skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Mirin is a common staple used in Japanese cooking. It's a type of rice wine, similar to sake, but with a lower alcohol and higher sugar content."

Unlikely this is what you meant. Admiring?
SolarFlare as well. HFT shops have been early adopter of kernel bypass setups which now is becoming more common place.

On a related note, the architecture of something like ScyllaDB is very similar to some of the HFT systems I have seen.
If you don't consider a Trump rally and calls of "fake news" to be part of a propaganda campaign intended to generate these sorts of opinions, I don't know what to tell you.

(To be clear, the same is true for Democratic rallies, too - they're propaganda.)
100% agree and can give a real world personal example.

The combination of above average ability:

- as a python programmer

- to read and understand other people's code (mostly by being methodical with unit tests etc)

- to document processes clearly

- write clear emails

- find "stupid" processes and eliminate or streamline them

All of the above combined have taken me from senior engineer to about to manage a team of multiple engineers.
Which FF dependencies do you think are unnecessary?
> I'd really like to work for Mozilla on Mozilla products, but somehow the interview process is broken.
I've managed to go through 3 interviews (2 technical, one with the team-coordinator) but then was rejected because they've found some other with more years of relevant (?) experience on the topic for the position.

I'm sorry I don't really understand. They interviewed you and found other people who (they thought) were more qualified. In what way is the interview process broken?

> Now they write this. So my question is: why don't you open more positions, letting people be hired (and paid) to work on products, instead of looking for charitable work from volunteers?

I can only assume that it's because they think there are better places they think they should put their resources.
I wasn't thinking of ship burials (though thanks for the beowulf pointer, I didn't know that, and in returns here's an allegedly eyewitness account of one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_funeral#Ibn_Fadlan%27s_...), but something much smaller and older.

There was a report of a discovered boat burial on doggerland, on land (before doggerland flooded. That would have been at the end of the last ice age). I can't find it now.
In most countries, not committing crimes is a condition of residence.

When you are a resident, you are a guest to a country and must act accordingly.

Getting kicked out would be the logical extension AFTER a criminal trial and possible incarceration.

Saying we should remove criminal guests from any country, is IMO a logical point.
Drinking multiple _liters_ of water in a relatively short time can cause water intoxication [1] due to the drop in relative electrolyte levels. I got it once at scout camp where, unfortunately, the medic misdiagnosed me with dehydration and had me drink a gallon of water. I ended up urinating about every ten minutes for the next 24 hours, and is one of the most unpleasant experiences I've gone through.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
Modern smartphones have assistants that "listen all the time" in the same way that you're saying that smart speakers do (namely, they look for a wakeword).
Ah ok, so everyone is being rational - that's awesome to hear, thanks! :)
Obviously you need to plan ahead, perhaps read some personal finance books now and then. "The Millionaire Next Door" is still relevant. I read it when I was 22, followed most of it...
Btw, by 40, shouldn't most of us be able to retire if desired?
Ideally you'd get a compile error, but there is no compiler in PHP. Run time is the only time PHP can tell you there's a problem.
The job market for professors in CS right now is great. No need for a postdoc and only a few pubs will get you multiple offers from R1 univerisities in the US.

(I'm a CS prof.)
That's certainly better than zero, but those are each huge projects in their own right, with their own full time staff.

How many small external projects are using it?
QUIC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC) is one alternative.
Sounds like any college campus, but instead of some fringe politician’s recruits recruiting impressionable idealist students for quirky causes its chinese students interjecting

Odd, but really not that foreign the way they are acting on a college campus: Aggressively passionate about an ideology nobody here cares about
The context you mention promotes excluding a group of people based on some vague statements and stereotypes with no evidence, now a group of people will be judged for actions they did not commit and passionate compromised people with certain personality will be attributed some features they might not have. For me that’s same as judging blonde people or Irish or something in the lines.

Probably they just don’t deserve 10x engineers if they don’t know how to deal with actual diversity anyway.
This is a replay of a comment I wrote several years ago to the same topic:

I'm 60+. I've been coding my whole career and I'm still coding. Never hit a plateau in pay, but nonetheless, I've found the best way to ratchet up is to change jobs which has been sad, but true - I've left some pretty decent jobs because somebody else was willing to pay more. This has been true in every decade of my career.
There's been a constant push towards management that I've always resisted. People I've known who have gone into management generally didn't really want to be programming - it was just the means to kick start their careers. The same is true for any STEM field that isn't academic. If you want to go into management, do it, but if you don't and you're being pushed into it, talk to your boss. Any decent boss wants to keep good developers and will be happy to accomodate your desire to keep coding - they probably think they're doing you a favor by pushing you toward management.

