skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My anecdata with my parents generation suggests the same. Quite often retirees I know grow 'old' quite overnight after retiring. One or two even died soon after retirement with no prior illnesses. The total absence of responsibilities is what I contribute it too. You don't want too much stress in your life, and winding down a bit at 60+ seems legit, but a sound daily rhythm and outside expectation just seem to fit with being a social animal. They all want to see the grandkids more but end up mostly being entertained while doing groceries. Obviously a massive simplification of other peoples real lives, but the fittest 60+ yr olds I meet are usually (partially) employed. I totally acknowledge that it is more feasible for consultant-type white collar jobs and that on it's own is a subset with different health characteristics, so I'd happily learn of more research in this area.
You may be able to use `efivar` https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firm....

Be careful to not brick your machine.
Google already has an office in Kitchener/Waterloo (which they are expanding, afaik), and Toronto, so I don't think they would want to build an office in Hamilton, since it is pretty much right in the middle of those two offices.
Yep, that's roughly how it must have went. They even hired a friend of mine to come up with PR strategies against the resistance. Needless to say, it didn't work out.
Have you considered transferring some of your 401k funds to foreign funds? Perhaps that would help you to feel more diversified?
It's also that Berlin is heavily radicalized and can radicalize even the worst STEMlord. So after moving here it's not rare to get into politics and understand that, on a local scale, your decisions matter.
Just so you know, your entire comments reacts of bitterness and ignorance. You think their view point on art is stuck in the 20th century, but that's only because you clearly don't understand the type of community you're dealing with. In fact your view point seems extremely myopic and appears to be constrained around your own motivations and hobbies.

>But why is tech framed the opposite of art?

You are fundamentally misunderstanding the issue. It's not tech vs. art. It's a "here's these people that make a lot of money and end up just being really big consumers" vs people that are the "creatives." The type that give a neighborhood flare.

Consider a programmer who perhaps love the "art" of programming and spends the majority of their time coding/tinkering without compensation (a rare prospect these days, admittedly), versus someone who works at a corporate job, does what they need to do, and goes home. Neither is better than the other, but they will end up creating radically different communities.

>Why is tech equal to techbro?

Because it's just the type of people it attracts these days. Name one neighborhood where a group of IT people came into that neighborhood and made it a creative space. Without fail, it just becomes a giant consumer hub with absurd rent prices. Artists tend to congregate in areas with other artists and areas that have cheap rent. Tech tends to drive up rent, and it certainly isn't an industry that attracts artists not centered around digital design.

>Or cryptocurrency?

The technology that did absolutely nothing, soaked up huge amount of raw resources, so techbros could play a game about who's going to be left holding the bag?

This is exactly why I used the term myopic. You might find it interesting and cool, and that's great! But it hasn't done anything for anyone else outside the tech sphere. In fact it's actually pretty easy to argue it's been a net-negative across the board.
Trust me, when it comes to complaining about trivial things, you can't beat the Dutch. They live in this incredibly well run country but still complain about everything all the time. It's crazy. Oh, wait...
(Not the OP) If cloud equates in your mind to expensive, then you were probably using the cloud wrong. Using AWS (for example) as a data-center and self hosting on EC2 can be pretty expensive compared to just getting a few dedicated boxes. The point of cloud architecture with tools like terraform are meant to be able to have resources be torn down and scaled down when they are unnecessary. You can't scale down bare metal, and you can't scale it up either automatically. If you have a consistent workload and know exactly what you need on any given day/time and for any given number of clients and can predict what you need - bare metal is honestly not a bad choice.

Edit: Just realized I didn't answer your initial question in the post: A cloud architect, who comes from an engineering background, is more along the lines of what you would need versus just a pure ops person. My last company was a small company (startup mentality) and as chief architect I was able to design our cloud architecture as well as write code on our projects when my developers were struggling to meet deadlines.
Avoid multitasking to write better code
The Berlin protesters are full-blown fascists. They are violent and don't respect other people and their opinions.
They also regularly burn cars and attack the police. Absolute scum.

Many of them are also poor by choice. Housing prices going up sucks, but when you refuse to participate in the society, you really don't get to complain about it.
Aside from the other explanations, you also get a slight competitive benefit. If the paper is good, you get to use the ideas in the paper ahead of other people. Though everyone uses arxiv now, so not so much anymore.

Also you get a sense of power anonymously judging your colleague's work..
I also found it very effective even in late game to mix in t1 artillery units with mostly t2/t3 unit armies because they tend to spread their damage around so effectively.
What about this is condescending?
This brings up a great point that many people overlook: Inflation is hyper-specific to the consumer.

