skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, not denying that these labels are most popular in their English form, but people do write about millennials in other languages.

Most seem to call them Generation Y

https://yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=Поколение%20Y

The common Chinese translations seem to treat it as an "era" more than a "generation", it's talked about reasonably frequently in ROC pop media it seems.

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%E4%B8%96%E4%BB%A3

Of course, at the end of the day it's just arbitrary BS, but it's not like the English speaking world is the only place people dare to split time into discrete chunks. And people generally know what you're talking about when you say "millennial", even if they couldn't tell you the "official" start and end years. I may be too young to be a millennial, by one year, according to some of those definitions.
"Am I missing something?"

Not really. People like to categorize things in attempt to draw any kind of conclusions from it. Sometimes it can be helpful and sometimes not.

The trends they are describing were most likely occurring consistently over time and not at any particular point, but if you take two points in time 30 years apart and compare them it might look like a drastic change.
I’ve been wanting to learn scheme. I think this would be a good opportunity!

Question: should I go with Racket or Chicken Scheme?
>It's good to know (I wasn't aware before) that this trend isn't present in all groups of humans, it gives me hope that it is able to be overcome collectively.

Did you just place yourself in the group of persons above such baseless group-defining behavior?
The legacy is still there, many conferences and events are dominated by Macs, but it's not the 100% share it was a few years ago and the "get a mac" jokes mean something quite different now.
LinkedIn down? Yes, "perfect" is the word I'd use.
It is interesting that the highest ranked talk at the Python-centric
It's just that Apple led the last decade in many fields while MS was barely sustaining it's own. Different exercises, none is easy, but one is ultra visible and impact people emotion a lot more.
You can definitely find good Indian catering for much cheaper per plate but yeah if you're having 800 people you're probably from money.
When an exceptionally esteemed mathematician like Atiyah proposes a proof for the Riemann hypothesis, it can still be wrong.

I think that's important--letting experts or ideas be wrong. I don't see evidence of humanity having success solving difficult problems without competition and experimentation.

But this particular problem will continue to grow because it wont be addressed in this way. Committees, bureaucracies, academics and journalists will surely discuss it though.

Orwell speaks more eloquently about this concept in The Lion and the Unicorn.
Divio offers a "platform as a service" for django, Django CMS, Wagtail, and Oscar commerce projects:

https://www.divio.com/

However, they lack a basic support ticketing system on the lower-tier price plan. It is also not obvious if/how you can deploy a pre-existing app from an arbitrary Git repo, as their service is geared to use Divio project scaffolding (including their own SSO).

While the Divio service seemed appealing at first, the above issues are a bit disappointing (and it has been nearly 24 hours with no response, since I contacted their support.) Overall, Divio seems to leave a bit lacking when compared with other hosting options like WebFaction (a shared hosting provider with good Python support.)

https://webfaction.com
The term 'Xennial' was coined just for people in your demographic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
Creating a 17 KB style transfer model with layer pruning and quantization
Thank you for letting me know that you can use multiple hashes in SRI. I didn't know you could do that.
They only need enough of an analysis to get a catchy article heading. Every day it's either "millennials are rich" or "millennials are poor".

Millennials are poor: ~10% have $15k saved up
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/09/a-growing-percentage-of-mill...

Millennials are rich: ~47% have $15k saved up
https://www.sfgate.com/personal-finance/article/Millennials-...

Avoid articles that stereotype any generation, because they're garbage that distort the truth to push agendas and generate clicks.
Well it didn’t help that Windows Phones had worse support for Exchange than iPhones and Android phones.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2617604/windows-phone-os/w...
It's much more complicated than that. The law doesn't wipe the slate clean. Rather, it gives the debtor an affirmative defense against a lawsuit after X years. It does not stop a debt collector from trying to collect on otherwise uncollectible debt (phone calls, letters, calls to friends, family, and employers if the debtor doesn't respond). Additionally, debts barred by the statute of limitations can sometimes still crop up as "zombie debt" years or decades later. Collectors can (and will) put a new records on a person's credit report, preventing most debtors from rebuilding their credit.

