skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Collectively bargain with your coworkers to work 8-4 instead of 9-5 then.

Nothing at all prevents workplaces from independently adopting their own biannual shift scheduling savings time if they want to. That argument against sane time that doesn't constantly change is "we don't have any power in our workplaces to see the change we want in our working conditions" and all I hear is "wouldn't it be nice if we had a union".
I could not have put it better
I sense an underlying theme that the author considers these protestations of ethics to be shallow or naive.

"tech" has considered itself immune from criticism by framing all arguments against it as against progress itself - and who would be against progress? That kind of short-circuit evaluation led to people not really questioning things - might as well keep programming, after all, it is progress right?

Now the environment is much more complicated, and we're collectively discovering shades in what was originally a solid color. Interesting times.
In which region? I've had all of these all over my playlists for as long as I can remember... A decade?
>In California, daylight savings actually makes sense, it's a noticeable boost of daylight for your office commute in the winter.

So the plan is that instead of people working hours which suit and know about it we agree on a weird collective lie and get everyone to perform the clock-adjusting ritual
Here's a pretty good graph that illustrates the concept:

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-francisco

DST ensure that sunrise is kept at around 6 in the morning, this removes the "waste" of daylight from before most people wake up, and moves it to after work hours in the summer.

Here's the same graph for Stockholm:

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

There's not enough daylight in the winter to cover an entire working day and more, and there's too much daylight in the summer so everyone will "waste" it by sleeping, which makes DST pretty much useless.

Edit: Here's Honolulu for reference: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/honolulu

The band of daylight is almost the same width over the year, so moving it up and down doesn't do anything for people.
No, what is being proposed is removing facebook-made-me-a-doctor exemptions. No one is going to make an immunocopromised child take a vaccine. This is complete FUD. Any doctor who can legitimately diagnose a reason for it can fill out the medical exemption form.
I'm not a doctor, but consider the size difference between molecules and viruses. Some quick googling puts the size of the aids virus at 0.1 micron and the size of a water molecule at 0.018 microns if I did the conversion right.

Getting from the toilet through the anus and into the intestines is it's own challenge. There's shit, multiple sphincters and bends in the way.

Then you've got the transmissibility of aids itself, which is actually quite low for anything other than blood transfusions: http://www.aidsmap.com/Estimated-risk-per-exposure/page/1324...

Put all that together and there's no chance anyone got aids from toilet splashback.
This is a really hard problem. You do not want to have to register as a bank or hire an expensive compliance team. Use Stripe.
"And the Germans seem to be dominating the vote..."

On what basis are Germany dominating the vote? They cannot. No EU member state can dominate a vote. Germany could at best lobby other member states, as other member states can (and do) lobby Germany.
Spoiler: Speculative Load Hazards Boost Rowhammer and Cache Attacks [pdf]
Thanks for that. Wiki page is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factitious_disorder_imposed_on... and US clinical terminology follows:

In DSM-5, the diagnostic manual published by the American Psychiatric Association in 2013, this disorder is listed under 300.19 Factitious disorder. This, in turn, encompasses two types: Factitious disorder imposed on self – (formerly Munchausen syndrome). Factitious disorder imposed on another – (formerly Munchausen syndrome by proxy); diagnosis assigned to the perpetrator; the victim may be assigned an abuse diagnosis (e.g. child abuse).
So autism is a disease that can be transmitted. Let's develop a vaccine for it.
If I ever build a house, I'm going to get oversized crawlspaces, cable ducts... Anything I can find to make maintenance easier. Maintenance on houses is the hardest thing we don't talk about. I wonder if we might be better served with Japan's culture of rebuilding constantly, because maintenance is a chore and painful.

I also wish houses came with an owners manual and regular check-up tooling - I'd love to have a better idea of what I'm dealing with and something to reference about what I've forgotten.
I guess the aviation application is very focused on the magnitude of the force generated per watt of power expended, and pushing really hard on air (like airplane engines do) is pretty effective for that, even if there's also some way to make sound waves generate thrust. Are the sound wave lifters and manipulators (which are super cool) very power-efficient compared to a fan or a jet engine?
There is absolutely no shortcut in this things. As soon as you are paying users there will be all sort of legal requirements/side effects which you need to be aware of. Starting with money laundering, taxes (yours and from your users even!), pleasing your payout provider that your content is not illegal, beeing able to payout in US&Europe or even global and ending with costs (you will probably never be able to compete with 5% from patreon).
The thing is that all this risks apply mostly to your payout provider (this is why it is a hard problem, it's not only your risk alone). Good luck in finding a good partner.
I'm betting that sites like Patreon have developed this things from scratch and in-house.
I think they have both done harm, and don't really feel rating harms and minimizing the one that isn't #1 is a good thing.

