unclekev

I couldn’t care any less about watching rich people launch them selves to the edge of space.

I would much rather spend my time watching rich people launch things into space that will end up benefiting everyone like SpaceX using a Tesla as the dummy payload for the Falcon Heavy test flight.

I understand the whole 'space tourism' thing, but the reality is that it's only going to be the Jeff Bezos and Richard Bransons of the world who will be able to afford this stuff for a long time to come.

The scientific return from space tourism from companies like Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin seems far less important than the work that companies like SpaceX are doing.

I'm not sure what point I'm trying to make here, But i just feel that rich folk launching them self to the edge of space is more entertainment/marketing vs actual scientific progress.

> while conveniently ignoring the failings of basically any other country.

This is not true. Wikileaks leaked material regardless of the materials country of origin.

He never "singled out" the US, they just got the most upset out of any of the countries who had material that leaked because it was a substantial amount of data that made them look bad.

From their LinkedIn

> We offer expertise in all phases of patent monetization. Our team has helped inventors and companies alike establish licensing revenue streams from IP. We specialize in uncovering hidden value in IP assets, and monetizing such assets at a price point that maximizes value.

They know that it's a troll company, The "About Us" is essentially "DO YOU HOLD A PATENT?!? CALL US NOW TO MAKE $$$"

If there About Us was more along the lines of "our mission is to protect inventors and represent creative types.." then I would be more inclined to believe the people working there might not be fully aware.

> How do people manage to figure out such elaborate ways to manipulate Amazon results without getting banned? Getting banned has minimal cost? Poor detection? Inside information?

They don't actually ban the accounts doing this. They only remove the reviews/listings, but don't take any action on the accounts (so they just re-list 24 hours later)

Apparently when Amazon acts, they are just removing the fake reviews, sometimes the whole product but never actually banning the sellers account (even if every product that seller is listing is pumped full of fake reviews)

It seems to be a endless cycle of a item being hijacked or a item filled with fake reviews, then when reported to Amazon they simply remove the fake reviews or the product but don't take any action at all against the seller (or accounts making the fake reviews)

This thread[0] on the Amazon Seller forums is crazy with people finding products that are scam listings (with 10,000+ fake reviews), they report them, the products get taken down, then 24 hours later the same sellers have re listed with more fake reviews.

Amazon simply do not care, if they did they would:

A) Address the root problem

B) Ban the seller accounts clearly manipulating the system.

Amazon is quick to permaban accounts from real sellers, who make a single mistake (sometimes completely out of their control) but are happy to let these fake review/sellers keep their accounts.

[0] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/review-manipulatio...

It uses an OAuth flow so you're actually entering your credentials on https://authorize.music.apple.com/ which gives this developer a token to access your data (usually a limited subset of your data. I know on the Spotify OAuth screen it tells you exactly what data, not sure about Apple Music)

So if your token gets hijacked then the bad actor would probably be able to view your playlists and listen to your music.

> programmers where programmer is the king and each and every decision is made by programmers

Programmers at Google make no decisions. The only people 'making decisions' are the product owners and project managers.

> Even I found their coding interviews so damn hard.

A hard coding interview is not a valid metric on how good a place is to work.

> Google is considered to be the final nirvana and a Software Engineer badge the ultimate status of "you made it in life"

I've known people who feel like this as well. Some of them are still at Google and it's the best thing they ever did for their career.

On the other hand, I know people who felt this way, got a job at Google and it completely destroyed any passion for programming/computers that they had, to the point where they never worked in tech again.

Personally I feel it's dangerous to attach "you made it in life" to getting a job at Company X.

Just right clicked a URL in chrome and saw the "Always show full URLs" option.

Mind blown! Never noticed that there.

Amazing! Thanks for the tip.

