skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I refuse to believe that (e.g.) the IP address of login.live.com as resolved by OneDrive is always different from same as resolved by Skype.

Do you have a reason to doubt either the sincerity or technical ability of the Author? Did you find a fault in their methods?

I totally believe it, both from a load balancing perspective and from a stack perspective.

There was a version of Mac OS were different applications used different resolvers so, for instance, changing /etc/hosts would redirect SOME services/browsers to the IP in /etc/hosts and other services/browsers would still use DNS. I've had similar issues manually setting the DNS server address where some services ignored the setting if they could resolve against Apple's favoured DNS. This might still be true but I'm now longer doing security work and I'm not using these tricks anymore.
I think one should have one's own inflation index. Basically I'd layout the expenses (food, utility, mortgage, child day care, etc.) and go from there. Some expenses inflates every year (food/utility), some are fixed for 5 years and then maybe jump up/down (mortgage, depending if Fed is cutting or hiking rates).
Is there a country on the planet without a doctor/nurse shortage? I've never heard anyone anywhere say that their had too much healthcare available. No healthcare system is perfect but Canadians are not dropping dead in the streets for lack of doctors. There are localized issues, mostly due to the distances involved in Canada, but the population as a whole is doing better than most.

Just look at the COVID numbers. For all its problems, Canada's healthcare system is handling COVID far better than the US.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60380317
that's because delivery isn't really cost effective for a lot of people. pizza shops made it work because they could run 4 or more deliveries out of the store at one time during peak hours. didn't have to stop at multiple stores.
Sure, but that doesn't mean the past doesn't have any predictive value.
Org supports both full-file encryption and encryption of the text of entries but not the headings and properties (org-crypt). It's your choice.
Needs more blockchain.
Yes, which is why they include rent and the rental value for purchased homes
If only there was universal healthcare, than we wouldn't need private entities coercing individuals to forfeit parts of their paychecks to pay for strangers lifestyles, the government would have rendered that service obsolete! Another win for the free market?
This was my experience too. I got banned from my city’s subreddit for the stated reason “don’t move here” and then harassed across several local subreddits. Paid reddit admins determined that is not in fact harassment. Then later these admins banned me because they said being mean to racists is hate speech. Seems like racist assholes run the place from mods up to the paid admins.
It's both. The image compression makes it not perfect, and it's also a monospaced font, which makes it impossible to say anything about the kerning.
I have to agree here. Font rendering in Linux is across the board noticeably worse than macOS. I still can't quite understand why.
My personal assumption is that Microsoft isn't a malicious actor, so yes I don't expect them to try to dodge domain blocking. I also don't see their telemetry as spying, everything I've seen so far tells me that they only use gathered data in aggregate as a replacement for QA, and without PII (unless you decide to report crashes, send feedbacks, or take part in their insider program) and they seem to respect user settings regarding personalized ads.

But I don't like that you have so much advertising in the default Windows and Edge experience and understand the general frustration regarding telemetry, not everybody can control their network the way I do just to have a reasonable experience...
How is the cost of a plane ticket relevant at all? I can afford to fly around the world tomorrow if I want, that doesn't matter.

> I don't have a uni degree either, kinda sounds like a you problem for lack of a better term

I'm not going to partake in this dude. You don't have to be nasty because I suggested you might be privileged in some way.

Not everyone gets the same opportunities and not everyone has the same life circumstances.
Shadowstats.com has been tracking inflation with old methods for a long time
I'm a mechanical engineer and my favorite way to interact with my computer is with my SpaceMouse [1], a sort of joy-stick that you can pull or rotate in any direction to drag, spin, and scale 3D models. You can also use it to fly around Excel spreadsheets or scroll through web pages.

One thing that I love about it is the grip I can use - it's the "precision" grip that the author discusses in the article, and it gives me a lot of fine control over what I'm doing.

The other day, I saw the haptic smart knob on Hackaday [2]. It's a force feedback rotating knob with software defined detents and boundaries.

