skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, Stack Exchange (and Overflow) Meta never stops to make me smile : they used a post closed as 'non constructive' as a reference in an official announcement.
If you are sufficiently far north / south, you adapt your culture to not treat 4pm like people who have 18 hours of sunshine every day year round treat 4pm. You don't change the clock and act like thats changing the flow of time.

It helps that you almost certainly already don't treat 4pm like that anyway since you are wearing 4 layers of clothing while those 18 hour sunshiners are going shirtless.
There is no extra work required. They just have to provide documentation and sell spare parts (which they already produce for themselves) to consumers and independent repair services. There is virtually zero extra cost and this will have to impact on prices.
Same goes for chess.

15 is already considered very late to start serious study in chess. You simply do not develop the unconscious mastery the blink like ability to play a good move instantly.

It is not the lack of time in older players either. Tales abound of players of independent means dedicating themselves to chess and getting nowhere near master level.

By reverse, no chess player started at 25 and made Grandmaster.

A huge outlier is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_K._Shaw who was a club level player at 19.
I don't think a multihomed ISP can do that, but I'll be the first to admit that I don't understand internet routing all that well.
This. As a parent, I would love to have daylight after work so that I can enjoy some time with my kid outdoors. It is depressing to pick up your child when it is already dark outside.
Alternate thoery: The repair cost of a new appliance will generally increase/stay fixed over its life (hard to find parts, labor rates remain fixed). The price of an equivalent new appliance will tend to decrease along an expected rate of innovation. Thus, the expected life of a product tends to reflect a pivot point where the repair cost curve exceeds some threshold where a new appliance becomes attractive financially.

The rate of innovation is then the primary drive of expected product life, and if innovation increased in the 90s and 00s, expected product life naturally decreased. If innovation slows, expected product life should start increasing again.
On this note, be sure to take the cover off your garage door opener and slab lithium grease on the gears every 5 years.

The gears are plastic and turn into snow once it dries out.
There are all kinds of jurisdictions that will never allow this.
Afghanistan also borders China, and the time jumps three and a half hours at the border.
Does anyone why they voted to stay in permanent daylight-savings instead of permanent standard time?
Agreed. Furthermore, OO style programming is simple enough with plain JS.
You just get so, so much roadkill on time change day.
> most of all: your front end isn't going to be DOM driven

I get this and all - but I also want to make a strong case for letting the traditional DOM manage application state.

Putting a "component" abstraction between what is being rendered on the front-end often feels like increasing complexity for perceived developer ergonomics and future-proofing your application. The only time I agree with this abstraction is when there is a clear need for insane complexity on the UI - something I actively try to hedge against during design phases. High UIX complexity generally means crap user experience/design.

Also - I would argue on how many different ways do we need to address a front-end component + tie data to it..? We've got ID's for singular selection, classes for group selection, HTML5 elements, name attributes, data attributes, etc etc. Yes, I understand that this conflates the UI DOM node's functionality (JS) and styling (CSS) but I've never felt the need to decouple that since they're both addressing/manipulating the same DOM; Which is what I consider the canonical state representation of the front-end.
Another alternative ranking:

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2018/03/07/language-rankings-1-1...
we're all familiar with the article in the constitution that gives the federal government the power to decide for states how to set their clocks, i assume.

i guess you can always count on the times to advocate for centralized power
I understand that your reply was well intended and I apologize for sounding offended. I only wanted some clarification because I was confused.

While I can't really speak for previous generations, I would like to quote one of the replies above:

"The difference being that you're not engulfed in all of that for hours/days at
a time like you are with today's technology. It doesn't constantly follow you
around to the dinner table, to your school, to the toilet. 15 years ago, most
people had a family computer and you'd go on it and if there was something you
weren't supposed to see, you'd still do it but with the added fear of looking
back over your shoulder hoping your parents wouldn't catch you."

