skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You may agree with some of my positions and disagree with others, but in a free society they cannot be considered beyond the pale.
I think this is a bad take. In a free society people can consider whatever they want in order to judge a person.

I do see the irony in watching those who traditionally used the mob to force conformity of minorities now experiencing it themselves. Saying things like "the threat woke ideology poses to our culture, our institutions and to our freedoms." As if this is some new phenomena that's only now being discovered, and hasn't been leveraged against different groups since the dawn is society.

This is what it looks like when a traditionally dominant social group becomes somewhat relegated.
Why not use a community that is already active and supports the feature: https://discord.gg/MzhGqQC
It was not specific to you.

Messenger is a bit more popular than WhatsApp in the U.S. compared to rest of the world where WhatsApp is sometimes defacto replacement for SMS (phone number vs Facebook account I guess).

I have seen WhatsApp or telegram logos on billboards or printed media as support channels but never really messenger anywhere. I have not seen WhatsApp in the U.S. commonly as a support channel yet .

Since you mentioned messenger I qualified U.S. out as perhaps a different market
Could be that.

On the other hand some (legitimate) support call centers are located in Eastern Europe so it's possible to find enough German speakers there (although not native ones).
The issue with Kitty is that its graphics protocol is not widespread yet, so some of the CLI/terminal programs OP uses that can do graphics output may only support sixel. But yea, personally looking forward to Foot terminal implementing one of the fancier graphics protocols, even if it feels more like a toy at the moment (until they are used more). But seriously running the notcurses[0] graphics test with a terminal supporting the kitty graphics protocol is sex, just like the program itself says.

[0] https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses
In other countries we don't tend to hit the jackpot when suing companies.

At least in EU, we try to have laws to prevent things. In US there are less such laws, but you are able to sue for huge amounts of money. Kind of like "ask permission" vs "ask forgiveness".

At least that is how I see it, so correct me if I'm totally off here.
I haven't actually looked at in depth for a few OS releases (I was excited to make a voice CLI I could use with my watch, since I commuted by bike).

I think they may have made some prgress since then, but I don't think the Speech.framework you linked to provides what we are talking about when we say a "CLI for voice". I think that API is only useful when you've already opened the app and it is able to record live audio (or process previously recorded audio).

So you can't just be like, running from the feds and shout to your watch or phone, "Hey Siri, destroy evidence, password 'Rosebud'!" and have your arson app torch your meth lab.
Here's a concrete example. There was a guy that had a PhD and worked for big pharma as a researcher all his life. The company he was working for downsized and he was left unemployed at 54. He looked for another position somewhere else, but he could not find a position at his pervious level of seniority: he had fallen off the career ladder. He was thus stuck in a strange limbo: he was capable of doing things below his level of experience, but companies were looking for someone at the right level of the progression system to fit the slot.

The worst thing about this case is that his wife had multiple sclerosis, and so his health insurance was of the utmost importance to him. This caused him incredible stress as he continued to look for work to no avail.

The problem with the modern workplace is specialization. Some people are extraordinarily specialized. The man I spoke of was highly talented, but also highly specialized. It's hard for someone to adapt at 54 to another specialization. I actually helped him pick up python, and he learned quickly, but it was clear that the man was not in his spry years. Any college kid could beat him in productivity in some code monkey role -- which is what he eventually started trying to hunt for.

I could also tell you about a guy that had a masters degree in chemical engineering working at Best Buy alongside me when I was in college. I've met so many people in my life that have not been privy to the dynamically lateral career system you seem to be aware of.

I know from direct experience that some people do indeed fall off the ladder. To me it isn't a concept: it's the reality I've observed.
I wonder how big is the market for such „airtable clones“?
There certainly can be if you want to develop and maintain it.
That's how the scientific Nobel prizes work. The average delay between discovery and award for recent Physics prizes is over 25 years, and gaps of 40+ years are not uncommon.
That's actually my exact argument against capitalism.
I said nothing about what is fair, or what should be.
I'm describing what is. Programmers jump jobs every 2-4 years (myself included) because it's the best way to reliably get good pay increases, and because staying more than 10 years at one company often makes it harder to get hired at the next place.

You can blame me for recognizing that all you want, but it's a pretty well-known truth of our industry. I want it to always be easy to find lucrative, interesting work, and I'm willing to play the game to keep it that way for myself. I'm not sure what about that you object to so strongly.
It really depends on what those experiences were at the same employer. I'm not the OP and not in the same boat. But I've been at the same employer for more than 30 years.
That might work until the ML-based content scanners find something[0] they don't like and close all the accounts.

