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What!? Kids in earlier times, even as recently as the 80s grew up in a time where they were constantly facing the very real threat of nuclear annihilation at moment's notice! With nuclear drills only being ended sometime in the 90s. In the 80s the we had a political era that included real assassination attempts on the president, the pope, and more, violent crime was at record highs, and more. Today is more "stressful, distracting, uncertain, unstable, etc" how exactly?

And you're again doing what I think is actually quite dangerous, yet also standard practice in the social sciences. While I think your presumption is wrong, you're assuming that not only is it true but if it were true than it would naturally have a causal explanation for another factor. Yet I think there is an extremely strong argument that your presumption would actually have a causal effect in the exact opposite method of which you imply.

Humanity excels when dealing with crisis. Nearly all of our evolutionary existence has been living in times of great adversity. I think the fact we live in such relative comfort and safety now a days is something may be interacting negatively with our evolutionary wiring (such a hypothesis would even explain things such as 'outrage culture' and internet activism - in lieu of problems, create them!) As I mentioned IQs are decreasing (and literally decreasing - not 'increasing more slowly' towards an asymptotic zero), but this is something that's only happening in the developed world. In the developing world, where lives are still much harder and threats more imminent - IQs continue to increase, academic performance is increasing, and so on. Vietnam for instance, today is ranked 8th in the world in science - as they teach with a per student budget a tiny fraction of ours, even parity adjusted. There are clearly many factors to progress that we seem to just have 0 interest in considering.
While I personally am an anarchist, that isn't actually relevant to what I was saying above. There really isn't any actual question that government (as a centralization of power in the hands of a few) is antithetical to the freedom of individuals to live without fear of coercion. But in this context, I'm not arguing for a totally stateless society with NO government at all. In this context, I'm just saying that I find it amazing that people (apparently) want a "government run future" - a phrase which, to me, suggests a much higher level of government control of the details of our lives, compared even to what we have now.

Now we may just be quibbling over the semantics of what "government run future" means, which is fine. It just jumps off the page at me as something that is far from being self-evidently desirable.
I mean much of their work is building a public profile as a "thought-leader", and making big bucks speaking at conferences and advising large companies when in reality, they have no experience of building anything with the technologies they hype, and often no real technical understanding of those technologies either.

I am not saying this is the common case. Naturally, there are many brilliant people in our industry. I am however saying that this happens enough for it to be a concern of mine.

As tempting as it is, I won't name names.
I feel you and I wish it were easier for my fellow gays who are POC. I hope you get to live in a city, at least.
Isn't that what movable type is?
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You just made me discover that there is a fourth season.

I don't know how I could have missed that.

Thanks for the heads-up!
- Many well known people in tech are charlatans.

This is something I learned first hand in the previous year. I joined a company that purposely seeks out known entities in a specific space. These are people I've seen do tech-talks and lead meetups. I specifically joined with the idea of mentorship and gleaning as much information as I could.

What I learned is that some of the ideas being pitched via tech-talk were actually introducing some of the most convoluted and inefficient practices into the department. I learned that some of those individuals were in untouchable ivory tower positions, and crossing them would cost you your job. I learned that upper-management didn't actually know a damn thing about the space and sought after those known entities to cover that gap and make themselves appear more relevant.
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This is gold and should be treated as such. Following these steps can make your work life very easy.

However, if you really feel like you are right and your boss is wrong then I have some machiavellian advice for the workplace.

1. No one will give you anything because you just asked nicely.

2. Everyone is out for themselves, PERIOD.

If you want more money, a new chair, better tools you have to create some pressure for your boss that can be eliviated by them giving you the thing you want. Example, you don't ask for more money, you make yourself semi-indespensible and then get another offer and say you're leaving. The same can be made of any situation.

The main idea behind this is that there has to be some benefit for your boss other than making you happy. If he can't see the benefit, create a situation who's solution is the outcome you want to see.

DISCLAIMER: I work with people like this, it's game of thrones level kool aid drinking. Know that you will make your life much more difficult and stressful, but it will work.

So either do what the other guy said and be nice, build a genuine relationship with your boss where they TRUST you and your judgement. Or be prepared to go to war!
>In the past years Google has deprecated more than 100 services, so I will never trust them to build any software using their proprietary stack.

And Microsoft has abandoned over 220+ products and services.

