skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't followed r3f development for the last six months or so, but previously I tested a couple of examples that were available as both r3f and pure three.js. I tested them on my old, slow mobile - and there seemed to be a big difference, with r3f much slower. When I brought this up with the devs, they have waved it away saying it's because the demos were running in dev mode (or something similar). However, I haven't seen any genuine comparisons of performance in r3f vs three.js, so for now I'm erring on the side of caution and assuming it's slow. I don't know enough about react to create performance tests myself, unfortunately.
Wouldn't you say that thinly-veiled threats encourage a behaviour?
The backlight on the Dasung HD-FT in the picture from the blog post seems to be way too bright, makes it appear to be lower contrast than it probably is..

https://alexsoto.dev/static/building-an-e-ink-laptop/eink-t4...
Ah, Fry's...

Back in 2000ish, went to the Phoenix store to get parts to repair a friend's PC that had blown up.

I think it was around 2010, me and Grandpa went to the one in the Dallas area to build a PC "old school" because he'd built his ham radios from tubes and solder, it was time to stay current. Afterwards, he was a bit disappointed at how easy it was. He expected at least a spark from the power supply and we might have to buy new parts. On the other hand, he was pleased to see that the tinkerer and willing to make things was still running through the bloodline.

For the first few years here in CA, it was a great place to look at new toys and occasionally buy them. It was always good for buying a quick phone when one would die late night. Ingress kills phones, man, deal with it.

But yeah, the year before the plague was eerie and empty and "No, we're not closing." and now I'm sad.
All schools here in the UK start at 9.

Why would you start your schools at 6am, I wouldn't take a job that made me start at 6am every day? I would just slowly get tired and less effective.
Hasura GraphQL Engine 2.0: support REST API, multi simultaneously DB
- Connect multiple databases simultaneously and database generalization

- Support for REST, in addition to GraphQL, for the user facing API

- Authorization engine enhancements

- HA & Distributed Ops - Reliability & Scalability (aka - prevent GraphQL is the single point of failure related problems)

- Metadata API tooling
When I was young (back to my primary school time), these UFO stuffs really fascinated me.
But nowadays, I've lost interests...
Cell's problem was the end of Dennard scaling hit them as hard as it hit the Pentium 4. It was designed in an era that was expecting to be able to get 5Ghz+ easily out of (albeit premium) consumer electronics chips.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling#Breakdown_of_D...

By the time they figured out that they weren't going to be able to cash the metaphorical checks the process side had been writing up until that point, it was too late to go back to square one. The design unfortunately had to be pigeon holed out of it's designed niche, and they had to strap that anemic Nvidia GPU to the side of it just to have a shippable product. Turned out really well given all those factors working against it.
"Last decade" is an exaggeration, I think, but certainly for the past 2-3 years. Though maybe it just varied by location
California's net neutrality law allowed to take effect after judge's ruling
If you're viewing everything through a rational and sterile lens (and probably, a privileged lens), it makes a huge deal of sense to just avoid "contentious" terms. It's no skin off your back, and it makes it more likely that you're able to maintain social decorum when interacting with people. And maintaining social decorum is probably pretty high on your list of things you care about.

If you're from a marginalised group, I don't think just "avoiding contentious terms" is so easy. There's an emotional aspect to things. There a probably groups with "contentious" labels that want you dead, or want your rights removed. This has probably affected people you love and care about. Maintaining social decorum by not putting people off-side is low on the list of things you care about. You've got bigger fish to fry, and using these marginalised terms to mark yourself as part of the in group probably serves a coping purpose as well as a safety purpose (to easily identify those that will marginalise you, because they are quick to be angered by your "contentious" terms).
Yes, I realized that this was also a problem but couldn't think of a better way to refer concisely to people who favor more enforcement of immigration laws! I understand that many people favor immigration but also want laws that restrict it to be enforced.

I was thinking of giving an example about abortion and realized that even talking about "pro-abortion people usually call themselves 'pro-choice' and anti-abortion people usually call themselves 'pro-life'" would also have the same problem, because some people who favor legalized abortion also want to discourage abortion or reduce the number of abortions that occur, so they don't agree that they are "pro-abortion".

