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Ask HN: What's your recovery plan after a major hardware loss?
Suppose that while you're out for a run, your apartment burns down. Your PC/Notebook is gone as well as your smartphone, all your external hard drives, your NAS, all kind of recovery codes you printed out on paper. (Alternative scenario: Your backpack with your notebook and smartphone gets stolen while you're traveling abroad)

Which steps do you have to do in order to access

- your emails
- your current project data
- your personal backups (photos etc.)
- control over your domains

I noticed that since I use a password manager I don't know any of my passwords. Also, many accounts are protected with 2FA, so to recover anything I have to drive 200 km to my parent's house where I keep my offsite backup.

I'm trying to assess the risk of locking myself out of my data, and looking for ways to improve my backup concept.

What do you do? Could you go to the Apple Store, buy a new MacBook, then use a public WiFi to completely restore everything? Do you have a zipfile hosted somewhere, encrypted with a password you know, that contain the "root keys" you need?
Facebook tries to put out dumpster fire over Zuckerberg’s emails
So you have to pull your keys out of your pocket and stick them in your microwave every time you enter your house just to have the convenience of not needing to take them out of your pocket when you approach the car.
Where's the public link to how to hack together one of these?
Liqian: The Chinese town founded by Roman legionnaires
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It seems that you assume that if one producer sells its product for slightly less than its competition, then it will get all the customers, à la Bertrand competition.

But if it is not the case, and lowering your price only wins you _some_ but not all customers, then there is no reason to expect that the price point that balance gaining new customers vs selling each product for less will be equal to the marginal cost and not above.
They don't even have to slip up. If someone they are communicating with does, they'll be found out.
DAWs usually encode as WAVs for when you're working on stuff because it's faster. But it would be nice for them to losslessly compress your files down to FLAC when you're done and shut down the program!

It would be interesting to have a media-friendly archive file format for the final tracks of completed projects that automatically compresses/decompresses WAVs as FLAC...and other raw data formats as their losslesss counterparts...closest thing I can find is zipx with wavpack.
As father of three (a 3 year old and 1 year old twins), I've found that when we only had one kid, our schedule remained basically the same. But now with three, we are somewhat forced to shift toward being morning people. With multiple, good luck getting them back down to sleep if the sun is up. By the time you succeed, the others will decide to be awake. Also morning routines take longer, so you need to start your day earlier to compensate.

I feel like a big part of it is that very young children are geared towards being early (at least from my perspective) risers. Parents end up shifting their day to account for that. And then as kids get older, their rhythms start moving to starting the day later, but by that time the parents' routine is molded around being up early.

Not sure where I'm going with this exactly, just an observation of mine.
Insurance companies have more of an incentive to make cars safer because of the larger liabilities of injury.
>>Projects like charitable causes have raised a lot for charity.
Probably would have been raised by a company FB bought or crushed. Or a company in another field.

>>I've seen the Are you Safe feature reduce so much stress during disasters.

Not exactly charity, it gets people to use FB more.

FB's problem (for the world) is that it is big and as such it can be used to manipulate opinions or mess with people's psychology. Either by others or by FB for $$$. Same would happen if Fox News or CNN were watched by a billion plus people. They would have the power to move certain people to a different direction. Google is another one, a little bias on search /news results and maybe millions of votes would move one way or another.
> It won't work for software engineers, because engineers should be able to negotiate for themselves.

Why? Is there something about software that inherently makes its practitioners shrewd negotiators?

Part of what keeps software salaries down is the uncapped supply of talent competing for a small number of jobs. Tough to expect much negotiating power.
IB is good if you don’t need them. I’ve asked questions via their website and called them to no avail. That being said they seem solid.
I recently man-in-the-middled a smartphone (I won't mention the manufacturer) for work purposes. It was factory reset, with no apps installed (other than what ships with the phone). Started hitting Facebook APIs within seconds of each boot. I had no words.
Everything is risk vs. reward in life.
How the Chinese Government Is Helping Google Sell Ads in China [paywall]
I know it's not a practical workaround. I'm just pointing out that most people do technically have a Faraday cage in their homes.
Or drop to 5MPH and flash the lights and horn.
I don't condone what Facebook did, but I can't believe anyone would trust them not to.
Not unreasonable, but what about the mass animal extinction we are currently undergoing?

Is that something that routinely happens? And in the precise historical moment of peak human activity?
> But being forced to give away half your physical retail space is hardly the same thing as just letting them keep using an API that you provide explicitly for such use.

In this case, Facebook was deprecating the API and declined to provide special whitelist access to a competitor.
“FAIRNESS PLEASE”, demands Giuliani after falsely accusing Twitter of conspiracy to alter his tweet which simply contained typo which was automatically turned into a link. Classic.

