skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree and I think it is corruption, and I'm astounded people don't.

The idea that someone can buy their way out of breach of laws and regulations like this is fundamentally unjust.

I'm not saying in any one particular instance of it happening any people are taking explicit kickbacks. But the regulating body and process as a whole has become corrupt by allowing this to happen. Whether it's because they get promoted because they netted a lot of fines, or because they later go work for private industry who scratches their backs, or simply that the government likes the revenue so they allow rich people to buy their way out of trouble and that's mutually beneficial for both parties, it is corruption.
Choker Setter
The problem is that Windows defect breaks laptops not under warranty by Microsoft. Getting refund would be tricky, and voiding Dell warranty in such case seems justified.
And as a plus you have access to all customer data (rootkit).
Great, thanks for sharing some details about your setup. I do something similar with my email messages. I never delete anything. Should I later need to recall a conversation I use Mail.app's full text search. Success varies depending on how much context I can recall.

With the app I tried to provide additional access points into the data. Page links are an additional way if you use them like "@ mentions". Let's say you have a person or topic that a note is related to (for an email this would be the sender). I created a folder "Contacts" and added a note for each person. Now if I write something down I mention the page for that person on the note. Later on I can go to that person's page and see all notes connected to that person (the power of backlinks) or simply search for "@james", for example.

Zettelkasten: I'm still trying to wrap my head around this one. What is great about it is that Niklas Luhmann figured out a way to have page links and backlinks between notes in a setup in the physical world on actual paper. With digital notes, I think GUIDs and timestamps to identify notes are not necessary anymore, because the file path (or URL if you will) uniquely identifies a note.

Org mode: yes, same here with the added difficulty that I have a vi background :)
@dang: link to announcement article is here if needed:

https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-la...
Isn't mechanical brakes still a requirement for any car? So it's rolling when brake is not pressed, and stops when brake is pressed?
What does "never wakes up" mean? I thought I had the same problem but then I discovered that closing and opening the lid is the only way to get it to wake. Neither the power button (it turns it off) nor keypresses (they do nothing) work.
Sunlight-driven photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production at scale
To be honest, I think this is feasible, although not yet economically viable. Batteries have comparatively large ecological costs which we cannot nail down yet, but billions of batteries would need to be recycled if electric cars become widly spread. Possible, but I think EV adaption has been disappointingly slow, not even mentioning missing charging stations.

Using a EV in Europe for larger trips (moderate trips compared to US standards) is currently fully possible. Navigation systems on board are tuned to find the next charging station, quite convenient as long as most people don't have EV themselves because in that case you might need to wait in line.
> I think any normal user would think that closing the lid puts the laptop into a state where putting it in a bag is entirely safe to do.

Closing the lid does not necessarily turn the laptop off at all (by design). I think most people have had that experience. In fact the lid may be closed with the laptop fully on.

In any case, they make is explicit and clear exactly to avoid any such assumption.

The title is obviously clickbait because of course you can put your Dell laptop in a bag and of course that does not void the warranty.
I have a Huawei E6878-870 5G mobile WiFi (other brands are available), which provides a "proper" WiFi base station, so no need for a phone hotspot. I have a separate cheap SIM card for my phone.
Hardly relevant to the topic at hand, but I'd simplify this to

