skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There must be some very angry people downvoting on this comment section today. Go is very opinionated and it's quite obvious that its original design being so radical (no class, no inheritance, no generics, no macro) was only possible because it was designed by a few very experimented people with a very specific goal in mind.

I'm also worried about how being "community driven" will change the philosophy of the language.
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does." — Jean Paul Sartre, (French existentialist)
"The things that make for a great instagram feed or Bumble profile are very different from those of permanence that help us live well."

Maybe it depends on the mindset and intent. After all, what is truly permanent in this life?

If you approach traveling as a practice of impermanence and presence, then it can be a very broadening, empowering experience. Traveling can be an excellent lesson on the transient nature of life. Any one of us can lose everything in a moment without warning, no matter how well established or solid your home is.

So from that perspective there actually is no trade-off because it's all the same.
I'd be willing to get that Magenta, Tensforflow, Keras, and even WebGL will be obsolete long before the scientific paper in it's traditional form become obsolete. Animations and interactivity are cool and all, but the timelessness of plain text has already lasted thousands of years. And even though anyone who could speak those languages also died thousands of years ago, we're still able to interpret the meaning of a lot of them.
I vaguely remember hearing about this last year, and I'm really excited to try my hand at it this year. I initially taught myself Python doing daily coding challenges, but it's been over 4 years since I've done any. I'm debating trying my hand at learning a new language through this, possibly Nim or Rust, but we'll have to see if they start to get too tough.
Agreed, sounds like the advice is to put your fingers in your ears, and sing as loudly as you can to drown out the doubts and questions, instead of solving them. Saying that no, the life path you are on is great, stop doubting yourself, keep doing it. If you refuse to acknowledge you've made any mistakes you don't have to deal with reality.

Some things take time and sacrifice to build. Family, friends, community. Most of us really need these things, but there is an opportunity cost to pay to get them. Sometimes we have all of it dumped in our lap and we take it for granted until it's gone. If you are willing to pay the price in time, effort, and emotion, you can rebuild it, but no guarantees.
Expectations. I think Haunted believed it would be easy to have it all.

>But your concept of yourself makes no sense. You got it from a rom-com.

Bingo. Everything is a trade-off. On top of that, our best-laid schemes often go wrong. Sometimes years or decades of sacrifice to a career, relationship, or family makes one worse off, not better.

I don't know if a perfect system exists for living one's life but here's a nugget or two -

1) Love is a choice, not an emotional state (learned by watching my Dad.)
2) Reassess often.
3) Don't fear changing things, including yourself.
4) Most people will die having achieved little that others would consider worthy of praise. That includes the others.
5) Having lived at all is something 99.99999999+% (by mass) of the Universe will never experience. Though maybe I'm wrong here - stars, nebulae, and galaxies may actually be alive for all we know.
There are more suicides in spring than during holidays. Spring wants you to be happy, the contrast is too harsh. Winter depression is normal.
I think the actionable part of the advice is the idea of externalizing an emotion and treating it as an object to hold up and examine. Something that is outside of yourself and subject to analysis. To treat a feeling as being something you have, not something you are.

This is a skill and it takes conscious effort to acquire it.
And this classic by Scott Meyers of Effective C++ fame:

"Considered Harmful" Essays Considered Harmful

https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
Finite of Sense and Infinite of Thought. History: Computation, Logic and Algebra
Don't publicly expose .git or how we downloaded your website's sourcecode
I don't have a reference, but it doesn't sound far-fetched to me. Student loans eat a lot of money that could be spent on housing, and also lots of people have roommates to lower their housing cost.
"For human ingestion, we'd need a little more details for a user story there. :-)"

well, I was attempting to route some potato data to my food decompounder for processing and it was mistakenly sent to the air intake vent. suffice to say this disruption of the norm caused a break in workflow.
In recent years, biographies of 'famous people' are much less 'cleaned-up' and idealized than they once were. As I've read more of them, it's clearer that the inner lives of people who 'got up on the stage' are pretty much like those of all the rest of us 'down here in the audience'. And so they are more instructive than the PR bios.

This 'haunted' lady was once young and footloose and fancy-free and in pursuit of her dreams. And so were we all. But, once off whatever stage we occupy during the day, we all need to go home. There's where we have to face the same questions ... or distract or anaesthetize ourselves so that we don't.

Nobody has all the answers. Today I like this Kenneth Patchen answer I found yesterday.

"The meaning is in the wonder."
NASA chief says US within 10 years of continuous manned presence on moon
Medical Doctors are biased against diseases like cancer that kill people, and hospitals have systematic institutional biases against cancer, too -- is that so wrong?

