skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A classic comic strip features a prostitute with a cup of pencils on the corner talking to a man.
"Pencils are $20 and you can come upstairs to use my pencil sharpener for free."
> If 70 year olds really are less productive software engineers than single Red Bull-fueled 22 year olds (on average)

That's a really big "if", and seems to have no supporting evidence.

Let me turn this around into an only slightly less unsupported statement:

Youngsters in programming are desirable because most programming has become a shitty job where you need obedient people just slightly smarter than average but no smarter. Genuinely smart people are actually unwelcome in most programming jobs.

Programming now is mostly plumbing garbage data between crappy APIs that change every 6 months according to whim and fashion and you don't need smart people for that. In that environment, any knowledge you learn has a half-life of 3 months and you are solving the same problems over and over in different languages and APIs.

Or, alternatively, most VC money is chasing scalable "fad" social businesses, and having youngsters is useful because they are willing to expend enormous amount of money following fads while attempting to get laid. Again, knowledge half-life is under 3 months.

People making actual money and solving business problems seem to have no problems with hiring older people.
There is a social-economic effect such that the side with leverage (usually the company) can detrmine how long everyone works. The company will prefer to hire people to work longer. Because the worker is more replaceable than the company, some people will have the choice of whether to work at all, or to work the same amount as everyone else.
As a gen-x'er, I wonder about being caught in the middle. I was too young for boomers (started as weekend tech in 9th grade). Now I sense I'm too old for millennials.

Supposedly both demo groups strongly prefer their own. Whereas us x'ers were so few, we just had to get along with everyone.
Think of the number of businesses that could exist if we had a sixth workday. Are we saying those businesses properly have never existed?

What's magic or received about five days?
100meter^2 x 170,000 solar panel units (to replace long-haul transportation fuel) would be a 1700km^2 square, 41km per side. That's a bit smaller than Fiji and more compact. If you add 50% for methanol manufacture it's almost up to the area of Haiti.

So the oceans have plenty of room for it anyway.
This whole thread is coming from an article discussing age bias.

Not ways to avoid getting biased against. Or justifications for biases. So it makes sense to keep the comments on topic.

Even if my case wasn't an ageist thing, which is a lot of assuming on your end, it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

It takes a certain type of person though to go out and doubt someone when they say they have suffered from something and have nothing to gain from it.

The assumptions are very pedantic, explaining them only furthers the pedantry. It's not that I don't understand them. It's that I understand them too well.
Rule of law isn’t a binary. It is an ideal that a country aspires to to whatever degree.

Thing is, the current Chinese government sees “rule of law” completely undesirable as a concept, judiciary must acquiesce to the official class (which is synonymous with the party), whose opinion is the only one that matters.
This is from New Zealand, but if the cameras operate the same in the US then I think some of the people in this article might not be being completely truthful...

"For the camera to not be triggered, the vehicle must stop behind the white stop line, or already be fully in the intersection when the light turns red."

"Two photos are taken. The second one is taken approximately one second after the first one and proves whether a vehicle continued through the intersection or just happened to not quite stop before triggering the camera. Police at the Traffic Camera Office determine whether an offence was committed."

https://www.driverknowledgetests.com/learners-permit-questio...
Color me shocked
That only works if the devices report WHO saw the missing device. If they both report up that the device is in the area ask but don’t say who is making the report then you can’t figure that out.
> Huawei Accused Of Technology Theft

In other news, water is wet.
In The Netherlands /a lot/ of people work 4-day workweeks already [0]. It's not that novel. But it'd be good if more countries could largely make the switch.

Due to the progressive tax in The Netherlands, working 5 days instead of 4 doesn't earn /that/ much more money and if you have toddlers, you will spend a day less for daycare, a day extra with your kids and probably have more time for the fun things in life as well.

As a salaried employee I often chose a 4-day workweek as well when living in The Netherlands. But once I started freelancing, the 5-day workweek seemed the better choice for me. As freelancer you are taxed a bit less compared to a salaried employee, so there's more incentive to make as much money as possible during the workweek.

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[0]: https://www.equaltimes.org/a-four-day-work-week-is-only-a#.X...
Tesla will soon downgrade software on the entry-level Model 3
Well. I appreciate the opportunity to reminisce. :-) It's only been 2 years for me, but:

First I became a local volunteer for ultramarathons, health care emergency exercises, things like that.

Next I developed a bunch of communications standards to support people in wildfire-type emergencies.

Then I just got really involved in learning about radio tech that uses the internet, and started working on a webSDR project to get a local server set up.

In between all of that I've participated in some ARISS SSTV events via the International Space Station and have some nifty commemoration certificates on my wall.

