skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issues that DRM creates are multiple, where each one differs in the way it affects the average consumer.

What you may consider a massive issue as a series/movie fanatic may not be an issue at all to a casual that watches their favorite series after work. Content platforms base their business model on casuals, not a needy extremist.
My per annum salary

2010-2012 - 4,600$ (India)

2012 - 2015 - 10,000$ (India)

2015 -2020 - 17,000$ (India)

2020-2020 - 24,000$ (India)

2020-2021 - 66,000 € (Germany)

Feb 2022 - 73,000€ + 60,000€( joining bonus over 2 years) + 65,000 € (In RSU over 4 years)
Ruby and Typescript
> if not "midwest," then what?

Great plains.
IMHO greatness comes from the community.

A mental checklist when looking for one (not necessarily in this order)

Need:
- good internet
- own desk
- place to securely store laptop after hours
- fridge
- phone booth / meeting room

Plus:
- coffee, tee etc.
- tableware, washing machine, someone to operate it
- 24/7 access
- printing
Confession: I write them down.

My threat model is 100% aimed at remote attacks/hackers. I could not care less about law enforcement. I also use a hardware backed second factor.
There is actually very little evidence for this. It is likely that it is mostly dog poop.

EDIT: the comments in response are non-sequiturs. The map does not display mostly human poop. It is mostly dog poop. I know I know, you see people poop all the time. But that’s not what the map is.
> I have a question: why not using Chrome's built-in password manager

Because then you are locked into Chrome and some people prefer the freedom to switch browsers at any time
People keep claiming that automation is coming for most jobs, and yet we still don't have reliable, affordable robots that can do basic tasks like cooking a decent hamburger or stocking store shelves or snaking a plugged toilet. This belief in major automation advances is more like a religion than something grounded in hard science. Sure automation will gradually increase over time but it's going to be a long, slow grind.
We have a justice system based on reasonable interpretation by judges, which is a bit less "strict" literal interpretation of contracts.
Mine says "Software development", some collective bargaining agreements have more specific descriptions (to prevent under paying of employees by classifying them as lower salaries jobs).

As a start-up you'd hire contractors which you'd pay a much higher fee for, as these wouldn't have the labor protections of employees.

Salaries for contractors are I guess similar to the US maybe a bit lower, for salaries employees definitely lower than the US (for tech at least).

But then again my rent is cheaper, and my insurances are cheaper too, I get PTO and unlimited sick-days, stuff like that.
At the end of the day, if I want to make more money and not have many protections (like in the US) I'd become a contractor. (which does come with some strings attached to prevent employers from hiring normal employees like contractors).

You have a choice over here for both models essentially.
One could also argue that if the developers did that, the market value of the digital item in question would drop. The value that the buyer receives is grounded in the large time investment required to acquire the item in the game. Even though it is completely artificial, it makes the item more scarce and therefore more desirable to other players. I totally agree that the fact that this power is in the hands of the developers, though, makes these types of NFTs far from the decentralized digital goods they are claimed to be as pointed out by the author.
I’d fully agree with the latter. Sometimes (often) a gobshite on a mailing list is just a gobshite on a mailing list. (He says, looking anxiously at his own 2000 list postings over 17 years.)

The lists are sometimes attributed a significance they don’t really have any more - they have a few hundred subscribers max in a massive project. Most of the OSM US community discussion happens on Slack, in Germany it’s a webforum, some countries use Telegram and so on.
I can’t remember exactly but this seems like a mischaracterisation.

I think it was termed more like “it is a bullshit job if the world would run just as well (or even better) if the job didn’t exist”.

Still relies on self-assessment but isn’t quite what you said. More based on some idea of “usefulness”. Play to earn doesn’t seem very useful.
I'm in the eSIM business and the same QR code you can scan on an iPhone will work on a Pixel, Samsung and a few other eSIM supporting devices. You might be thinking of the Apple SIM, where Apple to work directly with those carriers.
I also have the opposite view of Minneapolis 10-15 years ago.

so much urban renewal has happened since then. It honestly became pretty run down in the core suburban sprawl/white flight years of the 90s. The last decade has been pretty amazing with renovations, neighborhood developments, and almost all of the surface parking lots turned into something far better.
So, which is it, and exactly how -- noting that those terms can change without notice? "the Company is not responsible for any material that you upload, post, or otherwise make available" seems to be trying to disclaim any GDPR responsibility for these personal data. (I'm not just going to accept that lawyers are right in the light of quite explicit violations of regulations I see, and legal actions.)

"The terms of service raise very serious concerns." -- TOS;DR extension
Keepass is great.

If you like to have synced database between devices with minimal risk of exposure I would recommend setting it up to use a master password AND generated key file. I do this, then sync my database to cloud/butt and just keep my key file offline and on device only.

