skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn't be quite as bad for these folks if the hiring side of things also didn't discriminate on age.

There's a really good business profit-oriented reason to discriminate: older workers ask for more money, defend their interests better, and generally are less open to things like death marches, on-call and such.

I don't know what the solution is. I'm pumping my money into income-producing real estate assets as a hedge, while I sell myself as a consultant. But I can already smell the difficulties that lie ahead.

Some friends climbed the corporate ladder into senior management. That works, too, but it's a slog and you better enjoy it.
If we all lived in thatched houses and rode around in horses and had no interaction with anyone more than ten miles away I'd agree with you, but that's not the case any longer.

Very few people are that isolated, and those that are probably don't care what time it is.
> setting down at 8:30

uh, in France it's more like 10pm in Paris at the end of June, and 10:20 in Brest (western France).
Right, just like the states alone cannot make Schedule I substances legal for consumption and sale.

Except, of course, that half the country does it[1].

We are living in a strange country.

[1]http://www.governing.com/gov-data/safety-justice/state-marij...
If you read your article, being on DST permanently should be even better than the current switching.

The California bill is for permanently being on DST. Which is equivalent to the present for most of the year, in my opinion is better in the winter, and avoids the disruption twice a year.

And to answer your question, I do engage in outdoor activities. Mostly hiking and the beach. My preference for hiking is for later in the day because I want to sleep in, and wait for the heat to break.
How Midwestern Suffragists Won the Vote by Attacking Immigrants
1 - I thought the primary initial use of modern computers was artillery calculations, not timezones? I don't recall Babbage's goal, but I doubt it was timezones.

2 - While technical people are often the most vocal, anyone that deals with spanning timezones tends to hate them. Aviation, shipping, scheduling, offices that span timezones - all groups that aren't getting smaller.

3 - "Getting rid of timezones just offloads the difficulty back to our brains." How does getting rid of timezones get rid of computers?
As part of one of those "45 hardware startups" (in stealth mode) trying to tackle the problem, I think nevertheless there is plenty of fat to trim just on the software side still... I mean, just look at that very page: 200 MB [edit: in memory consumption] for a single static article!

Information-theorically at least, I bet that is another 10-100x speedup opportunity right there (and next multi-billion dollar industry, perhaps)...
This was a year round DST. How about having a year round correct time instead?
> they typically like to pick apart others, but can't handle being picked apart

Such people are not competent to pick apart others, because they did not polish their criticism against the feedback they receive.

I, personally, like both: find mistakes in other people mental models and people finding mistakes in my mental models.
That's a good point, but it's not like midnight makes the most sense as the start of the day either. If you're talking after midnight, most people aren't going to consider what happened 1 hour ago as "yesterday at 11 pm."
> OP was just explaining how it can happen as an emergent behavior

Incorrect. OP had set up an excluded middle between a conspiracy and an emergent behavior unrelated to bias. I pointed out that it could still be bias even if it's not coordinated.

> Then you were kind enough to just echo the initial part and call his/her attitude irrelevant.

I was calling only that part irrelevant.

> they are in the very class of victims under discussion.

So am I, and that is also irrelevant. It simply doesn't matter whether you, I, or s/he are in that group. It doesn't matter whether any of us, or the IBM employees have alternative strategies. It only matters whether IBM discriminated against them.

> Please read more carefully and don't be so hostile

Advice best taken yourself. I wasn't hostile to anyone, only to an argument that had no place in this discussion. Please don't be so quick to take sides and attribute ill intent to anyone who presents facts that don't support your "perspective" on an objective question.
How to set up a simple jekyll blog near your rails app
The closer civilian fuel is to weapons grade, the easier it is to convert civilian fuel into bombs.

I like the current policy.
> there are lots of issues with things like making sure that the generator/discriminator converge and avoiding oscillations back and forth between either winning, that can unexpectedly ruin your training.

I think the situation has been gradually improved. I've been messing around with GANs since Soumith first released his DCGAN and I've tried out DCGAN, WGAN (in several variants), SAGAN, MSG-GAN, ProGAN etc, and GANs increasingly 'just work'. ProGAN especially: I've yet to see any of my ProGANs diverge or have serious instability, and I've been doing things like retraining the CelebHQ-A faces model with anime faces, and it's worked just fine (better than any other GAN so far, actually). ProGAN is slow but the progressive training works wonders for stability and image generation quality. I haven't had to tweak the learning rate or mess with filters or any of the things necessary with earlier GANs.

It might be expensive to offer as a service because you are still talking weeks of training on a GPU with >=10GB VRAM (so a 1080ti or P100 instance), but I think you could offer it as a service where the artist merely uploads a tarball of images and gets out a trained model and samples without much more expertise.
> Not sure what kind of dumb method this is

That's not very nice. I'm just trying to help and that seems to be the only thing that seems to be working.

