skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reference counting man. When the programs ownership model doesn't adhere to Rust's borrow checker.
I'm 36 and def vibe with the "Some are having existential crises" comment. Sometimes I wanna learn how to fly a plane. Sometimes I wanna jump into infosec or machine learning.

I'm still passionate about the aspects of dev I was 5 years ago, but I've seen the patterns roll around so many times, I wonder if the things I care about actually matter than much. So like any good solution without a problem, I don't know if I have meaning in that sense...
I don't think the issue is that we don't know how to dispose of or recycle the panels. But the US uses 93 quadrillion BTU per year (https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/), so to supply 10% of the US' daily power needs would require 5 billion panels.

Moreover these panels will degrade over time, so they require maintenance, recycling, disposal, etc. So one hill half covered with solar panels is one thing, but when you have 5 billion solar panels, then yes, it stops looking so green to me. And then you need to get the other 90% from somewhere.
In the Netherlands they introduced legislation last year that bans the use of smartphones while cycling (penalty of €95 fine), that ban also included wearing earbuds. So, using a speaker on a bike is safer, I guess?
They mentioned wanting to open one in Europe, iirc Saxony is a possible location. Bosch has built one there recently, Global Foundries, Infineon and Xfab have fabs too.
That's amazing, I'd be really curious to know his reasons for leaning toward P vs NP been resolved.
As someone from outside the US it seems bizarre that Hollywood is considered "left" in the US.

Hollywood glamorizes American militarism. When military engagements is criticized, as in many Vietnam movies, the angle is that it was traumatic for the American soldiers having to kill all those people for no purpose.

Outside of the military, individualism is worshiped and any form of collectivism (from unions to government institutions) are shown as irredeemably corrupt, while the rugged individual playing by their own rules save the day any time. The world is always saved by the exceptional superhuman.

Social problems (like poverty, unemployment, expensive health issues) are always solved for single individuals through personal actions or individual acts of kindness, never by improving society. But in general social problems are non-existent, all serious problems are due to evil individuals which can be defeated, or are due to personal failings which can be overcome through "motivation".

But because Hollywood have a black superhero and a woman Ghostbuster, it is considered "left wing".
Those over 35 aren't wasting time answering Stack Overflow polls.

The older you get, the less time you want to waste. Solve the problem, move on.
Living from capital gains in LCOL area with fast fiber internet connection. Interviewing occasionally to check if I still got it, then rejecting lowball offers. Catching up with dating ladies as staring at the monitor for years had turned me into porn-addicted autist and my brain into a potato.
For most it's just a fun pastime, for some it's a side trade. It's extremely rare to find Influencers who have it as their only source of income.
This comes up regularly here and I always feel that I need to point out the elephant in the room each time. From a previous post...

"The fact that most engineers are young is much more to do with the numbers in the profession doubling every five years in the last twenty years imho. If you were an engineer twenty years ago, there are now sixteen times more engineers. Your peer group is going to look pretty small therefore. All of these younger engineers are going to get older too of course, and the demand won't keep on growing at this rate, so inevitably the ratio of young vs old devs will even out."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28294734

I don't deny that there are other factors but this simple numerical fact accounts for a lot. The vast numbers of 20 and 30 something developers around now are not all going to become consultants, managers, founders.
Twitch Streamer Earnings Increase for Top Gamers, Data from Hack Shows
This is a small part of the normal distribution. Many many companies can't facilitate this sadly. Maybe that is ageism?
Cheap and actually really good; ten years ago I wouldn't have thought it possible to get that fidelity and volume out of such a small package.
Do you know how much global business is conducted in restaurants? It's practically part of the workplace for sales professionals. Exclusion from restaurants means exclusion from work for some people. Zoom is not a replacement for business meetings that benefit from face-to-face negotiation.

Remember what history teaches about "people making lists" - it never stops with one list, or one group of list-makers. Today's list-maker can be tomorrow's list-member. There is a reason that most segregated societies have failed.
A bug bear of mine for a long time has been the best practice of always having SQL server in full logging mode, with highly regular log backups.

It's great for important production services. In practise I run test databases I could rebuild from scripts. Archive databases that never see a write. Databases that load and drop automatically from other sources. Every single time someone looks at these, there's a someone panicking about best practise. Something about this particular issue just makes critical thought non existent.
They make stuff people want to buy and overall devices that people can use to get things done. Unpopular opinion around here I know.
Principles matter. There are very few moral principles in Sarandos’ statement despite claiming otherwise.

https://twitter.com/zekerchief/status/1447734480051990530?s=...
Exactly.

The Wiki feature in Teams is brain dead, but I'm still using it because it is right next to the rest, which mostly works.
History rewriting might be a problem.
Depends exactly _where_ you are as a Dev. In the science industry I have mainly worked with people who are much older than myself (23), to the point where I'd say I am the outlier.

