skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So for "Popularity Rank on Stack Overflow" axis, I would replace the word popularity with attention. In addition to general engagement and use, a language getting more traffic/tagging there may indicate less quality documentation, more niche use (and less answers/tutorials from other sources as a result) or maybe tend to draw in (for many potential reasons) less experienced developers who are looking for active guidance or maybe the language generally has weird or non-intuitive patterns more likely to generate _wtf?_ type feelings that route you directly to stack overflow and onward to conspiracy sites from there.

The "Popularity Rank on GitHub" is probably more accurately measuring popularity in the popular sense of the word. That's especially true because the GitHub archive used for the data only offers info on public repositories and even then I'm curious to know how it reports for multi-lingual repos (does LOC win out, do repos get associated with multiple languages?).

Personally 90% of my commits over the past year have been to private repos for work. My public commits are in languages I look forward to using and learning outside my 9 to 5 because they interest and they offer a nice change up (ie PureScript and Rust lately).

I'm super stoked to see FORTRAN is riding solidly at 60% for both metrics, regardless of what those metrics truly measure. ~40 public commits in the last 24 hours! Check it out:

https://github.com/search?o=desc&p=4&q=fortran&s=updated&typ...

Off Topic PostThought:

Seeing JavaScript at that top corner and the amazing
surge over the past couple years of Rust has got me
thinking that when it comes to the art of programming
languages, Brendan Eich is a (if not the) seminal
artist of this time period.

Learning JavaScript is when what Dostoevsky,
Kierkegaard, Sartre and Camus were all trying to
communicate really hit home for me. Meanwhile a recent
foray into Rust is reminding me of the first time I
read books like Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Borge's
Labyrinths and Steinbeck's East of Eden.

To me it's pretty amazing that the same person has
played pivotal roles in two languages that are both a
joy to write and reason with and for completely
different reasons.
Seems like a bad idea. I don't like surprises, especially those that involve running untrusted code on my computer.
A self administered course with no mention of MCAS. How deep does the rabbit hole of bad decisions go here? If the MCAS system was a difference between the two models (737 vs 737 Max), why wouldn't it show up in a transition course at the very least?
"The new order directs federal agencies to ensure that any college or university receiving research grants agrees to promote free speech and the exchange of ideas, and to follow federal rules guiding free expression." Non-compliance means loss of grant funding. The problem is: who decides when a college or university is not in compliance?
>It is sad to see that the rest of the world has to bend down to serve this repressive state.

To be honest it is not our place to tell the Chinese people how to govern themselves, that is for them to figure out.

I don't see how we're 'serving' China. The US is already in an open trade war with the country, and many other regions are growing weary, but it is not up to us to interfere in the country's internal affairs.
This is a bit more like app situation on Android - if I download an SMS app, of course I’d expect it to read my contacts and read write my messages.

If I download a calculator, it has no business reading location, call logs, messages, contacts, full filesystem. That would make me outraged, even if I did technically click through permissions.
He started a podcast last year to promote Swift outside Apple platforms, it lasted three episodes.
They have to make x medicine to save millions of lives. That requires "body parts" (cells) to test so they have to "own" them. Corporations do not own people in the slave sense, and Google's CEO can't walk to a random employee and say, "as a Google CEO, I want to chop off your leg since it's ours."
Don't we have tests for this?
I think it’s about opportunity cost. It’s often cheaper to outsource everything not-core and focus your time and attention on the things only you can do. Where “you” is whatever you consider the relevant company/team/businessunit.

Can I build a website? Yes. Can I save money by paying someone to build a website and focus instead on filling it with great content? You bet.

Same applies for SaaS. It would be a waste of time/money/effort to build my own ConvertKit for example
tech solves everything permanently.
That’s true in a society where drug use is a major problem.

It’s not true in a society where, statistically speaking, nobody cares about drug use.

Make something widely available and legal to a society that doesn’t have experience with it and doesn’t know the risks, and you end up with a chance of that community being absolutely ravaged by it. People just up and wasted away wherever opium was introduced. The northern territories in Canada have huge problems with people bringing in cheap liquor. What’s right and reasonable in one society may be absolutely destructive in another society, and westerners in particular refuse to accept that possibility.
Precise words were chosen for this article.
Its funny that weed so bad but mushrooms were legal there until 2002
It doesn't matter what people think, rather CS definition.

Software Engineering is not about what people think, rather what is technically correct.
Goodbye, Groovy
Unless I misunderstand it looks like its $45/month. Which comes out to $540/year.

https://gusto.com/product/pricing
Completely agree - being able to just add rote attachments to a journal entry is a huge miss. Hoping they rectify it soon.
Addiction and Unhappiness in America – The World Happiness Report
TLDR: Database vendor for Postgres makes Postgres look good.

