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Conservatives by definition are about hierarchy, privilege, and institutionalised bias in favour of some groups at the expense of other groups.

https://kottke.org/21/02/conservatism-and-who-the-law-protec...

You could argue that progressive mechanisms like affirmative action are just the same in reverse, and it's true that progressive politics in the US still has a conservative tinge.

But there are differences. AA is seen as a temporary rebalancing measure, while conservative privilege is seen as the natural and divinely ordained order of things, for all eternity.

It's essentially personal monarchy, as against anti-conservatism which is more layered and complex.
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I quite like that I can go to a friends house (and vice versa) and have their AirPlay speaker or TV just show up as a device to stream to. Seems a bit extreme of Rachel to call this usecase “insanity”.
Try illustrating that with an example, perhaps? Take Argentina, which I picked at random because it starts with an A and is far both from the US, Europe and Russia.

From what I can tell, it voted with the Ukraine in the UN, has done nothing to take Russia's side, and doesn't do much. Is that right, or have I missed something?
Taking longer to get up to speed and setting up a development environment: I'm not sure that's a function of age. It's more likely because development environments truly have gotten larger and more complicated over time.

I've been programming for 20 years - the amount of environment / config / tooling stuff to deal with just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
There's also this common obsession around Burial with music geeks that he (Burial) was so mysterious that no one ever knew who he was, or that he never gave interviews (except to M.F.), which is obviously wrong. There's lots of info on him, similarly to Aphex Twin. I think the lack of media presence is more about intentionally avoiding crap that comes with it.
Email is only for launch purposes.

In the end, nor email nor any other attribute that ties to your identity will be shown or used within the platform.

It’s fair to be skeptical.

Maybe we’ll change your opinion when you see it in action.

Thanks for commenting still.
The probability of succeeding as an atypical programmer is directly proportional to your general enthusiasm for programming.

Someone who has been constantly hacking and building programs for fun on the side while working a different career, and finally thinks it might be fun to do programming for a living at 61: absolutely.

However it sounds like he doesn't have a prior interest in programming. Even for someone in their early 20s I don't recommend getting into to programming for the job (in your 20s this means being a software engineer for the money, for your dad it would be they like they type of schedule/work you have).

This isn't because of some ideal that "real programmers should be passionate", but because there is a reason that despite a massive rise in bootcamps it's still hard to hire devs: most people don't enjoy programming enough to do it for a living.

I love programming, love computer science and ultimately prefer data science work because I don't love software engineering work for 8 hours a day. So even someone who really enjoys programming might not necessarily love software engineering. If your dad was exposed to programming in college and then spent 40 years without ever picking it up again, it's likely he doesn't really enjoy programming and even more likely that he really won't enjoy learning all the tooling and frameworks required to work as a software engineer today.

tl;dr if your dad is the kind of person building a k8s cluster for fun on the weekend, or likes to hack together toy react apps in the evening: the he absolutely could transition. However it's fair more likely that he currently likes the idea of being a programmer much more than he would the actual work.
I know what you’re staying but a philosophical point I’d argue that there is a cost for adding that information. It implies that if the recipe deviates from the one listed it won’t be as good, as if there is some platonic ideal and the the only way to get there is this recipe.

When I started cooking I had a very scientific approach, as if it were like chemistry class in high school. It felt like if the recipe wasn’t exact then it would be garbage, which is far from the truth.

Also, there’s a trap where some things are hard to define and are better left to the senses and judgement.

When a recipe says “cook for 30-40 minutes” some people feel trapped — which is it, 30 or 40? “Oh no, I cooked it for 45, it’s going to be awful.” Or “I cooked it the time that the recipe stated and the skin came out soggy.”
I look for competitive rates based on services offered. A shitty motel is cheaper than an airbnb but I use Airbnb because typically they offer nicer houses. I use a credit card that has a high annual fee because the rewards make it more than worth it. I buy the nicer toilet paper because it feels better than the shit kind.

Consumers are not valuing cheap over everything else. If I'm unaware of why a $100 bike lock is better than the $20 bike lock and I buy the $20 bike lock that isnt me being cheap. That is the $100 bike lock manufacturers failure to convey the value of their product compared to other, more affordable, options.

All of this is wrapped up in another issue as well. Wealth. I'm at a point financially where I can pick the better and more expensive option. At many times in the past I bought the shit toilet paper because it was half the price and that meant I could stretch my paycheck a bit further.

I'm not going to get into how that could be alleviated but consumers care when they have the financial comfortability to care and when they are aware why they should care.
Juicy Marbles: a plant-based filet mignon would become a thing
I don’t know why anyone would put their passwords in the hands of any subscription service.
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> With QMK firmware tap-hold, and one finger each hand chording, one opens up a quadratic expansion of expressibility, all near home row.

