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Remote: Yes & Preferred

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Technologies: Python, Java, SQL, Fintech, Data Engineering, Data Science

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Comments, except the one that quotes from the OP, moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27359515.
Possible outcomes from most to least likely:

* Non-tech industry belatedly starts prioritising cyber security; security gradually gets better while costs increase and infosec consultants enjoy a Y2K-style boom.

* Tech-competent startups outcompete non-tech industries through avoiding ransom costs.

* The international internet degrades into mostly-closed national networks with end-to-end government control and monitoring.

* The US government starts treating these attacks as national security threats and goes all War on Terror, probably triggered by a hit on critical infrastructure that costs lives. Heinous collateral damage.
> you were more anxious when you were drinking ? that's a first

drinking habit increases baseline anxiety. it's not that having a drink will make you more anxious in next few hours.
I, too, wonder how valuable location data is to Google. I've recently almost fully degoogled myself, but Google's location-tracking things are the hardest to get away from: Google Maps, Google Location Services, and Google Fi. I'll be switching to a custom Android ROM with microG instead of Google Play services soon, so that should help, and Google Fi is technically not hard to get away from, but since I spend most of my time internationally, it's still useful for me. I'll be buying a second phone soon strictly for my Google SIM, so I can keep Google off of the phone I use daily. I've stopped using Google Maps as my primary maps app, but there really isn't a good replacement for looking up updated local business information, saving favorite map pins, or navigating public transportation. There are some local apps that are ok for those things, but since I travel a lot, those apps are hit or miss.

Anyway, from the last few months of degoogling, I've noticed that it's really hard to prevent Google from knowing your location at all times. I wouldn't be surprised if Google knows >99% of Android users' locations at all times, and most iPhone users' too.
> So if an untrusted source tells me that a usually varifuably trustable source is not to be trusted, whom do I trust more?

I honestly don't understand how you've made this an adversarial situation. It's almost as if you take offense to Smartscreen telling you it doesn't trust your binary.

The system is pretty straight forward, Smartscreen checks the file source against a list of known bad actors. If there's a hit it's saying "I can't vouch for this".

I checked and WinMerge isn't flagged in Smartscreen. The publisher however does not use a signing certificate which results in a UAC prompt.

In any case neither of these features prevent installation, they're just warnings you can circumvent.
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Yes, obviously weight also plays a big role in my previous statement. But the statement is still true: given that over half the population doesn't drink daily, if they decide to drink 10 drinks, it will have drastic physical effects. For what it's worth, the modern day description of "tolerance" is merely the individual's ability to mask their inebriation. There is a big difference of not being affected by something (being tolerant) and fooling others that you are unaffected.
If larger aliens means smaller populations of aliens, would that mean that there are fewer possibilities for einsteins to come into existence? If einsteins are less likely, I could see the rate of growth of civilizations being slower, but no real intuition of whether or not that would make much of a difference in the long term.
I'm burnt out. I'd love to be fired and given a severance package so that I can take a breather for a month. I'm completely sick of non-tech enterprises - the politics, the apathy towards development, the offshoring, the crazy deadlines set by executives and stakeholders that do not know tech, waterfall, development being seen as a cost center, etc..

There's just so much inertia. I have a comfortable life with not a bad salary. I have great wlb. And I work remotely. Everytime I think about leaving, I just focus on it maybe being a matter of perspective.
Hot take: the US is going to use these highly publicized hacks as impetus for implementing our own "Great Firewall"...for our safety, of course.
Dell's approach was actually more like the classic "taking a company private again", where you use public equity markets to grow big but keep control, then take it private at terms that don't really reward shareholders for the massive growth. This looks like the modern variety of PE capturing predictable revenues from a large, mature client base that can pay their fund the expected returns for the next 5-7 years. It's boring as hell and never means (a) a better product, or (b) a bigger pay-off for employees.
I don’t really think america has that big of a problem with alcohol. If anything the stats indicate drinking is dying out among the youths compared to previous generations. Fentanyl on the other hand, that is a real problem.
The U.S. needs to make it illegal to pay ransom. Then respond with force, arresting people, targeting however you can.

