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So many things factually wrong in this article....

> In January 2021, the three people most likely to be the next president—Biden, Sanders, and the incumbent, Donald Trump—would each be the oldest president to ever give an inaugural address in American history.

And until recently, we also had a serious candidate under the age of 40.

> If you extrapolate this trend, it might sound like America’s next breakthrough presidential candidate will be some 35-year-old YouTube influencer who just recently learned about the filibuster.

I thought the entire point of this article was that if you extrapolate the trend, the candidates would all be in their 90's? Also, some of what goes on in the private industry is transferrable to politics, and many of the names mentioned had substantial careers (some will argue effective careers, some won't) before they entered politics.

> In the past 40 years, the average age of Nobel Prize laureates has increased in almost every discipline,

My understanding is that the average age for starting a tenure track position has also increased as a result of increased specialization and competition. Wouldn't an increase in age for major career awards follow a similar trajectory?

> Power concentrated in the hands of old people who are also rich will predictably lead to policies that benefit the old and the rich, at the expense of the less privileged.

How does this follow? Does the author mean to imply that government officials are incapable of separating their own station from that of their constituents? Why would these old rich people favor the "rich" (usually defined as those with a high income) instead of the "old"?

> The federal government already guarantees universal health insurance and a universal basic income to seniors, even as Republicans cry socialism when young people request versions of the same policies

Maybe this is a useful fiction, but at least on paper we give these benefits to seniors because they paid into social security and medicare during their working years. Young people have not. Whether or not each one is wise, these are two clearly different things. The author just shows his own lack of understanding.

> At the end of the Cold War, a common criticism of the U.S.S.R. was that the country was crumbling in part because the Soviet politburo was too old and out of touch to keep up with a changing world.

Also, because it was a communist country that centrally planned everything, so couldn't reallocate resources efficiently.

> Without encouraging voters or employers to be ageist...

Even though this is pretty much entirely what this article is doing
Yeah, every so often the bizdev guy at my office who also serves as our POC for the web developers pings me about some Azure IoT thing or another, and every time I read the documentation I think "that's great, if only we had any of the problems that that solves."
My understanding of UBI was it’s a replacement for many existing social programs.
Dementia incidence doubles every five years from 65 to 90. Having candidates that will be older than 65 at inauguration just isn’t worth the risk.
Thanks a lot, the point is lost a bit if you don't have the entire conversation.
I don't think that's a persona - I think he really is that guy.
Age related cognitive decline is a real thing.
I think this is the key sentence, and everyone seems to be glossing over it:

> Americans 55 and older account for less than one-third of the population, but they own two-thirds of the nation’s wealth—the highest level of wealth concentration on record.

Running a national political campaign is a more than full time job for a period of several months. The median American worker can’t just take a few months off work to run for office.
Is it different in other countries?
Nothing complicated about it. You start with SaaS, validate it's a good tool to have/actually used, evaluate monthly costs vs opportunity costs, build your own when/if it makes sense.

The slightly more complicated question is "do we invest in optimizing SaaS costs/utilization? Or use those resources to start building our own?". But even for this question the right answer is usually fairly obvious.
It would be solvable with compositing XServer, like Xsgi.

Unfortunatelyh X.Org is based on the lowest-common denominator code, and nobody dared to make a redesign that would really split from the X.Org mission of "providing a code dump for vendors to start working"
The example on using emojis is very strange:

> It'd be nice to get that report by this afternoon.

This phrasing is inherently passive aggressive since it's not a direct ask, regardless of how many emojis are included.

Why not:

> Hi <name>, will you be able to have the report on X ready by <time>?
Why work towards any goal when you can just live with your parents until you're 40 and then claim disability/welfare because of your complete lack of skills.

I've thought for years about why there is never anyone from the younger generation to replace those that are older any more.

It started with my complete disdain for modern movies and wondering why/how/who would replace someone like arnold schwarzenegger. There's plenty of other good/unique actors that seem to have no equal as well. And from there the questions just go on and on, from great teachers and leaders to great innovators. There's just no one under 60 years of age that seems to be doing anything nowadays.
What Is a Cybersecurity Engineer?
Yes. Three web servers and a load balancer is fine. Three web servers and a load balancer, repeated 1,000 times across the enterprise in idiosyncratic ways and from scratch each time, is less fine. That’s where Kubernetes-shaped solutions (like Mesos that came before it) become appropriate.

