skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They really should pass legislation is protect older workers. If they protect transgender people from discrimination, they can protect their older workers who have done everything they were told to do and are being punished.
I like the ligatures too, but I found it was slowing my terminal down too much. YMMV
I wonder if this is less a result of a newer OS, and more a result of the reported slowing of the CPU, due to a bad/old battery. Try replacing the battery and seeing if that speeds things up
Yes. Because then I know I'm actually typing into the password box and not the username box which will be shown in plaintext once the monitor wakes up.
Only if he's illegally conducting official business on it.
Ok, I'm not an expert here, but you have several options available to you when determining your scheduler topology. What you'd want to look at if you really want to make sure to bind your dirty scheduler to a particular core is the +sbt option[1]. However, that's probably not a setting I'd tweak lightly—the OS in general and BEAM in particular is going to do a better job at that than you are under most circumstances.

There is definitely a cost to using the dirty scheduler, and if your NIFs don't need it, you're going to be paying the overhead for nothing. But obviously there's a plethora of uses for them when integrating with libraries that don't play nice with chunked work.

http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl.html#+sbt
Oops, I didn't realize that. Thanks. Mine implementation supports a bounded (max concurrency) mode, though!
I tell people, look around. Think of every single electricity powered device you interact with or pass by in a day. Someone is doing development work on a lot of those. It's not always flashy work, but it's darn interesting work.
Signal, the service is centralized, but there's no reason that Signal, the protocol can't be. In fact before Moxie went on his silly "only I can do security right" rampage, Signal was federated with a server hosted by CyanogenMod.
I don't know much about licenses: is Matrix and/or the protocol safe from Facebook, Google and co to pull the same thing again? Feels like EEE is inevitable when these companies allocate resources to provide a better UI/UX and benefits in their own services.
>Sever folks
Did you mean several?
Sorry, those 3500 recipients could not have known that you're 41 and tossed the application on that basis. There is just some problem other than the one you imagine.

> I used to mainly work in support, from 1st/2nd/3rd line to sysadmin, systems design and spec, network architect, everything. I do Windows, Linux, Mac OS, networking, comms, some programming knowledge, training, all sorts. But I'm too old to get work as a techie.

Across all the organizations where I have ever worked, I remember plenty of "old" guys doing this kind of IT stuff.

With that background, it's probably going to be hard to apply for anything different. Hundreds of applications but very low interview rate sounds like some sort of insurmountable mismatch between background and job. Or something silly in your application that is raising some sort of "red flag" for no good reason. If your age or date of birth aren't in the application, then that can't be it.
Not many Subaru enthusiasts that I've talked to want the BRZ to continue. It's a fun little car, but since it is not AWD it just doesn't really feel like a Subaru and the fact that it is also sold as a Toyota and a Scion really detracts from it.

I expect it to continue being a naturally aspirated engine with no STI badging, but I may be surprised.
Don't have a perfect answer for you here, but I would recommend you check out a book called "Deep Work" by Cal Newport. The book is primarily concerned with focus and how to get more out of it. It's backed by both anecdotes and research. I think you would find it interesting given your question.

With that said, I'm not sure it's "possible" to do cognitively demanding tasks for 6 hours in a row with a 5 minute break after the 4th hour. At work I notice that my coworkers and I have a difficult time focusing intensely after 2 or 3 hours. There comes a point when all you get are diminishing returns. At that point I find it useful to switch tasks completely for an hour or so, to something less cognitively demanding, like administrative things I have to do as an employee.
Commenters are being overly critical. Isn't ~80k when people get to a point of "relaxment". I'd say "high pay" would start there.
I'm not sure what "reader" means here.
I'm over that hill and I also got on the consulting train a few years back. It's funny because I sometimes get recruiters calling me with good jobs (high salary, unlimited vacation, interesting projects) and I respond with, "Sure, but you'll have to double the pay and give me six months off per year to match what I have right now."

Never looking back.
"We" is global human population growth. Trend is no longer exponential, since ~1970, but it is still growing linearly.

UN historical & projected data:

https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/1_Demographic%20Profiles/...

https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/
I hit 40 this year and when I was in college it was full of people going into programming due to the pay. A lot of the people that did it for pay alone did not last long. Programming is very frustrating if it does not click and you enjoy the challenge. Now, granted the best system admins, system engineers and support people I know used to program full time until it was too much. They could carry that knowledge to related IT jobs and be very successful.
> Are you really

No.
Warning: this kind of poll is prone to selection bias.
# of daily transactions: https://charts.bitcoin.com/chart/daily-transactions

Hard to know if it's a purchase or a transfer. I think it's impossible to answer that question right now. In Japan merchants accept bitcoin pretty much everywhere, people buy cars with bitcoins, coffee, etc. unlike in the US where most of the transactions are for transfers.
This comment got me Googling and I was amazed that I couldn't find a good, canonical list of programming languages.

