skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When starting school, younger children are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
AWS launches a managed Kafka service
Might be hard to find that, but based on the info I can find, a good many do commute in to the city. You could dig down more into station level numbers to get a more accurate count. For example, if you wanted to exclude stations on the line that are within city limits, but not downtown.

Anecdotally, as someone whose walk to work (from other transit) takes them against the flow of people coming from Union Station: it's a lot of people indeed.

September 2018 Metra ridership report: https://metrarail.com/sites/default/files/assets/planning/ri...

All reports: https://metrarail.com/about-metra/reports-documents/operatio...
You can summer elsewhere without getting hit by a vacancy tax.

A house that's empty most of the year really is making the problem worse, and if they don't want to change then they can pay some money to offset the harm.
this kind of comment says a lot about current state of HN

this is the new Reddit
Yeah you can still buy them, but when I was a kid 25 years ago, there were no corporate-branded sets and “classic” Legos were the default.
As someone who hires for technical roles, I tend to profile the roles into a 5 X 5 grid. 5 core areas of proficiency, 5 levels of proficiency. a proficiency of 4 across the board is uncommon.

If I can find a 5, 4, 4, 3, 2 of combination of that, I'm happy.
That's about 70%.
That sort of profile should also provide learning opportunities for the candidate and typical that is intrinsically motivating for technical types.
You could do that, it's true, and folks did that with node.js to shim Go before Lambda had official Go support. But being able to just create/use/share a custom runtime inside of an organization will be easier for them overtime vs. the shim method. - Chris from Serverless@AWS.
It's not the fastest thing in the world, but task-local storage in C# is pretty great. Miss it much in TypeScript.
Obviously, there is a tradeoff between the two ends of the spectrum that you've labelled travel and careerism...

Here is another tradeoff for you to consider: One between telling an inspiring lie in order to pick someone up and being brutally honest about their life choices.

If your "advice" is "you missed your chance, you're screwed", then that does not help anyone else either. Advice is as much about inspiring confidence and fostering a change in perspective as it is about dealing with the hard truths.
Game 12 was disappointing from a fan perspective, but I think it's important to recognize the difficulty for anyone to change their mindset from "a draw is a win" to "I will win" without putting themselves at great risk.

I'm sure if Magnus had the benefit of the computer valuation he would have made more striking moves, but his reasons for taking safer approach (a4, e4) makes sense especially considering how evenly Caruana fought back in previous winning positions, and his objective going in.

At the point he offered the draw, even the computer suggested it was fairly even. The shocking part for me was that he also had a huge advantage in time, but I suppose he did not have the right mindset to switch gears.

I think if you want the championship to be more about "heart/courage" (and less about cold calculation) they just need shorter time controls. That was my one takeaway. Maybe something in-between rapid and classical. If you want to see robots push marginal advantages in drawish positions, just set up an AI tournament. Leave the humans to demonstrate heart, courage, and intuition!
Thanks, this is clear now; and will be added as a user story for the next sprint.

By the way, i figure i should caution you that I've heard other users leveraging a temporary hack - while awaitjng this feature to be built/deployed - of routing potato (and other such) data via other intakes. In fact i think there was a SouthPark episode related to this hack; in that case using turkeys as the routed data.

This was fun, thanks! lol :-)
US life expectancy continues to move in reverse
I dunno. There seems to be many ways to be miserable. The only distinguishing feature of this might be that the possibility of doing it this way is rather new, and more relevant to HN. Suffocating in Podunk, Nowhere is an older thing. I think there is a happy middle ground somewhere, although it's probably individual.

Not that I'd know. I struggle with this exact problem right now, I'm just younger and less extreme.

Anyway, "Merry Go 'Round" by Kacey Musgraves is a great song.
I learned most of it myself but bought a Udemy course for Black Friday. I find the docs to be quite confusing to be honest. I know it's not React but Redux's docs aren't great either. Concepts quite hard to understand at first.
> 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.

You're forgetting about a) divorcees and b) men who have also gone down the same path.
DynamoDB is limited to 10 items, whereas the Cloud Datastore limits are 25 different 'tables' -> The new version via Cloud Firestore doesn't even have that restriction. AWS is several years behind and several NoSQL systems behind in this area. Still, a cool addition.
This probably won't be popular, but what the hell.

I feel like, if you strip away the outward trappings and dogma, this is what religion is good for. Not in a "believe in Jesus" or "trust in God" kind of way, but in a "how to orient your life" kind of way. Which is to say, the actually useful portion of religion generally teaches that your best life is probably not focused on you. It isn't about finding yourself, or being true to yourself, or really thinking about yourself at all. It's in being of benefit to the human beings around you. And in serving those around you, you become something that is worth being.

