skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm sure it's been said before by many, but I'd have a few extra mm of thickness to get back replaceable ram, ssd, wifi, etc.

This is the exact opposite of what manufacturers want so I don't think there is any hope of reversing this crazy trend. The vendors copying Apple don't understand that Apple controls their users as they are already hooked to their ecosystem so they have no choice, but people outside of this ecosystem do have a choice and when presented with a thin plate with everything glued and irreplaceable and no useful ports, they will simply look for another solution. Not to mention environmental problems created by this craze.
Sometimes users use older browser because of ignorance, they don't know how to upgrade, or because they don't want to.
Consistent with "all the time" for me. e.g. much more often than massive Tsunamis or electrical grid-affecting Coronal Mass Ejection events.
It would seem that this factor is important for understanding how we got here. If the hail-mary fails, nobody will notice. But sometimes it succeeds and when it does the engineers at said startup typically build upon a rotten core.
CVE-2021-45608 – NetUSB RCE Flaw in Millions of End User Routers
Over alleged (by SK) of mach 10 NK hypersonic test.
Arms Control Wonk think it's MaRV.

NK mostly don't issue NOTAMs for their tests from my understanding. US response seems to imply sufficient new capability that would cause alarm. I don't think there were past groundings on this scale over NK missiles.
In 1Password:

- the master key derives from 1. your password, and 2. a long, random key that you type manually on each new device (so you can’t brute-force the password just from the server’s data, and you can’t decrypt the data just from your hard drive without the master password),

- none of these keys ever leave your devices (encryption and decryption happen client-side),

- the key is deleted from RAM, locking the vault, if you’re inactive for too long.

That makes some attacks hard. It will be defeated if malware can get 1. your secret key and 2. your master password. But in that case, your login cookies and what you type in login forms are vulnerable too, so there isn’t much difference.
Besides the reasons mentioned by others, I want to add: discipline.

Keeping codebase well maintained requires some effort and often it's very tempting to cut a corner here or there, or to focus on adding new features instead of keeping dependencies up to date. Initially these shortcuts don't have a big impact, but at some point you notice it all became messy, and now it's hard to bring it back to shape.
The other way around, though... best to have them in the air.
It’s not a complete lie, for some of the big registrar nameservers they do have an internal propagation delay. It sucks, but it exists.
There is some previous discussion on what it would cost to manufacture a copy of JWST in this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29725799

Speculation is somewhere in the 70%-90% of original cost.
I live in the Paris, France area, and I think most people here that are not themselves driving such things are hoping that motorized two wheel vehicle gets outlawed.

I'm not sure why, but people driving those seem to completely ignore driving laws (red lights, stop sign, lanes, etc) which makes them very dangerous and annoying.

Not to mention the noise (for those which are not electric)
> in spite of alienating millions of users in their quixotic quest to purge it

I think you are dramatically overestimating the number of users who:

- disagree with purging hateful content in the first place;

- actually follow through on their promise^W threat to leave; and

- stay gone
NFL Engineering on GitHub
> reverse bounties and when it turns out someone missed a bug they lose their stake, etc

That's a really good insight into the sort of implementation that's needed. I'm wondering how we would design the incentive structure, and maybe gamify things, to encourage positive participation.

For example, would we need people whose job it is to deliberately inject underhanded code to try catching out / testing the reviewers? These pen-testers would need a way to pre-commit to the fact that they were trying this (so an attacker couldn't turn around and say "just testing!" when they got caught), and a way to guarantee the underhanded code doesn't reach production even if the reviewers don't catch it.

I still think the distributed reputation system is the hardest part (and would be one of the most useful things to happen to the web since TLS), but there definitely seems to be other hard problems ahead after that.
>"Asking people if they want the poor in their wealthy neighborhood"

I'm generally anti-NIMBY but this kind of sentiment is a dramatic oversimplification. I really don't think we should immediately frame this as a rich people are afraid of poor people problem. For one thing, it doesn't explain why NIMBYism is also present in poor and working class neighborhoods.
I can believe that; I look at total door to door time as the primary factor in choosing my transit (with cost as a second, but pretty distant second [I’m not commuting daily into the city->I’d have to consider cost higher if doing it 20x/month]).

I live in Cambridge, MA (1.4 miles from the Boston red line subway) and, excluding rides where I’m coming home from the airport, I bet I ride the subway less than once per year on average. It’s just not remotely competitive on door-to-door time with a private car, an Uber, or [most commonly] driving in the other direction to an alternative restaurant or shop with parking. (And Boston is probably in the top 10 of functioning mass transit systems in the US.)
People supporting "new urbanism" -- a camp I was in until pretty recently -- should come look around downtown Seattle and see how it's working out.

