skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is a generational or age thing strictly speaking. There are several confounding variables or you could say non-orthogonal axes.

There's a "human nature" axis that interacts with the money axis. People, no matter the age, tend to take credit for their successes a lot more than their failures. For example if you have a lot of money, you'll overstate the hard work that went into it, and understate all the good luck you had. Meanwhile if you have no money, you'll overstate all the bad luck (including blaming the system, and I'm not saying the system doesn't suck) and understate any faults or foibles of yours. To the extent that this becomes your paradigm, you'll also use it to judge other people. So the richer person (who thinks they got rich through hard work) sees a poor person and assumes they're poor because they didn't work hard. And the poor person (who thinks they're poor because of luck), will see someone rich and assume they got rich through luck. (Hopefully it's obvious this paragraph is less a "truth" than a trend or tendency.)

Moving on, there's a political axis that interacts with the money axis. People on the Republican side tend to espouse a belief in self-reliance while the Democratic side talks more about helping each other. (Notice that I say "espouse" and "talk about," cleverly avoiding having to talk about what their policies actually accomplish.)

There's a power axis that quite obviously interacts with the money axis - As people become rich they use money to get more power, and as they become powerful they use power to get richer.

Finally (and here's where the age correlation comes in), older people tend to be richer because they've had more time to make money. And older people right now I suspect tend to be richer than older people at other times in history, because they reaped the benefits of industrialization and the fossil-fuel boom.
Yes and the number of people who believe in something like that is actually rather small. That's kind of my point. These things get treated as way more serious than they are given actual belief rates.
In freezing climates household heating with natural gas is substantially cheaper than electric.

However, that’s probably not a problem for Berkeley, and the infrastructure costs alone probably justify avoiding natural gas hookups.
As others have already mentioned, it depends on the manager and the company, but I noticed that most tech companies are super lax about it and don't care when and how much you work, as long as you get expected work done, are responsive during a good chunk of the day (i.e., still have a lot of schedule overlap with your teammates, so that they can reach you out for help), and are able to participate in team-related things like code reviews/meetings/etc.

For example, some of my teammates do 8 to 4, some noon to 8, and others do 9 to 1 then go to gym/do chores/whatever, and then 4 to 8. As long as you deliver and communicate well within your schedule, no one cares.

I personally like it, because some days I might not feel good at all in the morning, so I get in late, but then I get a weird burst of energy around 7pm when I get home, so I sit down and end up writing some code.

Keep in mind, this is a double-edged sword, because you might end up working late at night to get some burning feature done or fix a nasty bug blocking the rest of the team.
Not that I'd ever admit to using Grindr…but I've used Grindr and Scruff, for exactly what you'd think.

The article goes on and on about creating a kind queer space and the new owners not understanding the community. Except, having actually used Grindr, this is a perfect summary of the experience.

“Scott openly mocked Kindr,” a former employee recalled. “He didn’t understand why we wanted to celebrate what he saw as ‘fat people.’”

That is, in fact, Grindr in a nutshell. It's for anonymous torsos looking for action while their boyfriend/wife/roommate is gone. There is no kind community on Grindr. Scruff, maybe. But Grindr is just lust and body negativity laid bare.
Ohmie launches first residential EV car rental in Melbourne apartment tower
I'm not even sure it improves touchscreen UX. Most touchscreen devices also have small screens, and I really hate viewing a mobile site that's 50% whitespace. If my screen is only 2x5 inches, I don't want any of it wasted with useless whitespace forcing me to zoom in to see anything. At this point, I'm starting to suspect that most designers actually don't have any clue what they are doing and the entire discipline is 90% following the latest trends.
Eh to me part of the appeal of Twitter is It’s a very unopinionated social networking tool, which means there’s 1000 ways to use it.
I can say Facebook does switch this back every time I visit, and sometimes switching it to 'latest' literally causes the site to cease loading posts after one or two pages.
I saw an article recently[0] based on a Stanford study[1] that found 40% (!) of relationships that began in 2017 originated online.

[0] https://qz.com/1546677/around-40-of-us-couples-now-first-mee...

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_et_al_Disinterm...
InCountry Raises $15M to Help Multinationals Comply with Data Regulations
Then how would you ever learn? I don't know if you've ever spent time looking for questions to answer on SO. Before weighing in on the climate, please do so.

You'll encounter an absolutely shocking amount of utterly stupid questions. Yes, I know, stupid questions supposedly don't exist. Judge for yourself after spending an hour looking at the new queue for PHP and JavasScript questions.

Once you've done this, and still think the experience for new users should be made better, I commend your kindheartedness and patience.
I think I am sympathetic to your point-of-view, but I'm not sure, because it seems (to me) that you are maybe conflating a couple of different costs.

