skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow thank you so much.

I began reading Transforming Stress and in two days it has already changed everything my life. I have been going through post-traumatic stress and my abilities to concentrate and function have been crippled. Horrible panic attacks, painful migraines, irrational fear and despair are beginning to wane.

I received the emWave2 today, best $250 I have ever spent. I am bringing up my coherence and the horrible chest pains have been going down in just 3 20min sessions of using the device. I might finally be able to program after all.
"Once you dump the notion of 'local time night is for sleeping, local time 9-5 is for working' all this seems like the next logical step to me."

Can you expand on this? I read this as setting up schedules to potentially rotate everyone's sleep/work schedules, independent of the diurnal cycle. Though I wonder if I'm not reading too much into it.
Normally people use the term "demand" to mean a curve, which is a function of price. In an efficient market (a good approximation for the oil market), the price solves for the equilibrium between supply and demand. The quote in the article, "demand will peak before supply", is meaningless. It's not wrong, it's just not saying anything.

The fact that the price has come down in the past couple of years means that either demand has shifted down (that is, keeping the price constant, people demand less) or that supply has shifted up.

On the demand side, it's unclear to me, I'd appreciate any pointers others would have. While advanced countries get more efficient with their use of energy, emerging economies are increasing their demand as more people escape poverty.

What is clear is that the supply curve has shifted up. Both because of technological improvements in the U.S. in fracking, and due to political improvements in countries like Iran, Iraq and Nigeria.
Sure wish they'd roll out something with two (possibly three) RJ-45's. Gig ethernet is nice here, but if they had multiple ethernet, they'd crack the SOHO firewall market WIDE open.
I think if you could say that about any language it'd be Kotlin. It seems to take all of the best practices guidelines from Java and just bake them in to the language.
The advantage of daylight savings is I can set my schedule to wake up at the same time each day, while maximizing my daylight hours and never getting up before dawn.

Without the shift for daylight savings, the sunrise time in San Francisco varies from 5:47a at the summer solstice, to 8:25a just after winter solstice. If I set my schedule to get up at 8:25a every day, I'd miss a significant amount of morning sunlight.

The beauty of daylight savings is it shifts the sunrise time to be earlier in winter, so instead of 8:25a the sun rises at 7:25a. Thus I can set my schedule to get up at 7:25a and get an extra hour of sunlight every day.

(Technically the latest sunrise time is just before shifting from daylight to standard, 7:39a on November 5 - the point is we reduce the range of variation from 2hrs 38min to 1hr 38min)
So basically you are saying that the US emissions are more than 2x India's.
Taking into account that India has 3x the population of the US then it means that

US emissions are 6 times bigger than India in terms of population

<sarcasm>Everything is awesomeeee</sarcasm>
What are the 10 things you'd do to solve it?
Sure, but there it's on the programmer. Which is exactly what I mean - it's better to shift the onus to the few than having everybody needing to care about it.
There definitely needs to be more awareness about this. Just from a quick read of the WOT forum it seems most users are completely shocked that their data was being sold, even though this is outlined in the WOT terms of service.

Here is what the WOT terms of service say about sharing their users' browsing data:

The information we collect is aggregated, non-personal non-identifiable information which may be made available or gathered via the users' use of the WOT Utilities ("Non-Personal Information"). We are not aware of the identity of the user from which the Non-Personal Information is collected. We may disclose or share this information with third parties as specified below and solely if applicable. We collect the following Non-Personal Information from you when you install or use the Product or use the WOT Platform:

Your Internet Protocol Address;
Your geographic location (e.g., France, Canada, etc.);
The type of device, operating system and browsers you use;
Date and time stamp;
Browsing usage, including visited web pages, clickstream data or web address accessed;
Browser identifier and user ID;
You really really really want to read this:

http://danluu.com/tech-discrimination/
Can't tell whether this is a joke or I just didn't understand the question.

