skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ageism is a thing in tech

Managers are looking for people they can control, because companies and CEO and founders are looking for those, who they can control.

The thing is that folks who are 40-50+ are more smart when it comes to politics. It's almost impossible to screw them over with deadlines, dragging multiple times across the org. They know the law, and it's expensive to set unrealistic goals and paying with engineers' health for that. But this trick works with younger folks.

Managers can do all sorts of weird stuff to younger folks, and CEOs tolerate that:

- Work on weekends (I remember my manager was yelling at me when I didn't reply to him on Sunday, while I was working all day long on Saturday lol).

- Switch you, your team, and your folks to a totally different tech stack without a way to switch back, and see what happens (happened to me in Atlassian).

- Fire you when you sick - happened to me in Atlassian. Yes, it's illegal, but sometimes it is legal. You're getting back from being sick, and once they realize you gonna take more sick days, boom!

For example, once Atlassian found my wife has cancer, they tried to find ways to fire me. It happened September 2021. They know I gonna take extended medical leave to take care of her, and I'm eligible to do that every year. But no.

1 year after terminating my employment, my wife is still on treatment. Tomorrow is her 20th chemo.

I reached out to Mike Cannon Brookes and Scott Farquhar multiple times (Atlassian founders), it didn't help.

No reply, CEO and founders in tech tolerate ageism, and looking for ways to screw over younger folks because they can hire, and fire, and intimidate in a multitude ways.

The bottom line is that younger folks are more disposable, you can put more toll on their physical/mental health, and that's why there is a hire preference.
OCI it's pretty confusing.

They have two free tiers, the expanded initial time based and the always free tier. As far as I can tell, when your time runs out on the expanded free tier they turn everything off and you have to re provision into always free or do an account upgrade.

They deny a lot of credit cards they should accept. I have been unable to upgrade on any of my cards.

Since provisioning always free tier a second time I've not had any issues with them turing off resources.
>Never mind that diversity is profitable [1]

Mckinsey admits it's just a correlation. I don't think it's correct to say diversity is causally linked to increased profit.

Yes, diversity is often considered profitable by corporate executives, but usually for reasons that are not exactly positive, like with Amazon whose analysis was that diversity decreased the chance the employees would unionize.

>Whole Foods' heat map says lower rates of racial diversity increase unionization risks

https://archive.ph/1khJw
unfortunately, the submission is past a deadline (not so sure) for title change. perhaps @dang can help ?
exactly, they managed to make the level of addiction somehow even higher than yt or facebook.

In my opinion all of them should be restricted more, but tiktok was proven to do a lot of damage in a short time.

If facebook is like weed, tiktok is like crack.
My parents are from Canada, and when my dad was in the Navy in the 1980s, he was deployed to the UK. His biggest story is that they couldn’t buy peanut butter and Kraft Dinner except at the Base, which was obviously a problem. I travelled to the UK recently and asked someone there about those two items. Peanut butter is available now, but not that popular, but Kraft Dinner was unknown and frankly seemed disgusting to her! Which is fair, but its comfort food in Canada.
> Your estimated wait time is more than 16 hours...

Hrmmm
Because the definition of the word conservatism is "commitment to traditional values and ideas with opposition to change".

If you're worried about society changing, there is no definition of the word "progressive" you fulfill unless it's your tax bracket. Words have meaning, even in the mouths of sophists.
I have a similar experience. Recently my account got suspended for no reason. I have been logging in and reading up on the tutorials / documentation to see how to use Oracle Cloud and I hadn't even started using any of the free resources yet, but my recently created account got suspended nonetheless. Unless my account was hacked (which I would like to be notified of) I cannot have violated any ToS. I got the same non-response when I asked why my account was removed.

To me it looks like Oracle isn't being honest about their "always free" tier and they just shut down non-paying accounts to cut costs if they don't foresee them converting into paying customers any time soon. If it were a bug / mistake, then I would have expected better support (restoring the account or providing a new account if that's not possible), but being ghosted by a big corporation when you know for a fact that you did nothing wrong is pretty frustrating.