My startup uses Postgres though and we like it.
It doesn't promise certainty, it just points out that certain levers may be connected in ways we didn't realize.
Why Balancing Your Mix Is Important
Advertising is a scourge upon society.
Facebook just kept all password in plaintext (no hashing)
They must push it really well for it to ever be considered an alternative to Julia, ML.NET, Python/C++, Deeplearning4j on Windows.
Get a job at Google and then you can directly query the underlying data with as complex a query as you like (and don't have to use indexes etc).

Obviously running your custom filter logic across every byte of data that has ever existed on the internet is compute heavy... But Google has lots of that!
To be clear, I am saying that personally I see crime daily, whether I am in San Francisco or Oakland, and my co-workers have been sent to the hospital via attacks right in front of our offices on Market Street in San Francisco.

I will also add that I rarely report crime. This is somewhat learned helplessness as I do not expect any results. For example, calling Oakland's non-emergency number has resulted in me eventually giving up after getting nothing but a busy signal over and over. I was attacked by one of San Francisco's street addicts, but as I did not suffer any serious injuries, I did not waste my time reporting it. (I regret this on principle as surely that person has attacked others and will continue to do so.) I also do not report the obvious dealers hanging out on corners by our offices because I know from following the local (Tenderloin) police force's Twitter account that even if they make the arrest, the dealer will be released within weeks (possibly hours or days; not sure) back onto the streets. It is common for them to arrest the same dealers three times in two-month periods. (And no, they aren’t pot dealers; they are arrested with meth, crack, heroin, and other hard drugs ready for sale.)
Don't get confused, the gov blocks websites with a clear purpose and your English learning website definitely is not on their blocking list.
Crossing into personal attack isn't allowed here, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. Most of your comments to HN have unfortunately been like this. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site to heart? It's particularly important when your points are right, so as not to discredit them.
I'm not saying you're wrong—I'm just some random person on the internet. But I find it surprising that they'd even have that many pieces of iPhone shaped glass attached to working touchscreens early on in the process.

Of course people working on developing the UX would want to see and touch a contextualised screen so I suppose the configuration we see here would make sense for them.
The JVM is indeed a beast in available tooling, libraries and production monitoring.
I doubt it's the Samsung launcher/ lock screen showing ads though. I remember a particular lock screen I tried out that was great. Functional, beautiful... Except, you know, when it showed an ad on half the lock screen.

Yeah, fuck that.

But a less tech savvy person might just go "well this is fine, I guess that's just how it is", and live with it.
Oh god first line of Wikipedia reads: 'An intranet is a private network accessible only to an organization's staff.'

Please tell me how www.baidu.com is only accessible within China.
The Pragmatic Theory of Truth
Right.

The OP's lament is heard from other musicians of his age. Being In A Band used to be a Big Deal. Fame, fortune, groupies. Then came lower cost equipment, Myspace, and streaming. At peak there were several million bands on Myspace.
My point was addressing that he was incorrect about what an 'intranet' is. Read between the lines.

You're right that they do mass state surveillance though.
The Cornucopia of the Commons: How to get volunteer labor (2006)
> If you can find it for $15.18 without having to buy other services, that's a deal and you should take it.

I was told to take the $15.18 Cloudflare deal, not the $9.06 Namecheap deal.
Its a kind of pointless quote though because the GPL requires that after the first person buys your software they can legally put it up online for free and now you have lost your sales.
Design Versioning Tool
Now I'm curious! What are other systems-level languages? I know Go was touted as one at the start, but that's definitely not where it's established a niche!

Julia? Nim? That's about all that comes to mind.

I wish I could read the Haskell documentation, but the code examples are straight up black magic to me. I really need to dig into some proper functional programming at some point!
Step being slow? How long you don't use debuggers?

Plus it is not like one needs to single step all the way, there are plenty of ways to control execution flow.
Are people producing SQL as an independent language in a separate repository or even a separate file? Since this ranking is largely based upon Github there would have to be SQL language files to make the cut.
In a very roundabout way, RAM being a valuable item isn’t too far off from bitcoin
Clearing cookies and use of a shared VPN server are the main culprits for this error.

If neighbouring IP's to yours abuse Google services, you'll see way more of these errors.
CodeSandbox: Containers
This is the capitalism mindset and this comment is proof that its the worst thing there is.
> With how much I hear about Rust on here, a little surprising to see it behind the likes of Haskell and and Perl!

Perl? Please, Perl was SO huge that I'm surprised it's as low as it is (which makes me suspect the methodology, actually ...).

In addition, if I remember from the TIOBE index there is the "Top Ten" and "everything else" where 10-20 is basically 1%+some noise and 20-50 is like .3%+noise.

