skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not local, because your cohort id will be sent to advertisers, and they’ll back-reference that against what they believe you’re interested in.

But either way, your initial statement assumes that ads will only be interesting to you if your browsing habits are tracked across the internet. There’s another option: if you visit sites that are focused on GPUs they can advertise GPUs to you. This is the way advertising worked from 1700-2000.
> I've though about working in a Amazon warehouse. There's one near me. But they don't get health benefits for 3+ months. Have to do intense manual labor etc.

I think you need to focus on your priorities here. As I understand you're currently jobless and obviously have no health benefits, and are on the verge of becoming homeless. Doing three months of "intense manual labor" to get a paycheck and health benefits is (in my view at least) far preferable to being homeless and penniless.

My perception of your reply is that you think the Amazon warehouse job is beneath you; does homelessness appeal more? Seriously, at this stage, in the very short run, your number one priority should be to avert homelessness, and do whatever it takes. I know you mentioned back pain, but if the Amazon warehouse isn't your thing, there should be something else you can do to tide you over.

More broadly as lot of commenters have very kindly offered to talk to you and help you in various ways. That is an immense gift! Make use of it, and don't make them regret offering their assistance.

You're in a bad place mentally right now, but you're young, you're not stupid and you can get out of this, but you need to be willing to put in the effort. Asking the question here is a very good first step.

Lastly, you may also want to visit Ask A Manager [1] which has a lot of good advice on cover letters, resumes, interviewing, etc. It's not tech-specific, but most of the advice applies universally.

Good luck!

[1] https://www.askamanager.org/
What the Data Says About Wealth Inequality
I think something like: You will never be a billionaire without hustling. You will likely never be a billionaire with hustling. Patient and hard work over a long period is the most consistent route to success.
If you want to get partially read of the Teams UX / UI, check my project. I'm working on providing a Teams library and a Teams CLI:

https://github.com/fossteams/teams-cli
>Maybe there are some that are so crazy that they see Nazis everywhere on the internet

>Perhaps some of these crazy people just believe anything they see on the internet through a mysterious...

The sad part is that those who see Nazis under their bed aren't listening to Internet disinfo, but official sources like WaPo, MSNBC or CNN.
We should make this opt-in, by emitting the header by default in Apache and nginx and requiring special configuration to remove the header.
The San Francisco I know (and miss) began the day Weldon Kees's car was found next to the Golden Gate Bridge (July 18, 1955) and ended when Lawrence Ferlinghetti died (February 22, 2021). You can quibble with the dates, but everything that made San Francisco prominent in the modern era is bookended by those events.
Morrowind didn’t have much, if any, enemy scaling. Which is fun when you’re at low levels and trying to avoid caves full of high level enemies but can make things dull if you power level.
My point being that Apple adoption of ARM is irrelevant for servers, Apple products aren't even available in most countries below tier 2 in an amount that developers would care.

They will either be using Windows in some form (even if pirated), now with Linux VMs as standard feature, or some Linux variant.
Yep. Follow the money. Who benefits from weak ineffective democratic institutions?
Algorithms for calculating trig functions would probably not look good using degrees. Maybe it might look OK with what I assume is what's usually used (lookup tables + interpolation?), but for the Taylor series expansion you have to multiply by powers of pi/180 everywhere.

Calculus is generally worse with degrees. The derivative of sin(pi/180 x) is pi/180 cos(pi/180 x). That's pretty inconvenient, especially if you're writing any sort of models that need to solve differential equations. Same reason base e is preferred for exponents.
I'd recommend blocking FLoC on any websites you run. It is simple to do. Add this header to block FLoC:

`permissions-policy: interest-cohort=()`

See also this post on StackOverflow for information on how it adds a warning message in Chrome DevTools for browsers that aren't part of the current test [1]

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66997942/error-with-perm...

Edit for typo.
My gut tells me there's already enough anti-design out there in the form of bad products and services. With anti-design you'd end up with a product that fails like all the other bad products did.

Regarding games, there's such a thing as "too fun" and game publishers know it. There's a blurry line you cross beyond which lies exploitation, and publishers passed that line a long time ago. It's all about the monetization strategy. When I was younger I was a big fan of alternative monetization schemes like game demos, and often wondered what would happen if sites like PopCap would charge microtransactions like some sort of semi-free arcade. Well now I know the answer, and it's gaming hell.

I think a few things:
- Publishers are unethical for behaving this way
- We can't expect publishers to fix this for us

If we choose to fix it, it's up to us. App stores, by taking a cut, are disincentivized from taking action.

One approach might be a standards body focused on the treatment of the player, with a seal of approval that's front and center for parents and mindful players to see. If the rules are clear and concise and the effort is well-organized it should be trivial to get participation from indie titles and move up from there.