=]
Pretty extraordinary that Apple is letting these through.

And some are blatantly flouting the rules e.g. putting Nike.com as their support website.
Global, linear, synchronized utc time for computers, and local noon when sun hits zenith, for humans.. would be my preference.
Distributed A/V Across Multiple Raspberry-Pis
Bleh! This virtual fudge tastes like crap.
Mmm. Mmm. Not half as good as cyber-fudge.

-The Simpsons, Season 11 Episode 17.
Be aware that even if you manually installed the driver in the first place and have never had GFE installed, Windows Update will helpfully install GFE for you if you let it update the driver.
If you use Emacs, check out magit. It's not really a GUI but it is git integrated into emacs so you can do all the usual functions, view diffs, write commit messages, etc. all from within emacs.
Example in action here: https://vimeo.com/69095631
Is there a chance that evolution will mitigate the rising temperatures and ocean acidity? Or are there perhaps levels those things that are fundamentally negative to life in general? Or is evolution too slow or too unpredictable to come out as a anything other than a net negative for humans?
How did he convince you? He didn't make a strong argument for it at all. The whole article seemed like an excuse for him to show off his flowery language and tell a couple anecdotes of people abusing time zones. His actual proposed solution was half-baked at best.
In Search of Answers on Gentrification
America’s road trip: will the US ever kick the car habit?
git status
...

Yep, those are the things I changed

git add -A
git status

Yep...

git commit

...editing in VI... :wq

Mischief managed.
Part of being social(ly well adjusted) is giving a shit about what someone else is interested in instead of requiring everyone to have the same interests as you.
Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ book used a proportional font with tabular spacing.
I don't doubt for a second that the parents are disingenuous or self deluded.

I just believe that most parents, looking back at their children when they were young, would say 'they were such happy children'.

I do not believe that 'a happy childhood' in any way correlates with individuals likelihood of using/getting hooked on drugs - or their difficulty in 'getting off drugs'.

Opioid addicts in particular commonly indicate that once they are 'fully hooked' - that the drug stops become a thing of aspiration, rather, they need to take it to 'just feel normal' - and that without it, it's painful. This is the body's reaction to the drug. Being addicted to heroin sets a 'new baseline' for your bodies production of serotonin, dopamine etc. etc. which is unpleasant, and to feel normal, one needs ever more heroin uptake.

In a much smaller way - a similar thing happens with nicotine: the 'mini high' from smoking goes away after a while, at which point, without a nicotine hit - you feel uncomfortable. Getting the 'hit' reverts you merely to a relatively normal state.
A week or so sounds a bit ridiculous. The only thing you need to do is install Xcode, then run a script which installs Homebrew. You can even use Homebrew Cask to install macOS apps, and MAS to install anything else from the App Store. All-in-all from installation to scripts completion, maybe an hour?

Source: Our IT department is a bit of a nightmare with Macs so I have to set them up for all our devs.
Just finished Last Days by Brian Evenson and started An Everyone Culture by Kegan and Lahey.
"I don't doubt for a second that the parents are disingenuous or self deluded."

Meant to say: "I don't think parents are disingenuous or deluded."
RBN energy has really detailed analysis: https://rbnenergy.com/. It assumes some level of familiarity, so it's not for everyone.
Increase your savings rate by just 5% and retire years earlier
Brain-Like AI and Machine Learning
I'm now imagining cars and helicopters flying between buildings to represent data flow... that would be crazy awesome.
Ah. I screwed up my math. 28 sounds perfect.

I rely on unit tests for this stuff these days ;)
CEOs ability to impact a large company performance is very limited. Most likely GE's performance is explained by it's history, luck and/or leverage. I also read Welch's books and am not a big fan, pretty standard MBA (though I don't think Jack ever got one), manage by buzzword, process oriented stuff. Still an interesting read but I wouldn't jump to a conclusion that by applying Jack's ideas you are going to get your company to those 4000% valuation increase.
>" the Delhi metro area has almost the same population as the entire state of Texas" This is not correct:

Texas ~ 27 million

Delhi - 18.6 million

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi
The problem with that is, most counters to first tier units rely on splash damage. As zerg for instance, if your opponent is rushing with lings or marines, you need banelings. But it would be trivial for an ai to neutralize the splash damage, so that wouldn't work.

