skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel similarly with the differences between me and my family vs my wife and her family. I grew up not desperately poor, but with only just enough money to get by. In the late 90s we had a computer, a basic Windows 95 machine with dial-up and about 1/4 of the RAM/CPU that modern machines had, but we had one. That's about all we had for modern comforts, which I think forced me to be laser-focused on one activity. There just wasn't a lot of opportunity for me anywhere else but the computer. If I decided I didn't like computers and wanted to be a painter, there was no way we were buying art supplies. I asked for a computer and I got it and that was all I was going to get.

My wife's family wasn't rich, but the parenting attitude was "whatever you want, follow your heart". The kids had painting, sculpting, pianos, guitars, drums, dance lessons, soccer, karate, foreign language tutors, and anything else they desired. As soon as they got bored or frustrated, they quit and moved on to the next thing. The hope from the parents was if they were exposed to enough stuff, they'd find their passion. Of the three kids, only my wife has a steady job, and only because I nearly broke up with her when she was job hopping while we were dating. The other siblings quit their jobs at the first sign of any real struggle and move back in with their parents. I believe it's because they've never been forced to work past the uninteresting or difficult parts of any hobby or job in the past.

I don't know where the line should be drawn between giving kids every opportunity to find their passion versus making them stick with something they may not actually enjoy. I hope I figure that out before I have kids.
How does this compare to, say, Wes Bos's course?
> When done right

> live in Manhattan

You and I have had very different experiences with the subway over the last year.
What's the solution to that? Ritalin?
How can you have an "explicit requirement" not to end up like Perl 6? Nobody planned to "end up like Perl 6", it's just something that happens when your new, backwards-incompatible version of the language doesn't catch on.

Also, sounds like Go 2 is going to make backwards-incompatible language changes. How is that different from Python 3, or even Perl 6?
The format follows the convention of their other languages. But it'd be trivial to create a rack compatibility layer
What if you have done 1, 2 and 3, and now small tweaks are all you have left?

At what point do you consider an experience "optimized" and say we just can't squeeze anything else out of this?
Some suggest that a principled connection between VAEs and
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can be had using Adversarial variational autoencoders.

https://avg.is.tuebingen.mpg.de/publications/mescheder2017ar...
I came here to say the same thing. I actually feel kind of angry that the columnist failed to offer the only valid advice here.
I work in finance, and i use floats (well, doubles) all the time!

I never use floats for any quantities which i need to exactly add up to a known total, of course.
> No overlap is also weird

Several generation labels have overlap (recently, the “Xennial” group overlapping Gen X and Millennials is an example), and the boundaries are recognized as fuzzy, anyway.

> You need to look at that children/potential mother rate.

For what end? The boomlet absolutely occurred (the attribution of it as an echo boom is occasionally made, but isn't really signficant or essential.)
Mac users were (and are) a large market for MS Office. It wasn't all about antitrust.
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Always had been fascinated with functional programming, but kept stumbling with Haskell. Discovered the Real World OCaml [0] book and was instantly hooked. Sadly haven't been able to use it much outside of last year's Advent of Code and a toy ray tracer.

[0] https://dev.realworldocaml.org/
I gave up on my dream of being a fantasy writer in the middle of undergrad. It was a "great" decision in that computer science became something I was equally passionate about and has been extremely lucrative, but halfway through me twenties, I'm trying to write on the side in order to avoid the late in life regret I'll feel if I don't make an attempt at publishing something.

What's sad is that I would have to be an international best seller to make more than I do as a software engineer, even if I published regularly; writing would not pay my bay area mortgage, and I'd lose out on tons of perks at work.

Trapped in the gilded cage.
It's just a product. Not something to feel betrayed over.

>But I don't like owning things I can't tinker with or fix even a little, both out frugality and a desire to create a little less waste in the world.

Perfectly good reason. Apple is not going to stop trying to make its products just a bit thinner, or otherwise pursue some other overall aesthetic design goal. Repairability absolutely takes a back seat.

>As noted by Business Insider, Apple is increasingly becoming a luxury brand.

Not quite true - that is, they have ALWAYS gone for the higher margin. They flirted with very expensive watches, but that seems to have gone away. They have always gone for the high end though.
On the topic of C, I'd also strongly recommend mandoc[1]. It solves a number of hard problems (indexing and searching of man pages, rendering and parsing markup and translating said markup to HTML, PDF and tty output. The code remains fairly accessible. Definitely one of the codebases I regularly refer to for style and practices.

