skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How do you weigh off life satisfaction against income?
I'm in my late twenties working in a European high cost of living (HCOL) city, and I'm considering a move to a medium cost of living (MCOL) city because I have a slight suspicion that I'd be happier there. I'm struggling to weigh off the potential increase in life satisfaction against the guaranteed decrease in compensation.

The reason for my suspicion that I'd be happier in the MCOL city is that I really liked the vibe in the city on the multiple occasions I visited it, and the fact that I have friends there who enjoy living there. In the HCOL city I'm living in, on the other hand, I don't have any good friends, and I'm not too enthusiastic about the vibe here either. However, the salary is great.

The company I'm working at would agree to a remote work arrangement in the MCOL city. However, the guaranteed decrease in compensation would result in a ~50% decrease in annual net savings post expenses. I don't particularly care about money at this stage of my life, but obviously higher savings allow for an earlier retirement and/or transition to a fulfilling low-paying job. There's also a possibility that being remote would negatively affect my career progression.

The obvious problem I'm facing is that the only quantifiable variable in this equation is the sum of annual net savings. I have no idea if I'd actually be happier in the MCOL city, and if so, by how much. It would be a real shame to move to the MCOL city only to find out that I don't really like living in that city as much as visiting it. That would be a very costly lesson. On the other hand, if I knew for a fact that I'd be a lot happier in the MCOL city, I think that would be worth the diff in savings to me.

That situation doesn't seem unique. It applies similarly to deciding between jobs with differences in compensation and suspected job satisfaction. I'm wondering, do any of you have experiences in approaching a problem like that? Do you just go with your gut?
> "even though they could certainly do the math"

Could, but didn't.

The headline isn't "Largest Labor March". It's "Largest Labor Uprising".

Why are you trying to defend an obvious mistake? Is that where you work or something?
Not sure if you've ever seen this, but former (Massachusetts) Governor Weld staged a little publicity stunt several years ago by jumping into the Charles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiGbMmqrYrY
Hey - at least the US is not building concentration camps like the Aussies are right? Right?
Arch forum, you mean? The archwiki runs the standard mediawiki.
> IPv6 gives 10^17 addresses per mm^2 (yes, square millimeter).

Not that it practically matters, but: is that the 'full surface' or not counting the oceans (land-only)?
Blending the colors in Photoshop manually seems very tedious.

The open source Enblend/Enfuse, which ships as part of the open source panorama stitching software Hugin, does it automatically and seamlessly.

http://enblend.sourceforge.net/
I'd wager the use of "the" is mostly about making the meter work and having the iambic pentameter sound the way he wanted it to.

This isn't a data science question. Especially if the data science is blind to meter and to phonetics.
It all Native land, perhaps not legally, but at one point it was until it was appropriated by white men.
> I've seen entire careers and departments devoted to collecting this data for the purposes of backtesting strats.

Very true. The best quant shops don’t have the smartest people, they have the most data and the best systems. Everyone has smart people. Not everyone has great infra.
The owner of this, Matt Godbolt, is very nice.

Congrats on the advancement of this very useful tool!
How about covering fields and lawns with plastic (I know its petroleum) sheeting part of the time. Greenhouse-like. Reducing evaporative losses while letting sunlight penetrate could reduce water needs significantly. If its reflective, it might reduce the heat load as well.
How do I donate? I'll double your year-to-date earn!
The popular public worlds are like going onto AOL general chatrooms when those were popular. You get a lot of random people sticking around and often some obnoxious people. It's possible to find good conversation buddies and friends through them but it takes a lot of hopping between public worlds.

The real magic is when you either A) have friends who are already into it invite you directly to worlds with them and their friends, or B) find the niche public worlds that have a more mature and invested userbase. (Sadly, a lot of the niche worlds aren't compatible with VRChat on the Quest when running in standalone mode; you have to connect the Quest to a computer to get the full experience.)
Cliches are cliches for a reason.

The idea behind the saying is that the baby has value, and isn't intrinsically linked to the bath water that you want to get rid of.