Generally speaking, the counters are balanced for human players. Biased toward high level players, but still human.
Its descendant lives on: http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/
I feel like you may have missed the emphasis that Crocker's Rules can only be called for oneself. You don't declare that they are in effect for others, and declaring them doesn't mean that you are giving yourself license to be rude.

In fact, it's just the opposite - you are agreeing to be more accepting of their thoughts, including the emotional content (even the inflammatory parts) of their message.

I believe that the intention is that the emotions that are discarded are your own, at least to the extent that you try to fairly understand the other person's viewpoint by suppressing your own biases and emotional response to what they're saying.
Competitive only in the sense of having interesting, non-standard games (that weren't a face roll) at nothing really higher than Friday meetups at the games shop, sorry if that wasn't clear. Anyone can fork out for the latest comp winning deck, read the overview to see how you play the cards and roll the local meetup, I was simply saying that isn't where the fun is for me.

And yes, we spent our fair share reading up and talking to other players about their meta decks, that in itself is great fun also, just of a different kind.
You raise a good point about telemetry/analytics being biased away from people who disable those things, which can lead to companies unknowingly alienating that market. Another commenter on HN recently mentioned that most of their sales come from people with Google Analytics blocked.
Some thoughts on asynchronous Python API design in a post-async/await world
For context, the average car commute in a sprawling metro is 25 minutes total. Assuming your walking speed is near average, you spend more than 45 minutes just on the first and last miles each way.

That's brutal and insane. We should not have to live this way.
I vote a 256 day year, of 8 , 16 day months. Each month is 4, 4 day weeks, with odd weeks being mandatory global time off. New years is a one bMonth long global celebration, also time off.

This has a beneficial side effect of making date handling easier for 8 bit microcontrollers, so when the singularity happens, the superAI will take pity on us because we showed mercy to its ancestors.
I started getting scared of autonomous cars when that guy accidentally got sent to the libertarian island on Silicon Valley
> Why on earth don't they do a 'double shift', whereby one smaller team comes in at, say 6am to start the preparation and open the doors at, say 7am and work until 1pm. Another team can come in at 11am and work through to 7pm, doing the cashing up and closing the doors at 6pm.

The reason they don't do this is that that would require workers to stay at work later, which would take away from time spent with kids, eating dinner with family, etc. You're only thinking of this from the perspective of the customers' convenience, but the banks' employees are people too, and they don't want to have to be at work long after everyone else finishes up with work. If you were a cashier at the bank you'd feel differently about this.
Anomalies/changeparadigms/physics and machine learning
Spot on.

The author speaks of "the messy affair" of changing to have 4 different times in the US, seemingly oblivious to the fact that we were changing away from having a unique time in every town. It is beyond me how having 4 time zones is supposed to be messier than that.

He describes his 1883 newspaper quote as an example of how difficult and unpopular the change was, but I read it as describing how simple it was becoming to know what time it was in another city (except Chicago).

Simply put, the author's fantasy of eliminating time zones is ignorant of history, and silly and unworkable for reasons many other commenters have already covered.

I wouldn't mind losing DST, though.
Arctic farming: Town defies icy conditions with hydroponics
The problem with that is you don't know what UTC is going to be in the future for a certain place and time.
Yeah, fortunately once this is yanked from the Mozilla store their install rate will drop dramatically. Installing a non-verified extension triggers tons of warnings, and eventually it will only be possible by editing about:config.