[1] https://mandoc.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/
I often recommend the Flask source code, if you're into Python. Very clean and well structured, great example code.
More info here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa020350
I don't really see a reason why there'd be a large iceberg of Go developers in China. There's no reason why programmers in China would use Go in higher proportion than elsewhere in the world.
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"treat yourself like a treasured child" isn't going to help with anyone's concerns or goals. It's vacuous.

Women have a ticking clock here in a way men simply do not. I'd tell her "I've been telling you to hurry up and start a family for TEN YEARS"...

It's imperative to discuss with your partner your relationship requirements early, otherwise they're unlikely to meet them. If they don't coincide, either make peace or find someone else.

We're not boomers, this generation will rely on their children much more than their parents generation needed to rely on them. Those without children are going to have a much harder time into "retirement", especially if they're living paycheck-to-paycheck.
That makes a lot of sense. I hadn't thought about it this way. Thanks.

I'm sure the lucrative licensing deals help though. :)
I have been using Macs for the past 12 years and am nearing the end of my rope. I received the toucbar MBP through work and I hate it due to all the reasons popularized.

But while Mac might take a hostile approach in terms of hardware, Windows takes one with their software. I feel stuck. I also find linux still too janky and don't have the same patience I did as a teenager to go through myriad settings and configuration files just to get things working or looking good.
Are there normal coding patterns that are much faster with explicit gotos? Modern compilers seem to do a pretty good job of converting normal (goto-less) code into efficient binaries.

E.g, the simple switch statement has several possible machine-code implementations that compilers will switch (heh) between, depending on the characteristics of the cases.
I mean, life happens. If metro goes down there are buses, ride share, e-scooters, and walking if I'm close enough.

Life happens with autos too, there are accidents, flats, running out of gas/engine won't start, road closures, one time my apt garage door was broken and I couldn't get my car out.

I am all about moving closer to jobs. In fact, I do live close. From my apt to my old office in SM it was 6.5 miles, to drive that could be an hour. Gridlock is awful within cities even in short distances.
mary knowles, the artist the author talks about, sounds wildly fascinating!
I don't buy this article at all.

I am no longer with the company, but around 10 years ago, I turned a failing consultancy into an SEO SaaS company. Turning revenues from -40k/month to 90+k/month after laying off more than half the staff when we lost our last client and deciding to take our destiny into our own hands building a suite of SEO products.

We ran split tests on almost every design change. They weren't always tiny, some were entire page layouts. But even on things like changing the header text saw measurable differences.

I built the ability to split test into every facet of our framework. We had the ability to split test pages, transactional emails, marketing emails, and we would tweak everything all the time. If we noticed group a wasn't performing as well as b, we would drop a.

There were some tiny things that made major differences:

- Email "From" being a person's name and not just the service bumpped onboarding but nearly 20%.

- The onboarding subject "Almost Done..." performed about 10% better than "Activate your account"

- 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).

- Having the video be an animation vs just a spokesperson talking into a webcam converted 5% better with the same script (+2% better with just reading the text from the page).

We had a large audience after we launched our first product free of charge for a limited time (linklicious.co -- formerly linklicious.me -- formerly lts.me), then used that momentum to built out a new product every month or so for the next couple of years. It was a great job in a terrible industry. 80% of my job was inventing new ideas.
A great movie I saw recently that directly deals with the author's situation is Oslo, August 31. Grant it, there's little in the movie that the author would find comforting, but overall I found it to be a very realistic, if harsh, portrait of someone who has misspent a large portion of their adult life and the struggle to correct course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo,_August_31st
Nice! I like this a lot! I feel the 'share' feature is one that is often overlooked in most note apps and one of the things I find most useful.
+1, and just to add some more perspective, "depression" comes in varying grades. It doesn't always mean locked in your bedroom for days on end with the shades drawn. Sometimes a person gets caught up in a sort of miasma of low-grade self-doubt and anxiety. Still able to go to work, do the shopping, etc., but lacking energy for things like maintaining friends, and ambition.

It can be insidious, and without outside perspective -- either yourself years later, or someone who knows what they're looking at -- really hard to recognize (and fight).
The key distinction for me is that Lambda is event driven. If you have a microservice/function which is seldomly called, in Fargate you would pay 24x7 just to be listening for calls.
No, it's not. It's more like if Coca-cola accidentally published their recipe in the newspaper instead of an ad - that's their blunder and not corporate espionage.
I married very young. My wife and I had very little, both were working jobs for close to minimum wage with no marketable skills between us. So we sat down and decided what we wanted. We both wanted kids, she wanted to stay home with them when they were young. We both wanted a house of our own. We both wanted to live somewhere with family and friends that we could rely on to help us lay down roots and build that home.