Let's start at the numerator - you appear to be calculating life "happiness" (according to some internal metric) vs ... cost. You appear to be calculating costs as being:

- Not making more money because the degree did not lend it to making more money

- Social approbation for not making more money

- Missed revenue (income) because time spent with family/childcare

- Social approbation for not taking the higher-ranked (and labeled as such) gig

- Missed economic opportunity (income) for work-social reasons or work-enjoyment reasons

Is that right? I'm not sure what social approbation (or that of your SO) means to you, but this seems (generally) to be a pretty clear trade-off of doing what you want vs. making more money by doing what society is willing to pay you for?

I mean - I'm a fan of doing what you like - but surely you don't expect society to pay you to watch Jerry Springer and smoke week all day at home munching down on pizza, right? How is this different?

Am I missing something?
I lump them together in one dimension, the one where they can extract millions from investors based on hype.

Yes, Elon deserves the hype more because he has delivered in the past and he certainly has more skin in the game, but it doesn't mean he isn't still playing the "fake it till you make it" game to some extent, and because failures are more impactful than wins, I think it's a dangerous game to play with his reputation.

I want Elon to cut the hype BS because I think it will hurt him in the long run. It's all about trust for me, it's a resource that is being depleted at a rapid rate and it's extremely important to a functioning civilization.
The problem is that we haven’t defined what we’re measuring.

E.g. Usain bolt makes far more than 10x money from running than the average healthy adult.
Have you tried Tweetdeck? It has ads but it fixes the chronological timelines and helps keep up with multiple lists.
I was hoping that they had taken the time to test tables, nested tables, and irregular table rows with headers every so often.

A good example of what I’m talking about are invoices. In my line of work we extract data from thousands of different types of invoices that are the only place to find key data from your services provider (waste & recycling bills, soon other parts of a building’s expenses), and normalize that information.

There is a long-tail of industries that are years away from having an API to transact information…but that information is available on their monthly statements in some sort of crazy table format!

In my experience Amazon Textract has been the best in terms of processing speed, ease of use, and table extraction accuracy. However post processing is almost always needed with any OCR implementation.

Edit: Its important to note that Microsoft and Google don’t even support table extraction in the APIs listed in this article!
Amazon Ring's police surveillance tieups are now on this one map
Its great for selling drugs at least.
The last time I did a bit of frontend for a side project was in 2004. Then I took a long break from dev and computers in general. Earlier this year I'd decided to brush up on the whole frontend/JS ecosystem. It was weird initially and there was a lot of friction, as I was especially fixated with a "why can't I stick this in a <script> tag, what even is NPM..." mindset.

I have the say, after getting the hang of typescript, react, Vue and the tooling in general, I don't exactly hate it as much as I was led to believe I would. Also, typescript is very nice.
Trump confirms he will look into Pentagon's Jedi cloud contract after complaints
The Cold War never ended
Happy to see this being pointed out. Sleep is the single most important factor in code quality & correctness https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1119709859979714560
If the NSA was using their own certificates to MITM all HTTPS traffic it would be easily noticed by security researchers. Its not like they obtain the private keys of every US company. They'd have to make their own replacement certain for every site they wish to intercept. That could easily be noticed by security professionals and targeted companies by monitoring.
> StackOverflow is one of the few ways you can learn to [ask good technical questions]

I partially agree.

The fear of a withering dismissal does motivate many people to carefully formulate questions. In fact, I've answered my own questions more than a few times by just starting to write out my questions on stackoverflow.

It still pains me, however, to witness the persnickety behavior, close-votes, down-votes, and cold commentary that people get when they ask an earnest question. No one deserves that, not novices, not pros. It's never OK to be mean to someone even if they aren't abiding by the very long list of arbitrary and inconsistently enforced rules for asking a question.

I am not hopeful that stackoverflow will change any time soon. There are factions which actually relish the gamification of the site and their own personal insanely rigid interpretation of the rules. Some even rage-quit a while back when the first steps were announced towards addressing inclusivity and rampant meanness.
SSH doesn't depend on certificate authorities, it's up to you to manage your own keys, each end point also has a uniquely generated signature which avoids MITM after first time auth (including by taking over domains).

This is a HTTPS only issue and fundamentally it's the same problem as control over domains (ease of manipulation through centralisation).
Well the point of gc is to allow the algorithm to focus on the problem domain. and not worry about mechanical implementation details of a computer. Everything has a trade off. An obvious win still must pay a cost elsewhere. In the case of GC it's simply not a good trade off for many resources. Sometimes it cannot be used even if you were willing to accept a trade.
> GUIDs are so much better it's not even a contest

GUIDs require more storage, and are likely (definitely with v4 GUID) to lead to index fragmentation. Postgres requires an extension to do most useful things with GUIDs whereas SERIAL is ready to go. I'm very pro-GUID yet don't universally prefer them in databases.
and that would have to be baked into the CA certificate, not specified when the CA is trusted. I dont want my browser to ask the CA what it's allowed to do, i want to tell it what it's allowed to do
Verified by whom? I certainly want my browser and OS to retain my possibility of installing certificates all day long.