I don't recommend becoming a specialist in any programming paradigm because you don't know what is coming next. Be a generalist, but keep learning everything you can. So far I've coded professionally in COBOL, Basic, Fortran, C, Ada, C++, APL, Java, Python, PERL, C#, Clojure and various assembly languages each one of which would have been tempting to become a specialist in. Somebody else pointed out that relearning the same thing over and over in new contexts gets old and that can be true, but I don't see how it can be avoided as long as there doesn't exist the "one true language". That said, I've got a neighbor about my age who still makes a great living as a COBOL programmer on legacy systems.

Now for the important part if you want to keep programming and you aren't an academic. If you want to make a living being a programmer, you can count on a decent living, but if you want to do well and have reasonable job security you've got to learn about and become an expert in something else - ideally something you're actually coding. Maybe it's banking, or process control, or contact management - it doesn't matter as long as it's something. As a developer, you are coding stuff that's important to somebody or they wouldn't be paying you to do it. Learn what you're coding beyond the level that you need just to get your work done. You almost for certain have access to resources since you need them to do your job, and if you don't figure out how to get them. Never stop learning.
>Calling a friend for after-work plans? That will be with an iPhone, most likely (55% market share): or perhaps a Samsung (25%).

Does the iPhone really have 55% market share? I don't believe that for a minute.
I think that is something that is more true for something like an elite school. They could potentially refine their qualified guesses to make better decision. But there is also a huge long tail of institutions that probably don't make guesses at all.

I want to say there is a misconception about what technology does for education as current MOOCs mainly focuses on distribution, rather than what distribution enables which is to invest in what you distribute. But realistically that is probably more about incentives. They just do the easiest thing and effectively ends up giving everyone "reality tv" rather than "game of thrones".

What this kind of technology in education also enables is distributing the learning path, the planning or even part of the teaching. You can have hundreds of people spending large resources designing the systems and materials since it can be used by a lot of people, and also can be distributed to where it makes the most difference.

Of course it all comes back to the mindset and what reasons you do them for. They whole thing could of course also end up being a mess, or even abusive. But that is the challenge with technology.
They should be caught, tried and charged under Australian laws. Most countries have in their laws that people will be removed for the major crimes (violence etc).

If you're in a country where you are not a citizen you are a guest. You wouldn't go to someone's house, create a lot of trouble, and then expect to be able to stay do you?
Ah, when you said
> how would you know what "you would expect"
I thought you were challenging the idea that people know what they expect from others. It sounds like you were actually challenging the idea that people can know what others expect?
Presumably one would lead to the other.
Why we ground electrical systems (2015)
Right. It's a path to faster financial security though. Realistically, the amount of time it takes for them to find a new VP role is baked into the compensation.
I fail to see how this would be of any help, especially the former. To me it looks like a feel-good action with virtually no political impact.
I love your comment and agree with everything you said.

I am a few years away from 40 as well, but as a freelance software developer who works remotely, I can only say I /love/ my job (most of the time) and hope to do it for many more years in this capacity.
> I think I can stay grounded pretty well even when my mind is in terrible physical condition

Perhaps it's just like torture, given enough time and suffering things change. Every person has a breaking point. I can't imagine anyone taking torture as "keep doing it because it's still better than dying".

> We can be pretty sure that there's no other side.

Pretty sure. I'm not a spiritual person so this isn't about religion. I was just being thorough so until I get to see nothing on the other side I will at least give the option a passing mention.

And I don't think your mind hangs on to life just because once it's over there's only nothingness. The human mind probably can't even conceive what "nothing" means. You might hang on for more "practical" reasons, like "I spent years building this life, I can't waste it especially if there's a slim chance it gets better".
They probably meant farming on a backyard gardening level, I know plenty of people who got into it in middle age, particularly Mormons who try to be relatively self-sufficient. Not sure about the backyard size needed to actually support yourself though.
He elaborated on the idea in Zero to One. Amazing book and highly relevant here
If you can boil water, you can cook oatmeal. There is nothing else to it.
My users were complaining they couldn't see some avatars on my forum. I realized it's because I generate a UUID for each upload and bucket the files into folders such that a hex ID of "ad73a7a8b9" has the URL of "/ad/ad73a7a8b9".

I realized the blunt force approach of various adblockers will block anything on "/ad/...". Some would even block "/ad...". I found that a bit annoying.
online accredited phd program? Really. Unimaginable.
> punish them according to the law

It’s lawful and valid to revoke visas of those convicted of violent crimes. Assaulting protesters is a violent crime.

Nobody reasonable is advocating for deporting all Chinese students. Just those who assault protesters.
If you haven't had an audiogram specifically to check for imbalances in your hearing, then standard audiograms won't tell you.

When I was in Grade 2 I had trouble focusing in class - they brought in an audiologist to see if I had trouble hearing. They were surprised that no, in fact, I could hear extremely well - however they didn't recognize that as a problem, hypersensitive hearing.

