skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, so how is everyone feeling about MicroCenter now? I used to live in Allston and would ride my bike to the one in Cambridge, it was sick. I live 45 minutes (in no traffic conditions) away now and rarely make the drive.
Yeah look up the address on google maps and if its still a plausible location, look at the reviews. Guaranteed that a reviewer mentions its delivery-only or not.

Also you should try out finding a restaurant on google maps, then go to your delivery app.
That does not mean you can verify that the encrypted content contains what is shown to you and only that. Let's not pretend that it does.
I am honestly astounded that the whole tether and bitfinex controversy has not had a greater fallout.

For the first time in my life I have non-technical friends asking me how to invest in cryptocurrency, and I have to explain to them the real risk that there is a huge speculative bubble right now.

I am seeing the DeFi people reinventing all sorts of synthetics, derivatives and highly leveraged trading instruments in the absence of any regulatory oversight and can't help but wonder when there will be a reality check.

Even more worrying is the prospect that we don't get a price correction soon, lulling more retail investors and institutions to expose themselves to BTC. And when the fallout does happen it will hurt the real economy too (you know, the one that actually produces goods and services with value).

Crazy.
First you need to put in sensible regulations and fire the ERCOT/PUC ostriches who see no evil, hear no evil. If they think their job is to let the power generators be penny wise and pound foolish, they might as well let a fifth grader do their job because the fifth grader will actually force the idiots to actually spend money to winterize.

Second you need to acknowledge common sense and realize electric heating is a terrible technology. If you don’t want citizens to freeze to death, then you need to update the building codes. Either require a much higher standard of insulation or require gas or oil heating.
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What is interesting, for me, I prefer to buy big ticket items such as TV’s and computers from a physical store. With Amazon, I am worried about getting an counterfeit. Even with other online stores, I worry about how it will be shipped and will porch thieves steal it, and will it be delayed.

With a physical store, I can go it, check out a model myself to see how it really feels to me, and walk out the store with my purchase.

With Frys no longer around, I am now limited mainly to Best Buy and Costco.
Given the many stories we see about how impossible it is to disappear and/or protect your privacy, I take a certain comfort in seeing stories like this one.
Following this thread.
I have to say, it's surprising to me that self-respecting software engineers can be comfortable with ad-hoc systems that are difficult to reproduce, running in production or anywhere. It should be a huge red flag about dependencies and component boundaries.
Not trying to address your point at all, but an instapot is amazing for beans. No presoak needed.
Url changed from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridcoin, which has almost no information.
The unalienable rights are in the declaration of independence. The bill of rights are like human made restrictions on government which attempt protect the unalienable rights (correct me if I am wrong).
The jet engines on the ME-262 had a service life of 20 hours. The service life of the airframe was so short they didn't even bother painting them.

My dad's B-17 was scrapped after 30 some missions for being flying junk, or around 300 hours.

For comparison, the Boeing 757 was designed to fly around 65,000 hours, for comparison. A car is designed to run for 3,000 hours or so. Your car is very poorly made compared to an airplane :-)
I actually had a member of Atlassian's "security dev team" tell me in a support ticket I opened about being unable to login with referer headers disabled that:

> since we cannot discount the possibility of malicious users programatically generating tokens and forcing them upon users, we check the referer header to ensure that the request chain was initiated in the one place that we're comfortable with: id.atlassian.com

Make of that what you will.
Yes, URL changed now from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridcoin. I wish I had thought of that (or seen your comment) sooner!
(I meant to say iLife—the whole suite—not iWeb. Not sure how I messed that up.)
clearly these machines are a few months old at most. we clearly have a lot to learn about how they work and what’s likely to break. If they’re anything like the last time apple made a big new hardware change, if you want a functional computer, you’ll have to watch out for dust.
If there are aliens, we are in deep shit.

There are two poles: Either the aliens are extremely rapacious, or very enlightened.

If they're rapacious, we are weak annoying ants to be crushed.

If they're enlightened, a cursory examination of our history and treatment of the world would show that we are extremely rapacious, and need to be contained or destroyed.

So no matter where on that continuum, we are either destroyed or enslaved.
Could it be a discarded second stage from a satellite launch, reentering with orbital speed?
Right. If I understand it, it does seem to me to be an acceptable and reasonable solution, and I can't think of a better one.

But isn't it the "shared stateful development environment" the OP is saying is unacceptable? Since every developer doesn't get their own "last generation of hardware"?

But I may be misunderstanding the OP?

I am not trying to critisize what you did; I am trying to understand and possibly critique the OP. The OP seems unrealistic to me, despite it's protestations that it really isn't; but I may be misunderstnading the OP.
> they kept the enter key on the door though

That's a nice touch/nod!