To the best of my understanding, previous generations also had several interactions with technology and culture (i.e. radio, pop media, television)
but they were not as intrusive as the internet. The internet is everywhere and is used by almost everyone unconditionally. This may have been the intention behind its eventual design progression but it has resulted in exposing very young kids to terrible content. This has serious implications, which I attempted to unsuccessfully convey in my original comment by recounting my own experiences.

I was very recently like one of the adolescents I mentioned: uncaring, naive, addicted to the stimulus of receiving an empty text message accounting for nothing. When I detached myself from these technologies, I began to instantly
feel more empowered and tried to get some of my peers to stop as well. However, their reactions ranged from being bewildered to even being upset that I would suggest such a thing. They are essentially zombies being swallowed up by an
ever pervasive force that they themselves don't fully comprehend.

With television the actors were some idealized figures that were polished by an entire marketing team, but with Youtube or Twitter we have regular people holding no reservation when doing stupid things for attention. Children are witnessing and practicing the words of these people who themselves have no clue what they're doing.

Tangentially, I'd like to point out that social media in particular has degraded our abilities to face confrontation and provide rational refutations. Just yesterday I was discussing some matters with a few peers and the moment a controversial topic sprout up half of them went on glancing at their phones apathetically and the other half just blurted out their opinions without any defense. Questioning their beliefs, I realized that they were mostly superficial and held only because some guy on Facebook or Snapchat had posted something about it.

Here's an example conversation:

<person 1> What do you guys think about insert name

<person 2> That's a horrible person!

<person 3> Absolutely despicable!

<person 1> Why?

<person 2 and 3> I don't know, everyone on the internet says they are, so they must be

I am aware that this type of mentality is intertwined with our evolutionary inclination to 'fit in' with the crowd, but the internet is abusing this behavior.
Seeing as almost no comms are direct, they are all intermediated by code, let the receiver decide. I for one would decide to never get contacted. :)
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How does this affect people living on Western borders in China ? Do they have really long days ?
"Nothing has changed over the centuries but the mechanisms by which propaganda is spread."

This is true. We now have digital platforms which reward propaganda by spreading it faster.

The speed and spread of false information has exponentially increased because social media distorts media coverage, rewarding sensational, emotionally charged content with greater reach in people's timelines and feeds.

Rumors used to spread from person to person, but the algorithms are giving them an edge. The algorithms are not neutral. They are designed to favor clickbait.
Which is why, for those use-cases, we use UTC.
How Algorithms Can Learn to Discredit the Media
If you're at a latitude that only gets 8-9 hours of daylight in the winter, there just isn't much daylight to go around. If you're adding it to the evening, you're taking it from the morning.

While I agree that the sun setting at 3:30 is a drag, I'm not sure pushing that to 4:30 really helps much.

During the summer, when you push sunset from 8pm to 9pm, that's at least an hour most people get to use (they are still awake and not working), and you're taking away an hour from 4am to 5am which most people don't (almost everyone is asleep).

During the winter, you're taking away an hour of daylight from, say, 7-8am, which most people can use (it will either be during their commute or before their commute, which they can enjoy themselves) to add an hour from, say, 3:30-4:30, which for many people is still going to be in the middle of their workdays.

Florida's case isn't quite so bad as that. In Tampa, FL, they are in fact taking away people's 7-8am sunshine in the winter, but they're at least adding sunshine from 6-7pm which will be fairly useful sunlight.

I'm just not sure it's useful for anyone much north of Florida to follow suit - you're trading valuable pre-work daylight for during-work daylight.
Flagship Android phones are at about $1,000.

Android users might just like the ecosystem better. There are rational reasons for that. Just like some people prefer Apple's ecosystem.
Or use pg_async[1] that integrates with Futures/Tokio/Hyper.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/pg_async
How does it solve anything?

If everyone was on UTC and I want to schedule a meeting with my coworker across the country, I still need the application to tell me what time standard business hours are wherever he is located

So the developer still has to do the UTC->Localtime lookup.

