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Can someone explain what's the point of DRM for video streaming when you can do screen recording so easily. It could make sense in books and games but why is netflix such a heavy proponent for it?
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A while ago I switched to a role that was interesting, but involved a decrease in compensation, but not a month had passed and I was included in a company-wide pay increase.

Overall currently I don't hate my job anymore and the salary is slightly better. Best decision I made this year.
Fair enough. I just meant to say that I wasn't letting the company completely off the hook because of that response from a throwaway account, not that I expect an official response today.
I hope you're being sarcastic and don't actually believe in this crap.
On yeah? So how do people run iOS apps on instruction-executing machines that weren't made by Apple?
I'm completely out of the loop here but plan to integrate Stripe into a new product. Can you elaborate?
Predators in general was the topic, for some reason.
How difficult is it to accept that humans affect the planet globally with unprecedented emissions of greenhouse gases?
> Even if you think the best you can do is the same job you have right now, but in a different place, you'll see a significant bump.

Because I doubt I could get the bump I’m looking for doing the same thing I do now with current restraints

> Why not try?

Time sink, especially with people talking about 4-5 stage interviews. Without some level of confidence I’d rather not use all my PTO or try to schedule hack at the moment.
How do people get paid under these scenarios? What is your residency status and where do you pay tax?
> Now, four months later, this problem is still not solved

Further I would have never expected something like this to get teed up right before the start of a quarter, and so of course it wouldn't be completed at the end of the quarter.
A very generous merchant fee 2-3x what is usually charged. > 4%
Another of the staggering deficiencies for windows. Right next to audio management.

Because audio drivers and colour management aren't important ofc....
I don’t even do a call with the recruiter without listing the salary range or what I want to make. Saves a lot of time.
Saw the title, thought "nope, they're wrong, that'll be the day the plug was pulled on Google Reader" -- and lo and behold, that's exactly what the article is about.

Confirmation bias for the win. Upvoted.
And this is how I got expelled from high school for "hacking"
> But they have built the perfect shim in the middle to do ALL of these things at some point in the future.

Ngnix/Websever-as-a-service is literally their business. They could not have provided the services that they do any other way.
I have noticed that there isn't a lot of chatter on HN about Square. But on closer inspection it is a fascinating success story. They are building and cornering a whole ecosystem there. And their valuation is remarkable. Not just hype, but execution. Kudos to them.

Between them and Stripe, it's nice to have something in payments to admire and be excited about.

I remember a time when we had to deal directly with Authorize.net, wow that was a mess!
I think it's more to do with the timing (it's the weekend). You'd really want to talk to the relevant team before saying much. Given that this isn't an urgent worldwide problem, paging team members during their weekend would be the wrong move. They'll probably have a meeting on Monday and I think that's when we'd see an update from them.
dolphins have short arms...
I just wonder what the actual production price is. Perhaps Thunderbolt cables only cost this much because of being a luxury segment - nobody but rich people buying expensive peripherals for their expensive computers really need them today so why not charge them another $30. Maybe the price will drop substantially once most of the consumers will need them.
And it's not even just the UI. But yeah, that's basically for both systems, would be really hard to say "this one is overall more consistent than this one."
I know :( I make around $200k and I feel like dying constantly because I'm not a "tech chad" as they say.
Does anyone have any info/data/anecdotes for the UK job market. (or infact any non-US market)

My story (hence the throwaway account)... Last year we got no pay rises and were told "no increases this year because covid uncertainty". This year it's a rather megre 2% percent that doesn't even beat inflation, even more so when viewed over two flat years.

I'm obviously looking around and can likely get some small increase, but I'm not seeing the crazy increases or behaviour this article talks about.

The whole remote work move also seems like it would apply downward pressure to some of the top locations. For example I can now compete for remote jobs based in London and would be quite happy being paid a lot less than a typical local London salary given I live significantly further north where salaries are much lower. And potentially if any US tech firms are open to remote workers from the UK they'll find they can get top quality devs at a fraction of the price. So why is remote work being blamed for driving salaries up, shouldn't it have opened up the talent pool for hiring companies just as much as it's opened up the potential choice for applicants.

It feels like the US job market is so hugely skewed in comparison to the rest of the world that it's slightly insane.
Could you give rough range of these offers? Would be interested in understanding absolute numbers
~25% of their revenue comes from late fees to consumers. 75% from merchants.

They're your standard loan shark predator disguised with flashy marketing and bankrolled by VCs.
They can just get it through a one of the many private spy/surveillance agencies (one of the credit bureaus, for instance) if they really care.
I've really got to focus my efforts in breaking into the US market.

Anyone in the ag-tech sector state side?
What’s rationale behind this? Genuinely curious, we recently had a hiring binge but the product is in bad shape.
Did you pass hiring committee previously?
Now square has access to basically a checkout page for a good proportion to the online web out there.
I think he’s saying that these big entrenched players immediately buy up any competition or threats.

