skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really.

Most machines use UTC internally (with varying epoch dates to represent it). And this is absolutely great until you need to interface with meatbags, ie local time. It's not just display of time either: think about anything Cron does in localtime, eg backups or open building door locks, or send an ACH payment file; then ponder all the corner cases of DST switches. Eg do you do something twice, or never? What if you reboot somewhere in the DST switch period? etc. All these shenanigans are dictated by the TZDB.

Oh, and UTC also contains leap seconds.
Shertainly. That key functionality is normally used for shaving.
I too hate the idea of losing an hour off summer evenings. Of course, the rational solution is for society to adjust its schedule, but that will never happen.
Same in parts of America but for very different reasons.
> a fix to openssl or libc [..] automatically fixes that bug in the major package as well. For a static binary, Debian has to notice the change

Because this argument is often made, I think it's worth pointing out:

Just shipping a fixed dependency like `libssl.so` isn't enough to make the fix effective on the end users' machines. You also have to restart all the running executables that link in that dependency.

As far as I'm aware, Debian does not handle that for you. So even if it ships that small, nice dependency-only package update via manual or unattended upgrades, your long-running nginx will still be vulnerable until you manually restart it.
ML shows no signs of achieving intuition, which allows us to predict various scenarios in real time and adjust accordingly.
Zardoz! One of my favorite movies, oddly enough.
The fact that this is even in serious consideration and not completely laughable shows how far the overton window has shifted on policing speech.

My fear is that we can't go the other direction, back to sanity, when it's gone this far.
But sometimes a random person online can lead me that direction.

I really only discuss my condition on the internet these days. I basically don't tell people I meet in person "I have (diagnosis)." I have taken to telling kind of a little white lie that "I have a paper allergy" to explain my aversion to handling papers and even that has proven to be so much ridiculous bullshit that it is a factor in me quitting all my volunteer work.

It's aggravating because my ATM asks me if I want a receipt, no receipt or email me a receipt and doesn't need an explanation or doctor's note or invasive chit chat as to why I prefer it emailed me. The paperless option in most settings is deemed to be the environmentally-friendly option and doesn't require justification or putting up with lurid interest and harassing comments about my health, my lifestyle, blah blah blah.

I don't want to discuss my condition under any circumstance anymore where I can't just give people a link to explain X if I want to share info but don't want to spend a lot of time and effort repeating things I'm bored to death with repeating because while my condition and situation may be new to "you," it sure as hell isn't new to me, good god and please shut the hell up and leave me the hell alone.
Indiana Jones the last Crusade
> Battery prices are several orders of magnitude above where they would need to be to provide true grid-scale storage and production capacity is a fraction of what would be required for same.

Thankfully prices are falling, efficiency improving, and massive battery factories are planned. The growth of EV means that will continue. Peaker plants are already being replaced with batteries.

> Pumped storage is a dead-end solution because we have simply run out of places for effective hydro

Nope. There is large pumped storage being built in Scotland right now and there are hundreds more glens where it would be feasible.

>There is no level of investment that can magic away the storage problems of current renewables

Just as one example that may well magic away these problems, grid attached storage in the form of electric cars and home storage is growing massively right now. It may be we rethink entirely our centralised approach to production and storage.

Fission is expensive, centralised and carries heavy decommissioning costs and extreme tail risks. Fusion may someday give renewables a worthy rival but till then the falling prices mean nuclear has had its day.
Well, 2020 just got worse. Didn’t think it was possible.
Actor model with Elixir/Erlang and the BEAM VM.
Our internal metrics system is named Vasili after that scene.
What will it take for this to ACTUALLY happen? Every time change, I hear folks talk about how we should move to permanent DST, but nothing changes. I am tired of getting my hopes up.
The software for NASA's new SLS rocket has some officials worried
If you stay on DST through the winter, most places in the US will have a morning commute in the dark. The reason we switch is to keep the sunrise just slightly more even. The annual swing in sunrise time is just under 3 hours. With a DST switch, the swing becomes less than 2 hours, at the cost of switching twice.
But think of the upside -- they could create serious value for their shareholders!
And then he got married, and the Great Vivisectionist gave the love of his life terminal bone cancer and she died in agony. Pain is a problem indeed.
Not an astronomer but if I'm not mistaken, we find exoplanets based on the shadows from their respective stars, we can usually tell if a star has multiple planets orbiting based on the amount of light we see, it's just that it's strangely more common to only have 1 planet orbiting each star, instead of the many we have.
I’ve discovered that here on the western edge we simply arise later and work later. It’s not uncommon for people in New England to be awake at 5:30 am and starting their day.
The problem is building and packaging (and versioning) all dependencies. It's a reasonable policy to not allow bundling which conflicts with usual Go developing.
I like the diversity of non-Bond movies he did.

