skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a 50+ chap, I had an instance of a top company, referred by friend, whole team up for it and to not even get an interview as I got `filtered` by HR and the recruitment process.

Turns out they rejected me as I was `overqualified`.

Equally in my early years pre PC mainstream days, there was an age bias towards older people. With many personal experiences upon that in that time/culture - including, believe it or not `overqualified` (they sat a coding exam and I found mistakes in the exam) for a COBOL job at a bank aged 19 (had 3 years work under my belt already in the field). Recruitment agent said it was because I knew more than the boss and he didn't like that. Was a time also back then when the boss would of previously done the job of those under him in such institutional culture of that time.

Dare say starting out today is easier than it was pre internet boom.

I'm sure there are others who equally have experienced agisim on both ends of the scale in IT.
I see this as somewhere between Go and SC2/Dota. The latter are incomplete information games, whereas a game of soccer, you can see the entire field. Also, unlike SC2/Dota, most of the game is focused on a single point (the ball). You also only have a small number of units with very limited control, unlike Dota/SC2 which have hundreds of different characters, items and combinations.
I would love to but a 10 hour day would increase my time stuck in traffic 50%, so I would actually lose free time overall.
One day I will know as much about my own life as you seem to believe you know about me.

Even if my particular case was not about ageism, we can agree it happens against the young unfairly, sometimes. Even if I'm too much of an asshole for it to happen to me.

So, my point stands: can you please explain to this self righteous, incivil person who deserves the discrimination he has experienced, why it is OK to discriminate against the young but not the old?

P.S. Odd how in your last comment when I argued against your logic and you couldn't answer any more, you said: 'I don't care about this you do' and then proceed to post a bunch more times in this same thread.
React is a better example:

https://twitter.com/dylanbeattie/status/1098204272653676544?...

"Before you even open a text editor, your project contains 1.5 million lines of code. Most of it contributed by volunteers and enthusiasts. No formal review or release process."
You mean treating people by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin? Maybe I’m wrong, but it sure feels right.
I am close to this point, in my early 50s.

I'm still housed, and my home life is okay, which is a damn miracle, since I have been unable to rejoin the supposedly "hot" SF Bay Area tech industry. I can get interviews if I whack 15 years off my web development career on my resume. I don't pass the in-person or video interview stage, because then the employer sees that I'm older than 35.

Many of your points resonate with me intensely. We're not sick, disabled, immoral, nor incapable. We're just unemployed, given too much evidence that our societies consider us useless.

I wish you peace in this wretched time.
Brazil's new administration already approved more than 160 pesticides in 6 months. So they are catching up quickly.

https://g1.globo.com/economia/agronegocios/noticia/2019/05/2...
??? The original GFS paper, which the chat references repeatedly, was clear about the semantics not being POSIX-like. The interview mentions that, too, along with stuff like snapshots. Colossus is basically the same, with increased scalability.
The article is completely missing an argument for why you should code pages this way.
There is a fallacy in your reasoning as you discount one side's effort and focus on the others.

>If you get your detector working well enough today, next week is another story.

Yes, you need to do some work to be able to catch up. And you have no guarantee you'll succeed.

> the generator was trained explicitly to fool a detector

Here again you have some work to do to fool the detector, and you have no guarantee of success either each time the detector gets smarter.

Moreover, the generator wasn't trained explicitly to fool a detector but to fool humans. On the other side, the detector was trained explicitly to unmask the generator.
>P.S. I had a department with large numbers and strong growth on my side for leverage, that is why the CEO considered me in the first place. The numbers took a big hit after I left. If the board would have had more people in their 40s and less in their 70s-80s, I would likely have been accepted. Explaining to me that this is politics is a very pedantic in assuming I don't understand politics.

The fact you're talking about strong growth and large numbers is why I don't think you understand politics. That doesn't matter to the board. It's the foot in the door at best. Did you align politically with the board? Did they know it? Would you be a reliable pawn for them? Did they think they could work with you and get you to do what they wanted? Did you have strong support from other department heads? Did you have strong support from other in higher positions? Did you have any major opponents? Any secret opponents? Did you know of those opponents through your connections? I could go on but point being, that doing a good job is pretty low on the list of things which matters in politics.
This is really sad. I still remember being excited to pick up a new issue of Make: every month or so when I was in middle school. Also fondly remember watching “Weekend Projects” with Bre Petis (well before his MakerBot Years).

