skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve wanted this since I moved to Seattle 20 years ago (whoa)… until this winter. I still want to stop time changes, but now I’d definitely prefer permanent standard time.

What changed? Until about three years ago, I was a night owl with chronic insomnia. Since then, I’ve done some important mental healthy work, and I got a pup. The former helped with my insomnia and helped me adjust to an earlier schedule. The pup, well she used to rise with the sun, but going into her third year she has a much more stable internal clock. Now I understand the dread people feel waking early in wintertime in a way I never did. It feels like waking up in my insomniac days, except that I’d still be able to sleep.

I still understand why others prefer this, and I don’t think there’s a solution that will please everyone. It’s just really strange to (potentially) get something I wanted for almost my entire adult life, just as I’ve had a change of heart.
If the author is here: ask some people in Russia/Ukraine/Argentina/Venezuela if they think the financial crisis will ever arrive.
You're even on the eastern end of the time zone, where the sunrise is comparatively early. There are bus stops in Indiana too.
Who is “your” in this scenario?
> I agree with your sentiment overall, but “a few extra days” is pretty unrealistic. Probably a few extra weeks at best.

Still not a problem: The examples upthread of phones from many different manufacturers that had replaceable batteries, headphone jacks, and card readers and were watertight a decade or more ago show that those weeks have already been invested and paid for.
This article doesn't say how many people they entrapp... arrested from this special agent's work. And it sounds like it took a thousand undercover assignments to catch them selling drugs?
Sounds a lot like Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang:

"In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of the Mongols (the scourge of Southern California, and one of the most dangerous gangs in America), Queen jumped at the chance, not realizing that he was kicking-starting the most extensive undercover operation inside an outlaw motorcycle gang in the history of American law enforcement.

Nor did Queen suspect that he would penetrate the gang so successfully that he would become a fully “patched-in” member, eventually rising through their ranks to the office of treasurer, where he had unprecedented access to evidence of their criminal activity. After Queen spent twenty-eight months as “Billy St. John,” the bearded, beer-swilling, Harley-riding gang-banger, the truth of his identity became blurry, even to himself.

During his initial “prospecting” phase, Queen was at the mercy of crank-fueled criminal psychopaths who sought to have him test his mettle and prove his fealty by any means necessary, from selling (and doing) drugs, to arms trafficking, stealing motorcycles, driving getaway cars, and, in one shocking instance, stitching up the face of a Mongol “ol’ lady” after a particularly brutal beating at the hands of her boyfriend.

Yet despite the constant criminality of the gang, for whom planning cop killings and gang rapes were business as usual, Queen also came to see the genuine camaraderie they shared. When his lengthy undercover work totally isolated Queen from family, his friends, and ATF colleagues, the Mongols felt like the only family he had left. “I had no doubt these guys genuinely loved Billy St. John and would have laid down their lives for him. But they wouldn’t hesitate to murder Billy Queen.”

From Queen’s first sleight of hand with a line of methamphetamine in front of him and a knife at his throat, to the fearsome face-off with their decades-old enemy, the Hell’s Angels (a brawl that left three bikers dead), to the heartbreaking scene of a father ostracized at Parents’ Night because his deranged-outlaw appearance precluded any interaction with regular citizens, Under and Alone is a breathless, adrenaline-charged read that puts you on the street with some of the most dangerous men in America and with the law enforcement agents who risk everything to bring them in."

https://www.amazon.com/Under-Alone-Undercover-Infiltrated-Mo...
I've run dozens of summercamp sessions and afterschool classes where we introduced Arduino to all ages - I don't see how block or frane based editing is incompatible with learning low level hardware - the C-ish code is already removed from how "computers really work", you're left with pin labels, read and write, conditionals, loops, and subroutines. There's an extraordinary variety of applications to build with these tools, game controllers, music makers, HID, sensor networks...

I took a few classes that get into the nitty gritty of registers and bitmasks, and the outcome after all that trouble was to bitbang a serial connection, I wasn't really inspired to keep digging in that direction, although now I'm trying to teach myself 6502 assembly because I am inspired by how far you can go on such ancient hardware.

anyway, most of the arduino and micro:bit code I've seen in the classroom consists of taking code someone else has written and making just a few changes. I'd say 1 in 50 of our students moved on to understanding how to write programs from scratch - if Strype lowers the barrier of entry so you don't have to learn arcane syntax or the meaning of "void", I think it will be hugely successful in lowering the cost of software development by embiggening the talent pool, making a more accessible on ramp to being productive with computers.
Go Experience Report: Generics in Kubernetes (2017)
It always bothers me that the Congress.gov bill tracker seems to never be up to date. How hard can it be?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623
Here's hoping Canada follows. I know many provinces were waiting for their southern states to make the switch to stay in sync (BC -> California, Quebec -> New York, etc). So hopefully Canada switches at same time as us!
Accident rate of gliders vs. single-engine GA aircraft
This makes the problem worse. If 8:30 standard time is when school ought to be starting, that's now 9:30, which is even less likely to happen.
Come on, man. Realistically do you think cosplay is an activity for an average 32 year old male?
Wasn't just Apple and Sun, it was almost everyone. The first IBM PC keyboards, the Apple machines, Atari and Amiga, almost all Unix workstations, etc. all had it where caps-locks sits now. I can't remember the exact IBM keyboard where it switched, but the Model M moved it and maybe a bit before that.

