skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I have a meeting in London next week at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, I'm not going to sit here in the U.S. and do the math so I can enter the meeting time at some crazy hour to "fool" Calendar.

I used to have this problem. I don't know if Apple fixed it or I just got used to doing it the Apple way. I think it helped to enter flights and appointments on the computer where there was more screen space to grok what was going on.

The key seems to be making sure to set the local time zone for both the departure and arrival locations. And if you need an alarm, to set it to "3 hours before" the appointment, rather than at some assumed local time.

I used to have the same problem you describe, but haven't had it in several years, even for flights and appointments across the International Date Line.
Looking at the mechanism of a vaned AoA sensor, I am guessing a fast enough roll would induce disagreement. Probably insufficient in degree to be material, though.
>It really doesn't happen as often as internet comments would make you think.

How about the US Justice Department?

>"After asking around, and performing some calculations, the Justice Department came up with a new number: 216,000. That’s 216,000 victims, not instances. These victims are often assaulted multiple times over the course of the year. The Justice Department now seems to be saying that prison rape accounted for the majority of all rapes committed in the US in 2008"

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-13/politics/raise-the-crime-ra...
Where I live, the doctor/dentist/optometrist never calls me first. They may call me back, but I always call them first. Recently I had some blood tests done and the doctor told me to give them a call in a week. I did, let the receptionist know I was calling about test results and she called me back after getting the details from my doctor. I’ve never got a call from any of them without expecting it because I’ve initiated it.
Wonder if it's harder to buy your way into a good prison or the ivy leagues.
From the second slide: "To be clear, when I say I, I don’t mean me, I mean you. And when I say, your code, I also mean you, but in the third person."
Individuals are absolutely on the hook for living high carbon footprint lifestyles, however governments have the power to incentivize low carbon, tax high carbon, and provide R and D and partnerships. It'll take govt, industry, and the people to lick our carbon addiction.
that is already happening yet people are still not moved to action http://climatemigration.org.uk/
While people who do handle it fine, by that point you've lost a massive crowd that would maybe consider your other advice if not for the "oh, and also you should be vegan" part. The problem of meat production carbon footprint is roughly linear in the amount of meat consumed, so it's enough to tell people to eat as little meat as they can, without asking them to cross the mental/cultural barrier vegetarianism is.

(Also, I'm not sure whether going from vegetarian to vegan means smaller or bigger carbon footprint.)
>First case report I'm aware of where fat was cardioprotective.

Happens all the time. If all you have is one of those $80 handguns chambered in .3-something-weak and loaded with hollow-points (they were popular in the 80s and a lot of them are still floating around the streets) a fat person dressed for winter in a cold climate (hollow points don't like thick clothing) might as well be bulletproof.
It's not true that this is the only issue unfortunately. As much as I want btrfs to succeed, I've seen it disappear completely from my drives and it does have quite a few crashing bugs: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_s...

I want it to be stable and safe already, but realistically, we still need to wait.
Nice intro, which then jumps to an absolutely arbitrary (for someone who hasn't coded in Go) set of recommendations, which are (imo) poorly argued from the perspective of clarity. Especially the case of "var person int", how is it cleaner than "var person int = 0" - and why are we even talking about zero values when the variable was not supposed to be intialized. Many decent imperative languages let you not intiialize a variable, and then not allow you to reference it until it's been initialized in all branches.

Mant things are left on the table. First of all, the audience. If you're explaining something to someone, you must consider the audience to be successful. So are we writing code to be read by Go experts? Go noobs? Software Engineers with general background in many lanaguages, but perhaps not go? Noob programmers? You want to assume the lowest level of understanding that is imaginable, and that's probably the last but one I listed in corporate environment.

Now that you have your audience, you gotta wrestle with some high level issues that then trickle down to concrete code. Explicit over implicit. Purity over mutable state. Small code units over monolithic code units. DRY. Verbose naming (that doesn't violate DRY). You gotta agree on the right level of code documentation - especially important for anything that resembles library code (or is an "abstraction").

