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That used to be a Haskell saying, and I suspect it's still more true there...
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With Futures and Executors/ExecutorServices I find that I rarely ever need to use raw Threads these days. Most of the thread-safety issues commonly encountered are eliminated with this approach as well.
I was wandering the same thing, here in my country a lot of reforms are stoped by the constitutional tribunal, basically they are a bunch of lawyers that implement a function,

constitutional :: Constitution -> (Law | Reform) -> Boolean

I really would like to see if one can train a model like that. seeing what gpt-3 can do, it seems that we are not that far away to achieve something like an AI lawyer.
I'm in favor of a full global switch to TAI. UTC is another good option, but I don't really see the benefit of keeping up with leap seconds considering the complexity they add.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
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> You already can get rid of time zones by only using UTC.

UTC has leap seconds. You are thinking of TAI:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
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The extreme views you mention are partly due to the difference in philosophical development. Eastern philosophies tend to believe the truth lies between opposing views. In western philosophies, it is generally believed that one side is right and one side is wrong. We even see this in the adversarial basis of our judicial system (a fair fight between two parties will produce the truth). Our primary and voting system is partly to blame here. Extreme candidates in primaries get more support because their voters are more driven. Since primaries take place at different times, the first states might have 6 candidates and the last states to vote might have only one or two.

I think your last two paragraphs allude to a belief I have - democracy is only as "good" (rational, reasonable, logical, etc) as the citizens are. I wish schools taught philosophy of argument classes (logic).
"So you want to abolish time zones":

* https://qntm.org/abolish

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902765 (2015)
It is backed by numbers. Currently in France 17% of electricity consumption goes to lightning, including 12% for public lightning. It's moving down with newer lamps using less energy and other sectors using more.

You have to think that daylight saving time was introduced almost a hundred years ago (heavily variable per region) when a significant amount of the electricity was going to (public) lightning, using lights available at the time that were very energy hungry and very inefficient.

There was a reason it was done. Seriously, it was not a failed experiment carried out by idiots, like some commenters seem to think. Usage evolved and might have made DST worthless or counterproductive, if anything removing DST might show the importance of adjusting time to match energy consumption.
One of my favorite dialogs of his was from an old Bond movie.

Girl: Hi I'm Plenty

Bond: But of course you are

Girl: Plenty O'Toole

Bond: Named after your father perhaps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CElBVpRFk4Q

And nobody will every make a Mankini as manly as you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVakHZp5ZBE

Thank you for all the good times.
Exactly. Sweden, for example, switches several weeks before the US in the fall and spring leading to a bizarre situation where the two countries are only X-1 hours apart instead of X hours. It has the strange (but sensical) effect of also moving meetings by one hour on Swedish calendars. But only meetings that were created by Americans! If the meeting was created by a Swede it moves one hour on the American calendar. This inevitably leads to some confusion. So we already have this problem, whether or not there is DST or not won’t really make it worse.
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Zuck may have cashed out by then.
By that logic, we could all just use UTC and set our own schedules with infinite granularity based on sunrise/sunset. I'm good with that.
Is this based on the fact that the vast majority of people start work at arbitrary wall clock times, usually on the hour some time between 06:00 and 09:00, depending on profession? I'm all for keeping standard time just it makes slightly more sense for 12:00 to be the time when the Sun is highest in the sky, but surely any choice is completely arbitrary and the only thing that matters is the phase difference between circadian rhythm and solar rhythm.
Do children not need more sleep in winter, like adults?
15 degrees is the the size a timezone "should" be, since 360°/24h = 15 degrees per hour.

The Western European time zone ia about 33 degrees wide, from Spain to Poland. Spain is about 2 hours off their natural time..
The underlying motivations explain all: this isn't about improving automobile safety anymore (if it ever was): it's about recognizing deferred revenue from this feature (which has been sold for years) and trying to keep up, from a marketing perspective, with Waymo and Cruise. That's why they're not using trained safety drivers, but fanbois.

Waymo is at least as safe as the average human driver, while Tesla has unleashed literally worse-than-drunk drivers upon us all. Heaven help us.
It's already starting to happen in the EU.

>Last year the European Parliament voted to abolish the time shifts, but the member states of the European Union have yet to agree on how to implement the decision.
Set your alarm one hour earlier then. No need to inflict your choice on everyone.
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> the negative affects that DST has on society

The last time a DST thread came up a couple of months ago, I dug into all the research being cited, and I found it being wildly overstated and sometimes outright misleading. There seems to be a group of people with an agenda to abolish DST for some reason, but I’ve become even more skeptical about these claims of measurable negative effects.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24314134

The tl;dr is that a bunch of papers are being cited that studied long term sleep deprivation, that did not study DST at all. The idea that long term serious sleep loss is bad for you is being applied to (short term, temporary) DST without any evidence that DST is causing any widespread long term lack of sleep.

