skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not true from my own observations. It takes the RAM it wants/needs regardless of memory pressure.

There is no such thing as unused RAM after a decent amount of uptime on any mainstream operating system running defaults anymore. If no application has requested it, RAM will get used as file system cache which speeds up the experience in general.
So the abstraction right below web browser UI was the last one that's okay to use?
Electron has its benefits for sure, there are some great apps out there. It really depends on the use-case and development team. If it could sandbox a system webview like on smartphones I'm sure the resource issue would be mitigated. Non native UIs these days are almost indistinguishable from native.
Well damn, haha. They just didn't want to have to put my name in the credits then. Thank you :)
Putting the Electron and subscription model debates to the side, if you're unhappy with 1Password and on macOS, consider switching to Minimalist Password. Currently a fair fixed price model, solid native apps for macOS, iOS & iPadOS, and iCloud syncing. They release updates often enough, and have been super responsive via Twitter about making small tweaks. The only thing missing are Chrome/FF extensions but they're coming (have to copy/paste on desktop unless you use Safari).
I was a legacy user too, they finally got rid of me I guess

The update to version 8 forces a login to the app and I could not use my own storage to sync vaults, out of the blue it just happened, I wasn't a paying customer

The workaround? Create an account, export your vault(not in the older version, the export formats are limited), and off I went to Bitwarden
I love 1P and would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone. But... They are cagey around this fact. They are not just trying to remove criticisms of the fact that 1Password 8 is based on Electron, they are actually trying to gaslight.

Whenever you mention that 1P8 is backed by Electron (I myself am very neutral towards that fact), they will quickly correct you and tell you it's backed by Rust instead.

For whatever reason, they are choosing not to just own the truth. This is a real shame because new 1Password 8 is really good, and I recommend it.
I’m sure I’m in the minority but after the recent thing where the CEO was explaining why they were delisting political news they didn’t like I’ll never trust them again.
1P8 is fine, I didn’t notice any decrease in performance at all.
> Well done on being condescending

It isn't condescension. Is it no longer OK these days to suggest someone might not understand something? Must it always be a personal attack when someone disagrees with you?

> you utter muppet

Wow. Questions answered.

My guess is, if we were having this discussion in person you would resort to physical violence.

How sad.

The absolute lack of tolerance and violent nature of today's cult-like attachment to ideas and ideology make me think of the kind of people who threw someone like Galileo in prison (house arrest) for the rest of his life for daring to suggest they were wrong.

This is what we've come to. Full circle. The mobs win. Nobody can dare disagree with them. Because they are right. Always. And they will resort to violence and ruin your life if you dare exist outside the accepted line of thinking. This is a modern tragedy of untold proportions.

And, BTW, after all of this, neither you nor anyone else can point to a a proposed solutions that provides a full honest accounting of timeline, energy and fuel requirements, materials, resources, emissions/pollutants produced, support, maintenance and ecological impact AT A PLANETARY SCALE. These are supernatural claims without any attempt to actually prove or justify what is being claimed. You believe what you believe because you believe what you believe and everyone else be damned.

Bravo.

You talk about building a thousand square kilometers of solar without bothering to do any reality-check calculations, even at the most basic level. For example, you'll have to replace a thousand square kilometers of solar panels every 15 to 20 years. Same goes for the batteries. And the computers. And the electronics. Etc. One wave of the hand, Thanos snaps his fingers and a thousand kilometers of solar panels appear to save the planet with absolutely no negative consequences at all for a hundred years.

Conversation over.

Live long and prosper.
I am using a schema to derive the password based on the website/application which is stored only in my brain.
Same. Even reached out to the post author and was hoping they might amend it: https://mobile.twitter.com/benfrain/status/15618030119151902...

Sounds like an attribute does the actual promoting.
"Particular Kind of Car Crashes" is not that interesting a story when there are millions of that kind of car on the road. A good statistical analysis of crash rates across version of autopilots would be interesting, but individual anecdotes aren't.

Stories about individual occurrences of things that happen with some frequency don't usually result in good HN discussions. Just partisan battles of "this always happens!" vs. "this almost never happens!"
All of these models assume the following two things:

1. nobody likes their job

2. nobody thinks their work has any value besides what they are paid

In swe plenty of people like their job, everybody's paid like 200k now, and unless you're working on crud internal tools you get to work on something relatively important.

But yeah if you have a shit job then you can browse HN at work and philosophize about sociopaths and losers.
so simple even my grandma can do it! ;)

in all seriousness, Lesspass has a cool concept (I hadn't heard of them before, just looked at their website now). I'd be interested in hearing what cryptography/security experts think about it.
Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History - https://smile.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1599474999 is a good overview with lots of references for further research.
A project manager might be more sympathetic in understanding/accepting the value a single crossplatform app brings to the design and development teams. (Of course at a cost.)
I switched to BitWarden for a while when it looked like 1Password was going to be in-browser only as the future on macOS, and one of the major things for me was it making logging in to multiple Google accounts harder than 1Password - it seemed to always be presenting the wrong password as a default, whereas 1Password would just get it right. Google drives me mad with the number of times they'll ask me to reauthenticate in FF.

