skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not a good comparison to the situation. Cars and outer space have nothing to do with each other at all. Whereas the number of transactions is directly impacted by the available size on the block that they consume.
What's wrong with worshiping her? Everyone has heroes. Carrie seems like one of the better ones.
Age discrimination happens because your line manager doesn't want a more experienced and higher skilled person reporting to him. You might end up replacing him.
I've always been a control freak. Long before ABP I used ipfw to block ads at home. I remember having to use Opera on my poor laptop because Firefox was becoming too bloated to run.

And Opera at that time had ads in the INTERFACE of the browser. So blocking those at the router level left big blank spaces in the interfaces that were more satisfying to me than ads.

So I'll give this guy credit because I used his plugin, but not too much credit when you sell out to the people you've basically made a business model out of blocking.

Like many others I've switched to ublock and I'm a control freak so I also use noscript extensively.

For many years now the browser has been the number one threat to the average internet user so I firmly believe in noscript.

You should in fact take it even further and use qubes os.
If billions of computers become vulnerable to malicious actors and a few hundred or thousand people suffer dramatic personal damages, well that's a nice and quiet problem which will be quickly forgotten in the 24-hour news cycle.

This. I do development coaching and training. I’m totally burned out because my job doesn’t matter. These companies don’t care. They hire me to “increase code quality” but that ends up being a lie. They just use me to get their teams to crank out shit faster, and I do mean “shit”. They don’t care if the systems blow up a few times a year or once a week. Banks, oil companies, airlines, all of them. They loose millions because of it too, still it doesn’t matter. No one (in leadership) gives a fuck. “Just make this quarter’s goal” is all that matters.

Fucking equifax for crying out loud, NO CONSEQUENCES. If this isn’t ironic enough do some googling on why Equifax is named such. tl;dr This isn’t their first rodeo. They once fucked up so big they had to change their name.

Sucking at software only has consequences in a few industries, usually ones where the product is software, the product is discretionary, and the customer is fickle. Even then it usually sucks.

These same companies are audit conscious (about money), they’re crazy about regulatory compliance, and workplace harassment. Why? These things have real consequences.

The sooner some company gets fined one year’s profit or an exec goes to jail the sooner this shit will actually matter to them.
If you earn that much, you'll most likely have to be in the bay area, probably the peninsula.

Most of the spending goes to housing and groceries. When you spend 3 million+ on a extra crappy house with a leaky rough and 1500 sq ft in palo alto, do you see what i mean?

Penninsula house prices are roughly 1-2.5 million now, and the lower range ones are pretty crappy, often in a bad neighborhood.
Indeed. When you see some of the waste that goes on - whole projects going in the wrong direction and having to be largely reworked. And the people in charge will never admit they made an error in how they set up teams, and that it's the 'greyhairs' getting involved and rescuing projects over and over again.
The first rule of Tautology club is the first rule of Tautology club.

https://xkcd.com/703/
I presume you wouldn't hire someone who expresses a strong distaste for your software stack, regardless of age (unless their job is specifically to replace it).
CRISPR: The Next Hearing-Loss Treatment?
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Well, we're (Haiku) still the snappiest OS around, and while we're continuously playing catch-up, there are a number of people who do use it as their daily driver. Don't give up hope yet. :)
That was over ten years ago. The Apple of 2017 is a totally different company, and I don't think they're capable of pulling this off.
Hey man, 40 is young!
So basically it does what’s reasonable to protect your hardware. Not really worthy of the ominous clickbait title here.
Not OP, but my guess is that videos autoplay on feeds (FB and twitter for example) but without sound. Therefore, burning in the subtitles is kind of a hacky way to engage users.
Indeed! Over time I've become more and more aware (and proud) of the things I left out. As a young programmer, I would be far more proud of the things I included.

The shipped project is one branch of an extremely large tree of possibilities which a younger, less experienced programmer would have taken a very long time to explore and discard (which I know for certain because I was that programmer).
When I saw this topic pop up on HN, I instinctively went to check my CodeSponsor dashboard and saw no activity.

Didn't think too much of it and came back here and saw the news :( That's too bad Github decided against continuing the service, it's such a great way for developers to maintain their roles and still provide a bit of funding. Good luck on your next version!
> The rate of change of technological progress is increasing

Well, the rate of change seems to be high. Whether it's "progress" is another matter. Progress usually implies change, but the reverse is not at all necessarily true.

Who's usually in a position to recognize that and be a judge of it? People with experience.

