skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perfect example of what I was writing about.

By analogy, consider if I cut my legs off, how much money I'd save on shoes, all the cool kids are doing it, my anecdote applies to everyone's situation, and my employer would pay the medical insurance so I'm not sure why non-cool people are walking around with legs.
I do think it matters, because we are trying to establish some sort of utility of having focus in the context of the conversation. The theory of this thread is that a lack of focus is harmful and, at least partly, to blame for why young people are struggling.

You can be the most dedicated piano player, but if you later decides to channel that dedication into e.g. writing you are very likely to be struggling anyways. So now you are essentially in the same boat as everyone else.

Young people are mainly struggling because education, housing and long term careers are competitive and costly. Of course dedication can help with being successful in almost any sense of the word. But overall it is very likely overshadowed by other factors as e.g. your position in the housing market.

How many people who could afford a mortgage in a major city in their early twenties, by any means, are struggling with their lives today? Certainly a few, but surely a lot less than those who don't yet have a stable home in their thirties.
Spent the last few years maxed out platinum with Marriot. Aside from the snacks I felt like I was treated the same as those with less “status”. If you’re going to have a rewards program with levels of patronage...

The airlines, as much as I hate them, have this much more cut and dry. With United I know exactly what I can get at each tier and what I can ask for “just this one time”.

With Marriot it’s like, “fuck you have a candy bar and bottle of water”.

So I fly United and stay with AirBnb[0]... who I get United miles from. Cha-ching!

0: Get the MilagePlus X app
Hence our fetishization that results in a watermill of these intellectuals
I've been telecommuting for about 6 years. I'd prefer good transit and a nice office.
I was diagnosed with ADHD (inattentive) when I was a senior in college. My oldest son was diagnosed a year ago, when he was in first grade.

I began to suspect my son might have it when he was frustrated at learning to read—especially when he reported that distractions in the classroom (such as a new pencil sharpener) were making it difficult for him to focus. At home, I noticed that he was much more effective—and self-confident—when he did his reading in our basement den, away from his younger siblings and other distractions.

We took him to a prominent local child psychologist, who spent a few hours with us—first with me, going over my observations, his history, family, etc.; then with him alone. A few weeks later, we received a ~10-page report with his assessment, which included results from a battery of tests he had done with my son, concluding with a diagnosis of ADHD. Based on this, our pediatrician had us try a couple of different stimulants, and we've landed on Vyvanse as the best combination of convenience and efficacy. The difference has been staggering—not only with his progress at school, but most importantly, his self-confidence has risen remarkably.

I haven't read it, but the title of one ADHD book—"You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!"—has stuck with me. Growing up with undiagnosed ADHD, I often felt that I was simply inadequate, or not trying hard enough. Of course, personal responsibility still plays a role, but I now understand more what's going on.

Medication has markedly improved my life as well. But I think being diagnosed in early adulthood meant that I still had to deal with years of bad habits, self-esteem issues, perception by family and friends, transcripts filled with bad-to-mediocre grades...

Both my son and I present the inattentive side of ADHD more than the hyperactive side, but I suspect the results would be similar.

Getting my son's diagnosis started with his pediatrician, who recommended the child psychologist. I'd suggest starting there.

BTW, the reason I think my son was diagnosed earlier is due to the curriculum: it's simply more challenging at an early age than what I remember. I was able to coast on intelligence alone until I was a teenager, when I finally had schoolwork that required sustained concentration. My son was being asked to read books in first grade that I probably didn't read until second grade—and there wasn't nearly the systematic focus on it. My suspicion is that the increased diagnoses of ADHD is due in large part to this—it's always been prevalent, but has been less of a burden in the past (career options, too—so many ADHD-compatible jobs are getting automated away).
Just because somebody finds something offensive doesn’t stop it being true.
I had similar concerns but have sense become a big convert of GraphQL.

1. Browser caching is replaced by the graphql library (at least in the case of Apollo which is what I've used most). Which, as far as I've seen, is a fine one to one replacement in a lot of cases because it's still an in-memory cache that doesn't hit the network. Except it's even smarter than caching based on url and Cache-Control headers and such, because it can deeply introspect the payload and is able to return a cached version sometimes even if it hasn't made the exact same request before.

You're right that you don't get caching between sessions and won't automatically get CDN caching. It hasn't been a problem for me, and to be honest I don't know that I've ever worked on an app that had a whole lot of static data payloads where caching them at this level is critical for performance. For any kind of dynamic data that's unique per user you don't really need it. Things like cdn caching of images and js and css bundles and such still work just fine obviously. But I'd be surprised if there's no way to handle the CDN case in graphql. You can probably configure the client to do queries over GET and mutations over POST, though not sure offhand that that's gonna be the best way.

