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What if the previous owner lost their account, is not reachable, or died?

Ideally you should be able to take such a locked device to some official place, like a town hall, and they should be able to look up the previous owner. If they are deceased or they confirm that they no longer want the device, then after checking IDs and so on that office should be able to start the process to unlock the device. (That same department could give you recourse if your house burns down and you loose all your digital accounts, or you are locked out of Google unfairly.) Our civil institutions have not really kept up with technology here.

Edit: Of course I wouldn't give government the capability to decrypt anybodys device or something! Just have an organisation that's purpose is to clarify ownership, and wipe and reuse devices so they don't end up as in a landfill. I don't really trust the vendor alone to optimize for reusing used devices.
What's that have to do with sea level rise?
How can we help candidates better?
As some of you might know we released a platform to share anonymous job interviews processes in the tech industry some months ago.

It's been growing steadily but I'm just wondering how helpful is it as of now and how can we make it more helpful for people who would start looking for a new position. (Sadly a big bunch in the past weeks.)

What do you wish you knew before applying to a position (apart from salary range)? What kind of info would you rather have?

Thanks and hope everyone finds something soon :crossed_fingers:
Please add support for Figma and Miro too!
Which OS is this?

The first rules out Linux (unless this is a SELinux thing?).

The second rules out Windows/Mac OS/Linux with X11.

The upstream KeePass application does not support mobile operating systems. It barely supports non-Windows, which is why when most people say they use KeePass they mean KeePassXC
It may also be worth noting that people with excess body fat will absorb fat soluble vitamins into the excess fat and it will not be available for the thousands of functions in the body that need them until the person is fat adapted. Ideally the high priority goal should be to remove the excess fat but until they do they will need more than the RDI of each component. How much more gets complicated as there are not yet any good tests for testing how much was absorbed into the fat.
Sadly it’ll probably become more accurate and less biased.
My daily exercise goals are bite sized individual bursts of activity: 10 push ups, 10 squats, 30 jumping jacks, etc. I have a to do app on my phone (I use Productive for iOS) that is able to track to do items like x/times per day. Since each activity only takes less than a minute, it's never an inconvenience to do one or two quick exercises. None of them require any equipment beyond the pull up bar in my closet. Sure I have 10+ to do items dedicated to exercising, but each one is so small, it's never a problem to quickly bang one out. Over the course of days, weeks, it adds up.
Their lawyers will argue that the consideration was that the allowed you to use the Oracle software in the first place.

They'll probably also argue that you continue to benefit from using the Oracle software to develop your software even if you stop, although that's not necessary for consideration. That's more of an argument against unconscionability.

I don't know if their contract actually has that provision, but if so, it's another reason to stay away from Oracle altogether. I really don't understand the companies that seem to say "You know what would be great? Working with Oracle!" It seems insane to me.
> even if it is stolen, is it really in the best interests of society

When laws were passed to require Apple to enable the feature by default on it's phones, society certainly seemed to think it was in everyone's best interests.

>The temptation of a smartphone for a thief is dropping, thanks to Apple’s decision to implement a remote kill switch via Find My Phone that can erase and disable a phone once it’s been stolen or gone missing. A new report from Reuters found that iPhone theft dropped by 50 percent in London, 40 percent in San Francisco and 25 percent in New York. The drops represent theft activity as measured during the 12 months following Apple’s introduction of the remote locking feature in September 2013 as part of iOS 7. With iOS 8, Apple made its so-called said “kill switch” active by default, in accordance with California regulation, and that should help the rates of theft continue to trend downwards.

https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/11/apples-activation-lock-lea...
Java was all the rage then. C with classes was dominate (not to be confused with C++), but java was the rage. Just like today Rust is all the rage, but it isn't as popular as C++ in the real world.
Second one(the guy on his pc), vanadium
A Self-Cooling Tent That Runs on Just Water and Sunshine
The author ignores an important part of the negotiation equation - are you being adequately compensated for the imposed limitations?

For example a one year non-compete after separation might be unreasonable by itself, but coupled with one year of full severance pay is a different story, although there is still the "what am I supposed to do with my time?" issue.

