skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn’t get it then, and they still don’t get it, but they directly reference their competitors that did. AOL did it better then, and better than anybody now. Seriously; I’m not kidding. AOL on a dial-up delivered better service than Office365 or even GSuite on broadband. The key is mobile code. AOL pushed monkey patches with almost zero service interruption, and it was lean, no massive dependency tree that had to be reloaded in full every time the user hit the service. And still nobody can figure this out even on Android/iOS where the app runs natively. Today a new version means the app reinstalls from scratch. Web cache is basically unused anymore.

So the browser was objectively awful, but platforms like AOL could not keep up with the demand growth for dial-up. They also had some issues with scale, which the browser did not, because all it did was read static files. So everybody got on $5.99 EarthLink instead of $29.99 AOL/CompuServe/Prodigy. The other part of it was the 1994(?) CDA, which was effective only at killing AOL with law suits, and completely impotent against thousands of random web hosts.

So now the browser is dominant no matter how awful because nobody can develop software for the internet when they’re going to get fined because somebody uses it for adult material. Microsoft had some attempts at internet-native applications like ActiveX and their own Java, but then the decision was made to force everything internet into the browser to compete against Netscape, and focus the server on http components on IIS to compete against Apache.

I think Microsoft could have gotten to “Stage 3: Windows on the internet” if they just ignored the browser and focused on their client/server application developers. As it was, they wasted two decades on the browser and gave the “apps” market to iOS/android.

But, okay, step back and ask what they were really after. It was the advertising business on MSN.com, which was the default home page on IE, and 95% of users left it like that, while yahoo was the default for Netscape. As MSN was losing out to google, Microsoft’s ad business execs tried to salvage their business unit by purchasing resale ad spots on TheFaceBook.com in a $240M deal. This was also the time when browsers would regularly fail and kill everything you were doing, and so the final nail in Microsoft’s internet portal/banner ad ambitions was the release of google chrome, which simply isolated failures by running each tab in a new process.

Put in that perspective, it seems they could have just provided a service to desktop app developers to use their ad network, like iAds. DoubleClick had some things like this, but it was a pain, and you really had to jump through hoops to get your app approved for native banner spots versus web site banners. Seems like Microsoft developers were really screaming for solutions here that they could have provided. App Store too.

So, I do t think they lost the internet browser wars. I think they just abandoned their base to try and copy Netscape and yahoo.
This is absurd. You lost eyesight and you think it's because of "long covid"?
Speeding up playback buys you a small gain, but 2x or 3x is an absolute upper limit in most cases. And yes, retention suffers.

It's not that I don't bump up speed in some cases, though it's not all. I also slow down, or replay (sometimes many times) especially good marterial.

(Or especially confusing material, which often proves not to be especially good.)

But ...

... the real gains aren't to be had in playing media at 2x or 3x realtime. It's in selecting sources which afford 10x, or 100x, or 1000x utility in information. Sturgeon's Law applies, there's far more content created (in any format: text, images, audio, video, data, software) than any one person could hope to attend to in 15,000 lifetimes.[1] Probably significantly more.

Instead, one should recognise one's own limits of information exposure, goals in aquiring knowledge, and the available sources, and seek out at least higher quality sources amongst those available. These needn't necessarily be based strictly on truth value --- there's merit in reading discredited philosophy, mythologies, religion, and even perhaps for some, fiction and poetry.[2] Particularly such works as are of cultural significance, or which might help one achieve inner balance or simple amusement.

But listening to crap at 3x speed ... is not true efficiency.

It doesn't look as if anyone's mentioned Mortimer J. Adler's How to Read a Book yet. I'd strongly recommend reading it, quickly or slowly, and incorporating the lessons it offers for how, and what, to read.

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Notes:

1. Not a number pulled from /dev/ass, for what it's worth, but at least a rough approximation. If a truly dedicated scholar might read 10,000 books over a dilligent lifetime, that's 167 books a year from age 20 onwards, and there are roughly 150 million books published, then reading the collected works of humanity would require roughly 15,000 lifetimes. That might be adjusted up or down a bit but is a good first approximation.

2. An attempte at humour, Dear Reader.
Just subscribed. I’d recommend putting your RSS feed link higher up near the top.
I think low-liquidity rather than low volume would be the issue, and TWAP helps smooth that out somewhat (a price spike due to a large trade wouldn't immediately change the TWAP, and arbitragers would then bring price back to parity with other pools).

It would be ill-advised to use low-liquidity tokens for the credit rating however, I'm not sure how this is addressed by the beanstalk protocol because I didn't do a thorough reading yet. But if you're establishing something similar to a credit score based on an account's crypto assets, it would be unusual to factor in their holdings of tokens which might have very low liquidity, things like NFTs, etc.
So you negotiated around 250k US dollars for remote work at Shopify?