If the price of bread (and only the price of bread) went up 10x in price, then only consumers of bread would really be affected by it. You could argue all the hands that "touch" the bread, yes, but in the end the person paying $40 for a loaf of bread is actually affected by the inflation of it; for them to consider "inflation" in the large sense to have screwed them over.

Similarly, people without student loan debt (or over-burdening student loan debt) couldn't really give two shits about the inflation of SLD.

For me, guitars are a big deal. And I bring that up because there's a regulation now that effectively bans a type of wood used for guitars for centuries. If I were to want to buy a guitar with this type of wood that already exists, the price of it would be super inflated as the remaining safe-to-buy stock are grabbed up. This certainly only affects guitarists who favor a certain kind of tonewood; but is akin to my bread example above in demand/price.
Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow situation
Most automotive wiring harnesses have crimped connectors, these leave the ends of the wires open to the atmosphere. Connectors used under the hood tend to have seals these effectively seal the wires as well. Wiring used inside the cabin (or anywhere not exposed to the elements) generally don't have any seals to save cost. As long as you're alright at soldering and heat-shrink the wires they'll be fine, this really isn't much of a problem.
In the scenario you proposed I think this law would apply, however I don't think that's how it works.

I think the capacity limit isn't a function of the car itself but rather the battery pack installed.

In other words, if I bought an after market 200 kWh battery pack 5 years from now and installed it in my 60 kWh Tesla and it registered as a 60 kWh battery pack, I would burn Tesla to the ground.
A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
> But I’m not sure he intended to have his targets killed either.

Even assuming they did not, they still knowingly involved their target in a potentially lethal situation. It might carry a lighter sentence than literally going to their target and killing them, but it should carry a significantly higher sentence than e.g. putting flaming shit under their target's doormat.
Was cautiously pessimistic until I understood that Skype won't happen again because we have alternative: gitlab (and others). So it will either get better (good) or everyone will move to gitlab (good, more likely, ms hater here). So here goes.
Heavy multitaskers have reduced memory
One reason may be that for most people to care about conservation they need an opportunity to see or experience what they're conserving. It's the reason most conservation funding in the US comes from hunters.[0][1]

0: (PDF) https://www.fishwildlife.org/application/files/3615/1853/869... (page 9)

1: https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/593001800/decline-in-hunters-...
I experienced severe cognitive decline in my 20s from the stress of running a startup.

The most alarming part was the loss of vocabulary. I was an avid reader and couldn’t call to mind fairly simple multi-syllablic words.

It took 5 years of bumming around in the mountains to heal the damage.
The funny thing is, my last experience with Prague was that I chose two random restaurants to go into and the waiters didn't even speak Czech. When I tried to speak Czech with them, the first didn't even know Czech not even a bit and the second knew a little bit of Czech, but she was more comfortable in English. ...to be fair the first one was an Irish pub and the second some Turkish restaurant.
Maybe Americans think of poutine as "Canadian", I don't know that I've heard any Ontarian, British Columbian, or Albertan describe it as "Canadian". It is a distinct Québec treat, and the common advice is that in order to enjoy it "properly", it must be done in Québec.

I think a certain amount of the humour at Québecers' expense can be attributed to the immense strain placed on society by the marxist-lenisist separatist movements of the late '60s and early '70s; it really is hard to top the FLQ in terms of causes of unrest in Canada.
> to the management you are a very expensive line item which needs to be minimized.

"Expensive" is relative, though. The top places are growing and in constant need of great new employees. Firing an engineer making $250k just to hire a replacement making the same amount is actually highly expensive and wasteful - firing and recruiting can easily cost as much an annual salary.

Recruiting is really expensive.

> Google and Facebook are starting to tip over -- there will be stories about their culture popping up next year or two.

What do you mean by that?
...and Berlin was a counter-cultural center in the 1920s.

I'm not really sure what point you're getting at. Berlin is prized by its inhabitants for its unique culture - a modern, western city that for nearly 20 years was dominated by artistic culture. It has nothing to do with the "original inhabitants vs. the new transplants" and very little to do with NIMBYism from property owners, especially considering the the overwhelming majority of Germans rent, not own.
The labor cost savings aren't going to make it to clients. I've worked in a law office, I know how billing goes. Those extra billable hours will be found elsewhere. I hope I'm wrong, and maybe I'm just cynical, but my opinion of lawyers and the legal profession in general took a hit after 3 years of working in it.
Static HTML. Seriously.
Microsoft closes its $7.5B purchase of code-sharing platform GitHub
>The replacement of junior staff with AI could effectively kill that route permanently.

iirc only a handful of states still allow you to take the bar without a law degree (and in practice I have no idea how often that happens, but I bet not much.) It seems like the apprenticeship route was by and large killed off some time ago.
That's great, but we should find a different name for "photos" that change image information in the process.
China has been 'hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries'
> Do lawyers want to lose that much time in billable hours?

