skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then the first World Happiness Report win came 2 or 3 years ago, for the first time the reactions were mixed: Local social research could not really find any explanation. Happiness is certainly not noted in the country on a regular basis.

What I remember reading about this is that the researchers pointed out that there are cultural differences, so "happiness report" has to normalize for it. For example Americans often talk how happy or unhappy they are, or how much they "love" something, but Finns don't generally think this way or almost ever say "I'm happy (olen onnellinen)". There is also a certain cultural modesty, so in conversations you rarely make extreme statements like "I'm really happy" which could make you seem superior to others, you would rather say something like "things are good". I think what the happiness report concluded that while many people don't state or show extreme joyful happiness, many are more content or in peace with their life and have less anxiety.

That's my personal observation following my friends or family in Finland and comparing that to friends and family in California. See that people in US have more extreme need to achieve, work very long hours, compete and be better than others, be joyful constantly, but also have lot of fear and anxiety, especially when it comes to children. Many of my Finnish friends have both parents working and they have to do very little for the kids schooling. Kids go to the school by themselves and are expected to do their homework by themselves.

In US one of the parents have to be almost 100% homemaker and even then it's a lot to raise a family since you get very little help from the society. They also more have worries and anxiety of their own future and their children futures. Are they safe? If they get sick will do we afford healthcare? Can they get educated? Can they get a job and live good life? Can I retire when you need to? The competitiveness even seeks in to the very first years of the children's life where in Finland you don't even get grades and there are no standardized testing until you're 18.

In Finland, people might have similar fears or anxiety, but in lesser degree since most of those situations are covered by the society.
Indeed, if the magnitude of the action is greater then it is more important. I’m not sure how accurate the authors estimate is, but my feeling is that even accounting for client devices, we’re talking about a vanishingly small proportion of global emissions, with the possible exception of the very largest tech companies. Though it depends on what the actual emissions value is, which I can’t say that I know.
In my experience technical debt almost always comes from management's misconception that:

(a) A product that works now will always continue to work, even after you accumulate 10X the number of users.

(b) Adding new features only involves adding code, not rewriting stuff that already works.

(c) For a product A, delivering milestone A1 by deadline A1 is independent of delivering A2 by deadline A2. In reality the existence of A2 affects the timeline and architecture decisions of A1.

All of these are rampant massive fallacies in technical management.
I know it's a gross question but who would invest the money to get FDA approval for it? The better angels of our nature don't have a couple hundred million sitting around to throw at the process. Are there grants or funds for getting approval for development of medicines that aren't patentable?
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Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_in_a_Republic

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” (1910)
https://www.joyfulbikeshedding.com/blog/2019-03-14-what-caus... is a pretty interesting resource about this.
Hard for something to score “virtue points” if it isn’t, at least in some respect, virtuous.
> Edith Hall, a King’s College, London, classics scholar, wrote: “Authentic ancient Stoicism was pessimistic and grim. It denounced pleasure....” And she is not alone. There is a cottage industry of papers on stoicism in psychology, built on the same stereotype.

Sure, maybe the classics scholar is an ingoramus trafficking in dumb stereotypes. Or maybe they've thought about it as much as you have, and arrived at a different conclusion. And who the hell said anything about psychology?!
Do customers have any legal recourse here? They pretty clearly advertised "Print free for life". Even if its a case of fine print saying they can change the deal, surely the advertising would be considered misleading from a legal and/or attorney general's perspective.
It was a magazine publisher in DC, they transitioned into web development for their print customers.

I was told to never turn my workstation off.
Several of the engineers I worked with a few years ago left Intel (for the company I work at) after they switched to hotdesking to save money on facilities.

Basically the concept was instead of engineers having an assigned office or desk, the office would have a large field of unassigned desks and generic equipment. Every day you would come in, reserve a desk, take any belongings from a locker, and set up shop. At the end of the day, you would tear down, lock up, and leave.

It is beautifully efficient from a top-down perspective, but it turns out employees like the consistency of a known work location each day. Its also nice to be able to put up a picture of family, from what I gather. I suspect the cost of personnel replacement dwarfs the saving of n% reduction in desk need.
I (an American man) would probably have asked if you needed help but would never have called the cops. Long road trips are common in the US, so if someone is sitting in a car for a while my first reaction is "Maybe they're lost and the battery on their phone ran out. Should I ask if they need help with directions?"
I have preferred smaller tools that do one thing only and are easy to manage / break in predictable ways.
What issues? Searching for "Pa Mail Ballot Database Data Issues" turns up no reporting.
This is everything wrong with the industry today. No, not the "10 different developers" but the person who wrote this. Yes, I get that there was an attempt to sell this a satirical but it's just stereo typing mixed in with humble bragging. The average developer, "is perhaps the most common"? No shit. That's the definition of average. Good to know out of all the sociopaths listed the one who just does their job isn't going to be working there. The only other one you passed on was the "imploder" who is just as screwed up as all the other personalities but doesn't buy off on your corporate bs. I can't wait to head over to Glassdoor and see what they have to say about you.

