skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d recommend the WorkLife podcast episode where the host, org psychologist Adam Grant, challenges the author quite a bit[1]

In short, if you were good in your 20s and like your job, you’ll still be good (possibly far better) with 70% raw intelligence but lots of experience and specialized expertise.

Much of the data, Adam argues, is also conflated with people realizing other things are important in life for a time. But many people revisit successful careers after kids move out etc.

1 - https://www.ted.com/talks/worklife_with_adam_grant_career_de...
Amazon is a big employer: what's the percentage of Amazon's employees engage in that? What's the percentage of employees of any other large employer, that directly competes with Amazon (so same market) that engage in similar activities?

Peeing in bottles sounds good as a click bait title but it's easy to not see the forest from the trees if you just focus on one example.
Which is why I said "some". It depends on how they participate in the church as to whether or not another activity would be more or less political.
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I see your proposals as having the same requirements as mine.

> 1. Make it illegal to fire employees for any speech in the public square.

So you can't fire an employee that is causing an uproar and a subsequent boycott of your product? Because that's why they get fired now, to prevent a decrease in sales. The only way maintaining the employee and the sales is for the public to recognize that an employee (including a CEO) does not represent the company (which in a case of a CEO can be shaky). This is a tricky situation that I think you're overly simplifying.

> 2. Make it so they have to be found guilty in a court of law in order to be fired or shunned for anything sexist or racist.

I feel a bit better about this. But this lines up with my tempered approach. I think this may be a bit too light handed though. For example, it is legal to be a Neo Nazi. That is protected by free speech. But if a high level employee is openly a Neo Nazi then that's going to affect your sales.

> 3.

Same goes here.

I think these solutions are too simple that they miss the nuance I'm asking for.

> Right now what we're seeing is extrajudicial punishment instigated at the will of anyone with a twitter account and following.

This is a huge problem that I'm concerned about. But I don't see a way around it without having society act better.

Well I do see one other solution, but it has a lot of consequences too. Twitter/Facebook/etc could change their algorithms to prevent these cases from going viral. But there's big consequences to that and makes them arbiters of "*ism". That's also a dangerous situation and honestly a position I don't think Mark or Jack wants to be in.

> You're being optimistic about vengeful people online.

I'm not optimistic about them. I'm optimistic about the public. That the general public will get tired of this shit. Getting tired will cause less clicks, which will cause less rage, and momentum will dampen the system. But right now we have media resonating with this vocal minority because it brings in dollars. People still click a lot on hate porn (articles like "You won't believe how dumb {Republicans,Democrats} are" or "Watch this {Democrat,Republican} get totally destroyed!"). People are already getting sick of it, that's why we're having this discussion. So I'm saying fight by not clicking. Increase the momentum back to normality.
When you can have Uncle Sam cover that capex, it makes it even more financially appealing.
An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming (1969) [pdf]
When I worked with countrymen it influenced in the sense that I wouldn't mix well if people with views too antagonistic to mine. Now that I work with people all around the world I never know or care about others' political view. And don't push mine on them.
Yep, gonna stay on that sweet 5.14.23 till the end of times.
RNA is also just generally fantastically unstable and reactive. You don't want any surface to be too alkaline, for example. There's a reason that basically every life form switched to DNA.

(Though RNA may have been more stable under the high-UV-exposure conditions the early Earth.)
Thank Goodness
Yeah, there’s a lot that can be done between manufacturers and retailers to reduce packaging waste, but there are also a lot of dependencies, especially for brands that don’t do their own manufacturing.

I can tell you from experience how painful it can be to set up even one alternative line for a hardware product. Most of the time it’s just not worth the effort, unless you’re selling into a giant channel partner.
While I share your antipathy for low-efficiency vehicles, why is traveling around the national parks of the west a sad way to spend your retirement years?
Now benefit multiple manufacturing quotes and an escrow platform
Ask HN: Was your day-to-day work tangibly affected by the Suez Canal ship?
He is playing word games, but he's not trying to trick anyone. When he says atheism doesn't exist, it's just a stylistic flourish. It's not the point of the passage; he's not trying to argue that everyone believes in god.

The point of the passage is that everyone needs a source of meaning in their life, and that religious is more psychologically healthy option than the alternatives.
Yep, using an older version in a docker container. Until they force me to upgrade for some reason or other.
No, I'm saying this because there exists mailing lists and chat rooms where all of the terminal emulator developers are discussing these problems to collectively solve this issue.
Now is a very atypical situation :-P
It seems like several comments are reacting to the headline and not the content of the article. The article does not assert that old people are definitely professionally useless, it does not assert that your career is the most important thing in your life, and it's not telling old workers to pack it up and downshift into a soft life.

