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Let me put it this way: There is no love for old developers unless you are at the top like Anders Hejlsberg. Ageism is rampant in Silicon Valley. Older developers have some good qualities, like experience from fighting all the battles, and some bad qualities, like a resistance to moving out of technologies they are entrenched in. Younger developers offer companies more of a blank slate that can be molded, a willingness to spend long hours on technology that may not have much of a chance of succeeding (but there's a chance!) the stamina to put in long hours and less family obligations to worry about. I understand the preference for younger developers in the valley.

My recommendation to developers turning 40 if they don't want to be a manager is to start your own business and be your own boss. It doesn't matter what it is, but that way you wont have to face an increasingly hostile hiring environment.

Heck I've even thought about finding a young developer as a front and then writing all their code for them behind the scenes!
> Is Wikimedia foundation destitute?

No. If you search on HN, there's big discussions of this every year.

> Why are they pushing to get capital so fervently?

Because it works, and they'll find something to spend the money on.
They should, but they often aren't. Also, even if they are, this can be exploited with a port number the attacker picks. So unless you specifically whitelisted what outbound hosts your machine can reach and only those (which is rarely done and not always possible), it isn't likely to help.
Did React Win the 201* Framework Wars?
> Or, alternatively, just don't work for companies that treat their employees like shit.

Hmm... interesting advice, I wonder why people getting treated like shit by their employers never thought of that.
Yes, you are an asshole for suggesting a web-app framework instead just vanilla programming language. Why all the bloat of a web-app?
For the GitLab pipeline editor, this experience should be built-in. Currently discussing to e.g. detect the source code and come up with tips and template suggestions automatically. Without context switching.

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/4858 and related issues.
Doesn't it seem like the cars in that (horrible) path of destruction survived better than the buildings?
Don't use Chrome, it's simple.
Beside the tornado's direct hit?
Best vs Worst? That doesn't feel like the right way to look at things. Nuclear is probably an appropriate medium term solution for some locations until battery storage is better and more affordable at mass scale. Being a pragmatic minimalist I believe all options should be on the table and grab what option suits your geographic location and load requirements best, factoring in initial costs, time to deploy, cost to support, cost to tear down, environmental impact, local politics, operational longevity... all of these things being complicated topics on their own that vary wildly by location.
> for instance there are at least 5 different companies or organisations called "Apple" with presence in the US

An interesting trivia is that Apple Computer got in trouble with Apple, the record label, when they introduced the Apple IIgs, because it had a musical instrument synthesiser chip built in.
Obviously you ask the team but many times you might be in some meeting and it's just you because you don't want to drag an engineer in yet another meeting... isn't what they all hate? I don't really see technical knowledge in an engineering manager as a bad thing, really.
For one thing, in many countries it's hard to get rid of a poor employee unless they're malicious or really exceptionally terrible.

For another, even if "an organisational problem" or inconvenient labour laws don't get in your way, firing employees can have a serious effect on the morale of those left behind. And for good reason! Usually companies that regularly fire people for poor performance has a different sort of culture than companies that don't. In my experience, that's the worse organisational problem.

The right solution is just to be more careful about who you hire in the first place.
Or as a vehicle to play doom. https://twitter.com/gegy1000/status/1469714451716882434
Already being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29521258
Rebble is still hosting them and they work great. But they're not really required for the watch to work.
No. It looks like they live in South Australia from a previous comment of theirs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25174647

Solicitor doesn't necessarily mean Canada.
Which one was it and how did you find that person?
I can see trouser pockets! either that or they're wearing a holster in the nude - which is a whole other ballgame entirely.
That flowchart seems to assume that you don’t know what application has the window you want, which is a pretty weird use case. And ignores that you can see all windows for a given application in the menu bar.
and before that here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29410104
Attention to detail and recall, mainly, but again I don’t think you can justify screening for it at all without additional academic research.
> While you bring up an interesting question, it's important to note that people died in that building. Perhaps some compassion is in order.

I don't know why I need to provide a token "thoughts and prayers" just because my question is related to some tragedy. Everything has become so absolutely performative these days.

Yes, I am sorry this happened to some people. But I guess I'm an asshole because I didn't write some meaningless consolatory words in a comment on a tech forum before having the audacity to ask a legitimate logistics question.

Thanks for the answer, but please skip the condescension next time.
Crypto isn't a currency so you still need exit nodes to fiat at some point, and these are banks (or exchanges using banks on your behalf). New fintech services like Cashapp, Venmo, Paypal, Sofi, etc have done much more to improve banking access with technology than any crypto so far.
If the topic is geopolitics with national security implications, I’d think the opinions and insights of former national security and intelligence officials would be valuable. There doesn’t need to be a conspiracy when Occam’s razor works fine here. They are getting paid to provide commentary people want to hear because of their unique background and perspective.
I agree that some mathematical concepts, such as exponential growth, are expressed in nature. But does the fact that a thing is expressed in nature imply that it cannot be invented? And what of mathematical concepts not expressed in nature?

