skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it does: the useless bits remain as time to help you digest the information. It's just that you don't need as much time to do so, so making everything faster is just fine.
I do work with large orgs almost exclusively. I have no problem with individual devops engineers going back to their team after X weeks or at the end of the project. This way they can integrate avances with other teams and share knowledge.

I just don't want them to stay in their ivory tower and keep breaking my balls with their broken terraform templates.
The original MSDN came on a bunch of CDs but it moved to online only a long time ago.

It has always been comprehensive.

The problem I have found lately is some of the more esoteric stuff seems to have disappeared. That and the urls changing and poor SEO.
"Our vaccines are working exceptionally well. They continue to work well for Delta with regard to severe illness and death - they prevent it, but what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission."

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky
Yeah, https://users.isy.liu.se/rt/schon/Publications/HolSG2006.pdf was great to refer to, just the right level of complexity for me.
That's classic whataboutism. That doesn't explain away why it's that bad in the US nor does it justify accepting the status quo.
I am curious: if you collect cans for a living, do you qualify for government assistance? Is it possible that Jessica Yauri receives aid earmarked for children so they can get proper nutrition, via her parents? She does not mention if she qualifies for lunch assistance. Also, I am assuming that she goes to a public school where she doesn't have to pay to attend. It is also not clear if she receives further aid in support of her going to college.

There is a mention of $400 towards high school fees causing some anxiety among her parents, but beyond that, not too many concrete details.

The focus of the article is on the writer's experience with the shame she experiences because of her parents' job, so perhaps it's not the right place for this information, but the composite picture would be a much more faithful representation of the overall experience of Jessica's.

This is also a point where America needs to introspect, as a nation: sure, we import less-fortunate immigrants, in large part because they are much more willing to do dirty jobs such as gathering cans, but it's also true that it all comes out in the wash: society as a whole is responsible for bearing the costs of keeping these people fed, clothed, schooled, and taken care of in medical emergencies. If you added up the costs, is the labor "cheap" anymore, or does it make more sense to discourage the immigration of what is likely to be a 2-3 generation underclass, and incentivise people already here to step in?
These are the statistics from base Pharo. Enterprise systems will probably have, in average, longer methods because of longer domain-specific names and tests that are usually more descriptive.
Whoa! I remember this song from my childhood! However, I heard it on a Mac, where it was probably integrated into someone's shareware video game.

It wouldn't be the first time. I think quite a few of my favorite video game tracks from that era were similarly pilfered from the Amiga MOD scene.
i could be using the wrong term. Saw a researcher's work on that (aka : vaccine inducing easier spread of omikron) and thought it was the same as ADE, but i could be wrong.
My family used to do this all the time when we were kids. We'd go along the ditches on the side of the road and make a family outing of it on weekends. At the beach my brother and I would drag big plastic garbage bags around and collect as much as we could from people who were happy to help some kids out and also happy to be rid of the bottles and cans. You could make some decent coin at it, but that was also in the 80s when 5c a can and 10-20c a bottle was worth something.

It gets into your bones. Even today with 25 years software dev experience under my belt, I still feel the twitch whenever I see a discarded bottle or can.
> except for protected classes discrimination?

They get to do that too, but it means they can get taken to court because of it.
I think Bean’s ambition to be a 0 or extremely low interest lender is what got me really interested. They’re going to get there through a decentralized liquidity pool then attract creditors.
Well that was a fun read, even if I have no idea what it was saying. It's as if Hunter S Thompson was writing on a Shrek subreddit.
Try Atatus which is affordable and also effective
I know you don’t mean it this way, but this general attitude sees life as a Ponzi scheme. For your kids to find meaning, they are forced to have kids too? And if they can’t? Suckers holding the bag.

Fulfillment must be discoverable outside of that specific path, otherwise it’s cruel to bring someone into existence as a means for your end.
- How to live on 24 hours a day (Arnold Bennett)
A short and fairly simplistic view of daily life that really changed how I look on time.

- How to run a big ship (Cptn Rory O'Connor, RN)
Really made me think about how much of modern leadership and management theory is a rehash of old theory. But now we replacing the individuals responsibility with hired consultants that should "teach" us how to work.

- Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Together with my Grandmother really showed me a way to live with focus on what matters.

Apart from this there is a lot of fiction that has added up to create the ideals I try to live by today and to be fair I think you can do worse than basing your ideals on classical fantasy and science fiction.
As an ethusiastic but terrible school cricketer, the thought of playing without full sight is terrifying and it's quite astonishing that people manage this. One way to supporting is to join the Primary Club[1], a charity that supports sports and recreational facilities for the visually impaired. You can join if you have ever been out first ball in any form of cricket (or "just loves the game").

[1] https://www.primaryclub.org/
I do google-driven development too, but I think you should have 90% of git commands you use memorized.