It's not rigorously backed up by robust longitudinal studies either. Fine, a lot of interesting ideas aren't. But the idea of preparing for a graceful change into a different future self -- maybe not weaker, but definitely not "the same but more", which is how I think we usually imagine a different future self -- seems under-explored to me in modern media. So I like this piece for trying to talk through it a bit.
> > I see light arrive from X at some time T1+t1

> Except that your notion of T1+t1 is already going to be different from any other (non-stationary) observer's, yes?

Yes, and so is my distance from my current position to X, which I use to calculate my value of t1, which I use to calculate my value of T1. All the numbers are different for all the observers. Special relativity tells us how to convert the numbers between observers.

> > I do a little math to calculate how long it took the light to get there (t1)

> Doesn't this assume that light has a fixed speed? We know already that this ain't necessarily the case, even in a vacuum; there are plenty of things - like sufficiently strong gravity wells - that can slow down light considerably. And in the context of situations involving warp drives and wormholes and other things bending spacetime willy-nilly, that further throws a wrench in attempting to figure out how long it took light to reach you.

First, light does have a fixed speed, locally (that is, at each point within the gravitational well or whatever). Second, gravitational wells are pretty well understood in terms of their effects on light, and I'm pretty sure we could calculate the effect of the warp drive's gravitational distortion on it as well. "The effect exists" does not equal "therefore we can't do the calculation".

> That is: if how an observer is perceiving something is indeed what actually dictates reality

Nobody said that - at least, not until you drag quantum mechanics into the picture, and even then, there are debates about that.

> If causality is to exist at all, even under normal conditions, then it seems like it needs to be possible for observers to be wrong, no?

I have no idea where you got that. If causality is to exist at all, then 1) causal signals can't travel faster than the speed of light, and 2) neither can an observer. If those two hold, then we can have real causality with no observers being wrong, because all observers always observe cause-and-effect happening in the same order.

> > The issue is that I can find a frame of reference where T2 < T1

> Okay, which frame of reference would that be? Under what conditions? By what mechanisms that would apply to literally all cases of superluminal communication (even ones explicitly formulated to avoid things like relativistic relative speeds upon which thought experiments like the tachyonic antitelephone depend)?

Not me. I'm not going to walk you through all the equations. I'll tell you where to start, and then I'm done. Start by learning the Lorentz Transform - not just reading the equations, but understanding what they mean and how they work. That will clear up most of your misconceptions. Any basic book on Special Relativity should get you there. The Wikipedia article might, if you take the time to really work through it carefully.
Agreed. I may not have agreed with most things Amazon twitter said but IMO it was definitely refreshing to see a company answering back instead of being just a punching bag mute for the politicians to score easy wins like "hey look how tough I am, I'm saying all these things about big bad <insert the latest company punch bag>, you should vote for me because of the emotional response you get from feeling less powerless" (although the latter part is rarely spoken).
What happens once it degrades? Does it eventually get decomposed into constituent molecules? Or removed from your body somehow? And what happens to that base?
Looks like it only work on desktop. (“Request desktop site” in Chrome mobile works).
Why the GraphQL API for WordPress Needs a Monorepo, and How It's Optimized
I wouldn't install beta software on a production system though.
Nobody tilts their lidar heads 45 degrees. With velodyne 32, we achieved better resolution when mapping highways by doing so.

Why don't I see that ever? Is it solved or done better horizontally?
Not as true for people in technical fields, the author, while smart and accomplished is a social scientist and musician. One interesting idea he mentions is that older, tenured researchers' productivity goes down and universities would love to move budget-hogging oldsters into teaching. Unfortunately, there's not much glory in teaching even though it's precisely the area where experience is valuable.
The Bitcoin smart contract landscape is impoverished. Rsk is a custodial service which has somehow convinced people it is "on Bitcoin". When you use Rsk, your Bitcoins are held by these 11 companies: https://www.rsk.co/powpeg/ (their private keys are held in a special "tamper-proof" box).
One of the mods in their subreddit willingly bought and tore apart a Microsoft Hololens to prove that it was using Microvision's products [1]. It happened at the time of the mass COVID scare, but I think it got its resurgence from the latest EV push / GME squeeze.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmiQvjQuFqQ
Now SEPTIN2! (and MARCHF1)
I did not know that google news is not available in Spain
https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9609...
Similar story here, my grandfather played Chamber music with his friends (he played cello) twice a week well into his 90s. He barely lasted weeks after he became too frail to play music.
At least in the Bay Area, there are plenty of jobs like this, even outside banks and such.

Many companies that's been around for 20 years have bazillion pieces of unexciting software they need to support and maintain. They still need full time employees to keep them running.

Want an example? Adobe Sign. Here is a product that they can never stop supporting. The software doesn't need more features, but they still need security updates and maintenance.

