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(I am not a game dev but work at a games startup with a bunch of big industry people) To be successful at finding employment in games with UE4, you have to be able to use create game systems without using their blueprint feature. It's insanely powerful, and people really like it for rapid prototyping, but relatively frequently blueprint devs can't transition to C++/"raw" game code. The same is true for pretty much any game engine - the ability to make games beats the ability to use editor features.

If you're looking for entry level work, I would say having a wealth of items in your portfolio is helpful (across several genres/styles, meaning get some work out there that isn't VR/AR related). Also remember that paying gamedev work is usually nothing like making games for yourself. Think hard about what and why you enjoy making games. Are you comfortable working on something like a desktop version of Candy Crush? Or a poker game? In my experience (on the internet) you hear most about A.) AAA Crunch, and B.) Massively successful or massively failed games. The middle is where most employment happens. Mediocre games making modest sums of money.

If I was interested in working with UE4 for games I would kinda just tailor my resume to working at Riot. Valorant is written in UE and they're a huge name/very established business, so you'll be shielded from some/most of the garbage of the games industry.

The job market is good. Lots of AAA studios are moving away from custom engines into UE/Unity because of the advancements in the engines making them more hireable/popular.

Just my 2 cents, and I'm certain others have wildly different experiences.
As an Iranian, what do you think about the current political regime. Would a return of the Shah be a positive thing, in your opinion? Do you have any fears of Israeli aggression, or would you support a peace deal? I would honestly like to hear what you think about it.
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> suitable for the production of weapons

Where have you seen any evidence that Stuxnet relied on information on production of nuclear weapons?
You’d be surprised. This isn’t even a hard and fast requirement in fields like life insurance and retirement planning. In fact, the Obama administration tried to put strict rules in place, then the Trump administration halted them, then watered them down substantially, and the Biden administration only recently allowed the watered-down rules to go into effect.

Basically, unless someone specifically tells you they are acting as a “fiduciary”, or in very narrow circumstances like an attorney or Realtor (but not an investment advisor), they have no obligation to put your interests above their own.

The most common case, still legal, is advising clients to put money into mutual funds that carry a sales commission that is not disclosed to the buyer, even though those funds are rarely the best choice.

https://www.shrm.org/ResourcesAndTools/hr-topics/benefits/Pa...
Much of the industry has returned to first-price auctions (for many reasons like the rise of header bidding)
Nothing in the article speaks to either Iran's nor Israel's cyber competencies, those aren't take-aways, you brought them.

From where I'm sitting, Iran is a cyber circus.
If you go back and watch how Stuxnet, ie "Olympic Games," was created, and the methods they used to figure everything out down to the particular model of centrifuges to target, it really is quite eye opening on how extensive these operations are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wapd1-E5dzc
https://palladiummag.com/2019/05/31/xi-jinping-in-translatio...
This also happens in the US, in small surgical centers.

The rules are supposed to be that the attending surgeon is present.

In reality you may be worked on by a resident or a partner (true for any hospital). It’s legal though unethical, but hospitals and MDs don’t really care.

For smaller facilities, there’s a real chance that they’ll cut corners further (less accountability and process).

If you’re going under (general anesthetic), there’s a non-zero risk.

Still, the rules in the US are theoretically stronger; but doctors can get away with so much, especially if they’re a cash cow.
It has? Repeatedly?

This is the news from three days ago: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-symptoms-rep...
>At least we went from beating a fair coin with a crowd to benchmarking against a passive portfolio :)

I agree it's not a perfect analogy, but the underlying point holds: there's inevitably going to be some that come out on top because of luck, rather than actually skill.

>The quote just means that the winning model was overfit to leaderboard. Not that there weren't better models submitted than the baseline, for else someone submitting the baseline would have won.

So the study is inconclusive at best when it comes to forward-looking results?

>See, I really don't believe this. You can use the script features for longer timelines, then there is no rush. You are also not as much competing with the smart money, as you are joining them. I really don't think those few 1000s $ someone early on spends, are taking any action of the table. And the big players can't take it all.

The problem is that once the information has been priced in, there isn't anything to gain anymore. For instance, let's say company A shares are selling for $100 each, and you found out that company B is planning to acquire company A at $120/share. If you found out this information before anyone else and traded on it, you can make a profit of $20/share (ignoring using leverage or derivatives). However, if you were late to the party, ie. found out this information after others did, and the price already rose to $120, then there's nothing to gain from it. Buying the shares at $120 and then selling it at $120 doesn't net you any profit. This example uses an acquisition as a pricing event, because it provides an unambiguous price target, but this can extend to other events as well, such as finding out this quarter's earnings is above/below estimates.