Of course if I need to do something fancy like purge something from history, merge two repos, etc. I'm going to be googling it, but this is fewer than 1% of your regular git commands. If you have to google every time you need to cherry-pick, rebase, amend a commit, etc. (and you do these things frequently like I do) I suspect you're spending a lot more time in google than you need to. I would get at least 10% less done in a day if I was doing this.

That's fine, but these things also add up. If I don't remember most of my 90% actions then I'm effectively operating at 20%.

An example with English (and I suspect many other languages have a similar statistic), is that 75% of communication is limited to a set of the 800 most commonly-used words. If you learn these 800 words you can communicate effectively without having to look things up.

But if you don't have a functional vocabulary and you have to write an essay in English, the essay will take 10 times as long to write; you'll need to consult a reference for almost every word you need to use.
Try just writing the code without looking up the real API. If you actually see that the official API is worse than what you have imagined, maybe it's better to write a wrapper than ruining your beautiful code.

Similar to Test driven development you can call it beautiful code driven development (DHH wrote rails in a similar fashion).
Specializedtools is great
I went down a similar path during covid from Ruby and decided to look at native development options for the first time and landed on Flutter instead.

I have to say reading through this thread I am so glad I didn’t go down the Swift route it sounds incredibly frustrating which is honestly the opposite of what my Flutter journey has been so far.
> After previously informing the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that the economic harm being caused to broadcasters and rightsholders in the country was a “serious problem”, Malaysia said it had amendments on the table to more directly tackle the illegal uploading, provision, and sharing of access to copyright works.

So Malaysia, just like my home country is an independent state with capital city in Washington (D.C.).
Well, Paper is trying to fix the result of vanilla Minecraft's range check. Taking their perspective, they wanted to fix the issue where <6 blocks worked, but >6 blocks caused desync. So it is natural to reply in the "else" block with "no you can't break that". They just didn't think of adding yet another range check with a looser limit on top of that.

I wasn't around for when the patch was engineered into Paper, but from what I'm told, yes that was the idea. :)
I keep my cans and bottles separate from paper etc and place them at the top of the wheelie bin when I put out the recycling.
Counterargument: most of the things you can consume at 3x speed are not worth remembering long term. For example, every day the APM: Marketplace podcast recites the returns on specific induces for the day. It can help put context to stories in other segments, but I have no need to retain it for more than an hour, if ever. And in general, the relevance of news rapidly decays; I forget where I read it (the irony!) but if you imagine a newspaper that only published once a month, it would have different headlines than one that published daily, and different again from one that published annually. In that context, speeding up news podcasts makes a bit of sense. You don't need to remember it long term, just long enough for this week's watercooler conversations to jog your memory until it disappears completely.

In contrast, books I read by myself, at a relatively slow pace. I focus on timeless books, that teach knowledge or skill that I can apply on the job. The pace will vary depending on the type of book; the last university textbook I studied took me about 10 pages a hour (including all the problems). For a pop sci book, I can do about a chapter an hour. I try not to spend more than an hour block on this, for the spaced repetition effects mentioned. Moreover, I typically try to get at least one Anki card per chapter (textbooks usually a dozen per chapter). I can't imagine trying to retain anything at 3x speed, especially the mathematical tomes I focus on.

But I'm pretty sure most people can up their podcasts to 1.2x without even noticing. Most content is recorded at a leisurely pace, both because it's easier to pronounce clearly, and to accommodate non-native speakers. But it's not always about efficiency. For comedy podcasts, I set the rate to 1x, because the point is to enjoy it and as they say, timing is the essence of comedy.
This is what happens when a big company (in this case Google) is abandoning a former popular product. The spammers take over
I am one of these people. I regularly watch movies, TV, and YouTube at 3-4x (with subtitles, if available).

It is easy to forget several of the 4 movies I watch in a 2 hour period, but I have a watched list, and could remember any detail once I have the reference to latch onto.

Worst case, I could watch any piece of content 3 times before a 'normal' finishes it once.

For any thing confusing, double-tap back 10 seconds, slow down to 2x, and rewatch a few times if needed.
I believe that’s what Overcast “Smart speed” does for podcasts. Would be nice to have for videos.
Gopher never got particularly popular. IRC, MUDs, FTP and particularly the newsgroups were the popular services in the early 90s.
> Developers are simply judged based on the scope of their contributions.

