skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An interesting phenomenon of human behavior is that people cannot practice charity and profit simultaneously (altruism versus egoism). It is a forced dichotomy. You have to choose and there is no middle ground. This forced choice is present even when the environment, incentives, and stimulus allow for both. This is long observed in scientific philosophy, but there is also a fair amount of behavioral health research on this as well.

This may be common but it's not an absolute. There is a middle ground, you can profit without exploiting anyone, for the definition "use [someone or something] in an unfair or selfish way". The trick is to exploit using the definition "make full use of and derive benefit from", and making full use of anyone's talents and skills always includes improving their morale, which is mutually exclusive with being a selfish or greedy company.
Ahhh. That's an interesting idea. I like it
Are you implying there are other browsers?

/s

The wonderful web as we used to know it has devolved into a pretty sad thing (and web-developers with it).
I heard an interesting podcast about how the pain scale used in hospitals and clinics is directly responsible for the opioid crisis, and it was intentionally designed to sell pain killers. You know the sheet you get when you visit a doctor that asks “how severe is your pain on a scale of 1-10”?

The well intentioned scientist (June Dahl) who championed the widespread adoption of the pain scale recalls that when she was giving talks about it and it started to get a little traction, the pharma industry started pouring money into her campaign. At the time she thought it was just unbiased grant money without an agenda, but she later realized the intent was to sell more drugs.

https://www.gimletmedia.com/science-vs/opioids-how-america-g...
You're right that in theory nobody has proven whether chess is won, lost, or drawn with perfect play. But all available evidence, as well as my personal intuition (and that of almost all top players), screams that it's drawn.
> I thought ed tablet demand was shifting to Chrome OS laptops.

This is due to a massive sales/discounting effort and naive people doing the purchasing.

> Further, I don't think I've ever heard of Amazon (Fire?) being a relevant part the ed market.

It's under the radar at this point. For the price of one Chromebook you can get a half dozen 10" fire tablets. Amazon has a far more thoughtful kid-oriented experience compared to anything Apple, Google or Microsoft offers.

Apple caters to big budget studios who make glossy but underwhelming kids content, Google just wants to show kids ads and monetize based on kid eyeballs, and Microsoft ignores kids until they are old enough to want an XBox.
Beijing Is Pushing Hard to Influence U.S. Views of China, Report Says
> Likewise, an open secret is that college work is a simulation of the workplace.

I don't think this is the case, and hasn't been for a long time. Assuming you're not looking at graduate classes college is largely a game of keeping your head down and doing the work you need to when you need to and the minimizing effort other than that. Cramming is totally a viable option as the metrics for success in college are totally different than the workplace. The skills one learns to survive in college are extremely maladaptive to a long term functional career.

If the criteria for success are orthogonal, how can one be a simulation of the other?
It is not America hating, as this is not just an issue for US. Sorry if it sounded that way.

You are right in that there are more indicators already defined, but you don’t see presidents boasting these figures - and even press and newspapers focus way more on economy and GDP. It’s simply more important in most heads, in my opinion, and this whould change (again my opinion!)
How probably it is?

Sorry, I cannot help but ask.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B4...

Number of people working (число работников): 45000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Headquarters,_manufactu...

"Nevertheless, SpaceX still has over 3,000 suppliers with some 1,100 of those delivering to SpaceX nearly weekly."

I guess you have to have 15 workers working for average supplier to reach these pesky 45000 workers of OKBK.

These two companies have more or less similar structure and must have more or less similar number of workers. For US to have twice population of Russia it is quite possible to have more workers working (indirectly) with SpaceX, in my opinion.
That doesn't prevent them prosecuting him in Russia for these crimes though.
If this is the only problem you have you should consider yourself lucky. Very, very lucky.
Apple is riding on their earlier successes, and failing to look to the future.

Take that "BSD open source tooling". It's a decade old. I depend on that stuff, and Apple used to market its UNIX roots heavily to people like me. I now see scripts breaking which work fine on Linux and real FreeBSD, because it doesn't support new options added to commands over the course of an entire decade. Or there are behaviour differences, or missing functionality. It's becoming significantly less useful. Enough that I hit these problems frequently and have to find workarounds. I want some commitment from them to actually maintain the system I pay for.