If someone could combine the SpaceMouse with the smart knob, I think the resulting multiple DOF force feedback controller might just be the input device of the future.

[1]: https://3dconnexion.com/uk/product/spacemouse-compact/
[2]: https://hackaday.com/2022/03/13/haptic-smart-knob-does-sever...
Cockroach Reproduction Has Taken a Strange Turn
It does not require most governments to collaborate. It would require one government, the one where most users of this site are from.

The actual banning of use of cryptocurrenties is irrelevant, the fiat exchange point is completely bannable.
Are there any connecting to china?
We had a lot of discussion about it, but it's a chicken and egg problem. We just launched, so there isn't much content to show straight away - and we felt it's worth explaining the concept. As content grows, we want to shift to a "content only" view for the homepage.

It's important to stress that Podbabble doesn't require accounts to view discussions - in fact, you can even comment anonymously without creating an account. If you click on any of the comments on the homepage or choose a podcast via search you'll immediately taken to its discussion page without any barriers.
I get those in Skype all the time. After I worked in Montreal I started getting calls from women who wanted to speak French to me, I was kinda concerned they might show me something I didn't want to see.
Something about how Linux and Windows using different local times, Linux uses the hardware clock in UTC and then converts, Windows sets the hardware clock to "Local" time adjusted for daylight savings time (https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/533978/C-23plusWINDOWS...)
> And Netflix exclusives regularly make it to pirate sites in 4K afaik?

Yes, generally the day of release.
TerraUSD Crash Led to Vanished Savings, Shattered Dreams
Maybe go is faster than any other language they've used? I'm not contending the fact that they have a reason for wanting to learn go as that new language. Just that your claiming they clearly weren't interested in learning since they didn't choose some esoteric language is fallacious.
How would you hedge interest rate risk on trillions of dollars in US treasuries? Who takes the other side of that trade, and why? I don’t think that sort of hedge exists.
Fiat exchange points are completely bannable and would make cryptocurrencies irrelevant.
I think you misunderstood me. I've actually worked in print. I've written and typeset more books than I can count using professional DTP software (and LaTeX too). I know a thing or two about fonts.

I do not expect a non-retina display to display fonts as beautifully as a retina display, just to make things clear.

What I'm saying is that fonts under Linux aren't bad to the point of being uncomfortable.

And just to make it clear: I've got Windows and Linux, on non-retina displays, showing the same sites. Linux ain't worse.

There's a big difference between saying: "Retina displays are better than non retina ones" and saying: "Linux font sucks".

Yup: not everyone is on 4K / retina display. We know that. It doesn't make font rendering on Linux broken.
You don't "use" them, you speculate.
No it hasn't. The numbers on that site are fiction.
Yo same here she's a genius. Opened me up to developing skills on the front end as being something that could actually be pretty fun.

It reminds me of flash from back in the day minus the horrible security holes and that's enough to put a smile on my face :)
and no discussion, classic poo-pooing
I will. I am actually glad that the OS interacts with many different hosts. This allows me to set up fine-grained rules to prevent specific communication channels. The real information I am missing here is which ones should be left reachable to ensure proper maintenance of the OS.

Having a small number of hosts and smaller number of queries would likely result in a worse situation: queries would be impossible to filter because filtering 1 host would likely break too many things.

Also, in terms of telemetry, I consider Microsoft to be the disabled child in the classroom. I am sincerely convinced they have absolutely not the skills nor the vision to turn the data they collect into a process that could be personally harmful to me. Google and Apple, on the other side, specialize in employing engineers and product managers that have absolutely no concern to privacy. Their only constraint is to make sure whatever they do is lawful, which is, in my opinion, the worst way a company should behave. Until today, I haven't seen Microsoft do anything worrying except showing traces of telemetry collection in my router logs.
Linux has lsof that can show connexions. Here's a config generator for conky that demonstrates the usage:

https://github.com/viviparous/plonky
rarely do people buy houses (for living) with cash.
No, no, no need for that. It is an expense the tax payer pays for anyway. So no reason for exception for politicians
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions".