I also noticed that every person described here is a dude. Way to telegraph to the entire internet that you don't bother hiring women.
Biden Votes Violate Benford's Law – Biden Firewall On?
Perhaps Google can be seen as a public utility like the phone wires, and has to provide access to its index
In the post, they advertise that they are going to continue to offer a service that provides certificates signed with the old one.
A Guaranteed Monthly Check Changed His Life. Now He Sends Out 650
"threw tons of gas on the whole devops movement"

I'm happy to find that I agree with you on at least one area of this new ecosystem :)
Local news. An informed public is necessary for real democracy and any real chance of solving real problems. Solving problems in a city is neigh impossible if the majority of citizens are unaware of what's going on in their own community. Take a look at what Alice Dreger (now one of my heroes) is doing with a tiny budget and a few dedicated locals in East Lansing: https://rdi.org/democracy-examined/2020/8/28/citizen-journal...
> Without IdenTrust, Let’s Encrypt may have never happened and we are grateful to them for their partnership.

What I have never understood is why IdenTrust accepted to cross-sign Let’s Encrypt's root certificate.

With that move, IdenTrust basically broke the CA cartel and helped driving the price of basic certificates to zero. How did they, as a for-profit organization, justify "doing the right thing" when that meant disrupting their own market?

Anyway, kudos to IdenTrust.
Corruption breeds corruption, and the corrupt do not let go of power.
Ant IPO debacle shows me that the rich and powerful, in the capitalism sense, are incredibly consistent in their thinking; even the one raised up in a communist totalitarian country.

They simply cannot think from any other perspectives that can reveal their fundamental flaws.

Unlike communism authoritarian, who at least can admit the effectiveness of capitalism in mobilizing the society in economy activity.
> The later Seinfeld episodes where also getting more and more surreal

IIRC that correlated with the departure of Larry David as showrunner, did it not?
WhatsApp Brings Disappearing Messages to Its Platform
You may be underestimating the size and scope of some of the big WhatsApp channels. Beyond a certain point they really look like a traditional social network, and not an isolated group of people sharing something in common.

As an example; the official Valorant Discord server has 200,000 people online right now. Not total; online, actively receiving messages. Some of these private WhatsApps, Discords, etc have tens of thousands of active members, and the content shared goes far, far beyond whatever the title of the channel indicates. The companies behind these isolated social network islands may do some light moderation on the overall server/channel, like not allowing terrorist groups to communicate, but very very rarely do they moderate any deeper; that's left up to the owners of the channel/server, and if they're complicit, it'll never be cleaned up.

Of course, WhatsApp, Discord, Telegram, etc, they don't do discovery. They just let third parties handle that [1]. They get a ton of plausible deniability, which is even further empowered by the push for E2EE.

[1] https://top.gg/servers/list/top
Yeah, I had thought that development of Gradualizer had halted, glad to see it's not. Part of why I wanted to do Mavis is because I wanted to make it easy for developers to make their own custom overrides and ship it with their libraries, especially for Elixir protocols[0]. still haven't figured out how to architect that, but I have an idea.

> I think you have to see typing as helpful information

Indeed. Selectrix will allow you to chain your inference with fallbacks, so, maybe the first level is a fast cache, second level is checking files for user overrides, third level is dialyzer specs, fourth level is inference.

I think it should also be possible to create an addon module with Mavis that lets you type inbound messages for GenServers, given a set of constraints (all possible calls and casts are present in the module itself as an API)

[0] it's a big problem that in elixir, Enumerable protocol destroys typing information, so I want to make an typing override for Enumerable an "example" typing override system.
Wow, this is actually much worse than I thought it would be from the title!

> HP rolled out a pay-on-price "Free Ink for Life" plan that gave you 15 pages every month for as long as you owned your printer. But this is HP we're talking about, so words have no meaning. Last month, HP notified its "free ink for life" customers that their life had ended, and they were being moved to a new afterlife where they had to pay $0.99/month

And from what I can tell in a quick Google search, HP introduced the "free ink for life" plan less than a year ago. So "life" lasted less than a year!
History is written by the victors. It would be in their interests to demonize the Aztecs as much as possible. Stories about sacrifices should be taken with a grain of salt unless there is hard evidence. Even if there were sacrifices, it would be good to find the exact reasons and circumstances for why that occured.
I would say they are the worst two options. The rewrite is mythical because not only does it invariably take much longer than it seems that it should, how are you going to carry on working on the existing system while spending 2 years rewriting?