The perpetual licensing did solve one of their problems, customers who didn't upgrade, and reduce their support burden. But this coincides very closely with the end of any real maintenance of the core operating system underneath the GUI. Since 10.6 it's been sorely lacking, and the quality drop is noticeable.

You're right about the storage pricing. When you spec out a fully loaded Mac Mini, the pricing is obscene. I do need a new Mac to support Mac development for my customers. I need a system as a CI server, and for interactive testing. A Mac mini would be ideal for a small office. The old ones were woeful. The new ones are better on some fronts but terrible on other counts like graphics. And the pricing is insane for what you're getting. I don't need laptop parts in a tiny case. I do need an affordable system which will last a while, rather than an expensive fashion statement. If it was twice or even four times the size, I wouldn't care. I do however care that the storage is expensive and soldered. What if I wear it out in a few months after thrashing it soundly with CI builds and testing. The whole system will be an expensive brick. A single NVMe slot would have solved that.

This does drive away developers, particularly ones who develop applications which require higher-end systems, such as scientific computing. Apple doesn't have a high-end system to offer. But I can get or build a PC with a fantastic spec for less than the cost of the Mac mini and run Linux or Windows on it. Microsoft have even started tools like vcpkg which significantly lower the entry barrier and maintenance cost for developing on Windows. It still has a number of disadvantages over Linux or MacOS, but they are actually catering to a real need while Apple stands aloof, ignoring the needs of people who would drive the use of their hardware and software.
= no Walking Dead in Detroit :-)
Sure - if you've evaluated the tradeoffs and feel that using Redux-Form is beneficial for you, go for it! I've just seen a lot of people answer questions of "How do I work with forms in React?" by blindly saying "USE REDUX-FORM!", and that's just... no. Totally not necessary. (Right up there with "adding two numbers in JS by using jQuery".)
SuperFish and other adwares were installed on Lenovos lower-grade laptops and Thinkpads. The X series and T series, the choice of most consumers who care enough to own a Thinkpad, were not affected by this issue[1]. While it's unacceptable for Lenovo to be doing this on ANY machine, I still feel confident that the company understands how consumers view the Thinkpad brand and how reluctant they are to do anything that might tarnish the brand for business and prosumer users.

[1]https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish
Best Buy will price match Amazon and other online retailers, providing same day local pickup of authentic products. The entire process can be done online via chat, takes about 10 mins, once you have a URL to prove the price.
Even if somebody deviates from a style guide, the library is still usable. The consumer might just need to use a casing convention they're not using elsewhere.

This is such an incredibly small inconvenience, I have no idea why the Nim language would choose to make identifiers case/_ insensitive. Basic refactoring tools become unnecessarily more complicated.

Just searching for an identifier is a complex regex instead of what should just be ctrl+f.
> and that for a web service there's therefore nothing that will protect you besides IP-blocking Europe.

Which is bizarre reasoning: geo-IP databases are not foolproof, and thus you will get legitimate EU traffic from EU ISPs regardless. Further, by this reasoning, what's to say an EU customer using a VPN to exit in the US is somehow excluded from GDPR?
I don't think that was any less in previous generations. I seem to recall hearing about a lot of grumbling about people protesting the Vietnam war, for example.
Same; the church we are at now is an ecumenical affiliate of a Baptist group and a Presbyterian group. Very progressive. Growing fairly rapidly too right now, mostly people without grey hair; lots of toddlers and preschoolers.
Millenials are killing everything. Except the economy. Boomers killed that.
Everyone... I mean EVERYONE needs to master the laws of debt collection. Even if we think we are "responsible." Because all of us are a "situation" away from losing it all.

Here in the USA, there is a "statute of limitations on debt". If we fall onto bad times, the laws protect us from aggressive debt collectors. We simply stop paying all debts... and the law cleans our slate fresh after x amount of years (depending on each state). No bankruptcy needed.
I'm going to do Rust.
> Features like implicit syntax rewriting macros or case-insensitive variable names are... interesting experiments in a language, but ultimately not good ideas.

I'm not too familiar with the specifics of Nim, but how are case-insensitive variable names a bad idea, except that notion is so unfamiliar to programmers?

Flipped around, if a language were to be designed today in a vacuum, what is the argument in favor of case-sensitivity in variable names?