So the first thing we did was move to the place we wanted to try and stay forever.

The second step was to go to school and get a skill. We both worked while I went to college for computer science. I'd been building computers since I was a little kid, was always good at math, decided it would be an easy way to get into the job market at a decent salary. I was right.

Next, we paid off all that student loan debt. Stayed in our tiny apartment with next to nothing and just put that new tech salary into the debt until it was totally gone.

Then we bought a house where the mortgage wouldn't be much higher than our tiny apartment. We could afford something three or four times bigger on my salary, but we didn't do that. Stayed small. Maintenance costs are low, cleaning it up is easy, and we don't even have an HOA to bother us (and I don't care, because it's not like I bought my dinky little house as an investment).

Next came the kids. Started having one after another. She stays home, I work, we spend time together as much as possible. We have friends and family nearby that make life so much better in a million ways. Honestly, I have all these roots and commitments and still...zero stress. Life is great.

And now all our extra money is going into long-term investments and traveling. We've started going all sorts of places. We'll be doing a tour of Europe in the next few years and I am in my early thirties at this point.

So here is my message to anyone that read the person above and is reading this post now and hasn't yet spent their twenties and thirties having hobo adventures:

Life is so much better if you just do what you evolved to do. There's no way to hack life and make it better in any real way. Pair up, get a trade, build a home, and enjoy that for what it is.
I love my CAT S41 because I don't have any of the issues in this thread and I expect this to stay true for another 10 years.
Key pull quote rather than arguing over the historical Maginot line:

"This particular manifestation of ongoing conflict was something the social networks didn’t expect. Cyberwar, most people thought, would be fought over infrastructure — armies of state-sponsored hackers and the occasional international crime syndicate infiltrating networks and exfiltrating secrets, or taking over critical systems. That’s what governments prepared and hired for; it’s what defense and intelligence agencies got good at. It’s what CSOs built their teams to handle."
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I feel this way a lot myself. I've been a Mac user my entire life and feel like Apple isn't interested in making a machine for me. The designers favor identity brand over functionality (for my purposes anyway).

OTOH, I'm also forced to recognize that my learning and growth had pushed me out of the space of the "computer for the rest of us." But I'm sadly not quite ready to leave.
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> people don't go to a doctor when they should or too late.

Absolutely, I saw this when working in the US at age 23 (I'm Australian)

A good friend separated his shoulder while snowboarding and couldn't afford the surgery, so did nothing. To me this was staggering, and I had no idea people in "good" countries lived like that. Growing up in Australia this is unheard of.

His shoulder is still screwed, 15 years later.
> Flats can't be both affordable and good investment for superrich.

Bingo.

Actually, there's a stronger statement, here.

Housing can't both be affordable, and be a good investment.

Pick one.
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Autobiographies in particular, I believe, tend to euhpamize or otherwise distort emotional conflicts, especially those that happen early in the author's life (when their recognition comes later on). I think emotional conflicts are one of the most influential parts of maturing and many autobiographies seem to gloss over their teens/early 20s or look back with a nostalgic lens, unless something extremely traumatic happened during that period.
In 2002 one person was found. Now they have 17 different people from three families and they were able to analyze the pattern of transmission across generations.
This article explains better: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/plot-twist-mitochond...
AI can’t just play video games all day if it’s ever going to grow up
Curious why this was marked a dupe. Ruby support isn't mentioned in a similar article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18562096), and AWS saw fit to give this announcement its own blog post.
I've been thinking of going to church lately.

I wouldn't call myself a believer necessarily, but I do believe in such things as many people now have dismissed due to utter faith in science. So, I'm not "Christian", but I think the bible is an important book and contains wisdom. If you haven't read Ecclesiastes, I suggest you do. It was written by some old, powerful man (no one really knows who), basically reflecting on his life and imparting wisdom. It's the kind of old testament book that has inspired great leaders for centuries.

Anyways, the idea of a church community really comforts me. I would be open with my own beliefs, and the reason why I'm attending church, and hope to build long-term relationships with those people. I also want to do some good outside of my academic work. When or if I have children, I would want them to attend church with me, with the understanding that they don't have to believe in God in order to gain something very valuable. I want them to grow up in a tangible, physical community of people who have their best interests in mind. Now that "inclusive" churches are more popular, I think I am going to find one.
Your story has a similar outline to my own. I moved from the UK to Canada which has been excellent for my career but at the same time has put enormous strain on my relationships as I just don't get to see people thanks to splitting a really shitty vacation allowance (3 weeks Canada wtf).

