skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if I'm not mistaken, the hedonic treadmill is not about baseline happiness. It's about increasing your set-point for joy and/or excitement. Happiness is a state, joy is fleeting.

So the goal is generally to increase your level of happiness - to have a higher baseline in terms of feeling good and having a sense of well-being.

It's futile to chase joy in place of happiness, because each hit of joy makes the next one feel less exceptional.

Although joy feels like happiness, it's not the same thing, and it's barely related. Joy often has to do with doing more. Doing something extra and exceptional to move the needle.

Happiness often has to do with doing less. With being less focused on doing/attaining/obtaining something new, and more focused on mindset: on finding happiness in what we already have.
In safety engineering, this is called normalization of deviance. I remember in one book I was reading about this, they said that the real problem wasn’t that “everything that can go wrong will” but that “everything that can go right will”. That latter position causes you to erode your safety margin until you explode.

I’ve noticed my behavior is drastically like this. Even if I rationally know I am mortal, I take ever larger risks and each escape gives me more certainty that I am truly lucky and increases the boundary of operation.

The problem is incorrect prior updating. If there is a 75% chance that I will die if I jump off this bridge and I jump and live, then I update the prior too generously. Clearly I didn’t die, so it has to be lower than 75%. Well, yes, but perhaps update more conservatively when the bet is big.
Yes I'm a huge fan!

I've followed his career for 2 decades using his tooling because he has the sense of style and expertise to create development tooling that was generations ahead of the competition, the best I've ever found from trying so many languages. He's also a really personable and humble genius based on the relatively few videos and interviews available. In my opinion he's the Michael Jordan of software, though he's more humble!
I agree TPS doesn't matter, what I'm saying is that honesty does ! Who cares, they could have claimed a record of 5 TPS and that would be it, why lie about millions, speak of a world record, and then launch an army of over-invested mobs fawning over it everywhere ?

We understand crypto very well: the goalpost is always changing for a solution looking for a problem. Yday you were probably telling everyone your investment was the best because it could handle a million per second, today you tell us we're idiot: TPS don't matter. So what matters, what is this thing good for ? It's no better than Ethereum and at least Ethereum can launch a tree of related scams so it has half a utility.
So, did you pay? I'm not paying $100 when there's no any idea on the pricing of these units, but I assume it's astronomical values given the limited supply.
That assumption was never stated in the question. It didn’t say there was any cost to placing a bet, and I learned quite quickly that I could mash the bet button very fast… why would I take any risk at all when I can get a
guaranteed win betting small and mashing the button?
Yea, and it was a battery killer on a laptop - at my company, it even had a side effect of all but pegging the CPU. The confluence of poor software meets bad device driver is entertaining.
There's chance of death, but there's also duration of suffering while dying.

I'm guessing that falling from a cliff is "better" than dying from a poisonous mushroom. The latter scares the hell out of me. The former is a glorious ride until the ride is over (regrettably).
Ok, maybe people forget, but after 911 security became such a pain that people favored checking bags over carrying on roller boards. Boarding was a dream.

We absolutely know that getting rid of checked bag fees reduces carryon drastically. Get rid of checked bag fees. 90% of people will check, time stowing baggage drops in half, boarding is fast and painless.

We have the evidence to show this works, the airlines just don’t want to admit it.
Ok, what is the color theme you're using for the terminal?
You probably don't want to cut off power suddenly to your water treatment plants, fabs (which have all kinds of dangerous chemicals), medical providers, and so on.
> When Choosing a Life Path, Think About What Contexts It’ll Place You In

Author is clearly a genius because he can imagine in advance "all the contexts" a particular lifepath will put him in.
This is the most perverted arm-twisting pricing model I've seen. I believe the prices, because they are ashamed of them, and have secret hopes that you will spend thousands not to lose your $100!
And why pilots traditionally work from checklists, even if they've done the process thousands of times.
People keep parroting this term, but I don't know if they have actually read the quote on Wikipedia.

