skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a shame that circuitry is essentially a black box nowadays.

Yeah, quite a shame that we have high speed low power electronics today. I pine for vacuum tube computers.

You get my point. Most advances come at a cost. The cost in this case is worth it.
The "new" app is actually not so new, and it was previously called Workflow (https://www.workflow.is/). Looks like they bought it and rebranded it as Shortcuts.
I am surprised there are not more "GANs-as-a-service" startups. I only know of runwayml.com. GANs seem like there are ripe opportunities for collaborations with artists. But, inaccessible to artists without easier tools.
FYI you can tap the status bar to scroll to the top of an iOS list.
Seems like it could be used for pellet stove fuel.
You're saying Stripe would process directly when their own card is used on their own network, and then outside the network they'd process through visa/mc?
> While not healthy to literally starve yourself, getting your calories from stored fat is absolutely safe.

Sure, if you can guarantee that you're burning fat. That's clearly not what I said, because "weight loss" does not necessarily entail "fat loss". If all you're doing is looking at the scale, unless you take certain precautions, then you're also losing muscle mass. Doing this "quickly", which was another qualifier I stated, can be dangerous.

> Proper electrolytes all but eliminate most issues you suggest, only applicable to a pure starvation diet.

You need more than electrolytes to prevent muscle loss. Devoting more of your caloric budget to protein slows muscle loss considerably, and adding resistance training can prevent muscle loss entirely.

But like I said, just focusing on rapid weight loss with no other considerations is dangerous.
What feature of a phone would not be a "marketing move"? What is that label meant to convey in terms of that feature's importance/viability/sincerity?
'That seems pretty "free."'

It isn't just economic "free" that I'm worried about. I have low and ever-decreasing confidence that BI wouldn't get tied to not expressing politically incorrect opinions on Facebook or something as we continue our march towards speech control. And I mean that just as one example. I have no confidence in the ability of our superhumanly ethical and temptation-resistent benevolent government administrators to hand out ~$10T/year and never, ever, ever have the bright idea of starting to tie it to something.

I'm an outlier in HN terms, so to translate that to HN terms, "Donald Trump, or his philosophical successor, is going to administer your BI program. Does that sound like a good idea? Do you really think it's going to be 'free'?"
It's not just a matter of economic sense, it's also an issue of whether children are walking to and from school in the dark (or how dark, or how much time spent in the dark, etc).

Compare Naples: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/italy/naples

And Stockholm: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/sweden/stockholm

Some people in HN seem to have the opinion that businesses should just adjust their working hours... but isn't that what DST does? It coordinates the change of business working hours across many businesses.
... and with access to plaintext, SSL stripped data of all traffic
He means the clocks are offset in the summer and not the winter. If we stop changing the clocks and just stick on GMT all year it won't affect anything in winter.
I believe that most dentists are only open 32 hours a week so that they don't have to provide benefits for their employees. It's an efficient, if uncompassionate, way of running a small business.
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Ah. Thanks for that. I haven't been up there in a while. Apparently longer than I thought!
We also have a GDPR-like data protection law (almost identical bar right to be forgotten; which do not have in here) in Turkey. A Turkish version is also needed.
Wonderful article, as always. It's impressive how detailed IBM's documentation is.
It seems that every large company is guilty of this to some extent. I used to work at Intel and they had this exact problem when they tried to shrink the work force. The dynamic goes like this: Managers find it easier to use the performance management tool to make everyone happy rather than to follow the policies and procedures in place. So you end up with lots of quirks on an individual level -- someone wants more pay and less stock so you stick them on a low stock grant and high pay increase. Or the work in a given team simply isn't that difficult and so as your traditional journeyman gains more experience they get more expensive but not more useful- so they become at risk.

Then HR comes in to do the mass headcount cut, look at performance reviews and just cut all the people with low performance reviews. Because it's done on a mass scale of 1,000s of people they really can't do it on a case by case basis. The problem is that to safely fire staff you need to have treated them fairly and that's where it all comes out of the woodwork. You put all the data together and it turns out you've fired way more people over 50 because the organisation is a pyramid and older workers aren't value for money at the bottom of the pyramid and there's not many places at the top.

Obviously it's also true that if you can fire 10 older engineers on high salaries lots of managers will choose to do that simply because it means they don't need to fire 20 younger engineers. It's the easy option.