[0] those things are undocumented, and the scanners have high rates of false positives
excited to see how big the slap on the wrist is this time, maybe 0.15% of their annual revenue?
I would note that there is a vast spectrum between unregulated between an unregulated free market and a totalitarian state. Regulation to correct for market failures or price in externalities is largely compatible with market economies and screaming dictatorship every time someone suggests this kind of thing is not helpful.
"The idea is to break up Facebook because they've been buying competitors instead of trying to compete."

That seems like your own interpretation of the tweet. The author says in a later tweet that they think Whatsapp should be treated as a utility. That seems to suggest they do want Whatsapp to be handed to the government.
SOAP server (in PHP 4) to send fax messages using Hylafax.
will probably lose some data but easy enough to test with this thing
Still, despite ambitions and knowledge you are less employable in the eye of HR/Recruiters. They seek very specific set of current tech stack and very recent experience posessed, as well as familiarity of specific management styles just yesterday, for specific tasks. For cheap! On the bulk. Ability to push them around and lower tolerance to eat any bull*t fed to them by (potentially incompetent or clueless) management is also highly valued.

Ideally more senior emloyees worked in multitude of situations and team structure and project is better for productivity, they also have more even performance in long term, but hiring practice seems to be unideal.

Perhaps they have a shorter attention span in mind, promoting replaceablity over long term stability and predictability?
>It doesn't matter how many conditions the government imposes if no one is held accountable for actually achieving them.

Is that what's happening though? Are there a bunch of strings attached but the FCC isn't bothering enforcing them? If so, can you substantiate this? At least from the batch of links from the parent post, the only requirement seems to be "needs to be spent on building infrastructure", not that we get gigabit fiber or whatever.
>In college, many of us learn the ethics around experimentation, including the ugly history of experiments performed in secret without ethics boards and without concern for the subjects.

You have more faith than I do that this lesson is actually absorbed. And it's leaving aside the fact that the kind of elitist detachment from the masses that underpins your framing is going to be correlated with getting education, not lacking it.

Though again, I don't think any of these effects would be strong enough to be worth mentioning.
A quick note on airships (2020)
Being 40 shouldn't be an issue, however there are a few things to keep asking yourself to stay relevant on the way:

-- What is your goal?

If you don't know where you're going, the chances are your career trajectory could be plateauing, or even going backwards.

-- Are you progressing?

Pick a metric aligned with your goal and then measure yourself against it (e.g what you can measure, you can manage). Whether its specializing technically or moving vertically into management, its really important to keep moving in that direction, and to ensure that you are "compounding" your skills and successes along the way.

-- Are your skills transferable?

At all costs, ensure your skills are transferable. This will give you endless options and freedom to take breaks and move companies at will. NEVER allow yourself be the highly paid person on an obsolete project/system, not even for a year.
I think there is at least some truth to this. I am a notoriously multi-interest-having person. I want to know a lot, and deeply so, about a lot of things. That might be sufficient to say I qualify as having trait curiosity. Regardless, what it definitely does do is get me side tracked onto many other interesting tangents. This can be beneficial or detrimental depending on the situation. It can lead me to solve a bunch of crazy problems, and also to neglect some real, pressing issues for too long.
> The speech recognition is performed in the cloud, not locally, so under the current architecture they do indeed need to upload the audio capture following the wakeword.

I bet it wouldn't have to be if its vocabulary were restricted to timer related words.
I'm in the latter half of my 30s and I too feel old. Especially, when I talk about being in tech in the last 2000s. I sound like an old gray beard.
Right now I just have Dropbox, but soon I plan to get a NAS and just have it sync to Dropbox. That way I get the convience of Dropbox while also still having a backup if Dropbox fails.
This willingness to ignore the experience of older computerists is a symptom of the wider problem that Alan Kay has referred to when he says that computing is a "pop culture" -- one that ignores much of the historic work gone before it, and only gives value to that in recent / living memory.

On the other hand, few (younger) people have got the sensibility/ability to befriend an older person in the workplace and learn from their experience. I have, and it's been valuable in getting the perspective.

If you're lucky, you too will get old in life, and be subject to the ills that you now see around you perpetrated on older people.
The vast bulk of the accounting industry (including tax software) is not supported by consumers with very basic taxes taking their paperwork down to the mall or typing some numbers into this year's TurboTax.
> This is a sad state of affairs where one can't even have a meta discussion about a topic without having to tip toe around ill-defined lines.

He directly equates DEI efforts to Nazi Germany:

> Ninety years ago Germany had the best universities in the world. Then an ideological regime obsessed with race came to power and drove many of the best scholars out, gutting the faculties and leading to sustained decay that German universities never fully recovered from.