It doesn't matter who you are or where you live, there are poor people around you. There are parentless children, drug addicts, parks that need cleaning, animal shelters that need dog walkers. You can always do something meaningful with your life. Try that, and see what kind of relationships you make. Look at and actually see a homeless person. See how that makes you feel. See if your worrying about your own future maybe drops away, or gets morphed into something you can do something with. See what kinds of other people you run into that way. Focus on, if not bringing joy to other people, then at least making their lives better. See if that doesn't - as a pure byproduct - change your own self-worth. Or maybe just make you less focused on it.
I sympathize, but disagree. In CA, distracted driving is a moving violation, but does not have points on the license as a penalty. Going nuclear as a 1st response does not help.

Increasing fines, mandatory driver education classes for violations, points on a license, and perhaps a lock box (akin to the ignition lock we install for DUI offenders) are, IMO, better measures to take.

Repeated offenders should have their vehicle impounded and license suspended for increasing amounts of time per violation

e.g.
1st offense - $250 fine + class, 2nd - $500 fine, 3rd - $1500 fine + impound + 1 month suspension, 4th - $2.5k fine + impound + 1yr suspension. 5th time should be 60 day jail sentence, car impounded, license permanently revoked, $5k fine
I think the parent was referring to how it feels like a dystopia for the time you are in it.
'little but transitory happiness'

There are many people in the world who will never know happiness. Life itself is transitory, 'accomplishment' is not a substitute for it, 'security' is a dream. Old men may say 'Youth is wasted on the young'; I say bravo to the young who drink life to the lees.

When you sell today, can you be so sure of tomorrow?
> Broker instances start at $0.21/hr and broker storage is $0.10 per GB-month

Kafka requires Zookeeper, do you pay for zookeeper instances too? Anyway, this pricing seems prohibitively costly unless you really need hands-off approach to your infra. Kafka is pretty low-maintenance and stable in my experience.
After working at Google for 10 years and leaving recently, I'll say one thing: Yonatan Zunger is a highly ethical and honest person, and I am pretty sure what he is saying here is accurate, and if so, it looks like Google's leadership went out of its way to avoid the normal processes that ensure its products are secure and private (Google is very good at privacy, notwithstanding many complaints otherwise).

Although I personally wanted Google to return to China (never wanted it to leave in the first place), I don't have confidence that the team doing this was ethical or honest with the rest of the company, and in a company where employees have a surprisingly large amount of power like Google, that is an unforced error.
> "... the idea that the optimum is not an extreme."

I'd put this as "not an extreme" /on any of the axes that we're considering/. Life has an awful lot of dimensions -- if you imagine a very high-dimensional hypercube and draw the optima randomly, the optima are almost guaranteed to be close to some surface (some "extreme").

To my eye, the real problem is finding the correct perspective -- the one at which an optimum lies at an extreme.
It does, and has for several years.
Honest question, how do you meet them? I find things like dating apps are horribly tilted to the young?
This actually looks like a pretty good resource. The combination of a voiceover and an interactive editor looks pretty neat. Noting this for future reference.

If anyone's interested in further resources, I'd suggest checking out my suggested resources for learning React [0], my React/Redux links list [1], and the Reactiflux chat channels on Discord [2].

[0] http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/12/blogged-answers-lea...

[1] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links

[2] https://reactiflux.com
The book is relevant to the topic being discussed, because the author talks about it to describe how she herself -- purportedly a successful published author -- has to fight off feeling inadequate, even though she's being paid by her publisher to travel cross-country to promote her book.

Take out the mention that she's on book tour, and you no longer have a frame of reference about her self-shame.
Only if you plan on getting married and having kids, avoid those two things and not much else changes (IMO)
I think a lot of it relates to how extroverted/introverted a person is, or more so, how important being around other people is to them.

Additionally, a lot of people have tons of anxiety around driving, and being in a city can completely get rid of that. I'd imagine self driving cars would return some of the interest back into the suburbs.
It's created with the Scrimba technology, so you can edit the code in the videos whenever you want.
The thing that worries me even more is that more and more diverse types of content will be susceptible to algorithmic amplification in more and more sophisticated ways. Right now it's still relatively easy to tell what is a bot and what isn't because it's hard to generate credible text and video (and many other kinds of) content, but that's rapidly changing. It's a game of cat and mouse clicks.

This pervades every single sphere of life. Soon, it will become more and more difficult to distinguish the truthfulness of digital representations. In Baudrillard's words, I suspect that big data is becoming hyperreal. It is not that data is misrepresenting reality, but that it is actively influencing it, changing it to fit its representations.

