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Ask HN: Transitioning from game development to cybersecurity. Tips or advice?
Hello HN!

I was let go from my gaming job a couple of months ago, and unfortunately nothing has come up yet.

Thankfully, I was thinking of moving away from the industry anyway, so this is a great opportunity to do so. I've got some savings and have given myself a year to set-up a cybersecurity consultancy business. My main target will be start-ups, and small to medium tech companies, particularly gaming ones that don't yet have a cybersecurity division, but nonetheless need one, and don't see the point of hiring a full time cybersecurity professional.

The field has always interested me, and most of my games experience is doing server side development, alongside DevOps, and then straight game dev. But server work has been the bulk, so at least I'm familiar with the basics of hardening a system against interference, mostly by players trying to cheat, and every now and again against criminal interests who have targeted our games.

I've got around 15+ years of experience as a software engineer, around half of that in plain server development, and the other half specialized in server dev for games.

I've got a bachelor's degree in software engineering, and an MSc in Computer Games Technology. I'm taking a short postgrad course in Cybersecurity at my local university, but that takes 8 months. In the meantime, I'm studying to get Security+ certified so I can start bidding for jobs and have something more backing me apart from my CV.

My question is the following, what am I missing? What else can I get or do to give myself more credibility? Does anyone have any tips on getting clients?

I'm planning on running promotions for start-ups and going to several meet-ups to distribute coupons, some booklets with free information on personal cybersecurity, and just to network.

Cheers in advance for the advice!

p.s.: I'm also setting a sister company for game dev consulting, but I'm much more familiar with that and feel much more comfortable with it, but tips for that are also welcome.
Local government has always had a tight relationship with property development the world over: Rates are the primary source of independent funding, the rest being tied central government grants.

Most infrastructure that local government has to build is cheaper in economy of scale: sending a sewage pipe to ten houses is less renumerative than sending it to 100, same hole gets dug, same labour, (mostly) for a bigger pipe and more pedastals to base the charge off. Its simply more profitable to encourage development.

That they wound up in bed with developers and now fate-share isn't surprising. What will be interesting (to me) is how many of the developments get knocked down, and how many get occupied: I have gone by train from Shanghai to Beijing and it's truly amazing to be in deep rural communityland, low rise, and suddenly go past 5 50 storey towers in a cluster, surrounded by fields. My chinese colleagues tell me most of them remain empty, the belief is they drop in future value if ever lived in.
This is a wild comment from reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/15w0tkr/affidavits_re...

"The judge had prior DUIs, the first one ending in a diversion program during which she got arrested in a different county for another DUI while driving with a suspended license (for the first one). She never told the first county about the second arrest, which violated the terms of her diversion program. At the time, she was her county's top prosecutor, and on the Anti-Drug Task Force."
Big Tech’s Waste “Solutions” Are a Scam
I suppose we can expect a more hyped approach to ai, so nvidia can sell their precious little gpus? Maybe a revival of crypto currencies?
Yes, hashes in Ruby, associative arrays in PHP, maps in Go[1], dictionaries in Python[2] and C#[3] represent the same concept, a collection of key-value pairs.

[1]: https://gobyexample.com/maps
[2]: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#dicti...
[3]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collecti...
subscribed to the channel. great video. i would be interested in your iOS learning journey.
Lack of education combined with superstitious spiritual/religious beliefs.
Another facet of this might be the changes in interest rates.

It's easier to bet lots of money on speculative startups when interest rates are so low that money is approximately free to borrow, opportunities for good investments are increasingly rare, and investors are increasing willing to invest in ventures with less and less plausible business models. (c.f. the "golden age of fraud")

It's a different environment when interest rates have risen by 4% (AU) & 5% (US). If sources of cheap funding for ventures are drying up, and investors are looking for their startup investments to begin returning a profit (vs 5% nominal returns they could get by simply putting money into short term US treasuries), then we might expect waves of failures from some of these startups that have not built scalable business models that can be turned profitable, or rounds of layoffs and cost-cutting from startups that can become profitable businesses provided they stop pouring engineering resources into projects that aren't core to their business. Both of these reduce demand for engineering talent & increase supply of people on the market looking for a new job.
Reading this may give the impression that non-api-decoupled things like e.g. ls or curl or inkscape cannot be developed in parallel.

Also, think of it this way: if there was no general purpose API, it could be (figuratively) May instead of August when you did N and N+1. I mean, there’s no guarantee that it would, but this potential benefit is relative to a different baseline than in TFA.
What's confusing

A Korean apparel company has licensed the Lockheed Martin brand to sell clothing in Korea. This is part of a larger fashion trend in Korea where seemingly 'random' Western brands like CNN or Kodak are licensed by apparel companies

As fashion goes, it doesn't even qualify as odd imo. The website is just grasping for a story.
I don't think every aspect of culture necessarily can be traced back to a pragmatic reason. Sometimes people just act out their belief systems, regardless of whether the results are helpful or detrimental to them or their communities.
Shades of Vivian Maier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier
For periods of up to half a day or so, you could store that energy in the temperature of the building.
> I finished the class, whatever I need to learn through application, life will point me toward.

