skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wondered about things like this with video games. I played RuneScape a while back and one of the things my brother and I would do is lure unsuspecting players into the wilderness to kill them and take their stuff. That stuff, RuneScape gold, weapons, and armor, has some real world value. We took it from other people, often by lying to them (e.g. "follow me into the wilderness, I'll show you something cool"). Could this somehow be construed as a crime? And if not, because everything we did was permissable actions in the game, how could any computer hacking be a crime?
No, since the child is 8.
> Since leaving Australia (and started living in Europe) I have come to the conclusion that Australia is not a "real" country - it is just a continent owned by corporate interests that happens to also have people living on it.

Since leaving the USA and moving to Australia I've come to the conclusion that the USA is in a unstoppable decline and will continue to degrade, both in terms of society and infrastructure, for the foreseeable future. And say what you will about Australia being a driven by corporate interests but one thing we've gotten right in comparison to the rest of the Western world is our insistence of handling the pandemic correctly, ie placing human life over the short term economic interests of the upper class.

We lock down in Western Australia when we have one case of COVID in the community. I don't believe ANY European or North American country can say the same. Who's beholden to corporate interests again?
I am not sure what is possible in other jurisdictions such as the EU, but I have not seen something like this so far.
But it's not the first virus ever, nor the first Corona virus, or the first SARS virus. So there is precedent to compare against.
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Similar for me. My country of origin is the US, and my Apple account is connected to a US credit card. But I live in Israel and was vaccinated here. Since I am linked to the US App Store, I can't download the Israeli Vaccine Certification App ("Green Passport"). Nor can I easily switch my Apple account to Israel as I have several subscriptions that would need to be canceled.
> Even if this passes, Apple will still be able to require that all apps offer Apple pay as an option for in-app payments.

Not possible if the developer only offers their app via their own competing app store, which won't be subject to forced Apple Pay nor Apple's in-app payment system integration.
I'm not sure how to read the linked abstract, maybe someone with more knowledge could chime in.

The information I'm missing is what the absolute efficacy of those vaccines is against Delta.

If the risk of being hospitalized while vaccinated with Moderna is "very, very low", then the risk of hospitalization while vaccinated with Pfizer, even if twice as high, would still be pretty low.

I think this kind of actually useful info would be very useful in our current climate, where many people argue against vaccination. "Look, Pfizer is twice as bad as the other! Who knows what the other does? Better not get vaccinated at all!".
Companies dole out stocks and ETFs as perks to loyal customers
I wish that Google never removed the + operator because even if double quotes does something similar, it is not the same (thanks to Google Plus that I think doesn't even exist anymore).
Pros and cons ;P

4th largest country by population
iOS Apps (at least the ones downloaded via Apple's App Store) have a pop-up for children to request their parents purchase an app or an in-app purchase. To add, this will probably not be possible if third-party developers start only offering their own payment methods.
Thanks, this is good context. I was correct in my initial observation.
This was on Ars Technica really recently. I have not used it myself yet:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/foss-mobile-app-stin...
WTF is that supposed to mean?
Would you believe me if I said you are essentially using the same argument an anti-vaxxer would make?
If that doesn't go in, well probably it isn't a company that respect my values anyway, and unless I am in trouble of needing a job right in the moment, well there are other opportunities.
I know someone with a 60 TB Dropbox...
Statcounter counts traffic from their web analytics service installed on ~2m site. And more generic question: all those traffic analytics services rely on javascript modules and if majority of firefox users block them, all this data is heavily biased in favor of “plain” chrome and safari.
I think that some of HN people don't like this. The more popular it gets the less quality (or more mod work) will HN comments have.

But since the article is paywalled... maybe it's protecting HN :)
I guess one problem with the virtual world in RPO is that it is centralized, and therefore people are fighting each other to control it.
They also reference some further alternatives from another article recently, which I also thought had some interesting options:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/the-big-alternatives...
This is effectively a virus scanner. Files are hashed (in a fancy way), compared against known hashes, and matches are reported. Your Windows desktop has Windows Defender.

EFF lost a lot of credence to me after the Best Buy case. They made this big fuss about how Geek Squad employees were agents of the state for reporting CSAM on a customers hard drive, while doing a requested file recovery. When searched, the defendant had CSAM on 5 different devices. The case was dismissed on a technicality. Never did the EFF mention this. Never did they say they were defending a gynecological doctor who had CSAM on 5 devices. Nope, it was spin city.

Now here we are. Apple has made a privacy preserving anti-virus scanner. It does not upload unknown files as Windows Defender does, it does not scan everything. It scans your photos, for known CSAM images, when you are using iCloud backups, in order to comply with the law that they must scan their hosting services for CSAM. It has a more narrow scope than an anti-virus scanner, and a bigger societal benefit.