How would you do that? Lines of code?
Euruko 2021: Rails at Scale AMA [video]
If only this wasn't necessary - a lot of online stuff has had a single 'take' done and minimal editing out of such time-wasting utterances or silences. And once you start to notice such characteristics in some poor speakers it can be a complete deal-breaker in terms of actually learning something.
Not quite a shortcut, it was actually to patch a bug in vanilla minecraft that causes desync, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621262
And it may seem silly that it tells you that it's block type ABC, but the reason is to tell your client to put it back as block ABC, instead of air. (in other words, it has to "undo" your client claiming to have mined that block [which replaces whatever it is with air]).
I would suggest that it might depend, "right speed for the job" , I use TTS(text to speech" all the time with a large speed, regular people will not understand what it is spoken but for me is fine, I can read a news article like this one without no downsides versus someone that uses his eyes and reads at normal speed or someone that listens the TTS at regular speed and with some natural sounding voice.

What if the 1X is a limitation of our vocals, we could maybe lose our air if we would speak much faster, if someone would like to do some sicence on this I suggest finding people with disabilities that use TTS technology and try to get some numbers.

I personally don't use faster speed for the reason to listen to twice as mch content but probably to finish it faster. I listen/watch youtube at regular speed since I use this videos for entertaining and I did not consider to speed them up, though for audio books the app had a big speed button so I used it mostly at 1.5X
> I never could remember which exit to take

I don’t mean for this to sound snarky, it’s an honest question: are there no signs? Having to “remember” which exit to take seems to indicate to me that the route isn’t drivable in any intuitive way (ie follow the signage to your city/block)

Because if there are signs, I just think this depends on how we individually use GPS assistance.
Thanks for the in-depth response!
Letting/making devs own the services they deploy/develop is not the full picture, nor is it a real goal, but still it sums up the problem and solution space concisely.

Yes, specialization is a must for productivity, but that's a given already in the old model. What the DevOps effort tries to cut through is the trust barrier between the two. Sure, it's communications engineering too, but it's easy to weasel out of any real change with that phrasing.
Using rate of speed up is probably a bad metric due to varying densities, but even if one were to account for that and use some kind of smart speed up app that maintains constant information throughput, the issue is with not taking pauses to ruminate.

It's more of an information retention problem rather than an information loss one. IE not committing to long term memory as the author states.

Not very unlike consuming food without chewing.
> Then it quickly dawned on me that everything I am trying to do has been done before(basically). Therefore, my searches can be very specific.

This works well for the first couple of years, but I've found that beyond that you start getting borderline useless results, because you're tasked with doing things that don't have a precedent (at least not in the framework, language, or business use case you are working with).
Subtitles matter! While a video is not equivalent to just text, reading at 3x with audio is similar to why people enjoy audio books.

Visual content is a bonus, to remain more engaged and maybe impart information via a third medium
Don't you bring up an example of how a book can change your life in your question.
If a book makes you view the world differently (even by a little) doesn't that change your outlook on life?

As a personal example a book/novel (how to live on 24 hours a day) made me change how I view my day, shifting from a work day focus (the day is finished when work is finished) to looking at the waking time outside of work as the focus for my day.

This is something noticeable both to me and my surrounding since it gave me a lot more time to do things for personal enjoyment or to help others every day.

And no it didn't change the world but it made a profound impact on my life by implementing a tiny change in how I view the world
This one occasionally pops up on Nectarine Demoscene Radio (scenestreaam.net). Very nice tune.
Do you mind sharing those pictures?
Wow, you do this for movies too? By speeding up that much you’re completely changing the movie experience. Changing the pacing of a scene dramatically change it’s tone.
Must be terrorists or communists.
Not in terms of the laws of physics
How to Disable or Enable VLC Santa Hat Holiday Icon?
I think it's because it's trite and repetitive and you've done it for 5 different languages and way too many years.
You felt some emotion when you first learned a language and built something cool with it.
You don't feel anything nowadays implementing the 200th service.

~20 years ago I knew most PHP function by heart.
Today I need to keep the rust documentation open.

I had roughly the same internet access I have now.

What you point out with the GPS likely happened because the negative emotion of taking the wrong turn built a memory for you.
Bagel is a bad example here if fingers were cut by a knife. Most people thought by parents how to use a knife safely, but probably not all. Thought I doubt that anyone would read a manual for a knife and then follow it.
I think these are used as botnet command and control information. The bots randomly surf the web till they find a sequence of words or numbers that match some preprogrammed checksum or signature, and use some of the numbers as instructions of what to do.

The controller's of the botnet then spam the encoded instructions on comment sections all over the web.
> The Web is a real, viable, free platform, today.

As long as you have friends who are willing/happy to use these alternate platforms? Sure!

I'm not saying that platforms like Mastodon shouldn't exist, them being there in the first place is promising and a good thing. If they work for you, keep using them!

