skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of them were really sharp, and now work for another heavy-duty (this time, German) engineering corporation.

Not everyone wants to be a CTO. Many of us just want to do what we love, and be respected and supported, while doing it. For many people, that's a dream job.

When I left my job, I could have gone on to management at another company, and be making fairly decent money. Instead, I decided to "retool" myself, and return to my production engineer roots.

It's a field that is dominated by a lot of ruthless, young, hungry people (and a management culture that has adapted to this), and I may never get anyone to pay me to code ever again; even though I have the ability to make others a lot of money.

But I've never been happier.
> If you’re intimidated by man pages

$ man man

Excellent start for newbies.
Won't the advice in that cursory blog post expose the plaintext to query logs?

IMHO doing the hashing and password comparison in application code has benefits in both shifting the compute workload to horizontally scalable non-db workers and keeping the plaintext off the wire/queries.
How is this true? I can easily disable location in apps and in settings.
Even if this was propaganda (in the pejorative sense), I doubt any other medium or outlet will be taking this Sunday off.

If you need a break from the propaganda, you can always open [streaming service] and watch [latest hip series starring biracial protagonist with quirky LGBTIQ best friend in semi-fictional borderless country].
Shot - share to your fancy shmancy editor that puts a phone frame around it - put a frame around it - save somewhere.

Here, simplified that for you.

You can totally make an app that streamlines this and doesn’t cast doubts on its privacy hygiene at the same time.
People are allowed to do whatever they want it is up to the mods to handle business.

My question is why are you cosplaying as a mod?
Villages and towns are split now. There are hundreds of locations around the EU where different sides of a street are in different countries - or (worse now) straddling the UK/Ireland border.

Which is not to suggest that pie-shaped political geography is a good idea. But splitting towns is much less of a show-stopper than old-fashioned tribal and religious affiliations.
Raises/promotions can be easy, you pay what you have to in order to retain the employee... as long as there is the money to do so AND as long as the company wants to retain said employee.

It's 90% about what they could get somewhere else in the city and a bit whether they are willing to leave and capable to (it's actually quite difficult to get a job ^^). You should have a pretty good idea of the what's available in the area after a while.

As you noticed, everybody think they deserve more. Ironically everybody is wrong, because the fact that they work here for this amount is proof that it's enough (for now), if they could get paid more they'd be paid more (whether here or somewhere else).

The key is to ignore people because people are always dissatisfied. Big companies set a fixed pay band and reply to everything with "there's no budget for a raise" because it's the nice easy way to do that.
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Disgusting, although not surprising considering that Google distributes several predatory lending apps owned by Opera on Google Play.

Google's willingness to even entertain introducing this feature for banks points to lending apps being able to not only shame you in front of your contacts, as they currently do, but remotely lock your phone in the future.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-24/google-ba...
It could also be for people who want the status symbol of owning an iPhone without shelling out for one. That’s very common in China.
I've purchased my phone and paid cash. My cell network is a SIM-only contract.

Is the number of ways for anyone to say "Lock billpg's phone." and for my phone to get locked as a result, exactly zero?
If you just need to make simple phone calls, there are very inexpensive feature phones you can buy outright.

That doesn't necessarily mean it's a trivial purchase—far too much of the country (never mind the world) lives in poverty—but it's not something anyone in the US would pay in installments.
Yeah. I can see every website following step 0 because yladiz said so. Good way enforcing that with random websites.

Take your privacy into your own hands, why leave it to others to implement. Many won't
More accurate headline: turning a floppy disk into a (somewhat cheesy) model of the USS Enterprise.

[UPDATE:] More like the USS Discovery. But whatever.
V-Ray past and future with Vlado Koylazov
Try the Tesco Clubcard app. On taking a screenshot you will get a toast saying: "Can't take screenshot due to security policy".

This is what I'm referring to in my post above.
I am all for finding a vaccine with the lowest possible fatality complications. I believe we should "rush" a vaccine during a pandemic by modifying testing protocols which will ultimately save more lives by speeding up the approval time. The FDA should have done challenge trials with a healthy population to better determine the vaccine's effectiveness.

I believe the silver bullet for future pandemics will be pre-approved mRNA vaccine pathways with the only change to the specific vaccine being the mRNA payload that targets the pathogen. Then testing could be a lot more straightforward and quicker which could end future pandemics.
I also first thought it looked like a German-centric idea of a "united" Europe after most of it had been joined to Germany. But I think it's probably actually a highbrow vision of (Central) Europe amalgamated into a union where the supposed peace comes from the amalgamation rather than from subversion.

The radial "kantons" in the map, for example, have been denoted as having a military presence of various ethnic groups, not just Germanic, and the various ethnic groups maintaining a military presence are all over the place and alternating over each neighbouring sector/"kanton".

