skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a common pattern is to make help content visible by default (you've got lots of room for it, even if it was just some of the help text you already have), and allow it to be easily dismissable, or dismiss it automatically after some time (subsequent page loads or similar).
You'd end up with the official calendar day either flipping in the middle of the day, or at a different time in every locale.
We now have the technology to accurately, and simply, keep solar time wherever we are, instead of using and manipulating archaic time zones.

Edit: The original, 19th-century impetus for time zones (vs solar time) was to reliably print and manage train schedules across longer East-West railroads. With powerful computers and satellite positioning cheaply available to everybody, we could overcome this now-obsolete hack.
> A long-forgotten, under-appreciated aspect of encouraging widely dispersed suburbs was rooted in Cold War defense against nuclear attack.

https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjuly10/suburbs-defense-07-10....
It was never about the farmers.

It was always about saving fuel during wartime. Farmers dislike DST.
It's funny to see how westerners talk about dialects in China. Western propaganda worked pretty well I guess :)

And yeah, most Chinese are bi-lingual by default. Now I know I can speak tons of northern Chinese languages. That's a big upgrade!

We all learn classical Chinese at school, and that must be a completely different language. Wait, are "classical Chinese" a single language? Should we count each of those spoken in different dynasty and different regions all as different language? Oh man, I can't even count how many languages I can speak
"[...] but it feels to me like possession of otherwise illegal digital or virtual information should really be decriminalised, simply due to its immensely malleable and interpretable nature."

I'm not really sure what you mean here. What makes something being "digital" or "virtual" special? Isn't the content/message more important than the way it is stored and transmitted?

I mean, concretely, you really think if someone has an illegal picture on their computer, and you can prove they were aware of it, that should be treated differently than them having that same picture only printed?

If someone sends an email to hire an assassin, is the fact that it was a digital message so relevant?
> "I am curious, how do you think it lowers the support burden? Do you mean they can just say: "you soldered it, I don't know, works for me" or is it something more? :D"

Yeah, pretty much the former. Selling a product directly, even in kit form, implies that you're stating that the parts you supply will be fit for purpose, whereas with a site like Kitspace I'd suggest it's up to the person assembling the boards to get things working (though that won't stop some people asking for help). What Kitspace seems to do is to reduce the friction between seeing a board an individual is interested in and the ordering of the suggested parts, which is a step forward for the user experience of open source hardware.
I'm quite convinced my parents believe that there's more sunlight because we switch to summer time.
I agree to drop the ".00", but I prefer the number $36,200,000.
Right now, you understand the basic meaning of different times no matter where you are: Noon means lunchtime, 8am is rather early, 10pm rather late etc. You can travel and this doesn't change. You can watch British movies and you'll understand the time references.

Switching to UTC changes all that. And, almost as important, it doesn't help in the least: you still need to think about your co-worker's geographic location when trying to find a time that's good for your phone call.
We’re simplifying the module system this year, incidentally.
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Is there a more compact or well-defined way to phrase this? Does "elementary" mean that by removing any arbitrary n cells, this structure won't exhibit the intended behavior? Or it won't exhibit any "interesting" behavior at all? Or does it mean that no subset of the cells exhibit any interesting behavior on their own?
Yes, it would be good to tweak the layout a bit to make it more obvious on how the workflow should be.

Starting over from a new copy every time doesn't fit with my understanding of either normal document editing or even GIT. This almost seems like "block-chain" <sigh>, it's that's appropriate. Therefore, it wasn't intuitive automatically on how to use the tool.

I have a friend who edits my work, and it's good to have someone help you see the forest through the trees, especially on interface design. (though I often don't like the suggestions, they are mostly right)
Clocks are running slow across Europe because of a Balkan electrical spat
I’m not agreeing with this; but the main reason I can see is that not having one when every other kid you know does will cause some issues in your peer groups. I’d expect to be mocked for it, myself. But then I’m biased: I had a smartphone that I researched, purchase, carrier unlocked and then turned into a “global” firmware from 2005, when I was 15! Having a computer in my pocket when no one else did was awesome, heh.
Well, there is. It has nothing to do with DST though.
Rust is incredibly usable for a systems programming language that doesn't have a garbage collector.

Often I'm writing code that's as high-level as other languages. Though by its nature it also has aspects that you don't even have to think about in other languages, like Fn vs FnOnce vs FnMut when working with closures. So it's undoubtably going to be more difficult than other languages.

For example, I think most Rust users would agree that it could be confusing when a fn returns a Cow<&str> vs OsString vs String. But it's straight-forward to convert those into String even if you don't care what the differences are.

