skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the sentiment of this article, but strongly disagree with the title, and the advice to learn to type fast.

The title is abuse (or misunderstanding) of the word "currency". Currency is an accounting mechanism. Time is, well, something else. It's an incredibly valuable commodity, a necessary (but not sufficient) ingredient for any activity and hence any kind of progress, and one which you cannot make more of and so is worth using wisely. But comparing it to currency is a category error.

Which brings me to my second point: it seems intuitively obvious that if you want to use time wisely you should use it efficiently, and typing faster is more efficient than typing slower. But this overlooks a crucial point: typing faster can only produce a linear improvement in your efficiency. If you type twice as fast, you will be able to type twice as many characters in the same amount of time. But there is another dynamic in play: if you type slowly, then the cost of typing will become more painfully evident to you, and that can motivate you to think about ways to type less, and that can lead to exponential improvements in typing efficiency.

I have been coding for forty-one years. I never learned proper touch-typing, and so my typing has always been quite slow by coder standards. As a result, typing boilerplate is extremely painful for me, and I try to avoid it at all costs. That drove me to learn Lisp, and that has led me to a coding style where I only need a tiny fraction of the code that, say, a Java programmer needs to do the same job. So yes, I type 2x slower, but I only have to type 0.1x the amount of code for a net win of 5x. And the techniques that lead me to that win can be applied recursively. There are domains in which I can get 100x or 1000x improvements (i.e. 1 line of Lisp code is the equivalent of 1000 lines of Java or C). I never would have been motivated to learn those techniques if I were able to type fast.
I believe this is fixed [0].

[0]: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/commit/5d64c2a142e5...
Can you explain what you think "radiation" means? This is radio -- electromagnetic waves. It doesn't have a scary source like a nuclear weapon, but the energy does indeed radiate from the antenna.
Valid if, and only if the hotel still exists by then.
Apparently so. It happens in every single thread and the ridiculous and off topic comments get upvoted to the moon.
Any ideas why ctrl+k doesn't work in my iTerm2? All other readline shortcuts work.
https://www.iheartradio.ca/cjad/news/quebec-appeals-judge-in...

>This gambling debt had even been recognized in a notarized contract and had led to the registration of a mortgage on the house of the loser, Edmund Mark Hooper.

>The mortgage was canceled by a judgment rendered by a Quebec Superior Court judge in 2017.

Because it was on a notorized contract. The guy that won is a huge asshole honestly.
Yep-- look forward to playing around with it. Release synchronization between Ubuntu derivatives is really on point these days.
If you get a thousand people to each roll a pair of dice two times, you're almost certain to get at least one person who rolls snake-eyes twice. Then he'll go around telling everyone how luck was only a minor factor and if you just copy all of his irrelevant biases/habits you drastically improve your chances of getting the same outcome.

No, you don't. It's still a crap-shoot.

I don't discount the importance of skill and hard work in this story. I'm sure there was a lot of that, and I'm sure it was a necessary ingredient ... but it wasn't a sufficient ingredient. This is still a story about making two bets and winning twice. A lot of people who were also skilled and hard-working made bets that were just as good based on information available at the time. Most didn't even win the first bet, so were never in a position to make the second. If these two bets hadn't worked out, we'd be reading a different story about someone else's two bets that did. The names change; the story doesn't. What lesson, exactly, are we supposed to take away from that?
> untaxed

Occupancy taxes actually really bother me because they're usually cash grabs targeting visitors who have no clout with the local officials that put it in place. It's taxation without representation, or a slightly different take on the speed trap on a major road through a drive-through small town.
It is even more amusing in Java. Many folks essentially try to do markdown, not realizing that they are probably writing one giant paragraph.
As a Swede the mere concept of a bagger boggles my mind. Talk about wasteful.
Half as many, and only the bad half.
He might be referring to transparent/translucent/refractive objects, like a glass cup. Supposedly this technique can manage the transparency, but not refraction (and maybe the refraction could trip the transparency into failing).
No I’m not. I’m talking about energy quite literally. The chemical energy in food is converted into work output. Of course there are more efficient ways to harness energy, but not to power a human body. We use those more efficient method where we can, hence automation and machinery and tools. This is all reflected in the abstraction layer of money.
Some games run their physics engines at a higher framerate than 60, but also any added latency is not going to be acceptable.
I should hand in my geek card, this feels like something I should have known about. In my defense, though, the HD manufacturers offer little to no information about the _technical_ differences between their drive lines. All of their documentation just says, "designed for X use case".