On a different point, I'd argue that all conceptual inventions are discoveries. So, showing that a mathematical concept was discovered would not be enough to prove it was not invented.
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> Do you think there was a problem with how the building was built?

It is quite impractical to build a large building that will withstand a tornado. The fact that the building was cut in half and the contents largely removed is not terribly surprising.

Buildings like this (including big box stores, large grocery stores, office buildings, etc.) typically have designated tornado shelter areas. These should be on the lowest floor (below ground level is the best) with small rooms. The walls are generally made of cinder blocks or something sturdier. If you are in a building like this, need a tornado shelter, and don't know where it is look for the restrooms. When you get there you will likely find a sign that indicates it is the tornado shelter.
> Eg. Mentioning that it's nuts to mine BTC while they could have used the geothermal energy to lower electricity costs in the country ( since they import 20%), makes more economic sense for it's citizens.

I think the point is that crypto mining finances the building of power generation in areas where it was not profitable to do so due to lack of electricity transportation infrastructure. This is great for very poor countries that cannot develop low-hanging fruit power generation opportunities due to their nonexistent grid, no paying customers, etc.
Aggressive editing like this is not ok here. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Wouldn't a SCSI <--> SATA device be much more performant and useful ?

No. BlueSCSI and other SCSI device emulators are intended for use with SCSI-1 (narrow) and SCSI-2 (fast) controllers, maybe even Wide SCSI-2 (fast wide) for some, so the maximum bandwidth here is 5, 10 and 20 MB/s, respectively. Secure Digital is a pretty good match for bandwidth and in many if not most cases saturates the bus. Even if you had a SCSI to NMVe SSD adapter, it would never perform faster than the old bus it's running off.

> I am also not sure if there is any point at all in discussing the relative speeds of SD vs. SSD when the bottleneck at the end is 50pin SCSI ...

Sometimes the bottleneck is the CPU. In some popular vintage classic machines, on a very good day, the bandwidth of the RAM is almost 15MB/s.
my godfather had an H-8 and you had to bootstrap it via the keypad as well

kind of a charming way to learn, at a very very young age, how booting worked

all to play colossal cave
Does this apply even if I have an LLC with my name?

TBH this scares me quite a bit since we have all the family’s emails tied to the domain, not only would it be a huge pain to lose it but also a security risk. Weve had the domain for 10yrs or more at this point…
It's not effective in cases where the disease is neutralized by the environment before you would wash your hands anyways. A lot of diseases can't survive outside the body for long; I think this is more true of viruses than bacteria, but I could be wrong.

E.g. HIV doesn't last long outside the body. By the time blood dries, almost all of the HIV is neutralized.

I think the research has said COVID is similar, and can really only live on a surface for minutes.

Hand washing is great for preventing disease generally. It's less effective against some diseases, but it also has virtually no downsides, so it's still a sane thing to do.
I've combined TST with 1) "Firefox Multi-Account Containers" (to have different "profiles" within the same browser, very useful for personal/work/shopping/etc), 2) "Simple Tab Groups" to be able to switch contexts (social networks time, research, free time reading and news... these are topical groups, different functionality from containers).
Those people are in precarious positions. All it takes is one bad manager to join the team and misunderstand his value before he loses all his power. I've found those people usually don't create as much value as they think anyway. It takes an extraordinary IC to match the business value of a decent manager.
Nope. Starbucks won't hire you without restaurant management experience. You'd be lucky if they hired you as a barista.
Not a lawyer but been in a similar situation. I will give the simple advice I wish I had followed:

1. Do not reply to the email yourself.
2. Get yourself a lawyer and keep a full accounting of all legal expenses.
Every model has been tried from standard subscriptions to bundled subscriptions (Mogul, Subscribd) to ads replacement (Google Contributor, Sterling) to pay-per-article (Blendle) and they've all found limited success.

1) Most people do not value written content and news the same as other forms of entertainment. 2) There's too much decision friction and it gets worse when you have to decide per article. 3) Ads subsidize far more than most people could afford to pay for directly.

Crypto doesn't solve any of these human behavior or budget problems.
Ah.. We need to campaign for siestas in the office. Productivity really goes up after a nap I think. Mexicans were known to do this.
This should be in the first post. The reddit thread is crowded and mostly useless information.
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. We're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The US is too big for that definition to make sense. Unless people are proposing cutting off the border and trade with Florida. On the other hand, having far-right beliefs like “anti-globalism” (whatever that means) is heavily correlated with a short distance between where one lives now and where they were born.
I don't see how this refutes my point.
The last time I tried the Multi Account Containers add-on, it randomly wiped my list of websites after browser restarts and upgrades and there was no way to export the list of websites I had containerized. IIRC, there still isn't a way to do it unless I use Firefox Sync, which I don't.

