skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the start of my career in computing, in one two week period I sent some resume copies, went on 7 interviews and got 5 offers. The reason was the high interest in computing around DC for US national security.

I was making in annual salary 6 times what a new, high end Camaro cost. My 2 BR apartment cost me 8.5% of my gross salary.

Then some suits saw the problem, had the NSF have a team of economists estimate computing labor supply and demand curves, and then have the NSF write into research grants that so many students had to be supported and, hint, hint, could get students from Taiwan, South Korea, India, Greece, etc.

So, net, the main reason for the nonsense in hiring in computing is that there's no real shortage. When there was a real shortage, organizations would hire based on indications of talent and expect the employees to learn on the job enough to do the job. Now it appears that the employers have a list of 10 of their most important software tools in their stack and what to hire people with that particular list of 10 tools, with that particular stack -- not promising for either the organization or the employee.

For another, managers want their subordinates to be no threat, just secondary, submissive, subordinate, heads down coding, no bright ideas, no risk of the suit being shown to lack technical competence, etc. And, the more people the manager hires, maybe the more the manager gets paid; so hire a lot of inexperienced people instead of a few deeply experienced people -- empire building, goal subordination.

The non-technical suits need to start to catch on and get the IT departments being more productive and per dollar.
> I wish it didn't come down to imposing regulations, because regulations truly harm market efficiency. But what choice are we left with?

But that's what we need. But what do our "leaders" think when people rant and rave without showing they even understand the problem?

Citizen: I need you to do something about identity theft!

Lawmaker: Yes, it's clear we need to get some regulation in this space.

C: I'm tired of getting turned down for loans, or having credit cards opened in my name! We need to shut down the CRAs!

L: ... Uh, you know that CRAs don't actually do that? It's your bank or credit card company that opens the account, they're the ones that need to verify identity to make sure that people are who they claim to be...

C: Don't try to defend them! They kept me from buying a car!

L: ... Thank you, citizen. I'll get right on it. Vote Quimby!
Fair enough. That's a hypothetical at this point though, isn't it?
This. Games are done when they're done; much like finished novels, films, or music, once the developer considers it done, it won't get updated anymore. Also likewise to film or music, if it ends up becoming a classic, it might get remastered or remade a decade or two later, but those are the exceptions rather than the norm. The vast majority of games will just stay like when they were originally made, much like the majority of novels, music, and film.
It's not that hard to write a decent mobile page. It's often the result of over engineering.
The fact of whether an official "consciously lying to people" is extremely hard to know, because it is a measure of someone's status of mind in the past. The real world is much more complicated than what you could imagine.

Take Obama's: 'If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan' as an example. He repeated this message for many many times: https://www.politifact.com/obama-like-health-care-keep/

How do you objectively decide:

1) Is this statement true?

2) Did he lie about it?

Also, how do you handle "if there is something I should not know, do not tell me"?
New Crypto Project – Tokenization of Supercars with Curio Invest on ViableToken
I only remember that doing video calls, but it may have been part of the inspiration. Star Trek's PADDs and touchscreen UIs were definitely part of it.
There were several years when Android was improving on internet time and Windows Phone was improving on desktop OS time.
Seriously? Whales in product demos is "image and goodwill" now?

In any sane, non Sinophobic climate, this would be laughed out of the room
Yes, so long as its mass distribution is spherically symmetric.

The oblateness and other imperfections in the Earth do measurably affect satellite orbits, to the point where precision GPS navigation must incorporate corrections.
STL in particular, but it's hardly the only case.
There are a few projects that build toolchains around gcc, http://n64dev.org/ is a good resource.
I don't see the user value though.

>The payment processors can't profit from real cryptocurrency and governments can't control it

I think you're underestimating the power of the tax man but I agree otherwise.
The owner of this channel https://www.youtube.com/user/KazeBG0 makes great fan games for N64, regularly adding in additional behavior not found in the parent games - e.g. adding new super powers to Mario 64. Pretty impressive stuff.
Even more ironic is that he had to revise that book just after its publication because in the 1st edition he totally missed what phenomenon the Internet was going to become.
I could see this happening. I work at a major company and it seems like everyone over 40 is some sort of director or senior staff engineer, so they are taken pretty seriously.
That’s a rather passive aggressive way to ask for a link, isn’t it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19507288

Oh and what do you know, now that comment appears to have been flagged, too!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20249650
Ok, I'll bite. Why doesn't the chart in the article concern you?

