skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can defend my position—which is and always has been from the beginning of this (annoying) argument that anyone who says that GNU yes's implementation is bad—or that "10GiB/s" is pointless feature for something like /usr/bin/yes—needs to be able to defend the decision to scrutinize "something like /usr/bin/yes" in the first place. For whatever dumb reason, you think it's a good idea to argue about this, even while apparently believing yourself that the way GNU yes is implemented is a good thing. This makes no sense.

(Are you under the impression that "X is at least as bad as Y" is the same thing as saying "Y is bad"—and that that means I need to defend the position that Y is bad? It doesn't. Maybe learn to read English better, especially before leaping so confidently into trying to argue with someone over what you're reading. Another bonus tip: not only is it important to read in complete sentences, but it's important to write in complete sentences, too, and to make sure that the sentences follow logically one after the other.)
I'm the sysadmin looking at a number, and I don't identify people individually unless I have a witness and a direct order to do so based on the policy manual. I take that very seriously. I will not break people's trust. I was asked about how it was affecting us.
I was the only English-speaking TA (&, thus backup lecturer) to "Intro to C 101" at a major mass-population state university. Class sizes were ~800 students. I had an open-doors/open-lab/open-office policy. By the 4th semester, I remember laying on the floor in front of the class, and yet another bro (blond hair; blue eyes; chiseled jawline; backwards cap) came up to ask me a, frankly, very well thought out question — and I just said "I know I've taught this to you, already". I had; I'd taught it to him & all his bros for years.

What's the quote? "Every year I get older, but the junior devs stay the same age."

That's when I knew I couldn't teach undergrads.
> “unlinking and replacing” is essential. “Overwriting” (keeping the inode number the same) can be problematic.

Yes, that is why /usr/bin/install exists.
It would be nice if high performance plastic composites like this were an option for mobile devices like iPads. L
Tech is having a negative impact on the elites, which is good. In the past they could basically get away with saying whatever they wanted unless another elite wanted you to hear otherwise. Now when $politician posts something on Twitter there is a regular person calling them out on their bullshit right underneath within seconds. They are working hard to re-cork this bottle with censorship and such, but I don't think that will happen in most places.
iOS, though it’s a long way from actually playing the game.
I always turn off this feature in both Android / iDevices because it can act like a keylogger - the Terms of Services for this allow both Google and Apple to "collect data to improve their services".
I love this sort of thing. Something I appreciate is looking through the resulting YAML config at the best practices and rich experience by the team that wrote it.

It reminds me of receiving "golden images" from vendors with a precisely best-practice install and configuration of their software.
What I'm sure about is that competence is a timeless asset. If you have mastery in the computing universal concepts the tech stack is a detail.
Even here on HN we see plenty of articles that are "Like X, but written in Go!", which seems to have been replaced with "Like X, but written in Rust!".
> The only way that age becomes a detriment is if you do not grow.

There has been research about this as well under the term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity. Might be interesting to look at.

My understanding is that you are exactly right. It seems to be common that we tend to stop learning and pushing ourselves, get comfortable or maybe even afraid. To each his own, but I think it is more fun and fruitful to keep at it.

Thank you for sharing your experience.
For that amount, it seems like it would be worth trying to sue Google. It may be next to impossible now if they no longer display that phone number though.
That doesn't sound like a feature I'd want to pay fees towards enabling but I'm likely missing something - what kind of up-to-$1000 purchases are you making where you might not even like the item?
Since this is just a PR announcement by a third-party posted on an official PostgreSQL page: what is the difference between this and established PostgreSQL operators by Zalando and CrunchyData?
Please enlighten me on what that term means.
Because All the telemetry/cortana does is disguise itself as a useful feature , while collecting user data and siphoning it off to its central servers.
Parent is clearly clueless on this topic (and history of Nixon vs hippies/mexicans) or trolling, but a minor distinction - weed is definitely addictive, but comparatively mildly. Probably the second mildest from all those prohibited subtances, first being shrooms/acid which actually works less the more often you use it to the point of not feeling anything if you would dose daily (or so the reports said when I was reading on it, never tested it).

Tobacco or alcohol create absolutely devastating addiction in comparison, that most people struggle to shed during their remaining lives (and more often than not fail with corresponding consequences).
Okay? Why are you commenting here then?
>but why cover up the crimes and let them continue to be priests?

Because very few men are willing to spend ~8 years in higher education to make ~$30,000 a year for a job where you're on duty 24/7 with a private personal life forbidden to you. Many of the people willing to do that job are going to be flawed somehow, and firing any one of them causes the Church lose out on the huge amount of money they spent on training.

