skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in Indiana there was an attempt to go off DST for a long while but it became more of a problem because it was inconsistent with all of the other places nearby and for people going through.
No. While I'm completely in favor of UBI and stuff like that (although entirely against your call for deciding who can have children), shifting blame to society completely ignores that Amazon is the one who bears all the responsibility for what they pay workers, and how they treat them. This problem is entirely Amazon's to own.
You're basically arguing that people should fear for being run out of their jobs or hobbies or both for expressing wrong opinions. That is much greater harm than the mere knowledge that someone holds opinions that might hurt someones else's feelings. Actions, not words. The Contributor Covenant explicitly legitimizes actionable punishment for the mere possibility of offense towards certain groups (hint, it's always possible).
You could say the same exact thing with regards to the time on the clock, though. Like, there's no reason that sunrise couldn't be at <arbitrary time>. If we used one worldwide timezone you'd just...wake up at different times depending on where you are instead of it BEING a different time depending on where you are.
Yes. Because Lisbon, Portugal should be the same time as Van, Turkey when Turkey joins the EU.
Check out https://KGB.com

[irony]

Surprised, but someone use this domain for "independent provider of enhanced information services" :)
> For some products, such as those that are challenging to start using but increase in value over time, your approach would filter out users who don't already believe in the longer-term potential of your solution.

This is a great point, and I have actually thought a lot about it. I came to a conclusion, that a great product should always be priced according to its the real value, whether users initially understand it or not. Those, who do, will eventually explain it to those, who don't. Apple is a perfect example: its hardware is more expensive, but it lasts longer and causes less friction to the end-user, even if the alternatives have similar specs on paper. The same could be said about the products by such companies as RAVPower[1], Minaal[2], and Montbell[3].

[1] https://www.ravpower.com/

[2] https://www.minaal.com/

[3] https://www.montbell.us/
Indiana started observing DST across the whole state in 2006.
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Same experience here. All the work of any importance that I've ever done in my entire career of 18 years so far was achieved in the 4-9pm time frame.
3 hour boozy lunches, from stories I've heard.
I am familiar with shortcuts, but I didn't think that there was an actual SSH action that was shipped with it, I thought there was an SSH action that an application may be providing.

I'll have to check it out.
Or that red and blue are now soldiers rather than generals.
As others have pointed out, there are two questions that need answering: "What time is it where I'm not?" and "Is this a reasonable time for activity N where I'm not?"

If we drop timezones, then to find out whether N is areasonable time for (say) a meeting a quarter of the world over, you need to look up either sunrise/set times or standard business hours (which are different everywhere anyway) and judge by that. Now, you just have to look up the time difference to you.
Just going to throw out there that the Dreamcast didn't have a MIPS, but instead an SH4. You didn't really say that it was, but I just wanted people passing by to know that.
I'd love to hear a first-hand perspective of a current or past IBM employee.
My boss says I am very direct though not as a bad thing.

After I eviscerated a vendor in a meeting.

My partner is Hungarian and she's about as direct about things as me which I find incredibly refreshing.

Nothing festers and the air is cleared straight away.

Not really sure where the UK falls on the direct/indirect spectrum, I know I am on the more direct side for the UK though.
Sure, but for every example there is a perfect mirror example. Say you're on a phone call with your uncle Steve in Melbourne. At the end of the call, Steven says he will call you back at 18:30 tomorrow. If there was one global time zone, you wouldn't need to do any time conversion to know when to expect the call.
Anecdotal, but I'd enjoy feedback in that "polite" form.

Of course, it might also depend on that person's reputation and my previous interactions with them. If I have had 50 negative interactions in a row with them, getting such feedback might make me want to throw my laptop into the toilet.

But in most cases I think it would be a good way to phrase feedback.
I've never achieved flow in a meeting - I don't even know if it is possible. Having meetings interrupt me when I WAS coding in flow, that has happened, and generally I don't recover all day.
p.s. Looks like 1403 is the printer unit for the IBM 1401....
In case you really do not understand please google 'disable ios update notifications' (note the hit count), or alike.
(you must have limited experience in iOS despite of your long time exposure)
Because humans need to adapt to computers and not the other way around? And, sure, someone needs to program the libraries etc. that deal with timezones. But that's sort of why we program computers--to do what humans want done.
That makes no sense. The clocks change in the summer, not the winter, and in summer Scotland sees about 20 hours of sunlight.
That doesn't make any sense. With that logic you never go anywhere on Saturday or Sunday because since you have Saturday and Sunday off that means everyone in the country does.
Yes, thanks. Actually, that's the main documentation I was looking at before. I can't figure out from those descriptions how Apple IDs and iCloud keys work, and in particular, whether Apple themselves hold all of the necessary credentials to decrypt data held in iCloud services or whether something remains with the user alone.
The standard is the minimum wage.
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Working with team with 1h time zone difference on a daily basis. Makes little difference. I guess 2h would be more noticeable but still fine.