Edit: I believe you can also use a FIDO/U2F key (yubikey, google titan, etc.) in place of a key file but 2 password lock is great even if someone guesses your master password, the database is still useless without the 2nd key.
I had completely forgotten about those when I wrote my question. IIRC, Dell makes a 24" 4K monitor, but I can't think of having ever encountered a 22" monitor at 4K.
Going to guess that was only for direct employees. I was a contractor at the SSC in various software development roles and it was never suggested that I go work at a store though it wouldn't surprise me if it was policy for actual employees. I did hear a lot about the importance of "voluntarily" contributing to the "Orange Voice" which is Home Depot's lobbying organization. Haven't seen any other company push so hard for workers to pay into the company's lobbying arm.
I'm not sure if a joke is going over my head, but it seems that you're intentionally using the synonyms for the secondary definition of sophisticated [0], when in context the author clearly means to use the primary definition.

[0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sophisticated
Because as far as I know you can't easily access your password outside of Chrome. For example, it's not practical to use on my iOS devices. If you want to log into an app, I believe you can't easily use passwords stored in Chrome.
By that measure every M(V)NO with roaming agreements is 'global', albeit Google is one with particularly good international rates.
I think context matters a lot with these recent articles about eng salaries. Hiring any mid-level and up engineer is tough right now, and Amazon recently bumped their salary bands by quite a bit. I think other companies are now catching up.
Thanks for the tip! I will look into it. I am curious to find out how it syncs without servers. (I assume this is not an incredibly hard problem but we are just not used to doing things without "the cloud" these days)
> are optional and can be bypassed.

How so? Are you saying that if I sign up for example to Dropbox and use Lastpass Authenticator for the 2FA, there is a way for me to log into Dropbox without retrieving the code from LastPass Authenticator? How would that work?
Ask HN: someone patented my software?
I have some software that I (my tiny company) has been selling for 15+ years. I just discovered yesterday that someone has been granted a patent on configuring my software to do essentially what it was designed to do. The patent is complete with screenshots of the software, and though they tried to hide the title-bar to obscure it, they missed a few details that makes it obvious what product is in the screenshots.

The person/company with the patent hasn't contacted me. A few years ago they said they wanted to build a business around my solution, which I thought was cool. But they certainly didn't claim a patent.

Do I need to do anything as long as they don't come after me?
For a similar reason I used to set sound themes to 'none', and for screen sharing.

Though there was a story of one office that set everyone's sounds to classical instruments so things would sound like an orchestra tuning up.
Each identifier identifies a person. A person may have multiple identifiers. I have a non-US nationally-unique drivers license ID and a passport number.
> Is it racist or just statistics?

Both? The use of "statistics" to make a fundamentally racist argument, that it was right for white colonists to invade black countries, permanently deny them self-government, and maintain this state at gunpoint (e.g 30,000 dead in Zimbabwe)? That remains racist regardless of any other historical fact; it is irrelevant how bad the subsequent Mugabe government has been, or any other black-majority government in Africa.

The colonialism has left significant damage. It is impossible to disentangle how badly various African countries are doing from the fact that they achieved independence relatively recently, and many had substantial interference during the cold war as various communist/anticommunist factions fought it out.

It is important to remember that the "cold" war between the US and the USSR (which also deserves blame) had considerable casualties, it's just that they were outside those two countries.
This is a very different question from the root parent.

I used my first computer in the early 80s so my answers can relate to a very different world/context than ours now.

First personal computer users had only experience with mechanical typewriters that made a lot of noise when typing. So 8bits computer keyboards usually have a feedback sound on each character. The sound was different in repeat mode and maybe backspace mode.

On input validation failure, systems usually made an annoying beep sound.

In the early mouse based GUI systems, the same kind of sound was used if you clicked outstide the current modal dialog box for example.

So sound was used as some kind of error signal mostly. On the mac the system beep was replaced with a duck sound (or whatever it was configurable).

Different sounds hinted the user if the message was some kind of error or an event notification. Until recently this may have an ergonomic value for some users.

PCs used plain system beep for a long time. These days the motherboards still use them as error message for things like missing RAM...
> ‘I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea.’

Spot on
Absolutely, if you take pride in what you work on, you should definitely step in the shoes of the core users of your app - the lone gig worker. I used to deliver with UberEats, occasionally I would go to a restaurant that would refuse to let me use washrooms until I buy something on the menu. I didn't fuss about it because I'd go to next restaurant that would let me in. But I have seen drivers arguing and just walking out of the restaurant if they were refused access to a washroom. I raised this with UberEats casually and the customer support rep told me they can't do anything, it's the choice of the restaurant.