I do believe strongly in sleep being healthy. But one reason I’m skeptical about supposed negative health claims of DST specifically is that a huge number of people have weekly changes in sleeping habits that are larger than the twice yearly one hour shift. What matters is getting enough sleep long term, and most people adapt to DST fast enough that it doesn’t affect long term sleep — even the article admitted that a few weeks is rare.
In the 2016 election, I would have voted for anyone who promised to stop screwing with the clocks.
But you'll be gaining an hour of summer nights.

With DST, the sun goes down way too late, around 10pm in summer. With the climate as it currently is, summers have become unbearably hot and this will probably get worse in the future.

When I get home from work on a summer day, around 18:00-ish. being outside is unbearable. It doesn't get comfortable outside until the sun goes down. By moving the clock forward, you're reducing the number of hours you can actually spend outside.

Summer nights are great, summer evenings aren't. Either keep the standard time or move the clock backward during summer to maximise the number of hours you can actually spend outside, instead of the amount of sunlight.
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Ehh, the whole premise there seems to be "chemicals bad," while acknowledging that the amount of solvent left in the coffee is negligible.
I know what you mean -- the word pneumatic cracks me up every time! ;)

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> Sickle Cell protects against malaria.

Sickle cell trait (being heterozygous for the gene that replaces beta-globin with hemoglobin S) protects against anemia, and does not, in and of itself, produce sickle cell disease.

> As awful as it is, it persists because your survival with sickle cell was better with it than without it in some regions where malaria was a big issue.

It persists because being heterozygous for the sickle cell gene makes you much more likely to survive and reproduce where malaria is widespread. Actual sick cell disease, whether being homozygous for hemoglobin S (sickle cell anemia) or having some other defect on the other copy of the HBB gene while also having the sickle cell trait, IIRC, isn't a net advantage, even there.
Ironically, deep learning might finally be the solution to this, in a convoluted way.

Previous AI systems generally fell over when they hit the final 2% of real world scenarios, unable to cope with the explosion of complexity.

In contrast, modern AI finally provide a toolkit for "last mile AI" (proverbially speaking), by allowing incorporation of those scenarios without breaking the entire previous model.
EU voted to end it in 2019 (pretty decisively, 410 in favour and 192 against), and 2021 was supposed to be the final year.

Unfortunately, it was postponed once again because of the pandemic. The implementation plan is for every country to choose which timezone to stay in (summer or winter), and I guess now is not the time for nations to figure out between themselves which timezone to stay in.
That was meant to be an example really, to aim at something less automatic and complex like kubernetes but still automated.

You might also consider using containers without kubernetes. Keep the same AMI, package your app as a docker container, make VMs download and run the latest release from a private docker registry on startup. Publish a new docker image tagged as latest.

Now you can rollout your autoscaling groups without running packer and ansible.
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Tesla's unregulated and (some might say) reckless roll-out of self-driving technology could indeed be the biggest threat to the technology's realization.

As you point out, all it will take is a few fatalities for public opinion to harden against self-driving, and laws will start banning or severely restricting it. Rather than being wowed by Tesla's gung-ho approach, boosters of self-driving technology should be angered by it.
Not for another 1000 years give or take.
It's not so much their view is illegitimate, it's that it's possible to state their moral/political view without alienating the other side. "We shouldn't slaughter animals because they're living beings too" gets the same point across without accusing the other side of being heinous criminals. It's not as provocative as "meat is murder", but I doubt many meat eaters are going to do a 180 because someone called them a murderer.
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This can also swing the other way, shining a light on ways of living (certainly including societies much less violent than the Roman Empire, a civilization neurotically focused on domination) & experiences that have since been lost and are more or less impossible to achieve now.
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We should all just be on GMT. In software development on Pacific time, I always feel bad for the guys offshore that have to stay up late at night to make our morning meetings. It sure would make things a lot more easy from a coding perspective.

But to the point DST only adds complexity to the already complex task of converting time to GMT and back so that you can synchronize events in different time-zones, I fully support this effort.
> We may have complained for decades when software locked us in; now, we’re happy to stay.

Being willing to trade-off higher costs and less control in order to use new technology is commonplace in consumer tech. Nobody has ever been "happy" about this vendor lock-in, why would no-code be any different?

