skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Emulators exist, but nobody actually uses it.

Sure, "nobody" (i.e. a negligible number of people) is running emulations of consumer software, esp. non-networked consumer software.

Networked backend server software, on the other hand, is run under emulation in production all the time. It's roughly 80% of the point of IBM's z/OS product line: to continue providing backward-compatibility with their mainframes all the way back through the early 70s, by shipping hardware that runs a hypervisor that can continue running those old workloads under (accelerated!) emulation, without changes. Anyone business running "a mainframe" these days isn't running on the original hardware (which has long since broken down without component replacement availability), but rather running modern hardware that's emulating their original mainframe.

I suspect that any p2p data-storage network that achieves importance and has data an archivist would care about living on it, would be given the same treatment (if people don't just consistently write new clients for it on new platforms.)
Most people are not salaried knowledge workers. A hairdresser's hourly productivity doesn't increase if he works 6 hours instead of 8. A cashier's throughput wont increase notably if she only works 6 hours a day, and there's no effective means for that type of worker to "fit" 8 hours of work into a 6 hour day.

What do you do with these people? Do you increase the minimum wage to something more inflation adjusted (upwards of $20/hr). Do you just cut their hours and be done with it? What do you do about the staffing shortages that a 30hr work week would create?
I seriously doubt that a Russian-hosted option is going to be of interest to anyone outside of Russia.
>In France, the norm is to start work three/four hours before noon and finish six/seven hours after noon

You work 9-11 hour days? Doesn't france have a legally defined 35 hour work week and other, fairly stringent laws re max hours / day?
Indeed time changes are a complex software issue, which is why getting rid of them and making it simpler is the long-term solution.
The march towards “Apple Prime”
Business days/hours are currently labeled using the time system based on solar time: We are open Monday~Friday 9AM~5PM Saturday 11AM~2PM etc.

Without timezones, this would be really confusing. You'd have to say something like "We are open from Day1 9PM until Day2 5AM, etc." which can be annoying.
I personally like calm, rational logical inspirational
leaders. I would like the fictional Captain Picard!
Those are very hard to find.

Great example! He was fictional, of course, but he was a good example of a leader who took no shit and held his crew to high standards, yet cared deeply for his crew and did not resort to petty rants.

Although didn't he sleep with or almost sleep with Dr. Crusher? Maybe Linus shouldn't emulate that part.
Yep I'm tearing through "Learning Perl" and "Intermediate Perl" (aka the "llama book" and "alpaca book") while also trying to do some "practical" projects in Mojolicious (https://github.com/ctindall/hotseat is the closest to an actual releasable project, which also has a client in Racket (which I'm just trying to get into, though just for fun)) to apply what I'm learning.
According to the European Commission, 6% of expenditure is on administration, compared with 94% on policies. To pay for this, the EU had an agreed budget of €143 billion for the year 2014, representing around 1% of the EU-28's gross national income (GNI).

From Budget of the European Union - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union
That's about 3 ppm, which is pretty good. Based on that ppm value, my guess is a temperature compensated crystal oscillator. I imagine it was kept at room temperature for the duration of the test?
Indeed, it's important enough to move the date line so that weekdays in Tonga and Samoa (etc.) align with New Zealand. If I understand it correctly, this had to do with the fact that the sabbath is taken seriously by many peoples.
For many websites ad serving is the only profitable model. You won't make money off subscriptions unless you are one of the big players

I was, until recently, a paying subscriber to the NYT, and there is no difference in the ads and tracking crap they pull. So I call shenanigans on that.
I'd rather just have a proper headphone jack.
If you look at the map in the article, currently the largest part of the EU is in one timezone, which is increadibly convenient. It would be sad to have that split apart. Especially if that means, that the time zones are split apart in any other matter than an clear east-west sorting.
Does anybody have a scan of a sample printout? If I google it, I just get IBM 1403 results... :-/
Why don’t the countries just decide for themselves. Why should the EU matter on this?
You'll be pleased to see this: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/password-autofill-ios-12-wit...
Taking the change into account for the current time is relatively easy, but date/time libraries in programming languages need to be updated so that you can write a calendar application with, say, a recurring event spanning across the change, or count days since a specific date in the past.
How will you prevent the user from "opting in" but then not displaying the tabs? E.g. an extension could render white boxes in another (mostly transparent) window above the browser, thus acting like an ad-blocker.
MEGA65 is one of the coolest retro projects I know of right now, and it's really exciting to see this huge leap toward becoming reality (where "reality" means a chunk of hardware I can put my hands on...it's had seemingly functional source code for years).
Keeping summer time permanently was the popular option in the survey. What makes you think winter time will be the default?
Tracing vs. Partial Evaluation (2015)
Roe v Wade is pretty far out there, but lead exposure has a lot of decent correlational data from different regions, since it was phased out around the country and around the world at different times.
Every year there are tens of changes to various time zones/calculations/all that fun stuff that get compiled into the tz updates that your OS vendor will ship and install.