I also don't really think a German propaganda map would include things such as present southern Italy being assigned as part of Greece when Greece was actually neutral or Allied during World War 1 (and invaded by Nazi Germany in WW2, in case you'd think the map was from Nazi Germany age.)

Edit: The metadata also says it's from 1920, as the title indicates

Edit 2: Most people outside of the British/US world probably also wouldn't even know it's a particular day there. Have a good one, though.
That is what is so nuts about this comment thread. People assume this is some illogical or nefarious decision by Google. Usually, these things are privacy related, or to prevent nefarious apps from capturing data without your permission.

Perhaps "Screen capture" should be in the permissions API instead of blocking it...

But for all the people complaining here, is there a legitimate app with this function that you use on a daily basis?
If such a file is found, it will by default execute the all target.

This is not correct. Make will try to build the first target mentioned in the Makefile. e.g. try

first: ; @echo First target mentioned

all: ; @echo The all target
What is FHS?
As said by the other commenter, most of these patches are caused by NixOS not using the FHS (except for /usr/bin/env), which can be considered as a good thing in itself. In an ideal world, it would not be a problem (programs should not assume anything about the filesystem hierarchy, and should always use $PATH or their own environment variables).

The issue of integrating with other language ecosystems is indeed very problematic (and it's a very hard problem), especially with regards to the chain of trust (by the way, it's not completely broken, you can still read the original package hash in the derivation, and evaluate this derivation to get the Nix derivation hash), and with regards to the fact that including all of the packages of every ecosystem in `nixpkgs` is not doable.

There is also the (related) problem that evaluating a configuration implies evaluating `nixpkgs` itself, which requires a good amount of available memory, and this can only get worse as `nixpkgs` grows.
In the end, the geometry does imply that for a given reproduction rate, you eventually reach a crunch where there's not enough surface area of new space to expand to for your colonists, who are proportional to your volume. Being uploads speeds up your rate of expansion, because you could send out seedships much nearer to c and then beam over the digital colonists to be picked up by the infrastructure built at the new system- but digitised people could also reproduce much, much faster than biologicals.
Okay, I've now read your links, though I don't have any Google internal information here.

It sounds to me like people who hired Google to bid for them on various exchanges ended up with some invalid traffic. The lawsuit is over, essentially, who is responsible for the risk when bids are wasted on fake traffic. The OP is essentially arguing that the entire advertising industry is fraudulent, and that there is no legitimate traffic, which is worlds away from a dispute over how to handle the risk of fraudulent traffic when it does occur.

(Again: I work for Google but I don't know anything about this case and I'm speaking only for myself)
I disagree. I think one of the big reasons for this is limited functionality of common interfaces that platform provides.

WhatsApp client implements its own photo picker, instead of using system one. Why? So it can add "crop" and "comment" functions. It would be objectively worse for me, the user, if they had stuck to platform features.
> You are avoiding my point.

I addressed your point directly. You claimed content might not be available otherwise (and that this is the reason consumers want DRM), I gave examples that showed that to be obviously false. And DRM is much more than just not banned - it's illegal to circumvent, thanks to DMCA.

> And if you don't like it, don't subscribe.

I don't. But you're still not happy - I guess you'd also like me to shut up about how bad DRM is for consumers, and allow you to spread your false claims how Netflix wouldn't exist without it, unchallenged?

> Are you against companies being able to choose if to use DRM or not? Do you want to ban DRM? What about encryption, do you want to ban that too?

So you agree that DRM is bad for consumers and society, you're just not sure how to fix it? Because that is the only reason you'd want to skip directly to arguing what should be done about it... unless you were hoping to make it seem like DRM is good by proposing some overreaching "solution", and make it look bad by association with an encryption ban. But that would be an incredibly dishonest and slimy way of arguing, so I'm sure that's not what you were going for!

For the record, no, I don't want to ban encryption. But if DRM continues to infringe upon people's rights (such as fair use, or even regular property rights, like when Amazon remotely deleted an e-book, or Sony disabled OtherOS on PS3, or HP disabled "unauthorized" ink with an update to already sold printers), a DRM ban could be warranted. Many types of contracts are already banned, but you think consumers should just bow their heads and take it while corporations lock away their rights behind DRM?

Do you believe the only choice consumers should have is whether to buy a product or not? They shouldn't advocate for consumer-protection legislation? They shouldn't even complain about anti-consumer practices, judging by how much my complaints bother you?
It is displayed as "Resolution" on the bottom. (Total size divided by the number of samples so far.)
Applying kernel patches in NixOS is actually really easy. Look up the "boot.kernelPatches" option.
I don’t know, I think the banner is a pain but it is absolutely the responsibility of web developers to allow user choice in tracking. Cookies don’t have to be third-party to be harmful.

