skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This explains a lot. I recently, as of October, was building a new workstation and _tried_ to buy things from Fry's but there was quite literally _nothing_ for sale. I was confused if was just because of covid (temporary closure) or permanent... really bummed it's permanent.

Fry's was awesome. I always wanted to go to one of their more epic looking stores (the one closest to me wasn't), like this bad mamajama https://i2.wp.com/www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/201...

Sometimes a little capitalism is fun, even if it is corny. RIP, Fry's.
With this, people you don't know can still reply to your tweets and dm you and so on, the notifications for those messages are just put in a second folder. So when you have the mental energy to look through all of it, you can, but you're not exposed to it by default.

Additionally, other people you don't know will still be able to see your tweets. You can still yell into the void. So, it's a public twitter account without the potential annoyances of a public twitter account.
If I understand the GP correctly, it’s hard to arrest the Russian or Chinese Air Force.
I try to avoid jargon when I'm not operating with the audience that understands this.

On a blog, that's hard, because your audience is infinite and when you share that you want to "kill all the apaches" maybe your audience will understand that you want to kill all the apache forked processes but some moron will post it on Twitter as evidence that you hate Native Americans.

Of course, the problem with this is that all the high information conversations are now private. Very few are sharing true insights in public because it's easy to find your audience and then you don't really need everyone else.

This is why I'm personally a huge fan of a personal ban feature on networks with lots of overlap. It's not that I want to ban people (though I do want to). I want people who don't like reading my thoughts to ban me.

If a HN user who doesn't like me never sees my comments again, that's a good thing.

Ideally, I could reach only my people so we can talk and everyone else would exclude us.
14TB in 2 months here (1TB/16GB)
Usually you get the OS provided mouse though, running at 30 or 60hz. >20hz mouse movement is oh so horrible
Ironically, you were censored (flagged) in following posts while arguing for censorship. Further, in your example, the people are clearly the problem. They need to learn how to fact check and educate themselves. Victim blaming is OKAY when people make themselves the victim by their inaction.
Yes.

"We purchased $50 million in bitcoin in October 2020 and another $170 million in bitcoin in February 2021, and we may make additional bitcoin purchases in the future"

Btc is nearly half of SQ revenue. Btc mentioned 143 times in 10-k.

Question is besides SQ, MSTR, TSLA, which publicly traded cos have purchased and have yet to announce, and which will purchase/announce this year.
I'm not familiar with the M series, but isn't it possible to disable the apps from the settings? E.g. on my (European) Galaxy S9, Facebook services are preinstalled, but I can go to Settings > Apps, choose 'Show system apps' [in the 'three dots' menu], then choose (e.g.) Facebook Services > Disable.
Wilsonville, Oregon is home to Oregon’s only Fry’s location. I grew up there. I remember running into people from all across the state that would come down for its crazy deals.

The building is huge and prime real estate in a rather affluent town. I wonder who or what they will do with the property. Maybe microcenter could come in. More likely though BestBuy is the only retailer likely to want such a large place but there’s already a BestBuy one town north in Tualatin.
I just walked by the one in Woodland Hills, CA (Alice in Wonderland theme). I first started my career in IT and that store was my go to for parts. I went there in November and it was depressing, empty shelves, no customers, small staff. End of an era.
The sad reality is that most people are too poor to afford to give a shit.
Industrial cheese production requires impregnating cows, separating the calf from the mother soon after birth, milking for about a year and repeat.

Industrial animal products involve a huge amount of pain and suffering for the animals, low wages and injury for the humans, and impacts on the environment.

