skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve noticed that how formally you “have” to dress as a woman in corporate IT is an inverse parabola.

Receptionists? Often have strict dress codes demanding skirts and pantyhose.

Actual executives? Pantsuits and high end handbags with matching shoes.

Team assistants (aka, senior secretaries): moderately-priced business casual

Managers? Somewhat more expensive business casual

Developers and engineers like myself who will always be “individual contributors”? Jeans, hiking boots and t-shirts, with accessories and non-hiking ankle boots when feeling fancy.

And that latter definitely carries the status of, “I don’t think I’m judged by my appearance.”
How are computer scientists and software engineers at Google okay with this? This type of change, on top of the very sketchy AMP stuff, seriously makes me question the ethics of those who work at Google.

This seems like an obvious "no, that's a bad idea" to anyone who isn't malicious.
This is a great approach, and the way I think about it, too.
'We're cosseting our kids' – the war against today's dull playgrounds
Google run hundreds of A/B tests. The chances of this ever being rolled more widely out are slim to none.

Terribly misleading headline.
Youtube used to be excellent for discovering new music. A while ago I was really into Baroque music and kept finding new and interesting composers I've never heard of.

This seems to have completely dried up by now. These days autoplay seems to always end in a rather short loop of the same songs and the breadth of obscure stuff, especially for classical music seems to have gone in general.

I find that Spotify is way better for discovery these days, even though it's quite useless for classical music for various reasons(mainly because there's no single 'artist' with classical music).
You do realize that DST doesn't change the rotation of the Earth nor does it create or destroy sunlight, right?
I used ddg for a few weeks but the search results were quite poor. I had to search via Google every day anyway to find what I was looking for.
That does not work particularly well at northern latitudes where sun goes below the horizon for couple of hours in the summer, if that. And it would create time zones between latitudes even within the same country where the difference changes from day to day.
I mean, I would have gotten to city pop eventually, since I have long liked the Kimagure Orange Road soundtrack, so not to big of a jump, but youtube heavily pushed it.

Youtube is honestly more impressive to me than any other recommendation algorithm. I used to like last.fm, which was pretty good, but didn't have the immediacy of just playing a song. Youtube carefully analyzes your consumption and then gives the recommendation that best fits: Plastic Love, An Insatiable High, or Casiopea.
Biologically, relatively correct. For the certain latitudes.

Technologically, time zones were first invented in 19th century for real problem of every town having its own 12 o clock (for different longitudes).

The DST was indeed the improvement of the simple time zones first "solution" which better suited the latitudes of those who started using DST. And now trying to revert to the previous unimproved solution is in enough latitudes still worse.

But now it's time where the bad ideas spread better because they fit the newly common attention span of many, including the European politicians who decided to abolish the DST based on the results of the "votes from the internet"(!) In reality, the studies showing "no advantage" of DST didn't even prove that, but... attention span:

e.g the report cited as the "argument against" from 2008, now (unsurprisingly, sadly) disappearing from the internet:

https://www1.eere.energy.gov/ba/pba/pdfs/epact_sec_110_edst_...

didn't prove that DST was wrong or that it produced no savings but instead that "changing its start date from the first Sunday in April to the second Sunday in March, and in the fall by changing its end date from the last Sunday in October to the first Sunday in November" still gave "the total electricity savings of (such) Extended Daylight Saving Time" of "about 1.3 Tera Watt-hour (TWh)" at the place where the study was done. How it was "translated" for the internet attention span by anti-DST people? As "even government studies showed no energy or fuel savings" and even those that should know better swallowed it. What's known is that people have problem with the abrupt 1 hour change. But that could maybe today be solved with a few smaller step adjustments, twice half an hour maybe, or three times 20 minutes? Sounds complicated? It's less than before because now at least everything's connected, and we have faster computers. Also see:

Figure 1: Sunrise and sunset times with daylight saving time and 2007 extensions in southern Indiana:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w14429.pdf

for the accurate visual representation of how the "extensions" look like on the year chart, and how the DST works: white areas is where's the light in a day. Such charts show the "why" of the DST and are latitude dependent but nobody uses them in the present "discussions." I posit that anybody who doesn't understand the latitude dependency of such charts and what the charts actually show and can't discuss on that level is effectively unqualified to contribute to the topic.

Most latitudes where DST had really no benefit simply didn't use it even up to now. Some (close enough to the equator or close enough to the poles) should indeed not use it. But it was earlier technically simpler for big areas to have the same rules.
if they keep the url, users might remember it and go there directly next time, skipping Google.
> Spark's SQL is a consequence of the need to work across languages - Scala and Python

Not really. The Spark API has equivalent calls in both Scala and Python, with Scala being the superset. Spark's SQL is a high-level abstraction that internally mapped to these operations.