OTOH 6h difference is a real killer. You have very small window for real time communication. The fallback is email but that can be very inefficient.
I have multiple .us domains. The only difference is that most registrars that follow the rules may not use whois privacy services for that TLD. I don't have a reference handy for that rule.
There's tons of legacy timezone pickers that bundle together cities like Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, etc etc... Often, users in smaller countries have to pick a neighboring country's capital city since their own is not listed.

I really hope countries who are currently sharing a time zone don't split ways, or computer clocks and calendars will be doomed to be "maybe off by one hour?" for a decade at least.
I'm with you. We should be more in tune with the world and natural measurements rather than less.

But the EU also thinks that the metric system is the bee's knees, even though it's just as arbitrary as the imperial system.

At least lengths in the imperial system are based on natural averages, and not some bureaucrat that decided to use a distance to Pairs. The equator, I could understand. But using Paris just proves that it's all about political control, and not actually improving a system of measurement.
Still happens on 11.4.1, I've got an obvious one last Saturday where I sent a photo and my friend's response to it is placed above as if it were sent before they even saw the photo.

We're both in the same time zone with correctly set clocks.

I appreciate Apple's stance on privacy, but I'm still talking to a lot of people on Messenger because the messages go in the right order there.
Past discussion[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15928685
The one you enjoy the most.
Now read the footnote on page 171, about the little Dracula Types. Only Pratchett made a book with better footnotes than this one. Oh, and these aren't fiction.

In fact, the whole book had a tendency to first severely stretch the brain. When understanding finally happens, you go OMG WTF what did I just read?
Same with leap days and leap seconds, why not just count forward at a consistent rate?
Those "extra hours of sunlight" you "have" are defined by the time you start to work, not by timezone. If you have tendency to start late and you want to hack the tendency by re-numbering hours, you will get to the same situation you are now soon.

It's a mechanism very similar to inflation, but somehow more silly. Who would say that the only way to enjoy sun in the evening is to get up early!
I seriously considered taking time off a few years ago to lead a multi-state referendum to get the whole Pacific time zone to join Arizona in opting out of time changes. While researching it, I learned that you can legally either switch to PDT in the summer or remain on PST year-round, but the federal government doesn't allow a state to permanently be in PDT.

So, if the western states opted out of daylight savings time changes, they'd be an hour behind Arizona year-round, which would mean earlier sunsets year-round too. I gave up when I realized the choices were either lobby the federal government to change the regulation or change the entire culture of the western US to start and end its business day earlier.
Clocks change twice a year, not once a year.
Would be interesting to see, for each of the layoff events, an age-histogram of those laid off vs. the company overall.
But what value would that add? How often would you need to sync your phone clock but not be connected to network (which will be providing time sync anyways)?
Private Browsing windows and tabs is quite effective too, you can set to use it by default in preferences, my 2c
Ask HN: Unusual personal automation and cloud services?
I maintain a few home grown services for my personal use.

- A recipe management system to simplify decision making when it comes to cooking.

- A graph database that I use like a massive mind map

- A few automations running on node-red for archiving and indexing my music listening and my product consumption habits

- A google alert like system made of patchwork that listens to news for topics of interest and provides me with a digest

I have not deployed the typical mail, calendar, contacts or similar productivity suites, as for now the cost/benefit ratio doesn't seem favorable.
I am interested into more niche cases for automation and cloud services.

I was curious, which "unusual" cloud services the HNers have created / are using?
The only reason I have yet to move fully to Android is because right now, Android without Google is such a neutered experience that I don't see any reason to try.

I only have an iPhone because of Apple's privacy stance. I hate every other element of the company.
The clocks changing really does mess up my sleep for a good couple of weeks every time. This year I might just ignore the change and continue operating an hour out of phase.
It would make it harder to keep track of day/night time. Human activity is mostly happening during day time. In the past sundials were used to keep track of time. Clocks are just a modern replacement for sundials that's more precise and reliable.
Big Clock strikes again.
>> while 25 other Member States only had a participation rate of less than 1% those that voted were overwhelmingly (>75%) in favour of abolishing DST

(Bearing in mind the historical low in the 2014 European elections) how many EU citizens actually knew there was a consultation about this?

In any case, asking for responses to a survey if respondants think "X" should be abolished looks to be pretty much the textbook case for selection bias.
Seems like they picked summer time, not winter time as the default
Ooh, tricky.