You're absolutely right that this needs to be shared out. Many of the things we do in apps on mobile we do via web browsers on a computer. This means that the browser is a single point of convergence for tons of data, and browser plugins can capture this data and monetize it. While it may be possible to monetize purely in an anonymized way (which might not bother some users), some plugins do use individual data to target ads.

I've been asked to insert tracking code into my startup's browser plugin (with a lowly 75k users) for this purpose, and the $$$ was tempting. It would have paid more in a year than we've made off of all our individual paid accounts—plus we wouldn't have had to build a payment infrastructure. We're very pro-privacy, so it was a definite "no" for us, but I can see how other folks might have gone for it.

It's pretty ironic that a company with a name like "Web of Trust" ended up going this route. Hopefully they can pull themselves back from the dark side and earn back their customers' trust.
> implying there's a difference
I had the same feeling about that book.
That makes sense, easy to forget they are sometimes called on to be highly skilled/paid lab rats at times :)
It's been a long time since I wrote it; iirc it's a fair bit out of date, and is missing key insights (the speed benefit of maintaining parent pointers being the major one).
On the other hand, I just got back from Amsterdam, where I can get from pretty much anywhere in the city to anywhere else in the city, without a car, in that 25-minute time period. Transit doesn't have to be bad.
This is where things like GraphQL come in.
"representative from India's Centre For Science and Environment really frustrated and upset me"
-> please don't be upset over what one individual has to say

"how we don't practice what we preach"
-> that's true for every country US, India and other countries

"Our air is not poisonous"
-> really!!??

"we don't have 300 million citizens without power living in poverty"
-> that's great. why are you comparing with a country that does have that many people below poverty?

"India stop blaming the US and start putting in the work on their own"
-> true.
>US is killing everyone

How?
Meh. The military has been trying to run everything on Zulu time for years and it hasn't gotten a lot of traction because everyone seems to hate it. (Speaking from experience on the ground side, I know it is a bit more commonplace and accepted in the aviation community).

At least as far as the US is concerned, if we're going to change a major standard of measurement, let's focus on going over to the metric system.
My point is that 9AM in Tokyo and 9AM in Madrid or Virginia are vastly different in terms of "position of the sun", despite being the same longitude.

http://blog.poormansmath.net/images/SolarTimeVsStandardTimeV... <-- this map shows the difference between clock time and solar time. Western Europe and much of the US is 2 hours behind solar time compared to Tokyo.

So Tokyo is set to a 9-5, but if they want to follow the same strategy of getting to work first thing in the morning, then they should be doing 7-3, or even a bit earlier due to DST non-observance.

Main point is that 9 AM means vastly different things, even counting for longitude. Standard time has become standard, in setting when people wake up, but it's far from the locally ideal situations.
Thanks! I did read vimium's readme years ago, but in the meantime I had totally forgotten about insert mode.
It would be fun to build a library of just those cards.

Infinite recursion until opponent stops acknowledging you and packs up his things and goes home.
Ahh but the smog problem can be fixed. Our politicians are just not motivated to solve it.

Global warming on the other hand. CO2 has ruined the planet permanently.
The reason why the clock became important in the industrial world was that it allows coordination of large, modern enterprises. I'm not sure how this system really solves this problem, nor do I understand why you need to start messing with time zones to have people live in an essentially pre-industrial way (you can just let them ignore the clock, after all).
Unchecked smog will be fixed with enough political incentive. Unlike global warming, It's a problem that can be fixed in a year
That is fantastic, thank you. It'd be interesting to see something like MaruOS [1] implemented that way.

[1] maruos.com
Google Porter Ranch.
GLOBAL WARMING is permanent.
Ai is another thing that's always just around the corner, probably the same corner as graphical programming.
Out of curiosity, how did you think business deals happen?

