skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live `on the outskirts of San Diego` (~30 min north, <10 miles to coast) and Marriott branded hotels (not motels) is currently listed as $125/night in spring break season. The hotel pricing argument to me indicates travel at peak season or insisting on being in the most touristy areas.

I will accept arguments on rental cars and dining/tips though (protip to any intl travelers, you can skip tipping on everything except table-service dining, Americans hit skip on every other prompt, the whole tip prompt everywhere thing was driven by payment processors wanting to increase their own profits)
Per-device WiFi auth/identity can help with IoT device isolation.
...and nobody bothered checking?
"The Last RadioShack In Maryland" is my new favorite Tom Waits song
It is just one of the techniques made popular by the book How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen so Kids Will Talk.

Summary: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/summarise-chapter-by-chapte...
Infamous message board 4chan taken down following major hack
Superconductive two-dimensional ink: Just add water
Weird to see my home county pop up on HN. As soon as I saw RadioShack + Maryland I immediately pictured exactly where this was on rt 4. I have a distinct memory of going to this very store to buy a PS2 internet adapter and an ethernet cable back in the early 2000s. It was also my go to for anything electronics related.

It was always nice to visit back home (including this year) and see that this store was still around. It will certainly be missed :(
There is a problem with vibe coding? You don't say!
Can anybody comment on when or why to choose this over core.logic?
Designing a low-cost high-performance 10 MHz – 15 GHz vector network analyzer
Do any other right wingers actually exist on HN? I swear, you guys have the same understanding of right wingers as white suburbantites have of black people.
So are DDoS scripts
Sounds like a recipe for dissatisfied users

"Why's my internet slow? Oh, YouTube is uploading a bunch of stuff to other people"

"How did I hit my bandwidth cap for the month already? Oh, youtube is..."
> I can find no fault

Is it possible that some pieces of the administration are trying exactly to convey a point, that they "cannot give a toss"? Because that is what transpires from many signals.

You know, some interpretation of "realism" as in "proposing the beast as normalcy in a blindness towards morals"?

It seems as if brutality is actively proposed as a value.
Sure, here's his characterization of the protesting students as of two weeks ago (https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8754):

"Leftist Students and Faculty: We’d sooner burn universities to the ground than allow them to remain safe for the hated Zionist Jews, the baby-killing demons of the earth. We’ll disrupt their classes, bar them from student activities, smash their Hillel centers, take over campus buildings and quads, and chant for Hezbollah and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades to eradicate them like vermin. We’ll do all this because we’ve so thoroughly learned the lessons of the Holocaust."

Here are Scott Aaronson's claims about Trump deportees (https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8758):

"It’s important to add: from what I know, some of the people being detained and deported are genuinely horrible. Some worked for organizations linked to Hamas, and cheered the murder of Jews."

Here is his attempt at satire, in defense of genocide (https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7957):

"Meanwhile, at elite academic institutions across the region, the calls for justice have been deafening. “From the Nile to the Sea of Reeds, free Egypt from Jacob’s seeds!” students chanted. Some protesters even taunted passing Hebrew slaves with “go back to Canaan!”, though others were quick to disavow that message. According to Professor O’Connor, it’s important to clarify that the Hebrews don’t belong in Canaan either, and that finding a place where they do belong is not the protesters’ job."
Green trees are not used for fire wood or for paper. Burning green wood makes for terrible fire wood it also causes issues with chimneys due to having more Creosote.

It is illegal In The logging Industry to use merchantable wood for paper or fire wood.
Wood has grades and graded wood is worth a lot more than fire or paper wood. Paper wood also has a grade but it is a low grade. Often firewood can be shipped to paper mills as an example.
The only shortcoming is that they currently use opacity even if there is only one author. In that case, it would seem natural to render the text as-is.
Tesla (TSLA) has to replace computer in ~4M cars or compensate their owners
When I went to Shenzhen I found some of these brands with stalls in their vast malls. They're real places. As you walk through you navigate around an obstacle course of dollies, hear endless packing tape and occasionally point out, "oh look, there's Owawuwo, I got a cheap projector from them".

Americans can get a Shenzhen-only 5-day Visa on arrival (VOA) from Hong Kong through the Luohu entry at the LoWu station via the regular MTR. Don't take the HSR, they do not offer it there and you will be turned away. You Must go to the office at Louhu station, it is the only way. It's easy, just take the metro.

Anyways, at LoWu it takes about 45 minutes after doing the paper work. It was very easy. Visa approval for Americans this exact way is estimated to be north of 98%. Exchange your HKD at the government run forex up stairs in the mall after entering China, it's a 1.5% commission, best I've ever seen. Then pay in cash - your Western credit cards Will Not Work. It is a fairly easy day trip - about 45min from Kowloon by rail. The 5-day Visa is a Single Entry.

