skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Running your own mail server is not advised if you are trying to handle mail for your friends, family or company when you are not paid for that.

If it is for yourself or for your single person company and YOU handle all the things and you know what is important and when emails are not delivered it is not that much of a problem.
re: Year round DST in the US

From the article:

>Permanent DST was tried in the United States in the past century but was quickly repealed when the public found that waking up in the dark is hard, and energy savings were negligible.

From Wikipdedia:

>President Franklin Roosevelt instituted year-round DST, called "War Time", on February 9, 1942. It lasted until the last Sunday in September 1945. After 1945 many states and cities east of the Mississippi River adopted summer DST.

It sounds like year-round DST sunsetted with the end of the war & not because the public overly cared about energy costs or were struggling to wake up in the dark.

In fact, several states missed Daylight Savings Time so much, that they quickly restored it for at least ½ the year.
it's not cash though (and not global). the promise of cryptocs is that we 're getting back the versatility and anonymity that we had with physical cash
This is not a tiny experiment. They have been testing the removal of domains like this for YEARS.
But that's just DST with extra steps.
Spain is, however, thought to be 2hrs 30mins ahead of "sun" time, not a mere one hour we're talking about here.
They will cut the problem by much more than a half.
This might be common knowledge but I just recently realized that several states are already trying to move to daylight savings permanently.

From https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/10/28/20931998/d...

> Arkansas, too, passed a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, but it included the condition that the changes wouldn’t go into effect until its bordering states changed their clocks permanently too. Other states that have approved legislation to enact year-long daylight saving time include Washington, Tennessee, Oregon, Nevada, and Alabama. But none of the changes can go into effect without approval from the federal government.
Are they going to try and pull a bait and switch on the web with AMP and hope that the normies are too dumb to notice?
I've been interested in GNU Taler for that reason; it feels like it could be a useful tool for online payments while still being taxable. (Still feels pretty early in development though.)
Ecosia is nice, but I find their privacy claims to be a little misleading. They forward searches to Bing alongside your IP address and are not in control of what Bing stores. DDG uses Bing as well, but does not send your IP there.

"For example, when you do a search on Ecosia we forward the following information to our partner, Bing: IP address, user agent string, search term, and some settings like your country and language setting."

Although it does claim that bing anonymizes the data after 4 days.
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the way we name the hours of the day is arbitrary, but the system serves to coordinate human activity. unless you do mostly asynchronous activities that don't involve coordinating with other people, you can't just decide when to start your day. there's not much point in opening your coffee shop after everyone is already at work.

when people talk about renumbering the hours of the day, they are really talking about recoordinating the hours that everyone else expects to interact with each other. changing the numbers themselves is just a hack to shift everyone's schedule at once. it's easier to shift 9am to 8am than it is to get every business to change their posted hours.
Sidereal time is only like 4 minutes or so off standard, iirc.
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Gotta circle the wagons. Protect your team. Happens on both sides.
Sometimes I worry that this is because people need to feel emotions, and anger is easy to feed in modern society. It's gratifying for all the wrong reasons. We should be feeding ourselves with other emotions, but anger is cheap, practically free, and requires no intimacy with another person. It makes people feel purpose, a need to resolve something, intense focus. It's a little upsetting to think about, but I'm not sure if I'm framing it differently than it really is. Maybe people have always loved to get pissed off and it's not a product of increasing social isolation causing an increasing need to feel something.
Your post makes me hopeful that this could be possible with some political pressure by public protests. Although - we should never underestimate the power of dark side^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H oil and gas lobby.
Whether this claim is true nor not, Google is able to pull such a move due to its monopoly. Most of us are against monopolies but don’t care about Google’s central position on our precious Internet. We should act up though. One day, it could be too late.

I’ve been using DDG for around a year now after numerous failed attempts in the past. I, too, had been frustrated with some search results, but I don’t miss Google anymore at all thanks to the bangs feature.

It is not obvious but DDG has a learning curve. You should re-learn the practice of “Googling skill” that we had to have years ago. I could even guess which queries DDG would fail to bring meaningful results before hitting enter now. In these cases I add a “!s” bang for https://startpage.com — a privacy conscious Google proxy.