The addon was also basically abandoned for quite some time with lots of bugs all over the place and was revived only recently. It was an extremely painful experience, to say the least.

I still use the Containerise addon instead because of that unpleasant experience.
$40 in 2000 is about $65 in 2021 dollars. so if you pick that point of comparison, not much has changed. but IIRC, AAA games were already $60 by 2005, so compared against that, we are paying substantially less.

at the same time, I really hate to pay $60 for pretty much any AAA title that comes out these days. AAA games are in a weird state. so much time and money has been spent patching and optimizing a fundamentally broken lighting model. bigger, prettier open worlds are created every year, and they really are impressive. but 95% of the map feels like no human has ever actually thought about whether it would be fun to play in. I kinda wonder who is playing all these 100+ hour games with mind-numbingly basic mechanics.
IANAL but pretty sure trademark is based on first provable public use for commercial purposes. You should be able to contest the mark on that basis. Just screenshot the WHOIS record showing you had the domain 7yrs ago and hire a lawyer to write a cease & desist to them. Just because you hold the trademark doesn't make it necessarily defensible if it's proven that it was obtained surreptitiously. Depending on what you learn from the lawyer and how aggressive you want to play it threaten counter suit for damages and escalate.

But agree with all comments: get a lawyer before you do anything.
Initially misread this as “Kessler” and thought that was pretty direct.
I never said you should just hire someone on the basis of their repo.

But rather, if you're looking for a basic smoke test which can answer the question "Can this person actually code? Do I want to spend more time engaging them?" -- there are better ways to do that than expecting them to cram on a list of algorithms to recite over the phone. Like looking at an actual work sample.

The fact that you looked at this work sample -- and came to your own conclusion about whether they would be worth engaging -- validates this very simple and basic point.

Which is your call of course. He may not meet your bar, but it would be absurd to say this guy can't code, and hasn't been around the block in terms of general CS concepts.

That said -- my own subjective opinion is that you're being exquisitely savage in your assessment of his NaCl implementation. Yeah, it's wrapper -- like it says in the Readme, and like a lot of working code out there. It's a pretty established way of solving a problem, in fact -- in some cases a very efficient and elegant way. It's not the same thing as writing 20k of primitives from scratch, of course. But that's not what he's presenting it as. He's not saying it's a "tour de force". He's saying "I think this shows we can talk about other things besides FizzBuzz".

And then other things you're like saying... like "an anti-project"? Wow.
Historically, tornado season is from March through June, but, they can happen any day of the year.
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No, tornadoes are definitely very rare in December, when it tends to be too cold for them to form. Continental US has been experiencing a very unusual heat-wave across the board though, and it has been causing havoc in normal weather patterns.
Yeah, Pebble has a great SDK and since it's defunct there's no update treadmill anymore. Anything you build today will be guaranteed to work as long as the hardware does.
I think DMT changed my friend Dairy Haas in a way that was negative.
Respectfully, “you’re doing it wrong.”

Volvo steering wheels are set up for 9 and 3, but you are supposed to hook your thumbs (9 and 3), not rest your lateral palms (10 and 2).

See the diagram here:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a9343/forget-10-and-2-...
I always tried to time this so that I didn’t oversleep and disrupt my sleep pattern for later when I actually want to sleep through the night. I never really noticed a difference in my creativity, but maybe I need to try some specific activities after waking.
The energy density was buried in the article despite comparing it in every other aspect to Li-Ion batteries.

> the GMG-UQ cell reaches [...] 160 Wh/kg according to tests

For comparison Lithium-Ion batteries reach 260 Wh/kg, but they charge much slower.
Subaru too
What kind of content farm is this? The author Richi Jennings collects comments from elsewhere on the internet, wraps quotes around them, and slaps an article title on top. https://securityboulevard.com/2021/12/microsoft-whac-a-moles...

Seems lazy.
I've seen more countries in Latin America destroyed by their own countries devaluing countries than by the USD.

IMF loaned the El Salvador government 389 million during the pandemic

https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2020/04/14/pr20155-el-s...
Preferrably one that is not involved in some kind of cryptocurrency scammery scheme.
This. While I respect lawyers immensely, I think half the battle is deciding when to use a lawyer vs handling it yourself.

With that said, this guy definitely needs to consult with a lawyer.
Does it remove dupes from results?
Not really a dead giveaway. Lawyer is the more commonly-used term in Canada too.
Car Leasing Traps You Should Avoid
If you're considering leasing a car, what seems like a good idea might come with caveats and pitfalls that make it so the cons outweigh the pros. Just because you're leasing a car instead of owning doesn't mean you should be any less vigilant about what you're getting into.
This is a great idea.