And finally I made a bunch of new friends and became part of a group that actually mostly observes a really high standard of communications decency and loves to support learning and technology. Through the community I've befriended astronomers, cops, engineers, firemen, physicists, all of those things I idolized as a kid.

This is to say nothing of the gadgetry, the ability to reach out across the world using any number of methods. Randomly getting in touch with a Japanese radio operator whose daughter lives just down the street from where I used to live in Japan. Talking to a Hugh from Ireland and telling him about my son who is also named Hugh. Getting my kids on the air and asking a bunch of radio operators across the US to take turns wishing them a happy birthday just for fun. Knowing they're enjoying it too. Fun little moments like that.
>Whatever I've read (or not) of this stuff myself in the past, apparently it's been far more than you have so far

If I've said or quoted something untrue please point it out rather than relying on argument from authority and condescension. It's rude and immature.

Everything I've claimed has been sourced. All you've been able to muster is generalizations and vague recollections about a book and commentary that you may (or may not... you're really not sure) have read.

Edit: Actually never mind. I see that your comment history shows the same pattern over and over. Along with the same ideological slant as you've exposed in this thread.
Oh my God, FrontPage, I used to edit pages built with it by hand for money. Having flashbacks now. <font face="arial, arial, verdana"> everywhere.
Will do! He’s already gotten into a second keyboard for macros and attempting to repurpose a semi-broke game pad. This will be right up his alley!
The Swiss City That’s Full of Cat Ladders
The system is actually pretty complicated and nonobvious once you consider its caching layers, heavy reliance on spanner, assumption that ACL read times can be stale, and the various assumptions and limitations in the namespace controls.

The underlying model of role based access control (and viewing groups as just other resources with ACLs) is already well known.
Or 4. I don't care to argue those points because I find doing so to not be entertaining or insightful. I used to argue to the death and then I realized that in the end it brought neither joy nor enlightenment. So I don't anymore.

You're free to think you've won, I don't care. Although one piece of life advice for someone who seems to like arguing and seems to be good at it. People will often stop arguing with you because they find it tiring. You'll think you've won and pat yourself on the back. They'll think you didn't win. Instead they'll just think you're good at arguing (but still wrong), an a-hole and will dislike you silently from then on.

Normally I would have stopped responding by now but I find this side conversation insightful.
One of the longest-running biodiversity experiments in Europe
You should know it's VERY common for people to freak out on cannabis but not psychedelics. I'm one of those people. I have to be careful around cannabis but as long as I'm in a safe place I can take psychedelics with virtually zero anxiety.
This is just RarJpeg feature or something more?
Jeep was one of the first car manufacturers in China, Jeep does well there already, although its brand has definitely been waning in the last 10 years.
I’m in the US. :_(
That’s not so bad considering that right now, if you don’t have a network connection (say a non-cellular iPad) you can’t find your device AT ALL unless it’s on Wi-Fi.
I find the far more interesting question/issue that this is somehow news or surprising or at all in any way not totally expected.

I sometimes feel like I am in the movie They Live or maybe Mars Attacks, where I know what the alien invaders are up to, but everyone is totally oblivious or they just don't want to see it because, e.g., they're so enthralled by aliens existing that they can't see, or they are just utterly naive and totally unable to apply the most basic risk assessment.

How is it at all a matter of "accused" when literally for the last 30 years, China has been raping, pillaging, sacking, and plundering the whole western world without abandon and with, essentially, unfettered impunity and even with the utterly blind with greed treason of our own corporations who could simply not resist the illusion and glistening cheese of the "Chinese market of a billion people" as they stupidly wandered right into the Chinese trap of handing over ALL their secrets and technologies, while on top of it, in the case of the USA, even totally gutting our own society and industrial capacity and therefore our very ability to defend ourselves and supply ourselves, and therefore making us totally and utterly dependent on China. It's like a mass psychosis has gripped our society, so blind with greed and personal enrichment that it has totally blinded our "smartest" and most "educated" and most vaunted "experts" who were all busy throwing open the gates to the enemy.
NYC has some great history, but the laws and the taxes there are idiotic and apparently have been for a very long time. God damn social engineers.
Cash doesn't have direct transaction costs, but:

- it needs to be manually reconciled at the start/end of each shift

- staff can steal it

- robbers can steal it

- it takes time to count out change (and to ensure you have enough small bills and coins)

- it takes time to deposit it at the bank

- it costs money to deposit it at the bank (even if Walmart is ok accepting cash for an iPad, I'm guessing Apple requires Walmart to pay by bank transfer)

I'm not sure about the US situation but, the last time I checked, UK banks charged 0.3%-0.5% for accepting a cash deposit from a business customer.
My mother’s interviews are stored in DC at the holocaust museum. I would bet they have samples of the Holereth cards as well.

