skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you would call "open hardware."

You are confusing the "norm" at the time, with Apple specific decision to open up their hardware. At the time, a lot of consumer electronics shipped with their schematics, including TVs, Radios, etc. You cannot find a single TV today that ships with how to talk over its diagnostics port let alone schematics.

The Apple computer you're referencing was more like an of IC of today, both in complexity (many $1 ICs today are orders of magnitude more complex than that entire computer), and the skills expected of the user of the computer. Both of which would require one to have intimate knowledge of the inner working of the device to be able to operate and maintain it. Users of that computer were like hobbyist of today, buying an electronics kit and rest assured, electronics kits come with detailed manuals, schematics and more.
IIRC, the strongest predictive factor for SAT scores is... parental income. So if what these tests are measuring is not a "general factor of intelligence" but "quality of home environment", you can readily see how that could correlate well with outcomes like "success in later life."
> Regardless, I feel employees should get paid for their commutes.

This opens up way too many cans of worms - some of which (I feel) are very unfair.

(Morning shift)

I worked at SGI doing tech support on the "East" team. The teams were split up by timezone (we were all in Mountain View - where the Google campus is now). My shift started at 5am (no traffic at all) and I lived about 10 minutes away at that time of day.

One of my coworkers lived in Gilroy, and was on the west team (a 9-5 working hours) and would sometimes have a commute of an hour and a half each way if traffic was bad.

So, the guy in Gilroy should be getting paid an extra $100 to $150/day for living further away from me and not working the morning shift?

Or how about the sf2g types ( https://sf2g.com )?

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I can find other examples of this through my professional career. I had a co-worker who lived in Minneapolis driving to Eau Claire, WI each day. One bad snow storm, it took him 3 hours to get in that morning.

I currently have a coworker who lives in northern Wisconsin and the office is in southern Wisconsin. He's been very happy with WFH. But he had quite a commute (he likes driving).

This furthermore complicates the question of overtime. If you've got a 90m commute each way, does that mean you should only be working for 5h/day to avoid overtime? If I take the scenic route, do I get paid more?

The "ok, here's the consequences of paying for the commute" that I would see is that for companies that need people in the office (e.g. nurses), they would then have the constraint "you must live within 15 minutes from the office and public transportation is not acceptable as that may cause additional delays."

While I recognize the "this is time lost", the "lets compensate for this time spent" is a mess and would cause more problems and discontent than the lost time discontent currently has.
If you're using an open source database like MySQL or Postgres it's pretty trivial to do this without containers. All you need is ~10 lines of SQL to create a new database and database user on your single local database instance. I don't understand why anyone would use a different database for testing and production. As far as I'm concerned, Postgres/MySQL are lightweight. I certainly have them running permanently on my machine and they use almost no resources when not in active use.
I disagree.

The original argument is about having the ability to dictate HOW the tax dollars are spent on education.

> If we take that argument to the extreme then people without kids shouldn’t pay school taxes at all.
This is not taking the above argument to the extreme, it’s introducing an extra proposition, mainly “if I don’t have kids I should pay taxes for schools”.
This is about IF my tax dollars should be spent on education.
The comment is also true and is talking about a real fact that America conducts extra judicial killings around the world and generally has no care for civilian life.

It's disturbing to see mentions of this simple fact get attacked.
With this Reddit lost at least one reader, me.
> Although it may be neat to look at, it weighs a massive three pounds (~1.4 kg) and is very tiring to manipulate. Solving this is more a test of the wrists than of the mind!

This was the punchline I was looking for. The aluminum version seem like a more desirable version at 500g.
> lucky enough to have a lovely wife

Me too, but I met my wife through work (we didn't work together, but I met her through a lady I did work with). I think a lot of young people - not just men - are hoping to interact with potential romantic partners through work.
It is not very common to increase your score on the SATs by a significant amount. The actual gains are very marginal, in the aggregate.

Most money spent on test prep is just wasted.
Yeah, it's really difficult because a lot of the drive expressed in OP is for a new source of opportunity... The problem is that ageisms and such definitely take root in our industry, trying to work healthy hours at a startuppy place when you are older seems very precarious. I think you are on point that technical management has more availability, if that's the constraint.

If the constraint is instead that programming looks fun but you want to get exposed to as much of it as possible, I mean, I would suggest that OP’s Dad start building an indie game or so? Doesn't have to be a bestseller to sharpen thinking about design and aesthetic and underlying mechanics and state and data structures... I work in web but the amount of framework churn and such is kind of something I wouldn't force others through.

If you did want something more webby, you would want to practice with something you find interesting... If you wanted, maybe something that touches a lot of other technologies. If you think about writing your own GitHub, you start with git repositories and cloud hosting and deployment, you can move into CI/CD type workflows pretty easily, maybe that is a better way to start off web programming?