To be more concrete: there is value in protecting local environments. If the problem is with environmental groups using reviews as a "weapon" (which is an inappropriately loaded term designed to cause a strong emotional reaction), then we should reform that problem.

What we should not do is to allow un-reviewed, unfettered development without any space for environmental advocacy. Balance is necessary.
This says that there was a viral Facebook post making claims about animal tests, which are very much wrong: https://fullfact.org/online/covid-vaccine-animal-testing/

Also, this says that the covid vaccines specifically passed animal trials: https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid-vaccine-anim...
Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional
One of their seven main points explaining why they stick with Lenovo laptops “for Linux” is the red tracking nib.

In my roughly decade of experience in IT, the only people who enjoy those are people who won’t ever use anything other than a Lenovo laptop in the first place.

Take this article with a grain of salt.
A Look at 5 Musicians and Their Modular Rigs (2017)
Very interesting article. The discussion on the three models and their own deficiencies are quite interesting.

Niche assembly: every survival must have its own unique edge of advantage. I guess I'm most convinced by this. The counter-argument is "how can every specie has its unique edge?", but it could also be that we have not yet discovered it.

Natural drift: if everyone is equally fit and the system is large enough, then they can all survive (for a long time). But how come is everyone equally fit? The response is "since everyone survived (as we observe), everyone must be equally fit".. Honestly I'm not convinced by this logic.

Social distancing: trees practice social distancing to defend enemies, so diversity comes in. If tree-killing pests are all staying on one tree and kill its offsprings around it (but cannot kill the original tree since it's too large), then this theory seems plausible. I have no idea if this is true in the forests though..
Offering loads for a $50 purchase is grossly irresponsible.

It's bad for the customer, since they risk getting fees for missed payments and will likely be charged interest on the loan. By offering this as an option, retailers are preying on people who are in such a bad financial position that they do not have savings and cannot qualify for a credit card or have maxed out their existing credit cards.
This is awesome.

Composing a SQL query is often the easiest part. The issue is that throwing that static SELECT statement string in your code has a ton of downsides (as discussed everywhere in this thread).

And fiddling with an ORM is tremendously frustrating when you're just trying to get it to compose the SQL you've already written in your head.

For a dev who's bothered to learn SQL, flipping the thing on its head makes a ton of sense.
My bad, I was confused too

Red pro: CMR, "remains the same"

Red plus: the new CMR SKUs that were previously sold under the same models as CMR and mixed SMR SKUs

Red: used to be CMR now SMR

as far as I can tell
I'd honestly be more interested to hear about the issue proposed at the end of the article.
What's the point of using a key? That doesn't add a second factor of authentication. Something you have and something else you have is 1FA.

A password with more than 200 bits of entropy seems reasonable.
In gaming they are called “whales” and they are actively targeted. https://youtu.be/xNjI03CGkb4
It's almost overkill to bother with a library.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import time, hmac, base64, struct
def totp(seed,curtime,period,len):
k = base64.b32decode(seed)
mac = hmac.new(k, struct.pack('>Q', int(curtime/period)), 'sha1').digest()
offset=mac[-1] & 0x0f
otp=struct.unpack('>L', mac[offset:offset+4])[0] & 0x7fffffff
return str(otp)[-len:].zfill(len)

myseed='KRUGS4ZANFZSAYJAOJQW4ZDPNUQHG5DS' # use gpg or similar to store
print(totp(myseed,time.time(),60,6))
Understanding the CSS Cascade: The Engine That Makes It All Work
We built the tools of a wonderful, modern repressive state; but we din't have the will to use them to their potential.

Gee, who would?
I'm of two minds on it. On one hand, yeah. Grind for a chance (a low one, even among other mobile games) of pulling a favorite character can be a discouraging model. And having no end in sight can be disenheartening for those wanting to binge on a compelted game.