Not to mention the fact that if you've been at a company a long time you've most likely had your salary rise during the good years and stay flat in the bad years, either way when you get to a bad cycle again suddenly you look very expensive to the organisation.
One solution (which may or may not be reasonable) is to have a norm where individual schools/offices/stores adjust the start time a few times throughout the year as sunrise changes. DST is basically a way to force everyone to do that together. A synchronized time shift has a lot of advantages, but also is forced even on places that don't need it (some latitudes, some types of businesses), and in some cases the 1-hour shift isn't enough, so it's not clear to me which approach is better.
Choosing to build a luxury SUV ($56k-$89k) instead of yet another luxury sports car is a product decision, not a price decision.
Maybe IBM Watson could help crunching that data?
These are rough estimates :) while comparing offers of my previous and current employment, there was the thing of having less vacation when working part-time (only 16 days, no sick-days, compared to 25+5) but the 20% pay-rise vs 20% less work seemed like the simplest comparison to get across :)
So if everything will switch to a later time in winter, it's the same effect as moving clocks forward in the summer?

It's not so easy to start school later, because the parents might have fixed entry/exit times at work. DST sucks but it has the advantage that everything synchronizes on when to switch.
> “Changes in our workforce are about skills, not age,” Ed Barbini, a spokesman for IBM said in an emailed statement.

I'm assuming this is just an excuse and it has more to do with the fact that their older workers have higher salaries. But would the defense "we fired older workers because they were paid more" hold up in court?

edit: I'll answer my own question. According to an article I found [1]:

> The United States Supreme Court has held that an employer does not violate the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-634, by acting on the basis of a factor, such as an employees’ pension status, seniority or salary, that is empirically correlated with age.

[1] https://aaronhall.com/does-being-fired-because-of-your-salar...
After years of trial and error, we've determined that the simplest way to change the clock in one of the in-built appliances in our kitchen is to kill its electrical power completely for a few minutes (by tripping the appropriate MCB in the consumer unit), then powering it back up.

When the power is restored, the appliance knows it's experienced a power cut, and asks for the current time.

Yes, this is completely ridiculous. No, I don't know why they designed the UI this way.
I do agree, but the time I start work is unfortunately decided by society, not me.
I've not really thought about that before, but looking through the commit history it actually seems very likely that we were the first. Back then the WebSocket protocol looked very different from today. https://github.com/mojolicious/mojo/commit/a1a7060e35a6a0965...
I don't think ordinary people have the right to judge the God.

You can become a God, but he is the God.

Just deal with it.

Or, you can use BSD. Haha
Vacuum tube machines computed with more pleasing harmonics, resulting in the output having a richer, warmer sound.
I figure it will not be easy to change the school start time, since parents are also need to change behavior with the school start time change.

In the end maybe this will be easier to just have a consistent schedule to change the school start time. In the end we invent DST again.
If there are no references to the GUID of the item, you could easily simply consider it deleted. There would be no practical way to find it, after all. There is no "list all" or anything like that (as I understand it). You can't say 'Show me how much of the 128 bit space I've filled' and then iterate through each piece..
I find that people on HN frequently use the term "marketing" in the absolute broadest sense of "all activities involved in the process of creating a product that customers want to buy," but still use it pejoratively as in its narrowest sense of "advertising and other communication intended to convince customers to buy a product."
Anyone notice any major downsides, regressions, feature removals? The original app was powerful but quite complicated to use, I imagine Apple dumbed it down a bit for widespread adoption.
In practice there are always people, a minority,
who can't or won't separate criticism of their
work from criticism of themselves regardless

Sure, absolutely.

But consider the topic at hand. We're talking about Linus referring to people and/or their work as "brain dead" and things like that. It really doesn't take one of your snowflakes to take something like that personally.

There are a lot of times (in sports as well as software development) when I've received harsh feedback and been 100% fine with it. But it's not always appropriate.
Is that first example age discrimination? In that case it sounds like they're discriminating based on what salary the workers are willing to accept and not their age.
> Why would it matter if it is technically midnight Saturday in the middle of lunch? Does the name of the day affect you?

But... but... you just complained about having to know it's 6am in another place!
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> tutanota.com (meaning secure note in spanish).

You mean Latin[1]. While "nota" is "note" in Spanish, "tuta" is not a word.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutanota#History
Thank you, very interesting. Were those nuclear satellites known ones, as in this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/nuclear-powered-satellites-s...?
And were the Gamma ray sensors behind a collimator (basically lead plates with through-holes that only allow a very narrow angle of rays to be detected, e.g. used in Gamma cameras for nuclear medicine). Or were they in a 3D arrangement, and the timing of detection gave the direction? You said cube, so I assume it's the latter, but wanted to be sure.
Proton is good, Tutanota is good, but my personal favorite is Fastmail, especially for family members who don’t need or want the security bells and whistles, but also don’t want Google snooping on them.
That’s what I meant by It would simplify a lot of coordination though, I agree zones don’t help this sort of question, if anything they hinder.