Now I'm torn between putting down roots in Toronto, moving out to the sticks, moving to Europe to be close to everyone or doing the right thing for my career by going to the US.
Nice demonstration. I'd like to see something similar done with men (not trying to undercut the point, just seriously wondering).
I feel like there's the other side - the people who were groomed from childhood to pursue one career path (i.e. medicine or law), and end up actually achieving "success" in that field only to feel the exact same way - unfulfilled and feeling like they've wasted their life pursuing something that isn't actually meaningful to them.
Yesh, but ERs are limited in services provided. The mandate they face with regard to service independent of payment is stabilization, not full-scope general medical service.
Is it really a diagnosis every single time? Are you saying pills will fix that? Unabashedly, no. Some people just get caught up in the wrong mentality and among peers who think a certain way. That analogy of "blindfolded, sitting on a mountain of glittering gems" makes a lot of sense. It's the lack of perspective/awareness.

Awareness is the antidote.
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meh. this doesn't deserve HN visibility IMHO. it's a standard complaint and a standard answer. i give 10% odds that it's a real letter. if it is a real letter, i give 1% odds no literary privileges have been taken, that it's authentic.

OTOH, yeah it is well written, but great editors will do that for you.
Why would you even pay to learn React? The official doc is free and takes only few hours of reading.
I agree. I also think it hampered their early tablet effort. But I think what they should have done is taken Windows 8 and Mobile and called it "Surface OS" and focus it entirely on mobile. They wouldn't have even had to change much code-wise, just marketing and developer relations.

Windows 8 should have continued to be desktop focused (normal start menu, etc) but also able to run and develop the universal apps.
spermatozoa are like a bargeload of magnetic tape.
the dna is packed up in an acrosome that serves to [in humans] ,
eject the paternal contribution into the egg.
--this is pushed around by a flagellating tail that is powered by numerous mitochondria, most of them burnout, any that make it to eggplasm are challenged in other ways.
Sorry, 101 in the SF bay area, not _the_ 101 in LA.
Talent wants to not be homeless. Transportation and housing are thus very much intertwined. Most people would gladly move closer to work, given the opportunity, but it's usually just too expensive.
>Women have a ticking clock here in a way men simply do not. I'd tell her "I've been telling you to hurry up and start a family for TEN YEARS"...

I'd argue men still have a ticking clock in some senses. Sure you can still get it up and produce children, but your capacity to engage with them and raise them goes down over time. I certainly would like to be hale and hearty enough to see my kids graduate college and be able to travel to visit my grandkids, for instance.

Producing loin-fruit isn't the end-goal unless you have some kind of royal titles to pass on. For most of us it's just about raising a family.
Wasn't MS already in the middle of dealing with antitrust litigation as a result of bundling IE with the system? I can absolutely see them not being able to avoid more antitrust litigation if their only real desktop competitor died.
Apple had sufficient capital at that time to execute Jobs' plan, especially since step 1 was to cut most of what Apple was doing.

The significant part of the MS deal was the patent cross licensing and commitment to continue producing Mac versions of Office and IE. Those created certainty in the market about the viability of the Mac platform. The investment was just to cement that commitment and certainty.

I'm sure there was an anti-trust angle, but also Bill Gates just really liked the Mac as a platform and did not want it to fail. He had one in his office at Microsoft from the day it was released.
This is a nice concept, but how does it differ from something like Azure or Google Colab? Are you guys really going to compete against Microsoft or Google?
> What if the Expo line goes down?

Then there'd presumably be a bus replacement service for the few days until they got it running again? I don't remember any of Dublin's mass transit systems going down for more than a couple of days.

Track maintenance, incidentally, is normally done on weekends and/or late at night to minimise disruption.
Not if we want to achieve aggressive climate goals.
Java and Python. It's two closest peers.

Go does not compete with C or C++ in my mind because of GC.

The ONLY thing it does better is packaging because of its standalone native binaries. But most folks using Go are writing software for servers and those are predominantly Linux x86_64... so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also, containers are restarted periodically (~4 hours) so even if you have very steady traffic you'll see cold starts regularly.
Economic collapse and climate change are very different. Climate change news does not evoke the emotion of fear, but rather emotions of disappointment, lament, and anger.
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Fuck this website and its rewriting of my keyboard shortcuts, my back button and history.

Fuck this.
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