Our downtown is a grim wasteland. Shoppers, workers and residents have voted with their feet -- and they voted to avoid downtown.

And it's not just Covid. The suburbs are booming. Walkable areas (most with free parking) in the 'burbs have new stores opening and have crowds of people eating, shopping, and enjoying life. Houses are in high-demand, while apartments near the core of the city are easy to find.

I say all this to say that maybe we should pause and reconsider new urbanism. The push to remove cars (less parking, more expensive parking, removing lanes, "road diets") isn't making our cities better, it's pushing people away. Strong Towns told us this would make our city better, but all evidence points to our cities getting markedly worse.
It’s more complicated as not all land is equivalent. At maximum capacity every bit of land even slightly above break even gets used and quite possibly some that’s a net loss. In such a system more valuable land simply represents a stable income stream to the landowners. Thus fertile land is wealth.

However, after a plague the most productive land is still farmed, but anything close to break even is abandoned. Suddenly with zero changes in technology, skills, or total capital average productivity spikes.
also:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/we-fight-users

We Fight For the Users: An Appreciation of IETF's RFC 8890 (Cory Doctorow)
I can only speculate - but I'm really curious.

Looks like they may have launched a hypersonic missle that reached speeds of ~Mach 10[1], and the US (publicly, at least) seems to be lagging behind China and Russia in Hypersonic R&D - at least as of 2019[2].

How long would it take for a missile traveling at Mach 10 to reach a point where a high-altitude EMP attack[3] would cripple the west coast of the US?

Is that time longer than it would take for aircraft to return to a place where they could land? If NORAD spots a bogey moving that fast, is the rule right now just... everything stops until we understand what's happening?

Would love for someone who knows about hypersonics, NK missle capabilities, EMP attacks, etc. generally to say more.

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nkorea-launches-p...

[2] - https://www.defensenews.com/naval/the-drift/2019/11/15/dont-...

[3] - https://spectrum.ieee.org/one-atmospheric-nuclear-explosion-...
> Also, Chrome OS devices explicitly support unlocking and installing alternative OSes.

Not anymore they don't. I recently bought a chromebook hoping to nuke it and install Linux but the bootloader is locked and I can't install any random OS. There's even dedicated linux distros like Gallium OS targeting chromebook devices specifically but if you look at the compatibility chart it's support is very limited for anything newer than 2018. Even crouton compatibility wasn't satisfactory and I gave up and just went full google approved with Crostini.
You already got the main reason in your text: " engineers compromising in the face of business pressure or engineers making mistakes due to lack of experience or foresight"

Those two factors are a reality now a days: people leave teams when they get experience and go to a place where they have 0 experience (knowledge is lot) and they built everything under pressure to deliver to meet market demands (so we rush to deliver features).

I would also tell you that in the past well organized projects were exception not the rule.
Parent comment may not care. But just wanted to thank you for the link. Had just seen one documentary piece on VICE. I was not aware of these other pieces.
We Fight for the Users: An Appreciation of IETF's RFC 8890 (Cory Doctorow)
You're welcome! Glad to get one more person off the unnecessary part of the cloud.
> Personally I'd think 15 minutes of inconvenience would be pretty petty of me to prioritize over protection from a potential national security threat

I can’t buy into this anymore, it’s the new think of the children. Used and abused. I’d rather live life like a normal human and if I perish, well, I had to die from something.
We are still analyzing data from 70 years ago.

https://carnegiescience.edu/news/old-plates-new-data-mysteri...
Why is that the real question? The advantage of a password manager is you can default to max security with no more effort than poor security. Many of my accounts have changed over time, it’s not uncommon to add payment to a trial account, or for personal information to accumulate. There are plenty of good reasons to always use maximum security in order to lower your risk and prevent future accidents.
I have a few qualms with this telescope:

1. For an astronomer, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an large mirror, mounting it in space with a really big catapult, and then using origami to unfold everything. From earth, this telescope could be accessed through everyday ham radios.

2. It doesn't actually replace the Hubble. Most people I know still want to see things in the visible spectrum, and IR fake images just don't cut it. This does not solve the visible spectrum issue.

3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

This is all sarcasm, modified from this infamous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
> finding success and tremendous happiness in life

Workaholics can get "high" on dopamine on the endless stream of activity. Until it breaks down.

> hard work, perseverance, determination, ambition, unyielding, disciplined, persistence and strong work-ethics

This are very empty words as they do not relate to what really motivates a person.

