skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A MUD I worked (uh volunteered, as a total newbie) on had a soft-reboot implementation for deploys that blew my mind when I first saw it in action. Open telnet connections were all sent keep alives before the MUD launched a new instance of itself from the executable (which may have been a different version from the currently running copy) and then killed itself. To users on the other end a message appeared saying "Relaunching the server" and was followed up shortly by "You may now resume play". Since this engine was designed to constantly fall over due to instabilities and OOMs it stored the current game state in a persistent state (originally on-disk files - most of it was migrated to MySQL) so the only things that really needed hacking were re-acquiring the right sockets and remembering which user is which.

This included, FYI, under development new game elements which were mostly written and launched using a mix of things called RPROGs, OPROGs, CPROGs and Descs (among other things) all of which were written in a custom domain language input into the MUD itself - devs like myself worked only on underlying mechanics and had no need to wander into the specifics of all those triggers.

This probably opened up a number of security holes but, given that the game only ever checked the first six characters of a password (and checked them one by one against a plaintext copy - that was patched) there were lower fruit available to criticize.

If you want to check it out an older copy is available open-sourced[1] - it's a DIKU variant MUD.

1. https://github.com/webbj74/RPI-Engine
My son will be pleased.
Also even if you have two recyclable plastics, if you mix them together they can become un-recyclable.
> Wealth is economic power

That's too limited a definition. For instance, living in a beautiful, well-designed city full of beautiful art is a form of wealth, but none of that is economic power. And what good is money ultimately, anyway, if not to buy goods and services that you want?

Those cell phones have voice navigation that will get you unlost practically anywhere on the planet. That would have been sci-fi fifty years ago. Give one to your kid and you don't have to worry about them being lost or not being able to get help.

Those cell phones (+ internet) will let you buy almost anything on the planet and have it shipped to your door usually within days, all without you leaving the house. Two hundred years ago you could not have done that even with servants, and since servants are unaffordable these days, it saves us the time spent driving around looking for the item. (I bought a wok ring last week; I could have driven an hour in traffic, or I just bought another item I needed and had it shipped "for free", and saved myself at least an hour.)

When I started programming, writing Windows programs took ages because if the Petzold book didn't have an example and/or the MS documentation was somewhat vague on some points, you just had to try it out. I spent days writing a screensaver for personal use, because I forgot I needed to zero out the struct, and it crashed NT, and it took me five or ten minutes to reboot, reload VS, and try again. Now I have a decent chance of finding things like that on StackOverflow, or at least posting it and coming back the next to find comments by complete strangers informing me of my silly error. (Being a young programmer without SO was a double-whammy...)

And in China and Africa people absolutely do use their cell phones to run their businesses. Even in the West we wanted more instant access: the movie "Sabrina" shows the wealthy executive making a business deal in the car with a portable phone, which was completely fantasy in 1954.

Cell phones and internet absolutely have made us wealthier. Even the 55" TV is a form of wealth: you can practically have your own private theater now, and thanks to the Internet, you can watch any one of the thousands of movies you want, instead of only the 12 most recent ones on offer at the cinema.

> [Falling homeownership amoung young implies wealth transfer to elderly]

Insufficient data to make that conclusion. It might be true, but you haven't examined any confounding variables. A counterexample: my parents own a house but I do not. It's not because I am not as wealthy as my parents (age-adjusted), it is because I am optimizing for flexibility and also because rent has been cheaper for me than owning. How many young people do not own a home because they want to live in an cool/hip/fun/whatever expensive location, while their parents are fine somewhere cheaper? How many people want to be digital nomads?
Yeah. I certainly won't argue against anyone carrying one. But arguing that not doing so is the equivalent of not having a map and compass (especially in areas you're not familiar with) is idiotic.
Aye, my condolances to anyone on Teams who will have to deal with annoying Matrix users. Their client has been a major nuisance to IRC.
I'm curious of your thoughts on Tornado Cash [1].

[1]: https://tornado.cash/
China to Japanese official:Please drink treated radioactive water from Fukushima
> If I interviewed someone who told me they left their previous job because they weren't progressing after raising issues immediately after being hired, that would be a hard no from me.

This.

OP's tales convey the idea of someone who holds himself at an uniquely high esteem that's not shared by anyone who contacted directly with him.

I mean,it's highly unusual that someone that barely can land an entry-level customer support role and still fails to keep it would be able to meet the bar of any of the FANGS, specially when they value personal traits.

To make matters worse, in the few jobs he managed to land he proceeds to act in ways that antagonize their leadership,both direct and skip-level, and also create problems for everyone around instead of solving them.

Managers want to hire people to solve their problems and help move things forward, not create more problems and act as a blocker.
This is a false dichotomy, and really just a red herring.