In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise.
now you ^know
Articles that shaped the way I think
> Next gen space traffic control

Do you have more info on that? What can the people who track satellites do that they aren't already doing?
I definitely prefer living in a place to visiting a place. I wouldn't say bored, but familiar.
Presumably local files are deleted because most users nowadays are laptop/mobile users with limited local storage

Not sure why your downloads are so slow I'm able to get 20MB/s

I noticed another possible cause of slow file access on Windows is long file path names exceeding 160 characters
Probably stop everything. The cloud situation is analogous to cell phones a decade ago, where you could easily run up a bill for thousands, with no way to prevent it.

I can't recommend any service with open-ended pricing to any student or beginner. They risk bankruptcy.
I think what you're looking looking for is here https://jaas.8x8.vc, which states their pricing for the enterprise offering of Jitsi Meet.
> for a lifelong hunter, 1:5000 are pretty bad odds

There’s a term for this which I’m unable to recall and it’s not easy to Google. Would greatly appreciate if someone could help me out here!!
I played Laserblast when I had the chickenpox and I scored one million and all the numbers turned into explanation points. I took a picture but had flash on so it didn't take.
This kind of thing is why software I don't fully trust only runs in my browser.

With how good the browser APIs have become, there is little reason to run native apps, which nowadays are often just an outdated browser with a packaged web app anyways (Electron). Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and even Zoom have demonstrated that web is good enough if they want it.

If you try to force me to install a native app, that's a strong signal that the app is going to do something against my interest. Given how aggressively Zoom has pushed the app, it was very clear to me that this thing is never going to hit my main machine (I think I have a VM somewhere that I used for a job interview that needed the more advanced features).
It'll get things started thousands of years earlier.

There isn't any life on them. More and more investigations yield more and more nothing. The people who think earth's life is some sort of cosmic malignancy will never be satisfied. We should be doing our best to seed the Sol system with life, while we can.
I hope for Mazda's sake there aren't any stations called bobby tables.
It's not a physical switch but MS Powertoys have a system wide mic and camera toggle UI now.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/video-con...
For 90s kids, the Powertoys name should bring back fond memories.
My only gripe is that instead of 'Microphone On' it should say 'Microphone is On' - I always forget if it's indicating the state or indicating it will go to that state if I press it. I'm 90% sure it's the former as I type this
Being hardworking is also an ability of the brain, but distinct from being smart.
Comments so far are missing a major reason travel is likely enjoyable. One of my favorite theories on why time feels like it accelerates as you get older is that your brain tends to only store unique memories. Like that daily commute you do every day and the odd feeling you sometimes get at the end of it where you can’t remember driving…

Travel is a set of unique experiences that form unique memories. Part of what’s addicting and pleasurable is that it helps slow down the perception of the passage of time, among many other positives.

It’s also self reinforcing in that when you think back, you tend to disproportionately remember travel vs other experiences.

There’s clearly a lot more benefits than that, but it certainly seems like a significant factor.
Which meeting software doesn't support web nowadays? I think even Zoom does it once you break through their dark patterns.
Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing#Criticism
This project will bankrupt the state, if it continues. We have lost the ability to control costs on major infrastructure projects. The only question on the cost is how many time the original cost it will be.
price per kwh isn’t terribly competitive compared to more tightly regulated states

Texas is half the price of residential electricity compared to California or New York. The other states in in the West South Central region are also low reg or deregulated, and have similar low prices. Texas was been a little lower a few years ago, not sure why it spiked up. There have been some coal plants taken offline, and the cost of outage last year also is affecting rates now.
I always felt the drake equation was BS: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Drake_equation#:~:text=fp%20%3D%...)

Those arbitrary constants are arbitrary and made up. The argument presented in this article makes a lot more sense.
The doctor example rings true to me, as someone who just graduated from nursing school. Lazy assessments are far more common than we'd like to admit, even to ourselves.
Going through the readme and the homepage still left me asking "What exactly does it do?". Going through the readme, their home page, and this blog post (https://blog.ariga.io/meet-atlas-cli/), here's a tldr;

It's terraform, but for database.

