skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider the size of the DNA "books": for example, the human genome is around 3 GB (uncompressed), much bigger than a single book on your shelf: King James Bible as plain text is around 4 MB (uncompressed), so it's a factor of roughly 1000 times (being always copied in every cell of your body!) and we have many complete copies and versions of older bibles but we still can't completely reconstruct too old versions. But we can have a reasonable reconstruction of the "tree" of the development of the known bibles.

And having just a single page from a bible can tell you quite good where that bible fits in the tree of all known bibles.
In the UK (and I suspect all of the EU?) it’s specifically illegal to discriminate on age (https://www.gov.uk/employer-preventing-discrimination), and when I was last interviewing there HR would remove any birthdates that came in on CVs before passing them over to the interviewers.
"Businesses tend to recruit younger devs for few reasons:

- They can be easily convinced to work longer hours

- They are typically paid much less"

Older workers and younger workers are paid the same way - they agree on a salary when they start working and that's what they're paid. It's so common on HN to see age discrimination dismissed as not real because of pay. That argument doesn't make any sense. The same goes for working conditions. If you're hiring someone for a position that requires you to work certain hours, that doesn't really have anything to do with the age of the applicant.

And anyway, this article wasn't about software development, which has unique characteristics.
They may have licensed the Bose Ride system, which is sold to commercial truck drivers to smooth out bumps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_G9GCpWAcM

Edit: Looks like Bose has sold it to Clearmotion:

https://www.clearmotion.com/active-suspension-seat
> The thing about biases are that the mind that nurtures them can easily justify them, thus making the very biases appear rational and logical.

https://scottberkun.com/essays/40-why-smart-people-defend-ba...
But they are in denial already. Calling them hypocrites is just stating the obvious. Hopefully it'll make them think, even if for a fleeting minute, and not buy that third Hawaiian vacation this year.
From each according to their ability my friend. Digital tech makes ability massive. As long as it’s volunteers it’s not work.
cant believe so many people still get it wrong.

devops means Developer/Operations.

means, the sysadmin/sysops/ops guy now has to know things about development to center his daily-doing around code (ideally the code dictates what is going on [Infrastructure as Code]).

a very simple example to this:
back then the ops guy or sysadmin did everything by hand. today, he uses code to get things done. bash vs. a HTTP JSON API. manually by hand vs. ansible [markup language yaml], etc.

so many people just dont know or understand what devops means. but it is so easy.

it is the fusion of development and operations.

thus, while you need two people back then, now you only need one person to do the same job.

a devops is a sysadmin who ideally knows how to code.

a devops is a developer who evolved into a sysadmin or is doing both because he learned it.

devops is development/operations.

it has nothing to do with agile, waterfall or a "mindset".
Good work speaks for itself. I always go the extra mile for my clients, I save them money, time, and effort. I am transparent with pricing and have a one-page contract that is very direct.

I did this to fund my travels while I did a lot of inner work. I am now equally focused on my own projects as I am on my contracts.

It's not for everyone, this is the only way I knew to maintain my course towards my highest aspirations.
Glory to Hong Kong: How the protesters got a new song
This. When I buy a laptop I want to pay a big pile of money to ensure real people have tested my exact hardware with the OS and drivers I intend to use. It’s the most important feature of a laptop so I don’t mind that being a significant chunk of the price for only that.

When I buy a dell or Lenovo I expect crapware but I expect to be able to remove it by installing a clean OS on it.
I've seen and heard of age discrimination in non-tech industries, but in the tech industry I believe that age discrimination is often mistaken for skills obsolescence.

As a software developer for as long as I can remember, I'm actually at the top of my game now in my 40s - I can software engineer (plan) off the top of my head, and my tenacity is balanced with a sense of direction I never had as a younger developer. I spend half the time developing and produce 10 times the results (there's still crunch time every so often though).

The trick is to keep your mind active - I have a job that allows me to do a lot of side development projects outside of working hours, and I always take on a new project at least once a year that is out of my comfort zone (if it looks impossible, it's perfect).
Pure cotton fabric is very common and cheap, although cotton has its own, different environmental issues too.
In my experience, people use it for street cred basically. Whether somewhat disingenuously to 'validate' (sic) poor content by mere association with the 'brand' name (cue Forbes, LinkedIn...), or more genuinely when 'legitimate' authors seek to give exposure to their sharing via the 'brand' platform (e.g. "Our <N> years of exp with tech <X> at shop <B>" by lead figure <I>).