I do have backups, that's not my concern. My concern is that _when_ there is a read/write error (which are completely normal events with today's hard drive technology), the drive just gives up right away instead of making a few attempts. This could easily translate into (silently!) lost data in a single-disk scenario.
> harmful to society as a whole

By what measure? You imply that their product being cheaper or unregulated is harmful to society, but you haven't offered any reason as to why. It's also not a tax-free product.
Why do we need to group them? It would be a very different society if group membership were opt-in similar to Circles in Google+. Reminds me of the society in Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Not that this would be a better society. But definitely would have different failure modes and novel solutions. You can get the whole book DRM free direct from the author below.

https://locusmag.com/2016/03/cory-doctorow-wealth-inequality...

https://craphound.com/category/down/
You should try it if you don't like black box.
> There was a belief [...]

Who had this belief? I have never in my life heard someone claim that economic insecurity leads to more marriages, more stable families, and less other risk taking.

Who exactly was doing this “social engineering experiment”?

My impression is rather that various corporate interests with influence in one major political party tried to cut down unions, labor laws, consumer protections, antitrust law, etc. as a way to save money and avoid legal liability, not really caring too much about the broader societal implications.

Alongside that, there was also a “tough on crime” movement, and lots of racist/nativist agitation, because fear is an effective way to drive votes.
My point is that pet social projects are fine, and I would absolutely agree that we need a more equitable society, but the root cause of these deaths is that the drugs people use right now are far, far more deadly than they were before the turn of the century. Change that, you change the surge in deaths.

We deindustrialized in the 80s and 90s. The spike didn't start until 2000, just after OxyContin came out. That's your guy.
Yeah, I use some even older athlon K75 for this.

I do actually wonder if there's any sort of EFI support for floppies.

Edit: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/f1...

What a mess. Likely just works on netbsd, but I hate this sort of thing.
I read some of the other posts by OP and they mentioned that the ribbon interface was a mess. I remember I quite enjoyed it, and I'm also aware that some people didn't like it, but I never knew why they didn't like it. Anyone here care to enlighten me, from a UX standpoint?
Apple Watch: 38,299 hours on my wrist
Excuse me, I meant PTO.
The very first time I typed in a C program to accomplish a specific task and it worked without defects was over a 300 baud dialup connection.

Name the part of the car that enables it to go fast: the brakes.
Deploying Like a Startup
> unlicensed

Something Airbnb and Uber have shown is that licensing for these services is overkill. There are a handful of exceptions, but in general, anyone can do them safely enough. This isn't to say there shouldn't be any licensing, but that it can be lightweight.
It's plausible that a user on stack exchange who has known of .bashrc, .kshrc, and others, for 10 years has never heard of google and doesn't know how it works? If it were, the user _probably_ learned of google intervening ten years since the question was asked.
Yes but sometimes you have a shark that eggs on the game knowing it is rigged.

Google rock paper Scissors robot. It's not inconceivable that a human may have some skills close to that. Or was purposely slowly entering their final state.
No, your conclusion is flawed. If the goal is solely to fix the economic divide, why are we even bothering with race as its proxy? It's a terrible indicator for that purpose, especially when much clearer-cut numeric factors exist such as the students' household income. I don't think your reply addresses much of the original question.
What is a reasonably modern language? Everything seems to be at least 20 years old now.
a) I'm not spreading falsehoods.

b) I've made no critiques of M4A.

c) You're wrong to the point of malice, perhaps deliberately.
The pedestrian signal is a time set aside to meditate on one's humility and patience.
Think Java, 2nd Edition by Allen Downey, Chris Mayfield [download open book]
This sounds kinda fun! One of the most unique apps I ever used had a similar concept. It was called "Wakie: The Social Alarm Clock" and the concept was simple you would set a time you wanted to be woken up and at that time you would receive a phone call from a random other user of the app (likely from another country due to time zones!) and you could also volunteer to wake people. The call would be ended after 60 seconds. These were probably my first experiences talking to someone from another country. The app still exists but has pivoted to something else.
macOS runs horribly on custom hardware, it just runs better than other commodity software.

Any application that pushes frames/performance would do better on Linux/Windows on the equivalent amount of silicon. What's missing because the hardware and drivers is so closed is the feedback loop between application/game devs and the vendors. If I have an issue with what I'm building, I can hop into a chat and immediately talk to Nvidia/AMD/Intel folks/etc. In some cases, they share code, in some cases they release a driver update. In pretty much all cases, the code I'm working on gets better. Apple lacks this feedback loop, and their drivers are garbage.
Randomized controlled trials are optimal for gathering science.