I have not had such a bad experience with any cloud company ever. I sincerely hope Oracle changes, but as it stands I will never spend a dime with Oracle and I will dissuade anyone from using their services, because of how unreliable they have demonstrated themselves to be.
So you're an anarchist?
I cofounded FeaturePeek, where we built a tool to solve this problem. It syncs comments and screenshots to the GitHub/GitLab pull request, so teammates can leave feedback during the development cycle, when devs prefer. We were acquired by Netlify in 2021, and now it’s built in to their Deploy Previews product, available on every pricing tier.
I don't like it, but it is how companies act; I feel that they should be much more upfront about it instead of hiding behind the scripts - just deny access from the country to non-paying customers, or otherwise make it explicit.
Author here - appreciate the comments and reads. To add a bit of color -- I spent about a month looking into orchestrators to migrate Whatnot's data platform onto earlier this year, and it was a miserable experience. We were on AWS Managed Airflow, but to stay on it and have a solid platform, I would have been writing Github Actions for CI/CD, standing up ECR and IAM roles with Terraform, setting up EKS to run Kubernetes jobs, managing infra monitoring with Datadog, etc., etc.

In fact, I did end up doing all those things, but we opted for Dagster Cloud, because of their focus on improving developer efficiency. Their team provided pre-built Github actions for CI/CD and recently introduced PR-specific branch deployments, which has been amazing. They're moving towards serverless execution, built-in ECR repositories, managed secrets. Prefect and Astronomer I expect are moving in this direction, too, but I liked the Dagster project's energy quite a bit.

As I've waded into the MLOps world as well, it just keeps looking like every platform basically devolves into : an orchestrator that provisions compute resources and logs metadata into an opinionated data model. Catalog tools like Atlan are metadata sinks that are trying to build out orchestration/workflow capabilities. dbt Cloud of course is just an orchestrator for a specific type of data product that is aiming to operationalize metadata with its metrics layer.

Orchestration + a metadata data model is a common denominator here, and I think the fact that Airflow is so inevitable has made it really hard for people to imagine the category as anything other than a scheduler, but perhaps some of these new companies can break new ground.
I need to deal with system with complex dependency relationship. The system need to stop executing when some step fails. I used to look at Airflow. I remember at the time it was the first result if you Google DAG something. But it has the same problem as data-engineer centric system that it was somewhat over-engineered and it relies too much on a center server. It’s heavily relying on a Python runtime is also something I don’t like, feels like everything else is a second-class citizen. The nature of our job is that we have deal with complex legacy codes, some Fortran program, some need a conda environment etc. Later I found what I should look at is just some makefile-like system, and I settled on Snakemake, which has a nice DSL that forces you to be explicit about input / output / etc.. Probably Airflow is just not the right tool for a one man team.
Maybe my sleuthing skills are lacking this morning, but is there a reported minimum affected version?
As a consultant you wouldn't see it. As an employee experiencing the day to day it usually comes in sporadic waves from HR depending on whatever cause they are pushing. I'm speaking from experience working for companies on the East coast, Midwest, and West coast.
The big difference is that the U.S. economic system was evidently not dependent on slavery to continue. From 1850 to 1870, U.S. cotton production almost doubled, not withstanding the Civil War and emancipation.
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/FRB/pa...

Meanwhile, "greening" electricity use will have extremely negative impacts to many people living right now. Look what happened in DK as they shut down nuke plants and then had the Ukraine war interrupt gas supplies. And this is in one of the richest countries in the world! https://www.statista.com/statistics/1267541/germany-monthly-...
I use favorites as a “read later” queue. I even submit interesting stories and favorite them for this purpose.
"Belief" that there's something wrong with the fact that you might spend your entire career in academia and never see a Black mathematics professor who was born and educated in the US.

It's a very radical concept for many people, including Scott Adams.
What's SPAR19 all about?
Eh I think you’re wrong about Hollywood: the big-name actors generally don’t spend their time talking politics.

Most big actors understand that the more they talk politics, the less bankable they are, and the dollar wins out most of the time.
Well done and congrats to the hackers. One step closer of ridding the world of web3 nonesense.
If they’re not they can apply for a transfer after 2 years to Mountain View and they’ll get it, unless US Immigration vetoes it. I hear the Zürich office pays pretty well too and if you’re Polish I believe immigration is very easy as they’re EU citizens.
Interestingly, this very comment is self-applicable because the "whiny comments on HN" make little or no difference compared to real problems.
> They are. If you're a banker, you effectively choose which direction society evolves towards by choosing who gets banking services and especially access to credit. Deny someone banking and credit and they're pretty much done. That's way too much power.