Lots of great folks - Sad to see this movement die.
Maybe one day, if China embraces democracy, it might hope to become as prosperous as India. /s

In all seriousness, "democracy" is at this point almost meaningless as a barometer of good governance. There are a lot of spectacularly successful autocracies and a lot of dismally awful democracies. In the broad scheme of things, the CPC has done a damned good job of advancing the interests of the Chinese people. China might one day gradually transition towards democracy in the manner of Singapore, but many Chinese people are rightly fearful of the possibility of the collapse of the CPC. The most common outcome after the overthrow of a dictatorship is chaos and economic collapse, followed by a much worse dictatorship.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Also, could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is also a whiteboard bias
I feel like this applies more to programming. It should act as writing on the wall for anyone who thinks they can make a career out of it. You have 15-20 years and then you're considered old I suppose.

I don't find this to be the case with other areas of IT. We have a lot of folks in the late 40's to middle 50's working through out our IT Department and organization.
Personal attacks aren't ok on HN and we ban accounts that do that. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of the site to heart when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Sad to see this.
I still remember reiserFS author...

I think his ArsTechnica articles will be preserved.

I hope the vile stuff [1] he wrote about president Trump, will be forgotten, however.

He has not been proven guilty though, so may be will see him clear his name.

[1]
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/06/07/anti-trump-tech-re...
> I can leave a fully charged phone in my wife’s car and track her for weeks

You could do the same thing with a regular phone with an app that uses GPS. Just attach a powerbank if you're concerned about the power.
IMHO, the movement is just fine. Make as a company, and partially as a brand, failed, but that doesn't mean that much.
This sort of flamebait will get you banned on HN. No more of it please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Messagease is really good for coding and typing at a shell prompt, etc.
Ah, yes, polygenic scoring and the heart disease increase rate. Did you happen to catch this[0] refutation of the single source's work?

[0] - https://twitter.com/cecilejanssens/status/103135930540723404...

Also, you're posing prediction and targeted treatment but you haven't posited how Bob's mapped genome sitting in 23andme will be used for medical treatment.

As we know, genes are not an emphatic, "this will happen to you," but an increase in likelihood; which still doesn't translate to any emphatic treatments from the genes, themselves, yeah?
Is not sure. Hens have been reported taking care and giving protection and warm to duckings or fledglings from other species. A giant female chickensaur could show a similar conduct. Robot chicken on the other hand, would totally kill us with a chainsaw in the most deuthanized way possible.
I used to drink at a cigar lounge in the Deep South (USA) that offered a $40 ham and cheese sandwich as the sole menu item for the exact same reason: local laws required food to be served at your establishment if you wanted an alcohol license.

I saw one person order the sandwich in many years drinking there. Sure enough the bartender reached into the mini fridge under the bar, and would proceed to make a ham and cheese sandwich right there in the spot.

Sure enough, he charged the guy

Mayo was extra.
Human beings may pretend there's a difference out of moral convenience, but in fact there isn't any difference at all. All there is is the lie that comforts conscience.

For what it is worth, I think that culling millions of these animals is the smart move. I also believe that it is a small part of a larger evil; we as a species are committing industrialized murder on the scale of hundreds of billions a year.
The current American government regularly issues proclamations that major news organizations are publishing fake news. It sure doesn't seem like they're achieving their desired outcomes there. Maybe that's not a fair comparison - have any major Chinese companies been able to say "yes, we understand Xi Jinping wants us to do X, but we think he's authoritarian and wrong so we won't do it"?
It's not like it's a pinky promise. They published an irrevocable declaration, which if they tried to walk back would undoubtedly be problematic at a minimum when it went to court.

http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2006-09-12-a.html
Yes, except if you connect to their WiFi.
THERE ARE NO CHIEF PRIVACY OFFICERS IN K-12 EDUCATION
https://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/Privacy-Online.html
AND
ETHICS -- There isn't a single school district with a K-12 CPO. In fact, it is still extremely rare for districts to hire even one full-time employee dedicated to privacy.
Student Privacy Bill Protection : No Parental Consent Needed for Data Mining also see https://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/PRIVACY_INFORMATION.h...
Renault did a deal with AMC/Jeep/Eagle in the late 80s. The Renault 21 was initially imported as the Renault Medallion and then renamed as the Eagle Medallion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Medallion
Fellow AS sufferer here. It's been a wild journey trying all kinds of scary drugs to finally find remission. Hope you find your wonderdrug :)
Imagine my surprise when I discovered Skype and Skype for Business don't play well together..
Doesn't add up if you look at the dates they claim the malware was injected and the dates of the most recent transactions of all the addresses swept. Some of those addresses hadn't been used in over a year.
I applied ~25 days ago and haven't heard. I am expecting the load on partners is at its peak with the S19 batch starting. I am a newbie to YC, but guessing that with each passing week, partners would see lesser and lesser value of adding new members to S19 batch. Based on FAQs, I am still expecting some response. It would have been very helpful for our planning if there is at least some tiny bit of status update (say, decision will not be later than 06/15). All the best to you (and everyone who is waiting)!
I'm not the OP but I'd like to know if this exists in Australia.
You're making a lot of implicit assumptions here. If nobody advertises computers, why would people want to buy one? Why should businesses have computers in stock? Why different brands? How would people even know about computer stores?
Somehow there seems to be an assumption that people just know.
Big Media and Silicon Valley’s Weaponized Algorithms Silence Dissent
Show HN: A chat server with no client side scripts
Banning these before the myriads of poisons at the store is putting the cart before the horse. We use box traps to catch and release rodents.

