skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind that NZ is less than a tenth the population of the UK and less than a 60th of USAs. And those figures are for the country, not a city. The point made that Auckland has a lot of travellers.

It is true that in absolute terms NZ has small trade and travel relative to the UK and US, but those factors are far from being the only reasons that NZ has suffered less death and destruction. It’s more that the UK and US have done poorly.
In last 50 years or so, the rate of change in tech > the rate the human civilization can cope. This is more pronounced after early 90s.

With the inventions like printing-press, electricity, electric motor, humans still had about more than a century to adapt around it and culminating into commoditized products like fridge, car, fans etc. This impacted how the average family stores food, transport, comfort. This in turn gave rise to processed foods which could be stored for a longer time. With transportation upgrades words like "commuting" to office became part of daily lives.

However, what the way things have changed (esp in last 10-15 years) has a much fundamental impact. Example, our law is not able to keep-up with the advancements and the complexities it brings.

Another example: remote work. Never in history, humans from all over the globe can collaborate at a scale. If sizable population shifts to this mode, it will have cascading effect on things like: the way cities are planned, transportation, physical entertainment (malls, disney-land, etc), labour laws, etc.
The issue is not the existence of alcohol itself. The problem is drinking culture and lax/accepting/apologetic attitudes towards excessive alcohol consumption.

That's why a ban on alcohol won't work this time, either.
What would otherwise be the point of data portability? It's not exactly difficult to move your name, email address and IP to another provider, so why add legislation just for these things?

There is a definition from the ICO site:

“‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person”.

So for example if you draw a line in Photoshop and by the way you drawn it someone can tell it was definitely you, then this is personal data.

If you compose music and through its style it can be said that this is definitely something you made, this is also personal data and so on.

That's why when you request data download for example from Facebook you get everything, not just your name, email and list of IP addresses you logged in from.
Oh, but you do have a say: You can work for Google! It's the same as moving to a different country and becoming a citizen to be eligible to vote.

Referees, in comparison to governments, can be fired for doing a poor job.
> It's quite good compared to ink at simulating objects with a lot of metadata

can you give an example? I have zero familiarity with IF programming, but I would be very interested in understanding this.
Alexi Laiho died not so long ago and I didnt see anything in news.ycombinator . Yet everytime some random rapper overdoses and dies I learn about it in this sci/tech news site.

As someone that doesnt care about rap or similar type of music, I could care less about these people. Same as most people here couldnt care less about Mr Laiho.
> Your bosses optimize for those metrics because it's the one they can communicate higher up on the short time they can get higher ups attention.

That's their problem and not mine, is it?

A good manager doesn't just reflect the lightning bolt to their underlings. They absorb part of the shock and process / transform what they will transfer down below. If they aren't doing that then they aren't managers; they are uneducated opportunists in suits.

> If it were because the metric was any good, there wouldn't be so many cases of companies bankrupted by technical and cultural debits pilling up.

Really well articulated, kudos.
tried multiple stacks for last 12 years, for past two years I am enamored with Haskell + Elm
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I've had similar experiences across my career. If you have any self-esteem the process is a sad joke. It's amazing how many outfits - recruiters and hiring companies - don't realize how many yellow and red flags they emit in the most basic of interactions.

I have a phrase I like to repeat: How you hire is who you hire.
Apple has said it won't hold updates for policy reasons anymore. They seem to have forgotten they promised that, but they did.
Assuming this site has decent numbers, in the US around 5% of people >26 years old have an "alcohol use disorder". Presumably the majority of those are addition disorders. But that means that after 12 years 95% of them will still be fine.

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/addiction-s...
Think 5-6-7-8. 7 times 8 is 56.

Or use a calculator, who cares. Arithmetic is mostly memorization.
I don't know, there were a few years in my early 20s when I just avoided problem solving the best I could.
One of the benefits of having only one eye, you only see one side! :)
which creates the illicit tier of untaxed alcohol trade. maybe this is tolerable because not everyone will do it and others will just buy less?
Oh absolutely. These are questions to hopefully find an idea that lets you do that, or at least exclude ones that don't.
I'm so attached to starting all my where clauses with a TRUE (1=1 since SQL Server doesn't have boolean literals) that I do this when I need some OR clauses:

SELECT foo
FROM bar
WHERE 1=1
AND (1<>1
OR baz > boom
OR fizz >= bang
)
AND foo is not null

So you can comment out lines starting with OR individually. Some people might hate it but it makes sense conceptually for me since almost every query I write takes a chain of ANDs in the where clause as a starting point.
I think an under-appreciated angle here is that alcohol, like most other addictions, has a major mental health component. How many alcoholics are self medicating with cheap and easily accessible palliatives, and how many are addicted because of social norms? I’m not sure how to measure that but from personal anecdotal experience I would expect the former to be an order of magnitude larger.

