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Ask HN: Why are we accepting ageism in tech as something immutable?
This week alone I had 2 interviews with 2 different companies where in the first one of the interviewers asked me my age, directly followed by "why hire you over a younger graduate?" (which isn't the same as "why hire you over someone smarter than you?" because why even ask this). In the second one I was also asked for my age, followed by whether I plan to get married anytime soon.

I'm under the impression that the industry needs to learn to treat amateurs as amateurs regardless of their age. It feels like I'm not allowed to be an amateur professional simply because I'm over 30 years old. Instead of seeing people as "a guy with 2 years of experience" or "a woman with 4 years of experience" we see "a 40 year old guy with 2 years of experience" or "a 34 year old woman with 4 years of experience".

It feels like there's an implicit expectation of expertise in doing something that comes with my age. It's almost as if I'm not allowed to learn and get good in something that I want, simply because I was late into "the party", where party can be whatever but since I'm a web developer that's what "the party" is.

I've had multiple people telling me that "we saw people with fewer and less polished projects get jobs". I've been seeking for 8 months, I'm almost at the point where I might as well freelance to bypass the discrimination. I get barely any calls back, and the one interview that felt somewhat fair was because I had my former manager from a completely unrelated field introduce me to someone looking for web developers, and that didn't worked out because they wanted me to learn their stack and build an assignment within a week, which failed gloriously.

Is there something that we can do so that people can just be amateurs regardless of age? I'm sure since we're making SOME progress against sexism and racism we could somehow do something for ageism too, because I can't blame Zuckerberg's opinion anymore.
I believe you, but would the startup even exist if they had spent 2 or 3 times as long developing the MVP?

The reality is that good engineering has higher upfront costs than quick-and-dirty. Sure, it's usually cheaper in the long run, but initially it either takes longer to plan or it takes more expensive engineers to execute. And for a lot of startups, getting that cheap MVP out the door is the only path to additional investment.

I'm all in favor of quality engineering, but I'm also pragmatic enough to realize that sometimes you have to sling a little shit in order to gain the luxury of doing it the right way.
I’ve done the roommating thing, and paid my dues living in small apartments. But at some point I wanted the comfort of a house with a garage, a hobby room, and a yard where the kids can run around.

So, yeah, different expectations.
Pants 2.9: Alpha support for Java and Scala
> give up and go into a trade

Exactly this, without the "give up" part. Why is going into a trade giving up? It's choosing a different path than the one that has been shoved down all our throats like it is the only respectable option. University is not for everyone, and not everyone can go there. There's simply not enough room.

I think going into trades is what I want my son to do. I love Mike Rowe's thoughts on this - you can make excellent money, get started fast and be working for yourself by the time you would get a precious 4-year degree. And trades are in serious need of new people; seems like a great opportunity.
Addendum; you tend to know going into these things that the reason such opportunities still exist in these dysfunctional orgs is precisely because they are dysfunctional. I guess hope springs eternal that maybe you could succeed where others have failed.

A former colleague at the same company optimized a core process saving $10M p.a. in compute cost. They couldn’t find a second person who knew assembly well enough to do a code review so they were never able to deploy it.
Alcohol. We can get into the definitions of consent, but suffice to say that there are a large number of rapes committed by drunk highschool kids. Many wake up, regret everything about what happened, and never allow themselves to get into such a situation again.
FYI, most of these work great on other languages languages. Massif and most of the valgrind suite (cachegrind, callgrind, memcheck) can be used with Rust.
Also, prices aren't visible before hand, so it is more difficult for price competition to work.

Also, medical profession trade unions/cartels (aka AMA) constricting the labor market for medical work.

These things probably could actually be resolved by governmental regulation.
I had fun years ago working for a company that developed models (usually of a different kind) for deciding where to locate retail stores in space or how to allocate sales territories in space.
The GoF book ? .. I didn't remember seeing it but I have to admit I skimmed with very negative eyes :)
That is painting with a very broad brush. For better or worse, federal government is huge. It is not exactly a monolith. It is made out of people and, not surprisingly, not all of them agree with one another.
Sounds so good! That is a feature that I want to implement, when I was making the font I wanted the same feature (but decided to finish the font first!) so what I end up doing was using a different character to create a variation of a char and then replacing the coordinates in the JSON file later.
That's residence pricing, so:

$1250 a month housing

$1250 a month on education and staff

The numbers aren't crazy with the housing prices we're experiencing right now.
Bingo. If I graduated in the last two years, I would have gone to work at a grocery store while taking a couple core classes online while I waited for colleges to get back to normal
"Searle asserts that there is no essential difference between the roles of the computer and himself in the experiment.. 'I don't speak a word of Chinese,' he points out."