I think it's fair to simply not have an appetite for a certain language's set of idiosyncrasies.
Okay, but you're essentially telling someone whose job it is to produce this data that they're doing it wrong. Maybe they have already thought about this. Its far more likely that techcrunch is misrepresenting the data with their headline. :)
You're in luck! Variable-time seconds are among the best cures for heart arrhythmias.
This article is far more amazing than the OP's link.
The equator should be far enough south for anybody.
Looks good, but in the end, this is what I tell people.

"The media you trust is the most dangerous media of all."

In other words, don't ever turn off your brain and just accept what you are being told. Inevitably the only solution is to question it all and get input from multiple sources.
One thing I do for a hobby in addition to my usual interest in photography is enhance images in the public domain (e.g. combine the color separations of Prokudin-Gorskii's images into color images, merge multiple images to reduce noise or create a panoramic image, or find stereo pairs of images a lay them out for cross-eye viewing -- so in the same spirit, without as much work as those who colorize historic images).

With that background, it's apparent there should be enough parallax, even given the long distance to the subject due to the claimed distance between photographers to create a stereo pair using the two images (some photographers make hyper-stereo images of mountains and clouds). If one image were derived from the other, it should be obvious -- the differences between the images would only be skin deep, e.g. the waves in the foreground, the different position of the bars at the top of the tower, but the entire body of the wave would be identical.

Overlaying them and subtracting the difference, it can be seen that there are slight variations across the entire image, and when viewed as a stereo pair, there is an obvious stereo effect, the platform in front of the tower appears in space in front, the wave appears to wrap around the tower.

What we're left with is the story that these two photographers didn't coordinate their images. I see no reason to disbelieve this. Like was stated elsewhere in this thread, the title is incorrect and the images weren't taken the same millisecond, so that makes the story less remarkable.
> The real value of privacy has to do with freedom, manipulation and surveillance, and that is not represented by economic measures at all

Privacy is not the only issue.

Using user data for ad targeting is the past/present. The future is using users to train AI.

Facial recognition in photos is a good example of this. Facebook has the most advanced facial recognition in the world because they got millions (billions?) of hours of free labor from their users classifying photos.

Amazon Echo is doing the same thing with speech recognition.

Cloud based AI platforms capture the data from engineers training AI algorithms and the goal is to use that data to train an AI to replace the engineers.

Not only are people being duped into giving away their labor for free but they are increasingly being used to train the AIs that are going to replace their jobs.
nice site, but i'll never understand the thinking behind "let's ask if they want to receive notifications immediately upon first page-hit"

does anyone actually click 'yes' to that prompt?
I think we are not as far apart as you might imagine: I am concerned with both problems and, particularly, how the former might interact with the latter, as well as the potential of future people who will exist (who, after all, are far more numerous than the people who currently happen to be walking around.)

I would bet that we could agree on many social programs to help the poor. Where we probably disagree is on the amount that we think these programs would help fix the long term problem of poverty, and I might be more inclined to look to see if the program has dysgenic effects that would compound that long-term problem.
Aerospike Founder here. Does anyone care that, after working with Kyle and generating since new versions through the development process, Jepsen found no real consistancy problems?

ie, “In hundreds of tests of SC mode through network partitions, 3.99.1.5 and higher versions have not shown any sign of nonlinearizable histories, lost increments to counters, or lost updates to sets.” – Kyle Kingsbury, Aerospike 3.99.0.3, 12-27-2017

Curious.
Even so, I’m tired of jumping through hoops to adhere to bullshit standards that make life hard without any actual benefit. We have HTML and CSS, why do we need AMP? How does my personal webpage benefit from HTTPS? Why did they enforce mandatory HTTPS across the entire .dev TLD in WebKit, breaking my local test env, when it’s only used by a few internal projects at Google?

They seem to have a vested interest in making web development harder than it needs to be.
Or a bonus...
Can you quote something specific that says either the top banner or carousel takeover UI goes away? To me, it seems very high level and opaque. They could have been very specific, but haven’t been.

Web packaging does still require including a named google js url, right? With little restrictions on what it’s able to do with the DOM.

Why, for example, is there no Google source saying that the AMP page header is going away? They have not yet specified if they will only allow a very specific implementation of web packaging that allows your site into the carousel and other top of page search result URLs.
You should just replace a 10 year old fridge because it would save you a lot of money just on electricity.

Check with your power company, they might give you a bonus for replacing it.
As an early riser, PST forever!

