skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect this can be generalized beyond the public sector.

How organizations work has changed dramatically over the last 20-30 years. Pensions are gone, salaries are higher, job security is lower, performance expections are higher, management is more merit-based than seniority based, etc. (yes, you can see exceptions in any workplace, but the overarching trends are clear on a multi-decade scale.)

As with any change, there’s a spectrum of early adopters to laggards.

Public services are generally going to be in the laggard category by virtue of being old and bureaucratic. However, there are lots of other established companies and industries that are laggards as well and they must be feeling the exact same pain.

The boomer generation grew up in a world where the old model was the norm. On average, they would be most comfortable in that style of company. This becomes self-perpetuating as the world changes around the organization: the current staff reinforces the culture and keeps it resistant to change. Doubly-so by virtue of the mutual loyalty in those positions.

And now, the baby boomers are retiring and none of the new workforce is accustomed to the legacy org model and the tradeoffs it requires (are you interest 40% lower salary for a pension? You only have to stay for 20 years).

I predict it’ll be up to the organizations to adapt to the times. Management experience in “modern” companies will be in hot demand over the next decade or so.
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributors
When I was in my 20s, I drank socially from time to time and even occasionally by myself. As I've grown older, I pretty much stopped:

- I've found that the pressures of "adult" responsibilities (kids, real career, etc) leave little time for it

- I want to model good behavior for my kids, and in particular, I don't want my kids to see me drinking or drunk

- I'm in the back half of my 30s now - I've realized that the time ahead of me is limited - and I still have a ton of stuff I want to accomplish. Spending that time with dulled senses or on dealing with hangovers just seems wasteful and pointless
American here -- visiting the UK and related destinations .. it was astonishing the amount of drinking (and smoking) that was considered OK .. really, really too much drinking in many places I visited. If the UK can find a way to tone down the alcohol, that seems positive to me.
The US has dropped CO2 emissions by 15% since 2007. That’s a meaningful change.

Global numbers aren’t a rosy, but if you look at a developing country like China it produced 17.7% of their electric from renewables in 2008 and that jumped to 27.8% in 2019. While their economic growth more than offset that change, solar and wind adoption is currently much faster than economic growth both in China and around the world.

As to self sustaining global warming that’s not exponential. The current amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will result in a fixed amount of warming that hasn’t happened yet. It’s not an exponential increase just a lag between emissions and increases temperatures.
Xcode stability has markedly improved since 2016, FWIW.
Certain forms of alcohol (wine & beer & formerly mead) consumption run deep in European (at least) culture. Like, almost 10,000 years deep. They're part of a bundle of cuisine and agricultural traditions. It is possible for most people to consume them responsibly and in moderation. Obviously there are outliers, and distilled and budget alcohol is trickier. But there is an avenue for "respectable" use of the commodity.

Cigarettes by contrast are an industrial product explicitly made to be addictive. I'd guess? at least half of people who start to consume them become addicted and it becomes habitual. (Though I should say I and others I know who 'smoked' recreationally @ college age at clubs etc never did become addicted, or quit fairly easily)

Tobacco itself also has deep cultural roots; ritually among indigenous North Americans, and also among post-colonial Europeans&North Americans in pipe tobacco and cigars. But that's not the same thing at all as cigarettes. I smoke a pipe now and then during the summer, and it rarely if ever leads to cravings.
> For me an average pace of 3:52 is great, while 4:12 is very bad.

Um, that’s very fast. At my pace (8:45 or 5:26 in km), I barely notice the discrepancies on my Apple Watch 7.
This is not true.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/is-recycling-paper-bad-...

> Recycling causes 35 per cent less water pollution and 74 per cent less air pollution than making new paper.

Ironically, one vaguely true point was that we used to burn wood waste in pulp mills, which is better than recycling with coal powered electrcity.

The fix was to stop burning coal for electricity though, not to stop recycling.
I found out alcohol makes my pollen allergies go overdrive. Ever since I stopped drinking alcohol, my symptoms basically went away. This is because alcohol - along with some other foods - have histamine in them.
I was thinking something similar: it has a distinct posterization look that I tend to get when I mess around with images and reduce the bit-width of my input a little too much and my integers overflow. But those tend to result in "zebra stripes" like patterns, so you're probably right that the issue is more one of not using saturating integers while amplifying a value above the bit-width of its container.
https://reasonandmeaning.com/2019/11/03/socrates-i-know-that...
Right on. I still haven’t tried a Marlin. My first lever action was an Ithaca 49R which is from that era and is a great piece of history. Completely agree on the difference in factory quality.
The title is editorialized for clarity.
The actual title is "Replacing a 40 Pin COB With a 44 Pin QFP" which would have been incomprehensible to most.