If you are a founder/early employee with significant equity then a non-compete clause when being acquired will likely be acceptable to you.
Regarding Find My Mac and the various locks that can cause. Does anyone have advice on a business case for this? I'm planning on switching our staff over to MacBooks this year and would love to understand the pros and cons of users using their own Apple ID versus a company provided one. We work remotely, so that could possibly complicate things. The last thing I need is a former staff member setting up Find My Mac and locking it to their Apple ID then leaving the company.
May I ask if you had gut/intestine problems before?
I love learning new languages because of learning, not because it's cool. That's why learning Rust shows more about the person than being on a hype train. This is one of the best indications for hiring if I'd hire someone.
The fact that mistakes in music are so obvious comes down the the fact that underneath music is a lot of structure and pattern. That there can be a ‘wrong’ note implies that there is redundancy in the signal and predicting the right next sound is precisely the kind of thing these sorts of generative AIs excel at.
DUNC :D:D

They went for the right decision there, I wouldn't call it cheating. It's a nice to incorporate the importance/uniqueness of that planet in the dune world.
They could've just went for a horizontal line/pipe and noone wouldve cared.
Instead, I just don't use Microsoft's stack, and install OpenJDK. That floats my boat for my "Enterprise Language for long-haul trucking" needs.

The other thing I do is being able to use multiple languages and using the right one for the job, and ensure that all are supported by GCC suite.

Well, I'm on a very different niche than many software developers here, but at least it gives me more freedom to do what I want to do, and how I accomplish these.
Neat solution. Also interesting about `:target:`, I had not encountered that before.
There's this HN obsession with negotiating on non-competes. Here's the problem. Say that I work for Acme Corp that makes Fancy Widgets for Bridgettes with 11 Digits and I'm hiring a software engineer. We put out the offer and give them time to respond. They come back saying they would like the offer to be $10k higher. No problem... As the hiring manager, I might already know that we have $10k leeway, or at the most, I'll have to go ask someone a level or two above me.

Another candidate gets an offer and sees the non-compete clause (which is the same across all of Acme Corp's 10k employees) and asks for that to be removed. As the hiring manager, what do I do? My boss leads a division but doesn't have authority to change boilerplate contracts. Neither does her boss. So we need to go to Legal. But who do I reach out to there? The company's general counsel doesn't have time to deal with this. So I guess I start emailing around? Who do I go to who actually has the authority to change this? It becomes too much of a hassle and I turn candidate #2 away. Oh, and by the way, had candidate #2 signed the contract, they would have been banned from working for any other company whose business is primarily selling Fancy Widgets to people named Bridgette who have 11 fingers. It probably wouldn't have been an issue anyway.

My point is that people sometimes overthink this. Yes, non-competes are bad. I'd argue that they are immoral and certainly bad policy. But not every non-compete is created equally and sometimes maybe you'd be better off negotiating for other things that might be easier to negotiate on and would be more useful anyway. If you are a software engineer, it's often unlikely that you'd find yourself working for a direct competitor anyway.
didn't we already have an era of content farms mass producing SEO content like ten years ago? this doesn't seem any different, their just paying to use AI instead of cheap contractors
This is a good first step. A lot of writers can gain by using ChatGPT, etc, to write outlines and give them ideas. A healthy mix, but then say so, give attribution to the AI as a source.
That's why I prefer business to business type of contract rather than employment.
Unfortunately in many countries government are bribed by big consultancies to limit or even prevent individuals from running their own consulting business.
Same here. Its nice to pay a bit less but it usually comes with a headache when problems arise.

I wouldn’t pay 20% more but 5 or even 10% is reasonable.
I'd tend to agree, but then again, there's so many people who are just bad at their job. Attention to detail is a skill which many do not care to sharpen.
That's quite an exaggeration. The JVM philosophy is different from .NET's, even though there is a large overlap with them being VM based languages. C# has gotten too complex as a language, with so many features. C# also exposes lower level constructs, whereas the JVM tries to do a lot of different optimizations instead. The JVM has the best GCs in the industry, and the best monitoring and observability through JFR.
I guess it's a reminder, so you can't claim you forgot about it.

Some wrinkle of "the law" probably works that way?
Not really, it did have first class symbols used for code/data hotloading, but otherwise it's mostly a C-with-classes in s-exprs.
> That means going very slow, taking a lot of care, and not taking shortcuts to put sculpting into play.

And licking it, it seems :)
Pretty sure this is a company setting. The basic paid plan has unlimited message retention.

But most companies don’t want unlimited retention because it’s a massive business risk, so they pick a time horizon and set it globally.
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I like here-docs, but frequently I think just making small shell scripts to be invoked by RUN is better, eg putting apt invocations in something like: buildscripts/install_deps and simply RUN that from the Dockerfile.
Not sure, why would you rewrite instead of changing the SDK/JDK?
canSnippet (cansnippet.com), an advanced snippet/clipboard manager. I sold a dozen copies of the app without any marketing and then moved away from it. It's a tool I still use every day and feel it's a pity that I couldn't put more effort on it as I believe it has a huge potential!
Spam is spam whether made by a human or an AI.

Good, valuable content is good whether made by a human or an AI.

Bad or uninteresting content is spam if it’s being pumped out by an AI, but it’s a learning experience/personal expression if it’s made by a human.