Just pick a big, old technology company and browse the job listings. Look for "old school tech", like Java EE. Just add it on your resume and say you worked with it a long time ago. Boom, an interview.

edit: Scripting languages like PHP or Ruby will also have lots of legacy software around them. But Java software being "enterprise-y", tend to die off less frequently, and people there seem treated better than legacy PHP programmers.

edit2: In a large company, there will be boring, maintenance areas, and exciting areas. Try to interview with boring teams, since that is your goal.

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Adobe in any way. It's just an example I know outside of my own work. We have examples too, but that would be too revealing.
The differences are way over rated, especially between the denominations themselves.

If you look at the core statements of beliefs from various Christian denominations, you will find far more similarities than differences, especially around the core tenets of the faith.
Well, at some point they will have managed to remove all need for unskilled labor and then everyone will be happy, right? /s
My god can you be any more incel
Ah, you're probably interpreting that as believers walking in fear all day, which again is not the case (side note: studies show that believers are significantly less anxious on a day to day basis. I would link to one study but there are too many that show this so I'll let you Google it).

"God-fearing" is a very ancient phrasing used by the Israelites to refer to anyone that believes in the God as I've described him, "the unmoved mover", "the God of gods", "the Lord of hosts", etc. The term "fear" is our best English translation of the Hebrew text, but the implication here is that we believe that God is just, not arbitrary, and therefore we can respect and submit to his rule and expect fair treatment. Fear only concretely shows up in our hearts when we choose to disobey him. Those who don't believe in his existence or his justice naturally don't have fear when they disobey him, hence the term.

I hope this helps!
Yep, it was absurd. I remember spending hours fighting with CSS to do something that would've taken 5 minutes with tables. Maybe I was just bad at it.
The software industry is now in a somewhat unique historical position in that software is now bigger and more complex than ever before and written in largely the same manner as it was ~20 years ago. Many companies are built through backend web services running on commodity or cloud hardware running linux. Historically the kind of software that was being written at the largest firms changed every 10 years from mainframes to PCs to mobile etc.

While I haven't seen it formally studied, I'd expect software salaries to keep pace with the scale/value provided by the technology and how influential an engineer can be on a given software stack.
I'll be one of the first to try that out. Honestly seems like a pretty cool idea, i hope it pick up track
Federal law prohibits making union membership a condition of employment. It also forces unions to represent non members. Alabama law says non members don't have to pay for the services a union is forced to provide them.
several points:

1)this article seems to be a bit low on actual, solid facts. But ok.

2)I wouldn't trust a single word that anyone who is paid by Amazon to tweet, tweets.

3)As long as said employees identify themselves openly, as the article claims, no problem. If they pretend to be separate we have an issue.

3) Will this union really force everyone to pay dues? If it's true, that's a bit strange. I thought that kind of thing was 1970s stuff by now.

So interesting article. But as far as Amazon using twitter as a propoganda tool? It sounds pretty benign stuff to my little mind.
I wish you could paste from history when doing math with alfred (where the pasting is also fro alfred). That's my only complaint with alfred's calculation capabilities.
First-Ever Plant to Recycle All Forms of Plastic Is in Construction
Huh, it's actually top of his blog right now [0]. Alexander is borrowing from the 80's book by Fussell, so it's apparently an idea that's been kicking around a while. O'Church's piece looks interesting, I'll dig in, thanks for sharing!

[0] https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2021/01/28/a-reply-to-a...
Gee I’m glad to see their real issue backlog is now empty so they have time to do this kind of bandwidth-wasting, cycle-sucking garbage.
This is crazy. I have AT&T Fiber to my house. Gigabit up and down with NO data cap for only $60/month. I was paying over double that for only 400 down, 25 up from Xfinity with a datacap.
I'll never understand the conservative insistence on provably false exaggeration. Where are the fact-based conservative pundits who don't rely on rhetoric and twisted facts to make a point?
I have a bunch of patents. They look cool in a resume but not really a big deal unless they are vital to a very visible product.
Pfizer one does contain 4 kinds of lipids to encase the RNA. The encapsulation percentage is however unknown.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/09/1013538/what-are...
The power dynamics that makes it happen is the following:

Powerful countries like U.S., Russia, China etc. want to control countries that give them strategic advantage in a region. Myanmar happens to be one such country where all of these countries are interested.

After WW II, Burma, like most other countries, was controlled by the U.S. as they won the war. That lasted around 25 years. Then Soviet Russia took over for 15 years or so... and then Soviet Union fell apart. Then, China took over... and the U.S. has tried to take it ever since.

All the current protests are orchestrated by the U.S. to try to take over it again.

So, the U.S. is trying to take control of some other country and is causing deaths of hundreds of people to do so. The story you are telling yourself is the story fed to you by your rulers. Similarly, the soldiers there listen to their own rulers.
But at least they're pushing their own product and didn't sell the right to do so to some third party.