Sexually assaulting people and institutionally supporting the perpetrators and covering up their crimes is simply wrong. There isn't another valid side to that argument. The #MeToo movement is on the right side of that argument, and anyone who opposes it or denies it's a problem, like Trump or the Catholic Church, is simply wrong, and likely motivated by their desire to cover up and excuse their own crimes.

You can't fault medical doctors for being biased against cancer, or researchers for being biased against rape and sexual assault.
> The whole idea of GraphQL was actually to make complex queries easier and more performant (it's a bit like SQL for HTTP).

How about REST's OData?
Perhaps advising other young women from her own experience? Then those years will not have been wasted. On the other hand, if no one learns from her mistake and makes the exact same mistake, then her years will have been wasted.
What happens when a member of our team leaves the company?
'Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.'
Is Goland's debugger written by Jetbrains?
To offer a different perspective, you can get good rates on Upwork. You need to know how to sell yourself.
True that. I read an article last week about the rohingya genocide currently in Myanmar. The article centered about a guy who suffered throughout his life. Basically going back and forth because he has no citizenship. From childhood to fatherhood. His only hope was his intelligent daughter and she was just raped and killed by the soldiers... and I get stressed because I don’t get enough s. Talk about perspective. Being in A first world country I’m already living like a king compared to 90% of the world.
Interesting - well done!
I will pay for the first printed seat cushion. I expect such a cushion to be pretty cheap based on the paper detailing the materials used.
Call me crazy but deep inside I'm a toaster.
Wow, so much HN hate for Polly? It's my opinion that Polly is a national treasure. Her shameless wit and sense of humor make me smile. Her profound love of humanity makes me deeply happy. Not only that, but her writing is so poetic and lovely. Truly a gem.

On the topic of this question/answer, I assume most of you are young? Or at least younger than I am. I can tell you now that the way you feel now will not last. Change is absolute. There will be a time where you will look around you for reasons to be thankful. Make as many reasons as you can. You will need them.
Maybe this is why you have "toomuchtodo" ;)
My therapist put it thusly: "You can't run away from problems you carry with you in your head."
Edsger, nog Edgar (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/)

Dijkstra would lambast you for that error :-)
This 'question' is bound to go up in flamewars, but here is an honest and unbiased answer by someone who has taken a look at nearly every language on the planet (a hobby) and thinks that both languages are a bit crappy from a general programming language perspective but quite usable in practice.

Go is good to get things done quickly. It has a vast ecosystem and super-fast compilation. It's like a modern BASIC, but more performant and fun to use. It's fast enough for most everyday tasks except for real-time audio processing and high end gaming. It's good for writing CLI tools and server backend software.

Rust is good for writing libraries and CLI tools that replace existing C or C++ solutions with inherently safer versions and when speed matters a lot, though not as much as what would make you use Fortran or hand-optimized C. It is not suitable for high integrity systems and solid engineering where you'd normally use Ada/Spark, because of low maintainability, an unprofessional 'language aficionado' user base converted from C++, and being a fast moving target. Maybe later, though.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking.
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

This is an old true story. And the answer given by the article is mostly useless, some nonsense about the nature of art and accumulating a "treasure that doesn't disappear" or something.

One thing you realize when you're old is that time is finite and life is all about trade-offs. Every day by choosing the things you do you are continuously foreclosing a whole range of things you aren't doing, and soon will never do.

We live in a consumerist culture increasingly dominated by those with a financial interest in keeping us ignorant of this fact, but that doesn't make it any less true.
That was just the market being overexcited, overvaluing it and artificially pushing it forward in order to make it that "first co. to hit $1T history." It didn't actually deserve/earn it, and immediately has slipped back to where it should have been in the first place (lost $150B in just 2 short months).
I think you missed my point.

I was stating that your figure on the current representation of women in the industry may not be an objective representation but may be the result of many factors, and is not useful as a baseline for beginning to even determine what is over- or under-representative. Therefore, it can't be objectively considered.

But, that's all for me on this subject for now. All the best...
I think Microsoft's biggest mistake was trying to go to bat with the US carriers: trying to trade more control over things like software updates for terrible mistakes like timed exclusive releases with only one specific carrier. (Windows Phones were AT&T exclusive for bit; then there were various "flagship" phones alternating exclusivities between AT&T and Verizon depending on whom Microsoft needed to court better that phone hardware generation.)

Apple was able to do that because of a combo of first mover advantage and trend demand. Android didn't even bother, which lead to the obvious problems of the version diaspora of Android installs (who knew which phones on which carriers would get which updates and when), but playing ball with the weird control issues of carriers ultimately served Android pretty well in eventual market penetration, because the carriers were happiest to sell things they felt like they could control.
Sorry to moan but the front page has four AWS lambda language stories. Can we consolidate them to one?
I think the issue isn't the "wasted life" but rather how one measures their life.

