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Is there any way to get his attention for this? That would be amazing...
You can't get paid upfront and at the same time get a liability waiver. For a 100% guarantee with full liability $30k doesn't actually sound ridiculous because it would require obtaining 100% identical hardware and doing at least one test run on that hardware before actually doing it on the production hardware. What the contractor did is basically "wing it", explain a way to get zero downtime to the client and then not actually offer a guarantee by doing the operation straight on the production hardware. Really this was more about convincing (ie bullshitting your way through) the client to let you do the work than actually doing it properly and for a huge sum of money. It wouldn't surprise me if there was actual downtime for a few seconds and the client simply didn't notice it.
Land use changes may increase disease outbreak risks
>hardware monitoring is significantly improved to the point where you’ll typically know if something will fail and can schedule the maintenance.

There's SMART for disks... what else?
The issue of each hosting provider having a custom URL is significant and a source of lock-in. For going from "final audio" to published I was working on a PowerShell Core script (and testing it on Linux) to perform tasks like: transcoding, applying ID3 tags, embedding artwork, uploading to the podcast provider, getting the service URL, appending a 302 redirect on my website to the hosting service's file location, updating the podcast.xml feed file, and publishing a blog post about the new podcast episode (I'm using a JSON sidecar file with the data needed for show title, summary, links, etc for making a complete blog post/shownotes). I was thinking of rewriting the script into either a python or nodejs application.
The downloads for older versions aren't hidden. They are at the bottom of the respective OS download pages:

https://1password.com/downloads/mac/

https://1password.com/downloads/windows/

I still use 1Password 6 with Dropbox to sync. Works great. If you have a license, you may have the wrong (new) version, or just need to activate it.
I keep encouraging people to use Firefox over the others. My efforts keep failing. Mozilla’s focus on privacy is important and should be to others. People have been burned in the past and are willing to give up privacy for something that just works. The irony.
Pictures please!
email him. contact link is in the footer.
Reproducible builds, combined with digital signatures and an append-only cryptographic ledger, solve a lot of these trust issues.

https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/10/guide-automatic-security-...
> This is fantastic. I never liked the cookies sticking around forever, and managing them manually was a massive pain if you wanted to keep some of them.

You might like the CookieAutoDelete plugin[1]. It's a recommended plugin
which allows you to set a list of domains and domain patterns which
retain their cookies while others are deleted. I've been using it
for a couple of months now, and I love it.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
But he didn't have to press the physical button. The wipers start automatically, right?
Why the live streaming app NTWRK is so successful
That sounds really the wrong way around - the worst offenders in USB malware surely are flash drives that declare themselves as keyboards and input preprogrammed keyboard events (like the USB Rubber Ducky [0])!

(For your parenthetical I should clarify - it wasn't the case that it was impossible to whitelist other devices, it just had to be done on a case-by-case basis. I.e. you would call IT and say "Jen from accounting at machine foo123 needs her new ergonomic mouse to be recognized" and they would remote in, tell Jen to unplug and replug the device and whitelist that exact USB device id on that exact machine.)

[0] https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky-deluxe
Blackstone Group buys majority stake in Ancestry.com in $4.7B deal
Another one of Blackstone's properties: Change Healthcare, a leading independent healthcare technology company that provides data and analytics-driven solutions to improve clinical, financial and patient engagement outcomes.

https://www.blackstone.com/our-businesses/private-equity/
No, people don't choose them because they like Chrome, people choose them because Google makes sure that their services don't work well in other browsers!

Just to point out one of the many such complaints
https://youtu.be/ELCq63652ig
Why ? Honest question.
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Revo Uninstaller, found on Ninite.com, does the crapware removal well.
Sure it works, if you know how to use it. I think they should have switched to a simpler system about 10 years ago.
By picking on such an inconsequential bullet point, it almost seems like you picked the first thing that you could use, no matter how tenuous, to trojan-horse in the age-old dynamic- vs static-typing debate. ;)
TikTok however is the opposite of WeChat where the interface is dead simple and intuitive.

What is Reels immitating here?
Yes. The “magic number” seems to be 300 items on my machine.
Anything above that will start to seriously freeze
the browser.
History maps to that theory but I would like to think it's coincidental and has more to do with the acumen and aggressiveness of the founders than of any natural generational churn.
I'm curious if this is just repackaging existing OSS algorithms for isolating foregrounds, or if they have an actually new implementation that outperforms them
Hey I'm the original author!

How much data would you need for confidence? According to my calculations this is 98% confidence. That feels like 'enough' to make a decision for my small startup.