This seems to be confusing multiple concepts. In the experiment, he is clearly just one component of the room, other components being the rules, the filing cabinets, etc. Of course, none of the single components of the room speak Chinese, but the room clearly does because it is doing just that. None of the individual neurons in our brains "understand" English but the system as a whole does.

The crux of it is, what is really meant by the word "understanding".
I'd also like to never be sick, but that's not a realistic request in reality.
Brigham and Women’s will be delighted to know they acquired a university. Didn’t know they turned Mormon though.
What's amusing to me is:

a. Replies don't know if I'm being sarcastic or not.

b. I don't know if people who upvoted this comment thought I was being sarcastic or not.
It absolutely is but it depends on the field. My first few years in software were filled with questions like, "Why didn't you finish?" We also continue to interview in ways that are more accommodating for college graduates and attendees, regardless of whether it's needed or not.
I should rephrase that sentence.

Agreed the Quest 2 is a great device for its price. What I mean to say is that the Quest 2 isn't pushing the current limits for VR pixel density (by having a high Pixels-Per-Degree aka PPD).

High PPD is important for gaming but extremely important for VR computing/office, since it heavily impacts how high quality text and other fine details (icons, etc) show up for you. This is one of the main drivers of our high price. Since we're trying to get people to work in a VR headset for 8+ hours in a day (replacing their PCs/laptops as their primary computing device), we needed to offer as high a PPD as we possibly can. This requires state of the art displays and a compute unit powerful enough to power the rendering. We also have a special text filter in Simula which is optimized specifically for text rendering.

There are other problems with the Quest 2 as well, but low PPD is the most important one. Price is definitely not one of its problems (though its low price is being subsidized by its bringing people into the Facebook ecosystem, etc). The Quest 2 is primarily a gaming/entertainment device, and it does a pretty good job at that. The Simula One is primarily a VRC (though it can be used for gaming in Tethered mode).
Tim's videos are always so well done! Even if you're not a rocket enthusiast there's tons to get out of this video.
I am definitely someone who will re-watch videos, especially video essays, songs, or memes, depending on context.

That being said, one would hope that Youtube would have better user segementation, but I can't imagine that is an easy problem.
It's a decision from a German court. Here's a link to an English analysis of the ruling, which includes links to the decision itself:

https://iapp.org/news/a/new-eu-data-blockage-as-german-court...
To me it was the recursive mapping over a closed set of types, whatever you do you should end up with an element of your type/grammar. That and the graph walk space of the AST.
Minivans aren't the problem. That's a sensible design for moving a lot of people around.

It's those lifted trucks that have a hood taller than some shorter adults, to say nothing of children. New pickups in general are just ridiculous compared to the same models from 30 years ago, which were just fine for, say, actual ranch work.
I found Creole in the Caribbean to be a similar situation.

If you speak English, know a little French, and can understand most accents, dialects, and localisms in the US (especially the many Southern ones), then understanding Creole can be pretty easy.

At least I unexpectedly understood it somewhere between 80-100% the first time I heard it in person.

British, Irish, SA, Aus, and NZ versions of English actuality sound more "funny" to my American ear, even if Creole requires more focus to listen and comprehend.

Creole to me sounds more like an extreme slang and accent more than a different dialect, in an "uncanny valley" sort of way.
My theatre degree has been useless from a compensation standpoint for me. It was somewhat helpful when I was in sales but I only got it because it was the easiest degree that required the least amount of maths.

I went to college because my parents forced me to. Thankfully I got out without any debt. I cant imagine how upset I would be if I racked up 100K is debt and ended up with a useless degree like many of my friends did.

That being said... I cant really blame my parents for forcing me to go. It did seem like the best option at the time. No one told me, or I guess them, about alternative educational programs or trade schools. I'd probably be a carpenter now if someone had. I had pretty much zero plans for my life post high school so college at least gave me something to do while I figured it out.
As the owner of an ultrawide...so much whitespace.
I really don't see how buying more buses to service areas that are lacking is somehow harder or more expensive than a technology that hasn't matured yet to the level that will satisfy the public.

I very much hope that the tech does massively improve but my opinion of it getting there soon is much more dim (although I'd say in the above case, lots of self driving tram like buses would be still better).
Wouldn't SCF imply the cost has already been born? Divorce is relatively simple without kids.