Stackoverflow is not the centre of the internet either.
Hello no, I'm 38 and I still enjoy doing my developer job, I like teach it to fresh graduates, and not everyone is fit for a leading role, probably not me.
China Is Probably the Most Overvalued Property Market in the World
https://github.com/DrPsychick/docker-cups-airprint
> sandstone, which burns,

The first hit on Google for that string disagrees with you so perhaps you did misremember:

"Sandstone is non-combustible and thus resistant to fire, making it a preferred option for building and construction. Due to its natural density, fire takes longer to burn through sandstone blocks, meaning any homes experiencing a fire will have added time."

https://gosfordquarries.com.au/news-media/is-sandstone-fire-...
Why does it scare you?
Honestly, this reads as more damning of the US political system than it does the Democratic party. Don't get me wrong, I've got plenty of bones to pick there. But the overall theme from everybody mentioned in the article is that there are very few important voters under the current system, and they are not the median voter.

The disagreements seem to largely center on how the Democrats could win over those few voters, with some unfortunately hidden subtext on the potential costs of doing so.

Meanwhile, I can't help but get caught up on the sheer disparity of power on full display here. It seems a number of incidental factors used to be pushing the end results to be closer to the average - enough to be plausible - but those factors have weakened and the ugly truth has become too blatant to continue to ignore. The current disparity doesn't seem sustainable, but it also seems the only real hope of addressing that issue is too weak to pull it off, and too feckless to even try.

I don't understand what endgame any politicians in the US are aiming for anymore.
This is a good point and is one possible explanation for the apparently lack of movement in the SO poll 10 years on
Are you under the impression that if the hypothetical scope were moved off of Europe (why even assume it is on there?), US political parties would seem less unilaterally right-wing? I don't think you could make a coherent (and truthful) case for that, but I might be interested to read it.
I‘m 44, IC turned first-line manager and back to IC (several times) and now quite happy in the IC role, occupied with difficult, large-impact projects that span multiple teams and require roadmaps for 1-2 years. I have learned a great deal in the past several years - even at 40 I would not have been up to the challenges I‘m dealing with now.

Most importantly, how to reach agreement with different stakeholders on decisions where you have insufficient data. That‘s where making an argument comes in. You weigh different alternatives. You show the consequences. You conduct workshops - where in the end the people might have gone through the same thinking process you have gone through, but now they are buying in to the idea. You learn to manage up and across.

You learn when to step back. Where you should let others shine and enable them making a career. And become a mentor.

You learn how to take risks. That you need to balance high-risk, high-reward projects with quick, short term wins. That you need to find out how to do both at the same time. One securing the funding for the other.

You learn that relationship power always trumps knowledge power and power through authority. You learn to get to know people as human beings and learn about their motivations.

You become a servant of the team, filling in the gaps where they exist. Because you can.

I‘m still writing code as well, as I have since I was in my teens. Still loving it. Writing a piece of code that solves a difficult problem in a beautiful way makes me high.
It's because the police doesn't inspire respect anymore. They have violated people's rights too often (in the US mainly), and in the UK they just look comical in a lot of cases. It's the uniforms and the general fitness levels.

I don't mind police, but they need to work on discipline. They need to be around more even when they're not responding to anything (proactive instead of reactive).

Back in the day (not my day mind you, lol), every neighbourhood would have a neighbourhood policeman that would do the rounds, do a chat with the locals, that kinda thing. But that was the same time where people working for the post were still respected (by their employer); uniform, full-time job and benefits, the works. Nowadays it's an underpaid part-time mcjob.
Or don't have the time to do so, even if they would be otherwise okay with it.

Personally, I don't like the way in which polls limit your freedom to express yourself, instead pigeonholing you into categories that then lead to stories like this.
I'm 37. In the last 3 years I've become an independent contractor and I'm trying to build a small software development agency. It's slow going but it is the path that appeals to me.

I feel a lot of people move to dev management when they get older or just find a spot where they feel comfortable and the pay is good.
36. Development manager. Have my ticket as a Project Manager, Technical BA, enough architecture experience I could go for EA roles, enough people experience I prefer leading teams.

It isnt that hard to stay "current"; while espousing working technology over trendy tech.

I find much else, it's about data at the end of the day - getting good at modelling processes and flows will never hurt.