In college I strongly favored drug legalization while also strongly opposing drug use, which makes it unclear to what extent it would have been appropriate to call me "pro-drug" or "anti-drug".
You could’ve probably built it in rails with less experience and half the time
Zoho authtoken depreciation imminent. Support ends 2/28/21
Just FYI Zoho has dropped the ball with emailing customers about this. I've seen many people caught unawares. So I'm posting this to hopefully bring visibility to others they might not have communicated this to. The gist is their authtoken is going away and OAUTH only is supported. more details here: https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/community/topic/deprecating-support-for-authtokens and https://www.zoho.com/analytics/help/oauth-authentication-model.html
That link doesn't provide any support for the claim.
They are constantly creating new patents:

https://patents.justia.com/assignee/e-ink-corporation
There’s nothing wrong with renting, I support strong, high quality, inexpensive public housing. I don’t support private landlords and the commodification of housing.
Yeah, when it opened, the one in Wilsonville, OR was truly a marvel. Frys was a step down out of the gate. Lately, it's just been disgusting. Maybe it's because I was a kid in high school, but thinking back on the magic of Incredible Universe, it's a truly sad development.
And how do you know some nefarious hacker didn't mess with your far easier to mess with unencrypted stream?
Thank you for this comment. I think what poo pooing is showing us is that the majority of humankind is not yet ready to be in contact with an extraterrestrial civilization because such thinking is way too narrow to even begin a conversation.

This is why publishing such articles is important, and why they should make more people think that there is a possibility after all that humans are not the only ones in the universe and that life is all around them.

This is such a preliminary line of thought, that, if most humans lack this perspective, why even begin to engage?
Fry's has been a dead company walking for a while. They went to their consignment model in 2019 before the holiday shopping season. I remember summer of 2019 there were fire sale prices all over the store. By late 2019 and into 2020 their shelves were empty or "stocked" with filler items. Even without COVID there hasn't been a reason to step into one of their stores for over a year.
Damn, I have fond memories of going to fry's with my dad as a kid. I'd always run straight to the video game section. Going to be sad to see them go, what experiences do kids have these days I wonder?
Happy Birthday Pascal!

Thanks for teaching me almost safe systems programming with your dialects and descendants.
There were fewer new user-visible features, so they could focus on optimization and stability (which includes things like Grand Central Dispatch and rewriting Finder to use a modern API).

QuickTime X was a big deal, but it was probably the largest user-facing new feature—the Mac App Store wasn't added until a year after launch.

Mountain Lion, El Capitan, and High Sierra were all similar to Snow Leopard in their priorities.
> The old man's business doesn't employ half the number of journalists as it did twenty years ago, and the new legislation doesn't require him to hire any more.

Rest assured, he won't be hiring any more. These are the figures:

- news.com.au publishing (newspaper) revenues in 2019-2020: $1B. [0]

- Amount Google is reportedly paying news.com.au: $30m/year. [1]

- news.com.au decrease in revenue from 2019 to 2019: $119m. [0]

I'm not sure what the legislation is meant to be achieving, but with numbers like that the one thing you can be absolutely sure it won't be doing is saving newspapers, or journalists.

[0] https://newscorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/news-corp-20...

[1] https://theconversation.com/why-google-is-now-funnelling-mil...
FYI: the "well-regulated" of 2A refers to a concept more along the lines of "well oiled" than what we term "government regulation" today.
Excellent comment! You are completely right and illustrated your points with hilarious accuracy.
Not surprised about the closing (if anything I'm surprised they haven't closed earlier) but very sad. Used to have a great time selecting gaming PC components and other high end parts from their shop.

I went just before COVID hit: half the shelves were empty - the only area doing business was the PC section filled with old and outdated machines at inflated prices. Sad to see it go, it's the end of a generation, but they should have shut it years ago.
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My biggest memory of Fry's will always be the first visit there.

My dad needed a new graphics card for our family computer (aka his computer). I think this right after we upgraded to XP. He spent the whole time trying to explain to 7yo me why anybody would want smaller pixels. I just wasn't getting that you smash more of them into a smaller space to get a prettier picture.

There was an iMac G5 display too, and I was captivated by that
The ball is rolling downhill. If we continue to allow centralized social media companies beholden to a government, to be the public square, then we too will turn into this dystopian nightmare given time.

We must reclaim the public square if we wish to retain democracy.
Torrents suck for SSD lifetime, the chunk size is typically 16kb but chunks aren’t downloaded whole and in order, so you might end up with a lot of wear and tear unless the file system and the torrent client/library are both working together to eliminate the partial writes.

However, it doesn’t seem that torrents are a common factor in user accounts, and 30GiB in torrents would not account for that much write amplification, so carry on!
> It’s a rule against someone speaking something they know and believe a priori to be false with the intent to mislead people.

If one doesn’t believe in the Holocaust, yet publishes erudite webpages with the intent to mislead others (at least from his POV) into thinking it really happened, would that be a problem?

If yes, you are consistent, albeit a bit crazy.

If no, your rule reduces, once again, to a focus on the falsity of the communication as opposed to the writers intent.
FWIW my 256GB SSD + 116GB RAM M1 MBP13 had 0.9 TB writes in 6 weeks, so very close.