Thanks for the correction, yeah SportsBasement. I went mostly to the one off Portage.
When I moved to California in the early 2000s, i made my trip to Fry’s, but it was kind of disappointing, although I have no idea what I was expecting. I will say that Fry’s was the only nonsexshop I’ve ever been in that sold hardcore pornography DVDs. I always wondered how many they actually sold.
I purchased my M1 on Feb 16... haven't used her all that much since i have a 16" Pro for work. Does this look bad?

Percentage Used: 0%

Data Units Read: 5,406,703 [2.76 TB]

Data Units Written: 5,381,633 [2.75 TB]

Host Read Commands: 27,309,330

Host Write Commands: 25,822,612
> it’s a bipartisan fact that Russians made a big effort to influence at least the 2016 election

The Russian influence claims are way over exaggerated. The best evidence they found are in the order of 10k$, like ads for Facebook pages with barely any followers. There was no bombshell of anything that could have any kind of significant effects. For all we know those were armchair trolls on the Internet.

> You may find the Mueller report enlightening, then.

Have you actually read it or cherry picked the quote you like? Not only was it started on lies (one lawyer was convicted for altering documents) and concluded there was not enough to charge for illicit links between the Trump Campaign and any other Republicans, most of it is simply finding "links", like meeting for a project, with nothing about proving the content or the intent for collusion.

> Rather than taking a hard stance against Russia because of this, Trump officials have been convicted related to their lies about the situation.

Not exactly, they've all been convicted on technicalities and what was clear entrapment. The Michael Flynn is quite telling of that with how he was lured into a FBI interview at work where it was normal to talk to FBI agents, how with no representations or document he was "caught" not being factual about an event that happened years ago and how the judge sought an ex parte so he could refuse the prosecution's demand to dismiss the case.

> Alleging or assuming that trump knew about this and/or encouraged it is not a huge stretch given his history.

Confirmation bias. Not really an argument.

> https://www.c-span.org/video/?413263-1/donald-trump-urges-ru...

Why do you only take seriously the part that fits your conclusion but refuse to ignore the part where he had nothing to do with Putin? Don't expect to be taken seriously when your "damning proof" is a quote taken out of context and that the context contradicts you.
anyone who could manage to secretly run the world would probably be better at it than the clowns we’ve got publicly running the world.
>... Think of the lawsuits!

On what grounds? Besides, the federal government is sovereign and can't be sued in most circumstances.
My uncle used to care for Donald Fry (started Fry's original supermarket) at his mansion in Arizona. We got to visit and hang out with him and his wife. The place was a palace. And yet two of the nicest, down-to-earth people I ever met. They insisted on us staying the night and fixing us breakfast in the morning. This was a couple years before he passed, and he was already suffering from Parkinson's, but I'll always remember how sweet they were, and nothing like I expected.
That was a fun read, thanks for sharing! Rather amusing to see how the 1959 story imagines money in 1996—Knox notes each researcher on the moon base costs “90 dollars a day” implying that that is a huge expense.
How would you hear your fire alarm?
Building a Product Recommendation Engine
They used to bring their pets to the office too till the people with allergies put an end to that.
I was thinking "modern C++" is potentially a good fit for avoiding most of these complaints (i.e. if you solely use smart pointers). Given their other post about technology choices[0] I'd guess it's a safe assumption.

That said, I don't think any language is without trade-offs. As the author says:

> Hint: if you can't find something stunningly wrong with your "chosen one" language, you probably haven't been using it long enough...

[0]: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/09/24/feedback/
Mountain Lion, El Capitan, High Sierra? They weren't as good as Snow Leopard but they did follow the same philosophy—very few user-visible features, focus on under-the-hood improvements and stability.
The 3090 runs super hot. You probably want to look into a heatsink/fan for your vram.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/loxagu/improve...

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/optimize-your-gpu-for-et...
while i don’t think many of us are used to thinking at scale, any percentage of apple’s customers making literally any choice about something that purchase from apple, is a f-ton of money.
yea but it would be cool if you could include comments, wouldn't it?
I don't think congresspeople putting pressure on media infrastructure like that is politics as normal. This seems to me like a step change in the current trend.
Yes. I've encountered people who can't explain what the patriarchy is but still use that term. Back in 2016 somebody told me Hillary Clinton was a "crook". What a strange word that nobody would normally use. He couldn't explain if it means criminal or corrupt or something else or why she was that. Better to just not say anything if you're only parroting buzzwords.

Edit. Just caught myself say "parroting". That's one of those needlessly contentious or offensive words.
The consignment model was because they didn't have any money to pay suppliers for merchandise. So it was something of a choice between having nearly empty shelves and completely empty shelves.
Opening that link, I just get presented with a login page.
We know that the government kept the SR71 secret in the 50s and 60s and the stealth bomber secret in the 80s and 90s. There’s a great book called Skunk Works that details how massive military aviation advances were kept secret for decades.