You can get a lot done with a sailboat. For certain kinds of problems you might genuinely need an aircraft carrier. But then you’d better have a navy. Don’t just wander onto the bridge and start pressing buttons.
DEC or HP (I no longer remember which) wrote a cool demo that had a fish swim across as many displays as you gave it. It properly rendered the fish split across display edges. With walls of displays being so common now it doesn't sound like much but at the time it was a pretty slick demo of X window and its network capability.
I think you're missing out on a few of the big SaaS players here and then some of the smaller ones you never see if you're not in that dept. Most companies will have some CRM (salesforce, dynamics...), an ERP system (Workday, NetSuite...) and some marketing system (Hubspot, Marketo...) each of those will cost you a few thousand. Then there are the smaller tools, HR / Recruiting, T&E, team planning (monday, pivotal...) and finally Email/Calendar - just look at what GSuite costs. All of those costs add up quickly for the rank and file employees.
It seems to me companies should instead invest in open source alternatives. They could pay less, funding the development of open source alternatives and everyone wins. Blender is a good example of this.
Why do business deserve a level of welfare we're not affording to human beings. Let's feed, house, cloth, educate and provide health care for everyone - then we can start looking at saving unprofitable business.

The truth is, a lot of business ventures simply aren't profitable. It isn't profitable for me to start a business where I deliver whitecastle to remote areas by flying couriers there with the food - but it could be profitable if enough market changes occurred.

As these bloat businesses die off we'll see a shift in the market - either there will be a surplus of employees (that will drive down the cost of employment and enable more bloat businesses) or those employees will find other businesses to work at that can survive in the margins that exist.
No, the site messed up my comment. b is supposed to be 2 raised to the 60th power. The two asterisks were removed. Let's try ^, b is 2^60, c is minus b. I edited my original comment.
Not sure about the logo, but I do know this two paragraph “article” is everything that’s wrong with modern journalism.
Commenters are saying BMW has stated clearly they will not use the new logo on their products (cars).

Everybody here is tripping for no reason.
The financial accounting standards board updated their guidance in late 2018 to require calculating the present value of expected future SaaS agreement payments and adding that to the balance sheet, so it’s still CapEx in most cases.
> Because most work in the world is done despite the management, not because of it.

FTFY
You must also consider the amount of shitty jobs going away. I'd refuse a work that had terrible conditions, since I wouldn't die of hunger anymore. The other working people would also have better job condition, so they would be freer to quit their job. Everybody improves, but the business that exists just based in brutal exploitation of their workers.
Has it occurred to you that the reader might like something that is long, because they see reading content of this type as primarily a form of entertainment?

It's not like there's a prize at the end, or some secret promo code hidden within the words. It's created for the purpose of idle consumption.
If life existed on Mars then to me that strongly implies that there is some Great Filter in our past that we did pass but Martians did not
Because it takes about 5 minutes extra effort to update your address or request an absentee ballot.
Is it time to nationalise the pharmaceutical industry?
Speak for yourself, young person.

I was born and raised overseas, and have spent my entire life embedded in many very different cultures.

I come from an ivy-league family (I'm the redneck engineer) that has been almost entirely dedicated to some fairly intense public service. Most of them could have become quite wealthy, but chose to do Service, instead.

I have written open-source software, for decades, dedicated to helping some of the most downtrodden folks on Earth recover from devastating personal circumstances. It has not made me one single dime. In fact, it has cost me many thousands.

And we're all pretty darn liberal. Being mixed up with dozens of different cultures all your life tends to do that.

My experience is that many of the younger folks in my industry are incredibly materialistic. I suspect that's par for the course. It didn't start with this generation.

Once we get a bit older, we may come to reflect, and discover that so many things that were of great importance when we were younger, don't mean diddly anymore.

As for my relationship with technology; I learned to write software that lasts decades. Almost every project I've ever done has been designed as a legacy.
HTML blocks are part of the commonmark spec. The overlap between people who post too much in issues and know this feature is probably small though. Other platforms have JS that detects long code blocks and collapse all but the first few lines by default.
"Workers rights" are things like the right not to be refused a job because you're a woman. I don't think anybody is accusing Uber of doing this, nor would doing it give anyone any apparent competitive advantage in modern markets.

Classifying things like unemployment insurance under that banner is silly, because anybody who wants it can go buy it with money, so it makes no sense to require it rather than letting workers and companies negotiate over whether they'd rather have that or some other thing like higher pay. Every company has to convince their workers to work there and not somewhere else, so everything like that which they don't provide requires them to provide something else instead.

