skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over the holidays, my inlaws asked me to take a look at their computer. It was running really slow. What I found was Norton's was slaughtering their hard drive with writes to a temp file. 100 megabytes a second. Disabling Norton didn't stop it at all. I had to boot into safe mode to uninstall it before the writes would stop. Given they had issues for the past few months, I honestly think Norton will have killed their SSD.

100 megabytes per second for 2 months is 518.4 TB.

the 850 evo 1 TB has a warranty of 5 years or 150 terabytes written, so Norton has totally destroyed the warranty. And there's a decent shot that the drive will fail soon...
I think the Chromebooks Android support is more like the virtual devices that Android studio creates then actual native installs.

It's been quiet long since I've last I checked it out, but at least at that time the locale was different inside the android apps vs chromeos (including keyboard layout etc) and there was a separate settings app like on any Android devices with dummy values in hardware etc.

It was funny because it let me install Firefox on the Chromebook but it felt more like gimmick then an actually useful feature as a lot of apps just outright didn't work
https://mobile.twitter.com/FAANews/status/148095679639526195... (1/11/2022 @ 12:36pm)

"As a matter of precaution, the FAA temporarily paused departures at some airports along the West Coast on Monday night. Full operations resumed in less than 15 minutes. The FAA regularly takes precautionary measures. We are reviewing the process around this ground stop as we do after all such events."

Also on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ATC/comments/s0xbvu/well_that_was_w...

And TWZ: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43832/mystery-surround...
Lack of information. LastPass was also relatively decent software for a while. I only stopped using it two years ago, but also noticed at the time that they have significant marketing efforts compared to the competition.

It seems like LastPass is angling to become the AOL of password managers, and by that I mean they want a bunch of old customers who never bother to switch to something better.
My reaction is that of compassion, I don’t have any solution, and I was not asked for one. I wish her well.
First Mask Capable of Destroying Viruses
Not sure if it's an industry-wide trend but in the last decade, I have seen a continuous growth of unmanageable levels of work and expectation of productivity in the various places I've worked in Silicon Valley. This is made worse by inexperienced managers who are now offloading management and project management responsibilities to their direct reports. Maybe it's just the teams/companies that I'm working for but I don't see how people can raise a family and/or have a life these days working in the tech industry. Being able to make work your life has become a competitive advantage.
Do you think they'd report Hacker News as containing hate speech since we're disproportionately hostile to JavaScript developers?
I'm doing at-home PD dialysis. At-home is generally best if people can manage it.
DTW allows people to enter the terminals without a ticket. However, you are required to apply to do so a day in advance: https://www.metroairport.com/about-dtw/dtw-destination-pass
Show HN: A one-page ecommerce site
Really good videos on color spaces and gradients from Chrome Dev:

https://youtu.be/cGyLHxn16pE
https://youtu.be/Uh95jZPTDfw
curl has been included in Windows for some time (in %SystemRoot%\System32, so even in the %PATH%). If you have a direct download URL, it can be used as a last resort.
Reading into the scant evidence, this would seem to be a call NORAD would make, didn’t in this circumstance, and somebody between the decision maker at NORAD and the person who sends the message to air traffic control made the call because they didn’t have full information, couldn’t get the right information in time, or didn’t have full knowledge of the protocol and got nervous.
Huh. Did this inspire Futurama?
It's definitely more complex than I gave credit. A previous infection can and likely has better short term protection than double dosed. I'm unfamiliar with how long it lasts for.

I think I've come around and I wouldn't be against allowing recent infected and recovered in. Unrestricted is not an option at the moment while the current wave is meaning people are missing hospital treatment.
This Matt Levine guy who writes these really knows his stuff, he is rather good at cutting through the noise.

Another great article of this stuff.

https://www.readmargins.com/p/is-web3-faking-it
NORAD: There's no way our anti-missile and anti-air would hit one of our planes by mistake. We're a professional military!