> Kotlin is doing really well for its age especially, I'm guessing mostly used by Android devs (so far).

I wish the Android ecosystem would finally pick something and just stick with it. Having tooling, samples, and documentation that don't go out of date every 6 months outweighs any mythical "advantage" that switching language, build system, etc. actually gains.
Remote Work Digest: March 21, 2019
I sort of remember they asked me how to authenticate users when they interviewed me (of course the answer is to store and compare the hashes on the password).

Besides the security implications: isn't it faster to compare hashes rather than having to compare strings? (the hash computation can be done in the browser) It is also easier to store a hash field rather than passwords (hashes are fixed size whereas password strings are variable size); so why would they be doing something like this?
Marketing/advertising professionals are in the business of persuading businesses of their efficacy as much, if not morose, than they're in the business of persuading consumers to patronize those businesses.

Smooth talking and flashy slide decks about how great their advertising service is can blind business owners to poor results.
The Silicon Valley has a deeply rooted holier-than-thou complex, mixed with a tendency to overreact and overcompensate (some might call it “scorched Earth”), leading many observers to surmise a similarity between today’s California and the Catholic Church of the Dark Ages.
All the studies I've read about indicate that much more storage is needed.
If nobody cares about something, why would there be a law against it?
I have all my transactions in GnuCash (i keep thinking it'll be useful one day), but i've never bothered to learn to bend the reports to my will. Do you have to write code? Are there good examples anywhere? Because i find the default reports... Terribly clunky.
Any Friends of DeSoto here?
Perhaps I'm missing something, but that seems like a National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). How does a recent downward trend at the national level tell you anything about crime in San Francisco which actually seems to have significantly more crime than the National average and a recently rising crime rate?

https://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/california/san-f...
Nintendo Labo VR hands-on: virtual reality goes DIY
> Having tooling, samples, and documentation that don't go out of date every 6 months

This is exactly why I didn't stick with Android for too long. Everything's too... in flux, but in a weird way.

"YAY, Google released this feature I've been dying for! Can't wait to use it in 4 years, when enough phones actually support it :)". It's either that or have API level dependent code.

Maybe Dart will fix some of these pains, by abandoning all they have built up? It is Google, so I'd say it's unlikely, but still.

Hell, I was trying to build an analog clock widget as a tribute to a certain sports team, and Google had deprecated the AnalogClock class. Its successor was, well, nothing. So a few community efforts took its place, and the fragmentation only got worse. Thanks, but no thanks!
Please don't post political/national rants to HN. They are all the same, making them tedious, and they lead to flamewars, which produce even-less-interesting scorched earth. None of this serves intellectual curiosity, which is what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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No, it wouldn't. Having your hands are on the wheel doesn't insure that you're paying attention. And if you need to be paying attention 100% of the time anyway, what's the point of having an autopilot?
Your flamebait comment upthread inaugurated this directly. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19459981 and don't do this on HN.
With magazines with a narrow focus, such as magazines about a particular hobby or activity, readers usually wanted the ads.

I used to regularly read "Astronomy" and "Sky & Telescope", for example, and would have been disappointed if the ads went away. Ads in those magazines were the primary way most amateur astronomers back in, say, the '70s would find good equipment.

Other magazines I would have been disappointed to lose ads from were "Popular Electronics", "Chess Life" and "Byte".

For more general interest magazines, like "Time" or "Newsweek", I don't recall looking forward to the ads like I did for the above mentioned magazines, so wouldn't have minded if they went away. On the other hand, print ads generally weren't intrusive, though, so if they would have had to raise the price of the magazine to get rid of them I would rather keep them.

Although newspapers were general interest, their ads were often useful because they were usually for local things. Remember, back in the day we bought almost everything in person at local stores, so these ads often alerted us to sales and deals that we were interested in.
> Advertising is a scourge upon society.

I understand where you're coming from, but that's painting with a pretty broad brush. Advertising covers everything from the signage stating the name of the mom-and-pop shop on the corner (which is why cities often limit the size of logos/names on building) to billboards on the side of the freeway. It covers movie trailers I seek out ant watch to see what's coming soon to commercials interspaced within a video that interrupts the flow.

I hate some of those, but i actively like, or at least value the utility of some of the others. A specific type of advertising has grown outsized that last couple of decades, and it's causing real problems. But let's not paint with too broad a brush just because we're fed up. That's how stupid laws get passed.
Is there an animation of RM ranking graphs over time?
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This breaks the HN guideline against insinuating astroturfing without evidence. Please don't do that—it's one of the most toxic things we see here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
> Explicitly logging a password is one of those practices that doesn't sit on the backlog.

