skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I tried to avoid doing these things for awhile but nobody pays me to be ethical.

it's because any way to make money that is currently legal (but some might consider unethical) is the fittest agent in the darwinian natural selection of economic competition.

So any ethical businesses who forgo a more profitable, but slightly less ethical method, would be out-competed. Over time, therefore, what remains must be businesses whose ethical consideration is trumped by profit considerations.

Instagram is following this exactly - tiktok has better retention and user engagement using the dark patterns, and instagram would not survive if they can't keep up.

So it's really up to the law to set the standard. Akin to how in the old days, environmental protection laws don't exist, and the environment is polluted, there needs to be laws to protect the consumer's "digital environment". Unfortunately, the law is slow to catchup - i doubt i will see it in my life time, and often, the law only catches up after significant damage has been done.
Singapore has been this way for a long time - living essentials are localised, public transport is great. Car congestion is still a problem though, even in a city with such a good public transport system. Better bike paths is still something that needs to be addressed though - here bike paths are called - 'footpaths' ...
Nice job! This reminds me a bit of a space puzzle game I made a while back ( the premise of which is to rotate the hexagon tiles to create a pathway from the player character to the orb in each level )

https://www.gorch.com/games/spacehex/
The missing component is luck I feel, you and I both have probably put the same smarts and effort in as those who were succesful but just haven't had opportunity, effort and luck all line up at the right time.

I built four SaaS products while working full time as a software dev, I have started companies, tried some side hussles, I am a smart chap but I was never blessed with opportunity and luck at the time I was putting in the effort. Then I burned out, and now I am just happy to be enjoying software for a living again. It would take a really captivating idea for me to start another software side gig, and only if a concrete opportunity arises. For now I am happy working on being prepared to sieze that opportunity by building cash, skills and a network, rather than actively working on one that doesn't yet exist.
> It was ground very precisely into the wrong shape

It was said at the time that the aberration made the Hubble near-sighted and, indeed, was corrected with lenses. I had suspected, apparently incorrectly according to yours and others comments indicating that spy satellite mirrors are interchangeable with and used for astronomy without alteration, that the mistake was one of habit, because I figured they were ordinarily making near-sighted mirrors to specification to focus up to a few hundred miles rather than stellar or galactic distances. I am honestly am still having trouble accepting that a mirror designed for a telescope to look no further than a few hundred miles is identically focused to infinity precisely like similar telescopes that are designed to peer with a lower bound of at least millions of miles. But if you say so.
> Only the top layer of bureaucracies can change every 4 years

It's the top several layers, actually, and those are the levels where all substantive policy decisions are made.

> The vast majority of them are civil servants, who basically can't be fired.

This is a myth. Civil servants absolutely can be fired, for cause, including things like poor performance as well as misconduct, and about 10,000 federal civil servants are fired each year.
aaron695 is not downvoted, s/he is shadow banned.
Dalle-2 + emojis = https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%A4%AF+%F0%9F%A4%93=rt
I searched everywhere - first, I thought AI style transfer, but it looked too clever.
I think the author addresses this near the end of the article:

> A common critique of shameless people is questioning their intelligence. But one of the most bizarre aspects here is it doesn’t actually matter how aware that person is of what they’re doing. The concept of a “genius mastermind” is itself outdated, because it assumes that someone needs to be in control. The shameless person is simply a host for a set of ideas, which, like any virus, will continue to propagate as long as there are willing hosts to receive it.

The point isn't so much that she did or didn't fit that description, but that her actions were effective regardless of the intentions, so criticizing them on those grounds doesn't really do much to combat them.
Having just visited Mt. Wilson, and learning about CHARA, this idea sounds fantastic.
It sounds like you’re a VRChat mod user who is unhappy with the new update, and thinks I am defending it based on the bad mods it will ban. This is not what is happening. I am ambivalent to negative on EAC. The purpose of my comment above is to raise awareness of the bad parts of VRChat generally, especially to HN users unfamiliar with this game and its risks for younger users. I think EAC is a bandaid that will negatively impact good users and have minimal impact on bad actors.

Many mods are used for malicious purposes. This doesn’t mean ‘ban mods,’ it means patch the holes bad mods exploit.
They already do that: increased number of avatar favorites.

emmVRC, a hugely popular legitimate mod (referred to as a "wholesome" mod by the community), used to have this feature, but removed it an implored their users to support VRChat instead if they wanted it. Other more gray-area mods still have it.
Ugh, Zipcar. The company whose management demanded a new CRM integration go live on a Friday before a holiday weekend, and didn’t coordinate with support team.