Further, this should be a wake up call. If you're a business harden your network and make backups.
The Outback is no comparison. Yes, it's better than a Honda Fit, but nothing like a station wagon. Wagons are popular in Europe - not sure why people prefer SUVs here. I've always disliked SUVs for having a higher center of gravity and being less stable on turns. Minivans are too bulky.
If that were the case you’d see lower alcohol consumption among manual labourers than among software engineers…
I was working at Salesforce when they finally got rid of the kegs and alcohol that were all over the engineering floors. IIRC Parker was subdued about it, it happened overnight, I'd guess in response to an alcohol-based HR issue. I laughed because compared to every other company I knew no one ever drank in the SFDC office and the kegerators were covered in dust. I have one drink 3-4 times a week, but never connected to work.
How much you used to drink before?
I bill $850/hr, if you want the conversation that badly ;) otherwise, the audience is approximately zero and you aren’t interested in being convinced, so what would even be the point?
I think if we still had AstraZeneca we would not be in an awful position - but that vaccine already had a massive supply constraint - the EU is still pretty pissed about that. So if there were no other vaccines that would be worse for starters.

Also, as others have pointed out, it’s more effective.

Correct me if I’m wrong about this but it seems to be deceptive to think about it in terms of effectiveness.

60% doesn’t seem that much worse than 95%. Feels like 2/3 as good.

But if you look at it the other way around it’s 40% vs 5% which makes the gap much clearer - 8X more people getting symptoms (not sure what the data is on hospitalisation / deaths is though, probably closer)

Plus I believe mRNA vaccines should end up being cheaper in the long run.

Oh and plus you don’t feel as bad after getting them.
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One could easily see this as deeply Puritan reasoning in comparison to e.g. a stereotypical Southern European culture where the question is rather something like

“It’s cheap, and we all live to be 80 anyways. Why wouldn’t I casually drink alcohol while I enjoy a meal out with friends?”
Yes, when I wrote the comment the link was to that and then it looks like they merged two threads.
Nah, it's the best. A recent thread on this convinced me to try Doom Emacs. It's great and just doubled my nerd factor.
I'm yet to dive into treesitter. Was it hard to get it installed for nvim. Also, was it hard to get the language plugins installed?
Tasmota has drivers for almost anything you'd imagine. Adding I2C or OW sensors for instance is mostly plug and play. If you wired them correctly and used tge appropriate image they would just work. Berry is an addon scripting kanguage that runs on a VM. It's only present in the ESP32 dev branch.

Zephyr is nice and well documented but support for ESP devices is quite lacking. For NXP devices it's great.
This was addressed on the mailing list: changing to future versions of the GPL will still be possible, due to the "or any later version" wording. It's only changing to a non-GPL license that will now be impossible.
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The threat vector at this time isn't what Amazon does with access to your internet. It's what John Q. Public does.

'Free Internet' (on your dime), will always lead to abuse.
Plus, how much do you trust Amazon's security to NEVER allow access to other resources on your network?
The other thing about functional programming is it involves a sort of tradeoff that's very different from object orientation. It makes functions into "first class (language) objects". Manipulating functions directly is a very power ability. As tradeoff, making functions pure and making variable immutable limits that power and makes your operations on functions understandable as well as powerful. Because if you take functions with side effects and manipulate these in various ways, you can quickly wind-up with a powerful but incomprehensible system.

This means that "functional effects" do sometimes do best as something like subsystems called by the main system.
Do we have ransomware credit default swaps yet?
Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Probably yes

Technologies: Arm Cortex-M, Atmel, Pic, x86/x64, C++/C, Assembler, Python, Java

Résumé/CV: On request

Email: dropshaddow [at] protonmail [dot] com

12 years experience in embedded technology, low level and native hardware development. Experience in bare metal development, embedded Linux, FreeRTOS and all common hardware busses (SPI, I2C, CAN, USB, ...) and
radio connectivity (BLE, ZigBee, and some proprietary protocols).