We seem to have taken the idea that sometimes bad things are promoted through "think of the children" to mean we must oppose anything involving the protection of children. Our greatest fear in this is the government using a national security letter to search for banned ISIS memes? Let's address that slippery slope when we come to it, and let's note that we do not see Windows Defender or similar doing the same. This is great, I hope it puts a bunch of pedos behind bars.
> Let's say Netflix has to chose between two problems to solve: secure distribution for desired content, and ensuring that you can view that content wherever you are.

Security of distributing content has literally nothing to do with this. It has been shown times and again that Netflix reduced piracy in countries where it started operations.

Region blocking is the product of greed and shortsightedness by content owners.
Same here, but at least you can switch back to your original region once it downloads.
I'd say the more removed your job as a programmer is from those "posted on HN" or in the FAANGM realm and is more solid enterprisey "Line of Business" type work the GREATER leverage you have in telling an employer to go pound sand if they want to get back to a butts in seats world. We've been full remote for 18 months with only tentative plans to go to a 3/2 office/remote sitch by next year (with team options to go even less in office) and have still had multiple devs leave for 100% guaranteed full time remote roles.
Its a trade-of. Most of my projects are services for <100 concurrent users on semi recent hardware. CPU time is cheap this days, developer time is expensive.
> the lack of binary diffing means if you change a single bit of your video editing project, the whole thing gets synced to the cloud

I know someone using Dropbox for video editing, they've been using the Synology Dropbox client which also uses the API. It hasn't been a problem.

The large video files (tens or hundreds of GB) are ingested once and never edited, the only edits to files are the small project files (megabytes), and some graphics files (hundreds of megabytes). Re-exports of rendered video causes the whole file to change anyway due to the nature of video compression so binary diff doesn't help there anyway.
Is it the phone or only iCloud that scans for CSAM?
the money is ok/ good in the field I've choosen, so moving would mean a decrease in money,

I do work with a lot of cybersec people and boy are they under a lot of pressure with badly designed applications - saying that it's amazing how many of the sec people do not even bother with learning the very basics eg like how TLS really works
Thank you for making a really nice thing and for keeping it that way.
I have not found a good option yet, but next on my list is: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

Doesn't look like it's available as a paid service, unfortunately.
They could on device.
There was a pretty significant departure in how the plugin/add-on ecosystem worked iirc. Not just a case of switching out a few deprecated function calls.
This makes sense, but it doesn’t make sense why a content seller would want to prevent someone from a cheaper market from appearing to be from a more expensive market. If the subscriber is paying the higher price because they are pretending to be from that country, why wouldn’t they just let them? I can see trying to stop the reverse, but not that.
Apart from acting as a honeypot for dumb people who want to buy drugs on thedarkweb.online?
Similar experience here: the paid options are way too expensive for private use, when none of the new features has any value to you.

Seems to me that the correct strategy for Dropbox would have been to be super focused on the core product and on not hiring in too many people/taking in too much capital. That would of course have introduced a market cap, but if 1% of everyone had ended up on a reasonably priced personal plan it would have been a roomy cap.

As it was, Dropbox has grown into yet-another ms-office-in-the-sky and there is no way they will make it against their competitors who can burn the cash, and who are slowly catching up on sync technology.

This is really a shame too: Dropbox is just the gold standard for sync. Before Dropbox I was using unison[0] and tried every other sync product, but nothing came close. TBH I am still using Dropbox every day, getting around the device limit by sharing stuff with multiple free accounts...

[0]: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
> Netflix is such a market mover now, they can play a lot harder than in their early days.

They are no longer a market mover. Disney is.

Netflix should've "pounded everyone" five years ago when they were the only player in town. Now they don't even have content to show (my feed is 80% Netflix productions and 19% 10-20 year old movies).
That's even worse. Estimated, highly subjective performance grading that decides over a possible future for a student? Not a fan.
I'm sure his MDM-enforced gatekeeper setting is on "Apps downloaded from the App Store" and not in the default position that includes "and identified developers".

https://support.apple.com/guide/mdm/security-privacy-payload...
Those things are nice. but they are mostly built in collaboration with universities.
Niantic took all my hard work, photographing places of historical or cultural significance(during ingress beta), and now use them to shovel people into stores.
I didn't want to prove anything. I just pointed out what is possible.
Plumbing.
Electrical.
HVAC.
Roofing.

The average age of trade workers is over 50. Carpentry is in extreme demand but the pay hasn't caught up yet -- eventually it will.

Demand already far exceeds supply.