When a debtor stops paying debts entirely, it can start a whirlwind of problems. They can be barred from finding housing, certain types of employment, their actual current jobs (certain professional licensing require financial responsibility). Additionally, most debts end up in the hands of collection attorneys (CA) who will sue en masse to obtain judgments. This effectively stops the statute of limitations and gives the CA 10 years, 20 years, or a lifetime to collect the debt. In these cases, a well-timed bankruptcy is (and should be) an option for people. In some cases of debt -- student loans for example -- the debt is presumed non-dischargeable and can create a lifetime of hardship for the debtor.
It's not clear to me that @bluedino was arguing that people who can't pay for health care should go without. Instead, to me, the comments merely stated that such people can get access to health care. They can do this either by subsidized treatment, or by not paying the bill. We probably all agree that the US system has many flaws, but it is worthwhile to recognize the various routes to getting treatment.
What's decent pay ?
Sometimes it's OK to repeat yourself. I really wish devs didn't abstract every line of code for "reuse."
There are different types of debt. I don't know for a fact if it is still true, but medical debt on your credit score wasn't even considered for a mortgage for the most part. If you had 20 past due copays that was worse than owing 20k
Paper invites being expensive for large weddings is a pretty big motivator outside it being neat.
yeah but if you do that and the language lets you get away with it... ugh

I did not know this about Nim and does also seem quite a big turn off and a bit of a WTF decision

I have never coded any Nim, just read about it though :)
> Dublin came out as the world’s worst capital for affordable accommodation

They should try Stockholm. It can't be worse than Stockholm, surely.
Agreed. The machines are lovely but I won't be buying one anytime soon. They got caught 3 times doing variations of this.

Three times. They don't deserve to exist anymore.

Edit

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/security-failings-demonstrate-...
Linux and Supercomputers
I haven't read anything yet on the source of the fentanyl, do you have a worthwhile link?
Boomers made the economy grow incredibly and had some busts along the way. They got up and kept going. The boomers are the most creative and productive American generation period.

Millenials are still living with their (wealthy) boomer parents, delaying marriage and waiting for their boomer parents to die, whereupon the millenials will inherit their boomer parents' wealth. Unfortunately this will fail, b/c millenials have neither a work ethic nor a saving ethic. In the end, they'll spend their parents money and the US economy will flat-line.
Ah.. I had wondered why it wasn't used in most other languages. Now, of course it seems obvious.
The first to submit a solution.
> therwise you run the risk of developing software in a culture which inderstands nothing of software dev. Not fun.

Preaching to the choir. My thesis was a lot of that, haha.

Thanks a TON for the recommendations!
Belgium here.

Do you want understand the cause behind the healthcare faillure in the US ?

Just take a look at the chart of the halthcare sector index of US Stock Market.

If I remember well, healthcare was once considered as defensive sector in bear market... Now, it beats, by far, even the financial sector in bull market.
I am from India and I practically grew up listening how unfortunate my elders were. Every time I complained of the cable TV not working, the standard reply was - “When I was of your age, I had to look out a window”.

Ergo, the generation thing is always there, just that it takes a different form in different countries.
I took his 15-122 course[1] back when the lectures were still open. Excellent material, especially if you're writing something like Ethereum contracts. He is a freelance computer science prof now so if you live around Raleigh, NC you can take courses with him for compilers, coq, contracts.

[1]https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15122/schedule.shtml
Now it's our job to bring peace and prosperity to the next ones.
How can you be so sure about that? Many otherwise very viable companies go bust because of current account issues. $250m is a lot of current account.
Negativity audits – the 5 min exercise that can change your life
I'll start by saying that I agree with your assessment of the underlying issue here, I just have a slight nitpick with your comparison.

Other areas do exist that could allow people to move out of the city to a cheaper owned home in the suburbs. Personally I don't think that's a good solution though because suburbs are pretty inefficient and seem likely to exacerbate the climate problem we're running full speed into. I just wanted to point out that you can form some comparison because they are both still relatively attainable. (I might be mistaken on the real estate landscape in the UK since I'm from the US, if so just disregard this comment)

My other comment is mostly aimed at GP, but it seems that it has persisted down the comment chain, which is that from everything I've heard and read, "Higher income, lower wealth" is not an accurate assessment of what is happening when you factor in inflation. It's more of "The same/lower income, lower wealth" on average. Even still though, given the ideals of a capitalist system saying that owning capital is literally worth capital itself, lower long term wealth is most definitely a long term problem because this is a runaway feedback loop of capital concentrating in the top and the lower non capital owning members of society are slaves to capital. You might be technically earning a wage and thus not fit the technical definition of slavery, but if you have less and less freedom (defined as less freedom through lack of actual choice) because of it, I see very little difference.
Classes in the Mist
Addendum: I received a response from Divio while typing the above review. The respondent said they would put me in contact with a technical support person.
> call buttons on the table

A lot of Japanese and Korean restaurants (and maybe more) have exactly that.
Thanks for sharing this! I was looking for a resource on CSS animations for a couple web apps I'm working on.
ZFS snapshots can be automated. I have ZFS periodic snapshots enabled on my FreeNAS system, where I can select when snapshots will occur (frequency and time) as well as how long the snapshots will be kept.
I have some requests I'd like to see in the next update:

1. nerf mosquitoes
2. are hemorrhoids even necessary? I think we can just trash that feature.
3. human ingestion is quite buggy. often times nutritional data gets routed incorrectly. plz fix
well, yes, that's why nimgrep exists.

grep -i solves the case issue, and grep/ripgrep probably _should_ have a feature to ignore _ ; in which case you will be able to use them - but until then, nimgrep will do that work.
It may be a new written policy for certain categories, but I haven't been exposed to such a policy. A VM would have scoffed at the idea of allowing their vendor to sell the same product through Seller Central for years now. A vendor could discretely do this by setting up a 3P account and not telling their VM about it, but that's dishonest business and to be completely fair, you cannot honestly expect Amazon to allow that.

In the case of CRaP items, it's actually become a new strategy for VMs to allow some hybrid selling to keep assortment on the site while still allowing the company to turn a profit on the sale.

My mistake on the pricing of Seller Pro, but the point still stands.
Choose your time carefully, the population is currently rioting and the island is in near complete chaos...
It's kind of like separating the 19th century from the 20th century at WW1. Millenials are separated from Gen X by having computers and the internet introduced at some point while they were growing up. Whereas Gen Z are the kids who have had iPads since they were babies.
I worked there, and I can confirm that we called it "DB" or "Deutsche".
That just side steps the problems, and Airbnb is just an excuse.

There needs to be regulation that makes it easier for the tenant to also be the owner.
> Apple makes almost twice as much money as Microsoft does, but their valuations are similar. Thus the "market" believes that Microsoft's revenue is going to grow much faster than Apple's will.

The market for tablets is pretty much saturated, and the market for smartphones is no longer expanding at a breakneck rate. Laptops/desktops are not a growth segment, so Apple doesn't have huge potential for growth anymore unless they can find a new and very profitable product segment.

Apple isn't even really trying in any kind of serious way in the enterprise market, and their cloud efforts are only focused on supporting iOS for the most part. So where Microsoft (and Amazon) is poised for strong growth, Apple isn't even on the playing field.

I think back when the iPad 1 and 2 was gaining traction and getting businesses excited about tablets, is when Apple should've made a big push into enterprise. I think a lot of orgs (particularly gov't and hospitals) would've changed to being Mac shops if Apple offered the server, productivity, and desktop/device admin tools enterprise needs. But they largely ignored that opportunity and now the window is all but closed.

I know Apple's philosophy was to have a laser focus on what they do well, which was consumer hardware and software. But I think they had/have more than enough money to be a strong player in the enterprise market. What could have been.
Why it's so difficult (impossible) to accurately estimate software projects and why programming does not fit the "assembly line" model.
In Czech Republic, this "generation of something" is also sometimes used, because of two reasons:

First, there were actual population boom waves - one peaked after WW2, another peaked in the late 70s, another roughly after 2000. Also there was birth rate decline as an after shock from the transformation to the market economy. These waves seem to get generated by strong historical events or inadequate access to housing. In general, thanks to immigration and larger differences in the age of motherhood, these waves slowly disperse.

Second, because there was a lot of politically different historical periods in Czech Republic in the past 100 years, people born around the same time tend to have quite different experiences. So you have generation which was born in democratic Czechoslovakia after WW1, generation that grew up under Nazism, generation that grew during Communist purges in the 50s, generation that grew during a period of cultural renaissance in the 60s, generation that grew during a period of political tightening (normalization) in the 70s and 80s and generations born after the democratic revolution of 1989.

These different generations were largely learning a different language (German, Russian, English) and each was under influence of quite different culture than others.
It used to be standard practice for web development to assure the page degraded well if JS was disabled. Of course you need to have really good CSS to avoid the result looking like crap.
> who now have to live with, and pay, their debt.

No you don’t. You don’t have to pay your parents debts. Not sure what “debt” you are referring to?
Pacemakers: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses [pdf]
I, too, wondered this. Thanks for asking.
Until there is a genuinely portable way to move from one to another I'll stick either bare metal or running my own KVM instances on bare metal.

From a business risk point of view I don't trust the cloud at all and don't feel comfortable suggesting it to my boss.

Long term kubernetes or its three successors might fit the bill but for now running my own stuff has worked out fine.
Sounds great until you get a BSOD and need a 5 pound battery connected to your lens, which also has overheating problems.

I mean if you can't build an efficient phone, I'm cynical you can do build an efficient anything else.
It's a very American thing. They like to categorize people and then assign attributes to that group. "Conservative", "Liberal", "Gen X", ""Millenial", "Baby Boomers" and so on. I also find it pretty unhelpful to think about society that way. I think Clinton for example thought that "women" would vote for her because they are "women" and all "women" have the same opinions.
Pretty much.