Now, we’re 60 years on from the Blackbird and 40 years on from the stealth bomber. We know the military has operated drones for decades and that Russia has hypersonic missiles.

I find it much more plausible that these are top secret man made UFOs. In 10-20 years when this technology is outdated we’ll probably find out what it really was.
I like this post aside from the very end where a statement I agree with is used as the example of miscommunication arising from what not to do :p
While I agree with your argument, I want to call out a specific point:

> If they wanted you to play inside, they wouldn't use torque screws

Torque screws are superior to Phillips heads because they are far more resistant to cam-out; which is a bigger problem than needing to buy a screwdriver kit for $10 off eBay once in your life.
CPUs and RAM used to go up and down weekly at least in the grey market "distributor" segment. Fry's and Central, etc, had enough markup they didn't have to worry too much about that. Also, I think Central and other smaller ones were more JIT for low margin products with unstable pricing (they'd have daily deliveries from their grey market distributors).

But surprisingly, GPUs hold their value these days.
I'd guess at least half. Anyone who was alive during Desert Storm could describe one, they were all over TV at the time.
Fry’s was a junkyard for years, I’m not even sure how they lasted as long as they did. Playing the “Is this a returned item” game every time you went to buy something was never much fun.

I did get a few great deals there, but it seemed like a long ugly slide into oblivion and I haven’t wanted to go in there for years.
Given their previous post about technology choices[0], I'd say modern C++ is probably ticking most of those boxes for the author.

[0]: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/09/24/feedback/
The start of a new poverty narrative
Nim seems like a much more compelling alternative.

It generally feels pretty pythonic (At least as much as anything typed can), and it certainly scratches the "compiles to efficient machine code with no dependencies" itch.
They go the same speed, but the U-2 is at twice the altitude.

Due to retinal persistence you will see the part of an aircraft that is longest in the direction of travel (the body) more clearly than the wings. Only military aircraft carry radar, commercial planes depend on TCAS which requires the other object to be transmitting a beacon signal.
I was simply using the terminology OP was using and explaining why "right over the top" doesn't mean there was potential for collision.
> Freedom also means the freedom to give your freedoms away.

Not necessarily. Freedom has its own equivalent to the Paradox of Tolerance (ie. tolerating the intolerant implicitly gives them the upper hand, leading to a decline in tolerance).

Because of that, there are various limits that are imposed on giving (or trading) your freedoms away, in the interest of maximizing freedom overall. For an extreme example, it is not legal to sell yourself into slavery (or indentured servitude, or most other variations on that theme).

Less dramatically, Fair Dealing / First Sale doctrines make imposing a restriction on reselling goods as a condition of purchase (most prominently applied to the secondhand book market) unenforceable. Various jurisdictions have similarly made non-compete clauses in employment agreements unenforceable. And so on.

Of course, there are plenty of circumstances where free societies have determined that the freedom to give up your freedom is allowed, or even encouraged, but it is hardly universal across the board.
> When I updated to 10.8 Mountain Lion, I gained Messages (iMessage desktop) and Notes, but I lost Web Sharing. Now I have to install Apache myself, and it often breaks when I update the OS.

They didn't remove Web Sharing, they just removed it from System Preferences. Apache is still installed by default and can be enabled from the Terminal. `sudo apachectl start`
What would you guess the dimensions were? Color(s)? Was there any vertical component to its trajectory?
IIRC each release had its controversies. Maybe not Mountain Lion but I seem to recall wireless issues and MDNS responder (or whatever the acronym was).
It's extremely important to be scrupulous about what content actually says when posting it to HN. The title you posted was obviously tendentious; please don't do that in the future.

I don't think the headline of some third-party piece is relevant here.
I find newegg's [1] faceted search a lot better than say, amazon's, for finding computer hardware. Couldn't Fry's have moved operations online and become a newegg's alternative?

1: https://www.newegg.com/
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Smart Contracts Are Useless
One idea that I've entertained is that they are terrestrial biological entities, like maybe a blue whale or giant squid but more rare and possibly of a shadow biome.
So there's definitely opportunities for taking on a role as an ML engineer with a non traditional background.

From a learning perspective, I'd say that you could start by taking courses on statistics and probability, then reviewing a little bit of calculus, and then doing something like the machine learning and deep learning courses on coursera.

From there you can test out your skills using a platform like https://workera.ai/

For getting raw experience though -- if you aren't in an academic setting, or a technical setting where you could be exposed to those opportunities, the best thing that you can do is contribute to widely used ML libraries on a platform like github. It's definitely not easy to get started in that process, but it'll teach the workflow of a basic ML or research SWE, and you will definitely be a super independent learner or worker after that.

