skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kids, uh, find a way.

I remember when my school replaced the entirely wooden and very interesting play structure from the 70s with one of those new colorful, tubular metal ones. It sure looked safer. The 15 foot spire we took turns leaking off was gone. The tire swing that took out many a passing kid was gone. The piece of 5ft diameter concrete drain sewer pipe I busted my head on was gone. But that didn't stop one kid from nearly scalping himself on the new equipment, requiring 28 Staples. Nor did it prevent broken legs from falls, or many other injuries. But it sure looked safer and I guess we didn't get as many splinters. But kids always find a way to get hurt.
Just about the only real thing is hotboxing a company jet, which I'm sure the FAA would be pleased to hear about.
I'm sure for those extreme cases, their government would be able to determine the most suitable/healthy time to wake up for each day of year, using scientific methods.
Between google and facebook, we have AOL. You can stay in their silos all day and never "really" be on the World Wide Web as it was originally envisioned.
Honestly at this point I'd be more inclined to add the Google domain set to PiHole and treat them as hostile. Except I would have to greenlight those damn CAPTCHAs.

Adding an addon feels more like gaslighting myself that they're not abusive really. Was bad enough when they "innovated" search by adding a JS redirect to every visible URL so what you saw wasn't what you got - just what you eventually got after they've logged and tracked you.
I'm not cool with the idea of 7:30 PM sunsets in summer, thank you very much. The 4:30 winter sunsets are bad enough. Let's make it all-year DST, or, for those of us in Chicago, move Eastern Time westward a bit.
Same as boludo in Argentina
I agree and one reason I've mapped spacebar when held down to be shift.
>>>"At scenic sites and public spaces nationwide, toilet paper is BYO. Those who come empty-handed can do a QR code or facial recognition scan to receive up to 31 inches of toilet paper."

So hold on, if I don't have a working phone, I can't wipe my ass?
No. The copyright issue has not been solved. It's probably easier than ever, but enough friction has been removed from legal access to content that the vast majority of people will pay.
Not something I'm particularly concerned about to be honest.

My main point is that there are several completely adequate replacements for google, DuckDuckGo being one of them.
I absolutely prefer DST or summer time over standard, it just makes so much more sense. With standard time sun goes down at 5pm here so the only time there's any sunlight is while im the office working. Standard time sucks for our modern lifestyle.
Just out of curiosity, how would that work north of the artic circle? I accept there aren't a lot of people up there, but they do exist. Plus, as another commentator pointed out, your schedule would drift daily, and I don't think I'd want to have to manage getting up at, say, 4:00 in the summer for a 5:00 start (~1.5 hours after dawn), and then slowly transitioning to getting up at 9:00 for a 10:00 start in winter.

I, personally, would prefer something along the lines of scheduling half the day before solar noon and half the day after - it's not perfect, since in winter there's fewer daylight hours than working hours, but it feels like the best compromise.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110831/01030115745/are-a...

Still, the folks at M-CAM decided to put the Motorola Mobility patent portfolio to the test by using a variety of scoring techniques, and believes that the portfolio isn't all that valuable, both in the aggregate and at the specific level. It basically found that about 48% of the patents are probably worthless. At the specific level, the company looked at the 18 patents that Motorola Mobility had asserted against Apple, suggesting that these particular patents may be the "stars" of the bunch -- but, again, found that nine of those patents were "impaired," and were unlikely to be very strong or valuable.
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My larger concern is that human muscle movement involves a whole lot more than just the mechanical aspect. Any model that doesn't include some notion of human perception, cognition, and voluntary muscle control seems like it could be optimizing with the wrong evaluation function.
Why not relative to sunset? I care about daylight much more after work when I have time for myself than in the mornings where I get up and hurry to get there, and I think most people are similar.
Year-round daylight time will cause 'permanent jet lag,' sleep experts warn in letter to government

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/daylight-tim...
My daughter just tried to sit down the other day.

