skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're going to get anecdotes on HN because this is a discussion website.

Also, studies on this issue tend to not be well known without effort looking them up. The asshole factor is relevant but not as much as you would expect.

The actual perception that older workers haven't kept their edge is actually a common bias I've seen while gathering people for hiring. This bias is probably common amongst younger looking at older workers (eg 25 year old not hiring 35 year old) but also amongst older looking at less older. Eg a 50 year old won't hire a 40 year old because they wonder why the 40 year old even wants the position. Those two viewpoints seem to be recurring patterns at least in my experience.

You probably want hard data. I'm sure it is out here, Department of labor?
Weed is legal (not just decriminalized, like Maryland, where there is still a fine) in DC for medical and recreational use, including growing, subject to amount limits. What’s restricted is commercial sale.
Sure, no argument there. But to me, there is a huge gap between "annoying" and "makes people miserable". Miserable, to me, is the excruciating pain I had for a week after shoulder surgery. Being annoyed by a jingle is barely on the same spectrum in my book.
A terrible argument given that React is a Facebook project, initially built and shipped by only Facebook employees, not random volunteers.
- Business model? "... generating an estimated $475 million in revenue for the company, which has yet to turn a profit."

- Medical legitimacy? “Effectively what you have is a technology that is neither that helpful [nor] that harmful (...) Dr. Jonathan Berg, a clinical geneticist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."

- PR Signaling? “It was so unacceptable to her as a compassionate human,” says Ashley Dombkowski, (...) “She is undeterred by massive, worthwhile problems.”

- Personal Branding? Cue the Jobs-esque clad-in-black shots.

- 'Certainty' in the face of material uncertainty? "By October 2013, 23andMe was in talks with Target and Wojcicki was pushing hard to enter stores before the holidays (...) Emily Drabant Conley, recalls Wojcicki’s certainty when an exec thought it was impossible to meet the time line: “Anne was like, ‘This is a company that was founded on impossible.’” But in the end, impossible won. It would take three more years for 23andMe to get onto Target’s shelves. "

... so where have seen seen this before?

I'm glad that Forbes is taking a slightly more skeptical tone this time, at least calling out some of the issues and not taking PR at face value.

I actually hope they are successful, though I'll never participate due to obvious privacy concerns.
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I doubt GP is complaining about the law itself. The question is always more about humans, systems, corruption, and power. Omnipresent surveillance is incredibly powerful, frighteningly so. And we all know human systems are corrupted over time. The question is, can an all powerful corrupt human system be overturned?
Sure.. right now there's a selection process for the National Congress... just make it so anyone can run for that position (and maybe the Central Committee too). Then hold free and fair elections in each province.
“1984” at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell’s Book of Prophecy
I am aware that it is an American tradition to worry about Presidents defying their term limits, declaring national emergencies to seize power, and all that jazz. It's a tradition I approve of, especially given the increasing power of the executive branch, and Congress's weak-kneed approach to reigning that in.

That said, Trump's "jokes" about such things are not ordinary and are deeply inappropriate. Also his attempts to get the military and the police to show personal loyalty to him is also unusual, and deeply inappropriate. Even if, as you say, he couldn't pull it off even if he tried, that doesn't mean it is not setting bad precedent. Norms are much harder to build up than to tear down, and the rule of law as we know it cannot survive without them.
I was very impressed when I visited the museum under the Sagrada Familia and saw photos of the beginning of construction, when the church was in the middle of large hay fields with no buildings around. Now it's nearly in the middle of the city!
Limitations imposed upon embedded scripts from foreign domains by technologies like CORS and the like, combined with modern styling abilities.

You can place another service's elements on a page that look like they're actually part of the page layout while the JS running them can freely communicate with the service's backend without having to bother with cross domain problems.

Think of all the support/chat widgets you see on modern-day pages, they're all iframes.

And obviously: tracking all the things!
Someone at one of Cisco’s competitors once told me that Huawei copied their routers down to the English silk screened assembly instructions on the PCBs.

Friend of mine also does contracting work for them. They never pay their bills on time apparently.
wasn't samsung's foldable tech stolen as well? makes sense considering how fast huawei was able to get it.
1/5 is 4 days a week instead of 5.

If labour is 100% of your company’s costs, then yes you are facing a 20% increase in costs. 100% labour businesses are VERY rare.

It is also very unlikely that cutting hours by 1/5 (while keeping wages stable) would result in a 1/5 loss in productivity. There is so much time wasted in the typical 9-5 workday because nobody can be productive for 8 hours straight.

So if you have a business that’s near 100% labour costs, and the work is such that productivity is very nearly equal ti hours spent working, and your margins can’t take a 20% hit, then yes you are going out of business.

