skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair play to this guy whoever he is. If only more people had his integrity.
If he has to make enough money to support himself then I'd say it's a bit tricky. If it's more for keeping busy and the mind sharp then yes, go for it. Especially if he has a lot of domain-specific knowledge from his time in management.

My grandpa learned programming, (BASIC, on a TRS 80) when he was 80 and got proficient at it quickly although it was just for fun.
Not everyone has a bad commute.

Distinct place where I don't have the distractions of home. (ie feel the need to clean, fix, things)

Much nicer environment - way more open space / natural light, great air quality, views, amenities.
I agree with everything you said but how is "free daycare" something small? Daycare costs thousands of dollars and the regulations and licensure are (rightfully) a very high bar. I would see free daycare as a huge perk and I don't even have kids.
Surely you understand that photography serves a vast number of purposes, and not just 'fun'?

Other people also loved my dogs, and giving them a final photograph to say goodbye to helped them. I also have photographs of tax documents, graves, medical issues, and, yes, lots of fun things as well, all of which serve their purpose. No one (except for Google's AI) would think they all belong in the same bucket to pull from.
Indeed. And that what these tests were all originally designed to do before they were coopted by the eugenics movement. IQ tests are really good at detecting if someone needs more help. They are not good at detecting if someone is smarter then another.
Android, ChromeOS, ...
Get an Amazon Firestick and install SmartTubeNext on to it. The Firestick plugs into your HDMI so your TV doesn't need to do any extra processing.
the OP's father could always try programming as a hobby, see if it suits him, and if so try to find opportunities to do work for others.
I really hope American businesses don't bring this headline to its logical conclusion...

"37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home...by people in India or Eastern Europe for much less money"
Indeed. I have been assumed to be attacking those struggles when criticizing the zeitgeist on this very forum within the past 2 weeks.
> "What is a shock: This time around, the SEC and DOJ have both declined to investigate Microsoft over the same types of bribes in the Middle East and Africa. They acknowledged my evidence (which I submitted three times) yet did not take up the case, claiming that the current pandemic has prevented them from gathering more evidence from abroad—even though I have already provided documentation that I believe shows Microsoft is in breach of the 2019 agreement and is still participating in corrupt business practices in direct violation of U.S. law."

I have no words for this one. I guess being a trillion dollar company comes with a lot of benefits.

Source: https://www.lioness.co/post/microsoft-is-using-illegal-bribe...
> MS does follow the DMCA takedown process.

which would be bad if the repo had any copyrighted materials. But does it?
I have a friend in his late 20s and he had trouble getting a job - took him about a year. He also has lots of experience at "good" companies such as Google.

Of course it could be your age/something you're doing - I don't want to deny your experience with the situation - but also sometimes things just don't work out.
Thanks for writing this, I agree with the things you've said in this thread (or at least they sound right to me, even if I don't have the experience of them).

> Let's throw down.

Sure! If I'm being honest, when I'm upset/angry about this I've started to sometimes apply the label "transphobic" to myself. I'm not. I have no hatred or negative feelings or lack of sympathy toward anyone, especially not people with feelings about their bodies and identity that are making their lives difficult and causing them to be be badly treated by others. But I know that so many under-40 educated liberals would call me transphobic for my views that I've found myself in anger giving up and saying "fuck it, then I'm transphobic if that's your definition of that term". My position is that I have a definition of "man" and "woman" that I have had since I was a child, and I then became a biologist, and everything I learned confirmed that the traditional definitions of "man" and "woman" were accurate-enough for humans and other mammals to be appropriate terminology, and hence I am not going to change my conception of the human sexes under duress from ideological young progressives. My position is also, as I said above, that of course, absolutely every human being gets treated humanely and with respect and sympathy regardless of the situation they are in or their body or internal psychology (unless they have done something evil). I am not transphobic, but it's accurate to say that I am highly critical of the trans-activist movement (obviously speaking generally -- I'm sure there are many wonderful people who consider themselves part of that movement). So I guess I'm transactivistphobic, in the sense that yes, with the cancel culture, and attacks on feminism and disregard for science, I am prejudiced against trans activism.
We have a dedicated QA team. Recently they've been "rolled into" the dev team, but they're still a group of people dedicated to testing. The actual developers should be writing their unit tests and functionally validating before opening a PR, then the other devs can validate before approving that PR, but the full E2E, automation, etc. tests should have a dedicated team, because there is a lot involved in doing that properly, and developers need time to... ya know, develop.