Good luck with your journey!
But so did Snow Leopard! It literally erased people's hard drives!

I do not think High Sierra is as good as Snow Leopard—if I did, I'd be typing this on High Sierra instead of Mavericks. But High Sierra was a stability release.
Remember, 5g is the way that commercial iot devices will have unfettered network access.

It really is quite dystopian.
Come say hi in https://julialang.zulipchat.com or https://discourse.julialang.org/, especially if you have questions about anything!
cf _Phaedrus_:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24737221
I'm not so sure about that. If chairman Xi decides to invade or blockade Taiwan you have a supply chain problem.
The newly launched Ioniq EV car by Hyundai will have a V2L or Voltage-to-Load function that can enable charging other electrical appliances including other EV cars.

Next time this thing happen no need to derail a train just get an EV or a PHEV that can be a handy as a mobile and powerful power generator. For PHEV you can even use petrol or diesel to generate the electricity.
Reminds me of old-school passive matrix LCD displays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_matrix_addressing) on laptops in the 1990s.

It is certainly possible, just not a popular demand for most laptops.
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“Technical Debt” – That’s not really what “debt” means
I totally agree with you. I think there are two types of "Where do I start?" that folks wonder:

- Say, I know what I want to build exactly where do I start? a.k.a -- What's the equivalent to starting at the DAO / API layer and building the integration later, in the gamedev world?

- I know I'd like to make games, where do I start coding?

I focused a lot in the article about that first question (and only briefly alluded to prototyping, etc.) -- mostly because I was interested in the theoretical question of engineering practices.
I suppose it could be Mail, Spotify, iCloud, or anything really. But if its happening on all the new M1 macs, what do you think the common denominator is?
I strongly agree with the sentiment of this, and naturally gravitate towards avoiding any such loaded language.

But writing posts like the ones he's referring to doesn't seem like a great solution to me. They come off as a little disingenuous, like they're trying to show off how detached they are from the Big Moral Questions while still shunting you towards a Big Moral Opinion.

His thoughts seem to be shaped by having been exposed to things defined by the contours of contentious terms. He's writing the posts to add a rational, more persuasive voice to a broader conversation, while intentionally alienating himself from the broader conversation. It's a worthwhile persuasive strategy...so I would've liked to have seen a bit more on how to get over the hurdle of tone.
I think he means 16GB, not 16" as he mentions 3 yr old but 16" didn't exist 3 years ago.
Based on stories from HN I would totally separate these accounts from any personal accounts. Even separate it project based. It any of them gets canceled, locked you shouldn't lose access to your personal mail or mobile phone.
However, are "your people" actually transitively closed? My impression is this isn't really the case for most people (or at least not if you like to talk about more than one thing).

I'm reminded of this article I saw several years ago

https://plausiblydeniable.com/five-geek-social-fallacies/

which suggests that we shouldn't assume friendship is transitive.

I know I have friends whom I would never want to introduce to one another or have in the same conversation or social gathering!

I agree with your suggestion that being able to ignore someone easily could make communications environments better; it seems like there was probably a lot of direct and indirect benefit in USENET killfiles (although I'm not such a fan of how people used them performatively, publicly announcing that they had killfiled other people -- usually by writing "PLONK!" at the end of a long rejoinder).
Same for the Renton location. Although the stock is a little better since my last visit it is woefully inadequate. Most of the brands are things I have never heard of.

The entire trip I was just thinking they have to be close to shutting down.

Well I’ll grab some essentials on the liquidation sale.
As others have said, it's sad to see them go. What I'm more sad at is that it feels like the end of an era for the valley and the spirit the made it great. Still, it's time has passed, and I won't actually miss it, I'll miss what it stood for.
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IMO, the only truly skeumorphic releases of OS X are Lion and Mountain Lion. Snow Leopard and Mavericks use textures from the real world, but rarely try to actually imitate objects.
Isn't TSMC building a plant in Arizona? And Samsung's plant in Texas too?
There also exists the "Fortuna" exploit (and also recently reimplemented and documented as open source "OpenTuna"), which uses a buffer overflow in the memory card icon reading code, providing a disc-less exploit for the later models of PS2 (including the "PS2 TV", aka the Sony Bravia KDL-22PX300 television set including a built-in PS2 console)

With FreeMCBoot and Fortuna, all PS2 consoles can be exploited from boot time. With FreeDVDBoot, it provides a convenient entrypoint to install the aforementioned exploits.
Standard C++ has parallel algorithm primitives so there no need to depend on TBB anymore.

You can give each thread its own malloc that just mmaps what it needs, if you are leaking everything anyway.

This is a case where using a raw new() and raw pointers is much better than using a smart pointer, because touching things to run destructors unnecessarily is itself expensive.