They're not optimal for saving lives.
I will instantly register as a beer accepting charity if this happens :)
Does the book address growing economic inequality as a root cause?
I mean, you seem to be taking the position that all should have prepared for the extremely unlikely scenario that the entire economy of a region would shut down for weeks if not months at a time, and if businesses failed to prepare for that then they deserve to close. And that's fine and all, but that's 100% contrary to the standard way small businesses in the US have operated. Any business hoarding cash for such an unlikely scenario would be relieved of that hoard of cash through one absolutely legal method or another, it's the American way.

|reply tagged to my own post by mistake.
There is no such thing as "regular folk". People with an interest in photography will follow photography blogs, people with an interest in music will follow music websites, etc...

e.g. music making forums such as GearSlutz / KVR have 380k / 390k members.
DPReview, for all things photography has millions of posts. And only a small portion of people are active, the immense majority just reads without registering an account - for instance the current ratio in gearslutz is 8:1 (714 members and 5929 guests).
If you don't have at least one "weasel" friend, you need more friends.
I love software development as a creative task. It means, I love it when I do create, that is, when I make something that is the fruit of my imagination.

Development is a nightmare for me when I have to develop someone else's (i.e. my company) idea. At that point, it's not creation anymore, it's execution.
Then I'd walk away from your deal. The main way I get what I want is by not being desperate, and by doing a great job. Most of my business is referral. I'm a known quantity.

Also, I encourage against fixed fee and prefer agile/retainer. If clients insist on fixed fee, they pay more, in full.
You can write all of the text you want, but it's a political issue and your words are easily ignored. Asians are "safe" collateral in present Democratic policy of affirmative action (racial discrimination) because the former don't speak up. You may even want to consider supporting Republicans when the current president leaves.

That said, your reality for the next four years is going to a school you might feel is beneath you. Fifteen years ago I saw the same thing at my high school: the Whites and Asians went to the top 50 schools, but their similarly-accomplished, more racially-advantaged counterparts matriculated to MIT or Harvard. Let me fill you in what the future will look like for these two groups:

---For you---

+1 year: Classes are relatively easy. You're near the top of your class.

+2-3 years: You continue to do well. You might even take a graduate-level class, which impresses a professor enough to consider you for a research assistant role. You take it.

+5 years: You're either graduated and taking a job with a high tech company out West, or you're matriculating to grad school. If the former, you may once again end up in a company you see as beneath you because many of the top companies practice racial discrimination due to immense pressure to meet diversity goals. If the latter, you likely "move up" to a better school because racial discrimination is less pronounced at the graduate level.

+10 years: You're either on your second or third job if you got out with a B.S., or your first with a Ph.D. Either way, if you ended up at a lower tier company, you have or will soon have enough professional accolades that will propel you into a company whose reputation matches your abilities. At this point, the college effect is all but erased.

---For them---

+1 year: Classes are difficult. The pace is very fast and most of the class is filled with White or Asian students with national accolades of some kind. They're enrolled in "programs" that help retain minorities so they get extra tutoring.

+2-3 years: They either buckle down or, more likely, fall further behind. Counselors recommend taking an easier major like business.

+5 years: If they buckled down, they graduate and get courted by and receive job offers from 3 of the 5 FAANGs. If they didn't buckle down, they're still in school or, if still in their original major, will drop out soon.

+10 years: If they work at a FAANG, they've likely become disillusioned with the day job and have gotten recruited for internal "leadership" organizations targeting minorities. They take a job either as an assistant to an executive or a manager in a non-technical area of the company like business development or diversity. If they didn't buckle down, they've probably dropped out of school and fallen off the career ladder entirely and will have a very hard road ahead of themselves. The college effect never truly gets erased for minorities, just bifurcates them into more extreme winners and losers.
We don’t know if people have long term immunity.
> yet all sorts of people's time is wasted on places like r/learnspanish by people asking "what's pero vs perro?"

Yet, if they felt like it was a waste of time they wouldn't bother answering those people at all. It's not like anyone is forced to respond to someone asking a question with an easily searched for answer. But people choose to, so they obviously must feel like it's a good use of their time.
Haha, hello fellow Northeastern student and disciple of Matthias! Lots of interesting things to read on his page.
What's the thermal situation like? Does it have enough fans and can it run turbo boost on a core for long stretches?
Since someone must, I’ll go ahead and propose we instead use a single tab after periods if it’s the end of a sentence. :)
My biggest gripe with AirBnb is the search functionality. Sure, you are a premium product, so you can price gouge my millennial bank account all you want. But at least give me the functionality that I need. As a software engineer, I need a place with good wifi. Hosts always claim to have wifi, but no indication of quality. Before I knew how to be a super user, it wasn't uncommon to show up to a listing that claimed to have wifi and only find out that it was coming from the building next door and you could only pick up a signal while standing up in the shower tub.

The most reliable way to find out who actually had good wifi was by searching the reviews for the term "wifi". However, AirBnb refuses to implement the ability to filter your results by terms inside review. They claim that it's because it's too technically difficult to implement this. I am no search guru, but I have fired up an Elastic Search instance to make a-one-to many relationship searchable back in my day without too many issues. I guess AirBnb's "scale" is just too awesome to to do this? I mean damn... google indexed the whole internet. You can't index your own reviews?