>but yes, would need both sophistication and time investment

therein lies the problem. There's no free lunch here. You can't blindly apply the rule and get stacks of cash. Citing "countertrend" in this case is only marginally more helpful than citing "buy low sell high".

>[Insert fact about how those predictions cluster around the last 3 recessions]

source? Here's one I found to the contrary. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-28/economist...

A recent working paper by Zidong An, Joao Tovar Jalles, and Prakash Loungani discovered that of 153 recessions in 63 countries from 1992 to 2014, only five were predicted by a consensus of private-sector economists in April of the preceding year. And the economists tended to underestimate the magnitude of the slump until the year was almost over.
> Find me another program that requires knowledge more niche than nuclear refinement processes suitable for the production of weapons, and enough HUMINT to know what to target etc.

How does that add sophistication to the programming?
The going theory is that these proclamations when attributed to religious proclamations (Fatwa) versus policy statements are examples of Taqiya. This view is not without controversy as some claim it's just dog-whistling Islamophobia.

However I think a more nuanced view is that Iran is both a nation state as well as a religious state, so (like all nation states) it will protect it's interests however it needs to which will include deception. Whether anyone thinks that the deception is primarily stemming from religious or secular instinct is an exercise for the reader.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiya
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A YouTuber cant use their likes to get the best lawyer can they? Even if they can (promos), it still means the legal system is unfair. The ones who benefit the system the most benefit from it.
My favourite in that class of tools is `ncdu`. In a few seconds you can navigate through the files in your system and see (+delete) the space wasters!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncdu#/media/File:Ncdu_screensh...
John Tromp is an active HN user and he almost surely replies to any mention to BLC or similar. I personally find Jot [1] more elegant though, where every bit sequence is a valid program. (I'm not very qualified to say which one is more compact in general however.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_and_Jot#Jot
Given when we're talking about nations states as cyber-actors we're working with a pool of ~190. Compared to 90% of the other nation-states out there Iran is a _very_ competent cyber-actor. Enough so that it may even export that capability. This still means there are ~20 that are more competent, if not _extremely_ so.

Given your exposure in this geography can you name any of it's neighbors who have greater or even equal competency that aren't Israel or don't use citizens from an _extremely_ competent nation-state? They certainly had their way with Aramco, so not Saudi Arabia. Egypt? Jordan? Syria? Iraq? Perhaps Lebanon? And this just their neighbors. What about compared to Portugal or Spain? South Africa? Nigeria? Argentina or Mexico?
This seems like another reason to never use fork() without exec(). Fork is really a mine field when used this way (and a pretty big maintenance burden on the kernel, by my understanding, to provide the illusion of sharing read-only state with the parent process).
Thanks. I've always thought so, but I have to respect that many others think otherwise.

I'm extremely fortunate, in that I don't really need to "play the game." I'm quite grateful to be in that position.
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Feisty Duck has some great material and training in this vein => https://www.feistyduck.com/

I just sat through the 4 1/2 day online training they offer, and thought it was worth the price, as long as the company was picking up the tab.
Either, really. Very few have the ability even in theory, whether anyone could intercept a bunch of ICBMs launched "in anger" seems questionable. Seems like an apt analogy talking about cybersecurity defenses.
SCMP is owned by the CCP how?
Google owned properties are not being discussed here; they aren't exposed externally and therefore have no external data to collect.
> The complex surgery involved a team of more than 50 specialists including surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, and residents

> Their observations will inform the development of Mount Sinai’s Tracheal Transplant Program, enabling Dr. Genden to offer this therapeutic approach to patients nationwide and internationally

This is without a doubt an impressive achievement.

Can someone speak to the logistics of expanding this program though? I don't suppose a 18 hour, 50 person procedure is in any way easy to coordinate, and I imagine it must be extremely expensive, both in terms of financial cost and time investment.

How feasible is it to propagate the expertise? Are there factors related to the novelty that make it attractive for other medical teams to invest time in training for this procedure? Is risk a deterrent in terms of insurance coverage?
If Israel cared about the risk of Iran becoming a nuclear power, then the JCPOA would have been gold for them. No, I think nuclear weapons are just a great excuse to isolate Iran from the international community and destroy its economy. If you have a quarrel with your neighbour, do you prefer him to be rich and respected or poor and ignored?

Proof is, again, that the strongest campaigner against keeping Iran's nuclear research under strict checks has always been Israel.
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Dance marathons were a seedy, exploitative Bay Area craze that women helped stop
:) It would be nice. I'm a bit "on the spectrum," and we don't make very good con artists.