I'm pretty explicit in the blog post that this isn't meant to be universally applicable— it's just what happened to us.
Comedian Jeff Wright had a great commentary recently on how Instagram has a history of copying upstart social networks (Vine, Snapchat, and now TikTok).

https://twitter.com/JeffRightNoww/status/1287842365126914048

(Coincidentally, I think Jeff Wright had his breakthrough TikTok...)
I'm a fan of ETP, except it breaks a lot of sites that use embeds.

For example, sites that use Twitter or Instagram [1] embeds won't show the embeds. And there's no way, as far as I can tell, to whitelist those.

The only solution is to whitelist the sites that have embeds, but that ends up enabling all the tracking and stuff you don't want.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1446243
aside of Krugman, $35 worth of goods and services in 1970 worth about $233 according to https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1970?amount=35, so it's not currency problem but the gold itself went up.
I have had mine for quite a while, and don't think I have ever used the voice controls for anything. If I ever did it might have been to try navigation when I first got it. I honestly did not even know you could voice control the wipers. Definitely a discovery problem there.
Key is to set the price. If the job is a hassle, you're not charging enough. That will also filter out bozos. Sometimes people really do have extreme requirements. And when they do, they're willing to pay 10x for it.

Agreed though, this particular customer disqualified himself as soon as he said he wont pay if the server goes down. He should have offered a big bonus if the move succeeds without downtime.
There’s a market for everything. The “shit customer” would have hired someone. Sure things could have gone to shit and they wouldn’t be paid, but they didn’t, and there is a living to be had serving this market segment. Every contracting business has difficulty with AR, stereotyping often isn’t even particularly acccurate. Suffice it to say there is a business to be had in catering primarily to difficult customers.
It all seems pretty pointless when every tracker tracks you by IP address and the only real way to defeat this is to use Tor, which BTW is blocked on an ever-growing list of sites.
> a lot of BigIron(TM) vendors advertised achieving five-9s by replacing hardware while the OS remained running and continuing service.

AS/400's were capable of that in the 90's (possibly the 80's as well). Heck, they'd call IBM for replacement parts on their own. You'd show up for work and there'd be an IBM guy waiting to be let in. He'd swap out a part with no downtime, and be gone. I've seen machines with uptimes of over a decade with zero on-site IT.
Depends on how big the building is that houses it – manufacturing IT can deal with impressive floor spaces.

I once only half jokingly suggested finding a missing data closet in a two million square foot distribution center by pinging a known IP from three or four aggregator switches across the building and triangulating the location on a floor plan. Sadly the people crawling around the ceiling found it before I could put my idea into practice.
I understand the need to break conventions, but there is a heat advisory in my area today. My Honda gets parked outside. And when things go wrong I occasionally do 15+ hour shifts. I'd be screaming mad if I came out after one of those days to find my car's battery was dead and the screen delaminated. But that is why I bought a Honda. I cannot sync my ipod list with my google cloud account, but it always starts when I ask it to.
The automatic wipers are famously bad because Tesla decided to save money on the sensor and try and detect rain with image processing instead. Even after many updates they're still not great. So it's perfectly possible to need to turn on the wipers manually in some situations but the physical button is by far the most convenient way to do that.
The Passport by Foundation Devices is a device that's pretty close to this, it just happens to do more than only 2FA:
https://foundationdevices.com/
Covid has lead to a changing of guidelines around telehealth both at a state and a federal level. And even if it's not technically allowed it's unlikely that any state will prosecute medical professionals due to the ongoing crisis as it's really bad PR.
when i was younger i was super proud that i could replace my disk while i kept working on the device. i would put the new disk into my LVM volume group moved all extends to the new disk and dropped the old disk out of the VG afterwards, when done i could just unplug it and be done without halting work except for kicking off the process.
> The cost of nuclear energy has been flat for decades, but the cost of sources like solar has been plummeting.

Does the cost of solar et al take into account the capacity factor?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor

Solar is barely able to be used 30% of the time, and wind maybe touches 40% reliability. Meanwhile nuclear hardly ever drops below 80%, and is usually above 90%.

I live in Ontario, Canada, and we have quite a few nuclear plants, and they deliver very reliable power (click on the "Supply" tab):

* http://www.ieso.ca/power-data

We're 61% nuclear, and 25% hydro(-electric):

* http://www.ieso.ca/en/Power-Data/Supply-Overview/Transmissio...

