skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To summarize, because the introduction ends clickbait-style with "'I had to expand my consciousness,' she says. And she did it by intentionally cultivating a particular emotion." followed by 3 long sections of exposition before they elaborate on the "particular emotion":

Cultivate awe - meaning "reconnect[ing] with the vast natural world, with the universe beyond my professional and personal responsibilities, and beyond this moment in time". In particular, they recommend an "awe walk" where you focus on things around you and small details and look for things that are unexpected and delightful.

Kind of sounds to me like "get out of your own head", which I think is advice I could use more often.
I couldn't stand it. No structure, just more words until it was done.
That's our answer, yes. Read replicas and we redirect requests that need writes to a "primary" region: https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/

We tried cross region database calls for HTTP requests. They were bad. They seem to work ok for long lived connections like websockets, though.
I've always had a deep sense of respect for the hands-on engineers and technicians, the people that colloquialize an engine as a "motor," know the difference between a heat gun and a drill, and can wrench without needing a course on the Principles of Theoretical and Applied Screwdriver Mechanics.
the WSB crowd despises RH now
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It's really annoying we don't have a better solution for this. Even outside of open source, I don't want to spend over $600 up front before I sell a single copy of an app just to stop MS from blocking it. And that's not even mentioning companies like sectigo being terrible at their job. I've spent over a week going in circles with their support about verification: "your license shows address A", "no, the back shows the current address B, it's in the file I sent", "please send us a valid ID with address B", (repeat).

But unfortunately that's just a rant. I don't know if there even if a better solution. The money barrier (rather than verification) will stop some opportunistic malware, but big players won't care.
> and still have fundamental, mission-critical issues at play that outwardly appear to be being ignored.

The only place I’ve seen anyone mention these “fundamental mission-critical issues” is HN. My family and friends are Prime subscribers, and I’ve not had an issue in 20 years of Amazon buying.
This appears to be "video streaming" style transmitters, not an ADS-B out sort of location transmitter or anything.

And it seems that HobbyKing just... hoped nothing would happen.

> As spelled out in ARRL’s 2017 complaint, the ARRL Laboratory had documented that the operating frequencies of these drone TV transmitters near the 1.3 GHz amateur band were dip-switch selectable for frequencies internationally assigned for use by Aeronautical Navigation, GPS, GLONASS L1, ATC Mode “S,” as well as to both the interrogation and reply frequencies used for Air Traffic Control Air-Route Surveillance “transponder” radar systems. “Transmissions from these drone TV transmitters would have caused harmful interference to these essential Navigation and ATC Radar systems, presenting a real and dangerous threat to the safety of flight,” Carlson said.

That's impressively ballsy. I'm glad the FCC smacked them down pretty hard. It's not like global frequency allocations aren't well known.
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Hmm. Vice says the CEO (Vlad) had his phone seized - not for this thing but for the meme stock mess. Seems like a very big deal.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5p8z/feds-seized-robinhood...
This jibes with a rule I first heard many years ago when I was studying media and publishing: The "alphabet and a half" rule. This is specific to Latin-ish alphabets, of course. In English this would be 26+13 which is 39 cpl, and lots of newspapers had roughly 40 cpl columns. For books, up to "two and a half", or 65 cpl works. I recall seeing 66 cited as "ideal" in several places.

Some software conventions I know of that apply include the git 50/72 convention and the continuing argument over whether or not to stick with the 80-column line limit for coding conventions.
Why do you think you're entitled to 100% of my wealth?
I worked at Mozilla for a long time and this interpretation is simply not true.

Servo does not, even if finished, turn into a self-supporting product. Keeping Gecko going already is a huge challenge for Mozilla.

I don't have a lot of faith in Mozilla leadership's ability to compete, but it's certainly not that they don't want to try to compete.
I find it very weird too. I copy and paste a lot from documentation, or GitHub issues, but generally SO questions are very idiosyncratic.

Maybe it's the language you work with?

If I copy and paste React code from SO it'll 100% break my app due to incompatible abstractions, so it doesn't make any sense to do it. However if I need a complex generic Typescript utility type, copying things verbatim is usually fine.
> Write three things your greatfull for

But preferably write them better than this?
The main point (and only differential) of a TPM is protecting secrets against the person with physical possession of the device.

About every time something like this is placed on a consumers product, it is to exploit the consumer some way, so, no it's just bad.