FAA: Iran had a professional military too. And the Soviets and Russians too, and its happened there.

NORAD: Fuck you.

FAA: We're grounding to keep people safe, the military industrial complex is out of control, dangerous, and a threat to American well being.

I side with the FAA. Military systems are extremely dangerous around civilians and the kool-aid the military drinks in terms of their effectiveness and safety doesn't often mesh with reality. The military runs killing machines and when those machines are active its best to get people out of the way. There are no safe killing machines.
> A "fair market rate" is still paying the worker less than the value of their labor. In no career is a worker owning the full fruits of their labor, and in many cases it's barely even a fraction. Is it fair that workers subsidize businesses of every size with poverty wages?

That for me is the real issue. Globalization of means of production on one hand and laws limiting unions have cut short the bargaining power of workers in the last forty years by quite a bit. I think it would be desirable for many workers to return to the profit-sharing agreements between workers and management that were in place in the industrialized nations in the 1960ies.

The amount of cream skimmed by management these days is absurd.
> If only there were a central agency tasked providing aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Northern America.

They do exist. Talk to them, or read what they have to say. EDIT: This is the good ol' "Star Wars" missile defense problem, its been discussed for decades. I'm not myself fully up to date with it, but there's a ton of information online from Senate Hearings / House Hearings on whether or not building this missile defense was worthwhile.

They aren't really that confident in the probabilities of success in stopping a nuclear-armed ICBM. They're gonna try but its not like anyone has ever actually shot a nuke at the USA yet. The ultimate test of pragmatism has never happened yet.
I'm appreciative of your work!

I disagree with the claim that the book's existence is evidence of a deficiency in the ecosystem. That's nothing against the book itself! On the contrary, creating more resources like this is a win for everyone.
There is a bit of data here -> https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas...

It is not directly helpful (or unhelpful) to your point or to the parent as data doesn't seem broken down in that way. However, in all these sorts of discussions it would be really great if things had context. So, for example (and sake of argument) if someone says 800 children per day were admitted, we had a comparison. Is it high, low? How about a rate per 100,000 comparison across other countries? Not asking for anyone to do this, merely attempting to articulate my point.

A bit of eyeball math shows 12 million people in UK under 16. Even if 800 a day was true...should I worry?

Anyhow, thank you for moving discussion forward.
I dealt with a manufacturing patent where you had to align certain parts off-center, because lining them up was patented. Of course it didn't really matter how you did it. Hence a subsequent patent was eventually actually awarded to someone else to manufacture them off-center. Which was far worse if you think about it. The first patent claimed a unique point. The next one claimed the entire three-dimensional volume of possible alternatives--minus that unique point.
I'm not trying to give a complete story (if you are interested in a more complete story, I do suggest the linked article), just context as to how/why norms around tipping can change.
They really ought to ditch the unsigned boot warning on EOL hardware, so that it can be repurposed with Ubuntu or Cloudready or what-have-you.
I thought it would be time consuming too but it's literally just 1 minute to sign up for an account, export from Lastpass and a 2 click import into Bitwarden.

It transferred EVERYTHING -- passwords, notes, credit cards etc. It's super easy.
Apparently nowhere it is as much of a problem as in Russia. Stop a Douchebag has two entire Youtube channels (with shockingly frequent releases) to film people driving (often quite recklessly) and parking on the sidewalks of Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

https://www.youtube.com/c/StopaDouchebag

https://www.youtube.com/c/StopaDouchebagWorld
Doesn't that depend very much on the variables encoded in "inconvenience", "protection" and "potential"?

I mean, I can spend 15 minutes putting on a full ABC suit every time I go outside, and would certainly protect me from some possible national security threats, but the extent of the inconvenience, the limited range of protection, and the very low potential would make that an unnecessarily foolish habit.