One similar issue, is things like the browser network tab become a little harder to deal with. But so far I've found the GraphQL developer tools are good enough to more than offset these limitations.

2. If anything, I think it's actually easier to err in the opposite direction, i.e. have your
backend be a a thin wrapper, because you can let frameworks basically auto-map your ORM to GraphQL
and then write all your business logic on the frontend. But ultimately it's really just as flexible as REST, and up to you to develop your own patterns for how much logic to put in the frontend vs backend.

Basically, the downsides that I've run into so far have been surprisingly few, and in return you get strong typing of your API layer, plus depending on your client you get a lot of really cool normalizing and de-duping in your frontend store for free. That latter part is probably the biggest game changer IMO.
Tax and land use policies. Who would have thought...

Median salary for Houston: $61,708. Median salary for SF: $77,734. Does a 26% increase in salary explain a 250% increase in rents?
I would say we are all human. Some are lazy, some want shortcuts, some have difficulty in reading, all sort of things, that's why there are a lot of non-free React (framework X/ Library Y...) courses
I am genuinely surprised no public announcement of any kind has been made by any politician of NY yet about this. Maybe some have and I just don't know?

Or could it be that all NY politicians have been paid off by these entrepreneurs?
UGK is the real deal.
It's a placebo. The peace was always within you.
> Having the video auto play converted visitors almost 50% more often than them having to click the play button (it may be evil, but it makes money).

Because the ones who weren't going to convert never came back
Here’s why an app for finding bikini pics is Facebook’s latest headache
Amazon Web Services reveals a managed Kafka service for streaming data
This isn't really a circular dependency because the developers can't build without the city's permission. If a developer plans to add N units of housing to an area that means there is need for NxM of various kinds of resources in the area, and you need them before NxY people move into the area and need them.

You can't just suddenly have 10,000 more people and no sewer system for them until you find out exactly how much poop they produce.

It's not even like questions like "If you add this many 3 bedroom homes to an area how many schools do you need" aren't unstudied questions, either. Civil engineering is a thing and should be able to answer questions like that pretty darn well.

Who is responsible for actually building it is a fair and open question with several different answers, but as long as city planning is a thing, the city that approves construction is responsible for ensuring that that construction will not overload resources somehow, and I don't even see how that can be under dispute.
“The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.”

-- Rob Pike

From https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Fr...

And there are other hints on https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article
I'm assuming you're American...

What you've written (own a home, have job, make kids, go to church) really only applies to american's, who make up ~300m out of 7b people currently inhabiting our planet.

That definition of what we're evolved to do, is incredibly myopic; more so if you consider that definition of middle class has really only been around since the mid 1900's?

Home ownership is very much ingrained in American culture because of it's ties to the US economy (for those who own homes, it's typically they're only investment).

FWIW, I think it's great that you and your spouse have found meaning in your lives.
Gurus are people who get paid for just being charismatic. That's it.
If officers who put their life on the line in the most populated/congested city for 150k are overpaid, then I'd like to talk to some software developers in San Francisco.
Where can it be used ?
.net 2.0 had breaking changes, and it was absolutely justified. The ecosystem would not be where it is now without it. (.net 2.0 introduced reified generics, and required a major overhaul of the internals, with quite a bit of breaking changes)
I live in Portland Oregon. Anybody from more conservative parts of the country reading through the platforms of the Republican candidates would have sworn they were the Democrat or Progressive candidates. Basically the options were between the Democratic democrat and the Republican democrat ;-)
infrastructure in sprawl costs more per capita than in dense urban developments. If these people will move to the same city anyways, maybe the city should be subsidizing the cost of the infrastructure because it’s cheaper to provide it to a big building on an existing street than it is to a new subdivision down the road
> In the 90s, MS attempted mobile devices using Windows CE ... and that went nowhere

That's ahistorical. Windows Mobile shipped millions of devices. Their 2007 sales numbers were bigger than the iPhone 1's 2008 numbers.

In probably the biggest blunder in business history Microsoft decided to stop putting resources into Windows Mobile after version 5.0 in 2005. That allowed Apple to catch up by the time of their release in 2008. I've still never seen a good account of why they did that. If Microsoft had continued for those three years they might have been able to hold the iPhone off. Or at least Android.
Wrike acquired at valuation of $800M
Understanding the Mirai Botnet [pdf]
Morals and ethics are either relative or absolute. If they are relative then they are not based on "what a thing is" (it's essence, to use an Aristotelean term) but on "how useful it is to me" or some other relative criteria). If, on the other hand, "what you ought to do with this thing" is based on "what is this thing and what is it intended to be", then there must exist some `intender` who is the reason for this thing's form / end being what that form / end is.
It used to be even better. RIP, bar car.
"Nearly half of all women and men in the United States have experienced psychological aggression by an intimate partner in their lifetime (48.4% and 48.8%, respectively)."