If she was in a committed relationship, had offspring, a home with equity, savings, and a career, there is no guarantee that would bring her fulfillment.

And even if you had that fulfillment, there is no guarantee it lasts.

Life is hard, it's cruel and not at all fair. And the way to survive is learn that no matter how hard it hits, you have to keep moving forward. I feel for the author. I do.

I had "everything" going for me and in less than a year I found myself jobless, homeless, and prohibited from seeing my kids except for a few hours a day. Why? Because I finally stood up for us and called 9-1-1 on their mother for domestic violence.

I'll edit:

I'm now working on a new startup, loving every minute of it. I have a small apartment, and I have joint custody and parenting decisions with my kids. I'm getting help through a DV survivor group, making sure to prioritize my self care, and starting to date again. This struggle has brought me closer to friends, family, and to God, and has made me a better father. And it reminds me never to take for granted the things in life that I find joy in.
RMS has said publically that proprietary software should be illegal, and that free software guarantees user freedoms. This is a philosophy, and one that opines every user wants to become a developer. For things like emacs, and much of GNU, this is true, for most of the rest of the world, this is not.

I eschew free software because I'm not about forcing my views on others (which is literally the mission of GNU). I'm about developing software to be the best it can be, and maybe meeting some friends along the way. Open source, being the best software development model overall, allows me to meet that goal. You could almost say some of RMS's more extreme quirks border on authoritarian (see the example with the abortion joke in the libc manual he FORBADE removal of and demanded be re-added when a dev simply overruled him). He's not acting in a manner that encourages "freedom", but as a simple and obvious dictator of all things GNU or claiming to be GNU. He's frequently tried to shape the path of GNOME (which I am a former foundation member and was on the sysadmin team) in areas he literally has no business weighing in on. Then there are some more gross personality problems, like his sexism, or tendency to actually eat his toenail gunk[1], or to ever refuse to be wrong on anything, even when an entire community disagrees with him.

Dr Stallman has done a great deal of good for the world with Free Software, however like the VAX and PDP-11, his time has passed. Open source won just like Linux won over GNU/Hurd. It is ok that he won, by losing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
Germany's first insect burger
I did the same thing. In my mind I went "oh, there it is" and closed the tab. That's a shame, since the first half was quite harrowing.
Why HTTPS can no longer be trusted – 50% of phishing sites have SSL
Listen to RNZI news (it streams), and you'll be surprised how many visually idillic Pacific Islands are wrought with military dictatorships, poverty, violence (gun, domestic, military), and worse.

There was one recent article about how a mission to distribute life-saving vaccines had to be abandoned because of a lack of infrastructure and trucks able to get to the villages that need it.
Our company is building one of these. Taking two .NET solutions liked by XML web services and splitting them out into dozens of RESTful API-based microservices. Fun times indeed
Any time you see a scenic tropical paradise, you can also be sure that you are going to deal with a crap ton of bugs and creepy crawlers.
How do food stamps add to the craziness if they're not making things worse for the recipients?
Thats actually a very good summary. I found Vipassana mindfulness meditation helps immensely to achieve happiness by detaching the self from outside influences that would otherwise make me unhappy.
I cannot wait for Sam to develop incurable pancreatic cancer and die before the age of 40.
>Being near transit does a better job of providing both of those to candidates, thereby increasing the talent pool's size.

It goes beyond that. Transit enables density that car dependent infrastructure cannot. Now that job security is a thing of the past, people need to live near a high density of jobs so they don't have to uproot themselves and their families when it's time to change gigs.

Moving out to far flung areas with only a handful of big employers makes that tough. Changing jobs might mean adding a half hour or an hour to your already long commute. Jobs in transit-rich areas, however, give you a lot more opportunity without having to substantially alter your non-work life to match.
Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK)
This is different though, because of the “except with knowledge of said engineer” line. This code is trying to prevent clients from, for example, getting a “second opinion” on a project if they are unhappy that the first engineer deemed it unsafe. This isn’t really an issue in teaching. I think that it would be impolite to just drop in on a colleagues class unannounced, especially if it is a bit lecture where you might go unnoticed, but I don’t see why a prearranged visit would be unprofessional per se. (Perhaps because it would cause students to doubt the quality of their instructor?)