Edit: I like how I gave a perfectly truthful answer to the question and I'm being downvoted to oblivion. A lot of contempt for tradespeople, I guess. I went to high school with people who became electricians and they were all debt-free millionaires with their own businesses (usually several) by 40.
I often have the 'find the right tribe' idea in my head; it's staggering how important it is to find the right people.
Isnt Monero used for drugs nowadays? At least at the White House Market...
This could be the reason for some people, but my father never cared much about the cart, and had no others. Like many others who used that trick. It was probably a mix of bad cart and bad turntable who made them use the coin trick (or sugar trick, another variation).
They are not optimizing for old devices. In fact the old devices get slower with each OS version, until Apple simply gives you the finger and there are no more updates. And you can't install another browser, so small websites with few developers (like Twitter) end up shutting you completely off.
Haha. I like your thinking, but it’s sort of what caused this last wave of crackdowns. All those “free” VPN services work by letting you VPN to another locale in return for letting other users use your machine as an exit node into your locale. (I’m guessing) Netflix decided to enumerate the “exit node” IPs for some of the free VPNs, and ended up blocking the residential IPs. I could even see it ensnaring innocent apartment dwellers using a NATed IP or people getting IPs recycled through DHCP.
I'd say you are the exception here. Most people type google.com to get to Google, wherever they are.
Singapore isn’t and still highly collective.
For me it’s more about trust. I’d rather trust a company with decades of experience this area than a bunch of random developers that published different unvetted apps on various app stores.

And technically, Syncthing doesn’t really seem viable on mobile last time I looked (and also has the problem of 3rd party apps instead of official ones).
Hey, I'm in a city that sits either on the tail end of 2nd tier or the high end of 3rd, I suppose, so I sincerely don't mean to dig at Omaha too hard, and I have no problem whatsoever with Nebraska (it's not the kind of basket-case on public policy that certain other states are—hell, mine's probably worse, as far as that goes). I actually find cities about Omaha's size more pleasant than larger (or smaller) ones. I've just noticed in looking into moving to some cities about that size (including Omaha, specifically, in fact) certain patterns—but, yes, there exist better jobs than the stereotype I mentioned, in Omaha, and, in fact, jobs that bad exist here, too, which I know because I've accidentally interviewed for them a couple times, but higher-paying ones are in much better supply, too.

The housing thing's just a kind of indicator for a certain kind of situation, which is that, pretty much by definition, either upper-quintile earners are very rare in a city, or the house happens to be somewhere (as in, a specific region of the city) that kinda sucks for, usually, multiple reasons. Or both.

Typically, you hit up Zillow and start getting excited about the abundance of crazy-cheap, gorgeous, giant houses in a smallish city... it's time to check the city's household income curve, and look into the schools where all these great houses are.

> In fact, one of the most common things heard when you inquire about private schools is "Sure, but why pay twice for the same education?"

On that topic specifically, I think it's an under-appreciated fact that most private schools are kind of bad. How can that be, even when you exclude the ones that exist mainly to teach the kids creationism instead of evolution? Fuck if I know. You'd think the market would put them out of business in a hurry, but, nope. I mean, the best schools in an area are also not-uncommonly (but far from always) private schools, but lots of them are, at best, on par with the public schools nearby.
Various levels of efforts are made but non-English joke/punny domains rarely are taken. I can readily make pun URLs like https://nanka.enpitsu[.]de/kaite ("draw/something.withpencil") or https://kabeni.kaite[.]moe ("drawing.onawall.isdrawing") or http://okuruma[.]de/irashita ("visiting/by.car") for example. That "some reason" are probably often harder than native language speakers think and I guess domain businesses hasn't tapped enough of regional markets either.
> You mean a Linux desktop app.

Yes.

> 1Password could afford a native Linux version.

Especially since the "core" is written in a different language anyway, which can be common across platforms.

I've never really done actual GUI development, but the 1Password GUI is fairly limited in what you can do. It's basically a list you can filter and a bunch of text fields. Yeah, it shows an animated countdown on the OTP field, which consumes a ton of CPU. Can't say I see a lot of value in that. [0]

My point is that to someone whose job it is code, it shouldn't take to long to do a similar thing in QT / GTK. But I guess they'd still need more people than doing just Electron.

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[0] When the first versions came out on Linux, there was actually an FAQ entry about unusually high CPU usage. The solution given was to switch to a login without OTP or to close the main window.
Purely my experience, but I don't have the impression that people championing it for some reason aren't very inclusive or tolerant at all. Advertisers gladly take it up because they think doing so minimizes controversies and people with objection are brought in line.

About bringing people in line, I think it is easily identifiable on topic like Covid. I am vaccinated, but the propaganda sometimes makes me wish I wasn't. The danger of Covid doesn't justify this type of censorship. And additionally I don't think it helps at all, on the contrary, it probably boosted hesitancy. It did boost hesitancy for me and others I know. Out of principle and because some pushing for it aren't trustworthy.
>thank you for the PR

Just to be clear: It's not my PR. The person who made that must've just seen widecharwidth and thought it was a potential solution.