> Every Spark production engineer i know, translates the SQL written by data scientists back into high performance RDD code.

This would be very unusual and rarely advisable with Spark > 2.0. Spark Dataframes are generally more memory-efficient, type-safe and performant than RDDs in most situations, so most data engineers work directly in Spark Dataframes -- dropping to RDDs only in specific situations requiring more control.

If you know data engineers who are somehow translating SQL into RDDs (except in rare circumstances) you might want to advise them to move to Spark > 2.0 and change their paradigms. They might be working with older Spark paradigms [1] and might have missed the shift that happened around 2.0 and missing out on all the work that has been done since.

> That's the advantage of Dask - there is no SQL abstraction needed.

SQL is only a language to access the dataframe abstraction (Spark Dataframes, Pandas dataframes, etc.) -- the fact it is higher-level means it is amenable to certain types of optimization.

If you take the full set of dataframe operations and restrict it to the set that SQL supports (group by's, where's, pivots, joins, window functions, etc.) you can apply query optimization.

Dask does not, and hence allows more powerful lower-level manipulations on data, but it therefore also cannot perform SQL-level query optimization, only task-graph level optimizations.

This Spark vs Dask comparison on the Dask website provides more details [2].

> Pandas Dataframes are already the lingua franca of data scientists.. in fact, orders of magnitude more than SQL ever will be.

I wonder if this is where our misunderstanding lies -- I sense that you might be thinking of SQL strictly as the syntax, whereas I use SQL as a shorthand for a set of mathematical operations on tabular structures -- which is equivalent in the subset.

[1] https://databricks.com/blog/2016/07/14/a-tale-of-three-apach...

[2] https://docs.dask.org/en/latest/spark.html#
I enjoy reading about perspectives on DST, this one included, but I'm not a big fan of the fearmongering.

The article makes DST changes seem quite frightening by stating:

> After time switches, particularly the “spring forward,” there are increased rates of car accidents, heart attacks, strokes and workplace injuries.

This links to an article titled “Daylight-saving time is literally killing us”, which then links to the paper in question.

The paper, however, makes a much milder statement:

> Prior research has shown a transient increase in the incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) after daylight savings time (DST) in the spring as well as a decrease in AMI after returning to standard time in the fall.

> These findings have not been verified in a broader population

And most importantly:

> In the week following the seasonal time change, DST impacts the timing of presentations for AMI but does not influence the overall incidence of this disease.

It seems like the results get more dramatised with every publication in the chain. Do we have to exaggerate studies to the point of fearmongering just to support our points?
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CSS should fix that, and give you all those unevenly spaced words you so desire.
If you scroll down, the README tells you how to make it flush right: https://github.com/wasamasa/nov.el#rendering
Possibly, it's for the judge to decide. How can you prove that it was accidental and not intentional? And how to do find an employee who doesn't mind checking questionable material (even pre-filtered/flagged by a ML model) every day?
>>> For me at least it would be simpler if sunrise was fixed all life long to 7:00 am....

You should consider moving to Hawaii or somewhere else closer to the equator.
It is also to assist the computational photography features with the task of simulating the effects of a larger sensor. Generally speaking, information from multiple lenses/sensors is used to apply the selective defocus effect in portrait mode.
If you manually set read only permissions on the right data folder after generating the configs, you can turn it into a readonly app. You can probably manually connect your own configs to the right user accounts as well but then that's a lot of work for a site that only generates QR codes and download links.

This project isn't much more than a script to generate and manage configs with an optional layer of SAML accounts on top. Especially with WireGuard's simple configuration it doesn't need to do any more than that. There are no security parameters with unsafe defaults, complicated configuration processes, certificate generation and signing process that other VPN systems fall victim to. There's a 6 line config file containing a private key generated by the official WireGuard tool and that's it.

While I've always avoided many complicated openvpn config tools like the plague (that of pfsense for one), I think WireGuard is simple enough to be configured like this.
Disappointingly, it looks like it doesn't support mathematical diagrams other than via embedded math-specific languages. I continue to want a markup language for hypergraphs, categories, finitely presented monoids, etc.
One of the issues that many don’t realize is that if google removes the domain it opens it up for more phishing attempts.

If users don’t see the domain then they may see a similar site and click on it. But it’s not the official site.
Maybe PLANTML => PlantUML?

