skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have said, it's not a full-on brick (though I can see how it can be a pain to fix).

However, the third-party MS certificate can be signed with your own keys, as described on that same page [1].

I don't have a need for that (my PCs don't need any option ROMs), but I did sign MS's main Windows key so that I can dual boot Win11 / Arch (which MS doesn't sign) with my own key registered in the UEFI.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware...
I wonder if there's a way to do something similar but with a deadman's switch. Escrow is a great solution, but kind of expensive.

On another point:

> in the unlikely event that we become unable to continue to service our customers

Maybe there's a second condition I'm missing here, but becoming unable to continue to service your customers is an incredibly likely event. The only alternatives are losing every single customer or existing as a business until the end of time. I'd put the probability of losing every customer as < 1/100 and of continuing until the end of time at 0. So 99% that this is the outcome. Again, maybe some alternative I'm missing.
Is there any company in the same hardware space you'd consider a good actor? Or even less bad than Apple?
>I don't understand actually using it though.

Why not? Some people can "Yeah, I get it. Very Clever." just from the description. Some people CAN'T. The proof of this is in math class where people struggle with word problems. You are in the category of people that get it from description only. Have empathy for the people that need to see it in action.

Also, you know, it's fun. Don't ruin it for others because you can't/won't/don't
> As an aside, if anyone is looking for a very vintage, single phase 7.5hp, 24" jointer, I have one for sale.

Man this is the kind of thing you have to include a location for ;)
I also mostly seen it as EDR/AV killer. A bit overkill as initial access, but thats part of the joke of the article
We really need to get a handle on what privacy and anonymity mean. As someone who cares very much about privacy, this article just doesn't resonate with me. Thinking in terms of having some singular "identity" means you've already lost.

The title of this post is straight up weird - "The only way of being anonymous is Sweden is illegal". That would imply that if you're walking down the street, anyone has the right to demand that you tell them your government identity? Or if you stop and talk to someone, at some point you need to tell them your government identity in case they're asked about it later? Obviously this is not the case.

The article is really complaining about being able to map between (SSN, name, phone numbers, address). The same mappings exist in the US, and basically everywhere else, regardless of whether mandated de jure or not. To me, the primary concern is not about the existence of this mapping, but about having to spill your well known identifiers in the first place. If I can walk into a store and make a purchase without leaking my name, then the store cannot lookup my address or phone number. And they cannot track my purchases or return visit next week, which is a deeper form of privacy invasion that is generally missed when talking about this concept of singular government "identity".

If I'm signing up for a web account and the website forces me to give my name, phone number, or address (especially in a way that they verify), then likewise I end up connected to my singular government identity just to use a web site. Meanwhile if there are laws prohibiting them from asking such information, or trying to figure it out from IP addresses etc, then I remain anonymous (psuedonymous) to the website regardless of the existence of the mapping of government identities.

I roll my eyes every time I see some news article about a "personal information" leak that merely consists of mapping between well known government identifiers. Especially in the USian context, the more published social security and driving license numbers become, the better! The real concern is the tying of most of your every day behavior to any of those longstanding identifiers.
I guess it's good that the sugar industry has enough money to fund studies of artificial sweetener and vice versa.
> Unfortunately, Macbooks cause severe eyestrain for me, for some unknown reason

For me it's the reflectiveness of the screen that does it. It's a bummer there's no matte choice.
New jet fuel concept scrubs CO2 from the atmosphere
From one of the authors:
"It should also remove SO₂ and chlorides from the atmosphere, and may reduce residence time of CFCs HFCs and PFCs. As far as I know, this is the only proposed alternative net-zero GHG fuel with aircraft range similar to or longer than plain hydrocarbons. (NH₃, H₂, even synthetic liquid CH₄ all have 55-90% lower energy density and require pressurization or cryogenic cooling.) The combustion product magnesia (~100 nm MgO particles) is a bodily nutrient which dissolves in lung fluids, we drink it for upset stomach and add it to drinking water to reduce acidity."
I have had 2 motherboards replaced on my work precision 7540 in the last 2.5 years.

It all started by the CPU dying on the first motherboard a few months after first use. After 2-3 hours of back and forward with the support agent and diagnostics (machine was dead dead, blinking orange led indicator), they sent a tech relatively soon (within a week) and replaced the mobo.

A few months go by, a year - throughout this period of time after the first repair, the CPU has been sitting at 99 and thermal throttling like hot shit. Fans screaming all the time, finally I got fed up and launched another ticket.
Let me tell you, I wasted a combined whole work day over two days going through diagnostics to no end. Getting messages from support at 2, 3 in the morning with massive delay between WhatsApp messages. Finally I got impatient with them so they sent a tech out (again, within a week).