I'm a happy qmk enthusiast. My point was that the overwhelming majority of people will stick with the defaults for most things, which is why usage and adoption rates are not always a good indicator of the quality or utility of a tool.
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Would you consider a concurrent system executed by a single thread in a financial exchange to exemplify "indie devs avoid multithreading?"
Now convert that to Australian dollars and you've got a phone that costs more than some gaming laptops.
What’s the point of a constructor that isn’t called immediately? Couldn’t you just use any arbitrary function at that point?
The only difference between TikTok and any other big tech company would be their (lack of) Congressional bribery.
> Destiny for example is now permanently banned from twitch because he took the position that trans shouldn't compete in physical sports.

Destiny's ban reason and length are only speculated (Twitch uses "indefinite" in its literal sense). May also be from having Nick Fuentes on stream recently, since Twitch can be strict about featuring banned streamers [0]. Others guessed that it was this tweet [1] but I doubt it - seems to be something on-stream.

If the ban is from the trans athletes take (I do agree that it's the most likely cause), Destiny's usual edginess [2] probably contributed. Others have been fine with the same position.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30801959

[1]: https://archive.ph/wRM6u

[2]: https://streamable.com/trlxfu (not my title, I'd say there's deniability in the exact (sub)group being referred to)
To be accurate, I think Carlsen beats him pretty consistently, I think Carlsen would have a higher blitz rating if he tried for it. But Hikaru is a lot more entertaining. Hikaru has a great vibe.
The problem with this approach is that the correlations only work for average and below average cases. If someone is illiterate, chances are he's not going to be great at physics or medicine either. If someone is overweight, chances are he's not very good at running or ice skating.

Correlations stop working as we move above average, though. Paul Morphy was good at chess, but not so good as a lawyer. Michael Jordan is great at basketball, but not at golf.
I think this is more because of how people choose to spend their time. I know several outstanding programmers that are also great at learning foreign languages and writing poetry, and in fact, it seems that learning human languages and computer languages have some strong correlations in research about linguistics learning.

But, no matter how good you may be at any one of these things, to become good at the others you must spend time focused on learning and doing them. Most of the great programmers I know prefer to spend their time in pursuing other things that they become good at instead, primarily stuff to do with physical engineering. (Aside, I've always thought the propensity for using physical engineering as a non-work hobby is guided by frustrations from the intangible nature of programming/software.) But, I do in fact know several that travel and learn foreign languages, or that write poetry and short stories as a form of outlet.
> iOS is mostly flat

It’s less flat today then it was - because they’re clearly backpedaling.

> There will always be people who hate everything Apple designs

Apple ripped off flat design from Microsoft.

> Why do we need to remove unneeded clues, you ask? To make room for more important things.

Last I checked, some texture on UI elements didn’t take any additional space.

Your arguments are entirely unconvincing.

Blurred background effects are nothing new - and that’s something that’s been done with GPUs from nearly 20 years ago. They haven’t been able to make it anything more than a fad.
Thank you for your suggestion, I just gave this a try, and it's almost there but there are still some rough edges. It needs to mature a little bit more.

Though this got me thinking a little bit, I have ordered a M1 Max 32GB which I have been waiting for over 5 months now. I am actually looking into getting the M1 air with 8GB as I think it will suffice for my Java development. I don't need to run VM's on that machine.

I'm gonna think about this through this weekend. I don't really need the firepower from the M1 Max as it has similar single core performance to the M1 air. And if this product matures, I will really not need that much RAM either.
> the CPU might still be in real mode at the point in time when the far jump is decoded,

It definitely is in real mode when the far jump is decoded. Or is that not the right technical definition of "real mode"?

Do we leave real mode as soon as CR0 bit 1 is set, even though nothing has changed until the code puts a new value into a segment register? I've always thought of it as when CS becomes 32bit, meaning the long jump.

Anyway, that's just terminology.

> "Short jump to serialize on 386/486". Cargo-cult programming at its finest :)

That's weird. I tracked down the commit:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2ee2394b682c0ee99b0...

> Actually, with all the crazy out-of-order speculative execution going on

I would expect those to detect that dependency and not take effect. But I could be wrong.

Edit:

Interesting. The new Intel docs explicitly say to do the far jump "Immediately" after setting the PE bit in CR0.

https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/architecture-and-t... section 9.9.1.

Whereas the example code for the original 386 programming manual has the short jump, many other instructions, and then the far jump.