I'm sure that story has improved since then, but it was frustrating enough for me to switch back again.
tbf I doubt you'd forget about your mauled cat in a week
Rob Pike, one of the creators of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, spoke about this in his 2000 talk "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" (http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.pdf).

Writing an OS from scratch is hard work, and without complying with pre-existing standards, the new OS won't be able to take advantage of existing software or communicate with computers running different operating systems, making it a non-starter for most users. Even supporting a wide range of hardware is very challenging, especially given the fact that many hardware devices lack documentation sufficient to write drivers, which results in challenging reverse-engineering projects or relying on the hardware manufacturer to create drivers for the new OS; this is a challenge even for Linux, which has the best driver support outside of Windows. Most people who want to experiment with new ideas for computer systems end up building on top of Linux since they can leverage Linux's existing hardware support and its implementation of a wide range of standards allowing interoperability.

I'm working on an experimental desktop computing project that ironically uses Plan 9 as its base platform since Plan 9's everything-is-a-file interface and its overall simplicity allows me to build my project with less effort than dealing with Linux/X11/Wayland/dbus/etc., but a big part of me is tempted to eventually write some 9P services to emulate enough of the underlying Plan 9 architecture to run my project on Linux and the BSDs in order to take advantage of these operating systems' better driver support.
> But another way to think of it is: you had a choice to decide if your child can see. You chose to give them sight.

Yet another way to think of it is: you had a choice to decide whether your blind child should live. You chose that they should die.

Your desire to only want one child in this circumstance is not free of ethical implications.
If i could live a life 10% similar to this guy’s life i would he so happy. I am not talking about money and fame. I just think that people like carmack are genuinely free. They are that kid that wanted to make awesome things and satisfy their curiosity and actually succeeded at it and they continued doing it in their adulthood. Just bloody awesome.
Ask HN: Is it just me or does Linode lately go down more frequently than usual?
I'm worried that we are starting to see the effect of the Akamai takeover. Linode has always been very dependable for us in the past, but this is the third time in the past 6 months that our startup experiences a +30 minute downtime all across the board on all our nodes. This used to be a very rare occurrence in the nearly ten years that we've been with them, but not so anymore apparently.
How fraudsters are using Force Sale transactions to commit fraud
they are also doing some ... questionable ... trickery in their on-premises install <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31098608>, so aside from vaultwarden being seemingly infinitely slimmer, it's also a lot easier to reason about from a security PoV
Imagine their surprise if we show them how much of MacOS really a WebView with window dressing...
I don’t think it’s self entitled to expect the software you paid for to keep its original functionality. They kept using dark patterns to enforce the switch to subscriptions.
> It holds a Chrome runtime, no?

No, it doesn't hold for any desktop application unless you have very good reason to believe that application is the raison d'etre for that computer. If that application is the reason for that computer existing and being used, then maybe you can say unused ram is wasted ram. But if that isn't the case, if your application is auxiliary to the primary purpose of that computer, then "unused ram is wasted ram" is never true for your application.

Photoshop for digital artists or CAD for architects are examples were "unused ram is wasted ram" might be true. Fullscreen computer games are another. But a password manager app? The password manger app is an auxiliary program, not the reason for that computer to exist. The password app should never assume ram not used by the password app is otherwise unused.
> the people who run government funded health facilities are a different set of people that run education or transportation. Only the funding source is the same.

They’re the same people. Government employees, belonging to the same unions, subject to the same incentives.

> Would you put your parents in a nursing home paid for by Medicare? I would, because I saw the care my grandmother received from such a facility

Medicare and Medicaid go out of their way to not be “publicly delivered services.” Medicare pays for privately managed elder care facilities, which may well be owned by a private equity company.
>
Even before that, much of the UI of DOS itself is Unix inspired

The inspiration rather came from CP/M.
I think many people who aren't artists lack the skills to express their creativity and imagination, in a visual way like the artists do, and that's how this kind of AI tool can help with.
Windows 10, newest 1p and I see 115mb in the task manager when the app is open, unlocked, and front
That's not a perverse incentive. It's the entire purpose of academic research. The results of the research are supposed to benefit the entire humanity, not just the entity that happened to fund it. Funders in turn have a range of motives. Some are idealistic and fund research because it's morally the right thing to do. Others are more utilitarian and believe that there are indirect benefits from having academic researchers in the society.
Thanks, I'll check out that book!
Touch ID / Watch unlock are pretty big features to me.