I vote we do a half hour compromise.
Or any country, since timezones only have a 1 hour granularity. If you're in Edinburgh (same longitude as Plymouth) this is quite noticable. Be interesting to see the consequences of hyper-local timezones where the sun is always over your head at 12 noon. With modern computing it should be possible to have your watch adjust as you drive east-west ...
Pseudo-objectivity

They are at least directly addressing the mechanism of emotive language discussed in Manufacturing Consent. It looks to me, like they're doing a much better than average job at that.

glaring selection bias

Pretty much a part of the human condition. At least they're trying.
There is more time in the summer because of the angle of the Earth to the Sun. Can see the effects even more when at high angles like closer to the North Pole. And to boot, Daylight savings makes it even more pronounced.

Hoping other states follow.
From what I understand farmers hate DST more than anyone. They tend to wake up at dawn and shifting the time an hour gives them an hour less time until the rest of the area wakes.
Planning ahead is not “time traveling” as the author has described. In literature, time travel generally results in a radically different culture or technology, but this isn’t true for farmers. I’m not sure I understand the author’s point.
But why do we need to change the time on the clock in order to have this? Just go into work an hour early, and leave an hour early. If it is a matter of coordination, have an official government statement that summer business hours adjust during x - z months.
It's a huge problem. Your "system time" proposal is already the way things are done.

But people like to know when they did something based on their own clock. Already that one hour shift causes goddamn headaches in showing the proper time to the user for past events.

Now instead of just figuring out if we're across one threshold or another and adjusting another hour, we have to figure out what time of what day it was and figure out what the offset was at that time?

No. Just get rid of DST.
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I have a few friends with low phone budgets and in the past they've purchased low-cost Androids and been very dissatisfied with them. Their last purchase, a few months ago, was for iPhone 6's.

Apple may only have high priced phones in the latest generation but iPhone's that are 4 generations back are still being sold (new) as the budget option.
Notifications on websites are just the pop-ups of 2018.
If I'm reading this correctly ("Daylight saving time shall be the year-round standard time of the entire state and all of its political subdivisions"), this is going to be terrible for people living in or near Pensacola. The far end of the panhandle is in Central time, so it's going to be an hour (or two) ahead of everyone else around them in the winter.

https://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/current_time_in_florida...
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It is more maintainable (in the sense that functionality isn't bound to the DOM structure or class names). I'd argue there's a bit less repetition across your app, but it's not as significant if you're smart about code re-use.
Agreed - if it was an apples-to-apples comparison we wouldn't need an academic paper.
LOL. The second paragraph in the abstract starts with "m this paper a theorem is presented […]"
Not everyone has that luxury.
I hate to link to Quora, but I’m on mobile so I apologize in advance. The only time I’m aware of Linus commenting on Rust is https://www.quora.com/What-does-Linus-Torvalds-think-of-Rust

I would hope that nobody trolls the LKML like that. Not even Rust people think that the kernel should adopt Rust.
Does anybody other than people who actually work in the marketing department of a phone manufacturer care? Is anybody still basing their identity around the brand of smartphone they use in 2018? If so, that's sad. The iPhone vs. Android battles were stupid in 2010 they're beyond pathetic in 2018. Pick the phone you like and move on with your life.
and you are still betting on humans, good luck with that
Investor confidence is definitely not affected by the fact that the company uses PDFs.
No, because the Switch is a game console whose hardware is produced by Nintendo to run Nintendo approved software. It doesn't allow homebrew by default and is a closed platform, and pretty much everyone buying one knows this.

An Oculus is not a standalone product; it is a peripheral that relies on an open PC platform for its processing. If software the Oculus uses can run on any PC and the Oculus does not have a unique hardware capacity to operate the software, then the exclusivity is an arbitrary constraint.

Oculus wants all the perks of being its own platform without the responsibility or technical merit.
I applaud your well-lit, user-first attitude!
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"You can't prove any of the drone strikes ever helped preventing people from being killed."

Errr, what? That's like saying that the US stopping the Nazis by waging war and killing some of them didn't for sure save lives. I mean who knows, those Nazis may have just decided to stop killing other people all on their own.

I'm not saying drone strikes are necessarily ethical, but saying that any time you kill someone else, you are for sure killing someone but not for sure saving a life, therefore you can never kill anyone preemptively, goes against pretty much every moral or legal system ever devised.
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> I vote we do a half hour compromise.

Please no, just stop
The amount of daylight is not changed by setting clocks. The point is to shift daylight hours away from "sleeping time", but still not having to get up when it's dark. The ideal daylight savings would be to synchronize clocks with sunrise, so that sunrise always occurs when it's time to get up (7 AM or whatever). Here in Sweden, where the length of the day varies from 6 to 18 hours, DST is really useful.
Demoing an app on Android has been a pain, so far. Vysor was the easiest solution but comes with ads if you don't buy the license. This seemingly being an ad-free alternative makes it very interesting to me and my team.