Missed the chair and ended up cracking her head on the bookshelf behind. Had to go to hospital to get glued back together.
The problem with both standard time and DST is that instead of having our tools work for us and simplify our lives, we are working for our tools to simplify their implementation.

Isn't that backwards?

We used to wake up at sunrise and schedule our day relative to that. For me at least it would be simpler if sunrise was fixed all life long to 7:00 am, so that I can have a single schedule my whole life (e.g. wake up with the sunrise every day).

Instead of over-correcting with a huge fix once per year with DST, or not correcting anything at all and messing my sleeping patterns with standard time, we could just correct time a little bit every day so that we can all wake up with the sunrise if we wanted.

Why? Because I at least feel I've slept a million times better if I wake up with real natural light, and that would be a huge quality of life improvement for me.

Sure, time and dates are already complicated, and such a system might make our tools more complicated, but we have solved worse problems. My phone could just shift my "time" at midnight every night so that the sunrise the next day is again, at 7:00 am, like every other day.
Local noon is measured by meridian passage (a line) and not just the zenith (a point, directly overhead). I assume that is what OP meant...have clock noon be close to local noon. It’s a complicated issue, particularly long term, for example, where it then bumps into the move to get rid of leap seconds.
That was his previous watch. Gates apparently upgraded to a slightly more expensive watch last year.

Buying a $20 watch will support some Chinese workers. Buying a $2K watch will support Japanese or Swiss workers. But I don't think buying a $20K watch will support workers any more than a $2K watch does. It probably depends on the company and the watch, but I think it's a safe bet that most of the markup at the extreme high end of the spectrum goes to a small number of managers and dealers.
This one has zero comments because developers are allergic to diagrams :)
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I'm a bit like that too.

I help out a bunch of startups in my local area with things like focusing on what matters, business model canvas, marketing and so on. Been doing it a few years now. I also have my own businesses.

Recently someone suggested that I blog about it and in my mind I thought "who'd want to listen to me"... despite a number of startups and business-folk doing it already :)

I've "had a go" at blogging in the past but I never knew what to write about or stick to but I wonder if this time round it's different...

To hell with it... I signed up.
I see yours allows for 300 keypresses in macros, that's pretty cool. I'm using the Vortex Pok3r, it only allows for 32, which is 99% okay, but I did run into this limit.

On the other hand, how do you access the macros? I can't see any special keys on it, except for maybe the `progm` key on the top right, but it is out of reach.

On the Pok3r, I have remapped the CapsLock key to be the layer modifier key, so while it is pressed, the special macro layer is active. I barely need the Caps key, so it is a minor annoyance to have lost it, but the gains are way bigger. That way, I'm using IJKL as my arrow keys. I have remapped Space to mean Shift, thus while it is pressed, I can select anything while moving around with the arrows. Also, I remapped F to Ctrl for jumping words (I'm on Windows, F stands for Fast :P). U -> start of line, P -> end of line.

It's sure not as powerful as vim, but the fact that this is available everywhere, even while I'm typing a comment on HN, totally outweighs it for me.

So nah, it's not awkward for me. Or does it come across like that?

Edit: typo
"Mr. Neumann would talk eloquently about creating the first “physical social network,” a place where members could talk about jobs, family, love. “It was like, wait, you mean life. What you’re talking about is just regular life,” Mr. Weber said. But as Mr. Neumann framed things, it sounded revolutionary. "

"And some came to wonder if Mr. Neumann had been wise to share, during a 2017 speech at Baruch College, a story from his first date with Rebekah. “She looked me straight in the eye and she said, ‘You, my friend, are full of” crap, Mr. Neumann recalled. “‘She then said, ‘Every single word that comes out of your mouth is fake.’”

mmhmmmm...
It's less the specifics and more the trend. Google's direction is, as stated elsewhere, to be seen as the source of information - not a route to it. As you note, they're incentivising structured content - which means they can appropriate it and present directly rather than providing a link to the originator.