A similar configuration Intel MB12 I use in 3.5 years also had writes at the same rate.
Maybe it was just me, but there was a lot of talk and excitement that the desktop metaphor and WIMP had kind of plateaued and something new might happen. There were a lot of interesting things tried, but the new UIs for smartphones were the only things that caught on. The desktop kind of stopped changing.
That space is probably three times the size of any Best Buy I've been in. I have no idea what will go in there.
I feel like that's true to how the average person thinks. My aunt told me she got octagonal tiles for her bathroom. I said you can't tile octagons in two dimensions. After a short argument she showed me a picture. They were hexagons.
None of that is relevant today. Cameras are everywhere. External cameras, GoPros in cockpits.

Ball lightning stories disappeared with mobile phones. Ufo stories are also disappearing. It's less and less likely that everybody just happens to miss opportunity of taking pictures.
I graduated college in 1985 and moved cross country to Sunnyvale for work. Fry's was a supermarket chain, and at the time there was one and only one location that was trying out carrying computer stuff, on the east side of Lawrence Ave I think, before they moved to the west side of Lawrence.

They weren't yet fully committed to it. Half the store was produce and such -- milk, eggs, lettuce, etc, and the other half was rows of TTL parts, memory chips, diodes, capacitors, and resistors. It blew my mind. I bought a 68000 CPU, 128KB of DRAM chips (64Kx1 density back then), a perf board, wirewrap wire and a wrapping tool, EPROMs, sockets, and built my first computer all from parts I bought at that Fry's.

About 60 seconds away from Fry's was Computer Literacy -- a really great bookstore that, as the name implies, had nothing but computer related books. It wasn't 20 copies of "Computers for Dummies" books. The vast majority of inventory were single copies of the most arcane stuff -- all sorts of college level CS textbooks, and you could ask the desk to order just about anything if you knew the title of it.

I sent a lot of money and time in both locations. Silicon Valley felt like a magical place back then.
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I just went to Central Computer for the first time a couple weeks ago! I got my PSU, AIO, and a smattering of other cables and cable wraps. The Microcenter near where I grew up was just too far away to drive and Fry’s never really had the stuff I want anyway. I hope CC sticks around; even though they feel like a relic of the 90’s and 00’s (much like Fry’s) they have a lot of nice components.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26246435
Delphi is a transition point between Pascal and C#, so.

In any case, I bet he wasn't that found of Delphi. You will also not find much love from him on the Oberon descendants, namely Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Oberon.NET, Zonnon, Component Pascal.

Modula-2 isn't that much big influence on OCaml, its modular ideas were already present in CLU, ML and Mesa.

Also OCaml, is actually Objective Caml, back when I was in the university Caml Ligth was still their stable ML implementation, with Objective Caml being released a couple of years later.
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> Else they're bound to be compatible with the lowest common denominator standard connectors and drive implementations.

The fairly common Samsung 9x0 Pro Nvme SSDs are way faster in almost all benchmarks. So I don't think that argument holds.

This really is about charging a premium for additional storage - and not due to technical reasons.
A nice tidbit: American Institute of Mathematics[1] is located somewhere in the offices of the Aztec-themed Fry's in San Jose (it's the HQ).

John Fry figured he'd sponsor some science, and math is cheaper than, say, physics. So a small library and a room was allocated; you'd get to it through the back entrance, passing secretaries and suits playing mini-golf, until you end up in a very university-like (though small) space.

I've attended a couple of workshops there for geometric group theory (my advisor invited me). It was a pretty solid math experience.

I wonder what will happen to this (I knew the store was a goner a year-ish ago when I couldn't even buy a USB stick there, but still...).

[1]https://aimath.org/
My three months old 256 GB shows 9 TB written and 0% used. I mainly write in VS Code on this machine.
> I understand that many people favor immigration but also want laws that restrict it to be enforced.

Too often the xenophilic restrictionists are left out of the conversation of immigration and coerced into one camp or the other.
What is valuable is not just developing relations with countries in the South China Sea like Taiwan, but also encouraging many allies to do so as well so that it's far more politically risky for China to mess with Taiwan and others in the South China Sea. Right now, Beijing thinks it can get away with anything. The situation needs to materially change so Beijing only alienates itself if it acts aggressively.
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I have a friend who's worked at Best Buy for the past ~7 years. According to him, they:

- Beefed up their online presence. It's honestly a better experience than Amazon because it's specialized (which is a low bar, but still).

- Use stores as distribution centers. You can make an online purchase and then go pick it up that day if you feel like it, which Amazon struggles to compete with.

- Focus on customer service; both sales and Geek Squad. People who don't know exactly what they want will be lost on Amazon; Best Buy not only has people who will give recommendations, they'll even send someone to your house for free to evaluate your needs. Then after you purchase you can get in-person customer support (which can also go to your house if you want). Almost an "Apple Store for all the other tech products" kind of idea. There's an angle here, of course, but I think there's also genuine value for non-techies.