What is particularly galling to me is how media companies trying to protect their content rights make completely meritless legal claims such as mass sending false DMCA requests to video sites saying that they own some work that is completely false, with no punishment for spamming out factually incorrect claims and harming people. That whole messed up system has been commented on many times in other threads.

For actual legal filings, the only issue is that how a "case without merit" is defined is probably very subjective, because legislation can be very complex and lawyers can make a legal argument backed up by some statute for just about anything. There needs to be an extremely high standard for what constitutes a meritless case that should be punished in this way, because otherwise it also makes seeking restitution for wrongs risky, and that's not a good outcome either.

Similarly good ideas in this vein IMO include: simplifying the language of laws, making the actual text of laws more easily accessible, and sunsetting/time-limits on old legislation so that old ideas that no longer make sense aren't kept permanent due solely to bureaucratic inertia.
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Personally it's the integrations. I have a Chromebook, which integrates with GSuite, and integrates with Android. I can manage extensions, permissions, etc, all from there. This is important since I use this Chromebook for work, but it would be cumbersome to run Firefox and Chrome simultaneously.

With Firefox I get just-a-browser, and I need more than that. If Firefox had a way for me to manage the browser across devices it would be more viable for me.
Ask HN: Most Interesting Hardware?
What is currently the most interesting hardware you can buy and program for? Weird, powerful, open (that you can program for) hardware used to be fascinating: archimedes, apple PowerPC, NeXT, then powerful PC of course. Then a few years ago arduino, raspberry pi were smaller but the same. What would approach those kind of cool platforms? Mobiles are a bit closed and dejavu, computers seems to evolve slowly, what's next?
Who is "they"? You're talking about different people.

HN is not a person - it can't have human qualities like being hypocritical about something. That would be like calling a room hypocritical because people in it disagree.
Culminating ideas to place items in a market place and market them to be desirable to the public, while electrocuting elephants is hard work for any man.
See the capacitor in this closeup that kens took of a power supply module in the Apollo Guidance Computer? My dad's company made it. You are telling the wrong person that the landing was faked.

https://static.righto.com/images/agc-power/transistor-closeu...
Toyota, which has spent decades building a strong reputation for reliability, value, and innovation, seems poised to erase those efforts.

- They are doing everything they can to slow the transition to electric cars.

- More than any other car company they seem to be happy to price gouge with the most unfavorable financing available.

- Now this. Price gouging and requiring a subscription for something every other car company includes in the price
I think Patreon is great for individual creators and other small scale operations, but I'm skeptical that it can generate enough revenue to sustain larger scale journalistic operations.

Organizations like NPR have been attempting a user-contribution model since before the internet, and it works to an extent, but they still have to rely partially on (minimalistic) ads as well as government funding.
I adapted a theme I think but I can't find the name now. Here is my userchrome https://pastebin.com/8FLgyX1y

The title bar can be hidden through the customise screen. The gaps on the toolbar by the omnibox are important as they give you something to drag the window by.
Probably Decentraland. Here's a parcel selling for 125k Mana units ~$400k:

https://market.decentraland.org/contracts/0xf87e31492faf9a91...
Heuristics can use information like parts of the url, context of the request (origin domain for example, or "request is coming from an iframe"), existence of third-party cookies, already detected page behavior, and so on. It also allows for updating the rules on the fly. Like if I allowed something, but it turned out to be a bad idea.
The review paper is really interesting: "Machine-Learning Mathematical Structures"
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SimCity games do not simulate individuals. Even when they do, the indivduals are not very complex.
Machine-Learning Mathematical Structures
BLM was instigated by a real video of a cop executing a Black man face-down in the streets, and then escalated by more real videos of other cops executing more Black people extrajudicially, (all following decades of more real videos showing the same type of thing), and then escalated even further by the sitting president not showing a single ounce of empathy for those situations and then actively fighting it in some of the most unconstitutional ways the country has seen since the 50's.

Jan 6th was instigated by completely fabricated lies, lies that began months before there was even an election to be contested, again, by the sitting president. Made more effective by people the sitting president had just recently plopped into key positions that would be involved in controlling such an event.

One side scorned the violence for both events (showing sympathy/understanding for violent reaction to very real, very bad things is not the same as advocating), the other scorned one and excused the other using the same lies that started it.

Regardless of all that, comparing a coup to a protest is absolutely stupid. Only one side does that, because it lets them downplay a coup as nothing bigger than a protest when it's clearly a much bigger issue, so much bigger that, in the constitution, one is a protected right and the other is treason.