By putting all those responsibilities on the devs, they have essentially turned a parallel development system into a serial one, which is inefficient and, frankly, dumb.
I think almost with any common sense would recognize this. It happens a lot in the US as well and in academia, but most of all government services. People get kickbacks, Microsoft helps with marketing... so and so switched to Microsoft, here is what they have to say about how it helped the organization. Except, they never talked to the employees who would have told you how they hate it and it actually makes their jobs worse. People realize they are powerless and just leave or accept it as a normal part of business and the practice continues.
This is exactly my point (the after 3 years if it decomposed you are just time shifting) which is why I asked how long the roads take to decompose and what they translate into. Sooner or later that lignon in the road will become C02. But is that in 10 years? 100? If its time shifting it only by 15 years or so then its NOT reducing the total carbon to the atmosphere, just temporarily storing it. No different than putting the lignin in a warehouse for 15 years before burning it. So to call that carbon negative is just... bad math at best.
Exactly. I work remote. I am fully planning to work remote for the rest of my career. But I can imagine a number of scenarios where camaraderie, productivity, confidentiality, and quality of work are improved by having people in close proximity.

So I understand why some companies and teams bias toward everyone working in an office. And my choice to work at home will prevent me from being hired at those places. I'm blessed there's plenty of work available for everyone, remote or not.
Microsoft spokesperson: "how dare you single us out, obviously everyone is doing this"
> As he grows older, he has noticed it becomes increasingly difficult to find work

Programming/software dev is not a field I would choose if I were trying to avoid age discrimination. It can be hard enough for 61 year olds who have been in the field for 35 years and have all that experience to find work.

I'd encourage him to do it as a hobby, but don't get his hopes up about being able to find steady work doing it.
Disney Is Quietly Placing Classic Fox Movies into Its Vault, and That’s Worrying
I don’t know his motivations to become a programmer.

However with his experience as a CEO, CFO. He might want to look into becoming a Data Engineer, BI consultant, Data Scientist or Data Analist.

With the experience you mentioned he might be better at understanding how the “business” thinks and what they need.
Therefore a lot of his domain knowledge could be applied while being in a technical role.

Most of the roles I mentioned involve some programming but often that can also be drag and drop tools.

Good luck!
If I were you, I would ask him to study up and then give him parts of my projects(you said you're a contractor) and we can see if it works out or not. If it does in a couple of years or four he can be a contractor himself under your mentorship.

Maybe thats what he's asking anyway ;)
The existence of 'general intelligence' is a pretty different question from "can we measure 'general intelligence'"? The analysis demonstrated does not account for the possibility of confounding by some external factor unrelated to intelligence (income, tutoring, etc), which is what many will argue. At best you can claim a notion of 'general test-taking ability' with no ambiguity. Once you recognize the problem-solving patterns in these tests, doing well becomes significantly easier, which is an almost inescapable measurement problem.

And re: normal distribution implying some fundamental truth, the same can be said of an iterated guessing game (eg: take the sum of your correct guesses over 100 coin-flips - the population's scores on that game will be normally distributed).
> Think of a time you really wanted something

I don't think I've really had any such time (or I don't remember. My memory is terrible), which is one of the things the rational part of me struggles with. I kind of just adapt to whatever situation I end up in. I guess the problem is that I don't predict future happiness so I don't have any driving force to struggle to attain it.

I've been in this situation for long enough that I don't have any way of telling what is and isn't "normal".
Indeed. There are many things computers are amazing at doing (that's why I find them fascinating and enjoy working on them from time to time)—but human empathy isn't one of them.
My back yard had a colony? Community? Flock? Large group of Magpies. They would collectively complain when I was in the back yard. One day my dog had a slow wag which means they found something interesting. I found a baby bird, unharmed. I found a nest nearby and it had been windy recently. So I took a small cardboard box, duct taped it into the tree, and put the baby bird in it. I checked later and found the mom feeding the baby.

Ever since then, there was no complaints when I entered the back yard, and in fact they would often land on my hammock and would balance impressively (keeping the head still while the body swung) and peer in at us.

Clearly I had moved from the alarm list to the friend list, community wide. I'd often see a magpie on my fence or in a tree watching me quietly.
Except that the left does not admit to ideology all that much. The more ideological leftists all like to think that they're "based and redpilled" and telling it like it is, even though nothing could be farther from the truth. By contrast, people on the "right" tend to be more aware that their latest "redpill" is just another meme and it's all for the lulz anyway.
The same bribes/kickbacks are very big in government contracts. Not sure what the DoJ would do when they would up investigating themselves.
On one hand, g is such a flamebait topic that’s been covered to death. As mentioned in the piece, there’s a hard scientific consensus, even if people don’t bother to look into it before spouting their hot takes.

But that being said, the visualization on this are top notch, and the effort put into them shows - fantastic article in terms of presentation, and hats off to the author for putting it together.
Yeah, I've been fascinated with self-reference and related topics since reading some Hofstadter stuff (part of his book Metamagical Themas) in my teens, and then reading Godel, Escher, Bach recently.
Perhaps the best physical test for innate athletic ability is the standing vertical jump. There isn't an awful lot you can do to improve it. You can lose weight and train explosiveness, but someone with a 10" vertical will never be even average. Compare that to deadlifts, where any individual can triple their max through training.