The hard parts (like good naming) are not Lintable (of course Lint anything you can, use auto-formatter etc.), they are cultured through countless interactions between people in your organization. Getting third opinions is a valuable method here.
3 years ago, they were in the middle of deploying the current studies system.
> return a < b ? -1 : a > b ? 1 : 0;

This depends on the right-to-left associativity of the ternary operator, so this definitely counts as 'clever'.
And then you look countries outside of the US and you wonder, what the hell happened?
I'm not sure that refutes anything. One of the hallmarks of far left views is the intense infighting between rival factions that seems to accompany them. Far left types attacking each other despite agreeing on nearly everything is not new.
For example, the treatment of pregnant prisoners in US prisons is often horrible.

As far as I know it's not just pregnant woman, but depending on the state there's a whole laundry list of additional abuse and cruelty doled out.

Abusive nutrition[1] and virtual slavery[2] come to mind.

While I can agree that a prison stay should not reflect guest services at the Ritz such abuses, and, as good example, people like Joe Arpaio[3] really shouldn't be part of the package.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutraloaf

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio

edit : format of links
VW's Electrify America launches app, takes us behind the scenes
But this is how big companies behave. They have this unwritten policy to justify any anti-competitive, anti-user behavior with "security" and "privacy" PR.
The bureau of Justice statistics estimates 200,000 cases of sexual abuse in correction facilities annually.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/07/25/prison-rape-al...
Quite Interesting!
Considering he is a lawyer and a politician and civil liberties activist, he knew CBPA’s rights very well, and this is a public stunt to encourage the government to change the law.

A simple search about this nick wright, reveals that this is not his first encounter with the authority. He is definitely more active about civil liberties than the average person. He has been arrested during a G20 event, and his story then sounds a bit like this one.

So, we either have case of lightning striking the same person twice, or he likes to play games with the law.
I grew up with 24-hour clocks, and I always get confused by the 12h version of midday and midnight.

Literally, the mnemonic I use to remember which is which is "it's the one that doesn't make sense".

So 11am then 12pm

And 11pm then 12am

(Whereas I would expect the 12th hour of the morning to follow the 11th of the morning, but it's actually the other way around)
iOS does this, too. There's and entry for "time zone" immediately beneath the time setting spinny thing.
My wife's obstetrician's office is about half ARPN-CNMs (Certified Nurse Midwife). She saw the Dr for a few appointments, but mostly the CNMs. A CNM delivered our son in the hospital. The CNM had the Dr available to her if things went badly. For our daughter, we came to the hospital with my wife 9cm dilated and the CNM was unable to get there fast enough. In the end it was good that the Dr was there instead as she was born not breathing and eventually ended up on life-support. Even in that case the CNM was the primary care provider for the entire pregnancy.

We live in the US. I think not enough women use CNMs, but it's not some universal thing that you have to use an obstetrician in the US.
They don't "get rid" of heavy metals in any absolute sense, but they do remove them from the environment, concentrating the metals within the fruit bodies of the fungus where they can be easily "harvested" and processed to either recover the metals or sequester them from the rest of the environment.

Fungi are also spectacularly good at remediating hydrocarbon-polluted soils and related material - even deeply polluted sites that are normally just fenced off and "forgotten" as toxic-waste sites.

Take a look at some of Paul Stamets's talks on your favourite Tube site.
Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft
> engineers don’t get paid to write tests, they get paid to produce software

I've heard this double-standard before, and it sounds plausible at first glance, but is quite demonstrably nonsense.

1) Automated tests are software

2) Engineers aren't paid to produce software (nobody would pay me to auto-generate a billion "hello world" programs per second). Engineers are paid to solve problems and/or create value. Tests solve problems (finding bugs, demonstrate usage, clarify thinking, document intent, etc.).

3) Software is a liability, not an asset. We should produce as little as needed, and delete it if possible.