Let's not get distracted by whether or not someone is correct that downloading 35gb/month of a music has a meaningful effect. That is not the primary issue here.
Blogger or WordPress for Learning?
I know WordPress has beautiful themes. But when is comes to learning blogging, coding which one is the best?
Anecdotes Aren't Data
I don't think you mean "centi" - that's one-hundredth, not one hundred.
Hi, I included "diversity link" where companies explicitly publish some articles about how D&I plays its part within the company
If you can have a wealth tax, you can have a wealth cap.

> Should you value my property at the market value as "dollars in the bank"?

Yep.

> What if I buy my property and it appreciates, would it get confiscated?

You would owe a certain amount to the state. Payable in cash but like any tax, of course you would get confiscation if you fail to pay.

> Would police come to my home and forcibly move me to a home below the cap?

Shocking, I know, but people are routinely chased from their home by the police for various reasons. And don't be silly, police just puts you in the streets, they are not finding a new house for you, that's your problem.

> Can I own or invest in a business? Do we mark that at "market value"?

Yes and yes.

> What happens if my business does well, too well in fact and now my market value is more than the allotted amount.

Here again, you owe money to the state. Start selling some shares. Shocking idea I know...

> Income cap becomes equally complicated when you count income as money a business you own made and reinvested in itself

I have been shocked the first time I discussed about this with an American, to discover that in US apparently the notion that you have to separate business money from personal money is so alien.

In France, company's accounts and personal accounts are clearly separated and it would be illegal to spend company money for personal stuff. It is very easy to separate business money from personal money if you try.
Yes but the macos port is by aspyr; do they not have the code anymore?
It's only pegged as much as they so choose. If you can change your own exchange rates day to day, the consortium can buy and sell fiat currency in such a way as to cause inflation or deflation. It's all the same power without a physical mint, is it not?
I think most companies do this, even ones that aren't that successful. If you've got a product that has any modicum of success at any point, the natural inclination is to push and mold that product into every corner of every space you're in. Any employee that spends time on anything else is not pulling their weight in the company.
There was some internet lore about patriot missiles being ‘tricked’ via consumer microwave ovens, with the doors opened, bypass switch activated, and powered w/ extension cords in the middle of a field.
Companies are not countries. People are hired in the first and born in the second.

Companies should be concerned when their actions don't match the narrative they are trying to sell about themselves. If the Mobile Web is important to Google (and it should be), it must be a company wide effort. The “that's not my department” excuse doesn't cut it.
I don't forsee anyone doing randomized controlled trials on something like this.

That wet sponge experiment they referenced seemed pretty darn convincing to me.
Magic Leap has raised $2.6 BILLION dollars in funding and have nothing to show for it. Somehow I don't think a random guy in China is what's holding them back.
I'd rather have a thousand competent people working toward their first million than a competent billionaire working toward his second billion.

Also I have a huge doubt that billionaires keep working for the money incentive. Once you get that rich, it is not about money anymore.
I gave my twenties to the tech startup founder life. I won’t be giving my thirties to it.
Maybe something on the surface didn't mesh well with the succion-cups
There was a demo some years ago about blue-screening a windows box via parts from a microwave oven at a decent distance.

I vaguely remember it being a Russian dude that also was making hydrochloric acid?
Why didn't you think you could work with them?

2015 graduates probably have at least a couple years real experience, which is a huge difference over fresh out of school (and a lot of people coast after that, anyway). Even new college grads can start figuring things out.

And there's so much possible to know today, no one person can know it all, and even a top veteran engineer can learn some things from NCGs.

I look for companies where people want to do good work, on good things, are capable, yet intellectually humble, and treat everyone as respected colleagues.
There's a post right here in this thread that says (only barely paraphrased) "That’s not ageism, younger people really are better".
The optics of this aren't great for Magic Leap. AR pun not intended. Really all this does is present Nreal as a legitimate threat to a company that raised approx 100x more money* before shipping a product.

(* Magic Leap funding $2B+, nreal $16M ish)
The Partisan Duel for Control Can Only End Two Ways
Sorry that you're having trouble finding work. It scares me that you went from having your choice of top gigs to unemployed. I guess the safest way to guard against that is to get promoted out of an IC role, not that it helps you now. There are guys your age at my company who work slower and more carefully, and fewer hours than the young folks, but they are directors so basically unimpeachable. They're not judged by volume or velocity but I guess on wisdom and political skill.
"His Republican predecessor created a massive new federal department and launched two destructive wars to protect Americans against a hazard, terrorism, that most years kills fewer people than bee stings and lightning strikes."