Main problem with getting rid of zones are day boundaries and people getting used to a 24 hour clock and arbitrary hours ( even the proposer here used am and pm!), so days would start at odd hours - at least the term noon would be a lot more accurate :) It would seem odd for Saturday say to start at 23:00 in some places though.
If you're handling timezones, and you're not using tz files, you deserve any pain heading your way. Timezone rules change constantly and trying to roll your own is disastrous. (And I say that in the grave baritone voice of personal experience.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database
I hope you were sarcastic.

Metric system is worldwide not an EU thing and while it was initially just as arbitrary picked as the imperial one it scales linearly in base 10 so you can do conversions mentally without breaking a sweat.

I'm curious if you could just as easily convert inches-feet-yards off the top of your head?
Increasing protein intake also slows lean mass loss considerably as well, even without resistance training.
> In practical terms, Shor's algorithm requires O(n lg n) qubits

Wait, is that 'n' the number being factor or the number of bits?

If it is the number being factored, then quantum computing will effectively never be a threat; since you would need 200 million bits in order to factor a 32-bit number.

If it is the number of bits then why haven't we seen any new results? The current record is held by factoring 21, a 5 bit number. There are numerous claims that people have built quantum computers in the 49-qubit range. Why aren't we seeing successful factorings of 17-bit numbers as a matter of course?

I don't count here the extension of the 21 result to larger numbers that yield the same period-finding problem, but rather direct approaches using the quantum computers that exist now.
First time I've heard of this. It is possible to turn it off though.

> note that when ad tracking is limited, the value of the advertising identifier is 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/adsupport/asidenti...

Here is how you turn it off:

1. Go to Settings > Privacy > Advertising.

2. Turn on Limit Ad Tracking.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074
Erm, their parents can wake them up, or they have an alarm. Exactly like it already works.
I'm really curious if it will be "the new El Capitan", if not "the new Snow Leopard."
Tektronix is a scientific instrument company that happened to get into computer peripherals. You could bet their gear was rock solid, and designed for engineers to poke at.
Morocco changes the clocks four times a year. During Ramadan they switch to winter time, so the night falls earlier and they can have a snack (iftar).
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If we want natural measurements we should be basing it all off Fibonacci and the golden spiral, I guess?

The metric system is decimal and the orders of magnitude are intuitively consistent (1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000...). If the hang up is that they first chose the distance between Paris and the North Pole for the length of a meter, then that hang up is no more significant than the yard originally being defined as the length of a man's belt (something many people would now consider way too small).

Nobody in those times had the technology, insight, and awareness of the world that we currently do, so it was all defined in terms of what they knew. Nothing wrong with that; in the metric system they've all been adjusted to more scientific measurements (e.g. the precise weight of a precious metal, or some calculation on the speed of light)
Well that is exactly my point. If everyone gets an extra day off then there will be 20% fewer opportunities to spend money with them, or 20% fewer staff in the shop to make sales, 20% fewer chefs in the kitchen, yadda yadda
The just-release Watch OS 5 is compatible with Watch 1: https://www.apple.com/watchos/watchos-5/ so w 1 should be compatible with iOS 12
You can easily replace their domain with any other IPFS gateway. On top of that they add further validation to the idea that IPFS is a good idea. Seems like an overall win to me.
I feel the same way, the further north you are the bigger a factor it becomes. I can see issues with icy roads on winter mornings too. Daylight savings makes sense, just not everywhere. The change is happening now though.

Even though it would lead to darker mornings I'd still support adopting summer time here in Ireland. Dark evenings when you get home from work are just too depressing.
It really is great. I was having terrible input lag before, and now it’s completely gone. Everything from switching apps to opening a new webpage seems zippier too. Autocorrect seems to have gotten a bit of an upgrade, it’s suggestions are coming up much faster and they’re a bit easier to select.
It really would not be difficult to move school later - school hours are already out of sync with 9-5 of 9-6 or the other hours parents work, if anything it’d be welcome.
Electronic voting also makes it easier to manipulate the results of elections.
Indeed, small states wedged between big states are going to have the hardest time of it; the best way for Indiana to jettison DST is to convince Illinois and Ohio to. If there's ever going to a movement to abolish DST across all the states, it's probably got to start at the big edges of the country (California, Texas, Florida) and roll its way inward.
This seems less about the motion of the drop and more about the internal motion of water within the drop. The maze demo deals with steam, not the liquid water within the drop before it becomes steam.
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If you took the set of people in DC, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston who had salaries at $100K+ and who also had long-term business/job interests in one of those cities besides their home city (that is, had business travel), I bet ~50% of them have taken the Acela. The people who take the Acela basically run the country, and you can witness the country being run on any given Acela train.
> In general, your body burns carbs, then fat, and then muscle. Muscle is by far the least efficient energy source, so the body spares muscle in normal circumstances and only consumes muscle in times of extended caloric deficit

This is a common belief but it's not true. You can't prevent your body from burning muscle in any kind of caloric deficit, you can only stimulate protein synthesis to counterbalance it by 1) ingesting high amounts of protein and 2) resistance training.
Your friend needs to pretend to be a data scientist. That's what they call data analysis now. If she's any good, then she'll be a whole lot better than any recent PhD grad (if I wasn't 5k miles away, I'd interview her at least based on your description).
You can't really have timezones without... being able to cross timezones. What's your point?
For opening hours I now often use http://openpoimap.org/

It can be a challenge sometimes to find the right category to activate to get the markers but when using the search box it usually tells you in brackets which category to switch on for more information and it even centers the map for you.