We can address both of them, simultaneously. Civilization is awesome like that.
Video game console hacking. Wanted to run my own code on my console back before phones and laptops were so cheap.
In the end charging has to be non-proprietary. I don't think this is the hill Tesla wants to die on.
The short version is that you are often better off running multiple instances of a JVM application with a heap <32GB when you have the choice between scaling up and scaling out.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19307243

I realize this points to a different comment and probably a good one, but for HN purposes I think it has to count as a duplicate submission. The natural place for a follow-up like this would be a comment in the original thread.
was a matter of speech and I am sure you understand my argument
“When did Mountain View become Capitol Hill?”

It’s fair to say there are those that want Mountain View to be Capitol Hill. They want politics to be a focal point of the tech industry in Silicon Valley. They want their worldview to be incorporated in what’s produced. It’s a convoluted path with a lot of tip-toeing around.

This is also why there is motivation for employees to continuously dig up dirt on Google and leak it to The Intercept: because the group wants to make it political. Wouldn’t it feel great to stand before a crowd and say “I fought ‘the man’” over “I decided to walk away”? Broadly speaking, who is the fight actually against?

There’s more news (at least in the tech circle) about employee protest of Dragonfly than what Dragonly actually is or how it works. Clearly it’s censored, which puts people off, but what is Dragonfly censoring, how is the censoring done, and who keeps track of what is censored? Given China already has Baidu running (which I will over-simplistically call Google’s knockoff), this isn’t China’s first rodeo with crafting a search engine, so there must be some cooperative development plan in place that is much less covered in these articles.

Further, the worldview expressed surrounding the concern of building a censored search engine for China often ignores that Chinese internet users aren’t all stupid. Yes, there is the Great Firewall. For 10+ years, that has not stopped users in China from finding “hacks” to access Google and censored websites, and share the information online. I understand the sentiment that access is still limited to many Chinese out there; however, from my experience of interacting with Chinese natives and ex-pats (which isn’t a perfect sample, but w/e), it’s not like Chinese people live under a rock as much as Westerners sometimes think. Even without Google, there is still a huge online culture in China.

I get that ethics is hardly a simple matter. The employees at Google can follow their own compasses. The real story is that a small group thinks their compass should be the direction everyone follows because it is “right”, and it’s being used on a project so publicly vague there’s more controversy than evidence.
I replied to that comment because stood out the most, due to this choice of words.

Regarding the concept of "emotional labour" you define, I am neutral. I am not saying it does not exist - I just believe it is a common human experience, even if it may hit some people more often than others.

I just have a problem with what I perceive to be either A) an inability to feel a similar level empathy toward people who have different problems or B) hypocrisy.

Seriously, imagine the same article towards another similar issue, and think about the conditional probability of finding the same supportive comment.
there is an uncensored version using Bitcoin at bitpatreon
I am not sure Tesla is that much worse than the rest. It’s just you don’t read about the mishaps of others.
If schools also do not switch biannually (which of course they won't) that simply does not work for families with children.
Daylight saving time doesn't apply to the winter though.

Winter time is standard time, and DST is in effect during the summer months to better make use of the extra light available during summer by winding clocks an hour forward. The idea being that you get an extra hour of sun in the afternoon.
I think they read https://logicmag.io/06-model-metropolis/ and were wise enough to give their article a more click friendly headline.
Can multiple people at the same address sign up for this?
Frankly, I like daylight savings. It contributes to reduce the difference between the sun time and my time.

I wake up more or less when the sun raises and then go to work. Now if I keep doing that I'm going to show up either too late in the winter or too early in the summer.
If you like gaming-history you'll probably also appreciate:

https://www.filfre.net/tag/simcity/
It's not so weird, because the question "what time is it?" has a single authoritative source, and it can only be answered by a single authoritative source. (NIST in the US, right?)

But the question "when should we go to work?" doesn't have a single authoritative source, it all depends, it's all culture, it's all customs, everyone is free to do their own thing, but protestant work ethic bla bla bla, and here we are with most people starting work at 9, and if you don't, you're a weird slacker.

