skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But there in lies the problem. Most of the discussion opposed to union come from the actual software engineering aspect, but the unionization proposals are attempting to cover the multitude of sub-professions that compromise game development. It is often glossed over that actual engineers have vastly different options, priorities, and working conditions than these other workers.

Carmack’s options should be seen as addressing engineering conditions, I would assume. The negative articles seem to address animators, level layout designers and, most particularly, QA employees. These roles have a wildly different work trajectory than an exiting software engineer.

I’m all for these workers finding some leverage, but I think engineers linking there prospective and fate to people in such a disparate place.
Great job to the whole core team! There's a bunch of awesome stuff in here, but I think the one that's going to steal the most hearts is:

Enum.sort(my_list, :asc)
Enum.sort(my_list, :desc)

That rounds off a sharp corner of a very common part of the language.
Anybody in their 40s or older has valuable experience above and beyond ephemeral value of “Hitting the ground running with Cabbage and Sprouts containerized with Cuper9s using ES2020 and JSxyz.”

One way to deliver that experience is in delivery management, that is, being responsible for teams that ship stuff.

Another way to deliver that experience is in people management. Not all companies equate this with the previous responsibility.

A third way in in a more nebulous “leadership” role that doesn’t have “manager” in the title, e.g. “Architect,” or “Principal Engineer.”

The latter is tricky, but can be a very good opportunity. My 2c on being in engineering leadership is that it’s best to think of yourself as a manger without authority, rather than thinking of yourself as an engineer with authority.

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FWIW, I am 57 and a Principal Engineer with PagerDuty.
I’m not sure they’re entirely separate. To phrase things in a way that you shouldn’t, and taking my perspective as a reasonably junior guy: you need one letter of reference from your job. If you have the “eulogy virtues” and are reasonably competent, probably you’ll impress one guy with a combined display of competence and good character. It doesn’t really matter that much if everyone else thought you were a moron. You’ve got the bullet on the resume and one glowing rec. Now I believe this only holds to a point, but I think that point is a bit further than most people would put it.
What's the story with Chrome messing up URLs? I missed that one...
Sony Announces Electric Concept Car
>The Portenta H7 is capable of running Arduino code, Python and JavaScript, making it accessible to an even broader audience of developers.

"Here, now you can buy hardware that enables you to hire bootcamp-level devs to do your professional industrial work. That way you can pay non-professional wages for professional-level work!"

Stop normalizing putting bloated, heavy languages on embedded platforms.
It may require bandwidth and CPU to check for notifications.
Can’t speak for the original commenter, but the 50 year old on our team ramped up to become our most trusted source of design feedback within a month or two.
This would be ok for the first hour/day when this happenend, but after a whole week when it's been clear that extremely sensitive customer information has been breached then this is not an acceptable response and/or excuse.

They should put up a responsible message and pro-actively notify customers too. I hope they will get the highest possible fine for GDPR violations. This is an appalling response and treatment of customer data.
> But why should the registration data be in the public domain?

Because IPs are a finite and non-sharable resource and if there is an issue with some IP address, there needs to be a point of contact that anyone on the network can access.

Since the network is public, that contact information is public.
For me the most enlightening summary regarding information encoding in genomes is the following quote from the article:

Being amazed that you can make a human with only 20,000 genes is thus like being amazed that Shakespeare could write all those plays with only 26 letters. It’s totally missing where the actual, meaningful information is and how it is decoded.
I started at my second 'FAANG' company when I was 48, two years ago, and it's been great. The previous 'FAANG' company was less great, but still fairly ok.

In between and before those, I have worked at two startups and three other in-between (in size) organizations, as well as two non-tech giants, over the course of about 27 years now. Kind of takes my breath away seeing that last number!

As others here have noted, no matter where you work, one of the most important things is your manager. I've had good managers and bad managers, and my less happy time at the previous 'FAANG' was largely due to a bad manager.

Having said that, the department/group you're in is also important. I had a great manager at one of the large (but not giant) companies but the department had big problems. It was a relatively comfortable but in the end unproductive couple of years. (And also why I decided to move on relatively quickly.)

Re: skills to brush up on: honestly, I suggest just start interviewing heavily and use that as a template to figure out what you need to learn.

The big tech companies have the luxury of having tons of talented, qualified people trying to work there, and so structure the interviewing process to be biased toward turning away qualified people rather than accepting unqualified people.

That means that the interview process can be pretty strenuous.

Re: trying for management: I was a manager briefly, early on in my career, and decided that I was never going to do that again. I was relatively good at it, but I didn't like it, so all of my roles have been technical, though of course a lot of the best things I've accomplished involved large quantities of 'soft', non-technical people work.