That is not a “meta discussion” — it’s dishonest and disrespectful the Jewish people to conflate actual genocide with facing mild criticism from your peers.

There remains no barrier of any sort to someone who is honestly trying to “seek science” — the problems are being experienced by people who are starting with an ideological position and attempting to science-wash it rather than see where actual science takes them.
Maintenance windows are okay.

You and your customer can save a lot of money by doing so, which is important especially when the customer does not post billions in profit every year or swims in VC money.

Maintenance windows are out of working hours most of the time, so it's not hard to not impact business.
Surely this is up to the company? They make a decision as to whether to pay somebody to work after-hours versus the business they lose by not doing so.

I specifically took a job that didn't require after-hours work (I have a family which I prioritise) and we did upgrades in working hours. Once in a blue moon a site would be down for a minute or two, but the trade-off was obviously worth it for my public sector employer which generally struggled with recruiting engineers.
There were American SN7400s in 1974 of course, but they were expensive compared to single transistors. I also remember the Finnish Parliament voting machine, made with transistors and relays around 1968. It was huge incomprehensible mess on hand-wired breadboards. It was easier to make totally new one with microprocessors and printed circuits.
Does it bother anyone else that the paper has a single author and yet throughout they refer to themselves as “we”?
My understanding is that forbidding priests to marry stems from a desire to maintain the wealth of the church (if you have no children, church property can’t be inherited) so this seems like greed begetting even more bad things.

https://latinamericanpost.com/23291-celibacy-and-greediness-...

If only there was a bible quote that pertains to this…

“For the love of money is the root of all of evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
The IRS already gets this information. They'll get even more with the changes to 1099-k reporting for transactions made next year.
Cryptocurrencies, DeFi, & NFTs – How Everything Comes Together in the New World
...while we're at it, if we are taxing senders why not also finally put a cost on metadata and user data e.g. by a fee that gets sent to a copyright collective... "little" basic income there we go ;)
TLDR: I'm a 40-year-old developer. It took me a little longer to find a job at 40 than 30 because I demand a higher salary, and most companies prefer cheap over experienced. There are a lot of mediocre developers who I suspect "age out" of tech because they can't grow into industry expectations of a highly-experienced software developer.

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I searched for a developer job just before I turned 30, stayed with it for 10 years, and then searched for another when I turned 40.

My experience of ageism is that most companies hiring just don't have the budget to hire an experienced software developer. They'd rather hire a few more cheap (and inexperienced) developers than hire a few highly experienced, and expensive, software developers.

To me, this translated in a longer job search. Not unreasonably longer, as it took me about a month to find a job when I was almost 30, and three months right before I turned 40. (Worth noting, when I was 30 I lived in Silicon Valley, and it's much easier to find a developer job there compared to where I live now.)

But, I do want to point out something that most articles of ageism don't point out: Expectations of a 40+ year old developer are quite different compared to a 20-30 year old developer. The kind of handholding that a junior developer has, and mentorship that a junior developer has, is gone. It's also much harder to change stacks than when I was a junior developer, because no one wants to pay me big bucks to learn like a novice. Thus, it's hard to change stacks. (Not impossible, but I really like the job I have now.)

Another thing to point out: There are a lot of mediocre developers who get very comfortable with handholding in the early part of their career. I suspect these are the developers who really struggle in their 40s, because they can't meet the expectations of a senior developer.
Can you please elaborate on where you gained all this knowledge? And how someone could learn similar analysis. Fantastic content.
Coursera also has a number of courses provided by companies, even by Google (https://www.coursera.org/google-career-certificates).

You're right that Coursera has content from universities, on the other hand Udemy has individual instructors (and anyone can become an instructor). Also Coursera has a lot of free content - not sure if 100%, but a large number of courses offers the content for free, you only need to pay if you want to do assignments and get a certificate.

Oh, and Coursera does not have 90% off promos every other week, unlike Udemy
Oh, sure, it's definitely not a good idea to change what the unqualified python binary refers to. But I interpreted "refusing to ship an up-to-date global python interpreter with macOS" as meaning that Python3 isn't shipped at all, with the binary name "python3").