One thing 1PW has been sporadically weak on is delivering consistent high quality UX across the plugins and main application.

It would make a difference to me if BW supported these forms of auth.
I believe that subscriptions are a terrible way to sell software and and per product cloud syncing is awful, rent seeking design.

1Password used to let me buy the software and sync how I see fit. That is, it was decent and reasonable software. I was happy to use and recommend it.

That’s no longer the case and I feel like a fool for recommending it, having left those people stuck in a predatory model that I consider at best a bad deal and at worst unethical.

So yeah, I’m going to criticise.

And no, I don’t feel sorry for the staff of a company operating on a business model that should probably be illegal.
> but unlikely events are still consistent with reality

We name people who overly act on this premisse as schizophrenics.
US Government to make all research it funds open access on publication
Could tiny blood clots cause long Covid’s puzzling symptoms?
who defines "best"?
O1 visas and where to find them: a guide to US immigration
I gather San Diego discharged sewage into the sea forever. When they finally got to cleaning it up, maybe to appease surfers, they were forbidden because an ecosystem had grown up dependent on it the way it was.
> I know they literally can't hear it, but I always have the urge to tell Gen Y and later that for a minute in the mid-late 90's we had this shit mostly, not totally - that'll never happen - but mostly figured out.

I disagree. We didn't have it figured out - it just did not get on many folk's radar because of the differences in network effects prior to the internet. If you were a lonely kid in a farming town who wanted to dress and act like someone from the other biological gender you were shamed or shunned or cut-off. You were the weird one in your town. And that was something that everyone - EVERYONE - else in your town, no matter how empathic or sympathetic, would agree upon.

People who were "odd" just didn't know they could expect a better world. If you were coloured you just sucked up the jokes. If you were gay you hid - or you ran away to places where the network effects were more beneficial. You just dealt with it, and left the normal people to the belief that shit was figured out.

Except for us spectrum types - from about 1997 onwards EVERYONE wanted a piece of us.
Electronic Funds Transfer, also known as... credit card payment?
Thank you. This is helpful. I dont use iOS, so its not a show stopper for me. The outages is what I'm a bit worried about though.
I don’t really understand your argument. Wearing dresses isn’t heritable, we know that because most women’s grandmothers wore dresses and most women wear jeans or casual wear.

Heritability isn’t proof that a trait is genetic, but it’s strong evidence once you start addressing confounding factors. As I recall, the IQ heritability research was done with twin studies.

This is like shocking to me we’re even debating this. I would have assumed it’s conventional wisdom.
I come from a country which just legalized euthanasia and part of the safeguards we have is to try to be very sure that nobody takes it because they're suicidal due to depression. That might not be truly fair since some people might really be suffering that badly from it, as you say. But I came into this discussion with the prejudice that depression was an important reason to deny suicide assistance and the article gives an example of somebody who apparently died because of it.

You seem to be more open minded and consider depression might be an acceptable reason for doctors to kill their patients on request, if the patient really really wants it?
what is this sorcery?
I suspect that it's peoples perception of bias that will drive this, not actual measurable bias. Often people infer bias when they see an opinion they disagree with.
> If you’re making six figures writing software and think $3/month for a cornerstone of your security suite is offensive, you need to grow the fuck up, frankly.

Since when is it desirable to pay for software on a subscription model until the end of your life? Sounds like someone else needs to grow the fuck up here.
The iPhone contributes the most to apple’s revenue and margin. It wouldn’t be a great pipe cleaner because they need a ton of chips on a committed launch schedule, and can’t afford any yield screw up there.

With the Mac, they could probably afford a 10% yield, can extend ship times, and in the worst case could even push back a launch.

While the bigger chip does push down yields, my bet is they have more wiggle room than needed to compensate.
This isn't about discrete reality. It is about perception and self-rationalisation. Unlike economics, I don't think people are "rational actors".

There are more factors nowadays that convince people (rationally or not) that bringing a child into this world would be to give someone the gift of a lifetime of misery.

My irrational argument for having a child? To combat the stupidity of the next generation. If the good people (And who doesn't think they themselves are the good guys?) don't procreate then the evil/stupid win by default.

"Default? The two sweetest words in the English language! De-FAULT! De-FAULT! De-FAULT!" - Homer
is it related to that?