Meaning this isn’t really any sort of free market, if you are so large you can absorb or destroy smaller entities ensuring that you will always be the leader in your market. And because governments have no teeth when it comes to monopolies or anti-competition this skates by world wide.

That was my read, could be wrong.
Scale is certainly a part of it.

I work in one of the data platform teams at a social media company. Between our 3 HDFS clusters, we're storing more than an exabyte of data. At our scale, we have to tune our workloads carefully to make sure that problems of scale are not noticeable to internal customers (data scientists, analysts, etc.).

We basically have an entire org of highly paid engineers focused on making sure people can use that data efficiently. So we have a team of people working on storage, on Spark, on Presto/Trino, on data ingestion, and so on.

So my understanding is that we're investing in engineers to improve data science productivity, so that they can do analysis without having to understand the internals of all our systems, so that executives can make informed decisions backed by data to continue printing money. Or something like that...
Anyone know the difference between Afterpay and Clearpay? Two brands for the same thing? Why?
Since he mentions the L-K heuristic, he obviously does.
I'd suggest focusing on one thing. My 2c
Similar rationales were argued for, e.g., Google+.
I think that the risk for Google is finally starting to come over the horizon. DDG, Bing, Brave? are now almost just good enough and google has not successfully diversified their revenue from search ads. The law of diminishing returns, search is only ever going to be so good. GMail isn't that great anymore. Gsuite is convenient not great. They're really open to disruption now.

I'm definately no Microsoft fanboy, quite the opposite actually. But I think they could disrupt google over the next 5 years if they lay their ducks in order.
Pandemic fuels broadest global house price boom in two decades
If you just happen to need a potty now, then browsing is a lot of work.

If you know "oh, we will need larger cloths and a potty and some toys soon and that bed will be to small in a bit" you can monitor relevant sites on the side and see when the opportunity comes up.

Not to mention the social circle with parents a bit older and a bit younger. "Hey, we don't need this anymore. Do you?" - "oh it's a bit early, but I take it already thanks!"
So much finger pointing, always with the "they".

Root cause: too many people and a rapidly expanding middle class.

Fix? Lower population, lower quality of life, or massively accelerate the rising country overall to Norway like social economic level.

I'm open for suggestions.
I'm planning to get back out in the market, but I sure do hate the interviewing routine. I'd love to make a bit more money (sure, I dream of the 500K just like everyone else, but half that would be a pretty serious upgrade, I'm not in SV). I'm solidly into middle age, but I did add another credential at least (thanks OMSCS), now I just have to convince folks I don't suck. I actually don't suck, but whiteboard coding and leetcode questions suuuuck.
Afterpay is a buy now, pay later scheme. It's literally a loan shark service. 25% of their revenue comes from late fees.

"The Australian Securities and Investments Commission found one in five buy now, pay later users is missing payments, half of users aged between 18 to 29 cut back on essential items to make repayments, and more than 1.1 million transactions in 2019 incurred multiple missed payment fees.

It also warned 15 per cent of users, and half under 29, had taken out an additional loan to pay for the services, while 55 per cent of consumers paying late had used at least two different buy now, pay later providers in the past six months."

https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/one-in-five...
Horrible. People ought to know enough to not use these products in the first place, but people will use it anyway. They should be required to show the long term effects before being used, much like the gore packaging used on cigarettes in some places. What’s the financial equivalent of lung cancer or having a stoma?
> ...against polymorphism...

C has polymorphism. Inheritance-based virtual dispatch is just one kind of polymorphism. It's common to wire up polymorphism in C with bespoke data structures using tagged unions it function pointers. Changing an implementation at link time is even a form of polymorphism.
Similar situation in macOS. Sub-pixel anti aliasing was removed in 10.14/Mojave.
The CEO of Lightmatter says their chip only does a matrix vector multiply, which he says is a core operation in deep learning. He also says photonics is not good for normal logic operations.

But that’s fine, because I am mostly concerned with accelerating deep learning. I’m a robotics engineer and when I look at large neural networks like GPT-3 I get the sense that robotics could work well with very massive networks, even orders of magnitude larger than GPT-3 (imagine not just ingesting text and producing a stream of words, but encoding a multidimensional world state for a robot and producing a desired action based on all current and past signals).

But to put massive neural networks orders of magnitude larger than GPT-3 in to a robot requires a significant step change in the efficiency and scale of neural network compute.