The current proprietary tools are valuable but they don't allow users to export their creations between vendors offering the same functionality - that means they are more locked-in then ever. Users have the added emotional element of having to abandon their creation and accept the sunk-cost if they want to switch. I'm quite sure that nobody is happy about that fact.
Editorial references this OC:

Political Sectarianism:
A Dangerous Cocktail of Othering, Aversion, and Moralization

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/political-sectarianism.pdf

Same topic, list of authors match, recently published, near match on title. I'm pretty sure this is the paper referenced. For the love of the FSM, why can't people use links?

Skim reading this paper, it appears complimentary to other reports. Will read in full shortly.

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Polarization isn't just one thing. It's the result of everything mushed together.

Ezra Klein's Why We Are Polarized is a terrific summary, synthesis of the research. Connects so many dots. Physical sorting (urbanization) promotes polarization, faceted identities are now super identities, nationalization of media begat the nationalization of our politics, the massive political reorg fallout from LBJ's Great Society ending the Dixiecrat's strangle hold on southern states (aka Nixon's Southern Strategy), and many more.

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Were-Polarized-Ezra-Klein/dp/1476...

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Klein doesn't much touch on social media in this book. Some of his podcasts episodes are relevant. Two underreported factoids popped out for me, First, how the landscape changed from blogging to social media. Second is the elephant in the room about the algorithms and how most critics are guilty of conflating speech with signal boosting.

(I have my own thoughts about social media, shared piecemeal thru my comment history. No thesis or narrative yet, sorry.)

Whatever the evil of social media today, eliminating it outright (not gonna happen) would only mitigate some of the toxicity and definitely won't unwind polarization.
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Right. OP's is more an argument against time zones than Daylight Saving Time.

Honestly though, this should only be a problem for the small subset of embedded software without access to the Internet. If major OSes time zone databases are not able to be updated independently of the rest of the OS, that's kind of on them. We know time zone boundaries have been changing arbitrarily for decades, so shouldn't this be a solved problem?
You can't have 12:00 be the time when the sun is highest unless you're willing to shift to infinite time zones.
So the City should reduce total taxes by increasing property taxes?

That's semantics at best.
We will inevitably, as we interact more and more with people anywhere on Earth.

I think the way to transition is to use dual time (local & UTC) in software.
Right, the solution is more fires, not less. Just as controlled burns,
not raging infernos.
Nope, quite a toy.

https://github.com/pjmlp/gwc-rs

About 80% of the time is spent compiling Gtk-rs, which I avoid in C++ thanks to OS package manager and pkg-config.

Also note that the original C++ Gtkmm version was already quite fast to compile in 2002 hardware, when I submitted the article to "The C/C++ Users Journal".

When cargo finally handles binary libraries, instead of stuff like scache, I expect a similar experience to C++ with binary libraries and modules.
Thanks! Clojure all the way. Why? Because lisp is awesome :) I haven't made it open source yet, and I'm not entirely sure I will, depends what's best for the project, if making it a paid game on Steam is the way to go... But even if I do I would have to refactor the code somewhat first.
Apple effectively disallowed repair even if a shop uses genuine parts from another identical phone. The only thing you can now be confident in is that nobody will be able to fix your phone.
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That’s straight out of Tintin and the Broken Ear, where a would-be terrorist blows himself up after a time change: https://imgur.com/gallery/27jxctY
It's actually the opposite. His contract specifically allowed him to publish in other places if they didn't let him go ahead.
Does “instead of LIDAR” mean that LIDAR solves that in some significant way?
The big value of YC is getting a club of people together doing similar things. I did startup school but the videos got boring. I wish I could interact with other people also doing YC and building their own startups.

Half the value of school is other kids also in the same environment. Easy to forget that when making things online.
I run my entire life in UTC and no daylight savings. All of my clocks and phones read UTC.
I was thinking of the "Aces" games which were not that great IMO.
All orders of atrocities can be justified when people see humanity as a problem to be fixed.
It isn't a cursory look. I worked at Canonical. I used to do lots of Debian packaging. My packages on Arch aren't low-quality. Yet, the packaging process was a lot simpler and a lot more fun on Arch. Plus my package and dependencies are actually based on the stable packages and not a 4 year old patched 10x to maintain compatibility package due to a 3 year old kernel.
You can explain why you disagree, but simply shaming someone about their opinion doesn't add to any conversation. It helps no one to know that you are one additional person who likes a successful commercial product (unless someone is trying to buy you a birthday present, but we don't know you), it helps when you say why you like something.

edit: you may argue that the comment you replied to was simply disagreeing with the article, not explaining why. I would argue that you're simply disagreeing with a comment simply disagreeing with the article - which is a position already filled by the article, with adequate explanation.
One element you get for free in a historical setting is a deep & nuanced moral setting that is different from ours.

