skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the laptops I've used with pre-installed Windows (which I reinstalled), the license key was in ACPI table "MSDM". I assume Windows gets it from there automatically. You can extract the license key from Linux with: cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
> It's simply not economical to recycle most if not all plastics a.t.m..

"It's simply not economical to build a sustainable system right now"

Well too bad then, I guess humanity has to commit suicide because it's the path that consumes the less amount of paper bills with made up numbers on them
So a gas company can force you to get a Windows PC?
> I never thought I was in a weird minority. I thought most people hate their jobs but do them anyway because they can't think of an alternative.

That is correct, as reported on countless job satisfaction surveys.
I have a small script ran by cron (well, systemd timers) every 15 minutes which checks the current IP via https://api.ipify.org/ and updates dns entries on digital ocean (its dns service is free) if it differs from what's there.
I haven't seen a proper document (as in "documentation") for years. The API code I have to link to is auto-documented by compiling together comments in the code base. The language documents are written by humans, probably, but in a style that a computer could easily replicate (if they can do better than a high-schooler essay, definitely).

90% of the writing tasks I've encountered in the last 10 years is content generation for content marketing. And failing that entire industry dying in a fire (which would be a good thing), having that auto-generated by AI would be simple and no loss to humanity.

> it's highly unlikely that the generated essays will convey useful and accurate information

My MBA essays didn't do this either, so I'm not sure what the problem is
The question to ask at this point is why compilers still target the emulated x86 opcodes and not the microcode directly? Also, speculative execution has proven to be an unsound approach in light of the spectre vulnerability right?
America's new nuclear power industry has a Russian problem
Building a Queue for Delayed Messages via a RDBMS
> the registry is the perfect place to put configuration data, provided Microsoft's guidelines[0] on registry key creation/deletion and hive use are followed

Few people follow that stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft's own people didn't follow that stuff. The result is of course a mess that users have to clean up with software like CCleaner or whatever people use these days.

It sucks even if those guidelines are followed. Configuration is data and belongs to the users. I know people who really like portable applications that they can keep on a USB drive and use anywhere and this registry bullshit breaks that.

> I would argue every OS should have its own 'registry' for a universal location to set configuration for programs.

And I would argue otherwise. The Windows registry is essentially a poor excuse for a proper file system. I think at least one Linux desktop environment tried to reinvent this crap and it sucked just as hard.

> every application shall have its own configuration file parsing/serialising/deserialising routine

The Windows registry values are essentially memory dumps of C types. It's perfectly possible to simply dump raw bytes into binary files on Linux too if you don't care about stuff like endianness. The result would be strictly superior to the Windows registry because the files are being stored in a real file system.

> I guess this is why people dislike systemd so much: it reminds them too much of Windows.

I like systemd.
Amount of time is a really bad measure of what you are getting. Quality > quantity. Not saying CoD is an example of quality (no idea) but we already have enough padding and needlessly repetetive tasks in many games.
I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I am really satisfied with my Framework laptop. It came with the RAM not installed, I assume so they'd "force" me to open it up and familiarize myself with the process. It took all of one minute to watch their video, unscrew five screws, pop the keyboard out and install the RAM.

The machine itself feels really solid, I was expecting a few rough edges from a first-time manufacturer, but it feels as good as my old Macbook Air did. I just love it, and I am really enjoying how repairable it is. All the stuff has stickers and QR codes internally to explain what components are and link you to how-to videos.

Well worth whatever premium I paid for it, if it ensures that the company continues to make products.
The manufacturer don't have to make it work with arbitrary software. They could just stop making it more difficult then necessary.
I agree with you that the solution offered was woefully inadequate. What I meant by pseudo problem wasn't necessarily the problem itself, but the framing of it.

The author cites a statistic about when students start driving, start drinking alcohol, etc. Then the author cites a statistic about "declining trust in institutions". It's easy to put a bunch of statistics like this together and imply that they indicate a lack of socialization (a common cause) or something like that, but all they really show us is a changing culture that the author (and many others) are bothered about

It's a pseudo problem (in my view) because it outlines several different (supposedly related) sub problems and then tries to tie them together as a single problem with some implicit common cause
> Well, I'd argue that few doubt that the USA did it.

So where is your argument?
> ... it's opinion at best and propaganda at worst. I expect better

Life is going to be one long series of disappointments for you. Well done for engaging your critical thinking faculties, but expecting unbiased facts is, well, naïve.

Keep being sceptical. Especially of the things you want to believe.
The market fails in almost every respect, and it's nothing new. We get sold crap clothes that discolor when it's perfectly known how to make them not to, crap food with all kinds of nasty ingredients like trans fats, etc.

I don't know how people can still think that the market optimizing and giving us the products we want at an adequate price is the default, when it's clearly the exception.
In case you didn't notice, COVID is still making the rounds but kids are at school. Kids were at school, at least in Canada and the US, during the massive surge at the beginning of 2022. There are more than 93M reported cases.

