skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed the same trend. As someone who never wants a family it's extremely tiring that the family-first norm is pushed so hard here. It's the last place I would expect it so I'm really curious why that is.
When applying to those roles how did they discover you were 41?
You don't think someone with a pretty rapid response time couldn't tense and relax?

They may just do it when the latency varies.
If you can, what type of code are you writing in Go commercially? Don't worry, you don't have to be specific, I'm just curious =) The libraries have really started to take off for it, and I'm curious if companies are catching up to that, yet.
Manually rebooting flips a bit in the patch, which leads to an eternity of pain and suffering. You have to install the hotfix, then follow the new EULA until sysop performs the shutdown.
Which is typically implemented as a fuse no? I’m struggling to remember my undergrad EE but I think that’s a thing ...

EPROM back in the day used to work like this. You’d use an ultraviolet light to remake all the fuses when you wanted to wipe and start again.

Flash came along then and made these technologies obsolete.
Im a new grad with a couple years of experience via internships/co-op jobs. If i was interested in applying to programming jobs in the medical device industry where would i start looking?
Ask HN: Viability of Google Data Studio vs. competitors
How viable as a business tool is data studio really? Should I give it a try or will I end up going back to other established tools shortly after?
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I understand the sentiment but I would also like to offer my own anecdotal "youngin' webdev" experience:

I have worked with a ton of great people who program that are over 40, and having experience isn't just what you are familiar with as far as tech stacks.

Employers are just looking for a value add when hiring - and I believe that devs in their 40s bring that value just the same as devs in their 20s.
Concrete is the most pervasive man made material on the planet. And it likely will be so for centuries. It’s a wonder there aren’t more books on concrete.
Don't worry. People will complain when they find out he's karma farming and it will bounce right back.
Laid off at 56. When I got home from being notified, there was an email from the HR person at a competitor in my inbox. I started work there within two weeks.

Plus, my prior company had a rather spectacular special severance package for those of a certain age who would sign an agreement not to sue for age discrimination. (This was accompanied by a thick stack of statistics of who had been laid off, showing that they were well prepared to defend themselves from any such lawsuit, but I'd rather take the money than spend the next umpteen years in court, and have the lawyers take any hypothetical judgment in the end anyway.)
I am over 55, software engineer from SF Bay Area. I was laid off in March and just accepted one of the offers. So, no, not leaving the tech at all.
Great topic for discussion.

I have seen this happen during and after both the dot com bust and the great recession. Timing of the layoff will certainly impact things, as does the perception of skill stagnation, but there is a component that is related to age as well. I personally know a seasoned VP who only started getting callbacks after they dropped 10+ years of (relevant) experience from their resume. I also know someone who was told by a recruiter to dye their hair. Most of these stories are from 2001/2002 and 2009-2012 but unfortunately I doubt that it's limited to recessionary environments.
I agree in part. But why did she say "is a chunk of sugared grease by comparison". Seems like that clearly shows she was comparing the two in taste as well...
But where are those high paying trade jobs located? For high paying construction trades, it's going to be in the big cities where the high rises are being built. $55,000 may be way above the median for the country but it's barely getting by in places like SF, NYC, LA, Seattle, etc.
A funny thing about decision trees (or random forests) is how conceptually simple they are, but in terms of implementation they're very non-trivial.

There's always a point in the lecture or explanation where they go

So we just find the optimal split/feature based on entropy

which no one talks a ton about, but naively implemented is something on the order of O(kNlogN). For each split. Multiply that by the number of leaves (2^depth), and multiply that by the number of trees in your forest.

I learned this the hard way when I tried implementing random forests on GPU for a class (would not recommend: efficiently forming decision trees seem to involve a lot of data copying and shifting around). I actually learned a lot from reading sklearn's implementation of decision trees in Cython - it uses quite a number of neat tricks to make things really fast.
mlterm also supports sixel, regis and tektronix modes.
Maybe GTK2 didn't vsync?
Your point? Tech workers don't make enough to live in SF.
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'Zuckerberg'

Probably just coincidental. My post will be deleted for pointing this out.
For YouTube I believe it's 30 seconds.
stock price is the market consensus on the current value of all future cash flows to the firm (in a wisdom of the crowds kinda way). stock price getting disconnected from that underlying basis is one way to define a bubble.
I stand corrected. Is there a notation for "average" complexity?
Small aside, but that door isn't deadbolted. This shimming vulnerability has always been there for any non-deadbolt style latch.
Someone should mash up a Z-machine with some opensource speech to text libraries and jamb them on a raspberry pi.
The "last" update that my Mom's iPad got rendered it virtually unusable. Apple support told her to just buy a new iPad.

iOS10 is far too slow for her iPad 4, to the point where the onscreen keyboard lags severely. And many of her favorite apps no longer work.