Certainly, if people greatly reduced their consumption of animal products there would much less of the negatives. Plant based products are one approach.
Wikipedia has a lot more detail about him. Basically a Fry’s VP arranged for $65 million in kickbacks from companies that wanted to see at Fry’s, and then gambled away even more than that, and ended up $137 million in debt:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ausaf_Umar_Siddiqui
Exodus ETIP: The Canonical Database for Tracking Trackers
Resolved: DNSSEC records still not passed to applications
South African Hunter Kills Elderly Giraffe for a Valentine’s Day Gift to Husband
I saw one too when I was flying in/around the restricted airspace near Cape Cod / Camp Edwards in MA. I was flying at 5,500 ft. Surprised the heck out of me, until I realized it was probably just a drone.
This was considered a GOP talking point not 3 months ago
Isn't this venturing into Borg territory?
I miss the welcome videos. 10.3 introduced me to Royksopp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2uzNyiODsw
I discount the claims that it’s not so easy to move.

I know quite a few (regular non-tech) people who have moved, and none of them have had any difficulties.

I think people assume it’s hard to explain why there isn’t more switching, when really there just isn’t much incentive to switch.

It also seems essentially impossible to regulate ease of switching, since not every app is available on both platforms.
> premium upgrades aren't a strategy they suddenly invented when they started soldering components down.

What you wrote is only a part of the story. Another one happens after using the computer for couple of years. RAM and SSD prices are declining over time, while software developers are finding exciting new ways to use more of them.

It’s more profitable for Apple when users replacing entire computers than just RAM + SSD. Unlike the initial premium upgrades, users have more motivation. Warranty’s expired, and the price difference is way larger.
I've used the monitors with Manjaro, NixOS, primarily using i3wm, and it has worked well for me. I agree; part of the software problem is the high price tag on the hardware creating a smaller community as a result.
I don’t think it’s bad advice but having shipped multiple (really bad) games, I think it misses the two biggest/best pieces of advice I’ve gotten:
1. GDDs are probably a distraction if you’re a solo dev - prototyping and grayboxing a lot and looking for the fun mechanics without any art/music/story to get in the way or distract is essential
2. If you’re truly just starting (and don’t already have a sense of fun), absolute best way to start is to carbon-copy a game you find fun, then start adding/tweaking elements.
This both builds the mindset required to make games, and helps you get into the “fun iteration” loop quickly without getting bogged down in writing a lot of interesting technical systems that don’t end up contributing to the game in a meaningful way.
There's a third reason for avoiding terms like "patriarchy" or "systemic racism": it encourages you to parrot points you've heard elsewhere rather than form a cohesive and rational argument.

And, generally speaking, anyone who you could hope to convince of your point can smell this from a mile off.
It has been interesting seeing how effective that has been with the lawsuit between Smartmatic and Newsmax. The clip I saw had one of the anchors reading what seemed like a court mandated statement saying there was no evidence of their guest’s claims and one of the anchors walked off set when the guest refused to stop.
I did this. Latency sucks but that didn't matter for text editing.

But the drivers sucked and the screen was too small and you want to have a white background text editor just for the eink screen. Switch that to the wrong screen and you're suddenly blinded.

Was fun, but I wouldn't recommend it. Making everything dark mode is easier, or keeping screen brightness super low is the easier option.
The second source uses Coinbase as the standard for accuracy and compares another exchange to it...
I've created a Google form to collect some data - https://forms.gle/ksV68PicxdPvgjzt8 Feel free to help crowdsource some data on the issue.
If the cause is environmental then that means the environment changed, and environmental change causes a change in selection.
If you have a bitfinex account you can redeem the tethers for dollars at a 1:1 rate still and this would burn the tether reducing the supply.

Not all countries like US can get an account there or use fiat so I wouldnt know if the redemption mechanism is currently working or not
You're calling the Mueller report a conspiracy without evidence...? Surely I misunderstood your post because that sounds way off.
I've been using an extension called Temporary Containers. Every site gets its unique instance and then it is destroyed afterwards.
Knowledge for knowledges sake is noble, but someone always pays for it out of their pocket meaning that even super educated researchers have to justify why they are worth someone’s dime.