There are whole classes of business that would work if 50 or 60 hour work weeks are legal to mandate - but we don’t care... why do we care about that thin slice of businesses that require a 40 hour work week? 32 hours or bust.
> "Maker Faire" (with the weird olde english "e" at the end)

'Faire' is simply French for 'to do' or... 'to make'.
No actually most contracts assign full ownership and not a license.

What about partial payment? What about a payment dispute? in all these cases ownership remains as defined in the contract.

You could try to make a contract that works the way you describe but it would be unwieldy and I’m skeptical anyone would use it.

It’s really straightforward to call a collections lawyer. In most cases the money is paid after one or two letters.

Not paying money owed can have bad consequences. The collections lawyer reminds them of this, and the situation is remedied in short order.

On the other hand, pulling some cowboy stunt to teach them a lesson (like releasing their source code, or the related idiotic idea of sabotaging their website or business) could lead to paying significant civil and even criminal penalties.
This is what i would call 'branding'. It's the same as apple running those "stylistic" ipod and iphone ads - full of happy dancing people using their product.
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>upon receiving the first blow?

How many times did you hit?
Agreed. I'm always surprised when people get away with this kind of blinkered panglossian pap.

There is simply no evidence that as a species we're happier, more secure, etc than generations past. Every advance we enjoy seems to come with a trade-off, as evidenced by the new findings about loneliness/alienation, rich-poor inequality, environmental degradation, what have you.

Even the elephant graph stuff can only talk about a time period that starts centuries after a huge amount of the world came under the yoke of colonialism.
> Almost all I know either drink bottled water or only hot, boiled tap water

100% of them drink boiled tap water. But isn't this proving my point? Not like it's poisoned with heavy metals?

As for pollution, of course they have a long way to go, but the dystopian picture you paint is hardly fair. It's not perfect but you make it sound like Blade Runner 2049. It's not. I live in Bangkok right now and it is WAY worse than Shenzhen or Shanghai. But I never hear Thailand invoked in one of these "pollution hell" threads.

Look, what you said isn't technically incorrect but your level of hyperbole irked me. I always come across as defending China or something in these threads but I'm not really, I just want it to be fact based. China is not THAT bad. Yes, I know a lot of Chinese people, and they express no pressing desire to leave. It is very far from the worst place on earth to live.
It seems logical that if there was available on the market a large number of planes capable of flying between FL600 and FL900, the relevant authorities would simply extend class A higher. At present there's no civilian aircraft whatsoever capable of those altitudes for long duration cruises, so it has been a moot point.
They don't have options like "Never allow" or "Provide fake location". Why is that so?
Bob, the CEO, turned out to be a good friend of mine. Next time we have some beers, I'll tell him that his perspective was false and he was trying to protect my feelings (despite being a very brash guy who is known for being upfront) - I'll tell him how jhayward, nickpsecurity, JumpCrisscross and marcinzm and others told me his leadership secrets.

Well, let's leave the world of theory, which I'll let the ass-u-me crowd dominate:

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?
This sounds like a brilliant idea. Instead of off-shore wind farms, off-shore solar power generation. Convert the electrical energy into chemical one (methanol) and ship it to the consumers. No need for huge upfront investments (those huge wind turbines must cost a pretty penny), or for large underwater cables to carry electricity inland. These floating solar panels could be deployed far away from maritime sea lines, like in the middle of the Pacific. Plenty of sun. No problem with sandstorms, like for solar farms in deserts. If a hurricane is forecasted, you pack up and move away. No need to buy the land from owners who want to hold out for a better price. What's not to like?
Android has a list of apps that requested permission for location.
You are right water being wet is debatable
> One, in particular, was the assertion that, historically, subsistence farmers and the like generally only needed to work, on average, 12 hours per week.

I’ve seen this claim before, and it typically revolves around careful definition of the word “work” rather than any fundamental difference in how we structure activities and priorities. iirc altering the definition to “any work that provides utility” puts the time at 30-40 hours a week. Still very much for a 30 hour/ 4 day work week, but I’ve found that particular argument to be very weak.

Granted, the west never seems to count reproductive labor when talking about work, which is itself a problem. Most Americans spend the vast majority of their waking hours in some form of labor.
In order to really capture the beauty of the interior, you have to pick the right angle and then force your camera to accentuate color. The interior is magical in a way that can be hard for a point-and-shoot to capture without fiddling. Of course, the internet being what it is, a google image search for "sagrada familia interior" brings up a few great examples like https://cdn.barcelonalowdown.com/barcelona-lowdown/uploads/2...
> the extra time I get would not be spent in pyjamas watching netflix: it would be quality time with my family

why would it matter where the extra time goes. you're saying that caring for your kids is more important than a single guy working at the gym or watching netflix. everyone has his priorities and none are more important than others.
What kind of utility apps?