But on the other hand, JRPGs tend to not get major updates, and are now taking 3-5+ years per game to meat that criteria. Unlike fighting games, you can't make meaningful character DLC post release that would mesh into the game. The very closest I've seen to this in modern times is Kingdom Hearts' 3 DLC letting you play as 2 additional characters... for one specific boss fight each out of a ~5 hour DLC of a 30-40 hour game.

Meanwhile, new characters, events, and areas drop monthly for Genshin. Without a direct subscription cost if you treat the game as a JRPG with some 4-5 playable characters gotten in story (which is average for a modern JRPG) and ignore the new characters other JRPGs don't have the option for. There are some very niche benefits and workaround of issues most JRPGs have today in Genshin.

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I don't really have much of a point here. Just rambling on some musings that I wish console JRPGs could take lessons from. I guess I just miss those days where is didn't feel like Final Fantasy (and ONLY FF) was the only big JRPG in town pushing graphical boundaries, and Genshin gave me some of those vibes. Moreso than any JRPG in the 2010's outside of FF and KH. Tales of Arise coming in a few weeks gives me some hopes, but I want to hope this isn't just a one-off fluke in the genre.
By definition fascism is non-Marxist socialism.
To quote myself¹:

Some volontary transactions are nonetheless illegal, because to allow them would negatively affect society as a whole. The usual example is that it is not legal (as it once was) to sell yourself into slavery. Also, overly onerous contracts can (in many jurisdictions) not be enforced.

Simply put, “It's a voluntary transaction” can never be a sufficient argument for why something ought to be legal.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26131725
I can't find a source so it might not be true, but I heard Philips was founded in a specific city to avoid IP issues.
Maybe the article could have included that if an automotive engineer had written it. But I think the article is perfectly fine for having included the steps that it did address.

Think about it this way. If you wrote an article about preventing the Toyota bug that resulted in uncontrolled acceleration, unless you were a former Toyota employee there's simply no way you can say "Toyota needs to change these specific lines of code" and you wouldn't even try. You might say "Toyota needs to adopt such-and-such code review practices" or "NHTSA needs to regulate the computer-controlled components of cars like this". Those are early, indirect steps that should force (or incentivize) the actual detailed improvements that you'd like to see happen.
JAX and Haskell
starting with correlation and asserting causation is bad, starting with causation and using correlation as weak evidence is good.
I think it was a trick question. At 1:02 you can see the bulb- it looks like a 120v candelabra bulb. I suspect that part of the test was seeing if those who could assemble the circuit correctly could also identify why it didn't light up. At 1:21, the interviewer asking, "Do you know why that didn't work?" leads to me to believe that they were trying to help them speculate as to the issue.

The man at 1:58 was given a 1.5v bulb.
China to begin first trials of molten salt nuclear reactor using thorium
An open question: Why wasn't the data destroyed before evacuation? I don't think it would take very long to trash a database. My understanding is that the US knew the Taliban would take over in a few months, although it obviously happened much quicker. Nobody thought to safeguard any of the data and equipment (or render it useless, as the case may be)?

They had from the time Trump made the agreement to make sure they weren't leaving behind gifts to the Taliban.
Ex Afgan communications minister works as bicycle courier in Germany
Good lord. I'm arguing for charitable reading because the quality of public discourse has gotten so bad/uncharitable that you're here accusing me of a serious bias, and for what? Pointing out a legitimate alternative reading!

Such deep cynicism is really an awful thing to see.
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Seriously, from a company that famously wouldn't allow flashlight apps because they provided the "official" one, this is just silly.
> Do electronic devices using quantum effects in solid state materials count? There you have the whole semiconductor industry.

That was invented by Jagadish Chandra Bose in Bangladesh, who built working millimeter-wave radios using Schottky diodes in 01894. Of course, he didn't understand the quantum effects, but then, semiconductor diodes were in wide industrial use (mostly in the rich West) for decades before Shockley's Equation in 01949.

