skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've toyed with some VPN browser extensions. Not naming names. I became a customer of a few VPNs over the years, to try some of these extensions out, and the extensions leak your real IP inadvertently. One such extension said it was 'connected' when I DuckDuckGo'd 'what is my ip' and it reported my real / naked IP.

So my solution was to use a (hardware) VPN router which ensures all your traffic is tunneled through the VPN and you don't have to worry about edge cases like this leaking your real IP. Also: many users don't even turn off WebRTC which can expose you too. Many people it seems, don't know about the WebRTC VPN vuln that was disclosed many years ago.

Edit: I reported these extension vulns and they got fixed, but I still don't trust them.
In the flu pandemic of 1918, the group it was most dangerous for was the inversion of covid (and normal flu): healthy young people. Our best guess for why this is is that was because it caused a cytokine storm, which is basically an autoimmune response where the body ends up killing itself because the immune system goes way overboard.

Unfortunately while the general idea of cytokine storms had been floating around for quite a while, it wasn't named until 1993, and wasn't really studied as its own thing until 2002/2003. No chance they would have been able to do anything about it in 1918.
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What features? Are people really asking for more features for Docker Desktop?

I know for me I install it, let it do its setup, and then I do everything from the Docker CLI as if I was on a linux machine.

It has k8s built in if you want to add that also.

We are not talking about a tool here that needs a ton of functionality. But they have become (seemingly at least) the standard tool to have a more consistent Docker setup on Mac or Windows compared to where it will eventually be deployed (Linux). Once you have it setup you should be using the CLI.

I feel like they are severely overestimating the software, I am anticipating several open source alternatives to quickly become available since it wouldn't (or shouldn't) change your workflow at all to put in another alternative.

Edit:
TBH I often forget docker desktop is sitting there until it starts asking me to update... so this is a perfect opportunity to replace it.
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Can we please get a law that says that on my devices, I control ads. Fine if bigcorp wants to show me ads, but then they must pay for the device.
Yes, they get crashed into by poor drivers not paying attention.

How does an autonomous vehicle not detect or avoid a massive stationary object?
Sure, some of them. But others (institutional investors) are basically able to make outrageous bids due to access to easy money.
I don't believe that your anecdote about aluminum exposure has been scientifically validated.

"At present, there is no strong evidence to support the fears that coming in to contact with metals through using equipment or through food or water increases your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease."

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/risk-factors-an...
> AFAIK, most of the Burning Chrome short stories were originally published before the Sprawl novels

I didn't actually realize any of the short stories came out after Neuromancer (1984)(or indeed that the omnibus(1986) did) - but a few were later works:

New Rose Hotel July 1984

The Winter Market April 1986

Dogfight July 1985

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Chrome_(short_story_...
After losing a cable modem and the connected NIC port to lightning in urban apartment, I installed a lightning suppressor / surge arrester with a replaceable gas discharge tube, on both the coax cable to the cable modem, and the ethernet cable to the modem. Since then, I've once replaced the coax-facing tube/fuse due to a surge, but the equipment has been fine. Spare fuses were back-ordered at Mouser, but arrived eventually.
Completely agree on everything.

That's the reason we didn't review laptop CPUs when I reviewed CPUs. You can get exact CPU power draw on a desktop motherboard (by using an amp clamp on the P8 connector) but it's hard (or not possible) to do that across multiple laptop chassis.

Removing battery (when possible) is not a solution either as what you get may differ a lot from classic "plugged in" usage (see the references to the MacBook Pro and Dell that used an i9 that still drained the battery when plugged in, because they can use more power than the power adapter brings).

On top of that, way too much depends on the OEM design and the performance of a given CPU will greatly vary from one chassis to another, because of the various throttling mechanism and the various configurable things that OEM can do (it's not just the cTDP, you can as an OEM play with various turbo times, another person mentionned P2 states, which is one of those).

So a given mobile CPU performance means nothing at the end of the day, only the laptop "as a whole" can be measured, which is why you don't see good quality benchmarks of mobile CPUs.

Anyway, just a small complement :

> laptops / cores have an "amp-counter" on board somewhere

Intel (and AMD to some measure) CPUs all have various sensors on chip that gives you the power consumption in watts (or amps, depending). They can be read with software such as hwinfo [1].

Those are usually not incredibly reliable though, they are not calibrated per CPU and it's very much a guestimate that could easily be in some cases +/- 5W off.

So sadly, not usable either (especially on mobile).

