skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, not in enterprise.

All my architects are over 40, every single one of them.

Working on a 10 year old code base, multiple stacks (mobile apps, Java backend), on AWS.

You need clear headed people that know how to spot bad stuff about to happen and then clean it up, keeping the big ship stable. Constantly removing technical debt.

SaaS is the best thing that ever happened for job stability for engineers. Constant updates, upgrades, etc. The guys at Salesforce.com, Workday, ServiceNow, etc have a long road ahead of them.
> Does anybody know how a Software+Aerospace engineer would be valued at an aerospace company?

like an aerospace engineer who wasted a bunch of time; they generally consider the introductory programming classes aerospace folks take to be more than sufficient.

(they're wrong, but good luck convincing them of that.)
I'm fine with corporations picking and choosing who can talk on their services but I feel like there needs to be more responsibility with it. You can either have an agnostic platform that only removes things with a legal order and the company is indemnified from legal consequences from it's users posts, or you decide to take specific actions but now you are responsible for the content.

Getting the legal benefits of being a modern public square but then also being able to silence people to improve your profit margin is where this seems to be the problem
Genuinely asking: how is youtube supposed to pay for their own expenses when everyone uses brave and depletes their revenue stream? Won't that kill the platform itself?
> The logic for a lower capital gains rate is

We don't actually have a lower capital gains rate, we have a lower long term capital gains rate, which, insofar as it has logic beyond “its the kind of income that predominates among the superrich”, seems to be loosely grounded in the fact that income earned over a period greater than one year would be overtaxed if treated as simole current-year income in a progressive tax system.

Of course, a simple solution to this is simply to tax long-term gains as income but allow either advanced or deferred (or both) recognition of income, regardless of source, with some defined quantitative limits.
Read that entire article to find out what type of matter turned out...only to realize that they have not actually created anything, or run the experiment.

So, any idea what type of matter would it be created?
This argument assumes that the point of person A responding to person B is for person A to convince person B, specifically, at that specific moment in time of the specific details of their specific argument.

1) That's not how persuasion works.

2) It's not how ideas or the stubborn humans who hold them work.

3) The point is not, in fact, to convince that one particular person at that one particular moment in time. If that's your goal, then I might suggest that a phone call would be more appropriate. These are public arguments. Read by the public. They're useful far beyond the participants.

4) Minds change over time, rarely in the moment. If your standard for success is immediate agreement, then you've established an unrealistic (and misguided) goal. You'll never get that. But, again, that's OK, because that's not what you should be shooting for in the first place.

5) Argument is as much for you as it is for the person you're trying to convince. Working through objections is good for you. You impoverish yourself when you take this away.

6) People seem to think it's a really strong argument to point out that people get mad or emotional during debates, but I have no idea why I'm supposed to care. So a faceless, nameless avatar that I'll never meet showed too much emotion in an online debate? I have no idea why anybody thinks that's worth mentioning in any context. It's definitely not a persuasive argument for nuking all debate.

It's no wonder so many people have such a dim view of online argument, if your comment represents the conventional thinking on it (and it does).
So how does a mid-level software engineer get into trading? I do paper trading on my own for fun but I'd like to make it a career.
Tesla's sinking stock has made short sellers almost $1B
Just remind yourself daily that life is incredibly complex, that simplicity, except in the rarest of cases, is a myth (if you finally 'have the answer' you've only decided which lie you're most comfortable believing), that the global socio-economic system we are a part of has more moving parts than any one person could conceivably grapple with let alone understand, and that almost everyone, almost all the time, is working off a best guess. In other words, don't play the blame game, demand much of yourself, demand little of others, and appreciate everything you have, which, as soon as it's under your nose, becomes light, airy, invisible--until it has suddenly evaporated. We're all prey and prone to our own little fantasies--we live our fictions. That's why the madman laughs. His hoarse chuckle is not a sudden aberration or break, not the unfortunate collapse of some 'right' mentality but the final, total dissolution of an imposition--the breaking of the yoke.
> What about cities that were originally segregated via red-lining, but now remain extremely segregated along those same geographic lines today even after those policies have been eliminated? Is that systemic racism?

Disclaimer: This is mostly exploring a society where racism (as it is traditionally defined) has been completely removed. This isn't what we have (we both agree on this point), but the exercise is still useful in theory.

