skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the readers, I'll add a gently remainder that this is about Canada whose southern border is located at about 50°N. That means that the shift in daylight that they experience during the year is quite amplified.

Beside that, the article is quite poorly written and misleading! Do not assume that everything said apply for the rest of the world.

> Changing our clocks twice a year has little benefit, economic or otherwise, so isn’t it time to stop this antiquated practice?

Yeah, thanks for such a scientific sentence with no explanations, no data, not even an introduction to the topic. Next time maybe also ask some astronomers…

> As experts on biological rhythms, we support the switch to a permanent time.

That's perfectly fine, but at least explain why… and provide advice for the current practice (e.g. for the Spring change, move up your daily routine/schedule by 3 minutes every day for the 20 days before the change, so it will occur smoothly).

> People on the western edge are forced to get up an hour earlier than people on the east, according to sun time.

What ?! Not in standard time-zones. That can happen only in countries which span across different time zones and decides to keep a single "official" time.

> Analysis of health data from millions of people shows that […]

No source at all; that seems more a supposition from a USA article. They see sunrise/sunset 19 minutes early (depends on the latitude), but that doesn't mean that they sleep less. All the rest is just bullshit.

> Permanent DST would make sunrise even later for everyone, while permanent ST would make sunrise closer to body time.

In the northern emisphere permanent DST would make sunrise later in the Winter; permanent ST would keep the sunrise to the current optimum (for the Winter; during the Summer we already wake up with the Sun).
Fair enough, might have been better to leave out those words completely.

I also thought about writing an entire sentence on it, such as, "I am asking this in earnest, not trying to make some point in a debate with a rhetorical question." But then I thought it would be too much.
As and employee? Sure.

As a user and internet person, Google is a huge net negative and needs to go away. AMP, Chrome, Gmail, Search, Android, Google Home, Google News... all of these products have massive, toxic reach and they're damaging the technology landscape.
Go's call-by-value semantics give you similar benefits. Just different tradeoffs (because there are downsides to immutable data structures).

My understanding of Go's design aesthetic is that it prefers to be explicit about things that could impact performance, which is probably why it prefers simple data structures with explicit synchronization.
Sometimes when using Google News it looks like the news site has loaded, but the browser still displays the Google URL. Does anyone know what is going on? It's obnoxious when I want to send the link to someone but I only have access to the Google URL.

Example URL: https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEMVJWO7QqMIc4YUoEkX9LZM...
I’m a happy DDG user; I think it’s close but defnly a notch below Google in search quality. Sadly, this is mostly Google having fallen off, not DDG having gotten better.

Still it’s worth it for the better website design, avoiding AMP, and the general impression that you’re not interacting with a malevolently intentioned entity.
I think you can also do that using DocView[0] and the mupdf backend.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Do...
Yes, that is unfortunately the case...

I guess that is why some companies have open beta versions where in the eula you agree if you use this version you will be analysed. See Microsoft Windows insiders edition, Jetbrains, etc.
What about people without bank accounts?
As a counterpoint, consider that just because good people work there does not mean that the company isn't evil. I'm sure there are NSA employees who are nice folks, but that doesn't mean that the organization is good.

Even the originator of 'embrace, extend, extinguish' had good people working for them. That doesn't mean that early 2000s Microsoft wasn't a fairly evil organization. To Natella's credit, they have radically changed, but please re-read your comment and consider that it doesn't actually prove anything about Google as an organization.
The story is even worse than what is publicly reported. The test was actually not developed by this professor but by one of his postdocs. She happened to be Chinese and her contract was up for renewal, when he saw the potential for commercialization, he did not renew her contract. She only had a work visa and therefore was forced to go back to china. There was more shady stuff and nepotism going on, but I don't remember. This guy 100% deserves everything that is coming for him.
Waymo designs and builds their own LIDAR units. As of almost 3 years ago, estimated costs per unit had fallen to $5,000.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/06/waymo-to-start-selling-sta...
Same here, with little success. Often people want to find some tool to generate diagrams from the code, which totally misses the point.

Still, I use them in my projects and they help me very much.
If we're sharing subjective opinions, one could subjectively opine that smoking, drinking, and overeating are all coping mechanisms to deal with seasonal depression for some people.