Plus, when I travel, I have to keep a chart of local "human-time", so I know that when it's 03:00, it's time for lunch.
EU Prometheus project started to develop quantum-safe cryptography
Yes it's all interesting stuff.

But, one way of looking at it, that's just ("just") an implementation issue. No ideas fundamental to Nix would have to be changed to find a faster way of implementing derivation isolation, hopefully any solution to problems like this could be transparent to people who had written build systems in Nix and not require significant rewrites...?

Even so, incremental builds wouldn't be an all-or-nothing scenario. A project could be divided up into a number of separately buildable partitions, each built as a separate derivation. Deciding how granular to make your incremental..ism would just be a tradeoff of overhead vs. amount of rebuilding saved.
FTA:
> When did you last touch someone outside your family or intimate relationship? I don’t mean a brush of the fingers when you took your parcel from the delivery guy. I mean: when did you pat the arm or back of a stranger, colleague or friend?

Literally all of the time. Shaking someone's hand as a thank you and patting their shoulder has become one of those weird social hacks that I learned have a great impact in bonding both parties and feeling a sense of camaraderie.

Of course, you don't just randomly start touching people, and I'm far more careful in inter-gender exchanges, but it really is an important part of our sensory needs and experience.

I don't like anyone other than my SO to touch my neck or back, but even then, if someone shakes my hand and pats me on the shoulder or back, it's hard not to have some sort of oxytocin response, at least for me.

This is probably highly specific, but that seems to be my experience. If you're cool with a hug, you generally don't mind a pat on the back.

Edit: also, if they ever appear uncomfortable with any sort of touch, I do my best to remember to always respect that, but they tend to be the people who send a lot of other non-verbal cues that it's not their thing and usually it's not hard to avoid even bumping into that issue.
> trying to answer "is this a reasonable time to contact someone?" across great distances

This is a problem right now. My brother lives in Japan but I have no idea if 4pm my time is a reasonable time for him or not without going online and looking it up.

Going to UTC would make scheduling meetings really easy because you'd just say "Meeting at 13:00" and for some people that's the afternoon and others it's the morning and some it's the middle of the night, but there's no timezone math to be done.

I'm doing interviews right now and I have always put "I'm available 10am to 4pm (Mountain)" or I get an interview for "3:30pm EST" (which I then have to think about is 1:30pm my time).

If there were no timezones we wouldn't have to do all that.
I agree we should just pick one and move on. The one thing that gets forgotten is that noon was picked based on highest sun point (for some latitude) which is fine until we start to have a generally accepted day as 8-5. Noon is no longer in the middle of that day. It probably makes the most sense to just split the difference between EST and EDT and call it ENT (normalized) and never change again. This doesn't swing winter or summer days anymore than needs be but still gets rid of having to ever change again. The retailers get the biggest benefit of all the time DXT.
Yeah, I was just thinking of the next commit to tzdata would say...

Edit: links:

https://www.iana.org/time-zones

Repo: https://github.com/eggert/tz/commits/master
And I can get behind that, which is why I say we can be either PST or MST, I don't really care which. (MST being functionally equivalent to PDT.)

Frankly, I just want us to choose something and lock it in. PST, MST, UTC, or whatever. Just don't make me change my timezone ever again.
I would mourn the full effect of "midnight" poetics, as in Eric Clapton's "After Midnight" or Gladys Knight's "Midnight Train To Georgia".
I actually have my laptop at work and desktop at home set to UTC. I eat lunch at 17:00. I go to sleep at 04:00.

Not too difficult, just do it.
There is no such consensus. As extensively outlined elsewhere (such as the r/science reddit thread posted elsewhere on this HN page), this group seems to have had an agenda other than rigorous scientific exploration.
Today, Android has a 91 percent loyalty rate, compared with 86 percent for iOS, measured as the percentage of U.S. customers who stayed with their operating system when they upgraded their phone in 2017.