I'm guessing there is an equivalent with mental capabilities. Somethings you can train, some are innate.
What Is Conformity?
I'd spin this around and cast it as a challenge -- regular, forced interactions with coworkers is minimally sufficient and retards some people from pursuing social activities outside the home.

There are already a number of options in even the smallest town. I expect that will increase as more people move to WFH and seek social outlets.

And at the end of the day "interacting with coworkers in the break room" is a pretty low quality bar for an alternative to surmount. Maybe your work conversations are more fascinating than mine, but I get more value elsewhere.
This also applies to a single universe where an action might have many unintended consequences, possibly snowballing into exactly the opposite from what you would have wanted. In this sense, each of your decisions are important and you are responsible for everything.

So in such a dynamical system, how do you then act? The philosophically Western answer to this is in part through Logos. You treat the spoken and written word as divine, through truthful and authentic expression of the individual, as clearly as possible. The consequences of how this unfolds is outside your immediate control, as it should be.

Love has an important role here, but Love without Truth seems to be the prevailing attitude online, which is declared as a personal virtue and experienced as righteous indignation. This is to me what others perceive as the fall of the West: the prioritization of Love over Truth.
3. Carbon in lignon road is released as it decays over time.
Physicists create compressible “gas of light”
2 things: age & language

1 - age

> As he grows older, he has noticed it becomes increasingly difficult to find work, even though he would love to continue working for the years to come.

There’s a significant age bias in the tech community that might be hard to overcome.

He is in a protected age class though: https://www.eeoc.gov/age-discrimination

Just make sure he knows his rights during the hiring process that it’s not acceptable for a company to not hire him based on age.

2 - language

Learning a new modern language like Node/JS will be a brutal race to the bottom in a highly competitive marketplace.

However there are some jobs that pay great money to folks who know older languages like COBOL, Perl, etc., maintaining old systems. And I’m guessing he’ll find the work and coworkers more relatable. These jobs are just much more scarce.

A question he might get from having an impressive C-suite resume and applying for programming jobs is: why? So just be prepared to answer that.

And probably have him build one or two personal projects so he can make sure he likes the process and has something to showcase.

Good luck!
cooklang is awesome, would love to see something like that
I guess the output is not really meant to be readable in any way
Learning from Tardigrades
That's true, but also very sad. I am lucky enough to have a lovely wife, kids and just enough good friends. And that's all I care about.

I don't really miss at all the office, let alone my co-workers. Working remote is just what I need, and I am way more productive.
I read it as the bills aren't actually from [well known company] but sent out by scammers knowing many people will get real bills from [well known company] and some may mistake the scammer's bills for real ones and pay the scammer.
Thanks for clarifying. I was actually going to respond in a similar manner as ModernMech. Your original comment came off very defeatist towards the scientific method. I see now that it is aimed at our collective response to the scientific method. I also share your disdain towards this response, especially with pandemic response.

At the same time though, I get it and I do this too. This might be too reductionist but I think most of it comes down to trust. It's very expensive, in terms of time, to have a critical understanding of any specialized field. So taking the shortcuts like past experience, intuition, relying on others are more profitable. Especially if the goal is survival and not understanding of a system. This then becomes a game of finding the most "trustable" person but that's the catch 22.
I never realized before that the sliding surfaces inside the cube are cylindrical, not spherical.
Interesting examples of related art. M.F. also mentions the paintings of Nigel Cooke in one of his writings > https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/paintings-by-nigel-cooke/

One music artist that I've been enjoying listening to lately is Biosphere. Specifically the Substrata album; To me it feels like a foreboding journey of the present with longings of some past.
My work involves a public sector organization in Brazil. In the last years there was a big push towards microsoft products at my workplace, to a point where emails with announcements from corporate IT sometimes looks and sounds like spam pushing MS products. Now I'm left wondering if that's related to bribes here too, or if it's just bad judgement/taste from IT leadership.
"bias towards assuming that physical skills are trainable while mental skills are not,"

For the layman, probably. Actual IQ tests try to ensure that subjects don't have experience with the test tasks. If they do, then the test is not as effective at measuring innate ability to learn or problem solve since it has been trained and the strategy to solve is already known. So it shouldn't be a misperception in the fields that deal with it.
I can't find any online searchable text of his great polemic, "Towards a New Architecture" -- but basically if you read that it's pretty clear: he hated people. Individual humans are fine and should have their needs efficiently catered to, but humans, en masse, are a repugnant horror that need to be cleaned up.

