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How about a giant freaking pandemic.

Possible, yes. Easy, no.

Chinese people don't have the best reputation here, most people think you're very smart, but people will worry about your English level/the readability of your code, culture fit, timezone differences, and of course the possibility of stealing trade secrets/hacking.

Aim for companies where you can be autonomous and which don't affect critical infrastructure(forget about financial services, health, science etc...)

Advice:

Be as fluent as possible in English

Network on linkedin or medium, invite recruiters, CTOs, other developers

Post on linkedin, put yourself out there

We just went through a huge pandemic, a lot of people think we're on the brink of WW3, near a financial crisis, big inflation, huge mental and physical health problems.

Everyone is on edge, not just HN lol.

Having kids is mostly reproductive instincts. Which is different from the instinct to support your "tribe".

Maybe you need find some place to volunteer? help your community? or do any kind of meaningful work?

Have you checked your privacy settings?

They may also automatically shadowblock famous companies logos to prevent phishing/scamming

it depends on your lawyer and on your face/outfit really

Have you tried pentesting/security?

A lot of the time it seems like it's about finding bugs, maybe not directly fixing them, but at least find what needs to be fixed

For anyone reading this and thinking about spending your last 10 bucks on a programming book please use Libgen or a free mooc

I read that more than once before.

And while I agree(even though a lot of the people I've suffered with didn't stay my friends), it seems "slightly" unhealthy to look for a situation where I could suffer just to form a bond through shared trauma with people

I'm not that afraid to go out of my comfort zone

but if I spontaneously talked to random people there is a good chance they'd see me as a dangerous lunatic given how weird I can be lol

(Failed founder here, but still a founder.)

That you can't really help people without making money, having a profitable product/service/model.

Even the most selfless billionaires investor rarely want to burn a billion dollar in a money pit.

You can't work with people, who hate making money, who are so anti-capitalistic that the very thought of turning a profit goes against who they are as a person, no matter how benevolent or competent in other areas they are.

If you want to have any kind of real impact, you need to think like a business, a real business, except you'll just not be the one who benefits from the profits. You need stable revenue, profits, growth, even if it's to reinvest everything, but you can't be like "oh it's not about the money, we don't care about the money", the more of a non-profit you are the more you have to think about the money, unless Bill Gates is your daddy.

Of course you have to set to some limits in advance about the things that you'd never do, but you also have to be able to compromise, to see the bigger picture, if your decisions hurt 1 people to help 10 others maybe it's worth it, do no think in absolute, don't work with dogmatic people.

Also pay your people well, really well, a good salary spent on personal growth is an investment in the future of the project, just because money is not the ultimate goal, doesn't mean your partners/employees should have to deprive themselves. You can't perform if you can't take care of yourself.

Price. I have a dozen ideas that could be done using GPT-3. Most of them aren't financially viable, I'm not burning half my income to build an MVP.

maybe because pdf vulnerabilities are found so often that it would unleash one zero day a month

Here's what used to work for me, if you do all of that at the same time you'd probably be fighting to stay awake after 10PM

-as few stimulants as possible, the optimal amount being exactly 0(no nicotine, no caffeine)

-no eating a few hours before sleep

-working out in the morning/afternoon(lifting and cardio)

-melatonin before sleep

-blue light glasses

-night mode on all my devices(warmer colors or even just devices turning off automatically)

-complete darkness and no distracting noises

-cold room, I've seen some people recommend 16°

-orgasms every evening

-mindful meditation before sleep

-no alcohol

-earplugs or relaxing binaural beats in comfortable earphones when trying to sleep and an eye mask

-the best bed/blankets/pillow you can buy

-a relaxing shower/bath

-a short walk in nature in the evening

I also used to take a bunch of supplements and very good food, and while it wasn't aimed at improving my sleep it probably improved my health/wellbeing which indirectly improved my sleep

If nothing works then indica weed, vaped or in edibles taken a few hours before going to bed lol

Yes. I know at least one way to create unlimited outlook accounts for 0$(no paid proxy needed, no phone number, just a captcha solver model that can run on any PC, you could get a million outlook accounts for 0$). I found this by accident, so there is probably dozens of ways to do this if you look hard enough.