There's a lot of things wrong with the Catholic Church, but their actions can be explained without a need for some child abuse ring running the whole organization.
> Ultimately, the fossil fuel industry is to blame.

True. From an amoral perspective it raises the question, why did the fossil industry win?

Usually, the given answer for an upstart industry failing is "they're small and idealistic, thinking that the best idea rather than the best lobbyists determine success". But that's clearly not true here.
This is lovely.
The author recommended XTerm as one of the best, so I would like to suggest trying Kitty for size for graphics.
I suspect it is one of those cases where accurate numbers are literally impossible to create. Many people will want to erase this from their memories and won't say a word. Some may have genuinely done that and have no recollection of being a victim. Then I'm sure you'll also find people making accusations up.

Also if the bar to clear is 'evidence' of abuse, then this is yet another distortion of the estimate. Most abuse will surely smoulder without a shred of evidence, other than possibly the victim's testimony years later.

My conclusion as a Catholic is that the Church's hierarchy is just desperately flawed, at best a mix of non-negligible proportion of monsters and of conformists unwilling to tackle the evil, despite full awareness of it. At worst, well... Arguing about numbers when it's clear the Church has been harbouring sexual predators in huge numbers for decades is inappropriate, as far as I'm concerned.
Of course, taking the date of the CS degree is now a signal you're "old".
Oh, I guess that’s true! But only if the user isn’t on wifi, and only if they don’t have an unlimited (or semi-unlimited) data plan.
I feel that wisdom is a very overlooked trait. Especially in the younger generations it is associated with being "boring", which is a shame. I think not that many people care about being smart, and even less care about being wise.

I am 27 and I often think about how to develop more wisdom for life, but it's difficult to find some good resources for it. A collection of wise quotes doesn't go really far in my opinion. The best thing I have found is just lots of introspection and reading books which have stood the test of time. But I wish there was a more straightforward way.
I use HA as well. But there are integrations that just wrap/connect a vendor API, which is a no-go for me.

Maintenance window is the morning during coffee, before my wife wakes up :D
again, estimated by whom, and how?
The point isn’t that techies over 40 can’t do good work or keep current or invent the future, it’s that they can’t get a job.

As someone a few years north of 40 and recently went looking for a new job, I can identify with much of the article. Although for me, in the market I’m in, I kinda felt the pay for a ‘senior dev’ didn’t really cut it either. The whole pay structure is for younger folks and veterans have a hard job finding work.
Automatic change log generation is great, it's always a pain to do this. Hopefully the actions API makes it easy to output notes with better organization, like grouping conventional commits.

One more thing I'd love is a timeline entry/comment on relevant issues/pull requests to say that it was included in a specific release. I know we can do this via actions, but there's so many maintainers and consumers of smaller open source repos that would benefit.
Phrack Issue 70
You can say so only if you believe that reality is constructed, like some French postmodernist philosophers do.

If you think there is some ground truth in hard sciences, and science community provides best approximation of it, then "other side too" argument is not valid. Al Gore educated, only climate dentists politicized.
But you can filter. I do that all the time.

My filter list consist basically of football and religious proselytism, two topics I never want to read about.

During the last world cup, or last euro cup or some event like that I had to filter about 10 groups, and the thing is, it works. I never get any football content in my feed any more.
Musk Says US Electricity Production Needs to Double to Transition to EV Vehicles
Just use the industry standard car analogy instead :-)
The Jewish people of Germany had nothing to hide, until the government passed some new laws.
Is there an explanation as to why can we do this?

i.e. Why can NAND and NOR be used to form all other gates? And why not AND, say?
>> Punishments that are disproportionate to the offense

This is a civil matter, not criminal. The punishment is proportional to both the crime and the size of the defendant. A bug company will always require a greater level of punishment in order to induce change.
Meteorology is a sub-branch of physics.
Do EM's own systems? Or do they own the teams that own the systems? It's a pretty vague role. We had an EM for about a year, but when he left we didn't replace him. Nothing much changed.
well, better hope the ministry of education is not also berated by those guys

https://www.propublica.org/article/mckinsey-never-told-the-f...
> But when people say things like "capitalism has no need for X", what they are bemoaning is that the bulk of the market is choosing different tradeoffs.

