skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I mean inherited in that the children of the founders ran the place.

My assumption (which I also need to verify), is that at the time this was written (1911), the number of companies run by heirs of the founders was higher.

What I'm trying to tease out is whether the distrust ("war", as the author states), is a result of a child who grew rich, and thus often had encounters where workers would try to take them for a ride, relative to a founder who grows up poor. So the latter would be more on the same side of the workers, whereas the former might have a bias toward a more antagonistic relationships. Pure speculation. Haven't looked at data yet.
Looks like you're just paying the $5000 reserve? I assume a million dollar transfer must be a wire.
It is common, but that does not mean it's good, especially with all the research that's been done in learning over the past few decades. As someone remarked, Wheelock:

> It teaches about Latin, teaching you the Latin language is not the goal of this book […]

* https://old.reddit.com/r/latin/comments/8rp222/

Wheelock can be used as a technical reference if you want to know the exact structure. But it's like trying to read the C++ ISO spec if you want to program.

The consensus seems to be either Ørberg and/or Cambridge if you want dead-tree materials.
1. Insanely low interest rates

2. Low inventory due to recent urbanization trends (seems to be an issue worldwide)

3. A lot of disposable income among people who kept their jobs and stopped going out or traveling during the pandemic

4. Ongoing risk-taking by lenders, encouraged by their ability to sell loans to the federal government
>> Then again, maybe this is just a slap on the wrist. This is equivalent to robbing a store, getting caught, and then the only punishment being "you aren't allowed in the store again, and you have to return the stuff that you stole." Which is pretty damn lenient by the standards of the rest of the US justice system.

The FTC is a civil agency, not a criminal agency.

Just b/c Beam and Yu settled with the FTC out of court doesn't mean the FBI can't go after them for criminal charges.
You're pointing to cases to invalidate the claim as if that claim was supposed to be interpreted to be bracketed by a universal quantifier. It wasn't, and arguing in that way is not particularly insightful.

"You can write a compiler in a weakly typed language that resembles a compiler in a strongly typed language." Happy now?

The point, which you have ignored, is that there are strongly typed languages where the features you're relying on are not present. In fact, this is true of a bunch of the compilers that are among the most widely used in the world--ones that people are using to build projects written in C and C++ and things like the language support baked into IDEs for Java, C#, etc. So the relevant factor is not "strong vs. weak?" but rather those features (structural matching, etc) that you are relying on.

And let's be real, the original comment ("I'd rather put my hand in boiling water than develop a compiler in a dynamic weak typed language"; now flagged) was no more than a drive-by insult.
How do you choose between a Christian denomination and being Hindu, for example, then?
Ultimately, the data for things like this boils down to anecdotes over a wide distribution.

Some people flourish with age; some don't. Each individual's situation arises from a confluence of factors, some within their control (lifestyle, attitude, attention to professional development) and some outside their control (industry changes, ageism, health).

To contribute an anecdote from my own experience: I once worked at a consultancy with a large number of recent grads and one engineer who must have been in his 60s. Through a combination of hard-won expertise and a soft-spoken humility and sense of humor, he had the quiet admiration of all the young people in the office, to the point of coworkers privately raving to me about how great he was to work with.
I'm 30 and it's already happened. The spoils of being tracked into low-paying, dead-end work.
I don’t there is nearly enough information on this page to justify running a random script on my server.
I was considering replacing my AP AC Lite with whatever 6E equivalent comes out when 6E is approved. I considered picking up a NanoHD for the extra MIMO speeds, but in the meantime I keep seeing problems with reliability, the 6.x Unifi version, UDM needing to be rebooted, etc.

Even if Ubiquiti was as good as it was pre-2019, if they pulled this advertising stunt then I'd not consider upgrading. There's now no chance I'll be sticking with Ubiquiti for my 6E upgrade.
The interesting thing is article seems more humane and worker-centric than the current philosophy of shareholder supremacy. At least they're giving lip service to improving workers rather than talking about shedding them at the first opportunity.

>...It is hoped that some at least of those who do not sympathize with each of these objects may be led to modify their views; that some employers, whose attitude toward their workmen has been that of trying to get the largest amount of work out of them for the smallest possible wages, may be led to see that a more liberal policy toward their men will pay them better; and that some of those workmen who begrudge a fair and even a large profit to their employers, and who feel that all of the fruits of their labor should belong to them, and that those for whom they work and the capital invested in the business are entitled to little or nothing, may be led to modify these views.

This is ironically coming from the point of view of Scientific Taylorism which many cite as the prime example of vicious selfish pro-executive greed. How strange. Have we taken a step backwards with global supply-chains, corporate citizen-hood, and the ever-increasing "gig-economy" where workers are transient and expendable?
The need for motivating belief structures, community, ethical guidance, and so on aren't going anywhere.

