skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tiobe fluctuates wildly, and it isn't really plausible that it plummeted as far as it did on Tiobe in just one month. The chatter on HN will tend to amplify problems beyond what the general public actually feels the correct level is, and even on HN this hasn't exactly been a big topic. (When generic Go topics discuss "what's wrong with Go" this is not generally something that is mentioned.) It seems far more likely that, yet again (this isn't exactly a new thing with Tiobe), the search engines did "something" and the searches changed again. Many, if not most, of the programming language names are susceptible to that, between things that are too short to search for like C and terms of general interest like Python, but Go really has to be the worst.

Ten-year-old+ programming languages with at the very least tens of thousands of users (I see "millions" claimed, I find myself a bit skeptical, but maybe... conservatively tens of thousands for sure, though) do not lose 33% of their users in a month. That'd be somewhere in 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than Perl 5 has declined. Implausible.
So her claim is that going to t top tier university is a complete waste of time and money, because boot camp graduates end up being just as capable?

What are top tier universities doing to keep being competitive with those low cost boot camps? It seems to me for the additional money, they should be able to provide some additional value?
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer's Parody of Austin Powers
The difference is between personal bias and relevant search results.

He meant to say "personal bias."
Unless it there is more behind the scenes, the letter is basically saying:

We don't want to deal, or like/enjoy dealing with this pesky employee stuff. We don't have the time, energy, or enjoy it, and they'd rather do something else with their time and money.

They are in a position where they either crack-down on their culture to more of a corp like, and appear to go full evil, or be even more lenient, and risk small 'intolerant' groups or activists taking over and creating disruptions to the business. Whatever they do at this point, they will be either painted as the bad guys in the media (if they go full on evil corp); or the 'dysfunctional' company, if they allow even more discontent and become more 'college/academic like'.

Basically, their employees situation is becoming such a PITA for them, they'd rather not deal with it and quit the company and do something else, more interesting, instead....

They realize that they just don't enjoy dealing with the creature/organization that they created.

Basically, it is the CEO's version of: "it is not you, but it is me" line of break-up, and we all know what that line means.
I have no idea, I'm not involved in Python in any way.
Translation: we've become a cancer like disease that have spread so wide and deep that cutting it out will severely wound the host.
I think that work places should be a neutral ground for everyone to do what they were hired for - free of any personal ideologies or politics. If you think, that work is is for activism of your personal beliefs, you clearly got it all wrong my friend. Yes - you go to work for money for what you do. Nothing more, nothing less.
The whole thing reads like it was written by a PR person.
> Can creators outside the US use your service (in countries which are on the US OFAC sanction list)?

It looks like both payment processor integrations (PayPal and Stripe) are US based, so I think it's safe to assume there will be restrictions on sanctioned countries.
alloca()?
Seconded. I used them a lot when I worked for myself on old-school single server apps but have struggled to convince my team now that I work on something spread across AWS instances. I'd just brought the concept up again this week for a hackathon project but this looks like we could buy our way to what I want for cheap (compared to overall hosting). I suspect it may pay for itself.
It's used a lot in ham radio for grounding and such, but it's also great for making an impromptu Faraday cage around an antenna. For example: https://www.amazon.com/Bertech-Copper-Conductive-Yards-Thick...

Note: that's expensive AF. I probably wouldn't literally use it to block the signal when a thin steel piece would probably work just as well. But it's an example of something you absolutely could do: find out where the antenna is, then severely interrupt its signal.
I recommend changing the title to “Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet” (which I’ve quoted from the article).
Yeung (author of the article mentioned) was my teacher in school. He wrote a book more than a decade ago with a Venn diagram of four sets on the cover

https://www.amazon.com/First-Course-Information-Theory-Techn...

I remember he draw such diagram almost every lesson to explain the mathematical structure of various information theory topics.
If you relieve the programmer of thinking where his error is and give him the fix, the programmer will not bother to reason out what the solution is, he will simply expect it from you.
TLDR version:

Sundar is now the CEO of both Google and Alphabet, and Larry and Sergey have taken a seat on the backbench.
This has to be a green light for TK to take Cloud and really run with it.

There's no way Sundar can give as much attention to Google and all the other bets simultaneously. Curious what side projects of Larry and Sergey get turned down now.
Okay, what about 20,000 of them? https://www.vox.com/2019/4/23/18512542/google-employee-walko...
Because they make it so in the admissions process. How is that even an achievement? OK they get female applicants, which presumably is not automatic. But then to tune admissions so that you get to 50% is not really something to be proud about imo.
Two-row is the old style barley.

My problem with Bud is it doesn’t have much flavor or character for a pilsner - especially the Lite. Carbonated malt pop.
Yes, this is the announcement that Page and Brin are stepping down.