Assuming all such policies are removed, I would confidently say "no" for lots of reasons. Firstly, integration doesn't happen the moment racist forces are removed. Minority groups can and often do self-segregate for reasons that no reasonable person would identify as anti-minority racism (e.g., the social stability in a shared culture, hatred for people who look like historical oppressors [I guess this one is racism, but not one that is talked about under the rubric of 'systemic racism'], etc). Secondly, all else equal, a system in which wealth grows linearly would still see a growing disparity between disparate races even apart from racism; this is not desirable, but it's still not "systemic racism" in any meaningful sense. Thirdly, there are economies of scale to be had by participating in the majority culture, privileging those who've integrated over those who haven't--if you remove barriers to integration and some minority groups haven't integrated, they're at a disadvantage. Some might argue that this is systemic racism because the system privileges one group over another, but it's only related to race insofar as races tend to correlate with cultures, and also because it is a universal cultural reality completely divorced from any racist motive. Lastly, (by definition) different cultures make different decisions in different distributions--if some cultures make decisions that lead to poorer outcomes even if those cultures are the manifestation of historical oppression, it's still not systemic racism if all active forces of racism have been removed from the system.

Of course, all of this goes out the window if "the system" encompasses minority cultures and "racism" is allowed to mean "any disparity between races"; however, no one uses it in that sense, or at least every time a moderate or conservative brings up one of these "different choices -> different outcomes" possibilities, legions of university professors and other esteemed progressives shout them down, "no, it's systemic racism!" implying that "systemic racism" excludes cultures that choose their own disparities.

Of course, this whole semantic exploration is testament to the ambiguous nature of the term.
if there's a way out of paying it other than default that's an interesting notion. option-pricing models are a bit more complex than accounting seems to like though. seems like an opportunity for a data-vendor or hedge fund: option pricing of leases for improved valuation models. hmm...
> A programmer who is 40 today was born in 1977, and they could learn to program while they were in diapers.

oh, those 1st world countries...
I disagree.

Im primarily a Java monkey, but used django and django REST in a few side projects and was developing much faster. This includes picking up python3 as i went along. The end result was i wished Java had its own version of django.
Rob Pike's Fantastic Intro to Upspin
So puzzle me this - Twitter, FB, etc. are profitable because of user's data. Flexing power beyond the normal, even beyond government for that matter, to impose "morality" on users & the content they generate, which, mind you, is the source of their income, and existence is insanity.

That said, we need to take back control from the big platforms & corporations - dominant channels of public discourse shouldn't be subject to random whims & fancies, regardless of public/private ownership. You don't want to see Nazi content on Twitter, don't follow Nazis. Or, request a content filter from Twitter, though that still doesn't eliminate Nazis from the world - it just puts you deeper in your echo chamber. But punitive action against people you disagree with is simply unacceptable!
And what's the cost of those busses plus charging infrastructure and the risk of new technology versus overhead power lines like what's deployed throughout much of San Francisco, for example?
Generally I use screen (tmux can also work), and make each screen be titled to the file it has vim opened to. It's not a tree, but representing my files as a tree seems counter-productive to me -- I don't care where my files are, just what they are.
Not only is it a native recruitment piece, but it's telling that they didn't talk about total compensation.
>>electrons and positrons
They've confirmed that they will be building extensions for other browsers and expanding BAT beyond the Brave browser. The Brave browser is, of course, the first proving ground and lets them implement the full platform without API limitations, but they've confirmed that insofar as the extension APIs are supportive, they will make extensions.

(And you can still make extensions that offer partial functionality, such as the a BAT wallet for donations, but without the whole BAT Ads platform built in. You would get full functionality in apps that integrate BAT with the SDKs or if you use Brave itself.)

They're also offering SDKs for other apps: e.g., mobile apps, smart TV apps, etc.

See this post: https://basicattentiontoken.org/driving-user-adoption-and-ex...
> If they don't execute they will go out of business

Well this is exactly the concern. Tesla seems to be struggling to execute on their plan to build Model 3s.
Well typically that's the point of an embargo, not a perpetual gag order. Though I can see how "we left an AWS directory open" might be embarrassing to have announced to the public, regardless of whether they had time to fix it.
They've confirmed that they will be building extensions for other browsers and expanding BAT beyond the Brave browser. The Brave browser is, of course, the first proving ground and lets them implement the full platform without API limitations, but they've confirmed that insofar as the extension APIs are supportive, they will make extensions.

(And you can still make extensions that offer partial functionality, such as the a BAT wallet for donations, but without the whole BAT Ads platform built in. You would get full functionality in apps that integrate BAT with the SDKs or if you use Brave itself. Chromne API gives access to browser history, and making a BAT wallet is pretty easy.)

They're also offering SDKs for other apps: e.g., mobile apps, smart TV apps, etc.

See this post: https://basicattentiontoken.org/driving-user-adoption-and-ex...
Its a bit of both. NSF's budget was cut by ~11%, so it makes sense to pull out of money pits to free up extra funds.
Sure, you can overcome insularity with credentials, but that doesn't mean that insularity doesn't exist. This particular firm has twice as many Seattle U. grads as Harvard grads, so clearly being a local carries substantial weight.
I think a problem is that most parents (in the west) don't have any ideas or opinions about what learning tools are best for their children - Most parents are happy to let the education system decide what's best.