Depending on your codebase, removing a specific part of it is invariably extremely brittle and the people who understood the original app might not be around any more.

The third, and imho best option, is to deploy something new alongside the existing application. For example, the existing email system is massively over complicated so we created a new email microservice system which didn't only permit a rewrite, but was a small achievable system and could bring with it many other benefits over the code in the monolith, it was then relatively easy to both test and redirect the original calls to the new service. You can also do this with applications. We run two alongside each other behind a proxy to hide the movement between the apps. We only need to migrate one page/area at a time, test it and then automatically redirect that page to the new system.

This approach is much more practical and also gives the benefit that if you are doing a major redesign, you simply migrate that page at the same time to the new app and you test everything at the same time. Leave the old stuff alone and eventually delete it all.

Lovely.
what about hCaptcha https://www.hcaptcha.com?
> I live in a "Top 10 most dangerous cities in the U.S."

Become batman. That might help.

> However, this causes a brain drain and leave the city in a worse place.

The narcissistic ego. It's not "brain drain", it's jobs. You can have wonderful cities full of factory/maintenance/etc workers. I'm going to bet that a city's quality is tied to the citizens' financial security and physical security.

As for what you can do? Nothing. Cities improve with capital investment/systematic top-down focus, not via individuals who watch too many marvel movies. You are not going to bring crime down, you are not going to bring jobs in, you are not going to rebuild the city.

> I don't want to do that, I want to uplift if I can.

Oh my god. People need jobs/financial security. Not some virtue signaling techie from HN trying to "uplift" them.

Just live your life, who do you think you are? If naive attention-seeking idealist saved cities, all the cities in the country would be thriving. But they are not. Figure it out.
While you’re not wrong I do use jenkins inside docker and use ansible to configure it, it is a bit different than other more modern tools but works fine.

I have yet to see other tools be as flexible (perforce , git, legacy tools, docker, 100s of workers across datacenters etc.)
I use a Sony Walkman mp3 player.

I'm a big linux geek so I built a wallwart dock from a small arm computer, Linux, udev rules, fstab config making it networkable.
This is the calmest[1] solution I could find. I think it's a concept you'd be greatly interested in if you're having trouble managing your digital life.

1. https://calmtech.com/
Otherwise I would definitely not say they tried to micromanage everything. Maybe they thought they had a good understanding of that particular problem I am not sure, but the solution had already been pitched to the customer before I transferred to that project. It likely had more to do with politics than his ego. That it was never going to work would be obvious to anyone who had worked in that space though.
I was responding to this:

> The core team will insist that variables are immutable but bindings are mutable

The documentation on the Elixir website refers to it as rebinding, and I don't see any references to bindings being considered mutable.

Rebinding means you've created a new binding with the same name. The original isn't being mutated, it's just not accessible anymore because of the scoping rules.
Lead by example. Clean up litter and weeds in your neighborhood. Bake treats for your neighbors, bring them by and introduce yourself. Offer to help them fix anything you notice is broken. Get involved in community watch / community policing efforts offered by your local police department. Create a safe environment in your own home and facilitate the same in your immediate community.
Two years ago the association of silicon manufacturers published a call to arms with an estimate of 40% in 20 years.

It's difficult to find global data for the last few years, but there are several studies suggesting about 5% for data centers. Given that networking is the major source of consumption with 40+% of IT consumption, this would indicate more than 10% today.

Edit: A few years ago, when Google still wasn't evil, they published an article on why Mercator projection was chosen for Google Maps. The estimated savings regarding all the global views per year were impressive!
Archives of CBC Massey Lectures
Classic Mini engines were available from the factory in substantially higher power ranges:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMC_A-series_engine
Templating Repetitive Code with Hygen
I remember the reason the episodes of the last season are so crazy was that they knew it was the last season and the tv network executives gave them a free pass to do whatever they wanted. Seinfeld is one of those weird shows that get better each season and left on a high note.
remote path autocomplete works for me in bash.... it's magic
> Tip for acquirers: when a startup turns you down, consider raising your offer, because there's a good chance the outrageous price they want will later seem a bargain.

This isnt accurate at all. Google/Facebook turned down the offers because at the time the offers came, they were 'feeling' good about their business. This feeling changes over time and had google not chanced on the business model of selling ads next to search results, they would have probably regretted not selling earliers.