So the question I'd ask is this: when someone with experience doesn't like change, is it because they've "crystalized"? Or is it because they have some defensible reason for disliking the change?

If it might be both, how would someone be able to tell the difference?
To be fair, Netflix has increased prices about once a year for the past few years, and all price increases were announced 6+ months ahead of time. This price increase doesn't have anything to do with net neutrality, it has to do with funding their increasingly debt-fueled content production.
Haiku isn't Be, we're free to be necrophiliacs. :P
...and a counter for how many times a new stream started so that you can send warnings to an account for bad behavior?

...and then the customer complaining that their poorly-behaving device keeps getting interrupted?

Disrupt the oldest one, sure, but make sure to have some sort of clear indication of what happened and why.
I wanted to pontificate about how I don't hire like that etc etc however, I'll simply make the observation that an advertisement in a news paper or on a bill board is open to all.

Just because you can, does not mean you should. Most countries have fairly strict discriminatory laws. This falls afoul of the lot. You should not be able to use an advertising platform to pre-filter your applicants.

If you think I'm wrong then substitute "skin colour" or "disabled" or "sex" for "age" in this discussion. Substitute a combination of all of those ...

This is wrong. So wrong that the perpetrators should be considered criminal.
There was some project which was going to do that, using the MinnowBoard Max (x86-based): https://twitter.com/20thABBx -- but we haven't heard from them in over a year now :(
I just wish they'd been more transparent - perhaps a message in the battery section of settings saying "your performance may be impacted because of your degraded battery. It's recommended you replace it" or something.

New batteries are $119AU which I think is a reasonable price to pay after two years or so.

Everyone knows components in cars need replacing, including batteries, so I think people can be reasoned with in to accepting the same is for consumer goods you want to keep beyond the average phone contract term.
I seem to recall an episode of the A16Z podcast where Adrian Cockcroft of Netflix explained they were top heavy on senior engineers when they began moving to microservices. Didn’t seem to slow them down but I could be misremembering.
> has been a staple of the internet since about 2007

Because 2007 is when Youtube started up.
> only seems to make the problem worse as some recruiters send multiple follow up pings.

It’s an amusing problem, so many bozo recruiters – – only one of you. If you ever aspire to a leadership role; pay attention to the ‘good ones’. You may want to enlist their services to build your team.
There are a couple of things.

There are multiple companies trying to build constellations requiring 1000s of satellites. These are in planning both for communication and for earth imaging.

There are of course ongoing launches for government, GPS, military, NASA supply, probes and so on. There are also many other governments globally that want their own communications, and very often the launch on commercial providers.

Both SpaceX and BlueOrigin have plans to do tourist launches and if the rockets are as reusable as we hope they are, the cost of these could drop where is is at least another piece in the demand that allows the price to drop.

Many of these companies also have their own plans that will require some amount of launches.

Longer terms mining and manufacturing could be interesting as well.

You can find a lot of these analysis all over the place. Of course depending on who is sponsoring them the market is either huge or non existent.
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I believe age discrimination laws are only applicable to those who are 40 years and older.
Oh this is excellent!
But anyone going to Macy's can see the ad.

Please do read some Tufekci. She does a much better job describing this than I do (unsurprising, given she's studied it extensively), and I hesitate from regurgitating her here wholesale. She did a podcast with Sam Harris that I found illuminating, if you prefer that format.

https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/persuasion-and-contro...
In the bio about him, Musk is quoted as asking something along the lines of "How much time do I have to spend with my girlfriend?" If that's your general attitude toward time management, spending time in crowded subways where you can maybe listen to a podcast isn't going to be viewed very favorably.

And that's generally OK. There are good reasons to have just self-time. But public transit doesn't necessarily optimize that time. And for some people that's important.
Let's start removing "old" from the list of things we want to filter out of our workforce. Age discrimination is real and it surfaces in the most insidious ways such that adding it to a list of negative traits just seems natural.
I can’t tell if you’re saying everyone outside software has goofy hobbies and this is nothing worth writing about, or if you’re trying to say that software-based hobbies stop software developers from doing their day jobs and paying the bills related to your list of other humans.
What you won't do however, is work insane hours to get something done because management changed scope or requirements at the last second but kept the deadline. The flavor of agile development that most shops seem to devolve to is one where management gets the part that they can update requirements based on new information, but deadlines are the same and costs need to constantly be cut.

