry's electronics is closing all stores
Yes, you’re correct.

If you’re just looking for electronics parts, Anchor Electronics in Santa Clara is still alive and (hopefully!) well: https://anchor-electronics.com/
Depends on what you’re looking for. If you’re looking for parts for a last minute electronics weekend project, Microcenter is a mess. (I am closest to the Cincinnati location). I still found what I needed, but it was a mess.

Don’t get me wrong, you can find a lot of parts, but mainly things from companies like Adafruit. But the section was so disorganized it made it take forever to find the one specific part I needed (and their website said was in stock). And if you need electronics components, the Microcenter stock is nothing like Frys. A few random LEDs, switches, etc. but not much selection. I half wonder if the disorganization is part of the appeal — you have to actively find what you’re looking for. And when you do — it’s a win.

However, for other things (hard drives, monitors, 3D supplies), I’ve found them to be great. Especially when you can find what you’re looking for and can get it faster than shipping from Amazon, et al. I’m thankful to have a store near me.
Crook is a sort of synonym to criminal, thief, or con artist. It basically means someone who, while they maybe don’t commit a crime, do come about their means dishonestly. It’s maybe a little old-fashioned these days but not at all unusual.

However, if someone says it and doesn’t know what it means, yeah, they’re probably sharing an emotional viewpoint or repeating someone else’s words or both.
Spotify was caught before (in 2016) doing exactly that -- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/for-f...

Only after publication on news sites they fixed it.

Won't be surprised if the bug regressed and happened again.

I don't use Spotify (not available in my country), so I wouldn't know, but I bet half of the reports are because of some badly written third party app constantly writing in 4kb chunks with O_DIRECT or fsync() all the time.
Two wrongs don't make a right.

The issue is when you reduce people to nothing but their "color".
Not to mention, there's a great possibility that these unidentified aircraft are American.
“Sign in with Apple” Becomes Hot-Button Issue in U.S. Antitrust Probe
The last time I went to Fry's was four years ago. They had servo motors, gears, structural aluminum plates, and lots of electronics parts that you could use to build robots or other cool things. You can get the same parts online from stores like servocity, but browsing and buying stuff in real life without having to wait for shipping was awesome so sad to see it close :(
crazy, day one m1 8gb ram with 512gb hd here.
this laptop has never seen spotify and safari is my main browser - no compilation or other heavy ram use either.

Available Spare: 100%

Available Spare Threshold: 99%

Percentage Used: 0%

Data Units Read: 44,414,705 [22.7 TB]

Data Units Written: 38,739,583 [19.8 TB]

Host Read Commands: 769,910,444

Host Write Commands: 421,693,825
Hah, a friend of mine is working on solving this exact problem with her startup (specifically when it comes to performance reports). I'm not exactly sold that most people understand the power of words or even care to differentiate between these linguistic nuances.
What you say may be true, but the conclusion isn't, I don't think.

Case in point: the FAA now requires a digital transmitter beacon (ADS-B) in most of the commonly used airspaces in the continental US as of last month.
This. The myths, mentioned in the article, were written down at the end of the Greek dark ages, and probably has their roots in the folklore of the centuries before
That’s exactly why I used to love Fry’s. Some kids went to malls, I guess. Fry’s was my mall.
> Each BOINC project that is rewarded has its stats looked up by a system of oracles and each node verifies that the oracles match up

For cryptocurrency noobs: the word "oracle" while seeming to be a buzzword that tries to provide some technical legitimacy, actually means "a node with authority", which basically goes against the whole point of cryptocurrency (decentralization).

Move on, nothing to see here. Disappointed that this reached HN frontpage (and wikipedia).
Lots of memories of Saturdays spent wandering the aisles of Fry's with my dad. He mostly wanted to look at the big TVs (this ritual started around the dawn of HD/flat TVs); I mostly wanted to look at the games and computer stuff. It was something we could reliably do to spend time together.

My home store - Plano, TX - was themed after the history of the city itself. Lots of hundred-year-old photos, blown up to 10 feet across and labeled for context. I always thought that was so strange, but cool, that a national chain would put so much effort into localizing itself.

When I moved to Austin after college I made my first big purchase with my own income at the Fry's here: a TV, and a PlayStation.

The last time I made a real purchase at a Fry's, I think, was years later when the VR headset I'd been eagerly awaiting finally came in the mail. My graphics card was too old to support it, and having already waited a long time I didn't want to wait for another delivery. So I ran out to Fry's first thing in the morning and bought a new card (and a breakfast sandwich!). That feels like a good, classical Fry's experience to put a pin in.

End of an era.
They were from back in the day when Fry’s would hire extra people for the holidays and staff nearly every register.

