skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are 2/3 as productive at 60 hours a week. That's still more productive than not working at all.

Not if what you're working on is a false path because you're too tired to notice you made a mistake.

What a bumptious comment.

Stop telling us what to do. Every authoritarian regime since the beginning of time has glorified hard work.

I wonder why that is?
Isn’t that solved by specifying “junior developer” or “intermediate developer”? Or by including the salary range?
Important to note that western countries (almost) don't contribute plastic that ends up in the ocean (that later becomes microplastics) because of modern waste management. [0]

Plastic in the oceans comes from poorer countries where a huge population lives next to rivers or beaches and the waste management systems are inadequate. In fact, "90% of plastic polluting our oceans comes from just 10 rivers" [1]

Our efforts should be directed there, financially and politically and not locally be it via individual effort or local government pressure.

This is a unique type of issue as, generally speaking, enviorment awareness is stronger with liberals yet "meddling" in other countries internal affairs (waste management in this case) is not.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution
[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...
LOL, I'm entrepreneur and I'm doing well. And I'm not born in the US but much less "privileged" country. I find that 66 year old US boomer ranting about "ageism" pathetic, from my point of view.
So what are these mystical ‘several ways’, preferably some that do not require root and not require proc mounted in the chroot?
Exec helps re-energize Platt Electric (2010)
> All these fixes were pushed upstream and are available in the main Raspberry Pi Linux repository.

Well that's just highly misleading. "upstream" in this case refers to the outdated downstream kernel provided by the RPi foundation. Mainline does not have support for brcmstb at all current.y
The Chinese family anecdote sounds like it might be the basis for critically acclaimed indie film The Farewell that just came out.
UBI and the Promise of Technological Progress
Saying Goodbye to Adobe Flash
> paying a middle man for customers that might not have chain loyalty

Is chain loyalty a thing with movie theaters though? Don't people decide what movie to watch and then pick a theater?

At best I think that in locations with lots of choices (> 2) there may be a specific theater a customer doesn't like. But even then... how many customers are there that will absolutely refuse to go to theater X even if it means missing out on "super amazing film Y"?

I wonder if the real problem was that MoviePass's main demographic might have been people looking to go to the movies on the cheap. These folks aren't buying popcorn, candy, and pop... the main (only?) profit center for theaters. In the end all that's been accomplished is filling seats at a loss (or minimal profit).
Why is this comment being downvoted? Is it factually incorrect?
I'm 54. Have been in sw dev for 40 years. I have kept my skills (aws api / node.js / css / html5 / etc) up to the point were I am over qualified for many of the positions (laid off 3 years back from IBM) I apply for. Before I updated my LinkedIn profile pic I received many interview invites. Now I get none. Recently I started looking at the people that these sw dev companies _actually_ hire. They ask for 3/5/10 years experience but I found that in almost every case (95%) the devs they hired were under 25, straight out of collage with 0 experience. Last year I applied for 300 positions, now I don't even bother looking to dev work anymore. I have 3 kids at home and we are close to bankruptcy. Let me be very clear here: The _only_ thing that matters in gaining employment in sw dev (in my city at least) is your age. Edit: Also should mention that I often offered (have no choice) to work for much less $ then what junior would be making.
Wallstreet big banks. My sister was working for some of those and participated in hiring process. They had trouble finding anyone competent (she told me anyone who could code a simple sorting algorithm task got a resounding acceptance from the interviewers as that was very rare. Most people showing up for the interviews couldn't code at all). The work is psychologically draining because tech people are 2nd class citizens there (in comparison to front desk) and there is a lot of paperwork when submitting any code but it does pay very well.

EDIT: answering "so you applied b it to all US". I didn't, even people living in 3rd world countries can make nice money these days thanks to internet. If you live in US you can take a plane and go to the best tech hubs in the world. There are people who have to work for years just to have that chance and they need to learn the language in the meantime. There is just so much opportunity if you're already there and you were raised with access to the Internet.
> Just whatever it takes to lowball you, playing the nasty "you're not worthy" interview game.

I find this ultra terrifying. This is an advanced technical field yet the same old "we're the gateway we'll use it against you -- future colleague -- without hesitating". Some things never change
In a drawer.
> Indeed, for a while, the Go compiler was written in this special dialect of C, and so building Go required building a C compiler (!) that could compile this custom dialect of C, and using that to compile the Go compiler [2].

I don't think that's true. The build process used GCC to compile the Go and C compilers. The Plan-9-derived C compiler was used for compiling those parts of the runtime that were written in C back then and were supposed to follow the conventions of Go program code.