I glanced at ethicalgames.org and noticed a lot of concern with corporate doings. While this is important I think it would dilute the intent here: to discourage exploitation of the end user.
With a headline like that, we can just close up shop and move on, no thinking needed!
All joking aside, how did something like that make it to the front page?
> So what if the rich have too much money? That would explain a lot. It would explain why GME stock was shorted %140 of float.

How would it explain that?

> It would also explain why politicians are so ineffective at regulation. If you were rich, would you want effective politicians? No. You would put your money behind the least effective politicians.

Just because you'd want it that way doesn't mean you did it. Motive, but where's means and method? https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/money-and-elections-a-c...

> It would also explain why most institutions have become less trustworthy in the eye of the public, as big money has corrupted the system.

As opposed to in the past, where big money hadn't corrupted the system?
Email me at the email address in my profile, I'll mock interview you as well.
I'll post it here in the hope of getting more project exposure: I'm working on a Teams library and Teams CLI written in Go and I'm looking for contributors.

Feel free to check out the project, together we can solve this Teams problem!

https://github.com/fossteams/teams-cli
Why don't we just couple rent and also house value increases to regular maintenance and improvements?

No value increase unless you keep at least original state and improve on it. Apply to any house older than 20 years, and a giant bubble bursts.
I broadly agree, but various classes of IP law collide in an ugly way in software:

- the source code can be kept a trade secret and enjoy copyright protection at the same time

- the object code used to be unable to be hidden (+), but it derived copyright from being a derived work (via compilation) of the source

- the technology can be covered by patents. Since the object code is incomprehensible, there is no assurance that competitors will be able to figure out which patents it implements, so they become like legal landmines deterring innovation.

(+) With the advent of microservices, often no more.
A quick anecdote: interviewers HATE when you criticise previous employers. You complain at length about previous employers in your post, instead of talking about what you learned/experience gained. Ensure in interviews that everything you talk about is positive outcomes, NOTHING negative.
I’m just dreaming out loud here but I would love for the iPad to allow for a developer workflow similar to Fedora Silverblue. Perhaps not the layered OS images but the containerized sandboxes (toolbox) and the App Store instead of Flathub.
Most of these are great options but I don't have the will nor interest in buying some new interfacing device to mimic a radio jockey-esque voice over environment.

Just a simple plug and play will do, I actually just searched hard and finally ordered the Rode NT-USB. thank you.
Doesn't look destroyable in the long-term
It really is, but oh how times have changed since that term actually meant something to web users.
This is called "Split Horizon DNS". The problem is, there is no standard way to communicate this information to a machine. e.g., afaik there is no DHCP extension to say "for .internal, please see this server, for the rest, see whatever". So you pretty much have to run a server in the middle.

It -is- possible, as others have commented, to do this within the VM or container but they need a way to get that information. systemd-resolved does this. From what I understand of fly.io, the container is setup by the user, so you're not going to have control over their networking configuration or environment - is that right?

Now there is an alternative, which is instead of using .internal, to use a public facing internet hosting that is delegated to your internal DNS servers. That way they use their normal DNS, and it resolves to your nameserver. But the DNS needs to be public, and critically, if the internet DNS goes down, your .internal resolution will also stop working. Which is highly likely to cause problems for peoples applications. And also adds un-predictable latency to their local service connections which is almost certainly going to cause problems - it's not a good idea.

Having said all of that, generally speaking, it makes sense that -you- provide the DNS. It's pretty much the standard way that your 'ISP', 'Hosting Provider', etc, provides the DNS rather than relying on the public internet DNS. Only a few years ago there was no such public DNS.

The other possible alternative would be to leverage multicast DNS (libnss-mdns/avahi-daemon) or LLMNR but I'm not sure those are really ideal for this use case either. And in both cases requires resolver support that you dont get from the basic glibc resolver. So for your use case, may still not be workable.

So I think you're stuck, unless you can mandate that all of your VM images use systemd-resolved and somehow communicate the config into them.
Only if it's profitable. Not if you have regulation that increases the costs and arbitrarily caps the revenue.
The problem with text based conversations like this is that you really aren't able to perceive my physical or emotional state easily over text. Using all caps and multiple punctuation marks are also not only extremely rude in polite company, but I'm sure HN has rules against that kind of thing. :)

And bawolff... my aim is to at least give those reading from the sidelines some things to think about. I am sure as heck unable to convince a hardcore proponent of Bitcoin to change in a 15-20 minute back and forth, not because my points are necessarily bad, but because human beings are a stubborn lot (I know I can be too!)

I think I did OK overall. I know some of my comments were reacted to negatively, but that's fine. I don't expect agreement easily.
Indeed, there's nothing like just logging in to a linux box you got access at school or pay $1/mo for and typing 'nano public_html/index.php' - stuff Just Works.

