skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> now I get up every day thinking how to make the lives of my kids and the world better, rather than “what would my lizard brain enjoy today"

This is the key insight. No matter how much dopamine you shovel onto your lizard brain, it will just adapt to it and demand more. There is no maximum speed on the hedonic treadmill. Serving others is the polar opposite of that, you sacrifice the things that would provide you with an immediate reward and the reward you get has nothing to do with satisfying a want. The only way I can describe it is you are only aware of it when it's not there, when you're not doing the right thing by someone, it feels like an absence of something expected. Like putting your hand in your pocket and finding nothing where something should be.
Is there any known/public system that use ReactOS? Is there a goal for this OS? a use-case? Any dev-story I can read?

I'm not criticizing their work or passion, au contraire, it's a spectacular effort the developers are doing, developing an OS with the same API than Windows 2000 from scratch. For me they are giants.
This is a report based on a Facebook post by a random person telling a story about her repo friend who once told her that Tesla could help him get control of the car.

Until someone reports this happening first hand, I'm going to assume that either a lot of details are missing or that the story is straight-up fake.
I still have no idea what the hell LTE is or how it relates to 4G after trying to read up on it.
Tradeoffs, or Why Things Don't Make Sense
The author doesn't rely on observation. They propose combinatorial models, obtain large time estimates and notice that observation is consistent with these estimates because sample size one, it's a coincidence.
Ask HN: Communication between locations and avoiding existing infrastructure
Hi I'm thinking about a possible project and Searching for an answer.

Communication between distant locations 300 to 700 kilometres apart by avoiding existing infrastructure (routers, cables, DNS).

What I need is standard TCP/ip services (web, ssh, samba,), voice, video would be nice.
What technologies could be used and how reliable and safe (from outside intrusion) are they.

What comes to mind is:
To use modem (still uses existing phone lines).
The right to leave a negative review in your mind is expecting "to be treated like a king"?
Suggesting that “chad_stevens” is engaged in these abusive behaviours just because he doesn’t agree with the perhaps-exaggerated tone of the article is taking it a bit far, don’t you think?

Perhaps he’s just a normal person who likes to play games and doesn’t do anything creepy? I think it’s perfectly normal for people to react negatively when their previously quiet private clubhouses are attracting attention like this.
Speaking Plainly in HTML
Ever tried to get hold of Madonnas songs as DAW project files? :-)
When it came to the eye it helped to look at aquatic animals. The eye was more or less fully evolved when life crawled out of the ocean. It was interesting to see how the eye evolved when it was explained to me.

My biggest problem with the fundamentalist that argue along the lines irreducible complexity is that they often think they have hard evidence when all they have is a lack of understanding and an unwillingness to look into the problem.

The reasoning is annoying too:

“I don’t know” -> “God exists” -> “Prove me wrong”

Putting the burden of proof on the other person in the hopes that they can’t and then convert is also rather naive. There are two types of people. 1) people who can look into this and aren’t swayed by the argument 2) people that just don’t care. And honestly, most are going to be in the second camp and just “trust in science”.

I would be interested in knowing if the irreducible complexity people actually found anything that science hasn't looked into before hand? I mean stuff like this is probably worth a research paper for somebody if they actually found something that wasn’t explained scientifically instead of stuff that the average person on the street can’t explain.
I used this service at my previous employer to launch a small django/nextjs app and it was mostly fantastic.

Background is that I worked at an VC-backed startup as a dev after doing General Assembly’s full stack bootcamp. Left that job to do ops/growth, and ~2.5 years later volunteered to build the web app when my company put the project on their roadmap.

As the only developer at the company, pullrequest was great for:
- a general gut check on how I was doing
- recommendations on how to better write js/python. linters help but nice to have a person offer feedback on more advanced ways of doing things
- sourcing documentation on best practices. I found a lot of typescript/JavaScript resources to be inconsistent/confusing. Was great for someone to find and vet guides for me.
- help with bugs/errors
- basic library choices and architecture decisions

It was also fantastic to have several people reviewing my code at once. Gave me a perspective on the type of engineering manager I’d want to work for. Some folks focused more on technical details but struggled explain their changes in plain English, while others seemed to be the other way around.

pullrequest was not great for:
- doing things fast. They didn’t have a real-time messaging feature so I’d get hung up on waiting for feedback. They do have a 24(?) hour turnaround, but when several folks are commenting on the same PR it gets hard to track what changes _really_ matter vs what they are throwing out there as a nice to have.
- Anything that required context outside of the files committed. Though with some extra long PR comments I could manage.

I would 100% recommend pullrequest for small teams who are heavy on more junior devs or migrating to a new stack. It is an inexpensive way to ramp up learning.