You cannot simply order yourself to be determined and hardworking, otherwise burnout and depressions would not exist in the first place.
Daily standups are far too much. There's simply no need to discuss so much. It's a waste of everyone's time. I do one video standup per two week sprint, with a daily text status update and the end of each work day that's something short, sweet and human like, "Hey, I worked on automated testing all day today. There were some tests that were flaky in Safari, but I finally figured it out. Will start on the Firefox bug by mid-day tomorrow. Feeling slightly behind on this sprint, but I think we'll still manage to get everything done on time as long as I don't run into more problems with the tests."
Maybe it was because we have a secret Anti-Ballistic Missile system that "throws darts" at inbound missiles and we don't want any planes in the cross fire ?
I think one of the solutions to this is for JavaScript frameworks to evolve and be able to support both JS and no-JS. This way any user can run a website whether they're using an old browser or a modern browser where they choose to disable JavaScript
How low can you go? Running Ubuntu Desktop on a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4
Show HN: I built this travel planer and language learning app. Any beta-testers?
my uncle works for the FBI. i just checked with him, and it's actually a federal crime. if i were you, i'd delete this comment, and cease to partake in illegal activities, as well as recommending others to do so. good luck!
Fortunately we're still quite a long ways away from self driving cars in the sense of truly driverless cars that can be relied upon to navigate safely on their own in random settings, like a city block.
US gov requires passenger data, so that is why tickets are named to specific passengers. Of course you could argue that airlines could facilitate still ticket transfers by updating the data (same way they handle cancellation+new reservation) but I can understand that they don't want to deal with that sort of hassle.

https://pro.delta.com/content/agency/us/en/policy-library/go...

> The Secure Flight Passenger Data program (SFPD) is a program of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) designed to enhance the security of air travel. Secure Flight regulations are mandatory for all flights for U.S.-based carriers and flights which are in, out, or overflights for international –based aircraft operators.

> Under Secure Flight regulations all passengers (including minors) must provide Secure Flight Passenger Data (SFPD) at the time of ticketing, or the intent to ticket (i.e. travel vouchers).

APIS is another similar requirement of delivering actual passenger manifests of flights: https://pro.delta.com/content/agency/us/en/policy-library/go...

And there are probably a multitude of other regulations, especially for international flights
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> The amount of cream skimmed by management these days is absurd.

THAT is the real issue with a system we know currently as capitalism. Those at the top skim so much, that those at lower levels can't even support themselves properly and many many people just hit poverty. It's "let them eat cake" again, this time aristocracy is disguised as meritocracy.
Smart guns finally arriving in U.S., seeking to shake up firearms market
The people distracting (PMs, Managers) are often the ones charged with getting the most out of the people being distracted, and honestly I don’t even think it’s their fault. They don’t see the work happen unless they are in a meeting where it’s done, and their schedule is mainly meetings so that is their impression of doing work.
Sure parking is a "tax", the same way the car payment, insurance, annual registration, maintenance, repairs, tolls, gas are all taxes. If someone can be expected to pay for all of this, why not parking as well?
Anaconda is getting a new suit
The Longevity Fund
Me too. Was thinking same thing. Don't want planes getting caught in the crossfire considering we would probably throw a drag net of intercepting missiles at it.
> Send the car on an errand and have it come back, or even send it “home” and summon it later

Now imagine what this will do to rush hour traffic - There would be twice as many vehicle trips for the same number of people. Road tolls (particularly on unoccupied cars) would be needed as part of any solution, which everyone loves even more than parking fees.
Oh, that would have been fancy. No, this was one of the multitudes of text-based games that were out some years back, most of which had the same basic layout and features. This one was Samurai themed, but I've seen plenty of other themes.
This was the exact issue with my parent:

Chrome wasn't updating because their out-of-dated hardware and I had to tell them switch to Firefox "the red fox on globe icon" to use the internet.

This lasted until the day I finally convinced them to buy a new PC.
would you mind to post your github/gitlab repositories with your Crystal projects? Looking here I couldn't find anyone https://github.com/yb66?tab=repositories&q=&type=source&lang...
Daily standup might be the worst offender.

People end up waiting until standup to ask questions, creating a culture that doesn’t simply message one another for simple things. If something is brought up in standup, now product and project mgmt will want to understand and weigh the value of something that could literally be as simple as, “I need access, how do I generate a key?”

Also I hate being interrogated every morning about what I did the day before.