Naturally, something messed up because the project was rushed out the door, stranding my partner and I when our car wouldn’t unlock.

Support team was backed up because they never knew to staff up, so we were stuck on hold for an hour. In that time, I secured another car, started driving and then they told me they can’t see my current rental because the CRM changeover migrated half the fleet data before getting stuck. This was nationwide.

Due to this snafu we had to deal with multiple calls, all with awful wait times. One of the lower level support people _thanked me for not yelling at them_. That’s how badly they execute.

This company is full on Blockbuster for cars. They take as much money as they can while managing as piss poor an experience as possible. They’ll refund you to your account (not your credit card!) for their mistakes as long as you chase them, then eventually take the money back anyway because their refunds have expiry dates.
OMG, that's amazing!
> And it doesn't have Option or Result, nor interfaces so you could implement the same thing for other types.

It has both of those. The included error types are exactly result with added erganomics (passing up one frame is the easiest thing and is erganomically the same as checked exceptions)

Maybe learn what something is before arguing about it?
It's not a goal post move. The article is explicit about the origin being from personally owned code if necessary.

> If they don't have code to share for whatever reason, like it is owned by their previous employer or they are fresh out of school with no code to show, pass on them.

> You have other code to share?

Data would be helpful, but I don't even know how such data would be gathered. Is there a sure-fire method to identify a "Good Engineer" from one who is not?

I interview occasionally, been working a long time. The numbers of devs I know that have such code to share is small, and I would put them all in the work-with-again bucket. I'm not sure if I would adopt this method, but I've seen worse filters :)
Pig + Monkey
https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%90%B7+%F0%9F%90%B5=rt
I use one paperclip per week, and the only time I have one with me is when I'm doing that one thing on Monday morning. Other than that, there's one bowl full of them which is actually in the same room as the pile of miscellaneous stuff that includes the real sim ejector gadgets.
But setting up a bastion has its own issues. Now I need to monitor and patch it regularly, which with a 100% Kubernetes shop means I need a completely separate setup for it. How do I protect my bastion against DDoS?

Managed VPN services have their own costs and worries. Don't want to accidentally pay for tunneled Netflix or YouTube? More configuration and maintenance.

What kind of attacks from the Internet need to be worried about here? Basically just zero-days? But that's true for any bastion or VPN as well, and again, Google is managing the control plane so they're empowered to roll out the patch faster than a small customer could.
It’s a long list of excuses and they know it. It’s harder to monetize third party clients just admit it.
I cannot trust non-free software to use OS DNS settings (Chrome taught me that).

I wouldn't want to proxy all HTTPS traffic (may not be possible if software ignores system-wide TLS CAs and uses bundled trust chain).

DoH introduces bunch new problems without solving any that I had.
I think the references to the "2016 presidential election" were pretty clearly meant to bring Trump to mind without having to mention him directly.
Devastatingly sad movie.

But not for a second regrettable.

As sibling comment notes, have My Neighbor Totoro ready to go afterwards to put you back together.
For comparison, food costs in Nunavut

https://youtu.be/gbm8_m4txKY
You can still work in the fintech or automotive sectors where you won't have to do ads. Most people I've talked with that were doing frontend and one who was doing Java were all working on ad related stuff. A disproportionate waste of time and energy.
At least one mute person was banned from their Discord for saying they need to be able to use muteTTS to talk to other players, which sends... quite the hostile message to players with disabilities. VRChat has practically no accessibility features beyond their fairly basic rank-based privacy settings (and of course there's a mod to enhance those considerably).
If one of your negotiation points why you should be paid more is because your colleagues are paid more, you are basing the starting part of your negotiation from a position of “I’m average”. I honestly cannot see how this helps you in anyway.

Sure, managers have budgets and want to keep costs down, but in a career that spanned a couple of decades+ in tech leadership, I always had the flexibility from my employers to assemble the best team I could within my budget. I never had to manipulate people like you are describing. Frankly if you are working for a company where you perceive that happening…you should probably exit asap. That’s toxic.
For me the best of both worlds is getting a pre-filled journal. Yeah yeah I know that’s called a planner they feel super different fight me. It has all the cute art already drawn, and all the week spreads laid out. I just have to add the content and any doodles, stickers, post-it’s or photos are just optional.