According to Statistica[1] Android has 53.6% of the U.S smartphone marketshare and iOS has 45%. So I would say those loyalty rate numbers are perfectly comparable.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
Agreed. I part out old MacBooks.

Because Apple controls the design of all the parts, the number of screws is low and you only need 1 or 2 sizes to do the whole job.

And with a small product count ecosystem, you’ll never sit on your parts for a while.
Read the post; they explain the choice
This makes Florida daylight savings time permanent. It does not end daylight savings time, it ends standard time.

Update: Which doesn't actually happen unless Congress also "amends 15 U.S.C. s. 260a to authorize states to observe daylight saving time year-round" which is the wording used in the Florida bill that's passed. Unclear if the governor signs it, this isn't a law yet.
Rocket might, but it's also using lots of Rust-specific features. If you want to copy Node, you can: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/a-new-crate-simple-server-a-ba...

Someday I will finish my Express port...
That sounds like someone who never fully committed to Vim. Yes, Evil is excellent. I've mostly switched to using Emacs because of it, and Org-mode.

But I still can't quite get past the feeling that Emacs is a clunky sedan and Vim is a sleek sports car. Vim just feels a little bit nicer, faster, smoother.
Nuclear still means to do with nuclear energy: it being used as a simile doesn't change that meaning.

'patriot' means someone who stands for what is perceived to be American values. A missile being named after it doesn't change that.

Rubber is more interesting and perhaps a better comparison 'are you wearing a rubber?' during sex or 'when the rubber hits the road' in a speech, or 'do you have a rubber' during an exam.

So lets let's say someone says they 'specialise in rubber': it seems reasonable to believe they mean the material: they don't mean condoms or tyres or erasers.
Take away water and replace it with diet soda. Sounds like a prison, we should charge for this.
Question: have you read the article? Loyalty rate is defined as the number of users who switched from one platform to the other in the last year over the number of user on the departing platform. They even say that the absolute number looks different because of the bigger market share of Android.

Now, your argument is that someone who chose to stay with a device with smaller CB is more loyal, but what the article is saying is that out of 100 Android user, around 90 bought a new Android when replacing the phone, while only 86 Apple user bought a new iPhone.

I don't see how you dispute this fact as an evidence that Android users are more loyal. Even an argument on network advantage doesn't work because Android phones are very compatible with Apple ones (not the other way around) and the Apple ecosystem is still pretty big...
In the US, iMessage is a cultural sticking point. That's one thing that contributes to an "us" vs "them" mentality.
It wasn’t arbitrary - the guy who first proposed it was a big lover of the outdoors and thought it was mad that people in the UK missed out on all the summer sun from about 3am onwards, he proposed taking an hour from the morning sun and putting it at the end of the day so that people could enjoy some of that sun at the end of their working day (since this was in the early 1900s many men worked 12 hours in a mine shaft or in a factory so would have made a big impact) - in the end, what swung it was energy savings for running lamps during the world war 1 coal shortages. He never got to see it implemented, Germany trialled it first but since we were at war he didn’t know about that at the time.
"DST can make sense if you're sufficiently far north/south,"

As a person living on the 61st parallel - it does not. Winters are dark anyway you put it, and summers have so much light you can't be awake through it all. The situation gets only more extreme the norther you get.
Given their track record, do you think the government would help or harm the opioid epidemic? If history serves, they will make it worse. They already have. Their crackdown on pills has made the heroin epidemic skyrocket. Heroin is not the best of two evils.
Note that in general there is no way to name a particular branch of a blockchain fork. In cases with a protocol change coordinated well in advance, a counterparty anticipating the fork could announce that their tokens on one branch will be useless. However, if you just have two competing mining pools duking it out with the same protocol, there will be no way to name the branches ahead of time.