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Could have just used LMDB memcachedb and gotten the RAM/NVMe cache management transparently, for free.

https://github.com/LMDB/memcachedb
I agree seek professional help if you can. There could also be physiological reasons that triggers an episode of depression, especially lack of B12, iron or D-vitamin.

Developing good routine is not an easy thing for people that are deep inside a negative spiral, but it will help limit the episodes. Good routine is like a spell, it reestablishes your commitment to each day and provides you with energy. This is the same whether you have depression or a bout of sadness.
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Did you copy files and take them with you? Or do you just remember things that you then apply? If it's the latter you're probably safe.
One thing I've learned is that managers hate surprises, and hate making decisions in front of an audience. Think about how it feels to have your idea (going to the conference) vetoed. Their idea (approving your attendance) could get vetoed too. The easiest thing to do with any unexpected idea is to quash it.

Perhaps a way to deal with a situation like the conference, is to get them involved early. Like, before you apply for it: "Hey, boss, there's this conference that I think would be beneficial for us. We'll learn a lot and if I give a talk, it will be prestigious for the business. It's a long shot, but can I apply for it?"

Also, in all conversations with your boss, work on your mutual enthusiasm for your career development. At the very least, it's unlikely they will say to your face that they don't support your career.
There's 2 main parts of tech management / leadership, IMO. The P&L part and the people part. Many people in my experience are good at one and not the other.
Humility is also an important thing to learn
Pretty much this, with the added nuance of them using social capital (which can be engineered, e.g. Twitter following) and good old-fashioned persuasion as a stand in for real competence.

The 'Appeal to Authority' fallacy creates a feedback loop here too. They mislead to gain authority. They use that new authority to gain more opportunities to mislead.
Exactly. Domino was NoSQL before it was cool...
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I'm a new dad too, but my father is a 30-year veteran of fatherdom, with the benefit of some new experience as a grandfather thrown in. He and I recently had a heart-to-heart about this. He lamented that he didn't spend more time with me when I was an infant, a toddler, and a kid - he left that to my mother, due to a socially conditioned view of tasks like changing diapers as her responsibility.

He still has an instinct to ask my mother whenever my son needs something, and I remind him "No, Dad, I can cook/bandage/clean/change that. We don't need to ask Grandma to take care of it. Why don't you cook up a few of your famous hamburgers and I'll get the boy ready for dinner?" - and he's still a bit hesitant to watch his grandson when grandma's not home.

But through his hindsight, he agrees that (1) the novelty doesn't wear off, it changes way too fast, (2) do it as much as you can, because time is limited, and (3) it definitely is the best. Though you may get a reprise as a grandparent someday, which is possibly even better because you can send them home with new noisy toys after they've been spoiled and are on a sugar high.
I think I asked this in the past, but how did Crystal become self hosted?
Let's just not use either term.
If that would be true, men in male dominated jobs and with male dominated hobbies would not had the above problems - but they do.

A lot of suicide is when men retire, get long term unemployed or divorces (divorces are harder on men statistically these days). In two of those you cease to have "shared struggle", but not because women presence caused it. More like, people you knew disappeared. You are not useful to them anymore.

Workers don't share struggle, because most work is about struggle against colllegues, competition and people change jobs often anyway. Combined with working more then 60 hours a week, female presence is hardly the primary reason for lack of long term friendship that sticks as you get unemployed or sick. (I don't think the job should supply socialization, but it does for people working a lot.)

And men like you just described openly challenge those under them in hierarchy, but rarely those higher then them. So, I have reservations about that openness you talk about. It is less about openness and more about never saying you disagree with higher ups in hierarchy and lashing out when perceived lowers disagree or criticize you - because that is interpreted as challenge.
That is a fair point, but it's leading us down the rabbit hole of debating exactly what we mean by "government". I say groups of individuals can choose to voluntarily band together to exercise what Bastiat described as "the collective extension to our individual innate right to self defense". You might say "but that is government". I on the other hand would say that the word "government" implies something more, based on how present day implementations of the term "government" function.

The main distinction I would make is that, in practice, "governments" tend to arrogate to themselves the "authority" to do things that no individual could do themselves. And in my world-view, if an individual can't rightfully do something, then neither can a group of individuals, no matter how large.

All of this is ultimately just me paraphrasing Bastiat, so for anyone who isn't already familiar with his works, and who finds anything interesting in this line of thinking, I suggest reading The Law[1].

