skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This very much captures the hedonic treadmill: when you increase your baseline level of happiness, you re-normalize to the new level, with relatively little change in your absolute happiness.

But while I do think appreciating what you have is part of how to avoid the hedonic treadmill, I don't think it's a matter of learning to be happy with a routine.

I've found it possible to make a conscious effort to avoid hedonic adapation, and enjoy novel things without allowing them to become a new baseline. If you can maintain your expectations at the same level, while improving your actual circumstances noticeably above that level, you can maintain a higher level of enjoyment of your life.
I would agree that getting a CPAP to address my sleep apnea problem was one of my most life-changing events in recent history. IMO, you cannot comprehend what good sleep is like, if you’ve lived a lifetime of not getting it.

Regretfully, I haven’t done much in the way of weight loss, however.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish and Free Software
This is my highly opinionated but closely observed view of the rise and fall of free software.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish)

In 1997 I worked at Worldcom qualifying backbone and data center routers. I wrote a tool to report on and display the health of all of the thousands of computers they could reach. I released it as free software. Eventually it was hosted on Sourceforge.

My next big project in 2001 was Axiom, an IBM Research computer algebra product that I rebuilt and released as free software on Savannah, a GNU site. Later versions were released on Sourceforge, Litsoft, and eventually Github.

All public work I've done is intended as "free software".

The first real attack using "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" on free software was "open source", aimed at a more corporate-friendly version of free software. This is the beginning of the "Embrace" step. There have been many steps in between I'll skip.

The Extend step is now in motion. Extend takes an idea and "makes it better" (witness J++).

For example, I'm doing work on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) on Altera, which was later bought by Intel. The "best" Intel CPUs with integrated FPGAs are only available on "data center scale machines". AMD bought Xilinx, the largest FPGA maker. So now most of the FPGA market is "Embraced and Extended", available on corporate CPUs.

I've done work on linux (Fedora, Redhat) as a truly minor attempt at contributing. The corporate "Embrace and Extend" of linux now exists (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/our-members-are-our-superpower-2/). Microsoft's version of "Extend" is Windows Subsystem for Linux. IBM bought Redhat.

I fully "bought into" git, moved Axiom to git, and even hosted my own git server. My "master site" was hosted at Github almost from the month Github was announced. Microsoft bought Github ("Embrace"). It recently announced that you need a Microsoft account to maintain code, an "Extend" step, effectively locking me out of a 20 year repository.

Recently I've been working on RISC-V. Now I see "Intel Opens to RISC-V Like Microsoft Opened to Linux"
(https://then24.com/2022/02/08/intel-opens-to-risc-v-like-microsoft-opened-to-linux-1-billion-supports-shift-in-focus/). This is another "Extend" step.

The Department of Defense and Microsoft have begun the "Extinguish" phase (
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2570849/defense-department-ok-s-open-source-software.html).
"Licensing terms are important but sometimes overlooked," according to Microsoft, which itself has come under fire from users over its licensing restrictions and cost.

“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, ... a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.”

Free software has been pwned.
How to Live with Your Regrets
Interesting… I wonder if maybe they are wrongly broadcasting an alternate frequency. I wonder if there’s an easy way to inspect the radio stations “metadata”.

I have done some basic fiddling with SDR but am not at all competent.
The FCC mandates that stations have either a 4 or 3 letter call sign. Ones on the west coast start with K, east of that is W. Since they all have to identify themselves to the FCC with these call signs, it's convenient to advertise the channel with that name as well. Not every station does this, some like to not talk about the call sign at all in their name, but most advertise with it for simplicity.
Quick heads up you may want to update that to be === rather than ==, because of course JS is wonderful and null does == undefined (not a nerd snipe, I was just confused by your comment and went and looked at the code, and realized it was likely a typo :) )
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
It was raised to $200 when the pandemic went into full swing, for 3 months initially and was extended. Most recent thing I found about it is from Sept last year - https://www.auspaynet.com.au/resources/ContactlessLimits
Signal is open source and has reproducible builds.
Indeed humans, many of us at least, thrive on novelty: new things, new experiences. Meditation, thankfulness, and other forms of inward focus may bring some respite from the desire for novelty, but...

What is the point of life if not to enjoy it? What defines enjoyment varies from person to person, but for some of us it is ABSOLUTELY certain that some environments are more pleasant than others. Some people/friends/lovers are more pleasant than others. Some foods are more pleasant than others. Our tastes and interests change over time.

We could live on one place, tend our little garden, eat the same meals each week, talk to the same people, and meditate. For those who want that life, great for them. It's not for me.