Tech says temp sensor on the cpu is faulty, changes the board over again. The bloke literally remembers me from last time. TO give credit where credit is due, the tech was a top lad. He tells me that they are a 3rd party hired by Dell - they get penalised if the repair is unsuccessful - while often relying on misleading diagnosis from the first line support teams (chat).

Immediately after the repair I started noticing another issue - when you wake the machine from sleep or launch it after shutdown, without having the DC charged plugged in - CPU is throttled at 1 GHz and the machine takes minutes to even boot. No setting fixes that, I have tried resetting, running live Linux, the same. Once you plug the charger in it springs back to life.

After a few months, today, I get a BIOS warning that the machine can no longer verify the power of the charging adapter - the machine was so slow yesterday that the mouse was lagging on the screen after waking it from sleep.

I really do not like Dell. I will never buy Dell for myself or recommend it to anyone else. Oh and around 40 percent of us at work (we all use Dell laptops for remote work in the better part of the last 3 years) have experienced some sort of hardware failure / issues.
My company bought me a Dell recently laptop. Some XPS with Linux on it. It took over a month to be shipped, then arrived with the touchpad broken: it failed a BIOS self-diagnostic check, I'm not sure how they ever shipped something like that. They then had a part on backlog for another month (presumably a trackpad?), sent out a tech to come swap it out, who recommended that if it was DOA I should ship it back and they'd swap it out for a new one and I'd have it back in a couple days. Sent it back but surprise surprise they decided to replace the part and it took another month for the part to get to that office. Now it's been with "overnight Fedex" for a week shipping back, allegedly fixed.

It's been over 4 months now since I ordered it. The enterprise support contract is "good" though; there is a guy who emails me every few days updating me on the ETA for the parts, etc. But it seems to just be information, the whole logistics setup is messed up.
I didn't say it was a particularly valuable ad space, I completely agree :) But having had these conversations with the people responsible, that's nevertheless the reality.

There are existing supported technologies which solve all of these issues. You can set up a Passpoint OSU solution, route users through T&Cs once and provision their device with a secure credential for encrypted autoconnection in the future. Or build said sign-in into the venue's mobile app. But that requires consensus from the corporate stakeholders (marketing and legal), who tend to prefer status quo.

There are folks working on these problems, both from wireless industry and venue side, and if anyone is really interested in helping I'd suggest looking into the Wireless Broadband Alliance as well as the Wi-Fi Alliance. Passpoint will eventually kill portals but it's taking forever due to these politics.
Pretty sure there are people out there trusting Dyalog.
A well designed sandbox plus granular permissions resolves that, plus can’t you just not install apps/sites that scoop up your data?
The most frustrating thing about these pylons and cables pictured in the article is they come ridiculously close to the buildings beside them.

At one point I was looking at renting an apartment in a building right beside them (Hoola), ultimately didn’t, in part because of the power lines. Turns out there is no/little regulation in how far away these lines must be from other buildings.
The problem with Dell is you really need to understand their crazy product line, and have leverage to hold them accountable. It’s harder to do apples to apples comparisons to HP or Lenovo.

Their server and laptop hardware is often garbage, so if you need to buy it, structure in SLA penalties so that people get fired when the company screws up. That will incentivize the salespeople to make sure you get the better models. That will cost you money though.

If you are small or don’t have the budget, shop for the better gear or treat them as disposable. The upside of the sprawling product line is that they have product in every possible segment, from HDMI stock thin clients to high end workstations.
He mentioned in Lex podcast that he still drinks 8-9 diet cokes everyday.
Well, but I still don't want to put them in the same category as Congo or Bangladesh.

There are major differences.
It doesn't remove all bias. It does remove a lot of bias and concentrates the remaining bias in a particular dimension, which probably does substantially improve the fairness of the system, but we need to be clear-eyed that it's not eradicating bias.
What's wrong with brown butter?
See what normal people are doing.

See what low income people do.

Look away from seeing what internet and techies are doing.
The alternate is to treat people fairly in accordance with basic human rights.

-Fair treatment.

-Human rights.
When is "way back when?" 2007-2011, the interview consisted of one or two hours in person on location. That's it. 20 minutes with HR, 20 minutes with the hiring manager, 20 minutes at the whiteboard, 20 minutes with a VP/CTO/CEO and you were done. Segments were often ended early because you were taking up a conference room, so there was an incentive to keep things brief and at a brisk pace.

I'm not saying the in-person experience was superior or inferior to how it is now, but it was considerate of everybody's time.
Wouldn't insulation be the first thing to fix though?

I've got cavity wall insulation, 30cm of insulation in the loft and recentish double glazed windows and the bedrooms stay warm enough at night with just body heat and residual heat. The heating on goes on in the evenings (still hasn't gone on yet) unless it's really cold. I don't think any of those are particularly onorous jobs to undertake.
I believe they’re referring to the KitchenAid stand mixer, a piece of equipment that’s known for being stoutly built. [1] (I know several people who’ve had theirs for decades.)