If kids enter the equation, the cost of divorce is the differential between what it ACTUALLY costs to support the kid, and what you'd be paying in mandatory child support (many states like 30% salary after taxes.) That could mean a huge wealth transfer from the one without custody to the one with, with no change in resources spent on the child.
I dunno if this had anything to do with it but there is peer to peer online gaming with Divinity Original Sin 2, and I tried grouping up with many folks I friended online and not in the same time zone and it never worked for us. Borderlands also appears to use peer to peer connections.
Can U.S. journalism truly serve global audiences?
Just like how you know which websites to visit. Research. It's not like they are coming to you - you are going to them.
I gave you a whole essay where I talking to you about anti-trust law, and illegal anti-competitive behavior here, where I referenced actual case law, such as the Epic vs Apple case, where Apple was ruled to have engaged in illegal anti-competitive behavior here.

So I will repeat again, my main point, and keep it simple, so you will actually read it. Apple has already, by the court system, ruled to have a large enough control of the market such that it is possible for them to engage in illegal anti-competitive behavior.

You tried to imply that this would be impossible, for Apple to currently be having a large enough control of the market, such that it can engage in illegal anti-competitive behavior. And that is wrong. Because the court system already ruled otherwise.
I'm in my early 40s. I dropped out of university. I've been programming professionally, in a wide range of contexts and in various industries and niche markets, for over 15 years. I still deal with the stigma associated with not having a college degree. It's not as frequent today as it was when I was at year 1-5, but it still comes up often enough that I get the sense it will never go away.
Keep this one advancing. Great job with maintaining simplicity. Lots of forks will come your way
It was always rumored around the FAB that dropping a case of wafers was akin to totaling a Ferrari. Maybe ~20 wafers in a case, so this math checks out!
> it's just predicting what the next sentence in the document might be

Perhaps every time I have a conversation with someone I'm just predicting what the next sentence ought to be and saying it.

How would I know the difference, let alone you?
Folks interested in this subject should consider joining the Parking Reform Network for connections to a bunch of people working on the subject around the world: https://parkingreform.org/
That was the answer. People vocally cynical about the vaccines have always been using a strawman argument, in case you need a refresher a strawman argument requires two things:

1) creating a standard that was never used by the proponents

2) criticizing the made up standard to discredit the proponents

on a medical level, it is clear this wasn't to stop the spread, it was to slow the spread as vaccinated infected have smaller viral load for shorter time period compared to unvaccinated infected, as well as reduce severity and deaths of those that contained a viral load.

On who we call the "proponents" for this topic, I will concede that I've heard many local influencers, radio hosts and others reduce this to "stop the spread" in reference to any viral mitigation measure, such as masks, distancing, quarantine, and vaccination all part of an amorphous overarching program. But its clear that the people that latch on to "stop the spread" as a reference to the vaccine as a technical term advancement would never have looked at the technical supporting data due to either trust issues with the institution or plain ignorance of how it works. The researchers and their research has always been clear about what performance to expect from the vaccines (except duration of effectiveness which is unknown for both the vaccines and natural immunity, compounded by the variants)
Perhaps I'm out of touch with European salaries but are they really that low (for a company that says they have 'competitive salary')?

A couple of observations:

* The performance measurement of 0.9, 1.0, and 1.1, appears to be a multiplier

* A thriving senior will be making less than most FANG interns (of course the reality is that different countries have different pay expectations). I live in a high COL city in Canada, no kids, and I would be making just enough money to support myself and my partner at that salary, without any ability to save money for retirement. I realize all my expenses aren't strictly 'essential' (my partner's school, gym memberships, occasional travel, and a few drinks every month), but doing the budget at the beginning of the year has been really sobering, and changed the way I evaluate prospective salaries.
The curation tools are limited especially with playlists and worst of all watch later SILENTLY fails after 5000 videos are added to the watch later playlist.

Yesterday a watching now playlist glitched and kept looping in the middle. I had to manually click on the next video as the next button and shift N didn’t advance the playlist but looped instead.
Huh? From Peter Thiel to Bill Gates to Steve Jobs to Zuckerburg, most billionaires don't push the college propaganda and have shown/encouraged path without college education.

It's only the pseudo-social scientists who can't do proper data analysis (finding out the real confounding variable) that push the college propaganda
To echo one of the possible reasons for desaturatuon trend is a curiuos widespread of badly configured screens out there. Same problem as was back in time in a random hotel an image on a room TV set would be way overly saturated and often the contrast/brightness balance would be off too.

These days the default profiles on TVs are better, but perhaps people's expectations may be off from the past experiences. Just the other day, by chance witnessed a neighbor's gigantic TV wall with a pronounced orange cast and almost toxic spill of overly saturated colors showing something as mundane as news broadcast... No need for any dramatic enhancement here. Well, perhaps the warmed tones are deliberately set for some other primary content ...I don't need to know.