The world is vast, and there are so many experiences discover and enjoy. And actually, a Thai beach suits me VERY well. It is my next long stay, and after it there will probably be other long stays. Maybe when I get too old to move about, I'll pick a spot to die.

I think this "stay put and be zen" mentality is less common for tech people (especially developers). If we were satisfied with status quo, we wouldn't be constantly trying to develop solutions to "problems". If we were more able to be satisfied, we would still be using Fortran and COBOL (or pick any old language). There would be no smartphones (for better or worse). Heck, you could unwind all human advancement back to pre-agriculture days... which might actually be an improvement... but that cat is too far out of the bag.
How to design an anti-monopoly interop system
if only there were apps to install...
The Kelly criterion is a U-shaped optimisation problem, so it is rather tolerant of imprecise estimations!
Palm Zire 72. It had a freakin camera!

I remember reading newest Harry Potter book on that thing.

You love those gadgets much more when you're a kid.
Shell scripts that invoke `psql` or other `pg_*` tools.
Getting started with Laravel on Mac required me to fire up Docker desktop which I don't particularly care for but I proceeded because I like to try out new things, so I followed the documentation https://laravel.com/docs/9.x#your-first-laravel-project:

- Fired up Docker desktop
- ran curl -s "https://laravel.build/example-app" | bash and "cd example-app"
- typed "./vendor/bin/sail up" and got an error "no such file or directory: ./vendor/bin/sail"
- Deleted the example-app and ran curl -s "https://laravel.build/example-app" | bash and "cd example-app"
- typed "./vendor/bin/sail up" and got another error "no configuration file provided: not found"

By this time my MBP fan sounds like an Airbus A380 getting ready to takeoff and I'm already frustrated with the framework, not sure what I'm missing!!
It would be Elon IV Musk ... if they cared to follow the norm.
Becoming a better writer as a software engineer
I mean, correct as in logically correct and that's just a different matter than being grammatically correct.
Or simply by unplugging the mike?
Digital over the air was better quality than cable in my area for quite a while. I don’t use either now but I think cable was 720 and OTA was 1080.
You don't need to look in Pittsburgh anymore. Many, many companies now hire remote literally anywhere at all, particularly those located in New York City.
> When my garage flooded during a storm, can I blame the storm?

Not a very good analogy. It's more like trying lay the blame for killing a piece of electronics on lightning that hit a mile from your house when in fact it was flooded by the rain.
The Quanta article says that doing it non-constructively with non-measurable pieces was already known, and that later results did it partially and then fully constructively (without leaving a measure-zero set). But it does not say in the Quanta article whether or not the pieces in these later results were individually measurable. (The union of non-measurable sets can be measurable.) Are you saying that you know they are?
I admit my initial thought looking at Nova was "this is free with Django!", but I'm pretty sure Nova does a lot more. :) (Django's automatic admin interface still had a distinct "state of the art for 2006" vibe the last time I looked, although to be fair it's been a few years.)
It is not a flaw in the ZFS data model, it is a carefully considered tradeoff between consistency and IOPS for RAIDZ. The real world I a cruel place and you get nothing for free, in order to have distributed parity and consistency you will have to suffer the lowest common denominator IOPS penalty.

That is just maths.

If you want to use ZFS and have more IOPS you will have to have more VDEVs (either more RAIDZs or several mirrors). Your storage efficiency will be slightly reduced (RAIDZ) or tank to 50% (mirrors) with less redundancy.

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.
Also not all banks are even universally issuing tap to pay cards. None of my credit or debit cards are yet
The falcon 9 first stage has been tested to be reused 11 times so far. A boeing airframe on the other hand lasts 30 years. There is therefore the cost of bringing these rare earth materials found perhaps around the world together in one place to launch a finished falcon 9 rocket, independent of any fuel considerations, that should also be thought about.
I have run a large distributed app that was somewhat microservice based, but also had a large central sharded set of postgres tables. About 10% of the total CPU usage was in the postgres servers, the rest was in the frontends, and they handled many hundreds of requests per second per instance, maintaining a pool of open connections to Postgres. The mulciplicative effect meant that each postgres server would have had thousands of connections open to it - Or we could use pgpooler and have only dozens of actual connections, with pgpooler doing lightweight pooling between the many frontend instances that might be using just one or might have a few dozen requests in flight. Load on each frontend to each database was pretty random - Bell curved, but the highs and lows were enough that the N frontends we needed times the M max concurrent requests that a frontend was likely to have was way outside of the budget for max concurrent connections for postgres, even having tuned the per-connection memory buffer.
I have a Ford Ranger 2020 and I never listen to radio, always listen on Bluetooth. For some reason it switches to an AM station (that I never listen to) from my Bluetooth and shows a TA icon (even when TA is toggled off, and it's not even used in my country, and the AM station has nothing to do with TA).