[1]: http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
Great find. It is unfortunate that the moonrise image most used as the example image from this project is missing from that archive. It is FRAME_1101_H2, and is not there. This is ironic as this image is the example image the grandparent used for their example for the images being moved.
Honestly, unless it would take you less than half an hour per year on average to do whatever you want with the source code, I think buying it is the more economical option.
I have noticed that fast drivers are starting to realize that if there is a nice new car you can just cut it off. They're very likely to have adaptive on and it will just back off instead of riding your bumper. I see people taking advantage of this. Ive also at least seen someone fuck with another driver by getting over in front of them, then going back and then getting back in front a few times. Real close too. So just a new form of trolling.

I also see lots of cars on the way into seattle every day who are leaving what would have been absurd distances in manual driving constantly. These all seem to be auto-driven. This latter definitely makes my life easier getting through traffic as there are so many 200ft+ gaps now at 20 mph on the freeway.
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Yes. At my employer we have evaluated many BI solutions who offer simple tools to develop solutions and really at the end of the day the IT people are going to be the ones doing the work. We have a few power users but investing in an expensive tool for just the dev team to develop in seems to be over doing it.
>> All of them are trying to abstract away the complex parts of the programming problem.

You're right, but you're also looking at it from the lens of a programmer.

From a user's perspective, they have a problem to solve, and they just want a tool that will help them. From their perspective, they are not thinking about it like a programming problem. Even if they have to write a little bit of script/code, they don't necessarily perceive what they're doing as programming.

That's why Filemaker Pro, Hypercard, Excel, Notes, etc. developed huge popularity among "advanced end users".
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I wish I did. I write C for my day job, and pick up most of this from my teammates.
Will check it out, thanks
If anyone is looking for companies that are using it in production (like I was), here's a list: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Used-in-product...

Crystal always fascinates me when it gets brought up, and I'd really like to dive in sometime.
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Ah, I see. I probably misinterpreted the intention behind that comment.
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Those two examples are fine applications of ML. The problem is when you're dealing with sequential, timestamped content that SHOULD be displayed in the order it was posted. I think companies should very judiciously apply ML in these cases, and only possibly for 'top stories' or huge events that are occurring. However it appears ML is being applied across the board, using multiple signals and throwing the chronological order of the content out of whack, which is very frustrating.
Anyone interested in a more scientifically sound treatise of cellular biology and from a computational perspective should instead read "Wetware: A computer in every living cell" by Dennis Bray. It's very approachable and, despite its unfortunate title, has nothing to do with the absurd anthropomorphising suggested in the posted Brian Ford paper.
When I got a new TouchBar MacBook I was wondering why the sound was muted from-factory, so I cleared the PRAM ... three or four times ... just to find myself very saddened by the fact that the chime was removed.

It was always incredibly mesmerising to unwrap a new Mac, boot it and hear that sound. Like buying a car and listening to the engine powering on the first time.
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I am aware that some things are missing. Online merchants have to follow quite a few more rules, but I'm not qualified to explain these.
> If you want non-sensational content instead you should probably read papers on arxiv

I do the YouTube equivalent and watch mostly educational channels: minutephysics, numberphile, 60 symbols, cgp grey, 3 blue 1 brown, spacetime, veritasium, codyslab, physics girl, etc. computerphile for checking my layman's terms explanations of computer concepts.
You're totally right.

Most vertical market solutions were started by advanced end users trying to solve their own day-to-day problems. Chances are they couldn't afford to hire a team of developers to build them a custom solution, so they cobbled one together themselves. Other people in their field see what they're doing, get excited, and a lightbulb goes off - "I can make a business out of this!".

Eventually it gets to the point where those solutions need to start following the rigors of a proper dev shop, but in the early days, it's more often than not the "low code" dev that you're talking about.
That's why I started working with Vue. It seemed easier to approach for someone coming from a server-side language perspective (I'd mostly worked with Python/Flask and PHP/Symfony before). I could slowly ease into using pieces of it until I learned enough to write a whole project in Vue. You can probably do the same thing in React, but the Vue docs were written to address my use case.
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Related to the idea of prioritizing your time, something a family member told me and stuck with me: saying "I don't have time for that" is another way of saying "I have other things that are more important than that."
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For someone else's post-it notes.

Meanwhile, I don't see this as a particularly disgruntled display. It's a (sometimes sarcastic) log of news items from 1981 to 1987. Just because someone's a federal employee, doesn't mean their opinion of current events is job-related.

