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Microsoft is choosing the wrong enemy to fight

Nintendo is the only winner, and i suspect Apple in the coming years will be the only one competing with Nintendo, since Sony abandoned the handheld market, and Microsoft has no interests in the mobile market

GamePass is the bastardisation of gaming, that'll end up killing gaming as we know it, and the Xbox brand, it is not even profitable for game studios, it's just an attempt for Microsoft to pump a meaningless number, and it doesn't even help their earning reports

EU is moving to force Apple/Google to open up their ecosystem for 3rd party stores, Sony/Microsoft have 0 presence there, if steam doesn't try, then it's game over for all 3 of them

I suspect in the mid-long term, Apple, Google, Epic will be the 3 main actors of the gaming industry

Microsoft will give up and focus on their cloud gaming infrastructure

Looking at console and game sales, it is clear that Microsoft is not a strong gaming brand; even when their competitors are struggling with supply chain issues, they fail to capitalize on that

https://www.vgchartz.com/ a great website to gain some precious knowledge about their individual performance
You can just install the app on a normal device and subscribe to the service on first run. For PGPP Relay, almost any Android device (and maybe even Chromebooks) works fine. For PGPP Mobile plans, you'd need an eSIM capable device (e.g. Pixel 4 or newer or Samsung S22).
I mean, I'm a Marxist and I think lots of stuff is political, but even I can't figure out what that poster was trying to say.
The Amiga ruled Britain until the 90s but radically different in the USA. My old boss was an American Amiga owner and he says he sold up around 1989 for the PC.
The only fork that matters is the one Jeremy Allaire and Paolo Ardoino back.
Cisco Hit by Cyberattack from Hacker Linked to Lapsus$ Gang
That is one type of humor, and it does get great laughs when done well. However it also backfire getting you run out of town.

Notice that most of the examples of humor in this discussion are not that type.
I am looking forward to the moment, when all the people who consider this the 2nd coming of christ equivalent for the crypto world realize that it's just business as usual.
Google Maps has rough tree and structure geometry data for a huge portion of the globe. I wonder if you could scrape that and use it to calculate maximum sun exposure.
Remembering When Fish Rode the Rails
Good read though the linked performance fell rather flat - it seem to be almost preternaturally obsessed with London bus routes, you would have to have an excellent set of diamond pickaxes to mine any worthwhile material from that particular domain and most of it barely warranted a chuckle from myself.

The self congratulatory estimating himself as one of the worst performers but coming out as one of the top three was a little hamfisted, and if that was honestly the case... I cannot even imagine what the other comedians used for material... a list of ones favorite mosaic bathroom tile patterns perhaps?

Comedy feels like writing, if you need to take a course it's probably just not for you.
Interesting, source on the amendment? Was there a poison pill in it?
> Casteism is virtually a non-existent concept among the Indian diaspora in the West

Doesn't Cisco case deny this statement?
All the main languages that I know off have libraries to mock API data. Usually the problem is bad API design.

I know Microsoft gets flack in HN, but I find this document a pretty good primer on API design and decisions you should make: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-pra...

Now if you have to consume an API you have no control of make sure you are mocking at the right layer, aka mocking the response, not the actual call to the API.
I just discovered libgen... interesting.

Okay, relevant to the discussions of e-reader formats: Why, on my 2014 kindle, do MOBI files converted from ePub not support all the fonts on my Kindle? A native purchase, or even at times a non-native MOBI direct, looks better than an epub->mobi conversion. I had to create a new preset on the Kindle for font and margin to make it look tolerable.
I really wish they would quit calling the simple these-numbers-don't-match correspondence things "audits". It gives a very different picture to what's happening.

Yeah, if you're poor you're a lot more likely to be doing your taxes by hand and thus you have much more room to make a copied-the-number-wrong mistake. Hence a high rate of "audits" in lower incomes. There's also more room to misunderstand something and enter wrong numbers.

Separate them out based on whether it's just a letter kicked out by the computer and the taxpayer easily remedies whatever the computer was complaining about vs cases where the IRS is actually hunting for wrongdoing (say, unreported income from a cash-heavy small business.)

I do agree, however, they need to target those with more. It's a lot harder so they tend not to and that has become much more severe because the Republicans have been deliberately starving them, they don't have the resources to do much of any actual auditing, it's almost all just these-numbers-don't-agree letters from the computer.
> 1) Any feedback is viewed with the fear, real or imagined, that it could lead to some sort of hiring discrimination claim.