A standard audiogram only checks to see that you can hear well enough in each ear, at different frequencies, say at 15 decibels. Checking for imbalances they check instead for HOW LOW of a decibel you can hear at different frequencies. Say in your right ear the lowest you can hear 1000 Hz frequency is 15 decibels, but in your left ear you hear at 10 decibels - that would show an imbalance by 5 decibels. Very few audiologists do this test, so I'd be very surprised if you found stumbled into one who did check it in this way.
> That was much milder than expected,

Just keep scrolling and reading. There's cheating story after cheating story, maybe one of the other ones gets you more excited :-)
>> It does feel cultural. If Apple can't get this right, then it points to a cultural blind spot for all of tech.

I don't think it's so much a blind spot as a deliberate disempowerment of the user.

If we actually had general purpose computing devices with operating systems designed to empower users with the ability to manage complex flows of data in both meaningful and aesthetic ways, the 'tech' market as we know it would collapse.

Cars have become computers, computers have become devices, and devices have become advertising nodes. Nodes are interested in invisible collection of data about the user, not aiding users in benefiting and sorting through the data generated.

>> And measuring usage is just a proxy for measuring value--lots of times more usage means the experience was less valuable.

So much this. We originally created these machines to automate repetitive tasks, but somewhere along the way we switched paradigms and now they force us to engage in repetitive tasks.
That they're technically optional doesn't prevent peers for bullying over it.

Source: I was an Australian citizen while in US schools from 2nd through 12th grade. It can be highly uncomfortable to stand silently (and politely) during the Pledge.
Wow this really looks awesome! It requires polish as most oss but this idea of an open web app store / cloud that is not tied to a vendor is amazing.
> .. it's pretty impressive they still respond to exclusion requests

They responded and removed amp-analytics. I'm not that impressed.

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/8311
> Is 35 normally considered too old to make something of yourself by society?

By Western Society norms, yes. But there's no reason to take notice of what other people around you expect you to be doing at a given age. If you feel the need to learn something new, or branch out in a different direction - do it! Or at least start planning to do it.

I'm currently on my 5th career - some may see that as a failure to commit, irresponsible even. I consider it a welcome challenge - a chance to prove myself (again) and an opportunity to grow while having some fun along the way.

> And when speaking to friends older than me, the majority seem to still be fumbling through as well.

This information is only released to people after they pass their 40th birthday; leaking such information to younger people is strictly forbidden!
> I fail to see how this would be of any help

It would make sharing images of the protest on the mainland difficult.
It is 100% a colloquialism..
In most rational countries, folks who are visiting on various forms of visas ARE deported when they commit crimes. Making this out to be some kind of lynch mob thing is kind of disingenuous
Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior in UAE, Egypt and Saudi Arabia
The civilians are not supporting the China Communist Party- they are supporting the unification of China, by whatever mean possible.

Call it the Chinese Manifesto, if you will. South China Sea expansion, Taiwan, HK, Belt and Road Initiatives. Chinese believes that all these are from their ancestors, and one day China will reclaim all the territories that were stolen from China by foreign powers.

I know this sounds racist but it's true. Just go on Youtube and watch all those Simplified Chinese-only propaganda videos.
Google is clearly ultra late game zerg. They are floating minerals, gas, and larvae to remax on a tech switch. This analogy is holding up surprisingly well.
Yup. Gray-haired contracting life is a different beast altogether compared to being an employee.
YES! Thank you for this!
Yes two pane is common here in the US but from what I heard triple pane is common in the EU and they are considering quad pane.

Anyway there is a high end home contractor with a YouTube channel and he sometimes travels to various places to see how things are done there. He did a whole series of videos on Swiss and German house construction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MBMHAOTt04
There are compatibility checkers that can analyse the code and tell you what needs to be taken care of. Fixing is not automatic but it takes a few minutes to confirm each issue and upgrade it. If you have unit tests then it's all straight forward.
C++ is a skill that is in demand in the US as well, and age doesn't matter a bit, especially as many of the younger crowd can't or won't learn it.
One option, I think, is to accept that cables and tubes will be stepped on, and then attempt to mitigate pull-outs and pinches. (Which, admittedly, is close to the approach you already have.)

Longer cables and tubes would help diminish pull-outs, and could make a lot of the other suggested solutions possible too. Unfortunately the only way to achieve this is probably to call the manufacturer and pray... maybe they have longer options, or female-female adapters that can be used to connect multiple cables together?

Preventing pinches us also something the manufacturer could solve by just making the middle section of tubes—the bit on the ground—a lot heftier. But you could also DIY it by slotting on some corrugated cable conduit? It comes slit down the side, so you could maybe slot it on after cables and tubes are all set up. It would be impossible to clean, but maybe in the grand scheme of a hospital budget it could just be declared disposable?