At the same time we see the rise in tribal hyperpartisanship where the political ideology functions much like a religion.
I just raise a PR with myself as the reviewer. It works most of the time but it can get pretty heated when I have arguments with myself over code styles and test coverage.
What a trashy article. A lot of elderly Americans, including in the upper middle class, never retire due to Medicare being inadequate. You can quite literally save millions for retirement as an individual, and have coverage for drugs and treatment under Medicare, and still run out of money due to having to pay extortionate prices for covered drugs.

This line in the article is quite revealing and strange, contextually: "Maybe not. Though the literature on this question is sparse, giftedness and achievements early in life do not appear to provide an /insurance policy/ against suffering later on. "

I personally have 2 rare neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system and I require an orphan drug, a blood product, that was covered under Medicare Part D when I lived in America. If I only had traditional Medicare in America, I would be liable for Medicare Part D Catastrophic Coverage Limits, and I would be forced to pay $50,000+/year total for all of my medical care under Medicare.

Technically, yes, I can get a Medicare Advantage plan, which has an out-of-pocket limit. The problem is that the vast majority of these plans are HMOs, and that does not go well with rare disease. Also, one of the rare diseases that I have is very rare, with case reports and cohorts at best in the medical literature. So, if I want to stay alive (like it is a choice?), I really cannot be on an HMO.

By the way, 7-8% of the general population collectively has some sort of a rare disease. There are about 8,000 or so rare diseases. So, it is not uncommon to have a rare disease.

Also, if you have cancer, or are likely to get cancer (elderly, perhaps?) having an HMO via a Medicare Advantage plan is not a good idea if you likewise want to stay alive.

The problem is that once you are on a Medicare Advantage plan, you basically cannot go back to traditional Medicare. This is because Medigap plans (Medicare Part B Supplemental plans) allow medical underwriting even after the Affordable Care Act went into effect, unless you live in 4 US states! So, you basically can never get a Medigap plan again after switching to a Medicare Advantage plan. It is, quite literally, a deadly, but not well known error that Americans make when they are on Medicare.

This is one of the top reasons why I left the US and never plan on living there ever again, even if I have to file and pay taxes as a US citizen. I naturalized and acquired another citizenship over the US healthcare system.
It's a few months after you have build the factory and debugged the production method. It's not a standard method for now that is easy to replicate in other biotech factories.
Given the hack job that is AEI, I think the author's professional decline arrived much, much sooner than even he thought.
> Related: The notion of "retirement" is a relatively recent invention.

Not really. The idea of old people who could no longer work effectively but still had many years of their life ahead of them is not a recent invention.

The notion of an old age pension -- whether paid by a company or a government -- that "everyone" got is relatively new. But that doesn't mean "retirement" is new. It was just paid for by individual families before. Go read literature and it is chock full of grandparents from the pre-modern era just hanging out at the multi-generational home not exactly doing a whole lot.

People who say retirement is a new phenomenon point to phrases like "In 1880 the majority of men older than sixty-four toiled in the labor force".

But this statement hides a truth: 25% of men over 65 didn't toil in the workforce, so clearly retirement had already been "invented". And, of course, there is the entire other half of humanity -- women -- who also weren't in the workforce. So the reality is that over 62% of people over the age of 65 didn't participate in the workforce in 1850.
It appears simple, but a whole lot of work went in to producing that string even pte-COVID. Some of it is generic in the sense that it might apply to any mRNA vaccine. Some is quite specific:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5584442/

There’s also (IIRC, no citation right now) prior work suggesting that coronavirus vaccines against the spike are likely to be effective and that vaccines against the N protein might be counterproductive.
After reading the article it seems to me he sees that very clearly; that's why he's trying to make those points to others.
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Not sure I am seeing the put down, what was negative about the comment?
Drought and the Maya Collapse
This was also my takeaway.
Detecting At-Risk Software Infrastructure
Well, now you have to pay for building the warehouse, and hope that the tech it's built around doesn't become outmoded before the upfront costs are made back + profit.
Will StarLink force them to change their tune?
> I think it just ruffled my feathers to see an offhand comment putting down some great work.

Adobe is a big place with many great products. No offense intended.

> You will be utterly surprised how many FAANG level salary companies use Java EE :)

I very much doubt the engineers working on Adobe Sign are making FAANG salaries. Maybe your team does. Adobe is a big place.
I’m certain that every delivery or truck driver has peed in bottles and that most do it regularly.