After reading this I started to wonder if it might be something similar/related.

I even thought of removing the antenna as I never use radio anyway. Have you done anything about your issue that you can recommend?
I left US for NL 10 years ago, and I can say I've enjoyed most of my time here. But now it's time to move on, and the world offers many exciting new cultures (and foods!) to enjoy.
Good thing I only run a usb mic and unplug it when not in use…

Uninstalling Zoom. Team discussion on dumping zoom for the whole company to come.
The prototypical HN comment.
As a former nodejs and react developer, I welcome these new entrants.

I feel like too many developers never venture out past javascript and it shows. different languages highlight different ways of approaching and solving problems and I look forward to how that will play out.
In many places you can't even use the frequency as a reference because it changes depending on region. On my regular 100-km drive in Belgium Classic21 gets three different frequency. But it's just Classic21, it doesn't have a code name.
At the time of the shift away from traditional fine art, there was a big shift in how art was marketed and style itself probably did not have as much influence as people think.

Academy art was very expensive because it took a long time to make (so artists only made a hand full of work), and there were fewer artists at that level because it took so much training to get to the level of a Bouguereau or Sargent. Up until this point the people buying this kind of art were wealthy or powerful enough to afford it.

At the turn of the century, there was an increased demand of art from the new burgeoning middle class, however there simply was not enough supply, and it was all expensive academy art. Because of this, art dealers were incentivized to promote impressionists because they were already academy rejects so they were outsiders with chips on their shoulders, and the work they did was by design easier and quicker to make, so they were able to produce way more art that dealers could sell to the middle class who were less discerning than the traditional art world.

The new mass market ended up being far more profitable for dealers, the demographic so much larger, that it really just drove what kind of art was created and marketed afterwards. Bouguereau died at 80 and made less than a thousand works over his lifetime, Picasso made tens of thousands. Picasso's true genius is in his ability to produce and market his works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G8UfISpb0I
That's just the promise of the internet isn't it? If YouTube didn't exist, I'm sure joerogan.com would be more popular than some university professors website.

Do you want to get rid of the internet?
I used to do this before I discovered renovate [1] - now we spend time working on major upgrades but minor are generally automatic (assuming they pass tests)

[1]: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate
Which is sad because if you were to limit choices to picking individual people on the planet, I think Musk may be doing more to fix real existential problems in the world more than anyone else alive today. People are jealous creatures and like to hate on successful people.
I have, and I can see GP's point.
Not all American stations have names aside from their call sign. In the Seattle Area, KUOW is just KUOW. The dance station at 89.5 calls itself C89.5, and almost nobody uses their call sign of KNHC.

On the other hand, the dance station in the Miami area calls itself "Revolution 93.5". It really depends upon the station and the market.
I disagree.

The number of Android phones in existence is evidence of how important it is to have affordable tech.
> Rent-seekers seem to think so! Why try to innovate and compete in a fair marketplace when you can simply have special rules that your content has to be promoted?

This is missing my point, because you are reducing the content to a mindless product of consumption.

The point of promoting and prioritizing Canadian content is not financially motivated. It is politically motivated.

The point is to safeguard free speech and the right to be heard of Canadians within Canadian society.

That means that first nations should have a proportional spot in broadcasts. If they represent 5% of all Canadians, then all broadcast should include 5% of their speech, ideas, and culture, which let their voices, opinions, values, morales, and heritage be spoken and heard through the content, be it news media, opinion pieces, talk shows, stories, etc.
Can't edit my post anymore, but researched and (some of?) the NBOMe toxicity appears to be from rhabdomyolysis (your muscles break down, releasing proteins that cause your kidneys to fail.)

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC5552826/

They reproduced it in zebrafish, apparently. They suggest using 25B as an actual research chemical to study serotonin-induced rhabdo in lab animals shudder.
Harmonic motion on that page is an ODE rather than a PDE. The whole page is kind of strange since it doesn't explain much.
Pretty sure this is similar to how other web conferencing software detects compatible conferencing hardware via sound (out of our range). It's actually common and surprisingly effective method to communicate without Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc. Reminded me of those hacking stories you hear about jumping air gaps :)
Recording DNS queries is a long standing method of spying on end users that ISPs and governments have at their disposal. In the US we have a constitutional amendment about how it's supposed to be illegal for law enforcement to mess with people not suspected of a crime - the fourth amendment. They don't really respect that rule at all, so it's in everyone's best interest not to give them metadata when it's avoidable.
To get decent ram/storage on a MBA (e.g. 16GB/512GB) you're looking at at least $1400 - at which point the 14" m1 pro starts looking attractive with its MiniLED/ProMotion screen, speakers, ports, better overall performance, and physical fkeys.