The other thing I will say is, Big Tech companies are often places where you can get one role and then ask for their developer education tracks where they teach their accountants etc how to become developers if they want to pivot. Say for example, being a manager at Google but having some 20% project that lets you contribute code and get feedback. Bigger more established companies have fewer problems with ageism, because they are much more sensitive as lawsuit targets for those sorts of things, so they have to get their s** together.

Also worth saying, the prior job history is an asset. A lot of developers do not speak business-ese. If you are a solid programmer who can talk to C-levels, you are a potential CTO at the right sort of place. Because you can translate, and because you feel comfortable walking into a contract negotiation with some client as “okay, how can I not say ‘no’ to everything but push back on the really hard problems while ‘yes, and’-ing all of the tractable stuff to get them on board.” Consultancy is one of the ways to do that, but not the only one. But worth calling out that as an asset if it helps focus the journey more.
URL rendering trick enabled WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage phishing
That is funny xD
Well, it is related to LTE, in the sense that VoLTE calls are treated as 'data' (and thus backhauled to your 'home' provider, as per your (e)SIM), whereas 'voice' calls are handled by whichever provider you happen to be connected to.

But the advice to always dial calls in 'international' format is helpful.
This is great. I’d be curious to know what the most significant sale has been - anything $100k or more?
The only measure of intelligence is being able to get exactly what you want, in exactly the way you want it

everything else is a useless metric to sell yourself
Yeah, I mixed up which name applied to the new technique. To be clear, I don't know the space, I just read the study and assumed that "digital mammography" sounded more 3d-ish than "tomosythesis". I'll update my comment accordingly.

Edit: oh man. Now I see that I mixed up the direction too! What in the heck. The article was written like there was a big problem with 3d mammograms so I assumed it was performing worse on this metric than the baseline. But in fact it's better?
Hi!

1) The main differences (both for the person that’s asking and the person that’s answering) are:

- Agile & guaranteed number of responses (no need to be a HOT question/topic)
- Compensation model
- Flexible media types (ask and answer in text, audio (voice), video, poll, and more.
- Full anonymity (no social bias and/or no profile/façade to upkeep)
- Robust moderation protocol
- Gamified and engaging user experience
- Target a profiled audience

As for incentives if you’re answering (there’s 3):

- Sake of entertainment and curiosity
- To help others
- Cash

2) As for unrelated (gibberish/trash) and offensive answers, all you need to do is click an immediately visible “report” button that will trigger an investigation immediately. That answer will be reimbursed and the responder drastically punished if not banned (as tolerance for this is very limited).

3) Plagiarism is not a main area of concern to be honest, in the end if a quote from someone famous or a fragment from Wikipedia are a great answer for someone that’s fine. What mainly drives the score algorithm is how useful the answer was to the person that asked the question, where it came from, not so much.

Thanks so much for asking!
Worth mentioning that even with People disabled, it'll still produce 'Spotlight on You' sequences, and if you search for a person, they become fair game again for future photo collages.
Are these lecture online anywhere? The lectures in the menu just redirects to a login page.
Almost all versions of "intelligence" rely heavily on memory, in one form or another.
Yup. We are reversing a lot of efforts society put into reducing sprawl. More and more cookie cutter houses built on what was once a forest… taking with it tons of wildlife.
This one looks actually really promising
Falling into the CMS trap[1] at a sensitive time in a startup can kill the business. In brief: when you try to build out too much complexity up front, everything easy becomes hard, everything hard becomes impossible, and generally any change takes too long. And since sometimes you don't have the luxury/runway to retry, you are stuck with it.

[1]: http://max.engineer/cms-trap
Great initiative. I guess this is similar to briar or session.

Looks promising. I would be intrested in the differences compared to briar and session.
In my company we also have dedicated QA teams. I agree with all IcePunkMetal wrote above, getting rid of them is kind of dumb. Like he wrote, they are now rolled up into the dev team instead of being part of the separate "QA division", which is better IMO. But they're still not developers.

In my team, they are fully integrated into the decision making process and roadmaps, they are CCd to almost all the team's internal emails, and a format version isn't released without their authorization.

Now, there are some problems with being a QA, personal stuff like having a low self-esteem since "you're not smart enough to be a dev", and enmity between devs, PMs and QA due to feelings that QA hold up the teams. As a former QA myself I'm fully aware of them. In our particular team these issues are negligible (well, at least I hope they are). I personally fully respect the QA team and stop whatever I'm doing to help them with whatever they need or ask. I see them as my first line of defense against bugs, especially the kind of UX bugs that are difficult to test for.
Ok, I didn't realize that. Signal may not even have a financial presence in the EU. In the US, according the Wikipedia, they have ~$20M in revenue, many orders of magnitude off...