We are, however, often perceived as arrogant, rude and unsympathetic.
Censorship is Alice wants to send a message to Bob through Eve and Eve throws it away. Solution: Don't send the message through Eve, send it through Carol, who doesn't throw it away. Interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Privacy is Alice doesn't want Eve to read her messages to Bob, so she encrypts them. Then Eve can't read them. How is Eve supposed to route around this? Read Carol's messages instead? Not the same thing. Alice and Bob still have privacy.
Face it: the modern coveniences come at the expense of the users becoming the product.
weev had a lot of friends come forth to defend his actions, but then he went full neonazi in prison and all of that support disappeared.

He now runs admin for The Daily Stormer and somehow finds a way to keep popping up in the worst places, can't seem to shake the guy.

Additionally, he didn't even do the legwork for the AT&T op, but really wanted to take credit for something for cool hacker cred, and it came back and bit him. I keep company with several people involved in that ordeal.
Oh wow, I'm a JetBrains fan, but didn't know about this - if it delivers in the same way as the remote extensions for VSCode, it's going to be great!

Have you tried the Projector beta yet?
I love your site Bill. It’s a great idea, I use HN as a source, but the submission rate is so high that I often miss great posts.
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I can see why others would disagree with me here, but I personally see no difference between having party affiliation and having 50% of your relevant volunteers doing work that helps a politician achieve their goals.
They called to stay popular because they kinda suck. The setup you described works on one host and produces static graphs.

With Prometheus and Grafana you can monitor an entire data center and add visualizations for metrics as you need them with no change to the monitored hosts.

TLDR: the old software stack could be made to do this, modern monitoring stacks do it out of the box.
That wasn't incompetence, it was malicious compliance.
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I think that managers should have to take the GMAT as part of the hiring process, even if they got their MBA 20 years ago. They need to know number properties and have basic critical reasoning skills for the roles that they are interviewing for. Why give them a free pass while requiring principal engineers with 20 years experience to answer leetcode problems? The low quality management at large organizations is an obvious sign that they're not screening for the best talent, who clearly scores at least 700 on the GMAT.
That is correct.

All of the SEO skiddies are the ones pimping Kubernetes for your personal homepage and a few links.

And it shows. Lots of ways to build things fast, but nobody's building cool, lasting shit.
This project is still alive? Why??
Article seems quick to demonize the recent trends in psychedelic medicine / intermittent fasting, but pays no credit to the science backing their resurgence (indigenous peoples have used both beneficially for centuries).

Maybe I missed the point, but seems like a shallow attempt to ostracize tech leaders with no real investigation into the potential merit of these behaviors.
I have my own certs signed by my own CA that I trust enough to have in my browser allowed CA cache

However I'd far rather be able to import a root cert with my own constraints -- use this root cert to authenticate by only for sites in my list (which I'd add say .blarge.com, .muhhaa.de, dohicky.google.com, etc), but that feature doesn't site in firefox, I either trust the root or I don't, which means I have to be far more careful about the root cert because rather than intercepting a few dev sites.
A couple thoughts if we were to "scale" the income-sharing contract concept beyond a novelty:

1. If there is, say, a hundred or even ten possible candidates to pick from, due diligence becomes brutal. Health information, full social media dumps, detailed financial disclosures etc. Also rampant discrimination. If it is unregulated, it's basically what insurance companies would like to be doing but with no limits.

2. If it is for five years and with no big payout at the end, the value of such a contract (via discounted cash flows) is likely pretty low and accordingly would be the funding. Note that LambdaSchool owns the whole "equity" of a person (no splitting into X shares) and gives you a service (at scale) instead of cash, so it probably makes sense for them.

3. It would be fun to see the accounting sorcery possible for shielding and offloading your earnings to other entities, to pay your investors (?)... preferably nothing.

Besides, people, as opposed to companies, are rarely truly profit-maximizing entities. Maybe in the second year your guy decides to be content with a mid-range salary and devote all his time to studying meditation. But hey, theoretically you could try to escape inflation with such a crazy scheme if the interest rates on "real" bonds would stay very low...
That wasn't the entire result. What I took away was this:

>In contrast, short afternoon naps at the workplace improved an overall index of outcomes by 0.12 standard deviations, with significant increases in productivity, psychological well-being, and cognition, but a decrease in work time.
Having a few months to a year of expenses on the side fixes this. When you know that no matter what happens, you have enough savings to pay your recurring costs, you just aren't as vulnerable.

You are going to find a job in a year, or you could find a cheaper place to live in a year... Things just aren't as scary anymore once you have enough saved up.

If you live paycheck to paycheck it's going to be stressful no matter how big that paycheck is.
> phone that won't run an authorized Signal app

This is a fault of the Signal developer, not of the Pinephone.