Haha, but then the actual example code on page 9-20 (new manual) still has the "clear prefetch queue" near jump.
I think the assumption on HN should be that the title is merely what the article author is claiming. So from my perspective reading a title like "37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home" is automatically converted to "AuthorClaimsThat(37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home)".
If anyone wonders what it was like to operate 'an ISP' in the 1900s, this is pretty accurate for most small-time operations. Extremely limited bandwidth (because T1s and E1s were just too expensive: I remember paying 25,000 Dutch Guilders [at least US$ 8K at the time] for a 2Mb/s connection spanning just about 80Km), operators realizing this is not what they want to do with the rest of their lives, ultimately selling out to bigger parties.
That's good. I'm responding to "Not having multiple human opinions and a hiring discussion/vote/consensus is a red flag". I think having combined scores is an own-goal, but having people vote based on their opinions is something worse than that (if you're having people do work samples).
Yes, it is that one.
You might be missing my point.

It's like how stabbing yourself in a random spot on the torso with a knife would be (in my estimation) more frowned upon/antisocial than playing Russian roulette with a six shooter.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the response was a Chrome-esque “drown the competition in feature velocity” approach. iMessage could add new features (with totally necessary payload shape updates) fast enough to prevent any integrations from working well and competing effectively. Throw in some EME-style approval-requiring binary blobs to enable decryption and a dash of CSAM-style regulation compliance and open vs closed won’t really matter (like we’ve seen on the web so far).
The argument seems to rely on measurement data. That is, all the intelligence measures we have are correlated, therefore there is a single intelligence factor. What this argument misses is the fact that not observing something doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. For example, we weren’t able to observe atoms for a long time time but they were there all along. Gardener tried to make this argument in the 70s regarding multiple intelligences but I don’t know about the measurement evidence backing that theory up.
These seem like easily solvable problems though. I have three monitors at home and 1Gb AT&T Fiber Internet.
Agreed on all counts.

> For reasons I don't fully understand, there's a lot of folks in the social sciences these day that seem to be waging war on the very concept that you can describe intelligence generally (and IQ tests specifically).

The unfortunate reality is that social sciences are largely corrupted by political activism. Their activities are often prescriptive social engineering that attempt to use their perceived scientific authority rather than actual descriptive science. Put simply, they are saying what they want to be so, rather than what is so.
I would suggest technical recruiting, you can do that until an advanced age, and it can even be a benefit to attracting senior level people as a recruiter.

My dad did similar, after going back to school in his mid 50s and getting a CS/cybersecurity degree, he tried the engineering side for a bit but ultimately went into technical recruiting for a big enterprise, which is a six figure position.
No consumers will eat the cost of a bunch of boomers who want to keep using cheques.... any sensible company will tell those senior citizens to get with the times.

Your ageism is showing. Hopefully you're never in a management position in an American company, because that attitude will get you fired for violating federal discrimination laws.

Moreover, just wait. You'll get your turn.
Are “smart” people happier? I see lots of people claiming the exact opposite (usually in reference to themselves ofc) but have never bothered to see if it’s a real study or something.
Dr. Dingel writes - "Our code makes it easy for users to explore alternative assumptions about whether any given occupation can be done from home."

His repo - https://github.com/jdingel/DingelNeiman-workathome

Would be a worthwhile student project to replicate this in R/pandas (They used Stata on a Mac, if you know what I mean) & have an interactive online plot so one can change the survey assumptions & see what results. Just collating all this data in one place is a monumental effort.

I remember this paper was a "huge fucking deal" when it came out in Sep 2020. Has like ~1500 cites. Was used by Biden administration to set policy. Co-author Dr. Neiman was personally nominated by Biden for treasury. Authors are Booth school stalwarts. Pls do read the paper, very insightful even if you don't agree with its methodology/conclusions.
Note that journal is Econometrica, not Econometrics, and is widely considered the top journal for quantitative work in economics. (slight nitpick in case OP statement causes confusion).

This is the kind of paper that goes a far way to establish tenure. Good job to the author if that is their stage in their career.
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With all his expertise, he can definitely bring a lot to the table being a consultant or mentor to all kinds of businesses.

Regarding programming, it depends if he just wants to work or work to earn money.

If the former, he could look at OSS projects that interest him, there are so many! He could make meaningful contributions (for the project and for him)!

If the latter, he can definitely give it a go but maybe not get his hopes up too much. He could start his own startup/blog/company though which might not be a bad alternative to paid work.

Also he could look at the no-code tools which would allow him to build stuff quicker than learning to program. It would probably be a step up from Excel already and he could see if he likes it and wants to dive deeper (some contractors are specialized in building stuff on top of no-code tools)

Anyhow, good on him to want a career change at 60+, I wish him all the best!
IIRC, Snow White was the first digital corrected film that went through this process. Each frame scanned from negative, stored as digital file, digitally restored*, rescanned into channel separate negatives via laser recorder.