4) Engineers aren't paid to perform manual testing (running commands over and over, clicking around web forms to see what happens, etc.)
Geos Demo [GIF] – Pagetable.com
The elephant is one of my favourite creatures on this earth
No they're not. According this this[1] article drug crimes account for only 16% of inmates in state prisons. Violent crimes account for 54% of inmates.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-better-approach-to-violent-cr...
Maybe in the past things were different (although many studies into this tend to have ulterior motives), but I would say that Veganism has gone from an obscure lifestyle/diet to the acceptable mainstream very rapidly - e.g. U.S's population has gone from 1% vegan to around 6% in just the last couple of years (https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetforgrieve/2018/11/02/pictu...).

Even KFC are creating a vegan option.. sometimes change happens quick. I see it becoming more and more normalised.
Even if they set an alarm, that is a lot less distracting than the phone being able to ring at any time. Besides, any time I set an alarm, I’m already aware of approximately when it will go off and the alarm is just to pinpoint the exact moment. Ie if the alarm is to go off at 2pm, I don’t think about it until maybe 1pm or later as the time starts to approach.

One known and pre-timed distraction is a lot less distracting than many unknown randomly-timed distractions.
Amending prior response: unless you've specifically removed the ability of that option.
Especially on blogs where the design only gives the month and day, and it's impossible to find out which year, because that's the only date to be seen on the page.
> Stuff like comparisons, "price per 28.3 grams" ("price per oz")

This stuff happens all the time. PCB components with 2.54mm pin spacing. Dressed pine only available in 900mm, 1800mm, and 2400mm lengths. Heck, even 600mL iced coffees...
You don't subtract it though. Once you are used to it your brain just correlates 14 with 2 and 17 with 5 and 23 with 11 without thinking. In Norway, and I think in most of the 24-hour world, we still use the 12hr clock in speech. I don't go around saying that "the clock is quarter past fifteen", I say "quarter past three" and the context usually makes it clear when I'm talking about.
The American revolution was led by rich and powerful people.
> The standard best practices in STATS 101 is to compute R^2 coefficient

Any regression class which doesn't teach about overfitting is incomplete. R^2 is still a very useful measure, however, if you've come up with a parsimonious model and want to describe its descriptive performance.
Two things I look for when replacing a phone:
1. Lineage OS support. (So you actually get security updates)
2. A decent repairability score on iFixit. (So you don't end up with a brick when your battery dies in a few years.)

Right now I'm on a OnePlus 2. It will be 4 years old this summer and doesn't seem to have any issues with the newest Android (in the form of Lineage OS), or any apps I use!
> Most of all, it's comforting at home, especially at such an important time

Birth is serious business and you should be thinking about your child's welfare, not tickling your own selfish comfort receptors.
How do I verify that this is signed by Mozilla?
Are they even cleared to fly again?
Maybe you'll prefer

return
(a < b) ? -1 : // a smaller
(a > b) ? 1 : // a greater
0; // equal
wtf

Brought to you by the same folks who figured that locale settings should determine how CSV is generated/interpreted.
the test shows unique system fonts for me.

Here's a quote: "There will also be new security measures to prevent digital fingerprinting, or the use of things like installed fonts and plug-ins to help track users across the internet even with privacy settings active. Websites will be given a stripped down, simplified system configuration so every user's Mac looks like every other user's Mac."
As far as I can see:

Compilation to WebAssembly bytecode is done via the new WASM backend in LLVM (the Zig compiler sits on top of LLVM).

The whole interfacing with WebGL and WebAudio is actually quite interesting. It's not done through a runtime provided by the compiler SDK (as it is usually done with emscripten), but instead the Zig-to-JS binding is all done "manually" in the project itself.