This isn’t a capitalist thing, or even a modern idea by any stretch. Science, as far as I can tell, has always been a matter of pragmatism, and science for science’s sake seems like a recent idea stemming from Cold War fears of falling behind stoking heavy investment and public messaging romanticizing science. For all of human history, science has almost always been public ally funded and often for military or otherwise strategic gain.

So yes, even the most educated among us have to prove their value, because science isn’t some religious function or human right - it’s a discipline with pragmatic purposes to society.
Totally agreed but I wonder is it applied to extremely cold situation. Possibly outside unit produce heat but not all heat supplied to room.
In the Bay Area do people often bring dogs into retail stores?
thedrive also fantasizes about impossible tech that has been patented by some guy who claims to be in the defense department.
The Myth of “No Code” Software, Part 3: Natural Language Programming
Sports Basement - they kept the enter key on the door though.
To be fair when Fry's left that building, it's because they built a bigger one down the street, the one with the sinc function as a logo.
It was a glorious experience in the 90s.
I’ll be very sad to see them go. I enjoyed spending time in that location (OR), as well as visiting other locations in SV. I tried to always give them my business, but it’s hard when the shelves don’t have anything on them... :(
Cool project. What's the refresh rate of the screen? Can you scroll down a webpage without a lot of latency?
> whether the blade shoots off into the distance or shreds a wing is essentially luck

The blade shoots off radially. Critical equipment is not located radially to the turbine blades. Critical equipment is also not located outboard of the engines.

(Interestingly, Boeing learned in WW2 not to run electric wires through conduit. A hit on the conduit would take out all the wires in it. But if it was just a bundle of wires, nicking a couple with shrapnel wouldn't affect the others.)

I'm very impressed that modern engines can contain a turbine burst while still being light enough to fly.
Many reference this OS in the past tense, but there are few reasons not to still use it today. If you are not going online or are behind a NAT, if you only browse your own websites (and HN) it's a perfectly capable OS, as are many other amazing, capable OSes and other programs released in the past.

Example: For any serious writing, I boot up my Windows Me virtual machine and open up Word 97, which, in my not so humble opinion, is still light years ahead of anything else available to me today in terms of speed and UI polish. Plus, I'm just used to it and feel comfortable with it.

When I'm done writing an essay, I open up IE6 (or Netscape 4, or Opera 4) and paste it into my local blog instance. Or I can go straight to my public blog and post it there, since I don't care about doing it over plaintext HTTP.

I believe that retro-computing is about to skyrocket, driven not just by nostalgia and comfort, but also all the design anti-patterns in today's software applications and Web services.

(If you really care about HTTPS over the network, I'm sure there's a way to set up an SSL stripping proxy locally, but I haven't figured out how to do it yet. #lazyweb)
What kind of source would you be looking for

Its like cellular service in an underground subway station: people tell you it arrived and use it and nobody thinks about it afterwards. There wont be a source about that whether you believed it or not.

USDT is as frictionless so it just has use.
The Raspberry Pi is a terrible example of "open computing". As well as the usual Broadcom close-source binary blob drivers, you also have a proprietary operating system running underneath Linux (ThreadX, now owned by Microsoft).
Ask HN: Any place to report compromised sites?
I sometimes receive spam to special email addresses that I only use at particular sites. For example, I just received one to an address I used only ever used to experiment with the game Town of Salem, years ago.

When this happens I assume that my address was sold, or the site was hacked. In either case it reflects badly. Is there a registry somewhere to collect sites that sell/leak email addresses?

Note that the above example is just one of many. I assume the ToS of some permit selling email addresses. In many cases, such as the RadioReference hack, this isn't the issue and should be made public.
Thats because they aren't assertions, its called a conversation
They cleared out all the maker stuff in the last year at the Seattle area location. It was a wasteland. Search around for local small electronics stores--there are a few still out there.
Is there a particular year coming where it becomes a free-for-all?
You know what really helps "minimize recovery time?"
The ability to simply re-instantiate the system.
GPUs were always the dumbest possible products for brick and mortar. Extremely limited customer base, fast tech iteration cycle, and inflexible margins.
LRU Cache in Java
You'd have to verify I'm right, but this page describes how to change the cache location: https://support.spotify.com/us/article/storage-and-data-info...
There were some serious positive externalizations from Fry's.