Plus, the M2 refresh is expected to be announced in March and follow shortly after...
It was the % in the show title that fouled up the Mazdas, so they were already doing that before the fix.

Even then it was a nearly invisible problem for the podcast itself, not something that would have been significant enough to investigate and correct for if that wasn't also content for the show.
i was shocked that government decided to intervene into worker/workplace argument and clearly picked the favorite side without even holding a council.

the part you never adressed is that government was not SUPPOSED to EVER get a favorite in a private conflict, part firing employees and banning them from ever serving for any gov posision? not only intent was so outrageous, but the reaction was disproportional, not only affecting more than 10K people, but leaving the whole industry barely hanging.

maybe the time will forget the outcome, but what I and prob the generations to come will never understand - what whas the gov stake in this? why they never tried to have a council with a gov as a mediator and most importantly - what is the value of at-will contracts if mostly works only one way?
Yes, and that's cool. Signal is an awesome piece of software but not a competitor in many of Zoom markets.

If you are a student at a university using zoom then there's no other realistic way to participate and learn today. I also can't imagine many employers makng an exception for a single employee.
It's amazing how designers of these vehicles can't think of these simple things.

Being able to lower the volume should be immediate, and it should be obvious in their testings...

If they ever tested infotainment systems of course.
Nice. Brings back memories when I was developing apps for PalmOS!
Any single SSS share does not disclose any additional information about the private key (i.e. it is not like splitting the key itself into parts).
Just a side note - you absolutely don't need to be millions rich to travel for extended periods. You just need to have few financial obligations that are location dependent.

In an extreme example (which some of us fantasize about), you could have all your necessary possession in two bags, have no "home" (and no car and no other anchors), and travel the world for less than many people spend living in one place. This is especially true if you take a US/EU salary and spend time in much lower cost of living places.
Ubuntu 22.04 May Offer a Choice of System Accent Colour
Not at all relevant in this case though.
For just the fuel, yeah, but the expendable second stage adds a lot of impact.
Agreed. Svelte is the most beginner friendly framework.
That's consistent with how Texas approaches governance as a whole. Nickel and dime the residents, bend over backwards for landowners and corporations.
With the same logic you could say that covid was a rounding error. Human lives are more valuable then satellites though
Ruby on Rails – Rails 7.0.2 has been released
NFTs are hipster garbage. It's a poorly conceived software system and a beautifully executed scam for the sole purpose of duping people with more money than brains.

If people were pumping and dumping physical goods, using shill bidding and other tactics blatantly on display in NFTs, they'd go to prison.

The hammer is gonna fall hard on lots of shady characters in the nft space, and a whole bunch of famous people will get spanked or look really stupid when law enforcement catches up.
they have a massive free tier that has yet to be monetized

ads targeted to users based on conversations within ear shot of an always listening device sounds like a big money maker to me

although I don't use zoom, something(s) is already doing this on my phone as I get targeted ads based on conversations I have, routinely ( typically within 45 mins) despite taking many precautions... some technology is already out there in production
That’s right. When a podcaster forces their stuff to not work on my car, I spend my time contacting the car company to get collective action through for change. I don’t hit the next button and listen to something else. This is how I and most other humans function.
I’m a macOS and Linux guy working on Teams / Windows and loving it. It annoys me every time someone in the org sets a Zoom meeting. Teams meetings are so much better. Integration into Outlook and Drive and OneNote is a huge step forward.

But your mileage will vary. You do you.
Thunderf00t and Common Sense Skeptic make up data and/or selectively pick facts to support their predisposed opinions of hating anything Musk related. So you should discard anything you heard in those videos and find better more direct sources.
I don't know if OP is going to see this.

I feel he'll be happy at Jane Street Capital.

They use OCaml though (and I think they have a large part in building OCaml), but I suppose an expert Haskeller would have no trouble at all picking up OCaml if they want to.

I don't know if they have remote work possibilities though.
That's a really good point which I don't think was mentioned in TA - new experiences tend to shake up the mind, which can lead to new though processes and new ideas. It can be a real boost for creativity.

So going to a new place can shake up one's thoughts and lead to some great new ideas, and then the routine of the new place can give one time to work with those new ideas and perhaps make something.
Svelte has one of the biggest ecosystems since it works great with any vanilla js library