Is it a case of corporate douchebaggery, hiring recent grads at half the salary of the veterans and then laying off the veterans? Or is it 'lay off the fogeys that can't let go of Fortran 77 long enough to learn Java or JS or C#' I've seen both circumstances in my career. Given that it's IBM, I am inclined towards the former.
Good. Much like all the other "isms" ageism is rarely overt but still exists and has real effects. Leave policies and on-call schedules are tuned to make life difficult for those who have to deal with their own or family members' medical conditions. Offices are designed to be disproportionately unpleasant for those who have undergone well known age-related changes in hearing and vision. IBM seems to have gone with the tried and true approach of laying people off based on proxies for age, just as others hire using proxies for race or social class, with "skills" as the shorthand. They'd better be prepared to explain exactly what criteria they used to decide which skills were valuable, how skill levels were evaluated, and how they concluded that layoffs and subsequent replacement hires were preferable to internal transfers (with or without retraining). It's a good thing that more companies are being held accountable for practicing this form of discrimination.
Not only do I like this, I like their comparison page: https://perkeep.org/doc/compare

My own (slightly out of date) comparison list: https://github.com/pjc50/pjc50.github.io/blob/master/secure-...
Is there a way (even not free) to ensure that my data in IPFS is always available (at least as available as with "traditional hosting services)?

That's a bit of a requirement when building a serious service/website.
Set a criminal record expiration date depending on crime? Small crimes would expire quickly (but get refreshed/increased if you commit another small crime), more serious crimes would take longer to expire. Some study would be necessary on crime rate vs. time since last detention leave -- the principle being employers shouldn't need to unknowingly bear above a threshold of risk on their property/life (you need to balance doing good to ex-cons and protecting society).

Even better might be spending directly on ex-cons to better integrate them back into society (education, training, etc), instead of spending copious amounts on detention, security, punishment. The resulting decrease in recidivism probability is likely well worth it in most cases.

Also programs for locating at-risk for crime individuals and making sure they have better alternatives, to lower crime rate in first place.

The main problem is I'm quite skeptical that you could consider most criminals as "rational"/well informed of their possibilities and consequences of choices. Therefore increasing punishment probably doesn't change significantly their behavior, only might worsen the outcome once they leave detention in a negatively-reinforcing environment, not to mention consume public resources that could be better employed -- like targeted education clearing the minds of at risk individuals on what are the likely outcomes of criminal life compared to alternatives.
There are first-hand perspectives in the ProPublica report that this lawsuit is apparently based on: https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-a...

It's good reading.
They could push the school start time back. It would be better for kids everywhere, not just Scotland.
The only impact I'm aware of Lisp having was on Zork - which was all the rage in the early 80s. Assembly, Basic and Pascal were the predominant languages of that era.
So what does, "You want to meet for lunch on Saturday?" mean?

Do they want to meet for lunch on the afternoon that starts Saturday or the one that ends it?
Florida's bill passed, but it's conditional to Congress or the DoT's authorization

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/daylight-saving-time-f...
Paper at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

This paper abuses cross-validation to claim an unreasonably high accuracy.

They trained their model on census tracts from 6 US cities, and tested it with 5-fold cross-validation. That means you split the data randomly into 5 groups, and train with 4/5 and validate with the other 1/5.

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that census tracts come in groups that are basically identical, because they're built by the same subdivision builder and moved into at the same time, and are served by the same grocery stores and restaurants and schools, and they have similar incidences of obesity. (In US suburbia, a census tract is typically 1 block with ~30 inhabitants.)

A random leave-1/5-out cross validation can report high accuracy, even with a highly overfitted network that just memorized the tracts it saw. Because the 5-fold validation still preserves at least one member from every group of identical tracts.

It'd be more impressive if it could predict obesity for a city it hadn't seen.
I know that here in Belgium the decision will also keep the choices of our neighbouring countries in mind and likely involve talks with them. I do think this will eventually will be the case for a lot of countries.

I find it also kind of ironic because when Europe does not give countries the individual choice people complain about how it forces its will. And now countries have that choice it’s also not good.
> Emulators exist, but nobody actually uses it.

They're very popular for games, and can be used to get old files out of many popular computers of the 80s.
Is anybody really suggesting politeness as a substitute for clearly stating the problem and expectations?

I mean there are really two axes here, right? You can be rude+vague, or polite+precise, etc.

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Heh, I am glad to hear that it's the new name... I was going to feel kinda bad pointing out that Camlistore has been exactly what was built already for awhile.