DDG bangs are especially useful on iOS, where you could type a query from any page and only have 3 options: Search in the Web/App Store/Maps. If the search engine is DDG though, you could search your query in any website you know its bang with just a single step.
When I moved to Arizona I thought it would be great. I actually hate it because I tend to wake with the light and in the summer I feel more tired because it's hard not to wake up so early. And then in the winter I have to set an alarm to get to work on time. While not a complete solution, this problem is mitigated by adjusting the twice a year.
Ciao gongoiler, the 32 bits address identify a group of devices that share the same bus id, so yes, many groups of devices (that may have the same 8 bits device id) can coexist without addressing collisions.

here: https://www.pjon.org/get-bus-id.php
we distribute bus ids for free, for everyone who could need it.

I have never thought about the bridging strategy you propose, yes effectively it may not be hugely complicated :) if you would like to share your idea with other users feel free to open an issue here: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON/issues
No, it does not make any sense!

It forces the majority of the population to live with a constant mini jet-lag. It causes productivity loss and many health issues.

There are no chrono-biologists advocating DST (or constant summer time) over standard!
You can say the same of FB, Instagram, etc but coming to the "top top" is not an easy task and give you leverage for launching the next app. But you missed my other observation: it was difficult for Chinese companies to launch western attractive apps, you can take TikTok as an outlier or lucky app or you can be alert of the things that might come next.
Try gigablast.com Its a great alternative to google.
I hate waking up in the dark, it makes me feel awful as if I’ve had to wake up in the middle of the night. Coming back home in the dark can be quite nice, on the other hand. Feels very autumnal and cosy. If we stop changing the clocks I’ll definitely have to buy one of those light alarm clocks.
That is not accurate. The prosecutor was not investigating the company. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/us/politics/biden-ukraine...
This used to annoy me as well until I realized it's a very minor inconvenience compared to the benefit of not having my location data collected every time I search.
Yeah down voted for asking questions. I guess the HN community is not as "advanced" as they'd like to think.
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Well, this isn't happening when I use Google, but:

1. I use ad-blocking (e.g. uBlock Origin + EFF Privacy Badger), so all those ads go away. Maybe the actual search results are simply under a pile of commercial junk?

2. I try to use DuckDuckGo rather than Google.
Might or might not be true. But I'd say producing good diagrams is implicitly mandatory if you want to advance your career.

I didn't use them much as an individual contributor, but as a lead, I rely on them all the time to communicate ideas.

PlantUML makes it so easy to do so.
> The argument you are making is basically identical to the old "guns don't kill people" argument which actually has been proven completely false. Similarly, minimal suicide prevention measures (like fences on bridges, or again lack of access to guns) while they can usually be circumvented by the extremely determined do usually prevent suicides.

How do you measure the efficacy of a fence on a bridge? By the number of suicides by jumping off a bridge or by looking at the suicide numbers in aggregate? Of course it would reduce suicide by jumping but is it actually reducing suicide generally or only a specific method?
This is linked from another comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577
A lot of people in places far enough away from the equator to have significant changes in sunlight hours want the increased daylight hours in summer to happen after work rather than before work, and/or do not want them to happen while they are still asleep or trying to sleep in the morning.

Yes, we could leave the clocks alone, and change the clock times at which we do things.

We could have businesses open at, say, 9 AM in the winter and 8 AM in the summer. We could have schools start an hour earlier in the summer.

People tend to want to arrange their sleep schedule so that they pretty much just prepare for work and/or school after waking and then leave, so that their non-work time is all after work. That way they get their non-work time in one block, instead of split into two smaller blocks with work in between.

That means we'd be changing our wake up times by an hour in the summer to accommodated business/school opening hours. (Which means those who rely on alarm clocks to wake on time would be changing their alarm time...so much for escaping fiddling with clocks!).

Much of what we do is tied to our sleep or work schedules, such as when we get hungry and when we need transit.

So...we end up with pretty much everything that operates on a regular schedule having a separate winter and summer schedule. Every place we print schedules has to have two schedules that get swapped between summer and winter. Every place that has an alarm or an alert tied to work or sleep needs to have alarm times swapped between summer and winter.