Re: fed up with uncertainty. Yup, I totally get that, and it's the main reason I haven't done more with startups. I value my personal/family time too much, and always have.

Feel free to contact me directly: diederich@gmail.com

Best of luck.
https://c2rust.com will show you side by side comparisons, although it isn't the best looking code; in terms of readability. But as mentioned in other threads, the refactoring tool (https://github.com/immunant/c2rust/tree/master/c2rust-refact...) aims to fix that.
You are being very dogmatic with your definition of literature. Literature, as practiced today, is written art. Most of it (and even the best part of it) is just tales created for the simple pleasure to tell a story, that's it. Yes, Dostoevski, Kafka, Tolstoy, et al had this supreme talent to express "truths" about the human condition, truths which perhaps belong to the fabled-Jungian "collective unconscious", but those guys are a minority. Even most of their works can be read and appreciated just as marvelous tales.
and what were your total union dues during this period ? Because if the union failed to get you a COLA increase then the dues would have put you in the red.
All of those caveats apply to human intelligence, but to a lesser degree. Kids can play chess without exactly knowing the rules, and come on, everybody needs to check their integrals.
Influencers...
This makes me want to play with Chaim Gingold's Earth Primer!

http://www.earthprimer.com/

Earth Primer is a science book for playful people. Discover how Earth works through play—on your iPad. Join a guided tour of how Earth works, with the forces of nature at your fingertips. Visit volcanoes, glaciers, sand dunes. Play with them, look inside, and see how they work.

Earth Primer defies existing genres, combining aspects of science books, toys, simulations, and games. It is a new kind of interactive experience which joins the guided quality of a book with open ended simulation play.

Features:

• Discover how Earth works through play.

• The forces of nature are at your fingertips—
make volcanoes, shape sand dunes, form glaciers, sculpt mountains, push around tectonic plates, paint with wind, heat up magma—and more!

• 20 different tools to unlock.

• Richly interactive geological simulations.

• Sandbox mode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Gingold

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/a-sandbox-for-the-anthropocene...

https://vimeo.com/116182914

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtsf3nRFfwk
So the “camp out in airports and rip off naive travelers” company has bad tech? Shocking.
Apache Kafka as a Service with Confluent Cloud Now Available on GCP Marketplace
Intergovernmental Organization.
"not like you don't have options in this industry"

Indeed, and whether or not one has options was painfully obvious at my last gig where the people in devops, backend systems design, etc. could walk into a new job in a day were pretty relaxed, but the people who lived and breathed Unity3D were crunching hard.
On a long enough time scale Bridge Engineers still have to worry about decay, entropy, collisions. Some of that can even be attributed to the "progress of science", as bridges have collapsed because earlier assumptions were invalidated by larger trucks, for instance.

An issue so far for computer security is less that decay and entropy happen, but that they happen so fast that the timescales are decades or even years rather than lifetimes.
I agree, optimism and humor do help a lot. But sometimes a dose of reality, thinking that we all die, that all is temporary, think of all the humanity that was born and died and the cycle will naturally continue makes whatever issue is bothering me less grim.
Yeah, it is, but it's also much closer to how PHP is deployed on a production server if you're not using a shared host, so it's good for someone to learn these kinds of command line skills if they have any plans of working in the software industry.
In this model, there is a vertical asymptote at x = 3 and a flat asymptote at y = 1. <a href="https://dailynewsscoop.com/how-to-find-vertical-asymptotes/"... How to Find Vertical Asymptotes </a> The bends approach these asymptotes however never cross them. To locate the vertical asymptote(s) of a sane capacity, essentially set the denominator equivalent to 0 and tackle for x.

The new website <a href="https://dailynewsscoop.com/"> Dailynewsscoop </a> is a boomer! By publishing articles over all the topics from eduation to religion it has gained popularity faster than any other websited of thier niche.
I kept expecting references to Steven Pinker or at the very least Fractals. Was disappointed.

Otherwise excellent, if short, article.
Washington State Ferries to convert vessels to hybrid-electric power
I’ve owned both. An S class accelerates faster, is quieter at 80mph, has more tactile feedback in the switches and controls, is more comfortable to drive for 2+ hour trips, has more space in the trunk, has a better audio system, has a more adjustable drivers seat, has better climate control, and is safer in a collision.
There goes half your pay to alimony
Again I'd have to ask you to explain the difference. If the differentiator is price, then why doesn't the richest man in the world have the most expensive one? It seems to me that if the richest man in the world drives an inexpensive car, then the more expensive car is worthless. And then to use the analogy, the more expensive Arduino is likewise worthless?
Out of curiosity, can anyone explain in layman's terms the differences in design that make SHA-1's successors immune to the known attacks against SHA-1? Ultimately was this the result of an apparent flaw in SHA-1 that only became obvious in retrospect, or was it something totally unforeseeable?
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As a senior manager of a development team at a Fortune 10 company that consists of many members who are in their 40's or older one of the things I'm looking at during the interview process is their ability to logic and reason. That ability alone seems to be so much stronger just due to living the ups and downs. Displaying this, focusing on this, is by far one of those things that makes you stand out.