As you can tell from Inferno (or even Plan 9 from userspace), GCC can compile the Plan 9 C dialect, given the right options.
Flash and the Future of Interactive Content
That's because people with kids have practically 2 jobs i.e. 2x as much workload and it will be those kids that will pay for your retirement.
> it's highly unlikely that anyone's been coding go or rust services for 20 years in any case. (To be honest, it's even unlikely that anyone's been coding go or rust services for 5.) So any of those applicants, as long as their references check out, will do.

This is a common misunderstanding: yes, Rust is new but prior experience with everything else is not capped at 5 years and it matters a lot. Over my career, I’ve had to fix or replace a number of those “any warm bodied techie” apps where they had incorrect results, security issues, unusable performance, etc. because the developers had been marginally proficient in a popular tool but lacking more general skills and, most importantly, the ability to recognize that they were out of their league.
It is also true.
Africa is a county?
Well, as a rule, I never included salary range. I ask for salary requirements. Then only proceed down the evaluation and hiring path with applicants where the salary matches what is available in the budget. Better chance you get an employee who's happy with the pay that way.

I always specified entry level, intermediate, etc, but as times get harder, what you start to realize out here in flyover country is that everyone is applying for all positions. They don't really care about the title or labels. (At least, I suspect it's because times are getting harder? I don't know of any other reason highly experienced people would be applying for some of these kinds of positions.)
I do not know. Those are hardcore players so that was expected.
A lot of people are looking for the community feeling and a slower playing pace which does not focus on min-maxing. Classic can definitely give you that.
Losing Motivation – Great Words by Programmers
It should be - but I’m positive that everybody with over 10 years experience is calling themselves a “senior developer” by now. There’s no level after that, so most everybody over 35 is a senior developer.
The entire article seems to be a refutation of its own title. It goes on and on about how easily first languages slip away and are replaced by the commonly spoken language of the region.
Were you applying for a junior position? Not saying you were not worth hiring, just that they didn't see it. To me it sounds more like they needed an excuse not to hire you. People here are complaining about being discriminated at age 40 or 50 and I don't see a point in introducing an angle that people are discriminated for being too old at age 26.
Dawn of War hasn't aged very well for me. The camera is super zoomed in and the user interface takes up huge swathes of screen real estate.
The CoffeeMUD MUD engine is very feature-full and nice (IMHO). It is written in Java, and has a web interface for most activity. You can get more info here: http://www.coffeemud.org/ There is also a Discord server at https://discord.gg/HgDxtas...
I have no idea what you are talking about. You elect those in power? They are your representatives. Your government is your responsibility, that's how democracy works right?
I hired a guy with a masters in EE who is crazy smart as a help desk tech. He’s since moved up.

Our job was his first interview in a year.
Will that expose the company to accusations of age discrimination? They aren’t even interested in applications from developers with more than ten years of experience!
As implied in my original post: after FATCA you cannot evade reporting at all by transferring money to any Swiss bank (there are some countries that don't comply with FATCA but every large financial institution complies fully). That is why the bank reported it to the AG.
As someone in games. I believe it.
>US, UK & France situations are different. Widely. Each with their own issues.

Yes, and some of those issues are more common. Thatcher and Reagan for example, started the same big money / fuck working class policies at about the same time. The "left" parties similarly diluted their support for common folks and criticism of corporatism and got into warmongering and business as usual in both countries (e.g. Clinton, Blair, to today's TINA stars).

>I did not mention Russia

Sure, but many did so I addressed that too. I was giving the bigger picture as I see it of the situation, not addressing solely what you wrote.

>As for UK & France "masses", for the past 40 years, we have lived in _peace_ on our homeland, contrary to the few centuries before. Not by accident.

No, because UK and France had become less significant post-WWII, lost most of their colonial slaves, that span half the earth, and US and USSR became the dominant top dogs fighting each other.

Plus Germany was for half a century after WWII split into two, given to different countries to nanny, and deprived of an army -- precisely to avoid more wars in Europe.

So it would make no sense for UK and France to fight, as the stakes were low. When those were powerhouses, fighting for global expansion/dominance, sure it made sense. In the past 40+ years it makes no more sense than Luxembourg and Finland fighting.

US and USSR did fight a lot, had the whole Cold War thing, and tons of wars by proxy all around the world. Same way US and China today are at tension.

>As for the rest, you can have it way harder than others and still consider populism, racism, mysoginism and cronyism supporters as "deplorables". They still are.

Well, there's a long history of the good souls on the top towers of society looking down on the unwashed "Morlocks", and patting themselves in the back for how better they are.

Part of this is because most middle class/upper middle class people learn from a young age to consider a person's worth by their net worth, clothes, manners, school they went to, and so on, and those deplorables don't cut it.

(Of course the poor black, latinos, muslims, immigrants, etc, cut it even less, and are usually even more misogynist, homophobic, etc than the flyover state deplorables, but they're not usually classified as belonging to them. They vote the right way, plus, it's not like the bleeding hearts who "care" for them really care. They just want to signal their higher virtue to the rest of the whites.).