To go to the trading district take Luobao line (#1) to Huaqianglu (3 stops). It's a 10 minute train trip or a fairly uneventful hour walk if you're up to it. English at the trading district and the border mall is ok. Everywhere else, not so much.

Recommended. The place is absolutely bonkers.

They have this wildly intricate culture of price bargaining. If you're looking to actually buy stuff, you can get amazing deals. But I just went as a tourist.
Federally funded R&D was around 3.4% of the GDP in 2021: https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23339.
Genuine question:

Should a government be able to revoke the tax-exempt status of a university because the university will not agree to give the government, first, the right to "audit" the viewpoints of students, professors, and administrators, and second, the right to "reduce the power" of certain students, professors, and administrators, targeted because of those viewpoints?

The right to "audit" and "reduce the power" of students, professors, and administrators are only two of the government's demands. I must confess that it's not entirely clear to me what the government means by "audit" and "reduce the power." Here is the full list of government demands: https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/...

Here is the university's response: https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-a...

Judge for yourself.
Thread a couple of days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655914
Why should I care if someone else builds and uses the torment nexus?

Because I’m among those being tormented!
Some of the sibling comments had questions around purposefully releasing defenses which don’t work. I think Carlini’s (one of the paper authors) post can add some important context: https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024/why-i-attack.html.

TLDR: Once these defenses are broken, all previously protected work is perpetually unprotected, so they are flawed at a foundational level.

Ignoring these arguments and pretending they don’t exist is pretty unethical.
"Viewpoint diversity" looks like it means something other than a literal interpretation. Without a definition of that phrase, it would appear that "abandoning DEI" would conflict with "viewpoint diversity".

Give what "freedom of speech absolutism" meant in practice, I'm guessing that "viewpoint diversity" is a demand for primacy of far-right views, but I could certainly be wrong
Right, you dislike phony validation.

When it's real, you won't notice it. What you'll probably experience is just "an honest actor" or "a good guy" or "someone like me." And the things that person says which are disagreements you experience as "an interesting point I hadn't thought of", etc...
The only things worthwhile to get at RadioShack were electronics project components, breadboards, soldering equipment, circuit board etching stuff and so on. Once they threw that stuff under the bus in order to sell cell phones and $9 toys, the place went downhill fast.
I notice people tend to argue about X when it's actually a proxy argument for Y, but they don't know themselves that it's Y.

Y is a legitimate concern or fear, but X may not be. But everyone wastes each other's time arguing about X.

If you figure out Y, you find common ground and compromise and that's when you find solutions.
> Clojure was such a brilliant name

IIRC Rich wanted a name that has CLR and J in it - Clojure initially was officially to be supported on both .Net and Java stacks. Later he realized that keeping it completely compatible on both platforms is an uphill battle. CLR Clojure still exists, but it's not "an officially supported" runtime.
I live in Germany. One reason the toters can be smaller is because there places to dispose of your recyclable goods (free) on almost every corner. The toters are just for compost and regular trash.
They put on a good show. Real racist people post videos of the f&#$ed up things they do to others that I won't even describe here. They know better than to use a clear-web site especially one using a CDN to show off their behavior. Those forums are on Tor.

4chan is nearly all angsty edgy teens on their cell phones at school trying to act tough and edgy and even they get arrested when talking tough about cops or pulling shenanigans like defacing or vandalizing property to be cool. That's a different interesting topic. Search youtube for all the 4chan unstable kids getting arrested. It's on-par with all the unstables vandalizing Tesla cars.
Every time I read someone saying “I need something”, it turns out they want to sell me something.
Well you know nothing about me so screw off.
Is it possible the "vector" is more accurate in another language? Like espirit d'esclair or schadenfreude, or any number of other things that are a single word in a language but paragraphs or more in others?
The thing is that public transport outside of dense urban areas is very expensive compared to the number of journeys.

So as soon as you start considering cost and return on investment services tend to be reduced or shut down.
>If I address any of those points, would I be nitpicking and picking on minor details?

If you only did that while ignoring my main point, yeah. Not sure why this is a difficult concept for you to grasp.

>The user brought up groping and injecting bleach. I refuted the bleach argument, leaving the groping argument alone. It's also not technically right, it's completely incorrect and absolutely disingenous framing.

Disagree there, which can be fine and reasonable. But don't pretend you addressed the poster's point, which wasn't the bleach thing. This is basic reading comprehension, again.

>I addressed ONE of the TWO reasons the user provided. What other reason am I supposed to have addressed? Should I start making some up?

He provided more than two and you didn't address his point at all. You just repeatedly bickered about small details about one of the points and said he had bad intentions.

>Rest of your post isn't worth addressing it's just the same junk.

Look who is talking. I wish I could report posters like you, you're the worst.
You've never mislabeled a package or letter?