My feeling is that we take case-sensitivity for granted because the vast majority of languages inherited that behavior from history's lineage of great programming languages. But re-evaluated without that history, case-sensitivity seems only to create potential confusion at best and opportunities for trolling and obfuscation at worst. Today's use case to indicate scope, mutability, or permissions is an artifact of this history. As programmers, we know how to read something like this in Java, but if we were able to completely erase our historical knowledge and consider language design without that baggage, this seems like bad language design:

// Local variable square is instantiated equal to
// SQUARE constant in class Square.
Square square = Square.SQUARE;

I'm not sure what alternative syntax we'd have today if we had never adopted case sensitivity in names to begin with, but my hunch is I would prefer it even if it involved more typing (e.g., prefix or suffix symbols).

Admittedly, a statically analyzed language will have most case typographical mistakes found and corrected at compile time, so they are a lesser annoyance than case-sensitivity in other contexts (such as filenames or column names in database tables). Generally speaking, I would be in favor of a hard break to drop case-sensitivity across the board, but I'll put that on the same list as adopting the metric system in the US (titled: "LOL, good luck.").
Why are more Americans than ever dying from drug overdoses?
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> I have a hard time believing they had such widespread disdain for their kids as the boomers do

It's always interesting when I hear boomers complain about millennials. Didn't they have an influence on raising the same generation they complain about?
> If I am owed 2.575% on $3425956.57 for 245 months, why not get the correct sum

Explosion of storage space and computation complexity. When you combine real-world numbers with compound interest, every time you add the interest, you’re adding decimal digits to the value. For your example, after 245 months of compound interest at 2.575% per month, the value will have 1228 decimal digits in it, that’s more than 512 bytes to store and process.

Another reason is, for the last ~700 years, finance folks use this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping_syste... With that system, coins allow for some kind of rolling checksum verification. BTW, in modern software, the coin is often $/€/whatever 0.0001.
> English has its quirky unique words for 11 and 12 (instead of one-ten and two-ten)

Of course, consistency with other number names above 20 would lead to "ten-one" and "ten-two", not "one-ten" and "two-ten"; or consistency with other number names below 20 would lead to "oneteen" and "twoteen", or some variant (as with "thirteen" in place of "threeteen").
aren't vendors suppliers?
It's funny how this "generation" thing only quite exists (as far as I know) in the English-speaking world. There is no such idea of generations of people where I come from. It's hard for me to even grasp the idea of it. Who draws a line between generations and why? People do not stop being born, nor do they magically change because they supposedly belong to an imaginary generation.

Am I missing something?
I'm okay with the singularity as well, though I gotta admit I have some reservations about it. Like, what if I get sacked because AI is taking over? Yes, they said AI could boost employment and will create new jobs but what if it doesn't? It will create unemployment problems for sure and when it does, other problems might follow.
State of React State Management in 2019
Ask HN: Why do I see jobs posting about Mino Games all the time?
Meta: I keep seeing headlines like "Mino Games is hiring developers in Montreal".

Am I the only one ? (I always assumed the frontpage was not personalized, is that the case?)

If it's the same for everybody... why ? Is there some soft of partnership between ycombinator and them ? Are they simply abusing the submit button ? Does this violate the guidelines of HN ?
Firebase has ergonomic free auth that does all this out of the box.
This is super cool. I hate to "ask for more" with this sort of thing, but I really wish each plant had a bio attached to it as well.
And only applies to Amazon Linux 1, not other operating systems yet.
Huawei asks New Zealand to explain latest ‘national security’ 5G ban
> There is a middle ground, you can profit without exploiting anyone

That is not a middle ground. It is one of two classes of motivations. Profit does not imply exploitation, manipulation, or any form of dishonesty.
Clearly, the wave is from movement and noise generated by a large (multi-mile long) subterranean hard drive or processor or machine spinning to life after having been given the "wake on LAN" (or some other SSH/RDP-like) signal from Oumuamua [1] - who just got into wifi range earlier this year. The signal is just too clean for it to be natural; it must be artificially generated. So, its either aliens returning, or some Earthly code recently got deployed for Earth 2.0. (Oh, did you think we were living in Earth 1.0...Hmmm, interesting. Do you also think that's air that you're breathing?) ;-)

[1] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua
Uber Freight taps machine learning to give shippers rates 2 weeks in advance
YC Companies, and only YC Companies, can place ads on HN, subject to certain rules.
> In 2009, while still on probation, Glass and a friend named Isaac Stern started a company called Yellowstone Capital LLC. (ABC, the firm that wiped out the Duncans, is one of more than a dozen corporate names used by Yellowstone’s sales force.)