There is the very rare exception of it being a product intended for the owner to lend it to other people, and the very common exception of it being disabled by default, but being cheaper to include on every product than just the business ones. But well, Windows 11 Home edition computers are neither of those.
Why seek happiness? What's wrong with being content and fulfilled?
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Principles aren't a bad thing, it's good to write down something we expect everyone to be aligned to.

However, the problem with their Leadership Principles is their leadership, not their principles.
> The top 1% of people by income already pay 40% of all taxes.

I believe that this famous misleading statistic is only true if you specifically limit it to federal income tax, not "all taxes".[0]

Less misleading is to compare total taxes against total income, which is shown in a chart[1] included in the linked article. It shows that the top 1% earn 21% of the income, and pay 24% of all taxes.

The real question is, why are the top 1% only paying 24% of the taxes when they own 39% of the wealth?[2]

[0] https://theintercept.com/2019/04/13/tax-day-taxes-statistics...

[1] https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2019/04/ch...

[2] https://jacobinmag.com/2017/10/wealth-inequality-united-stat...
Low corpate tax countries not on the list: Ireland 12.5%, Kuwait 0%, Hungary 9%, Kosovo 10%, kyrgystan 10%, Lichtenstein 12.5%, Moldova12%, Sark 0%(UK related but only had 1 active bank so perhaps they did not need it on the list )

I am surprised that they managed to get most of the typical island states on the list to convert. And it will be super interesting if Kuwait and Sark can stay strong or if new companies will take the opportunity to address this market.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rat...
This is unfortunate but I’m more displeased with the ARRL. They spend millions on lobbyists and politicians, pay the President A quarter of a million a year, and they’re really not doing that much for it. The website is seriously lacking an up-to-date information about state and federal issues, and I’m very dismayed at what seems to be a lot of money spent but very little to show for it. Ive been an Extra since 2002 and I didn’t renew my membership last year. To me, a humble Ham in tornado country, ARRL just seems like a lot of people hanging on feeding at the trough.
Or run it on an actual wifi router or usb stick in plain sight.
Just to be clear, 60% of PPP loan money must be spent on employee wages or the PPP converts to a loan.

“… bankruptcy trustee John Munding said the money was used to pay workers and the government forgave the loan…”

Like that. Yes. It sucks that the government spent 0.4 * 10m to prop up a company that was going bankrupt (among the other case of moving jobs out of US).

But this was fast money meant for employees and to keep business afloat. I have seen several make good use of the money.

Not sure how this could have happened with more complexity.
The officer is playing the music knowing that an attempt will be made to distribute the video, while hoping but not knowing for sure that the video will be blocked from distribution. The video could appear on one of many other sites that do a poorer job of screening media or that don't even attempt to do so.
Obviously higher speed translates into higher risk.

But given that less than 10% of all accidents resulting in bodily injuries happen on Autobahns, it looks like there are for more important factors to consider than speed alone.

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Verkeh...
Yes, it’s an ongoing war crime since 1600.
It's easy to dismiss every 0.3% improvement as not worth it. I remember reading that the Gates foundation doesn't invest in things that don't have a chance of improving emissions by at least a percent.

But the full picture is to look at both sides. To gain this 0.3% emission reduction, what do we lose?

I love the speed-limit-less autobahn. I'm Dutch but now living in Germany, it's one of my favorite things. It's convenient that you often just go with the flow instead of having to look out if maybe you're doing 5km/h too fast. Definitely nice. But also, I really use it (160km/h+) maybe twice a year for a few minutes. It's fun, but only safe when you have at least 2 clear lanes and also damaging to the environment. Mostly I drive ~100 for the regular (non-pandemic) trips (to friends/family; work is by public transport).

So I'd miss it, but not a whole lot. The vast majority of people's trips would get longer by a marginal amount. Is that not worth it? I'm inclined to say it might be, but I ultimately don't know. I'd love a system where you get an allocation of, say, 30 minutes per year (and it carries over if you don't use it up), but that's not feasible. Or if a speed limit of 130 is posted, then that you can be caught exceeding it by any amount once every five years with a reasonable fine (not losing your license) unless you clearly created a dangerous situation (that's covered under separate laws already anyway). When lower limits are posted, it's always for a reason so there you just shouldn't go faster. Maybe that could allow people to do it if they're in a truly exceptional rush, or just want to, but still reduce emissions by virtually the same amount?