But when COVID started, the situation worsened, majority of the restaurants including big national chains stopped delivery people from using the washrooms (at least in Toronto, Ontario). I happened to deliver around that time and I delivered for about a week and then I realized I couldn't hold my pee for longer times, and didn't want to use bottles to pee. This was a real problem and I can't believe it took Ontario more than a full year to pass the legislation in that regard [1].

What's even more sadder is this happened on upscale so-called Vegan restaurants, owners advertising fair food policies and organic products and customers ordering as per their convenience thinking they are doing great good by ordering from these places. None of the parties customer, owner or the platform knew that the food was being delivered at the price of human dignity under a very simple matter of common decency. A basic need to have access to a washroom was being denied. It is certainly the most ironical experience of my life.

TL;DR : There are actual problems that needs to be discovered and solved because each party thriving in the gig economy thinks 'its not our problem'. This can happen a lot faster if some of the staff of these companies actually goes through the experience end to end.

1. https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-set-to-introduce-legislat....
My early school report cards informed my parents that I was slow.
Go to one of a dozen or so privileged colleges that FAANGs almost exclusively hire from.

Or more realistically, know someone who is already at one of those companies and can vouch for you and get your resume looked at by a recruiter. After that it's mostly a matter of how well you can handle a high pressure tech interview loop.
> "As the company grew, the founders wanted everyone to experience different parts of the product so we could get closer to all our audiences and understand how the product works," a DoorDash spokesperson said

Does that mean delivery persons get to be an engineer or a CEO for a day?
I'd argue that since most of the younger generation uses their phones for social media, AR/VR has real potential in replacing traditional social networks in the next decade. The only thing I can think of that wouldn't fit well in AR/VR is reading articles.
I'm in my late 40s now, and have been using computers for nearly 40 years (yeah, one of those kids.) Installed Linux on my 386 from floppies, and now in my day-to-day I write C# and maintain the linux servers where the .NET Core business application lives.

I've set up bouncers, ran my own email for years, and at some point I just became immensely bored of doing those things. There's an ungratifying sameness to having to fiddle with self-hosted email or hunt down why my irc bouncer crashed/went offline. This kind of friction extends up and down the stack, too, which irc client works on my phone? There are a few I might choose from, do I spend time trying them out over a period of days to see which is a decent one? Oh, well I still don't have threads, even if one client or another will auto-preview image URLs. And on and on.

I am disinterested, as you say, not because I don't want to learn it, but because I have.
because i like to use firefox?
>Most will never be under threat of a state actor that necessitates getting their friends and family "the hell out of Telegram as soon as possible".

This isn't just about nation states. Companies get hacked by common criminals all the time. Consider the case of the Finnish psychotherapy center Vastaamo https://www.wired.com/story/vastaamo-psychotherapy-patients-...

Now imagine all the private messages you've shared to your SO or dearest friends. I bet there's gazillion times more stuff to extort you with for the rest of your life, than the notes about few sessions with your therapist, have.

So yeah, get the hell out of all "private" messaging platforms that aren't E2EE by default. You deserve the peace of mind of never having to feel like the TENS OF THOUSANDS of Vastaamo case victims.

>but stop telling people not to use a thing because you believe E2EE is the next Jesus Christ

Stop telling people to ignore best practices wrt security just because they cause your privileged life -- where you don't have to worry about actual oppression -- slight inconvenience. There's a good reason majority of top vendors for secure comms like Signal, Jitsi, Wire, Element, iMessage, Threema, Briar, Cwtch all default to E2EE.

Telegram is free to not E2EE, but they should be UPFRONT about it. Not say things like "heavily encrypted" when in reality it uses the messaging industry's bare minimum, that is client-server encryption.

Telegram devs also actively mislead by presenting two facts next to each other "Telegram uses E2EE called MTProto" and "All Telegram chats use MTProto". What a novice can't understand is "Telegram also makes the idiotic choice to call its non-E2EE cloud messaging protocol ALSO MTProto."

So it's not wonder why a LOT of my contacts have been flabbergasted to learn Telegram isn't actually using E2EE for everything like WhatsApp. Telegram's marketing had succeeded in telling them it was more secure than WhatsApp, and thus E2EE.

Whether or not this misconception was intentional, it's now Telegram's job to either make a public statement and correct the record, or preferably, make it E2EE:

There is no reason for Telegram to deploy E2EE for everything except supergroups. If all the other vendors can pull that off, so can they. Pavel Durov has so much money but the only cryptographer he ever hired was his brother Nikolai who isn't even a cryptographer but a geometrician. Durov has the money to hire Moxie for a year to deploy Signal protocol, yet he won't. You should be terrified of both why he won't, and what his foolishness in the context of Vastaamo can, and eventually will do.
Sounds like a great way to end up even more short handed in a tight labor market, especially when there are plenty of other employers who aren't going to make similar demands. "My way or the highway" isn't a great policy when you need them much more than they need you.
Not impressed by shell incantations. What would sell such a tool to me is a feature to replace those with new and more intuitive syntax. And a terser one, too.