COB = Chip On Board, that's these chips under blobs of black epoxy that you might know if you ever opened a cheap toy/clock/... [0]

QFP = Quad Flat Package, a chip package with pins around its four sides [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_on_board

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad_flat_package
The original page seems to be gone from the web, but here's an archive of it: http://web.archive.org/web/20210318102514/https://jrl.ninja/.... That shows the described CSS in practice.
Migrating away from mainframes can also be just because of talent availability but also lock in.

Where I work we have processes that would make perfect sense chucking jobs at a mainframe (if we implement our language on it...), but IBM have no competition so it's super risky.
I was mistaken. I thought you needed std::tuple for structured binding, but it seems the language can also destructure other types.
That's still bad. If they make such a bold claim, back it up properly. It just comes across as a "woe is me and all the ladies" now.

It's not like we lack ample counterarguments either.
> If we all want this problem to go away, we should be focusing on ending the war in Ukraine which is disrupting energy markets and causing economic havoc in Europe.

If you have contacts in the Kremlin feel free, but otherwise that's an empty idea. There are two ways to do that - Ukraine gives up, which it won't, or Russia does, which it won't. Putin cannot afford to show how weak he is or he might be gone, and Ukraine will no longer compromise on it's territorial integrity now that it has the upper hand in the fighting, and moral justification (they were invaded by a brutal genocidal regime that has murder thousands of their civilians, why would they compromise with them, especially now that they're beating them?).
What is wrong with browser default styling, and why do browsers ship with something that is wrong?
Learn NMAP to find your first Network Vulnerability
This is my first article on my new Blog Hackerask!
Nice long-read but with a title like that I was hoping for a small FAQ summary somewhere in the article?
HN had a discussion on the program in Appalachia to try to find employable coders among economically dislocated mining engineers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19892155

Under this story about bootcamps there was also the experiment by Google to run fiber through those towns. I believe the lesson was that only a handful were employable as fully-remote devs.
Rest in peace, Near
Yeah. I have a NAS for other purposes but redundant external USB drives is the easiest solution. You can even periodically make a clone and store it somewhere else.
>Do restaurants need to start banning alcohol from their venues?

No, otherwise many of them would go out of business.
Because they tried to ban alcohol before and it didn't go too well.
Couldn't agree more. I've been asked countless times why I don't drink, especially in the first year of university, and it always seemed odd to me that people even needed an answer. I'm not talking about people just making conversation or asking out of curiosity, but a vocal minority seem to make some sort of character judgement based on your sobriety if they're not satisfied by your response.
Lack of people to work should be the norm. Getting enough humans to work should be the bottleneck of the system to force treating them well and optimize everything around them.

The globalization and demographic trends that has undercut the value of labor in the west for decades are now reversing. Expect inflation, financial system struggles (collapse?), higher taxes but also wage increases and the working class getting larger chunk of the pie.
This is certainly a cool idea, but I don't understand a few things about how reality would work with an async reconciliation process on the database layer:

1.) How would the auto-incremented ID fields be merged in such a system?

2.) How are unique constraint violations handled?
Nix makes my dev life on MacOS so much more manageable. The "dirty" feeling has, for the most part, gone away. I'm also able to easily share common config between other machines I use.

Here's my Nix setup for my M1 Macbook using nix-darwin, if it helps anyone: https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config
> It's well known that this is not true

Well known? Is it? Could you please give some reference then?

No one would be surprised to see a "work-to-rule" action, but how is it "russian propaganda" that Europe had sanctioned Russian energy industry and it "somehow" had consequences?
Fortran is easy to hire for?
Always work with the following in mind:

Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher.

It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.
Isn't there a difference between not hanging out with drunk people and not drinking alcohol? Some people have a glass of wine with their meal, for instance.
Yes, People Are Eating Tide Pods. No, It’s Not Safe. (2018)
I still use the same installation of macOS as I began using seven years ago. I only moved it to new MacBooks a few times using the built in solution for that. I thought that formatting like crazy was a windows thing?
Wow, how does discovery work when there are legit natsec concerns?
Another theory on why routine tasks get prioritized over creative is simply the mental load associated with the routine tasks “spills over” into creative idea times.

What I mean is that, routine task can be mentally laborious - with little motivation to do them other than they fact they are mandatory or needed. Once the motivation to do this task is used, the motivation to do the creative task is no longer there because it was spent on the routine.

It’s seems related to what we’re trying to build (https://doubleapp.xyz ), where we want to provide a way to channel motivation from accountability so it’s not all on you to muster the motivation do everything.
Alcohol (ethanol) when used properly is a very effective medicine. It blocks several ion channels linked to disease, like the Voltage Gated Calcium Ion Channels.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8894851/

Nicotine is another such drug and relieves some symptoms of Parkinson's and Alzheimer possibly though its affect on AcH receptors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinic_acetylcholine_recept...

The problem is not the substance but the culture which is formed around the substance.