I think most busy parents these days tend to see the school system as an end-to-end automatic education machine; you insert a young uneducated child, put some money in it and several years later an educated adult comes out.

With that mindset it's easy to see why it's better to do deals directly with schools than trying to get the attention of the parents.
I don't think that is right. They participate in other people's lawsuits as additional council. The don't just give money to other council.
> Sam has said that he won't cut Thiel for political ties. Thiel is cut.

Curiously, that doesn't follow. The article happens not to contain any evidence that it was YC that "cut" ties, nor indicates when the working relationship ended or for what reason.
There are plenty of CRUD positions on Wall Street. If one wanted to get into a "strats" type role maybe it would be easier to just join as a regular Sr. Engineer. Get paid above avg salary to write web services or whatever, learn domain knowledge in a less stressful manner, and figure out a way to get into the group you really want internally.
I sympathize with this viewpoint, but I need to play devil's advocate a little, to highlight the problems with predictive diagnoses:

Most Americans with this genotype go on to develop late-onset dementia.

Let's say "most" is 90%. Let's also say the accuracy of this test is (and I don't know if this is realistic or not) 98%.

Does the 11.8% chance of no dementia on a positive result give me enough to follow through with a plan? For me, no, though I appreciate attitudes would vary.
This Amazon seller lost $400,000 in sales after being attacked by rival brand
Modern Corvettes, and classic Porsche 911 Targas all have similar roofs. They are less practical, but lighter, and sell well.
I agree, Gawker was awful and deserved to die for many reasons.

But it's important to remember that the judgement was only the death blow -- defending the lawsuit was what gave them a slow death. Even if Gawker was right and won, they still would have died.
Lil Pump is kind of a joke among rap fans, so it's kind of bewildering to see a serious defense of him.
I thought I saw some threads a while back saying that tethers had been audited, and the speculation that they were not actually backed wasn't true. Am I imagining that?
In my experience it depends on what you love about coding. I happen to really like systems, and building a good team is much like building a resilient system in code. Each piece supports the others.

But it is not a good idea if you really are passionate about the writing. For example, my daughter majored in English because she wants to write novels, not because she wants to teach English. So in her case I certainly wouldn't tell her to go get a job as an English teacher.

In my opinion, the second worst kind of manager is one that doesn't want to be a manager and would rather stay an individual contributor. Their inner conflict is harmful to the group.
> Clearly, a guy with lots of experience with and deep knowledge of the Oracle database could do pretty well for himself 10 years ago

A guy with lots of experience and deep knowledge of databases in general, though, would do pretty well for himself both 10 years ago, and today. Even better if he worked on some database himself. Really, that's what owning a domain means: you don't want 10 years of experience as a _user_ of some technology, you want that experience as a _builder_ of said technology.
He also funded [1] videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlWKm01cauc

Things like these rot our society to the core by creating class and race divisions. I am very proud of YC for having distanced itself from Thiel, I just wish they were more vocal about it and that they'd done it earlier.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Support_for_politi...
are you sure? how likely is it that an engineer in a technology firm makes 7 figures? I mean what sort of position do you need to have to get there?
I'm sorry, but that's not objective. Some people may prefer emacs, others may prefer vim, others may prefer notepad++ or intellij. And by saying things like this or responding them, you're just feeding the fire. Just let people use what they want.
Electronic samples are the new guitars.
And there's me, the weird guy using dein.
> Education IS important, but college is just a means, not an end.

It's pretty well understood that both Gates' and Zuckerberg's success is owed in part to their parents' means (pun intended) and what it afforded them early in life, including attendance at elite private schools and living in prosperous, stable communities, and attending, though not graduating from, an elite university.

They are hardly examples of poorer people becoming big successes without college.
That's what I figured for the most part. And in some ways I agree, it's hard to value generic programming skill when there's much more important qualities to look for. Makes me kick myself for not exploring more engineering heavy domains when I was in school (I certainly had opportunities).
> Is music dying?

Is that a rhetorical question?

Exhibit A: https://youtu.be/-toRUB2ctcY
Critical thinking, vbscript, SCSS, Ruby, Rails, Flash ActionScript (!), JS, Photoshop, Lightroom, my camera, lenses, and strobes, Nonviolent Communication.
People are overpaying for housing (cash offers 20% over asking), and turning them into expensive rentals (mostly Airbnb) to pay for the extra cost. In that sense, people are absolutely setting their own ceiling on cost of housing.

Also, in order to cope with rising costs from new residents, property taxes have risen 35% in the last 4 years [0]. Part of the rent increases are just to cover the property tax. These taxes are voted in by the people.