Furthermore (and somewhat orthogonal), distinguishing fake content is getting harder because you don't even necessarily need bots (technological capital). If I started a restaurant and I wanted to acquire the maximal amount of attention and I had no moral qualms, I could hire 10,000 MTurks (or MTurk-equivalents) to write reviews for me on Yelp, and it will drive a positive feedback loop of legitimate good reviews. (This is exactly what's happening with Amazon rankings and reviews.) Amplification isn't just algorithmic, it can be produced by the application of many different kinds of capital.
Great platform, not the best React course.
> Raising the price of gas negatively affects the working poor more than helps the environment

In the short run. In the long run, the proceeds could be used to encourage the working poor to move to cities where they don't need a car. Given how financially terrible car ownership is for America's poor--between traffic tickets, civil forfeiture, police violence, predatory lending and collection practices, insurance practices, et cetera--I think it would be a net boon.
I know some American parents who very much believe what you said, but they think that it only applies to other people and not themselves.
>I’m trying, Polly. I am. I’m dating. I’m working out and working hard. Listening to music

Yet she still refuses to lower her standards, apparently.

Empowerment can be a hell of a drug. Hell, she has dozens of articles explaining away personal responsibilit and rationalizing the wretched state of her life[1]. E.g. she has another post captioned "resist the urge to treat friendlessness as a personal failure."

I think we spent too much time teaching our generation to be confident, rather than teaching us to be competent and practical. Heather really has nothing but her own entitlement to blame, and she continues to be obvlivious.

1.https://www.thecut.com/author/heather-havrilesky/
As a newcomer to Go, by an immensely wide margin, the hardest, most frustrating thing, which soured the language for me, is whatever the heck package management is in Go.

There's like three or four different angles, all of which overlap. Some are official. Some aren't. The unofficial ones seem more popular. They're all kind of incomplete in different ways. And it was all such a frustrating migraine to try and figure out. I haven't felt so viscerally aggressive about software like that whole experience made me feel in a long time.

I hope Go2 makes something concrete from the start and sticks with it, for better or worse.
The amount of focus a person engaging too much in social media can cause this despair. Not saying it's Instagram's/FB/Tweeter's fault, but comparing yourself hourly to the 'fairy tales' out there can break even the strongest spirit.

In fact comparing yourself to others is quite a double-edged swords with it's highs and lows, and throws your emotional states off-balance.

I had a similar (but much less pronounced) experience in the first couple of years of reading HN. What was I doing? Comparing yourself to all these super-unicorn-entrepreneurs daily was taking it's toll on my appreciation of what I had already accomplished.

All things in balance. Know thyself.
It does. It's not in the documentation because it doesn't have boundaries within the database.
OData had good ideas in theory but seemed to fail in practice. Most of the biggest OData APIs [1] failed to handle denial of service attacks well. The advice I've heard is never to let OData escape the boundaries of your intranet these days.

GraphQL has better mitigations for sidelining problematic queries (query names, shapes/patterns analysis tools), and doesn't start with the kitchen sink like OData did. Instead, in GraphQL you generally have to opt-in to more complex query operations, at which point you can also lock them down to explicit clients/whitelisted query names/etc while doing so.

[1] NuGet's feeds being the big obvious one to mind where v1 API supported nearly the full OData query set and every version since has dropped increasingly more OData functionality for bespoke REST endpoints.
No one is obliged to, but many people feel the need to build or contribute to something that will outlive them. That's not hubris, it's very human.
Amazon Gets Deeper into Blockchain, What Does It Mean for Crypto? – NewsBTC
"Polly's reply is so shameless (including promoting her own book in the reply) that it's incredible just how badly it missed the point."

I think that was the point, given that the whole article was about letting go of shame.

Making a subtly different point - "...are very different from those of permanence that help us live well." Who's to say what "live well" actually means? I mean, you & your friend may have an idea about what it looks like, and I may have an idea about what it looks like, and chances are they might even align. But that doesn't mean that every person needs the husband and kids and career success and creative accomplishments in that image. There's a strong revealed-preference argument that the original letter-writer wasn't actually into that; she should own those choices rather than assume her life needs to look like everyone else's life.
If you think the economic system is scammy, but most people just won't listen, you will experience the exact same emotions you list. So I have to disagree.
I was really hoping they would announce pre-warming for all Lambdas. :(
"Shadow of what they used to be" is a nice gig if you can get it when the "used to" part was basically the scripting language.

Perl is still in top 20 programming language lists. That's arguably "below the fold" of search results, but hey, so are Lua and Haskell.

The Perl Community... I don't know exactly what you mean. I might believe that size in terms of active work on a growing number of modules has dropped; but I don't believe the quality of participation has. Even though I haven't written a line of production Perl in well over a decade I still like checking in every so often to see what they're talking about.

