skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> *For some reason*, the monotonous routine and long commute took a lot out of *me personally* [emphasis mine]

I want to make sure you don't have any lingering feelings of ambivalence or shame from that conclusion: Long commutes take a lot out of everyone (or at least the average person). It's one of the most consistent happiness findings.

- "we find that people with longer commuting time report systematically lower subjective well-being." [0]

- "Couples in which one partner commutes for longer than 45 minutes are 40 percent likelier to divorce." [1]

- " a person with a one-hour commute has to earn 40 percent more money to be as satisfied with life as someone who walks to the office. " [2]

You're not weird, and it's certainly not your fault. As we all get back into normal life, I want to make sure that we're clear on that. Maybe you have to do it, and we all have to do painful things, but it's not your fault that it sucks.

[0] https://ideas.repec.org/p/zur/iewwpx/151.html

[1] https://slate.com/business/2011/05/long-commutes-cause-obesi...

[2] https://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/03/30/commuting
The reason why Toronto (and SW Ontario) has seen an increase of housing prices, especially since 2015, is immigration:

> The estimated number of families in the province grew considerably. Between 2010 and 2015, Ontario’s estimated number of families grew by less than 23,000 per year. In 2017, the province added over 50,000 families; in 2018 it added almost 70,000 in a single year.

> Despite this population growth, housing starts hadn’t increased all that much after 2016, staying well below the levels of the 1970s and 1980s:

> A closer view. Between the four years from the start of 2016 to the end of 2019, Ontario added almost 230,000 people to its population each year, over twice as many as in the four period that proceeded it. Despite this doubling, the number of housing units was only 9% greater in that 2016–19 period than in the four years that proceeded it:

* https://mikepmoffatt.medium.com/ontarians-on-the-move-2021-e...
I don't know what his point is. There is no absolute level of low or high interest rates.

Interest rates merely balance the supply and demand of/for labor.

Growth usually happens when there is high demand for labor and that means interest rates are high during periods of growth. When you think about it, interest is just the risk adjusted yield of a labor saving investment plus minus bank fees and profit share of the borrower. That means the existence of high yielding investments is what drives interest rates up as lots of borrowers got to the bank and present their fantastic business ideas and the bank picks the highest yielding ones.

Well, I also have to say something. Growth didn't really stop with lower interest rates. The economy is much bigger than 30 years ago.

Also about negative interest rates, it's a fallacy to think they are supposed to stimulate borrowing. They are supposed to balance people's desire to be in debt with people's desire to hold onto credit (equivalent to demand/supply of labor). That means negative interest rates exist as a disincentive to save money because nobody wants to borrow money.
Where did I say it should not be revisited?
I once read this bit and your comment reminds me of it: "As life, cockroaches absolutely suck, but as technology they excel".
It belongs to whoever owns the repo, domain, copyright and trademarks. That's usually the core developers.

Users don't own it at all. Not legally anyway. It they're upset about the sale they can fork it if they want - that's one of the great things about FOSS. But that doesn't mean it was a "hostile takeover".
Old kingdoms are basically modern companies in many ways.

Just to be clear I am not saying it's necessarily a bad thing - nowadays you can start a new kingdom any time you want and don't need God to be your ancestor.
ETrade is now a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley. While MS is only half the size of JPMC, they’re not really a small bank.

(Wikipedia isn’t up to date BTW. Even before the Etrade they had over $1T in AUM)
When will everyone only do energy efficient things.
Stop the global party.

https://blog.bitmex.com/bitcoins-carbon-footprint/
I mean that this is the reason why import taxes exists, had it been with some generic item th UK manifactured mostly internally at the time it would have been sort of reasonable.

I am not a fan of calling people "enemies" I prefer to look at their incentives and context so that when can learn how to change them so that we will have less "enemies" in the future

In this case the airplanes had also an historical significance so it is hard to justify forcing their destruction.
What is the quickest way to learn about mailing-list driven code collaboration for someone who only knows pull requests?
How do you withstand the cold contact of the water? Part of the depression is the intense lack of bravery to the most comical point, and yet very real.