Sadly, anything other appliance branded KitchenAid is basically hit-or-miss. They license their name to other manufacturers for certain products, so you can’t count on the name on its own to guarantee quality.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=0qKp-0h9P18
Transferring money between bank accounts is not a service you pay for.
It is hard to hobby on the internet.

Have you ever tried to Kayak on the internet? You have to buy a camera and be entertaining in your videos. In general no one does that unless they are getting paid. So you either Kayak, and don't plaster it all over the internet or you try to get paid for it. Same goes for pretty much every other hobby, doing it is fun, doing it "on the internet" is a job.

I wouldn't even blame the internet for that, doing something in a way that is interesting enough to be shared is hard work.
Criminal activity should be compared to other countries and historical data (per capita)
Lol, easy to nitpick but if you'll read the whole document this guy really knows his stuff. It's not a coincidence that uWebSockets is continuously being used by most trading platforms.

"It's not bragging if you can back it up." - Muhammad Ali
I think the reason is that productivity/wages have been falling. People want to maintain quality of life and so must dedicate a larger percentage of their time to income generation. This is, I think, directly a result of the declining economic situation.
what are the / for?

I couldn't figure out how to get started until I read someone in the comments suggest to make them optional.
System76 seems terrific. But, overall, Apple is alone is having the market power and deep integration between software, hardware, and services to radiate abuse. So, pretty much every other company has the potential to be better.
But they're saying they "were about to push the button". That sounds like they were at least very close to making the final decision. And clearly "aware".
I use two P2715Q's as my daily drivers for the past 6 years. They're good. They suffer from some image persistence but it's been forgivable. Some coworkers have got the same display and say they don't have the persistence.

Burn in takes about an hour and it fades after 10-15 min.

Either I notice it more than them, or I got a bad batch. I'm pleased with the purchase despite that.
Sadly ordered the full version before this come out. Look great though.
Well, outdoor temperature determines the heat load demanded of the radiators, and lower exhaust temperatures for a condensing boiler mean more condensing takes place.
So unless/until the circulation pump starts to dominate, one wants to run the water in the heating loop towards the radiators as cold as will still suffice (though cold here is more important for heat pumps; the boiler cares more about how cold the water leaves the radiator), and often have a rather small temperature delta between the inlet/outlet ports of the radiator loop heat exchanger in the boiler.

Theoretically it could use feedback from all the thermostat valves (and adjust the burner to keep the most-open valve near (but not at) 100% flow), but that requires feedback from all valves rather than just an outdoor temperature probe and a parametric mapping curve that depends on radiator style, desired indoor temperature, and building insulation.
I’m not sure what that has to do with “progressives”.
This will set a precedent though. Once they start taxing boosts they are just a couple moves away from taxing any kind of Ad buying.

What’s worrisome about this is that Apple is using it’s dominant position to possibly tax every transaction that happens in their ecosystem.

In a couple of years they could demand Amazon, Uber, DoorDash, etc. to pay fees too. Perhaps not 30% but they could certainly add a 3% fee to all those transactions. Something that looks reasonable to the public opinion and yet something that’s fundamentally fucked.

This is Apple operating like the IRS for their profit.
>It feels like every time someone gets into a new field now, there's always the expectation they'll 'go pro' or turn it into a day job.

I think the nature of this has changed recently, but I feel like things were like this in the USA to some degree even before.

I migrated to the USA a long time ago (20+ years). Among other culture shocks, I still remember experiencing this "go pro" mentality was when I first came here and wanted to get some basic stuff like shoes and a bicycle.

Going into a bike shop, I couldn't just purchase the cheapest bike. The person said maybe now I want to bike for 20 minutes on weekends for fun, but in 1 year I'll want to bike 50 miles. So I should consider buying bike that is 3X as expensive that is made of carbon fiber. Want to buy a pair of shoes to go for a 20 minute run? Well, then you want a custom measurement and evaluation of your gait and ... you see where this is going. When you go into a sports store to buy something they want to sell you a lifestyle, not a product.

Obviously the majority of people buying running shoes and bicycles aren't going to become triathletes. But that's the vision to upsell people into a particular lifestyle.

I think monetizing things is just the latest incarnation of this. The vast majority of people are probably doing hobbies for fun, but if you go onto social media people are selling you a lifestyle, not a hobby.
The article says rates have more than doubled since the beginning of the year. Uaing a mortgage calc for $400k and 20% down:

3.58% = $522k, or $202k in interest

7.16% = $778k, or $458k in interest
It doesn't seem to like regexes like /.*/ either, despite them matching the whole thing.
Sure, candidates do exist sometimes. The deeper problem is the whole topic is swamped by the mainstream party that has claimed "fiscal responsibility" as part of their platform, while doing the exact opposite.
Maybe we will soon see the Java Virtual Machine implemented wholly in (a subset of) Java...
I put the name of the company when I worked there, then the current name in parentheses.

