skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago I worked at an academic library where software devs over 50 felt really comfortable but people under 40 felt they were never going to be taken seriously. Part of the problem was that to get ahead and be taken seriously you had to have a library science degree but changes in the world made it seem that an applications programmer with DBA experience could be better at taxonomy, ontology and classification not to mention all the skills that were becoming essential for digital librarianship. I could take my skills anywhere, but the librarians had to carve out a place for themselves in this world.

The funniest thing was an ambitious 30-something dev who thought he was not getting taken seriously who (1) started studying for an MBA, (2) deliberately gained 30 lbs, and (3) got one of those fancy haircuts where they put aluminum foil in your hair to make grey streaks.

That organization was under a lot of stress and something popped and there was enough blame to go around including for myself and I wound up looking for a job. We have a "workforce development center" which is sometimes helpful in my town, but this time I was arguing with the councilor that I didn't think I was facing age discrimination in the way he expected.

Since then I've worked at a number of places and been the oldest person at a startup a few times. It helps that (1) I am always keeping up with new technology and (2) I've had a long term interest in things like AI and ML (and UX, VR, ...) so when an AI startup needs somebody with 5+ years of experience that's me and (3) I keep an eye on things that are timeless like the fundamental of computer science (e.g. if a Turing machine can't do it an LLM can't do it, but it might bullshit you into thinking it can... is that the real Turing test?), project management, people skills, etc.

I worked at one platoon-sized startup where I was the oldest person where I did run into a different sort of problem. Most of the employees didn't really understand or believe in the business model of the company. I believed it because I needed foundation models for the work I was doing in 2010 and knew the world would need them, but this company was a few years too early. We had frequent "all hands" meetings where I could easily upstage the CEO because I was older, could look and sound like a leader, was more enthusiastic (got this job because I'd maxxed out my HELOC chasing my own El Dorado.) Ultimately this lead to trouble.
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> It's literally in the name: "test" as in to prove something works...

The documentation is what is under test. It proves that what is documented is true. It does not prove that the implementation works. This should be obvious. Consider the simplest case: A passing test may not even call upon the implementation.

I have most definitely seen that in the wild before! More times than I wish I had. This is why TDD urges you to write tests first, so that you can be sure that the test fails without implementation support. But TDD and testing are definitely not synonymous.

> Its really easy to figure out which one is right: if the docs say that something happens, it happens.

Under traditional forms of documentation, you don't have much choice but to defer to the implementation. With modern documentation that is tested, typically the documentation is placed above the implementation. Most organizations won't deploy their code until the documentation is proven to be true. The implementation may not work, but the documentation will hold.

> I worked with a guy who opened PRs with totally empty descriptions.

I'm not sure PRs fit the discussion. PRs document human processes, not code. Human processes will already typically be in English (or similar natural language), so in the same vein the best language is the one you are already using. That is not what we were talking about earlier; but, granted, does do a good job of solidifying the premise.
For everything TFA mentions there is a (possibly small) niche that does care about it.

Do you want to cancerously grow until you have the market monopoly? Then go for the lowest common denominator, Netflix and Disney style.

Do you want to do <random item or item set from TFA>? See what production budget your chosen niche will sustain and stay within it.
Yes, I'm aware of EIN. To start, it's been abandoned by it's author/maintainer as of April 2024 IIRC.

Further, I do not need a kernel to execute emacs code - I have one and it's called emacs. The point regarding executing elisp code was a cheeky way to state that I am not looking forward to finding replacement and/or porting of all the custom code - mine and others' - that my editor runs, and that no amount of "features" from a webui editor will ever replace that. Hence I also mentioned vim since over time it got customized for me as well and I wouldn't want to port that either. Nor the convenience of the terminal, which is what vim is for.

Putting that aside as with all respect and gratitude to the author, it was rather clunky in many respects - no interactive story, poor handling of sessions and remote kernels (have you tried to start one, disconnect and reconnect?), no integration with LSP, and lack of many many more features that /could/ be made.

I don't know how much use you make of jupyter kernels or mathematica notebooks or similar technologies, but in my case I explored the available landcape quite thoroughly and regularly revisit. I know what I'm looking for and EIN is/was not it.

[EDIT]
I just noticed you mentioned EIN but linked to emacs-jupyer. Used that as well, of course. Ill add a bit more detail to that in sibling
Thank you for explaining it! I appreciate that.
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lol the irony
Product and profit limiting too, if you're deleting profitable code for aesthetic reasons.
I bet Heinrich Schliemann would have loved AI.
The point is to have something to talk about at the next reunion. It won't be for several more years, but I do plan on connecting again. Remember these pictures take only seconds to view, but they ensure when I next meet that person we have some place to start from when talking.
How generic are they? You might be able to sell to the UK if the topics carry over. Look up the A Level maths curriculum. There are a number of exam boards, but they're broadly similar, with AQA and Edexcel being the main ones.
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Constellation Energy Signs $1B Power Deal with US Government
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Wake up whenever, wait until I hear the coffee machine or on a good day trigger it myself. Then I do whatever my phone has on open tasks, usually nothing or a random bill or a customer asking something. Second coffee, maybe a joint. Then actively just enjoying my coffee joint on repeat until I get the urge to do something. Which might not even happen that day.