Trying to get a python/ruby framework working in the same env, without root access? Whoooo boy. 20 years in the business and I still refuse to do that crap. FastCGI and the like just never work properly the first time in shared hosting.

You need virtual environments to keep dependencies at bay, debugging is a pain if the web server and fcgi process don't communicate properly. Most likely you won't have access to error.log so good luck figuring out why everything returns HTTP 500.

While you're still figuring out how to get helloworld.py to respond, the dude with PHP is already done.
I fundamentally disagree that mining bitcoin is a “waste”. Bitcoin accomplishes what it takes all governments, their banks, their courts, their payment networks, and a huge amount of human labor and energy to accomplish in a single platform. Secondly, the value that bitcoin provides - an unhackable, incorruptible, un-bannable form of wealth preservation and transfer - is so useful that the energy is worth it.

Finally, I don’t play any video games. I don’t watch any Twitch or Tiktok. I honestly think video games as a concept are a waste of time and energy. But I don’t think they should be banned, despite their enormous cost of electricity.

Similarly, you shouldn’t advocate for a ban based on electricity use. Just regulate the use of electricity, or don’t be surprised when everything else some dipshit politician hates is banned on the same grounds.

And why bitcoin over gold? Gold can’t be sent natively over the internet. It’s expensive to store and transfer. Metal-as-currency is old and bypassed by superior monetary technology (bitcoin).
> If you feel like you're walking from point A to B to C, you may be following too close to that arrow. Trying to find what you're pointed to without seeing what else is happening around you.

This is true, but with the default draw distance it's very hard to apply in the base game. Mods that improve draw distance are critical to enjoying Morrowind, in my opinion.
Anecdotally this is a popular idea, but it is surprisingly poorly supported by data. I did a deep dive on this a couple years ago, and there is actually little difference between early-career employment prospects for STEM and non-STEM bachelor degree holders.

I did not look at bachelors vs coding camp certificate.
Thanks for the breaking up that information so nicely :)
Yeah it's quite fortunate that just as everyone is dropping x86 32 bit support, aarch64 comes along and prevents the ecosystem from hardcoding x86_64 too much. It makes sure that the computing landscape doesn't assume too much about the arch.
Use OpenJDK!

Never touch anything from Oracle.

Then you will be fine.

Oracle is the company that wants you to buy a license for your MariaDB(!) instance running on a small AWS instance! Yep, that happened.

Source: have worked with Java for years, three of those around Oracle products.
Yes modules, but all the libraries in the Java eco-system that matter have long supported it, remember we are at Java 16 now.
As someone who hires and also coaches people into entry level positions, your story is not unique.

You asked a simple question: “how can an unhireable person get a job?”

Answer: You can’t get a job because you have given yourself the label unhireable. Period.

Everything in your post builds and reinforces the story you’ve been telling yourself for a long time. You are putting most of your energy into explaining why things aren’t working out for you.

Until you drop that story, no amount of advice will help you.

If there is a part of you that can recognize the truth in this, you have a chance to rewrite your story.
Maybe notify instead of block?

“You are using Chrome which tracks you without consent. Download a spyware-free browser here.” In red at the top of the page with links to brave and Firefox.
If you know how to program you should go after that. There is a world wide shortage of programmers. It is also a great stepping stone if you want to move to something else.

If you can't get hired at a place there is a gig economy of sorts with lots of sites where you can bid yourself on projects. Start with small easy stuff and use those projects to build a portfolio.

I about a year that portfolio should be enough to get you in the door (for entry level developer roles) of most companies even if you have never worked as a programmer yet.
and if FLoC has only 8 bits of entropy

From the EFF article that you don't like:

> Google’s experiment used 8-bit cohort identifiers, meaning that there were only 256 possible cohorts. In practice that number could be much higher; the documentation suggests a 16-bit cohort ID comprising 4 hexadecimal characters.

Also, its since someone can belong to more than 1 cohort, the 8bits is a bare minimum and not a maximum. For instance, techie who likes hiphop, buys whisky and is looking for a washing machine is 32bits of entropy and covers the billion users with ease.
This is also a good idea.
It adds a header "permissions-policy" to the HTTP response with the value "interest-cohort=()". This turns off the FLoC feature for the site in Google Chrome.
Upton Sinclair supposedly said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

That would be why SEs at Google et. al. seem incapable of understanding. The business model, and thus, their salaries, is dependent upon tracking people, consent or no.
On code blocks, you can have syntax highlighting. However, inserting them is a pain and you have to manually select the language.

Ich course, everything still sucks, yes.
Witcher 3 is fairly similar. Although it has a lot of quest markers and directions in game, it still feels very vast, open and inviting to explore. I spent the first 30-40 hours playing Gwent (an in-game card game) and chasing all additional cards for it. Main story had to wait
That sounds like people arguing that nuclear energy is a bad solution to climate change because it's not perfect and technically not renewable.