For you maybe. For Facebook obviously it's different.
Show HN: Keyboard search and metric display website
Why would anyone generate YAML as a string when JSON is valid YAML and can be generated programmatically?! Why??
It seems that the risk here is more of the perception flavor. That is, the strength of the USD, has a lot more to do with peoples perception of the USD.

Similar to how the stock market reacts psychologically to perceived changes in companies management or performance, the USD, could easily be under the same influence - only staying stable as long as it has because Americans and foreigners view the Dollar as “safe”.

Considering most people don’t look into underlying phenomena, but tend to rely on surface level notions like governments printing money as needed = bad, I would say the public perception of the usd could go south.

No one, to my knowledge, has ever been taught that a government should print money as it needs.

If no one believes that is a good thing, then people will lose confidence in the USD as a store of value, which is when inflation starts to get out of control.
There's a huge difference between outsourcing and SaaS. Sure, it's cheaper to pay someone to build your website. That's outsourcing. But then you run it on a server that you lease. If it's running on something managed by a third party, it can just disappear. And that's SaaS.

There's also the issue of sharing sensitive data with SaaS providers. Just think of all the data leaks that's caused. The Squarespace heatmap stuff we just saw. The deals between Google and phone manufacturers. The behavioral-ad-delivery morass.

Re ConvertKit, the alternative would look like "git clone foo".
If it's not a feature that makes money why spent developer money on it? -- Every manager ever.

GDPR may levy fines but ultimately it hasn't done anything to stop managers focusing on new features and sales income.
For invoicing and tax, I do everything through Google sheets. Accessible anywhere, link any cells/tab from any other one, complex formulas, it has all you need.

For purchasing and receipt collection, I take a picture of the receipt with my phone, always on me, and put it in a folder.
> I can’t even begin to imagine how would you approach someone in order to badmouth a random stranger

I work in a very small industry - consumer electronics, the part of it with IOT spin. Everybody more or less at least heard of each other, and if not me personally, then my past employers.

From my impression of the person from 3 years ago, he might do just that. A bad combo of person having enviable intelligence, social skills, but at the same time being venal, insidious, and, well, not feeling adequate.

Or he might've just found a good moment to say things as they were, like "hey, I met this guy at a job interview, nasty hot tempered fellow."
+1 to that. I wrote about my use of the tool here when I was freelancing http://nibrahim.net.in/2015/11/07/ledger_and_personal_financ...
The 'Peel Smart Remote' app came pre-installed on my old Samsung S6, and it did the same thing. Lock screen ads and everything.

https://fossbytes.com/peel-remote-use-remove-smart-remote/

https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/03/29/peel-remote-app-ups...
If you attack another user like that again, we will have to ban you, so please don't. You've mostly been a good commenter, so that shouldn't be hard.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Microsoft completely messed up the awesome Sysinternals forums when it was migrated to Technet.
Ironic when you think about islamic countries which ban alchohol but allow hashish to be smoked in public....
> I have no idea how to answer my therapists questions because I don't trust the answer in the first place

do you tell your therapist that (assuming you see one, it sounded like it?) what do they to that

it sounds like your overthinking though. ill pick on your examples

> Do I not like someone because of how they act or do I not like them because I don't want to like them?

What motivation is there for you to not like someone for no reason?

> Did I study computer science because I enjoyed it or because I wanted to make a good salary?
these aren't exclusive and i think you phrase it like one is bad and the other is good?

These sound like some thoughts after getting high lol
Mint requires that you give them login credentials to your bank, credit cards, etc.
I'm surprised the Swift is not higher on the Stackoverflow side, seeing how utterly confusing this thing is with Swift version 1/2/3/4...

I'm learning Swift at the moment and I'm running out of eyebrows, due to the sheer quantity of unforced facepalms I give myself.
> Any other country that took away guns, gun crime went down, that’s facts.

Latin America has many countries with restrictive gun control and widespread gun crime. Brazil and Mexico have actually relaxed gun control so people can defend themselves[1,2]

But even if your claim were true, who cares if gun crime goes down if overall murder and crime rates don't? Are people better off if killed or mugged with other weapons?

1: https://theglobalobservatory.org/2019/02/brazil-most-homicid...

2: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexicos-vigilantes-legalized-an...
"One of the hallmarks of mania is the rapid rise in the complexity and rates of fraud." -- Michael Burry, The Big Short (Film)
Very nice and useful. Thanks for sharing.
I remember seeing a few comments similar to yours back then (and I agree with you).
Yes we are, all the time.
That's because of the orange light. Looks close enough to me.
That's really interesting. What other flipped-coin situations do you notice?
My first thought is that this is really Google's problem to fix. How is it even possible to do this on Android? Or is this also possible on iOS?
I am more on the position that advertising as a function of product promotion is dying, in all, but the most extreme overkill forms.