In general, I tend to avoid calling people hypocrites--it's a purely rhetorical tactic with no logical value. If a murderer says murder is wrong, does that mean murder is right because he's a hypocrite? Obviously not. Just because someone is a hypocrite doesn't mean they're wrong: calling people hypocrites is just an ad hominem attack in most cases.
Hasn’t the US/Canada law changed to require a pilot license and radio contact for flying a drone?
Tldr - 'programmers aren't included in the costs'. I don't know if that is true, but that's the answer to the clickbait.
Adding to this this project currently in beta, a simple self-hosted private Dropbox with E2EE: https://www.duple.io/en/
I get the exact same result in Google, so I'm not sure what this proves.

It proves that you don't understand how Google works.

Each search is custom to the person, profile, IP address, geolocation, search history, surfing history, purchase history, social media, and a thousand other trade secrets that Google holds. No two searches are the same.

This is why when Sally in Accounting searches for something on her work computer, and Mike in Facilities searches for the same thing on his phone they get different results.
>The first is the complete lack of innovation. Without any meaningful APIs, end users cannot do much with their DSLR. There's no app store where I can buy apps to enhance my DSLR.

I disagree here entirely. The DSLR "app" market predates and has been the inspiration for all of these apps we see on phones. Photoshop filters, lightroom presets and actions, etc. All of the stuff that that inspired things like instagram filters have been around for decades now, and have consistently always been a step ahead on power and quality. You don't run them on camera, but... you wouldn't want to! When you're shooting with a DSLR you're shooting for consumption at higher resolutions than you can see on your LCD display. You want to be able to look at things in more detail than you could ever do on the camera itself.

>The other reason is much more banal. For various reasons, people jumped to the DSRL bandwagon thinking that would make for better photos compared to more compact cameras (false for most people)

You're right here, but I don't think people actually wised up to this.

If we're talking specifically about DSLRs, mirrorless cameras are just better for most people at this point - Sony has almost single handedly rendered DSLRs obsolete for the vast majority of use cases where people need prosumer or professional cameras. If we're talking about prosumer+ cameras in general, it's even simpler than your reasons: Most of the people taking pictures with their phones are doing so for people who are consuming them on their phones.

You simply don't need a DSLR or mirrorless or medium format camera when everyone viewing your pictures is also using a phone. People aren't getting photos printed, and they're not viewing them on monitors. I'm really impressed with my iPhone 11 Pro camera - it works fantastic! - for viewing photos on the phone. But throw it up on my 4K monitor, and the pictures don't compare at all to my old D5300, much less my a7r 3 or even my rx100 m7 (assuming good shooting conditions and manual mode - the 11 Pro auto settings are quite good and significantly better than the 5300, and in some situations seem to be about as good as the rx100). I haven't gotten any printed to put up on display, but just seeing how poorly they compare when I'm looking at them in Lightroom, I wouldn't want to.

The way the majority of people consume photography has changed, and the requirements for producing photos for that medium has changed with it.
K-12 school start times don’t flex. Before-care and dropping off early at daycare cost money.
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Multiple responses here claiming that “micropayments are solved”

Yeah, maybe for folks in Silicon Valley who have bank accounts.

What about the other few billion people?
> What changes have you seen in the students coming into the computer science program over the years?

> Knuth: There is a very profound change that I can't account for. In the 70s, the majority of our students were very interested in music. The first thing we'd ask them when they came in was "What instrument do you play?" We had lots of chamber groups and so on. Now almost none of the students are interested in music.

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Cool ! Can it be weaponized ? I mean, could it do better than some hypothetical tiny AI controlled robots in, e.g., earthquakes rescue missions ?
Seems the opposite to me. Congestion and pedestrians present the greatest challenges for driverless cars. Also, they will only increase congestion both by increasing the number of cars on the streets and by being overly cautious.
Plus, they tend to price very cheap, so they’re probably getting about the same per sale as a normal royalty on a print book. And, any editorial service (proofreading, copyediting, etc.) has to be paid out of the author’s share.
Same in Swedish. Also the Swedish word for computer is dator. Don't know if this in any way shifts the mental perspective though.
I'd be more inclined to add the Google domain set to PiHole and treat them as hostile

I've been thinking about adding google.com to my hosts roundfile. Do you what other domains/IP ranges I should use?
> If you read his post, said he was there 10 years ago in 2009. If you recall, this was during peak recession and at that time Apple was seemingly driven by a culture of ruthlessness that was probably a result of events earlier in the decade (before Steve Jobs came back, when the company was nearly insolvent).

I think we should be fair and point out that unlike basically every other major tech company in the Bay Area, Apple didn't lay any one off in the 2008-2009 recession.