So I went to Australia and started farming, and after a few rage moments (over 6 months), I was back to happy and 15% body fat (ie excellent). But it’s hard to isolate the root cause since travels imply many moving parts, sun, outdoor exercise, one of them being the absolute constant flow of good news, getting hired as a farmer for the same price as a French engineer, getting hired in a startup and receiving yearly bonuses after 3 months at the same time as everyone, having stock options that keep on rising. Of course I felt better, but I’m afraid it was just the ridiculous sudden wealth. Which is very different from having found happiness.

Back to France and I have been in the horrible mindset for 8 more years, intensely angry at friends family and life…
A snarky tweet from Bram Cohen of Chia (which has had taproot and graftroot enabled since launch in March):

> Congratulations to Bitcoin for joining the club of UTXO-based cryptocurrencies which have taproot enabled.

https://twitter.com/bramcohen/status/1459755439294275584
I think one of the huge milestones is getting someone who is in a depressive state of mind to recognize that their lived experience is a function of this cognitive state and may even, in many situations, be a manifestation of an actual condition. I think especially really smart folks who become depressive can easily fall into a trap of rationalizing their depression. One of the toughest things is getting to a point to recognize that the entire body of "data" that your mind is using to make those rationalizations, and the rationalization itself, doesn't fall "outside" the depression. It's such a tricky thing because of it.
That's also the beauty of Fast.com, that it uses the Netflix content servers as benchmark and not some ISP edge hosted Speedtest server with special priority.

That gives a more realistic expectation of how Netflix, and in this case Apple downloads, will actually perform. And it can't be artificially boosted by the ISP.

That being said, I assume both Netflix and Apple have very special CDNs with ISP co-located content servers in many cases so it is still not a realistic measurement of generic Internet performance (but Speedtest is even worse, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
Formal Software Design with Alloy 6 book
That's not what happened. The judge placed the burden of proving that zooming didn't do that on the prosecution, and only afforded them a few minutes to find an expert witness.

In the end the iPad was not used.
I'm seriously considering this.

Every other day, on Windows, my Bluetooth headphones decide they prefer the left output to be louder than the right outpout.

And it will randomly fix itself. Truly randomly.

Nothing I try to do, from adjusting auto settings, to disabling the headset mic, to re-installing drivers, to rebooting, to unpairing/repairing, to everything else has any impact on it.

Then it will start working normally, only to stop working a day later.

And it's not the headphones, it's the Bluetooth stack. All headphones I try are either broken or working, depending on the day and whatever mood my Windows Bluetooth stack is in.
That beats a coconut by a factor of 200.
JSONC supports trailing commas.

> - it has good editor support (VsCode)

Unfortunately it doesn't really because of the extension issue I mentioned. Certain file names (like `tsconfig.json`) are whitelisted to have JSONC support, but any random file `foo.json` will be treated as JSON and give you annoying lints if you put comments and trailing commas in.

That's a fairly recent change I think.
That's not the reason they're a pain. They are a pain because friction doesn't scale down nicely.
> Baristas will earn, depending on market and tenure, from $15 to $23 per hour, it said.

Not sure how much that'll influence the cost of living in places where it's effectively implemented. In places like the Bay Area it didn't serve the majority people since the real estate market has gone crazy, and as a consequence people resorted to living far outside the city centre. I've seen a documentary where a mother in California useed to commute 3 hours each way, leaving her home at 5am and returning at 8pm. And she was not even a white collar job.
Even on the same network you might need TURN. Browsers use mDNS addresses for local connections rather than leaking internal IPs and if your network doesn’t work with it then a direct connection will fail. You can disable this but it’s not ideal.

Getting P2P connections working reliably is an effort in edge case discovery and either fixing it or falling back.
A crazy thing with Taproot is:

A company could create a virtual bank to handle all transfers with its suppliers by doing a single onchain transaction.