FWIW my understanding is that at my university the response to poor evals is a visit from a colleague, to assess whether the teacher really is weak or if the material is just difficult. Depending on that, the instructor may get additional coaching in teaching technique. This seems like a sensible approach to me.
Sounds like the setup to "I love you, man"
> And with men I date, I feel pressure to make something of the relationship too soon (move in, get married, “I have to have kids in a couple of years”; fun times!). All the while still trying to be the sexpot 25-year-old I thought I was until what seemed like a moment ago.

It sounds like going from one end of the spectrum (aventuros, yolo) to the other (a family, fast), all while punching above their weight, so to speak, in terms of compatible long term partners.

Most young women can easily find "serial monogamous", short term, male partners with highly desirable qualities such as physical good looks, relative success, social skills etc., but most of this limited pool knows they are desirable and do not really want to get bogged down with a family.

When youth starts to fade away, reality kicks in - the highly desirable partners are not interested, and the average ones are already committed to long time partners who valued them in their own youth. Their "family" started a long time ago with mutual investment - you can choose not to make that trade-off but cannot have the cake and eat it too.
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> 12 and 25 years

Still a low spread. No overlap is also weird, insofar that generations are supposed to be real phenomena and not just an arbitrary division.

> No that's not where they originated from.

How much does their current incarnation owe to whatever came before?

> The Millennial/Gen Y group does correspond to a boomlet.

You need to look at that children/potential mother rate. Constant means pure echo. Secondary crest further either shows we have more mothers and they mimick their own mothers in having more kids, a true cultural inheritance, or it shows that there is enough variation in maternity age that generations are sufficiently convolved such that no 1 generation begets the next. Those two can maybe be teased apart by combining the per-whole-population and per-potential-mother rates to get the mothering/potential mother rate.

Has anyone actually done any of these statistics?
Social trends almost always overcorrect. I wouldn't be surprised if we overcorrect the other way in future generations, then back again, etc. People seem to have trouble with the idea that the optimum is not at an extreme.
Depression or bipolar disorder seem like a better fit. ADHD would manifest more in “short term” issues, i. e. difficulty getting through a workday. The fact that they can, apparently, hold down a job they don’t enjoy, and seem to quit voluntarily to improve their situation (going for an opportunity more than getting away from s/t) also don’t fit.

In the end, the point might be mood because the first step is the same, and a therapist will be far better figuring it out in person. The specific labels also seem not to perfectly fit the actual conditions, which are more fluid than what the existing lingo suggests.
I feel like that is a given based on what I have been seeing right now. If people are already redlining spending/debt without savings any financial leg up that they can provide their children is that much less. If anything I am anticipating a decline in people pursuing college as those children who see lives defined by student debt as just not worth it, but the current jobs market does not have a ton of high paying positions for high school educated workers. In a sense because I have education and specialist skills I feel like I am part of the group pulling up the ladder behind me when it comes to knowledge work.

If the next generation is even net poorer the property asset appreciation train might finally crash though, and I'm of mixed opinion if that is going to have a net good outcome, or if the front is going to fall off two generations from now.
Nobody ever wrote a 25MLOC program from start to finish, so I don't think it makes much sense to read it that way.

I'd read it the way it was written: from the beginning. What's Linux 0.01 look like? What's the next changeset after that release look like? What was necessary to add the driver for your favorite device? What changes were made for your particular CPU?

Programs are not static works (except maybe TeX and Metafont). They exist in the form they do in order to be amenable to changes. So look at the changes that drove it.
Opendoor – Sell your home the minute you're ready
>but the current situation isn't as dire as you suggest.

But I didn’t say it was dire, that’s you reading “dire” into facts and numbers, which should be telling.
I'm not convinced by the journalism in the article.

First, the journalist writes:

"The Greater Dublin area is reckoned to have more than 30,000 properties that are completely empty, many of which are owned by the local council."

However, they then don't get a quote from the council saying why their properties are empty.

That tells me they had a specific story they wanted to tell, without digging into why the systems the country has (state housing) to provide assistance aren't working.
Rust is conceptually nice as it offers low overhead.
will try it
PagerDuty service disruption
its entirely possible that certain beliefs common on 4chan strike true. This isn't so much about making her struggle a meme, but acknowledging that youth is fleeting and its particularly hard for women.

Coming to terms with this reality for a woman is even more terrifying than a man because her bodily clock is ticking and pretty soon she will have little opportunity to have a child and dare I say, attract her ideal man. Its a call for more traditional values, to acknowledging that the deal is different for men and women, and its a criticism of responses like this which tell women to embrace being a free spirit when all she wants is stability and steady growth.

Traditional values are truly counter culture in the west, and thats why pol will emphasize it.

EDIT: 4chan also likes it because it serves their tendency toward genetic determinism.