They were conservative, yes, and flush with cash they used to make a number of big strategy acquisitions in the period IIRC.
For small projects, sure. The probability that a bug will be reported is

number of users * prominence of bug * the "reportability easiness" reported in your article

I have an open-source project with 100k active users, and I mostly handle issues myself, so I require the whole 9 yards of signing up for a GitHub account (reduces the number of lazy issues) and filling out ~10 questions in an issue template for both bug reports and feature requests. It works very well for increasing the average quality of bug reports and filtering duplicate, nonsensical, emotional, and information-lacking bug reports.

If you're on the other side of the spectrum and are just begging for people to report bugs, then you should make it as simple as possible by allowing bug reports from all mediums (GitHub, email, forum, Twitter, phone call, whatever) and engage in the repetitive conversation it requires ("Can you send a screenshot?", "What does the error message say?", "Can you send your log.txt file?", etc.) But once the number of bug reports is more than you want to handle for the project's salary, you should implement methods to send users through a standard pipeline to avoid asking these questions every time.
When stackexchange or wikipedia articles appear on HN I always wonder what the context is. Presumably something triggered interest in this topic recently?

In this case image frequency can be useful in many things from image/video compression to hashing images (to efficiently compare if images are similar, even in the presence of cropping etc). So I'm curious as to what in particular motivated posting this now?
Is there any difference between obfuscation and encryption with a hard-coded key and some compiler optimizations such as constant folding?

If so, I don’t see it. Obfuscation typically uses a fairly weak form of encryption, but that isn’t essential.
They teach that adage in business school too. That when you think you have full control of an organization is when you have the least control.
It's definitely a hard balance to strike.
I think micropayments means cash, anonymous . No, my card issuer has no right to know that i spent my hard earned cash on porn
> Eg. movement of people is not a negative for the people.

What does this mean? Globalism doesn't necessarily need to move people. Capital can move to where the people are - like capital moving to China. And movement of people certainly can be a negative for the people - the native americans who got wiped out or the african who were enslaved and shipped across the atlantic.

> I would hope that the term is at least used for intellectual or cultural "elites," those able to define and deploy smart and empowering agendas.

Intellectual or cultural elites aren't necessarily good nor interested in deploying smart and empowering agendas.

Intellectual or cultural elites were behind some of the most horrific and racist mass murders in the 20th century.
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Same here, my dad was a programmer of the US Navy's 2nd transistorized computer at KNOTS (Naval Ordinance Test Station, Pasadena, later the Naval Undersea Warfare Center,San Diego) beginning some time between 1955, when we arrive in Pasadena, and 1957 when I first began stacking punch cards and drawing on computer paper.

I've been programming since 1975.
Scraping is incredibly common with banking apps like that, because many banks do not have APIs (and are only changing slowly).
So, it's now November of 2019, and it seems unlikely that driverless cars will be ubiquitous or even an available option by 2020. If you could go back and change some laws and regulations, which ones would you have fixed to hit the 2020 prediction?
Same problem dating sites ran into.
Similar efforts to hide string literals were used 5 years earlier in one of the first Internet worms: Morris worm.

http://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/tech-reps/823.pdf sect. 5.1.7
A screenshot would be great. I'm not sure what the output would look like and therefore if it's something worth trying. Though as you say it's only a one liner...
I've got some complaints when it comes to my a7r 3s interface, and I assume the 4 hasn't changed much, so I'm probably in the group you're talking about, but...

Having better autofocus, automatic HDR and bracketing, etc., to me, has nothing to do with having a smartphone like interface or computational photography.

I do want those things (or, kind of - I want better autofocus across the board, and I want the option of automatic hdr and bracketing) but I don't want an iPhone or Android style camera interface. That's damn near the opposite of what I want.
I worked at google and found the gym nice but not my preferred way of exercise. I want to be outdoors. I grew up outdoors. The cold white walls of the gym were as depressing as the office. Now I work at a beautiful farm though still mostly at the computer. I could try a mid day hike though! Ideally though I wish I could be getting paid for some kind of physical work part of the time. I understand that if I want to get high pay then I’m not going to be paid to pull weeds, I’m just lamenting my sedentary career.
Robinhood bug allows for “infinite leverage”
You can't just move the time at which society operates. The dependency chain of one thing needing to open with another and so on is too complex for a single entity to control.
A fair number of HN users work for said monopoly.
So we can change the fundamental time system, but a business changing its hours from 9am to 8am is impossible?
Nice, the power of open source underpins riscv's strategy. Hardware innovation heading to a new blazing era.
There are Third Places if you know where to look. You just have to decide what your Third Place is, or discover it.