And the best part for ADHD brain is since the whole year is already laid out I can put in events far in the future.
New Bone Saw City
Job switchers are earning a lot more than those who stay
Just discovered this product. It seems one should have a subscription to something but isn't clear to what? it's YouTube? It's Amazon? Is this some VPN-like desktop app?
Yes but that point is irrelevant to the question...
Nice, I like this.

Till now I considered running a B2B business as only being a SAAS catering to businesses, and therefore requiring dedicated resources on standby e.g. customer service, an on-call rotation, compliance to various things that other businesses care about etc which seem like quite a drag for a one or two person venture.

Looks like there are other ways to run a B2B without too much friction
Shamelessness is in fact the reason that our civilization is in freefall. The fear of shame in one's community used to keep people's behaviors in line. Now that nobody cares what anyone thinks they will do anything they fucking feel like.
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That's true, the worst case is bad. But if mutator locality of reference is reasonable, the scanner will preserve it. After all, Baker rejected his earlier copying design for a reason.
After working for so many companies that went down the surveillance capitalism path I finally decided I would only work on security and privacy projects. It turns out even with this limitation I have had endless job options. So much so I decided to start my own consulting company so I could pick and choose the most interesting projects across many non-survcap companies.

I am a -lot- happier. Also as an independent contractor I have more control of the tools I use and am free to use and support only open source software on my workstations.
I agree with your sentiment there for sure, but this is a submission about EAC. You have filled it with off-topic comments in a way that makes it seem you don't understand what the conversation is about. You made a very misleading statement when asked about the modding community that strongly implies it's mainly nefarious and exploitative, and that's what I replied to.

You know who has patched some of those holes you're talking about? Modders. There are mods that mitigate crasher avatars.
You can still see your friend’s pictures but the feed is a mix of suggested content and people you follow with a heavily tilt towards reels. Instagram has essentially done a copy paste of TikTok’s business model.
Florida races to catch giant African snails, with the help of sniffer dogs
As opposed to the fantasy of and propaganda for a god that hears and ignores your prayers and a Jesus that makes the difference between a heaven and a hell for you?
Yikes. Never gonna happen.

I mean, christ scale it back a bit no?
It's tragic (especially if you care about general-purpose computing and the future of open platforms), and a sign that Microsoft's Palladium project was never really canceled. Boil the frog...

Of course, Microsoft would say it's not about DRM (at least right now), it's for "security." Which... its secure as Microsoft's servers are, to be sure.
No commutes for remote workers, etc.
I'd put grave #1, but I'd also only watch it again if I really wanted to make someone cry by showing it to them the first time. Brutal and poignant.
Is this shamelessness or fake honesty? Both Trump and Paris constructed public personas that appeared honest, but actually had hidden motives.

Paris is probably a moderately intelligent person, that learned from an early age it was easier to play dumb. Trump is well, Trump. No further comment.
- they are nowhere nearly good enough. the current system satisfies only one criteria of the 'security, user-chosen names, and decentralization' trifecta, and even that just barely.

- all the good dotcoms have been squatted on since the 90s (that's why half the startups have gibberish names). particularly desirable domains are being squatted on even on all the random dotbullshit nu-tlds.

- the social/political/judicial systems are the very reason why there are so many attempts to build an alternative to registrars and DNS

I will readily agree that so far all attempts have failed though, being either too complex/clunky, or tainted with a crypto grift - I'm actually happy that namecoin/ens/handshake/etc got virtually no adoption. but it has to be done eventually. the entire industry is a scam and rent-seeking with unlimited profit margins
Oh boy, another HN engineer who cannot imagine a technical situation other than the ones they're already familiar with telling everyone else what they don't need.

Yes, learn the basics. That way you'll know that Docker and `git` solve for almost entirely different domains, that Terraform and Ansible solve for almost entirely different domains, that "AWS" is a huge suite of services that makes no sense to compare with a single server, and that some of us do indeed work in distributed environments serving 10s or 100s (or more!) of thousands of queries per second.
Taboo: Tom Hardy, Steven Knight talk season 1 finale (2017)
Having some urban structure where everything is within 15 car minutes is easy. It is just not a metropolitan city. My (central european) 9000 inhabitant village/city was like that and there are many like it.

The issue is that this will not scale. The space needed for cars scales at a different rate than the space needed for people, so does the infrastructure.