Last thing here — when I worked at the startup my code was rarely reviewed, and I’d have to actively ask for it. Not all companies follow best practices (even if they have the resources to). I would’ve loved this at my past job, too.
What's the significance of the glass being clear? I'm guessing this means that green or brown glass is not recyclable. Why is that?
That's how a managerial bureaucracy approaches the problem of deadlines: The second it looks like it's working, mark it done and move to the next task, and deal with the bugs later - ideally the manager will move to another position by then due to their exceptional productivity in meeting the set goals, and the bugs will be someone else's problem to solve...
The following assumes that the subsidiary is incorporated in a jurisdiction other than the US and so is legally an entity of that jurisdiction that happens to be owned by a US company.

Was the data put there by Amazon Inc and retrievable by Amazon Inc?

If so then yes, Amazon Inc can be ordered by the US government to retrieve it.

If not, then the US government would have to ask the subsidiary directly for it or ask whoever is using the subsidiary to hold the data. How whoever they ask responds to that would be determined by the law of wherever the responder is incorporated or located.

There's nothing really special about the cloud in these matters. It works similarly with data stored on paper. If I am in the US and store my papers in a box that I send to a storage company in the US to hold for me the US government could (1) subpoena the documents from me, and I'd have to retrieve them from the storage company and give copies to the US government, or (2) get a search warrant to grab the documents themselves from the storage company.

If instead I pick a storage company that is incorporated and located in another country that eliminates the search warrant option because US search warrants don't apply in that other country.

It doesn't affect the subpoena option because the subpoena is not asking the non-US storage company to do anything. It is just asking a US entity (me) to turn over documents I legally control.
Building a UI is usually tedious irregardless of stack. The fun part is what’s new and creative in the project, which is usually a small part of the overall thing.

My solution is generally to work at many different things in parallell, but that largely works because I’m a senior engineer and I’m naturally pulled to step in and assist in various places. I don’t think there’s an universal answer. Fundamentally, it’s probably not reasonable to expect that all aspects of once work should be thoroughly enjoyable.
Oh look. Another piece on "why it's a good idea to constrain how people can move around capital, because Lord knows we can't just have the plebs moving around Capital to somewhere that isn't the orthodoxy.

Prone to fraud or not, this is how our system works. People have to make bad capital allocations to become better at doing so, and learning the right questions to ask.
Came to mention this book - the author is Robert O. Becker and it was published in 1985. Mike Levin (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) was greatly influenced by this book.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by “useful incentivization mechanisms” and why they're necessary?

I use scuttlebutt because it's fun and nice. I'm not sure what more incentive is needed.
Detailed Footage Finally Reveals What Triggers Lightning
Looks like gnu.org is back up! Wonder what happened there...
Oh the number of times I’ve used that domain in mockups half wondering if I’m sending someone to a future porn site, I should’ve just checked!
Oracle to Buy Cerner for $28B
Rocket Companies scoops up Truebill for nearly $1.3B
> Yes, tailwind might make css a lot easier, and github copilot might make coding a lot faster... but is this really easier than in the early 90ies, when you could just type <html> into notepad and make a website that didn't require any CSS or images or JS or even more than just the most basic html tags?

I mean you still can, it's just that nobody's going to hire you to do that and nobody is going to be impressed by it. Even back in the 90s when it was that easy, it was all hobbyists. By the time the dot-com boom started taking off, it was complicated. CSS + JS, no responsive design (remember designing 3 different sites to deal with the 460x640, 600x800, and 1280x1024 resolutions? Frames and no frames? Different sites for each browser [or ones that only worked in one bc things were even less standard than now - 'this site only works in IE'?] etc.)

Now it's the tools adding the complexity, but back then it was hardware, browsers, etc.
I mean, actors do get assigned localization voices that are used across movies in the German localization industry. So if the voices you associate with those actors are their German localized voices, those are their voices to you.
The best code reviews are ones that leverage experience from the reviewer to stop logic errors. Your code may well compile and the tests you concocted may pass but that doesn’t mean your code should ship. Without a second pair of experienced eyes looking at your crap, how are you to know that:

- (general experience with modelling) what you felt should be a single class would be better if it were factored into two classes; and

- (specific experience with this particular codebase) the second of those classes already exists in the codebase and can be found in com.clown.util?

The former can be helpful but it’s just noise compared to the value of the latter.

How does this service avoid being just a human powered style linter?
Yes, that's what they did. But the IP address wasn't from the company sharing it, it was from a 3rd party. It doesn't support your second paragraph.
If they get solved at all.
Take the SIM card out. Or better yet, don't buy a car that tracks you.
I've been out of the industry for awhile, and skimmed through the article, and I don't know that either of the problems would occur. It really depends how the idea is turned into a specification, as approved by a standards body from industry.