This is glib. Perhaps some of GW Bush's policies prevented a large scale attack such as 9/11 from recurring. Many terrorist plots have been foiled since then.
Super happy to see the keras team introduce official support for hyperparameter tuning. That should make it a lot easier to get off the ground for simple projects.

Currently ray.tune is by far the best available hyperparam tuning package period, and when it comes to scaleout. I bet we'll some integrations with keras soon
I'm on that as well, for me it seems it just decodes some Unicode characters and does arithmetic to print the message, I don't know why it's taking so long or how can I speed it up.
And yet there's lots of examples of companies that aren't trivially breached, and can promptly roll patches for CVEs.
China will NEVER have a military that can challenge America. It is unlikely that still be a unitary country in 2030. For most of the 20th Century, China was ruled by Warlords. Xi has guaranteed that the CCP will die as he has removed any moral authority the CCP had. China will get old before it gets rich.

TL:DR China will break up due to an aging population.
chinese doctors and scientists should be banned from international meetings until this stops.
Nowhere in the complaint do they ever mention a single specific bit of technology, code, design or patent stolen by Chi Xu. Their entire argument is that he signed a confidentiality agreement when he started working there so should not be able to start a competing company. This is going to be next to impossible to enforce in California, let alone China.
And flexible. They will work longer hours and demand less holiday time.
No. It’s usually much worse, actually.
This seems similar to the c#/ .net decimal type (1), except the .net type is 128 bits. The c# decimal precedes the IEEE decimal types and isn't the same.

(1) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-au/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
That's a circular argument. People accept it because it's valuable, it's valuable because people accept it?
The platform is not hard, at least from a software standpoint. Moreover, they can take advantage of several years of the market leaders having done a lot of the UX refinement work and making mistakes.

Realistically, I could see a MVP-grade ordering/dispatch/registration/billing/accounting platform costing well less than a million dollars.

Hell, open source it and each community's drivers can spin up its own locally-owned Lyft/Uber clone. It makes sense as a geographical natural monopoly, and building at that level may avoid some scale-to-infinity technical problems. The New York co-op can build clever features and share them with Chicago without worrying that undermines their viability.
The goal of an income cap is not to suddenly confiscate the wealth of these billionaires, it is to prevent such inequality from happening. They would still be the top 45 richest Germans, they would just be less rich than they are now.

> startup companies and investors would be discouraged from locating in Germany,

That, I really doubt. As a founder, if you were telling me that I have twice the chance to succeed in a given place, but that I will never own more than 10 millions, I'd be pretty happy already. Sure, you won't attract the delusional founder who thinks he will become the next Bill Gates with his dating app for dogs, but isn't that a feature more than a bug?

> and the income cap wouldn’t raise much money anyway.

That's not the goal. It would not raise money directly, but it would have a lot of benefits for the economy, by redirecting money that would otherwise go to the top 0.1% into more modest pockets. It would cause redistribution without having to go through the state.
It's true that they scan, and perhaps its true that the current generation of scanners cannot be defeated, but I think we're in violent agreement that some world-class athletes are thought to cheat despite being world-class.
Nope, neither is an unambiguous, strictly better practice. From the Chinese side I would be writing "The scandals where officials have given the death penalty just so they can get the organs show that our choice is a tradeoff, not a best practice. Insofar as our system gives incentives to harvest organs instead of keeping people alive, it is harming people unnecessarily too."
Which stats? The only statistic I'm aware of Telsa claiming is that Tesla Autopilot is safer than all other road vehicles combined.
I sadly had an experience last year with older team members neither having the sage wisdom nor the flexibility to add value to a project, but they were kept on because of diversity reasons. The project was still delivered on time, on par with specs and within budget, but the older people were sent on paid leave after the first month of the project.

While it's a cliche to assume older (or younger) people are never going to work out in a team, it definitely happens a lot where outliers in the age range simply cannot do the work, whatever the reason. (and I'm not talking about not being qualified, that's usually not the problem)

On the other hand, with this anecdotal failure we have seen anecdotal successes as well; but knowing that older members can fail on a project due to what they self-describe as their age does actually happen in just the way people seem to fear; just not as often as they seem to think.
Maybe my comment came out wrong.