From the outside, it would look like a normal "Someone sent some coins from address A to address B" transaction.

But internally, a key needed to spend the funds is only valid if the company and all of its suppliers sign it.

This means every time there is a transaction between the company and one of its suppliers, the company would send out a signed message with the new spending conditions (the new balance of the company and every supplier) to the supplier network. Everyone signs it and that's it. It does not go on chain.

Only if a participant becomes uncooperative, the latest state will go on chain and everyone will get what they own.

So in the future, two transactions on the Bitcoin chain a few years apart could be "Someone sent something somewhere in December 2021 and then they send something somewhere in June 2025". Or it could be "BMW did ten thousand transactions with its suppliers". You don't know. Both look the same on chain. And all of the transactions were free, instant and possible 24/7.
I got taught a mix of java, CAML, and LISP.

But I 'got' java. It's possible this is related to having dabbled with QBasic on a commodore 64, PowerBasic on an IBM-PC, and some x86 assembler, but my classmates without any experience universally just didn't really 'get' CAML or LISP and I kept catching them at thinking up the answer in an iterative way, and then dreading the 'hard part' of figuring out how to re-imagine that as functional.

Even when the exercises were designed specifically to be easy to write and understand in an ML variant.

I think the conclusion is that either society / community at large somehow prepares you for 'the paradigm' of iterative languages (I don't mean the IT world, I mean _all_ of society), or it's just easier to get it and start writing basics, vs. functional.
Yes.

Also, I have never once heard anybody here complain that maternity/paternity leave is in some way damaging the company/employee/economy - just stuff that happens in the office.
The interviewed a professor who interviewed him. Does it matter?
The mistake he makes is to conflate the ability to recognize quality and the appreciation of quality.

He elaborates further in this recommended read http://paulgraham.com/goodart.html

Goodness is always measured against a standard and although he proposes a reasonable standard, it's still arbitrary as all standards are.

I agree that interrogating ones biases and susceptibility to trickery is worthwhile. Helping oneself and others see through trickery and illusions can be too. This idea can however be pursued ad absurdum as well. All fiction requires a suspension of disbelief and it is in itself a form of trickery.

The implication of the existence of a good taste is that it's good to have this taste. Why are those who like good art better than those who appreciate quality but prefer worse art?
I call it a Ponzi scheme because there’s a discrete payoff - having a child and receiving paid time off.

Taxes in general aren’t a Ponzi scheme because many of the things paid for by taxes are continuous - less people, less tax collection needed. Tax collection for roads being an example.

Parental leave and the amount of taxes necessary is more contingent on the future population than the present.
I think the best thing you can do is to keep it simple. Always ask yourself are you making it flashy for yourself, either because you're procrastinating or because you personally like the particular flash. And then ask yourself, does my audience care? Plenty of examples of "poorly" designed websites that dominated their market share. The users don't generally care.

To answer your question, I like to add a lot of placeholder text and images to all the columns and divs I plan on incorporating into the layout. When you are designing from scratch it's easy to say your color scheme or border choice looks bad, because it all looks too empty or scarce.

Start with the content first and use design to make it the content as accessible and efficient(UI) as possible, that's the most important thing IMO.
I agree, the only way the author's premise makes sense is if she was given bad information, and she did not bother to research anywhere else. With both of my wife's pregnancies on both coasts of the US, we were told to immediately call the doctor if bleeding persisted after a couple weeks. You are even told exactly what the bleeding should look like and how its characteristics should change over time, and if it deviates, to call the doctor.
How do you compare yourselves to Monte Carlo Data?
But there are many smaller brands making excellent chocolate using far more ethical sourcing, at least a hundred in the US alone. The upside of this is that the quality is much better than Nestle, Hershey, Cadbury, Dove, etc.

