skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone wants to go over the literature, this article has a good review:

* https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.0094...

TL; DR:

> In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently. The latter would exaggerate all the effects described above beyond the simple extension of DST from approximately 8 months/year to 12 months/year (depending on country) since body clocks are generally even later during winter than during the long photoperiods of summer (with DST) (Kantermann et al., 2007; Hadlow et al., 2014, 2018; Hashizaki et al., 2018). Perennial DST increases SJL prevalence even more, as described above.

> A solution to the problem is shown in Figure 2C, which contains a combination of obliterating DST (in favor of permanent Standard Time) and reassigning countries and regions to their actual sun-clock based time zones.

The official position of the scientists who study this sort of thing:

> As an international organization of scientists dedicated to studying circadian and other biological rhythms, the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) engaged experts in the field to write a Position Paper on the consequences of choosing to live on DST or Standard Time (ST). The authors take the position that, based on comparisons of large populations living in DST or ST or on western versus eastern edges of time zones, the advantages of permanent ST outweigh switching to DST annually or permanently.

* https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07487304198541...

The field in question:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronobiology
> I could watch each command and response going over the wire.

AFAIK, Wireshark supports decrypting TLS traffic if you give it the private keys.

> When a POP3 mailbox got hung up on a single huge message you could just telnet in

Use “gnutls-cli” or “openssl s_client” – transparent TLS for your terminal. Both those commands also have options supporting protocols’ use of STARTTLS.
>It's pretty sad that in 2019, to setup a web app that can properly scale you need to understand and use so many technologies. Developing a scalable website in 2013 was a lot easier than in 2019. Back then PaaS was all the rage (Heroku, Google App Engine, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk). Since then, things have gotten much harder.

Is there anything stopping you from using these? Because they're well maintained and even better than before. In fact, many companies and individuals are still using them. And if you have different needs, it's good that there are more flexible alternatives, no?
Maybe not as simple if the parents or guardians also have to manage taking the kids to school at a certain time before going to work, conversely could make pick up schedules better. Point is it’s not as simple as change school schedules.
"It will be permanent jet lag," said Myriam Juda, a researcher at Simon Fraser University's Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Lab...

But yes, it's meant figuratively or in the social jetlag sense.
Then parents will have to go to work later, so the whole day will be shifted for everyone.
We had 0 powerissues with our dslr's because they don't do GPS. Could not care less about it to be honest.
I just wished YouTube's algorithm stuck thar anode more often. That's a fantastic song
> Nikon's stock is down over 2013 but I'm not seeing the end days reflected in that.

I would not point to Nikon as the DSLR bellwether (and I'm a Nikon shooter). Nikon has moved into mirrorless at a glacial pace. The Nikon 1 system was a joke. If I didn't have so much Nikon glass, I would have moved on to Sony years ago.

The new Nikon Z bodies give me hope, but the Z6 and new Z50 made some weird decisions particularly around memory cards. The Z6 uses the XQD which are super expensive and the Z50 eschewed dual slots which I make use of in d7100. The new Z mount also means I'm probably going to end up replacing many of my lenses anyway.
The European CET timezone is so wide, that several countries should actually be in other timezones. Meaning: they already are part of this effect... and yet somehow the medical experts didn't notice significant issues.
If you have 1 billion on spare money, you can easily replicate their "black-boxes" strategies for fun. Some of my ML research work (I work for a hedge fund) points exactly on their trading behaviors and relations with different instruments during the past 25 years. Is not fraud or insider trading, is just everyone involved in the economic world benefits from this, that there is no real incentive to call it fraud.

PS: If you have 1 billion to invest, call me ;)
Probably true. Of course, them being Chinese has nothing to do with where the startup was founded.
> Why are Phds so cheap to hire if their skills are so valuable?

Is a hamster wheel. Your skills are valuable only while you are running. If you stop, your huge time and money investment loses their value gradually, and if you stop for too much time (getting pregnant, suffering an accident or having small kids) you are out of the game. Thus, for many researchers cheap work is better than none.

And there are the stupid artificial constrains, a damocles sword in the shape of a clock. Scientist work is related with Universities schedule. They can expect to be hired mainly at the beginning of the year or in summer, hired for the next year. If you miss the train you will need to wait for another year.

Scientists are expected also by society to produce X discoveries at the interval of age Y and have a limited time for that. This is really idiot. Would be like expecting Leonardo painting the Monna lisa in three years maximum (and exactly between 27 and 29 yo), or stop painting.

And there is also a huge vanity factor. To be associated with an university or big brand even if you just make the coffee there, is good for the ego and help constructing your identity and selling you better later.

None of those have any relationship with what science really is, a method to solve problems, of course
Ask HN: Is there a List of publicly traded internet companies by country?
I would find it really interesting to see what the publicly traded internet companies in my country are.

