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This is actually very good advice from personal experience.

The best career results (promotions) I have seen came from people who built a prototype of some sort then evangelized it, even if it wasn’t necessarily a complete product, often just a good prototype.

First example: This guy took the Intel Edison and built a pretty cool project and brought it to our maker faire events. He ended up in conversation with the CEO of some company and ended up landing a $500K exec job. Just from building a skateboard hack and trying to tell people about it.

Second: I knew a guy who built this neat prototype of a compute service and then did a keynote talk at a Meetup. It didn’t really work as a product but the website was convincing. It was enough to “get bought” by a major tech co and land him a CTO job.

Another time I saw a guy leave a FAANG and build a compelling IoT type project in three months. Again, he ended up with a CTO level job after a few months.

My take away is if you want an executive job, build something somewhat cool, even as a prototype, and go try to sell it for real. Even if you don’t raise any money or make it work as a business it is often way better than submitting resumes.

There is something much more powerful about creating something that generates a lot of engagement and conversation, even if it is only half baked but looks decent and your storytelling is compelling.

This isn’t interviewing it’s auditioning.
Virtue signaling, culture that celebrates positivity-at-all-cost, and worshipping of executive leadership through emulation.

That's why that "i got pip'ed at Amazon" was such a breath of fresh air.

By far the best thing I've seen on Linkedin.
Okay. Here’s some things that I’ve done.

A couple decades ago I made a Tarot deck. https://egypt.urnash.com/tarot/ Sadly you can’t get a copy right now, I really need to get a reprint happening. It’s got spot gloss on the cards so that’s kind of complicated to do.

Then I went on to draw a comic book about a robot lady dragged out of reality by her ex-boyfriend. https://egypt.urnash.com/rita/ It managed to get cover quotes from Phil Foglio, Charlie Stross, and Peter Watts. You can buy a copy of the printed collection if it tickles your fancy.

Now I’m working on a space opera comic. https://egypt.urnash.com/parallax/ It’s still in progress, you can’t buy a copy. But you could support me on Patreon if you have a lot of money from your software job.
I've used Laravel and agree that PHP isn't all bad and can be used intelligently. And this is coming from a former CodeIgniter core dev (if you recall). But being real, you've got to admit that most PHP projects aren't in Laravel, they're batshit spaghetti code continually reinventing (or outright ignoring) the standard patterns that come in a boilerplate rails projects.

That probably has more to do with PHP being such an easy language to get started with, inviting a lot of rookies/cowboys to the party.
I think increasingly the dominant factor in a game's graphics is the style, not the power of the engine. Give me Mario Odyssey-level graphics and good color and texture artists over a bland grey shooterfest with 100x the graphics power used any day.

Not that everything modern falls into the latter category. Some are both 100x the graphics power and also beautiful. But I would submit, not more beautiful in proportion to the additional effort put in. We're well into diminishing returns on the graphics front at this point. Great games can run on the Nintendo Switch. Heck, great games can run on the XBox 360.
I'd buy YouTube premium if YouTube was still an independent company. Even if paid YouTube doesn't serve you ads, they are still collecting analytics you and building out your Google profile. No thanks.
I spend 7 months/year in CA and 5 months/year in Israel.
Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
A lot of pre-COVID episodes deleted meanwhile recent controversial COVID episodes remain.
Can you explain a scenario where the innocent customers get crushed under the wheels of the well oiled machine? I just don't think it's that hard to get on a plane and be reasonable for the time you're on there.
you find effective demonstrations of viewpoints unsavory?
Yup, everything up to date. I'm reasonable certain I have seen both docked and in handheld mode. Though the latest I remember is Super Mario in docked mode. Two people coop and there is a noticeable delay before inputs are applied.

It's odd but no dealbreaker. I'm just always curious whether anyone else is experiencing it.
I wonder if such hackery could be enabled via ebpf such that distro vendors could make an active choice to do that via default configuration rather than needing to get it into mainline.

(I am ... ambivalent, let us say ... about whether I -approve- of people doing so in any given case, but I definitely believe in them having the option)
Nope that’s complete bullshit. Do some googling.
We found out that many invite emails ended up in spam unfortunately. We will soon send a re-invite to everyone (knowing another email can frustrate those that already got it).
LinkedIn always feels to me like that awkward party I got invited to where I don't know anybody, they're all pretentious, and I'm just trying to find if there's a dog or cat I can play with in the kitchen.
That's what makes it petty.
They do. If you don’t know that, your comment is misinformed.
What you’re describing is Nintendo reaping the rewards of having previously targeted kids. If you play a modern Pokémon game with a non-nostalgic eye (as it is easy for me to do, since I am too old to have grown up with them) you can see that however fun these games can be for an adult, they are definitely made to appeal to children.
Ask HN: What documentaries/films changed the world?
Curious about documentaries that made dent in the world, either in a specific industry or pov of the society.
One surprising example not listed there is "sliding-block puzzles", as proven in this paper:

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/sliding-blocks.pd...
To add to this, I feel like half of the good github projects are doing something just because you can.
There's something hilarious about nitpicking a statistic out of a comment that's nothing but an unhinged rant.
A couple of examples of the tools they are talking about: GNU poke, Kaitai Struct:

https://www.jemarch.net/poke
https://kaitai.io/

Its mostly about tools surrounding the binary file format ecosystem, for reverse engineering, creating readers/writers, debugging edge cases etc.
Having multiple windows each year to sell your stock/options at fair market prices is a luxury that very, very few people working at startups gets. This is a ridiculous thing to complain about. For the vast majority of people having 4 trading windows per year is more than enough to adjust their portfolio based on their financial strategy.
The choices I have on PC are wonderful. Many games are on multiple launchers or no launcher is necessary- download straight from the web. Lots of overlap between GOG, Steam, and Windows/Xbox Store. I can download and control games I buy DRM free from GOG. It's awesome.
LOL at proposed agenda.

Went through an OS experimentation phase last year. Tried to get netBSD set up on a VPS but no dice, which sucks because I got linux, FreeBSD and openBSD working.

Would be cool to hear what people are using netBSD for.
The problem with profit optimising companies is that they don’t know when to stop. They will keep squeezing every last drop of blood out of their products, and their employees, until the business fail, or a competitor gets competitive enough. Especially when they hire a “General Manager” who’s only expertise is to force a 10% cost reduction on the business every year. Until the business is a dead corpse. But by then of course the CEO has already skipped ship and started the cycle again with another company.
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that's a good thing we can implement! for example, Allogov representatives can just vote no on all bills that have mixed concerns. Then, people will learn that those kinds of bills won't pass, and it'll be a de-facto ban. Allogov representatives can also have term limits.

Also... do you imagine those things will take less (political) effort to implement than a new political party?
I was around the same age. A bunch of things all factor into that, that 14-16 age
One more point: It's not just polkit. It's actually extremely common for programs to misbehave when invoked with argc == 0.

Try it out yourself. Build this program [1] and run it on random programs in /bin and /usr/bin. Count how many segfault. For me, it's a significant fraction, on both Linux and macOS.

(Most of the GNU coreutils print an error and abort; this can be accompanied by a core dump, but I still wouldn't count it as misbehaving. On the other hand, a few utilities act as if the environment variables were passed as arguments, which I'd count as misbehaving even if they don't crash.)

Now, the vast majority of those are not setuid, so even if those crashes can lead to arbitrary code execution, that wouldn't be a vulnerability, just a bug.* Of the handful of setuid programs, I actually did get some to crash(!), but the ones I checked are just non-exploitable null pointer accesses (likely because they try to access argv[0] without checking if it exists).

Thus, argc==0 is not necessarily a wellspring of vulnerabilities. Things have to line up just right for it to be exploitable. polkit is probably the only commonly-installed setuid binary with a vulnerability of this nature.

But I'm sure there are some less-common ones that are vulnerable. And the fact that you can get crashes out of some of the most solid, boring programs that exist, even if they're not exploitable, demonstrates just how rare and poorly-understood argc==0 is.

[1] https://gist.github.com/comex/fcd2c329be12f656929b80c4ab15b1...

* On Linux, that is. On macOS, thanks to the entitlements system, there are many binaries where getting code execution could give you extra privileges, though only in rare cases are those privileges truly dangerous.
It's possible that they tanked because of this news: https://www.aroged.com/2021/12/13/sites-with-pirated-content...

thus removing one of the major reasons to use Yandex.
I feel like I read this as a Paul Graham essay or something.

There was an analogy about the area of a rectangle where one axis was doing things and the other was talking about things.

Can anyone find it and link these parallel discoveries together?
All of my comments have been made to break through the HN echo chamber, and if I can objectively demonstrate my hypothesis that lopsided moderation is reinforcing that same echo chamber, then the entire notion of the restrictions being due to supposed violations of the guidelines is a moot point.

My initial thinking is to use a text classifier to assign political alignments, or lack thereof, to HN comments. From there I can compile statistics about each of the comment classes. This entire process can be done in an executable jupyter notebook for visibility and verification of results.
That may be overly cynical.

But what I always think when a NASA control room erupts in joy after a landing, is that those people just learned they have a job for years.
Now the non-deterministic implementation does more work than a deterministic implementation. It generates a random number and sorts the branches. The latter (sorts the branches) is not needed in the above pseudo code.

Doubling the number of instructions has no impact on run-time performance.