The difference is intent.
Even signing bonuses sometimes have to be repaid if you leave the company too quickly.
my previous comment about it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34531184

Apple has always been good at copying and (sometimes) improve things.

But mostly they have been good at selling stuff to the richest segment of the population.

Similarly to what Prada did with bags (before becoming a luxury brand focused on women, Prada made bags for the Italian Royal Household).

There's no shame in it, but I don't get why people try to credit Apple for things that have not been invented by Apple.

In this particular case, Xerox and NextSTEP did a lot of research on the matter, that Apple benefited from, because their core business was that: research.
One problem is that landline-only users are often not reachable by phone during large spans of the day.
While yes, this makes a ton of sense, I'm voting this up specifically for using a quilting metaphor to explain geekery. ;)
I don't know whether you could or couldn't. But if I entered into such a contract, I'd obviously use a different pen, it's not that hard.

Is anyone really running their side businesses from their work laptops? That seems crazy to me.
Has the configuration the same permissions as the exe? IIRC, binaries under windows are often saved with different permissions than the user-profile.

Similar, a virus-scanner will look intensively at exe-files and access to keyboard-input, but not so much at some random configuration, which is supposed to change all the time anyway.
I've found that eating out varies a lot city by city (estimate: 50%+?). Some cities have excellent base-level food; others are terrible.

As someone who lived in Atlanta during the restaurant revolution, it went from "I could do better than this at home" to most places being able to put together an interesting plate I couldn't/wouldn't do at home. And oddly, pre-pandemic prices didn't change that much when it happened.

My working theory is that restaurants only strive to be a bit better than the average restaurant in an area.
"the only big tech giant going against the job cuts tide"..... so far.
That's not an unfair take.

One thing I really enjoy, as someone born in the late 80s and missing out on the arcade scene entirely, is experiencing the old games that I've heard so much about. I always try to hit up the local classic arcade whenever I'm out of town. It's fun to search for an arcade that finally has that game I've been hunting down to experience. For example just a month ago, I went to an arcade here in the Twin Cities for the first time, and they had both a Super Breakout (1976) and an Asteroids (1979). I've always heard about how eye-piercingly bright the weapons fire in Asteroids is, but never got to experience the real vector graphics machine until just last month. It was a treat! And Breakout has this huge, physical knob that you use to change game modes -- kchunk, kchunk. Great stuff, very memorable.

One day I'd really like to experience an original Pong :) But I think they're quite rare these days.

The shine does wear off if you keep hitting the same arcade, for sure. But it's fun to explore new ones in other cities, or new ones as they pop up in your hometown. And it's always great to bring along a friend who is new to the scene and show them the sights.
If it makes my laptop useless to be stolen and protects my personal information and finances I'd choose them being sent to the landfill over second hand market.

None of this is an issue if its actually real second hand.
The CTA one, looks fuzzy to me (both firefox and chrome) https://i.imgur.com/xVXWiGn.png
Resolution: 2k and 1080p
That's not really true to the slightest. If anything, the advances in the JVM and the language itself have been making it even more attractive and distinct from its nearest competitors, making the gap even wider in its favor.
> the AI creates consistent works usable for people who aren’t artists, and need assets for their projects

Right but those will become more and more available, dull, and not original (because feeding from the same « repository »).

So to differentiate and attract/inform/delight/surprise/tell better, they might still have to go to specialized people. Or find a way for those models to, like, hallucinate in different ways.

Virtually anyone today can make their own jewels or even setup a shop on Etsy. At low cost, low price.

Still, there’s a huge market for high quality and original/custom-made jewels. Especially when you want something with a story within it. And kind of a human relationship to the provider too.
I don’t get it. What did they lose? They got paid good money during the mean time and have the fact that they worked for $BigTech on their resume. What did they spend all of the money on? Coke and strippers?

I was also hired for a remote role at $BigTech in mid 2020. Fortunately I didn’t get laid off. But I wouldn’t exactly be bitter that I got paid 50% more during the interim. I save/invested/paid off debt with 80% of the difference in take home pay.

Yes, I’ve been laid off before when I was making a lot less in 2012. I made sure I had savings then
Several Java implementations can be viewed and easily installed with sdkman - I currently use the one from Amazon.
I just don't think there was really anyone who was putting effort into hacking the Xbox One just because they wanted the feature that they now get out of the box- sideloading/running unsigned code in a VERY sandboxed environment that can't run retail versions of games.
‘We Hacked the Hackers’: Hive Ransomware Seized in Global Sting
Three.

My employer's laptop, my current client's laptop (I'm in a consulting branch of a large corporation), and my personal laptop. Pre-Covid I lugged them on airplanes every week.