So I don’t mind if their chip doesn’t do standard logic well because a regular intel chip is great at that. I just want to see significantly more powerful neural network compute. And if the Lightmatter CEO is to be believed (I don’t know), their tech could be a boon for machine learning and robotics some day.
Yep, there is a lot of BS in EA.
Given that:

- their late fees are capped
- there is zero interest charge
- they have a policy of never taking legal action to pursue payment
- non-payments don't affect your credit rating

On what is your argument based? There is literally nothing in common.
As a customer are there any downsides to using these BNPL platforms when I'm buying something? I generally never buy anything online that I can't afford to pay for it outright so I have never used them before.
A handful of items are difficult to get second-hand commercially for either safety or hygiene reasons. But we both bought and sold tons of stuff through local consignment stores.
Buy enough dry ice from the gas station.
The long-term effects of a zero-interest loan? What are those?
Of course. But thanks to raft per table, the queries are coordinated in such a way that to the observer it looks like acid.
Nop. But likei said the tradeoff is clear, ease vs control.

Im sure we would have had this talk when on-premise transitioned to the cloud. Same arguments apply
Square is buying a loan shark service.

"The Australian Securities and Investments Commission found one in five buy now, pay later users is missing payments, half of users aged between 18 to 29 cut back on essential items to make repayments, and more than 1.1 million transactions in 2019 incurred multiple missed payment fees.

It also warned 15 per cent of users, and half under 29, had taken out an additional loan to pay for the services, while 55 per cent of consumers paying late had used at least two different buy now, pay later providers in the past six months."

https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/one-in-five...
Trademark issues in Europe
Just because they're wrong and should be changed doesn't mean that they are not true now.

If you don't like it, then these are the fundamental things that need to be reconsidered.
OK, that sentence probably should have been something like, "Now, four months later, there has been no visible progress on this problem."

Also, remember that Cloudflare first announced the technology 18 months ago, and I advised them of the need to pay special attention to accessibility back then. If I had first raised this 4 months ago, then of course I would understand why they couldn't have solved the problem in that much shorter time.
As someone who studied EE and briefly worked in the field before abandoning it, can confirm that EE and demonology are inextricably intertwined.
Because it’s blatantly false. Just take a look at how many nuclear power plants are being built in China, and compare with eg the US.
Undesirable enough to be taken seriously then (not laughable)?
Nobody said it had to be intentional.
I see it more as inflation than anything else.
Depends on the area. Banks and finance use a lot of contractors. Java/Spring reigns supreme, but there are gigs for C#, C++ etc

There is a lot of contract work in Frontend/Backend and understandably it uses most popular stacks: Javascript/React/Ruby/Rails/Python/Django/PHP etc
> Macros are useful, as long as they're used sparingly.

Everybody says that. Everybody believes it. And everybody goes to town making a rat's nest with macros, just like that snarl of cables under my desk that resist all attempts to make it nice.

Myself included. I've even written an article about clever C macros. Look, ma! I was so proud of myself.

But then I got older. I started replacing the macros in my C code with regular code. It turns out they weren't that necessary at all. I liked the C code a lot better when it didn't have a single # in it other than #include.
If you have quoting issues, and going by the example you posted of replacing quotes with sed and tr, you haven't learned how to pass parameters to jq correctly. You should use `--arg` and `--argjson`, not shell string interpolation, to pass in external strings / JSON object strings to your jq command. And use `--raw-output` to convert JSON strings to displayable strings (ie no quotes, evaluated escapes) for output.
Very sad to see this. I seriously expected Afterpay to become Australia's first $1t tech company.
Should have worked harder at not getting caught. ;)
See, that's a fallacy people believe which prevents them from acknowledging their laziness. The key is to work smarter, not harder.

Some things, such as getting fit or studying, are going to take effort. But the effort is an unintended side-effect of the work, not the goal. In my experience, if you work towards the solution and not think of it as "putting in X effort", the perceived effort is a lot less.
I'd wager that "it's my body" argument does not try to hide that part of the debate, but instead declares a clear conviction that the fetus up to certain point is not a person, so it's a statement and it's picking a side in said debate, you can argue about that, in fact that's what most pro-life people do, it's even stated in the name _pro-life_ as in, for the life of the fetus, for that you have to conclude that the fetus is indeed a person.

What differentiates a embryo from a toumor? That it has another person's genetic code?

A mistakenly forgotten medical prop is not a part of anyone's body for example, wouldn't it be fucked up for someone not to be able to remove it from their body if the doctors left it inside just because it's not like their tonsils or her appendix? If there's something I don't want inside my body I should be able to decide, if your argument is that it is not "my body" because it is not explicitly "me" like my appendix, then many medical procedures would also be controversial
I've just come to accept that I'll never understand corporate finance. Based on the data I could find, this works out to a sales price of about 76 times revenue for Afterpay. Even for a fast growing company, how can they ever grow into that valuation? Of course, it's an all stock deal, so perhaps it's better to just consider what percentage of Square they're giving to Afterpay stockholders, but I still just can't wrap my head around these prices given the revenue numbers.
Music that one of the chess players would deeply loathe? Deliciously evil. I love it.