Their options are to lose that much time in billable hours, or to lose all their billable hours because the client found a law firm that doesn't bill so many hours for grunt work.
Just saying, speak for yourself, I know I'm not the only one who doesn't like to be steriotyped by ignorant people for laughs based on my nationality.

As for the regional steriotypes about different provinces being 'fun' or 'lighthearted,' that is not always the case and many of them are rooted in historical military or political conflicts.
Silicon Valley Nannies Are Phone Cops for Kids
Snapchat isn't necessarily dying, it could just be plateauing like Yahoo and Myspace once did, but damn is it humbling seeing this giant fading away from the spotlight.

I think if Snapchat really wants to pivot and grow internationally, they should look into voip/im like Whatsapp, Imo or Viber. Millions of people use these apps to communicate with loved ones both domestically and internationally. Also, make it super easy to send people money even if they don't have bank accounts.
If you see the world in black and white then yes, I will question your intellect.

If you look at some of the best, most novel tech and do not see 'art' then yes I will question your intellect.

I could go on.
Strikes close to home as current employer try to shifts to better delivery patterns. I find https://web.devopstopologies.com/ talks a bit more about organizational mistakes.
The Digital Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids Is Not What Was Expected
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18308787
He made that phone call with the intention of causing harm. He is responsible in some part for what happened. I can live with him going to jail.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18308787
Activate by scanning your passport or other proof of voting right

There are two problems with that:

1. People consider it discreminatory unless the US mass-distributes some voter ID thing that is near-forced into the possession of everyone who can vaguely verify their identity (which I disagree with but whatever)

2. More importantly, someone will fuck up the 'secret' part of the secret ballot, which will get leaked/hacked into the public, which in the current level of public discourse would probably end in WWIII
Yeah, true but some of us have higher expectations. Krkonose is the best you can get there, I would call them hills. Beautiful hills, but nothing close to mountains like Tatras/Alps, nor the experience of being there, or doing some more serious adventures. Around Prague its desperately flat, good maybe for road bike.

But that's me, I love these high altitude places, and based on amount of Czech you can meet anywhere in the Alps even people there love them. The thing is, high mountains are the last place of true wilderness, rest has been conquered and cultivated long time ago and is usually just a substitute for things that were.

I've met people in Prague that didn't get this, they were asking what the heck am I doing in those stupid mountains. Everybody is different, the only thing important is to be happy with where you are. I've found my place (Switzerland, in 45 minutes drive I am right under Mont Blanc).
I thought it would be a down with Lisp article, but it was like my experience with the language, omg, how cool. From that ancient introduction to Lisp all I learned was that Lisp was as close to perfection and beauty as I would get in a programming language.
There are a few gym protocols used to train / flex / exert the eyes’ muscles and revert myopia gradually. An expert tutor acting under your doc’s supervision is needed, though.
>Time was if you wanted to get into law you’d join a firm as a clerk, learn the ropes, study for the bar, then become a lawyer....The replacement of junior staff with AI could effectively kill that route permanently.

That ship has sailed long long ago...like, 1890 long ago. There are states where you can read law and take the bar exam without a law degree (Virginia, California, Vermont, Washington), or with a partial law degree (New York and Maine), but the number of people who do that each year is minuscule compared to the number of lawyers who graduated from law school (60 to 84,000 in 2013).
Lets get one thing clear ... this company never gained anything from developing and pushing .NET and they haven't acquired a company for it either. So no, that's not a good example.

A better example would be Nokia.
How about companies should instead be owned by the people who work there, so that they can decide whether they want to be working 40+ hours or not.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18307524
The distinction between campus vs. incubator is within the current gentrification discussion in Berlin probably not too important.

They main issue to tackle for the Berlin government—from my point of view—is to find the right balance of luxury and affordable housing. People making above average salaries in the growing tech scene should/would pay the higher prices for luxury properties, while the art and counter culture scene would not need to be gentrified if there was a higher supply of affordable housing.

As a Berliner for the past 5 years, I really believe that most the unique vibe of the city comes from the art and left-oriented community here. A lot of us working in the tech world support it, enjoy it and even adapt to their ways (while keeping quiet about how much more money we earn). I really hope that the government makes an effort on affordable housing to keep the balance that makes the city special.
I don't think so because it's not a fix because nothing is broken. Now if the 75 kWh battery pack degrades to say 59 kWh of capacity and you only get 47 kWh then I think it becomes a question of:

Did Tesla sell you a 75 kWh pack that will only deliver 80% capacity?