>Cores that don't count
>https://research.google/pubs/pub50337/

>We are accustomed to thinking of computers as fail-stop, es-
pecially the cores that execute instructions, and most system
software implicitly relies on that assumption. During most of
the VLSI era, processors that passed manufacturing tests and
were operated within specifications have insulated us from
this fiction. As fabrication pushes towards smaller feature
sizes and more elaborate computational structures, and as
increasingly specialized instruction-silicon pairings are intro-
duced to improve performance, we have observed ephemeral
computational errors that were not detected during manu-
facturing tests. These defects cannot always be mitigated by
techniques such as microcode updates, and may be correlated
to specific components within the processor, allowing small
code changes to effect large shifts in reliability. Worse, these
failures are often “silent” – the only symptom is an erroneous
computation.
We refer to a core that develops such behavior as “mercu-
rial.” Mercurial cores are extremely rare, but in a large fleet
of servers we can observe the disruption they cause, often
enough to see them as a distinct problem – one that will re-
quire collaboration between hardware designers, processor
vendors, and systems software architects.
>Violations of lock semantics leading to application data-corruption and crashes.
I got to the point where drinking wasn't worth it for me. I've had no issues with over indulgence but it still gets me.

There was a period where I'd have 3 or 4 ciders a week. I put on weight like you wouldn't believe.

Then there is snoring, if I have one beer that night my wife won't be able to sleep.

I just don't really drink now.
I think we really are all in agreement here.
Hey, thanks for the reply. I am being slow because it looks like if comments are deeply nested, the "reply" cooldown gets longer, so I am just replying now.

We use .NET/React for the most part, so I haven't had an issue with Mac/PC - we have multiple teams and, for example, a team helping is all on Macs - they can run stuff fine from bash. Azure Data Studio let's them access Postgres (and would let them access SQL Server) if needed. React only has issues with file pathing sometimes, so most of the time it's fine. I find that devs also get lost in setting up Docket/K8S locally, especially when people roll scripts to set up the whole environment in one command.

Still, I am genuinely arguing to help me fill the gaps where I might be incorrect, so I really appreciate your replies.
It's the verification code from a discord server to verify you have the access to DALL-E. https://discord.gg/openaidalle
Some top-voted comments are dismissive of this, but I think it's reasonable as far as it goes. The devil is of course in the details.

Some people will take this to mean "facts and analyses that I deem inconsistent with my values are unethical to publish", and we'll have to deal with that when it comes up.
>But we do..

Who is 'we' here? USA? Canada?
Some people simply don't want to put their passwords onto someone else's computer... I've had little problems with their software, but I don't want to pay a subscription for password hosting because I don't want password hosting
It's really not cool when you have 10 apps all with their own version of chrome running.
Considering the vast success of a lot of Electron based software like vscode and all others this comment seems odd.
The current assumption and his prediction, along with alignment on other data inside Supply Chains suggest new MacBook Pro, assuming it uses M2 Pro, would come out in Oct / Nov.

And if New MacBook Pro indeed uses M2 Pro, and M2 Pro uses N3, it would be classified as substantial revenue. Hence his word on M2 Pro wont be on N3.

TSMC isn't normally the one to spin words on substantial contribution to revenue. At least until now it means actual product shipment. As they do get N3 product revenue in terms of pilot project and and part of product R&D.

Edit: There were rumours of Intel being the first customer for N3 with their GPU. Using it as Tiles on their next gen Meteor Lake SoC. Personally I think that is likely the case.
Big fan of Northflank. They do HTTP/2, container build caching, Cloud Native Buildpacks, managed databases on top of all the tablestakes features you’d expect.

But probably the number one reason why I like them is because of how snappy everything is. Frankly puts AWS/GCP/Azure to shame.
Sorry to break this to you. If you believe there's "perfect" take-home, you will be wasting your time. The perfect take-home is no take-home. Take-homes may make some sense for engineer with little experience.
US and EU smelling blood and quite happy to exasurbate conflict inside UK for cynical reasons
Also, my password manager is a critical part of my digital life. It's not ok for it to go down. What happens when payments fail for whatever reason? Shit happens. Should I regress to making up passwords on the spot and writing them down?

I'm very happy to pay $50+ every year or two for a password manager with great UX and cross device support. It is not ok if any functionality is contingent on a subscription though. I really like the Jetbrains model, where if your subscription lapses your software just keeps on working — no updates though.
> I often hear this type of language from people who think that using pronouns in the conventional way is genocide.

> These types of exaggerations are part of the problem.

Physician, heal thyself. That me mentioning evil in this context brings to mind lefty drivel says more about the information you choose to consume than anything else.
A New Test for an Old Theory About Dreams
Or gamblers, or entrepreneurs. I don't know why you'd single out schizophrenics. Well, actually I do know why, but I still don't think it's a reasonable example for you to highlight.
When I was in middle school back in 1995, my teacher knew I was into computers and gave me this book as an assignment. I didn't even question why I was getting an assignment and no one else was, I just remember tearing through that book. Definitely inspired me to go deeper into computing and hacking, and not too long after reading it I did my first Linux install (Red Hat disks I convinced my dad to buy me).

Years later a friend would buy me a Klein bottle for my birthday and I got re-introduced to Cliff Stoll. Thanks Cliff!