No doubt some will find it helpful (as with AMP). Some will find it unacceptable appropriation. I'm most definitely in the latter camp. I don't use Google search anymore, having transitioned to DDG 2+ years ago. I rarely find situations where reverting to Google is necessary, and when I do, a `g!` in DDG is as close as I get.

I realise I may be in a minority, but as far as I'm concerned both Google and Facebook have jumped the shark. They're become corporate behemoths, a malaise that seems to come to all companies of a certain age and scale. They've lost focus on providing useful, innovative services for real people. Instead, they're all about "shareholder value". Both are ripe for disruption.
I don't understand this statement. You think the corporation wanted to lose 1.4M L of oil?

The alternative is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disaste... which was 7M L and dozens of deaths.
startpage.com is pretty good to, been using that as my primary search engine for a while now.
AGPS devices are still GPS devices.
They just fast-load the ephemera/almanac data from the cell network instead of waiting to get it from the GPS signal.
I know there are options for offloading the GPS signal analysis to other devices, but I wasn't aware of any main-stream cellphones that can't use GPS without the network.
Google is an organism and uses attack and defense against its perceived enemies.
This is a purely anti-user move.

No user gains anything by it, this actually helps phishing sites. Oh, and it happens to help Google's AMP effort, which can now pretend to be the original site even more effectively. Time to get everyone to use Duck Duck Go, and to get rid of those Google CAPTCHAs which are an even bigger data harvesting operation than search.
I think the submission should say "PLANTUML" (adding "U").
Business schools are going to study WeWork and Adam in the same chapter as Bernie Madoff and MCI Worldcom. This has been one of the most successful scams of all time.

The fact that it was all legal is just mind-boggling.
For anyone is interested, if you are on Windows, you can write an Autohotkey script to emulate this, although it will be buggy because of key shadowing (google if you don't know what it is).

I can even send my script to anybody interested to try it out. But you will really need a proper keyboard for this to work where each key has its own dedicated wire.
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I think culture is more resistant to change than you realize. I would very much predict that for most of my lifetime, businesses will continue to open at 9am regardless of whether we decide to permanently shift the clocks forward or permanently shift them back. Nine o'clock is the number burned into people's brains.

And the rest of culture more or less follows that one start time.
Inspirational, I needed this kind of read right now as I'm working on something and it's not easy. Thanks for sharing!
There was a significantly longer delay than expected between Cloudflare announcing the VPN service and it becoming generally available. Cloudflare has attributed much of this delay to overcoming client battery usage issues. Maintaining a balance of acceptable VPN performance and low battery usage is not an easy nut to crack.
You're right about that but as far as I've seen the project is pretty much feature complete for basic usage and I couldn't find any problems with the code that warranted much work.

The project seems to have stagnated but in its current state it's usable enough. I probably wouldn't expose the web application itself to the outside world anyway (I usually only expose applications to my home + VPN networks) so in the limited context that I use it it's fine.

If you want, you can also use it to generate configs and QR codes once, copy the server config to an independent server and then shut down the application. It doesn't do anything special to WireGuard itself, it just generates config files and QR codes and that's it.

Kind of sad to see such a simple but practical application fall into the abandon ware hole, but such is life when dealing with open source side projects from small companies.
They appear to be serving a cert for shortener.secureserver.net which seems kinda sketchy.
can we not just schedule a one time 30 minute adjustment between the two to split the difference, then never deal with this again?
Probably ads. On some search words the entire first page will be filled with ads.
The data is that a majority of iOS users are in fact using Apple Maps.

Btw, you can trigger Google Maps with Siri by creating a simple shortcut and when you search for a place on google. It launches Google Maps.
Exactly. The usual timezones are set up with the general intent that 12:00 is close to the time when sun is at its highest point in the sky. That is how our time historically was calibrated and I don't see why that needs to change if daylight time is abolished. It is a good reference. What else would be a better reference?
Compare those claimed health negatives against the positives of DST: having more time outdoors in the evenings for exercise and sunlight exposure to combat SAD. Plus more time to be out and social. All positives.