Caps-locks is such an infrequently used key to be taking up such valuable real estate.. I've never gotten mentally used to control being banished to the lower left. I remap on every keyboard I get.
> Well I don't know why it would matter that it's a French citizen.

Because the US is even droning its own citizens [0], you were the one who originally brought this up as something the US allegedly does not do.

> And I'm not sure how in the world you're claiming this is an anecdote as if France's drone strike were untrue.

In that particular case it's not even clear it was a French drone that got him, the French only reported his passing, but going after him was a joint operation together with the US.

It's an anecdote because France has only been using drone strikes since 2019 and only in Mali, that's about two decades after the US first started droning people and about a dozen fewer countries droned.

> Why would I need to show you that? You asked for an example, not "show me an exact equivalent to this thing I haven't previously mentioned".

I asked for an example of a country constantly droning some place or another, which the US very much does, as the US has the most active and largest scale (global scale) drone program on the planet.

> Ok then we're at war with Pakistan (since that's the example you're using). Great now we're back to where we started and you got the "war" designation you wanted.

The US is not at war with Pakistan and I'm not "wanting" any designations.

You where the one who claimed "doesn't stop other countries" like the US drone program ain't some massive outlier, like the US didn't champion and normalize this for two decades.

And it only became normalized as nobody dared to seriously call the US out on it, even those who are directly enabling such US atrocities [1]

[0] https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-o...

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/08/germany-could-have-deli...
I'm on your same journey.

If it may help, I'm based in the UK and mainly in the contractor market. I've got a very good team across the stack and we specialize in cross-platform mobile apps (mainly React-Native).

In my experience having a strong tech rep with actual development background goes a long way. I find most of my clients through Linkedin and handle the sales myself, then organize the work with my team that I've built over the years.

Happy to share more detail and get to know fellow hackers' experiences.

P.s. been lurking for a long time and this is my first comment! Amazing community
Musk busily promulgates lies about Tesla's "full self-driving" and gets rewarded. Bernal demonstrates the practical reality of it and gets penalized.
Years ago Hunter S Thompson documented the Hell's Angels, if anyone is interested in this topic.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16032043-hells-angels
That's because it's just a language model. It's been trained to find a probable completion to a piece of text, predict a likely next word. It's not trained for human interaction. It's not an agent. It has no motives or goals. It might seem like it does, but that's more of a side-effect of language modelling.
When was the last time you heard Elvis? Or the Beach Boys? Or any male singer from the 40s and early 50s other than Sinatra?

Sirius XM just bumped their 60s channel up out of the bottom of the dial in preference to pop. The 70s and 80s channels are still down at the bottom. That speaks to the audience.

Time ages things out.
https://observablehq.com/@awoodruff/daylight-saving-time-gri... Nifty tool that takes in your preferences and tells you what will lead to the most optimal days.
We have plenty of relevant examples of scenarios where, given the exact same set of circumstances, men and women would be treated differently for exercising free will in defiance of gender norms. There are still jobs, even in the most progressive parts of the world, where people are given different levels of respect just because of their gender.
If we abolished time zones, it wouldn't make sense /ever/ for people in some parts of the world, even when communicating with people close to them. That's worse.
Counterpoint: US MLB teams are far more popular than Europe soccer teams, for Japanese.
The New York Times article on the subject discusses some of the benefits:

> In one 2017 study[1] from Denmark, scientists analyzed a psychiatric database of more than 185,000 people from 1995 to 2012. They found that the fall transition to standard time was associated with an 11 percent increase in depressive episodes, an effect that took 10 weeks to dissipate. The spring switch, by contrast, had no similar effect.

> Retail and leisure industries have argued that more light in the evenings would give consumers more time to spend money, and proponents also argue that lighter evenings would translate to fewer robberies[2] and safer roads[3].

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/us/politics/daylight-savi...

1 https://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2017/05000/Daylight...

2 https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2015/10/29/figh...