And there are more optimization opportunities in implementing a deterministic design. Now, the non-deterministic implementation needs to lock all involved channels before subsequent handling, a deterministic implementation might not need to.
> The insurance company claims that they have title to that gold, hence a deal with the salvage company.

Sure, but were the original owners alive today and the gold savaged, it would be considered the property of the salvage team. Why does this precedent change when an insurance company is involved?
Typically it’s cheaper to maintain vs wait for stuff to fail.

My wife used to be a finance director for a water utility. Part of that gig was having a capital program that proactively maintained infrastructure.

When they started that program ~20 years ago, they were criticized for a resulting higher rate structure. (5-7%) more than a similar city in the region. But now… that difference flipped and then some. A key failure of critical valves in the neighboring city cost nearly $10M, while the planned replacement was like 80% less.
I will chime in that I program professionally and first learned in the 7th grade in Scratch.

The most incredible moment for me was that for CS50 I found a game I had uploaded to scratch.mit.edu maybe 6 years earlier and submitted it (it was my own work, after all). Great platform, I remember fondly learning how to program a platformer on there without a camera system.
A few I have from watching TV and games (probably incorrect).

Vermont -> green hills

Dakota -> hard deserts and Amerindians

Nevada -> sand desert

Texas -> ranches.

Arizona -> Lots of sun and hot.

Florida -> beach and spaces.

Kansas -> Big corn farms.

Massachusetts -> US version of Europe.

Missouri -> Rivers.
I’m in the same boat as you, haven’t worked on anything with a deadline for the past 2 and a half years and I never want to go back to it, totally pointless arbitrary dates that are never met.
> when I see Amazon on a resume, I actually discount the candidate

You're fighting ignorance with more ignorance.
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Just a few notes. Search costs money and it seems we needed to get to 2022 to realize that. We made a choice of user = customer so yes the cost is real, and it is suddenly on the user. What they get in return is (at least a promise of) a superior search experience with a product that has many features that Google and similar ad-supported search engines simply never can.

Our $10 plan is likely going to give the user 1,000 searches. 80% of users search less than that monthly, even average HN users (who are majority of our beta users). We will also have pay as you go option ($1 per 80 searches) and $30/mo for people who want to support Kagi.

I would argue that our monetization strategy is valid as it is the only one that at least has a chance of making the business sustainable. Whether enough people would pay (which is what I think you were getting at) is another matter.

Yes our Maps is completely broken now. But at least we are building our own Maps (together with our own Search and a Browser, not an easy feat). The vision is ambitious, I'd love a world where at least a portion of it is realized.
You have to be the least informed hacker in the world if you bought an thinking you could do that.

There are plenty of alternatives to the iPhone if you want to compile on Linux.
I think of tailwind as a DSL on top of css. It's got convenient shorthand and sane defaults where as css does not. Where it fails is the coupling between tailwind and whatever it is you are designing.
Generally automation is applied to repetitive procedures with well understood bounds.

In this case all but the fine-phasing and possibly FOV alignment are one-off operations during commissioning. The pre-launch simulations may not match the actual behaviour and results of the telescope so it makes sense to perform each step under engineer/scientist control and be able to spend time studying the data and possibly improving the process along the way and revisiting earlier steps and/or segments.
Are there any real life examples of growth that goes like n! ? The author brings up some vague example about networks, but I was expecting some real data and a simple plot.

In real life exponential growth is natural whenever something grows in proportion to its size.

Usually combinatorial explosion doesn’t really happen in real life because systems often only navigate a small subset of the total theoretically possible number of permutations.
I would say your next step is a complaint here: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/

Generally those get treated seriously by financial entities.
Hey Newsbinator - I'm here live, I'm not a dog. On a side note to this thread, I saw your company MVP For SaaS and it's very much aligned with what I've wanted to do for a long time. How have you found client acquisition? I really like your idea of targeting marketing and design companies - that's super smart. Overall, excellent looking site :)
I understand entirely on a philosphical level but while debugging systemd regularly makes me angry it's still less often than other people's SysV init scripts used to do so, so I've made my peace with why people were happy making the switch.

Naturally I'd personally prefer rc.subr or s6 or nosh (though I've seen people footgun themselves with all of those too, albeit less often than SysV) but it is what it is, and most days I can bring myself to believe that the systemd transition was the sort of imperfect net win that's usually as good as you get in an ecosystem as complex as this one.
I wonder if the problems with the data would have been discovered sooner if data sharing been enforced. It's clear that the reason the article was retracted by the editor-in-chief was because of the lack of data:

It appears that sequences were neither uploaded to Genbank nor to the BOLD system at the time of the study. It does appear that sequences related to this article have been uploaded to Genbank in September 2020, but as this happened six years after publication and no voucher information is presented in the article, post-publication review was unable to confirm whether these sequences were indeed derived from the research described in this article.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10531-021-02316...
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Majority of the people defending Apple would abhor Microsoft doing the same thing for windows. Imagine you had to pay Microsoft 30% on the majority of all commerce on windows.