In math/physics, it often won't. Solving lots of problems serves two particular purposes: To really solidify the concepts in your mind so you won't forget, and ensuring you learn the techniques and not just the knowledge.

For the former, you may find yourself in the position where you find yourself way over your head, and won't know where to start. You usually will not have a single gap, but many. You'll find yourself realizing you'll need to look up material from several textbooks to regain the knowledge you've lost. Once you begin that process, you'll pick up one of your old textbooks and while the physics knowledge may be absorbed, you'll realize you've forgotten much of the math needed to solve such problems. In the unlikely event you'll retain enough to follow the textbook, it is very unlikely you'll know the techniques well enough to solve the real world problem.

And your colleagues will. You'll be alone, and you'll drop out of that group. With physics/math, there often are hard boundaries in these groups. Those who meet the bar are in. Those who don't drop out, because it really sucks being the only person in the group who is struggling with what everyone else considers as basic.

SW engineering has a much more gradual change in skills amongst people, and usually the problems most people work on are fairly learnable in a short amount of time.
Ask HN: Did you purchase a house recently?
If so, how? Did you use a real estate agent? Mortgage rates are the highest in more Than 20 Years[1]. Did you put more than 20% down? Or did you pay cash for a foreclosure, auction, fixer-upper or wholesale home? Are there any sites / apps / services you would recommend for finding a home?

For context, California housing affordability is at its lowest level in nearly 16 years where a minimum annual income of $208,000 was needed to make monthly payments of $5,200[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37171849

[2] https://www.car.org/en/aboutus/mediacenter/newsreleases/2023-News-Releases/2qtr2023hai
I suspect many ts programmer dont even know it compiles into js. Potentially dont even know what js is. Such is the state of modern web dev.
ive always thought there was a market for these kinds of photos as a tv channel. some background muzak, slideshow presentation and block programming. something to fall asleep to.
Is it completely closed or only source-available?
What was the personal attachment?

I think a lot of the disconnect in these discussions is around confidence. I don't think anyone should assume anything they don't have to.

If you were to gamble, what odds would you place on the idea that there was no evidence evidence for the warrant?
It's pretty rigorous, and is perhaps the best EM book to get the intuition. I'm guessing the GP meant challenging in terms of the problem set.
I found some information about her background that I thought was interesting here as well: https://hackingcapitalism.io/why/

(this is also authored by Kris)
I always thought there was an opportunity to make this game for the original Microsoft Surface (the touchscreen-in-table one).
After some digging I did indeed find what I believe is the article. As mentioned I read about in American Scientist (IIRC), but based on the abstract this must be it. From the abstract:

By the time of the test, children of all ages had acquired most of the vocabulary necessary to describe the target event. Despite this, they did not translate preverbal aspects of their memory into language during the test. In no instance did a child verbally report information about the event that was not part of his or her productive vocabulary at the time of encoding. We conclude that language development plays a pivotal role in childhood amnesia.

I also found this follow-up study by someone else[2], again from the abstract:

This research suggests that children cannot independently translate preverbal memories into words even with extensive task support. Therefore, language acquisition may indeed play an important role in the offset of childhood amnesia.

However this[3] recent paper argues that this effect might only be relevant for strategic recall, where the kid is asked to recall the memory, but not spontaneous recall which happens involuntarily.

Of course, I imagine spontaneous recall isn't very useful for recalling what you've studied in your home country...

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.00442
Breaking the Barrier? Children Fail to Translate Their Preverbal Memories into Language

[2]: https://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/handle/1840.16/1427 The Sound Barrier: Two-Year-Old Children's Use of Newly Acquired Words to Describe Preverbal Memories

[3]: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2022.101050 Spontaneous verbal recall: A new look at the mechanisms involved in episodic memory retrieval in young children
From what I've heard, the value of Jackson is not the EM you'll learn, but the mathematical techniques you'll learn, which are widely applicable beyond EM.
I (nowhere near California, but living in a seismic zone) was wondering how news worthy a 5.1 was until I saw the very shallow depth you posted. Yeah, you'll really feel that one if you're nearby.
JSON Resume uses a defined schema. (listed on schemastore.org)