There are 2 small "shim files" for WebGL/WebAudio and DOM access written in JS here:

https://github.com/raulgrell/tetris/blob/master/env.js

and here:

https://github.com/raulgrell/tetris/blob/master/dom.js

...and associated Zig interop files here:

https://github.com/raulgrell/tetris/blob/master/src/webgl.zi...

and here:

https://github.com/raulgrell/tetris/blob/master/src/dom.zig

It's really surprisingly little (and clean) code for doing that sort of thing IMHO.
do people actually say "fourteen oh-oh"?

I've used 24 hour clocks all my life and everyone uses 1-12 when talking. If someone is coming to see you at 14:00 they will say: "see you at two". We only use the proper format when writing.
They won't until the border pressure will be so hard the nations will start shooting people trying to cross them.
yeah, i also don't like to send my child to the daycare
> Who in their right mind

Probably the same people who thought MM/DD/YYYY was sensible?
Yeah, that looks suspect. Maybe open a GitHub issue about it?
This is what I've always wanted. However, my hope is that in a few hundred years when the tree finally dies, the wind will blow it over and some hiker will find my skeleton tangled in the roots. Ideally it will scare them, it will be my last prank.
You make it sound like it's a third-party RCE; but it's a cookie bypass, so it's tracking -- that's serious still [and the implementation sounds illegal to me].

The companies Instart Manager (used by cnet, tomshardware, etc., see link) and Upmanager that are doing this workaround of ublock -- are they not able to attack other browsers, only Chromium? I guess one benefit of being the biggest advertising company is that people don't want to mess with Google's stuff in case they suffer financial repercussions.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-Extra/wiki/Sites-on-which-uBO...
Zig has wasm as a built-in compile target — derived from LLVM 8 so Clang has the same functionality. The link to Dom/OpenGL is still a manual process but there’s some efforts generating the necessary JavaScript helpers.
> Look at schools. We live in a school district that’s extremely proactive about addressing bullying. Yet, our friend’s kid recently had water poured over her head on the bus. If you can’t banish physical violence in schools, among normal children, is there any prospect of doing the same in prisons?

Pouring water on someone's head !== rape (obviously).

Saying that we can't do anything about extreme, widespread violence in the prison system because we haven't yet managed to completely eradicate the mildest forms of physical bullying in schools is a ridiculous argument.

If the problem really is the interaction between prisoners, then we should simply stop those specific interactions taking place (or change the circumstances, so that they don't result in violence).

I'd like to live in a society where we prioritise (funding for) that over pranks in schools.
> Don't upgrade your phone. Seriously.

In general, fix your stuff before buying new or buy used. Or at least try to extend the time between purchasing a replacement.

Better yet if You think about new startup don't just create another super smart and sneaky ad technology but try to find an idea that contributes to humanity or the environment. After all, it's not the idea but your grit and perseverance that will take you to the top so why not make it matter.
To quantify, at least in the US: your baby is twice as likely to die during birth in a birth outside of a hospital, compared to a birth at a hospital.
Are your midwives the equivalent of APRN-CNMs in the US? Most people that talk about midwives never specify the type of midwife and that can vary wildly.
Yes it really should.

Chrome on Android reports your phone model and build number.
If you're using a lessor known phone with a carrier specific ROM, then you're in a really tiny population.
I think people should really just aim for 50% vegetarian, I really think this would help and most people could manage. For example, eat meat 3-4 days a week and the rest vegetarian. Imagine if everyone did this?

Yeah it's not perfect, but it's a start and it's more realistic.

Here's my story and I've heard similar off others:

I went vegetarian for 2 years (leaning to vegan) and found it hard to keep in shape and get enough protein, especially if you don't have time to cook and prepare meals. The only time I felt good was when I worked remotely and really had time to invest in cooking a lot of legumes and preparing meals with a lot of spices and variety to keep tings interesting.

Eventually I moved overseas and worked full-time again and felt depressed because I was missing out on a lot of nice foods and was surviving off only Tofu (readily available protein source), the lack of variety got me down.

I felt hungry quite often and often ended up supplementing with things like whey protein (probably has high Co2 footprint) anyway.