>do we then have to push a new Mosh release every time there's a Unicode update?

In theory, yes. In practice the new codepoints take long enough to be available anywhere and there are few enough of them that being a bit out of date isn't a problem.

(case in point widecharwidth is still on Unicode 12 apparently - I should update that)

>user runs a script that prints every single Unicode character in their local terminal and learns its width

And they would have to re-run that regularly, whenever the terminal updates or they switch.

>user is responsible for distributing this data file to every server they feel like connecting to and putting it in some well-known location in their homedir.

And they would have to do all that setup.

That's a lot of annoyance to put on your users when you can solve 99% of the problem by just incorporating a semi-up-to-date width table yourself.

The perfect is very much the enemy of the good here.
That's the last thing I'd direct my kids towards. To spend a third of your waking life digging in people's dirty mouths because of the stable income is how dreams die.
That's a good one, but I wonder whether improved dental hygiene practices will severely reduce dentists' incomes in the next decades. At least in my parent's generation all the expensive procedures were caused by poor nutrition and poor dental hygiene during their youth. There is also the possibility that one of those caries vaccines will finally make it to market.
There's a large supply of Dentists out there not finding much work and there are way more medical school graduates than there are residencies for them.

I know many many medical school graduates who eventually settled for careers in hospital administration because they could not even get a PGY-1 year anywhere. There's not enough supply of the required training. If you went to school in the Caribbean your odds are especially hopeless.
Interesting. So many times I have patched something in order to get it working and wondered whether the developer would have come up with the same fix, or if they would have done it differently.
This analogy only works at a superficial, technical level. When a virus scanner finds a virus, it alerts me and I can either quarantine or delete it. It’s up to me to decide if what it’s found is actually a virus, or a false positive.

When Apple's tool thinks it’s found the material it’s looking for, the assumption is that I am a pedophile who collects CSAM.
> Share of Hacker News job postings mentioning “remote” and “onsite”

I’d be interested in another chart considering all postings, not just ones that mention “remote” or “onsite”. I expect the trend would still be visible, but not quite so significant.
It's a lot harder to make such drastic changes to something that's already serving production traffic at scale. It's okay to reinvent solved problems sometimes because the alternative is be a multi-year project with unclear returns.

Also, the 7 day retention is a feature - it helps us recover data quickly in case of bugs in our storage code.
In that hack, they attempted to transfer out $1B, but only managed about $100m, because the other transfers were blocked. And a portion of that 100m was eventually recovered.
Right now companies havent figured out how to handle this situation and are playing along. I'm sure, sooner or later tides will turn and either you'll be roped into coming to office or take a pay cut for working remotely. So enjoy while it last!!
right..

>graduated electronic decelerator

I get G W Bush Lawyer talk flashbacks like "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques"
Please don't break the site guidelines by going on about downvotes. Besides not doing any good and making boring reading, it often ends up being uncollected garbage when the original comment gets corrective upvotes, as yours has.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
You might check out https://libre.space

I believe there have been some small sat projects documented in Make magazine also.
When we talk about local vaults, does that also include iCloud?
Defender has been killing KMSAuto for years, I wonder what other utils are blacklisted
Yeah tech is definitely a semantics and buzz word race, but at the end of the day if you see SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering in your title understand you are moving into an organization that has the expectation that running production workloads/systems should require minimal human interaction, scale horizontally, and be resilient to failure/disaster. Sometimes you are siloed to SRE work. Sometimes to Platform or DevOps work as defined by your leaders. Or Sometimes you wear all three hats. Its completely situational but more than likely you will have a role in automating away problems that improve stability, increase visibility, and reduce manual interventions on the production systems.

The same sore of redundant and interchangeable titles exists for software engineers.

Senior Software Engineer or

Lead Software Engineer or

Staff Software Engineer or

Principal Software Engineer

Try to explain those differences.
Demand for HVAC is only going to get bigger on current trends.
Hm, I think those industries are subject to boom and bust cycles in construction.
The speed of Google photos is actually breathtaking. The fact that you can instantly lag free scroll through tens of thousands of images and it all just loads instantly is quite impressive imo.

The problem with some of the competitors is they do not treat photos as its own thing separate from files. I think google did a great job understanding that photos are not just a folder of files but that they require their own dedicated software.
This seems unlikely. In many cases multiple companies may own the rights to the same show for different regions. Of course there is going to be an X% discount on the contracts for Netflix if Netflix can prove they are not letting their content be seen out of region. Probably worth much more than the 1% of people who switch countries AND have picky preferences on languages/subscribing to multiple services.