Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale | Hacker News
But if you really want to fully understand then you need to keep following that trail of incentives. Your bosses boss doesn’t optimize for those metrics “just because”. There are reasons and persuading them requires understanding those reasons. A company has only so much revenue. Wasting that revenue in the best case reduces profits. In […]
$7.5B In Stolen Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex Hack has just been moved | Hacker News
> if you receive BTC from one of these addresses as payment for something, do you refuse it? You cannot refuse a BTC transaction. You could return it in a subsequent transaction, and pay the transaction fee, but I would imagine your address would be forever tainted by a number of illicit address/transaction tracking algorithms. […]
5G: The outsourced elephant in the room | Hacker News
The further you go into the architecture of the “trust based” PSTN, SS7, traditional Telco stuff… The more you will see the total lack of modern cryptography, PKIs, zero trust network modeling, etc. Source: 5G: The outsourced elephant in the room | Hacker News
China Fines Alibaba $2.8 Billion in Landmark Antitrust Case
The penalty is the biggest move to date in China’s campaign to tighten supervision of its internet Goliaths. By hitting the e-commerce titan Alibaba with a record $2. Read more
Opting your Website out of Google’s FLoC Network
Google recently announced the rollout of their Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), a new advertising-surveillance initiative that seeks to replace third-party cookies with a new user profiling technique that garners data generated by the browser itself. Read more
How People Get Rich Now
Every year since 1982, Forbes magazine has published a list of the richest Americans. If we compare the 100 richest people in 1982 to the 100 richest in 2020, we notice some big differences. In 1982 the most common source of wealth was inheritance. Read more
Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments
People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. Read more
Web Scraping for Job Postings Using Python
So, you are in the job market and trying to find out the best job. But you want to play smarter and not harder. Why not build a web scraper to collect and parse job postings for you. Read more
ARMv9: What is the Big Deal?. What is a Scalable Vector Extension… | by Erik Engheim | Apr, 2021 | Level Up Coding
To simplify a bit, you could say ARMv8 was the ARM architecture for desktop computing. ARM took the step out from cell phones and into the world of desktop computers and servers. ARMv9 in contrast is all about the super-computer. This may make you think it has no implication for you as a cellphone user […]
High Definition Full Color: 3D Print in Ten Million Colors
Creating a new design and seeing it come to fruition with excellence through 3D printing means enjoying a quality product—and often, euphoric triumph too. Read more