It has made writing resumes with co pilot super powerful.
There are a lot of US Restricted roles due to government contracts - I can't remember if it's a legal requirement or a contract restriction. However I do know it's not universal as less sensitive work absolutely did use off shore resources.
Do companies want the trust of their employees or do they want productivity metrics? Because they can't have both. And they should certainly prefer one over the other if they want to succeed.
I’ve had the same experience of going fully server rendered to keep complexity down and ending up with having to turn down requests for more interactivity to prevent the code from turning into a spaghetti mess. Maybe not necessarily a bad thing to have less interactivity but it’s definitely a trade off to be very aware of.
It is also touted as a way to grow engineering talent pools by subdividing into frontend and backend teams. This is not super convincing to me in a context where the only frontend is HTML given the enormous amount of extra work that a SPA takes to develop. It is more convincing in a context where there are native applications in the mix that would benefit from an API. So what will a future that involves both MPA-style frontends and APIs look like? I think one possibility is that backends will handle data in a more declarative fashion. In theory, doing so would allow a lot of the "glue" to be generated, and ultimately allow more flexibility on the frontend.
can't figure out how to enter a year...
It took me 4 rounds to realise the time input was a slider, as you couldn't click to type. It needs some work.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37199164
Both Jazz's have been ported to macOS at https://macsourceports.com

https://macsourceports.com/game/jazzjackrabbit2

https://macsourceports.com/game/jazzjackrabbit
Following chronic fatigue mechanisms to the source: mitochondrial respiration
Found this:

Because it's simply available as an option. National Geographic is licensed and marketed differently in Korea, so it's just sold as a regular brand in normal retail outlets. It's not really necessary to reach for sociological explanations when it's just random gear you pick up at eMart that happens to have the NG brand. See also brands like Jeep, Ttoma, Discovery Expedition, etc.

Like out of season Christmas and nursery rhymes in Asian elevators, but now with a toxic brand?
I haven't been following BTRFS development closely for a few years, so I don't know how much more progress they've made on eliminating those corner cases. But I'm still careful about not letting the filesystem get close to full. Earlier this month, I noticed one of my machines was over 80% full, so I grabbed a few drives I had lying around that weren't in use at the time and added them to the array. The flexibility of BTRFS gives you a lot more options than eg. ZFS for getting out of a tight spot without the full wipe and restore hassle. But both can still leave you stuck, especially if you ignore the need for monitoring and preventive maintenance.
There is hardly anything ground breaking here and can't help noticing quite a few loopholes.

First, LFPs with high C rates is nothing new -- anybody remember A123? Even Samsung SDI developed their own LFP with much higher C over a decade ago, though it was never commercially successful (it was pre-LFP EV era). This is however going to probably end up reducing LFP's battery lifecycle. All lithium-ion batteries degrade faster under high SOC and high C; though NCM/A handles high C better.

Second, this PR also claims that the new chemistry would enable 700km without a single mention of energy density kWh/kg improvement? LFP has low energy density and is much heavier than NCM/A -- likewise they are mostly limited to entry-level, low-range EVs, under ~60 kWh. China's average EV battery capacity is just over 50 kWh and those EVs don't travel nearly that far. This maybe suitable for larger vehicles with light load (eg, city buses with no significant load; or the Tesla Semi's carrying potato chips), so their target users are also fairly small.

Third, they are throwing in Zeekr 001 with 1000km with CATL's Quillin structural battery for good measure in this PR. And of course, the trim with the claimed 1000km range doesn't even use LFPs. LFPs are not simply suitable for anything long distance (higher energy density and less weight) or performance (higher C discharge rate). And this PR shows CATL's new battery just nothing burger.
Yes. The OP's post is basically "baby's first API." The are a very handy API but relying on them at scale is much less efficient than structs or arrays. This post doesn't even go into the different performance characters of these APIs, which can be a major foot gun.

I've noticed a lot of novice-level posts on here lately. Although I admit the post was very well written.
Devkit for open source 32bit RISC-V MCU using GlobalFoundries 22nm technology
Selling it as associative array is nice. (And I know the docs do that, too)

It's a doubly linked list, array, hashmap all in one, with some weird magic when handling numeric indices.

There's often the time when using another language that I made a bad choice by picking either an array or hash or list while later I need one of the other properties PHP would give me by default. The extra cost for most uses is neglectible.
I think "mountaineering" is probably more dangerous, especially once you get into the alpine.

I do (and love) outdoor climbing and even a bit of mountaineering, but it seems like most accomplished climbers die in the alpine. Some of what people do makes Honnold's famous free solo of El Cap look tame by comparison
Not really. They’re quite convenient in many cases, and can actually be more efficient than carefully preparing aligned loads/stores.
> This seems remarkably low given the utility we get out of them.