Could you share your cv please?

boatman at list dot ru
You’re correct in that SwiftUI is just another library built on top of Swift. SwiftUI heavily takes advantage of a relatively new Swift feature: result builders. So while SwiftUI code is technically Swift code, at times it does feel like a different language as control flow operates differently.
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The overlap between crypto devs and AWS users is in fact very high.
"Crime is not actually caused by evil. Crime is caused by systemic disenfranchisement and poverty and lack of access to job opportunities."

Which is to say that most crime is about money.
Yes, you can! Not only every single template can be edited but also every single widget and element of a website.
To me this is fairly dependent on how fast the speaker speaks. Most of the times 1.25x works well. Sometimes 1.5x is too fast.
Recommended C++ books:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-...
That is indeed creepy! But it is unlikely enough that I would not call it dangerous.
> In Roman times, they probably said similar things thinking about how advanced they were compared to the Macedonians a couple hundred years back.

The fall of the Roman Empire, and actually really even the decline from when the city stood at more than a million people during the time of Augustus and Tiberius until the far, saw massive declines in technological knowledge and even scientific knowledge. Much of that information was not rediscovered until the Renaissance when the last remaining archives of the Roman Empire were evacuated from Constantinople to nobles and merchants across Europe during the Turkish invasion. Even today we're still rediscovering material science knowledge that the Romans and ancient Chinese had. In fact, much of our rapid advancement in technology was not even due to knew ideas, it was due to ideas that had be theorized by Greek and Roman philosophers and alchemists, and which were recorded and stored in the archives.

There was real stagnation in most knowledge and technology throughout the world. In the West because of the decline of the Roman Empire (most likely caused in part due to lead poisoning and decreasing fertility of North Africa and Judea) and in the East due to constant infighting and political strife preventing unification of India or China under stable rulers for long enough to see real advancement.
There is no Wikipedia editorial board. If you disagree with the article, you can engage in the discussion regarding it and make edits of your own.
You’re obviously underpaid. Or not as senior as you think of yourself.
swiftui is the latest UI framework for building user interface. it's not a language.
However it uses a lot of swift constructs that makes it feel like a Domain Specific Language to describe UIs (like html).
> don't take the emotion either seriously or personally.

> I did not mean to offend.

None taken! Happy that this turned out a healthy discussion.

I was just a bit surprised finding out that there's hardware that doesn't work on Linux. It's been almost the gold standard for hardware support (ignoring nvidia of course). Thanks for enriching my knowledge on that one.

Ah and I seem to have misread "visual studio" as "visual studio code", apologies for that. Yeah most Windows software will always be tricky to get into Linux, that's definitely true.

Your post just made me realise that when I find myself in a OS discussion, instead of starting to list out pros and cons of Linux, I'll just ask if they're happy with their current OS. That should probably clear up a lot of things from the get-go.

Once again, thank you for your post and I hope windows keeps treating you well. If not, you'll always know where to find Linux.

Have an awesome day!
This is actually pretty bad, their mobile app wasn't updated to explain the situation and was showing 0 new cases for the timeframe. I personally know people who took that at face value.
1. some tlds are expensive (e.g. .app, .io, .gg)

2. domain name is short and has keywords, making it a premium and expensive

3. i think cheap promos are godsent, namecheap for example offers .xyz for $1
I'll often seek out both the written and lectures on material I'm particularly interested in.

I can read far, far faster than I can listen (and at what seems to be 4-5x the projected reading time in most article guides ... I'd really prefer a simple word count).

But ...

... listening to the spoken lecture can result in a very different understanding of material, hearing the lecturer's intonation, emphasis, humour, and more. This applies both where the reader is the original author and, at least in cases, where not, if the reader knows the material and its author well.

This of course depends on the material and ones level of interest in it. Multiple exposures for high-quality and complex material, or particularly compelling dramatisations, are worth this in my view.
Pocketcast can remove silence at least. Not sure about filler sounds like ehm.

According to Pocketcast I've "saved" over 3 days by trimming silence and over a month by speeding up. I've listened to a lot of podcasts it seems ...
Reflecting on Wasted Effort
This is unlikely to have a significant effect on human trafficking cartels, but it might have an effect on people that are around the stalker level.
I don't think you are curious, rather you're making a not so subtly veiled point against immigration which is wholly inappropriate in the context of this thread.
Please do not post (shitty) politics in Hacker News, "even Stalin would tell you that you are making an error in politicizing technology."
Thank you! Hope in the future you will be interest in trying it out more :-)
You may find some books on the economic history of the US interesting.