If the roads are bad, we need to fix the roads, not just tell everyone to drive better cars.
> The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) defines the directory structure and directory contents in Linux distributions.[1] It is maintained by the Linux Foundation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
I misread it as “increases risk of severe death”
If it's user-controlled, why would anyone object?
That wide secondary hull has very strong Discovery vibes to me, but the saucer section is peak Enterprise (I’m leaning refit/TMP with oversized impulse systems, what about you?)
Linux phones!!! There’s still a lot of dev work to be done but this is exactly why I’m on board with the pinephone. not a daily driver yet, but if you’re a programmer looking for something to contribute to, go check it out
iOS already has that - if you default on payments your IMEI gets blacklisted and your iPhone stops connecting to network.
I like it, it is artsy and put a smile on my face.
The feeling of guilt is, unfortunately, normal. Just try to keep in mind you didn't really do nothing wrong, and it will help overcoming it faster.
Network effect will still take place with these apps. The average Indian does not know UPI is a framework. I have to explain that any UPI app can connect with any other UPI almost weekly.

My father still thinks that Google Pay can only send money to a QR code with the Google Pay logo on it.
I agree with most of this, but wanted to comment on the "developer environment" part. TL;DR: I feel like you're under-valuing this part?

> I think nix isn't as useful for developers using it to setup their workstation [...] I like that I can just run "nix --install myPackages" and have the exact, up-to-date versions of software installed... but, it's not often that I need to run this.

This might be idiomatic to me (i.e., the devices I use; how; my level of anxiety; etc.) but I have (historically) found OS reinstalls and system moves disruptive.

Over time, the work, documents, downloads, config changes, cruft, old apps and such on a system all congeal into a big blob of system state. To move with confidence, I ended up with a few choices: 1) have the old system runnable as a reference so that I can jump but have it as a reference every time I encounter something that's missing or misconfigured, 2) manually inventory everything on the system to triage what needs to be carried forward and what is crap, 3) copy everything on the system and pretend I'll take the time to do number #2 later (ha! in reality I'll just accumulate multiple nested copies stretching back decades!)

Adopting Nix enabled me to declare my personal essentials, and per-project essentials. This got me close enough to confident I can quickly prepare a fresh device that it motivated me to close most of the remaining gaps on macOS. Instead of feeling like it'd take me days+ to get back to full productivity on a clean device, I know I just need an hour or two.

This confidence liberates me from lot of gnawing everyday anxieties about (i.e., infinite permutations of how inconvenient it would be to lose my system at [already stressful moment where I'm under pressure to deliver something]).

> looks to me like people are just fine using images of development environments/toolschains with VMs or Docker. etc.

I used to be in the VM (virtualbox + vagrant/chef/shell) camp. I was net-happier with that than single-system state and things like virtualenv, but on a laptop I'm not very keen on the extra resource use and performance penalty, and over time I still found one shift or another (virtualbox/vagrant updates, chef cookbook updates, VM image updates, or a VM image that stops publishing) created a fairly regular drumbeat of unexpected, low-leverage debug time.
Honestly, how long until all kinds of shady actors come up with excuses to gain access to the api? My device, my choices. If it is not paid, sue me in a legal court. Everything else is private enforcement.
The Swiss Confederacy and the US Confederacy are both inspired by and contain patches to the US constitution for overlapping reasons. Pretty much all constitutional democracies over the last 150 years looked at the US Constitution and said “yeah that part doesnt make sense scratch that, patch this, keep the rest”.

The Swiss patched theirs after a comparatively small physical fight for direct democracy at the federal level.

The US contains representative democracy over concerns about the speed of communication over a long distance, even though they were referring to 13 states on the east coast in 1780 (admittedly the western borders of those states were practically infinite), Switzerland is not that large and would fit inside of Pennsylvania so the rationale against direct democracy could not be maintained, but as they learned, representative democracy is too convenient for a central organization to relinquish and direct democracy is a threat to it. The people of Switzerland won though, and good for them.

The federal government in Switzerland does grow, but very slowly and the loose confederation has an understanding that any canton can make a law and it is honored simultaneously by all the other cantons and inherits the brand of Switzerland. It could get complicated with conflicts of law but it doesnt because the reality is not that much happens.

Feel free to correct anything inaccurate.
I guess "the hispanics I know" forgot the proposed revisions to Title X and slashing across the board to any ACA outreach, much to their detriment.