In more of a real-life scenario, millions of people have spent the last 20 years wasting way more than 15 minutes standing in line to take off their shoes and get x-rayed every time they fly in an airplane to protect against a "potential national security threat" when the only thing that actually needed to happen was locking the cabin doors while the plane is in flight.
That is extremely paternalistic. I think this is a good example of how the often dismissed "slippery slope" argument had a point.
> I don't see how removing off-street parking requirements would address anything.

It doesn’t. It allows developers to dump the problem on public streets. Seattle does this stuff now. 42 unit buildings with 5 parking spots. This is great for developers. They get to build more units and let Seattle deal with the additional parking pressure.

It’s car hostile, which fine, but then you need to provide alternatives to the car. If a developer wants to build without appropriate parking, they should have to pay Seattle a big chunk of that savings to fund better public transit. Instead it’s just a bunch of money in the developer’s pocket and people driving around for 20 minutes trying to find a spot to park. Adjacent neighborhoods pay the price.
Where do you store the password for your "favorite cloud drive?"
It seems to me like 80-90% of the tech industry these days is just building shitty web apps that nobody needs or asked for, purely designed to leech money out of some piece of the system to enrich the founders
It's not wrong to say that athiesm has truth and religion has truth.

Truth (and science) are iterative.

The world is infinitely complex and unless one is omniscient the only thing one can know for certain is that one is less wrong at the moment.

To think one has known an irrefutable truth is fanaticism and righteousness.

Lobotomy's won the Nobel prize when science roundly believed they were beneficial and I'm sure in the moment those experts thought they knew an irrefutable truth.
Ongoing Azure Incident: Unable to generate Git credentials to clone repository
I do like you said, small variations. Things get difficult once there are bizarre requirements, but then I just login by "forgot my password". Another commenter replied (s)he has over 400 credentials; I don't think I have even 100 let alone 400 logins.
> we need to get drivers to shift to other transit modes, and part of the answer is to stop coddling them with free parking.

Another approach might be to make other transit modes suck less. A lot less.
Thanks for your reply. I feel a bit silly now. I just learned that I have Firefox ESR, which is different from Firefox:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/where-find-release-note...

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/91.5.0/releasenotes/

I just assumed I downloaded the regular Firefox release, but evidently not.
> This isn’t your problem Mom. You should’t have to go buy new hardware. This is a problem with the people who make that website. They should be making their website’s code more accessible to legacy devices

What is their incentive to do so? Because their incentive to not do so (by taking advantage of new features) is easier-to-write and easier-to-maintain sites. Losing X% of users (where those users are using old browsers) may be worth avoiding the risk of having your site crash badly when a dependency doesn't materialize (because without optional chaining you're exhaustively checking all those could-be-undefineds by hand).

... all of that having been said: for my money, the best solution is to support both by avoiding "bare-metal JavaScript" like the plague. Use TypeScript and set your compilation target to an old ecmascript version. Of course, then your site is larger because of polyfill for features a modern browser would understand natively... Everything is trade-offs.
> I’m not sure what possible risk there was to our aircraft. Specifically from a missile launch in NK.

NK nuclear armed and, has the estimated ability to hit the West Coast of the US with ICBMs, and is believed to be able to make warheads small enough to mount on its ICBMs now. (The first two have been true for quite a few years now, the last is more recent.)

The threat to people in planes is at least twofold:

One: EMP from a nuclear blast is not a good thing for aircraft.

Two: People on the ground can shelter to mitigate some of the risk from a confirmed incoming attack, people in planes cannot.
> ...I see no reason why you can't buy an item (with full rights) while also agreeing to pay a penalty to the seller if you modify it.

It's fine to arrange that if that's what both parties want. My argument is simply about the terminology here. If it happens then it's not a sale of goods and the "buyer" doesn't own the goods, either. That's not what "sell" means in the context of goods. It's also not what "own" means.
An autoimmune disease called IgA nephropathy.
I don't understand how "replacing a manual process with an automated one provides positive value" is a controversial opinion on hacker news.
These are percentages. Inflation is already taken into account by the price rise in the service being tipped.