Wherever there is a Fry's there are smart people enabled by doing smart things.

Not exactly a socialist but man, we should try to save Fry's. It's one of the few retail entities I really wish was near me.
There is no such thing as "commercial airspace." I think you're confusing Class A with commercial, as that's primarily where commercial airliners fly, but there's nothing saying that military operations can't happen there too, so long as they are IFR
You're thinking about reliability in a different way from Apple. By the time the SSD fails, it's not Apple's problem anymore, it's your problem. (Or, more likely, Louis Rossman's problem.) Conversely, an SSD that gets jostled out of a socket if the product gets bumped the wrong way (maybe because the courier kicked the package around) means time and money spent on in-warranty repairs.

Also, Apple never actually used M.2. All of their socketed SSDs are proprietary form factors, though there are cheap adapters you can buy that will let you use M.2 drives.
TFA has some good points. I'd go even further on the situation where you quit your job to work on an indie game -- if you ever find yourself doing this, and you've never built a game by yourself before, you'd better have several years of runway.

For many years one of my favorite talks about indie games development was Jonathan Blow's speech at UC Berkeley CSUA (2011) (http://the-witness.net/news/2011/06/how-to-program-independe...)

Initially I loved his main message during the talk: "You have to be brutally effective to finish a project in a reasonable amount of time."

But there's a part in the Q&A that later grew to be even more poignant to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjDsP5n2kSM#t=1h13m8s

> Q: You said you worked on many projects before Braid which didn't quite get completed. What was special about Braid which made you complete it?

> A: What was special was it had been a long time since I'd finished anything on my own, and I sat down and decided that "Dammit I'm going to finish something this time". And, "To that end, so I can finish this, I'm gonna make something that is technically pretty simple"...

For some of us, it's REALLY HARD to complete a side-project while working full-time job. For most of my career I had completed a real game only when it was for a job (or for a client) and I worked on it full-time.

The single reason I hadn't made a game as a side project was because I'd quit before I finished. I finally figured out something that worked for me, and it was counter to all the advice I'd heard. I'm sure this is different for other people, but for me the key to working day after day consistently (not quitting) on a project while working full-time was to eliminate all the "shoulds".

When my conscious brain is always telling myself that I should do the project a certain way, my subconscious rebels and suddenly I become unproductive. There's a ton of great advice out there such as: "Don't reinvent the wheel, build your game not a game engine." The problem is sometimes my subconscious wants to build the game engine, not the game. I can coerce it to do the right thing when it's for an employer, but it's a different story for a side project.

Ever since I stopped "should-ing" myself, I've become much more consistent and productive on side projects. If you want to make games on your own as an engineer, but are having trouble forcing yourself to spend a couple hours every day on it, then I'd suggest that you try to just code whatever the hell you want to code instead of the thing you're supposed to code. You may find, like I did, that it's better to gain some coding velocity, because this velocity gives you the momentum fly over humps that you weren't able to overcome back when you were trying to start working on your game from a standstill.
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Or how about a large battery pack that drops back to the ground after take off, eliminating it’s weight from the airframe?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26162513
love it. thanks!!!

something I struggle as well is to find good 2d tutorials + handling multiplayer in unity.

Any link would be super helpful
Hi prof! This is super neat, Nick and I have actually been looking into code generation ourselves for part of Whize.
> (If you really care about HTTPS over the network, I'm sure there's a way to set up an SSL stripping proxy locally, but I haven't figured out how to do it yet. #lazyweb)

On Snow Leopard specifically, I made an installer which sets it up for you. :)

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/fixing-https-issues-on-...
> “Someone who kills another sentient being, cuts out their heart, and boasts about it fits the definition of a sociopath,” she said.