The way QoS works for VoLTE for example, is not by putting application layer knowledge at the link layer. Instead the services that activate and route a phone call, have the ability to send a rule, called a traffic flow template, to the underlying LTE network. The flow template is a description of a flow from/to the device, that then has the transport network apply the expected scheduling behavior. I want a guaranteed 15 kbps for real-time voice, the LTE network can then use to coordinate radio scheduling, prioritize against background bulk transfers, block handoffs to cell towers that wouldn't have enough capacity, etc.

In concept this would work with fully end to end encrypted video and chat (I left the industry before the encrypted side was rolled out). I suspect some might argue the flow template itself leaks information about the data, but an observer of the network traffic can likely glean similar information, a steady flow of small packets is probably voice traffic type of idea. This just gives the network enough information to identify a flow and control for how to schedule the packets.

The biggest restriction is rollout and integrating with external services. Needs agreements between companies, restrictions on abuse, etc, etc.

Anyways, I don't think what is being proposed necessitates the problems. It'll really depend on what the standards bodies decides to do.
> Are their decisions good ones? No, not really. But at 18 I can’t really fault someone for not understanding the decades long implications of interest payments and job market dynamics.

Funny thing I’ve noticed. 18 year olds are either fully developed adults with full complete knowledge of their choices and the nuances around them, or complete idiots who wouldn’t be trusted to to make big decisions depending on what issues you’re discussing.
First, thinking of decentralization/centralization as having a boundary between them can be useful, but is wrong. They are a continuum upon which things oscillate.

Decentralization fundamentally trades inefficiency for long-term robustness.
Centralization trades long term robustness for short term efficiencies.

Under our implementation of capitalism, most people don't value robustness on a timescale longer than 20 years unless there was recently a crisis to remind them of it.

So every aspect of human infrastructure oscillates on the centralized-decentralized axis over time. Thinking of "decentralized" as something that will stay that way is wrong, over time people will ever centralize the system in pursuit of short term returns until the perceived "decentralized" system might as well be centralized in practice (see internet infrastructure), once a crisis happens due to over-centralization we build a new system (or re-brand an old system) that is more decentralized in response. That system eventually decays into centralization the same way.

I value changing society to think in the long term, so I think it is a lot more valuable to change the cycle versus attempt to participate in just one swing of it.
Is that something that a fundamentalist can’t explain away with some “Gods will” handwavium?
This is a serious problem. Maybe an opportunity for a SaaS solution with a monthly fee.
Got infection under fingernail. Turned purple, swelled up like a grape. Got hard and calloused. Then one day it emitted vile stuff from under the fingernail, deflated. A couple days later, callous fell off. Fingertip underneath was half-width but complete. Over next year, the other half grew back - fingertip got a little wider over time until it's the right width.

Now I can't quite remember which one it was - they are all the same and unscarred.
That would be lovely, but pelasco's point is still a good one. If PullRequest _only_ pays "rates[...]comparable to those of a senior-level engineer", without those extra perks (and, to be clear, I agree with you that in an ideal world those perks would not related to employment), then PR's actual total comp is actually effectively much less than for senior-level positions.

So, we can infer that higher-skilled individuals will take the more highly-paying positions, and that the folks working at PR will be less-skilled or juniors. That's a gross over-simplification, of course, but it probably bears consideration.
As others have mentioned, this is highly personal. My own favorite stack is Elixir and/or full-stack Clojure.
Good idea, currently the selected text would be used as the title for the generated reference, I'll add an option to let the user choose whether to use the selected text as title or highlighted text fragments.
Curious if there's a tool in this category that does websockets well?
I'm specifically talking about the old-school, physical kind of ownership. Whether one could "own" infinitely copyable information at all is highly debatable.

> For example the law that was just passed that new cars will have to come with alcohol detectors

On the one hand, this is a welcome innovation because one is free to do whatever they want as long as that doesn't endanger others and drunk driving does endanger others quite a lot. On the other, if you own your car, what's to stop you from bypassing the detector like some people would bypass the seatbelt beeping thing?
Your first comment:

==The SFPD were defunded==

You have not provided any evidence of this claim, attrition is not "de-funding".

I appreciate the link for the article on a proposed budget. I did some google searching (as you suggested) and found some more updated information. The budget has gone up 50% over 10 years, hardly de-funded.