Then, a few months ago, I noticed that AirBnb got rid of even the search functionality on the individual listing page, so now the only way to search a listing's reviews for the word "wifi" is to go to the listing, infinite scroll the list of reviews for a few minutes to load all of them onto the page, and then use the browser's search tool.
African countries are not ready for Covid-19 mental health issues
Usually by the end of the consultation period, it ends up seeming reasonable. I don't have any tricks. Just direct, honest, hard work.
I'm interested in the backstory. How do two people decide to wager such amounts of money over rock paper scissors? Like were they bored or was there some serious reason such a casual game was chosen over a serious amount of money? Clearly the loser couldn't easily afford the amount they were wagering since he had to take out debt for it, which makes it even more confusing why this seemed like a prudent decision.
Even if we open up legally, people aren’t going to take risks that can put them in a hospital on oxygen for weeks. It’s not a pleasant experience, ventilator or not. Restaurants will not be full, conferences will still be cancelled, etc.
How much did Bird and Lime pay for their scooters? – Segway/Ninebot IPO facts
You can also just wrap the nvm commands in a function. I have it named `n`, so before doing any node/npm stuff in a shell, I run `n` then `node ....` whatever I wanted. Simple and doesn't slow down opening new shells.

function n() {
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"
}

Found it to be a ok workaround for the issue. Otherwise I'm just on nvm just because it continues to work and hasn't gotten in my way, since like 2013 or something. If someone is in the same boat but wanna fix the "slow new shell" thing, this is a quick fix for it.

Would love to hear what the "shell config shenanigans" wayneftw talked about, haven't hit that myself.
We've nearly completely detached ourselves from live-anything these days, with the exception of sports. It will be interesting to see if people want to migrate back to a real-time broadcast. If the host/content was compelling enough, it could work.

But 99.99% of podcasts are not that.
Is there a way to buy these vouchers online?
This ruined me when I first tried to use gtypist. Couldn’t easily see the double space and got like every line wrong the first go around.
That legal interpretation has been contested a lot. In any case that wouldn't be a blocker for providing security patches to the kernel, just like other LTS Linux distributions do.
There's no current evidence that those who have been previously infected are immune.
Media Mix Shift
You are. You said

> The most common trade is when a person can trade their time and their body’s energy.

They are not "trading their body's energy". They a performing a task which requires innumerable inputs, among them energy, vitamins, oxygen, correct ambient temperatures, training, tools, etc. Energy has a preferred fundamental status in physics but it does not have such a status in this economic transaction. There is no reason to emphasize over any of the other inputs. You are bringing it up because of the aura attached to it in in physics.
Believe it or not; that type of behavior was not always deemed acceptable, and has largely been an artifact of the tech boom making mass information processing and transfer easy to do. Besides which, if they did, it isn't that big a leap to realize a second coming of HIPAA would soon follow, as people are quite understandably very sensitive to the nature of what inputs are allowed in terms of actuarial processes. Remember, your insurance provider having more information is almost always strictly worse for you in the long run. They are out to maximize float. Even of they can't try to dissuade individuals to drop out of the risk pool anymore through individual medical underwriting, they just bumped the actual filtering up a level of abstraction.
> The thing to understand is that shift is fundamentally a simpler operation than multipl

... well... If you have hardware multiply that is guaranteed to take one click cycle and a shift that will take the same... does fundamental complexity of how that happens even matter?
Istio does have an ingress gateway. Again, if you’re doing basic routing it’s more-or-less the same as any other ingress (that’s what a standard is for). That being said — Istio is focused more on traffic inside the data center (“east-west”) vs getting data into the data center (“north-south”). And these really are distinct problems, e.g., you don’t need to worry about stuff like PROXY protocol, redirect-to-HTTPS, openID Connect, etc inside the data center. But you definitely need to worry about this at the edge.
While we're on the topic of typographical prejudice, I confess that if I see a Microsoft Word document at all, I tend to assume the author is not so technically literate.

The intersection of "people I've seen use Word" and "people who know how to write a program" is extremely small.
If you don't have any weasely friends, you just may be their weasel!
Well, I have to admit he is right and I'm wrong.
The problem to solve is not how to make traffic faster, but how to reduce the need for traffic. Many books on the subject but the basic gist is we've designed our cities incorrectly and suburbs are inefficient for many reasons - time, energy, land use and even self reported happiness and satisfaction.
That's generally not that person's only job in the market though. These same people generally have mild janitorial duties, keeping the front-end stocked with supplies, and act as general go-fers (helping people find things, putting things back on shelves, price checks, etc.) This sort of role can make things way more efficient.