My favorite is getting ghosted by the recruiter when asking for feedback after an onsite only to get an automated email a few days later asking to fill out a survey about their hiring process.
>> The hardest single part of building software system is deciding precisely what to build. ... Therefore the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinements of the product requirements. For the truth is, the clients do not know what they want.

What's the role of the product managers here. In common experience, how much of the above falls on the product managers vs. the software builders?
Decent set :)
I'm exasperated by apps that hide their configuration files deep within my home directory and I have to use strace to figure out where they are. XDG is mostly useful for people who use unix desktops. It's sort of like a compromise between dotfiles and regedit.exe. Because desktops are huge and complex. If you ask your package manager to install one desktop thing, it installs a hundred things. Non desktop UNIX environments don't have that problem. So I don't think CLI programs like htop shouldn't follow XDG. It's non-standard and not the right tool.
Agree. 33 years old, gmail, with a handful of other accounts used to corral expected spam from low quality websites. My inbox is 100% automated messages, and the only one going back through July that I explicitly solicited is from a concert ticket purchase.

Email, like the telephone, is polluted into uselessness.
Health care expenses tracked inflation until the late 1960s, when it started dramatically outpacing inflation. The 1960s saw a massive influx of the government into health care. The pace of medical cost increases hasn't slowed down since. Every new government intervention makes it worse.
Not in my experience. The only difference I've noticed with a European WeChat account is that I get occasional GDPR interstitials and no ads. But stuff that gets taken down gets taken down everywhere.
Similarly, Doom was created on a NeXT workstation in C, but its editing tools were written in Objective-C

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Development_of_Doom
It would not be a very smart move to go after your own supporters... I think politicians know this simple rule of power. they need the money and the connections of affluent ppl.
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>> target practice and prepping for if shit hits the fan here in the US.

>And how do these people's preparations help in the event of a civil war?

(scratching my head how they would not)
Regarding unstaking it will be capped by a queue of around 900/day similar to what is used for staking. There won’t be an arbitrary delay.
Is the IRS not postage exempt?
> they ignore much larger sums

Not really [1]. When you make more than $500k, your audit rate doubles from the national average of 0.25%. It doubles again at $1mm and more than doubles once more at $5mm.

EITC-only returns are audited around the frequency (0.77%) of someone making $500k to $1mm. I'm not sure why $1 to 25k is audited at the same frequency as $500k to $1mm. But given "from fiscal years 2010 to 2021, the majority of the additional taxes IRS recommended from audits came from taxpayers with incomes below $200,000" and that "EITC audits are primarily pre-refund audits and are conducted through correspondence," it seems--very roughly--closer to the optimum than the headline suggests.

[1] https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104960
HTTP "Referer" is the one that makes me sad.
I am aware of that, those folders have existed as such since at least Windows XP. But only recently have I noticed consumer software placing fungible user data in there.

IIRC at one point you couldn't even open one of the "AppData" homefolder aliases, Explorer would spit out some error message and you'd have to navigate to the hidden folder or key it in manually.
Ukraine attacked Russia proper (not just Crimea) before. We all remember Mi-24 over Belgorod but there were also Tochkas fired against airbases (IIRC Taganrog and Milerovo).

I don't think red lines exist. Maybe for using western supplied munitions.
Not infrequently, the data involves third party cooperation, so it's not really that simple.
Just from looking at what needed to be done to get the Pine64 PineNote to work with Linux, eInk displays need special drivers and each one is different. There isn't an eInk driver of any kind in NetBSD.
In PoW, mining has real-world ongoing costs (electricity, hardware) and so miners need to continually liquidate their earnings to stay afloat. This counterbalances the effect of wealth centralization. If you try to remove real-world costs from that equation, you lose the counterbalancing effect.
While I certainly don't think one should do such a thing nowadays, I could believe that in 1959 the researcher in question might have honestly believed that the situation could lead to greater self-awareness. You're seeing someone else with the same delusion, which each of them could clearly recognize as self-delusion, so I get why he might think that perspective could help them better recognize what was going on in their own minds.