That's why we have fair lending laws. If you're denied private services with a bank on the basis of a protected characteristic, you can take them to court. Deny someone banking and credit, and you get sent to jail. I don't know where you're citing some of this stuff, but some sources might be nice.

> "Moderation" is the job of law enforcement.

That would be a completely new precedent to me and the United States of America. As a platform runner, you are responsible for the data that you host. You can't just make a social media site, have a bunch of people post gore on it, and then tell the judge "but they did it, not me!". They're going to chuckle, force you to testify that you stored the illegal content on your own server, and then lock you up for as long as they'd like.

This has happened many times in the past. Platform owners are not exempt from moderating their own platform. Even 4chan needs moderators, or else they too would get shut down.

> Which is why people should choose privacy cryptocurrency like

So... you're saying that the average person, who fears things like Bored Apes and CryptoPunks, is going to start using the premier currency for human trafficking and the drug trade? No, I don't think they will. My radical prediction is that people will continue to buy porn the same way they have for the past 30 years, because none of the boons of cryptocurrency directly benefit them.
You are reading an awful lot into my comment. I don't think you have a clue about what I accept, think or believe.
As someone who works in machine vision and a sister division of my company likely made the scale you are referring to, I am both impressed and saddened by your story.
Unlikely any of that, and more likely that a large percentage of their "unauthorized usage" comes from the country.

Companies find it easier to simply block or restrict access from certain countries because it's "more hassle than it's worth".
Very annoying for you. Is it correctly understood that Oracle offer a free tier instance with 24 gigs memory? That sounds too good to be true comparing to other vendors.
Nope. Just another average tech company.
Why? Obviously GP does not particularly care about the success of academia, it was only brought up as an indicator of a larger trend. Why derail the conversation and bring up all this other stuff about academia that's not related to the original point?
There needs to be a standard way for companies to report their finances that does not allow this brazen trickery. Uber lost 2.6 billion this quarter (1.33 per share).

The company "New Constructs" does have some mechanism to create a standard "corrected" earnings report that reads past these financial tricks. Its supposedly based on an AI model - been happy with their reports so far - but they are a private company. It would be nice if there was a true standard that did the same that companies had to report in.
But, but....she sold her soul!
> Dave is hired merely as an act of workplace tokenism before wrapping up with what appears to be an attempt at a thinly-veiled transphobic joke.

That particular strip is actually a hilarious joke that is probably lost on people who have never been in the position of being the minority who isn’t meeting expectations for “adding diversity.” It’s not directed to trans people at all, but rather pokes fun at some people’s rigid notions of race (it’s defined by how other people perceive you) in contrast with their fluid notions of gender (it’s defined by how you perceive yourself).
toyota is pretty well known for dealer markups as well
Approaching 61. Got two offers this year. The current hot market seems to (temporarily) make ageism slightly less of a thing than it used to be. Probably losing the white pony tail a couple years ago helped too. Dying my hair is out of the question, the only thing that isn't gray on my head are my eyebrows.

I did take my ID badge for my current job with blue hair, however.
In the strips shown in the article it's easy to see who he's punching at. If it was up at corporate HR policy, we would see Catbert. Instead we see Dilbert's peers.

Dilbert works by personifying roles. It doesn't do much in the way of role subtext.
Containers share kernels between tenants; that's the point of the design. The shared kernel is a huge security problem; it's easy to rattle off kernel LPEs that no realistic syscall filter would have prevented and that would pop a container runtime.

It is not similarly easy to do that with a lightweight hypervisor.
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I don't see any issues with the Dilbert strips highlighted.

I've learned just to enjoy things that I find entertainment from and not follow there creators on twitter because that is usually just a recipe for disappointment.

I'd rather avoid drama and division, i'd rather just brush my teeth than worry about what the CEO of my toothpaste brand thinks about politics, yes i'm all for fighting for justice and rights, but i'd rather stick to the issues in front of me.
if you enjoy obfuscated c, we have this https://underhanded.soliditylang.org/
Small correction: with WPA2, a passive observer can decrypt the traffic between a device and the access point if they know the password and capture the initial connection of that device. Wireshark has built-in support for this.
Do you acknowledge that there are other people who are not capable of performing your job?
Same here, but I just decided not to buy a new vehicle.