GP claimed "GMOs ... will kill the best farming land we have"

The parent you replied to refuted that point.
Onerous IP clauses surrounding crop seeds is an IP issue, not one of agriculture and topsoil quality.

And quite frankly, if onerous IP was the cost we HAD to pay, compared to the depletion of a resourse that is "non-renewable in human timescales," [1][2] yes, that's easily worth it.

1: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN, http://www.fao.org/resources/infographics/infographics-detai... "Soil is a finite resource, meaning its loss and degradation is not recoverable within a human lifespan."

2: US Forest Service, way back in 2003 https://web.archive.org/web/20170531160340/https://www.fs.fe... Section 11.2 "On human time scales, fertile topsoil is not a renewable resource."
This is a great tip. Earlier in my career I was stuck at a mid-point where I didn't have quite enough experience to get hired by a household-name tech company, and working with third-party recruiters made finding a job easy. Knowing what I know now, I never would have even made it past screening at a lot of companies. They will take a cut of your salary, but they'll also work hard to sell you, as that's the only way they get paid. You are to them what a house is to a realtor, and the market is hot right now.
Groups like NRA are as powerful as they are, despite their relatively small membership numbers, because said membership is really dedicated to one particular issue, to the point of coordinated single-issue voting in the primaries. So if you can find enough people who are willing to vote solely on copyright in the primaries, it might actually work.
One more simple thing - please maintain a reasonable Linkedin profile and build some basic network there. Even if you avoid Facebook, Twitter and all other social networks - not having a Linkedin profile means taking on a big handicap while job hunting.
At some point personal/family emergency meant that instead of "regular" 1800km of both wife and myself driving across Europe - I was about to drive that on my own, all in one go/day. And then few days later back.

To ease her mind - I turned on family/emergency location sharing in Google Maps.

Afterward we realized it's supper convinient way to avoid those "How long before you (and one of kids that either one of us would pick up) are home?" calls.

Although starting shortly before Covid the functionality seems to have taken a nose dive. Like randomly showing one of us is in different city (e.g. Amsterdam vs Rotterdam), or now during Covid often saying "Offline, along with last known location from 1h ago (which tends to be home) and what was battery level at the time".

Actually it seems like some engineer (pre covid) though of optimizing refresh time for Google Maps location sharing based on how much it changes over some recent time.

And now combination of WFH meaning it's same place for majority of the day and that TTL being high, and literally all grocery stores we go to having no cellphone signal (I mean not even SMS can make it) putting us in edge of an edge case.
Wait wait wait. You forgot the part where if using systemd-resolved you are supposed to symlink /etc/resolv.conf to /run/systemd/resolve/resolve.conf, which gets generated after boot. Also should caveat that you will no longer be able to resolve / recursive search based on only a hostname, services using systemd-resolved instead of glibc will need to provide fqdn. Real pain in the ass.
Brutally candid advice? You sound like a creep. Am I reading it right here, you spoofed your number to talk to executives? In the best case, they'll assume you're a pen-tester; but more likely, you're blacklisted from those companies now.

I wish there was, like, short and simple advice that I could give you to not be a creep. I just tried to google that, and I'm not finding a good clear resource. Like most social skills, there's a viciously sharp learning curve because people don't like giving feedback to creeps because that's usually an opening for even creepier behavior. Sorry.

And, maybe set your sights lower. Your intelligence will shine if you get a job at a very small company that doesn't know what it needs.
If it costs less than or equal to $10USD and works I'm all good with it. Please also include the common flu-types, HepC, HIV, etc at the same price point as well. We can move on to other things and ideally all be a little more productive with these strategies becoming more in line with going through a McDonalds drive-through.
Algebraically manipulating stuff (factoring, rearranging, cancelling, expanding, simplifying, etc.) without the terseness of math notation sounds like a nightmare, regardless of whether I'm using a chalkboard or an endless sheet of paper.

> Those kind of shenanigans would never pass a code review

Yes, because code is used in very different ways to a mathematical expression. When you see code in a repository or a textbook, I doubt you find yourself copying it out over and over again in your own work.
When a law firm gets stock in lieu of payment, how does that stock get allocated
Does Matrix have decent mod features yet? I want to take people off Discord, but user-friendly role creation/assignment, moderation tools, and granular permissions are a must before that'll be possible.
It doesn’t matter who decides, it only matters that a decision has been made and that is it respected and enforced. Generally academics and/or intellectuals edit dictionaries
Almost. The laptop of the person being interrupted is essentially muting its mic temporarily to avoid sending an echo of the interrupter. You could say it's prioritizing its speaker over its mic.

Basically, of all the ostensibly unmuted mics, only the one with the loudest human is truly unmuted.

It's closer to half-duplex than full-duplex. Full-duplex with no artifacts requires no echo cancellation which requires headphones.
Focus on what you have to offer to companies. Everything else is secondary.