It’s a giant hassle to do otherwise and peeing in a bottle ain’t that bad.
Go on YouTube and search for "Waymo ride". There are a lot.
It's the other way around. Bitcoin is rising because it's being accepted by treasuries and institutions as an investment, and it is also following the price appreciation cycle from the last halving event. Everything in crypto is following bitcoin. NFTs were invented a long time ago, but they're popular now because of the bull cycle.
It's really sad. I used to recommend UniFi and their other hardware without a second's hesitation to all of my friends and the software and hardware quality control has just gone so far down hill. Now they're putting ads and privacy violating code in the admin user interface? What a complete disregard for user security and privacy in one of the most important places for it. Ugh. Add that to their GPL violations ( https://web.archive.org/web/20170317174847/http://libertybsd... ) and it's just too much for me going forward. I won't be installing or recommending Ubiquiti gear any more.
the quality and calibre of this comment is what brings me to HN everyday..
> I don't want to respond to any FUD about how governments, which have been able to pull this off for far cheaper in every other country "just can't do it" and how we need private industry

Ultimately, everything is an interface between government and private industry. Unless we have government directly employ the people laying fiber in the ground, it's private contractors all around actually implementing this. Even in muni-broadband (of which I am almost universally a fan) private contractors do a bulk of the work. The only distinction is where the definition and interface between government and contract falls.

You can obviously give someone $400 billion dollars with a nebulous goal like "deploy broadband" or give someone smaller incremental chunks of money with smaller incremental goals, but, if you're not properly defining the goals and not properly scaling the money to the true benefit and the true work required you're getting poor money for value.

Ultimately, I think it speaks to something fundamentally broken about the interface between government and private contractors in the USA.
What you're describing is somewhat like DNS Push Notifications (RFC 8765): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8765
Well said. How on earth is this article making it to the top of hacker news.
Still not taking it.
I would say that "individual brainstorming" (if it is a thing, as I am agnostic whether brainstorming works) is pretty much just understanding and sampling the solution space, i.e. set of all acceptable solutions. What helps in my experience is understanding various dimensions in this solution space, so you can sample across the combinations of them and see the tradeoffs.
I don't quite think the criticism amazon is receiving for their PR response is really valid. The initial criticism may very well be, but what are they supposed to do? I think people and more so politicians are used to companies sulking and apologizing for any criticism they receive because they really really want your money, and so people are used to just throwing criticism and accusations around, and this is really just people getting upset that they're not taking it lying down. I think people and companies need to start unapologetically defending themselves when they feel the attacks are unwarranted rather than rolling over every time someone with political power raises it like a club. I might not agree with amazon and I might agree with the initial criticism they're responding to, and I'm no amazon fanboy, but their response is something I'd like to see more of, we would have a healthier political process and public discourse if more people and organizations defended themselves publicly more often.
which is why we should actually link to the FTC release, and not blog-spam. [0]

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/03/mobil...
And reverse engineering only sounds dramatic until you take a step back and acknowledge that it's what they literally do all the time. Only that usually the sequences they read are not the outcome of some human development effort but of naturally occurring evolutionary processes.
Meh, they probably just used lipofectamine (which has been around since the 90s) or something very similar.

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

https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/brands/product-brand...
Haha, are you kidding me? Using firefox try cilcking pause button in bottom left on youtube, then hitting space to play it (event is handled twice, video will only play fraction of second). It's been like that for .. 5 years +? With google photos / gmail / hangouts it's like Google is trying to actively discourage you from using anything other than Chrome by giving you just enough bugs to make you really annoyed but avoid being labeled as completely broken.

They should have it all working flawlessly at their scale, given amount of data they can collect and amount of communication they are providing about the issues.

I'm stopping before going further because I don't want to do the standard google keyword present let's do some bitching, but I wish Google put could 1/5 of the effort they are putting into making their core infrastructure rock solid on user experience in their products. Despite providing ff as an example it's not like having no issues when you run everything Google.
My nanoHD reboots frequently with current firmware. Sometimes it needs readoption, sometimes a manual reset to be readopted. The AP AC Pro seems less affected.
Does the author struggle with any substance use or abuse? My mental acuity is sharper at 38 than it has ever been. But I gave up all alcohol and substance use a year ago.
Ask HN: Is public praise a worthwhile quest?
Managers are frequently asking how we like to be shown appreciation. My general sense is that from a corporation which lacks emotion or psychology of any kind, the only real expression of appreciation is in payment. As such, the public praise thing has always seemed to me to be a diversion to distract from the fact that you’re not really getting a raise. Maybe I am wrong though — is there any actual value in public praise over, say private praise?
What are returns?
Rather disappointingly, neither sequence includes the string 'GATTACA'
> low-efficiency vehicles

Tangent: Are these actually low efficiency? Sure, 10 mpg (this is a more typical average, BTW, not 8 mpg) is terrible gas mileage ... for an average car. But a portable house that can drive down the interstate isn't just a car. Per pound, it doesn't seem that bad.
customer impact*
Sure, but I might argue that you'll spend _even less time_, in aggregate, with more productivity if you understand the tool better. This is particularly useful when, for example, you're good at saving your peers time by properly rebasing and/or cherry-picking your commits.
The license is Affero GPLv3. Does this mean anyone who self-hosts an app using this needs to make their source code available?
I'd say if Amazon adopts this kind of robot for their warehouses they won't worry about investing a bit more into reliable packaging. It's still going to be cheaper than paying a monthly salary.
Also, who else noticed the poster is @fortran77? Oh, the irony.