I don't work at Apple, so...
How could work "come up" if nobody brings it up?
I think so. 3.5mm wasn't always a standard, it used to be 1/4". 3.5mm is a consumer standard, replacing it with Bluetooth makes more sense. I say this as someone who does Pro Audio stuff, I just don't use bluetooth for that. I've usually had to hook up a 3.5mm to 1/4" adapter for some headphones anyways. I have a 48 channel patch bay everything's wired into. Why would I complain about having to use a dongle to get non-latent audio for pro-purposes on my Phone seems a little absurd given the way most other pro-equipment behaves. And there's a dongle if people really care, and it came for free with my phone. I'd rather use bluetooth headphones anyways for most stuff, for convenience.

If you need pro-gear, there's usually a pro-option. Sometimes form factors change and you need to swap out some of your gear, it happens. Anyways, 3.5mm wasn't ever the 'pro' standard. It's a consumer level adaptation, and so is Bluetooth. I have no problem with it.
>Of course. It’s called an approximation

DST is approximation to what exactly?

It's an artificial construct with a vague purpose, and nothing else. Please do basic research before accusing others of pedantry.
There are disconnects in this argument though.

1) A slap on the wrist is highly energetic, and speaking from an understanding of basic materials physics it seems very likely that it damages cells, ligaments and bones. We just heal from it very easily because the damage is completely trivial.

2) Skin cancer can't be reasonable proxy. I live in Australia, and it is well-known here that skin cancer is frequently caused by sunlight.

Now the dose of radiation you get from sunlight is huge. On a typical day, you are exposed to enough radiation that you can detect it as heat (ie, we associate heat with sunlight). I've only ever been exposed to enough artificial radiation to feel heat in dental X-Rays. The LNT model is going to be operating at much lower levels, because the theoretical damage is being done to people who cannot detect it.

That link alone is surely going to overwhelm the effect of tiny doses of radiation and make it impossible to detect low-threshold increases.
> Work talk can lead to you talking to much about yourself

That may happen with any topic. What is so special about work?
This a text book example of moving the goal posts, and I don't care to see it on HN. Android obviously allows more freedom to app developers than Apple, including the freedom to raid the cookie jar numerous ways.

Your original claim was that OP needed to substantiate their credentials; it was done (regardless of who).

HN Guidelines suggest we reply to the strongest argument being made and to give the benefit of the doubt, and that doesn't seem to be your approach.

Edit: I can't believe I'm defending FB or anyone that caused their increase in usage.
US companies tend to value post-graduate education less than Chinese companies. From a US perspective, the reasoning is that post-graduate education focuses too much on theory instead of delivering practical products soon. The flip side is that many criticize US companies for taking a short-term view of R&D, not allowing enough time for tricky ideas to develop. I won't take sides here, only state that you may be facing cultural differences on the value of education.
Bad performance isn't really a software design problem; it's an economics problem (ditto for security).

Why do you say so?
What about truckers? Should they transport 25% less miles per day? Should elementary schooldays be shortened by 25%? Should companies cut their customer service hours by 25%? Should manufacturing companies drop their daily output by 25%?

It might work well for some fields (e.g., programming), but for the general labor force this idea doesn't seem like a very well thought.
You mean 200 KB.
IBM Used NYPD Surveillance to Develop Technology, Police Search by Skin Color
One thing I'm worried about is if companies will be able to argue that the older workers weren't fired because of their age but because their pay relative to their work was higher than other employees doing similar work. That is is there ruling that would prevent them from just trimming the top earners in every job post which should be a fairly accurate proxy for experience/age in the industry?
Don’t choose France. I used to live there but they’re off by an hour. Same time zone as Poland. It’s ridiculous. Best thing I did for my health was crossing the channel...
The likelihood of QR payments taking off in North America is slim. People love credit cards. They offer way too much.

This model worked in China because people went from using cash to mobile.

We've been using credit cards forever and there's literally no incentive for me to use an app like Venmo/Square Cash over my Chase credit card which gives me points/miles
And how do I know that your experiences based on your network of "older" people isn't equally narrow and biased?
Do PR people even think of the context in what they are replying to? "Skills change dramatically over time" OK somewhat crap reason to laid off a lot of people, "we invest heavily in retraining workers" wtf are workers getting retrained at? McDonalds? this is the exact opposite of what was just stated.
"Vernon Unsworth, the British cave diver who played a key role in rescuing a dozen teenagers and their coach from a flooded cave in Thailand."