This is nothing new.
Yay gigantic centralized authorities!
It was mentioned in a private email that the only reason YouTube exists is that Google's servers happens to have a lot of free disk space in the days before SSDs.
From somebody living in Spain - we quite enjoy our extra hours of useful (evening) sunlight, thank you very much!
In general, muscle is 'consumed' before 'fat'. Quotes since it is more complex than just what regular muscle and fatty tissues do.

Not "in general." Only specifically in cases of starvation or caloric deficit. 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, like fasting, starvation, marathons, etc.
Spaniard here. CET is perfectly fine. Time is just a convention, and sharing a timezone is better.
Oooops, you forgot the first rule of Datomic license: Thou shall not talk about the Datomic (un)performance!
Can you give any pointers? On both the number info and the subcriber's details.
I have no particular attachment to noon meaning "highest point of the sun in the sky". Though I admit I am totally unaware of what time that happens where I live.

That said, it would only be a very few people who experience this, even on the "correct" time. Time zones are what disconnected time from the sun, not daylight savings.
I’d also surmise the economy would get a large jolt from people having an extra day off and spending more money on entertainment

That only works if you get 5 days pay for 4 days work and everyone else gets 4 days pay for 4 days work. Because where are you going to spend the money if everyone else is chillaxxing too?
It's 35 hours excluding a 2 hours lunch break, for example 9-12 14-18.
You might find it easier to get agreement on "taking unpaid leave" rather than "reducing work hours and salary". It seems to fit into people's mental frameworks more easily.
I really noticed this in the recent EU Copyright article 11 and 13 debacle: Where were the media? Mostly they didn't even mention in. At the very last few days, there was some coverage, mostly about how great the new law was even if Google was trying to sabotage it by exerting control over the Internet unwashed masses and pirates. Not a word over possible negative effects.
This is the primary reason I'm sticking with Apple over Android, even as Android hardware gets nicer and Apple software gets worse.

I don't take everything they say on faith, of course, but it seems plausible for them to take that stance given that their business model is to build and sell phones and software, as opposed to building up a profile of me to sell to advertisers.
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This is a bit needlessly cynical, because individual states already have the power to choose whether or not to observe daylight savings time. Arizona and Hawaii already don't, and there are bills in the Florida and Massachusetts legislatures to do the same.

The only federal regulation that applies here is that states wouldn't have the option to choose between summer or winter time as their permanent time, as the EU states can. IOW, US states are allowed to disregard the observance of DST, but they can't change their time zone without federal congressional approval.
I think it's actually /newest. I don't remember the RSS feed ever rearranging stories up and down the list.
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The rare thornless mutation got reversed when the trees cross-breeded.
I think that might be a big take away from this. To gain a lot of these benefits more schedule staggering might be needed. If you are done with work 2 hours earlier but every bank or doctors office now closes two hours earlier you won't get any more people.
Those two points of view are the same point of view.

People are outraged because society is becoming profoundly unfair. People have different takes on why it's unfair and who is getting the worst of it, some of which fall under some kind of definition of "left" or "right" but the basic force causing the outrage is that our social contract has been systematically dismantled.

Those who did the dismantling, and have benefitted from it, of course, are not outraged. But all the people yelling and angry scare them. So they're opposed to that. Welcome to centrism.
> I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there? Google tells me it is currently 4:25am there, so I'd better not call.

Is he on day shift or night shift? Does he get up at 4am or 10am?

While switching everybody to the same time is probably impossible to coordinate, contacts would be incentivized to share calendars / schedules.
We live in a society
You used the word midnight. Mid-night. Middle of the night. Definitely not middle of lunch!
I've always felt that if you can't handle changing a clock twice a year, then there's probably something fundamentally wrong with your ability to handle much more complex problems. Like deciding what's for lunch.
Unfortunately this is not always realistic. In smaller businesses, one person may know a system or process far better than anyone else. So if that person is on vacation, he should be available. You may disagree, but I think this is a good thing that technology enables.
I'm a non-US citizen international worker in US. I work in a startup as a software engineer. Is there any reason I'm supposed to work more than my American coworkers? We're paid the same money, in fact, I'm slightly underpaid. Or are you implying that internationals are usually more enthusiastic than Americans? That's at best [[citation needed]].
So.. I like this direction, but haven't the "decentralized social network" been tried a few times already? What different this time?
Have you ever worked with brilliant assholes? It sucks
the life out of you - and it really sucks when they
get idolized and rewarded heavily.