grep 'GLAN.*enabled' /proc/acpi/wakeup && echo GLAN >/proc/acpi/wakeup
grep 'XHC.*enabled' /proc/acpi/wakeup && echo XHC >/proc/acpi/wakeup
Francis Spufford's Red Plenty is fascinating on engineering culture in closed societies. The recent Chernobyl drama series addresses the same point too. Technical problem solving and innovation work best in open societies where there's minimal political interference in the flow of information. The US overtook the UK as economic #1 in 1870, and is still #1. Despite 100 years of decline the UK is still top 10. IMHO domestic market size, effective autarky, an open society and drawing the smartest immigrants globally has kept the US at #1, and will continue to do so despite challenges in the 80s from the Japanese and more recently the Chinese.
XPS15 owner here. Had this exact problem during the first year of ownership. Somehow Windows updates changed this behavior and I haven't had any more battery draining / overheating in bag since. But I will not buy Dell again. Too many little problems. I haven't had ONE problem of this kind with ThinkPad's, in maybe 25 years of use.
I would like to invite the public not to focus solely on the matter of cameras - especially those who should have realized their territory is full of them and there is a fait accompli to be managed -, and to also notice the proposals that tend to compromise responsibility of powers hence increase the odds of corruption: nameless law enforcement officers (Serbia, this case), criminalization of complaint against them (e.g. Spain after Mariano Rajoy), criminalization of recording them (a number of European Countries - while in the USA I understand it is called basic precaution)...
Dell service quality is getting down.

Warranty is something they were proud of.

Now, it's just came an absurdly inefficient, frustrating, and wasteful experience.

I have an XPS 2-in-1. Nice machine, except for the so-so battery life and the unsupported webcam on linux, it was a good working laptop.

I paid for the biggest config at the time, and included a $300 premium guarantee with on site servicing.

One year later, the keyboard starts acting up, then the touch pad.

I contacted their support, and while the people on the phone were polite and competent (!), their ludicrous booking system to get a person on site to change my keyboard was a nightmare.

Took me a month of frustrating cat and mouse game to finally get someone at my door.

They changed my keyboard (and for some reason my speakers and battery O_o), routine stuff. "No need to do a backup for that", they said.

Took them 3 hours. They were operating blind, no manual, no spec, no pictures taken before removing parts.

Of course, once done, the machine would not boot anymore. Also the touch pad stopped working completely (tested in the UEFI).

They let me with an unusable machine and left. This was my main working machine. Thankfully, I haven't listen to them and did my homework, I had 2 full data backup and a fallback laptop, albeit way less appropriate for my freelancing missions.

One month and dozens of phone calls+emails later, they come back. Change the whole thing again. Machine is still FUBAR.

They leave again.

2 weeks later, support contacted me to offer me an exchange with a brand new laptop (remember, I didn't need a backup). They should take an appointment in 48 hours.

I'm still waiting as of today, no appointment email, a broken laptop, doing work on a machine were I have to kill the browser regularly because it swaps, doing web dev.

All the staff were nice, but their process, boy, their process sucks.

The worst thing is, it's probably made to avoid some kind of abuse of the system or to save money, but they spent to much time with me they wasted tons of cash, and end up replacing my machine anyway.

Everybody loose with a service like that.

If people are still wondering why the framework laptop is appealing, there it is. I know what my next machine will be now.
Oh, come on, sleep and hibernation are the "shut down" of a laptop nowadays, you close the lid and shove it into the bag. Its just as absurd as saying you cant put the phone in your pocket unless you fully turn it off.
I have dell XPS, it had perfectly functional sleep and could be put in a bag. Then 'modern standby' was added in an update and it ruine the laptop - if I place it in the bag in the morning, by linchtime it will be crazy hot and the battery will be gone. And you cannot diaable this feature. I don't get wtf these people are smoking.
Almost all cars with automatic transmissions cannot be push started. If I recall correctly, that's because the hydraulic pump that allows the transmission to shift into gear is driven by the input shaft in most designs.
If the laptop cannot be carried with the sleep/hibernate/standby, then it does not have a functioning sleep/hibernate/standby and is not fit for use as a laptop, so it was sold as defective and should be replaced with a working laptop at the manufacturer's expense.
I have a XPS with Linux, closing the lid does almost nothing but turn the screenlock on.

I always turn it off, reboot is in 2/seconds so it's no problem.

Great laptop, had it for 7 years still faster than 2020 XPS with windows.
That's how you end up with a single megacorp that does everything.
Donkey Puncher
Reminds me of the push a while back to rebrand laptops as "notebooks" - because many laptops (esp Dell XPS) are not built with a strong enough backbone to keep their own weight from sagging in the middle, and because they get hot enough to cause damage to legs.