>I thought Hacker News was above that simplistic rhetoric

Nope. Ideas like "hispanics voted for Trump [because of the mandate...], simple as that" are still abundant.
I think you speak as if you don't currently have a bias. yet something I've noticed and even had to correct amongst coworkers who came to the United States via a student visa and then eventually obtained a green card is that they have a huge bias towards large parts of the United States. This bias has been created in their minds by university professors who have never been to these parts of the country themselves. The bias manifest in things like a coworker being afraid to accompany me on a business trip to Walmart headquarters in Northwest Arkansas thinking it was dangerously racist. I had to explain to him that there are multiple cricket leagues in the area in that racism is not nearly as prevalent in the south as Hollywood would have him believe. He ended up enjoying it so much there that he later relocated there from Fremont.
Living near Boulder I routinely encounter the exact same ideological brainwashing amongst people who came to the US as students.
I say this is someone that is done extensive volunteer consulting work for the Democratic party including my last gig in 2014 for the midterm elections. I agree with the vast majority of the Democratic party platform but have become very dismayed at them overemphasizing race as a motivating factor for their opposition. I can promise you that for most southern Americans that vote Republican abortion is a much bigger factor in their vote than race. and economics is much bigger than either those categories.
This one wouldn't be always on, but blink on signal. Way to differentiate between activity and just being plugged in.
Five nights at Freddy’s?
Common practice? Car dealers in the US can disable used cars remotely?
> To even stand a hope of getting to 0.01% risks you need a population of at least several thousand in your trial.

Phase III trials don't run with enough participants to detect 0.01% effects with any confidence. These are generally found postmarketing, like Vioxx. In terms of vaccine harm, a badly behaved swine flu vaccine caused 3 cases of narcolepsy per 100k juveniles vaccinated. This effect simply would never be seen in Phase III trials.

Finally, beyond the raw CFR we need to consider other adverse outcomes from covid: cognitive impairment following mechanical ventilation and cardiac damage are two that really worry me.
NSA can probably already issue certs from some of the widely-trusted roots. If someone as big as NSA wanted to MITM you, you wouldn't notice...
Which is my point actually, there are many platforms and technology already that let artists allow their users to download their art without incurring a huge cost. A relatively good torrent seed box costs around just 5 usd. So thanks to current technology cost of distributing your work for free isn't that hard.
"Phones" are also dirt cheap. High-end mobile camera-computers are expensive.

The government can give phones away if they want to (and they do), no need to ban other arrangements.
This is a feature: FLAG_SECURE is real and used by many apps. i.e. Chrome's Incognito mode.

Sure, you have workarounds for power-users, but Google is locking the Android ecosystem progressively for regular users. Just like the Manifest v3 for Chrome.

Maybe Google is doing the "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy that worked really well for Microsoft in the past.
Yeah that's my only concern. I'll see if there is a way to setup payment notifications after asking her about it.
> lying is absolutely rampant. Are there politicians who are relatively honest? Sure, but while they may have loyal grass-roots support, they tend not to be the most successful and they are most definitely in the minority.

That actually matches my default belief pretty well, FWIW, but I don't have a lot of evidence for it. Yes, there are lots of news stories about lying/corrupt politicians, but without the greater context how can you tell the prevalence? It's like a negative survivorship bias, we only hear about the scandals.

> I think the main difference is the willingness (or lack thereof) of people in respectable positions to cover for his lying, because he is not considered respectable.

Yeah, I found that sad and disgusting.

My personal problem is, is this just what humans are? Can we do better? Should we "Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."?

I try to remind myself that we are in fact getting better, we have the tools to fix our problems, and there's reason to hope. Yay us!
Imagine there was no Facebook. I suspect the events of the last few years would have gone the same. 4 years of Trump is what got Biden elected.. not facebook ads.
Connection seems key. We are divided when we need to be connected. We are working against each other when we need to be working for each other.

Some key aspects of connection and possible solutions include:

1. Umvelt. Understanding others from their own reference frame.

Being able to state another's perspective in a way that they can identify with.

2. Self Awareness. Understanding ourselves as best we can and being able to recognise our own needs and the needs of others.

Nonviolent communication is a general category of the type of communication which I believe best helps people communicate across differences.

I think both these and numerous other techniques can be embedded into the design of numerous games and applications that people will joyfully participate in for these reasons and for others. For the simple nutrition of participation in something larger than ourselves.

Koko was the name of a kikbot that helped teens encourage each other. A different design might encourage deeper communication across greater distances.

The same designs that help people communicate across perspectival differences can help people learn new languages and aquire new skills.

These problems are not limited to borders and neither should our search for solutions be confines to individual cultures. This is a global problem. Addressing it alongside other problems, working together towards greater solutions, might be the only way we survive long enough to enjoy the impossibly wonderful future that awaits us if we do make it through.