(Source: I have friends who have purchased homes here, others who work in real estate, and I do tech things for property management companies.)

[0]: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/property-t...
I suspect that this should really be thought of as, "The biggest buying opportunity, ever!" in the guitar market.
I don't think you have a good understanding of BAT. They are aiming for high quality ads that aren't spammy. The ads will be displayed in something like a private ad tab, and won't be put in in-page slots. So, if you don't want to look at the private ad tab, then it's logically equivalent to not seeing ads. If you want to and be compensated for it, then the option is there. What's wrong with having more options?

Secondly, Brendan Eich already confirmed that there is a 70% revenue share for users. Let's pretend the advertiser is paying 10 cents per view, then you would get 7 cents per ad watched. 70% is a lot.

Thirdly, even if it's just a few cents, it's better than nothing. Things build up over time. Before you know it, you'll have a few $. That's awesome. You can get a month of subscription on a ton of websites for like $3. That's also 3 songs on iTunes store, or a paid app on the app store.
It’s intriguing to me that this is so, given that most of the point of writing native code these days (rather than targeting some managed-native system like the CLR) is to optimize hot loops, and one of the best optimizations for hot loops is to get them to fit entirely into a cache line. Do compilers for C/FORTRAN/etc. not have any mode or pragma to indicate that you’re attempting to get this performance benefit from a given function-and-its-dependencies?
This is a very well written article but I think it's less about Chess, and more about the ideal of being able to learn anything, and with a short amount of time, upload that learning directly into the brain. Matrix style, or at least Limitless. Chess is an extraordinary complex game for humans, and I give Max many points for having both the audacity, and mental fortitude to try it.
I know it's from the article, but the expression "Accelerate Electrons just below the speed of light" tells you pretty much nothing. An electron travelling at .9 the speed of light has 1.1 MeV of energy.

Nature seems to be down, so I can't access the abstract, but the google tagline has the following.

'Photons emitted above 100 MeV as a function of target width, for 1 × 109 incident electrons of energy 500 MeV (blue), 1 GeV (black) and 2 GeV (red).'

A table for comparison

.9 1.1 MeV
.99 3.6 MeV
.999 11 MeV
.9999 36 MeV
.99999 114 MeV
.999999 361 MeV
.9999999 1.14 GeV

So it's somewhere in the .999999c-.999999999c. Assuming that snippet was accurate. The LHC gets particles up to the TeV range, but, as the name suggests, they are much larger particles. An actual particle physicist can probably tell you more about whether it is significantly harder to get the much lighter Electron (and associated radiation losses) up to those energies.

SLAC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAC_National_Accelerator_Labo...) apparently can get electrons up to 50 GeV, so if those energies from the snippet are the target ones, that part should be achievable.
On DVD-audio, there's R.E.M. released an album using spatial audio on Blu-Ray: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/11/spatial-audio-is-the-...
I'm not sure how to answer the question. How would you answer the equivalent question about finance? It's not like working in finance guarantees you 7 figures. I know plenty of people on both the engineering side and the trading side who never made more than 2-300k.

If you want specific examples from tech then the Waymo article from a while back is helpful, but that doesn't mean that you need to work at Waymo or Google to get there, although a large portion of those roles are at Google-tier companies.

Your average agency will not be hiring pure developers and paying them 7 figures, although they might to someone who is generating revenue and bringing in enough business to justify it.
A fraudster managed to devise a scheme to get famous,probably thinking his new found fame will net him some money.Weird WSJ is promoting this individual and that Magnus accepted his bogus "challenge".
Hey, you support Ed25519! Only some of the time -- I'd bet your PowerDNS resolvers support it but your Unbound ones don't -- but you might be the first public recursive DNS provider to support Ed25519 at all.

(Recent versions of Unbound do support it, but you might be running an older version or missing the right dependency.)

(Example zone: ed25519.nl.)
Yes, you make good points. A distinction should be made between junior 35+ people and 35+ people with at least a decade of experience.

But I don't think that's exclusively a software engineering issue. If I tried to become an electrician at 40, my guess is I'd encounter some bias, though probably less than in software.

One other thing: by "BigCorps", I'm referring to things like banks, Wal-Mart and so forth, not technology companies like eg Google.
> Do you play football with people who dont like to eat what you like?

I appreciate that trivialising the issues to score cheap slippery slope points is de rigueur these days but you must surely see the yawning dichotomy between "people who don't like to eat what you like" and "people who believe other people are lesser beings less deserving of rights, money, health, protections"
Those moments are always awesome and a great feeling :)
Ah, I was at Clever a day or two after this – what a cool experience! Also thanks to their team for teaching me Bughouse.
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