Sounds ineffective, but I tried a lot and productivity is unmatched that way for me.
Sure, but if you don't use it you just make that worse. Of course if Craigslist had died where you are then there is no choice. However where I live Craigslist is still active enough that I can afford to ignore anyone who isn't there.
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Gopher holes and Gemini capsules don't.

Also, there are tons of small blogs out there.
Besides ads and points sibling posts made: Fandom does a terrible job making a wiki an actual wiki. Their infoboxes are garbage, there's awful category navigation, and just general "wikiness" is entirely removed or hidden. Fandom presents wikis like they're SEO spam sites rather than actual references. Check out Wookiepedia or Memory Alpha on the Wayback machine sometime and compare them to current Fandom wikis. Even the thinly styled MediaWiki was vastly more navigable than the shit that is Fandom. The footers Fandom adds with advertisements of unrelated other wikis is also ridiculous.

Fandom is SEO spam infested with intrusive and obnoxious ads and is terrible at being an actual wiki. It fails at everything but co-opting community generated content to make money.
> I found the bit about actors accents amusing. [...] It is sloppy but its rarely puts me off something I like otherwise.

From a non native english speaker's point of view it's even more amusing. Why should I care that the accent is from the wrong borough of one of the anglo-saxon countries? They all sound like english to me...

> Websites and UIs in general are often made worse by people whose measure of quality is aesthetics rather than usability

Let's take this opportunity to remind them designers that there are things like contrast and readability, and marking items that can be interacted with as items that can be interacted with...
> Marketers have done all that study to completely destroy the ability of ...

Yes, they abuse whatever mean we have of judging quality to sell us their product. But that's not the point the article is trying to make, I think. That's my point: people care about quality. It's just that it's generally very hard to estimate the quality. And on top of that marketers are paid to make it harder.
I have the shortcut to timers on my smart watch with two-button presses (one to open timers, and one to start a timer) to start a timer for certain intervals. It's great for that type of thing. A desk one might be good too if there aren't people around that would bothered. The watch is good because it only vibrates.
Employees Speak Out: Google, Apple, MS, & Intel Discriminate Against White Men [video]
> the people going to such lengths to ward off an attacker and the people who’d want to rely on fTPM with Bitlocker over FOSS full disk encryption with a dedicated passphrase are two entirely separate circles.

Bitlocker + PIN/password (hence my mention of a pre-boot password) is a good combination that isn't any worse than any "FOSS full disk encryption". Beyond the catchy titles of "Bitlocker hacked in 30s" is the reality that it takes just as many seconds to make it (to my knowledge) unhackable by setting a PIN or password.

Adding the (f)TPM improves the security because you don't just encrypt the data, you also tie it to that TPM, and can enforce TPM policies to place some limits on the decryption attempts.

> it is convenience, not security

It's convenience and (some) security by default. Not great security but good enough for most of those millions of Windows users. The security was the mandatory part, encrypting the storage by default. The convenience was added on top to get the buy-in for the security, otherwise people would complain or worse, disable the encryption. Whoever wants to remove that convenience and turn it into great security sets a PIN.
The important point for me is that the equivalence for Cauchy sequences are part of the definition of real numbers as Cauchy sequences. This ought to imply that one has to be able to decide equivalence of two sequences for the definition to make sense. For Dedekind cuts, the crucial aspect is being able to define the set and that is something that can be called into question. But if that is done, it is just a computational question in comparing two Dedekind cuts, not a definitional one.
I wonder if even the Georgia invasion would have been possible in modern times with everybody wielding a phone and connected to the internet. I feel like they used to get away with it a lot more easily when it was less visible. E.g. also all the other previous interventions in the eastern bloc.
It doesn't detect the act of recording live, it detects that a piece of media was obtained via recording. So, you can still point a camera at the screen and obtain a video file without any disruption to the original signal. However, that file won't play properly on Cinavia-enabled devices.
>First, I purchased a new, highly-reviewed, wifi adapter on Amazon.

This is not how you find a high quality product on Amazon.

>It didn’t resolve the issue. It did, however, come with an offer for a free 64GB flash drive in exchange for a good reviews.