3 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12067111/
From Lewis's That hideous strength, to save anyone else wondering as I did the Google: http://baptism.co.nz/lewis.html .
Wanted to emphasize the personal connections. You should reach out to Every. Single. Person. you might want to work with and say something like:

"I have a close knit team who is looking to develop software on a contract basis. We focus on <sector> and <technology>. We are based in <timezone> and could start <start time>. We built <past project>. Do you know anyone who is looking?"

I have found that the softer sell is easier than "Are you looking for <team>?" because that puts people on the spot.

Questions you want to think about:

* Will you let folks hire just one or two of the team or is it a package deal? The latter is harder to sell, but probably less friction (if only 1-2 folks are doing work, are the other folks getting paid?).

* Will you do T&M or fixed bid? Depends on your ability to control scope and bid accurately. You can lose your shirt "fixed bid" but clients love it and if you have repeatable processes you can make good money.

* What kind of non-labor offering can you sell? Maintenance? Training? Small products like WP themes? Hosting? On-call? This can really help even out revenue ups and downs that are the bane of any consulting practice.

* How are you going to split up the money? 20% to each partner? Based on who does the work (with maybe a fixed percentage going to shared expenses like marketing)? Have these conversations sooner rather than later.

Finally, five folks is a lot to support. I'd have some hard conversations about financial runways and comfort levels for everyone; I doubt the entire team is on the same page w/r/t risk or place in life. Better to have those conversations now than in the future. I like the Nolo Partnership Guide: https://store.nolo.com/products/form-a-partnership-part.html the laws might not apply in Europe, but the concepts and what to think about certainly will.
This isn't an uncommon view, and touches on a lot of fundamental questions that are mostly unanswerable.

What is a "town"? Is it comprised of 350 people living in a few houses and all the land which surrounds them? Do they get to decide how this common land should be used? Do they get to decide how private land next to them should be used, whether it belongs to a current resident or not? If person #351 wants to move in, should all existing residents get a vote?
> Use `New` instead - it's the idiomatic name for a constructor in Go.

Where do you get this from? I've tried unsuccessfully to find such naming/design guidelines.
Is this correct?

- 0.28 Bitcoins were “seized” by forcing NobodyCaribou to disclose the 12 word seed phrase on his self-custodial wallet.

Under what law was he compelled, and why did he consent without, apparently, not consulting a lawyer? Couldn’t NobodyCaribou just say “Oops, I forgot”?

Something seems not quite right here - can anyone explain?
> If the author is here: ask some people in Russia/Ukraine/Argentina/Venezuela if they think the financial crisis will ever arrive.

I have family & friends in Russia. Stores still have bread and milk. Prices are in Rubles and so are incomes. It is harder to get dollars, and iPhones cost more, but normal everyday things are more or less normal.

Russia has had plenty of time to prepare. In 2014 the west showed that we were and were not willing to do (in response to Crimea).

They have domestic computers (MCST) - not wonderful but they work, domestic aircraft (military and civilian), domestic silicon fabs (65nm but that is plenty fast if you avoid electron apps), domestic automobiles.

Every person I ask replies with "What crisis? Is that what they tell you in USA? Haha, even gasoline prices haven't risen here. How are they there?"
Business Partnerships
I'm super interested in trying out mold, but I was a bit taken about seeing that it's AGPL licensed; I have no idea what the implications of that license for a linker would be. Would using it to link into a final binary require sharing the source of the binary when its distributed? What about if its used to link statically into a library, and then that library is linked into another binary?
Right, I think local rules make way more sense than DST for situations like that just like they make more sense for places close to the equator.
I worked in an mission-critical environment with a traditional 12-hour schedule where the option for this flexibility wasn’t mandated.

Staff dreaded working the fall-back shift because they ended up working an extra hour for free. The union brought this up at every round of negotiations, but were told to pound sand by the employer and asked what they would like to give up instead.
“Fake it till you make it” doesn't mean what you think it means
> My answer is that you have middle management who is made responsible for the output of the high performers, but they don't and can't truly control them - other than via micromanaging.

Agree. This is all anecdotal:

IMO - the people who get promoted to management in technical roles often don't have the people skills to perform the job well. I have had leadership thrust upon me multiple times in my career and it's very difficult. You're constantly balancing autonomy vs. active management for each person, in each role, for each unique situation. You're sussing out people's strengths and weaknesses working to help highly competent/technical people progress in their career. You're actively working to keep people on the same page, and sometimes you're working against your own contentious team members.

I rail hard against non-technical management managing a technical role - it just doesn't work. So, typically, technical people get thrown into management roles and I think we often suck at it. We don't take the time to work on ourselves to have the people skills required to be a positive leader of people. Then we compensate like any other crappy manager: we micromanage (crack the whip), we keep people in the dark ("mushroom management"), we DARVO, we have angry emotional outbursts, we pick favorites, etc.