I also think if we look at it from a human suffering perspective as humanists, the Christian moral angle is unneeded. We can offer alternatives to alcohol that are better for people by understanding why they drink. Mental health and general life satisfaction are certainly reasons we would need to tackle for the worst cases, in addition to the established rituals the article talks about. Making moral arguments primarily through Christian theories of sin is a major reason the last temperance movement (in the US) failed, because it did not understand the reasons people drank and offer any alternatives.
How would making the website more accessible have any impact on those things?
Chesterton’s fence as applied to software: don’t replace a bad software solution until you understand why it is that way.

Still, looking back we can see how software solutions were not optimal for their age, and how amazing things can be coaxed out of old hardware using new insights. It would be pretty remarkable that precisely now is when we finally achieved optimal software. More likely, we’re still getting it wrong, and this is just one more step along the line.

The truth can be a little of both: yes, we can do better than what exists now, but we’re not guaranteed to unless we understand what came before.
You're right, so far I've been very fortunate with my health.

I don't think I'm unusual that there are things about health (my own and in general) that I've searched on Google that I've never told or asked anyone.
Problem with government-run alcohol shops is how they reduce available selection of drinks. I'm an avid whisky drinker (though in moderation of course), and being able to buy rarer bottles from specialist shops adds a lot to the experience. It also helps small producers since they don't have to negotiate with a behemoth of a stockist (imagine if the only way to sell whisky would be to negotiate a deal with the state to stock the entire UK's alcohol shops). The ABV limit has also caused trouble in the beer industry where types of beers that require higher ABV aren't produced.

I think the minimum pricing law of Scotland is the way to go when regulating alcohol. When I was living there, the system seemed to work well and incentivised buying higher quality drinks as well. I guess the problem is populist politicians who could easily brand it as limiting poor people's drinking, instead of posh ones.
I don't think anyone is arguing for prohibition. We've seen that fail with every substance we've tried it with.

Public health/education campaigns, however, can be wildly effective with enough funding. Smoking cessation in particular has been massively successful even with no change to legality and billions of dollars of tobacco industry money doing everything they can to reverse it. The public health campaign in the US managed to turn cigarettes from chic to trashy and have made prohibition unnecessary. I could imagine the same happening with alcohol (and other problematic substances) on a long enough timeline.
I just went through a job search and had most of the same experiences. I even had a recruiter, one that headhunted me, recommend an opportunity only to pause and remark that my experience as a business owner was a “problem”. I couldn’t help myself but to laugh and ask “then why did you call me to tell me how great of a fit I am???”

Add those experiences to daily visits to the bizarre, cargo-cult world of virtue signaling, victimhood, and motivational quotes that is LinkedIn and you have a recipe for career despair. LinkedIn is like Mos Eisley mixed with Initech from Office Space.

I hope I never have to job hunt ever again.
This is the best, though

"Respects and upholds community Codes of Conduct."

kind of feels like a 1.5x criteria. A true 1x hasn't read the CoC, and if they have, they didn't memorize it or see the e-mail about the latest updates. Though they will course-correct if you tell them they've erred.

This is incredibly important:

"Willing to admit when they're wrong, and aren't afraid to say "I don't know."

There's incredible power in being able to show your hand with an open understanding of how it could be better.
which doesn't help the people being taken advantage of, but maybe ignore that because its not an alcohol specific issue as any influence can do that
Any way to track how many subscribers Starlink has on anything like a real-time (weekly or monthly would be awesome) basis?
SRIOV would allow anyone with a single gpu to be able to get into virtualization. It would eliminate the single biggest barrier to entry in the space.
"Tricked by professional manipulators". I like that phrasing over what I've tried to use: "mind control". Makes me sound like a conspiracy wacko.
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> Does anyone know any good static analysers other than gcc's or clang's?

Visual C++ as well, because since the XP SP2 issues, Microsoft has come up with SAL, which you can also use on your own code,

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/code-quality/using-sal-...

Then specialized tooling just for this purpose, just two examples,

https://scan.coverity.com/

https://www.sonarqube.org/features/multi-languages/cpp/

Regarding C, I would really like some kind of -fsafe-mode, but I guess we need to contend with -Wall -Werror and -fanalyse.
Wouldn't NVRAM only give you durability (D in ACID)?