Today I live for a decade in one of the biggest cities in Germany (a still quite car centric nation by European standards). I never owned a car in that city and never missed it. If I need one for the hardware store I can just get a car sharing one. I spent maybe 100 Euros on car and gas every year.

Most of what I need for my daily life is within walking radius (grocery store across the street, hairdresser, 24/7 drinks and cigarettes, some restaurants and bars on the street, the rehearsal space for my band is a 5 min walk where I don't have to cross a single road). It is quite silent in my area and the air is good (no dust/grime on the balcony).

If my area was car centric I'd have to sacrifice all of that. But what would I gain in return? The ability to go to all the places I can already go to by subway, S-Bahn, bus or bicycle? No thanks, I'd rather have my city human-sized than car-sized.
Season 2 of historical fiction series about the East India Trading Company may begin shooting in late 2023, https://screenrant.com/taboo-season-2-filming-start-date-tom...
Trump was a build your own candidate. He said so many things you could pick what you wanted and ignore the rest as pandering to get votes. Turns out he probably was always pandering.
Fantastically written article, well-argued and clear.
Are there unlimited tourists? Sounds like a pretty sweet gig since tourism is like miracle grow for local economies. But alas no, there are not unlimited tourists, there is just limited housing supply.

I get tired of bringing it up but I lived in a Tokyo apartment, 5 walk minutes from a train station, 10 min walk to a large park, nice schools, very quite area though just 5 minutes walk to lots of restaurants. 750 sq ft, 4th floor with elevator, 15 year old building (at the time). Rent was (at the exchange rates of the time) $860/month. Inflation adjusted that’s $1,075 which can’t gets you a spare bedroom in first tier American cities.

At the time Tokyo had no restrictions on short term rentals nor on foreign investment or property investing or any kind.

Tokyo’s big secret is that they let developers build apartment buildings.
A couple of seconds latency is basically unplayable in any genre (except for turn based stuff I guess). When I used to play WoW latency was generally < 100ms.

You can paper over latency by immediately showing animations and stuff clientside, and rolling back if the server decides it didn't happen - most games do do this. But there's not a multiple second gap between e.g. you activating a spell in WoW and the outcome being registered by all players involved - that would be actually unplayable as you say. There's also sub second cast times combined with spells that interrupt/stun those other spells.

Nowadays there's not much difference between a lot of MMOs and what I assume you're referring to by action games - see New World[1], Black Desert, Tera, Elder Scrolls Online for a bunch of examples of games that have fast paced combat with small cooldowns and reticle aiming while also being full fat MMOs.

Besides, this thread is about VRChat, which is definitely not an action game.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8JiJN8942o
I am in the same boat as you. I realized I have all the technical chops needed to build my business, but have failed a few times now. I am now looking for a job. Who knows if the opportunity will ever arise, but I need to move on with my life. I can't be sitting waiting for an opportunity that might never come. It's been emotionally difficult for me to acknowledge this, but I take it one day at a time.
Memory safety should have been more a concern for the design of the 8086!

And if 8080 backwards compatibility is really necessary, we can write an emulator in Rust, compiled to WebAssembly and running on RISC-V. /s
345 words is barely an article. What about my comments are off topic exactly...?
I was really hoping I could put on a , because that's an emotion that's hard to put into words
Do you include movies as tv or just idle watching or show watching?
> In particular, your approach appears to do 3 (and some change) passes over each buffer: 1) read up to '\n' (just the first line), 2) UTF-8 validation, 3) make lowercase and 4) split on whitespace.

I really should have waited until I had more time to respond, but it really only should be 2, 3, and 4.

I tried unsafe/unchecked for UTF8, and, yes, it is a modest bump, but I wanted to do it without unsafe. And 3 and 4 are really pretty fast for what they are. They both work on bytes and the str as_bytes transmute is virtually cost free from what I can tell.
I had my spouse, who crys often at movies, watch it with me. I gave them fair waning that it was very sad and apparently very good. She agreed, and was also "I'm never watching that again". She enjoyed it. Can confirm, brutal and great. But like other amazing sad war movies like Schindler's List, I'm not going to watch it for fun.

Actually that's a good way to think of it, compress SL into a anime length movie and you have the emotional hit of Grave.
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Looks like you don't spend time with your children either
Move to Cyprus and work remotely.

English-speaking, Mediterranean weather, no tax on dividends, and a pretty good expat/international scene.