Trivial technological solutions will not stop the state actor from retaliating against those not following their policy either.
VPN with endpoint on affected ISP + Installing the cert (which is linked in the issue on Bugzilla) should be the same as just using the affect ISP directly, shouldn't it?
If we ignore the flaws of capitalism for a second, we could have shortened the work week.

Knowing a reason for wages to drop is not the same as it being acceptable.
Parent didn't provide much clarity about how he derived his opinion and what is the problem exactly with ads performance measurements.
Even merge commits aren't pushes.
Scaling Distributed Tracing
Very sizable update for just a minor number increase. Is this release compatible with the last 3.1 release? I mean, can I do a direct upgrade without worrying about losing data?
You're right, trust is a major issue with any PKI. You can find hundreds of research papers and blog posts and probably even a few whole books on the topic, I'm sure :)
I'm not suggesting encouraging stupid questions. I'm suggesting that you can minimize the emotional impact of public shaming to newbies through progressive ui design, while keeping the same high standards for content. And also auto-suggesting documentation for newbies exactly so they can learn.
Yet, no outrage at the possibility of the state of Florida and other states selling much more personally identifiable information without restriction.
> then the app literally undoes your preference every week or two

To my great rage, some Twitter design poobah was energetically explaining how they could "prove" that was better. Actual people saying no, it was actually worse for them were of course ignored.

As much as I love Twitter, the extent to which users are the product, not the customer is obvious. At best, you're a dairy cow, producing valuable content. Maybe you're a beef cow, carved up and sold to the real customers, the advertisers. And maybe you just end up eaten the rats that are always in the shadows and frequently come out in hungry swarms.
For me, deleting all cookies and logging back in works.
What nobody is touching on here is that there are UPP/MAP restrictions on many items from different manufacturers. You'll see notice this in action when you see a price that's obfuscated behind some magical "add to cart" wall.

Regardless of the PR value here (which is worth more than this stunt IMO) I'm going to bet there are going to be more than a few MFRs whipping out their contracts for some type of damages here based on those ULP/MAP guidelines. The cost here is going to be much more than the gross loss on the items individually.
What about just for the Alexa 100?
Even worse, it was obliterated: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3630/sqlite-vs-mysql

And the reason: closed as not constructive by Kev Feb 28 '13 at 13:12
The best solution would be to blacklist rouge SSL certs.
Quitting a job to take care of a sick loved one does not benefit the people you worked with toward a common goal, nor society at large.

>No more selfish then changing job because some perk.

The point here is that GP was complaining that there were no career benefits to making such a decision - why should there be, exactly? Such a career move benefits oneself and ones family. No one else.
> Despite the app's success, some executives worried that it wasn’t sustainable and that the company needed to diversify by creating LGBTQ content to diversify beyond hookups and one-night stands.

Men wanting to fuck is not sustainable?? TBH, this whole article strikes me as after-the-fact hand-wringing and blame-gaming about how Grindr "never achieved its vision", a vision I guarantee 99% of its users couldn't care less about. Grindr was always about men finding other men to fuck (and sure, sometimes to go out on a date with or hang out and chat with), but the idea given in the article of it morphing into some sort of "queer Atlantic" has all the hallmarks of a completely out-of-touch and delirious exec.
If a lot of metro's already use their own contactless systems, I don't see why they couldn't release an app that does the same thing.

Go figure, the MTA in NYC is doing just that:

https://new.mta.info/system_modernization/omny
The title from tech meme: Trump says he’s looking into a Pentagon cloud contract for Amazon or Microsoft because ‘we’re getting tremendous complaints’
Because they got caught up in this last Red Scare. No outrage after Snowden leaks, no outrage for Google. It has nothing to do with privacy. It has to do with Russia.

But anyway, Russia can't hurt me as much as the US can, so I take the opposite stance from you. I'm much more wary of my own government spying on me, since they can hurt me a lot more easily than some country on the other side of the Earth.
As for obfuscated CSS classes, this is likely to use scoped CSS, which allows for components to share class names but not share class attributes.

That's kind of against the point of CSS, but it's also a useful dev tool to make your code more readable. I agree that it can be annoying on the user side, but it makes sense that they made this change.