What's worse is that colored coins could distort the incentive structure to make it profitable to bribe miners, because the benefit to an attacker of subverting consensus could far outweigh the value of 12.5 BTC/block.
except this law would make DST the official time of Florida, not standard time (though only if Congress changes a law that allows states to do so). Other states like Arizona have exempted themselves from DST, which the federal government allows them to do.
The first 2 lines of the article are these:

"The fundamental theories on which the modern science of political economy is based are these:

That under primitive conditions men lived and live by barter"

The basic premise, that barter was (and is) by which 'primitive' (whatever that is) live, has been thoroughly debunked by contemporary anthropologists of money. David Graeber's 'Debt: The first 5000 years" is a must read for anyone interested in the topic of theory of money from the anthroological (i.e., empirical) perspective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
I hear good things about evil-mode & viper for emacs. Dunno about Neovim's remote editing protocol though. TRAMP does the trick exceedingly well for me (to include 'remote' editing as root on the local machine, which is kinda awesome).
The numbers that don’t lie are in smart phone profits. If you have a reasonable amount of loyalty, you will also be able to charge a premium. Yet only Apple and maybe Google’s pixel are in that arena.

Money talks!
Where I work most of the developers use Mac and are stuck with a legacy oracle db.
Checkmate emacs /s
I believe c/4 is indeed the fastest possible diagonal speed for a spaceship, does anyone know if a proof exists?
Apologies if I am misunderstanding, but I think this is agreeing with me. Right?

Specifically, I'm saying I would like it if we had a stable measure to the sun time of where we are. We don't. But it is not DST that really kills it. Rather, the idea that the sun down/up times are static for a place is weak. At best.
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Sufficiently far up (and down I guess) it makes little sense at all, or does so for very small part of the year. There's nothing to be saved in the abundance of light all day in the summer, and nothing to be done for the darkness of winter.
It will be 7:00AM, not 3:30AM. Mid-summer in Stocholm the sunset will be at 1:30 and the sunrise at 7:00. And 1000 miles south in Sarajevo clocks will be 1h30 behind, because by the time the Sun rises (at 7:00 local time) it will be already 8:30 in Stockholm...
PHP Telegram Bot framework/library
This is a cool idea! I'm not sure why but all the submodel pages say "There is an error in your formula." next to the current formula even though they seem to be the correct calculations.
All of that and more.

- Performance: most major frameworks use a virtual DOM to minimize the number of repaints. Off the top of my head, Vue has computed properties that cache calculations and React has aysnc/priority rendering. I imagine there's a good deal of other stuff.

- Cross-browser consistency: React has a synthetic event system that normalizes events between all of the different browsers. There's certainly less "gotchas" between browsers than there used to be, but its nice relying on a web framework with a huge testing suite to ensure those "gotchas" are taken care of.

- Community plugins: I was more alluding to the number of UI components that are available for use. Have you ever tried to make an accessible, styled dropdown menu? How about one with search capabilities or multiple selections? There's a lot of tricky UI components that have been created by the community at large that you can just drop into your application without having to spend a day or two developing and another month or two debugging.

- Maintainability: front-end frameworks generally come with conventions. They encourage modular, reusable components. This is much more difficult to achieve with vanilla, and if it is achieved, you have in essence created your own "custom" framework.

- Easier developer ob-boarding: Like I mentioned above -- framework conventions. In addition, framework documentation and examples by the community. You can't run through a bunch of tutorials if Joe Schmoo "winged" the entire front-end code base with vanilla.js.

- Framework updates: React just released Fiber, a huge update that dramatically lowered the size of the library, increased the perceived rendering performance, and added additional APIs. There is a huge group of open source contributors continuing to perfect that library. That's pretty sweet.
Yes. I was expecting a real road test on an actual freeway. This was just a truck moving in a straight line on an empty secondary road.
But even when cheap imports flood the market, it’s hard for a lot of people to shake the “repair-everything” mentality.