The quantum theory was largely a Western discovery during those 55 years, but also included significant contributions from non-Western people like Shinichiro Tomonaga, Yoshiro Nishina, Leo Esaki, Tsung-Dao Lee, Hideki Yukawa, and Hantaro Nagaoka, and of course since 01949 quantum theory has been a field of investigation dominated by non-Western people. As you may be aware, there have been significant improvements in solid-state electronics since 01949, including full-color LEDs that permit LED lighting (due to Shuji Nakamura) and the switch to MOSFETs (due to Mohammed Atalla and Dawon Kahng, who were not from the West but were in the West) which eliminated the power consumption barrier that restricted 01960s electronics to dozens of transistors on a chip.

China in particular has had a pretty bad couple of centuries, in between being invaded by the US, England, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, the Austro-Hungarian empire, Russia (twice), and Japan (three times), having two of the most ruinous civil wars in human history, and having the worst famine in human history. So it's been innovating a bit below par, though it seems to be doing okay now.

> What about exploiting the behavior of charge carriers in vacuum? There you have the whole vacuum tube industry.

It does seem that the whole cathode-ray thing was a Western discovery, but it was built on the Hindu ayurvedic techniques of mercury distillation that formed the basis for Arabic and then Western alchemy (necessary for the Sprengel pump, which was for decades the only source of a hard enough vacuum); also, building the apparatus drew on the Mesopotamian techniques of glassmaking, which are usually considered to hail from Asia Minor, though some believe they originated in Egypt.

(It's possible that the Hindus imported the techniques of mercury distillation from China, but that is far enough back that it's difficult to know. At any rate, the Europeans got them from the Arabs, who got them from the Hindus.)
Second this, I worked on projects where "big data" meant 700MB

Lots of valuable work to be done, even in just taking standard bioinformatics algorithms parallelizing them for GPUs
A big chunk of the problem was the BSD Sockets, which unlike TLI/XTI leak implementation details like crazy, meaning every BSD Sockets application effectively hardcoded IPv4 behaviours.
Mind that this "principle of human freedom" incentivizes the system to bring and keep as many potential workers as possible in those poor economic conditions in order to optimize on labor cost at the cost of human health, happiness and freedom.
They key doesn't particularly increase the security of the authentication, but it helps a bit if you lose control of the device the db is stored on.
* First, EUA was for a two-shot regimen.

* Then, a booster after 8 months was proposed[1].

* Then, booster date was moved to 6 months[2] after second shot.

* Then, the interval between second shot and booster shot goes down to 5 months[2].

First shot is followed by three weeks of reduced immunity. It takes two weeks after the second shot, one is considered fully vaccinated. That means, one gets to be in "fully vaccinated" status for a mere 4.5 months.

So, it took a week to go from eight months to six months, but only a day to go from 6 months to 5 months.

[1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

[2]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-plans-covi...
That's two separate issues. The default (maximum) IPv4 reassembly buffer is 576. This issue is solved in DNS with the EDNS udp buffer size option.

For IPv4, you can just send a 1500 octet DNS reply and it will be fragmented as needed. For IPv6, you have to fragment at 1280 or do path MTU discovery (which doesn't work very well, certainly not for DNS over UDP). You can always fragment at 1280 but many firewall will drop fragmented packets, also because IPv6 extension header parsing is complicated.
btw, notice the difference between points of this submission and this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28329672
although they look the same.
This is yet another evidence that this voting system is rigged.
Good to see that they added an account deletion page some time between their acquisition and now. However, that bridge has already been burned for me and I'll be sticking with Bitwarden (self-hosted using Vaultwarden) for TOTP. Bitwarden doesn't require my phone number.
Are you suggesting that that makes it clickbait?

Again, the headline that appears on HN is not the title of the article as it appears on The Economist's site. On the website, it is "Britain’s private schools are lambasted in Richard Beard’s book". The user who submitted this to HN chose to submit this with the book title as the headline.

There's usually a layer of deception or over-sensationalism of some kind involved in order for it to be clickabit, and simply being behind a paywall doesn't qualify as clickbait. My point is that The Economist is not guilty of that in this instance, and OP is incorrect to blame them for as much.
LocalConsole
https://archive.is/q60yY
>What's a country like the US or UK to do? Tell it's local companies that want to and are totally willing to shift IP to China to access the market "No, sorry, you aren't allowed to, even though you own that information and it's not a state secret"?