However, we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking that they're a viable alternative for certain use cases, such as maximizing your outreach.
The world’s first octopus farm – should it go ahead?
Fun fact, "credo" in Portuguese means something like "oh god". A word used when someone is surprised in a negative way.
There is also less alumnium in a can now than from the 70's, so it may not be as bad as is apparent.
Still listen to it and loving every time it pops up in my playlist!
Is there an "intuitive explanation" for the part "λ(n) is a number such that x^λ(n) ≡ 1 (mod n) for any x such that gcd(x, n) = 1. From this you can conclude that x^a ≡ x^b (mod n) if a ≡ b (mod λ(n))", or a formal name for such "λ(n)" so I can search around?

I find it quite hard to grasp.
If they don't care about the quality ... do they suffer from it when its problems and enjoy its fruits? It seems they either don't have the time/resource/ownership/change budget to make it better, or the team is so dysfunctional that they need to be pumped full of new blood from top to bottom. stat.
You sound motivated to get your third vaccination early. Did you know that it has been possible for any EU resident to get a booster shot in Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen since two weeks at least, without an appointment? This might also hold true for other German Laender closer to you.
`contextlib.ignore` could also be useful here e.g.

with contextlib.ignore(OSError),\
closing(sock):
sock.shutdown()
Yeah I don't really get the hate on Kubernetes. Run it managed with EKS, GKE or similar, set it up with the needed controller (ingress, external secret, whatmpt). The development afterward is as you say straight forward.
Never backport fixes.
Time only goes forward.
As they should.

About a decade ago in Toronto, Ontario, Canada we actually made collecting cans out of recycling bins illegal. The city claimed that these "scavengers" were taking their rightful profits.

I shit you not. [0]

[0] https://toronto.citynews.ca/2008/08/07/city-to-crack-down-on...
I know what you mean. I used to walk around my school and the road for coins as a kid to pay for Advanced Placement (reduced cost) tests. I still instinctually reach for cash on the ground after a decade in software.
Kind of yes but also not really. The important thing is that the laws of physics are measured the same in all inertial reference frames. Consequently there is no non-contradictory sense in which an experiment could distinguish an absolute rest from other inertial motion. It's therefore not possible to talk about motion under constant velocity in an absolute sense, it must always be in relation to something else.

Any other body could have been chosen as a (relative) rest frame but the CMB is uniquely convenient to coordinate measurements with due to its age and the extent which it permeates the universe. Physics is still the same in that frame as any other inertial frame.
I'm very slow with books. I'll read a couple paragraphs and then ponder for a minute. And then maybe look up some tangential, maybe even radial stuff. Even audio books at 1X move too fast for me.

I read maybe 4 or 5 books a year. I don't understand how people do 100.
Then hopefully immigrants are also going there and enjoying that system, if it supports them, wherever it may be.
I used https://speechify.com to listen to the post at 500wpm. It felt like the article was speaking directly to me.
So you need to own a couple houses or businesses to be considered one who made it? I don’t have one of either, but I am somewhere where I feel I made it. Less of a safety net than if I owned a house of business, but then again those are too expensive to be pursued with no attention to alternatives and also provide a very porous shield from the crises.
At my college campus it was traditional to just throw empty cans into your yard while partying. By morning, they'd all be collected and gone.
> C is 50 years old -- if we hadn't learned how to do it better in that time, I'd be worried!

The better C would be C++ without the ancient baggage it keeps dragging for backward compatibility.
The most recent standards have dropped some of it already.
Fermat's little theorem. I'm not aware of an intuitive explanation unfortunately.
I had the impression it means all WhatsApp business accounts, no matter if they use the Facebook backend or not (because for a WhatsApp business account you need to use the WhatsApp business app, which is the one providing the service and possibly the Facebook backend itself).

But I couldn't find any confirmation. There is a WhatsApp business API that is from Facebook, but apparently you don't necessarily need to use it.
> where people work much harder and still don't get by.

This happens to a lot of people in the US, as well.
It gets a lot of shit here but it's pretty much straightforward. It works the way a modern messaging platform is expected:

- leaks a bit of your data and metadata (expected, various laws and jurisdictions, what do you expect)

- functions on web, desktop, mobile

- functions well on low-end devices

- clients can be reimplemented open source

- has great developer api and documentation for bots

Try comparing that to WeChat, Whatsapp, Viber, Line, Instagram, Messenger.

Comparing it to Signal doesn't make sense, they got different intended purposes (security vs general purpose usefulness), and they serve different markets. Your average user doesn't care about security at all, most just want a better messaging user experience.
> The few podcasts I listen to, I do so in 0.2x speed or even less. Not by slowing the playback speed, obviously, but by pausing and rewinding very often to think about what has been said and even take notes if I find something that resonates with me

Which podcasts have you found that contain thought provoking information? I've tried to get into podcasts but haven't found the ones to keep my interest yet.
To be honest you're not alone, I read a lot of different kind of things and recently I've been reading older books, or book set in the past at least.

I've had to lookup what an "omnibus" was when reading the Professor Moriarty Series, or a "charabanc" when reading Poirot.