Contrasting the way they and Fry's responded to the e-commerce era is actually really striking as a case-study
The performance improvements due to parallel computing hardware (think Metal GPUs and their successors) will be so insane in 16 years that your current laptop won't stand a chance at doing anything what will be considered standard then.
If this was happening in South Africa I would think corruption 100%. I mean, why can't you just take any van and stick some standard issue shelves in the back?
Yes. That is what I said and how I interpreted it. If the split is even (H0 true), getting a result that lopsided is a 1-out-7 deal.

It's rare that a p-value is what you want, but for answering "how unusual is this case", it's the exact right tool for the job.
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Cproxy: Per app transparent proxy built on Linux cgroup net_cls
I need to proxy my programs with different proxy servers on a daily basis. Existing solutions such as proxychains has drawbacks such as not able to proxy programs written in Go, so I wrote this to make transparent proxy on Linux handy and simple :)
When does the patent actually end? I see it noted here that the invention was 1997 and a typical patent is 20 years? What's the missing variable? (I know nothing about patents nor e-ink besides my paperwhite)
Well I'm not sure what else I was expecting there.
When I went to college you could bypass this by getting married, and I considered it with a high school classmate. We weren’t dating and weren’t even really friends - she just happened to bring it up in class once and I told her I’d had the same thought.

I ended up going for pretty close to free after scholarships anyways, though she did joke about consummating the marriage so I guess I missed out on that.
Presumably people getting 16GB of RAM are also running more memory intensive workloads than those not shelling out for the upgrade, so it could be a non-factor.
I don't know how I missed this, I love it, thank you.
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This is classic form over function. It's been scientifically measured that sans-serif fonts are better for screens with serif best for printed text.

Something like Helvetica with good spacing and high contrast is the best for reading online.
Data point:

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 26 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 21,290,808 [10.9 TB]
Data Units Written: 17,018,375 [8.71 TB]
Host Read Commands: 128,112,411
Host Write Commands: 89,074,700
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 174
Power On Hours: 80
Unsafe Shutdowns: 6
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0

8GB/256GB three months old. Mostly used to write code using VS Code and browsing with Chrome. I've also compiled a lot of Haskell code.
This is precisely what the OLPC screen did and it worked really quite beautifully.

Sadly doesn’t look like the spin off company producing the displays went anywhere :(

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Qi
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As a tween who would beg his parents to take him to the OG Fremont store (Mission @ Warm Springs) back in the early 90s, and as a pimpled 14 year-old who was rejected by Fry's for a job but got scooped as a novelty hire at NCA Computer (also RIP), and as someone who spent several thousand dollars of his allowance on games, parts, peripherals, and of course impulse section candy bars, this is the one vestige of my childhood foray into electronics and computing that's held out this long. Weird Stuff and CompUSA were great, but didn't have the same kitsch or, ahem, 'smell' as Fry's. The dime-a-dozen corporate park outfits you'd find ads for in Computer Currents (I'm looking at you, Laitron Computers) just didn't have the same "browsability" or relatively welcome vibe where you could literally spend hours in whichever store just looking for inspiration and guidance on future career paths in tech.

Sure, most of the open box items were used and vandalized, but they were cheap and worked great with a little elbow grease. Sure, 97% of the employees treated customers like shit and huddled in clique-ish corners mocking us for whatever stupid reason - but the 3% of employees that cared (and who were also horribly underpaid) were absolutely amazing at their job. Sure, the food was crap when they started adding cafes. But watching the oversized Tesla coil do its thing while you get a sugar rush from the Frappuccino was better than any Disney experience.

It was a long time coming, but I will miss you Fry's. I'm hoping MicroCenter, Central Computer, Jameco, Anchor, and the other "independents" stick around just a little bit longer.
In this era, people can fake anything, as well as debunk anything. If someone doesn't want to believe something, no amount of video will be enough to convince that person.

That said, because they're very common, and that there are many stories about them across the history (and not just in recent times) and from many different sources, and that there's a lot of government documentation, and the fact that even Pentagon officially recognized that there's something going on, should be at least enough to steer you away from saying something is just 'bs'.
IIRC, the existing USPS vehicles are made with a lot of off-the-shelf parts from existing automakers and their suppliers. In a way, this really isn't that much different than traditional automakers -- a lot of them share parts, or even entire chassis designs. I would expect that these will probably also share a lot of parts from other existing vehicles.

The difference is that a government contractor has expertise in packaging everything to meet a single customer's needs. Traditional automakers don't really do this -- they build to their own spec.