“Twitter allowed someone to invade my text with a disgusting anti-President message. The same thing-period no space-occurred later and it didn’t happen. Don’t tell me they are not committed cardcarrying anti-Trumpers. Time Magazine also may fit that description. FAIRNESS PLEASE
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) December 5, 2018”
Backtracking doesn't require a mutable anything, per se. Just the ability to get back to where you were.

Now, it can be somewhat easily reasoned that a mutable board can more quickly let you go back to previous settings, since you could potentially lose the GC steps of the immutable version.

Of course, the immutable is more easily reasoned for parallelizing, since you can just throw paths to different workers without them stepping on each other.

So, tradeoffs.
> So a phone used to duck surveillance from a powerful entity to conduct discussions about things you don't want that entity knowing about, colloquially goes by what other name then?

A non-corporate phone. “Burner phone” is something very specific and refers to prepaid phones without attached identity at the network level. Which, as the name implies, can be “burned” (discarded) after use.
You meant a solution in search of a problem.
I’m surprised to see, after what happened to Uber — the failure of their safety driver to stay engaged enough to stop the car before striking a pedestrian — that a safety driver who will be mostly disengaged from the driving experience is still thought to add an appropriate safety margin?
Probably not in a direct way unless you work in PR, but yes. Part of the allure of working at a major tech company like Google, Facebook, etc was being able to brag that you worked at shiny company. Now the shine is off, and your friends and family aren't enthusiastic about it anymore and may even be asking you hard questions. It's not a great feeling. As others have mentioned, the stock price is down, so your compensation is significantly lower. Management is distracted by these problems. Recruiting is probably a bit harder. For many of Facebook's younger employees this may be the first time they've seen a company face adversity like this, and their identity may be wrapped up in working for Facebook.
Working at Facebook is still a good job, but I'd imagine that there's lower morale in general, and that turnover has increased because of these issues.
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its in the works!
Regarding SSD technology, its just demand still being greater than the supply at this point.

Companies are overbidding at the fabrication lines to get their latest phones built. Data centers want SSD offerings for customers with insatiable demand for SSD servers at a premium.

The whole thing is just demand demand demand and the chips cant come out fast enough.

Will last for a while at the current rate.
Positive image of libertarians. OK.
You got hooked up with someone bad, which is a shame. I had a great health plan as a contractor (through my agency) and they were great about finding fun jobs. I do know a lot of agents didn't tell folks what rate they were being billed out at (I suspect that $30/hour would mean you are not getting good value), but my pay was a % of the bill rate.
I've been toying around with ProtonMail premium service, so this isn't a direct reflection on ProtonVPN the product. However ProtonMail's support is abysmal. For me that hasn't been a direct reflection of the product, however getting anyone from ProtonMail to engage in a cognizant support conversation is next to impossible and takes days to get an answer. They don't seem to treat paying customers any different than those using free service by way of enhanced SLA on support tickets. My interactions have been so bad I've considered getting a refund on all my outstanding credit (hundreds of dollars for multiple users over multiple years).

I'm curious how this bleeds over into support of ProtonVPN.
Selling point for some. For others, either a "do not buy" point or "crammed down your throat" point.

There is a general trend that car electronics is increasingly acquiring behavioral features that annoy me, that cannot be disabled. This is all across the board; if you don't like it, you have fewer and fewer options: pretty soon, you will have to drive a used old beater if you don't like what new cars are doing.
Thank you! Quick question, is there a good way to "summon" a mod? I've always used @dang to do it but they obviously aren't the only mod here, I just don't know the correct way to do it.
> Nothing says evil more than preparing reactive PR to bury your competitors.

Really?
I've not only heard of QT, I originally developed Next in QT. I can't say it was a good time :D
I'm not sure what your agenda is but I doubt anyone wants to take advice from you.
Kind of like an AST but for markup?
I'm just a layman, not a climate scientist, but I don't think the magnitude of the warming is our big issue. The issue is how quickly it's changing. Previous warming events happened very slowly; even the quickest ones occurred over thousands or tens of thousands of years. Ours is happening a couple orders of magnitude faster.

We can look back, not at the geological record, but at the biological record. Large, fast shifts like this one cause big extinctions. The biosphere cannot react quickly without huge, unpredictable changes.

I'm sure there are conceivable benefits to a warmer earth, but we have to get from here to there without dying and that's what everyone is chiefly concerned about.
"navigating files feels awkward"

What makes navigating files in vim so much better?

Vim was my primary editor for decades, but I was never particularly impressed with its file-navigation plugins, and mostly used the shell for file navigation. Emacs is really no worse in this regard, from what I can see. It has packages which are clones of or similar to vim plugins like NerdTree and the like (which I don't like myself and don't use, but they're there if that's your thing), and it has a bunch of other ways to navigate files -- like doing so from the minibuffer using counsel-find-file, or from dired, or from within a shell running inside Emacs, etc.