My personal belief is that our industry tends towards less experienced workers because they put up with shit managers more and can be used to cover for their issues. It's anecodtal only, but I have never heard management decide that their deadlines we're improbable if not impossible when bugs get through. It's always just explained away with platitudes about code quality that suddenly dont matter when that requires more money or more time
One hell of a straw man. Bitcoin isn't going to do that. It isn't Ethereum.
I think there was also a complete rewrite at some point. Possibly no SoundJam code remains now?
I've worked with racists that didn't want me around, I can assure you that you are better off without them. There's nothing heroic about forcing pigs out of their slop.

Job ads drop a lot of blatant hints about race, age, gender, religion, and so on. Instead of me wasting my time applying to a job I can't get, I'd rather not see them.

Of course, if you are the crusading type, then please go all the way and get the lawyers on the offending company.
If you're locating a chirper by sound, you're not seriously impaired by the lights being out.

Also, you could use a spotlight. If you shine the spotlight somewhere and the chirp stops or changes, search that area.
It's health care and pensions you silly people. The stereotype (which is massively true in most cases) is that this generation of aging people suck up vast amounts of health care and demand to retire, while young people don't want health care and this generation probably won't get any retirement anyway so no worries.

Do you know how many companies will string along a part time worker, promising full health care after X months, only to fire them if they start demanding benefits? I've seen dozens of cases.
Not every person in a position of make this kind of decision are thinking in the company's best interest.
And their best interest are not always the same as the company.
Younger people don't get discriminated against in a job market as much?
Not the worst Ubuntu version, but I had a lot of issues with the default protocol being Wayland [1].

This broke a few programs I use, [2] mainly the screenshot application "Shutter". Most users don't realise it became the default, so their apps just stopped working... bad decision in my opinion.

[1] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/08/ubuntu-confirm-wayland-de...

[2] https://askubuntu.com/questions/971273/screenshot-feature-of...
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To the best of my knowledge this will be PWAs delivered through the Windows Store. Not for example, Chrome/FireFox/Edge PWAs having better support within Windows.

As to what they'll fix/implement when. I only have my opinion which is - Microsoft has been chasing this dragon for sometime and they love to redefine and confuse terms as they go.

This link is the root of my confirmation bias though -> https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/142649/microsoft...
wow.

instead of fiber to the curb AT&T employees can almost afford an iphone x
Most Linux package managers need root, so that doesn't help if I need to help a random user of a machine.
David makes an important clarification in the comments:

"I think it's important to differentiate between the pricing of the product from Citrix, and the source code licensing model. XenServer (all editions) remains open source, with the ability for anyone to head over to Github and peruse the code, contribute patches, and so forth. What's changing is what features Citrix puts into the free edition that it builds, tests, and maintains; all of those are still open source, though."
I was recently in Vancouver for a month and used transit daily. It's a well oiled machine and not unpleasant to use.

This is in stark contrast to my home city, a more typically north American city: sprawling, car-centric and any transport mode that isn't a motor vehicle is compromised, and transit system exists to punish people for being poor. Even using a car is compromised because of all the other cars, there's a geometry problem there. Nobody is actually saving time, they're just spending lots of money, running people over and generally making a mess. But you do have a nice, protective shell to segregate you from strangers.

My primary experience living in different cities is 'put up with cars or live somewhere else', and I don't even know where this mythical land unsullied by the tyranny of the automobile might be, but I fantasize about it regularly.
The problem is time. They need to launch when they are ready, it would take years for a scientific payload to be designed for this launch. Plus we could not invest so much because the risk.

They should just test it and then the scientists can argue for cheaper and larger projects because they have a rocket option now.
I remember seeing job ads for 5 years of .net experience the year. Net was released
we don't want to filter out, but manage.
I’m not sure I follow you. Unless I’ve read it totally wrong, this thing is basically just xdialog for macOS with some fancy dress-up. I don’t see how it exposes a novel attack vector.
I totally agree that measuring productivity by the amount of working hours is ridiculous.

However, it is important to realize that you are not competing with the 20-somethings or the ones that are fresh out of college. You are competing with the ones that have already a good amount of experience (let's say 7-10 years) but are still in the beginning of their careers.

If they are minimally talented, they will probably produce code just as good as yours, yet they will probably (a) work for less money and (b) still be single and (c) more dedicated to work and (d) more tolerant of bullshit asks from the employer. Those are the ones that eventually fill positions as "Sr. Engineer" and crowd out the older ones.
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That would be great, but they shouldn't use the independent problem of homelessness to malign the public transit system.
Which Linux distro do you recommend for running KVM? Additionally, SmartOS has good support for running KVM virtual machines [1]. It gives good solid stability and integration with ZFS, not sure of the performance though vs Linux. The main downside of SmartOS is somewhat sporadic hardware support (broadcom nic's out, intel nic's in). I prefer SmartOS now where I can, but knowing which Linux distro is useful especially for GPU support.