"For the proposed 2021-22 budget, the San Francisco Police Department’s allocation will decrease by $6 million, from about $668 million to $661 million. Those cuts can nearly all be attributed to decreased demand for police at the airport. However, in the following fiscal year, the city projects the police budget will increase once again to $689 million. That’s close to the police budget’s all-time high of $692 million in FY 2019-20. By way of comparison, in FY 2010-11, the police budget weighed in at $445 million."

https://www.sfweekly.com/news/is-san-francisco-re-funding-th...
Then they should have rotated the dials counter-clockwise.
I read this with a smile. Collecting cans was my first money making venture as a 10yo, 80% of my life ago. ~1c/can (recycle value, no deposit), about $10/wk just cleaning up at 2 neighbourhood schools. I remember making my own 'can crushers' with a 2x4 and a brick. There was no shame in it, I felt much pride at that cash-in. The sickly sweet smell and soft clatter as the bag contents turned from aluminium to cash stays with me today.
Not considering professional solutions, yes kdenlive is the best option available.

I'm from a time when whenever people asked about FLOSS video editor, it was: "stable, feature rich, easy to use; choose two". Many video editors appeared and died through the years for linux, but it is a good thing that the ones that survived matured well.

I haven't tried many of them in years, but I really think the most popular ones - kdenlive, shotcut, pitivi, openshot... - can finally be considered stable, easy to use and with features that are good enough for most non-professional use.

If effects are needed, there are some proprietary options or maybe Blender and Natron have finally reached the good enough level for these tasks.
Has anyone "jailbroke" a Telsa to remove this type of stuff?
I love watching Druaga1 install these on ancient hardware.
5G doesn’t sell phones either. I don’t know anyone who cares about it whatsoever.
Yeah, most people are considerate enough to either take their bottles with them or put them somewhere where they can be collected easily, as you wrote. And, even if beer bottles only have 8 cents deposit, are heavy, stinky and the remaining beer may run out, they do get collected sometimes. But, to avoid the impression that in Germany everything works perfectly, I should also mention the (maybe fewer) others, who don't care about the 8 cents and simply smash the bottles on the sidewalk for "fun". As a cyclist, I have a special love for this second category...
It was about 80Mbps earlier this year: https://twitter.com/kjd/status/1405887961791569924
Solus is one of my favorite Linux distros. Time for a reinstall, unless anyone wants to share a similar/better distro.
The article explains that machine learning techniques would likely be used. The transmitter doesn’t have to know your content to recognize that a certain stream has been flowing from A to B within a certain bandwidth. It could also recognize dropouts or delays in such transmission and prioritize the data when it finally comes through. There’s nothing wrong with that.

Or more simply, the sender could request a specific traffic bandwidth or pattern as part of initiating the connection.

The OSI model isn’t a hard requirement. We already have things like QoS which are commonly used to prioritize traffic.
>At the University of Oulu in Finland, where I am a professor and head of the Intelligent Connectivity and Networks/Systems group, we’re working on a new research vision called VisionX.

This pretty much sums up the narrative and incentive of the article. The paper [1] is linked in the article, but for included here for those who might want to take a look at it.

There is nothing wrong with so called dumb pipe other than the name. Because networks in 21st century is anything but dumb. That is especially true in Wireless / 5G network. Both semantic and efficiency is fundamentally tied to another factor known as cost and QoS (I dont see how that Semantics is any different to QoS ). Which 6G development are well aware of. And network vendors are already complaining about the complexity of 5G.

I still remember there was some debate in ~2019 that they should try and simplify everything in 6G. And unless there are some killer apps requirement, i think 4G / 5G transition will be the point where it hit the end of S curve, being good enough for 80% of people. As a matter of fact, I know a lot of people are already happy with their 4G. They just want cheaper 4G, not faster and more expensive 5G. In terms of cost per Data usage 5G will provide exactly that, but it is sort of counter intuitive for most consumer that 5G is actually cheaper. Nor will MNO price them as such.

[1] https://export.arxiv.org/abs/2108.05681
The one that gets the job done the quickest so I can put my feet up and continue contemplating a complete career change.
Pleasure to me means I can sleep at night knowing whatever system I’ve built will remain online when subsystems fail, and will self-heal when infrastructure goes down.

When it comes to a career change I’d focus less on lang/stack and more on engineering culture, approach, practice. A team that builds good software, regardless of language or stack, will be a pleasure to work with.

I think that functional programming ideals lend themselves to this nicely. Specifically: data as a first principle, with actions/mutations/calculations of that data being separate.
I’ve felt since college that lectures are best likened to meetings, with all of the usual criticisms. If a lecture is merely a monologue of prepared information (usually available in the textbook anyways), the same “Why couldn’t this have been an email?” concept applies.

There are _legitimate_ reasons to pulling everyone into the same room at the same time to learn something, and those reasons almost entirely include frequent and direct interaction between the attendees.

The value of the classroom is that you are surrounded by individuals who are all ostensibly trying to learn the same thing as you, with a similar current amount of knowledge, all the while having immediate access to a bone fide expert in the topic. I would suggest that this is an obviously great setup for learning! It’s a shame to see it so often squandered by having a glorified textbook read-along session instead of genuine curious discussion.

Great quote from the article:
“A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.”