Obviously someone who intends to do harm is worse than someone who doesn't, but hopefully, you realize that people can do bad things unintentionally, and that outcomes are just as important as the intentions that led to them.
Modern OSes (and not just Windows) are getting overly bloated and complicated. Talking to all those hosts and IPs is just a symptome of that nobody seems to care about such things anymore.

My main work-laptop, my server and work workstation are running Ubuntu (because of support, yadda yadda), but I've recently tried Arch linux on my personal laptop.

I'm not yet an Arch fanatic, and find the installation procedure particularly baroque (having to manually hunt down which firmware packages to install to get basic hardware like Wifi working, had to explicitly install a network-manager, or else no networking at all)...

But what I did find immensely refreshing, was working on a minimal system which only had the components I had asked for and nothing else. I knew why everything was there, and how it was supposed to work.

I'm really coming to appreciate that more and more, especially after a botched server-upgrade and having to wait for apt to reinstall 1000+ packages I have no idea if I need or not.

So yeah. Windows, Mac, Linux, or whatever. Keep it minimal, please :)
The thing I find amazing about this piece is that Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired.

Here’s a guy who’s headline (to the rest of us) is he was in the middle of documenting tech in the 90’s, and, to hear him tell it, that’s not the thing that defines his life. Wired was just a middle filler for his real story , which is about travel.
You're either using 200% scaling or browser zoom because I had to scale your image by 50% on a 4K display for it to look 100% sized. This is apples-oranges.

And if you're looking at those other screenshots on a 4K display then you need to also zoom to 50% and get your eyes close the the display, otherwise you're just seeing the results of an image scaling algorithm, which will indeed look terrible.

Here is Fedora/KDE/Flatpak/Firefox with default settings at 4K resolution and 100% browser zoom for comparison:

https://i.imgur.com/s3ynhuj.png

Also with my preferred browser zoom: https://i.imgur.com/9PXDbxY.png

For the above images you'll need to zoom 50% on a 4K display, because PNG image files do not carry pixel density metadata. If you have 1080p display then you have to keep 100% zoom and sit far away instead.
Show HN: Poko is a friendly, free, feature-rich Notion website builder
Elisp as an embedable engine would be cool, but it would still need lots of the other parts of Emacs, e.g. the buffer data structure. A more realistic approach would be to implement some kind of FFI/RPC display type in emacs and compile the whole of emacs as a library or with emacsen.
RSUs are pretty common in successful private companies. Particularly once it’s possible to put a dollar value on the equity.
As far as I can tell this is only done if the certificate if valid for the new domain, so this seems only exploitable if you have stolen the certificate public keys.

It might allow to do traffic interception after stealing the private keys without MitMing the connection, but in general you have to assume the adversary is all-powerful and can MitM anything and thus that a stolen certificate private key is catastrophic, so it doesn't really change anything in the worst case.

It also appears that it needs an address in common, so it doesn't even seem a problem from a correctness perspective, since if you were fine getting traffic for both domains on the same IPv6 address (and thus the same endpoint), then why would you not support getting it on the same IPv4 address, or viceversa.

Although it's not clear whether it's a good idea, it seems it might be better to require that the domains actually have the address that was connected to in common rather than any address.
Ah, yes, I remember it well. The day I jumped to NSIS was a good day.
That looks horrible to me too, perhaps I'm used to windows but the word "comment" sticks out to me there as particularly bad.
google chromecast flopped, amazon stick flopped, why microsoft thinks xcloud stick will succeed when nintendo/valve went ahead and built a handheld console?

apple/sony are also doing some prep work for a handheld console, as well as tencent!

it feels like microsoft is burning some steps there

deck like console with cloud capabilities would have been smarter than a "stick"
Western countries to consider letting Russian oligarchs buy relief from sanction
It’s even simpler than that - slap the carbon tax on the carbon source at time of extraction if it’s domestic, or at import time if it’s from a country that doesn’t do that itself at the same rate. The price changes will all flow downstream from there, and we don’t have a hairball of exemptions for eg jet fuel. And very pessimistic taxation estimates for materials and finished products from countries that don’t follow suit.
It’s true: a short range electric is the wrong tool for the job of taking a long drive.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/credit-card-...
> what holds you back to switch to Linux?