YM(and expectation)MV, obviously.
I wasn't even able to get to the article without using copy and paste trick to view the darn thing in my text editor.
240.0.0.0/4 is a bit different, however. It is "reserved" (class E) space, not multicast, and some OSes are hard coded to not even allow its use. My understanding is newer OSes have relaxed these restrictions.
There's still the issue with a single solar period spanning multiple days in regions.

This alone is a good enough reason to abandon the idea, since whomever gets stuck in the regions with diurnal day changes will absolutely refuse to use it.
I sympathize with your skepticism but I think 1968 is so quantitatively and qualitatively different that it's not a very helpful comparison.

In 1968 nobody had personal computers, they were not a thing. ASCII is still really new, "files" aren't really a thing yet, the Multics system is under development and nobody has yet made the pun "Unix" let alone named an operating system.

What formats are you thinking of that weren't text formats but are now "obsolete or completely unsupported" ? The Joint Technical Committee (home of JPEG, MPEG, and so on) isn't even an _idea_ yet, many of the people who'll form this committee are undergraduates or still in school. Machines aren't storing pictures, they're barely storing meaningful text, it's mostly numbers, big calculations.

If we ask about 40 years ago instead, things are hugely different. By this point Unix exists, ADVENT exists, ASCII has "won". There is no Internet, no X Window System yet, and there still isn't a Joint Technical Committee but already the documents, software and systems are familiar because we're still using them. At home there is Pong, and in pinball arcades the new Space Invaders, both are nicely emulated today.
The iPhone 4s was the first device to support five major software versions. Here's hoping that the devices will be able to support more and more based on 1) hardware improvements in power and 2) software improvements on performance.
I’ve been with IBM for about 3 years now and I’ve found the talent pool to be diluted. There’s talented engineers and not so talented engineers. I’ve met some people where I get the impression that they’ve settled and are just coasting to earn their paycheck. IBM isn’t doing a good job with keeping the top talent in terms of compensation, so the good people leave.

I don’t know how they’re determining people to fire. My opinion is that they’re pruning the moochers
I lost most of my publishing shortcuts, which was expected, but lost the complication in the Apple Watch and its button launcher, which was critical for my commutes...
My phone updates automatically. My computer updates automatically. My alarm clock uses a time signal. Only my oven needs adjusting.

If we wanted to, we could change the clocks every month.
That ship has already mostly sailed. Raising the minimum wage WILL shrink the pool of available jobs for everyone low-skilled, so the problems high school kids have now will spread to adults that should be independent.
This is factually false because it assumes that the money Bezos takes are taken from other people. But the economy is not a zero sum game, otherwise we would still have the same world wide wealth as cavemen did. What Bezos made, his employees cumulatively made many times over and all that money goes through multiple transactions that can be taxed. Simply spreading out 100b$ to every American would give you a negligible amount of money to each one and then cause the loss of many jobs( you can't expect to spread the money a.k.a. not have rich people but at the same time have the enterprises they create).
Make sure everyone has the skills and means to survive in the world. Don't expect the public to provide halfway houses, but instead provide that as part of your criminal justice system. If someone commits more crimes, punish them for the crimes and perhaps, take a different approach with the rehabilitation portion of their sentence the second time around.

I would also add that the means bit is rather important. If I was getting out and realized how slim my chances of actually getting a job and supporting myself were, I might plan on doing more crimes. There isn't much incentive not to. On the other hand, if I knew I'd be OK just by going through the program, I'm more likely to do that.
Is today Monday or Monday-Tuesday or Sunday-Monday?

I work with coworkers all over the world. Currently it's Monday afternoon where I'm at, and I'm in a meeting with someone in Australia where it's Tuesday morning. Now this is an edge case. For most people, everything between sunrise and sunset is one day. One business day has one name / datecode that's easy to refer to.

I would greatly benefit from using UTC across the board (and in my mind I do a lot of reasoning in UTC) but that would not make sense for 99% of the population around me. Unlike machines, the human time cycle is bound to day-night cycles, so it makes sense to follow that at least approximately.
> when Turkey joins the EU

I would bet $100 that we will see an EU member (excluding UK) leave the EU before Turkey joins.