I'm inclined to agree with this assessment.
> On Apple Silicon-based Macs you in practice have to use the latest, more locked-down version of macOS.

Because Apple Silicon computers were not available on the market until 3 months ago. Of course you have to use the "latest, more locked-down version of macOS" considering they have never released any other version of macOS for this platform! It is absurd to expect that they would backport support for an _entirely new architecture_, a monumental engineering effort, to previous versions of macOS.

If you are going to claim that Big Sur is more locked down than the previous release, I'd also like to see citations about that. The most significant change is that the OS-provided files are now on a read-only partition. You can still break the seal and modify it if you want.

Whether or not they prevent you from downgrading to Big Sur from the next release remains to be seen. They do so on iOS, but this has never been the case on macOS, which has the `softwareupdate` command line tool that can download OS installers for past releases, plus Time Machine for rolling back to earlier snapshots.
Has anybody tried to retrofit a transflector into a laptop LCD screen? I've got no idea if this is even possible but I'd love to be able to just trigger a brightness=0 and see a smartwatch-type display that doesn't strain my eyes.
You can pontificate all you want about money alone being insufficient, but mine isn't a comment about printing money, nor about Intel.

Long term semiconductor capital expenditure won't give fruit for several years, and reliance on foreign production binds us into disadvantageous geopolitical power projection games. Companies are cautious in laying out the funds because they want to be certain of demand and efficient with their resources. They don't particularly care about the externalities. A government has power and scale that makes that job easier, and an incentive to establish better long term solutions that may cost more than the short-term greedy solution. In contrast, corporations have shorter time horizons, less risk tolerance, and a greater incentive to seek the greedy solution.

You get brains when you hire them. You get foundry tooling when you buy it. For the specific problem of building a manufacturing ecosystem around semiconductor fabrication, both are widely available.

Executive orders about China's influence upon the semiconductor supply chain are just lip service unless and until eleven or more zeroes are included somewhere in the package. It's not a PR problem. As you correctly point out, someone actually has to roll up their sleeves and build lots of shit. That doesn't happen for free, and it takes coordination and risk that almost no corporation can pull off unilaterally.

We have an incredibly sophisticated defense industrial apparatus for the same reason.

(BTW...Not all spending results in money creation. You can tax, issue bonds, or just recover the cost from the productivity of the project. The idea of "printing money" isn't necessarily relevant to capital projects that return revenue, although I suppose it is always a backstop.)
This is something that's been on my mind for years. Some words or turns of phrase identify you as a member of a group[1]. If someone has any amount of hostility to that group, then using these terms is going to cause them to get angry/frustrated with what you have to say instead of actually listening to your argument on its own merits... or at least that's what I've noticed about myself. For a long time, certain terms or expressions would irritate me so much that I'd ignore what the person using them had to say, even though afterwards I found I usually agreed with much of it. Even knowing now that I have this response and actively trying to avoid it, it's still difficult to ignore.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
I saw all that, too (I even took a picture of it and make a joke about living on a missile range), and I think you're reading too much into this.

Those contrails do not indicate more aircraft. They indicate favorable conditions for the formation of contrails.

And I wouldn't call it "very" unusual. It happens about every month or so, and more often at this time of year.
Apple can't though. It's soldered to the motherboard, so replacement also involves replacing the CPU and ram. Suddenly a $50 part has turned into about $500 (or $1000 with apple price gouging on ram and storage prices).
That's for the insightful Wikipedia link!

Really speaks to the mismanagement how an individual can receive tens of millions in kickbacks and no-one else in management identified the fraud.

I wonder how many other companies such behavior is happening in.
Yeah, it closed several years ago. I think HSC is still alive, but changed its name.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/08/sjm-l-weirdstuff-0408...