Yes and yes. Dear god, yes.

A bit tangential, but I'm not sure that Linus is generally thought of as an asshole in general? Is he?

My outsider's perspective is that he's admired and liked besides these occasional rants that sometimes get kind of weird and insult-y.

I'm not excusing those moments by any means! I've just never gotten the impression that they're the rule, or that he's generally some sort of unbearable tyrant.
Right. Just do like China and make it all one timezone.

ADDED: 
 in case it wasn't obvious (as was, I'm assuming, the parent).
Except now that maximum penalties are reduced, there's less risk of life-destroying consequences unfairly meted out. Teenagers especially may be less responsive to consequentialist preventive measures (i.e. punishment), but they are responsive to some degree. It's not tenable to argue that an environment of zero punitive consequences won't increase the incidence of crime, especially property crime.
Twitter and Facebook have become the de facto public square. The barriers to competition are essentially impenetrable without some sort of government involvement. They should not be allowed to regulate speech in the public square. Perhaps they should be broken up, or users should be allowed to sue them for unfair, politically biased censorship.
Looking at this map[1], it doesn't seem that bad. I mean sure, France, Spain and Benelux could move to +0, but other than that the time zones seem to match reasonably well to solar time all things considered. For example both Berlin and Rome seem to be pretty well matched. Notably it would seem like using summer time would make everything worse, shifting the time zones in wrong direction.

[1] http://blog.poormansmath.net/images/SolarTimeVsStandardTimeV...
Apps can let you assign custom commands in Siri now. Some examples here:

https://www.cultofmac.com/576807/these-apps-just-got-an-ios-...

Requiring you to record your own phrases has a big tradeoff in that all your apps don't get automatic Siri support across all of their features, but it avoids the homophone hijacking and discoverability problems that other voice assistants have run into.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/08/resea...
Return or replace the stolen items as restitution. Pay the value of the stolen items as punishment. And since we want poor kids to get the same lesson as rich kids, make them work the value of their punishment off with a real job, like graffiti removal or trash pickup or municipal grounds-keeping or something.
There are indexed attributes, isn't it a hope?
Fortune 100, yes.
No. They are benefitting because they are having their labor subsidized by taxpayers because they don't pay enough.

Again, pretending the reason people are upset is because they're selling food, and not because Wal-Mart is requiring you and I to subsidize their labor costs, is incredibly dishonest.
I agree and don't like the proprietary nature of DDG and others. YaCy has no !bangs, no instant answers and you have to install it.

I've made an open source version of DDG with !bangs, instant answers, etc. We are hosted on Digital Ocean but feel free to run it on your own server or even locally. https://jivesearch.com
When ProtonMail's mail handler gets an email from mail.foo.com it's not coming in encrypted with the user's ProtonMail key. They have full access to the contents at that point and simple things like spam assassin would work, along with the usual DKIM/SPF checks.

This is for external mail only though. Presumably they don't have a bad problem with internal users sending mail to other internal users. I'm guessing any that did would get found quickly via reporting or heuristics.
I like that you can now swipe up the app to quit it instead of long press.
I was casually in favour of this; I recently mentioned it to my mother in passing, and she pointed out that the UK had trialled this in 1968-1971. She was (surprisingly to me) immediately opposed to it - living in Scotland, she recalled that it was basically dark until 10am, and resulted in a bunch of upheaval as children were no longer able to travel safely to
school by themselves, among other things.
Typically, the company withholds the tax for you though. I've heard stories of companies demanding the pre-tax amounts even though THEY "paid" your tax already by withholding it.
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If i were a billionaire who was interested in magazines, i would buy up as many as possible and have the staff write in the genres they want to write in about each topic and then just let people to subscribe to each vertical channel they want...
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I rarely have to deal with changing a clock. The real pain is having to deal with DST and strange timezones while programming.
> IOW, US states are allowed to disregard the observance of DST, but they can't change their time zone without federal congressional approval.

Interestingly, that seems to be the exact opposite of EU where countries can choose their own timezones but (currently) have to observe DST.
I don't think he's even generally like this on the mailing lists, just on notable occasions.
Not sure where your comment is coming from, but who doesn't love standardization on an engineers discussion board?
What's going on is that there's an oversupply of Skilled labor. They already found someone else. The greater the oversupply, the more qualified candidates they have to reject.

I know one person, she's a data analyst (2 years experience, +5 years of marketing experience) here in the bay area. hasn't been able to get a Data analyst job for 3 years now, even after applying thousands of jobs and interviewing dozens of times. Finally, she was forced to take an after school baby-sitting job for 17$/hour (bay area).
There are basically no downsides!
Arizona and Hawaii already don't

And Indiana. Except for the part that's part of the Chicago market.