I somehow doubt that it would be in any company's best interest to leave older devices on the market that compete with new devices.
The downside being, of course, that your vision only lasts so long as a welder.
I'm not saying that I necessarily object, but I wanted to acknowledge that this article has a particular point of view in regards to this issue. Even if we put that to the side, however, I think the tactic that is being taken is interesting.
Don't let age define you!
I've done development in two industries; Healthcare and Transportation. Most of the developers I've worked with in those industries have been older. So, my anecdotal experience is that it really depends on the industry. The awesome thing is, both of those industries are keeping up with the latest in tech, so it's not like devs are sitting back working on the same old code base for a decade.
I'm mid-thirties and was recently asked to teach a 50 yo best practices for development in Node. And not like Node specific patterns, but more like how to handle http requests. I'm pretty sure that guy is way above my skill set - he's smart and he has 15 years of work experience on me. I turned the offer down since I would have looked like a fool, like a kid teaching an adult how to drive.

The age bias is real.
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Flake was always good though. I remember liking Spira and Twirl as well. I don't really eat chocolate much any more though, but if/when I do - will make sure to compare flake to non flake
That says very little for the tech industry. This is the low-effort ad copy pasted on top of an obnoxious photo of a model biting her tongue and pretending to smile:

> Photos, not just video. No yellow ring alerting people to the camera. Underwater-capable. Classier colors with lighter lenses. Prescription options. Faster syncing. And a much slimmer frame and charging case.

Techcrunch should have sold out for a bit more.
One thing that will definitely change is the demographics of the developer community, people who are 50 today who worked their career as programmers would have started in 1986 - 1990, There wasn't anywhere like as many programmers then as now.

So the number of older programmers moving down the pipe will grow hugely with the explosion in the number of programmers in the 90's.

That and to an extent the field is continuing to mature, We've only had the internet in most peoples homes for what, 18 years (not sure what the 50% line date was).

For me I find it's not hard to stay current since I devote my 'TV time' to programming and I like learning, I've also been careful not to find myself stuck in a niche by moving from one part of industry to another.
My plan is to just stay current with the technology, I was raised on basic, pascal in the 80's, moved to C in the 90's, then Delphi, C# and the web.

It helps that the only constants in my life since I was a kid have been that I love reading and I love programming.

I leave work, go home, have a shower, something to eat and then program (or play chess) as a hobby.
Well this is place where $400K worth of salary and perks at Google are brushed of as 'Oh, but bay area is so expensive'. 55-60K for them would be like kids' private schooling.
I don't really get the stigma either. Maybe it comes more from women? I know a few who have outright stated they won't date someone that didn't go to college.

Meanwhile, I know some tradespeople that are 1. smarter than most people I went to college with. 2. make more money than most people I went to college with. 3. harder working and arguably more valuable to society than most people who I went to college with.
It makes code less readable for me. To each his own, I suppose.
but not everything is moving into the could/servers, who does development for desktop nowdays? phoneapps also have same structure as webapps, what other type of dev you mean, industrial?
(which has to include Elon Musk of course)

https://media.giphy.com/media/pVxOjXysPtqOisQqSq/giphy.gif
Using national numbers isn't really useful. The case study of the $50k ironworker in Seattle is well below the median for that city which has a median income of $80k.
I think it helps to also look at this from the other angle: if a buyer wants or needs a product, and it can be made more affordable to them through automation, is it morally right to not automate it?

Suppose someone loves being a farmer, but you could make food available cheaper by automating it. People need food. Should they have to pay more to eat in order to allow the farmer to do what they love?

If all other things are equal, it's good for the farmer to be able to do the kind of work that they enjoy. But all other things are not equal, so it's necessary to weigh that benefit against the cost.

(Having said that, one thing about automation is that it requires investment, which means part of the returns tend to go to investors. So not all of the savings are passed on to the end user. But hopefully some of them are.)
This is some of the wrongest I've ever seen Ben be. I'm not sure how you can write an article about "open" vs. "secure" vs. "private" messaging/communication and fail to mention Signal (an "open" and "private" protocol that FB Messenger happens to use for their so-called 'secret chats') or Telegram.

Both are 'open' (Signal is fully open source, Telegram has fully open source clients and an open protocol so anybody could technical implement the Telegram technology).

Open is emphatically not the enemy of Secure, and framing it that was is ignorant of the incredible work folks like Open Whisper Systems are doing to create Open, Private, AND Secure messaging and communication platforms.

Silliness.
Does this statistic still hold true for millennials though? Seems to be inflated by boomers and gen x, who got their degrees when they still meant something.
The type of kid that can make $30k in a sophomore internship is the same type of kid that will end up running their own $TRADE company making a 6 or 7 figure annual income.
> But the reason for using p values rather than Bayesian inference is that it gets you out of the tricky problem of coming up with a prior.