You can certainly write a novel about aliens and their moral codes can play a role. It's very hard to make it nuanced and fleshed out though. Sure, a character can be conflicted between human and Klingon moral codes... but it tends to be a lot flatter than real life. The motivations are more explicit and single dimensional. Fictional honour codes and such tend to be much more legible than real ones.

If we go to a past (including fictional ones like game of thrones or lotr), we get a moral contrast for free. There are still trope traps like giving the "good guys" a relatable, dissenting, modern moral sense. But on average, a writer can give a 19th century nun a worldview that is both sufficiently deep and sufficiently different to ours. In a futuristic or fantasy setting, you tend to get a lot more "orcs and vogons" philosophy.
Thanks for confirming your lack of education. Obama's slope was trending down. It's going up in Trumps. Like I said in my original post, I don't like the direction of this country. And if you removed the blinders in your eyes, you would see it too. But I can see you prefer to be a willing fool.
>>> prior to DST.

that means prior to 1916. I don't know about you but I don't have bills going that far. ^^
Yeah, so I’ve followed the citations from SRBR’s position paper in the past https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24314134

And I found that the research was being quite seriously misrepresented. Based on reading the paper and reading quite a few of the papers they cite, I do not believe there is evidence to justify a claim that there exists any measurable health differences between staying on daylight vs staying on standard. This appears to me to be someone’s agenda, and not something the research we have actually supports.
With cruise control you’re still very much the one who is driving and paying attention.
Logic oriented programming is really well suit for this problem.

Most complaw research happen in the logic department of universities.

- blawx.com use ergo 2 in the backend

- Kowalski ( author of iso prolog ) wrote a paper on the topic in the 80's http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rak/papers/British%20N
ationality%20Act.pdf
For me your snippet was just a bit too short to get a feeling on the context of the conclusion. The other two paragraphs of the summary make it much clearer.

Here they are:

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. Under such adjustment, social (local) clock time will match sun clock time and therefore body clock time most closely. Critics of such a solution might argue that this would scatter European social times, but there is no evidence that this would be detrimental. First, we already have three different time zones within Europe (WET/GMT, CET, and EET), and secondly, the United States has four different time zones and several United States states even have multiple time zones with no detriment in commerce, travel, or communications.

If DST should be abandoned, as we suggest as scientists, there are still many people who “like their long evenings.” But there is a solution to this problem: DST is simply a work-time arrangement, nothing more than a decision to go to school/work an hour earlier. As such, it is not a decision that should be made by the world, by unions of countries (e.g., the EU), or by individual countries, neither at the federal nor the state level. Work-time arrangements are decisions that a workforce could decide at the company level. Therefore, anyone who wants to spend more time at home in daylight after work should convince his/her company and co-workers to advance their start time during certain months of the year or even better: introduce flexibility for individual workers where possible to accommodate differences in personal biological and social requirements.
I don't know why you’re being downvoted. This is a rather good analogy. And it doesn't mean the initial comment of this thread is not presumptuous. In other words, the why should the expectation be that general authors assume universe be computational in nature, is sorely missing. But it doesn't invalidate an explanation of how analytical and discrete systems are yet unreconciled (and may never be).
Perhaps in places that have winter.

Florida's 4 seasons are summer (13 months), not summer (13 min), wildfire and hurricane. Hurricane is usually the best of the lot.
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> Java seems to have its own TZDB so in general your OS and application layer might disagree about zones.

More precisely, the Java Virtual Machine (not the programming language) will, like any operating system running inside a VM, need to be patched with the new time information. Updating the host machine’s time info is not enough.
Every software service I’ve worked on has had issues around DST transitions. That’s really the only programming benefit I see for getting rid of it going forward.
Society managed to simultaneously shift their entire collection of clocks twice a year. Is it really that much more of a pain to instead just say "we're all simultaneously going to work and school an hour earlier for a few months"?
I can't speak for Norway, but walking around any French town center late at night can be quite intimidating.
Has anyone actually found a use for cryptocurrency and/or the blockchain yet that is not "burn a shit-ton of power on arguing over units of cryptocurrency are worth anything"?
Swiss water decaf is relatively easy to get. I've yet to see Supercritical CO2 decaf.
I think you might reconsider your opinion on this one, both of those have roughly the same net effect.