As side project I developed an Android app (Java) available in the Play Store.
AMD Introduces FidelityFX Super Resolution, Nvidia Announces DLSS for Steam Play
That's my main issue with terminal emulators. Why can't I click anywhere to put a cursor in there? Why can't I delete a selected text? Some hotkeys work as expected (e.g. Ctrl+Delete), but others don't (e.g. Ctrl+Backspace). Those are simple things from a user standpoint. Terminal could be so much more usable. I'm not even talking about integrating real GUI into terminal, for example pressing Tab should open dropdown list, not emulate it with text.
There are libertarians and anarchists who think that freedom is having no laws at all. But what happens when a huge chemical company starts dumping waste on your lawn? Who do you call? They are free to do what they want, aren't they?

Individual liberties can only go so far. If we want freedom as a society it is necessary to restrict individual freedom at the point that it begins to affect the freedoms and rights of others. In practice that means, unfortunately, governments, police and armies are necessary.

Permissive licences are idealistic. Copyleft/FSF-style licences are pragmatic.
In a perverse way, the recent attacks on infrastructure are a good thing. Can you imagine if these all hit in a coordinated attack during actual hostilities?

Yes it's painful and interferes with the economy, but ultimately this will harden up potential targets. And boy do some of these guys need hardening up.
I've had a similar desire recently...my reason is because regardless of the power of my desktop machine, I've grown impatient waiting for applications to load...but I encounter no such issues with apps that employ more text-mode UIs. TUIs - in my mind now - are a godsend; ironic that they're considered a "throw back" to "the older days of computing".
I would highly recommend everyone to watch the documentary Prohibition by Ken Burns:

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1950799/
A lot of math is done by working on conjectures that take time to prove or disprove.
"In EU". Why is this not part of the submission?
objective points i hated about OOP ala Java:

- mutability is always there, you're never sure something in the object graph will bite you back

- no clear initialization, object can be "constructed" but you never know what state you get in the end, you need to read every class implicit protocol to be sure you called the right methods after `new` (FP asks for near in-order static trees.. less cute but quite obvious about dependencies). that is unless people played fully with generics and classes (phantom types to express what step you're in the object state graph)

- too much bike shedding about private / public fields

- single dispatch forcing someone to own some logic when there's zero logical reason to do so
> I'm keen to see something as novel as light table play out again

All these years and I was starting to believe I had imagined light table. How else could one explain no editors adopting inline, always-on evaluation?!
Oh - it's not uncommon for articles at big media sites to change their headlines. I don't remember seeing that at NatGeo before though. Sorry for the misunderstanding!
how much of that is dedicated to the passenger compartment
I think having children limits serious partying, but what do you drink when you’re eating your evening meals? Only water?

Maybe it’s a southern European thing, but I can’t imagine eating a heavy meal without the acidity of a red wine, for example.
You’re missing the question I asked though. Does Apple accept significant code contributions from outside the project?

Because if they don’t, the gpl wouldn’t help.

But regardless of that - I think this is the perfect example of the copyleft crowd not understanding the concept of compromise.

Apple creates something, releases it as open source but also maintains some private extensions, and the response is: well why didn’t you give it all to us?
> Even here, it only calls for age verification. Again, there's no requirement for checking credit cards or passports.