The only job-related items in these doodles are the annotated paid vacation days. There are no job-related complaints. Only an indication of political alignment, which, you know, people are kind of entitled to. Keep in mind, that this was not a federal employee of the Soviet Union. Does it end abruptly in 1987 because they started sending people to the GULAG for things like this?

Can someone please explain to me the defining characteristics that highlight the implicit psychology of this individual as "disgruntled"?
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I'd be hesitant, as those flash banks aren't rated for more than 1000 or so writes over their lifetime. I've killed the internal flash in a few Arduinos and STM32s just from development/testing.
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I'm not seeing 24 products in 2018, but just 1 - Encrypted Search.

I just realized you're counting the Others section and incorrectly lumping them into 2018.

It would seem you also neglected to read Wikipedia's banner above the Other section that stated:

This section is missing information about the discontinuation date of each product in this section. Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (October 2013)
> Then when I arrive, I make everything logical, nice, structured and proper.

Not to mention self-documenting.
agreed.

> I'm based in a third-world...

The cost of living is much much lower there. Without relatively exorbitant rent and insurance costs, many people may be able to save a 'lifetime' of expenses. Many of us in the US are stuck with high costs of things. Moving to different parts of the country can help (assuming you can afford the move), but moving to other countries is usually out of the question for most people (especially with a spouse or family). So... "free" healthcare in other countries is something we can't easily avail ourselves of, for example.

There are many pros to being in the US, but there are pros in being in other countries too.
I am on openSUSE, and I just realized I can install Crystal from the RPM repository (well, duh! I should have thought of that a lot sooner...), so I now have no excuse left to play around with it a little. I also happen to be on vacation right now, so I have plenty of time on my hands. =D

Now the only thing that bothers me is the lack of a REPL. It comes with a web-based playground which is pretty nice, but still not quite the same. Is there any chance Crystal does have a true REPL which I just managed to miss? (If not, it's not a dealbreaker - Go doesn't have a REPL, either[0]. But it still would be nice.)

[0] I know, I know, there are third-party REPLs like gore, but by the time I found out about them, my need for one had diminished a lot.
Why can't my web browser just browse the web? Why does it need to be a news feed as well?
I don't know your experience so I'll do my best to draw on examples _I suspect_ you might be familiar with. I'll try to keep this simplified but deep enough. I'm taking a shot in the dark and hoping you're more familiar with the one of the python/node/ruby world.

You should worry about it when you want to do something faster than you are already or want to do more things at once. Maybe someone's framework/service has done it for you maybe not.

For a web api, the workload _usually_ looks like:
{database call} -> {do some work} -> {maybe more calls} -> {more local work} -> {done}.

In the python/node/ruby world where you have mostly single process workers. You get some parallelism by doing work locally while the database call is made asynchronously. If you want to handle more requests on a host you'll just run more processes and load balance across the front (nginx, gunicorn, etc). In languages with threads you usually do that INSIDE your program. A single process load balances across worker threads internally.

At first blush, multiple threads are pretty similar to just running multiple programs. It gets more complicated when you start talking about how you want to communicate between them or share resources across them.

For data analysis you often have algorithms that are embarrassingly parallel[0] chained together. You use threads the same way you'd call three friends to help you move. You all pack boxes at the same time without really needing to coordinate and then you start loading the truck where you have to talk more. One might wait in the truck and organize while 2 or 3 others might be shuttling boxes outside. Maybe everyone sits around while the stairs are blocked by one person moving a shelf. It just depends. Having 4 people helps sometimes or is disruptive in others.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel

P.S. - To address your examples: tensorflow, map-reduce, orms. etc.

It's all still about parallelism but not necessarily about threads.

Parallelism is just doing more things at the same time. Threads are (mostly) about CPU parallelism, but many of those use other resources to get parallelism. Tensorflow might use the GPU, which has many threads internally (simplification), to do one thing while the CPU does another. Mapreduce will use a lot of different machines across a cluster, but maybe only a thread or two on each, to archive parallelism (and really getting disk IO parallelism). And ORM will call the database and let it do work while your CPU else instead of wait.
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Ask HN: What are the best logging packages you have come across?
As devs, we spend so much of our time reading logs.

So what are the best logging packages you have come across (across languages/frameworks/OS) ?

What features makes it the best/better ?

What features wish you existed in existing packages ?

edit: sentence corrected
No actually. The mass doesn't leave the earth.