*Restoration has multiple stages like film scratch removal, dust removal, color correction, shape restoration from any warping/shrinking in the film being scanned, etc. Lots of work goes into this that most people never even consider
Absolutely correct. Any everyone's situation is different, but let's be real - the vast majority of software engineers can afford a great home office space.
Ask HN: Do you have a dedicated QA team?
At my current company they recently got rid of our QA resources. They were contractors and reassigned to do assist in other projects. However, the company now believes developers don't need QA since they can do their own testing. Devs should write code, do all their unit, int, system testings, run their code reviews, save testing artifacts, and work with key stakeholders across the company to close requirements gaps etc. We're basically the entire sdlc minus devops.

This is great for small features, but it gives me pause for mid or large features. Are we the only ones doing this?
These days, anti-COVID protest is what brings people to the streets. A few years back, it was all about wearing yellow vests and protesting gas tax hikes that harm small business.
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Imagine keycloak. It's classical enterprise Java application with database. You can deploy it as WAR file with configured JDBC connection.

But people who use keycloak often have little idea what Java is. They write code in Go and call Keycloak interfaces via REST API. They just need to start that thing and connect to some database.

With docker they'll get it up and running in minutes.

With EAR they'll spend next few days I bet it.
The world did not exist until Git.
Former Microsoftie here.

After all the business ethics training videos I had to sit through, I am infuriated by this.
It's true and it's their choice of course. If I lived in NJ I'd surely own a car too. Sometimes I wish I had a car, especially on weekends so I and my family can do some outings but it's so expensive and cumbersome in NYC.
It is because we have a more nuanced take on what intelligence is. We don’t think that intelligence is something that you can measure with a pen and paper test. Being smart also includes stuff like “reading the room”, being empathetic, knowing when to quit, etc.

If there is a general intelligence—which I very much doubt—our current tests don’t even come close to measuring it.
this is cool! to clarify, it's different than the existing Copilot extension because this lets you edit existing code and uses voice commands?
I'm in my mid-50s and while I'm definitely not a high-flyer, I've found work for the last 15 years as an FTE of state gov't in the U.S. I've had friends who've been let go in the private sector as they passed 50, but government employers don't typically do such purges. It may not be easy to get into gov't service at your age, but it's worth a shot.

Also, I wonder you should create your own 'Ask HN' to uncover whether your approach to job finding may have flaws, since there are many older IT workers out there who are finding work.
It's not "a few bucks", it's like $12 a month, more than most streaming services, for the privilege of having it not pause the video when you lock the phone. Which it shouldn't be doing in the first place. Also this yet one more thing on top of the subscriptions you already have. Can't subscribe to all of them.
I would love to hear more about that. Does someone here have an experience with V lang and can tell us if its claims are at least close to truth?
Yea, if only housing prices were reasonable in any major U.S. metropolitan area right now where tech companies are located.
This proposal covers more than messaging. I don't know of any messaging services which editorializes content.

>Either allowing everything or nothing is not sustainable for anything on the internet so you need arbitrary rules to stop arbitrary things.

It doesn't need to be so complicated. Allow lawful content and maintain your neutral status, or only allow content you choose and become a publisher.
Really? My 2013 high spec'd Mac Pro is feeling the pain on a medium sized typescript project. The coding hints / errors take many seconds to load.
I should have been more clear. What I meant is how the posts are sorted on the main page, because they are clearly not sorted by just upvotes (e.g., post A with 100 upvotes may be No. 1 post, while post B with 1500 upvotes may only be No. 5).
Beautiful quote. Thank you for sharing it with us.
I suspect a huge number of these kinds of bugs exist in production software, and will be brought to light by the "weak"(er) memory model of aarch64.
I notice this pdf and most of the links in this discussion are for x86 architectures, and deal a lot with BIOS, getting out of 'real' mode, etc.

Are there any such resources for ARM (preferably ARM64) that would cover similar "Get a basic OS up and running" topics that you could follow on a device or emulator?
It took me 1-2 years before WFH didn't make me depressed. I enjoy it now but I understand.
For reference

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30791424#30803184

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5665562/
You can also install SmartTubeNext on a Firestick.
I would assume RCS and floppies. CVS later. That is what my company apparently used in that era.
I have always just used the psql command as I have a cli based mindset from using Linux so long. I find it works great for reading data and querying but would like a small application for building an image graph of the whole database. Does anyone know a good one for MacOS?
I would say yes absolutely. He doesn't have anything to lose.
Do you believe they have the tools to create that vision of a better world?
Given his background I think he should become a recruiter that peddles the over 40 tech crowd. That way he can dabble with programming on the side, leverage his business acumen, and see first hand whether there is a market for old folks in tech.
Rules are for the little people.
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