Image if the conduit I have in mind: https://2ecffd01e1ab3e9383f0-07db7b9624bbdf022e3b5395236d5cf...
Pretty hard to believe that Instagram has a 2% social network market share. Having looked at the source material for that particular chart, it dates from Nov. 2017, not 2019 as stated in the article. It seems poorly researched and overblown. How many car companies/coffee chains/social networks should there be? I don't see how anyone could answer that question from a logical perspective.
Well, if an internet commenter says so, I guess we can skip the whole due process thing.
Actually intermittent fasting was the norm - Americans averaged three meals a day with no snacks (you’ll spoil your appetite!), and typically spent 12-14 hours between supper/dinner and breakfast. Insulin response remained pulsatile with enough postprandial time for it to return to baseline.

The reference I have handy shows that Americans average 5 meals/snacks per day now: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29574043 although I’ve seen even higher numbers (closer to 6) mentioned.

Ah, found a source analyzing eating frequency (and timing) changes since 1977: https://idmprogram.com/the-critical-importance-of-meal-timin...
It also means undebuggable black box computations running on your machine (DRM, javascript).
I just looked at Florida's districts and the districts all include the rivers and lakes. Key examples are the Everglades and the St. Johns rivers.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/Districts
A visit to Bosnia's last pigeon post office
What is this amateur hour? Just don't create the ticket
While I'm aware and fully agree with your University of Phoenix pitch, please try to listen and understand that's only true given the right context ( both economic, social, time, etc. )

Most people sit at an office in front of a computer for at least 8 hours a day, some of them are developers. Most "problems" they "solve" are very distant from the "Changing the World and give meaning to your life, one PHP line at a time".

It's a great gig, but a sad life when you'll look back on your deathbed.
> Democratic rallies, too - they're propaganda.)

We're in agreement here. The political pop culture is weird and celeb worshiping in the US.

Compared to the propaganda coming out of China and is being pushed in other nations, it's like comparing a mountain to a molehill.

Yes there is a sub-group that believes and endorses in the pro-trump beliefs. Are they valid/good/true? Who cares. Part of our basic rights means that we can hold these beliefs and opinions and express them. If you are to believe in the basic right you have to be willing to accept that people will hold beliefs and will speak on things you don't like.

We have universal laws in the US, if they cross them, enforce the law. (I.e. trying to hit other people with a car at a protest etc)
I don't know about you but this sounds like interesting new phenomenon to me.
I think a lot of problems some older developers have is that the culture has shifted. Maybe I'm off the mark, but I feel like older devs come from a world where programming was all about programming and it was less a formal career than it is now.

To succeed in programming, you have to work well in a business. You can't be Linus Torvalds, walking around with a big ego, unless you're so important it's hard to get rid of you.

You have to work with people well, and some of the older people I've worked with seem to understand this less.

Again, not an insult to older devs. Plenty of them are wonderful. And I could be completely wrong. Just an observation.
Golem – Graphene Contributor Spotlight – Mona Vij (Intel Labs)
> Do you think Americans are going to hate their country after reading about MKUltra?

One, we don’t censor that information.

Two, I’d expect most Americans to freely criticise those government actions, as well as the people and agencies responsible. The latter is prohibited in China.
That’s because chrome isn’t allowed to ship it’s own engine on apple’s platform.

Chrome for iOS is essentially safari with a wrapper for syncing some data.
It's hard to look over someone's shoulder to make sure they're making the "right" vote if they're in a public voting booth.
The kids are going to be all right
I'm normally not going to fuss over petty downvotes but as hyponatremia can kill, perhaps you can hold off this time?
If Y Combiantor is doing that already why should Google? They can observe the development and then buy the winner (with a premium)

If Google/Alphabet does too many investments which fail shareholders will cry.
You open yourself to vote buying and voter cohersion attacks, historically the most common voting fraud mechanism in the states.
Generics will come in a major release. So probably in 8 along with the JIT compiler
If you don't have the source code, you can't "trust what's on your computer," as Osterman puts it. Easter eggs have no impact on that axiom one way or the other.

So, coming from Microsoft, it's easy to dismiss the entire article based on its initial premises.
Swinging a fist at someone isn't free speech. Taking and destroying someone else's property (even a $0.05 posterboard) isn't free speech.

> Security officials quickly arrived to separate the groups

Separation calms the issue but does not punish those who harm others.
I hope not.

https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Pages/state/executive/elect...
I should have used quotes, I was answering specifically about the 55/45 part of gp text :)
That's just the startup world. There are a million chill software jobs out there. If you get sick of it, save up a bunch of money and move to Dallas or Atlanta or any other large-ish city and find a quality enterprise shop.