It’s not about their(or my) technical skills.

Technical compatibility is not enough for a team to work closely and efficiently IMHO
This is my experience with older skilled programmers as well. For the most part, I notice when there are technical folks in their 40s and 50s on a project, the "gee whiz" is thankfully tempered by the benefit of experience, and the projects have a more concrete results-driven character. "There is nothing new under the sun", as they say. And when you've seen the signature of a pitfall before, you can spot its many variations. Less chasing after chimeras. More driving at the actual business goal.

The heavily youth-driven focus of tech hiring has always struck me as ultimately very dumb. And I think this is also reflected in the god-awful interviewing practices that everyone is familiar with. I don't see older engineers promoting those practices that are talked about so much in the industry as being borderline absurd.
Winners: Lawyers
Isn't that marvelous? The only nation that landed humans on the Moon thinks that it can't do things that are the norms in many European countries.
“The Stoicism of Kawhi Leonard”
Andy - We don't know each other but I follow your works and have a lot of respect for it. Please don't let yourself get distracted and brought down into insults on others, even if it MAY be true. There's literally nothing to be gained, and a lot to lose in doing so.
Not too far off and reminiscent of Louis CK cheap and straightforward business practices regarding tickets.
Hi all Carmen here. A bit of my story below:

my husband (leonagano) had faced ageism in his job hunting journey, especially because the tech environment sometimes attracts young people and the more experienced professionals are being left behind. Wearing my journalist hat, I started looking for ways to help and fight ageism.

After further research, I realised this is actually a common problem among the IT industry as stated in some articles from the likes of The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2017/aug/14/women-ageism...), Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/surviving-as-an-old-in-the-tech-...), Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/sites/marenbannon/2019/04/10/the-bigg...), Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-17/75-year-o...)

That's when I decided to start this job board and hopefully, try to reduce this problem to the minimum possible

Sometimes, the problem happens during the job description, where the "older" professionals feel excluded when words like tech-native, ninja, etc are used, according to Dice (https://insights.dice.com/2018/02/28/employers-welcome-tech-...)
They don't want to write code during the interview. Some complain about needing to practice, which I can't understand. Me, I'm pushing 50 and I'd be wary of joining a team who got hired without writing code.
I agree, even if it's five lives saved per murder there's probably a better way. (Voluntary suicides come to mind.) In my view the article did not make the case that "people are being killed _for_ their organs," but "people are being killed _and_ they're taking their organs." The first policy is unambiguously bad while the second is efficient in some ways and dangerous in others.
And just as many that are breached in spite of their best efforts. Perfect security is impossible.
It might "maximize" (marketing speak for "improve vs. other designs we tried") airflow given a particular requirement for structural strength. This design should do a pretty good job at being strong while reducing the amount of material (and therefore weight), and since it’s just hemispherical holes milled out from each side, the machining is (relatively) straightforward vs. other possible 3-dimensional shapes.
This is remarkably good.
Ask HN: Resources for getting started with bare-metal coding?
Several years ago I bought a used copy of the original x86 manual and wrote a proof-of-concept OS. I’m interested in getting back into it, but with more of a focus on HPC and utilizing the more advanced features of modern architectures. Where should I start? Even back when I wrote my toy OS, the contemporary Intel manual was 10x the size of the original that I worked with. Does anyone even work with assembly anymore? (If not, how is software keeping up with hardware advances? Do newer low-level languages like Rust and Go really utilize the massive advances that have taken place?)

My history: I’m a devops guy with about four years of experience in IT and about a year of experience writing Python at a professional level. My degree is in general mathematics, though I did best in the prob/stat courses (and enjoyed them more than the others).

Side note: I wonder if I “33 bits”’d myself above...
Survival of the Best Fit
Aside from the Zuckerberg "young people are just smarter" quote, I suspect a lot of this is more side-effect of businesses (especially large ones) wanting interchangeable, easily-replaceable parts rather than overt ageism.

Having a core business system done right the first time by an old-timer or two kind of puts you at their mercy. Using the infinite monkey theorem to grind out a bunch of python and javascript is much safer from a managerial perspective.
Social Security numbers are explicitly identifiers. What they are not is authentication.

The Real ID act was aimed at making driver's licenses more useful as authentication/proof of identity. Whether it constructively did that is a separate question.
Hey, did Bloomberg ever retract its entirely unverified Chinese spy chip story?

Just a reminder that they’ve blown all their credibility.