With interenet companies, I mean companies who have running a website as their main business.
Yes, but "Canada" is big, and most of the people live on the southern portion of it.

The southern Ontario wine region is at the same latitude as France's wine region. Scotland is at the same latitude as northern Quebec.

Compare locations on a globe.
Or maybe they just like Van Gogh and don't like Pollock?
Did you try the lfs-test-server?

https://github.com/git-lfs/lfs-test-server
> Somehow, this hasn't caused the country to fall into collapse, the way these quoted sleep experts make it sound.

Maybe if they got better sleep they wouldn't draft laws that get people flogged for putting their shoes on the wrong feet or being nude in their own apartment.
After the rootkit debacle I'm surprised that anybody on the tech side would still buy Sony gear. As a brand they're burned for me and I used to be quite the fan.
Not to mention that Daylight Savings was invented during the first world war (while accurate timekeeping was invented several centuries earlier), and most of Asia and Africa do not follow it. I am incredibly skeptical of claims that Daylight Savings is the sole reason for some health effects, purely because Daylight Savings is an outlier in our history of timekeeping and is not universal today.
Remember AOL, anyone? And so, we've come full circle.
> If the time shift has serious implications, then it ought to be possible to demonstrate them by comparing Paris and Berlin.

That only holds true in all-else-being-equal situations. Or equal enough - I don't know if you can apply this to Paris and Berlin.
PhotoDNA (also Microsoft).
Nice list. This kind of thing used to just be a (personal) website. Is it on github for hosting, versioning, because it's trendy, or something else?
Well, everybody who wasn't making bank on it.
> Terribly menus and interfaces

Well there is a bit of something you know. Think of it like vi or emacs. I know the Nikon menu system. It's easy for me to move around and do what I want. My wife has a Sony mirrorless camera and I curse every time I have to go into the menu system because it's foreign to me.
These discussions around setting clocks to full hours from GMT get us nowhere, they miss the point: our problem is that our lives are organised around arbitrarily set, typically "rounded" times of day, for no real reason other than that we've always done it that way. We now have the means to change that and e.g. set school timetables relative to sunrise and can expect everyone to have the means to follow them (e.g. a school app that shows you the exact times for every day, or a general converter from "Sunrise +6 hours" to clock time). Workplaces, buses could also adapt similarly. So we could finally get rid of living by fixed timetables and switch to healthy schedules according to sunlight.

TL;DR switch from "GMT+X" to "Sunrise+X" assisted by IT for most things to solve all problems.
I believe the idea of email marketing is persistent because while annoying it does work.

An ISP I worked at in early 00s sent a lot of spam (I’m sorry) and it was insanely profitable.
Being Canadian this just didn't even register in my mind. That's an unfortunate limitation.
Agreed. We’re clearly at a point where worker and individual rights are at a minimum and corporate and business rights a near totalitarian max.
Russia's major semiconductor manufacturer declared bankrupt
I like your approach @dang

However I'd still like to be able to view flagged messages -- maybe click to view?

More generally I'd like to be able to hear the unpopular opinions, and see them discussed constructively. Rather than them being flagged and voted off

Though I agree -- remaining constructive is essential
The IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File
Sometimes so is wine appreciation.
Ok. Happy to see it is that kind of trouble, and not something far more disturbing. Good on you for taking immediate action after becoming aware of the problem.
They also do open most links in their own google.com wrapper. Time to break them up
Why is heapster in this? Let it die already...

I feel bad every time I have to deploy that old rotten piece of code because a lot of our dashboards still use those metrics.
There is a long-standing belief that the Spanish style of workday and meals has everything to do with being forced into the central time zone.. I'm not sure on Spain, but France seemed like a nation of sleep deprived zombies to me as a child[_].

It seems simpler to me to enforce a specific time after sunrise that all institutions must create a break for children, office workers, etc to go outside.

[_]Other children told me they copied their parents pattern, to sleep after midnight awake before 7. I think they were copying insomnia.

Edit, downvotes:
So time zone implementations from documented fascists are a perfect defence of new changes because we aren't actually willing to discuss their possible negative affects on entire nations?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Spain
That would be 9am with the proposed change. Quite a difference between 7:15 and 9.
It was probably treated with Chromated Copper Arsenate, which is a carcinogen.
Maybe an A/B test?
No, because the sun rises earlier in Summer.
I bet he has an iPhone now.
> Go is actually one of the best in terms of design.

I respectfully disagree. Go's primary goal was to be (superficially) easy to use and familiar. Because of this, it fails to tackle the big issue with doing concurrency in most prior mainstream languages. Go has mutable state deeply baked into the language and makes it difficult to work with immutable data. Go is not necessarily easy to use if ones goal is to build correct concurrent software.
France, Scotland. Neither of those are Singapore last time I checked.