Anyway, PlantUML is my go UML tool because it is a markup language that can be version controlled by git.
This is the last straw for me as well. I only used Google for search and never had an account anyway, so it's not even a hassle. Their results are slightly better than DuckDuckGo, but I'll take the productivity hit.

This is openly hostile to the foundation of the web. They aren't even bothering to pretend anymore.
The problem is that if permanent DST becomes the norm, the sun will come up at 9 am instead of 8 am. This means that if you take a 'normal' 9 to 5 schedule, you won't see daylight in the morning.

The researchers here are pointing out the problem that if you do not see any sunlight for the first few hours you are active, that will have negative consequences for your sleep.

I see lots of anecdotal 'evidence' given in the comments that you won't see daylight in the morning anyway. But most people will get to see some daylight during their morning commute, unless they get in before 8. Yes, there will be some days where that still isn't true, around the winter solstice. But outside of the middle of the winter, the researchers point out that it is better to have some sunlight in the morning over having none at all.
Does it give you access to files in iCloud? Or how would you get your ebooks into emacs then?
First of all, I hope this is just an tiny experiment or better a hoax, and won't be widely adopted. Google deserves constant critique, but they also deserve credit as a company that often promotes the open way first (for example, schema.org as a way anyone can describe their information, which can be ready by anyone).

But if it's not an experiment, I'd start putting my energy into moving away from Google. In the AltaVista era, just before Google, there was a company called Real Names, which wanted to bypass intentional DNS and use searches as direct keywords to domains. Since many people use Google to go to everyday sites, just taking the top result each time, this is in effect what Google would be doing with this change, since one would have to actually go to the site to verify it. Which would be great for ad impressions, but terrible for the consumer experience, IMO way too random for Google to seriously consider it. The next step would be to remove URLs from browsers. But that would be quite a change in direction from good intentions.
Our time-zone system is already flexible enough for regions for which this is a problem to pick up something else that works for them (we already have regions that use DST and regions that do not).

I live in Austria and it makes absolutely no sense for me to use the exact same system as somebody in the north pole, or for me and those in the north pole to "compromise" on a system that's bad for both of us.
I use the mobile site + Firefox + this add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-backgro...

And have one google application less to install on my phone.
URLs are one of the basic building blocks of the WWW. Again Google is abusing it's practical monopoly as the gateway to the WWW to consolidate the lock-in. Again, as always, the tech aware crowd will make a huge noise, perhaps delay the inevitable, but sooner or later this WILL be implemented all across Google (right now seems specific to Google UK), and again, as always, the billions of ordinary Internet users are going to be slightly surprised, but shrug and get used to the change and move on. And that will help consolidate the change and the tech aware crowd will either grudgingly follow or just stay holed up elsewhere and in either case Google doesn't care.

This is just another manifestation of the corporate/state control and Balkanisation of the Internet that has slowly been taking place. The Internet will pretty soon be entirely subsumed into various the structure of various countries and corporations and there'll be no such thing as the "free web", at least for most users not willing to go through several hoops.
FAA smoking regulations only cover commercial passenger airlines. Private aircraft are much less regulated.

edit: pertinent regulation: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&SID=03efb7c1b34...

It turns out there is a case where a private pilot has had his license suspended after his wife carried edibles purchased legally in CO onto their aircraft without his knowledge. While article (b) in the link above seems to suggest this should have been legal, it may have been a result of them having carried the marijuana over state lines into Kansas, where marijuana use remains illegal.
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Pomoday: Be productive without leaving your keyboard
You can usually right-click the file in the downloads panel of the browser and copy its url.
The business model of WeWork as "AWS for Real Estate" has finally dawned on me, and it's a shame it's connected to such a toxic person.

There are very few things as bad as real estate negotiations (in the context of procuring a new office for a growing company), depending on the city they can take multiple months, require you to deal with all the furniture/decoration and require very long commitments. While tech is in the XXI century real estate contracts are still in the XX century, if you're lucky. Residential usually sucks less but it's still complicated as well.
reminds me of when google made their ads match the formatting of the actual search results.

fu google.
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Taxes on trading profits are not paid on each trade. A losing trade cancels out some profits from a winning trade, and tax will be assessed at the aggregate each financial year. Tax optimization contributes to the financial success operationally, but not is a core part of a quant fund's business.
Give it a moment to load.
I was trying to find the URL of Crate and Barrel Canada yesterday on Mobile on Google and I found myself dropped into some google clickbait hell...