I suspect Jessica's parents immigrated and have very little formal education. Possible causes: trade liberalization means low skill workers in the US are competing with similar workers across the entire world. Simultaneously: 10th, 25th, and even median wages have barely moved in well over 20 years. Many of the jobs previously open to unskilled people willing to work very hard are no longer done in the US. A large shift of economic growth to capital over labor (which is, btw, the result of deliberate policy choices).
Plenty of coveted places in the armed forces go to ‘legacies’, children/relatives of generals and admirals. Those coveted places are usually not enlisted postings down range in swamps or deserts, but rather West Point admissions for people thick as a brick, or staff officer/general officer promotions for the same kind.
Mike's "friend" is awfully judgemental.
Frankly, I'm glad. Vanced is so good I'd prefer it stay under the radar.
> I find myself less informed

probably less disinformed as well
Yeah that's also part of our job, to expose the right info to developers so they don't have full access to everything but can still do their job. In my case that involves shipping logs to Grafana so they can view them there. In AWS it wouldn't be hard to create a policy for IAM users so the devs can view logs in the AWS console.
This is why I have always thought that can and bottle deposit prices should keep up with inflation: to give the collectors a living wage.
Taste isn't bad but not great. I think lack of popular recipes use fish sausages is a reason. I just eat it or fry with vegetables.
Family Minister Spiegel: Paid leave after birth (Germany)
Many of these lists seem reluctant to include alternatives for which no publicly accessible hosted instance is provided.

I have made rimgu[0] for imgur. There are a small number of edge-cases (for example the stackexchange subsite) it doesn't handle yet but otherwise I find it works great.

On a similar note, I find Piped[1] superior to any of the other alternatives for YT I tried so far, including invidious.

[0]: https://codeberg.org/3np/rimgu

[1]: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

EDIT: Looks like there's actually a public Piped instance linked from the repo now!
It's similar to how when an engineering colleague says "I'm getting a weird error here", I go over to their desk (assuming WFO), ask them to explain what they're doing, look at their screen, and ask them to run a few related commands to get more context. Without that, I don't have enough context to help.
Or another example from last week, a java developer sends me 50 lines of exception text when even I know that ONE of those lines is all you need to explain the problem.

And this particular developer is my main problem in that project. So it's not all developers who are bad, it's about the same percentage as regular end users I'd say.
The cost of drinks largely hasn't increased in line with inflation, so you'd very quickly arrive at an unsustainable situation where returning a can/bottle would give you more money than it cost you to buy it.
I have quite literally gone through long lectures and edited out such filler words (Audacity is good for this), where the material is sufficiently compelling (an extreme rarity).

It's really a telling level of contempt for an audience to allow unedited material containing excessive fillers to be released. I'm not at all a fan of the "one take, FI/SI" school of podcasts, and will bail out of virtually anything that features this.

For vapid voiceovers, I'll often just watch the video with sound off. My response is similar to how Douglas Adams described Marvin the Android hearing people count.
Did you look at all the references in that article? They aren’t about the intelligence term.
> This is what happens when you "sow beans", the protocol burns them and in exchange you get a locked-in interest rate (in pods), and you get paid out when all the lenders in front of you (the pod line) get paid out.

ohh, i misunderstood the lockup conditions around lending. so the protocol properly does decrease circulation. still at the expense of an increased maximum supply, but with the rate at which that new supply enters circulation controlled for independently (by the "bean supply").

i don't see any mechanism to decrease the maximum supply. over the very long term, it seems that the system becomes increasingly unstable the longer that the bean demand growth is below the Weather rate. the bean demand growth ought to have some resemblance to the general rate of return, so the uncertain thing here is: will lenders lend at advantageous rates to Beanstalk after it establishes itself as a good creditor? or will lenders demand an outsized return for lending to Beanstalk, on account of their money being locked up for an indeterminant duration? i see arguments for both, but it's pretty academic: it looks like there's enough runway in the system that these "very long term" preponderances are mostly irrelevant in this stage of defi.

interesting project.
The deposit is generally worth more than the scrap price for the cans. For example, NY can deposit is $0.05 [0] while the average scrap price is $0.13/lbs [1]

[0] https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-02477

[1] https://www.scrapmonster.com/scrap-yards/prices/new-york/sta...
There are some kind of Facebook settings that will let people access your page with only a frequent pop-up telling you to log in. The "extra mile" is enabling that rather than leaving on whatever setting requires someone to be logged in to see your page.

I'd still be annoyed I have to use Facebook, but it wouldn't impact my decision to visit the store. I'm not going to a store when I can't tell if it's open.
He wrote "reduce", not "prevent".
I can't speak about French, but IMHO a lot of what Russian classical authors describe can only be deeply understood if you grew up in the region and have seen it with your own eyes. Mentality-wise, I don't think anything really has changed in the last 200 years. It still resonates as strongly as it probably had back then.
There is no evidence Omicron is milder than Delta.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/18/no-evidence-omicro...
It's odd because when iOS development was new the docs and HIG were very comprehensive. Almost every answer regarding iOS on places like StackOverflow would be "here's a link to that part of the docs". They also had a lot of good examples.
It's not a "problem" per se, it's unskilled, untrained labor and someone with no resources trying to make it.