The postal/shipping/logistics service will almost certainly have gone "that's not right..." and quietly fixed it.
If you genuinely cannot distinguish the two then that's about equally as bad as cognitive dissonance:

Phenotype diversity != Viewpoint diversity

The former is what current academia and DEI focus on, the latter is what the administration demands.

Does this simple logic need to be expressed in Rust for HN folks to wrap their mind around it?
The closest thing is a special APC enqueued via QueueUserAPC2 [1], but that's relatively new functionality in user-mode.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processt...
I'm going to genuinely miss the bicycle headlight I have bought under like 4 different brand names. I won't miss the 36 other grotesqueries sold as alternatives and produced by the same business and manufacturing environment, but I'm also not excited about having to choose between 6 $50 lights of similar quality that are locked to a GPS company's equipment. It would be great if in 10 years I could get a similar light for 25% more than the current price adjusted for future inflation. But there's no reason to believe that tariffs are going to make American products better, just that it makes the cheap products American. And there's nothing else about Trump's (or for that matter his Democratic counterparts'-) industrial policy to encourage that either.
i immediately stop reading any article when I see the word "interwebs".
Stable Diffusion Comparison in C, Rust and Ruby
Either that or you lack the wisdom and maturity to understand that people can disagree with you and be just as sincere in their beliefs as you are.
To the extent that the people making the models feel unburdened by the data being explicitly watermarked "don't use me", you are correct.

Seems like an awful risk to deliberately strip such markings. It's a kind of DRM, and breaking DRM is illegal in many countries.
Same reason you’d reach for SQL when querying relations - a good enough tool designed for the job.

The problem has always been getting facts into the prolog system. I’ve been looking for a prolog which is as easy to embed in eg Python or node as a Postgres client and… crickets.
As with most things, this is an issue of education and awareness. It's not that most developers intentionally break accessibility, but rather that a very large number of developers simply don't even know it's an issue, let alone something that they should keep in mind.
If you take "temperature" to mean "average kinetic energy of molecules" then it's fine. But that's sort of the same class of simplification as saying "entropy is the amount of disorder".
Didn't know that, thanks for the link!
American Airlines to make Wi-Fi free on most of its fleet in 2026
> Which should be the default mode of operation with anything you read on Reddit these days.

Wide variance depending on subreddit - though, apart from the ferociously moderated exceptions, the large ones are all hopeless.
> She said that since she didn’t go through training, Edward’s father said she couldn’t officially be a repair tech. But through the years, she honed her skills.

> Before he passed away, she said he was incredibly impressed with her growth.

> “Last year, (Michael King) informed me, ‘I can’t give you the title because you didn’t go to college, but you do a heck of a good job repairing things and fixing it and taking care of people,’” Henning said.

Maybe the writers ended the piece like they did because they wanted the "good job repairing things and fixing it and taking care of people" note.

But I also heard echoes of systemic sexism or classism.

And also, really, someone being snubbed by Radio Shack, of all things?

Radio Shack was where kids, and anyone else without credentials, could go and get the Forrest Mims electronics book, and some tools and parts, and... just do things.

Classist gatekeeping by affluent Stanford bros at Google is one thing, because they've always been in an echo chamber. But a Radio Shack franchise should've known better.
I'm not flippant about it, and do not take the suggestion of using some endowment money for 'non-specified purposes' lightly. I don't think it should be completely off the table. The Trump administration has relied on people and companies responding to their aggression and violation of norms within the bounds of normalcy. None of this is normal. We are being gish galloped with attacks on all fronts of societal norms at once - threatening law firms, universities, students, immigrants. Attack the powerless and those with some power to protect those powerless at the same time.
The topic of the conversation is the government requiring right-wing ideas be taught in schools. It has nothing to do with your anecdotes about educators valuing their own wellbeing over their students or whatever.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Are schools and their professors perfect? Obviously not. Should they be improved? Sure. Is this trump driven ideological attack related to improving schools? Again, obviously not.
Hell, you can write imperative spaghetti in Haskell if you want. I've done it. People will just keep suggesting you fix it, because it's so much more obvious how bad it is when you can so quickly and easily use the type system to guide the process of fixing it.
I’m always amused about people criticizing Amazon’s labor practices since they are hiring people directly and based in the US and don’t share the same concern about labor conditions in China where all of manufacturing happens and where RadioShack got its products
Your comment could have been simplified to: "I don't like the syntax"

And that could be optimized further by leaving no comment.