It is also one of these weird non-profit + for-profit company mix, to which I don't know the effect it has. Anyways, the numbers are simply not there.

Ironically, if the law works as intended, making all major messaging platforms interoperable, if can make smaller players who don't want to join the club (like Signal) less attractive.
Fair enough. I usually try to play it normally for the first 3 or 4 guesses, then turn to grep to narrow it down. This site just automates the grep part.
Nobody ever said Apple was static. They roll out updates all the time, of course. No different here. It helps to understand the reasons behind some of the lockdown.
I had a friend try VoIP on a dataplan a few years ago.

> The biggest problem I foresee is a lack of QoS,

Bingo. QoS for voice is about jitter and consistency of your stream.

> I'm hoping that best effort on a lower bandwidth stream will work alright.

Lets put it this way: you don't care if your webpage loads 0.2 seconds slower. But a few random 0.2 second delay in your conversations will make them utterly, and completely unintelligible. Low QoS is something data can afford because little "sprints" of high bandwidth is good for webpages and streaming video.

But "live", and "realtime" voice communications, the jitter is just too awful.

If no one else is on the cell-tower, you might be fine. But every now and then, you'll just get completely terrible phone calls that are unusable.
Attempting to rewrite a multi-million dollar application at the core of the business. Never designed to be an embrace-extend-extinguish pattern, so either it would all work perfectly, or the whole business would be sunk.
> I can testify how almost no one wants to hear from an old person

I love working with people who are more than 40 or 50 years old. My experience is pretty limited in this matter but I have found older people too be more forgiving when I make mistakes.

Also, older people has that art of speaking thing figured out. In my experience, older professional people don't just say "thank you", they tend to say things that are positively meaningful. Even when they reject my proposal, they will make the effort to actually let me down easy and slowly.

Writing this I just realized the counterpoint of this post. With age people are naturally more suited for managerial roles rather then full time technical roles. Understanding programming may give someone an edge, but with age people have more to offer beyond programming, which is management and communication.
Journalist wins 'kleptocrat' book High Court libel case
That's the best part about work!
My thoughts exactly. Every year, the Standards of Business Conduct training talks about not bribing foreign officials and devs are like “who the hell is ever in that position anyway?”.
With one major difference: in Africa, in general in the third world countries, whom to bribe, how much to bribe, who is the intermediary who handles the bribes, etc--are common knowledge. In the developed word, that is secret--only accessible to the super wealthy.
Doesn't that mean a good chunk of those jobs can also be outsourced?
I think people aren't aware that controlling for every factor is what distills the idea of general intelligence. That even after you account for everything you can think of, there is some quality that allows people to perform better mentally on many different types of tasks.
Oh, ok, that makes sense. But there are a couple of fixes. You create the account with your corporate email. You just need the password.

And that part: you're potentially giving sensitive corporate info to the SaaS app, with your personal email, and you risk getting fired for that

If that one part is real, than SSO isn't adding any power to you (or to the DSO anyway). If it isn't, then the only thing SSO changes is the password one.
Our true reality is consciousness and all it's activities. Open up to all of the experience instead of just little clusters of thoughts and feelings. It's amazing and wonderful.
YouTube can fix its demonetization strategy
Ukraine War: Civilians abducted as Russia tries to assert control
Graduating (or as I thought) from Sausage Software’s HotDog to Microsoft Frontpage was quite a step.. tables everywhere!
I’m not disputing that these tests measure something, they obviously do. However what they are measuring is not what most people consider a satisfactory definition of intelligence. In fact most psychometricians simply give up and define intelligence based on what these tests measure (i.e. operation definition). Without justification that is very poor science.
>I'm just saying you'd be happier there

You'd be happier on /r/cuckold, yet here you are.

>it even has boards for non-tech-related stuff since you don't post here about tech-related stuff.

I posted on a thread about malware, and made a comment about malware. That's "tech-related stuff". You have poor reading comprehension.

>Perfect fit!

Reddit also has /r/soyboy as well! Perfect fit!
Curious why they go through each letter saying yes or no, instead of just teaching them how to pick letters based on a binary output (ie: a= 00000, b=00001)? you'd think the characters per minute would increase dramatically.
My bank (Bank of America) has this "dark pattern" where they try to switch you to paperless statements and billing every time you log into their website. Each time you log in you get a popup about paperless billing. If you click the "default" big button, you've opted in to it. You have to look for a little tiny text link to keep getting paper bills.