So far.
RNA would get thrashed by your immune system if it isn't encapsulated by something: liposome deliver of therapeutic RNA is really next-generation tech, and the fact that the RNA does what it's supposed inside the your cells is no small feat either.

From the CDC "ingredients" for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, along with cholesterol (which modulates the stability of lipid membranes), they report using this molecule, which would form a phospholipid bylayer, just like our own cells use: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/avanti/850365P?...
Barely bandwidth wasting since they're using the official ship emoji vs shipping an image.
Wow, so neat! Thank you for developing this, and open sourcing it.
That's called "work to rule", and it's a common option for union members to be able to vote for, as an action short of a full strike.
I have to admit, until today I thought Geocities is a Yahoo Japan only thing..
Yeah these things no longer cover up the fact that they try to turn you into a serial killer on youtube or that your search results are mostly useless ads
"super crab" ... it made a shrine with figurines and a logo
https://postimg.cc/5jhgGtCv
This is well said, and accurately describes the real problem with 2077. It's not the bugs, it's that a game with revolutionary scope was promised, and the game that was delivered didn't even have typical, average scope.

Also, there seems to be a group of people that take issue with any criticism of 2077 with some form of "Why can't you just let people have fun?" This seems to be the goto response for criticism of almost any game, movie etc now, possibly because some people tie too much of their identity to media they enjoy, so any attack on that media feels like a personal attack to them.

So for the record, people are allowed to enjoy 2077. There are some genuinely cool things in the game. But that doesn't change the fact that objectively, as a whole, it turned out pretty poorly, relative both to its genre and what was promised. There's plenty of media I enjoy which I would also readily admit is pretty terrible objectively. That's why the term "guilty pleasure" exists.
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It means the gizmodo author is trying to get more views.
> We have this same problem in Ruby - implementing the Ruby C extension API if you aren't exactly the same as the reference Ruby implementation is extremely challenging.

Isn't that (plus, also, cross-interpreter native extensions) what the FFI [0] gem (first implemented for Rubinius, then JRuby, and now pretty much every Ruby interpreter that matters except Opal.)

AFAIK, FFI has been the recommended way of writing C-exts for Ruby for sometime, as FFI exts are both cleaner to write and portable across Ruby implementations.

[0] https://github.com/ffi/ffi
The Holy Roman Empire was a right old mish mash, just like the Pretannic Isles or Brythonic Isles or whatever.

Nowadays people are so wrapped up in modern boundaries and notions of nationalism and fail to notice that history is rather messy.

My family history has been rather well researched by my uncle who has a no nonsense approach to his findings. We have at least one mass murderer in the bloodline. An innkeeper of a pub and hostelry on Salisbury Plain at a crossroads was not a nice person. There was a chair that dumped people into the cellar where they were butchered. The whole thing has been hyped somewhat but it was 200 odd years ago. During WW1 an ancestor may have run away during a Zeppelin raid on Kent. We know he was signed up to join the army and had done basic training and was sent to a camp in Kent before despatch to France. He would have had a pass to visit relatives within reason. Anyway it gets complicated.

My point is that a simple comment like "the Franks themselves spoke a Germanic language" is a bit trite (no offense meant). We classify the Frankish language as Germanic, but then we also classify modern English as such. My name is also quite literally testament to how daft it gets.
Ex-Google CEO urges US to ignore calls to ban autonomous weapons
Yes, treated like people that can be replaced by robots.
I have not had hands on experience with nomad, but as I understand it, it still requires a lot of plumbing. Something as simple as service discovery isn't, and requires a completely separate consul cluster. Similarly, there is no secrets management, which requires a vault cluster, which in turn requires a it's own consul cluster. I'm not sure what config management options there are.

So now you're stuck with 3 consul clusters, a vault cluster, whatever you choose for config management, and a nomad cluster. Feels like you didn't gain much from the simplicity of nomad.

In addition to that, knowing Hashicorp's pricing, I bet that set up would run you north of a million a year for enterprise setup.
This is one of the most widely asked questions about Christianity, so I have some skepticism that you are asking in good faith, but I will assume so nonetheless.

The arguments generally revolve around the tension between justice and forgiveness.

Jumping to forgiveness elides the question of sins and crimes and injustices that demand punishment, atonement, reparation, consequences.

How can God welcome everyone into Paradise, oppressor alongside oppressed, murderer alongside murderer, rapist alongside their victims, and every other kind of perpetrator of evil and those they have trespassed against?

The Cross is meant as a way of reconciling this tension, and a great many sermons have been devoted to trying to explain the mystery of it.
Done, load it up!
It was on the Detroit river, a major shipping lane and the boat was tiny, I’d be flashing everyone and I was a kid and self conscious about pissing in front of people, still am.
Besides we might still want other caches (such as the browser cache) to work. A new subdomain would invalidate those too.