The ones i am aware are all useless (battery saver, space cleaner etc), and at some point one or two was requesting screenshot access (forgot the name) under the false pretense of "accesibility".
Yesss, I've been thinking about this sort of thing lately! Do for privacy-conscious users what Wordpress did for blogs. Users can (effectively) point-and-click to install apps to their personal clouds, data is end-to-end encrypted. Users get billed for usage (+ a platform margin?), and developers get paid a royalty.
You can choose to "never allow" when it originally asks for location and in settings, but it's not one of the options you can choose on the "one day after 'always' tracking was enabled" popup.
Copper Sulfate is toxic to birds, mammals, insects, etc. It has a lower LD50 than glyphosate.

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2018/03/20/far-more-toxic...
Iirc there were reports that a Samsung manufacturing partner stole their oled tech in China. There wasnt any follow up stories on for whom it was stolen. Although I have a feeling if the Xiaomi folding oled screens were really stolen Samsung would accuse them and stir up a storm. That Xiaomi phone got mainstream press coverage in the west, it wasnt just some small thing made only for China and importable via aliexpress
These are all salient points and I would like to comment as someone who has experience in medicine. We are truly on the precipice of so many breakthroughs in the medical field. Cancer is going to be a chronic condition soon. HIV will likely be gone in our lifetime. Congenital diseases will be eradicated very soon.

What's going to also happen that mainstream media has failed to grasp the gravity of is pharmacogenomics/pharmacogenetics. Essentially what we are going to do the second you enter the ED/PCP/PreOP is sequence your DNA. Then we will tailor your drug regime based on your phenotype (What traits/characteristics you have expressed). This kind of thing was just imaginary, but last year I listened to one of the world's leading pediatric pharmacogenomicists that had a half dozens cases he shared; one of them was having a 16 y/o female that presented with depression that was not ameliorated with first line SSRI. Upon sequencing her genome they realized that her phenotype was incompatible with this SSRI, switched her and upon 4 week followup her symptoms were significantly reduced.

The 20th century was the century of physics, the 21st will be the century of biology.
> The Football Engine is written in highly optimized C++ code, allowing it to be run on off-the-shelf machines, both with GPU and without GPU-based rendering enabled. This allows it to reach a performance of approximately 25 million steps per day on a single hexa-core machine.

Missed opportunity to use Rust for memory safety.
"A non-technical manager managing technical people" is Dilbert in real life and is so common it's practically a meme.
"Never allow" already exists. The user can deny location access when it is first requested, or can disable location access through Settings.

"Provide fake location" is not necessary, because apps which fail to work when you deny location access are rejected during App Store review.
Unreliable source. This is one of those stupid articles which takes a very very unlikely worst case scenario and paints it as news. The earth could get hit by an asteroid tomorrow, Shock! Horror!. You should know better than this
From what you've written, it sounds like:

- you are comfortable writing code

- you want to interact with WeChat friends on >2 devices (not just phone+web, phone+desktop or phone+tablet)

- you would like a synchronised history of your WeChat interactions

You could probably build something close (but not the same) as what you need using https://github.com/Chatie/wechaty

It's made for writing bots, but you could use it to write a gateway. And have each of your devices communicate via that gateway.
If you have children of working age they are likely working service industry jobs and work weekends and evenings anyways.
What issue do you have with people working three twelve hour days?
> Is it really true? Can you prove it?

Let me flip this around: Employers are terrible at measuring productivity of certain kinds of knowledge workers, so they just try to squeeze as many hours out of us as possible to compensate.
> CPC has done a damned good job of advancing the interests of the Chinese people.

Certainly the nation has modernized rapidly. But at what cost? Western media speaks of famines, proxy wars, land grabs, implicit and explicit suppression of anything/anyone different.

(Not saying other forms of governing are guaranteed to do better, but at least with democracies power is supposed to be more distributed.)
Depends on the temperature and pressure of the water I suppose.
And more importantly, are things that exist primarily in water wet? https://youtu.be/TPDdRrMVEnA
You can disable any app's location access from the iOS settings, it's fairly trivial.

As for fake location, well, give it time. They seem to be willing to provide fake emails for the new Sign In With Apple service. So they might start actually obfuscating location in the future.
Should be much cheaper to run despite being a physics simulation:

"The Football Engine is written in highly optimized C++ code, allowing it to be run on off-the-shelf machines, both with GPU and without GPU-based rendering enabled. This allows it to reach a performance of approximately 25 million steps per day on a single hexa-core machine."

Also has some features geared towards generalization, and benchmarking:

"With the Football Benchmarks, we propose a set of benchmark problems for RL research based on the Football Engine. The goal in these benchmarks is to play a “standard” game of football against a fixed rule-based opponent that was hand-engineered for this purpose. We provide three versions: the Football Easy Benchmark, the Football Medium Benchmark, and the Football Hard Benchmark, which only differ in the strength of the opponent. "

"As training agents for the full Football Benchmarks can be challenging, we also provide Football Academy, a diverse set of scenarios of varying difficulty. This allows researchers to get the ball rolling on new research ideas, allows testing of high-level concepts (such as passing), and provides a foundation to investigate curriculum learning research ideas, where agents learn from progressively harder scenarios."