Needless to say, any person who is able to use empirical evidence to obtain rational insight into their own nature, would not have ended up with such a belief in the first place. But I could see how a researcher in 1959 might have thought it could.
In recent years after Reagan, both the Executive branch and Legislative branch have been dominated by the same party, at various times

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Please, lay off the partisanship.
> parking garages, theme parks and malls routinely do this as well.

Yep. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/eff-responds-vigilant-...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/california-shopping-ce...
Can't wait for 'Tell HN: how I make mid six figures as a prompt engineer'.
no, the searching for the keys under the streetlight joke is funny because you will never find the keys under the streetlight no matter how nice it might be to search for them with a good light source, whereas you will be able to relatively easy find small sums of money and make people it from the poor families under discussion here.
Market cap doesn't mean anything when it comes to cryptocurrency, especially when it comes to shitcoins.
Maybe it’s for the better, if in the future there’s no service perceived as the default one.

Perhaps then we’ll get something better than git.
My response to the post title: abso-fucking-lutely. I just passed my 4th year in the fintech industry, and am incredibly burned out and, yes, disillusioned. I'm currently about to take my first steps towards switching careers into game dev in the hope that (a) I can actually find a job in that field and (b) it'll be more fulfilling and less soul-crushing, as a result of being both creative and more aligned with why I got into programming in the first place. I don't know if it will, but I need to try some change or collapse internally.

All I can say is, if you go into a field you don't like, it will take a mental toll. My suggestion is to try applying to developer relations roles; they may want someone with more experience, but that doesn't mean that's all they'll accept. It's worth at least putting in applications to make yourself an option, and if they say no, then you're no worse off than you started.

In my journey, I'm currently trying to learn Unity as my "foot in the door" skill for applications (all my previous game dev experience has been with pure JS and Game Maker Studio, which no game dev company seems to be looking for), but I'll be applying before I really have experience with Unity anyway just to put my name on hiring managers' lists.

Good luck, friend; may we both find a fulfilling way to pay for the food we need to survive! :)
Are we Nazis for talking about swastikas?

What was the meme.

Context is key to understanding complex thoughts, even ugly bigoted ones, I'm concerned that you aren't including it. Lawrence Fox is not an LGBT ally in any way, and his tweet and the retweet of this news story were not funny, they were attacks.

'Haha so funny, it's not pro-Nazi, it's just saying other people are Nazis.'
Ask your friend if they want to get lunch with you - problem solved.

"That's not a date" Why not?

"My friends are all in relationships" Make more friends.
The Machinery of Life – A Journey into the Cell (Notes and Excerpts)
> Nobody is forced to accept a fact if they do not want to. There's a large gulf between awareness of knowledge, including facts, and agreement with such. This is an especially important nuance in this quiz, where the precise implications/meanings of knowledge vs ideology are a critical part of the study.

OK, well, here they expressed disagreement with stuff that is not just the scientific consensus, but the overwhelming agreement. If you want to phrase it as disagreeing rather than knowledge being lacking-- I think this is unhelpful. I do not think the nuance you're driving at here is worth complicating the questions or instructions.

> because there were clear exceptions such as e.g. climate change

No.

All 7 areas of controversy did worse on the entire test. It was not statistically significant for climate change and evolution. It was highly statistically significant for 4 of the remaining 5.

6 of the 7 did worse on their on subscales (significantly significant for 4 of these 6), with effect sizes of -.83, -.65, -.28, -.82, -.88, -.55; climate change had a non-statistically significant finding of an effect with slope .03. I do not consider this a counterexample.

You've been really advocating for study power and significance of results... when it favors your argument.
If all it takes to be a corporate shill is "it's inexpensive, it's reliable, and it's easy to use and maintain, based on over 10 years of personal use", then they owe me a few hundred bucks in commissions.
Legal slap fights aside, it’s interesting to hear about these “block fees” that target this specific subset of Microsoft’s platform. Since it isn’t involved in the big launch sales, and feels more common among smaller budget / indie games, it may be much cheaper for Sony to offer this deal to many prospective Games Pass games.

(Though the laissez-faire answer to Microsoft’s frustrations remains “well Microsoft’s publishing platform should pay more than a figment of Sony’s marketing budget if it’s actually a profitable/sustainable business unit”)
A development I'm quite thankful for. It's nice being able to participate to the degree expected of me by the people I actually know without being a terminally-online internet personality.
Ask HN: How important is moving early to your programming specialty of choice?
Hello all,

I am a current Java engineer with 1.5 YOE. (Age 26)

I want to move into low level programming (C/C++/Rust) and so I started a job hunt this July.