- It allows defining SQL database schema in HCL (terraform's DSL) for now.

- It can inspect a database and create the HCL for it.

- It can do database migrations similar to terraform. You define the new schema in HCL, and it allegedly takes care of producing the SQL needed to perform the migration. It also has a "plan" step like Terraform.

---

I hope I didn't missunderstand or missed something.
Apple warned Belarusian iOS developers about blocking due to sanctions
Asteroids enrich our planet with elements and the satellites are already made from existing ones. I'm never gonna use Starlink and not only because it's super pricey, but because the idea is just stupid.
ExpressVPN offering $100k to first person who hacks its servers
But when looking at a possible positive outcome, such as the lottery case, it can "make sense" to buy one ticket.

Your chance of winning goes from No Chance to A Chance, which is an infinite improvement.
Why is it about "the people" doing something? I am not making a choice to use zoom, my employer does. And for my employer it would totally be possible to setup jitsi/blue button/whatever instead.

Similarly, if I attend a virtual meeting elsewhere those people choose what software to host it with.

So feel free to "preach" to companies instead of people.
> It is not a flaw in the ZFS data model, it is a carefully considered tradeoff between consistency and IOPS for RAIDZ.

You could have both! That's not the tradeoff here. The problem is that if you wrote 4 independent pieces of data at the same time, sharing parity, then if you deleted some of them you wouldn't be able to recover any disk space.

> That is just maths.

I don't think so. What's your calculation here?

The math says you need to do N writes at a time. It doesn't say you need to turn 1 write into N writes.

If my block size is 128KB, then splitting that into 4+1 32KB pieces will mean I have the same IOPS as a single disk.

If my block size is 128KB, then doing 4 writes at once, 4+1 128KB pieces, means I could have much more IOPS than a single disk.

And nothing about that causes a write hole. Handle the metadata the same way.

ZFS can't do that, but a filesystem could safely do it.

> But to call it a flaw in the data model goes a long way to show that you do not appreciate (or understand) the tradeoffs in the design.

The flaw I'm talking about is that Block Pointer Rewrite™ never got added. Which prevents a lot of use cases. It has nothing to do with preserving consistency (except that more code means more bugs).
"Shouldn't all true crypto believers hate this news?"

I for one am very sad about this news but much more sad about the reaction of "crypto OGs"
SigNoz (YC W21) Is Hiring Developer Advocate for Its Open Source APM Product
Both solar and wind were down. Wind turbines in Texas aren't weatherproofed either (cost) and it was generally dark and overcast. This didn't really matter since wind generation is a pretty small percentage of the grid and it was mostly gas generators (companies that produce natural gas for use in generation) that were the issue, but "more solar and wind" would have done nothing.

The correct answer seems to have been forcing the gas generators to winterize.
It wouldn't be an issue if we went back to making cars small enough you could see out of them. Legally requiring a certain level of rear visibility would be a good thing (and, sure, in some cases a camera might be the best way to achieve that) - and throw in some pedestrian collision safety requirements while you're at it. Legally mandating the expensive gadget-based way of doing things seems horribly shortsighted.
It’s not always clear. For instance pilots can log night hours once it’s civil twilight, but there’s also nautical twilight and then astronomical twilight, all defined by the number of degrees below the horizon the sun is. What we consider “night” is pretty arbitrary.
Judging by the colors: it's monokai
Here is a timeline of cost escalations on the project. https://www.enotrans.org/article/timeline-california-high-sp...

And we are clearly not near done with the escalations.
Knight Vision – Automatic Chess Recording Using AI
Technically, ordinary derivatives and partial derivatives are the same thing on a function of a single variable, so ODEs and PDEs are the same thing in this case.