Not all hard work gets a reward.

Not everyone has a happy ending.

While statistically, you have a better chance of making a "high" salary in the USA, it really also depends on what you do and who you know.

Picking up cans also sounds like they could be undocumented, with no "legal" work papers.

Many times, it would/could be better for someone to stay in their "origin" country and live a regular life, but at the same time, you have to think - "would many people that have a network and a "career" leave everything they have, uproot their close family and go to another country, where even the language is different to pick up cans?

Is that sacrafrice? Is it worth it? Is it even legal? (lols)

As shown with "amiga" in the article - the authors parents also do not know English.

The same happens with many "normal" Americans as well. The ones that are illiterate, have a poor network of friends, uneducated, etc. While we don't hear about it as often, it's pitted away as more depressing/their own fault because "they were born in the USA anyway."

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Nothing against the author, but it reads as poverty porn. Great she accepts herself, and isn't ashamed, and while we may all think she should wear it as a badge of honor - in reality, the more socially distanced you appear to your peers, the more you are.

Pariah is pariah.
I always thought it was particularly cruel that all emergency services (police, fire, ambulance) in my country were reached by dialing 000. It doesn't doesn't make much difference now, but imagine waiting for that rotary dial to spin all the way back around while your house is going up in flames around you...
> There seems to be some disagreement about if X prevents Y means that Y never happens or if Y happens less frequently.

Quite. If "Y happens less frequently" then at least one instance of Y has been prevented. But some instances of Y still occur, so "Y can still happen". And if "Y can still happen" then some _clever_ person will say that "aha, Y has not been prevented from happening!"

I _can_ ride a bicycle. So can Mark Cavendish. But these are not equivalents.

None of this is binary, boolean, on-off. Sometimes it seems like this is being deliberately straw-manned with overly simplistic "all or nothing" thinking.

We know that the COVID-19 vaccines prevent a large percentage of infections. We also know that they don't prevent all infections. We know that they are still very worthwhile. We need risk reduction, harm reduction not nit-picky semantic arguments. Medicine is not Boolean logic.
Well if city doesn't get that revenue then the will raise the price of garbage collection. Doesn't seem that surprising.

From the article:

But city officials argue the small-time scavengers aren’t its chief concern.

“We’re not going after the single person going down the street going through the Blue Box,” Orpin insists. “We’re going after the professional recyclers, the guy who is running a truck or multiple trucks.”
Except we do observe interference effects. I'm not sure what you mean.
> Nope, the worst thing a corporation can do is try to sell me something I don’t want.

I think poisoning your water supply with benzene might be a bit worse.
Why are we stuck on [made up] words? Jobs shall evolve alongside technology, and shall be carried out as needed to attain objectives. I've been in the IT field (mostly infra and security) for over 25 yrs, with the last ten including the public cloud, and I have witnessed solutions and JDs changing accordingly, including birth of DevOps, NetDevOps, NetSecOps, etc., etc., but in the end all that mattered was what one needed to achieve, by using what specific tools, within which boundaries one had to work, and what was to be delivered.

As my first boss in IT told me, in 1995, when he promoted me as Manager Infrastructure & Security Services:
"<my_name>: You could call yourself anything you want, including Vice President of Ice Cream, and I will order business cards for you as such, but here is what I expect from you in this role, and here is how much I am going to pay you, to see it done."
Why is this unsustainable? You would still have to pay for the drink and deposit before you get the deposit back.
Off-tangent: modern lectures are still a better way to learn something than original lectiones were ― the lecturer would read the book by some prominent author, and students would listen to it and take notes... and that's it. That's what lectio literally means: "[an act of] reading". And before the invention and spread of the printing press, it absolutely made sense ― books were rare and expensive.

Today, of course, lectures during which the lecturer simply reads the textbook and does nothing more, are rightfully considered to be the worst: a student too can read the textbook himself just fine!
It was when riding the subway with my noise-cancelling headphones that I realized how good an investment it was. Oh, the bliss.
It may be inadequate, but the consequences of quantum theory still apply without having to add new postulates. Among those consequences is many worlds.
Also, there should be no bugs and PMs or business owners should be able to draw their own SaaS, no need for developers as well.
Sending logs to a dedicated AWS account is usually done for compliance. That account will have rules set via AWS Organization policies that limit IAM user rights and protect S3 buckets from being tampered with. I don't see why it should be necessary to ban read-only access to these logs for troubleshooting.

Anyone here know a good legal, compliance or best practice reason for blocking all access, or did the infra/sec team just get carried away here?

IMO the biggest issue other engineers tend to have with security is that it needlessly restricts them to the point where their job sucks. It's just as important to avoid "too much restriction" as "too little restriction".