The market is rough, I have an offer for way more pay, but it’s again a Java backend role.

How important is it to move into the area I want (low level programming) early? If I take another job doing Java and stay for a while, will I be stuck as a Java engineer?

I should mention, my current job pays okay (not great) but I moved to a new team that seems really relaxed, so I could continue interviewing and wait for the exact area I want without must trouble.

The problem is I am not sure how much results interviewing will bring since the job market looks terrible.
And the rich guy probably has a CPA filing their taxes. It's quite unlikely there will be anything in there that's easily detected.
Stop Ghosting and Start Saying No
> Doubly unscientific guess: A little electric Maverick would sell incredibly well.

Doubtful, but you'll find out soon I guess.

https://youtu.be/CkoquiSnqbk
This has always been an embarrassing issue for me: Lose track of the lecture. Try really hard to concentrate and catch up. Nod off.
Yes. Another important note however is there are several politicians in a strange alliance that sees any simplification of a tax filing process as being bad because they are of the "all taxation is theft" and "I want to drown the government in the bathtub" mindset and making people hate taxes by making the process miserable is their favorite way to keep people angry at the government.
Check out Nebo.app, which has fluid handwriting recognition, including math.
Probably ants?
And the national grids of Sweden and Norway can't really keep up with the current load. The price of electricity up north is dirt cheap due to lots of hydro but the grid just can't get it to where the people are (south). So you get crazy 100x price differences between the two ends of the countries.

This is also why both Sweden and Norway want to invest into new transfer lines to northern Finland as the national grid of Finland is actually in good enough shape that any electricity you get to any part of it can actually be sold to a customer anywhere in the country. This is why Finland is a single price zone when both Sweden and Norway are split into multiple zones (4 and 5)
Acting like this dog shit house, senate, and president won't pass this is disingenuous. Your government wants to do nothing but take from you, the money is got.
And the modern reimplementation: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/c7920f2/src/ls.c...
>In fact, auditing anyone who makes less than $50,000 a year should be illegal. Maybe even $100,000.

So everyone files below 100k and everyone is immune to audit.

I might go for that, but I am also receptive to the abolition of taxes.
Agreed, bus lines aren’t nearly as funny as subway lines: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game)
It probably should be for simpler taxes. Although if all you have is a W-2 and a standard deduction (and maybe a 1099), your taxes are pretty straightforward to file.

But things get complicated in a hurry in the US. My taxes aren't unreasonably complicated with only maybe a couple things that aren't pretty routine. And I still end up with a 1" thick sheaf of paper between federal and state taxes from my accountant.
Once you accept some kind of privacy coin (monero) I'll be delighted to buy a years service upfront.

I imagine many others will be in the same position.

Obviously taking crypto will mean upfront prepayment of accounts (like prepaid mobile credit) instead of monthly billing and will require some reworking.
Good point, but I think my overall point stands, since the "system" is still inclusive of the processes on top of the submission or in this case, the lack of process. Lots of red flags going on here when thousands of people can be added without notification within gov and really speaks to the capabilities of a company's "extra judicial" tooling.
Thanks for sharing that idea! I look forward to trying it out tonight.
Organisations that don’t use Slack aside, driving this from Slack is a real benefit in my experience.

A system like this lives and dies on the team actually using it, and by allowing them to drive it from where they already are (Slack), we’ve found the team are actually using it and don’t have many complaints about the workflows either.
There exist armed officers in the IRS. They are called "special agents" in the "criminal investigation division". They are federal law enforcement, like the FBI, who seize assets in criminal tax fraud cases.

They are not the majority of hires, and they are not the ones doing audits, and I'm guessing they will be a tiny, tiny fraction of any IRS expansion.

My office building when I worked for Boeing had an armed security guard, that does not mean that if Boeing expands by 10k jobs that suddenly there will be 10k more guns in the factory.

So yes, your original post is clearly out of phase with reality.
Birds, obviously

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Was_an_Old_Lady_Who_Swal...
Isn’t it the other way around? Sony pushes hard for platform exclusivity and deals that work against Xbox and now Gamepass. It’s only natural that Microsoft will want to compete and get leverage.
Differential Neurotechnology Development
> There are credit cards that aren't linked to a person

My desire to know more intensifies.