On the other hand, the author should have included many other ODEs if they wanted to go down this path.
No paywall when uBlock Origin is used. It's not the solution but still...
Same for me. Going out for a run is the most intellectually productive part of my day.
Indeed. Second, most people don't actually realise how bad it really is.
> And the idea that the US is going to roll over and shrug when their hospital system falls apart is nonsensical.

No it isn't: the USA already rolled over and shrugged when their hospital system reached the state (mainly with regards to financing) it was in pre-pandemic.
This typo has now been fixed, of course, but if you want a teensy bit of amusement you can always see the archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20220209040744/https://www.space...
I would be careful with this type of stuff. AI Dungeon had to implement extraordinarily strict filtering because people were using it for the same purpose - most likely due to pressure from OpenAI. Given that your entire site is built around this exact thing... I'm not sure what OpenAI can do, but it's definitely something to worry about.
Hah I remember my Palm Treo so fondly. 2008 was such exciting times. I was a Jr. SysAdmin and you just couldn't be cooler than some slick PHP/MySQL/jQuery work. The Honda Civic SI of all cars had the coolest motor around and tech was at its most optimistic.

Those were the days!
Effectively it’s integrating risk over time, but that’s probably not what you’re thinking of.
Exactly. Eastern Ontario gets wind and ice and cold EVERY SINGLE YEAR. Every one. If you don't winterize, you don't work. It is a cost.

In Texas, basically up until last year with that blackout, there was no downside to not winterizing. Why? Most of our pipes aren't even deep enough to handle a hard freeze - because we don't usually get hard freezes.
The way the PR game is played it's not impossible that Facebook themselves planted the original story with an unattributable off-the-record briefing saying they were going to leave so they can then use that as a bargaining chip when they go on-record and say that they are "absolutely not threatening to leave".
The best coverage I've experienced was the 2012 London Summer Olympics on Youtube. Continuous multiple live streams, could select any event going on to watch it live. I don't think there were ads in the stream (don't remember though).
IHP: Haskell Framework for Type-Safe Web Applications
That's just what goaccess looks like, it's pretty sweet though: goaccess.io
I could see it benefiting all of the websites that duplicate SO and fill it with SEO to push it up the search results.
Yes, it is. Hooke’s law tells basically that the force is proportional to the deformation, or in standard textbook physics, f = - k x, the classical harmonic oscillator.

It’s not surprising if you see a solid material that way:

- it is in stable equilibrium when no force is applied, i.e., it is at an energy minimum

- therefore either extending it or compressing it increases its energy

- therefore the second derivative of its energy is positive.

On a high level, this sounds very much like a simple parabola, because it is one.

For more technical details, we can always locally approximate a function using a Taylor’s series. In this case, the constant term and the linear term are zero if we place the frame of reference correctly (not necessary but it simplifies the equations). So the leading term is quadratic. If we are close enough to the energy minimum (i.e. if the deformations are small), we can ignore the other terms. Therefore, a solid is, to a very good degree of approximation for most of them, a harmonic oscillator.

Alternatively, to a physicist, almost everything looks like a parabola.

If the energy is a parabola, then the force is a linear function, or, as it was written in the linked document, -dE/dx = m d^2 E/dt^2 = - k x . (The first step being Newton’s second law).

The analogy can be pushed a bit: a solid deformed quickly enough will have periodic deformations, periodically contracting and expanding, i.e. vibrating. This is strictly equivalent to a harmonic oscillator oscillating in its energy well.

I suspect (please tell me if I am wrong) the sine(x) solution you mention refers to elastic waves, which appear if we take the next step and consider the solid as a bunch of coupled harmonic oscillators. Long story short, if we do that, we end up with the wave equation, from which you get sines (or more accurately, complex exponential settings).
It seems that you define the difference between "talking" and and "a theory" as the stuff you like is theories and therefore evidence and the stuff you dislike is talking therefore not evidence. you'll have to excuse me for not finding this compelling.

A theory means people talking about what they think.

Go read this thread. it's full of theories.
That depends entirely on the hash function being used.