[1] : https://www.hwinfo.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b922U1_7CM
I mean, I guess all 3 are ways to run code closer to users. We really like Deno here! I'm maybe less bullish on the prospect of coding to a particular CDN's Javascript API (which is not a problem Deno has).
The regulation is concerning over the air broadcasters. Cable stations like Fox don't fall under the regulation as they don't use public airways.
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What? Why isn't it an embedded web app at that point?
That argument only makes sense when education is frightenly expensive - reducing this cost makes it on the level of paying for roads you dont use - it helps you even though you dont get a direct benefit because your entire society works.
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How are bios and firmware updates for supermicro? Are they open to the public or require a support contract. Speaking from personal experience even though HPE is cheap, you really don't want to buy it for home use due to license constraints. I hear Dell leaves their updates available on the web, and am curious if Supermicro does as well. This is critical because of regularly discovered CVEs.
Yea let’s go back to life when most citizens didn’t get a primary school education let alone high school. You think 100% of families will prioritize tuition for toddlers when it’s a discretionary expense? Or will the bid up rent costs?
This is a CMS isn't it? Haven't we been doing this forever? CMS for apps has been a bit behind where it is for the web, but it still exists.
To be fair, virtually any place in the universe, except where you happen to be right now, is probably not survivable.
Norway's new record: More than 70% of cars sold in August were electric
Safety and trust. I know in app purchases are handled through apple and if I start a subscription, I know how to easily cancel it. I don't need to worry about my payment information being stolen or held hostage behind a convoluted cancellation process.
I personally am just looking for a stable tool to build and test images. I can appreciate that Docker is looking for a way to become sustainable, but the way they are going about doing it has become disruptive to how I use the tool, thus alternatives like podman are becoming much more attractive.

The license fee is really not an issue for me - but continuously having to adjust my workflows when Docker Inc decides to change how things work on the back-end is an issue, and it's much more expensive for me than the license.
They're probably viable for that.

Peach Finance is another option that came out recently:
https://www.peachfinance.com/
Librem phones, or PinePhone / PineTab. The speed and quality aren't comparable to an iPhone, but to be fair it's open AND a 1/5th the price.
It may be a mistake focusing on "Cowen is an economist." He does happen to be one, but everyone is something.

This may mean that he's applying a economist's mindset, like an engineer might apply an engineering mindset... but either might be besides the point. More about choice of method and language than substance.
So who is going to sit in judgement of which degrees are worthwhile and which are worthless?
This is the User agent from amiunique.org,

Mozilla/5.0(X11;U;Linux armv7l like Android; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.2+(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/533.2+ Kindle/3.0+
Why do people act like a completely unreasonable plan (and plan is generous) created by the morons in charge was ever going to be followed, let alone work?

Garbage in, garbage out.
This is by Steven Pavlina, of, well much fame. Polyphasic sleep, polyamory, lots of interesting and fringey stuff.
or fluence.network
looking at the specs, that’s very underpowered for any long term use.
Russ tries really hard to keep an open mind, but especially now that he's getting more into political philosophy I find it hard to take him seriously depending on the guest. It can be interesting to listen to his shit takes for a while, but it grows tiresome pretty quickly.
> Just about every operating system or major piece of system software is written in C

My friends writing safety critical bare metal industrial control software using Ada would, I suspect, feel this was a somewhat limited perspective.

If you ever do consider writing such volumes, I would recommend getting co-authors to cover the areas you're less familiar with.
The beginning of Seveneves is pretty bad, but the rest of the book makes up for it. It's as if the first part of the book exists soley to set up the plot and characters for the second part of the story which is where the interesting bits are.
One important question to ask yourself is, what happens next time they want more money? Just how much of a hostage are you willing to be?
Now try getting the flu vaccine (it exists!) and see if you will ever catch it again.
It’s all about resilience, not about preventing bugs completely. The beauty of it all is that you can skip on a lot of error handling code whose only purpose is to keep the system running. You only need to handle business logic errors. Let’s take a web server as an example.

The way the “let it crash” philosophy is done in Erlang is that you crash individual processes first (e.g. the current HTTP request from one browser). If that keeps happening there’s a counter that crashes the subsystem (e.g. the web file listing component). If that too keeps crashing the whole web frontend might crash, but the node might still be up (e.g. serving FTP or whatnot). And lastly the node will shut down completely if the web frontend keeps crashing.

This way, the rest of the system keeps performing and serving requests even if some parts are not working intermittently.

On top of this you of course have (built-in) logging of all these errors so you can investigate them.
The US cities hit by the housing crisis—with the notable exception of New York—are disproportionately dominated by single-family homes, enforced through explicit zoning laws. Being "some of the densest places in the US" does not mean much when the entire country outside NYC is so sparsely populated!