- FLoC is still far better than third party cookies

- As much as we'd love to live in a world without advertising, 95% of the internet wouldn't exist without it.

- If we are going to have advertising, I'd much rather have FLoC than third party cookies
Google is the one to blame, they let Android Java stagnate on purpose, after all it helps to sell Kotlin.
This is done by having multiple concentric grooves in the record. When you drop your needle on, it'll play one of the grooves which makes it seem randomly selected. Another example is Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief, which has two grooves on one side to make a "3-sided" record.
Can you elaborate on the perverse incentives that spurred cryptocurrencies?
You cant prove a negative !
We don't have any "responsbility" to anyone or anything but our own desires.
A bit of an overstatement, ain't it? I mean yeah, really good advice at the end. But we do know sh*t
You've rightfully pointed out that there used to be good arguments for intellectual property, arguments which definitely used to have merit since they brought our existing legal framework of intellectual property into this world.

The future of intellectual property though, seems quite in doubt. I'll not re-elaborate the points made in the original article, and instead I'll state what I believe the future will actually look like:

The future of getting paid is going to be in "payment for genesis" not "payment for control". This means a return to patronage and a return to paying for things which can only ever be inherently temporary, such as a live performance of music.

In the long-long term, as we're going to see piracy rise once more in the face of ever-fractured streaming services we'll probably see the world of "payment for control" be further and further cannibalized, eventually seeing a greater and greater shift by artists (across most all media) towards funding sources that (right now) look like Patreon and its ilk. We're already seeing these changes, and I think the future will only see these accelerate.
Although you are being downvoted, as an Indian I completely agree with your comment!! Sadly it will never happen :(
> Not to be argumentative. But yes, I did attend college.

Your claim may be technically correct. I am willing to believe you did attend a college for some period of time. However, it is nonresponsive. GP was claiming that your writing does not reflect the skills in writing that you are expected to develop as a college attendee. This is understandable; dropping out during/after freshmen year does not give your writing time to progress.

I care about your education because of what you learned, not because your acceptance is an excellent proxy for your SAT scores. (This is the same reason that your short stint as an IBM developer means less than you seem to believe it does.)

It's not the argumentative nature of your post that would be a red flag to me, it is the complete misunderstanding of the issue being raised.
The creation of part-human, part-monkey embryos will discomfit many
Oh come on. My portfolio is safer in a diversified basket of stocks, bonds, real estate and other holdings than it is in bitcoin.

> we can freely speculate

Right, because that worked oh so well for Long Term Capital Management, or the 2008 Housing Crisis, or the Great Depression, or Dutch Tulips, or...

This libertarian, nay, Austrian, fantasy that if only we would deregulate everything, these incredible damaging boom/bust cycles and disappear and everything would be smoothed out are a discredited zombie theory that never dies.
Better to show a unobtrusive banner on top, with a link to a well written article about how chrome is spyware. With a button to download firefox. We did that ages ago, but targeted to internet explorer, with good results.
What if your focus is not on elegance of the code but the product? What if you don't want to spend any time on boilerplate and starter project setup but spend all your time on your idea? What if programming is just the means? What if this is not you: https://twitter.com/cassidoo/status/1216871876192088065

PHP used to be light years ahead in this since it is internet native language. With anything else you have a lot of moving parts that need to be aligned in a specific way to make it work, in PHP the default state is ready to go.

How do you deploy your new code to your LAMP server? You put it in a folder. No need for package managers, no need for any other kind of tooling. You even don't need any frameworks beyond your original product requirements.

If it's local server, you drag and drop the file you just typed in the code using your file manager. If it's a remote server you use your favourite FTP app.

If your idea turns out to be worth its salt you can pay an army of engineers to re-implement it in an elegant way.
An endless supply of money sounds like a great source of tax revenue. It's rather difficult to evade a property tax.
Yes, but as a programmer I'd rather have a mediocre programmer who is a good communicator and who knows how to integrate with the team, than someone who has uncontrolled narcissistic tendecies and oversteps boundaries constantly even if they technically know more.

This has btw. not much to do with being on the spectrum. I also worked with people with disorders which integrated quite well into the team, because they understood the processes and the scope of their position. They all were able to differenciate criticism of their work from criticism of their very being as a person.
Or you could say nobody who has ever had a working IDE setup could ever go back to Python.

Saying this as someone who Java after Python and other languages.
There is syntax highlighting, just takes a few clicks as it's hidden in a sub-menu ("code snippet").
No, if anything it will affect your site negtivly because it will make your site slightly slower. I suggest ignoring the tinfoil hat SEO community and follow the official Google guidelines.