Holding on to how things are done in the shell is not a thing to be proud of. I think a lot of us around here stopped counting the times we got tripped by globbing, forgetting or misplacing one special character in a ${} block, or quoting.

Let those monstrosities die already. Please.

There's this tool -- https://github.com/ejholmes/walk -- that is pretty good and I liked it but dropped it for the same reasons: it leaves the heavy lifting to you and it depends on your mastery in the black arts.

Now obviously I'm not managing huge projects but nowadays https://github.com/casey/just serves me just fine for everything I need.
If you want to screen record, I would highly recommend Camtasia. It does not cost that much and it excels at screen recording.

You can also use it for video editing. It takes 1-2 hours to learn.

If you want to shoot something outside the screen, most of the mobile phones work fine. You can get a tripod mount. Make sure to use a lapel mic to improve the sound.
Confirmed. I deleted my account, received the error above. Then when attempting to login again, I was told my email was mistyped.

I stopped using LastPass a long time ago, but this has definitely put them on thin ice for me, I won't be recommending them going forward.
"Specific training", as in learning to program in $LANG, is essentially worthless, and if that's all you got from a CS degree, I'd recommend asking for a refund. Teamwork and time management may well be skills that you learn while getting a CS degree, but they're not the focus and not going to be taught.
It may, but this is considering the overhead incurred in the local setup - calling the app through a Docker Desktop exposed port.
Running locally on macOS produces ~5000 TPS.
The `ab` parameters are also not using any sort of concurrency, and perform requests sequentially. The test is not designed to maximize TPS or saturate the resources, rather isolate variables to perform the comparison.
For users with low vision and older folks it can help. I like to think the skeomorphic conventions carried over into sounds too, with abrupt alert sounds and rising sound for boot and descending sound for shutdown.
Someone who can't drive could simply join another employee who can, basically a ride along, maybe not as useful but still doable. If you can't do that there are other customer service jobs you could do like a call center or something.
I wish they would operate over sms and email as well...but they have it in their minds that the little games help. I'm sure it right runs people off but for them, answering texts and emails all day is probably not fruitful. It is much more convenient for us but not them and...we are not the customer.
Algorithmic passwords. Come up with an algorithm a(website, rules) that you can remember and that generates unique passwords per website. Store the rules (length restrictions, special character restrictions, number of times the password has changed, etc) in a google doc or something. Print out your algorithm on a physical piece of paper and put it in a safe place for after you die and people need to access your accounts. People always poop on algorithmic passwords, but so far no one has hacked my brain and gotten the algorithm unlike all these other cloud-based password managers that keep getting compromised.

Plus, if my phone or my yubikey or whatever is stolen in a foreign country I'm not SoL because the algorithm is in my brain and the rules are public knowledge.
What do you mean when you say that a proposition is true?
/r/justnomil
Yeah, if hackers got to your plain text file, they probably also installed a keylogger and clipboard scanner, in which case they have all your passwords, lastpass or not.
There are certainly parts of the Midwest like you describe, but not the bigger cosmopolitan cities (Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Columbus, Madison etc.) that people are likely talking about here, but overall you're mostly describing rural small towns all over the country, with a few exceptions (ski towns, vermont).
> I guess they have no incentive to admit a breach

It's an interesting game: Reputation is essential to their business. Admitting a breach will harm their reputation, denying it and then getting caught will harm it a lot, but denying it without being proven wrong will probably harm their reputation less (than an admission).

Personally, I'd rather trust a provider that admits a breach, provides transparency, demonstrates good incident response, and hasn't shown complete incompetence from the breach than a provider that has credible rumors of a breach and no good explanation, but I think I'm in the minority here.

Notably, TeamViewer had one of these "rumors but denying a breach and claiming credential stuffing" cases (they later admitted that they also had an earlier but unrelated intrusion that they kept secret for three years, which doesn't help). I think that if it was more than credential stuffing (that's a big if, the credential stuffing explanation is plausible), the strategy worked much better than admitting a breach.
That does happen,but I've used irc for over 10 years, and I'm down to hanging out in only 3 irc rooms. 2 of them are dev related. Otherwise, I'm in multiple discord "servers" or slack.

I know i'm not the only one like that either.
> Apple is being ran by designers and PMs

The nice thing about being run by PMs is that products and feature ship.

I joke bitterly with my friends at Google who can't seem to consistently deliver anything outside of their existing cash-cows.
This doesn't sound like some misinterpreted archaic law. It sounds like the law prevented exactly what the drafters intended - parents cutting grandparents off from children. Whether that's a stupid law is another question.