I've got the same reaction when I criticized the design of a coleague. Devs are just big childs.
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Many countries, notably India and China, are adding nuclear power to their electrical grids to supply base load. Also, nuclear accidents, while large, are very rare–especially with regards to how much power each plant generates. So per MWh you end up with a much, much lower casualty rate as compared to other power sources–coal, in particular, leads to many deaths in the process of mining it, breathing in its pollution (which many in this thread have mentioned is radioactive), etc.
Please don't be personally thorny towards other users.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So if you work at a startup, does that mean 10 hours a day? ;)
So if I get mugged and want the police involved I'm incentivized to actually act with reasonable force (like, for example, trying to force my stuff back from the assailant) in order for the police to get involved and me get my stuff back?
No, they also broke all forms of watch input. There is zero UI for shortcuts on the watch, so I can’t tap a complication and use a simple menu to fetch ETAs for public transit anymore.
>>“Changes in our workforce are about skills, not age,” Ed Barbini, a spokesman for IBM said in an emailed statement.

If that were the case, they'd be investing in retraining, not repeated mass layoffs that focus on older workers.

The concept that older workers can't learn is complete nonsense -- some may not learn because of entitled attitude, that's across all ages (no I don't have a study, but I do note the plethora of press commenting on entitled millennials, etc.).
Phosphorus retrieval - relocating it from relatively poor land that is acceptable for low-density infrequent grazing, but unsuitable for intensive agriculture - and returning it to the more intensely farmed areas of a human habitation, is one of the key benefits Simon Fairlie describes in his book[1] for the keeping of large grazing animals (even if they're not primarily kept for meat consumption).

I have a very small sample set, but I've yet to meet a vegan that's aware of the phosphorus cycle problem. The only alternative to grazing / foraging animals (and as per TFA I'm happy to include humans in that category) is to employ large amounts of infrastructure and energy, and it's not even clear how long that would work.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9251480-meat
Evidently there are many people who agree with you. One of them founded, and now many support an awesome foundation called the Delancey Street Foundation. It is in San Francisco (and now other places). They provide housing and employment, via their own internal businesses, which employ those they are helping to reintegrate into society. Their cafe and restaurant are really great if you're in the neighborhood in San Francisco! Their story of starting with a small house and growing into a block-sized complex is really inspiring!

http://www.delanceystreetfoundation.org/
Specify more clearly and let us, the internet, help you.
1. Don't have any debt whatsoever.

2. Diversify income streams.

3. Have 6 months' worth of expenses in liquid savings.

4. Build a solid neighbourhood/local community.
Politicians are not following Keynesian principles, instead focusing on short-term gains. We should be paying down debt during the top of the cycle so that we have spending money for slumps. Keynesian policy is Grandmother's advice: "save up for bad times." The recent tax-cuts were stimulus at the WRONG time.
True hacker! Simple and elegant.
While the opinions of Mssrs. Steele and Stallman should not be lightly dismissed, and I think I can see where they are coming from, the marketplace of programming languages seems to have voted against dynamic scoping to an extent that it has not, for example, chosen definitively for or against static typing. Dynamically-scoped variables are rather like globals, but with the added complication that each one is a stack.
The existence of Unruh radiation is not universally accepted or even detected.

G. W. Ford and R. F. O'Connell (2006) Is there Unruh radiation? Physics Letters A 350 (2006) 17–26. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/947a/f319b47bf9eccad97896bc...

>Abstract

>We present an exact analysis of an oscillator (the detector) moving under a constant force with respect to zero-temperature vacuum and coupled
to a one-dimensional scalar field. We show that this system does not radiate despite the fact that it thermalizes at the Unruh temperature. We
remark upon a differing opinion expressed regarding a system coupled to the electromagnetic field
That's a very valid point. I was more confused by the point he was trying to make when he suggested that front-line medical workers are being less in demand however. In that respect, I was being vague, not the author. They directly mentioned that primary care workers are dying, which is demonstrably false.

Front-line/primary care providers in Canada at least are among one of the most in demand members of the work force. Look at the nurse shortage for example. If you get yourself a degree in nursing, you are almost guaranteed a job. If I look at members of my generation that I know who are employed VS not, I struggle to find any who majored in a professional health program (excluding premedical programs which are non-professional programs) who were not working in their field almost immediately after graduation.