My grandfather drank Vodka everyday of his happy life and lived till he was 98. I rely on Vodka as part of my medicine if if you take that away from me I will be very upset and sick.
This guy has learned that the vaccines don't stop infection, don't stop transmission, and in his own experience don't stop serious symptoms. Yet he still promotes the vaccines. His problem isn't hubris.
Once you stop drinking the hangovers get worse and worse. The pandemic removed the pressure to drink (for some) and now it’s really hard to lose an entire day to feeling like garbage in exchange for a couple hours of partying. I still drink one or two socially but anymore and my next day is a mess.
Important, if true.
If you want to quickly get a feel for traditional IBM mainframe software, you can do that easily enough. Download Hercules mainframe emulator [0] and then you can fire up MVS 3.8 [1] or VM/370 [2]. Be aware that the community has made significant improvements on these old open source software systems.

[0] http://www.hercules-390.org
[1] https://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/installMVS/iPREREQv7.htm
[2] http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_VM/370_on_Hercules
From the article:

"In a grim precedent, some people really did eat laundry detergent packets in 2018 after a similar “challenge” based on Tide pods took off."

They link to another NY Times article from 2018 titled "Yes, People Really Are Eating Tide Pods. No, It’s Not Safe.":

"In the first half of January, poison control centers handled 39 cases in which teenagers were intentionally exposed to the detergent packets. That was as many as in all of 2016, the American Association of Poison Control Centers said. Last year, poison control centers handled 53 such cases, the group said in a news release."
If this were true, why aren’t they suing for the extraordinary coverup actions? Surely a whole lot of people up to the president should have been aware of this.
Open health app and press on your profile picture in the upper right corner (scroll to the top). Then scroll down and press export all health data. Also OP mentioned the exported XML has some errors in iOS 16, so beware of that.
Interesting. I've always heard a specific colloquial term for the metaphorical "pass" women have, but have never heard the same term or concept for men. It also does not match my experience as a man; look at incarcerations, women have on average shorter sentences for the same crimes.
go has other problems that preclude it from being a good option including binary size, memory usage, and portability. There are certainly a lot of places it is a good choice for, but I can't really imagine using it anywhere I use c++ today.
Google doesn't scan photos that don't exist on their servers.
You can only drink so many pops/sodas two or three before you hit a sugar limit. With beer you could easily hit higher limits.
I just stopped drinking because life is getting difficult and stressful with rife disease, high costs for everything, and a crashing economy that I need to be at my best. That’s probably one of the drivers of the trend.
Is there some way to view the result full screen, namely for viewing on mobile?
There was news recently of the Japanese Government heavily promoting drinking to young people, because their alcohol industry is suffering.
The code you debugged: how did you test against the 32X/DC hardware? Or was this just trying out algorithms?
Is Russia really a threat to Europe? From over here, it seems like they're struggling as it is. Or, do you mean after they control all of Ukraine's exports, Europe will buckle?
I suspect that most young people in the developed world are introduced to alcohol by megacorps who just want to sell you as much fun as you can walk away from. That is quite different from being introduced to alcohol at an early age as something that is an intricate part of your culture and diet. Personally, I find fermentation fascinating and a walk through human history: kefir, kvass, berries, barley...

On a personal note, I find that most of the commercially produced wine and beer is of extremely poor quality. A few months ago I was researching a "high end" winery, searched for their land on satellite, and discovered that they were growing their grapes next door to a massive junk yard. Fortunately, the organic/bio movement for alcohol is slowly growing and I find the quality to be much higher.
I also have had depression and it's very important to note that Alcohol while temporarily lifting it, will cause an even worse depression the next day. At least it does for me, like clockwork.

I've always coped with this by realising that it is purely chemical and ignoring it because it goes away by the next evening, but sometimes it was tough.

Still, it helped me fix the 'root cause' of being depressed which was being too shy to really connect with people and being lonely as a result. I still view it as a tool.
Browsers ship with defaults that are now 20 years old - there was a cool post here about 8px body padding a while ago.

It's not "wrong" it's legacy.
The sanctions had extremely high public support. And not just passive support, byt pretty activen public demand; e.g. it seemed pretty obvious at the time that the German government was doing everything they could to avoid sanctions that could in any way impact the energy trade but the public uproar forced their hand. Just go and check the opinion polling from the time; it'll be like 80% in favor of full economic sanctions, while other survey questions make it clear that the respondents also know it will cause increases in energy prices. Here's a couple of examples to get started, but I'm sure you'll want to do your own research instead: [0] [1]

And sure, there's variation by geography / proximity to russia. But it's nowhere near as strong an effect as you claim.

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/at-your-service/files/be-hear...