The funny thing is that the upper classes consider the "deplorables" as lesser persons, because they haven't adopted the intellectual fashions, that they themselves just got recently (a few decades ago, all the same "refined" classes were themselves openly anti-gay, misogynist and had no problem with it, in fact in the 70s and 80s you couldn't be in "good" society without be such).
That's a nice anecdote. So you apply this on all US?
As someone else pointed out: That isn't the issue. It was because they lied about your privacy when you opted in. Some folks, would they have known what they know now, wouldn't have opted in.
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Plants are also bred so that they can be picked before they are fully ripe and survive a multi-day trip to the grocery shelves of a supermarket.

This may be less important for vegetables that go from field to cannery or freezers, so canned or frozen might be a better choice than fresh vegetables.
Annotated Talk: Rich Hickey on Datomic
> - They tend to carry baggage from the past.

I work in a team which is oldboy's club. I tried various new ways and technologies to make everyone's life easier. But they always shoot down saying "it is running fine". The software is so old and tweaked number of times. I am surprised we have a functional software despite having so many obvious flaws.
Digital Notifications Rewired Your Brain
New clues show how Russia’s grid hackers aimed for physical destruction
That is not good advice at all. All it says is "it is up to you old people to put all the effort you can muster at competing with the young". Not everyone gets to look immaculate in their 60s, not everyone gets to occupy a "(prominent) wise elder" position in life by that age either. Just as well, fitting in with fleeting trends is not something people should have to prioritize to be considered productive. What about people who were not so lucky and have health problems or very limiting responsibilities?

I am under 30 by the way, but I am afraid of some grotesque Logan's run scenario where I will lose control over my life just because of age.
Advertising was taxed heavily, in England, in the early 19th century.

That was eventually repealed, which now seems a poor decision.
That stereotyping is textbook ageism. It’s also incorrectly assuming that younger developers don’t have biases — we should rewrite everything in …! is a joke for a reason — all people do and a key life skill is learning to recognize and correct for them.
Thanks, I am grateful for all the time we had together. She was 86 and a widow for a long time, I am happy she isn't suffering anymore.

They are all pretty special but I really enjoyed Glacier National Park for the wildness, the bears, Going-To-The-Sun road.

I lived in Utah for a year and would highly recommend going there at least once to explore Moab and Zion areas. Grand Canyon is not far from Zion, it definitely lives up to it's name.
It isn't. It is called fraudulent conveyance, and it is well covered by existing law (it is not fraud, it is not a criminal act). And the issue, as the article repeatedly says, is about personal wealth.
Just so you get an idea what those numbers imply:

Let's say you had 5 interviews over the course of five days, each lasting 5 hours. You presumably lost 1800 grams (around 4 lbs) of fat during that time, which would require energy expenditure of 37000 joules. Let's also assume you ate the same as you usually do for weight maintenance.

If you spent all that energy during the interviews, it would require sustained power output of 740 watts over your usual energy expenditure.

If you spent all that energy during waking hours (let's say 16 hours a day), it would require power output of 230 watts over usual energy expenditure.

And finally, if you spent that energy during entire day, it would require power output of 155 watts over usual energy expenditure.

For reference, energy expenditure that would amount to 2000 kcal/day turns out to be around 100 watts. Losing 1800 grams over 5 days would require additional 3240 kcals on top of that.
How do you get ingredients? We cook a lot, but everything besides flour and sugar seems to come in some sort of plastic or metal container.
I'm glad Ruby takes community feedback seriously, for the most part - most recently the pipeline operator and the named block parameters, for instance.
Thanks! I've been studying Cantonese a couple years, but just learned that when there's a choir + orchestra, I have 0% comprehension of even the sounds of the words they're making :o.
Could’ve used an NYC Manhattan school for NYT not writing about their sports program. I doubt any of them have one :)
> ...the dirty secret of the tech industry however, is that most work is just CRUD equivalent stuff

No.

I see this a lot on HN, the idea that "CRUD" applications are trivial, but it's a myth. It simply is not true.

I think folks are just extrapolating from "Pet-shop" or "Northwind" examples that they've seen in tutorials/docs and assume that that is what, say, enterprise developers actually do at the same level of complexity. It's not and it has never been the case.
If the market is, or can become, the greater public, the race to the bottom is inevitable.

See Mssrs. Barnum and Mencken.
I wish it were. Google "lebenslauf muster" in image search to see it in full effect.