But name a more humane way than glue traps to remove spiders or house centipedes before they breed into the hundreds or thousands. Go look up some of the suggestions on because there are none (burn it down, spray x, y, z with peppermint oil, call the orkin, move houses). Any kind of poison/sprays are unsafe for pets, and would spread back to the ecosystem (to the detritivores). I could just empty my pillowcase from spiders and put cortisone on the bites before I go to work.

>Even the smallest and perhaps least appreciated animals with which we share our spaces deserve to be protected from blatant and heinous cruelty.

We are trying to euthanize mosquitos because they spread disease [0]. Maybe you heard of it [1]. They are r-adapted species and will breed to infinity (large discount rates). I care more for snakes and tarantulas which tend more towards k-adapted (small discount rates) because the world isn't infinite.

And speaking of advertising issues - this article looks like an advertisement for the lawyer's lawsuit. But my opinion on their opinion isn't interesting or meaningful.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_control#Proposals_to_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
What does "run a security check" entail?
Or shoes, or watches, or hats, or trousers, or shirts, or suits or anyone one of thousands of expensive items and brands.

They make their money by telling people that owning them sends a signal to others.
What makes the problem so challenging to fix is that it's not an inherently weird notion. I respect sensitive issues all the time; I don't make light of tragedies around people who've recently experienced them, I don't discuss controversial issues at quiet dinner parties, and so on. The Chinese government has just hijacked that entirely natural mechanism to justify driving some conversations out of the public sphere entirely.
Fantastic. It is the asymmetry in information collection that is so frustrating as a consumer. In an ideal marketplace, information flows freely, and informed choices make the market move towards efficient transactions. When no consumers know what information is being collected or how it’s used, and it’s value is obfuscated, then deep rifts in expectations can emerge.

We need more of this sunlight in order to make good decisions about how we generate and share information about our lives.
Isn't that expecting the car to be invented before the wheel?

From what I've seen, quite a few of these have been targetted attacks - the assailants have targetted specific variables that existed in a specific codebase that they knew imports their module. Of course, if you've only just started writing that codebase, your dependencies have no way of knowing where you're storing private keys (short of somehow scanning the object space for variable names like "private_key")

But yes, in theory I would love for any *-sensitive code to go through a thorough audit after every dependency update before a version gets released in the wild. I'm guessing that next-to-nobody has the resources for that kind of an effort though.
It's also conceivable that enforcement isn't as thorough. While China did eventually raid the factories responsible for CFC-11, it took the international community pinpointing where it was coming from.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44738952
My favorite picture from Wikipedia [1], simply put it is just an amazing work.

Article itself [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia#/media/Fi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia
One day I will know as much about my own life as you seem to believe you know about me.

Even if my particular case was not about ageism, we can agree it happens against the young unfairly, even if sometimes. Even if I'm too much of an asshole for it to happen to me.

So, my point stands: can you please explain to this self righteous, incivil person who deserves the discrimination he has experienced, why it is OK to discriminate against the young but not the old? Or are you going to admit to being a troll like you did on the other comment when I addressed your weak arguments?
The engineering work for Sagrada Familia was insanely clever. Gaudi build a scale model including accurate weights for the building materials, upside-down, out of strings and weights. That way he could design non-vertical pillars that branch like trees and where all the stresses were carried by compression through the stonework. It is really a marvel of pre-computer technical design!

[1] https://memetician.livejournal.com/201202.html

[2] https://criticalista.com/2012/08/16/gaudis-hanging-chain-mod...
So anonymous internet comments are inhibiting the fair hiring practices of software engineers? Is there a study establishing the causal link between these two, because it sounds like spurious BS.
You are too stuck in the present time with the present form of government- look at this like you were an alien from outer space. To an alien there’s no hard dividing line between a corporation and a government. And throughout human history a myriad of political forms, permanent and temporary, have existed, and all of them wield political power in one sense or another.