No one at Google/Facebook knew that the companies would be as big as they became and most startups who say to an acquisition face failure exactly like the 99% of other startups, sooner or later.
That's my train of thought as well, but my guess is that they did the math and they know that there isn't enough money at 0.99$/month to make it worth a class action lawsuit.

As always raise awareness with your friends and family not to buy HP's garbage, Epson pulls the same shady practices as far as I know.

When possible, buy a laser printer and just don't give any of them more money.
This is an excellent article.

The thing is that not only do VCs not fund startups which compete with big corporations, they don't even fund non-competing startups nowadays. They literally only fund startups whose only goal is to artificially launder revenue to corporations. For example, the startups load themselves up with debt and then they waste it all on Google or Facebook ads. Then they get acqui-hired just before they go bust so that the founders keep their mouths shut. Then the corporation shuts down the startup's product...

They never cared about the startup or its product.
but yeah. rCaptcha is horrible. And you know google is making money of you when you use it, and some times it takes 10 - 15 minutes to finish one thing. I hope the site owner are getting paid for my work, not just google.
> we must be mindful that this represents a single observation.
Hey webster, whats a task?
PS5 save files can effectively only be backed up to Playstation Plus cloud
ClickHouse Capacity Estimation Framework at Cloudflare
The worst part of hot-desking in my experience is you always seem to end up next to some guy from marketing who is on their phone all day, and as a result you get absolutely no thinking time.
I don't think it is a case of the CCP stopping all entrepreneurs, but a case of them choosing which companies succeed and which fails.
Not entirely, the only TV show I know of that managed to completely leave on a high note is Breaking Bad. The final Seinfeld episode is one of the weakest of the entire series.
Thanks for clarifying. The ELI5 on this is somewhat simpler: there isn't one yet, because it's the next step of the process (by design). Well-formed ballots are counted immediately after the deadline, then the updated voter rolls are made available to candidates. As you saw, the voter rolls include everything except how the ballot voted. Candidates can then dispute/contest ballots they believe are well-formed but invalid. For close races, they inevitably do.

This generally occurs over a week or two after the initial certification, on roughly the same schedule as the recount. We've seen this a few times already for early results and will see it more in the next few days. https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/OtherServicesEvents/V... and https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/OtherServicesEvents/V... have a bit more on this, though there's probably another PDF I can't readily find which defines the timeline to dispute/contest certain ballots.

In practice this means that both parties' national organizations have teams running voters' names through public databases right now, looking for dispute-worthy ballots/voters. I've never been a part of a national race so I can't describe the details of that, but my guess is they use the same data brokers as debt collectors, plus some data brokers that are specific to voter rolls. l2political.com is the best known of the political databases (details: https://guides.nyu.edu/l2political).

So, the ELI5 is: it's the next step in the process between receiving ballots and final tabulation.

(Source: Have volunteered as a ballot-counting observer in Seattle, volunteered for a local City Council candidate's campaign, and am leading a campaign to change Seattle's voting method. I'm nowhere near an expert but do know a lot more about it than most people.)
Is it not now commonly accepted that Neanderthals were sexually compatible and merged into our modern genetics? And that they may have been seen as human by our ancestors?
If you ever wonder why a comment is killed when it's a perfectly reasonable/normal comment, check the poster's history. It's highly likely that at some point they were shadowbanned. You can vouch for those comments (click on the time next to the comment, then click on "vouch").
That's a neat little machine you have there!

90 hp in a mini that weighs just over 600 kg is going to move like a rocket. Make sure you upgrade the brakes as well! You can fit double caliper ones they have a lot more bite to them.
Why Silicon Valley has so many Bad Managers
I really hate HP, and I had family working there for a while. They lost their way 20 years ago I feel. And now that they've spun off the HP enterprise, I will never buy another HP customer product again.

I also feel like it's really informed me that I don't trust products with long warranties. It seems from my personal experience, the longer the warranty the more questionable the quality, and the harder to get the warranty honored. And of course if the product is terrible, the company will go out of business leaving you high and dry anyway.
Ma was not Elon Musk of China. He was routinely ridiculed for his heavily romanized views on many topics.

No one was surprised by his laughable showing in the chat with Elon at WAI 2019 where he behaves like a fraud.

His backing from powerful hidden political figures are well acknowledged. Although that's not new, anyone who commands such power are backed that way, this pattern can trace back to Qin and Han dynasty.
Date appears to be 2005 from the title page. Does anyone know how relevant this is today?