Maybe you mean to say that the base hourly rate was not inflation adjusted?
Do you have experience with it working on android? It seems Lastpass is only semi reliable with how android allows auotfilling fields in.
> In either case you need to load the context for other requests.

For async tasks, it means return, then call. For threads, it means moving to an entirely different stack, somewhere else in memory. “Loading context” is more expensive in the latter case.

> Maybe using a stack means using more cache lines than coroutines, but you'd have to be right at the edge of capacity for active requests for it to matter.

Why? Cache doesn’t only speed things up when capacity is full. Anything we have to reload from RAM will take time to load.
After major data leak Albania hires US company to boost cybersecurity
I have quite a few gripes with Bitwarden, but I've never used LastPass so don't take this as a comparison.

1. Their auditing ("Event Logs") feature is unusable. It refers to items by some magical identifier which does not correspond to the name in the vault, e.g. "Viewed password for item ebabefac".

2. Payments by anything other than Credit Card are a mess, which is a serious pain if you have a lot of users. It took us weeks and many support interactions to get something as trivial as a bank transfer sorted.

3. It's still (!) lacking a feature to actually send people passwords ... as in sysadmin creates some account for a user, presses a magical button in BW, and it ends up in the user's vault (or maybe they get a message and are asked to import it, whatever). BW recommends you use the "Send" feature, which is basically a glorified pastebin.

4. The UX is .... not great. Organization vs Personal Collection view is confusing. Every time we onboard a new user we get questions about how they should store personal passwords.

It works well enough, but I don't think the enterprise plan is worth the 60/user/year price tag.
Pop quiz: spammer sending millions of unsolicited bulk e-mails out of his residential DSL. End-user or not?
Well, Apple isn't directly making money from selling subscriptions to the iCloud Keychain, but it's a fairly important factor in making iOS and macOS straightforward to use for many people (including me). So the indirect business case for keeping it around and performing well is pretty sound.
”for some reason”

Are they the ones having to do this kind of work?

Probably not, right? At least in some cases?

There’s at least part of the answer.

Question in my mind becomes: how do we get the people who aren’t doing this work to understand and empathize with the productivity needs of those who are?

I’m out of answers because everything that probably can be said about it HAS been said about it from people far smarter than I am-from blog post to published airport book to published academic studies-and yet here we are still having this conversation amongst ourselves as developers and engineers.
A few, for example at L'Observatoire de Paris; these are generally research jobs so to start are on temporary contract. If the project you're working on gets funded then things can get permanent. Pay is not generally great, but the people are nice and the work is interesting.

https://www.observatoiredeparis.psl.eu/
This seems leading enough that I'm curious if you have more to add on the subject?

In general, I've found this idea was quite natural to me, but always seems quite foreign to others except those with a background in neurology, meditation, sometimes physics, and Buddhist circles.

People seem especially hostile to this when you start talking about the criminal justice system.
> The corporation and the management have no actual opinion and I don't require they do.

You presumably want capable management as leadership of a corporation. The issue is whether Intel really needed to apologize.

Most chips are not manufactured in China. Foreign access to Chinese market is heavily restricted by CCP. There does not seem to be much to gain from apologizing for calling out slave concentration camps.

When considering this latest Xinjiang issue, as well as growing competition from Arm and the lack of a meaningful response from Intel, from a purely financial perspective, you can question the leadership of Intel.

If you are holding some Intel stock, it is probably time to revisit that position regardless of your views about corporations and ethics. Incompetence in public relations statements does not mean there is not general incompetence that can adversely affect the bottom line.
Thanks for the explanation, useful to know.
Software systems were simpler back in the day.

Steve Wozniak 'coded' Breakout in 45 chips on a circuit board, then coded it in assembly and coded it again in BASIC to prove somebody could.

There was a limit to how big of a program you could fit in an Apple ][.