"doesn't feel quite as good as an editor as vim"

In what way? Have you tried evil? It makes Emacs 90% like vim, in my experience, and I rarely miss anything from the vim world myself (though, honestly, there are a handful of things that would be nice to have.. but not nearly enough for me to contemplate switching back to vim).
I've never trusted any company to either pay for my own phone or plan, if that requires allowing it special access.

Lot's of companies provide a limited scope Wifi access for contractors, vendors, etc, when on campus. The level of insight might not be as high but the host company can potentially still track things like local network traffic without requiring "special access" beyond Wifi usage. If the FB employees don't want to acknowledge the existence of these phones then they are definitely "burners".
Well obviously it depends on the country. I know that here (in Israel), the are laws around this that say that anyone working in what is effectively FTE in a company, even if they are contractors, had to be treated in various ways like a fte of the company. Eg in vacation days.

I'm not sure about any subtleties here- when exactly this kicks in, etc. But there are some real protections.
The article states that China accounts for twice as much emissions as the United States:

> The world’s largest emitter is still China, which produces 27 percent of global carbon emissions, according to the report. The United States accounts for 15 percent of emissions, the European Union 10 percent and India 7 percent.

> China’s emissions are projected to rise 4.7 percent in 2018, the report said. The country is stimulating manufacturing to counterbalance its slowing economy, allowing more coal-based manufacturing that it had avoided in the past, Dr. Jackson said.

> United States emissions are expected to rise 2.5 percent this year after several years of declines, and despite a shift away from coal toward cleaner sources of energy. Dr. Jackson attributed part of the increase to a colder-than-normal winter in some parts of the country and a hotter summer in other parts, which inflated demand for heating and cooling.
Yeah, "ways to make nan", even being familiar with the domain, is an extremely unintuitive way to phrase that query.
Those are fun. I have also found companies that move from one kind into another based on the situation. (like multi-subscriber to one subscriber).

There are also healthier companies out there (healthy in that they are managed by non-sociopaths and share a respect for their employees) as well. Two that I'm personally familiar with would be:

Lifestyle business - company has a diversified revenue stream which remains relatively constant over the years, management runs the business for continuation, there aren't big hiring binges or firing binges. Same offices as they have been in for a while, everyone gets along in a family sort of way. Little in the way of advancement, just jobs that pay a given amount for as long as you want to do them.

Services business - where the day to day activity consists of new customers signing up for the service, old customers falling by the wayside, there is a sales group, a 'customer facing' group, and a maintenance group. Maintenance consists mostly of adding new features, porting to new environments, retiring what technical debt there is. Customer facing consists of solving specific problems with the service for that customer. And sales are sales.
I don't think Google is going to agree to the demands. I believe they already segregate many of their low-level non-direct hires in completely different campuses. Nothing wrong with that but it indicates that they have a reason to keep many separate and don't want them physically close to sensitive projects.

And I agree with you. If the Microsoft scenario happens it will end up worse for people who prefer being a consultant/contractor. Of course, some temps would prefer an FTE role.
Go camping for an extended period of time, where you are squatting over holes in the ground. Squatting is how we shat before toilets, and it's definitely easier, quicker, less stressful on rectum. I don't own one of these, but immediately understood the benefit. Really, since the toilet came after this, the onus of proof is on the sitting toilet. As an interesting side-note, squatting births are purported as being easier as well.
What type of NAS do you have? I am researching alternatives would appreciate your advice.
I think this idea is explored in Srncinek's book "Platform Capitalism"

https://www.amazon.com/Platform-Capitalism-Theory-Redux-Srni...
No, because feelings don't work by strictly following nutrient flows.
So it must be the default OS - why don't you reveal the manufacturer? Clearly an FB app in some form is bundled.
Yeah, for the thief, maybe. This is a classic example of tech attempting to eliminate a mild inconvenience that no one really complained about before, and clumsily engineering a 'solution' that causes a dozen other novel and catastrophic problems in the process.
Even if you're not driving, you may be screwed just because you're a foreigner and you're in the car, but yeah, why would you ever drive in a place like this?
You are correct it was mechanical, I was just drawing a connection that mandatory recalls exist for issues the auto industry is use to (I.E. mechanical), but nothing exists to track and force updates to software issues (like a CVE database, Perhaps something does exist and I have not heard of it) and have not in the past been the best at software assurance.