For example: EMC (now Dell)
The buffer pool structure introduced here is really interesting, it's the second one I've read of lately that introduces a tiered frame-size architecture.

So rather than each frame slot being, say, PAGE_SIZE, you have multiple frame slot sizes in the buffer pool.

What is different about this gVisor implementation is that the frame sizes seemed to be all mixed up with each other?

IE, from the example image, the below seems like a valid layout:

[1024, 512, 256]

The other implementation that I am aware of (Umbra, a research DB) uses multiple, independent pools which are overlayed on top of each other using independent mmap() anonymous calls.

https://db.in.tum.de/~freitag/papers/p29-neumann-cidr20.pdf

This is more understandable (to me) because you can use a hash map look up (well, more likely in production, some kind of "&" with hash keys) to index into the size tier you want, like:

> buffer_pool_frames[size_3][frame_10]
Sorry, why would he do this? If he wasn't doing it thinking it would help then what?
That is advertising, it’s just unlabelled
That could lead to a problem if people are betting on a refinance…
That's always been true though.

There have always been terrible laptops in the market. I generally recommend the following process:

1. Go to a physical store and try out the keyboards / mousepads of the laptops you're interested in. Don't worry about specs yet.

2. Look up the service manual of that model, ensure that you can replace important parts (M.2 Drive and Battery take top priority for me) with relative ease. You can probably do this on your phone after deciding you like a particular keyboard/mouse.

3. Ask the store for the specs (CPU / GPU / RAM / SSD) you want, especially if the SSD is soldered on (though ideally, buy a replaceable M.2 slot). If not available at the store, _MAYBE_ buy online, but in my experience the Retail return model just works far better than RMA to manufacturer. So prefer retail / buying off the shelf.

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Normally, I start to see things worth buying at the $700 point, but with compromises of some kind (poor screen, bad mousepad, etc. etc.). Moving up to the $1000 price point, things are generally better with only one thing that's really terrible that I probably can live with (maybe soldered on SSD, a lower quality screen, or something along those lines).

Moving up to $2000 price point, I get good everything, but price sucks.

I'm pretty confident that I can find a good $700 to $1000 laptop, especially if you give me the freedom to choose a user-replaceable M.2 drive, and give me an hour or so to replace it with a $130 1TB generic drive. It won't have the best specs by modern standards, but it'd beat the pants off of any old Thinkpad from 5+ years ago. Bonus points: I probably was going to do this anyway to wipe out all that terrible crap-ware / bloatware on the laptop. So doing this _AND_ upgrading to 1TB or 2TB is just cake.

But just using the most modern chips (even of a lower-value one, like an Intel i3 or AMD Ryzen) will grossly improve battery life and have all sorts of other advantages. You really don't need to jump for the $2000+ models.
Where are all the Chief People Officers?
> (others devices barely matter)

Last quarter, iPhone was 49% of Apple's total revenue, other devices 28%. Obviously iPhone is the biggest, but I wouldn't say 28% barely matters. That 28% is by itself bigger than most companies in the world.

> its reaching a peak

You could have said the same thing in, say, 2018. There are peaks and valleys. I'm not sure anyone can predict the future. In any case, hardware accounts for 77% of Apple's revenue currently.
I have preferred Dell machines almost exclusively for about nine years. Then in this past December my Dell daily driver went blank in the middle of playing a YouTube video, never to boot again. I bought three replacements (Inspiron line) back to back and each one failed in turn within a week. Finally, frustrated beyond all belief I tried an HP. It had less RAM and no number pad, but otherwise has served adequately for nearly a year now. Unfortunately, after sinking $3000 into new computers in less than two weeks I've had to swear off of Dell. They just don't have the quality control I'd previously been accustomed to.
Some folks really enjoy food, though. They might spend a lot of time learning new recipes, spend 12 hours smoking a piece of meat, make things from scratch, make more than they could ever eat (and give away to friends)... seek out new restaurants, hell, even travel for the cuisine. Ditto entertainment-- movie buffs and the like.

You might also disqualify hobbies you don't consider a hobby. If I go for a run every saturday morning, is running a hobby? Or am I just a fitness freak? I think sometimes what folks do 'for fun' is either dismissed, or considered something you kind of have to do / should do anyway.
This will pressure prices down presumably which is a good thing for cash buyers but basically no one else.
Landlords cant raise rent as they please in Sweden, the renting market and the amount of rent is controlled by the goverment.
What would fighting this look like?

These operations are often in failed / significantly less free states and ignored or otherwise protected by them.

Regime change?
What about people who don't own a phone?