So, as compared to SC2/Dota, you can train much faster, with good baselines to benchmark or compete again, and already built-in support for curriculum learning. SC2/Dota weren't designed for RL, so they're just harder to work with in RL - SC2 has a curriculum which was added on afterwards, for example (the minigames), but Dota2 still doesn't.

Soccer is also more popular than either SC2/DoTA2 as well, so that may be a draw for researchers. More interesting to work on something you like and already know about.

Dunno if all of that together is enough to make it a worthwhile testbed, but it's not obviously worthless or redundant.
Fake location is necessary because apps may annoy users with popups until you grant the permission or give some benefits in exchange for location.
Most of this is not stealing, but instead copying and spying.
Okay... but all of those differences make this game EASIER than SC2, so why work on a reduced difficulty problem now.
I more meant "GC for those who want it", as advanced GC with Edens and mark-sweep tenured generations can handle high-allocation and large-heap scenarios that are extremely challenging for simpler MM approaches. I don't know if this really can be done as a library though.
I think you can tell if it's a good system for your company. As an individual employer all I care about are:

1. are my false positives low?

2. is the time it takes to fill a position low?

If the answer to both of those questions is "yes" then the system is great for me (and I've seen the system described above provide affirmative answers to both these questions in a startup setting).

Determining whether a hiring system is locally good is significantly easier than determining if it's good in general.
A fun story, posting the link for those who haven't seen it -> https://web.archive.org/web/20170722132351/https://dev.hasen...
What? Do you have evidence there's a memory problem with the code as is?

Blind language allegiances are useless. All of them have their advantages and it makes no sense to claim one is superior.
I keep reading that Apple already randomises MAC addresses for privacy purposes, but then how do its devices stay logged in to 'captive' WiFi, or more problematically, paired with Bluetooth devices?

Are the addesses only randomised for broadcast / new pairs?
Very nice post, however, I recall a bit differently...

"I might be wrong, but I've always attributed this primarily to Apple."

RIM and BBM had a four year head start on Apple messaging. Unless Apple had a pre-mobile messaging protcol that I am unaware of. Even so, BBM was the hotness back then and people were lining up to buy a Blackberry just so they could use its exclusive messaging service.
The prompts are from iOS itself, not the apps.
What if the app works without location, but gives some benefits only if you enable it? E.g. a shop app gives a discount if you allow tracking you.
Golden Rice
I had no objection to that fine. I had an objection to the an automatic mechanism to do it, or to perfectly enforce any law, no matter how trivial, Simply because these kinds of things don't happen in a vacuum; the mechanisms built toward these ends will not be limited to being used toward that one end. For example maybe there's cameras everywhere to enforce this law. But then there's cameras everywhere. I highly recommend that article I linked if you have not read.

Edit 1: I realized what you meant with your question so disregard the first sentence.
Edit 2: Also, it's worth stating that it follows that these concerns are completely independent of the complexity of the law.
They're aren't providing fake emails, they are providing masked emails. A fake location is a step or two beyond that, it's active deception.
In my experience attitude and connections count for the most. I'm 45 and I don't have any problems finding new opportunities. But I never go through the front door, it's always a referral. I can't imagine having a real problem until I'm in my 60s. At least around here, there just aren't so many programmers that we can afford to turn away qualified people just because they are in their 40s or 50s. If they know their shit, they're welcome to work for us. We've got developers ranging from 20-65, pretty evenly distributed.
It may be that "regular" people are more willing to have a dozen different media subscriptions for various sites, but I don't think that's a safe assumption.
Thanks, you've provided some great insights here - and appreciated those links. Will buy that O'Reilly book!

Mid 40s myself, stayed in one tech stack for too long but have been redeeming myself in the past few years with .net core, AWS, Docker and trying to get into React.

I find myself struggling most with the front end bits, but it's just a question of staying with it.

Have always loved tech, and highly passionate about it. Having a family with a kid on the ASD has really restricted available hours to tinker though, that's my main challenge.

Anyway I found what you and others here wrote quite motivational, so thanks again.
This is such a novel idea. This is an example of why we need huge investment in this type of thing(idk if you call it green). I would have never thought of something like this, it won't impact the average person's life and it is carbon neutral. If this exact thing won't solve the biggest problem of our lifetime, something like it will.
There was some music event recently that prevented vendors from selling water.

Instead they sold you a peanut for $2 and the water was for free.

Mind you the venue was selling water for like $8 a bottle.