All syntax is learned. None of it is "intuitive". Anything unfamiliar to you will seem unpleasant. Some syntaxes can be better than others, but to make that distinction you'd have to at least cite reasons why one syntax is better than another.
Selling one transistor for $1.99 when Aliexpress will sell you 100 for $1.02 is a big part of it.
No its literally just a statistics issue. Say you screen someone for a 1 in a million disease with a 0.001% false positive rate. If you find something and have to do a biopsy to figure out if its a real issue or not, you will have 99.9% of them be for nothing. Biopsies are actually risky procedures that can have dangerous complications that can and do harm people. Say your biopsy has a 99% accuracy. This means even after all that someone with a confirmed biopsy only has a 10% chance of having the disease, and may get dangerous and life changing treatment for nothing.
>It seems like an obvious advantage to have systems that decide the outcome automatically and correctly 99% of the time

That's what traditional systems already do.

>Fine, but what about in ways that the rest of society don't like?

They don't participate in crypto.
Weird is very cheap to host so we’ve already covered hosting costs with our first batch of early adopters: https://blog.muni.town/selling-dreams/

The extended version of Weird that we’re building now however will include community hosting ranging between $10/$100 per month as part of a B2B play as opposed to the B2C model of Weird as-is, so that.
This sounds fake. Why send seeds, of all things? Why not some equally cheap item like electrical wire insulation off-cuts, a piece of scrap bubble wrap or just a note (or just nothing)? Seeds are likely to set off alarm bells for biosecurity at many borders for no benefit.
The solution is to make Git fully self-contained and encrypted, just like Fossil[1] - store issues and PRs inside the repository itself, truly distributed system.

[1] https://fossil-scm.org/
>If I was to donate 9 (or 10) figures to an institution, I would want to make sure it is used to support what I want it to support (cancer research, scholarships, libraries, etc), rather than be used as a general slush fund.

You can make that restricted donation outside of the endowment. I thought endowments were for the support of students, not research.
The user shoudn't have to research which model is the best for them. OpenAI needs to do a better job in UX and putting the best model forward in chatgpt.
If the impact is really so minimal that the appropriate compensation is zero, then surely your AI would also be just fine without training on those works?
That ship has sailed in 2016, when we put a Russian asset in the White House.
> I'm guessing that "viewpoint diversity" is a demand for primacy of far-right views, but I could certainly be wrong.

I can't really see it as a call for anything else. Conservatives often self-select out of attending universities in the first place, so there's already a perceived imbalance.
I’ve tried to set this up and get a little bogged down on some of the finer points of compiling nixos to wasm. It’s not very straightforward unfortunately :/
I have plenty of unpleasant memories of being young. They don't involve RadioShack though.
If you mean components, I think jameco and anchor electronics are still open. Unfortunately Halted and Weird Stuff are gone.
> "...more than capable of finding opportunities for profit in the private sector..."

You actually want research institutions to be even more patent-happy moneygrubbers than they already are today? That's going to keep even more technologies and drugs unaffordable without licensing and hold back progress.
Note to author, I'm not sure the word "anachronism" is being used correctly in the intro.
Sometimes you just want a resistor, but when you buy online, you generally have to buy them by the thousand, and then find a place to store the other 999 of them in your house somewhere. There is definitely room for local stores because the cost to ship something very small has a high floor.
I mean, no not exactly.

Amazon is just one of the nails in the coffin, and if it didn't exist there are still 50 others holding it shut.

We've seen most retail stores fail to convert from a physical to mixed physical+online format.

The number of items a successful electronics store needs is huge. The small mall format wasn't going to work.
> and don’t share the same concern about labor conditions in China where all of manufacturing happens and where RadioShack got its products

[Citation needed]

We can care about both things.
Filtering the crap is now orthogonal to the concern that, historically, information dissemination has been tied to physical scarcity. Those concerns ran together because it cost money to publish something. It doesn't now.

We can come up with new models that compensate creators more directly. We can also come up with models that don't involve effectively killing any ability to build upon existing culture in the time-scale of a human life.

What came before isn't how it has to be, except that the interest that profit from the current system want it to remain so.
My first job was also at RadioShack but back in 1995. We were all focused on batteries, adapters and consumer electronics. and cell phones were starting to be a big deal as carriers started subsidizing phones.
As a European the main cons is that most places to be are big cities which are:

- Expensive

- Crime ridden

- Full of homeless and drug addicts

I don't care who is your supreme leader of the day, they're all useless.

I regret not having had the chance to visit the states in the 80s. I think I'll hit Japan and South Korea, while there's still people.
One of the surprising benefits of raising a toddler is gaining the ability to instantly tell when another adult has fallen into a "toddler-like" state (myself included!).

Before having kids, I would try and explain someone's behavior in a logical sense.

Toddlers, however, are mostly driven by their current physical needs (hungry/sleepy) and whatever they're currently doing (autonomy).

We've found the most success in avoiding all boolean questions. Do you want to read a book? (when playing with trains before bedtime) Obvious no!

Do you want to read this book or that book? Oh... a decision!

It's striking how well tactics like these work outside the realm of toddlers.
https://archive.today/rfSvQ