I have had an XPS since 2017, it had everything I wanted (I thought) - but I seriously regretted the decision almost immediately. High-intensity tasks (gaming, TDD, etc) would cause it to conk out from overheating because they hadn't configured the bios correctly - spent hours with various levels of Dell support trying to get it fixed, with them installing various combinations of different versions of the bios firmware. The GPU setup wasn't quite as straightforward as it could have been (which isn't really Dell's problem I guess - if I was running windows, it might not have been a problem at all)

Nowadays, the base of the laptop has bowed, causing the trackpad to unglue and jut out at an angle. I have a massive mark on my screen where I once tried to shut my laptop normally - I still have to take it places, and to do that I sandwich a piece of polystyrene in it to protect the screen. I hope this is warped due to heat and not the battery bowing, but I'm burying my head in the sand on that one. And yes, I have to shut it down every time I transport it.

Thankfully, once I have the funds available, I know what laptop I'm getting next. And it won't be a dell.
Every single automatic transmission car I've been to (couple of dozen, US) had the low gear.
The first image is not reversed but maybe it was taken exactly for the purpose of being publicized with the Apple building being visible in the background.

https://www.google.de/maps/@37.3365725,-122.013226,437m/data...
It's hardly fair to go to a thread on an embedded JavaScript implementation to criticize JavaScript by focusing on the JavaScript ecosystem. It's up to you to decide which and how you use a third-party package. If you adopt a dependency that's so bloated that it drags in half of NPM's repository them the responsibility of your personal choices lies solely on you and on you alone. I mean, you can fall for that mistake with pretty much any stack or framework or programming language which supports modularization and provides a package manager. Why single out JavaScript?
Back when I was a student, I never like ResearchGate: they forced you to create an account, then upload some random rubbish PDFs just to get credits to download what you want.
Thanks, that works. But it's not permanent. My tape is :-)
It is in SV after all..
You can go to

https://myaccount.google.com/permissions?continue=https://my...

And disable Google Account Sign In prompts
Because they don't want their current staff who are earning $X to know that they are hiring new people for similar jobs at $X + 10%.
Chinese PBOC Says All Crypto-Related Transactions Are Illegal
911 isn't going to send you ambulance/firefighters/helicopters unless needed to. I believe most of the calls they receive "there's a big trash on the road".
I just realized it has been so many years since I’ve seen a phone book. Or phone numbers without area codes.
I have an XPS 9500 and have found this infuriating.

I think there's two separate things going on:

As others have noted, S3 sleep isn't supported, only S1 "sleep to idle" sleep. But I don't think this is the direct cause of the overheating. In S1 sleep, the laptop can average something like 900mW of power usage, which is enough to annoyingly knock a few percent off your battery overnight, but not enough to make the laptop warm, even in a bag.

The seems to be a second problem, specific to Windows, that when in S1 sleep sometimes the power consumption is high (of order 10W), and this causes the laptop to get very hot if not well ventilated. I've never been able to figure out if this Windows actually doing something useful in "modern standby" like Windows Update, or whether it's a bug. Edit: And I should add, it's crazy that there's not a way to disable this if it is doing something "useful".

Either way, under Linux the latter doesn't happen, and the laptop sleeps very cool ... just with the annoying "lose 5% of your battery overnight" problem from sleeping in S1.
I personally don't think that's fair and more importantly it doesn't solve the problem. You will pay less, true, but you still get a used or poor object. At least to me, that's not appealing at all.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Cameras Capture Mars Like Never Before
> "some reason that I don't agree with[0]"

On my side I am quite happy that the hardware+software can support some kind of fast wake-up (similar to Macbooks and smartphones instead of needing >10 seconds to wake up when I open the lid). I just do a real shutdown when I don't need the laptop anymore.