I wouldn't really call it "incredibly subtle" - most similar announcements are wrapped in a bunch of corporate language as well. This is a pretty standard way to announce this sort of thing.
They charge 5% besides any Stripe or Paypal fees. The users connect their own Stripe and Paypal accounts and Buy Me a Coffee charges a platform fee.
Sundar joined Google in 2004. He didn't become CEO until 2015, when Eric Schmidt stepped down.
Don't be too pedantic. By your definition, what even is unbiased? A list of all the sites on the web, A to Z? Words are what we make of them, and there's clearly some distinction between Google and, say, Baidu that is entirely appropriate to capture with the word "unbiased".
Thanks for the detailed and thoughtful response. On its face that seems plausible.

I wonder if gender bias still kicks in once in career. I seem to see way less than 35% Indian women vs men in very senior or management roles. (Just my anecdotal data point of one, I don't have any numbers to back that up).
> your filth

That got personal, I like selling adult books like Don Quijote, Brave New World and 1984... but keep getting banned on other platform.
That's independent of gender or race, though.
I am in a similar situation, where I have a last name that is clearly "not local", mixed origins, but I'm very white by most standards.

Any sort of intervention will have some negative effects. I'm sorry you are being disadvantaged. Seeing how hostile people can be to others, especially in cases where they are wrong (like yours), shows how bad things have become, imho.

That said, we have to do something. If helping get parity in CS means a few guys get disadvantaged, or some people get otherwise mislabelled, it still helps a ton of people, helps break the systemic issues. In many situations, it's dammed if you do, dammed if you don't. You and I are still very privileged in the end (ex: dual citizenship).
Sundar became CEO in 2015.
Thanks. I'll look at it.
"A Datum Corporation" may be a nod to ADAT[1].

Someone in Microsoft makes music.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADAT
> Back in the 1960s there was discrimination and no women were in engineering. This was a terrible waste of talent. But by the late 1980s, women were 20% of engineering students. Decades of hand-wringing later, women are still about 20% of engineering students. Based on spacial reasoning ability, perhaps women SHOULD be about 20% of engineering students.

I just wanted to point out that this is objectively wrong for our profession and misleading at best. Women were a large part of early software development and computer science, composing far more than 20% of majors [1] and that this article is specifically related to computer science and software engineering.

Clearly something happened in the 80s that caused a transformation and I think attempting to explain it with a biological basis is simply factually wrong. It seems like whenever an explanation attempts to use gender differences as some sort of rationale it comes coupled with ignoring the very objective history of computer science.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...
On this note does anybody happen to know an alternative to https://recordit.co?
It used to be a minimalistic screen recorder, where you'd select a selected area of the screen and it would automatically upload it to a url, both as a video or animated gif.
The walkout referred to was over a year ago, so I wouldn't call that discontent "emerging". If anything, that demonstrates that discontent is diminishing, because there hasn't been another similar walkout.
>In the new study, a pattern appeared in infected men: the longer they had been infected, the less conscientious they were.

This seems...bad? In contrast with simply being more "outgoing".
Well...this is a corporate announcement, so it was likely at least approved by a PR/legal blob.
But isn't the net effect of that still going to be making men more sensitive to estrogen?

I don't know if it's comparable, but my understanding is that over time caffeine's binding to adenosine receptors causes more receptors to be produced, leading to increased sensitivity to adenosine and so you get more drowsy than you otherwise would when caffeine's not present.

If that same effect applies to estrogen receptors, that would make men more sensitive to estrogen?
Did you mean to say 2015? (Sundar become CEO about October 2015)
> If an old package and a new package have the same import path, the new package must be backwards compatible with the old package.

Simply put, this rule is too strict, and biases modules' UX and semantics too far toward consumers.

Not all packages are so mature, and consumed by enough consumers, that they should be forced by the language tooling to maintain backwards compatibility. That requirement creates a great deal of pointless work for the majority, perhaps vast majority, of package authors, who write small and uncertain packages for use by themselves or a small number of their immediate colleagues. For these authors, strict backwards compatibility is not only unnecessary, it's actually undesirable, as it creates needless toil.

> The answer is that we learned from Dep that the general Bundler/Cargo/Dep approach includes some decisions that make software engineering more complex and more challenging.