By all means make comparisons to France and Scotland, I don't have any issues with that.
An alternative is Rancher. It can provision clusters with the major cloud providers' managed Kubernetes services as well as with virtually any infrastructure. I wrote a post on setting up a cluster with code using Terraform, Ansible and Rancher https://vitobotta.com/2019/10/14/kubernetes-hetzner-cloud-te... - with this approach you can have more resources for less money compared to managed services. Having said that, I am now using Digital Ocean's managed Kubernetes service because managing a cluster can be quite a bit of work for a single person like me. By the way there's also K3s (also from Rancher) which makes it easier to spin up a cluster on your own servers.
At least for energy use it turns out that the problem is cut in half!

https://medium.com/otherlab-news/decarbonization-and-gnd-b8d...

“The mere act of electrification has a powerful effect on efficiency: electrifying the US economy from carbon free sources will reduce the amount of energy needed by more than half.”
There will always be charismatic snake-oil salesmen, who may even be a little psychopathic.

The real problem is the people who follow them, validate them, and throw money at them. Big names who sit on their boards, etc.

At least in Neumann's case, the only thing that happened was some rich people lost their money. There were probably no pension funds, etc, investing in him. And their product didn't hurt anyone.

It's easy to quickly think that "if you're a 6'5" good looking man with great hair you can get away with anything", but people also wanted to believe in Elizabeth Holmes.

To me Elizabeth's Holmes case was even scarier: Investors wanted to believe in a "female Steve Jobs" so much that people were getting bogus medical tests. "Real people" -- not just wealthy investors who should be prepared to lose money -- got hurt.

And unlike the NY Times editors, it doesn't bother me that Adam Neumann walked away with $1 Billion. It doesn't hurt me at all, and it certainly doesn't occur to me that this money should somehow be redistributed to more "worthy" people. It's odd for an uninvolved spectator to feel bitter about this.

Notice that the Times was gushing about Theranos until the Wall Street Journal called them out, but they were skeptical about WeWork from the beginning. One played into their preferred narrative, one didn't.
This is the only comment I’ve seen insurance mentioned, which is the main determining factor of what is or isn’t in a playground now.

I’m sure the insurance companies have actual data and actuarial tables for what results in lawsuit damages. If a city wants to have those items in a playground, fine, but it isn’t going to be insurable.

As a kid I always was much more interested in running around in the woods or climbing trees than playgrounds. Which, insurance still can’t force the removal of as far as I know.
I liked the article, but didn’t find anything particularly new to me that hasn’t been said in previous articles by the WSJ, Atlantic, NYT, and others. There wasn’t anything “failing up”. Just a rehash of the same stuff.
Product Management 101: The Basics
I guess it's a matter of preference. If something is abstracted, then you only have to audit it once (and often you can count on someone else having audited it). With Go code, everything is new and unique, so there are a lot more opportunities to introduce bugs.
There are, of course, many exceptions to this "rule". From the preface to my favorite calculus book:

My aim is to exhibit the close connexion between analysis and its applications and, without loss of rigour and precision, to give due credit to intuition as the source of mathematical truth. The presentation of analysis as a closed system of truths without reference to their origin and purpose has, it is true, an aesthetic charm and satisfies a deep philosophical need. But the attitude of those who consider analysis solely as an abstractly logical, introverted science is not only highly unsuitable for beginners but endangers the future of the subject; for to pursue mathematical analysis while at the same time turning one's back on its applications and on intuition is to condemn it to hopeless atrophy. To me it seems extremely important that the student should be warned from the very beginning against a smug and presumptuous purism; this is not the least of my purposes in writing this book.

- Richard Courant, Differential and Integral Calculus [1]

Courant, who trained — under Hilbert, no less — as a pure mathematician, never tired of pointing out the importance of applications to pure mathematics and vice versa. In addition to the calculus books, see, e.g.,

https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1943-49-01/S0002-9904-1943...

[1] https://archive.org/details/DifferentialIntegralCalculusVolI...
I Learnt to Do UX Design
IMHO i dont agree with you.
Spark's SQL is a consequence of the need to work across languages - Scala and Python. So SQL gives the abstraction necessary to be usable in both places. It is also the language in which data scientists communicate with Spark production engineers.

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

That's the advantage of Dask - there is no SQL abstraction needed. Pandas Dataframes are already the lingua franca of data scientists.. in fact, orders of magnitude more than SQL ever will be.

TLDR - Dask doesnt need SQL because the people who will push Dask to production already are far more comfortable in Dataframes than they ever will be in SQL.