The best I could find was a Wikipedia page, they're sorted by alpha which I find not very useful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages

Does anyone know of a better resource?
If it has, then their pay should markedly be rising, and maybe it is. I know I'm paying a lot more for labor in the past few years than before. The difference is, however, that it has to pay enough extra to offset the luxuries of a stable 9-5 office job or what have you, and this could be a lagging indicator.

But do many people want to tell their kid that they're probably not good enough to compete for the cushy jobs, and that they should go for the trades instead?
There are several projects, but the largest is basically a very large specialized content platform. Many sites that have to be fast with no downtime - so Go, K8s, CockroachDB. We also have some machine learning (that's why we kept the Python). Also a few fun, small Raspberry Pi / GoBot things around the office.
If they keep screening out A level candidates and are forced to hire C level candidates because they studied the prescreen questions and are the only group left. You will find competent employees but you are not getting the best anymore.
You can't compare US wages to Sweden and the UK. Those countries have robust health care and high quality public education. In the US you're going to pay a lot for those things (or go without and really suffer).
In retrospect, do you think if instead of the 2000 applications you did in 2009, you had highly targeted maybe 1 position a week, with personalized letters, tweaked resume, and friendly follow up, you might have had success? 2009 was the worst year for employment I’ve ever seen, so maybe there truly were no options for you.
And the 50k worker in the story is 20 years old. I'm sure he has a lot of potential salary growth.
I work with senior engineers who are in their late 20s, and mid level devs in their 40s - I feel like the idea that a career path always has to have an upward trajectory is a bit of a farce - there are a lot of companies full of people who have kids, are competent, but don’t really want to take on the extra responsibility and time.
it's good for management I've been told :)
"Your Oreos are too sweet and your Chips Ahoy are too dry; the offerings at your local CVS are no good. You have been lied to. These candies do not suffice as guilty pleasures, and you did not choose them freely. You chose them under the duress of false consciousness. Perhaps Mondelez realizes that the sweet taste of Proper Cadbury would awaken in American consumers the knowledge that capitalism doesn’t provide everyone those ideals of choice and excellence, but merely a veneer of freedom and indulgence. Hershey’s sued the major importers of British Cadbury not just because it wanted to continue selling substandard chocolate to the masses, but because it wants to maintain the lie that Americans are empowered by individualistic capitalism to choose whatever chocolate they want, when in fact it crushes their taste buds to the point that they cannot even imagine a better, sweeter world."

People might have different tastes.

Hershey's lawsuit against Cadbury was due to intellectual property rights being violated.

Please stop this communist nonsense.
It's almost impossible to sue for age discrimination and win. All they have to do is lay off 1 person in their 20s at the time they laid off their older workers and they claim innocence and it works.
More evidence that the labor market doesn’t fit the traditional supply/demand economic theory. The ongoing trucker shortage is another example.
Hehe, I stayed in Chungking Mansions a couple of years ago and it's definitely an experience!
Cleartype accounts for monitor rotation (although admittedly, only as long as all your monitors are rotated the same way).
This is nearly exactly the same set of questions I was asked for an SRE position. My favorite of which, was 'what is not in a linux inode'. That was the full question. My answer was sarcastic, and it didn't land well. Who interviews the interviewers?
Wow thousands of jobs! Could you explain:

* How do you even send that many applications? Is there some site where you can click thousands of checkboxes and apply? Do you send individual emails?

* What modifications do you make when applying from job-to-job?

* What adjustments did you make along the way? Did you change your resume or make any other major changes to how you were presented?

* For how many of those jobs did you proceed to an interview?
What Happens When Your Bomb-Defusing Robot Becomes a Weapon
Analyzing a dataset – the Step1 of Machine Learning which often gets overlooked
Bay Area or elsewhere?
On the other hand, there's a stigma to being a programmer:

https://www.damemagazine.com/2014/05/23/amazon-killing-my-se...
The best chocolate I ever had was from a small chocolatier in a tiny one room building in Elm Springs, Arkansas. He had been a Christian missionary in eastern Africa, and ended up helping to build and develop cacao farming there.

He came back to the states and started ordering beans from the farms he helped start and making bean to bar chocolate here.

The point is that big factory Chocolate is a different thing entirely. Cadbury, Hershey's, it is all shit.
Breakthrough in quantum entanglement that could enable teleporting
Matt Green has a very readable critique of this proposal here:

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/04/26/a-few-th...