(((Isaac Stern)))
Companies that do business like this can only ruin so many people's lives before someone uses their last remaining money to buy a High Point and a bus ticket and makes their business practices the subject of national headlines.

Might not happen today. Might not happen this decade but eventually someone will snap. It might not come to that. The legislators might catch wind of it and change the law in a different way but the risk is always there.
Looks like the keyboard shortcuts don't map to Mac well. Command-A selects all the text, but Control-A works as expected. Worse, when I hit backspace to delete everything, it did a browser back. The illusion of an app was lost instantly.

It might be a good idea to add a "component vendors" setting to quickly filter out GCP stuff or AWS stuff if you don't use that specific cloud.

Otherwise looks very interesting, and somewhat useful, although I doubt I'd ever use it for the monitoring stuff. That makes for a neat demo, but I'd use this for documentation, not monitoring.
Don't forget environment.
But they leave very nice government debt behind, so millenials have something to solve after they pay out their student ones and pay boomers pensions.
I'm working on a library to do that right now [1]. Currently, it's alpha quality, but you can make OpenGL apps in both, SDL2 apps in iOS and Webview apps in both. Also check out nimx [2]

[1] https://github.com/iffy/wiish

[2] https://github.com/yglukhov/nimx
While the article itself is talking specifically about spending habits on physical goods vs 'experiences', the subject line could be better worded.

IMHO Millenials tend to be more aware of their financial weakness at a younger age relative to their older cohorts, thus resulting in more risk adverse behavior.
> people don't go to a doctor when they should or too late

I saw this when travelling in the US for work. (I am Canadian). Striking up conversations in restaurants I met staff that worked while sick because they couldn't afford to take sick days, or worked with chronic conditions because they couldn't afford a visit to a doctor.

Even worse are the major chronic diseases from our lifestyle (hypertension, diabetes, etc). These are largely preventable or manageable with early care. But, if folks don't see their doctor then the severity of the disease grows until treatment becomes something major like surgery or an ER trip (both much more expensive than preventive care).

In short. Yes, the US healthcare system is broken. Interestingly one political party's solution is to blame a past president and continue to undermine what you have, while the other party is content with the existing for profit model.
It’s not set in stone but these generations exist everywhere. Say one generation had to fight in war and one didn’t. You’ll see major differences in their personalities.
You don't work in marketing/advertising. Companies need to segment populations of consumers with similar characteristics to effectively advertise, tailor products, and sell to them. One of the most common demographic dividers is age. Different "generations" are grouped together because the members of their population exhibit similar income and expenditure patterns on average.
Agreed. There is the temptation to jam animations into every screen because of the fun novelty effect. But the ultimate effect on your users would likely be visual strain and no small amount of irritation.

I wish more of the web had animations, but sometimes it can take a designer's eye to know how to use it effectively. What happens in practice however is similar to when a college freshman discovers transitions and animations in PowerPoint.
There was an article the other day that said divorce rates for millennials is down a notable amount from baby boomers, but without the marriage rate lowering. One way of interpreting this is that baby boomers have more selfish tendencies than other generations, and millennials are realizing that their parents' ways (including divorce) are selfish, and learning from their parents mistakes. If this is true, then it's perfectly in character for a stereotypical boomer to complain about millennials more than their parents complained about them.
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BitTorrent owner Tron will invest $100M in blockchain games
Average expenditure at 30: $45,000

That's strange to me - is everyone living on debt? Factor in median household income for a fam with Bachelors degrees: $68,728, which is $52,000ish net of tax.

How are people spending that much?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
It's easier to make clickbait headlines when you pigeonhole people into a "generation."
Or perhaps the Neoliberal policies that are hard at work dismantling all the social safety nets that gave people hope and encouraged them to take risk without fearing that failure implies total ruin.
> Who draws a line between generations and why?

Market research organizations I think.

They segment people into generations (and smaller subcategories) in order to better understand how to sell them products and services.

They are marketing buckets.

The corporate mindset is so pervasive in north america, that we take on their concepts and discuss them even outside of their area of application.

This is why we talk about which movie 'grossed' the most on the weekend, instead of comparing movies on their artistic or cultural merits.