I tried Camlistore a bit a couple years ago and it was neat, but still pretty early. And then it looked like no development was happening on it. I would have helped, but I believe it's in go which I am not experienced with. Does this name change come with a new release? Is Perkeep 0.1 markedly different from the previously available public release of Camlistore?
If you read that original WSJ article, Google allows companies to access your email if you give them access to your email. As in, if you install e.g. Kiwi [1] and agree to let them manage your inbox, then they have API keys that they could use to read your emails. Sometimes users just give their username/password to the 3rd party.

But, like I said when the original story came out, those headline writers really know what they're doing. "Google allows 3rd parties to read emails" directly implies your incorrect interpretation. Like, even on the original article, people who hadn't read it were expressing shock in the comment section that their personal emails were being read by Google engineers.

[1] https://www.kiwiforgmail.com/
Minor note for former Workflow users, it appears that the old Workflow app automatically updates to Apple's new Shortcuts app when you install the release version.

I'd been on the public beta and was surprised to see Shortcuts preinstalled when I updated.
just adjust the start time of school
To be honest, the main difference is that the public is getting slightly more disillusioned with centralized social media. Mastodon (an ActivityPub-compliant Twitter clone) has gotten a huge influx of new users in recent months due to a bunch of PR missteps by Twitter.

I will admit that the post was intentionally hyperbolic, though. AP doesn't have nearly the adoption threshold it would need to be a serious contender in the social media space. I'm hoping that through articles like these we can spread the word and drive adoption.

But yeah, this has been tried before and didn't really take off. I think the fundamental problem is that it's just way more lucrative to have a centralized social network than a decentralized/federated one. But as I alluded in the post, I think there is a way to build a profitable business on ActivityPub, and that's what it's going to take to make AP mainstream.
Huh? How could they change once a year? The point is winter time is GMT and summer time is the change. The UK did remain on BST once, but that was during the war (interestingly it also went to double summer time in the summer).
Note that you quoted the special "Consultation" procedure instead of the ordinary legislative procedure where EP has more power.

According to the page, the consultation procedure "is applicable in a limited number of legislative areas, such as internal market exemptions and competition law".
Ask HN: Can I create a Google alternative?
Is there any law that prevents anyone from creating a similar service to a Google service? For example creating a replica of calendar or mail that looks and behaves the same minus the logos?
I met a guy on a bus who was studying English in the city but heading back to his parents to bring veterinary medicine. We hit it off and he invited me back to his family's compound, and it turns out his family was super cool and invited me to stay a couple of days. I kept finding things to do to be helpful, and they were more than willing to keep feeding and housing me. I helped some of the cousins practice English, set up some radios for them, and also worked a bit to get a website up and running for a tourist business they were trying to set up(basically airbnbing their place and showing off traditional bedouin lifestyle).
The Crichton amnesia effect is when you forget how susceptible Michael Crichton was to embarrassing prejudices himself. Rising Sun and Disclosure... are... just... yeesh.
if you notice, i'm not arguing against punishment. The punishment is a must. The best punishment would teach the violator instead of just punishing per.se.

>Teenagers especially may be less responsive to consequentialist preventive measures (i.e. punishment), but they are responsive to some degree.

Exactly. The issue is that the more immediate/instant punishment works better for teenager mind than the chance of delayed/procedural/etc punishment. The immediate punishment is what helps the forming brain to develop cause/consequences machinery of behavior.
Thanks! Yeah, I haven't looked into any sort of performance optimizations. Better late than never, I suppose.
Just open schools later in winter then. Also that's really just due to the choice of time zone, not how clocks are changed in the summer.
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> Wal-Mart is entirely, 10,000% responsible for how much they pay their workers.

Yes, but the public is largely responsible for how little of what they allocate to pay gets to employees, by way of the fact that wages are taxed higher than regular income (because payroll taxes) which in turn is taxed higher than capital gains, which in turn are taxed higher than most unearned generational wealth transfer (thanks to the generous nontaxed allowances for gifts and inheritances.)

Tax income as income and at the same overall tax level, very few WalMart employees would need public assistance and employers would have a lot less incentive to replace employees that must be purchased with supertaxed wages with minimally-tax-burdened capital investments.

Right now, the tax rate on any kind of income varies inversely with the wealth of the people who tend to have that kind of income.
> not being able to contribute to the conversation

You still think you are the one who gets to decide what the conversation is.

My point is that lots of different groups of people are having lots of different conversations. Just because the group of people you hang out with don't like cryptocurrency doesn't mean other groups of people can't or won't use cryptocurrency.

And there is nothing you can do to stop them. The genie is out of the bottle.

> if you want this technology to take off

It has already taken off. Millions of people around the world already use it. It is working just fine.
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