For a minority of use cases, where packages are large and mature and imported by many, many consumers -- sure, maybe. But the vast majority of Go code, written by private organizations and used internally, doesn't fit this description.
Sundar joined Google in 2004. He became CEO in 2015 I think.
Nah, anyone used to reading Google press releases knows that a subject line of, "An Update on X" always means X is being shut down, and thus, "A letter from Larry and Sergey" could mean nothing else except they're stepping down.
Because it was lol.
Show HN: Trying on new wheels with your phone
I've never experienced or witnessed a scenario in which trying to support varying levels of experience didn't result in lowering of standards. People with the right interest and capabilities will strive to clear the bar and will not expect the bar to be lowered for them.
Sundar did not become CEO in 2004
They signal to the employers, "our alumni are more likely to be either smart or well-connected than boot camp survivors". Hiring people is expensive, so interviewing people that have been preselected to be likely to show potential is cheaper in the long run.
Oops, dropped the NOT when rephrasing for clarity, thanks - fixed.
Eric Schmidt had step down long before that, and Larry Page was the CEO. In 2015, Alphabet was formed and Page became the CEO of Alphabet, leaving Sundar as the CEO of Google.
c.f. https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
If you're telling developers not to embed that character anywhere then you only need one end of blob character. So not 'no', I'm still right in saying that having two end characters is a non-solution.

And you still didn't explain why the existing ASCII control codes don't solve your problem. The suitable ones are also not supposed to appear inside text.
This sounds like your problem is not so much any actual discrimination as it is the expectation of it, and you are suffering real disadvantages due to that expectation. It might be better to try to reduce your consumption of US culture war content (including this article and discussion thread) and maybe even seek the company of more people who are not constantly preoccupied with it.
Google Founders Resign from Alphabet Leadership, Sundar Pichai Becomes CEO
You are a HS senior with good grades, test scores, and a decent essay. That's all the engineering school expects for admission. There is no explicit test for spacial reasoning ability, other than your ability to compete at your specific high school, your ability to take the SAT, and your ability to write a boilerplate 5 paragraph essay (probably strongly dependent on whether you use a writing coach or test prep service). You managed to continue to get decent grades in college and land an internship every summer. That's all the FANG expects for hiring.

No spacial reasoning is tested for entry level engineering jobs. Only academic performance which is dubious in its correlations to job performance, and your ability to network during undergrad.

Back to the gender disparity. If all it comes down to for jobs is your grades being decent, and it's not like genders skew in any direction here, and your ability to network, then in my eyes the elephant in the room is the effectiveness of networking. I don't think there is a big difference between nervous women and nervous men talking to recruiters about their first job, so the difference must be in the recruiter's biased perception of the candidate based on their gender.

I think spacial reasoning ability, even if it's stratified by gender as you claim, therefore has no effect on entry level job placement at all.

If you are really curious and want to explicitly prove that testosterone levels affect spacial reasoning, you have to set up an experiment that isolates these variables and not a meta analysis on populations full of confounding variables. You need an experiment.

A good experiment could be to develop a task that assayed spacial reasoning in female rats. You have your control rat, and one you treat with testosterone. Then you see if there is a difference in the ability to complete the task and test for significance. Until that experiment is done, and maybe it has been done already, I'd call this conclusion 'hand wavey,' at best.
Weird how that wasn't in the story at all but you managed to insert it anyway.
The future is now. For wine, there's the "Total Polyphenol Index":

https://www.decanter.com/learn/advice/tannin-scale-ask-decan...

For peat in Scotch, the "phenol parts per million":

https://www.theyorkshiregent.com/whisky/the-scotch-whisky-pe...

Not sure if someone's found a way to game cheese yet.
Why would they bother?
Out of Washington Finnriver's black currant cider is one of my favorites. There's a little cafe in St John's that's got it on tap, and that really is the best way to experience it.
What if I told you there was a major online bookstore circa 2002 that was also named after a humongous river[1]?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River
Can they decrypt messages to enforce this?
> I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in "reality." And reality has a well-known liberal bias
One of the things I adore about Wikipedia is the fact that someone made this list, and then other people decided to contribute to it.
Why such a puritanical view? When payment providers rescind access at whim, nobody wins.
Google has done some things well, but some things very poorly. First, fire whoever decided to prevent syncing Google Photos to Drive and not having a compatible Photos API for syncing original backups.

Next, invest in and add features to Google Music or stop charging for it.

Last, Google News sucks. No matter how much I dislike content it keeps showing me more of the same. Reminds me of YouTube. People should get heated on Google curating propaganda.
This is exactly the type of thing you have PR people on staff to write though?
I still use IRC.

On EFnet, I'm an op in #wow, and lurk in #geekissues. On Freenode, I lurk in #offsec and #python.

In #wow, most of the chat isn't World of Warcraft-related anymore. The amount of on-topic chat will bump up when an expansion is released, but the channel is mostly dying these days.