Imposing those requirements hurt workers by taking their options away -- somebody who knows they're only going to be a driver for four years as they work their way through college may very well be better off to have the money that would otherwise be paid to the insurance carrier than to have the unemployment insurance, which they'll not use anyway because Uber doesn't do "layoffs" of contractors and it's very unlikely demand for rides is going to disappear in the next four years.
ahhh missing a great effect

https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets
Meek Mill Reacts to Nicki Minaj’s Husband’s Arrest
Well, I said 50% of monthly revenue, not total costs.
How often do you build in house tooling or applications that have no ongoing operating commitments?
It's upfront capital investment plus generally unpredictable maintenance vs. More predictable but maybe higher operating expenses
I had to look that up, that is awesome!
> Presented by the person that places #BBBBBB text on #FFFFFF background

I scanned the site source code and the only bit of text which uses that particular colour is the "#" symbol before headings.

Sounds like you're just trying to find something to complain about.
The part that's most contentious about git-flow is release branches.

You still should merge often to develop, which when tested becomes master.
On the flip side, a lot of developers are more motivated by what they can actually build and release with their tools, rather than learning new and complicated tools for the heck of it. If I were running a company I'd much rather court devs in this group.
People aren't so stupid that they'd do something that completely against their best interests. If you're a subsidence farmer and get sick, you have no means of making enough money to see a doctor. Historically, people didn't care about leisure until they accomplished stability.
Reinforcement-learning is vulnerable to a new kind of attack
> Is it? I thought all you had to do was write them a letter?

Yes, it is. I've been trying to get this data on myself for years now, and have yet to succeed. Letter-writing is not sufficient (at least in the US).
What? There is literally no cost. You download the competitors app, and youre good to go.

Prices for the ride are always changing. Uber usually has lower per mile cost, while Lyft has a bit lower minute cost. This does not affect switching costs.
I may have changed the key binding after installation. It has been a while so it feels like it has always been that way.
The first half of your statement is perfectly true, through implementing UBI we're raising the floor on income inequality so that the relative gap between the richest and poorest shrinks. But, we don't end up back at square one, we just haven't given as effective a UBI as we originally intended.
I thought this was going to be an article about all the SQLite databases embedded in applications, and on smartphones and watches and other devices. Or about how Archive.org publishes metadata for individual objects in OBJECT_meta.sqlite files (alongside OBJECT_meta.xml).
As described on the other side of this thread, it’s done through virtual memory - the virtual address of the object doesn’t need to change, so no need to realloc.
((RANDOM % 10)) || timeout 3 cmatrix ; clear
A stay at home parent education children "produces" anything?
Seems like that job will be taken over by robots sooner or later.
It's interesting that nearly all of what you've included from the article is a direct quote.

The author could have editorialized it, but those aren't his words.
By "everything there is a thread", do you mean there can be multiple topics (subchannels) per channel? Couldn't you achieve the same by namespacing Slack channel names?

First I've heard of Zulip, so perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean by thread.
Yes if you expect nothing, you test for it obviously. The problem is when you want high quality errors for the case where you didn't expect it and you e.g. casted away the nullness, or it was casted away for you due to language interop.
Two commercial satellites docked for the first time
The odd thing about having 10 years of experience as a consultant is that you know when to write "Kubernetes" into a project proposal, even though everyone agrees that it'll be a sub-optimal solution.

But both you and their tech lead want to be able to write "used Kubernetes" on your CV in the future, plus future-oriented initiatives inside your contact's company tend to get more budget allocated to them. So it's a sound decision for everyone and for the health of the project to just go with whatever tech is fancy enough, but won't get into the way too badly.

Enter Kubernetes, the fashionable Docker upgrade that you won't regret too badly ;)
There is no reason wayland couldn't do that, other than that your compositor doesn't support the concept of virtual screens. I can't say that this is a very high-priority feature for any compositors at the moment.
Basic steps such as reaching out to some people at BMW and asking them about it. Talking to other people who do similar sorts of design work and try to understand why choices would've been made. Ask someone who might actually know the specific constraints involved in this kind of design work and ask them to weigh in.

This article is just whining about something the author doesn't like. Which, it's fine not to like something. But not everything is designed for your eyes and your personal tastes only. So a design journalist should hold themselves to a higher standard and attempt to understand and illuminate rather than just point and sneer. (Which, I know: This article is just click-bait and not intended to be anything more than that. In which case: Why is it on Hacker News?)
They're also founded by people that know the business they're dealing with

I worked as a contract software engineer and I built quite a few MVPs for niche businesses I would never have thought of. I built a dashboard for rental management companies to track vendors (e.g. plumbers, electricians, pool cleaners) to make sure their licenses, insurance, and background checks are up to date. I built a tool for companies to track and calculate multistate tax withholding for traveling employees (apparently there is a complex algorithm based on the number of days you worked in the state, your home state, etc). There are thousands of these business ideas out there that some domain expert is running in a spreadsheet but could be turned into a SaaS product.
Related to quoting, Oil has a way to opt out of needing it everywhere, which I documented here:

Simple Word Evaluation in Unix Shell

http://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/simple-word-eval....

parsing and evaluation aren't interleaved, and code and data aren't confused

No Implicit Splitting, Dynamic Globbing, or Empty Elision

Opt In to the Old Behavior With Explicit Expressions

Also related: Oil Doesn't Confuse Flags and Files http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/02/dashglob.html
If jobs are critical and unappealing, then we should pay large amounts of money for them to be done... Right now those critical and unappealing jobs are quite undervalued.
That's where my main focus is right now. I want to push it out just a bit further. The best outcome of this thread for me is someone mentions something that I have a connection with (maybe friends with an expert I could get involved) that I didn't even think of.
I'm happy with my 9-to-5 schedule now -- I can stop work at a specific time, and mostly stop worrying. Mostly. But it's not the same kind of freedom as knowing that the weekend has started, and that there is a multi-day period where you can start forgetting about that whole world (barring emergencies, of course).

Rotating between three and FOUR-day weekends? Wow.
You wouldn't legislate against the algorithm. You would legislate to prevent the abuse of the data used to feed the algorithm.
I think part of the point here is that some commodities may have highly variable prices for discernible reasons - manufacturing costs, supply/ demand, etc. - and it makes sense to try and get a good deal. For other products, like groceries, prices are mostly stable so it doesn't make as much sense. If there were rice shortages and your brand of rice cost much more all of a sudden, though, I would expect you might shop around then
> My theory is that people realize that older candidates are more likely to have sensibilities that have not been contaminated by critical theory.

No one running for political office is old enough not to have been influenced in their youth (whether positively or negatively) by critical theory in either the strict narrow sense or the broad sense in whichthe Right tends to abuse the term, unless they were living under a rock.

Critical theory’s widespread exposure is not a new thing.
I use to wonder this. Now I don't. The notion that with some other VCS I would not have a complete copy of the entire history available to me locally now seems dysfunctional. You make branches at will and it troubles no one unless you need it to. Git is a great improvement over all that came before. Some bizarre default CLI behaviors are my only complaint.
Interestingly, the canonical link to that page is actually: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

"You may not be using HTML for that page in 20 years time, but you might want today's links to it to still be valid. The canonical way of making links to the W3C site doesn't use the extension."

I am constantly surprised by how difficult many static site generators make it to create URLs of this format (notice no trailing slash, before you tell me about the "Pretty URLs" options in most software).
It is complicated at scale and over time though. Look at Saas infrastructure: How you do it as you grow constantly changes the results of any evaluation.
There are several reasons, many of them are that the nodes themselves are managed by OpenShift operators. If you run (as cluster admin) `oc get clusteroperators` you'll see plenty that are for hosts, such as an upgrader and a tuner. If the operators had to be distro agnostic it would be a support nightmare, and we wouldn't be able to do it. With RHCOS (immutable OS) we also have enough guarantees to safely upgrade systems without human intervention. Can you imagine doing that in an Enterprise environment while trying to support multiple distributions? I can't.
Git-rerere and smart merge tool like p4merge help a lot with this rebasing problem.

These are essential if you work with forced rebase mode like in Gerrit. (ugh)

You still have to be moderately careful and read the code again.
So no one told us the internet was gonna be this way
No, there’s no doubt in my mind that the median age of a president is greater than the median age of the general population, but that in no way implies that old age “runs deep” among presidents, which I take to mean that it’s a common thing.

About half are less than 55 and half are more than 55. Most are somewhere near 55 (since the distribution conforms to a bell curve). 55, in my opinion, is not “old age”, but your mileage may vary.
Bash is a great argument for the fact that it is not so much the features of the language that matter, but what ecosystem it is a part of. Bash is popular because it is the default scripting language of the shell in Unix. Javascript is popular because it is in all the browsers. C is popular because it is the default compiled language of Unix. Objective-C became popular because it was the default programming language of the iPhone.
You're right.

However, a lot of new (or just bad) devs miss the whole Keep It Simple Stupid concept and think that they NEED Kubernetes-shaped solutions in order to "do it the right way".

Many times three web servers and a load balancer are exactly what you need.
One has to wonder how that affects the validity of sleep studies, or at least their applicability to the general population.
What... did I just read? It looks like something that was written by Einstein, under the influence of some incredibly potent drugs.
> Many people want humanity to concentrate in urban areas because it is better for the environment.

I'm interested in learning more about this. I've never heard of it, are there any sources proving that this is the case? If people spread out more, is that actually more harmful? I can imagine this is an extremely complicated topic
SaaS is really one of the only ways to make money and build a company with software these days. Decades of piracy have pushed most companies to create a subscription service where the software can't just be copied.