Age verification offline has always been done by checking IDs. Why would you expect anything different by shifting to online? The law demands age verification, and youtube delivered the de facto standard for age verification in the form of ID checking. That seems to be extremely cause & effect of the most straightforward variety. There's no reasonable expectation for anything different to have occurred unless those creating the law also outlined how to do this in a more privacy-sensitive manner. But they almost certainly didn't, so obviously tech companies would go with what's well established practice instead of trying to skate on legally thin ice to create new precedents for age verification.
Does this assume that the likelihood of each alien to be an "einstein" remains constant with size? It seems like a larger being which can support a larger brain might stand a better chance to develop higher thoughts.
Sure, you could have an attack whose goal is to cause damage like what happened in the Sony Pictures hack in 2014 [1]. Or follow through on a direct blackmail attempt of money for no disruption. Even if we limit ourselves to financially motivated actors there are plenty of ways to convert business disruption to money other than ransomware such as stock manipulation, competitive sabotage, etc.; they are just a little more sophisticated in the non-technical aspects. However, these tactics are quite rare currently because most hackers are extremely financially unsophisticated, being mostly young technically-minded people, so they focus more on the technical aspect of just doing more hacks rather than the business aspect of extracting the most value through solid financial engineering.

We can see this by the fact that just a few years ago they would take down the same types of companies they are hitting now and ask for a ridiculously low sum of like $10k, but now they are asking for a much more reasonable, but still low $1M. Nothing changed about who they were attacking, they just slowly realized that they underestimated how much companies would pay for their "services" by a factor of 100x. That is a classic mark of a business amateur who has no idea just how much money is involved in B2B deals.

But to your underlying question, yeah, it is probably ransomware.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_hack
Yeah, because I am not babysitter. You should do your homework :) I am glad when people hint me good info.

I do have ample personal experience - when government web server was randomly dropping from 2k req/s to 2 req/s we disabled defender and from there we had continuous 2k req/s. I have seen this literary hundreds of times. Not sure why people install AV on servers but its common in banks and similar. On home computers its even worst. I witnessed new laptop computer with 2 AVs - defender + something vendor installed like mcafe. It was so slow that while typing letters appeared 1/s.

AVs inject themselves on number of places and do all kind of "funky" stuff. All power users should disable that junk. You have other means to protect yourself. If you are grandma, sure, go for it, but grandma will not run "Reclaim Windows10" from github gist, no ?

Context is everything. It certainly doesn't justify above comment claiming "DO NOT DO THIS!!!" on HN. Its utter nonsense. We are here to talk about hacking things by definition. Power users customize their OS, not the other way around. Its pity that MS doesn't provide minimal OS (like Linux OS's usually do) but the first thing I do is not run single script like Reclaim, but dozen of such scripts and my healthy nervous system thanks me all the time because benefits are huge and minuses are minor and fixable.

If anything, we need more projects like that, more polished, more documented, more maintained. My personal fav so far is [1]

[1]: https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10
How do you "measure ad effectiveness" without tracking the user? Tracking is definitely the worst of the bunch so "measure ad effectiveness" have to be better/less pervasive than allowing tracking if it is unbiased, otherwise it should say "tracking".
Seagate 'exploring' possible new line of crypto-specific hard drives
This seems something I can love, will give it a shot.

I switched from Emacs to VSCode but occasionally misses the
editor-in-the-terminal-without-project-setup. I use vim when I'm forced by, say git, but I can barely copy-n-pate and undo, and I have no desire to learn the decades old tool. It's too anti-fancy to spend my precious spare time.

As a backup, I'd love to hear how to learn vim as a something modern and fancy. I'm happy to be convinced.
GCC to No Longer Require Copyright Assignment to the Free Software Foundation
My concern is that are two distinct concepts at play. One is "validation", a verb, which seems to be simply the basic application of empathy. The other is "valid", an adjective, which is applied to feelings and emotional states but (as far as I can tell) serves no descriptive purpose beyond "worthy of empathy". But aren't all feelings worthy of empathy? What is gained by such a label?
>Hm, your tabs don't have favicons.

No, this website doesnt have favicons. I have a dozen other domains bookmarked that don't have favicons.
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this +100. You see the later in manture enterprise software a lot more these days and it is not fun to be a part of it. You get to watch software development transition from a profit generator to a cost center, which changes the game completely.
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> It's strange to me that people should think we need a religious motive to prefer sobriety

I would not at all be surprised to see a strong correlation of people who are religious and people who never drink. Even "one drink a week" or whatever is a significantly different category than "zero drinks, ever."