Most of the records are still stored in Germany though, and there are also records stored in Moscow.
They used to do this in Texas but people got cranky that these "private club restaurants" (the "private club" thing being a workaround for Texas' famous wet/damp/dry laws, to have a place that could sell alcohol for on-premise consumption in a dry area) were just "bars in disguise" so the law was changed to be that any place where food service was 51% or more of sales were food is a "restaurant that happens to serve alcohol" and a place where 51% or more of sales were alcohol is a "bar." The latter were banned in dry and damp areas that hadn't voted to permit on-premise consumption bars.

The wet/damp/dry bit was similarly crazy. For years, a so-called local option vote could be held inside any political district: county, city, justice of the peace, water supply, volunteer fire department, or school district. As long as the petition met the rules, the district had to hold a vote. That led to a situation where a school district near Houston had to hold a local option election, so then the legislature changed the law to delete school districts from the eligible list.

Also: Dry - No alcohol sales permitted except in "private clubs;" damp - beer and wine only, on-premise hard alcohol allowed if by a separate vote; wet - all types of alcohol, on-premise or off.
Good gravy this would be an abysmal report on Android. In my experience many of the free utility apps and games I downloaded required location tracking for no good reason. I’m on iOS for that (and other) reasons.
We started injecting everyone else's JS everywhere.
Thanks! Looks good.
Is there anything against this being also a github template?
Awkward. I realized it was used for authz, but for some reason I assumed it would be used for authn as well. Now I’m wondering how Google does authn...

And yeah, the second half of my comment is trying to scope down the comparison to one that is reasonably “fair”
>A quick read of the linked article suggests that maybe the author is somewhat confused

Not likely. From Wikipedia:

In the early 1990s Black served as the editor-in-chief for OS/2 Professional magazine and OS/2 Week and reported on OS/2 users and technology.

>the author also makes mention of new documents in order to back up his claims. I would have to review such documents for myself (and I may do this when I get the chance), because it's been my experience that when the press or whoever claims to have "smoking gun" documents, those documents often don't necessarily say what they're being claimed to say.

Ah yes, the old "fake news" defence.
Back when I started reading HN I saw a comment mentioning that that person always muted TV ads. I started requesting my family members to mute TV ads, and once you start doing it, hearing the occasional 'unblocked' TV ad in the background becomes extremely annoying. It is really no different from someone coming into your house and camping in your living room - their sound volume and jingles are intentionally meant to make you pay attention and distract you.
Reading your post, it sounds like what your saying is that discriminating against the young is justified and not that big of a deal.

It seems your post makes this argument without actually stating as much. So I'm trying to get where you stand on age discrimination against the young.

P.S. this is irrelevant to requesting experience, that is a requirement independent of what age the person has.
I did assume this system handled authn as well as authz, which was a mistake.
Can you reformat your post so it's easier to visually see the number of distinct instances of theft?
I think he's quoted MLK and substituted some phrases.
People would buy them because they're useful. We can use advertising to create a demand for plenty of things that are not useful.

Overall, I do think that computers are useful, but if people are having to create an artificial demand for them, perhaps we're putting excessive amounts of labour into creating more computers instead of, for example, making them better. The vast majority of consumers aren't going to have a very good idea of what makes a computer better, so that's not usually the focus of computer advertisements.
AFAIK docx as produced by Word doesn't even comply with the standard.
My argument is actually that you should not decrease pay but should decrease hours. I suspect you’d make up most or all of what you lost in hours by way of increased productivity. I also think “economic productivity” is just capital efficiency. And i don’t think that is a proxy for quality of life - something i care a lot more about.
Organic in the sense that when people refer to "organic pesticides" they are referring to a category that copper sulfate belongs to.
I'd be fine with this as long as you don't have to pay a fee if you're not paying cash (which is often a thing for small shops).

Unfortunately this is not the world we're living in :) it's often both cash and cards OR just cash. Berlin is a really good example of that, you always need cash on you which tricks the many tourists who come from countries were cash is not really a thing anymore.
Cities used to rig them and the light timing to generate more tickets and actually create more risk of accidents.

The running of red lights is a big city thing. It doesn't happen often in most of the US.
We already “force” people to do all kinds of things. We call them labour laws, safety regulations, minimum wages. These are all mostly good things.
Would like to see Nortel given their assets.
Show HN: Restarts – The third way of handling errors
Wouldn’t it make sense to build these on large lakes and skip the desalination step?
My point is that what you believe to be age discrimination may not be that at all, rather a judgement of suitability based on temperament and how relationships are handled.

A certain equanimity and humility often is attributed to age and the acquisition of wisdom. Perhaps this is what was referred to, rather than an actual judgement based on age.