Yes, agreeing to start work at 10 in the winter is completely functionally equivalent with moving the clock forward an hour during winter, but it's just mentally impossible to implement because humans are weird like that.
Also not supported on iOS.
One question (since I do like shortcuts) -- what about if you have uses pay each other (through whatever means is available to them), and only act as the sort of negotiation point? Here's what I'm thinking:

- user signs up

- user registers x supported payment accounts (Paypal, Venmo, etc)

- when a user wants to pay another user on their site, you send them to the appropriate payment provider with the details of the other user

- take confirmation from user that received payment and use it to update "trustworthiness" scores for both users.

This seems like it could work as a way to sidestep some of the legal requirements?

Though the amount of value the OP's company offers is a little lower (since you're not handling payments), I think the other benefits (discoverability, concentration of information, etc) that patreon offers are still seemingly on the table. Fraud of course is still an issue, but the upside is you can punt that to whatever payment provider they specify.
>"Not to mention almost all US based carriers and many others use ITA's flight search service to power their own (the carriers') websites. They can't search in the data they created, so they have to pay ITA."

Can you say why aren't carriers able to search in the data they created without using ITA?
See also Maya Bay — https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_beach_nobody... — Covered here two weeks ago in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19214357 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19207797

See also the Tate Modern's viewing deck — https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/12/tate-modern-neig...

See also Lombard Street
That’s right. This way of expressing similar experiences is actually sympathy, not empathy. And sympathy tends to be unhelpful for the person sympathized with, if not actively counter-productive.

Imagine complaining about an argument with a friend and your friend sympathizes by saying “yeah, I hate him too, he’s such an asshole”. Now you have to empathize with them, while also being unhappy about how they feel about your friend.
Not sure why you're downvoted. Not only that, but when everyone is saying "harmless" and "biocomatible", I'm thinking about the sharp, highly incompatible stainless steel needle (aka 4-faced knife edge so big you can put a pipe inside it) they're using to slice through my RETINA.

No thanks. Not now, not ever.
There is JEB Decompiler too: https://www.pnfsoftware.com
The argument in favor of deregulation of most things has some straight forward logic behind it. Imagine that some major player did begin to act badly. This would enable a competitor to offer a distinct value. Like the GP mentioned some predictions were things like e.g. Microsoft being able to pay Comcast to effectively disable Google search/products. That may be a legal possibility without regulation but it the Huffington Post 'analysis' seems to assume there are no consequences for actions. Google Fiber was a flop in large part because they could not meaningfully distinguish themselves from the competition. Imagine local monopolies start creating meaningfully poor experiences for internet users. They would not be monopolies for long!

Some might argue that lower speeds for higher prices were creating "meaningfully poor experiences" for users, but I think there is one important distinction. Let's imagine an upstart competitor comes in and offers some perk, such as lower prices for higher speeds. And the local monopoly ends up matching these offers, as they did in the case of Google Fiber. Is this action perceived as a 'de-crippling' of their system, or as an upgrade of their system? In reality it's almost certainly the former, but in practice it's going to be perceived as the latter. That means they actually gain public props for anti-competitive behavior following what is effectively price-gouging.

By contrast if some company is actively and outright blocking a site, then de-crippling would not be seen as an 'upgrade', but instead as what it is -- 'de-crippling.' And so it's likely that the competitor would be the one gaining the public props (and subscriptions). And in reality, it's possible that our incumbent monopoly might not even be able to de-cripple themselves due to a contract with e.g. Microsoft.
> So the plan is that instead of people working hours which suit and know about it we agree on a weird collective lie and get everyone to perform the clock-adjusting ritual

Well yeah. Much simpler to make the adjustment once, at an agreed upon time of year, than to have a hodgepodge of different companies, schools, retailers, bagel shops, etc. all move their hours independently. In that case you have a first-mover problem and nobody adjusts.

It's not a lie anymore than time zones themselves are lies. (i.e. Time zones don't follow strict longitudinal lines, they follow political boundaries instead, and are often wider or narrower than the 15° they "should" be)
Just do what a lot of other conferences are doing, hold it in Canada and save the hassle.
The great thing about a reproducible build system and a large enough userbase is that it blurrs the line between a compile-from-source distro like Gentoo and a binary distro. This could be huge: flexibility when needed, and convenience everywhere else, all within a single toolchain. But the work required to reach that goal is massive, and probably not worth the effort if above outcome is the only reason to pursue it. I think trust/security/verifiability might be the more realistic driver, but the fallout could just be a new kind of distro.
> This study does not evaluate the leading hypothesis of how vaccines could cause autism

A hypothesis of how vaccines could cause autism would only be worth evaluating if there were evidence presented of an effect that that hypothesis was necessary to explain.
“Death is certain, the time is not” (2018)
Patreon does this automatically. I, as a patreon, do not want to be sent somewhere each month to confirm my payment.
The problem with antitrust is that the law is extremely vague, there is no administrative rule-making process for it and Congress rarely touches it. It's possible to argue that it applies in this case, but actually applying it would involve a decade-long court proceeding, meanwhile everyone is open to getting pillaged by their ISPs.