A modern game could have a development budget more than a Hollywood movie and fill a whole Blu-Ray disc.

From one perspective it is a miracle of progress that the modern game works at all.
It depends on the size of the airline, I think.

There’s a regional airline near me that services TX, OK, TN, and GA. The first few times I flew on it I checked my handgun. After doing that a couple of times and getting weird looks, I was on a flight where the pilot saw the small, hard-sided case in the cargo area and asked whose it was. I replied that it was mine, and he handed it to me - he said it was small enough that if we hit turbulence it could end up in the cabin and hit someone.
For all the hate Apple gets, they definitely took the red pill when it comes to UI/UX.
Sure, airport security is annoying. But it was effective in bringing down the rate of hijackings, which are extremely rare in the US these days. 9/11 was over 20 years ago now, and I can't recall any US airliner being hijacked since.

Contrast that to the era before security checks, when 130 American planes were hijacked between 1968 and 1972 [1].

[1] https://www.wired.com/2013/06/love-and-terror-in-the-golden-...
Addendum: Then there’s also paper, of course. I use it a lot, since I like writing on paper.
That's not quite correct. That is the version in the most recent point release of Bullseye (11.2). But the version currently in bullseye-security, uploaded on Dec 19th, is ESR 91.4.0. (stable-sec: 91.4.1esr-1~deb11u1) That's from the upstream release dated Dec 7th(/16th?) which is the current upstream ESR release.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr
They changed the package metadata only by setting `latest` to point to the last non-malicious version.

Can you actually point to any code - or any package contents at all - that they changed?
I’m not really sure why you bothered to reply, my comment had nothing to do with you. I was just pointing out the flaws in the scenario the parent comment presented.
Considering the current state of energy usage and the environment, I can't really call bitcoin a win
To be fair, Microsoft does show how to replace the WiFi module, but I absolutely agree on the rest.

Fortunately, Microsoft is not the only company making laptops and filming videos, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxMMjSF4QFw&ab_channel=HPSup...

The HP video is much less entertaining, much longer, and the narrator is likely a text-to-speech software. However, I think it’s more informative, for instance it shows how to assemble the device back.
I see your point, and if I were (say) a Linux user I of course wouldn't use iCloud. But as someone whose entire digital life is on iOS and macOS, it doesn't bother me that it may not work (or work as well) on other platforms.
Even if anti missile defense isn’t the reason I still see good reason. You should gain as much control as you can before the event. Putting people on the ground helps put us in control. We may have to send up fighter planes and whatever else and we don’t need to worry about maneuvering around passenger planes.

I view it like a flat tire. If you have a slow leak, you’re mostly in control and can get it refilled and monitor it. If you know the tire is losing air at medium speed, you can navigate to a safer space and potentially to a place to fix the issue. The worst case is a blowout while driving 70+ MPH on a highway with no shoulder while you’re only halfway paying attention to the road. All situations are about how your control is limited and maximizing your actions to get a safe & disruption free remedy. If you’re driving high speed and your low pressure light comes on, you’d be wise to at least pull over and inspect the issue. Not a perfect analogy but you get the gist.
Study of human skin found each pore had single variety of bacteria living inside
My role isn't to assess if you're competent or not. My role is to assess if I want you on my team or not. There's a difference.

Pretty much sums up how the hiring process is a gamble. So if you don't like somebody and they could be an asset to the company you would not hire them?
A hostile nation with nuclear weapons launched a missile. If you're going to take precautions, that's approximately when the cost/value proposition starts making sense.
Please tell me where there was snark or dismissal of religion?

Talk about missing the point.
I received seven digital covid-related certificates in two countries so far. 5/7 had blatant errors in them. Wrong vaccine, wrong place, wrong birth date, typos in name, completely empty, typos in the template. I was able to get them retroactively corrected where needed (3/7) and in two cases, the errors corrected themselves. Nobody ever looks at these things.