Having lived much of my life without an Internet connection, I wouldn't overvalue the utility, either. My life is better, but not that much better today.
How do you extract, like, 10x wealth from the poor of a world that had less than x wealth in total a few centuries ago? Without ever increasing the total amount of actual wealth?
Ask HN: Possible to go/live underground to cool off?
I remember 40 years ago or so, underground or partially-underground houses were a thing - at least where I was occasionally in Pottsville (??), Pennsylvania.

I don't really remember why it was a thing, but I think I remember that it was because having a house underground-ish -- say, with just one face of the house exposed -- kept the house at earth temperature, which was generally a good thing -- no need to heat, nor cool. I think at the time maybe people were talking about heating bills??

If all that makes sense, could we do it again?

I always thought that it was awful to force humans underground -- like with subways -- but if it's a matter of survival...
I'm right handed but I use my phone one handed with my left hand.

My custom HN app has the More button in full width. Similar to boingboing.

https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hn.html?small
Because it's easier. That's it. You can argue about "equivalent alternatives" until you're blue in the face, but you're wrong. It's just easier for many devs to use Electron than whatever you just spouted, and that's why it's more popular.

You are acting like Principal Skinner going "No, it is the children who are wrong." What I can't understand is, why do you care so much?
I would make a distinction between adding an index to sqlite/postgres and adding one to elastic. The ANN algorithms usually require the index fits into RAM which can lead to high memory requirements on large datasets. Something like elastic will do a lot better because of its ability to horizontally scale

I assume that is the rationale behind a dedicated database but I generally feel the same way as you
> Developer Velocity Index

Ever heard of Agile Sprint Velocity? Yeah the bastardisation of SWE began long before mckinsey floated up to the surface.
They do have geothermal plants, but hydro is the bigger factor, accounting for about 75% of electricity generation [1]. Somewhat similar to Norway in having a favorable ratio between wet mountains and small population.

[1] https://www.government.is/topics/business-and-industry/energ...
There's an entire federal division on public corruption where eager young feds seek to take down public officials to make a name for themselves.

Sure, there's no one to watch the feds, but this isn't that, this is state law...

Technically there's a FISA court to oversee warrantless wiretapping, but they appear to be in the tank with the FBI.
> Even on x86 where it's supported, you want to avoid doing unaligned reads at all costs because they're up to 2x slower than aligned accesses.

This is generally not true.
With this kind of tools you don't need to know all the answers, but know how to make the right questions. Giving the appropriate context is part of doing those questions, be with custom instructions, personalities or similar approaches that user interfaces are taking. But it should be something that you can choose and customize for each chat. And, of course, have a library of ready made ones,
Doesn't basically every AAA game do this now?

I've seen recent posts giving extremely detailed statistics about the choices players made in Baldur's Gate 3 and Jedi Fallen Order. I was surprised that nobody seemed bothered by it.

Here's the Fallen Order one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FallenOrder/comments/13xldf8/star_w...
This is incredible. Thank you! My brother and I played so much of this. I love this. You're my favourite.
It's easy to measure manager productivity. They create nothing and are the least productive people in an organization. They're poor decision makers, too, never learning from experience and relying on gut instinct, as if they're hunting in the woods. McKinsey has created the least value for society of any consultancy at it has catered to managers, who produce nothing.

No more McKinsey. Minimize management.
The efficiency of hardware certainly grew but inefficiency of software grew with it. Why all sites don't load in 500ms or less ? Our compute power grew few magnitudes but sites still take few hundred ms (hell, second) to render on server side and then burn more CPU on client side
Ask HN: Favorite Educational Channels (For Kids)?
Ive noticed that the quality of individual creators on youtube is typically better (more entertaining & higher quality) than a lot of the videos teachers share as supplementary material in my kids school.

For example, veritassium does some very easy to understand science and maths videos, periodic videos is a entertaining way to run through the periodic table and then a bunch of others for history depending on the period. Also mystery doug of course for younger kids.

Does anyone have any favorites they have stumbled across?
This post is wrong. Get better sources to study.

There are a few comments here that explains the errors, and there are a few additional comments about other problems in the previous submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30733666
> n other situations where someone annoys hundreds of people, harms the health of hundreds of people, primarily for their own benefit, we'd call that bad, undesirable, and socially shame the person doing it, wouldn't we?

Annoying for living vs annoying for entertainment.
Yeah the slider really needs to be called out better, looked like part of a design notch.

Other than that, pretty fun trivia game and includes some historical content.
Oh indeed it may be?
A friend is thinking of remodel and add solar thermal to heat basement, garage in-floor heat, and another loop for driveway snow melt. The place is well above a mile high. At first thought, it seems very practical during remodeling.
Remarkable! You could absolutely game the heck out of this. It's so complicated that no manager could figure it out, and that would reduce it to the TPS form level.