Or did Tesla sell you 60 kWh of power?

I would say it's the later and you're with-in your right to circumvent the DRM and boost your failing pack back up to 60 kWh or less.
Daten, a decentralized NoSQL database system
Let's not overlook someone's effectiveness as an influence on likability.

I hired a grumpy, cynical systems administrator who often spoke his mind at inopportune times, but I'll admit he was head and shoulders above every other candidate in terms of technical ability. And he was diligent.

I liked him. I liked him in spite of his shortcomings.

In general I tend to make large allowances for people of strong technical ability. It's not a conscious thing -- they do good work, and they're effective. Sure, they may be brusque: yesterday one said to me, "No, you're wrong, that's not who it works." He couldn't be bothered to sugarcoat what he was saying. But I like him -- he's good.
Agreed, though I'd add the "different routine" is just doing what you already do but:

1. more flexible hours

2. outcomes not tied to income (meaning you no longer worry about what you're paid as the deciding factor in why you work somewhere)
I think he explains it pretty clearly. Seems like pretty low stress for him, he seems to be enjoying it and it gives him the opportunity to work on high scale projects, which is more tricky to get when being independent.

I guess the perfect work for him would be to find a way to start contracting for his current position, but I can see how he's happy at work.

On another note, I became independent myself recently and I totally agree with you. I don't see myself going back to another company ever, but I'm still opened to the idea, because it might allow me to get to work on super interesting problems somehow.
But it's an argument about where to target medical research. In the UK dementia gets 6 times less funding than cancer (88m vs 540m), despite costing over twice as much to treat [0]. Global statistics seem tricky to find.

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11532982/Dement...
Wikipedia says that 1890 was when the American Bar Association really started pushing the for all lawyers to have a JD.
GM Calls for Garbage ‘National Zero Emissions Vehicle (NZEV) Program’
Wonder if they'll decide to open source Windows via GitHub.
That's Google's MO now.
there is no dna that encodes for language

how europeans got their language is not our problem

neither the yamnaya r1b z2103 nor sintashta r1a z2125 amounted to much in world history and the sintashtans were just scythians or what we called shakas

these geneticists are just looking for keys under the streetlight ignoring actual evidence

rest of the dna debate is massively hyped propaganda and search for relevance and funding
I'm not much of a fan of devops. I would really like to have an ops person who really knows what they are doing, and has that as their prime concern, rather than having it be just one more concern tacked onto everything else that developers already are responsible for. Specialization is dead, we just have a bunch of generalists muddling along. Right now I'm wearing more hats than a hat rack, between front-end, back-end, database, operations, support, security, project management, testing, and sorta kinda managing a few junior engineers. I can do one or two of those things well at a time, the rest I'm just bailing water or it goes by the wayside entirely.
>> "There is a special place in hell for for-profit companies who provide unrealistic or false messages to sick and vulnerable patients in an effort to cajole their business."

That may just be pessimistic, anti-social, misanthropic old me, but what incentive do people have nowadays, in a capitalist, free-market society, to care about the health of strangers when they can maximise their profits by exploiting their illness?
The "anti-pattern" wasn't about the tools themselves, but on focusing excessively on tooling at the expense of other aspects of DevOps.
If a bunch of people use LaTeX only to write math and this contains that functionality, why wouldn't the author want to advertise it? Is there a specific short-hand name for the LaTeX math functionality?
> Who asked you to make GitHub better though?

Microsoft, his employer and the owner of GitHub.
> [Latour's] early work, it was true, had done more than that of any other living thinker to unsettle the traditional understanding of how we acquire knowledge of what’s real.

I'm sorry, but no. Anglosphere philosophers (= the mainstream, like it or not) do not, in general, take social constructionism at all seriously. I'd predict that there is not one tenured philosopher of science at a top-50 department who'd regard Latour as an influential contributor to epistemology or philosophy of science.

For some reason, journalists who write about philosophy are universally ignorant of the fact that academic philosophy took a hard analytic turn a century ago, and that the continent has contributed very little since - France least of all.
pandoc -s markdown.txt -o latex-output.tex
It's an option, but not enough make a major dent. (IMO.) But thanks for tickling that corner of my brain.
Based on just your comment, the correlation fails.

I mean, if such individuals are indeed more successful, it’s significantly more likely because of the fact that they’ve been raised in strict Muslim or Christian households, and the plethora of things that go with that, rather than the fact that one of those many things is spanking.

Just as an example, in a strict Muslim household you wouldn’t be drinking alcohol. Of all the factors that would affect success, spanking would probably be dwarfed by just that single factor.