Or we just tax fuel at the price that it costs to take it back out of the air. Then it's simply your choice to drive as economically as you like. But that's also unfair if you live on minimum wage and need to commute by car. Or maybe the first, say, 75 liters a month are tax-deductible, same as with other deductibles? That would keep it affordable for necessary trips but still give the right incentive for those that want to waste fuel.
SICP is to a large extent also about the interplay of language choices and architectural choices.
Because the attempt causes the laws to fail in referendum perhaps.
Not sure how present they are in the UK but Express has tops available in ‘Tall’ which is essentially long torso sizing if you buy in slim or extra slim trims.
Maybe in the US, but that’s not the case in most places in Europe.
After reading as much of the article as I could, I concluded that the best way to avoid malaise is to quit being so introspective; quit acting like my gratification is so dang important; and just go do something.
Also, if you read “bias for action”, it doesn’t say “go off half cocked”, it specifically says that if a decision is easily reversible then you don’t need to spend as much time investigating it as a decision that’s more permanent.
Just curious, what banks are those? Renta 4 is mainly focused on funds, and traditional banks like, say, BBVA, don't have any stock trading features in their apps / websites, as far as I know?

I'm using Degiro for stocks.
(I have no information about the specific topic of alleged CTH bots/“bots”. I’m not asserting that any particular group is using bots. I’m just speaking generally about the topic of what counts as “bots” and what doesn’t.)

I kind of feel that in a case where there are many accounts using identical text (which is too long to be identical by coincidence) (e.g. in replies to something), it is probably fair to call these bots, even though one can’t rule out the possibility that the automation is as small as just copying and pasting the same text into different accounts + something to open windows as different accounts viewing the same tweet.

Like, maybe that setup wouldn’t strictly count as bots, but really only because it hasn’t been automated as much as it could be while having the same result.

So, I think it is probably fair to call that observable-phenomenon “bots” even though it might not always strictly be bots?

But I agree that a group of paid astroturfers(/trolls?) who are writing different things, probably shouldn’t be called “bots”, even if they each use multiple accounts (provided that they aren’t semi-automatically saying the same things from the different accounts).

I do think that the concept of sock puppets probably captures much of the idea that “bots” is inappropriately extended to, and in a sense applies to many of the kinds of bots that people are talking about in this context (bots pretending to be many people, rather than a bot which is up-front about being a bot).

So, maybe talking about “socks” would be a good substitute for when some are talking about “bots” when they don’t really care if they are actually bots?
I thought the Joy Generator they shared in the article was really neat.

https://apps.npr.org/joy-generator/#story=intro&page=0

I have developed some of my own tools to create similar effects, as part of my text editor journaling process[0]. I think the JG is the exact sort of thing that could really help people make small yet substantial life changes toward a better experience..

(After using the Joy Generator, I spent a bit of time developing an anticipation-generator doc for myself as well, focused on creating happy experiences that lay waiting in the future. Pretty neat ideas they shared. Thanks NPR.)

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XehGA1fYulo
Wow, I should become a Chief Legal Officer..
I was already doing that with Flash 15 years ago.
Rust is cool, but it didn't advance Mozilla's mission.
>Nations can still compete. Stability, rule of law, infrastructure investment, etc.

don't forget tax incentives. Sure, every country has to charge 15% tax, but if you domicile your country here we'll give you tax credits!
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I learned blender last year to a pretty good level entirely on YouTube. I recommend using the hot keys (arrow keys to skip, shift+carrots to increase playback speed). I also highly recommend using Anki and creating flash cards as you go. Windows 10 is great for pasting in screenshots with a couple hot keys straight on to your flash cards. By reviewing the flash cards you retain what you watch in the videos and greatly speed up your learning time.
In that case, it sounds like it would be a good idea for the federal government to use the interstate commerce clause to start dismantling the work number system?

The original purpose of the interstate commerce clause was to ban state and local governments from collecting sales taxes on transactions cross state lines, so that states had to compete to keep excise taxes as low as possible, and rely more on direct land taxes on property owners instead. This was because Madison and many of the other early federalists and democratic-republicans were influenced by the Physiocratic school of economics which thought there should be no internal taxes on trade and labor, that all internal taxes should be direct taxes on land.