[1] https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/api/deliverable/download/fil...
Maybe this is region-dependent, but I haven't seen that to be the case. For example, Betsy DeVos pushed to defund public schools in favor of charter schools at the state level, to disastrous consequences [0], then pushed for the exact same policies at the national level.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/education/detroit-public-...
Without max-width the content will stretch across your entire screen, which isn’t great for readability. It’s faster to read when you don’t have to look across your entire monitor and move your neck/head.
Oh, lucky me I get to use snap now.
What are the advantages of me being scared? I am so far removed from the situation that spending my attention on it would have no positive change for me or anyone else.

I can draw out a 2x2 matrix:

A1. Worry, then die of radiation burns next month.

B1. Relax, then die of radiation burns next month.

A2. Worry, then die of cardiac arrest in 40 years.

B2. Relax, then die of cardiac arrest in 55 years.

I’ll choose options B1 or B2 please.
You’re missing the forest for the trees. The problem is not solvable because of the Republican stance.
Pretty amazing to get all of PHP working in WASM. Next maybe we can get full MySQL, too (like the Crunchy Postgres port [0] [1]).

Would also love to see it for Java, Go, Perl, Sed, and Awk :)

What if Intelli-J could run in the browser? Yes please.

I bet some of these even already exist. What a time to be alive, 15 years ago I'd never have guessed Javascript could evolve into this!

[0] https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/crazy-idea-to-postgres-in-t...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32498435 (August 22, 2022; 814 points, 172 comments)

^ n.b. Submitted by @samwillis
Default styling looks terrible and is hard to read. Humans are good at reading columns at around roughly 80 characters, while browsers default to filling the whole width of the screen with text, resulting in a column that's hundreds of characters wide. Text also gets easier to read when more spaced out; the default line height makes the text too close together.

Browsers still ship the bad defaults because changing defaults would break existing websites.
shouldn't a small degree of forced uniformity aid in integration ?

we've seen in other more liberal communities (Denmark, Sweden) that influx of culturally different immigrants tends to create nuclei of those cultures where they just interact amongst themselves, and never integrate.

I would argue that expecting a middle eastern to integrate into a northern European society is a farce.
Both in Texas and California recently lots of people voluntarily cut back but it’d be nice to reflect that in the billing in some way. The Griddy way may have been too extreme but encouraging conservation of energy is a generally good idea (imagine things like rebating permit fees based on sliding scale of how much you “beat code” on a blower door and insulation test).
> with a nice telescope

Not sure about that. Given that we've only discovered a thousand or so exoplanets, and that our galactic neighbourhood contains millions of stars that probably mostly have planets, and that we've only recently spotted any that are Earth-like and in the habitable zone, I'd guess that most inhabitants of the neighbourhood have no idea this planet exists.

I think the obsessive focus on alien life is misguided, and a waste of time and money. It's so certain that there is extraterrestrial life that it would add essentially nothing to our knowledge if we found evidence of life on an exoplanet. We couldn't visit them, they couldn't visit us. If we tried to visit an exoplanet, we'd have evolved into something else by the time we arrived.

So my guess is that there is a very short period in the development of civilisation when "people" (including aliens) are interested in space aliens. I suspect it kicks in when "people" first understand that they are living on a spherical planet orbiting a star, and that there are many, many other stars. And I suspect it fades away when they realize that it can never make any difference to anything.
Who else was hoping this was about a port of Oberon[1] to the PS5?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)
Swiftlint[1] is nice and can be integrated into Xcode’s warning panel.
For auto-formatting, you can press CTRL-i on any selection to auto-format.

[1] https://github.com/realm/SwiftLint
For the same reason people dismissed Covid in Dec and Jan news. It's called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias
I've long used `pdfgrep` in a very kludgey way, when stockpiling rare variants of particular used ThinkPad models (for looking up actual specs based on an IBM "type" number shown in a photo on an eBay listing, since the seller's listing of specs is often incorrect).

Example shell function:

t500grep() {
pdfgrep "$1" /home/user/doc/lenovo-psref-withdrawn-thinkpad-2005-to-2013-2013-12-447.pdf
}

Example run:

$ t500grep 2082-3GU
2082-3GU T9400 2.53 2GB 15.4" WSXGA+ Cam GMA, HD 3650 160G 7200 DVD±RW Intel 5100 2G Turbo 9 Bus 32 Aug 08

The Lenovo services to look up this info come and go, and are also slow, but a saved copy of the data lives forever.

(A non/less-kludge way would be to get the information from all my IBM/Lenovo PSREFs into a lovingly-engineering database/knowledge schema, simple CSV file, or `grep`-able ad hoc text file.)
Nothing is explicitly wrong, but the spacing on lists and headers can look kind of silly. For instance, consider in Google Docs - the headers stack nicely, look clean, and lists have perfect indentation / spacing

Those changes pretty much cover all this does, and it doesn't do a great job IMO. I'd let them get away with "look slightly better than defaults nearly everywhere"