IMHO, if we build another ~2500MW of nuclear, then that would completely take care of our base load, and the daily fluctuations could be handled by hydro.
Off-peak hours for solar is also when there is no sun, so no. Wind isn't constant either. We need a constant 24/7 source of uninterruptible energy.
Awesome. Just did. Thank you!!
I guess if you can find a manager of some sort within the org would be your best bet.
Levi Niha is really underrated. He makes music out of everything, takes on the weirdest challenges with a healthy dose of optimism, and manages to teach some stuff along the way without really trying.
I don't watch his videos that often but he's definitely amongst the people making youtube as a platform worthwhile.
Remember, NASA was the one that added the DOD requirements. To increase their budget, they lobbied congress to cancel the Air Force space program to make it a captive customer of the Shuttle.
Working on hot wires is no problem. Ground wires scare me and I'll turn off the main breaker before I touch them. You can never be sure what ground is really at.
Is it worth buying Google home?
I'm running the same version of Firefox on FreeBSD (firefox-79.0,1) and I don't see this (with http2=true). I'm running 13-current (r363668) and using the 12-stable quarterly packages (FreeBSD:12:amd64/quarterly)
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Just like the flu.
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Yeah, you are right. The part that causes these projects to fail isn't the nuclear part. It's the construction part. You can't just take a construction crew that's used to building highways or skyscrapers and expect them to build a nuclear complex properly. This was the exact problem they had in the 70s, the contractors didn't understand why things had to be done a certain way, so they did it the way they thought it should be done. Then it turned out that the problems that many of the safety and operational issues that occurred later were due to not doing it properly in the first place. Nuclear is sexy, construction isn't.

There is a great book on the history of the US nuclear power industry that goes into this called Beyond Engineering: How Technology Shapes Society. The technical issues were only a small part of why nuclear power is not more widely used. Countries like France that standardized on reactor design and had enough projects that construction crews could gain experience with the different processes and requirements involved were much more successful in deploying nuclear power.
I wouldn't say that problem exists, there's a single UI that gets brought up from either the physical button that also runs the wipers once or the on screen button. The UI is very obvious it just forces you to look at it. Having the UI in the top of the screen would probably be a good idea so that more of the road stays in your field of vision.
> - If a particular version of the code is tested, and the binary is not a pure function of the code, then you haven't really tested the binary. Bugs could still be introduced that were not caught during testing because your build is non-deterministic.

This is a weaker argument IMO because when building for test, generally, all optimizations are disabled, debug info is emitted, symbols are un-stripped, and so on. The unit under test is usually very different from the shipped artifact even at the module level. Not least because the test functions are compiled in.
This has been submitted multiple times as a “Show HN” but as it is a paid service, I guess this is a marketing strategy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=unscreen.com
Intel and VMware to collaborate on virtualized RAN platform
I can't help but notice that this was done in django.
Short press is wipe once, long press is spray cleaner to wash windshield currently. I would like to see double tap to turn on or something. Or what about tap it and then one of the scroll wheels on the steering wheel to adjust speed. Not great, but would be possible with the hardware they have.
It's particularly frustrating since the pop up "Chat Bot" is almost always just a crappy search "Bot" which does a worse job than the normal search engine.
I wouldn't say the UX challenges get any easier as you grow from social networking "super app" to generalized "super app." If anything, it would become more challenging, and the top comment would make more sense as to how it appears intuitive.

On the topic of social, though, WeChat has private messaging and broadcasting, location sharing, a social feed of friends' updates, and public accounts that can push feeds to subscribers [1]. Mediums include text, voice, photo, video, and location, all shared through a variety of types of feeds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat
Teladoc to Buy Livongo
Building an Anti-Social Network
Pretty sure that embeds enable all the tracking stuff you don't want, too.
> According to Ryan Hughes, a reporter from local outlet WFLA, Judge Christopher Nash said next time he'll require a password.

Are you kidding me? I know the courts tend to be tech Luddites, but jeeze.
Generally agree with the post and I think the proliferation of the engineering term is somewhat problematic, because to a general audience it implies a sort of rigor that isn't always present, see 'software engineer'.

I think Musk is a businessman but I'm not really sure if he's ever done actual engineering work, and the title gives him a sort of undue authority when he speaks on technical matters, for example his statements on the state of AI[1], the progress of autonomous driving, or generally other fantastical statements.

It also takes attention away from the people who deserve it. Say, Tom Mueller at SpaceX, who is responsible for a good amount of actual engineering work but I figure most people haven't even heard of.

[1]https://twitter.com/an_open_mind/status/1260528928617369601?...
I'm under the impression that institutional refers to specific formal institutions, like policing, jobs markets, etc. Systemic refers to that plus informal cultural biases, that is institutional is a subset of systemic.
In principle, yes -- we just shouldn't allow it. The problem is that it's technically difficult to block it entirely, and even more difficult to do so without breaking functionality that users want.
I'm sure it works for conversions of people already there. I do wonder how it affects traffic long-term because the store feels annoying. That's harder to measure.
Do people think Firefox doesn't work? I've noticed zero difference between using Firefox and Chrome and I've used both daily for five years or so.
The article explicitly states:

News reports state the explosion was caused by 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate which is roughly equivalent to 1100 tons of TNT.
Interestingly, I found it extremely easy to delete my Google account. YouTube has RSS for subscriptions and youtube-dl/invidious exist. I never used Gmail. I never used drive.