(I cut my teeth with Fortran 77 on a VAX 11/780).
Web Typesetting: Don't Justify (Or at Least Hyphenate)
I'll be the cynical one this time and say that I'd rather carefully calculated PR stunts didnt have an affect of making corporations seem more fun and human. Sociopaths wear all kinds of convincing masks
I read this book in high school and it seriously changed my views on life in a lot of different ways, as well as opened my mind to a lot of new ideas and ways of thinking I had never considered before. This review brought some good memories of that book back. I should go dig that out of storage and give it another read.
I second what DC1350 said. I didn't get enough opportunities to face criticism, have my code reviewed, or to get steered in the right direction, and that led to the same exact situation where I would piss away weekdays and scramble to put something together before my weekly 1:1.

Of course, if I were a better intern, I would have taken care of a lot of those things myself, but I think it's better practice as a mentor to start with the metaphorical bowling bumpers up and then relax the oversight as the intern proves themselves capable over the 3 months.

Doing it again this summer, I plan to ask for at least 3x weekly 1:1s (e.g. MWF) and to make sure I have code reviewed in the first week or two of the internship. More interaction with other interns would also help, especially technical interaction and not just high-level discussions of our projects. I also think it would be cool to do some sort of pair programming / spectating where I watch the mentor work through a problem to get a sense of what the professional workflow actually looks like.
Thanks for that input. My AP AC Lite has been absolutely rock solid so I wouldn't want reduced reliability; it's the reason I went with Unifi in the first place. Not that it matters; no chance I'll be going with Unifi in the future.
It is not conflating. It is essentially giving advice for how to live, which is that meaning and identity and focus should not be on something material since those can and likely will be lost. Wallace even mentioned the Four Noble Truths as an option, which is not even part of a theistic worldview in many interpretations.

This is the same advice that most who study mental health would give.
The clerks at the warehouse I worked at spent 30 min-1 hour every day hand-collating order manifests because whatever system that spit them out (from some contractor or corporate?) did so as PDFs that couldn't be easily modified. Literally building packets that were similarly structured, every night, by hand.

I did what I could with Excel macros to automate as much as I could, but I'm not a trained coder and I definitely didn't have security access to implement the tools that could have saved us huge headaches. I wondered quite a bit who the hell up top got paid to set up this process.
>One of the most productive engineers I knew (who I’m guessing will read this) was in his 60s when I met him.

When I visited a hospital recently, the healthiest-looking person in the 106 years old. I know it because the nurse was super excited talking to her and asking if there is any special secret to staying healthy that long. Statistically, though, the health does degrade with age.

Outliers and anecdata are good for storytelling and inspiration, but the type of data you want to use for decision making is relative probabilities on a statistically significant set.
I wasn't aware there was a recognized problem with HMOs? Some of the best care I've experienced in America is at Kaiser.
And when compared to air travel and hotel stays (which come with large water and heat costs associated with daily laundry) it's actually less of a carbon footprint.
Probably an overreaction on my part, but the comment made it seem like Adobe was a boring existence and not much happens.
I use 15 minutes work with 3 minute breaks. As a tool against procrastination, pomodoro is far more effective that it has any right to be. With short timers you're always only a few minutes away from a break so it's easier to push through feelings of distraction.

I try to stand up and walk around in the breaks to counteract sitting all day.
According to this paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the average loss of value per day of delay from the cargo on these ships is between 0.6 and 2.2 percent [1]. According to other research I've seen, somewhere between 12% and 30% of daily global sea trade (the 30% figure may be out large cargo freighters specifically, not sure) goes through the Suez Canal. Anyone want to do the math?

1) https://www.nber.org/digest/jun12/time-trade-barrier
27-year-old nurse vaccinated with AstraZeneca dies in Georgia
You write like illicit drugs is the only product made in Colombia. What about coffee, flowers, chocolate, bananas, palm oil, unrefined oil, and carbon? I feel personally offended.

However, just for clarification, BTC has been in the news very often during the last year. And many people are investing heavily in BTC since then. People who would otherwise never hear of BTC before.
Woodwork
For an interesting take on this, see the book Ambition, by Gilbert Brim.

It’s been posted to HN before, and led to interesting discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10967206
How the Loss of Soil Is Sacrificing America’s Natural Heritage