With a bad choice like SHA256, a 7 word passphrase could be cracked in as little as a few months with a single ASIC. The US government probably has a bunch of them already, so I think that an 8 word passphrase is already within reach for current tech.

Of course, with a real key derivation function like Argon2id, things would look much better.
> I am a beginner when it comes to ZFS, but isn’t “no moving data” as an axiom a good choice?

It's a reasonable choice, but only because it makes certain kinds of bugs harder, not because it's safer when the code is correct.

> Any error that may happen during would destroy that data - while without moving it will likely be recoverable even with a dead harddrive.

That's not true. You make the new copy, then update every reference to the new copy, and only then remove the old one. If there's an error halfway through then there's two copies of the data.
It is, software are just tools.

I complain all the time about C and UNIX, yet it might come as a surprise that I have used many flavours of commercial UNIXes since 1993, and used C more times that I care to count.

There is more to a job than whatever tooling they might be using.
Simplifying Your Codebase When Using Feature Flags
peek at anything vaguely related to china on one of reddits default subs, it's awful (and has always been awful as long as I can remember).

here's a submission on the frontpage right now https://www.reddit.com/r/iamatotalpieceofshit/comments/snzur..., particularly look at some completely benign comments getting buried with downvotes, you basically have to preface everything with "I hate the chinese government, but" or else you get called a chinese shill and downvoted.

edit: like look at this https://www.reddit.com/r/iamatotalpieceofshit/comments/snzur..., this dude is literally copy and pasting this comment and getting 5000 upvotes and awards for it and all the responses are basically "i haven't watched any of this but all chinese are cheaters by blood so you're definitely right" and all the responses to those are "you will lose social credit" or "winnie the pooh" or talking about chinese shills despite every copy and pasted anti china post having positive votes, its so weird.

it makes me mad that these huge internet communities that are and have always been racist against chinese people (i.e the brainwashed, cheaters, drones rhetoric that has existed since 2013 and almost certainly before) but now they use tragic humanitarian crises as cover to shut down all pushback. reddit discussion on the olympics is literally more racist than what gets posted on /sp/, and is far less self aware.
As we get older, we have more and more influence over the state of our minds and bodies. Being attractive is strongly correlated to being healthy. Take a look at the Olympic athletes - they're all attractive. Fitness and attractiveness correlate. You can decide to get fit -- or not. You can decide to eat healthy -- or not. This has a big influence on attractiveness, and the state of your mind.
Yeah I guess that’s when you rain down BigLegal.com.

Or you send certified mail with return signature requested. Snail mail to the rescue?
At least they need enough i formation to realize they don't wanna handle this entirely by themselves.

The point however is that every dev sometimes needs to make assumptions about an calendar — even those who are smart enough not to write their own calendar. E.g. if you think about a typical fitness tracker of course the devs will have to make assumptions about weeks and months, instead of supprting every calendar under the sun.

This is why a Depends makes a lot more sense here: Knowing that it exists is good, but you might not have to support it in an 1.0 release
Can't forget KCMU 90.3 (which latter became KEXP)
> This formatting sucks, how does HN not have markdown fenced codeblocks?

Code blocks are made by indenting by four spaces, like this:

<!-- last few lines of ~/Applications/zoom.us.app/Contents/Resources/Zoom-Info.plist -->
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<dict>
<key>us.zoom.ZoomDaemon</key>
<string>identifier &quot;us.zoom.ZoomDaemon&quot; and anchor apple generic and certificate leaf[subject.OU] = BJ4HAAB9B3 and certificate leaf[subject.CN] = &quot;Developer ID Application: Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (BJ4HAAB9B3)&quot;</string>
<key>us.zoom.ZMSipLocationHelper</key>
<string>identifier &quot;us.zoom.ZMSipLocationHelper&quot; and anchor apple generic and certificate leaf[subject.OU] = BJ4HAAB9B3 and certificate leaf[subject.CN] = &quot;Developer ID Application: Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (BJ4HAAB9B3)&quot;</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>