People frequently do not confront behavior directly, rather using euphemisms or attributing decisions to other aspects to avoid a heated and personal confrontation. One of the necessary skills of leadership positions is to be aware of this and respond to the real, underlying issue rather than the superficial one.
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They may very well be. It's a pretty well known issue in the field that it is very hard for firms to definitively attribute any specific revenue increase to their promotion efforts.

It may be that all the ads are doing is reinforcing preexisting biases, and not inducing any new demand.
As the sibling posts say, that is a great quote and insight. I'm curious if you have more exploring the idea?
I have seen them on BMWs. Quite fun, you can put pedal to the metal but the car wouldn't go above what you set the limit to. It certainly helped while cruising Munich in a DriveNow (car-sharing service) BMW.
There's a fourth, crucially important axis - costly signalling. Spending a ton of money on mass advertising sends a clear and impossible-to-fake message that your company is in it for the long haul.

Sony could exclusively buy targeted ads on social media and the metrics would probably say it's a good idea, but their brand would be fundamentally less trustworthy if they stopped sponsoring soccer teams and buying prime-time commercials. That's why you intuitively trust their TVs more than a random brand you've never heard of, even if you don't consciously realise it; Sony have invested a lot more in establishing their brand, so they have a lot more to lose by tarnishing it. It's no guarantee that their TVs are the best, but it's a fairly strong indication that they won't be absolute crap and that the warranty might actually mean something.

Prior to the media age, bank branches were invariably grand and expensive buildings. On one level, that's just a waste of money; on a more important level, it's a costly signal of permanence. Would you deposit your life savings with a bank that operated out of a trailer?
> i'd happily play realistic games where i had to go through torture by medieval inquisition, or other interesting ways of dying

I'd bet good money that such an experience would very quickly show you why having "computational resources" taken by someone else is so vigorously avoided by most creatures.

The parent comment's thought experiment of "if all pain is just computation, let me 'compute' your hand" neatly refutes the practicality of your stance. Sure, pain is mediated by the same physicochemical processes that govern every other aspect of our bodies. Tell that to someone suffering oncogenic bone pain, or a second-degree burn, or the pain of losing a life partner of 70 years.

You claim that you value the time you still have to live, and not the absence of all pain. What about your quality of life, whatever that means to you? Have you ever had, e.g., an infected tooth, been hit hard in the groin, or even badly sunburnt? What value, if any, do you place on the privilege of not having to "compute" those sensations?

Moving beyond physical pain, what's the longest you've ever stayed awake? Acute sleep deprivation causes no permanent damage and no physical pain, but real-world evidence confirms that at some point, subject to nonstop sleep deprivation, you would do anything that you thought could end the experience. I would. Anyone would. Some people would of course last longer than others, but everybody cracks, computer-simulated or not.

> i'll be happy to go through any amount of suffering if i knew that i have a week to live anyway, and my suffering can help science or someone i care about

I don't mean to dismiss your generosity or confidence in your ability to accept pain, but it's very easy to express this sentiment from the comfort of a relatively healthy body. It's true that looming certain death changes a person's attitude toward pain, but I would suggest for your own subjective (not logical, but subjective) wellbeing that you tighten up your "any amount of suffering" threshold.
I found this old rendering of what still needs to be built - the scale is just fantastic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69COc7UhvbY
Matrix.org has some interesting new ideas beyond slack
Had the privilege of going after this past KubeCon EU (which was in Barcelona a few weeks ago). It was the most awe inspiring building I've ever seen. A true modern wonder. Wound up just sitting in the pews for a while taking it all.

I took some photos but they definitely don't do it anywhere close to justice.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Hx2qwsc5yaXGPBfm8
updated the formatting. Hope it makes the text easier to read.
The way I look at it, when you work in tech, it doesn't take long for fields to become stratified. I've gotten turned down for a senior job for not having enough "agile experience." Really? Am you looking for an engineer or a project manager?

I think every single programmer needs to be looking forward to the day where every single job move is at best a lateral one, so it's going to make more sense to move towards business rather than staying in IC if you want upward mobility as a 'regular' coder.

I suspect IC technical jobs are going to be the next professional class, you're either going to be in when that happens or you're going to be out. You won't realize it's happened and you're not in until you get laid off and replaced by a contractor at a fraction of your salary, and you won't be able to find a job except as one of those contractors.

The reckoning is coming guys. Get ready for it.
> The political economy is rigged against the 99.999999999%.

You realize that's ~13x than the number of people on Earth, right? If anything was rigged against everyone but the singular top person in the world, it would only be rigged against the bottom 99.999999987% (vs 99.999999999%)
There is a position between yours and sho's.

Sure, if every federal crime were enforced through automatic fines, this could be a mess due to the complexity of the law.

But what's your objection to a fine for changing lanes without indicating?
Au contraire, twitter is popular only because it is a shared space with no barriers. Namespaces complicate this: see mastadon.