- What's your role? (dev, QA)

- What's your speciality? (python, mobile, etc)

- Are you good at your role and speciality? How can you show so? (I completed this course, read this book, have this portfolio project)

Following supply/demand rules, you will be offered a job when you clearly offer a value proposition that is fits a given company's needs. It's as simple as that.
India at that time had lost most of its accumulated scientific and technological knowledge - burnt and destroyed by Islamic Invaders, suffered extraordinary cultural and education decline (destruction of temples, gender equality) and had an enslaved and subjugated populace. There was extraordinary loss of life and population declines.

It fits all metrics of a dark age. A distinct minority of the population being prosperous does not repudiate this.

The slaughter of Indians in that era even exceeds the Spanish Inquisition. There were regular massacres of over >100K folks after a city surrendered. (Ex: Ghiyas ud din Balban of Delih Sultanate).

The population of Delhi under the Delhi Sultanate was utterly exterminated by Timur. It took another century for the population to recover. He killed 17 million people in his campaign.

https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/time-prism/december-17-i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timurid_conquests_and_invasion...

A full post on the large-scale massacres during that period are just too many to list here.
Are you a leopard?
> That “cow pasture/range” chunk is largely extremely low productivity scrub land owned by the federal government and leased basically for free by cattle folk. We could convert all of it to national parks without much more than a blip in food calories produced in the US.

Agreed!

I would emphasize restoration and protection in almost every case.

Just that there’s also ways we can work towards conservation on land that is being utilized too.

You talked about farms but there’s also: managed forests, anywhere anything is grazing, private lands, fisheries, artificial reefs and kelp forests, any area we already use which we can also stack on an incidental conservation benefit ontop of (as you mentioned renewable energy infrastructure will be a big one, the book I mention is full of other surprising examples such as military bases), things like wildlife underpasses, suburban lawns, and so on. This adds up to a lot of land.

I hope we protect half of the land and ocean like Edward O. Wilson and other major biologists recommend, but also I think it’s smart to look at everything and not just protected areas.
No health insurance sucks, but you're in your 20s and you didn't mention any chronic illnesses. You need a year's worth of experience in one job--any job, so long as it's the same job--more than you need health insurance right now. I can sit here and rage about how terrible it is that you have to make that choice, but that won't help you get a job. If you manage to get hired again, hold onto that fucking job like it's the last life-vest on the Titanic because for you, it is. You're going to need to eat shit with a smile on your face for at least a year; work hard and don't rock the boat.

Almost nobody will give you a firm reason for why they rejected you for a job. If you press them, they'll offer vague shit like the examples you gave. Accept this; it sucks, but it's the way things are. You're not being "ghosted".

As others have said, it is absurd to expect a promotion within a few months of hiring in a low-level position. "Working your way up from the mailroom" still involves spending time doing actual work in the mailroom, not barging into the boss's office day 1 and demanding a raise because you found some stamps that fell behind the desk.

I'm hesitant to tell you to go back to school, because that can be expensive as hell, but maybe look into your state universities? Tuition can still be reasonable at some of them. If you're no longer a dependent of your parents, maybe you'll qualify for better financial aid. Also, some schools (including my alma mater, RIT) offer free tuition for employees--even if it's just mopping floors, you're making money and getting an education.
That has everything to do with lower cost of labour overseas.

Without the requirement for US ships to go from one US port to another, the shipbuilding industry would still be dead, and you'd have a dead shipping industry with it. You would have foreign-flagged crews moving cargo with foreign-built ships, against which you'd have zero recourse, in the event of disaster.
> They will take a cut of your salary

I've never had one that did this (or told me about it, at least). My understanding was that the company is basically paying them to find talent, so you're the product being sold. Sometimes there's even a clause that if you quit too soon they have to give back their commission, which further incentivizes them to make sure you really are a good fit.
I have had good experiences with Aerotech. Really nice people who listen to what you want and try to find it for you.
I'm not sure if email can ever be secure, or put better if I could ever set it up and keep it secure. So the jurisdiction issue wasn't a big factor for me (although I'd prefer Switzerland over Oz's warrants with gag orders).

At the time when I evaluated, FastMail just worked, and their standard support remains excellent. IMAP works great. The ProtonMail bridge thing put me off to be honest. There's not too much else to it.

Either way though, both were preferable to Gmail, which I wanted to drop along with all Google stuff if I could. And being lazy/just wanting it to work, I chose Fastmail.
Morrowind looks fun but every time I try playing, it feels like doing Sunday chores. 90% of my game experience thus far has been walking. What am I doing wrong?
initially, but i’ve tried them all and they’re essentially the same now - opted for Tidal due to the higher quality streams, even after years of listening on Spotify recommendations have been very similar too
In a way, having a 1-2 year manufacturing plan can be like pre-selling many still-discrete still-not-in-hand components in advance. In other words, short-selling.