I enjoy HN for many reasons, one of which is to encounter approaches and perspectives that I would not ever even remotely consider. I would not use my employer's laptop for personal, let alone a side-gig purpose, with a 10 foot pole. It's not mine, I have no control of it, I have no visibility into what is being monitored nor how it is used, where the data goes, what I should install on it, etc. Employer has full legal right to request it back this evening, do whatever forensic examinations they want, and have interesting questions or claims on anything they find.

Yes laptop is a tool, but it's such a complex multipurpose massively powerful dangerous tool, that even if we try to make a claim "Pen and Laptop are legally the same as a employer-provided-tool", I find the surface area of a Pen minuscule compared to the surface area of a laptop and everything I can do with it / put on it.
> Is PSD2 for companies only?

Yes, that's my understanding – banks are only required to grant access to certified entities. As a regular customer (which includes regular businesses, too, not just just natural persons), you're then supposed to make use of one of those certified entities as a middleman for accessing the APIs.

Maybe some banks extend API access to regular customers, too, but that's entirely voluntarily and not mandated by PSD2.
This is an great take! I agree placebo is a powerful tool :). Thanks for the conversation
The problem isn’t retiring devices it is stolen or lost devices. Anything that makes it harder for thieves or protects my data is a huge win for me.
And many others will force you to connect to VPN if you happen to be connected from outside the university network. Which in most cases a requirement of agreements with those publishers.
This is a great take! I agree placebo is a powerful tool. Thanks for the conversation
I'd say it is, though interacting with other players do make the game better. You can do the main storyline together with friends, but only the party leader can complete the missions - so if playing with group of friends you need to repeat every quest with everyone which is not optimal. That said you can easily complete all of the missions solo: only the really end game missions are so hard that they are easier to complete with others.

There's tons of content where all the people on the server contribute together, but you don't need to communicate or coordinate. There's some content that are meant to be done with group, but you don't need to communicate too much on those either: just jump into a random party, have fun and jump out of the party.

And of course you can also just roam around the map with friends or visit the houses of randoms and that's neat too.

Usually when I am playing solo, I just jump into a random party to get some perk bonuses and do whatever I need to do, then jump into another party that's build around some objective and do that, then continue playing solo and so forth.

Like I said, the community is SUPER friendly and non-toxic, so you can engage with other players or ignore them as much as you want to without one anyone grieving.
This is usually a tax thing.

We have a policy that states, "company equipment can not be used for personal use". As without this company equipment can not be tax deductible. However, in the UK at least, it is a matter of economic policy whether a company makes any effort to in-force.

Thus I hit on what a I thought was a neat solution. Which was to deem it a sackable offence to expend any resource whatsoever including time or materials to identify if company property had been so used.
Not a single one of those are true (except for the subjective ones like 'its more fun').
I don't know how I feel about using a CSS hack for this. This isn't a semantic element and a lot of other browsers like TUI browsers aren't sure what to do with this sort of element.

In my experience in many cases, just showing all of the menu items when JS is disabled is an easier, safer solution with cleaner markup and no hacks. After JS is detected, toggle a class on the document to hide the menu, build your button, insert it into the DOM. Some menus are too big, but most are not and the kinds of sites that need big menus often require interactivity with JavaScript anyways.
Clicking that button will prompt you through deactivating Activation Lock.
So why use Keepass over a plain text file?
This is one of the reasons we've switched over to an MDM solution. If you set it up correctly, the MDM can unlock the Mac, regardless of the apple ID used.
We’ll yeah
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Without activation lock thieves would be more included to steal MacBooks. I’m all for making it impossible for them to use stolen devices.
They're all well aware. But companies like paying for things. They don't like legal gray areas about licensing, patents, copyrights. They just want to pay for a license and get indemnification and some kind of assurance they won't get sued or extorted later by some trolls.
> current

Don't make this mistake. Integrity and humility have always always always been rare traits in high profile, high power leaders.
> Even if we switch to silicon carbide (which could possibly still remain harder to manufacture process)

In the 1980s I got a copy of the latest Cricklewood Electronics catalogue that had a whole page devoted to these newfangled SiC blue LEDs. Blue! Actually properly blue, too!

They were 40 quid each, and indeed the text box where it gave the price said something like "£40 - yes, really, yes these are one of the most expensive components we have ever stocked".
There's lots of little things, like inability to use the mouse wheel, scrolling that doesn't work quite smoothly, UI designed for low resolutions and being needlessly inefficient in some places, pathfinding that works only so-so. Stuff like that. The constraints of 1997 are very different from the constraints today.

It's still perfectly playable of course, and none of that is "core" to the game, but it doesn't take much imagination to see how it could be improved and I don't think it's uncontroversial to state that many players will at times be frustrated by some of these things.

Part 516,415 of "I wish they'd just release the source so people could improve on these little things which would also improve sales and makes complete sense from a business perspective".