Which is a completely different approach than building one's own business. These platforms can still help drive traffic to a decent website though.
> be prepared to compete with the fresh crop of talent coming in

The whole point is that you're not given a fair chance to compete, with your resume being discarded simply because you are older.
I stopped to believe the individuals can vote with their wallets to stop the pollution. We are not enough people who care and there are too many things to consider. We need to fight the system using the mechanisms of the system. If pollution costs money, capitalism will optimize to minimize pollution. It depends on the price. We need politics to change the rules. I would advocate to use your time to make destroying the earth costly.
> I would argue that victimhood about agism does not help anybody. If you are in a craft, where the barrier to entry is low, be prepared to compete with the fresh crop of talent coming in.

Not a fair competition if the people hiring are biased by a false notion of "younger === better", when I was young I noticed that the older devs had their shit together in ways I didn't and I made an effort to learn from them (things like thorough documentation, keeping a log of things that broke for next time, writing the code, then rewriting it to it's simplest form, the avoidance of 'clever' code and clarity over clever that kind of thing).

As for biases, yeah it is easy to get jaded and see "Super shiny Foo" as another Bar that you dealt with a decade ago with the same mistakes (and to an extent that can be true) but the world turns.

I've joked for decades that if you want to know what next years hotness will be look at what the academics in the field where doing 20-25 years ago.

After all, experience is learning from your mistakes, wisdom is learning from other peoples.
Digging into the Docker images reveals that the underlying engines are http://festvox.org/ and http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/merlin/
I’d rather see them, so I can decide if it might be worth subscribing.
It should go without saying that it isn't okay. But thank you for helping the people with broken moral compasses.
There is also a more specific hypothesis, that allergies are caused by the parts of the immune system that would normally be fighting off parasites.
> - They tend to carry baggage from the past. This comes in various flavors, such as biases one has regarding the path of their careers, their interpersonal relationships (social and official), technology choices etc.

When one begins the career, one keeps hearing in the interviews "we want more experience". Ok then, 10 years down the road and they say "it's not experience what you've acquired, but bias".

Just whatever it takes to lowball you, playing the nasty "you're not worthy" interview game. The "bias" is the same bollocks as an "inexperience" (from the perspective of the interview negotiations).
And what's worse, the legal advice I've often been given is not to read patents at all. It's considered a liability to have read a patent.
I think Classic will fade, because it's hyped up to be more than it really is. Old WoW was difficult, but part of that difficulty was that people just weren't as good at the game back then (or games in general?). Many people were already doing Molten Core just a few days after release of Classic.
There are a number of theories, this amongst them. There is also a connection to atopic dermatitis, which causes a skin barrier issue that allows proteins to pass.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/scientists-ide...
It's from awk: the BEGIN and END patterns match the start and end of a file/stream being processed, while normal patterns are checked on each line (and no pattern matches every line).

This is very useful to script a setup -> for reach line -> summary of a file e.g. initialise a map in BEGIN, fill the map for each line, and print the map in END.
Static typing is exactly what python doesn't have. It will remain dynamically typed. It has type hints which can be used with external tools to enforce type correctness to some degree, but python code will run even if you assign:

def f(x: int):
x = "str"
f(42)
Allergy fear causes parents to not introduce peanuts at a young age and the lack of exposure causes peanut allergy. In Israel there is a peanut snack that children eat beginning very young. They have not seen the same uptick in peanut allergies.
Former journalist here. This structure is also known as "inverted pyramid"[0]. CIA has a book[1] that details the process to apply the structure recursively to build an article.

Beware of the potential pitfalls of "stating the key first":

1. The key point might be complex and requires a build up – rushing to the point could confuse your readers;

2. What's "most important" depends on the reader and if you write for a wide audience, it is not always obvious;

3. If you design your writing to be "modular", readers could be more likely to abandon your work prematurely;

4. Sometimes the most important detail is that you are taking the time and being patient to communicate, and making a point with little context could alienate;

5. You could feel lazy and not control the complexity of your article because "I already made it easy for the readers to skim and skip!".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)

[1] https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.scip.org/resource/resmgr/White_Pap...
Oh. My guess was wrong on almost all accounts.
House Antitrust Panel Seeks Documents from 4 Big Tech Firms
I don't live in the US and age discrimination here certainly isn't uncommon. I didn't expect it to be so obvious, though.
>Apple doesn't cheat me on my privacy when I buy a machine.

Except that siri thing
In busy lives of today, we've really forgotten the excitement of doing nothing and even look for something to do in free time and holidays/weekends. I often get conscious of this and then try doing nothing which is enjoying the present and it helps a lot and has changed my life for better.
Choosing to have kids or not shouldn't give you any special status in the workforce at all (though in reality it often does).

Unless economic growth depends on birthrate - which it does.

No incentives to have children -> less children -> less future taxpayers
While I agree, I think a bigger problem is that the fresh crop of talent has mechanisms to compete that achieve both ageism and a reduction in efficiency on par with full blown institutional dementia.