I occasionally need to do some development work in a Debian VM. I can't even remember the name of the window manager it came with; but I just can't figure it out. The equivalent of the dock / taskbar just isn't useful. I had to jump through hoops and hoops just to get Visual Studio Code to work, in part because it took awhile to figure out how to have root access to my own VM.

Now, I obviously could use a different window manager; but that leads to the real problem: It's just too much work for me to figure out how to use Linux, and find a setup that I like. And, after I do that, it's quite a bit of work to "keep up" with the Linux community and the changes. And, then it's quite a bit of work to ensure that I can find good, compatible hardware.

Finally: I'm very happy with Mac, and Windows 11 is "good enough" for me. I'd consider purchasing a laptop with a Linux-based distro pre-installed; but even then, that's a huge financial risk if I end up not liking it, or I hit compatibility issues. At least the Microsoft Surface has a 60-day return policy.

Which leads to my final point: I use a computer as a tool. Linux on the desktop isn't a tool, it's a hobby. I could see myself using Linux if I wanted to develop an alternate shell / UI as a hobby, or using Linux on the desktop if it was common in my profession.
Look at the last word, "linux". In both the "n" and "u", the left stem is thin and crisp, but the right stem is thick and blurry. Maybe it doesn't bother you, but I couldn't put up with that if I were using it all day.

You're right about trying different distros. Manjaro+Gnome does much better IMO: https://i.imgur.com/kiLDWzJ.png
Doesn't matter if it's from 2011. It's evergreen
A fab is $5billion. I know of a large company (I'm not allowed to say who, but you might be able to guess) that when faced with some 16bit CPU going out of production considered building a fab - manufacturing is the core competency, so why shouldn't they make our own chips, and thus keep those old designs based in obsolete CPUs that still work just find running for longer. The cost of a fab was high enough they decided not to. Of course on hindsight if they had built a fab it would have opened just as the supply chain problems started, and the company would have made a mint.

I don't think GM will open a fab on their own. Too expensive for what they need. However a joint GM/Ford/Toyota venture seems possible (if it can get past anti-trust laws!), and that would find customers in the likes of Honda.
> With a simple shell script and a bit of configuration you can set up a box that will check some email and act after detecting some kind of commands directed at it.

Yes but I don't see how using a mailing list would improve anything. You'd just end up re-writing all GitLab features on top of a different database and interface, and the scaling issues would remain. This seems like more of a centralisation-vs-self-hosting issue.

> That being said, I'm 90% sure the GP is sarcastic, trying pull reductio ad absurdum on people who will almost assuredly come here commenting that "the community" should "abandon centralized services" in favor of this or that pet-project.

Makes sense but I didn't interpret it that way.
To be fair, something is stepping it down from AC, and many modern PSUs step everything down from a common DC rail using DC-DC conversion (i.e, 12V, 5V, 3.3V, etc are all generated from a source DC voltage). Then things like the CPU and GPU have long moved off of the 3.3V rails to harness the 12V rail for DC-DC conversion in various VRM stages, down to <<2V.

My main appreciation for ATX12VO (12 volts only) is the MB can choose to right size the 5V and 3.3V rails appropriately. M.2 slots are driven from 3.3V only (even if M.2 devices step it up or down for their specific uses). A board with 4 M.2 slots will have a different potential 3.3V power demand than a board with only 2 slots. Typically, a decent board will have 1 M.2 2230 A or E slot for WiFi, and 1-2 M.2 2280/22110 M (and rarely B) slots for M.2 storage. PCIe x16 lanes will have 9W of 3.3V, as part of their 75W total power (the remaining 66W is 12V).

