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My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos posted in less than 6 hours
Today has been wild. I am quite shocked at how quickly the whole thing happened and how difficult it is to report the hacked account to instagram and try recover the account. The docs seem to take you in a loop without ever being able to resolve the problem...<p>My friends instagram account has only ~2,000 followers, so not even a huge amount, and her email and password was reset about 6pm to a gmail account, and by midnight the account had already posted deep-faked AI videos of her promoting cryptocurrency scams.<p>The deepfake videos are very realistic too, if I hadn't know her better or know about the hacking it would be very easy to believe it was real...<p>It's possible they deep-faked her videos ahead of time but it seems like something you'd only spend resources on only if you knew the attack was successful.<p>And there doesn't seem to be that much news or content online about this happening or it seems very targeted... but for such an account with such a small following it seems like it must be quite widespread problem.<p>Have you had this happen to someone you know personally and what do you think about how prepared we are to deal with scams this sophisticated or what effect they might have?
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Update on Omicron
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Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus
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The internet is held together with spit and baling wire
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Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company?
I have been searching for a solution to e-sign some lease agreements. It is something that I need to do maybe once a year and the only thing I need is a legally binding way to put signatures and timestamps on a PDF. I do not need any fancy features.<p>I was doing research, and it seems like most document signature companies all charge monthly subscription fees! This does not work for me as I am not using the platform on a monthly basis.<p>Are there free, open source alternatives to Docusign? If so, why do more companies not use them?
Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company?
I have been searching for a solution to e-sign some lease agreements. It is something that I need to do maybe once a year and the only thing I need is a legally binding way to put signatures and timestamps on a PDF. I do not need any fancy features.<p>I was doing research, and it seems like most document signature companies all charge monthly subscription fees! This does not work for me as I am not using the platform on a monthly basis.<p>Are there free, open source alternatives to Docusign? If so, why do more companies not use them?
Bank transfers as a payment method
Tell HN: GitHub is down again
Yet somehow <a href="https://www.githubstatus.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.githubstatus.com</a> is ALL GREEN! smh
Ask HN: Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?
I've been working in software engineering for 18 years. I worked mostly as individual contributor (now as a Senior Staff Engineer), also I was an Engineering Manager for couple years. Now I am interviewing after a few years at the company, and I am hit by harsh reality. For the context, I am in Europe, not in the US.<p>I like technologies and programming, I want to further improve my skills in designing and developing reliable and maintainable distributed system, make better technical decisions. Also, I want to keep learning and playing with new techs. I am now interviewing for the roles like Staff / Principal Engineer, My expectations for the roles like Staff / Principal Engineer are that while staying hands-on, say for 30%, I will primarily use more my skills in architecture, engineering, and communications to focus on large, important pieces of functionality, technical decisions with big impact, etc. I expect that I would report to a Director or VP level manager, so that I could be exposed to a big picture, collaborate with and learn from a professional who operated on strategic level.<p>In reality, I am now interviewing for Staff / Principal roles and see a few problems that make me rethink my carrier plans. First, the definion for the most of those positions looks Senior Engineers with a few more years of experience: so you are limited to the scope of a single team scope, report to an Engineering manager, just be a worker at a feature conveyor, just be faster, mentor young workers, maybe get some devops skill. I feel limited in impact in such roles, my borders and carrier are defined by Engineer Managers, who are usually less experienced in engineering and leadership topics than I am. The work is also very repetitive, there is not much meaningful progression, next level. I think those titles are created to cover problems caused by diluted Senior titles: an illusional career progression candy for ICs with some salary increase.<p>I saw a few Staff / Principal roles that put a very high bar on technical expertise, when only 3-4 percent of all the engineers have such levels, and again usually limited to a lot of coding and a single team scope. They usually have long exhaustive interview process.<p>An important problem with Staff+ IC roles is that there is a low salary limit as well, and you will face much more competition for top roles. Mostly salaries top at the level of a director of engineering. It is typical for a company to have 10 directors, but only 1-2 IC with a similar compensation.<p>I want to work hard, and see meaningful progression: in salary, in impact, in respect.<p>I would like to ask for advice. I believe there are qute a lot 35+ engineers here that faced similar problems and made some decisions for their careers. Now I think to plan switching to a EM track or to Technical Product management. Thank you!
Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money
Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money
Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
I'll go first. I think the Bialetti Brikka is exceptional: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bialetti-Stovetop-Producing-Crema-Rich-Espresso/dp/B08BR86LR3" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Bialetti-Stovetop-Producing-Crema-Ric...</a>
The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018)