Eternal September in design and frameworks is so popular largely since it eliminates the problem of HR looking for the most years of experience. HR's terrible innefficiency is going to hurt someone, but the actual results are very interesting. In multiple framework cycles in industry one can see many a problem just below the threshhold of importance to a todo app might have initial structure to be solved by a first designer, then that structure is written over in a redesign, then a new cycle fixes another problem that had a clear fix in the old design, now it will be hard and therefore done incorrectly in a way that ensures it will never get solved given the frameworks cycles of starting over with new developers. The end result is a dead pile of mush that can't compete with a new framework with fresh style for todo apps.

Naturally these behaviors are not some problem with employees, the overall restructuring of industry has made it important to get repaid for redoing things over and over the wrong way such that there is always something important to get credit for. There is no longer an industry that keeps workers for life because it is profiting and accepts that their later work has diminishing returns because all the low hanging fruit was fixed long ago.
> real people have tested my exact hardware with the OS and drivers I intend to use

> When I buy a dell or Lenovo

It's still nothing guaranteed with Linux distros, it's just that "mostly works" (for various definitions of "works") state is maintained: recently there was a quite big kernel bug delivered as a trivial update, which affected LTS version of Ubuntu, including Dells and many other brands, as soon as there was a second monitor attached to the machine. The recent Dell docks more didn't than did work for a while, it took many firmware updates to make them "mostly" working. But it still doesn't behave how it should. Etc.
Supreme commander was the first RTS I really sunk my teeth into. Planetary Annihilation is an excellent spiritual successor and still gets updates.
I don't think it was. Handling blog traffic is not difficult.
Yeah for spite, I would have bled all over their counter and caused a biohazard mess. If you laugh at me like that, I'm not going to be pleasant.
You should look into Planetary Annihilation if you haven’t already.
While I've never bought anything from Julia, I smile every time I see her illustrations online. Those of us who are attracted to tech fields also have a sense of wonder and intense desire to learn and share information. So, when we see others sharing information in ways to help them learn, we respect them tremendously!
What Made AliBaba
The rise of phantom investments to $40T. [pdf]
One of the greatest tragedies is how we lie to ourselves about productivity. I mean that in the sense of “I understand what the science says, but I feel like I’m getting more done.”

I know I’m more productive when I step away from my work for downtime, and yet at the same time I have times when I feel it’s near impossible to do.

This is an incredibly hard habit to break.
> stopping private carriers from being at a disadvantage compared to national posts who receive terminal dues, etc

So, basically private carriers lobbying US govt. to handle them the baseline postal service market.
> They tend to carry baggage from the past. This comes in various flavors, such as biases one has regarding the path of their careers, their interpersonal relationships (social and official), technology choices etc.

this happens as soon as you switch positions or companies - even as early as your twenties.

For example, think of all the people who share their learnings (at work, on Medium, etc) about “this is how we did X at [unicorn company].”

It may be that we are more biased to opinions of people who are similar to us, and dismiss the opinions of those who don’t fit our demographic.
Jack Ma Returns to Birthplace of Alibaba
> If you're 66 and you're still sitting around in a corporate job, and you have no children, 9/10 you're really just taking up space for someone who needs to feed their kids, has a potential to grow, and a better place to funnel the earned money than "expensive manicure"

I agree with you in principle - the fact that aging Boomers and olders cling to their jobs and prevent younger successors from rising is a real problem. However, many of them have no choice because retirement/pension systems worldwide got fucked in the last decades.
Agreed. My past several computers have been used from Craig's List, $500 for roughly $2,000 machines. Installing Mint has been flawless. Everything just works (Lenovo Carbon X1).
This is pretty cool. Did they fix issues that caused games to crash after a few hours? Even loading up the state of a game that had been long would cause it to crash again. My guess is a memory leak.
I like RTS games just as the next guy and I am also disappointed that cult franchises such as Age of Empires, Starcraft, Warcraft, etc stopped releasing new games. But I like Turn Based Strategy even more, franchises like Heroes of MIght and Magic, Age of Wonders, Civilization, Total War are my favorite and they are also consistently releasing new games all the time.

Recently I've been playing Total War: Three Kingdoms. Total War is a hybrid game - adventure man is turn based, but battles are real time. I was both skeptical and curious about this approach, but when I tried it I liked it. Then I read somewhere the reason of why the creators did it this way - it's because controlling a huge map with 10+ armies, economy, diplomacy, etc real time would be impossible. So essentially TBS allows the player to go at their own pace which could be one of the reasons of why RTS lost it's popularity.
Well and I own a considerable amount of woods, don't own a car and do everything by bicycle including in the winter. My house is heated by a hydro-extracter and I live in a province where over 80% of the energy comes from water, so my personal carbon footprint is actually negative.