In the example you just gave, with the government just standing by, political power devolves to the major corporations acting in the area. Early US corporations historically had their own police forces and armies (the pinkertons). In the late 1800s strikers fought many gun battles with private security hired by barons such as Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller, using in some cases artillery and machine guns. Does that not count as political power?
I have heard of so many projects inside enterprise and product vendors which were unable to get this OSGi thing working. The answer from OSGi fans is always in same vein: 'you are holding it wrong'.
It would take a crisis greater than anything in history to wake everyone up to the fact that life is more valuable than civilization and its high tech perks.
These issues are entirely caused by NPM in the first place. Anyone who starts a node project ends up with a massive web of unaudited code which can only be dealt with my moving off NPM and adding packages to your own private repo after youve audited them yourself. Which is an almost impossible task.
>…and has an energy storage efficiency of 8% over a 20-year lifetime.

The concept is fun to imagine but these numbers look pretty lousy.
Predictions from old sci-fi movies that came true
This is a good interview. I was a little disappointed that it did not dig more deeply into adversarial examples. The compensation was that Szegedy argued that human-like reasoning may be based on relatively simply mechanisms that we just need to find. He cited AlphaGo as a solution that turned out to be much simpler than expected.
My wife had her phone stolen from her and we were able to pinpoint the exact location and provide it to the police, they said they would not act on this information.

Be sure to bring this up the next time the city asks for a tax increase for police funding.
Hi, hackers.

I'm the developer of this little website. Really excited to be on HackerNews. It is really a pleasure to see so many people like it, so I decide to opensource it. You can check the source code of it here: https://github.com/Hopsken/colorkitty.

And, thanks for all the kind advice. You guys are really awesome.
Did you check the gallery of apps done with kivy, on android or else? Much can be accomplished, i promise you. https://kivy.org/#gallery

here are a few of the apps i personally developped fully with kivy
https://vimeo.com/297757037
https://vimeo.com/257492885
https://vimeo.com/206290310
https://vimeo.com/144659031
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umls6ytXasU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EF5W-d2eVI

python can do so much more than ML, reducing it to that is short sighted.
>So, my point stands: can you please explain to this self righteous, incivil person who deserves the discrimination he has experienced, why it is OK to discriminate against the young but not the old? Or are you going to admit to being a troll like you did on the other comment when I addressed your weak arguments?

I didn't say it was. I said, it's okay to discriminate against personality traits which generally come with age. For example, lack of emotional stability is a negative trait in management and it correlates somewhat with age. As I said, it's about being able to portray those traits and that you possess them independently of age. Moreover, just like work experience matters so does life experience. Your brain changes with experience. It also changes drastically until you mid 20s. So, just like work experience (as measure by years working) can be a proxy for seniority so can life experience (as measured by age) be a proxy for those traits. Hopefully, people independently test things instead of relying on proxies alone.

Finally, the difference between youth and everything else you've mentioned in terms of discrimination is trivially simple. The young naturally become old with time. The old do not become young with time. Blacks don't become white. Women don't become men. A few years of wait versus eternity of wait is the difference.
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City: That's a nice, world-famous church you're building there. It would be a shame if something ... happened to it.

Classic city government thug move.
Blackstone Virtual Quantum Machines as a Service
> "... 12h days, ..."

I recently read Sebastian Junger's Tribe, which had many memorable takeaways for me.

One, in particular, was the assertion that, historically, subsistence farmers and the like generally only needed to work, on average, 12 hours per week.

While I know modern farming practices require copious amounts of work, it is nonetheless an interesting idea.

Imagine all the remaining time to just sit in sun or socialize.

Progress, what is that?
How many native Chinese do you know who drink tap water? Almost all I know either drink bottled water or only hot, boiled tap water.

As for pollution, only 84 out of 338 cities reached the national standard for air quality [1]. That's not exactly "a few bad cities". The government has been working on improving it, but they still have a long way to go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_in_China#Air_polluti...
Glen Avon Earthquake Swarm
After 3 speed traps you'd loose your locense in France. License costs around 1k€, that's why the speed limiter is probably popular in France
Too slow for what? How slow do you think python is? unless your application is cpu-bound (which it probably isn't), python is fast enough for basically anything you might want to do these days, and if it is, you can use cython to optimize the parts that needs to be fast, as kivy does.
Where are you operating and what exactly is your skillset that money is raining down so readily?
http://www.arrl.org/this-month-in-qex

American Radio Relay League (ARRL)

Very complicated web site that a defense contractor would love. But definitely worth looking into. Wow.

I vaguely recall this group as serious ham radio people who know how to keep communication going even when disaster might take down other networks. We have other technical volunteer groups out here, like Search and Rescue, first aid and so on.
Win32 is one of the few UI paradigms that it makes sense to invest in. It will never die, and you will get exposed to a whole slate of historical patterns that all the new stuff is based on or built in reaction to.