And precisely : as it was said by someone else above, on modern computers with SSDs, I would rather disable "fast startup" so that the computer really shutdowns when I ask him to (which is also useful when you have dual-boot and your Linux systems wants to get r/w access to the NTFS partition)

But I admit that the computer could/should automatically enter in suspend-to-disk after being in "modern standby" for more than e.g. 5 minutes, and this should be configurable.
but there are many many many more that don't, which impeaches the few that don't. The fact that I can reach the CEO of my local small business on the phone is a great when they're sympathetic to my plight. it's actually to the company's detriment when it turns out they're a raging asshole.
I get happy about iOS security vulnerabilities, because they allow users to mess with the software of the device they own through jailbreaking.

Hopefully one of these will end up in a jailbreak.
Pronounced: "System, de be 'poof'."
> laptop overheating if being put in the backpack

I killed a macbook air exactly like this. It just decided not to shutdown like usual.

Usually I'd put it on sleep mode, or just close the lid and it is fine, but it only took one time for it not to work properly to find the insides of my backpack like a sauna.
Everything points to the fact that keeping users in the dark is their business model.

Which, makes sense. The steady erosion of any control, the tiny sparks of "settings" to assuage some privacy issue brought out in the open, the behavior of Zuck in the Congress. It is amply clear that for FB to make money, it's users should have no choice.
I don't have download notifications neither with its own download manger or the external.
>"...foreign powers preparing a blood bath in Belgrade using the law just as a reason for it, just because they don't want Serbia to prosper"

Is that an actual quote from an elected official in Serbia?

Really? The population of all of Serbia[0] is less than that of Hong Kong, less than that of London and less than that of New York.

The GDP of all of Serbia is also ~1/6 of Hong Kong, is less than 1/10 of London, and 1/30 of New York.

As such, my guess is that Serbia isn't very important to "foreign powers" at all. Certainly not enough for a "blood bath" or even harsh words. And certainly not as a result of proposed internal surveillance laws. Such a statement is ridiculous on its face.

Does the population of Serbia actually buy into that sort of rhetoric? I'm genuinely curious.

N.B. I don't have anything against Serbia or Serbs in particular. I know that historically there have been sectarian issues in the Balkans and the Serbs were caught up in that, but I'm pretty sure that like everyone else, most Serbs just want to have a decent life and raise their kids in relative safety and security.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Serbia

Edit: Added the missing link.
The second sentence of the article gives a sufficient timeline.

> I've reported four 0-day vulnerabilities this year between March 10 and May 4

So the vulnerabilities were reported at least 140 days ago. He also mentions 3 upgrades of iOS were published after his reports.
Can't the laptop just turn off or hibernate when it gets too hot in a bag or sleeve (or both)?
There's a huge difference between deploying cameras in public places so that u can go back and look at the records if something happens, and deploying cameras across the whole city that do real-time biometric identification on a mass scale. Its scary and heart-breaking, and no amount of protocol will make the tech safe from corruption. Frankly anyone that actually believes that these systems wont be abused is delusional at best.
Black female founders in the UK who have raised funding
That's because they know how shitty is sleep function really. Ok, laptop is in a sleep mode successfully. But doing anything to it or even looking at it funny will immediately wake it. Moving mouse, switching off mouse, inserting or removing mouse dongle, inserting or removing headphones and so on.
I simply stopped using sleep mode altogether.
Maybe the special relationship consists of "they can nuke us or our market any day"
AMD, MediaTek reportedly in talks to form a joint venture
Branding is important and an ordinary person (I think) will hear more about Steam Deck than Linux. And it makes sense that it's in its own category (or rather, game console category) because it's made for that purpose. The fact that you can do whatever you want with the HW is just a bonus.

PS. Nice user name. But why pair those two? :D
My 9500 is more like $4000. And it can't sleep properly.
Harvard Study: Melting Polar Ice Is Physically Warping the Planet
So you’re actually "putting it to sleep", when you put it to sleep.
The submission is currently in the second-chance pool and we rarely see these marked as dupes, so I suppose it is fine.