And about a quarter of Arizona actually does change time. The Navajo Nation goes with New Mexico/Denver time.
Does anyone know if Mojave is going to be as awesome as this iOS update?
"If that's the case then I fail to see how a particular employer is responsible for that problem."

I fail to see how they're not. Wal-Mart is entirely, 10,000% responsible for how much they pay their workers.

"I mean, if the economy is so depressed in a region that the absolute best some job seekers are able to get is a job that requires them to remain on public assistance then obviously the employer isn't to blame for the region's economy."

That employer, especially when they are one of the largest companies in the nation, is entirely to blame for how much they pay their workers.

"Where does it make any sense to go after them instead of doing something to fix the economy and improve the lives and conditions available to those workers?"

Who says you can't do both? But why on earth does it seem acceptable that the job conditions are based on how good the economy is? Why is it suddenly acceptable to treat your workers like crap if some GDP number goes down by a quarter of a point?
It may seem like they're throwing policy to the wind but something to consider is that the events leading up to the assessment of DST, as well as the public consultation on the matter, were down to both citizens initiative and feedback as well as Member States directly appealing to the commission, as Lithuania asked for a review on the matter to take into account regional differences and Finland asked for it to be abandoned all together[0]. The matter is now left for the European Parliament and by extension MEPs from individual Member States to vote on, all in all it's like an extended referendum that then needs to be voted on in Parliament, everybody from citizens to elected officials get a say.

It's also not too concerning that Germany ended up with 3 million of the citizens consultation vote, it's only a 4% participation rate for Germany and 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, with only Cyprus, Greece, and Malta being on the fence (with around 50/50%)[1]. It's also the highest amount of responses so far of any public consultation.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/info/consultations/2018-summertime-arra...

[1] http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-5302_en.htm
Sure, until I end up working on someone else’s codebase, and have to clean up the “fun” and “creative” code they thought would be a better idea than “simple,” “idiomatic,” and “explicit”!
His problem isn't that he's hard to understand. His problem is he loses his point halfway through a chapter while he rants against eggheads, bureaucrats, and anyone else he doesn't like.

Like, I get his point that experience beats expertise, and some experts don't really know any more than the general public. But he drives the point so hard that his later work is unreadable. He'll devote more time to bullying some breed of academic than he will to making his actual point.
Yes, exactly! If you want more daylight time after work, just start work earlier! I know not everyone has that luxury. But permanent Daylight Saving Time also makes it darker in the mornings, when kids are going off to school and that isn't necessarily desirable. I think it makes sense to be more flexible about when we schedule things and not further distort the historic understanding of the relationship of the clock to the sky. And yes, I understand that there are many places where this relationship is tenuous, at best.
"Why does everyone ignore the fact that employment at Amazon is voluntary?"

Because it absolutely does not matter.

"then the employee should simply stop working there, because Amazon isn't holding up their end of the bargain."

This makes a whole lot of assumptions about things, namely that the employee has the ability to go somewhere else, and that Amazon is entitled to treat their workers like shit.

"So Amazon cuts out lunch breaks and whatever else to try to make the $7.25 back, and the employee is able to just barely scrape by with this crappy job because they're making $7.25 plus food stamps."

And for a company of their size, with their resources, this is entirely unacceptable and pure evil.
It'd be neat if someone ported Minecraft
(I work at Stripe)

Stripe Terminal gives developers the flexibility to build custom point of sale applications that use the Stripe payments platform, with EMV-ready hardware. The product will be work across the entire suite of Stripe products (Billing, Radar, Sigma etc.), and we’ll provide native SDKs across several languages.
Well, turning a dial on your wrist or pressing a few buttons is one thing, but when it comes down to code you're looking at a lot more complication than that.

Knowing how to correctly handle time as a programmer is anything but trivial. It's so not-trivial we even have a database of historical changes in timezones and DSTs in order to maintain backwards compatibility for it.
Right - it should be at least 3 years more.
Is that your argument against simplifying things? That people should be able to handle unnecessary complexity?
Even with DST, the actual date DST starts differs unpredictably from year to year. I don't think this introduces any new problems.
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You might want to look into caching (either at the wordpress or nginx level). I have a $5 DO and it can handle a good bit of traffic before being hugged to death. Now I do use Ghost as my blogging platform but I haven't enabled anything special in ghost for caching, I did it all in nginx.
This is in the same spirit as some OSS work I did a few years back, to enable similar scenarios

https://github.com/briangu/cloudcmd
There are other sources of funding than advertisements
So from my testing with the beta, then having to roll back and losing 100GB of music, be aware that if you have an original Apple Watch, it’s not compatible with iOS12.