I would have guessed the situation would be the opposite, easy to set in FireFox, obscured/hidden in Chrome. But apparently not! :)

BitClout is a scam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsERRF39YiM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBZ4v2-XynU

Its sad how many articles get made on how Bitcoin is a scam where it has potential to transform the way people use traditional finance/money/investing. But an obvious scam like this gets front page praise.

Also, BitClout uploads your private seed/keys to their server on every API request - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27467634

Everything about BitCloud screams scam and as the comment linked above said, the New Yorker should be ashamed of themselves for publishing garbage like this.

> This experiment didn't move relevant security metrics, so we're not going to launch it. :(

Interesting, I wonder what exact 'security metric' they were measuring this against to determine if this feature would make the cut.

> Would you give alpha version to people you love?

Absolutely I would.

What's the alternative?

Waiting 3 years for data whilst the virus continues to kill indiscriminately and desperately hoping that you or your loved ones don't get infected?

Someone else in these comments summed up my feelings about the whole thing pretty well:

> Are they safe? Almost certainly. Do we know that for sure yet? No. Do the benefits outweigh the risks? For me, yes.

No

> The bridge itself is not going to drop into the open-source Matrix code any time soon. Hodgson explained: "This is an entirely new bridge that we've built as Element exclusively for Element Matrix Services, which is the SaaS hosting platform we provide in order to keep the lights on for Matrix development and for Element in general.

> "We are taking the position that people who are rich enough to buy into Team's ecosystem and throw lots of money to Microsoft might as well throw a little bit of money to Element to keep funding Matrix development."

> after my G4 died in less than 18 months

The whole G4 bootloop fiasco is why i'll never buy a LG phone again.

Went through 4 G4's in 12 months because of it.

> Now if someone could enable full CUDA on RTX 3060/3070/3080, that would be noice!

I thought there were no CUDA limits on the RTX 3070/3080/3090 cards?

I've got a 3080 from launch and have not noticed any artificial caps or performance issues when doing CUDA-related things.

> Wonder who buys them next

Cisco or Salesforce

> p/s if you're Aussie, Vyvanse is now on PBS so you no longer need to pay $100+ a month - rather it's now $6 to $40 depending on your cirumstances.

As a Aussie who is currently prescribed Dextroamphetamine, this makes me happy to hear.

I've been keen to switch to Vyvanse for a while now and my psych is open to the idea, but I haven't done it because of the cost and apparently there was a supply shortage for a while and I wouldn't have been able to get it at my pharmacy.

Now that I know it's on the PBS I'll have the conversation with my psych and hopefully be able to switch over too it.

Dex is too much like a rollercoaster for me, the idea of taking one extended release tablet in the morning I think would be a much smoother experience.

Article is behind a pay wall

> Not every story on Medium is free, like this one. Become a member to get unlimited access and support the voices you want to hear more from.

> These aren't the kind of roles you can work your way into. You have to be in the right place at the right time and be there for a long time

Sorry for grammar. On mobile but wanted to quickly contribute.

I was incredibly lucky in my last role. Something I don't think I'll ever be able to match again.

When I joined the company as a sysadmin there were 30 staff, and they really liked the work I did and eventually they put me on this innovation incentive scheme that basically said "If you keep delivering innovative solutions and driving the technology direction in the way that you are, we will pay you a bonus of 1.5% of the profit made from e-commerce sales every 4"

At the time sales profit from e-commerce channels was about 250k for each period, so a very nice $3500~ bonus every 4 months.

When I left the company ~15 years later:

- 5000+ staff

- Had moved into a role managing a large team of sysadmins and was responsible for the technical innovation strategy/direction of the business overall.

- Same CEO and and my original "IT manager" was now the CTO who I still reported into.

- They kept me on the same bonus scheme for my whole time at the company.

- By the time I left online sales profit for each 4 month period was $50,000,000.

Right place, right time, right people.

:-)

I gave up a lot for that job and worked damn hard though. I let it consume me and ended up very unhealthy.