I'm not sure what "HN-type people" means because I'm clearly way out of the standard demographic and my Third Place would not be yours. It pains me to think that there is a standard demographic here.
> Reminds me of "https://mermaidjs.github.io/"

Why do you have to put an URL into quotes? You force everyone to manually remove it first because like this the link is broken.

Also to save other people some work: https://mermaidjs.github.io/
I don’t think that was true everywhere — otherwise we wouldn’t have ended up with the latest modem and pc every few years so dad could support his code in the middle of the night.
Its not just open source; a lot of people won't tell you about bugs in commercial projects or internal systems either. You need really good telemetry/monitoring infrastructure and proactively find the bugs yourself. But it isn't really practical to apply that strategy in open source projects.
Everyone seems to be telling you not to spend money, but you already sound pretty grounded in that. You are right not to start spending $300 on jeans and $100 on shirts, because those areas of your life are good enough. You don't want to spend money frivolously, but you also don't want to die with a pile of hoarded money.

What do you enjoy doing? If you enjoy cycling, you can afford a nicer, lighter bike with higher end components. Do you enjoy listening to music? You can afford a higher-quality sound system. Playing music? You can afford a nicer instrument or set of instruments.
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I ran into this a few months ago. To show off my StyleGAN-generated anime faces, I made https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ to load random samples. It went viral in China. After about 450,000 unique people visited (according to my Google Analytics), with the overwhelming majority being on mobile, I thought I'd better double-check how it looked in mobile as opposed to just desktop to see if it could be improved. Turned out it could - it was almost totally unusable because the image wasn't resized appropriately etc. Not a single person pinged me about it.

It reminds me of something Neal Stephenson noted in "In The Beginning was the Commandline": one of Debian's advantages was that it had a open public bug database (still not universal! eg Apple), and you could very easily and conveniently file a bug with 'reportbug' from your terminal.
We never had it and we have never been this unhappy. Read "Coming apart". It focuses on whites, but the lessons there apply to any demographic. The economy has come to value one thing above all others: intellectual aptitude. Intellectual ability is different from other talents, in two important ways. First, one very smart person can do things that a million less smart cannot, no matter how motivated, and second, the fruits of high IQ, consisting mostly of information, can be easily duplicated. The result is that, increasingly, only a few, incredibly talented people, actually have economic value. Everybody else is left without pride, purpose or a livelihood. Though this is no picnic for women, it is particularly devastating for men, who tend to tie much of their self image to their ability to provide. There is no easy way out of this trap and for many suicide is the only escape they see.
Can you provide an example of your issue template?
This article make it sounds like I was right. The author just took a ride in a driverless car. Which is limited to driving in Arizona due to legal restrictions.

But to answer your question, we’d need a whole different legal framework about liability for driverless cars instead of technological restrictions.

Like for example, the law ~says~ would say “one person must be designated as legally liable for the vehicle” and that’s it. Drive your driverless car on any road you want. If it hits someone, the designated person is liable.
No fees doesn’t solve the onerous accounting issues. This needs some kind of mechanism and legislation that allows accounting of a small amount of money without disclosing the transacted parties
I have my doubts: in fact, I buy Paul Graham's argument that identity is the cause, not the solution, to a lot of anger. See: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
> [microcoding] is common in processors today and allows greater flexibility

Microprogramming was already widespread since the 1960s. The early microprocessors, such as MOS Technology’s 6502, too, used microcode (in its “hardwired” form).
When this came up the other week I thought of little mice driving around the fields in their mini tractors plucking weeds out of the ground with no herbicides sprayed.
At some point places far enough north are just going to have to adjust hourly schedules by the season anyway. Daylight vs standard time doesn't fix it.
Some backstory: a Reddit user this past week started with $2k and somehow bought $50k worth of puts on Apple ahead of their earnings on margin on Robinhood and lost it all when Apple beat earnings and rose 2% the next day.

This should not have been allowed by Robinhood e.g. they did not intend to allow options trading on margin but failed to track the source of cash the user received from selling options on another stock.

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> sometimes ice.

I'm curious what the expectation is here, as what cars do on ice can't be described as driving, with the exception of spiked (not just studded) tires.
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This thread digs into the notion that you probably don't need a solution as comprehensive as reCaptcha: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158386

And the article suggests some alternatives towards the end.