It technically doesn't even do this. Using a frequentist approach is equivalent to a Bayesian approach with an uninformative prior, which is itself an assumption being baked into the analysis, only one that is almost unquestionably incorrect. Its essentially saying you have literally no idea how a data is being generated, which is certainly not true.
I think doctors work harder, though. Do they earn more per hour or just per year?
You know that in all those cities there are people living on minimum wage right?
Amazon is now selling home security services
I'm pretty sure he was serious, but I can't be 100% sure.

Another time he bought a used car from a woman and one day he had the hood up and was shaking his head. "Can tell was owned by woman. Very dirty." Note he wasn't talking about anything INTERNAL, but the actual external surfaces of the engine. Same issue...pretty sure he was serious, but not positive.

He was, however, greatly impressed by the female nurses he encountered (when having liver issues, likely due to using vodka in place of water) - his version of Russian female nurses sound more like a movie brute orderly than an RN.
You mean you hit key "a", and while waiting 50ms for it to appear you tense up? No, I don't find that likely.
Thanks for sharing. I will take a look at Cython implementation, that should help me learn a few things.
Maximize maximizes onto the current screen. I might want it maximized on another screen. The maximize button is also super tiny and harder to hit compared to the title bar.

I also think that in those rare cases you actually want to put a window at the top without maximizing it you are better off with a tiling window manager with keyboard shortcuts. In Windows you can quickly get top left quarter with win+left, win+up. On the other hand, win+up, ctrl+win+left also gives you full screen on another monitor.
There's a startup building prefabricated house using robots and cheap labor in a factory, with very little professional work on site.

But on the other hand, yesterday we had an article here about visual coding, and according to some it can build very complex application with much higher productivity(and maybe the work becomes accessible to business analysts and domain experts, maybe).

So it's hard to tell these days.
Adding wiring is fairly cheap per mile, connecting different electric networks via substations is the more expensive bit.

The larger issue is capacity needs to be used regularly to be cost effective. If you want to send 10GW for 24 hour a day or 15 minutes they both need the same infrastructure.
The code is fairly easy to read.
Women with bachelor are more likely to marry to people without BA (35%) then males with bachelor (22%). At least according to data I have seen last. Fun fact: engineers are least likely to marry people without degree, female criminal justice majors most (60%).

So his chances to marry are not that bad, assuming the dude wants to marry settle down and have kids. Marriage does not require home ownership either.
WhatsApp has horrible user experience compared to Telegram.

And that's low hanging fruit.
It would be obsolete because it would no longer be as usable. This has happened to several phones, and especially Apple devices.

At least when Microsoft forced people to update to Windows 10, you could still install Windows 7 later if you really wanted.

But your iPad or phone can go from being fairly usable and fast, to being slow and useless with the last update. And it almost always does.
Delphi was one of the great programs of all time. It is possible that all tools to create graphical desktop applications since are a step backward.
Nah, the 2.5L engine days are done. The new engine design is much better, only 2.0L, and can do much higher numbers than what Subaru has tuned them for. The power comes on quicker so it's got the same 0-60 as the 2.5L in the STI due to turbo design. the EJ25 has served its time, it is time to retire it.

Also, Subaru STI has already been using the 2.0 DIT engine for the WRX STI in Japan. See the WRX STI S208: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/wing-swap-jdm-subaru-wrx-s...
Geez, that thing is as big as a whale! I'd say it seats about 20.
Fix the pay, and you fix the image. Surely there exists some number at which point parents do want their children to do that kind of work.
Amazon Launches Home Security Services
Perhaps you don't work in software, but you definitely want constant updates for an internet connected device. Apple has a track record for providing software updates for a long time past initial device release.
Do you think more manufactures should be following their lead? The "cyber" world would be a much more secure place with constant updates.
Keep in mind that at the scale of a large work, some level of looseness may be sufficient. Identity and integrity are distinct, the former is largely based on metadata (author, title, publication date, assigned identifiers such as ISBN, OCLC, DOI, etc.). Integrity is largely presumed unless challenged.

I'm familiar with RDA, FRBR, and WEMI, somewhat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_Requirements_for_Bi...
The spec only states the use of JSON over HTTP as a baseline so anyone is welcome to implement more efficient transports like CBOR/COAP or MQTT or whatever :)
But yes the goal of the reference implementations was to showcase the simplest transport: one PUT to send and one GET to retrieve it.
Meanwhile we’re working on improving the performance of the servers with some rather nice breakthroughs on the horizon.
Reading HN comments, you’d think that all software engineers make 200k+ (and drive brand new Teslas and have supermodel spouses). Even in the Bay Area, median salaries are in reality in the $120k range, plus equity that can vary from $0 to who knows. $400k is for outlier employees of outlier companies. The vast majority of us are not making even close to what doctors are pulling down.
"sugared grease" was from me, not the author.