What we see in software (and other technical roles) is that most people picked for management never put the work in to be an effective leader of people. And, I think the very nature of our work precludes many of us from developing the social skills it takes.
how is it even possible to have the question of whether there can be an infinite loop during establishing a data channel? just make the user provide the public key and do a handshake [1]. X.509 is literally a non-practical academic idea like CSS. software is bad because everyone accepts bad ideas.

1. yes, having things done the right way where they need to be done makes sense. think of the user after. for instance, you could just make his stupid cloud device aggregate all the keys he needs automatically
On Memory and Survival
This is a very good link, thanks!

Has anyone else got any similar companies? I am aware of TopTal but seems more related to single freelancer than classic consultancies. UpWork as well but the market tends to be noisier.
You can force a font and minimum font size at least in Firefox or set a default zoom level. One trick for anyone trying this is that English can be under Latin or Other and Firefox only allows this setting per writing system not overall (possibly some or all others can also be under two options similarly). Setting minimum font size does break some things (text in SVG diagrams being unreadable is the most common one I see) but I don't see how anyone can manage with the tiny fonts websites use. Zoom is less likely to break things I think but I don't like that it scales images.

I just checked and in Firefox you can also force text, background, and link colors. I imagine that breaks some things also.

Lots of websites load css from their CDN that is usually a CNAME, so a consolation prize of using uBlock Origin in advanced mode with CNAME decloaking and blocking third party sites by default is that text is often more readable (once you get to it, there is usually a bunch of extra random junk and only sometimes a "skip to content" link).

If light mode is too bright, it means your screen is too bright. It should be easy to fix.
One the biggest arguments for dumping the time switch is the difficulty caused by inconsistent switching between North America and Europe. That's a one hour change that everyone knows about well in advance. I'm not sure how those companies are supposed to coordinate anything if all meeting times are now relative to when the sun rises in each employee's location.
I think you might have this backwards.
"Obsolete typeface" is an interesting thought.
The argument about variables in makefiles was convincing to me, but looking it up I learned for the first time you can actually use variables in package.json files as well. After all these years mucking about with package.json...
correction: literally 99.99999% of endpoints. they use password^W SMS authentication instead. no seriously, how is the only one good thing about X.509 (authentication via public key) the only unused part (to be fair, if anyone used it, wed have a whole new 10 episodes of vuln disclosures).
"if they don't care too much about their clocks being in sync with the sun"

this is pretty important though.

We need both absolute and relative time unfortunately, as a consequence of this messy physically embodied universe we find ourselves in.

I too yearned for One Time Scale to Rule Them All, to no avail.
Very good tip!

I would also suggest to frequent coworking spaces and coffee shops in geeky areas; I've started my consulting career by pretty much chatting with everyone in the coworking space I was a member of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in,_garbage_out
Yes, they attack our relationships because these make us strong and make the globalist/capitalist/politicians/Propagandists weak.

Monogamy in particular also leveled the playing field to some degree with dating so that you didn't get the "winner takes all" situation you have today. I think the both the death of monogamy and masculinity are the underlying causes of the "incel" phenomenon. The worst part about it is that many of the effected people push for neoliberal ideas harder because they've been brainwashed to think of them as the solution.
Obviously when 2029 comes, there are still going to be some 18 year olds who started smoking when they were 17 (despite the existing rules trying to stop that), but the new law would mean that those early smokers will never reach an age where their habit becomes legal.

I don't know how rationally a 17 year old thinks about the relative difficulty of obtaining cigarettes for just a year until they turn 18, compared to having to obtain them illegally for the rest of their life, but with each passing year, the gap between {current average age of first cigarette} and {average age of smoker} will increase, making young smokers look more and more conspicuous.
It alone isn’t. But the notion of the sun rising in the mid-AM, midday being at noon, and the sun then setting in the mid-PM is literally as old as the sundial. There’s no way you’re convincing society that “no timezones” is a good thing.
Perhaps the original recording will go out of style, but particularly in pop, R&B and hip hop sampling is extremely common.

TikTok has more or less put this in overdrive. A recent meme uses a sample from a 1964 song, Remember by the Shangri-Las. https://youtu.be/wfxw1uALKgk
I think it's fabulous. Just signed up to be notified when it's ready. ;-)

Anyway, you now have my email.
People deal with a random shift of light twice a year now, they cannot deal with no change? It's not like these decisions all need central planning and we must cover every edge case: people figure out what to do in a distributed way.
"badly-written Perl scripts"

They do appear to be badly written on purpose, like this "hotdog-aboutDrives.pl" one:

https://github.com/arthurchoung/HOTDOG/blob/master/hotdog-ab...

The entire script is this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$str = `df`;
print $str;