As noted earlier, 5V is heavily I/O driven. A board with 15 USB ports can expect to need more 5V than a stingy board with only 8 (both are accounting for front I/O headers).

I'd rather the MB have to right-size the 3.3V and 5V rails, than forcing every PSU to include copious amounts of 3.3 and 5 just to cover every edge case.

Sure, it's a tiny bit of potential efficiency. It's also passing a bit of cost from the PSU to the board itself. Sadly, it does seem ATX12VO's main impact will be lost. OEMs are going to continue with their custom PSUs with unique connectors and the DIY vendor + consumer market has largely turned their backs to this.
Why was the random function done this way? Is it not possible to index into a database table at a random position?
"it still to this day starts hibernating randomly on my ZBooks, with the event log saying it is caused by a CPU overheat event."

Hybernating or thermal throttling?

Thermal throttling is done on the hardware level and can happen while using any operating system, including Linux.
The future for tobacco products is looking pretty bleak. In MA, now I can only buy juul 3%, no menthol or any other flavor, even worse than in CA. Besides, it costs as much as groceries now.
I don't think that the exact problem is double counting IP addresses or multiple CDN shards that are basically the same but there are several concerning things:

1) Why would relatively specific services need to contact so many different endpoints? The skype service is using about 40 different endpoints by the look of it.
2) Why can't the providers of these services use much more consistent naming? I am less concerned about pipe.skype.com and avatar.skype.com being called from skype because it makes sense. On the other hand, calling b-ring.msedge.net is weird. What is that site? Could be MS, could be anything.
3) It is not clear whether these services were expected to be enabled or not. For example, I don't like the idea that Windows is wasting internet bandwidth on Cortana or XBox live since I use neither of them.
> Linux on the desktop is still quite terrible [...] for your slightly uncommon hardware

You have revealed your point of view. However, for the great majority of Linux users, Linux on the desktop has been a reality for well over a decade.
Is a few minutes enough? My impression was they could remain charged for long periods.
Delft researchers succeed in teleporting data
The crtc ruled that wholesale rules shouldn't apply to fiber, so prices are even worse. Apparently Canadians don't need fast internet.
Because then a load of stuff would stop working!?
it's 2022
There will be a lot of "We should shut down the cryptocurrencies" from different perspectives (combatting crime being one) before it actually happens. But it will likely happen, starting with the US and the EU when it becomes a perceived threat to fiscal policies or national strategic interests, whichever comes first. Within 20 years is my guess, but could be much sooner. What the fallout and consequences will be is harder to predict.

I could be wrong of course, some anomaly might be buried here. But almost a lifetime of experience tells me the state structures will protect their interests when threatened. And this has the potential to be such a threat at a certain scale.
Current mailing list software can't. Of course you could control a CI/CD system with a Nokia 3310 if you wanted, but why spend the effort when CI/CD systems already have all the right features? Unless OP is actually advocating for self-hosting.
Based on my experience, I blame the 3rd party stuff. All kinds of software and devices just love to add background processes to the system.

I guess this is the price you pay for system where everything is possible.
After his PhD experience I would have given up for sure.
I've used that parser to write some custom tools for me, it chocked on one large file (30k lines) with lots of code blocks. It needed 30 min and dozens of GiB of RAM to parse that file, that was on the JVM not in the browser. But the next update of the parser combined with some strategic deletions of code blocks, made parsing fast enough.
I think if you ever want there to actually be content you need a way to grab users and make it easy for them to start generating it.

When you say "it's a chicken and an egg problem" you're spot on. That's the problem for every new social network or user based platform trying to launch. Until you have a ton of users and content I would argue it's the only problem worth worrying about.
I've found remote desktop a pain as well.

On the occasion where I _have_ to use it I don't set it to fullscreen, just have it as a floating app at whatever resolution I care for. Then I just deal with the lower real-estate for however much time I need to be using it.

Nearly all of my remote work is SSH or SSHfs-based now, which (if you're used to terminal stuff) is so much nicer than any equivalent I've found on Windows.