Dealing with all that will involve making more changes twice a year--some to things that can be a hassle to change like signage.

Or we can just change the clocks--which are designed to be easy to change, and nowadays most of them can even do it automatically.
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The "Coding Challenges" list could use Advent of Code[0].

[0] https://adventofcode.com/
Your website doesn't appear to be working. Can you describe what you guys do?

Edit: Never mind it is working now.
How Pizza Hut stopped innovating its pizza and fell behind Domino’s
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> Analysis of health data from millions of people shows that people on the western edges of time zones get about 19 minutes less sleep every night than people on the east, and also have significantly higher rates of obesity, diabetes and heart attacks than people on the eastern edges.

I would love to see this data. If it is really true that people farther west in a time zone have worse health outcomes, and this effect is seen across wide swaths of the world, that is pretty compelling evidence. And I say this as someone who personally would much rather keep DST all year long.

It seems like a pattern that would be hard to fake, since it would imply that there is a marked step in health outcomes at every single time zone border. If this pattern really exists in the data, that is really saying something.
I still maintain that this life is the analogy for the true reality. Physics is only concerned with the “how” but metaphysics explains the “why”, although both are answering questions about the same events. Physics isn’t untrue, just, by itself it’s missing the bigger picture.

The word spirit originally meant breath and the way we became alive is that God breathed into the nostrils of Adam. In the beginning, the spirit of God was said to be upon the face of the earth and it still is, hence wind. But when we cut ourselves off from the spirit of God, we will soon run out of what spirit of God we last breathed in and this die.
IRC works with emoji just fine. As long as your server/client supports UTF-8 (or another encoding)
>Only a tiny fraction of the population gets to set their own hours.

Well, yes. I was thinking more of flextime. From what I've seen, relatively few people come in as early as possible, even though statistically speaking they should be 50-50 on the DST issue (and favour more daylight after working hours).
The crappy 110 and APS film photos of my childhood look horrible compared to even pretty old cell phone cameras, I think people will be fine. And who knows, Google might invent a machine learning algorithm to fix the photos.

A decade ago I printed a bunch of photos taken on my 2006 Sony Ericsson K800 (one in a line of cell phones to come with a real Xenon flash instead of the LED rubbish we suffered with after) and they looked fine as prints - it's on a bright, high-res computer screen that they look horrid.
That seems predicated on the assumption that 1) prohibition efforts are inherently flawed and 2) that a cultural desire to consume hard drugs is inevitable.

For example, many East Asian countries have serious punishments for drug trafficking and also have less general cultural acceptance of illegal drug use. As far as I know, there aren’t nearly as many drug problems there as compared to the west.
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Is this still true? The html spec now supports a 'ping' attribute in addition to 'href' for pinging tracking URLs. I'm seeing that all results have the actual URL in 'href'.

Example (Chrome):

<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a" ping="/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjmxMHk5MvlAhWVvp4KHS6lCqIQFjAAegQIABAB">
> We created the programs, and once they were completed and tested we handed them off. Others were responsible for maintaining them, we just wrote new ones!

OMG! when have we stopped doing that?
Hah, this is pretty hilarious.

The other important tidbit from the article that I think is critically important is that a huge part (most?) of Son's fortune, after the .com collapse, was a single investment in Alibaba.

So, basically, Son got lucky. Of course, "luck" of this sort isn't possible unless you are willing to take big risks, which Son did, but so often, especially in the VC world, you see folks whose really sole main skill is a penchant for outsized risk-taking, and they got lucky, and then they are hailed as a "genius", where the only difference between them and thousands of others who failed is one lucky event, and of course, stastically, someone will get lucky.

When I first heard about Neumann's ridiculous platinum parachute, it made me angry about the state of capitalism, but honestly, if you are going to be a grifter, can't think of a better group to take it from than Son and the Arabian oil shieks.
It really isn’t that simple though. Urumqi is heavily time distorted with store openings delayed two hours later than Beijing. Yes, the time is the same, but the schedules are different. What happens is that two times start floating around anyways (local time and Beijing time).
> because people have little control over when their day starts.

This is actually one of the best arguments for standard time all year around!