Only thing is I tried to compile the code base on a Macbook Pro and it took maybe 10+ minutes on my only attempt. I had to cancel it b/c my laptop was going into "jet" mode w/ the noise levels during a conference call. I'm going to try and compile it again and see how long it really takes for me.
Your resolve is weak!
Governments don't mandate working hours either.
I had this problem with another Android-on-PC app but it turns out I just wasn't click-and-dragging fast enough.
New iPhones start at $349.

I think it's more about which ecosystem has the bigger lock in. I used to be locked into the Apple ecosystem and it was somewhat painful to extricate myself. What's interesting about Google's ecosystem is that I was locked into it even when I had an iPhone. And I can't imagine trying to extricate myself from Google, it would be even more painful. Now that I'm on Android the Google locked-in ecosystem is a bit smoother with things like Google Photos.
I remember asking my ninth grade high school teacher that. I had just read a book, one of Rick Cook's wizardry books. A programmer fell into an alternate, fantasy magic-capable world, and time was tracked by the actual position of the sun. I thought it was a great idea and asked my teacher about it.

My science teacher immediately came back with objections that I didn't understand until a few years later. If you were investigating science, lots of things would be problematic.

Since then, I noticed some interesting things. Lots of pre-modern practices and rituals tracked solar noon. Allowing it to flex meant that there were greater alignment with the solstices and equinoxes. In a magic-capable fantasy world, tracking solar noon is sensible.

I also remember reading things like, how standardized time was a modern invention that created a particular view of the world. And then an article about that debate between Borges and Einstein. We remember Einstein, but not Borges. Borges, in his time, was the pre-eminant philosopher on time. He was influential enough that Einstein did not receive the Nobel Prize for his work on relatively.
DST can make sense if you're sufficiently far north/south, but definitely doesn't if you're closer to the equator. And for Florida DST probably never made sense.
VoIP and Cid spoofing is simply due to gov not enforcing rules against it. There are valid technical reasons to allow Cid spoofing sometimes, but if you're with a reasonable provider, you usually have to sign some disclaimer that you won't abuse it and take the legal responsibility.

The are probably existing laws against the abuse depending on your country. They're just not enforced.

It's much easier to trace than IP traffic as well. Every internet telco will have full logs of each connection.
> It sounds like they are moving their efforts towards "lighter" experiences.

Can you explain what this means in practice? I'm not super familiar with Rift but I'm curious.
Farmers want to repair their own stuff.
this is really not all that hard to do ... all you need are 2 photographers equipped with cameras that can to better than 12 frames per second (EOS 1Dx for example) and fire away simultaneously at the same subject ... then go through the bursted images and find the files that match ...
Not that I know of: none of those folks have actually taken the person out of the vehicle, and getting someone in the truck is the main problem the industry faces.

Similar some of to the others - we've hauled freight autonomously (we've actually hauled quite a bit of it), but we've also done yard jockey work in truck yards and done whole trips that didn't require a person in the vehicle.
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Florida is trying to act early. Ending daylight saving time is becoming popular throughout the US. Florida's tourism market would reap more gains if we fixed the clocks with an extra hour of sunlight in the evenings.
> Why do we give ourselves more daylight in the summer when the days are naturally longer? If

Because:

(1) Businesses want to keep consistent hours, (2) lots of work is more efficient with natural light (and people are better at getting up for work when it isn't significantly pre-dawn that they have to do that), (3) people seem more prone to do non-work activity out of the home after work and when there is sunlight; so, to preserve natural light for work when it is scarce and maximize what is available after work when it is plentiful, we turn the clocks back when the days are longer.
>I recently had a plumber come in to look at my leaking toilet tank flush.

If you go to 'youtube' and search for 'leaking toilet valve' you can find a video documenting how to repair a leaking toilet.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=toilet+keeps+ru...

>plumbers and they both quote price in between 220 and 240 USD.

Nash equilibrium?
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Pretty badass. In addition to Turbolinks, there is also http://instantclick.io that has the benefit of prefetch which helps with perceived snappiness.
I made a game that has this design principle. The UI is all point-click and a few icons. But it presents things like: what you can do to the object in front of you, with the item in your hand. What you can do with items you have on hand. What you could do if you had an item that you know about. Hints about what you could do if you knew something you don't know yet. This is all distilled to a single icon with decorations, but computing it all correctly is quite involved.
If you can fluently understand people across northern China without explicitly learning to, then that means they speak “dialects” of your language.

But hundreds of millions of other people in China natively speak hundreds of other mutually unintelligible Chinese languages. Most of them are (at least) bilingual.

Here is a grossly simplified map showing major language groups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_sinitic_languages_...
You have the right not to use online services...the right to vote is not a declaration of submission.

Particularly when you voted against and a measure was still infringed upon you.