I'm amazed at the level of ignorance about a disease that has killed more than a million people in the US and Canada alone; thousands dead unnecessarily because this ignorance.
My Macbook spends first 10 minutes after boot by trashing CPU and disk with some sketchy mds_stores process. I have no idea what it does it do. Every single time. Looks like some kind of indexing for me which I didn't ask for (and I tried to turn related options off which didn't help al all).
Sure, but that's not a meaningful definition of safety, because according to this definition writing a safe O(log n) binary search is impossible in every single mainstream language in existence.
Beyond State Machines: BehaviorTree.CPP 4.0
Main author here of the library: I just released the 4th major version of BehaviorTree.CPP.

https://github.com/BehaviorTree/BehaviorTree.CPP

This library is increasingly popular in robotics and automation, and I am very excited about the new features being introduced.
It's very tricky to forecast the future. Maybe China decides a war between NATO and Russia is a good opportunity to attack Taiwan? Maybe India is forced into play by one of these events? Then we have middle east very close to being involved as well. Voila - WW3!
> 3. I don't want to pay a $1000 premium to be able to do this.

That part is I think selfish. I do want to pay a premium to be able to do all that, but that market doesn't really exist.
Yes, but the farmers are (obviously) not in favor and have been protesting heavily.
Are you saying there are zero genuine reviews on Amazon? Or zero genuine reviews for this particular book?

I’m aware of at least one real person who occasionally writes honest reviews of technical books on Amazon: me.

So with enough reviews for a particular one, I’d expect at least some of them to be credible, yes. You can usually tell which ones are not shills or bots.

E.g. in this case, those might be the reviewers who gave a lower rating, and had specific (rather than generic) criticisms.

My surprise here stems from the fact that even they seemed to have skimmed or misread some key sections.
I'm not sure how much protection this affords, but I'm aiming to only buy phones that are on the LineageOS support list, and can have their bootloader unlocked.

Weird how things that the manufacturer would consider insecurities, eg unlocked bootloader, allow end users the kind of control that can increase security and privacy (admittedly, maybe conflating privacy and security). Highlighting the disconnect between industry security and user interest (even though users, by and large, aren't interested in their own interests).
This is pure and simple collusion. Same as the oil cartels. Destroys competition and is totally illegal.
To put it another way:

* Thick black border indicates which button would be pressed if you hit enter. This is the focused button, or the default button if no button currently has focus.

* Dashed border indicates which button or other control currently has focus; this button is pressed if you hit space (but if another control has focus then space does not press the default button).
Arch on a 5000 series AMD 2in1. Even the pen works.
Games Worth Continuing to Develop (Part 6)
If you just need a computer to connect to the internet and occasionally entertain yourself, you can get an OK looking laptop for $500AUD or about $300USD/300EUR. Never mind sub 1000EUR. That’s kind of an insane price when you think about it. And it is too good to be true, because they load it up with junk.

But people aren’t thinking about the software. They see a half decent looking machine for very little money and bite because they don’t want to spend more.
I wonder if it's some introduced wide spectrum insect pathogen. Sort of like that fungus that's devastating amphibians around the world? If so, the part of the world that pathogen came from would not be seeing these declines, since the insects there would have long before evolved to deal with it (as amphibians in SE Asia, I think it was, apparently have done with that fungus.)

Possibly some strain of Wolbachia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolbachia
The results of bullying vary I guess
No yunohost ?
Where is the xenophobia? It's a fact amply illustrated by their pronouncements made during the war and recent history, and standard KGB fare.

You still haven't providing any counterargument to my points other than a ad-hominem attack.
>> I think the reasoning is some sort of unspoken value of “loyalty” – an expectation that there’s an implicit agreement to “stick it out” even if things get bad. This is hot garbage. If you want the people that you hire to stay, do it by building a great workplace and paying people well – not by finding staff who are too timid to leave bad situations.

I liked that part although it seems to me that the unspoken truth of management is that they are overseers of the workforce. In some places, where the workforce is educated and its qualifications rare on the market, it entails "building a great workplace" but in others it totally entails finding staff that are "too timid to leave bad situations". In the end of the day, it making a profit entails miserable work relationships and everyone feeling sad and frustrated... oh well
Disagree. When I was writing essays for my MBA, I formed the opinion, searched for journal articles whose extracts agreed with my opinion, and cited them. I don't think I read a single article or researched a single topic.

Essay-writing is about jumping through hoops; working out what the lecturer expects to see and then giving it to them. Admittedly that is also a skill required in every knowledge job (replace "lecturer" with "boss"), but I think there are better ways to teach this.
It's probably a lot easier to burn than recycling it though... If the problem is the waste
> Question: why does the market fail so miserably in this respect?