Edit: My own take is that the proposed scheme is nothing particularly special, but the article's criticism of the crypto(graphy) and security community's approach to this problem is pretty well spot-on.
Once you're in, you can likely shop around after X amount of time. That's how it works at my non-Google tech company
Many of them don’t have a back or the back slides out the only thing you need is to unscrew a few screws often wood screws since hotels love screwing them to a shelf in the closet.

Master passkeys also work on most safes.
They’re getting there with MIOpen etc. It’ll take some more time, but I’m sure they can pull it off. In terms of raw perf their GPUs are comparable.
What was your first BS? What prevented you from getting a better degree or going to a better university?
Any suggestions for someone who has never taken/read philosophy but would like to dip their toe into it?
Anecdotally, it seems that a lot of the 40+ engineers turn into "architects". Not sure if that still counts as a "programmer" by this article's definition.
I wrote this and am commenting for context. I'm hoping to find those who get why its important and possess the skills and capacity to get this up and running.

Cheers!
Yet somehow managers are usually dicks.
I want a reporter to ask him about that, or his spokeswoman. What kind of tortured justification can they give?
Maybe it once was, but the curtain has be lifted at least for some majors.

There's no prestige in underemployment/no-employment after graduation. Everyone knows someone for whom you attended their graduation party and then six months later they're still working retail..

"around 44% of college graduates ages 22 to 27 work in jobs that do not require a college degree. "
https://www.forbes.com/sites/prestoncooper2/2017/07/13/new-y...
The Face of Distracted Driving
Interesting, I got the exact opposite experience with junior developers. They often try to design a system top-down. Fail to do so well enough because they don't have enough experience from the bottom up.
As a professional welder and mechanic (redseal), the title makes it sound as if a trade is simply a 4 year apprenticeship and off you go to a high paying job. It's no where near that, you have to be skilled at what you do if you want to make the high end (~$75/h) just like any job.
Never tried mlterm before... it's insanely fast.
How I built a private package repository for our organisation
Some of these people are farmers living in Bumblefuck, IO, though, where $31,000 can mean you live like a king.
Talk all you want about taste preferences, but just like we have restrictions on what you can call "chicken wings" and "Champagne" (as compared to "chicken wyngz" and "sparkling wine"), so too should there be restrictions on what you can call chocolate.

You can still have your American Hershey bar, it's just not chocolate, it's candy. It's too bad the Swiss or whoever didn't secure "chocolate" like France did for champagne.
OpenCL is not a disaster at all. It is just that NVidia were (and still are) too scared to have people move away from their proprietary solutions, so they tried to hide OpenCL has much as they could and only pushed Cuda.

Even today OpenCL is a viable solution for GPU. It works fine on both AMD and NVidia GPUs. It is also pushed a lot by Intel for FPGA, which probably scare even more NVidia.

OpenCL kernels are compiled at runtime, which is brilliant since you can change the kernels code at run time, use constants in the code at the last moment, unroll, etc.. which can gives better performances. (Nvidia only introduced the possibility of having runtime compilation as a preview in Cuda 7!)

The "single source" argument is completely overrated. Furthermore, you can have single source in OpenCL putting the code in strings.
>This particular set of questions seems closer to standard non-leadership SRE questions.

OK, you've established your credentials, and cast a bit of doubt on the accuracy of everything in the linked post by pointing out a likley inaccuracy about the actual position.

But at no point do you claim that the phone screen didn't actually go like that. Nor do you offer defense of a call that did go like that.

And isn't that the part of the post that really matters? If that retelling of the call is even 30% true, Google flubbed it. Hard.
Oh man, I am curious how that is. I used to do in-home tech work when I was much much younger like 20ish. I didn't realize it then, but thinking back on those experiences I often had housewives that were creating their own websites, um... flirting with me... I'm kinda glad I didn't notice... then.. So now I'm curious, do you see that?
You're not supposed to be able to access any and every government communication. You're not supposed to know what the nuke codes are, or when there's an undercover mission in progress, or [insert punchline here].

Presumably, if there's an investigation, they just force the government employee to give up the keys.
OP here - and I agree. 2009 was a worst-case scenario.
Very efficient indeed! I would guess the wide bottom shelves hold double rows at least. If I use my own meagre collection of not even 1000 books as a guide, I would estimate that that room can hold about 20000 books if used as efficiently as possible.

That room looks blissfully comfortable.
a lot of the buildings are in southern california. i walk by the equitable building all the time. =)
Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change
Doesn't even mention Ada...
For one key, in isolation, agreed, not likely.

However, for a string of them? Yeah, could be a factor. My own trigger was mere awareness.

Just knowing it couldbe latent to excess triggered that tensing, like "stay ready."