One of the biggest pitfalls of ICs regardless of age (but I see it more as some get older) is the inability to break free from the past. If you cant learn, or refuse to accept, anything new have no use for you. Tech is changing constantly and if you can't tout something you are looking forward to and just constantly looking back on that one project you did and using that same method/tool/tech it really makes it difficult to envision.

There are IC roles that are "lead" but not management which our company calls "Principal" consultants - that seems to be the latest term in the industry that everyone is going with to denote someone at a high level of expertise who contributes at somewhat of a manager level but not necessarily of people just of projects but is still more of an IC than a project manager.
When the unions move in is usually the bell toll for most industries.
How is that bad? Cohen claimed and still claims that. He even did so under oath. Something to the effect of, “he says it without saying it but I knew what he meant.” Not really any other reason for Cohen to lie to Congress than to help Trump.
>They lost the fight and none of the evils they claimed came to pass.

You sure about that?

Christian bakers being hounded for years because they don't want to make a cake which artistically expresses support for gay marriage. It's worth looking at the masterpiece cakeshop case, because you realize that they've been targeted for legal harassment in a premeditated way, not simply because someone couldn't find cake.

You can look up some of the statistics on political and religious discrimination in academia and some job fields, and try to think how that would look to you if you were a conservative or a Christian.you understand that you would have to live your life in a kind of hiding, while listening to people flagrantly insult your beliefs on a regular basis to guffaws and applause.

I'd also point to how we now see little boys performing sexual dances in front of groups of adult men or offering money. Stripping, blowing kisses, and so on.

Trans kids. Hormone replacement for 12 year olds.

Then there's education. Children being taught that women are men, men or women, and so on. Your children.

If you love all these things then you wouldn't think anything was wrong, however you have to acknowledge that they're not the same as gay marriage but if gay marriage had not happened they would not have happened either. Ultimately it comes down to what do you think a healthy society should look like. If your personal values take sexual freedom has the highest value, then yes you want this direction. Others believe that society should mold individuals into healthier forms as a way of helping them and strengthening the group. These are moral intuitions, axiomatic.

EDIT: I think from this comment it looks like you just failed the ideological turing test (google it); you haven't been consuming the other side's propaganda/opinions straight from source, you've been consuming your side's propaganda/opinions about the other side. So fundamentally you don't know what the other side is thinking. (This is common; it's been demonstrated empirically that conservatives can predict leftists' response to political questions better than the other way around, probably because leftists control education and media so rightists are forced to consume their messages in volume, but not the other way around.)
Nobody's going to pay for AWS hours for a lazy robot. They'll keep changing it does something. The human drive, which is not essentially rational, will give birth to the machine drive, which won't be rational either.
> Yeah, try telling this to a fan of 1960s or 1970s rock. You'll get an earful about rich guitars and fat synths, which only a 100% analog, tube-amp process from studio to ear is capable of replicating.

And anyone with a basic understanding of electronics should laugh in the faces of these people. The idea that a signal can be carried on a wire or recorded on tape but can not be replicated digitally is absolute nonsense.

If someone wants to claim that their preferred format captures higher frequencies than 44.1kHz sampling allows for, that's at least plausible, but that can be solved by using higher sampling rates like 96 or 192 kHz. At that point you've exceeded the capabilities of all mainstream analog storage media.

If they are looking for specific effects created when pushing the limits of analog hardware, like the "crunch" of a tube amp, that's fine too, but they need to acknowledge that they're treating the amp as an instrument in that case and its output can still be recorded digitally just fine.
Employers tend to be a lot more hostile to unions in the US. This manifests with deliberately spread FUD about unions (e.g. the ridiculous Walmart video), covert attempts to sabotage, depiction of schoolteachers as terrorists (by the Kentucky governor) and, in one rather extreme case, aerial bombardment of striking workers.
> And yet, parents in China and India are harder on their kids, while those kids are growing up to loving their parents more frequently

Got any evidence for that? Those cultures place a stronger emphasis on duty and obedience to parents. That's not the same as love though. It's possible to dislike one's parents but still take care of them in their old age because it's what society expects of you and you'd be considered a bad person if you did otherwise.
This being "reported" by BuzzFeed is sadly ironic. They paved to way for manipulating influence.
DataDog has the absolute pushiest sales folks I've ever dealt with.

I used to get daily calls from them and I'd tell them that we already had another monitoring solution and that they'll need to send me written material to present to my team if we were going to switch. They would always say sure, never do it and then call me again the next day.