Take a mentor stance: I might not be hands on the tools, but I'll train the next 10 developers - its a provable way to actually make yourself 10x as productive if you tell them not to repeat mistakes you made and provide vision.
Hack on things occasionally. If junior devs smile at your ways as quaint, spend the time to find out why, upskill, then apply experience to whatever flavour of the month exists.
Yes, I think this is the idea. That people go out in the nature, and want to see as few man-made stuff (or other people) as possible. I think it's especially bad in places where otherwise the nature seems undisturbed.
Probably not worth judging the entire sector by the peak theoretical output of one connector that might be relegated to industrial use.
Stamp a brand on it and spend most of your money on fighting counterfeits.
Not for me I'm 49 and still coding.
Solar yatchs are cool!

Considering loitering is a very important goal for military drones, I expect them to be using solar power extensively too.
Why the Lower caste aka BC/SC/ST, 80% in India, are slaves to Brahmin/Bania/Kshatriya as outlined in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_(Hinduism)

Why shouldn't they convert to other religions from Hinduism?
Why shouldn't they seek a separate country from Indian Parliament?
https://archive.is/k1qxq
https://www.petition2congress.com/20324/expel-indian-america...
> vilified

When it is just the truth, you don't need to spin it to have a certain kind of impact. The impact exists even when you view things impassively, without much care one way or the other.
In Europe, this is not true, since recovered immunity is recognized for a pass.

Unlike half a year ago, we now know that Covid-recovered people are least likely to be infected or transmitted. We know that vaccinated people can be both infected (without symptoms even) and transmitting, depending on the time since their last injection.

If the goal is to prevent infection and transmission, we would be limiting public participation to those recovered or with a recent negative test. It's meaningless to speak about vax or unvax, what matters is immune or non-immune. Everyone vaccinated who has never had Covid can only gain immunity (note: not "protection" as defined by CDC) by being infected and recovering. The vaccine reduces the chance of severe illness from that infection.
And what will you do after lunch? :)
Or it’s just a paranoia and they plan to license this to non-free use after a period of testing, leaving non-commercial use for those who want to play with it. That is basically what every non-free software does except the commercial support is not yet provided.

Also, I second the question about free predecessors/competition, not to argue or compare, but out of pure curiosity.
Would have been funny if they could take over the speaker and play brown noise instead, lol
In an other article is mentioned that the new reactors will have 300MW capacity, so 6 new reactors will replace 2 old ones that are due to be shut down.
I've worked at large companies outside FAANG and I saw great deal of senior devs over 30 with extensive domain experience, and they are still coding and mentoring.

They are probably less interested in filling up surveys or showing up at events compared to their younger selves.

While young people have some edge in terms of energy and motivation, senior dev tend to make better overall decisions as their intuition have been sharpened by real life experiences. In order to appreciate the impact of architectural and design decisions, one must live to see the entire lifecycle of multiple products under various environments and also experiment with different tools/languages to tell apart the hype from real progress.

Look at tennis, senior players are able to beat much younger opponents due to skills and ability to read the game better. So as long as their bodies are good enough they are able to win. I'd argue that development is not much different, but one need to keep the mind/motivation high and that is where the challenge is.

Development is not easy, it requires concentration, discipline and constant learning, and many people tend to drop out from the game all together as other part of their lives take over.
You're not wrong, but you're making the classic Hacker News mistake by assuming that the average person gives even the slightest crap about any of that stuff—or if they do, that they are directly affected by it.

Apple makes (mostly, with some fairly large asterisks attached) reliable devices, with all the software most people want to run. Most people do not sell apps and therefore are not familiar with the bullshit that is App Store policy. And many of their customers are based in the west, where their stance on privacy at least _seems_ substantially better than their big tech alternatives. For those based in China, coddling with an authoritarian government is just business as usual.

The most important factor to most people, myself included for the most part, is that they make devices people enjoy using.
My preferred solution, in a situation where you've forgotten (or never learned/experienced) X, to keep doing Y until someone on your team perceives problems with it, at which point you can acknowledge that you're not familiar with the reasons for Y and hence can invest some time finding out what they were why prototyping not doing Y.
That is really interesting, it does seem odd that they seem to be trying to hire cross continent all of a sudden
> As someone from outside the US it seems bizarre that Hollywood is considered "left" in the US.

The dominant faction of the left-most major party in the US (which the other party calls anything associated with “far left”) is a center-right neoliberal capitalist military-interventionist faction.

The other party is a far right party in which the narrative that slavery was good for those subjected to it is not considered unreasonable.

Once you understand and internalize that, Hollywood being considered left in the US political context makes perfect sense.
Indeed! TIL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouthing
This is a nonsense article. Totally missed the fact that demographics is due to industry growth and instead just tells a made up story backed by no evidence. Stop wasting our time
Maybe I'm missing a nuance here but what's wrong with just using a Result / Either monad here. It seems cleaner than overloading try/catch...
Django Update Checker and MS Teams Notifier
I have seen plenty of instances where people write documentation in which they label something as a best practice, even though it's just something they preferred to do and weren't really able to articulate the reasons for, unfortunately.
Closing down on 50 (still a couple of years left).