The dealership wanted 20k over NEW MSRP on a USED model.
The plane carrying Nancy Pelosi around Asia and possibly to Taiwan I presume.
I have had the exact same conversation with HR. Someone takes offense at something and they use it as leverage to suppress any further potential offenses, despite the fact that trying to avoid offending others is completely futile. Because once you accept that kind of policy, you become a target of abuse from others willing to claim offense at just about anything.
In a reductionist sense, sure, to be critical of particular de novo political views is conservative. Yet no one would call progressives conservative or reactionary for opposing the overturning of Roe v Wade. Are progressives being conservative when they oppose nuclear energy? But somehow it's commonly recognized as being conservative to be critical of policies that single out particular groups (the original intent notwithstanding).

That is what I find peculiar. At least in the United States, being "conservative" or "progressive" and their various synonyms aren't really defined strictly by Miriam-Webster but by the zeitgeist.

> You might disagree with the changes being made, but (social) progressives believe they're making them for the betterment of humans.

Most people believe this of their own policies, not just progressives. That's a very unhelpful way of describing these two poles, as is relying on the dictionary.
Those are good ideas; sort of like a fully integrated "design a computer and Operating System from scratch" course...
Nancy Pelosi is about to land in Taiwan on that flight, China has been threatening some sort of action (military/economic/angry words) if it were to happen.
What's SPAR19 and why are so many interested?

Also flightradar24 feels something that should benefit heavily from caching especially in an instance where lots of people are all tracking the same thing.

Heavier caching for non-logged in users is a basic of keeping sites up against unexpected influx because the vast majority of "new" (i.e. spikey) traffic won't have accounts, and won't be as fuzzy about seeing cached data, and are harder to monetize than logged in accounts.
I believe ageism is real. But I would blunt it a bit: I think engineers hire people "like them". That explains the ageism, sexism, racism....

I say that blunts it a bit because I think I don't blame engineers to look for someone like them — it comes easy, it is probably easier to judge someone who you feel shares your own life experiences.

But yeah, some years back we interviewed a guy for the team who was about my age (early 50's at that time). I thought he was top notch. But a younger engineer on the team pushed hard to reject him for the role. Why? "I think he's a bad fit for the team." That was the only reason we could get for his rejection.

Sure, just an anecdote. I see red flags now though when someone says "not a good fit" (whatever that means).
I watched [1] in parent comment (really about the 49 minute mark fwiw), that was heartwarming.

Ageism needs to be kicked from this industry. Yes, defeated, static, close-minded people of all ages exist, but don't tar everyone with that brush just because their hair is grey!
>Not...., Not...., etc

Dilbert comics have lampooned pretty much all of those things.
Also people have to work somewhere.
Ah Elbonia, the nation where every member of the government is secretly a traitor trying to sabotage them.
That’s why most markets close during night time.
I call B.S.: I've used those "toys for solo tinkering" in production control, monitoring, and data collection/communications applications in industrial, energy, and manufacturing settings. Sounds like you just don't know how to set up and build non-obese software.

N.B.: An 8GB rPi 4/CM4 has more memory, more storage, more compute power, and faster networking and i/o than a Cray supercomputer had in the early 90s! It's a real computer. If you can't do most of the useful jobs on the planet with that level of performance, then you just suck at software. (Yes, I know most Linux distros are Jabba-level obese these days, but still...)

Full disclosure: I have a PiBox on order, and will be prototyping a prepackaged server with it, which may well turn into a product itself.
Great Man Theory
The TOS says they will provide advance warning. Oracle is in breach of their own contract.
But what if you hold a mutual fund that bulls and sells AAPL regularly as part of managing inflows and outflows?
This has been my experience as well.

What does seem to help is a blank sheet of paper on my fridge with the main things I have in it (meats, fishes, main perishables), and the various days I plan on fixing them. I generally enjoy cooking but sometimes after work my brain is just too fried to think and having a "sane default" helps me go on autopilot. With the sheet being structureles, I can annotate, cross-out, and change on a whim.

This also helps me keep track of freshness when I have things that go bad sooner than others.
How to be a good conference talk audience member
its social media addiction in Adam's case. the same thing is happening in the large to the whole country
Dumb idea... what if you play the game yourself? They can't proof you are just pretending to be offended.
Note that slavery is still legal in the USA, and they don’t specifically say they won’t use such labor in the US.

Text of 13th amendment (note the disclaimers) https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-13/

Prisons are the main source of slave labor / involuntary servitude in the US, and provide over a million workers.
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