Yes, that is literally what the US has always done. The government can ban you from exporting anything it wants, which explicitly includes tech transfer.
Twarc: Twitter CLI Archiver
Well, they don't meet the definition the other poster put up - unless you want to interpret it in a very loose sense that would certainly tar a lot of nations, for instance India.

I'm not really attached to the word or it's definition. It just occurs to me that 'genocide' is the causus beli for every well-remembered war the west have had since WW2. When the word starts getting thrown around in the middle of a trade war, when US hegemony is being contested, when the world has a new number one in terms of economic and industrial might, well, I think its deployment is basically cynical.

Insofar as it has already forced changes for (I think) the better in Chinese government policy, I'm glad. But I also think the airtime would be better spent less cynically, on countries like India, who are probably way easier to pressure and frankly just as bad. If world leaders like the UK go on air to call what's happening in Xinjiang genocide while selling arms to the Saudis so they can bomb the Houthis, then they just look about as cynical as they are. And that's what the Chinese domestic audience probably thinks, because ultimately, the west doesn't have moral credibility when it only makes a fuss over human rights when it's also in the west's strategic interest.
The very reason we're talking about IPv4 vs IPv6 is because of 1980 (and 80s, 1980) history, concerning people getting convinced that the temporary solution that IPv4 was supposed to be will be won't need more than obviously short 32bits and will be replaced with something better before wide adoption.
I agree. It is also amazing how different the database systems are that are competing against each other today:

Partitioning:
1) DynamoDb: Partitioning is explicit and one of the most important parts of schema design
2) Spanner, Cockroach: Database automatically partitions the key ranges.
3) Postgres: You will probably never reach the scale where you need to partition your dataset!

Transactions:
1) Spanner, firestore - no stored procedures, client-side transactions are important
2) Dynamodb: No stored procedures, no client-side transactions, only transactions where all items involved are known by primary key in advance.
3) Fauna, Supabase: Stored procedures are the way to go! You do not need application code, access your database from the client!
4) Postgres: We have everything, use what fits your particular use-case!

If database internals did not matter, why are they all doing something different and are sometimes quite opinionated about it?
do you know any place that is searching for remote people? Where I live everyone is wanting to hire but there isn't any more money around here and everyone is just jaded or working remote.
> Gilad Bracha is going some exciting and interesting things with this language.

Hopefully not in the same way that Dart turned out to be so "exciting and interesting" :)
> We had to react forcefully to al-Qaeda’s murderous assault, and we did.

"fifteen of them were citizens of Saudi Arabia, two were from the United Arab Emirates, one was from Lebanon, and one from Egypt" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_...

Yet Saudi Arabia was not on Pentagon's list of seven countries to attack in five years: https://www.salon.com/2007/10/12/wesley_clark/
Proxmox VE 7.0 Released
That's a pretty far cry from "the winter wave started at Sturgis."

> Following a 10-day motorcycle rally in South Dakota attended by approximately 460,000 persons, 51 confirmed primary event-associated cases, 21 secondary cases, and five tertiary cases were identified in Minnesota residents.

That's a drop in the bucket compared to the community spread in the US in 2020.

I'm not saying Sturgis was a great idea, but I am saying that the winter wave would have happened regardless.
Apparently they are getting ~70% of their lift from the buoyancy and ~30% from their propeller.

In the video included in the article, they show their prototype flying. It is surprisingly lively for a blimp (I guess owing to the fact that it gets/needs lift from the propeller), darting around in an almost fish-like fashion. I dunno, still skeptical but the video does make it seem much more plausible, at least.
$100/month for entertainment is actually pretty reasonable. Going to the movies every Friday night probably costs more.

I spend ~$200/month on just fitness related subscriptions, but would balk at spending any money on Pokemon. Different people, different hobbies.