> takes 5–10 seconds just to open the screen to turn wi-fi on/off on Mobian

It's the beta release. It's gonna be faster with GPU acceleration AFAIK.

> Maybe I’m so disappointed because I remember the Nokia N900. Now that was a reasonable Linux smartphone, except for the blobs.

But how much time passed after the release until it became a reasonable smartphone? Give Pinephone some time.
I said that the old ESP32 was using ARM which as the other reply comment notes was inaccurate? Not that the mistake I made on the architecture of an older chip reduces the responsiveness to the actual question, of course, but it was an error.

This site has gotten extremely aggressive about downvoting for "disagreement" which seems to include minor errors (like with mine, despite paragraphs of correct information in direct response to a clear question) or often even questions. I don't really see how downvoting posts with minor errors encourages learning and hacking, but it definitely makes me reconsider answering questions.
If you're using a password manager, site-specific password requirements are all the more annoying — rather than just letting the PM generate something very secure you have to go in & tweak settings to generate something _less_ random because the website wants "only X characters" or whatever
>I owe what I owe

Which may depend on an external factor if say it's a variable rate loan pegged to the prime. At some level, this is just using a different formula to determine the payment.
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> I think the only possible jobs would be some kind of backend-only dev or devops/sysadmin work.

I thought that as well, so I became a sysadmin instead of a developer after graduating (couldn't help drifting towards DevOps later). Turns out, while Ops have to keep things running 24/7, all the other teams really don't -- so you get lots of unplanned work dumped on you, with no one under you to pass it on. So you do work a lot as an admin.

Luckily I've had the wisdom to choose (and the luck to be chosen) a smaller company to work for, it was not a tech giant by any measure. Few years later, when I demanded a switch to working part-time (and stated my decision to leave if I don't get that), I actually got that deal - and the overtime maintenance duties got passed onto other colleagues who stayed full-time, sadly unfree.

Now, with more weekend days than work days, I've had enough time to read lots of fiction books, play games like back in the childhood times, learn Haskell and some NixOS internals, learn some history and philosophy/epistemology (compensating for a terribly one-sided education), and finally get to work on stuff that makes me feel like a hacker-type dude again.

I can only wish you luck in getting out of the whole "trading away your finite lifetime years for mostly useless money" story. It's not like you can fulfill yourself by paying money for mass-produced goods and services, anyway :)
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JetBrains Projector got mentioned in another thread today, and as a Rider user it's very interesting to me - it looks like it's going to do for IntelliJ IDEs what the remote extensions do for VSCode.
> What is the return-time between a ping (or similar) from the BBC to you and back? If it's over a certain number of microseconds, you're 'no longer in Kansas, Toto'.

High latency can be legitimately expected over mobile or satellite connections, it's not a strong signal of a non-local user by itself. UK has real shitty broadband in most places in comparison to 4G/5G, I'd expect a pretty large share of mobile users there.

You could also be using an app like youtube-dl or streamlink to record the stream from a nearby VPS with low latency.
Why cheating?

I don't think complying with any kind of "fairness" was ever the point. EICAR was created to fulfill a need to test antiviruses with some additional requirements, and how exactly it achieved it wasn't really important.

I'm not sure if anybody ever described the official design goals for it, but based on some previous reading it seems that being able to type it on a keyboard was a requirement.

I'm guessing this is because the kind of environment in which one experiments with viruses and their detection, it's desirable to maintain physical separation, and so using any kind of media or requiring a network connection would create danger. Or perhaps they also wanted it to be suitable for testing locked down environments where a more convenient way of introducing the test would have already been removed.
While the reason is honorable, I can't help but think this is an attack on poor/middle class people. Traveling by train in France is quite expensive, and very annoying some times (I live in a lost country-side, and if I want to travel to my parents, it's a three to four train ride, taking about 8 to 10 hours). Ok, plane wouldn't help in most cases either, but the train offering got a lot gutted over the years and it's not going to improve.
There is nothing stopping Google or Facebook from offering content-based advertising to advertisers, publishers and users--sidestepping any issues with multiple small ad deals. A regulator could demand it if they wanted, and together publishers and advertisers could too. Individual users just don't have the same power, and resort to adblockers--which is pretty much their only option if they don't want to be tracked when a site doesn't have a subscription option.
what a hideous vision.
Yes, I know :-) I also know (from first-hand experience) that managing the behaviors that lead you to be perceived that way is a learnable skill. It's not easy, but in my experience, putting in the effort pays handsome dividends.
Should be 2**32 above. HN formatting swallowed an asterisk.