So, aesthetic may be at play, but simple lack of a technical ability to configure the screens may still be the factor, so directors may be compensating for the target medium, which in this day is prevalently a TV/device screen.
If you’re going to have people study for 4 years past grade 12, someone’s got to pick up the tab for their rent, food, entertainment, and clothes/supplies at least.

If we disallow lending, that would tend to limit the attendance at “away from home” colleges and universities to the upper middle and upper classes. I don’t know that outcome is obviously “better”. It would be a massive boon to the wealthier families as compared to today.

I benefited massively from student loans and Army ROTC scholarship; I don’t want to see that taken away from future generations (even if removing that would benefit my family).
this is the reason that most FOSS games (especially browser games in JS) don't really do well with a leaderboard. Still a neat trick to mess around with!
Plenty of servers out there configured not to return /Content-Length:\s?(\d+)/i at all. I mostly stumble upon them in my video plugin. m3u8 (content-type: application/vnd.apple.mpegurl) resources seem to be particularly configured this way most of the time.
Government needs to get out of the student loan game entirely.
Yeah this is why small businesses have all ended up on Facebook and, to a lesser extent, Squarespace. Big players providing a consistent service with a simple interface is going to win every time.
> The AWS security team coded a fix in less than 25 hours, and it reached all AWS regions within 6 days.

That is really fast. It reminds me of the Google DHCP takeover vuln that Google sat on for 9 months (https://github.com/irsl/gcp-dhcp-takeover-code-exec).
If you're storing "Bob'; drop tables students --" in the database, you had to have sanitized your inputs, or there would be no students table.

The article title says NOT to sanitize inputs. perhaps it's that nuance doesn't fit in a headline, but eh...
Israeli scientists have taught a fish how to drive
I agree it's a stupid problem to have when simple solutions exist (use cool features while developing, babel them into old boring code that runs on your smart fridge from 2002), but it's a problem nonetheless and a problem we wouldn't have if it was possible to install a new non-Safari/WebKit browser on iOS 12.
Locking up child abusers isn't controversial. Finding out the vast majority of them get away with it scot free seems like it would be controversial as hell.
JetBrains has a MPS (Meta Programming System) [1] that I believe is for knocking up DSLs. At a lower level, I've used ANTLR [2] a bunch of times, and its StringTemplate even more often.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/

[2] https://www.antlr.org
I’ve been looking for something like piper, is there only perforce?
I live in Colorado. I don't see a lot that I would "anti-intellectualism" since I live close to Denver but I definitely see a much higher value placed on skills than degrees
> why was it impossible for me to add an aircraft maintenance certification through my school?

Because schools can't bullshit maintenance certification curricula and aren't willing to pay qualified faculty.

See also: the alarming number of schools where CS and Data Science courses are still taught by mathematics faulty (because they can't find CS faculty who are willing to work for $70K).

This model of "pay unqualified people to teach a good enough version of the course and hope our consumers don't notice they're being shafted" only works in unregulated fields. Most trades are not unregulated.
Great game! Suggestion, penalize each rotation that does not have a click.
I think most of us can agree that the bandaid fixes aren’t work for young Americans. The system needs a significant overhaul, both financially and culturally.
"Our infection inhibition assay results clearly indicate that CBDA and CBGA are both able to block cell entry by SARS-CoV-2. The concentrations needed to block infection by 50% of viruses is high but might be clinically achievable. For example, CBDA administered orally to human volunteers at 0.063 mg/kg showed greater bioavailability than CBD and produced maximum plasma concentrations of 0.21 μM. (32) In beagle dogs, oral administration of CBDA at 1 mg/kg was well tolerated, was 2-fold more bioavailable than CBD, and produced serum levels up to 1.42 μM. (41) Although no data on the bioavailability of CBGA are yet available, the data for CBDA suggest that μM plasma and serum concentrations for CBGA should also be possible."
They do? Do you have any product names you can share?
> the incidence of long-term negative health consequences for those infected is roughly the same for vaccinated and unvaccinated

Evidence? The "long-term consequences" of an ICU stay are nothing to sneeze at.
Yes and OSU is in a relatively rural and affordable part of Oregon. So even with the insane housing market explosion - $1200/month is probably doable for a bare minimum type of living situation for a student. It’ll be just enough if the student has no emergencies. $600/month rent for a room. $400/month for food. $200 for misc.

If this was not a college town or somewhere as rural - you’d likely have to make it closer to $2000+ just because that’s how expensive it is these days to live in cities unless you were able to buy a house a couple decades ago.
>How many people are getting into selective schools? It cant be more than a few thousands,

Much more than that. The ivy league admits ~20k a year. That number jumps to a few hundreds of thousands if you extend to flagship state schools & the Dukes, Northwesterns, and Stanfords of the world.