1: https://www.joyent.com/blog/why-smartos-kvm-dtrace-zones-and...
Sounds a lot like the other old school tech companies as well: IBM/Cisco/HP/Intel/etc...
They are discriminating against age, not experience. A 25-year-old with 10 years of experience (elite teen hacker!) is far more attractive than a 50-year-old with 10 years of experience (second-career washout).
The Register has probably the best analysis on this:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/20/magic_leap/
They support multiple accounts. Maybe you need to contact support.

https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/m...
I was being descriptive of why courts don't effectively adjudicate sexual assault now. I wasn't proposing any particular solution, because it is a hard problem.

As a thought experiment, you can imagine a world where courts are required to give instructions to the jury, telling them that they must always treat an alleged victim's testimony as a 100% accurate representation of the incident. That would make most sexual assault cases slam dunk. And it'd result in more guilty rapists being convicted, and very likely more of them than the number of innocent people falsely accused of rape.

Is that an appropriate use of institutions of justice? I don't think so. And it wouldn't be sustainable, as it'd weaponize accusations in a way that they're not now: you'd rapidly see people abusing it, and see a huge backlash.

But there's not an alternative justice-wise to that, which is why attentions are turned to other institutions that can only offer a slap on the wrist, but a slap on the wrist that can be based on very little evidence. No one is really happy with that reality, but no one has any better ideas.

That's why an epidemiological approach--running tests on everything from lights, to educational programs, to banning hard alcohol at school or work sponsored events--seems like the best way out of this hole to me.
Holding USD is another form of gambling. Buying a house to live in is gambling.

The thing is that USD can be used to pay taxes in April, a house provides you shelter, a share of APPL entitles you to small fraction of the company... And a bitcoin entitles you to a mathematical number, with nothing backing it.
The big problem with this is, we have a situation where Google maps is very obviously inferior, to all competing solutions – even paper maps are now more up to date – and yet, everyone still uses it. Because it’s the default.

That shows just how powerful the advantage of a default app is, and how at this point, Google Maps is entirely without competition just because it is the default.

Not even when Google Maps sucks do people switch away – often because many don’t even know there are alternatives.

(And btw, this issue isn’t just like that in one German city, Google Maps is here like that in many places).
I’m catering tomorrow for the CEO of Comcast. What note should I leave him?
Concerning net neutrality.
How are those two things different?
"The Unix command line is powerful... But interactivity isn't its strong suit."

Right. The reason I use the command line is because I do not want to waste time and energy "interacting" with the computer.

That is what Microsoft Windows, and mobile phone touchscreen based OS are for. GUIs are for interacting.

The command line is non-interactive. That is its strong suit.

Tell the computer precisely what to do, including all the steps, start the process(es) and then sit back and let them run.

The only reason command line is used interactively is because GUIs are just so bad. The command line becomes the refuge for those weary of painfully slow and cumbersome GUIs. But it was never meant as a replacement.

It is only because so many GUIs are so painful for interactive computer use that the command line becomes more appealing -- even for interactive tasks.

Robust, reliable, lightening fast GUIs are few and far between. I leave it to the reader to fill in the reasons.

If robust, reliable, fast GUIs were more abundant, then projects like this would not exist. There would be little interest in using the command line interactively.
Opensource Virus Warfare
Such good writing style AND useful technical content. Why can't all blog posts be this good?
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So the example is: "For example, an employer's reliance on word-of-mouth recruitment by its mostly Hispanic work force may violate the law if the result is that almost all new hires are Hispanic."

In this case the employers probably rely on many sources of candidates, and want to maximize each source. In the end the result is what matters.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? You've done it quite a bit and we eventually ban accounts that do that.

If you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Recruiting for experience or lack of experience is allowable but for example a few years back to keep the DHSS happy and to keep receiving benefits I went to an "Apprentice role" at HMGCC at Hanslope Park :-).

The idea was that HR might think I was over qualified but think I might be worth suggesting for other roles. - BTW this was an avowed role so I am not breaking the OS act

Yes that is the one mentioned in the Laundry files
It's been steadily and continuously improved. Some of the latest improvements still require an insider build but win32 process interaction just works now (in my experience).
Health insurance costs more for old people.