Facebook on the other hand had my small group of friends that I talked to via messenger. I stopped using facebook but just couldn't get away from messenger until I finally made an ultimatum to my friends about switching to Signal. Now I have neither a facebook account nor a google account and surprise surprise my life isn't in shambles.
Yikes. Still it looks like it has physical buttons for everything. Probably just doesn't have cruise control and lane keeping and therefore doesn't need buttons for that?
Is arlo pro 2 worth it? let’s find out
Why are courts using Chinese spyware to conduct official business?
I find good friends often share similar technological viewpoints right down to the basic level. The people I have on signal are pretty much all cut from the same cloth in that regard. I.E. they tend to avoid big internet corps whenever possible and hack their own solutions.

For people I consider casual acquaintances or just outside of the "inner circle" so to speak, I just use SMS.
Yes, I think you are right, and it's a damn shame because there are so many infrastructure projects that we desperately need: high speed rail, commuter trains, subways, inexpensive housing builds with high du/acre and walkable designs...

My guess is that by the time we have regained any such capacity, renewable and storage will be cheaper than the thermodynamic process of harvesting heat and turning it into electricity; a process that has been hyper optimized for a century without much progress, and which has hit the wall of thermodynamics in efficiency. The only way to improve its cost would be far cheaper materials, a revolution which might happen with 3D printing, but which is super speculative today.
The article completely failed to convince me on it's main point.

No regulation will fix the fact that people have limited attention, besides banning ads altogether.

Google does a lot of bad stuff, but auctioning ads is not one of them.

Also somebody dares to bill people ONLY 50$ per hour! How dare they to not bill 250$?! ...
I’ve been using it for a similar time period and it’s great for reading paywalled articles.
Fixing the immigration is needed to address these issues, but so far it’s been impossible to pass anything meaningful in congress and different parties have their own pet agendas.
When I was trying to get as much information as I could (I'm a Lebanese abroad) I automatically mentally filtered out/skipped what trump was saying. Literally not worth the time. Anything officials say unofficially has more value to me.
A crucial feature of new things is that they are often better. Not all new things beat incumbents. Only the good ones win.
The end game is a commercially viable software company that generates revenues for the service of mankind, without ever making any individuals rich.
I don't know about France, but in Germany, the vast majority of doctors don't even have a website to SEO. People manage to find them just fine anyway.
The pendulum swing of the cool thing becoming lame and the old thing becoming cool describes all sorts of human trends.

Being a human endeavor, it always existed in web design as well. There was no -ification. Even the themes of early PHP software oscillated like this.
It's interesting to see mergers like this. Two companies with strong investor support, strong products that are not, prima facie, synergistic to the degree that a merger makes sense.

Curious to know if there are any people here on HN that work at or around these companies, who care to share their sentiments regarding the deal? Or, any healthech industry pundits that care to speculate on the why question?
> Luckily, Mozilla is a non-profit organization. Their interests do not conflict with protecting their users.

What? Do interests of Amazon conflict with AWS protecting their users, because both sides profit from the relationship?

uBlock (and other add-ons) clean cookies everywhere and can do it consistently and is a better choice for anyone who uses more than one browser because you set it consistently across all browsers and you're done.
That’s definitely a killer. Staying at an Airbnb right now where all I can see is poor workmanship.

There are a million jobs I still need to get to, but at least I know that once they’re done I’ll be happy with the result. Having only just started down the home diy route, there’s a load to learn and I still make a lot of mistakes, but I’m improving, and it’s satisfying to know that next time I’ll get it right, faster and cheaper than before.
Mozilla is a non-profit that owns a for-profit corporation which makes Firefox. And their funding largely comes from Google paying them to keep Google as the default search.

There's not a mission-level conflict-of-interest, but there's a practical one. Until they can somehow be funded directly by users, Firefox will have this tension of "don't piss off Google or other referral partners, even if that means going against the users' interests". They won't serve the users well by losing all their funding and then dying.

This situation is why Firefox and Mozilla aren't just everything they could be in terms of completely aligned with users.
Exactly my point. Repeating first line of my comment above for added effect:

"Nuclear and renewables are not 1:1 match or comparison.

Different energy sources for different requirements. You want a good mix, not bad mix. Things like periodical negative electricity prices (in Europe) increase the net cost of energy. Excessively high night-time electricity is also harmful (industries, and many other uses require 24/7 energy).
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