I first used IRC back in 1995, and some time shortly after I basically never logged off. Started using a bouncer a few years ago after someone joined a channel, started spamming racial slurs, and so I banned them, and they responded with a DDoS that knocked out my home internet connection. The fact that IRC still exposes your IP address is a pretty serious security issue.
There's definitely similarities, but I could see it being totally different too. Outposts in only 16 racks max; I'd assume this is much more than that. Outposts is for single user and this is for everyone. Billing models presumably differ. Outposts goes in user's DC whereas I assume this is hard connected to AWS network backbone.

IDK if making these based on the same infra would be the right abstraction layer.
Still waiting for an option to disable "drafts" (channels all of a sudden jumping to the top of the channel list)
Larry and Sergey are cutting the cord. They gave birth to a star company and it now owns most of the Internet's information. We are already seeing a backlash against the major internet juggernauts like Facebook, Google and Twitter and it will only continue as their dubious behaviours are unearthed.
He was made CEO of Google on 2015.
Sort of, but misses some of the larger picture. The main reason that fs code is faster in the kernel is the direct access to kernel data structures. File system, virtual memory, and buffer cache are all three sides of the same coin. Once you divorce yourself from direct (even if sandboxed) read and writes of the underlying data structures, you impose a massive overhead.
Ok. Can you help me understand why?
An open source alternative is PMD tool - https://pmd.github.io
Supply, demand ... i think pornhub and others have cornered that market.

Unless theres a feature that is lacking. As far as i know porn is lucritive, so what is not being provided that you need.

Dont force others to support adult content if they dont want to, and will not force you to stop participating in it if you want. Its teally not that important of an industry.
There are many stories of people who had horrible experiences with Google interviews. White people get anxious, too. You acknowledge yourself that those feelings may be irrational, but nevertheless I wanted to point out that you don't really know what it is like for white people going through those interviews. White people are not automatically being hired, either.
By connecting creative economy types online and across the globe with their audience so that they can more easily engage in transactions/commerce is the definition of "venture scale". The only thing that separates business from non-profit is the tax designation, and how much ROI you plan to make for yourself/funders/public.
In that case, can you just stay in v0.x.y?
I think that's a cynical view of the situation. These guys have grown a college startup into one of the world's most valuable companies. They're rich beyond imagination. More importantly, they're getting close to being 50. Would you want a day job if you could retire 15 years earlier than most, especially considering Google has served as a vehicle to explore a ton of other projects they've been interested in (since maybe people would think, why not start another company?).

Makes total sense, I'm sure they're looking forward to spending time on their yachts with their families and not in meetings 8 hours a day.
Yes, that's all entirely fair. But the word nerd part of me can't help but be delighted by the absolutely perfect pun of "mentrification". It just... it's like the second you read the word its meaning leaps into your mind. It perfectly extends the metaphor of "gatekeeping".
I bet this was supposed to be for JEDI
I suspect this has to do with the current scheme of shipping out the devices in iterative "batches." Presumably they are assuming the early batches will be heavy and clunky, with size and weight of each batch decreasing over time as they learn more about manufacturing.

I find this more troubling than the idea of early batches shipping with pre-beta quality software. At least improvements to software can be pushed out to older devices. If you buy an early batch and get a phone the size and weight of a brick, though, that phone is always going to be the size and weight of a brick.
It was better than everything that came before it for it's purpose, so people were happy with the improvement.

But then every time they change something, unless it is just 100% obviously better for everyone, like a speedup, it's gonna annoy some people.
> I hope they make something similar for the laptops

From https://puri.sm/faq/:
"We cannot share the schematics nor design currently because it is copyright encumbered from Intel reference designs. In the future, on future versions we plan to be able to release those."
I would guess that the human driving it is the value-add. I'm sure s/he uses the custom built software to produce useful, actionable results for their clients.
> Men collectively have enough power to handle a funny critical term without risk of being marginalized

Even to the extent this is true, it’s a poisonous attitude, responsible for a lot of acrimony in society today, and I urge you to reconsider it.

The attitude of “you can punch up but not down” leads to a lot more punching, especially when members of the group you’ve declared as “up” start getting sick of being punched and decide to punch back.
Best Colleges for You
I came to the comments to express my disappointment this wasn't titled "an update on Larry and Sergey".
Totally agree with this, and it's how companies like Gitlab have leveraged going async [1]. I wrote a piece around the benefits of going async [2] by the default within your org.

I'd keep sync processes limited to as few as possible, and default everything else to async.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/

[2] https://standups.io/blog/how-async-communication-can-help-yo...
Does any one here care to explain what impact this will have on modern crypto security systems?
It's not about overt advertisements, but standard viral communications that the platforms live and die on.
For anyone who doesn't know, it's currently in the Code of Conduct, at the very bottom:

> And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!
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I'm not able to open the user page. I can open the corporate page.
Yeah, in the same vein the discontent in Venezuela must be diminishing, as there is been quite some time from the last big demonstrations.