With extra sunlight in the morning, most people wouldn’t use it to be outdoors.
Good article, one of our best humans alive.
What Programmers Are: Why an Unprofitable Company Can Have 70% Margins
And yet all oil tankers have to be double hulled, for the exact same reasons. Why not pipes?
The matter is very simple, if we abstract ourselves away from any platform or market discussion.

Someone has to be on the hook to pay social deductions, unemployment insurance, etc. If Uber requires all its drivers to be companies, then these companies would be responsible. Since Uber allowed private persons, then they have to cover it.

I think the part where the riders have to pay the deductions is interesting. It would be the case if I hired someone directly, but in this case I interact with Uber who offers the service.

This is the default expectation in Switzerland, direct hire - pay the social deductions, hiring a company - pay only what’s on the bill.

Swiss law protects the employees, if social deductions are not paid it’s the employer’s fault.
Same here. Never bought anything Sony again.

I also remember the poor kid who had a portable CD player almost red hot trying to play the Columbia/Sony music CD he had bought - riddled with purposeful errors to avoid PC copies.

Making war on customers, indeed ...
It’s entirely possible that pensions had some dollars wrapped up in WeWork but I don’t have inside knowledge or anything, they just have a decent backplane of institutional investors. But you can’t take this view that every failed investment “hurt” people. Some investments outperform expectations, some you nail, and some are big dumpster fires. A lot of this seems tied up in the myth that everyone knows what they’re doing: they don’t, grand majority of people are winging it to various degrees most of the time.
That last bit could be some sort of variation of ‘duping delight’.
Is the FOSS world's desire for 'simplicity' just anti-intellectualism?
Programming in 1969: An interview with a pioneer – my mum
Web3.js – Check all transactions to an Ethereum address
Yes, there are such tight margins in oil extraction the majors barely stay in business. Little wonder they have to cut corners on safety for the sake of a few extra dollars.
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I have tweeted about this a couple of weeks ago. No answer from Google, but then again I don't have much of a following. I hope this attention turns their decision around.

I noticed this particularly badly when I tried to Google a product. I was after reviews but without the links it is impossible to tell whether a result leads to a review, a shop, a forum or whatever. It was surprising to me how much information is encoded in a URL. I analyzed it subconsciously all the time. It only became obvious once it was missing.
You can use 3D Touch / Haptic Touch for that in Safari.
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Web browsers are unfortunately a case where even memory safe-ish languages are really an incomplete solution. Writing a JavaScript JIT in Rust won't prevent optimizer bugs.
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I switched to DuckDuckGo a while ago, took a little while to get used but as it's my default search engine I've got used to it. The funny thing for me is now google's search results look strange to me as I've not kept up with all their "tweaks/changes".

I think best thing is switch default search to a new engine to get used to it, takes a little adjusting but worthwhile.
Sure. And I'll remain just as guarded (nervous) by the next fad social app underwritten, coopted by a government.
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I'm assuming you're joking; if not, can you explain?
That comment links to a Youtube video I just watched and it's interesting that he directly confirms that there is an upper bound to the amount of money their model can manage and that they are comfortable limiting the scope of the game as a result. I guess that kind of honesty is easy when you are billionaires making money off your own money.
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> Plus it'll keep us more in sync with Europe, assuming they stick on standard time

IIRC the poll in Germany at least greatly favored permanent CEST as well.
For whom did not know what this is about: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v781-free-uyghur-edition/ - a political statement about political treatment of minorities in China. OSS and politics is an interesting field.

There is a saying "you cannot be apolitical" -- being "neutral" is also a political statement. Given that, I support their move.
> It has to be a combination and there will have to be painful adjustments to the current western lifestyle.

I feel quite confident in saying “that will never happen.”

If you want to avoid a mass revolution from the people, you can’t take away quality of life.
Ah, that's good then!
I don’t think Pollock’s drips are art either. But I do think Picasso’s cubist paintings are art. And yet some of Picasso’s paintings are easy to re-create so would fail your test.