Daily standup removes the need to remember anything, or even picture the system/ product in your head because you can just ask someone else every day and get what you want. No need to think! Process over people!
The lack of a subway system can't help here. How reasonable is it to live without a car in Seattle?
> I went out with a girl I met at a record store once

I went out with a girl I met on last.fm once.
I call BS on them not being able to handle it - you would still need to show ID to go through the gate and go through security. But if you can buy a ticket at the counter and board 10 minutes later, why can't you transfer the ticket to someone else up to say an hour before the flight. Whatever security checks they do are likely (near) instant. They use security as the pretext for not doing this, but I am guessing the real reason is that would ruin their overbooking schemes.
Glad I dropped them as soon as they made the change to limit the number of connected clients behind a paywall.
Changed to bitwarden. Same functionality (at least for my uses) free and with the option of you spinning up your own server for your personal use (versus the cloud option).
Unvaccinated Quebecers will have to pay a health tax
You could also look at an open source hardware like system 76, purism, slimbook etc. I’m looking at replacing my Mac.
I love my Lenovo work laptop but I trust it as far as I can throw it.
A little better with my personal MacBook Pro, but not by much.
I too share the sentiment, trust no website.
It’s quite sad watching where we are going as a society and as time passes, my desire to use the internet is diminishing.
But what about my kids? What is their digital future?
I'm sorry but there's no comparison between mishandling a bug causing an issue for customers unintentionally, and intentionally nuking all your customers from orbit with a malicious commit because you threw a temper tantrum. There's a ton of good ways to handle this. Find a new owner, for instance.
Brute force. There’s a lot of services that help provide this now.
A tiny thing, and I'm probably alone here, but one thing that absolutely wreaks havoc on my concentration is the simple act of 2FA for every little thing.

Say I need to check an email relating to the code I'm working on. By the time I

- open firefox
- go to outlook
- open keepass (because yes I care about security and delete cookies)
- fill in my keepass master password
- find the relevant entry from keepass
- fill in my password via keepass
- wait to be greeted by the authenticator message
- grab my phone
- use my pin to unlock phone
- go to the authenticator app
- use my pin to unlock the authenticator app
- accept the authentication token for my email
- confirm authentication via my phone's pin
- search for the email

I no longer even remember what I'm coding anymore, let alone what I needed that email for.

This is particularly true if, like me, 2FA pisses you off, and your focus is replaced by rage.
In practice people do this all the time already because there's no perfect enforcement.

Plenty of people will risk parking in "no parking" / "permit only" spaces if they expect to only be away for a short duration (<30 mins).
Medicalizing (or, providing the veneer of medical explanation in the realm of) ideological differences is weird.
It wasn't. What was stupid was waging a trade war with Europe at the same time.
Personally, I never use a feature in production which isn't at least 5 years old.

I'm barely starting to use CSS vars now.
The radar signature, altitude and speed would be completely different than any civilian aircraft. That was a mach 10 missile. For reference SR-71, the fastest plane that entered service (at least of those we know) has a speed of 3.2+ mach.
An interactive resource to explore Bible contradictions
Ethereum loses nearly a quarter of its value over the past week
Thanks for the info and those links. There hasn't been nearly enough public information on _how_ jabs help. The rhetoric is always 'get jabbed because it protects health services', which despite being true, leaves a lot out. It also doesn't help that a lot of easily accessible information is contradictory and focuses on considering one's own heath rather than everyone's.
"When we watch a movie, our brains react to it immediately in a way similar to brains of other people. [...] Viewing a movie creates multilevel changes in the brain function. Despite the complexity of the stimulus, the elicited brain activity patterns show remarkable similarities across different people -- even at the time scale of fractions of seconds."
Everyone would look the other way and offer thoughts and prayers. North Korea would be largely vaporized and neither China nor South Korea would prolong the issue and risk total nuclear annihilation of humanity.
Yeah my parents were divorced, so yeah I’ve got lots of memories of traveling between them in the 90s.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/inventor-says-go...
> People supporting "new urbanism" [...] should come look around downtown Seattle and see how it's working out.

People can go look around the downtown of any given city to see a "grim wasteland", but it has little to do with new urbanism and much to do with covid causing major shift to work from home + avoiding a lot of in-person events.
Just curious, what were some of those features?
This is unsubstantiated garbage. Matt Stoller should stick to whatever topic it is that he knows which I'm still unsure of what that is.
T-Mobile Says iOS 15.2 Bug Turning Off iCloud Private Relay for Some Users
Crossbow. Yeah, you mentioned in the video. :)
Especially not when public transit is extremely inconvenient and painful.
Now that you said it in other comment, market socialism looks promising. But I still prefer living under properly constrained capitalism to living under any other currently running system.
Remember that the farmers were tied to the land by medieval relationships.
After the labor disruption of the plague, and because the demand for their labor greatly increased, farmers were better able to negotiate the relationship for better personal outcomes, including wages.

Being able to leave their current landed relationship and seek better prospects elsewhere was probably the greatest of gains.
If your manager reacts negatively to candid discussion of how they're preventing you from being productive, then you don't want that job anyway. Prolonged work under managers like that is what burns people out.

Yeah switching jobs is a pain, but it's peanuts compared to switching careers.