What I am bemoaning is planned obsolescence, under capitalism there is hardly any incentive to make things more durable unless absolutely necessary. Superfest glasses may or may not be an example of planned obsolescence winning over durability as I do not know the costs to produce them and it seems there are some downsides like breaking rather violently once their time has finally come.
It's fairly common to inject ground up tablets afaik. It's not that strange when considering the very variable quality of other commonly injected drugs. I never heard of injecting something like tea though, but it's not super surprising. Some people just don't care about anything.
>> Phrack! We're back! It was only five years ago that issue 0x45 was released.
You are not old, you are just burning out. Pace yourself and pick your battles.

It has nothing to do with age. Child prodigies can burn out at 20 because they are suffocated with work.
Summary Pr. John Wettlaufer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezsbf42_RTA&ab_channel=Nobel...
That is, unfortunately, not the way society as a whole sees it. It is fairly common for stores to be attacked as racist when they lock down products that are targeted at a specific minority segment; even when they have clear data indicating those products are stolen more than others. The intent and reason for actions is no longer the deciding factor in whether or not something is racist/biased; the effect is what's focused on.

As a side note, I am of the opinion that, if the effect causes real problems for the target segment, then focusing on it is reasonable. For example, if loans are harder to get for a minority because they are more likely to default, then (regardless of the intent/reason for making the loans harder) it makes sense to consider this bad and look for a solution. If it's something like a hair care product that is behind lock and key because it's stolen more often, then calling the store racist is a little over the top. I guess, in the end, it's a matter of balancing the interests of society against that of the store (or other party). There's a large gray area there.
#30DayMapChallenge
It does not make sense to push EV to stem climate change, if that entails doubling electricity production. Not all of that electricity will come from renewables.
>At 40, I've done some of the best work I've ever done [...] Its because at 40, I had a much deeper understanding of the tech,

The blog post isn't about self-reported cognitive ability getting stronger (or not declining). It's about the job marketplace.

Maybe it's instructive to compare/contrast different professional careers that depend on mental abilities and how age affects marketability:

- computer programming : oft-reported industry bias against age 40+ and active recruitment (especially by software companies) for 20-somethings.

- corporate executive manager (e.g. CEO, COO, CFO, etc) : age 40+ is typically the target hire age. Being a younger 20-something actually works against being hired for these roles. (To be CEO at age 20, you'd have to be the founder of a startup.)

- surgeon : age 40+ doesn't seem to bother patients. They may rather have a 55-year old do their heart bypass rather than a young 30-year old just out of residency.

Why is experience valued for outside hires of CEOs but not as much for programmers?
In other words, a 55-year old programmer would have 35 more years of experience than a 20-year old but that "extra 35 years of programming" doesn't seem to be valued as much as the "extra 35 years of managing" that a 55-year CEO candidate has. Why?

I have pet theories on that but I'd rather hear what others think.
Facebook misled investors about its reach, whistleblower tells SEC
Is there a way to statically type check a Julia program? It would be really nice if the compiler threw an error on obviously wrong code.
>only strong skills are a large enterprise storage system

Are you describing uploading data to and S3 bucket? Or maintaining tape decks? Depending on how to interpret this, this could be an advanced skill.

For context, I'm learning about how to build a Data Lake that supports a Feature Store for an ML platform. Feature Stores are relatively recent (4ish years?) and only make sense in Enterprises
I’m basically one of those people. I appreciate the post because it’s good to at least acknowledge this.
Sixel is a terrible encoding. Most of the newer terminals have escape sequences for sending base64 encoded png/gif/jpg--for higher quality output & lower bandwidth.
> By healthy I would mean physically non addictive and without any negative long term effects.

But how would something like work? It's the substance's ability to cause euphoria that makes it addictive. You cannot have one without the other. Addiction occurs when one loses the ability to regulate their dopamine-driven activity, causing something akin to an infinite loop. Adderall is basically legal meth, and it's easily the most abused medication in the US.
The trick to teaching the same thing over and over, is to use each time as a way to master and refine your understanding of the topic.
> For a protocol that was produced on two napkins in 1989 [...]

I'm not sure I'd want to deal with a protocol that can't be explained on a napkin or two. UTF-8 was design on a diner placemat:

* https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
About that first point, that to me seem like a genuine and emphatic thing to do but I want to flag that this has the potential to go into the "soft" areas where feelings exist. For a crash course in "feelings and needs" read non-violent communication to be appropriately humbled by how hard (but important) this skill is.
When I worked with a lot of entry level college kids I would pretend I was a swami and I could divine the answer to the question only through supernatural means until they were too shamed to ask because obviously this isn't magic.
I’m 45 and have never gotten more attention from recruiters, despite the fact I entered the job market during the height of the dot com era. My graduation date is clearly marked on all resumes in circulation, as is my experience showing my first internship all the way back in ‘96.
It’s not only the number of ops that hit my plate, but the sheer aggressiveness of the recruiters. Very often am I contacted repeatedly, sometimes up to 5 times, by a recruiter for an op. Many times it’s directly by the hiring manager, the director, cto, or even ceo of the company.