Eventually I slipped into some kind of extreme depression and was quite unwell mentally, I pondered a lot for why this might be. I'm not sure if my body was deprived of something and then I thought back to when it all started and it seemed like a correlation with my diet changing. I hate saying (because I think the ethics of vegetarianism/veganism is superior) but my mental state improved quickly once I started consuming more animal products higher in protein with more variety of amino acids (whey protein, cheese and milk combined with lots of nuts and legumes).

Eventually I went back to eating some chicken and fish and took some whey supplements and things continued improved for me and now I'm really quite content and working out / lifting a lot and feeling good physically and mentall. I eventually I just realized that I need to eat. I care a lot about climate change so I felt insane guilt for a while but it went away eventually.

Like someone else said, maybe it's enough not to treat meat like a commodity, more like something we're lucky to have an eat it as necessary and sparingly.

I think it's unfortunate and unhealthy to have to give up food and feel guilty for eating because people choose to drive their cars, have too many kids, drive to work, fly unnecessarily and burn fossil fuels to generate power. I'd prefer to see those issues addressed before going hungry and having health issues.

I know people live vegetarian fine, maybe it's easier if you have a low body mass etc; However in the end my contribution has been to move very close to my office and ride to work every day and I eat vegetarian for breakfast and most evening meals, consume less stuff I don't need, repair things and only fly once or twice a year (maybe it's too much).
This is a beautiful way to express multiple ?: expressions.
There are over 2.2 million people in US correction facilities and probably more if you count over a whole year. That gives a rate of under 10% which is high but supports the previous comment of the vast majority of prisoners not being assaulted.
A satellite based technique to watch growing eutrophication ocean threat
Digestive system of chicken looks similar to humans and it works on them, so what gives?
“As We May Think” – Vannevar Bush (Atlantic Monthly, July 1945)
> We could perhaps 3 or 4 decades ago have made a collective decision to gradually reduce consumption and allow our home to survive in decent enough shape to sustain us.

One thing we know about humans is that, as a species, we were never and are not currently capable of making such collective decisions or otherwise coordinating at this scale. This is probably the root of most problems we have, except death and diseases.
Sensitivity of data? I'd associate "spyware" with "collects personal information", whereas studies that do not require explicit opt-in are only allowed to collect things on a level of "how many tabs are open", "has the user enabled this feature", and things like web browsing history or data derived from the history are explicitly excluded. If you don't trust Mozilla to hold that standard, then yes, you probably shouldn't use their product.

(Which apparently played part in the Mr Robot idiocy: since it didn't collect any data, it was easy to get it through the process...)

I don't like lots of stuff Mozilla is doing, but I trust them more than the alternatives to actually do what they claim privacy-wise.
Not without breaking Grandma's favorite online banking website.
>Bush is most famous for his Memex, publicised in the aforementioned article in Atlantic Monthly (1945) and most readily available in Nyce and Kahn. Yet this same article also contained descriptions of devices rarely cited. These include the Cyclops Camera: "worn on forehead, it would photograph anything you see and want to record. Film would be developed at once by dry photography;" advances in microfilm; a thinking machine (actually a mathematical calculator); and a vocoder, "a machine which could type when talked to." http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0034.html
Understood re; Dropbox and appdata however that doesn't change the fact that if you search for how to sync Keepass across machines that's what you're told to do! The fact that they don't consider syncing a core part of the password manager and are happy to tell people to take awful workarounds (and not mention that it can be resolved with a plug-in anywhere on the main site) tells me that I don't want to use that project.

Pity we didn't have this discussion 18 months ago, I might not have left keepass
Yes. For so many problems, I hear "see, it's impossible because of this or that", while ignoring that it's being done elsewhere just fine.
In the US it depends on what your obstetrician's office has in many cases. The practice my wife chose has about 50% APRN-CNMs (Certified Nurse Midwife). We had a CNM for our first delivery and the Dr for the second (timing didn't allow for the CNM to make it to the delivery).
What would be the likeliest outcome in 2050?