But that isn't the point: comparing the individual carbon footprints of people to their mindset might be a jolly pastime for some, but the actual levers which really impact CO2 emissions are located at national, transnational and corporate levels and this is precisely where the biggest responsibilities lie.

Everything that makes this look like a issue which can be fixed on a purely individual level is – I am afraid to say – making it worse. And we can ask ourselfs cui bono?
I guess that's an opinion valid as anyone who makes the case that a design language is bound to a brand identity - which is my stance.

It's a weird game, the "as long as functionality is different, it's ok to copy", when that's just a layer of a product. Why not apply that criteria to a form factor?
There is also the spring project. http://www.springrts.com/
Are the interviewers blindfolded too?
Could you elaborate? “Hey Siri” is opt-in when you set up a Mac.
Should we see this as a business failing? Or as the founders, CEO etc making lots of millions off of investors?
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/846106819391115264/iZAx...
> That's a ridiculous assertion, if someone is physically well and wants to work it's nobody's business how they spent then spend the money they earn.

No. It was part of the unwritten "societal contract" that old people retire to leave place for young people to rise.

This worked for long times, but governments broke this contract decades ago by wrecking pension/retirement systems, and now the wannabe-pensioners have to work in their 70s to survive while people in their 30s are still where they were at 25 as they cannot reasonably rise up.
What head of state, cabinet minister, CEO, or general does not have a team of people to "slavishly" whatever? Significant use of dictation would be entirely usual among the same groups back then. Churchill seemed to consider his writing relaxation and hobby as we might surf the net, and our parents watch 5 hours of evening TV. Modern celebs and influencers have a team to maintain the social feeds, sight unseen of the celeb or artist themselves.

When he took time off he'd write letters and talk about having had loads of fun writing 2000 words, and laying 200 bricks a day, along with painting a little. Bricklaying was another of his hobbies that persisted until very late in life. Started with garden walls, he worked up to building a whole cottage or two.
You can install called rusted warfare, its same like C&C generals but more heavy vehicle.

Give it a try both Mobile and pc can install it a.k.a cross platform
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In Germany, it's customary to include a picture of yourself in your CV.

...I think you can figure out your chances, if you don't include one.

EDIT: I'm saying this to show how the German (who are European) employers will try to circumvent such age discriminating laws. You get it taught in school, in vocational training, at jobless centers, self-help books and the Internet, that the picture must be of "high-quality", in a sense already arguing past the necessity of why they'd even require one in the first place. I personally do not agree with this practice, though it seems, that more and more employees are becoming aware of this and employers are starting to respect that too.
Ask HN: Why is there a no standard way to implement localization?
I moved to US recently and with that came the dreaded task of updating all my subscriptions, accounts and content to US. I have been using both iOS and Android and as such am vested in both Apple and Google.

On one hand, Google allows you to add multiple payment profiles to your account which essentially allows you to change your country. This is necessary before making any purchases in USD. On the other hand, stuff like YouTube and Google Maps, for example, already show me content specific to US (Trending) without me changing my country. YouTube also allows you to buy and view shows, but that is linked to payment and as such the profile. So, Google is essentially handling some stuff using IP and others by giving us a toggle to change the profile and the linked country.

Apple, on the other hand, maybe due to their different business model and products, only gives you a switch to change your country. It essentially treats the country linked to your Apple Id as the country according to which all of your content should be, be it payments, maps, app store and all.

My question is for companies who do this kind of hybrid solutions which are half-assed and borderline confusing. Any non tech savvy person will get confused very easily. Luckily, I do understand some of these nuances but I am still unable to figure out the real justification of what is right and why they are doing what they are doing? Can you please shed some light on this?
I use ansible to provision Centos 7 instances, and then I use another playbook to install and configure stuff on them like haproxy, bind 9, etc...

This leaves me in complete control and keeps prices low because I only ever use vanilla instances.

I'm not on Amazon right now, but when I was I used to use ansible to configure networking on it and security groups etc, but I would always try to keep the vendor specific stuff to a minimum.
Gravitational wave ringing sound – my view in comments
I’m no expert, but it just seems like a lot of nonsense? This doesn’t fit my definition of a game as much as it just seems like a random semi-amusing chatbot.
You are correct. The Agile-esque nature of the place was just added icing on the cake, so to speak.
My brand new Lenovo has no crapware at all. It had McAffee (now owned by intel) but that was easy to remove.

Compared to Samsung who put a non removable Facebook app on their A50 phone I am happy with my Lenovo. The Samsung -home went back not only because of the Facebook app but also because the fingerprint reader did. To work better than 10% of the time and the digitizer was horrible.