In comparison, I know of a handful of people who graduated from highly in demand engineering programs and are entirely unemployed. As in, no job what so ever. Many also are not employed in their area.
I had a different experience: after some updates, around build 7 or 8 I lost cellular connectivity completely. It said there wasn't carrier data available and that I should update. To update, I needed to verify the download... which failed because it didn't have access to the modem/carrier data, even though wifi should have been enough. Long story short, I had to do a restore from iTunes (another nightmare for me -Linux user-), and after that discover that my backup "wasn't compatible" (fortunately I had made a manual backup of my photos and other content, but all the settings got lost). I've been using iOS for a year now and I definitely miss Android, even if it isn't as polished as iOS.
Do tech employers tend to hire in places that, by their nature, reduce the number of older workers? If it's too expensive to own a house or raise a family somewhere, that will tend to filter out the older candidates.
Yes, recruiters see you as a thing, a thing they have to try to sell. They have no clue how to determine your technical chops. So how do you think they determine whether you will be easy to sell or difficult to sell? Why do you think they have face to face meets?
Cancer spreads from organ donor to 4 people in “extraordinary case”
> ”it disassembles into assembly source code for real CPUs.”

Another way to describe this functionality is: “compiler”.
I think this is why selling stuff you haven't made yet is such a common business strategy in software and most other fields where it is possible. It essentially eliminates the cost of developing features no one is willing to pay for (and equivalents in other fields). Any company that builds before they sell will be completed out of business unless they never miscalculate the demand for a feature.
I have Apple and Android phones.

I have a specific google account for my Android phones specifically because you can’t do anything on an Android without logging in. iPhones still work as phones just without cloud storage.
1. They’re not solving real problems anyone has that don’t already have solutions that are good enough in some ways and better in others

2. Even if they are solving problems people have, people aren’t aware that they have those problems

3. Even if people are aware they have those problems they aren’t aware that the apps exist

4. Even if people are aware of the problems and of the apps, learning about and using them doesn’t seem to be worth the effort involved

It’s sort of like asking why only a few people commute via unicycle.
The thing about files is that they are never going away and they are simple like a rock. If you want to avoid any type of lock-in ever, just store things in files.
Sort of tangential, but what was work/life balance like at Google for you?
> Why should people be fired if employers can still make a profit?

In the situation when employer is forced to pay more -- he, usually, would benefit more if he hires more qualified person (for that higher rate of pay). So less qualified (but cheaper) worker will be fired (or not hired in the first place, if you consider long-term effects of minimum wage increase).
It's more that U.S. companies have various rewards programs (travel points to cash back). One of my cards gets 2% back on nearly everything, and 5% back on their quarterly promotions. I tend to use it for most of may day to day spending, and try to pay it off every month. That's why the merchant fees are so high... much less an extent to fraud handling.
My parents barely touch a computer and I haven’t backed up in ages.

I would immediately buy 3 if these.
I think they may have been saying $50 (the lowest paid tier) per user per year is too expensive.

However, the $75 paid tier "Professional" has multi-user support. I think you could probably use just that to run accounts for your family, if you desired.
In the EU, the start date is predictable: the last Sunday in March. The end is equally predictable: the last Sunday in October.
I understand why he does it, but the guy needs to relinquish direct control of his Twitter account to some trusted lieutenant who can serve as a sanity check before tweets go out.

In fact this might be a good idea for any people on Twitter with large numbers of followers, especially those with significant responsibilities.
We need something like the "balance budget amendment". The problem is nobody will vote for it because it can slow the economy in the short term, hurting their re-election. Such a bill would have to kick in gradually to be backed by representatives, perhaps over say a 20 year period. It should also allow for stimuluses during slumps. If the budget is balanced via good-times, then there should be enough spending margin for the bad times.
Creating old school illustrations for physics book programmatically
Facebook Lite is 1.3MB for my phone.

It doesn't seem to be available for ios? https://itunes.apple.com/ca/developer/facebook-inc/id2848822...
What about the rest of the mega65? I see that designs can be changed but is there a board to be had that works out of the box?

Love to see this. I have a mist fpga emu for the c64 St Amiga etc, but this looks pretty nice too!
ProtonMail is a joke. It doesn't report security vulnerabilities to the users, when researchers discover them[1]. It publicly boasts about hacking a phishing site, when claims the journalist's report is based on "unsubstantiated rumors"[2]. It outsources a free VPN service to a data mining company[3], when claims it used it only as "an office space provider"[4].

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/07/protonmail_fail_jav...

[2] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvvke7/email-prov...

[3] http://litigation.maxval-ip.com/Litigation/DetailView?CaseID...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17775554
No, I can't agree with that statement. Wal-Mart has lots of smart accountants; they know what the tax burden the average person making their wages would be. While I'm not at all opposed to changing how different categories of income are taxed, I still can't see this as anything but Wal-Mart's fault.
Theres a reason people complain about Mastodon's moderation policies instead of going to a platform with another approach like Gab
It’s also much less rarely mentioned than those other sorts of discrimination. The reasons why are understandable, but the irony there is that all of us will experience it unless we die or switch careers first. It’s acceptable to have glamour shots of your “diverse” team where everyone is under 35.
I did mean personal thermometers in the expansion port, not room thermometers.
Google One is here