While fair trade and similar designations are not a cure-all and mostly profit farm owners, they seem downright ethical in comparison to the slavery and child labor used by growers of low quality beans. The plain truth is that chocolate, like coffee, is expensive to produce. Source- I worked as a chocolate maker in the US. It really is a fascinating process. And as a bonus, many chocolate companies enjoy showing visitors the process. As far as industrial tourism goes, I highly recommend visiting one. There may be a high quality chocolate maker closer to you than you realize.
> I believe parental leave should be provided, but I don't see how anyone expects employers to shoulder the burden of providing paid parental (in reality maternity)

It is always citizens that shoulder the burden one way or another.

Self: Pay with your own savings
Firm: Pay with higher prices and lower wages
State: Pay with higher taxes paid to the state

If you ask me, option 3) seems to distribute the pain to the most people, which does mean that singles who never get pregnant will be paying you to take leave, and most likely the benefits will be capped so that high earners don't get 100% of their wages, and those who don't work much the year before may get some average of salary earned, nevertheless I'm OK subsidizing fertility like this.
I meant more battery quality than battery life, they usually include a small supercapacitor that tends to fail abruptly. I've had ones that lasted for years and others failing after a couple of months.
Thus modern artists write also a lot, talk about their works

Sometimes to the detriment of their works. I had a friend who was an aspiring artist, and it was fascinating listening to him talk about his art. He thought deeply about his work and a very clear vision and philosophy about what, how and why he wanted to achieve. Unfortunately his actual execution never got the same care and his actual exhibitions looked mediocre and thrown together together at the last minute (which, to be fair, they tended to be). He never felt that was the important part, and unless you had been in the pub with him the night before you would never have a chance of 'getting' what he was trying to do.
> the battery life is barely a few hours and the sound quality is ok... Often only one headphone will turn on but not the other.

Sounds like they are broken. I have XM3s. The batteries last for a very long time, something like 12h with noise cancellation on. I've never had an issue with the speakers turning on or off individually.

> Always have trouble with voice quality on calls too.

Their mic is their biggest weakness. It's pretty bad.
Sweden has 48 weeks. Would you rather be a parent in the US than Sweden?
You can let real estate developers build full-stop, but the town/city/state has to be prepared.

Schools need to handle
capacity, traffic routes need to be reimagined, law enforcement and other public services need to be made larger.

Oh yes. And build code enforcement needs to be on top of things.

Something like duplexes are really good, though. Aside from the headaches inherent to condos/HOAs, they don’t really drag down the value of properties.
In the file settings ("Get Info") you can set a "stationary pad" flag means whenever the file gets edited, a copy is created, and the original file doesn't change.

When you're taking a screenshot of a portion of the screen you can hold the spacebar to move the rectangle around.
I wonder if this may be also a problem with Samsung MFPs, as some Xerox consumer models were apparently OEM'd by Samsung (e.g. Samsung SCX-4200 vs. Xerox 3119, or was it the other way around?). Not sure if there's a list which links the Xerox-Samsung similar models.

I guess, if the scanner offers JBIG2 format option, it may need a test at least.
Twitter vigilantes are hunting down crypto scammers
That’s true in theory but manufacturers don’t offer those radios on any model that actually can be obtained. It’s there so they can advertise an artificially low msrp
That somewhat depends on precisely how cold the water in question is.
Where do you think the additional inventors come from (especial if everyone is forced to invest)?
Dang, you did Cornell dirty!

I think if you are good enough to get into Cornell, you are good enough to get in Georgia Tech. The rest is cost. If you are an out-of-stater, they probably end up costing about the same. My understanding is Cornell gives out a lot of financial aids.
Do You Think We Need to Change the Way Math Is Taught?
Yeah and also, most (upper) middle class families in the US are making a lot more money so can actually afford much more time home with their children, compared to the paid leave that Europe has. So that's actually better from one point of view, the only "downside" then is traditional gender roles. Who cares about 1 year maternal leave, when you can already afford 10 years maternal leave?