You may still argue that spark RDD is faster than dask (and you may indeed by right)...but not having a SQL engine is not a problem for Dask.
It does cost even if you don't pay it put of pocket. Meaning that it makes sense for whoever ends up paying to not want to pay it.
The algorithm is just astonishing. A while back I (and many others) got recommended https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLmuF-0P4tk (climatic scene of Falling Down) with the category "Music". It seems everyone expected some mashup of the movie with Billie Eilish, but we got trolled by the algorithm instead.
So, no longer a search service, but a proxy service with built in search?
Aren't those mainly hidden behind gag orders though? Isn't that enough proof? We can't even tell what was censored presumably for our safety.
Between amp results, and google masquerading as other domains, the url field was dishonest anyway. Welcome to google s walled garden. Please verify your site so we know who we are banning.

Google. It’s got electrolytes (tm)
I don't see how this is relevant.

Even if it was an ab test, we know that Google is looking to remove url structures from search results.
Seems like most of the internet is ad-supported except stuff like New York Times and Netflix
More and more gems coming out of the source code from the mind of Carmack.
It's not just you. Browsers are systems-within-systems. They're gigantic, illustrated by the fact that the number of implementations that are well maintained can be counted on one hand. A lot of people take issue with that.
Guessing is still error correction of course. If you read the documentation you’ll find that practically Reed-Solomon code can’t correct errors if it doesn’t know which bits are uncertain. In the case of a QR code obviously the bits underneath the logo are uncertain. But if you just flip one bit it becomes much more difficult.

I’m no expert in this but the I’ve read source code for several QR code readers and they don’t have some neat algorithm where you input the bits you read and it calculates the corrected bits.

Perhaps something like that still exists, I’d be happy to see it.
Smartphone cameras have been better quality than compact cameras for a few years now, and can sometimes give "good" cameras like the RX100 a run for their money.

I'm much happier with the ergonomics and quality of my phone camera than I ever was with my dedicated cameras, even a dSLR I owned for a while. On top of that, I always have it in my pocket and the response time is insanely short compared to a dedicated camera.
This is so dangerous, imagine how it will be abused for phishing. Now even an expert user can't tell the difference.
Author here. Currently, it's only on GitHub. I am planning to create a website in the future with search functionality and better categorization for everyone to go and use the resources listed there.
Javascript, that the exploit uses, is a memory safe language too, at lest in theory...

None of the languages around, that are in major production use, are really completely memory safe in practise. There is always a runtime lurking under it, most times a libc (not in Go tho, IIRC) and assortment of various libraries written in memory unsafe languages and always a kernel.

While it's probably harder to exploit Go, as, as far as I know, most of the Go runtime is written in Go, it's not impossible, just a lot less likely.
The title seems a bit misleading, Google do experiments like this all the time.

Of course, should this change be permanent, we would have to be worried, but stating that it is already the case is not true.

PS: here is one example: https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2018/03/23/google-zero-se...
The Transgressive Face of Bauhaus
What a coincidence! =)
Here are fixed links for the comics "(1 and 2)" in the first panel:

http://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/icst/icst-5/icst-5.h...

http://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/icst/icst-6/icst-6.h...
From the screenshot, my one big complaint is that it's typeset ragged right instead of flush right (which is, generally, how books and most ebook readers do it), but I suppose that's just a CSS fix, then?
Question is if you can reach any systems after the server. Have you tried pinging 8.8.8.8 or some other IP while connected?
Well that’s just about the stupidest thing I’ve heard.
It's still regular for me but if true this will probably be the last straw for me. It's already absolutely impossible to send someone a link to a pdf you've found through google, this would make it impossible to send any link. That bloody wrapper is also a fine piece of shit. Search engines should link to content, not appropriate that content, hide who supplies it or mess with the links.
Keywords are back. Everything old is new again.
I think it's a little too early to come to a full conclusion here. Google is constantly testing layout changes in SERPs and it seems like OP ended up in a test. The thread is 4 weeks old and I haven't seen or read anything on these changes anywhere but on this thread.

I still think Google's general direction is clear with more webmaster incentives for structured data, amp and also Google just straight up answering questions (nutrition, sports etc.). But this example doesn't prove that Google is removing URLs from SERPs, it is one version of many that are tested constantly to improve CTR and other metrics.
I am in favour of abolishing daylight time and simply using time that assumes sun is close to peak at noon. "Regular time", that is. I think it is backwards to change time to fit human habits. Change the habits instead.
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Call me if you only have $500 mil ;)
Which is extremely annoying when it’s a pdf or other document that’s set to immediately download; it’s rather tricky to get the actual URL if you want to share it as it won’t ever show up in the address bar.
Even as an experiment it is terribly misguided and that something like this would make it into the production environment as an experiment is a clear sign that they are actually considering rolling something like this out to the GP.
Charge a bond that covers the accepted clean up of the estimated oil that's out of ground until it's processed.

At the moment, some governments charge a bond that barely covers the clean up costs.

As someone said, the costs are externalized and companies will go bankrupt if they are forced to clean it all up.
The letter doesn't argue against eliminating the annual time shift, it argues for using Standard Time rather than Daylight Savings Time for the permanent time.