Counter-question: did you really think the free market was actually working for the consumer ?

A free market relies on multiple points:

- consumers are rational

- consumers have time and energy to compare alternatives

- alternatives exist

- it is essentially free to create an alternative, and alternatives take 0 time to become mature

- consumers have enough money to buy exactly what they want

None of those are true. Consumers aren't rational, or else there wouldn't be a multi billion dollars ad industry whose point is exactly to instill artificial demand. Consumers have too little free time to spend on chores, family, going out; they won't spend a weekend spreadsheeting a smartphone. The last competitor to the current duopoly failed because it didn't gain traction, and it was a multi billion dollar company. The income inequality keeps rising, people have to make a choice between paying rent and buying a new smartphone.

The free market has always been a fable. The whole economic system is not geared towards maximization of consumers' quality of life but of shareholders' profits. A barely working, ad-ridden, slow as molasses smartphone that prints money just by being turned on is the expected outcome of those incentives.
It seems workers sites has different pricing compared to pages. Might want to call that out.
You are right.

The most likely reason almost all of hackernews wants to do nothing but make fun of crypto and the people involved is they just don't understand it.

If only they invested the 100+ hours learning it like we did then maybe they would understand its value. I mean thats the only option - either its uninformed ignorance (which we think) or actual malice. There can't be a third option.
Sounds like a job for kaowool.
Could you explain a bit how your project is different from the one in the article? Why did they implement the SM83 in HDL when you already have such an implementation?

Also, I don't see any specific FPGA's mentioned, what sort of constraints do these projects have? Does it run on a 3$ one, or do you need something bigger /fancier?

Edit: oh sorry didn't realize MIST is the device, it's an Altera Cyclone EP3C25
Apple just recently removed from AppStore one of the most popular map application (2GIS). It contains absolutely unique information for my city, lots of reviews, etc. It's hard to imagine my life without this app nowadays.

Now I'm thinking about Android phone, as my iPhone 8 started to throttle and I think it's time to upgrade.
I hate to say it, but this is the correct answer. iPhone's are great as well. I used to not understand why people loved Apple so much.

Now I understand that Apple just works when Windows/Android often don't, and iOS/MacOS are generally more user-friendly for non-tech people.
Replied. Cheers!
Spotlight indexing (for Spotlight search: ⌘+Space). In System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy, you can add folders or disks to prevent Spotlight from indexing them.
What I don't understand is: where is the market failure?

Ostensibly in a "well-functioning" market, selling computers that become very slow would make people not buy them.

Is there no better competition? If there is better, why aren't they winning?
The content is highly customised and targeted to one's liking. I've never seen any of the types you mention, besides an occasional pro-China fake news propaganda haha.

This is not to say TT doesn't contain such content, but it should be considered the feed you're seeing might be *significantly* different to someone else's feed…
The specific question was about recycling.

Whether we recycle, landfill or incinerate, I'm not sure what difference that makes to plastic pollution. To deal with plastic pollution, we need to reduce overall plastic usage and improve collection and waste management.
Nietzschean?
The name didn't get coined here - there are Sharp datasheets documenting this core, and they use the name SM83.
Self-hosting means hosting things yourself. If you don't know what you host that's a problem. Otherwise, discovery is largely irrelevant and residential IPs have no bearing on it.

For actual reachability, a lot of people use VPNs, network meshes (Tailscale, ZeroTier, Nebula, etc) or secure proxies (Cloudflare Argo Tunnels).

You can also self-host software on VPSs or cloud servers.
I tend to do this, if only to prevent logs being constantly spammed by bots - it results in more useful logs with much less noise.
The absolute worse for me was when I found myself trying to explain to my grandma that you must ALLOW cookie preferences, but you must absolutely DENY notification permissions. For trying to read some news online... The web is a harmful mess.
Not really, it could even be the Chinese if you want to get really conspiratorial.

However, looking at the behaviour of Russia recently with their non-linear war, $300m spent on information warfare, invasion of Ukraine, support of dictatorship abroad etc. who is the more likely to have bombed this infrastructure is highly debatable at least.
> In 2022 I kind of just assume the world is fairly gender-less in most respects so I'm always shocked to see this kind of data

It is almost as if humans have gender/sex related predispositions and are not a tabula rasa for the society to scribe on, as the far left would like to claim..

I would suggest the Blueprint by Robert Plomin, a fascinating read.
I bought Dell Latitude 3410 for $600. It was loaded with Ubuntu with zero bloatware as far as I can judge. Just some Dell logos and some module blacklists. I upgraded it with SSD and RAM, replaced Ubuntu with Fedora and now it's a little beast which can back me up if my main laptop would die.
>Russia was very unbothered on day 1 of the explosion.

On day 1 nobody except the culprits knew wtf was going on.