Also back then stores would fill space with extra registers. I was nostalgic and sad when I saw they had removed half their local registers. They had (bought) one of the earliest web retail stores. They ought to have become New Egg with a mini Best Buy and RadioShack for locals. But that’s hindsight and I couldn’t have done it.
Perhaps the link should be changed to this, as this has more details, formal confirmation from a reputable source, and contradicts some aspects of the original source, such as that the website will go down at midnight, which wouldn't really make sense—presumably they'd want to sell the remaining merchandise.

Edit: or the link in the reply below, which is an even better article (and explains a potential reason that they may not have to sell any remaining merchandise).
Home-cooked beans can taste a lot better, and they spare you the estrogen-mimicking chemicals in can linings. A pressure cooker makes quick work of them. We make a batch and freeze them in pint containers, ready to thaw when we need them.
I think the three greatest living language designers are Niklaus Wirth, Anders Hejlsberg, and Bjarne Stroustrup.

Pascal definitely had a huge impact on programming, especially through Borland Turbo Pascal on the PC. I think Pascal's biggest weakness was that there was not a central figure helping guide evolution in a backwards compatible way. Wirth did a great job with Pascal, but moved on to what were to him greener pastures such as Modula-2/3 and Oberon, but which did not have nearly the impact of Pascal.
For ML and scientific work, yes. Aside from that, Java has a very good ecosystem. I personally think it's better than Python's, but they're both good.
Human activity pushes nature beyond critical thresholds
> Trolling whilst not trolling explaining my trolling.

The elusive meta troll.
It might be safer for biodiversity if economists don't think too much about it :P The biggest source of damage might well be "optimizing" with a badly-framed/biased model... while the short-term "value" can be easily argued for, the long-term costs will typically be underestimated/externalized.
As someone who got back to PC building in the last few years, I’m jealous of people with a micro center in their city. Amazon and Newegg are not up to par
Another Linux user data point: XPS13(9310)/512GB nvme/16GB RAM/2GB swapfile/kubuntu 20.10/kernel 5.11 (in use since ~Dec 5, 2020):

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 33 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 50%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 631,319 [323 GB]
Data Units Written: 1,157,883 [592 GB]
Host Read Commands: 4,650,820
Host Write Commands: 7,329,774
Controller Busy Time: 16
Power Cycles: 37
Power On Hours: 45
Unsafe Shutdowns: 15
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 1
Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0

I do Linux kernel dev and have done quite a few kernel compiles at this point (using Ubuntu's full config) as well as general browsing and some Docker workloads and Spotify... Judging by 'Power On Hours' combined with 'Data Units Written', looks like there's a bug to me.

As a side, I don't know why 'Available Spare Threshold' is 50%, and the 1 'Error Information Log Entries' appears to be successful results of some test.
You can also use a randomly-generated image from https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Reload the page for a new nonexistent person.

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I've worked in investment banks for years.

These are not happy people. If you have other choices, I urge you to pursue a different career path.
Another reason to not dismiss it: UFO does not mean extraterrestrial, it just means unidentified.
> Redhat makes plenty of money and has a monopoly on nothing.

Redhat managed to leverage their monopoly on their own trademarks to prevent anyone unauthorized from offering Redhat-branded support services, coupled with the time-bound monopoly on their own updates (because obviously no one gets those until they actually get distributed) that translates into a short delay for other vendors to incorporate those improvements (and longer if any discussion of whether to include them is warranted).

For most purposes these delays are inconsequential, but plenty of customers are willing to pay for the privilege of getting bugs and critical security fixes distributed and deployed ASAP just so zero-day vulns can't become one- or two-day ones (at best).

It's worth noting that this is more a matter of perception than reality, since by far the biggest factor delaying the eventual deployment of updates including critical security fixes is the customer's own internal processes, but it is hard to get a customer to admit that going from a 15-day to a 14-day delay hardly justifies paying a premium.
Between this, Radio Shack closing a few years back, and small shops like Al Lasher's in Berkeley biting the dust, there's no longer a place where kids can just walk in and buy $3 worth of exactly what they needed for their project, and another $3 worth of parts they didn't need because they looked cool. Shenzhen and the dark corners of Akihabara are basically it now.
It feels to me like the author misses the point somewhat. I think the conclusion is correct, that is, contentious terms should be avoided. However, it seems to him contentious means divisive, rather than terms whose definitions are contended.
The terms referred to certainly are divisive, but for good reason: they seem to have many interpretations and, from what I can tell, primarily facilitate equivocation. As in, the point of these contentious terms is not to guide everyone to a shared understanding, but to trick people into agreement to justify some action.
Lot's of memories from Fry's and Weird Stuff too. Sad.

https://thesixfifty.com/these-photos-of-weirdstuff-warehouse...
Same, a few months ago even the lights were dimmed. I went to el toritos after 5 minutes.