I'm only 59, but without my paper bills, I've missed a few deadlines for credit card. I used to look for the bill in the mail as my reminder to pay it for the month.
It's extremely ridiculous. Does twitch publish a list of everyone they ever banned? Do they have private detectives following the bannees around to keep track of their real name and appearance and online handle? For all time? When the list is 100k entries long, does twitch expect every new entryant to twitch to review it? To hire their own PIs to determine who or what a "DrDisrespect" is? And repeat the process for every entry in the 100k long list?
> You guys really need to step out when you start to get too cynical.

Maybe I wouldn't have been so cynical if the author would've respected the title and shown some Radagast hair nest.
> I even felt like, at the age of 28, I was too old for dating and had missed all my opportunities.

I feel this immensely at 29, turning 30 this year. Especially after moving from another country and having all my friends in long-term relationships. Now just to get out there and have some confidence in approaching people.
In the 20th century 151,000,000 people were killed by "the government". lol? Maybe don't laugh about people that kill people for power.

https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.CHAP1.HTM
> Regardless, I feel employees should get paid for their commutes.

Why? How would it even be practical? What if there is congestion? What if someone moved after starting a job, or their commute time changes drastically? Does the employer pay for tolls?
I thought about doing something like this so I could turn the tickets I work on into paper tickets but never quite got around to it.

(I did buy a cheap receipt printer on eBay though and managed to burn it out in the first 10 minutes of printing. ProTip: a receipt printer with the width specified in inches is likely to be a quality printer by a reputable manufacturer, one specified in mm is likely to be a piece of junk from China.)

Adding a QR code would help a lot in terms of making a cyber-physical object where you could close the ticket by pointing at it...
This surprises...nobody? Except maybe bean counters/management types that need to show off perhaps.

With that said, I do have concerns. These issues center around a shift in benefits offered as a result of this new paradigm ( hate using that word but ) around the nature of work. I.e. the gig everything economy coming to your job...soon

Many folks in the US work a 9to5 not just for the pay, rather for healthcare and stability. However, it's only a matter of time that employees will become even more API'ified / made into independent contracts / etc. I know that many will welcome the flexibility - some though will not understand what this means.

I do wonder how the US will be able to handle this continued move away from 'trad' employment, given our rather odd situation of one's medical being tied at the hip to one's employer? Those that work in other jurisdictions need not fear the loss of a job as much as a US citizen. Literally, you could die ( just look at how many of those that were made unemployed during the pandemic lost access to medical. )

Just my musings...
I definitely believe it is possible to learn programming at the age of 61.
Certainly not for everyone - some people are not the programmer-type at any age. But if the curiousity and the will are there and the brain is still working fine - yes, definitely!

I learned Rust at age 55.

But! Programming is not only about learning a language. There is this huge background of methods, practices, technologies (network/ip/socket, data formats, databases, unicode, regular expressions, xml/xsl, markup languuages), Operating Systems, procedures (CI, VC...) and so forth. This vast amount of knowledge is gained by experience over decades. The young programmer does not have the experience either, but has enough time ahead to become a senior eventually. It will be very difficult to reach a senior level when starting at 50 or 60 - there is simply not enough time to catch up. I started programming at age 16, btw.

So I would definitely let him dive into programming just to see how it goes and support him on this challenge. It will also serve mental fitness in high ages. Getting into programming at that age, with the need to make a living from it and no plan B - I consider this too risky!!
Yes. I ended up making one with parts and 3D printing. But there are plenty to buy.

Mine is build as follows:
1. I’m using threaded hoods to attach to my lens and create a cylinder extending out.
2. I have a second piece which slides over the end of the tube with a bit of movement closer/further from the sensor to fiddle with focus and magnification.
3. The piece that fits over the tube has a piece to hold the film and show only one exposure at a time. Behind the film is a diffuser and a light source.
Beware of Python devs writing Python shell scripts. They're used to using all the brand new (backwards incompatible) language features as soon as they come out. The vast majority have no consideration for a 10 year old PC running a 10 year old OS. The python3.x they write will not run.

Bash, surprisingly, gets backwards incompatible language features too. But the vast majority of bash developers are writing for all computers, not just computers with software from the last 3 years.

Python language could work if you stuck to an old target. But python culture is a problem and makes this very unlikely. What python is, and what python devs deal with, changes constantly. That doesn't work for shell scripts where stability is king.
YouTube still has a dislike button. They just don't show you the number of dislikes anymore.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act should be repealed and American companies should be allowed to compete on equal footing with their foreign competitors. No other country, even if it technically has an FCPA-like law on the books, actually enforces it to the extent the US does. It means that everyone is free to openly participate in bribery to win foreign markets, markets where bribery is just how business is done, while American companies have their hands tied behind their backs. This has overall been a major hamper on American competitiveness while being a huge boon to middle-men and white collar criminal defense lawyers who specialize in working around the laws and defending against prosecutions.