Would be very interesting to see actual time spent not working, and caring for children at home, in relation to amount of paid leave. And across income brackets. Would not be surprised if it comes out to more time with children in many cases even though paid leave is less..
Try the tutorial:

https://git-send-email.io

I've also made a couple of videos about it:

Comparing with pull requests: https://spacepub.space/w/3JhBcvEYbminv8ji4k84gx

Sending patches via email from the browser: https://spacepub.space/w/no6jnhHeUrt2E5ST168tRL
It legally belongs to the contributors, who retain the copyright for their contributions except in case of a CLA - which in the case of Audacity was added later, and never comprehensively covered all of the code written over the past 20 years of the project's life. It also philosophically belongs to the users, as part of the social contract of FOSS.

I strongly object to CLAs for this reason, and encourage you not to contribute to projects which use them. It is a clear signal that the upstream maintainers of a project intend to leverage the FOSS community to build up the product and then take it away from them to build a nonfree project instead.

I wrote about something similar here:

https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/19/Elasticsearch-does-not-be...
People would be happy to believe it if these sorts of wild claims were backed up by references that supported them.

Any explanation of consciousness agreed on generally as settled in the same way other great theories (relativity, quantum mechanics, evolution, etc) are settled would be famous.
Without the "only we can make it" factor, studios with the budget to market them would be less compelled to make and market them. Sure, anyone could make another Spiderman movie, but at least I wouldn't have to hear about it.
You're right in theory. In practice that either means a battery in the headphones and/or a new audio cable. I'm sure this has been tried before. It seems like something Sony would try--maybe Lighting headphones would count?

I guess Airpods Max would count?
I think large companies often abuse it as a method for problem dissection. Reminds me of my university group that used git as a sync service.
> Let's give the technology 60 million years to be perfected and then compare.

Your point being?
Ask HN: Could Nitrogen-phobic materials be used to reduce vehicle drag?
Hydro-phobic materials can be used to reduce friction with water. Understanding that there would be challenges to making it stable and long-lasting, could a similar principle be used for vehicles that need to move air out of the way?
The judge did not give the prosecution time to find an expert witness, did not ask his clerks to search for similar usage of iPad zooming in previous cases, and did not require the defence to provide expert testimony of their own to substantiate their claim.

In the end the iPad was not used. Instead a 4K TV was used, which ironically probably upscaled the image too.
> If you live in Canada or, say, France, you are probably amused by this little thought experiment.

Yes, we (France) get a __mandatory__ 6 weeks paid leave before the baby is born, then 10 weeks after.

Dads get a little less, 25 calendar days after the baby is born.
When will we stop asking this on HN?
Cloudflare is the only provider that I know of that provides IPv6 reverse proxy for free with fair limits.

If it wasn't for them most of my sites won't be accessible for more than half of the internet.
For anyone wanting to fly along with the birds, the movie Winged Migration is truly stunning. It is shot in a very unique way where you really feel as though you're flying with the various birds. (Same director has another great movie called Microcosmos.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc_qpk2d-ao
It's widely understood that urban sprawl has the highest environmental impact in addition to the highest traffic death risk and many other social problems.

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/the-charac...

https://www.oecd.org/env/rethinking-urban-sprawl-97892641898...

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/11/4445/pdf
I host a few hundred wordpress sites and I recognise that string by sight! Tons of bots seem to use it. I haven’t 403’d it (yet) though.
I mean there's an excellent and obvious answer and that's cost benefit when it comes to QA. Anything transactional, banks in particular, want to be 100% sure that end user experiences are doing exactly what they're expected to at all times. No one is being served incorrect information or is improperly served terms or disclaimers that they can use a leverage in a lawsuit. The tech teams likely have an explicit support matrix of browsers to test against and anything not on the list is considered untested and unreliable. They can't legally indemnify themselves against defects.
I believe the simple answer is "when BTC stakeholders stand to lose money by not moving away from PoW".
No love for Catan?