> You'll notice exceptions are carved out to ensure Comcast is a telecom, and Google isn't, even if they both provide video services and both also run ISPs.

The telecom is the thing that owns the physical last mile network. YouTube isn't a telecom, Comcast is. Google Fiber is too, and if they claim they're not they should lose.
Are schools also 09:00-17:00 where you live? Where I grew up they were 09:00-15:30.

Not exactly good for commmunters anyway. Why would shifting things by an hour make much difference, when alternate arrangements are needed regardless?
Sidekiq charges for their Enterprise plan which starts at $179 per month, Redis offers paid Commercial Support.

The money always comes from somewhere...
If you're going underground hire an engineer and/or architect to save you some of the long term pain.
He's probably talking about trackpad pinch-zoom.
Also do check the daylight graphs I posted in other comments, but here's an example from northern Norway:

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/norway/narvik

For a month of winter, there is no daylight at all. It is literally impossible to wake up after sunrise, because sunrise doesn't happen for an entire month.
That only works with some types of work. Anything customer-facing is difficult to change. E.g. you may decide to open/close your restaurant or bakery at different times. It will probably be a very bad idea.

The point of “changing the clock” is that the clock synchronizes all alarm clocks, all contracts, all billboards, al timetables and schedules - so the change updates everything transactionally.
Handheld Writing Mobile Device Patent by Andy Rubin's Essential
sure its easy, if you don't care about speed.
The State of Science in the Trump Era (2019)
Just so I have this clear: is the issue the simple solution above doesn't work (at all) with multisets, and the birthday problem combined with potentially billions of rows means even sha256 will have a significant chance generating a collision?
Also from the Seattle area and this hits home as well, except I am a bit agoraphobic and need to build up courage to go out.

I used to push myself to go to dev meetups and such, even gave a few presentations, but eventually stopped. The emotional cost of going was high, and when I would get back home feeling wiped out and reflecting on it, I realized I actually gained very little from the experience. All the socializing was just hollow small talk and no lasting connections were ever formed. Interest-based meetups I've found to generally be transient, ephemeral, and unfulfilling for those who can't muster the enormous social buy-in to get any meaningful results. Volunteer work was more satisfying, but also fleeting and temporary.

On the plus side I did gain experience in public speaking and discovered it really doesn't bother me (although the mingling afterwards is social anxiety hell). Unfortunately that skill on its own isn't terribly useful.

> I feel terrible for those of us on the spectrum without that option, as if I couldn't live this way I would end up being entirely dependent on my spouse or family. I can imagine that burning out + feeling guilty about being a burden financially makes recovery from that state even more difficult.

It is. I was swinging a remote-work career and doing the whole order-groceries-online shut-in routine as well. Eventually I succumbed to burnout for a host of reasons and the career crumbled to dust. Extended unemployment pulls you in like quicksand and I've been out of work for over a year now. I live in a converted tool shed in my parents back yard, and the guilt and shame is crushing. The erosion of self esteem saps your will to improve yourself, creating a vicious circle.

My last recourse at this point is to try to use this as an opportunity for learning and personal enrichment. While working I was myopically focused on programming and industry issues, and utterly ignored the wider world. I'm now trying to rectify that by reading more about philosophy, politics, history, etc.

There's so much more to the world than tech or vocation, and I regret ignoring that for so long. My advice to anyone in this situation is to, as much as your circumstances permit, expose yourself to a wider range of culture and find value and human dignity in ways other than your potential for capital generation. The value of a life is not measured in dollars, and don't let the world convince you that it is.

It feels like this is becoming a blog post or something, so I'll stop. Needless to say this topic hits home for me, as it seems to for many others here.
is there a difference in human suffering based on color of skin/cultural background?
You have a lot of opinionated adjectives in that second sentence that aren't related to the chemical, which is the same one as in the first sentence.

> a potent form of an addictive drug

It's literally the same chemical; you didn't use those adjectives when you described it earlier.

> quantities that are not metered

Readily fixed for < $20: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D1NNGM6/

https://erowid.org/chemicals/ketamine/ketamine_dose.shtml#or...

> At worst, you're getting some form of fentanyl because internet drug dealers are inept.

That's not a ketamine problem; it's a prohibition problem.