I didn't know about WireGuard before the initial post on HN, since then it's replaced my OpenVPN solution to access things on my home network stuck behind a 5G mobile CGNAT (no wired service available)

I haven't had any issues with the Mac app, but for where the app may be lacking because of the circus that is developing with Apples frameworks and app store it makes up in being absolutely amazing behind the scenes.

All the other solutions I've tried have taken weeks of learning and tweaking configs. Had the entire WireGuard solution going end to end in a few hours.

It's super simple, lightweight, reliable and easy to understand.

It's a shame Apples app store policies and being forced to work with buggy frameworks is holding back developers abilities to write first class native software for MacOS.

Shows how out of touch I am with what people want!

Of course they don't.

They "deeply regret" getting caught.

I can't help but feel this a silly gimmick and waste of engineering time.

The practicality of this whole thing feels non existent, creating a product for a market that does not exist (people who wanted chicken warmers in their PC) - this just feels like a exercise in creating more unnecessary e-waste/plastics.

I remember paying for a membership for their "Premium Security Portal" back in 1999/2000. Got in a lot of trouble at school because of the things I learnt on that site. Good times :)

> Secrets in a public github repository is a leak, in the cloud.

Someone uploading their secrets to GitHub has nothing to do with the cloud and everything to do with the incompetence of the people using it.

"This is the clouds fault because one of our engineers made a mistake and 'the cloud' didn't stop them!" does not really hold up.

> Even the SolarWinds breach was likely made possible due to a cloud leak

What? Their internal build system was comprised and the password for the FTP that hosted their software updates was "solarwinds123"

This had nothing to do with the cloud/a issue with a cloud provider.

> Remediation and recovery for most threats involves OS/app reinstallation

Except for all those SolarWinds admins arguing that doing a simple scan and infected binary removal is enough and then moving on and anything more is "overreacting"

I feel sorry for all these people who are stuck working with such inflexible risk assessment/ITIL processes who are now trying to justify not taking any action because "SolarWinds said everything is ok"

Because they'll come after me for slander / defamation.

Australian law provides almost no protection for speaking out against this kind of thing. Does not matter if it's true or not, it's still considered slander/defamation because you said something that makes the company look bad.

I worked for a company that had all their Customer data stolen and then sold on a darknet market place.

They completely swept it under the rug, told the infosec guys that if they talked about the incident with anyone they would have their employment terminated and that it was to never be discussed because they were worried about their share price.

We also have laws here in Australia that says if this happens to a business it mandatory to disclose the breach to your customers.

> you must notify affected individuals and us when a data breach involving personal information is likely to result in serious harm.

A employee anonymously reported the breach to the government agency that handles this, who in turn contacted the business with a "Please explain. Right now."

The next day after they were contacted they fired every single IT department staff member. Helpdesk, Infosec, Networks... All fired, because they couldn't figure out who reported it.

Nothing ever happened to the business as they somehow convinced the government that the data that was stolen was "made up junk data used for testing" despite it being obviously clear that it was current customer info.

This crap happens all the time and businesses are continued to be allowed to get away with hiding breaches from people.

All it does is help the share price and disadvantage the customers.

> everyone (including him) gets a nice payday and can move on to some other area?

This is what bugs me the most about the corporate landscape.

You can be incompetent & cause huge damage to a business, but if your a c-level, your usually given the option of leaving quietly, with a nice payout and then continuing your career like nothing ever happened.

Just wait 6-12 months and you'll see this CEO pop up at another company, and on their website in his bio it will read something like "Implemented and executed a revolutionary vertical & dynamic cyber and security strategy at SolarWinds saving the business $xxx"

> base your entire life out of the Gartner trade rag magic quadrants

Seems to work pretty well for a lot of the CIO/CTO level people who I have worked with.

Unfortunately.

> product out in front of competition that they knew was coming so they could claim they were "first"

Who was coming? What competition?

They weren't in a race with anyone to release the iPhone. Nobody was even close to what they had with iPhone at the time.