There are attributes of blockchain implementations which are desirable attributes to solve this problem, but they can exist outside of block chains.

In fact, it's part of why I find this Quantum product interesting for this... they seem to have those qualities that would be helpful without bring much of the other baggage.

The only thing that's not clear is how you handle authority (who says who can participate, for example). So I don't think this Amazon approach is the complete answer, but this sort of approach seems like a path which might bear more fruit than trying to implement blockchains for the problem.
>Kurt Vonnegut once said that no one should start writing before the age of 40.

Do you by any chance have a source for that quote? Vonnegut has so many great quotes, but I couldn't find the one you mentioned.
"SREs have a saying, “every day is Monday in operations,” which means our systems are in a constant state of change and our teams are on call 24/7 to address any site issues that do pop up."

I kinda like that, but at the same time, ugh.
and have less time to cook at home and need both parents working full time instead of one. etc.
Divorce rates also decline when the economy declines. When the economy is booming people feel more confident in their potential future economic security post divorce and are more willing to roll the divorce dice.

I would guess that has more to do with the rates than any moral superiority between generations.
For some reason the Gen Y label never stuck. It was the thing back in the 90s and early 2000s, but then just faded away for no reason in particular.
Hacker News posters are the most hyperbolically negative folks on Amazon that it's almost funny. I always groan when clicking on Amazon-related comments because I know it's just going to be people complaining about god-knows-what. And yet, the company thrives.
Find the perfect price for your product. Or die trying ️
Gen Z starts around 1998 or so, so presumably many of them did not had iPads as babies.
"Am I missing something?"

Yes - you're missing the detail of the first of these generations - those returning to the United States from having served in World War 2, took full advantage of the economic preeminence of the US, and begat the "baby boom generation".

So of course you are correct - births happen continuously and there is not an obvious "banding" of "generations" ... but in this case there was a very clear and pronounced age band, and all of the subsequent "generations" (baby boomers, gen X, gen Y, Millenials, etc.) proceeded from there.
>You're being pedantic for the sake of outrage.

Eh no.

Imagine you're sitting in Canada and say "The opiod epidemic kills more people annually than WW II", and then when confronted, you say "Of course I mean Canadian lives in WW II!"

Americans may only see 55000 deaths in Vietnam. The rest of the world (and HN is international in audience) sees a lot more.
Indeed, and Apple's services revenue is also growing quite a bit. So, they'll want chunks of the market where it is also likely that people will be purchasing paid apps, iCloud storage, Apple Music, movies, etc.
Well, that may be true, but there is good reason to doubt the effects of adding more roads to LA: demand will grow to meet capacity, which I am sure Musk is aware of given that he runs a car company.
Well, you can be sure about that because Apple kept losing money for the next three years. The net $140 million wouldn’t have covered half of thier losses for a quarter.
Of course, do you not think they'd have that covered? ;)

https://trademarks.justia.com/858/08/nes-85808681.html
Commons Clause License
Also: Tacking on fees allows a debt collector to effectively 're-up' the debt, which resets the clock on the statute of limitations.
It seems like I did with my words, but I did not mean to. Thanks for pointing that out, I'm just as guilty of all of the behaviors I described which is part of what helps me recognize the pattern in the first place.
I...yeah. The picture wasn't completely clear until very recently and now the anxiety has kicked in. I'm trying to stick around a little because I've been through too many jobs in too short a time and I think I need to show some "commitment" on my resume.
Dell did it too.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/dell-...

Apparently hp also

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3238512/microsoft-wind...
I've been told by some fellow HN'ers in other threads that housing problems like this are akin to domain squatting. SMH.
Dublin is a tourist town. The only thing that can compete with 100 euros a night is a rent of 3000 euros a month.
I've argued [0] that what people see as a bug (obvious counterfeit products) is actually a feature that will lead to increased profits for Amazon. I can't understand why people think Amazon would be so quick to stop it...

[0] https://taprun.com/articles/amazon-pricing-power-conspiracy
Pairwise Relational Network – New Method for Face Recognition
It's often lost on us how much more you can buy for a dollar today vs. 40 years ago (when corrected for inflation).
12 Ways to Stop Surprises on Your Team
If you are using floats in financial transactions you are doing it incredibly wrong. Never use floating points for that, ever. It is insanely problematic and bug prown.
Does the name suggest it has Quantum Computing + Distributed Ledger?
And your evidence to support this crazy assertion?

Also, what's your basis for claiming that "government" is the only way to protect people/possessions from violent attack?