So if state and local payroll taxes and the work number system are the new rakeoff allowing state and local governments to fund property tax cuts for the rich, it would make sense for federal government to continue its grand historical tradition of using the interstate commerce to suppress this nonsense, in order to encourage any states with broken property tax systems that are struggling to raise revenue to appoint commissioners to redo their assessments instead, in order to discourage state and local governments from taking the easy way out and imposing regressive taxes on workers with the least leverage to complain.
Monopolize markets.
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I'd love to see a demonstration of this. (not of a FFT, but use of one to remove one signal from another)
“Settled” might also imply that it was already paid. I’d imagine it like a house sale closing, the papers get signed and a check gets passed all in the same transaction? No check, no “settle”.
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You've mentioned "swedish" twice now in the context of Switzerland. You've got them confused.
Just as an example, I live in a city that has an Amazon warehouse. It's freaking HUGE!! I think it is 2M sqft. I read somewhere that they paid $40K for the land. My house in a subdivision has a land value of $41K according to my tax assessment.
I'll just add some supporting material from one of my favorite authors, Leo Tolstoy.

> Just do something that helps others, take some responsibility in the real world, even if it's small but at least you're doing something real

This reminds me of a line in one of his stories (paraphrasing) : "The surest path to happiness is service of others."

It's also the final lesson of his autobiographical short story, Father Sergius, and comes up in the story Two Old Men where it's juxtaposed with a ritualistic view of religion lacking an ethos of service.

> worst case you're still miserable but at least you've done something meaningful.

You won't be miserable, although you will likely appear that way to the eyes of worldly people. That's the central theme of Tolstoy's exquisite and (very) short story, Alyosha the Pot.
There are far more effective "low hanging fruit" to tackle than lowering the speed limit when it comes to reducing emissions.

- Transporting goods by rail instead of truck or plane. And while we're at it, cargo ships are huge polluters because they can save money when using low grade dirty fuel. Disallowing that practice would have a big effect, but that would require the global community to act (good luck with that).

- Increasing the use of public transport and other ways to lower the need to even drive a car, like (partial) work-from-home schemes, and political incentives driving their adoption.

- Increasing the efficiency of roads, first and foremost by getting smarter traffic flow control that reduces congestion (nothing in transport is more wasteful then a car just idling in a traffic jam). But even the quality of the street and type of pavement you use in roads can have a rather significant effect on fuel efficiency (regardless of whether the fuel is stored in a gas tank or a battery).

Reductions of emissions is one important piece of becoming carbon neutral, but not the only piece. Renewable energy sources and other technologies that will take carbon out of the atmosphere again play another important role in the complex solution that is needed. And e.g. with renewable sources Germany might not look too bad internationally, but we're greatly lacking behind our own goals, and mostly for political reasons.
> which would be excedingly easy to do

False. You would need to buy (or just randomly happen to have) a smart TV model that exhibits this characteristic, which would be very difficult to find, as there is a very wide spread of smart TV models and features, and obviously this "feature" wouldn't be advertised. This is neither easy nor free.

You're also clearly moving the goalposts. You first asked for evidence, and then discarded the evidence because "it wasn't good enough".

Nor is this capability either technically difficult to implement, illegal, easily-noticed by the average consumer, or abnormal for companies like Samsung, which already engage in highly-intrusive ad-surveillance activities[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24662353
> Multiple browsers have flirted with hiding it.

Safari has been doing this for a while now, yet no one is up in arms about it.
A bit misleading, assuming someone could be misled into thinking Siberia was 118c.
Amazon-speak did feel very cult-like to me at first, but overall they do a good job of being intentional about corporate culture and preserving it. Not perfect but I’ve worked at other companies with much more toxic cultures.
> Just do something that helps others

The primary reason for my unhappiness is that the majority of my time (excluding sleep) is spent in the service of others and very little time is left to do things for myself.

I'd love to have enough time to read more than 3-5 pages of a book per night.
> If you start taking money from them, they will simply stop working and start spending more time with friends and family.

This model of the world assumes that "rich person" means someone with high income and "raise taxes on the rich" means raising the top marginal income tax rate. I don't think either is true and I struggle to imagine how you could be familiar with the financial details of the .1% and think otherwise. This model cannot survive much contact with actual rich people.

People rich enough to be included in "tax the rich" mostly get their money from capital gains, and I don't believe that any rich person anywhere would ever decide not to invest their capital because the capital gains rate is too high. Even if capital gains were taxed at 90%, what else would you do with capital? Dollars sitting in a checking account cannot "spend more time with friends and family".
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