> There are a few must-have personal details every Lebenslauf should include which you might not have on your original CV: a photo, your marital status and place of birth.

https://www.thelocal.de/20130131/47649
I once shook hands with a new acquaintance who, unbeknownst to me, had just been snacking on a few peanuts at a bar: https://photos.app.goo.gl/7tvD65JmV45M4Mpw5
Am I right to see that if a domain doesn't have records in censys or shodan that this tool will need some aggressive scanning?
I quit a few Slacks by removing them from my mobile devices. I never use the Desktop Electron app. None of them were work related, and I was a fairly active participant in all of them. They served as a virtual water cooler for fast-food type human interaction for times when I did not leave the house. Fast-food because it was no real substitute for real social interaction.

I would banter with the best of them. This is something that I still dream of doing well in real life situations like parties but it is easy in a virtual medium for me. I would also share, read way too many, and regurgitate interesting articles that were of interest to the people there and get a dopamine hit if it was liked.

After an initial one week period of really wanting to pop in to see what was “going on” and later to see “what I missed”, I don’t think I miss it. Yes, I may miss some very interesting intellectual and not so intellectual banter and even “under the radar” articles to post here, and I think the trade benefit of less distraction and more focus is well, well worth it.

To generalize, if you say that X is a distraction to you, get X off your phone. It is much, much harder to be sucked in with the mobile web experience than with their mobile apps. For Slack, it was sufficient to remove them as “teams”, and I dislike their pushing of a frictionless (re)team add. I can manage that though, especially since my desire to “pop in” to those water cooler Slacks decreased exponentially.
I've never worked with a significantly older person (in tech anyways), but I would happily lean on them for sniffing out fads. Even in my 30's, it's kinda hard to tell what's a fad and what's not.

I really don't understand why there is a bias against age. Programming, for me, is a daily exercise in epistemic humility, and I can't fathom having the kind of arrogance to discount the experience and wisdom that comes with age.
Laser scalpel for fabric of the Universe, enabled by electron trampoline
Setting Up a Mail Server with OpenSMTPD, Dovecot and Rspamd
"Effect of different cooking methods on vegetable oxalate content" - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15826055

Boiling vegetables removes a lot of oxalate. Recommended for people with a predisposition toward kidney stones.
Indeed it is [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farewell_(2019_film)#Produ...
Powerful.
It is fucking normal, stop moaning..
That's the law in a lot of countries, including here, but I've been asked it anyway. What are you going to do about it, beyond secretly recording your interviews then suing?
this sounds like a strawman. The OP was asking for a politically engaged citizenry, not "zealots". The status quo in many democratic countries is apathy in large segments of the population and not even conscious abstention.

the message of the original post was that democratic citizens need to recognise that duties and freedoms come together, that the latter don't exist without the former. Many people appear to take their rights for granted.
IBM OS/400, Programming ILE Concepts (WASI 31 Years Ago)
I'll disagree so, so very much with this and I am certain this comes from someone who hasn't played the game for a while or played very casually. Yes, doing quests and just roaming around has became way easier than before, however the game has tons of room for anyone who actually wants a challenge. I don't want to go super deep, but high end raiding is still alive and finally started getting monetized/sponsored plus you can always push mythic+ dungeons. It has to be noted, that all of this is group content and what WoW lacks right now is difficult solo content and I'd give you that.

Basicly right now the retail WoW can be played as time-intensively and on whatever difficulty you want. There is always something to do, however you hit diminishing returns quite soon. There is tons of hard, engaging content to be done with friends.

I think Classic is kinda fad, something a lot of people think they wanted, but after some time they will realize they did not. Of course, I might be wrong in which case I am happy they got a completely new game to play and hope they enjoy it as much as I enjoyed the two years of WoW Legion(had to stop, because I did not have time to play at the level I wanted).

On the other hand, I can't wait for Warcraft 3 Remastered, that will work by default with most of old custom maps. I am taking a week off for that. :)
Open Source Script to Monitor Uptime of Services Like MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.
Advice on landing page optimization – link to samples provided
Hi YC graduates, students, mentors and partners.

My name is Athanasios, Founder of MOOCTORS (www.mooctors.com), a tutoring marketplace that brings together MOOC students seeking help to graduate their MOOC course and tech experts (i.e. software engineers, developers, etc) wishing to help as private tutors.

We want to increase conversion (i.e. registration) of prospective tutors that come to our platform.

I have created 4 versions of the landing page - seeking your input on things we might have done wrong that the A/B test may not pick up. You will find them here https://drive.google.com/file/d/18iv0uNgnWy6AIE87amcxHifbE2abyE2q/view?usp=sharing

I have market the 4 versions as 1,2,3,4 and seeking your advice.

best

Athanasios
Founder
www.mooctors.com
Millenials overestimate starting salary, affecting student loans
A handshake? Well that's me educated today. I'd always presumed food allergies required you to eat the problem food.

I don't think I have ever, not once, seen a media piece on allergies point out that eating isn't always required. That seems like a major failing in the reporting of allergies over the years.
programming is a daily exercise in epistemic humility

You are wise beyond your years, young padawan.