I think it might be too reductionist to say a database on NVRAM is just a data structure. Even with NVRAM you still need to maintain atomicity, consistency and isolation.
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But the next follow-up question to what you said would be, why should we focus on only the risk of death to determine harm? E.g., what happens if I exercise and drink a moderate amount of alcohol per week? I believe, AFAIK, I get worse results from that, and I would care about that wasted effort whether it raises my risk of death or not. I understand the logic of it, but I'm not super okay with saying that "causing no excess mortality" is somehow equivalent to "no effect". There are effects in statistics other than death, I think what you're saying means that mortality data alone is not enough to justify teetotalling.
How do you distinguish alcoholism from alcohol abuse?

As an alcoholic myself, the terms have always meant the same thing to me.
Thanks to multidimensionality, I'd say it's totally false. You can hire someone, or be hired by, someone who will raise your level via leadership, emotional skills, salesmanship, writing skills, and a million other "soft" things, besides the universe of technical skills that exist. I would think you only need someone to be better than you at one thing to make them a worthwhile hire or coworker.
They already replaced their last CEO due to outrage. Another replacement would signal disaster.
A proposition that cannot be proved in a theory T that

axiomatizes its own provability is the following:

Theorems of T can be computationally enumerated.

[Church 1934] presented the following simple proof that T

cannot computationally enumerate its own theorems:

In order to obtain a contradiction, hypothesize theorems
of a foundational theory T are computationally enumerable.
Then procedures that are provably total in T are
computationally by a procedure that is provably total in
T. Consider the Boolean procedure Diagonal defined on
natural number input n to be the result of the complement
of the result of the ith provably total procedure on input
i. The procedure Diagonal differs from every procedure in
the enumeration of provably total procedures in T.
However, by construction, diagonal is a provably total
procedure in T, which is a contradiction.

See the following article for additional information:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
Your computer is really a bunch of computers pretending to be a single computer.

Most of the components have firmware that can itself be loaded with malware.
What about: drugs are fun?
For anyone unfamiliar David Nutt is the drug researcher responsible for this informative chart https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Development_of_a_ration...

He was chairman of the UKs Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs for seven years until his dismissal for advocating that that illicit drugs should be classified according to the actual evidence of the harm they cause. In Nutts ranking, alcohol and tobacco were more harmful than LSD, ecstasy or cannabis and should thus be subject to stricter regulations.
Yes it's real
I fail "personality tests" because I am, in fact, not average, and because I don't care enough to lie on them.
> and installing packages in an imperative manner like this just seems to put folks back in the same position as using pacman or apt-get. Please correct me if I'm wrong Nix-ers.

It being similar to the other commands means we can use nix almost no learning curve, only having to know the equivalent commands. It's the beginner's interface, allowing you to get things done right away, and letting you postpone the complexity until you have need for the features/stability it provides.

For example, I originally started using nix because I needed a Java version not in Ubuntu's repo, and being able to say "just install it" instead of having to learn a whole new specification language is a massive benefit.
I find that the experience one has recruiting is directly related to where that person is interviewing which in turn is related to their caliber.

On one extreme, a very desirable dev has the luxury of ignoring all but the most thoughtful recruiter pings on LinkedIn. He can also tune out companies that are too small, not tech-focused, don't have a good reputation, whatever. The small remainder of recruiters and companies that he will speak to are much more likely to have their shit together and provide a solid recruiting experience.

On the other hand, if someone doesn't have a ton of options, they end up being much less selective about whom they speak to and where they interview, in addition to being less likely to be recruited by the top players to begin with.

I think this explains the dichotomy of why some people consistently have horrible experiences and some never have them. And then there's the "hint" that if you only have the horrible experiences, there is something you need to strategically change.
Thanks for these resources.
Not exactly. The direct translation for "I dig a hole" is "Yo cavo un hoyo" which maps all words one to one. A more general translation "yo hago un hoyo" (verb. to make), removes the need for the hole to be dug and can be used for holes you cut or rip as well. There are very few cases where you are not better served by the verbs to dig or to make, and I don't think I've ever heard anyone use ahoyar before.

It means "I dig the hole(s)"

Example: Yo ahoyo, tu plantas -> I dig the hole(s), you plant [the tree(s)]
Trying to imagine a world where every text editor has their own proprietary character encoding and compatibility with other encodings is considered an extra... there’s something called UTF-8, but it’s been in development for 15 years without a stable release, and nobody supports it by default.
Google is making sure you can't have a backdoor "pay what you want" app in their store, and there's no way to distinguish between that and donations intended to be donations.
One big problem I see is that Google already has a lot of data. Just having that much aggregated data makes any company a bad choice.
Yeah if been meaning to setup something like that. Was thinking a base docket image that has all the shared stuff and just mounting the different directories for each site to override. Just haven’t had time.
Taxing alcohol is not straight forward because everybody can make it at home with everyday items. Raise taxes too much and people will start their own basement distilleries which will then send methanol poisoning cases through the roof.