There is also ways to get unlimited free premium exchange accounts.

Also most microsoft users are technically inept, so their accounts probably get hacked more often than other people.

These people coded Windows. No wonder nothing works as intended.

Expect you're not licensing functions, you're licensing a repository. If I use a sentence or even a paragraph from a copyrighted book, it's not copyright infringement.

Copilot is not selling code, they're selling GPU time. If you're ready to buy a hundred GPU/TPUs to train a new Copilot that is just as good, but for free, then go do it please, everyone will thank you

Why would anyone want to stop Copilot is beyond me.

Reinventing the wheel, millions of time a day, is an atrocity.

Millions of (wo)man hours, wasted, every single day, on writing solutions to problems that have already been solved. There is a partial solution to this, and it's making people angry, it's crazy.

If you put your code publicly on the internet, you should expect that people will reuse your code at some point, no one broke into your privates repositories.

Why would anyone waste their time to make other people waste more of their time is really beyond me.

Let go of your egos for once.

I mean yeah but Google doesn't count those clicks for ad revenue at all

or maybe just on OVH or smaller provider,but AWS ips are definitely flagged for advertising

Well it:

-cuts their profits in half or more because they have to pay for the proxies(or if they own them they can't sell them since they need them)

-it prevents most low skilled people from doing it

-it prevents them from doing on it on an infinite scale, AWS have more than a 100 millions IPs, it's rare to see a grey market proxy provider with more than a few millions clean IPs, and it usually cost like 40 cents per IP, where it can be FREE on AWS

You add basic protection against headless browsers, behavioral analysis etc...And now 99% of the people who can fool you are already making 6 figures in legitimate jobs and won't risk 10 years of jail to earn just a bit more money.

When I worked in adtech, I proposed a simple solution to ad fraud on our platform - assume any UA coming from an IP range owned by a cloud provider was a bot and don't show them ads, don't count their impressions.

Wait, is that not automatic on every single Ad network out there? WTF?

How long ago was that?

they don't https://email-checker.net/validate johndoe@fastmail.com exists noonehavethatmailhn@fastmail.com doesn't exists

most mail providers don't guard against that

if you see the other addresses, can you check if they're registered on comcast website? https://login.xfinity.com/login to try to see if it exists

if someone got a fresh list of mail addresses, they'd probably test all the mails coming from this source at the same time, could confirm your theory

have you tried the new whisper model from openai?

Before any backdooring purposes there is probably some marketing/analytics reasons, keys, OTF updates etc...

if you can't trust Meta, why could you trust apple?

Cool!(but yeah english is really important!!)

which models do you use for speech recognition and text generation?

Why do you want new coders? We want more money

Because complicated things become so obvious and natural that it's hard to even remember that some things are not inherently known by any of your peers.

It can be hard to accurately gauge your interlocutor previous knowledge, so you don't make them feel dumb by explaining too simple things, or by starting with too complex stuff.

or point to obscure or very high-difficulty resources.

Although here I think that's on the learner to make an effort. If you want to learn X but you need Y to understand it, your next question should be how can I learn Y, and if you need Z to learn it, you should ask how to learn Z, and most of these questions can be answered by search engines, you don't usually need an expert for that.

"E.g: You ask an expert programmer for advice on how to learn to become a good programmer, they will almost always suggest mid tier resources."

Well once you went through something like CS50, you should be able to grasp mid tier resources, or at least be able to find out what you need to learn to go through them.

No you just have have a crappy personality. Being unattractive to idiots is not an issue.

There's, as far as I know, no such analogous singular deal-breaker trait for women.

Obesity, smell, creepiness, being disfigured, in a wheelchair.