I didn't imagine something like: "P, Q, R, S have expressed interest in buying us. We thought that might as well check with you with you're interested. We are not for sale, by the way."
Time and time again history has shown that you can't just retrofit old laws to stuff that's "similar enough". Because the new technology is never the exact same. Computers are not telegraphs. Email is not postal mail. Cars are not horse-drawn carriages... Law reuse is harmful because it loses nuanced differences in how these technologies operate and are used. I really think a lot of problems are linked to that, such as with drug laws. I would say we need a reform but that would require changing the DNA of the judicial systems, and like this article notes, ingrained prejudices.
okay so

let's substitute one completely arbitrary time measurement (Greenwich Mean Time, which is basically "solar time outside an observatory in Greenwich, England") for an intricate set of time zones that is, admittedly, confusing, but also has some vague relationship to "solar time in the area covered by the time zone"

it'll be great

almost everyone on the entire planet will have to get used to workday hours being different numbers, and we'll still have to do timezone calculations when we want to try and make realtime contact with someone in what was formerly another time zone

it'll be super awesome

oh hell let's just all switch to Swatch Internet Time while we're at it, throw out all the analog clocks.

(I mean yeah, fuck daylight savings time anyway, but sure let's throw out the baby along with the bathwater and make life marginally easier for people who regularly schedule intercontinental phone calls. They're the only people whose opinion matters evidently.)
How can a computer ever be as intelligent as my alcohol soaked brain
No, you aren't contrarian. Remove timezones, and it still doesn't help me sort out if it's morning in Italy yet, or if business hours have started. In fact, it's more difficult, since I'd then have to figure out what Italian business hours are.
90+ hour weeks barely even occasion comment

I don't believe it. 90+ is absolutely insane. If you are working this much, you seriously have to reevaluate your life choices - living under a bridge is probably healthier for you.
This depends on what kind of job you have (and on how you are being compensated). If you made a 40 hr/wk for salary deal with your employer and now you're actually available for 40 hours while also doing your actual work outside of that time, you might want to reevaluate your work-life balance.
Very cool idea but slightly disappointed by the language options and constraint on websites. I barely use any of the sites it supports and don't learn any of the languages.

I'm wondering how difficult it would be to pipe random words into google translate and replace them.
Funny, Apple made a fuss earlier this year that they were cracking down on "My First App" type applications, but they let shoddy, fraudulent, poorly translated applications through no problem...
Were 'catalytic converters' technology a known solution at the time? I wonder if there is a known solution to the smog problem faced by Indian and Chinese cities. Or is the solution yet to be discovered.

It feels like (after having lived there) these cities have crossed the threshold for number of people/cars/houses/offices per unit area and the way forward is to force expansion of cities -
- reduce number of high rises that can be built
- reduce number of cars that can be produced or sold
- force/incentivize offices and industries to move out of these big cities
- large, safe and economical state owned public transport
Insofar as a therapist with a psychology degree has said OP's words to me, it's accepted by some professionals.
Life Work by Donald Hall
Time zones I'm okay with. But DST needs to GTFO.
Good point. In retrospect I misunderstood the gist of the article. Loneliness can be remedied simply by being around and engaged with other people. That doesn't require holding forth on whatever's being discussed.
mind sharing the decisions you have made and followed through with?
Lots. Try 1830 and its million variants.
Having dealt with the iOS approval process several times, it is interesting to see that the system has this weak spot. The approval process is known for its stringency (especially compared to the Play Store), but clearly there are some vulnerabilities lurking.
I think our legal system does change over time with case law and interpretations of existing laws in new mediums.

Though this does have the unfortunate consequence of lagging behind which can sometimes be severe.
This is really clean and simple and looks like it can grow with needs. I don't think I would have come across it in the framework noise if you hadn't tied it to the issue here and spoke to it.
> I'd tend to prefer to store in UTC and store the associated timezone separately.

This is exactly the wrong approach for calendaring software, because it results in appointments moving in time when governments change the daylight saving time rules.

Storing in a local time (plus time zone) is exactly right for calendaring. And the correct-sounding, but wrong, mantra of "always store in UTC" is why calendaring apps handled the change so poorly.