Also, most likely, these change every deploy (when the depedency manager builds the app).
Is that an actual statistic on the space economy? Do you have a source?
How Hong Kong is turning into the West Berlin of the quasi-cold war
Here, look at difficult-to-fudge statistics instead of anecdotes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

Edit: To answer the question from your other comment - it has less than half of Switzerland's homicide rate. So yes, it's safe even compared to that.
I can’t read the article due to a paywall, but don’t laws need an ability for someone to enforce them (police, military, etc.)
Yeah, it should, unless this is only for residential ISPs, which I strongly doubt. I can't appear to find a Kazakhstan-hosted VPN however, did you find one?
It’s far harder if you have a major tech industry to push back and the whole massive security risk this exposes big corporations to. Which is something Kazakhstan must not have much of.

This is also terrible for foreign investment and attracting business. It also makes foreign intelligence’s job easier.
This does not look like the description of "10x engineer" at all. An "immature engineer"? Yes. But "10x engineer? No.

A true "10x engineer" would also care a great deal about documenting stuff, communicating that to the team, and be wise to ensure that a good technology system should not have a single point of failure (either technical or human). The fact this so-called 10x engineer made himself a single point of failure goes against the basic principles of engineering.
You can write very Python2.7 looking code with Python3. I don't think many syntax changes/deprecations have occurred (I know some have).
Your first link goes to a blog that's operated by a known right-wing extremist who is part of the Neuen Rechten and the AfD. The second link is some youtuber doing something that is either extremely dumb or very right-wing and rightfully earned him a visit at the nearest courthouse.
As a outsider I have never understood how the Google culture can work for long term.

It looks like there are platforms where informal power is gained or lost without responsibility. People who are active or vocal or member in informal groups and cliques may get into positions where they can influence corporate decision making or HR policy. Yet they are not responsible or chosen by their peers to represent them.

Damore case is good example. Allowing random individual to soapbox is not the right way to implement workplace democracy or openness in my opinion. If you want to involve workers in workplace democracy, you better have a organization for it where issues can be separated from people.
Russia is uniquely evil.

Clapper told me it's in their DNA.
Lady Gaga takes on the junk celebrity
Ask HN: Anyone Using CockroachDB in Production?
What do you like about it's killer features?

How interchangeable with Postgres was it?

How is performance?
Oh really? Why? Is it to keep things at a nominal operating temperature in prep for the next day, or is it to continue generating electricity once the sun has gone down (or other reason)?
So Jeff Atwood wrote an article about what SO wants to be when it grows up. (https://blog.codinghorror.com/what-does-stack-overflow-want-...)

The answer wasn't a Q&A help site it was a high quality curated wiki of the best answers and questions. It isn't supposed to be a forum where you come to ask your one off questions it supposed to be a place where you encounter a unique technical challenge figure out what the core issue is and then see if anyone else knows how to resolve the core issue and then have that core issue answered forever and always.

The one time I asked a Question on SO it was a very positive experience that went well got answered quickly, but I first had spent thirty minutes documenting everything checking the actual docs and ensuring I had done my due diligence before throwing it out there for someone else to answer.

If you aren't willing to put in work to find the answer to your question why the hell would you expect someone else to.
Your posts are filled with pessimism augmented by learned helplessness.

It's like you're playing a chess game and are so focused on the current state of the board, that you can't imagine how it could change a couple of moves into the future.

I feel concern about you.
Curry-Howard maps typical practical tasks on the programming side to completely useless make-work on the math side. Turning a customer's name and address into text to make a mailing label has to happen at some point, but you really don't need to go through all those steps to show that if customers exist, then strings exist.
The Glass Wall
I find that things at risk of being treated that way are well served by Reddit. If you find the right sub you get treated well as a beginner and get good, timely answers to very obscure questions on subjects you understand.
That said, hit the wrong sub and it’s like staring into the abyss.
Amazon Becomes a Large Cog in the Oil Industry’s Digital-Transformation Machine
I mean, the choice being presented is to install the MITM cert, or to not use the internet at all. The latter is an answer, certainly, but not what I would call a very good solution.
Grindr is a quintessential example of first-mover advantage. Countless follow-up competitors have failed to challenge Grindr's market dominance, despite these competitor apps being vastly better designed and more feature rich. The app itself remained practically stagnant (because the first-mover advantage was so immense there was no real need to improve the product) for years until it was bought by Kunlun Tech who actually employed enough people to work on releasing new features. Multiple profile photos weren't supported until this year, while most of its competitors have had the same feature for years or even close to a decade (e.g. Jack'd).

The world has been better for queer people living in many civilized & tolerant countries compared to 10 years ago when Grindr was first released. How much role Grindr had to play in this is extremely doubtful.
I think the better way to handle this would be a tab that includes all the stuff they think you'd like. Good things you missed, things your friends have liked, discussions they're in, people you should check out, tweets that are probably relevant to you based on your behavior.

I honestly wouldn't mind seeing that stuff if I have a, "Oh, what else on here is good" feeling. But it makes me crazy that they keep insisting that I really must want to see it right now, when I am very sure I don't.