More numbers here:

https://www.thehotline.org/resources/statistics/
Yeah, that makes sense because you need some type to span the address space and that depends on the size of the address space. That is what int is used for in go, though why they chose signed rather than unsigned is confusing. unsigned you would never have to do negative bounds checks and you can prove a lot of other useful things if you know your index is always positive.
If it’s a physiologically based condition we should be able to observe it in other population groups. I’ve heard that the French don’t medicate their hyperactive children; they send them to cooking school. Some articles have explored how paranoid schizophrenia has been handled among American native tribes (shamans, medicine men, etc) and how it manifests differently among cultures (in Africa historically people seem to get laughing voices while in the US and a lot of the West threatening voices).

For similar reasons, I suspect most of the correlations of ADHD with substance abuse and poor social relationships have more to do with how we treat our peers in the US.

Then there’s the hunter-gatherer theory for how ADHD may have actually been advantageous but I have little insight into how well that’s accepted.
It's part of losing your old identity. You are no one. So join this ashram and till my soil while I sleep with everyone. It's a cult tactic.
I use it at work and as far as I can tell it's just a web app where you can move cards around.
I do like the fact that it's simple and snappy and doesn't have a shitload of options and features no one wants that cause it to load super slow (Cough cough Jira)
However, some basic workflow enforcement would be nice (Cards marked done when you put them in the "done" column)
In its current state it seems like it could be cloned in a week.
Edit: cloned in a day if you wanted just the functionality and not a cute little UI
I'd love to hear your rationale on that.
”there's no reason you can't move the query from a POST body to a GET query string.”

There’s disagreement on whether it is within the http spec (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-req...), but you can also send a body with a GET request, and you wouldn’t be alone in that; Elastic uses it, too (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...)
Are those laws actually on the books? Searching the laws of New York, I've been unable to actually find any of these supposed laws, and nearly everytime this comes up, the only citation for these laws still existing is other lists of crazy/insane/weird laws, with no one actually giving a specific reference to the law.

Edit: Actually, I did find a reference for one of the saner "weird laws": PEN § 240.35 paragraph 4 does define "Being masked or in any manner disguised by unusual or unnatural attire or facial alteration, loiters, remains or congregates in a public place with other persons so masked or disguised, or knowingly permits or aids persons so masked or disguised to congregate in a public place;  except that such conduct is not unlawful when it occurs in connection with a masquerade party or like entertainment if, when such entertainment is held in a city which has promulgated regulations in connection with such affairs, permission is first obtained from the police or other appropriate authorities" as loitering.
With Go 2, they are moving to a community run project. ISO is a process for that. I guess, why reinvent the wheel unless they think they can do substantially better.
Next US moon landing will be by private companies, not NASA
Agree, all of these thoughts of hypothetical's that instantiate people's continuous internal dialogue take away, especially, from the beauty and mystery of connection with another person. Everyone has this 'agenda'(whether conscious or not) that, as some sort of psychic mold, must fit and restrict the reality of the present moment.
I don't think this has anything to do with modern dating. Powerful men have had mistresses and before that they had concubines. Now that casual dating is socially acceptable, the tendency for high social class men sleeping with lower social class women is more visible, but it isn't necessarily more popular. The number of sexual partners millennials have is similar to that of Gen X and the Boomers.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-millenn...
If you are friendless, you should join a speed friending event, something like this www.speedfriending.at
Indiana Solicitor General: It's Constitutional to Seize a Car Speeding by 5 MPH
The pleasing-the-parents issue is one that affects every family, since there are all kinds of hidden sociocultural expectations that tend to start being confronted near the end of the educational years and the start of career building and family formation. It's expressed more strongly in this time period because the job market has quickly reshaped itself around computing, and the traditionally safe options for young people are drying up while new aspirational fantasies like "become a pro Fortnite player" or "become a cryptocurrency baron" are working their way in.

And it isn't just a generation gap - a whole set of institutions are like this, motivating the popular "Millenials killed tradition" genre of journalism. And for the Millenial generation that amounts to having to reinvent each institution in a new form. Not an ambition anyone particularly signed up for, but one where the jobs are now.
That's really interesting to see how he managed to pull off that presentation and keep it on track. More impressive than the "and here's the iPhone" in my opinion.
> Perfect example of what I was writing about.