I wouldnt read too much into their hesitancy to comment.
As with the banana, tutors are much cheaper than that.
Oh. Totally forgot those IE-era toolbars. Nice improvement to get rid of those.
I was just talking to a friend recently about these new straws. I understand they may be better for the environment but they literally dissolve as I drink from them, and a lot of what's in them, or on them (like coloring), ends up inside me.

I admit I have no idea of the science behind any of these, but I feel a bit safer filling up a plastic landfill than absorbing all these chemicals all the time.
An automatic windows 10 install which broke her laptop is what made my partner ditch windows for good and switch to linux.

It's massively reduced the amount of tech support I need to do, and when it does come up, it's much more straightforward for me to deal with.
Pretty sure the plastic your recycle has less chance to end up in the ocean, soil, your body, &c.
Convenience > everything else

Also- just because it's a big deal to you and me, doesn't mean it actually is. How much does it actually hurt you? That's why people don't care. In the grand scheme of things is a wicked "first world problem". We live extremely privileged lives if this is really a huge annoyance (it is to me btw).

I wish things were more open. Would the entire streaming community ever have happened without a general purpose computer? It is hard to know what alternate future we have been robbed of by being force fed closed and locked down platforms.
I don't understand how you think this is responsive to the issue of fabrication. The article already considered the possibility of the human content farm and concluded it was unlikely on the basis of information that was completely fabricated.

The fact that the commenter proceeded to generalize, show a link, etc is not responsive to that. A responsive answer would be along the lines of "well, a content farm might fabricate too because _____."
Being bullied definitely can teach some important life skills (dealing with conflict). You are absolutely correct that bullying is a theme in all stages of life, it just comes in many different forms. I think we discuss bullying in schools so much because children are more overt about it (e.g. stealing lunch money or what have you) and also more vulnerable.

If you're a kid that does something really obnoxious/socially unacceptable, bullying is a way for peers to correct you. The kid that picks their nose will be made fun of and they'll grow up to be an adult that doesn't pick their nose.

As with most things, bullying can go too far but that's not the norm.
Agreed. Constant network wake-ups is the norm. I think apps should have a budget that they need to beg to increase.
Thanks for the references. I'm definitely interested in adding more options to Outstatic. Haven't heard of Gitea before. It looks cool :)
At least a modern Mac is smooth and usable out of the box - which is more than I can say for just about any big brand windows laptop you can buy today.

It feels like theft when a windows laptop is advertised based on its CPU, except when you take it out of the box 60% of that cpu is consumed all the time with some terrible HP bloatware or something. What an utterly terrible experience.
Just implicature. I assume that there was a net benefit to adding all of these features.
I turned it off, it did not help. It still starts on boot and spends minutes indexing who knows what. I never use this Spotlight feature. I guess it looks for forbidden files on my disk, I heard that Apple does that and you need CPU to compute hashes.
I watched some TikToks recently by scrolling on the site and it was easily some of the lowest quality stuff I've ever seen in my life. They were literally just someone's face, a caption, and some random music for about 15 seconds. I've tried a few times now to search for tags of things I like and it is just the lowest denominator stuff I've ever seen on the internet. It's one step away from AI generated (and even that has started doing pretty great things now). I'm sure it's algorithm is amazing but is using TikTok any different to reading reddit or watching YouTube really? Does anyone actually transfer the stuff they read/watch from short term to long term memory?
Maybe I missed it, but this just looks like a giant list of open source tools.
Docker, Containers, virtualization, password management, etc.

Not knocking OP, but a "guide for getting started" seems like it would be a howto for self hosting. This seems like a giant list of tools.

I only note this as I work at a place that self-hosts everything as we already have an on-prem data center. For example, we use openstack for our users to spin up VMs. If I did a guide to self hosting, I would talk briefly about the design choices that led me to openstack, and then about how to prepare for and install openstack. It seems like this guide is more like "you can use openstack for cloud". Needs more "guide".
The icon on the door indicates it's also for people in wheelchairs, but the curb seems a bit high to "jump" over if you're in one.

Surely there is a ramp on the left side outside the photo or did they really mess up this badly?
Microsoft is also to blame here to allow these brands make preinstalled Windows so slow. They must be getting a good deal of it to allow this.

Otherwise pure clean install on these machines, Windows is not slow. I mean, not fast, but not that slow either.
All NS2 does is double NS1's capacity. It hampers Russia's ability to bypass Eastern Europe to have NS1 blown up.

I can think of at least three parties for whom this would be convenient. All of them publicly objected to NS2 and and none of them are Russia.
This is the key. I'm running a 6 years old galaxy tab s2 for reading at night, about 10 to 30 minutes a day, with an OLED display in airplane mode. Due to the display and white-on-black colors, only standby really contributes significantly to the power consumption. Still, even though the battery is very old by now, with average use, the battery indicator is usually at around 60 % at the end of a week without charging.