SF is the second-densest "large" city in the US. I haven't found specific numbers, but looking at zoning maps at least 50% of the residential space is zoned for single-family homes only, with the majority of the remainder explicitly zoned for low-density residences. A big chunk of the city is basically a suburb! The rest of the Bay Area, of course, is more like 90% single-family housing. This year Berkeley passed a resolution removing single-family zoning throughout the entire city so perhaps the tides are shifting, but even if zoning laws and politics change, it'll take decades for this to meaningfully affect the housing supply.
They already do that (formerly bogw) for qualifying applicants, my nephew enjoyed his free ride at community college before transferring to a UC.

https://www.ccsf.edu/california-college-promise-grant-ccpg
I think systemsvoltages' point is that if it's "not a good example of UBI" because not everyone got stimulus, an actual, scotsman UBI would be even worse, precisely because everyone would get stimulated.
There is a new bail-in clause added at EU level.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bailin.asp
No, not wrong. Any non-Linux system that runs a Linux container will need to run a Linux kernel for that container. This is most often done with a VM even if that VM is obfuscated behind an application like Docker Desktop. This is why WSL 1 is often not supported by such systems even through you can run an "Ubuntu" application within WSL 1.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-version...
There are 8-9 states without income tax, not 2-3.
Famously, people with multiple copies of GGGGCC in a particular section of their non-coding DNA are prone to horrible neurodegenerative diseases including ALS (shudder).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202986/
On WSL2 you can run the Docker from Ubuntu/RedHat/Upstream locally and not worry about Docker Desktop. As a bonus, you get a better version of Docker.
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This says it's 5% less efficient than using a chain? Can that be legit? That seems awfully efficient for the double-conversion that needs to happen from mechanical => electrical => mechanical.
I can also blur my eyes and make them vibrate. But I never checked how that affects my pupils.
I think more than any other group, programmers can understand the gut reaction of calling code that they don't understand "junk".
This can be said of literally any paid service. It’s not much of an argument, except on these kinds of HN threads.
I am new to NFT, so just a stupid question. Are those numbers real? Like $200k worth of crypto for a CryptoPunk?
I will never buy another laptop with a "short" right-shift key and the up-arrow next to it. For coding, it SUCKS to miss hit that and I never got use to it on the one laptop I've had with a keyboard like that.
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> What's this based on?

It's a common feature of the LNP-based vaccines, not the viral-vector-based ones.
Fall was easily the worst thing he's written (pretty sure i've read all of his output... except the last hundred pages of Fall)
I can no longer edit this comment but I just wanted to update that Docker the company has really made huge strides in the last few days to rectify our experience. So if you're having a hard time, reach out. My feeling speaking directly with some Docker people is that they're proud of the company and believe in its future.
This is absolutely not my experience with Docker for Mac. I've been using it daily for years and can't remember a single issue I had with it. Performance is also adequate, even when running many containers, though usually not more than 10 or so. I use a base model MacBook Pro 16".
I've been theorizing of a tech-art switching point wrought by the deluge of information and content: as technologists must become more specialized (e.g. programming > machine_learning > deep_learning > specific_application > specific_model), artists/creatives must become more generalized (having to deal with marketing, self-promotion, logistics, etc).

This theory is barely graduated from a shower thought, so I'd invite any takes from people on either or both sides.
Anecdotes are not why the regulation would exist. The majority of people can do things the right way, but it's always the outliers and bad (lazy?) actors for which the regulation needs to exist for.
Don't forget the GPU either. With all the cores going full-out, the M1 can still run its GPU at high clocks.

AMD reduced the CU count down to 8 and ramped the clockspeeds which is terrible for the thermal budget. If you need to offload stuff to the GPU, both GPU clocks and CPU clocks dramatically lower. AMD needs a 16CU design with RDNA2 if they hope to actually compete with current and upcoming designs.

Speaking of upcoming, Apple's next generation will be announced in the next 2-3 weeks. A15 and either M1X or M2 (or maybe both) on N5P which should be 10-15% better than the previous N5 process. That's what 5850U is actually competing against considering how long it took to get out the door.

Things aren't looking pretty for x86. Now if we could just get some nice RISC-V designs shipping...
I would not consider cracks "dents". I already mentioned the cheap 'ABS' plastic, they would crack (also it's not UV stable). You can look up PA6-GF30 (nylon, 30% glass fiber reinforced) tools and they survive ~2m (6 feet) drop tests. Laptops won't do that as their screens would crash. Here: a popular video[0] of some massive abuse of a multimeter.

Again, a good plastic with glass or carbon fiber reinforcement would have similar properties to al-mg body, yet feel cheap as most people consider all plastics quite the same. For example: polycarbonate, 30% carbon fiber would have tensile strength of 150MPa (which the same to cast aluminum)

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlA7-fh5nDQ
You mean poor people should have no right to have a glass of wine at the end of a stressful day, or to use wine for cooking a nice meal, or use a beer for a stew (it'll soften the meat)? There is a lot of judgement going on here and I wonder if it's not something that comes from a puritanical mindset where pleasure should be denied to those deemed unworthy.
I think one important point is that said people need to invest into properties instead of say government bonds because interest rates are so low or even negative.
Mozilla can't afford to work for free. They need to get paid, too.