I felt this was coming 5 years ago it was difficult to find the current models. Sad.
I also have fond memories of browsing the computer and electronics super store in the nearest city with my dad and brother. That was in the 90s when all of it was still very magical. It is kind of sad that everything is moving online. Now I order the RAM online or get the game from Steam what once was a day out among likeminded people.
No, it has to do with raising your knees higher. Humans were designed to poop squatting. A poop stool brings a sitting pooper closer to a squat.
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Article from Jan 2020 that first started to ask the question — Is Fry’s in trouble?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Is-Fry-s-Electr...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21945492
Interesting history, from Wirth's perspective. A little strange though that he mentioned Java and C# as inheriting the legacy of Pascal, but left out Delphi, through which C# indirectly inherits from Pascal. FreePascal is also worth mentioning but perhaps not academically very interesting.

Other, more modern, languages that come to mind as inheriting from Pascal are Go and OCaml. OCaml more directly inherits from Modula-2's notion of separate interface and implementation, and gains similar parallel compilation speed benefits from that: https://dev.to/yawaramin/ocaml-interface-files-hero-or-menac...

If you look at the imperative and some other parts of OCaml, the Pascal heritage is clear, e.g. comments (* ... *), for loop, while loop, mutable assignment with x := y, etc.
How do you get this print out of the disk usage?
Intel has been spending about 14B/year on long term capex and another 14 B/year on R&D.

It doesn't seem to have gotten them a whole lot.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/INTC/intel/researc...

You may be able to buy an old chip fab, but you can't just buy organizational capacity and the ability effectively run an R&D department.

US spending on R&D has been increasing steadily, the private sector funds 600B/year
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44307.pdf

There has been no slowdown in either public or private R&D spending.

The world is literally filled with the carcasses of failed R&D projects when nations that tried to develop industries but failed to do so due to deficits in organizational skill, excess corruption, lack of human capital, and ineffective business practices. Meanwhile tiny Taiwan went from a nation that produced shoddy toys and bicycles to a world power. You can't buy solidarity, unity, or human capital.

As for our defense industrial complex, I would say that real innovation there, too, has substantially slowed down compared to the 50s-60s. Look at how quickly we obtain supersonic flight or nuclearized the navy, and how much slower progress has been since. Similarly innovation per real dollar spent has dramatically fallen in the medical field, too. Software is the main area where the US remains a leader, but outside of that it's slim pickings, even as we spend more money on R&D than ever before.
Dogwhistle is one of those phrases that has been so overused in the past year that it's largely lost its original meaning.

It's like "gaslighting", which people seem to now use as a synonym for any kind of abuse. Or how people say "humblebrag" for regular brags.
UPS, Fedex, Amazon, and the USPS all perform last mile delivery for envelopes and packages (albeit, some of these envelopes are padded). Will these delivery services ever converge on a single design for their vehicles?
It doesn't seem that bad in a dark theme
Traditional companies struggle to navigate the government acquisitions process, or acquisitions can be so different than traditional manufacturing and customer sales that it would require a completely separate company to manage the risks anyways.

Instead you typically wind up with a contractor company that can work the system and they act as a middle tier that interfaces with the production company. In the case of vehicles you could imagine a low end contractor would negotiate production fleet vehicles. A mid range contractor might build custom versions using a stock base with a different cabin/storage. The large contractor can handle the full lifecycle including the protracted support and maintenance requirements.
The problem in my mind is that when you use a contentious term to describe a precise concept, people—both those who largely agree and those who largely disagree with you—overload the term with their own assumptions about what the term means.

I’ve seen people espouse Xism ideas while lambasting Xists because their view of Xism is a caricature.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26246435
> Hillary Clinton was a "crook"

I think that started with her Whitewater investment, which turned out not be a huge deal overall.

But ...

1) The Clinton family has accepted up to $2 billion for their foundation from overseas donors, mostly the Saudis, with the understanding that she would be running for President. In addition, Hillary has accepted a lot of money from Wall Street for speaking engagements at very high fees.

2) The basis for Trump's first impeachment appears to be Hillary paying off a British man to make false statements, and Joe Biden making false statements to get a FISA warrant.

So crook is the correct term.

Also, you're welcome to ask me anything the MSM is being evasive about.
I saw (mostly heard) a rotorcraft flying really (but plausibly, for human tech) quite fast with absolutely no lights and no Mode B output about 400-500ft over residential areas a few months ago, about 15-20km WSW from Nellis AFB.

I don't think it was more than 2-3 meters across, but it was dark and scale was difficult. It was quite loud, I assume internal combustion but don't know what non-hobby-drone electric rotorcraft sound like.

It was about 0100. I assume it was a friendly, but who knows?

There's all sorts of shit going on in the sky, legal and otherwise. :D
True, although often the older poles are wired only for 8 amps or so, needing re-wiring for safe EV charging. But the culture of "plugging in" the car already exists.
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