If you don't know this list yet, it can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
On my Dell, this problem happens when you suspend the laptop from software (either with pm-suspend or systemctl suspend). If you simply close the lid, it seems to enter in a different "mode" of suspend, the real one, where you can carry it without overheating and the battery lasts for weeks.
It's terrible. I remember being woken up one night because my laptop decided to wake up and resume the Netflix video I'd be watching earlier. No input devices connected, lid closed. Another time it cooked in my bag because windows wanted to do an update on shut down so I slept it instead.

I have a 2017 XPS model so I the firmware supports S3 sleep. There is no modal in the BIOS though. I had to trick windows into thinking it didn't support modern sleep.

Based on posts from others trying to do the same thing, it used to be a single registery key edit. Now it's convoluted and required fiddling with WiFi power controls. The end result it sleeps properly but takes anywhere from 10 seconds (good) to more than a minute (bad) to connect to WiFi when woken up.

Of course on Linux it just works.

Back when I was looking into this I found someone who'd found a way to patch the acpi table to enable it for the newer models (at risk of bricking the device entirely). Alas I can't find the link any more.

I won't buy another Dell until this is fixed.

My work laptop is an X1 carbon and it supports only S3 sleep so it just works.
Wow, it's quite fascinating what you non-Mac people are willing to put up with. Or maybe it's fascinating how Mac JustWorks(TM).
I think discussions about a software project has nothing to do with politics.

HN's dynamics are hard to understand at times, but it's not opaque or chaotic.
What is your use-case? What are you trying to do?
The ground is definitely ripe for something new and not as geared towards being awful, right now.

Nobody I know in their 20s or 30s uses facebook, and the few that maintain an account do it to occasionally check on the crazy stuff their parents are posting.

Nobody likes it. All the reasons people would want to use it are subverted for their ad model, and now useless. It’s good for Facebook that they bought Instagram because I think their demographics otherwise would be veering wildly towards the cable news audience.
One aspect that shouldn't be lost - the implicit framing of the platforms being "under attack" by the bots is wrong - the bots are likely a net positive for the platforms - they're very much complicit with the fraud, or at least condone it. They sell views and clicks - if bots create more views and clicks, so be it. It's the advertisers who bear the cost.

Taking Facebook as an example:

Creating an account, linking Oculus Quest to it and leaving the account dormant - accounts locked en masse.

US account that logs in from Indonesian IPs, never posts anything, likes 5000 random things ranging from a shampoo to a cafe in a small Ohio town, to the new shirts of an Albanian soccer club - in Facebook's view that's a perfectly legitimate account.
So if I understand it correctly, you have to manually shut down these laptops if you want to travel/commute with them and reboot them again when you want to use them, and they call that "MODERN" standby? And not even an option to change it?

Are they planning to keep that obviously broken behavior as the forum post seems to imply, or they will fix it?
normally I'd define it as something found in the wild being exploited already ... not a bug thats been found, reported and "ignored"

this seems to be a zero day just because Apple haven't seen fit to respond the the reporter
The only few times I’ve thanked RG is when an obscure PDF was no longer on the university or author’s website by RG had a copy cancelling out the link rot.

Other than those few times, I’ve never found it useful.
One of the Steam Deck’s biggest hurdles just disappeared: EAC has come to Linux
How can it be "abuse", when all Apple has done is to provide users a window saying "Hey, this app is collecting all your data. Do you want to prevent it?".

The abuser is Facebook here.

Fact : Apple is providing an authentic choice to users regarding sharing of their data.

FB Spin : Apple is attacking us and hurting our business.
Honestly I thought it was more for the chuck us a few quid tweets than rewarding anyone

Taking on GoFundMe's market rather than Patreon
Did anyone else notice that the cookie popup on this Dell page had the option to "declinate all cookies"? I did a double take to see if this was a real Dell page based on that.
I also have a 9500. I'm considering selling it, the hardware is just so buggy.

If I do I'll probably buy a framework laptop.
Oh dear God...

WEBRING!

I haven't heard that in a while.

I'm starting to have flashbacks, hearing the sound of 56kb dialup modems...
Hello-World.rs
There’s some really interesting security challenges that pop-up with Hibernation. Not sure if they blocked Apple though.