I ended up in their google maps product on mobile and was clicking around between their reviews, their location on google maps, the opinions of other google users about what they thought crate and barrel was good at, pictures of crate and barrel stores, etc...

But I could not find their websites URL... not in what I would consider a reasonable amount of time at least.

Obviously I found it in the end.

But I couldn't help but think that Google really doesn't want me even going to the actual URL.

They want me to call and drive to the store using their phone and their google maps product, and leave a review on their platform, growing their company's value for them.

Crate and barrel and my original intentions be damned.
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This was sent to production. Obviously someone thinks about deploying this change. This is precisely the time for pushback - before Google does this - to tell Google their A/B result is a very big fail.

Also, to get some people to try alternatives, because even if this isn't deployed, Google's anti-user direction seems clear enough.
It's delusional. I tried that and failed and regretted it. By the time the money is spent, the happiness is gone.

> I’m trying to do the opposite and start spending to enjoy the fruits of my hard work over all these years.

You are approaching it the wrong way. It's like having a solution looking for a problem. If you don't feel the need for something, you don't need it.

> How do you adjust your lifestyle as your salary grows and you find yourself in the incredibly fortunate position of being able to upgrade to more when you don’t really need/want to?

Don't upgrade to more. I regretted upgrading to more even though I could afford it. By the time you upgrade, you realize that it's more of an overhead than anything else.

> Yet as I watch my bank balance grow as I earn this typical tech-job salary that I could have only dreamed of 15 years ago

This, right over here. Start investing your money into diversified assets (bonds, stocks, real estate, risky ventures, etc...). That will keep your money tied up so you don't think about spending it. If the investment works out greatly, you can now leave your job and start traveling around the world in 5* hotels.
This got me thinking.

Gold, land and art. Bitcoin might be as valuable as gold. Is there anything else that is valuable today? I’d say flying vehicles. But then, why do they depreciate so much upon purchase while Hermès bags appreciate? Because of artificial scarcity. My question is: does it make that much sense that scarce things are valuable? Mining and health equipment, food, airplanes and rockets are so much more useful, yet because they can easily be mass produced, aren’t that valuable.
It’s paywalled, so I can’t read the argument, but what’s important for my mental health is sun in the afternoon—after work. That’s what I really like about Daylight Savings Time.
loving everything so far!
I’ve previously used ondmarc.com for setup suggestions, monitoring, and reporting. I was quite happy with the service and the support was good.
I think the reason why they did that originally was so HTTP websites would get referrer information from Google search results (HTTPS). Referrer data is dropped when going from HTTPS to HTTP. When Google first started using HTTPS, most of the web was unencrypted, and they wouldn't be able to track the referrer in Google Analytics unless they added a redirector to search results.
It’s not very hard to engineer. I used to design underground piping for locomotive fueling. In Nothern Canada where temperature differential is significant. In that case double walled piping is used and the temperature may vary greatly between the outer wall (ground temperature) and the inner wall (outside temperature due to fluid stored in an above ground tank).

They are fixed together in some places, and able to slide relative to each other in most places. Fixed points are located in the middle of straight sections and there are C-shaped “expansion loops” that allow the inner pipe to expand or contract relative to the outer pipe.

The outer pipe has a vacuum applied by a vacuum pump, and a greater than nominal vacuum leak indicates an issue.

Of course, it’s expensive compared to a single pipe.
Left gmail just over a year ago which was the biggest anchor holding me to Google. Appears this was what was needed to get me over to duckduckgo on search. Results have been fine for everything I've searched in the last hour.
Libi – An app that tracks your mood and libido
I saw this a couple of weeks ago. I think chances are high that it is being pushed into product if it has not happened yet.
If we were to eliminate the biannual clock changes, why would it matter which time base we switch to? Organizations would surely set their business hours appropriately for either choice. Does it matter what the number on the clock is during sunset? If you prefer permanent DST, why not just wake up an hour earlier (obligations permitting)?

Me, if we were to eliminate the clock changes, I'd pick permanent standard time, because it more closely matches astronomical time.

The question of whether to retain the biannual clock changes is another issue. (I'm for the switches, because it's the least painful way to coordinate everyone getting up earlier in the summer.)
Ah, excellent :) that looks much nicer!
I completely agree. But there was a period of several years, maybe 2010-2016 when they didn't. And especially at the beginning of that time, oh, I remember cringing when I saw friends' baby pictures they took at the time with their phones.

I'm culpable of jumping ship to the new but worse technology too early myself, but in this instance I didn't stop carrying my "real" camera until the iPhone 6s.