And for those for whom all you know about Perl 6 is its delayed arrival and related woes, I can guarantee there's more interesting things to be seen.
I wouldn't say that. Per TFA on the subject that also reached the front page the decrease is 0.3yr. I wouldn't call that "plagued".
How to Git, behind the scenes
I would argue that making Kafka more approachable and easy to deploy and use out of box is creating value for the developers, because it helps increase potential user adoption (and therefore increases the potential open source contributor base)
Forgive me since I've never used Go, but this sounds similar to having to add the async keyword to methods in C# all the way up the stack once you attempt to use an async method, as well as having to pass CancellationTokens down the stack to support cancellation. I've noticed it pollutes code with a lot of ceremony that I wish had been added to the runtime itself. Is this what you're talking about?
You sound like someone whose never driven in Los Angeles during rush hour on the westside. It's not too uncommon that every single road is completely jammed.
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer.

FWIW, a lot of people tell us Redux's docs are "great", but we've also had people tell us they aren't helpful. Kinda hard to figure out how to make improvements based on that kind of conflicting feedback :)

We are actually looking at revamping the Redux docs in the near future [0]. If you've got any specific concerns or suggestions on how we can improve things, please let me know directly, or comment on that issue.

Also, besides the docs, you may be interested in my suggested resources for learning Redux [1], including my own Redux workshop slides [2].

[0] https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/issues/2590

[1] http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/12/blogged-answers-lea...

[2] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2018/06/redux-fundamentals...
This is along the lines of what the other responses to this comment have said, but https://hackernoon.com/im-afraid-you-re-thinking-about-aws-l... gives a very detailed overview. It's titled "I'm afraid you’re thinking about AWS Lambda cold starts all wrong", because the way you're thinking about cold start times is common (and wrong).
>Anyone have recommendations for a good PC?

A good place to mention https://puri.sm. Repairability is one of their selling points, along with the openness.
It doubles the surface area of every library that deals with anything related to IO, and forces middle libraries that don't and shouldn't care about context to double their surface area just to support connecting their consumers to their upstream providers. "not ideal" is an understatement.
This has been on my mind for some time. Coming from a lower middle-class background in the midwest, and currently working for low wages, I use HN comments to get a feel for how 'the other side' thinks.

It's surreal to how alien a lot of the perspectives on HN are, even though many people here come from a similar background to mine.
Mithril's simplicity is a breath of fresh air compared to React's complexity. Highly recommend.
Starbucks will begin filtering pornography from its Wi-Fi networks
>We are (rightfully) concerned about silencing voices or communities. But our commitment to free expression makes us disproportionately vulnerable in the era of chronic, perpetual information war. Digital combatants know that once speech goes up, we are loathe to moderate it; to retain this asymmetric advantage, they push an all-or-nothing absolutist narrative that moderation is censorship, that spammy distribution tactics and algorithmic amplification are somehow part of the right to free speech.

>We seriously entertain conversations about whether or not bots have the right to free speech, privilege the privacy of fake people, and have Congressional hearings to assuage the wounded egos of YouTube personalities. More authoritarian regimes, by contrast, would simply turn off the internet. An admirable commitment to the principle of free speech in peace time turns into a sucker position against adversarial psy-ops in wartime. We need an understanding of free speech that is hardened against the environment of a continuous warm war on a broken information ecosystem. We need to defend the fundamental value from itself becoming a prop in a malign narrative.

This is key and why Europe is in a much better position to actually deal with this, specifically Germany. The German constitution expressly allows the state to defend liberal democracy with illiberal policies [1]. Germany doesn't need to deal with abstract and academic debates over free speech because they had more pressing concerns, like how to denazify the country and prevent history from repeating.

Sidenote: it's super annoying that all my comments are automatically dead. If @dang or anyone else can tell me what the heck is going on I'd appreciate it (no one has replied to my emails to hn@ycombinator.com).

[1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/renaissance-militant-democracy
Diana Ross, John Legend and Ella Mai Help Ring in Christmas Season at Rockefe
Thank you for raising these issues, they are important and too often neglected.
Way to go, Ruby support!!!! I am irrationally excited about this, if I wanted to do Serverless Ruby up until now, my nearest options were (some community-supported thing with "traveling ruby" on AWS, or...) Kubeless, or Project Riff

https://www.serverless-ruby.org/

We've been waiting! I thought this would never happen. Eating major crow today, as I've assumed for a long time that AWS's lack of Ruby support in Lambda was an intentional omission and sign that they are not our friends.

I will change my tone starting today!

(edit: Or Google Cloud Functions, or probably some other major ones I've missed...)
> friendless

Do you get out much? I was friendless for a year until I went to the local Linux Users group. Now, almost all my friends (except one old school friend I re-connected with a year ago) are Ruby or Go user group people.

I get to see them all twice a month, I invite some of them to my birthdays, we get beers after the meetups. If it weren't for these people I'd have no friends either.

Oh, sure, no-one is going to get a girlfriend from attending these meetups, but it's a start. I now go climbing because of these people (one of the members has been doing it for ages), and the more things or groups you get involved with outside of tech the more exposure you have to candidates for a partner, or even just other friends.