Is that the case? If so, I still don't understand the reasoning.
A reasonable buying point would -30%. Then sell when it rebounds +20% from that point. Then do that a few more times until softbank gets involved.
You're conflating recognizing reality with defending a given hiring practice. I've responded to other comments with more detail.
Your personal experience is not statistically relevant data. It is a major problem here in the US, not just fraudulent transactions, but people signing up for credit cards in your name since the equifax data leak, people creating fake ids to be used to reset your accounts in person, constant phone calls attempting to scam people, and even letters in the mail withhuge print saying “last notice - important - pay now” with very small print saying “this is an offer not an invoice” or like that tricks the elderly and those not careful. All of these and more cause massive amounts of fraud in the US.
When we discuss these types of candidates, that is always the tone of the discussion.

It's good to discuss the pluses and minuses of an approach, we encourage this in our architecture section of the interview loop and during the initial screen when discussing line items in the resumes.

It's having a general negative attitude... bad mouthing past employers, being negative to a tech stack (and literally not couching it with any reasoning what-soever when we try to dig in), being negative to past arch decisions by co-workers without providing what are better solutions, things like that. Sometimes it's implied, sometimes it's more direct, but it there is a distinct lack of social intelligence that seems to happen more w/ older candidates that just suggests someone is burnt out. Wisdom should bring skill, not attitude.

Forest from the trees here. You pay someone to bring value to the team. That is not valuable to anyone. We're not running charities.
DHS and NIST release post-quantum cryptography guidance
I've met plenty of older developers that refused to adapt and keep learning. On the other hand, the best developers I've known have all been older. It's not about the skills you acquired at age X. It's about you attitude towards continual learning and improving, regardless of your age.
The answer is obvious. They want people to pay the higher amount, and this gives them a way to pacify anyone who complains.
Knowing is half the battle- get up and walk around, you have at least 30 years to figure it out
Remembering Steve Jobs
Man this takes me back. I got my start into being interested in programming, tech with Phrack in the late 80s while in middle school.
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This is seriously cool, and I would use it frequently... if only there was a rust compiler in my computer.

Since it is a somewhat "thin" wrapper around curl, are there deep reasons for it to be written in Rust as opposed to, say, C or posix shell? Was learning Rust one of the main goals of this project? (not that there would be anything wrong with that, just asking).
tl;dr the algorithm (the array is 1-based):

for i = 1 to n do
for j = 1 to n do
if A[i] < A[j] then
swap A[i] and A[j]
I've literally never paid a full price for a Udemy course. I'd only do it if I was in rush to start some course quickly, but otherwise I just wait, usually less than 2 weeks, and I can pay 70-90% less
James Fisher's article titled 'I hate telephones' resonates so strongly with me on this topic: https://jameshfisher.com/2017/11/08/i-hate-telephones/

(see also the associated HN comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15677560)

You are 100% right- they are human interrupts that we're all subjected to just by virtue of forcing to interact with people and companies who refuse to use an asynchronous medium of communication. Horrifying
>the links are relevant.

They're only relevant insofar as "ISPs bad", not to the original question of what conditions are attached to the funding.

>the isps took billions and didn't expand municipal wifi when promised nor did they lower costs for calls.

1. sources for these "promises"?

2. what type of promises where these? contractual obligations, or optimistic statements on press releases?
I don't think that's as relevant as the current demand for VCs to unload their investments as fast as possible before the next major economic catastrophe.

It boggles my mind that we're set to nearly double the record number of IPOs this year, and last year was the highest number since 1999, yet in general no one finds this at all interesting or alarming.
I'm actually curious about the name.

OP says "an Hurl request" above. So it's pronounced with a silent "H"? Like "An hour of time?"
> so proudly and often

Not proudly, but often. Be nice. I thought we were supposed to be nicer to each other here, than in other Internet venues, but I'm often wrong.

> You didn't build your CV to be attractive to new employers at all

I see things differently. Don't forget that I was a hiring manager for most of that time. My CV reflects what I would have considered to be a "dream employee" for most of that time. It is not one that current companies find attractive, and that's actually (IMNSHO) a real problem, in today's industry. In most other industries, it would have been a "We need to get this guy on board right now" kind of thing. In tech, it's "He spent all that time at one company? He must be terrible, and insecure."

I am quite aware that having spent 27 years at one company is actually considered a bad thing. I really do see how the industry works. I won't change my expectations to meet the new reality.

If no one wants me, then I'll do my own thing. I'm very grateful to have that option, and my heart goes out to the folks that don't have that option.
I don't think this is due to a perception of older developers not being as good as younger developers. I think most people would agree that a more experienced dev would have better skills and be more efficient.

I believe it all comes down to pay. The experienced developer commands a higher salary than a 20 year old, rightfully so. But employers fail to see the added value they bring, just as they have trouble identifying the 10x programmers out there.
If they have such a rigorous release process, what could have caused all of the dns records to get wiped?