If we force people to start the day at a specific time, we have the obligation, that for as many people possible, this time will be in sync with their circadian rhythm. And this can be guaranteed best with standard time.
No pipelines. Let the cost of oil skyrocket and push us to greener alternatives.
The proper solution is to skew time slightly every night such that sunrise is always six a.m. every day. This requires 2D time zones.
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One big time zone sucks. Either one part of the country has a thrown off sleep pattern (because they're sleeping during daylight and coming home at night) or the timezone still exists but its just "unofficial" now because work starts at 5am rather than 8am and ends at 2pm instead of 5pm.
It's pretty unhealthy to wake up in the dark. And schools generally let out in the early afternoon, so summer time would just send kids to school in the dark for the winter.
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Thanks kindly.
Not sure rail is a safer way to transport oil.
> it’s no iOS app at all.

Or install onto a jailbroken device.
Peter Attia recommends Oura Ring.

https://peterattiamd.com/members/discounts/
Have been experiencing the new Google search for several weeks now. It is absolutely horrible and severely confusing. For me too this is the last straw so I started migrating away from all Google products.
Indentation introduces a code block, meaning a mono spaced font and no word wrap.
Anyone know of a good replacement for Google recaptcha?
> How is this legal? I'm not doubting the school's intentions but this is a massive breach of privacy, a sort of dystopic 1984 scenario.

You might also be surprised to know that your employer can also log everything you do with company property. Not that I agree with it but the legal precedent is there and children in school have far fewer rights than others.
A compromise that satisfies no one is worse than choosing arbitrarily.
A ride in a Waymo driverless car
Nokinside linked a couple upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427367

The first one works for me.
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The trouble with a NYTimes link is that the right trusts it roughly as much as the left trusts Fox.
Go is not memory-safe in the presence of concurrency. Interfaces and slices (i.e. fat pointers) are not written atomically, which can cause undefined behavior.

I haven't heard of this causing a problem in practice, though.
There was a thread on one of the pilot forums years ago where folks who flew private jets for celebrities and musicians asked about the legalities when folks start getting high in the back. There is pressure from their companies to not get involved but if you are knowingly operating as pilot in command and transporting individuals impaired not for medical reasons it could potentially put their certificates at risk. For example if anyone filmed it and showed the crew aware of what was going on, etc. Lots of "I didn't see anything" up there.
Another small change that diminishes the utility of the site, and makes it harder for me to sift through the junk content that increasingly makes it to the top of the pile. I think this has convinced me to start using Duck Duck Go as my search provider.
You first. You can (sort of) accomplish this for yourself, and you get to benefit from the utility internal combustion provides the economy you're in, so it'll be easier than if the state imposed it.

As for single use plastics, you're going to have to narrow that down. What about medical plastics? Food service gloves? Hazmat suits?
Yes. This method will never scale up to meaningfully transmitting information between individuals. I'm not sure why this was deemed worth funding when it's a dead end and I'm sure the authors know that.

We are not going to get a useful BCI without sticking electrodes into people's brains in the next few decades.
If you're at far enough north latitudes you don't have much of a choice; daylight isn't long enough in winter and there's not enough of it to go around to all times when you'd want it. Optimizing for daylight in the morning when the earliest risers are waking, at the expense of having it go dark soon after lunchtime, isn't a great trade-off.
They've figured out monopoly at home is monopoly abroad, so it might as well be beneficial to keep them to exert power over foreign countries.
I used to think my daughter may never drive, because autonomous vehicles were rumored to always be just around the corner.

Now I think she may never ride in an autonomous vehicle. Do autonomous vehicles drive in the rain? We live in a northern state where snow remains on the ground for months at a time in ever shifting depths and banks along roads. Lidar is unable to see through the snow. Road surfaces are sometimes wet, sometimes snow covered, sometimes ice. Visibility can drop to zero.

I wonder if tech companies will spend the time and expense to solve these difficult problems for a rather small percentage of the population.
Does Duck Duck Go use google ?
the 1000 true fans concept is people who will buy anything you put out though, so they should not just be buying your $2 a month newsletter, but also your $15 t-shirts, $2000 speaking engagements and so forth.
What sort of trading behaviors would one be looking at?
Depends on who you believe https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-20...
"Energy" is the new "Culture Fit"