It is kind of an apples to oranges comparison, but nonetheless it gets the point across.
True, no one has to. Reality will figure itself out.
Cost isn't linear with storage. On Newegg a 1 TB drive is $37, a 2 TB is $61, a 4TB is $84, a 6 TB is $158 for $26/TB. The metal shell of the HD costs a certain amount no matter how much storage is inside. Still not a full factor of 10 but certainly more significant.
> full-blown anti-media rhetoric, saying that the press is ganging up on Facebook

I don't like facebook, but they are not wrong to feel this way because that is exactly what the media is doing because it is profitable. If it bleeds it leads. The media, like facebook's newsfeed, has the greatest engagement and ad revenue when they are actively selling controversy. Manufacturing or even just exaggerating controversy is at fault here.

There really is no difference between everything shitty about Facebook and the news media these days. They are both afflicted with the same disease.
That sounds like an oversight. IIRC there are "googlers-<site>" mailing lists that each full-time employee at a site is automatically added to. Whoever was doing comms that day probably assumed it went to everyone in the building, not realizing that it doesn't cover contractors or visiting employees.
Correlation does not equal causation. We have plenty of other ways of harming the environment that can explain mass extinctions, like contamination from pesticides, plastics, antibiotics, etc.

Not that bleaching isn't a problem, but CO2 based ocean acidification should not be conflated with climate change.
These points are either incorrect or already debunked here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/protonvpn...

There are even photos from Mozilla's visit to Proton HQ in Geneva:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpR7ungAi6Y/

Proton does have an office in Vilnius (one of 6 offices globally), but the bulk of our staff works in our two Swiss offices.
Screwily to our intuitions negative mass goes in the opposite direction of its acceleration.

It still goes away but the acceleration is in the same direction. It is weird and easy to be confused.
How does that differ from your definition of retirement?
A burner is a phone you intend to discard if it becomes compromised. Just because you don't have to burn it doesn't make it not a burner.
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Some people like to paint ducks or build model airplanes. Some relax by plopping down in front of their PlayStation or TV for a few hours. Others like to tweak their editor. Is that so wrong?
Not quite. AST but for rich text.
I have no idea. I’ve mostly been interested in UI work anyways, and not being able to move to the new UI stack really sucked for me. Now it’s all just a bunch of bad choices.
Would you mind sharing your opinion/learnings on your time contracting? My wife (molecular biologist) is currently interviewing for a similiar position through one of these middleman companies (Agap2).

Edit: (bit of background) from what I see (through her) really hard to get directly into Pharma here in Germany/EU even with a PhD and decent CV.
Clearly an Android, since Apple removed that weird Facebook/Twitter integration in the early days.
1. Do you discard all sciences then?

2. Were there mammals living on Earth at these times?

3. Did temperatures rise this fast after the previous ice ages? If so, how did the most complex organisms adapt? Did they survive?

4. Is global warming taboo enough for the fossil fuel industries to look for benefits in all directions?

5. Maybe we're studying the effect of climate change on a shorter time period because the current trend is much faster than previous shifts?
> (like array bounds checking, alternatives to pointers, RAII, etc.).

Yeah but C++ has all of that, too, as well as a vastly broader ecosystem in the space of non-GC'd, ultra-high-performance languages.
Please yes. Traditional keys fit on my keyring, can survive the clothes washer, don't unlock doors by accident, can open a car with a dead battery, don't have their own battery issues, and can be brought into restricted work environments where radio transmitters are banned.

I want key holes in all doors. I want to insert a key to start the car.
Torch is hiring a Head of Marketing
(that's the joke)
I don't think it's fantasy. There are some reasonable arguments on that side. Even though I'm not entirely convinced on them I've got an open mind on that point. I just don't think it makes any difference to the question of free will though, at least I've not yet seen a coherent argument to that effect.
I thought that that kind of toxic culture just surrounded the political parties but by the looks of it is a basic part of the American (business) culture.
If a big company like that has employees like that (i.e. without conscience) we're in for a ride.
That makes a lot of sense. I guess I would have expected cloud providers to push the industry into newer (but stable) technologies. As web dev continues to mature and becomes increasingly interested in fast, real-time, application development, I have to think that user demand will eventually force cloud providers' hands. That said, there are clearly other considerations at hand.

I definitely think there's a market to provide services that support these protocols, of which Firebase is evidence. The only problem is Firebase, while great for smaller, quick projects, has some major issues at scale.
True, but not very nice to use. For example, if you change the tab, all other pages get unloaded and will reload if you change back to them. Very good for loosing where on the page you where.

It is not a big issue really as FFF (as I understand it) is not meant to be used for tabbing a lot and it prevents the usual tab accumulation.
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Audio mixing and mastering, particular with a lot of channels and hosted effects can be very CPU intensive task. As a general rule you wouldn't want to add compression/decompression to that process as well.

Granted, the industry standard in this area (ProTools) is an absolute CPU hog to begin with, so it needs all the help it can get.
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Mods on power trips ruining communities.