Consultancy, doing T-shape tasks on projects, jungling between Java, .NET, native and Web, using other languages when required to do so, taking over DevOps related tasks when needed, architecture and sales support.

"Jack of all trades, master of none", whatever makes the customer happy at the end of the day.
I'm 44. I've been a web developer for 25 years, working with various bits of tech (ASP, Perl, PHP, JS, etc) across backend and frontend, and at all levels from junior dev to freelancer to CTO to founder of a VC-backed startup. It's been a wild ride, and I have no intention of stopping.

I would say this - older developers don't leave the industry, but they do get tired of learning different ways to achieve the same things, so they drift towards the 'boring' companies where they can actually use the skills they've learned. My most recent role is at a big company that moves much more slowly than the startups and small companies I've worked in, and that means I actually have time to plan things, design code, write documentation, and understand the problems I'm solving. That's fantastic and energising.
I’m still fascinated how some people believe “ties to FSB” are somehow different from ties to NSA.
Clickbait title, blogspam content with adverts every 3 inches for "Manscaping", flagged
I wonder how much energy was spent getting to that 5 watts.
I've run into the payment issues before, for some reason it said we were domiciled in the US (we're not) and then I wasn't able to add a new card to our account when the previous one expired. So somehow it doesn't alert me to the fact payments are failing, and just cuts off all access to our entire org. Then after several frantic support calls, the support rep somehow hacks together a configuration that doesn't immediately fail. Only to discover a year later that we're being pursued by a debt collection agency for the previous unpaid bills, which were not viewable on my account. It is truly amazing how held together with string the whole thing is.
Looking through the demo site, it really seems like it's just a copy paste of the real thing. It even collects analytics the same way.

This is not how you build a FOSS alternative.
Not sure about exact numbers, but e.g. Mullvad appears to have less than 25 employees, some of which are going to be administrative overhead Mozilla already covers for the entire company, so lets say ~20 people on the product (including support etc)? Even a now downsized Mozilla has to be able to dedicate 20 people to an attempt to make money. And that is probably not as small as you could do it if you had to.
I rather think a lot of mid size companies facilitate that. B2b, any industry. Anything other than a startup nurtures its enginners, it is expensive and slow to train new hires. They will make up the role for you if it means you will stay even just another couple of years.
There is still the misconception that if you just want to cache, you don't need data types. One of the biggest Redis use cases, Twitter (I didn't check if they still use it in the last two years, I guess so, and anyway used it for many years), beg to differ. But in general almost all the serious caching scenarios using Redis represent part of the stored data, in memory, with an organization that allows updating the cache and selectively retrieving from the cache like if it was the primary (oh, not just the primary, specified queries you could do against the primary), so everything is incremental and there is no need to cache multiple "views" of the same thing.
Wind wasn't blowing the last few months, coal is back on top.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coal-tops-wind-as-primary-elec...
I’m not making a statement about my thoughts on the matter at all.

There’s a Wikipedia article might be a good place to start if too haven’t read any criticism of multiculturalism:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_multiculturalis...
Sleep a little near my fireplace, to heat up my old bones ;).
componentWillMount()?

This is ancient. Before the pandemic, even.
Looking for other sources to corroborate this, I arrived at the following conclusions:

* This story is being reported on a spectrum of "A person has proposed a bill" (which seems to be the factual state) to "Bitcoin will soon be legal tender in Brazil" (which is pure hyperbole).

* The bill is primarily about regulating cryptocurrencies. What this means specifically is not clear to me, but for example, it actually increases the penalty for money laundering using crypto from 10 years to 16 years.

* In any case, this seems clearly to be about the government exerting more control, not enabling citizens.
So the B in BRIC should be Bitcoin now?
54, started at 12 on commodore vic 20. Never did anything else than software dev, various roles, ranging from dev to CTO. Currently architecting and deploying systems in Elixir, Scala and Rust... And I'm so sorry to hear my coding days were over almost 20 years ago :D
Same, I opened this one up a few days ago when someone linked to it, saw what style it was, tried to scan it to get to the juicy bits, then just closed it and asked for a tl;dr. I don't have the attention span for long form stories like this while I'm on my PC. Maybe when I'm on vacation and have a stack of reading material ready, idk.
Developing more software in a completely different industry than I spent my first 33 years of software development in, super team, position and rewards that come with it.

I love the fact my my career is older than most of my coworkers, it doesn’t make a whit of difference except I know a lot of useful stuff. And I don’t work for a big public company. Come to think of it, my last 3 VC funded startups were great for all ages as long as you had talent.