From memory, he described the cafes and bars of Paris as "fungus which consumes the pavement". He wanted to raze Paris to the ground in order to sort that out. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Voisin). There was one line in particular -- I wish I could find the exact text, but it went something like this: "the modern phonograph or victrola can perfectly reproduce the sounds of the orchestra, so there is no more need for the modern man to expose himself to the germs of the audience of the virtuoso of the soloist."

(I threw that book across the room SO many times during architecture school.)

In short: at one scale Corbusier may have had a fine sense of aesthetics and a generally keen mind, but at social scales he was a sociopathic germophobe who absolutely abhorred the complexity of organic living systems.
I saw a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iB7kkCy1xM&t=160s) on EDM machining and the tolerances were magnificently tight. I had since wondered if such techniques would work for building a "one-move" Lemarchand Box (Hellraiser), assuming that engraving various designs would utterly obscure the actually disjoint pieces.

I am not sure what steel you would need. Something dimensionally stable, to be sure.
>our current tests don’t even come to measuring it.

Then why do they correlate with outcomes so well ?
Building/pivoting on the unverified assumption that a market demand exists.
Nice, a language written a pretty obscure language (V) and using a pretty obscure build tool (z). I have a fondness for people using unusual tools for their hobby projects.

POSIX shell is a good compilation target if you want to write a non-trivial build system, but be able to run it on some old or otherwise challenging systems.
> You might be right. The few people that do try to align with that tend to call themselves "reactionaries", or even "neo-reactionaries".

I disagree. The "neo-reactionaries" I'm familiar seems ridiculously, over-the-top radical. It's like libartarianism taken so far it had an integer overflow and wrapped around to monarchism.

It's not conservative to want to blow up society an replace it with a mockery of an old one that rejects what everyone across the political spectrum actually believes now.
> ...had to pay the US...

had to or chose to?

It's an interesting thread, thanks for the link, but "knowingly and gladly" is not supported there, I don't see how you can lay any responsibility for Holodomor at Henry Ford's feet.
> their coworkers are the only people they regularly interact with in-person

This sort of self-alienation seems to be a pretty widespread problem larger than the in-person/remote debate. That said, it's probably better for those experiencing it to have some in-person socialization in the office than none.
So a PDF.
I won't accept any non-remote job where I need long commutes and I have to sit my ass there for the whole week.

Just yesterday we had a summer day, so just after lunch I went to a remote beach, used my phone as AP and worked for about 5 hours until nightfall.

No interruptions, no annoying noises, not battling with AC.

I mean, having tasted this, Im pretty sure what would I do if my company asks me to go back to office. I still have a low paying job, but my life has improved dramatically.

And my office is literally 5m walk from my home, so Im already ahead of many people in that, but it's a noisy bunker with no window, lots of people and all kinds of other BS.

People is definitely lonely. I can understand that, but I won't pay for other peoples loneliness.

If you want friends, ask me for a beer, or come to my house, I like to cook for people.

But Id bet that this is more of a managers thing.
Ask HN: Plastics mfg’s that sell kayak?
I’m considering starting a kayak rental service in my local area and would like to price out purchasing boats directly from a manufacturer rather than a consumer sporting goods store (REI, Dicks, etc).

All of the plastic manufacturer I’ve contacted up to this point stated they do not produce kayaks.

Could anyone here help point me in the direction of a company that sells kayaks off of the production line, or in bulk?

I know this isn’t the usual HN type of question, but this is a pretty resourceful community. Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
If anyone from CF is reading this, going to https://dash.teams.cloudflare.com/<id>/access/tunnels/add, typing name of the tunnel, and pressing Enter throws 'Tunnel name is required' (at least on macOS Safari.)

Clicking on 'Save tunnel' button works, but I was a bit baffled why it didn't accept the names I tried at first.
It might be a particular company's name, but it's not that company. It's a scammer using the company's name. There's absolutely no point in naming them.
That's odd. It runs as snappy as ever on my 16G 2013 MacBook Pro.
You can also do it directly from uBlock Origin, it's the closed tag icon.

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/25/ublock-origin-can-block-ja...
Ignoring the cloud for too long.
What would you say is an intellectually present way of saying I won't listen to something?

I mean that in seriousness. I have limited time and resources, as do we all, and have to make snap judgments about what merits attention. When I dismiss something as a conspiracy theory, I'm summing up in two words my judgment that an argument seems very unlikely. And usually coming from a source that has a pattern of being wrong.

That is not an argument. It's a shorthand for saying that I don't believe something is worth my attention -- which is a valid thing for me to decide.

I could say it that way, if you'd prefer. But the meaning will be the same.
Your parent acknowledged everything you said in his comment.
When a white manager commits to "equity" and condemns the white line workers as "racists, sexists, and homophobes"

What are you talking about here? What's a scenario where this happens?