Now you know why it was so highly reviewed.
Install Libredirect for Firefox/Chrome compatible browsers and set the Fandom redirection to something else.
Coventry woman who vanished 52 years ago found alive and well
I would recommend windows x86 or Linux x86 or arm/riscv (emulator ) Linux mostly because you probably have hundreds of resources instead of couple of them whit the other platforms
Is there still age-ism in tech? Bc I see plenty of people in IC roles working into their 40s, and even some in their 50s with kids in college.

Could be the industry I work with has less age-ism: financial services.
I am in my mid fifties and am closing in on 60. I am half way between IC and management.

I stopped emphasizing my full experience around 45, by fifty I was actively avoiding the subject, now I really avoid it.

I am fortunate I have a so called “baby face” thanks to my Hungarian dad.

I have found more and more that people value me a lot more as a strategic advisor than a coder, and that sweet spot works very well. In that role I can draw on my full 35+ years of experience. Stuff I did in the early 90s still has some relevance all these decades later, at a high level at least if not in the details.

Being a coding IC at this age is much harder as they can generally hire someone younger / cheaper with lower expectations and get somewhat similar results.
The specification appears to be very similar to FeedAPI which I have been involved with:

https://github.com/vippsas/feedapi-spec

Our focus was kind of the opposite though: Remove the event broker instead of adding one.

If I understand correctly, Mercure allows you to push events to the broker and clients pull log-based events.

With FeedAPI we focused instead of removing the broker (RabbitMQ/Kafka/...) and let clients pull log-based events directly from backends.

Very similar protocol though.
A deterministic uuid based off of a hash of bits is also very useful (UUID5). I've used that for deduping records from multiple sources
> If that ever happened I would nerd up on low level architectures. Get a job in a trusted company. Leak the keys.

> The only worthy cause to apply my patience to.

This already happened for smartphones.

Concerning your first claim: Did you attempt to get a job at such a company to leak the keys?

Concerning your second claim: Did you already invest lots of personal ressources for this cause?
Maybe they learned to type on a mechanical typewriter...
Those aren't methods of training networks - they are ways to compress (via quantization) networks that have already been trained.
Is the moment of birth defined down to the second? The process of giving birth seems more like a process (to this lay person who failed high school biology) rather than a strict binary not-yet-born/born.
> That speaks to their true motivations.

Yes, the same as almost every other corporation: money. Today they make more money with less risk by self-policing their content.
Strongly recommend this. I enjoyed "Master & Commander" (and read the first three books in the series, which are really one continuous story) before finding "A Sea of Words" and was astounded, on a re-read, at how much I didn't understand about sailing terminology, life onboard, the navy, etc.

But it's also a book that rewards knowledge of French, Latin, the history of science, music, geography... really an astounding book.
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I no idea who Sam is, but I believe "their" is typically utilized to describe plurals while "his", "hers", "its" describe the singular.

My initial reading led me to believe that qntm was a group aliased as Sam.
you are correct of course but i meant hardware lottery in the sense of dedicated silicon companies like Etched and MatX that have now emerged to make chips that only run transformers (not exactly true for matx but hey i am simplifying. would be cool if matx ran other arch's but its not a priority)
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I feel like this is effectively the opposite of the long tail argument
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail
I disagree. Native apps usually don't have annoying popups especially to the extent that the web does. Saying there's "no" difference isn't being genuine.
As we work our way to the last two steps of the Gartner Hype Cycle, there will no doubt be legitimate uses. But shoving "AI" in everything will be a punchline for a long time to come.
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We're looking for someone with frontend / fullstack skills, with at least 3 and preferably 5 or more years of experience. It would be beneficial to have additional experience with any of the following: IDE and IDE extension development, cloud development environments, platform engineering, AWS/GCP/K8s/containers, devops, WASM, "prompt engineering", and of course LLM usage and development. Skill with wielding AI dev tools as a user would be a very big plus.

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Just go right to the tl;dr
Just a quick point: double blind is not common for mathematics journals, at least in my area. Some TCS conferences have started it.
I still associate with these people. I go to my high school reunion every 5-10 years. sometimes I go back home and run into them on the streets (not often but it happens). Because I see their pictures I recognize them - when you have not seem someone for 30 years you won't recognize them in person when you go to renew that connection, but if you see pictures you can talk to an old friend who life has drifted you part from. (as opposed to talking to a different group of friends and both of you leave wondering why the other didn't even show up as you were hoping to reminisce about something with them)
UUID v5 is quite useful if you want to deterministically convert external identifiers into UUIDS — define a namespace UUID for each potential identifier source (to keep them separate), then use that to derive a V5 UUID from the external identifier. It's very useful for idempotent data imports.
Aluminum frames lead solar panel costs
Denuvo is winning, for better or worse. You can see some of the lead times for cracking these games[1][2]. It's, you know, often months+.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/1hqd4p3/crack_w...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/ieo7u4/crack_wa...
Striking the iron while it is hot. A couple of people may find out within 10 years that the defense industry is cyclical, too.