In fact, only in my 40s have most of the major tech companies reached out to set up interviews (Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple), and a ton of pre-IPO unicorns. During the pandemic I had the former CEO of Zelle personally interview for his new venture and Brian Acton personally reached out to schedule an interview for One Signal.

I’m just a principal dev who does React and Rails. Been a tech lead in a few startups, never held a title above that, never a de facto people manager and certainly not a director.

I remember the sheer terror I was feeling toward the top of the my 30s because of discussions like this on Hacker News. Had a taste of management in my early 30s and decided it wasn’t for me, and remember toying with ideas for a career switch because surely, I would be dead as a programmer soon. The exact opposite happened.
Precursor Status: Xous, Secured Boot, EMC Testing, and the Road to Production
I don’t think it’s because of the money that the church refuses to fire pedophile priests. I think a lot more of it is about saving face. The church wants to maintain a veneer of holiness, one that is poorly tarnished now, and sweeping problems under the rug is easier in the short term to maintain said veneer. Of course, this strategy does not work in the long run.

There’s also the darker possibility that yesterday’s pedophile priests became today’s pedophile bishops who do not see this abuse as a problem to be corrected.
Problem all these governments have is inept enforcement measures and I think tech should continue to provide means to evade surveillance. Even before that you should be careful to give large social media sites PII of course because here is where they might try to strike.
I’ve been really enjoying it since 1.6 came out. A lot of the points you raise are perfectly valid, but the speed difference coming from R and python is real (so long as you’re writing computationally intensive programs and not scripts, for which it is a bad tool at the moment). There’s less friction to get performant code compared to writing supplemental functions in C++.

Also, I have to disagree with the unicode issue. The target audience is heavily invested in latex, so typing things like \theta is natural. It also results in code which is more terse compared to writing out all the letters, and at least for me results in a somewhat lower cognitive overhead when implementing algorithms etc.
A climate change denier rent about a Nobel prize awarded for work on climate change can be safely downvoted. Nothing of value is lost.
So what is actually needed, is to transfer law into a computer parse-able syntax, so that software can automatically update itself?
same here - over 40 years experience and have more options, better pay, and people stopped looking at me funny for saying 'WFH' :-)
Individuals have to trust scientific community.

In principle, every individual could spend 10 years to learn the subject, then comb trough the evidence in one particular detail. That's not possible in reality.

Even climate scientists have to trust other climate scientists in details they are not experts in. Climate chemist has not checked 3D computational model and vice versa.

It is said that Thomas Young (1773 – 1829) was the last man who knew everything. He was a polymath who had studied most of human knowledge in detail.
I think this needs to explicitly be handled by a role in the team. A common team might comprise of a project manager, architect, 1 to 4 more senior devs, some representation from a test team, and a number of juniors, interns etc.

One of the senior devs needs to handle onboarding new people and communicating the ideas of the architects and seniors over and over again to juniors. This is tiresome and boring to some. You need patience and empathy. It can be fun though as you get to meet lots of people and help them when they need it most. Most importantly you give the other seniors the time to work, without them getting involved in yeah just "make clean build" that away type issues.

I actually like the role and if the team doesn't have too much churn, you're just another senior dev.
They asked Ifop, a polling institute, to do a survey. The survey used a representative sample of 28 000 French people (in French, https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/les-cinq-chiffres-c... )
Tweet from Tjukanovt: https://twitter.com/tjukanov/status/1443868144905428992
Robinhood will owe users a phone call in latest customer service change
> In most people's dreams, when someone talks, they can hear the voice, which has a specific pitch, rasp, etc. For me and my friend, in our dreams we can never characterize the voice.

I’m not sure that this is true. I think in terms of my dreams they are closer to what you describe as your experience; mostly visual, with speech something that’s more often understood than heard. I imagine most people have something similar, and not so analogous to real life.

I do have an inner monologue in my waking hours though, and it’s very interesting to think about what it would be like to not have one!
In Canada there are a couple of communities in Northern Ontario that have Nordic roots, you can recognize them by the houses, they are so much prettier than the rest.
The apathy that accompanies depression. Most days, I can't complete simple chores let alone the important duties required of an adult with a house and family.
Amazon.de has a callback service (or the chatbot, which I actually prefer as soon as it connects you with a human), is that not available elsewhere?