For a double-digit number of months.
I think op is saying that the video game developers are choosing to subject themselves to it and therefore they don't need protections. Even though conditions are said to be bad studios somehow seem to have an endless supply of developers.
Adobe Apps on Windows are terrible for this. All screen recording apps on Windows have problems if your internal monitor and external monitor have different scaling as well.
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Not in my 40s yet but I'm in a similar position. I'm going to take some time off and prep for FAANG interviews. The benefit of the algo focused interview is it seems like there would be less ageism there as less of the criteria is based on behavior or fit type questions. Maybe I'm off here but that's what it appears like. I recently attended a Google recruiting event where a lot of the Googlers there were over 40 and recently joined the company, a couple of people even looked to be over 50.
That's the point of having the M4 cores alongside the M7 though, isn't it? Let the M4's handle real-time stuff like driving motors, and the M7 do communication and/or user interface.
> Stop normalizing putting bloated, heavy languages on embedded platforms.

Last time I checked, PICBasic was a thing, and spawned a generation of programmers.

Comodore 64 Basic, and TI-83 Basic were also simplified programming environments. (TI-83 implemented jumps as a O(n) lookup throughout your code... jumping to later functions was more costly than jumping to earlier functions...).

Its the simple programming environments that spawn new generations of programmers. Today, "Basic" is no longer the starting point, today's beginner programmers use Javascript or Python.

But there always were "beginner" languages, no matter how slow computers were in the past.
A labor union gives union leaders bargaining ability. Even if we assume that leaders are properly aligned with the employees as a whole, which is not something I think can be taken for granted, I’m not sure I want a handful of representatives with no personal relationship to me deciding how valuable my work is.
Bertrisges law of headlines aside that article is highly suspicious given the sheer number of studies looking for health advantages of organic and finding jack shit concrete. It is a pile of innuendo that doesn't set out to test ita hypothesis.

It could be trivial as a few new virgin test carrot patches vs established farms and get telling results. Yet tellingly they didn't do that simple test for their hypothesis let alone correlaries like by assaying various characteristics like perhaps if slower growth speed has more to do with higher accumulation of nutrients than soil content.
Indeed.

I'm puzzled by this:

> "Stealing data essentially gives threat actors additional bargaining chips when it comes to dealing with companies unwilling to pay the ransom. The idea is to weaponise the hefty fines associated with GDPR violations to pressure the company into paying."

I can't imagine that promises from REvil/Sodinokibi that stolen data had been deleted would reduce fines over GDPR violations.
Thanks, I will check out Phoenix. Assuming you are a little older since you moved in 2006, do you feel like the top end of your career has been held back at all by not being in one of the major tech hubs? What does your role look like now.
Thank you for talking about a real use case :). The m. causing a new workflow issue to be introduced is exactly why they decided "m." should not be treated as a trivial subdomain when they rolled it out, it was only that way during testing.

As you said www.example.com being functionally different from example.com was already a broken workflow, users weren't differentiating it. Continuing to display something users haven't understood for 20 years was not considered a strong enough reason to simplify the URL display now in a way that causes the same errors users were commonly making anyways.
Lambert's Cosine Law
How to mock in your Go (Golang) tests
> The price of domains should trend down. not up.

Why? The value of a dollar goes down over time, but the value of a domain does not.
I think I have my answer: "You have a right to cancel and return an online order for a full refund within 14 days by law. "

Thanks again.
Machine learning is a particular narrow result of studying the wider field of artificial intelligence. Just as expert systems, or rdf knowledge representation, or first order logic reasoners, or planning systems - none of them are 'intelligent' but all of them are research results coming from (and being studing in) the discipline of studying how intelligence works and how can something like it be approached artificially.

There's lots in the field of AI that is not 'cognitive automation' - many currently popular things and use cases are, but that's not correcting a misnomer, that's a separate term for a separate (and more narrow) thing - even if that narrower thing constitutes the most relevant and most useful part of current AI research.

A classic definition of intelligence (Legg&Hutter) is "Intelligence measures an agent’s ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments". That's a worthwhile goal to study even if (obviously) our artificial sytems are not yet even close to human level according to that criteria; and while it is roughly in the same direction as 'cognitive automation', it's less limited and not entirely the same.

For example, 'cognitive automation' pretty much assumes a fixed task to execute/automate, and excludes all the nuances of agentive behavior and motivation, but these are important subtopics in the field of AI.

But I am willing to concede that very many people are explicitly working only on the subfield of 'cognitive automation' and that it would be clearer if these people (but not all AI researchers) explicitly said so.
Sony just unveiled an electric concept car
Yes. I think “megafire” is another one. These are all very sobering terms.