Your BOM can be 1000 vulnerabilities to a focussed short-squeeze.

I suppose this is a predictable and reportable business risk.
The way I've seen it implemented is as "Video Assisted Referee" and it's just a bunch of people outside the field looking at different screens and determining whether someone was offside or not. It's just some extra eyes in addition to the people in the field. I haven't seen the other definition (the automated one).
It's expected because the expectations are set by the existing platforms. And the reason why Google specifically is actively promoting those expectations, is that it makes ads the only viable business model for content creators; and Google's primary source of income is their ad services, so it maintains their dominant market position.
Not disagreeing. I'm just saying people on the front end never actually deal with security, hence this is the mentality that is the instigator of the suggestion of using SQL on the front end.
And Samsung started with dried fish.
Gödel did have some grounds for paranoia.

Wittgenstein [1937-1944] had shown that Gödel failed to prove

incompleteness of the foundations of mathematics. Gödel was

aware of this failure but tried to bluff past it claiming that

his incompleteness result was not for the foundations of mathematics.

Contrary to [Gödel 1931], he claimed decades later

that his result was for a limited first-order theory of the

natural numbers [Wang 1987].

However, the failure may have secretly weighed on his mind.

There is more information here:

"Gödel failed to prove inferential undecidablity or incompleteness in foundations"

https://professorhewitt.blogspot.com/2021/03/godel-failed-to...
If you're even getting interviews with top companies that's a good sign.

Getting ghosted is common, don't worry about that, it's not personal.

Work with a recruiter to get some feedback, you seem intelligent, so this may be an issue with socialization or disagreeableness or something like that, which is a common trait people are judged for, but wherein there might be specific industries or professions that are more suited.

And don't give up.
I'm not the asker, but if I was in the same boat, would it be reasonable to instead apply directly to non-entry level jobs?
Surely executives aren't confusing their administrative requests with computing system concepts. The correct answer is simply that it's become a passive way of telling someone to do something. Instead of "Can you provide us a 25% growth this year" it is now "The ask is 25% growth this year."
These chimes only happened if the device failed the power on self test. These weren't heard in cases similar to what Windows experiences with a BSOD.

You'll never hear them while doing work on the machine (unless you had it opened up and trying to figure out why it wasn't booting).
Also, to be direct -- you appear to have little to no programming skill. You've never worked as a dev before, except perhaps at IBM, from which you transitioned to QA? You have no college degree in programming. And you're applying to the top echelon of software companies, that have the ability to have a shot at almost any candidate they want.

You need to be a fulltime dev somewhere, and without a degree (let alone from a great school) or experience, you're not aiming at a company likely to hire someone like you. Startups won't either; to be blunt, you're a giant project I would have to pour senior engineering time into to maybe get a competent junior dev on the far side. If you don't flake again.

My suggestion is either a coding bootcamp (I've hired out of appacademy.io), or finding a company big enough to have (super) junior engineers -- meaning a devteam probably 75+ -- and impressing someone enough to get a job there. Then you need to bust ass for the next two years, and show a hiring manager elsewhere that you're worth taking a shot on.
Well, that's what I call thinking outside the (X)box to work around a limitation.
I remember playing with 3D Studio Max on windows 95 I think as a teenager after waiting for it to download over dialup for days. Windows 95 was generally sort of OK but it only ran on 95 in theory as it was designed for windows NT. Under 95 it crashed every 30 minutes so after every step I did I compulsively hit save. I don't think I have even really broken that habit at this point. Thus began the multi day wait to download windows NT as well.
Education Doesn't Work
> I felt like that I should've got promoted after reporting those issues, especially since I found them within my frist two weeks.

Take this with a grain of salt, since obviously I don't actually know you or the details of this situation. However, flagging issues to your boss' boss is rarely the best way to leave a good impression. It mostly signals you have problems working within the structure of the company and you're a 'troublemaker'. Whether that's fair or not, is not too relevant. You might get away with these things if you already have a lot of credibility, but since this was in your first 2 weeks, that's unlikely to be the case.

Your post also gave off some vibes of feeling too good for the job assigned to you. Again, I don't actually know you, so I might be misreading it, but if you give that impression during interviews, you'll have a hard time getting hired. Do you have any friends you could ask to do mock interviews with you? They could give you feedback on not just the quality of your answers, but also the way you answer.

Edit: Oh thought of one more comment regarding expecting to get rewarded for calling out issues. Typically it's not the person calling out the problems that gets rewarded, but the person that fixes them. Just calling this out, since you might be under the impression that you are adding a lot of value, while your boss might not see it that way. Honestly, the best way to add value is to do the job assigned to you. If you want to stand out, do it better and faster than expected.
Jokes. And then they will regulate prices, stop adding taxes to the internet and force the big carriers to split. And then pigs fly!