Would be the kind of supervillain move than everybody expects from a chess master. Petting cats should be also encouraged as a part of chess competitions. Lets give viewers what they want.
Thanks, I've edited (working from mobile, some copy paste issues with long numbers). I think it's right now? (How do you get the <sup>3</sup>?)
1993 was when it went into intensive care. It died in 1995
You might miss out on some credit card rewards or protections (chargebacks, extended warranties, extended return periods, etc).
Let’s Go Hammocking
No, not really. I don't use it either. They do have late fees but even those are quite low and stop increasing once you hit a cap.
They pay top-end for the local market. However, if a competitor comes in paying Bay Area salaries for remote work, that can be a lot higher than local wages.
I don't have the studies at hand, but the answer is a big "it depends"

If you have local production and re-use of glass it can be more energy efficient to use the more heavy glass. The further the transport, the worse it becomes.

But there is a second factor to it, besides energy use: microplastics are a problem and most plastics can only be used for "energetic usage" - being burned in a power plant, which causes probelmatic gases needing filtering and then disposal of those filters ... re-use of broken glass is elementary in glass production and even if not recycled less of a problem for the environment.
There is another option... Creative accounting.

It's possible that the figures have been shifted, bent, and twisted to report a loss on what could actually be their biggest profit, as you so question.
Iron pyrite is also shiny and pretty, and if it's not as rare as gold, it's still very pretty.

But nobody used iron pyrite for jewelry, much, because it's neither malleable nor ductile -- properties which make gold useful for wire and leaf, and later turn out to be important for electronics, too.
That's so bleak.

I think I'd sooner go back to drugs and homelessness than face the thought of waking up every day to give the majority of my waking hours to something I don't care about. For almost the rest of my life.

Or even worse, something I disliked/working for trash people.

I used to have panic attacks thinking about this when I worked mundane, dead-end jobs.

Pardon my language but: the fuck is the point even?

At least if you're high, in a park reading a book or papers on the internet you're enjoying life.

I'm being genuine and not trying to be antagonistic, I'm not sure I understand why you bother to work at all?

If you don't find anything in the world interesting, what gives you the will to live and not commit suicide?
> To show how much empathy I have, I'm going to write a post named "Ask HN: Let's talk about how much empathy I have"
To show how much empathy I _don't_ have, I'm going to comment on this guy's submission because it's totally because of my comment and I have totally no understanding of others xD [1]

That's you. That's what you sound like. And you're confirming a lot of what I had to say in that post.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28031038
> [I don't use git CLI so much any more] because I make less mistakes seeing the tree visually all the time.

I look at the tree visually so frequently it must be my most common command. In the CLI.

log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit

And then optionally adding whatever else, `--all` most frequently. (Obviously not writing it all out every time - with git config aliases, and actually `gitl` as a shell alias for that even. That's probably up there in my top.. 5? shell commands.)

GUIs work too of course. Just pointing out you don't have to abandon the CLI for a tree. There's fancier third-party tools than native git log that are still CLI even.
Acquisitions are priced on speculated future potential after acquisition, and thinking about the potential cost of acquisition by someone else, not revenue today.
Yeah I fuggin hate the "just you wait" attitude about kids.

I'm excited to have kids, even in spite of the tradeoff involved in my spare time.

I don't need endless reminders of the tradeoff. That's just piling on.
Worth noting "life" here was ~8 years (1993-2001) and both killers were released on parole (age 18).

The killers have repeatedly had their identity revealed and, one of them, after serving time for child pornography charges the police were seeking to move abroad; I'm not sure how all that works with the sex offenders registry, seems like the police are keeping hidden a known sex offender in order to protect them from potential consequences of a prior murder.
Ask HN: Stack Overflow Architecture in the year 2070
So, I was reading Stack Overflow The Architecture - 2016 Edition [0] and one picture [1] shocked me. Five minutes ago I was reading about the IBM 360 mainframe (not sure how I ended in its Wikipedia entry). Anyway, the IBM 360 was big (big, for today standards of course), heavy and costly; my iPhone is a thousand times faster and fits in my pocket. So why did [1] shock me? I was thinking: "so, 50 years ago we had this IBM 360 thing, and now we have iPhones that are way more powerful. So, in 50 years would we be able to have a computer that fits in our pocket that has everything needed to deploy Stack Overflow?"

I'm sure the rack in picture [1] is decent for today's standards but I couldn't help but think "wow, that rack looks, big, heavy and costly!".

I was thinking about availability, performance, redundancy, security, etc. Do you think it would be possible to host the entire Stack Overflow site in my "2070 mobile phone" and serve with it millions of visitors as performant and secure as the current SO does?

[0]: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-architecture-2016-edition/

[1]: https://nickcraver.com/blog/content/SO-Architecture/SO-Architecture-RackB-Bottom.webp