Brewing beer for example is extremely easy. Everybody can do it and there is even a whole community around brewing at home.
Everything you said is true. And it still doesn't change the fact that most organizations [I've been in] utilize the top-down approach on 99% with the occasional 1% of bottom-up.

That's an unbalanced state of affairs that completely loses very valuable feedback everywhere along the chain.

Part of the job of a manager is to find this perfect balance on the level they are working at. And most don't. They just pass the pressure put on them, down below to their underlings.
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I got descriptive table names like WhsTransactionGoodsItems and WhsTransactionGoodsItemPackages.

I feel it would be rather noisy to have to specify such table names in front of the 15+ column references in a query, compared to using aliases.

Then again I've never had to diff the result sets, so I guess our usage is quite different.
Lego has a new 2,354-piece NASA Space Shuttle set, and it’s awesome
Black and white web pages had been pretty much the standard since well the invention of the internet...

Same for black and white text documents.

Or black and white shell promts.

And so on.

So it's pretty obviously for me what is detached from reality and what isn't.

EDIT: It's the color space which is broken I guess, white (on a website) should be neutral background white not eye hurting brightness and the color space should have some "whiter then (normal,neutral) white" colors. I.e. the normal white color should not have defaulted to maximal brightness.
All I know is what I've put into practice. I was in a physical rehab for a couple of weeks so naturally I installed a keylogger on the PC in my room. Everyone had weak passwords. Everyone had separate passwords for Epic, which I guess for some reason doesn't have SSO with windows. Nobody had MFA, despite the fact that they all wore prox cards around their necks. Security, in short, was a complete nightmare.

Security training is one of those things that are required by policy but which have no beneficial effect in practice. HIPAA is a thing that organizations use as a tool to keep you from getting your own data, but which again have no real benefit.
Presumably an alcohol use disorder is quite bad. Is the benefit of drinking alcohol really enough to offset the fairly significant risk there?
I didn't drink, since the pandemic hit and feel rather good.

For me most bad habits come down to peer pressure or boredom.

I drink socially and people often gift me drinks in the club. Sometimes the parties are boring and I drink a bit so I stop caring.

That all went away with Corona.
The problem here is monopoly. Your argument totally makes sense ... in a context where there are reasonable alternatives. But there are not. And the fault for that, I'm afraid, is the government's.
Finding KISS solutions for the project. MVP can also be as a simple as a html and vanilla js to nm validate an idea.
Horses need less maintenance? Certainly not once bicycles were made at industrial scale.

A horse needs to be fed every day, and its shoes need looking at every 4 to 6 weeks (hooves grow; nails do get loose)

A bicycle on the other hand, you can keep unattended for a month and still use afterwards.
> Anyway, hiring is broken, we all know it.

I don’t get why people says X is broken. When processes work exactly as designed. It’s just shitty processes.
The problem with that strategy is mainly just that you lose access to the best candidates, who won't accept a period of offer uncertainty because they have as many other solid offers as they care to take interviews. You run the real risk of biasing your process towards the worst candidates, who are constantly on the job market and are happy to take any shot they can get; that said, you also lessen the risk of one of those people getting into your company as a full hire, so it isn't all bad.

It's a great way to do "fresh out of school" hiring, though, where there's no meaningful signal to look at (grades and school are trash) and good people aren't self-selected out the way they are later.
This has nothing to do with the M1 CPU itself, it's just about how Apple implemented things in macOS. Linux doesn't care.
Firestick users can also connect a USB mouse with a USB-OTG adapter and sideload the Firefox mobile APK (the one for phones). In my opinion it gives a much better experience than the Firefox for Fire TV app, although as noted it's basically unusable without a mouse. You can get updates by sideloading the F-Droid APK (which works great on Fire TV).
Everything we learned about Age of Empires IV’s new civilizations, campaigns
Or a less obscure discipline called "operations research."
In a bigger sense it just doesn’t matter. A lot of the criticisms in the Unix Hater’s Handbook are still trenchant decades later. And so what? Everyone knows how to use Unix and they’re used to the deficiencies. Up and down the stack until the advantages of the new thing are so overwhelmingly obvious that people will jump.
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Was the last CEO let go for performance reasons?
The EEZ (200nm from shore) is not part of the sovereign territory of a nation. The territorial waters (~12nm from shore) are.
A low-level worker made that career choice themselves. They were well aware they wouldn't become rich by working in a warehouse, no matter how many hours they worked. They still have their life in their own hands: They can look for another job.

Jeff Bezos sure worked like crazy to get Amazon to where it is now, so he has every right to take it easy now that he's 'made it'.