> The desire is mostly from intense gaslighting in small population areas of the country relatively speaking.

I assure you, my desire to save money did not come from gaslighting. I understand why other people make other choices, but please don't tell me why I run my life the way I do.

You insist that the reason some people are ditching cars is because of irrational gaslighting. I give a single, logical reason for why I have ditched my car. You point at my explanation, and claim that it goes to prove your point.

I'm not saying that my dad, who lives 20 miles out of town, and moved ~100 tonnes of cargo in the past two years should ditch his pickup truck. I am saying that there are good reasons for why many urbanites are ditching theirs.
I would hope that as they mature, at least some men realize there is more value in a partner than youthful good looks. That others who have led winding and complex paths in life are often more mature, supportive, and all around better partners than someone whose world view is, essentially, "I'm attractive so people do what I want".

Perhaps a lot of 35 year old women have realized that the value of a young attractive partner isn't very high and have realized that a committed relationship can bring happiness?

Imagine how a man might pick a woman if attractiness was completely off the table - an older woman is generally more mature, more sure of herself, simply had more life experiences and knows how to handle more situations. A 21 year old has barely spent any time supporting herself; a 35 year old has moore than a decade of life.

Perhaps women value men this way; with physical attractiveness less important than emotional maturity? Which tends to increase with age?
Religion and Evolution are typically at odds with each other.

One is a social construct.

The other is science.
Most involved data conversion and software bugs.

I tried to book a haircut using my barber’s new online reservation thing. Of course it was all fucked up.

Everything’s fucked up and no one cares. I wonder what it will take to change the mentality around quality/testing in these companies.
Except length/cap/index are always positive, so I think int was a mistake here.
> But that’s a non answer in any practical terms, and telling someone their suffering is all in their head is rarely a solution for anything.

Hm I disagree with this but am open to be shown why I'm wrong.

> This person made a series of choices over many years that has led to being 35, with no partner, no kids, no career, and no artistic pursuits. This legitimately sucks and is a hard problem that can’t be fixed overnight. It’s certainly not going to go away by denying that it sucks and all you need is an attitude adjustment.

You are assuming that this sucks but I would then ask why does it suck?

I imagine there are people who also have no partner, kids, career, or artistic pursuits and are happy living their lives that way.

My understanding is that the unhappiness stems from her own expectations. She's unhappy because she wanted something and doesn't have it.

But the reality is that even if she gets all the things she talks about, she may still be unhappy because she wants other things. It is like people who continue to make more money but also continue to strive to have fancier and fancier things.

So I guess I disagree because I think an attitude adjustment is indeed the right thing to do here. Don't get me wrong, there are very real problems that this person is facing like her finances or lack of close friends. But things like having a career, artistic pursuits, and arguably kids, are not things that are required for living.
Oh, I didn't see that. The Advent of Code website is strangely annoying in that it makes it extremely difficult to find past problems…

Based on what I found online (which is abridged rewordings of the problem, something of a sequence sum?) I'd get lazy at that point and implement something that makes the spiral. Presumably, this shouldn't take to long, as the sequence grows rapidly so they can't give us a number that's too big…
I just finished watching, and I'm super excited about this idea. There's been a lot of talk in the Clojure community about how to improve documentation, and then Rich comes along and thinks hard about it for a long time and then drops a general purpose data browser. I'm really excited by the possibilities this brings to the table.

> This is design work. Thanks Rich.

Well said! It feels to me that the power of a whole language with simplicity as a core philosophy is now starting to snowball up some really powerful tooling - since small changes can create big improvements.

We've got some new developers at work who are learning Clojure and so I've been rewatching some old Rich Hickey videos (Hammock Driven Development) and it's cool to see the payoff 7 years later of what he was talking about back then.
Most of the deployments of Kafka I've seen have been desperate attempts to work around poorly designed data architecture. You shouldn't need Kafka to handle a few hundred MB or a few GB of data per day. Twitter's scale is way beyond that, though and I can easily see the case for it there.
But when you get to the local level, it’s all simply people picking the team they think will help them win the election.

A very nice observation. I do believe this occurs at the national level as well. One example being conservative Democratic Senators from the South becoming Republicans.
If I could, I might recommend his self-authoring series to a person like this. I've been working through the prompts lately and this was a first thought as I read the letter, myself.
And that's all true before you even get to the fact that it looks like we are on the cusp of some really breathtaking ways of augmenting our intelligence.
Twitter bans fake Putin account that the real Putin followed