All I'm saying is its plausible. People can, do, will respond very differently to these kinds of things. Worth investigation.
Ask HN: Why is nature so brutal
A fairly decent team could have designed a more empathetic circle of life. Maybe lack of designers and outsourced/finished hurriedly?
Maybe I'm biased towards doctors in bigger/richer cities, but when I'm looking for investors, my first stop is doctors. Even the loans of a few hundred thousand are no problem for them to slay, especially since many get married to other similar high earners.

I don't know the most reliable sites for stating pay for doctors, but in my experience these numbers are accurate:

https://careertrend.com/starting-salary-doctors-right-out-re...

http://time.com/4408807/surgeon-salary-how-much-doctors-make...
FWIW my next “office” PC is based on an AMD Ryzen APU. Price/perf of that can’t currently be beat by anything.
Programming has a very low barrier to entry compared to those other careers. If you are bright enough and determined then you do not need a formal education to do well in SW development.
There is a phonetic Russian keyboard, but i don't know of anyone other than foreigners who can't be bothered to actually learn anything using it. Everybody else uses typewriter layout. I would be very surprised if it were any different in Bulgarian.
The Xbox has used this type of thing to stop hacks forever
follow up: do you know that everyone is a mutant?
Wow thanks, will check. I had trouble with gradle build, I think because was latest version with intellij.
> discrimination not truly based on age, but on stagnation

I can't speak in general, but I have observed in my circles that this is at least somewhat true, and for altogether natural reasons.

Most people, once they hit their late 30s or 40s, family (if they have one) takes priority and they don't have as much time to dedicate to going to Meetup groups, conferences or late nights spent gaining proficiency in new technologies. In general having kids vastly reduces one's free time.

Knowing a technology deeply requires many hours of intentional practice, commitment and energy, which many if not most people in that age range with families don't have a lot of at their disposal. Their "tech growth rate" slows down considerably relative to when they were in their 20s.

For example, I've noticed many SQL DBAs of a certain age have a hard time learning distributed databases because they often expect something familiar (databases are databases, right?) yet find themselves having to bone up on so many new concepts (that CS degree was so long ago) that many give up. Only the truly dedicated, truly passionate and truly nerdy persist, but they are in the minority. A common refrain heard is that "there's just too much new stuff coming out all the time, you can't learn everything", which is true, but it's often also an oft-employed excuse for not dedicating oneself to being current.

So when most average tech folks hit 50, they have pretty much lost about 1-1.5 decades of high-rate tech learning.
Fair point, yet here I was, thinking I was reading a website...
To be fair, though, we do have a field that seems to shift it so that depth of knowledge is not nearly as important for your pay as recency of it. This is obviously skewed towards the we b/"full stack" world view.
I assumed the "she" was you as I hadn't read the article yet. So I was referring to you in my comment. As for the comparisons with Lindt 90%, just stop. Choose a lindt product that's a similar % to dairy milk. Here you go: https://www.lindtusa.com/wcsstore/LindtStorefrontAssetStore/...
Reminds me of the 10-year long game of Civilization II.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/uxpil/ive_been_play...
Do people do anything to prevent, or delay, the knees, shoulder, or back issues?
By the same token, student debt is a serious burden to bear if college is just a backup plan. "Get a degree" too often means "get a bachelor's in any old subject from a private college" rather than "get an associate degree with a clear career path from a local accredited community college or technical school".

Young people aren't given a clear picture of their options. A bachelor's degree is often treated like a golden ticket to the middle class, rather than a very expensive and often questionably useful qualification.
First part:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16894706
Perhaps you don't work with non-user-hostile software, but you definitely want constant security updates for an internet connected device.

No reason for constant feature updates to keep the cyber world secure. It's a shame some software vendors bundle them together inseparably.
> I was talking about the terminology PG used

What now is called 'embedded domain specific language' was called 'embedded language' in Lisp. The name is slightly shorter, but the concept is/was the same.
Those people living on minimum wage in big cities tend to have a lifestyle we don't even want to talk about. They tend to be immigrants who cram themselves with a large group into tiny apartments where everybody sleeps in the same room.

If you don't want to do that you're going to end up paying way more, hence barely getting by with $55k.
how many cans of beer can you fit in a school bus parked inside of a datacenter on the moon?
Has the Time Arrived for the Strongman Biz Leader?
Here is often what is found in candies and cookies nowadays.

* High fructose corn syrup glycemic index 100 vs normal sugar glycemic index 70. The higher the glycemic index the sweeter the product tastes. High fructose corn sugar is a biproduct from subsidized corn production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose

* Palm oil(Cancergenic) https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/160503-0. Palm oil is cheap so manufacturers use it everywhere but it is cancergenic.

The next time you are in the supermaket, twist the label and read the contents. You will be surprised how hard its to find good products. When I surved the local online super market store only about 3 candys out of 100 had ok content ie not High fructose corn syrup or Palm oil.