They certainly could have made a lot more money back in the day!
Atari lynx was possibly the best handheld game system, followed by the game gear, but their cost meant it most out to the more affordable Gameboy.

I think though, what won it was not the hardware but the software. The switch is a great handheld console and a good console in dock mode. But Breath of the Wild was worth the cost of the console alone. I liken it to GTA IV or GTA V, but for my kids. It is a beautiful open world that really knocks out of the park every aspect, music, graphics, gameplay, puzzles. It is a beautiful game and I believe it is a major reason the switch is so successful, or at least it's launch period was.

I also think that the portability is a huge factor, I know many households where they have a PS5 or and XBOX and a switch. Few people will buy all consoles but the switch being portable means it has the extra edge when deciding on a second system.
Will there be recordings?
Sure, but "They also received stock awards valued at between $23 million and $35 million, split between performance-based equity and stock that vests over time, the filing states.".

That $350,000 doesn't even move the needle? Why is the focus there?
Andy Dick and Dave Foley episodes were removed? Skeptical about that, but if so, why?
The US is still far more culturally homogenous than the EU, so this comparison falls kind of flat. Even if the US began as you say, with large cultural differences, it isn't really the case anymore. You could make the argument that there is a cultural divide between cities and the countryside for sure (in the sense that someone from Austin and someone from Boston are more similar than someone from Austin and someone from the Texas countryside), but this divide exists within individual EU countries as well, and is not limited to the US.
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I like that a few video games are multi-words (e.g. Oxygen Not Included) and use a common abbreviation, (ONI) that is google-able - for instance "oni tutorial" is pretty good, or "oxygen not included tutorial" is a sure thing. Maybe more software needs to have more words in the name.
I don't think that's really the case, is it? Usually there's a handoff between the flight/EDL team and the surface operations team.
> DHS has issued many thousands of traveller Redress Numbers.

Officially, redress numbers are ostensibly used for disambiguating people with similar names, etc. That's not the same thing as getting off the list if you were the person placed on it in the first place.

There is, as of very recently, an "official" process for getting off the no-fly list, but it's incredibly recent and still incredibly onerous, so very few people have actually completed it successfully.

https://theintercept.com/2021/05/30/no-fly-list-terrorism-wa...
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If you're not happy with your utility bill, you can move to a different neighborhood too. Why should we regulate utilities?
Maybe not a great example, as there is already a game called Oni, thus illustrating the original point of difficulty in finding original names.
Loose Change recruited millions into the realm of conspiracies (Operation Northwoods, Mount Weather, etc) that had previously been pretty hard to find.
I get songmeanings from Google sometimes but I personally like Genius due to the annotated and upvote/downvoted comments and it is a more visited site so I get why it's ranked higher.
Does this count as event end, can people starting to caching their bets already?
Time limits won't be as effective.

People get used to it, and they become indifferent to it.
They will vote to extend those limits...
OpenWRT is a good community. I made a garden sprinkler controller using OpenWRT and an Arduino Yun a few years back. Seems like OpenWRT has since added support for a few mesh standards.

Another mesh community is Thread, which seems to have Zig-bee, Apple & Google involved
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(network_protocol)

I haven’t looked into mesh networks in a few years. Back then, Germany seemed to have a few open source mesh projects.
The first blog post about the principle was amusing and offered some basic structure to the disorganized quality of work life, but it was the application of the principle that started to lose me. The machinations of striving to move from one position to the next started to feel rather nihilistic and cynical, even for me.
I actually am working on a minimalist LinkedIn alternative because I was so fed up with it:
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Would also destroy forums.
> Reference to Westernhagen

Yes it is. From 20 years ago or so when I was listening to the radio and looking for a username :-D
Seems like this is just a gradual push to a complete ban in my estimation. Half measures will only annoy both pro and anti Rogan factions.
This is hilarious, I imagine a future where you have to pay extra on Netflix to view special content above 500 nits.

Apple building in this framework creates brand new business opportunities to take money from customers.
Looking around here, there's not a lot of FreeCAD fans I guess :)

I use FreeCAD to create custom parts for my 3D printer. I also strongly prefer Open Source solutions. They won't change terms, add spyware, or compromise the design because of business needs. A quick find|grep of my CAD directory says I've made a couple hundred designs.

FreeCAD is definitely rough around the edges with bugs and stability. But for my needs, it works really well. I can take measurements and transpose a design in my head to a design on a computer. It's not AutoCAD or Fusion360 but I don't need it to be. It's an open tool that's helped me solve a lot of problems.