I wrote that because cadbury has gotten heat in the past for substituting vegetable fats for cocoa butter, and the #2 ingredient in her favorite is sugar. Cocoa products make their first appearance at #3:
https://www.cadbury.co.uk/products/cadbury-dairy-milk-11294

Compare with the Lindt 90%:
https://www.lindtusa.com/wcsstore/LindtCatalogAssetStore/Att...
Keep in mind the median full-time income is about $52,000 for a 40 hour per week job. The median full-time income for average hours (which is lower than 40), is about $45,000.

That $31,000 median figure includes all the people working part-time. It substantially disorts what your expectations should be for full-time labor in the US.
That $80k is household income.
Stigma can have a huge effect. The obvious example is funeral directors and undertakers - they don't need a college degree and make an average of $62,000, but a lot of people would refuse to even consider the job.

A very large proportion of parents would say that their ambition is for their children to go to college and get a "good" job, with "good" invariably meaning white-collar. There's still a widespread intuition that college is the best or only route into a middle-class lifestyle, but many degrees have a negligible impact on earning potential net of tuition costs.

Most college graduates aren't going into six-figure jobs in the tech industry. A large proportion are aspiring to relatively poorly-paid roles in education, healthcare and the service industry. Plumbing pays better than most non-tenure track jobs in academia, but "my son the plumber" carries a very different set of cultural and emotional baggage than "my son the lecturer".
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Just because they're trade jobs doesn't mean they're located in "90% of the rest of the country." All the good paying construction trades are going to be in places where they're building lots of high rises; places where rent is high enough to warrant such construction. If you're living in San Francisco as an ironworker then $55,000 means you're barely getting by. Construction jobs tend to start really early in the morning so long commutes are pretty much off the table, too.
A common way to implement this is to have a resistor that literally does blow open due to over current. Pretty much the same principle as a fuse which is why it has that name.
Comparing these occupations has been entertaining.

A truly successful business owner is the best IMO -- it's the only one that isn't capped in the amount of money you can earn, but society is jaded by people who have "Entrepreneur" as their occupation on LinkedIn and just occasionally do photography or whatever.

I would say "EM at Google" is better than a GP, but orthopedic surgeon is better than "EM at Google".
Ah cool. I see the benefits of having a straight land tax. An issue with that is that the value of land can be hard to figure out and is easy to game.

My ideal practical tax would be just a straight sales tax and nothing else. Income = Consumption + Savings, and since we want to encourage savings and investment it seems better and simpler to just do it that way.

Total libertarian dream scenario is no taxes, and government funds it self via slight inflation as a tax.
Right, let me give you a comparison of the approach this magazine has taken, and another place I consider pretty good: Wikipedia.

https://increment.com/programming-languages/language-history...

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

What does the magazine article do better than that Wikipedia article? Wikipedia has hyperlinks - the thing that differentiates paper magazines, from the internet. The article doesn't.

The wikipedia article is more thorough, you can actually go and explore.

I just don't understand the authors or the publishers - they seem to be re-inventing the wheel that Wikipedia in the case of programming languages, has solved by spending much more time, care and expertise on it.

This is a fundamental problem with the internet - it's filled with people re-inventing things that need not be re-invented. Maybe I'm just a grump, I'm sorry.
It's not even medical or law school.

The most popular undergraduate degree in the US currently is in psychology. But there aren't that many psychologists.
Well at the time I was working as a stock boy at Target on the weekends (with a couple shifts during the week during Christmas when we moved to a 2am start time) and warehousing (later junior locksmith) at a door company (Hull Supply in Austin).

Currently just a stock boy while I add a second BS onto my useless resume.
Alt + double click can also toggle maximize the window under the cursor.
Brilliant analysis, and accurate. I worked as a builder for a few years, and the social stigma really bothered me. Baby boomers were the worst offenders.
Just enabled this and it's very snappy. Thanks!
Maybe next Belgian legislators will declare the stock market gambling and therefore illegal.
How RevZilla scaled to $140m in revenue without raising money
That's probably self-selecting, but ask any guy in the trades how their bodies are when they're 40 and they'll tell you about their aches.

Computer jockeys, meanwhile, may suffer from some RSI from typing, or injuries from falling off their Boosted Board or rockclimbing.
I've asked around, no one has responded yet.
I think the Cyrillic alphabet has enough overlapping letters with the Latin alphabet, that it's relatively easy to learn the other. Possibly the Greek alphabet even overlaps better with Cyrillic than Latin?

Try Arabic, though. I took a relatively intensive four-week Arabic class one summer, and we spent the first week or two on the alphabet.

Anecdote: when I was little (in the USA), our family had a big dictionary, and in the back was, among others, the Cyrillic alphabet along with how to pronounce the letters. I would write out English words in Cyrillic letters, thinking that I was writing Russian words. :)
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