My favourites are probably Outland and Finding Forrester.
Debian and Python purists will say otherwise, and there are some reasons not to do it - e.g. wanting to support multiple Python versions across multiple distributions (such as Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS). But I agree, in my opinion it is the most reasonable way.
I would love to know the answer to this for all the same reasons. Is there some actual special sauce or is the world of 'audiophile DACs' just the new 'Monster Cable' FUD?
The Atlantic now has a WARNING on top of this article:

Editor’s Note: After The Atlantic published this article, new information emerged that has raised serious concerns about its accuracy, and about the credibility of the author, Ruth Shalit Barrett.

We have established that Barrett deceived The Atlantic and its readers about a section of the story that concerns a person referred to as “Sloane.” We are sharing with our readers what we have learned so far.

@dang -- perhaps this should be removed?
With so many analog clocks this is not going to be a realistic option.

That's why UTC is fine. It is based on the sun time.
Op 8 React Native Modal Component 2020
He's the man now, dog. But in heaven.
Some things around here don't react well to bullets.
I'm guessing that would be some drug trial or other and I am off all drugs and much happier that way. I'm guessing "any info" would be "how to try to get in on the trial" and not "this is what we are trying and what our hypothesis is."

So we probably have nothing to really talk about.
I saw some interesting visuals on how a mask can catch stuff, but no real science showing they work "really" for COVID.

Nice animations should not supplant actual evidence.
The first and the Best Bond ever!
RIP
I don’t think this has much to do with 9/11. I would recommend reading Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories. There’s a long trail of development that stems back well before the early 2000s.
Mr. Connery invested in a startup I founded years ago. Thanks! Rest in peace.
One thing to note is that you don't have to always play a note at the same frequency, even in the same piece.

On the violin, it's common to adjust intonation to different concerns: to bring out multiple voices, to put emphasis on the melodic line, or to nail the chords.

I don't know how hard it would be to do this digitally though. I imagine it would be quite tedious to work on a fretless digital music software.
That won't go away, software will still be needed for when states inevitably change their timezones.
A lot of the statistics about Asian under representation in leadership positions evaporates when you account for the fact that Asians are quite a bit younger in average than whites. While the percentage of Asians in the population overall is 6-7%, the percentage of Asians in the 60+ cohort is only 4-5%. Also, Asians are a rapidly growing group that mostly comprises immigrants not born in the US. It’s not necessarily a sign of discrimination that there is a lag between when Asians arrive in the US, when they reach economic parity, and when they achieve leadership positions that might require a higher level of being established, US citizenship, many years of company service, etc. As a result of the fact that the Asian population is growing rapidly, you’re looking at statistics that may not be in equilibrium.

Asians account for about 3.7% of Fortune 500 Board seats, which isn’t that far off from the 4-5% of the age cohort you’d expect to have a high level position like that. More important, they account for 8% of new board appointments: https://www.statista.com/statistics/547958/percentage-of-new.... Asian new appointments has tracked the overall percentage of population quite well for the last decade. If anything, Asians are on their way to being a bit over-represented in corporate board seats.
Every time I consider this I'm reminded of an incident where 3 Israeli Arabs blew themselves up instead of their target, probably due to daylight savings time.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/clocks-change-kille...
I like DST too. (I'm at 55.4° N.) It would probably be a bit much in the winter for many, though, as daylight here would end up something like 9 am-6 pm. Very dark in the mornings, and you don't get much in the way of extra useful evening times.
I'm curious of what one would speculate would be the effect of Apple and Google and Microsoft just not observing daylight savings time. All computers and phones with operating systems just don't change times in accordance with DST.
Thats more or less the opposite of what the article means by 'historical fiction'
It matters in which direction you go.

Going west, you'll be sleepy very early in the evening, but then no one is really stoping you from going to bed at 7 PM and staying in it for twelve hours straight until 7AM (you probably will wake up around 2-3 AM, but there's nothing else to do at that time, so you'll probably stay in bed just out of boredom). As the result you adapt pretty quickly.

Going east is much harder: you can't fall asleep at night, and then during the day you have things to do, so you end up sleep deprived for quite long.
Yeah we would need to do daily testing too. The main problem is that (a) it takes 3-5 days for the infection to become detectable and (b) it takes 1-5 days to get your test results back. So for 4-10 days you are contagious and don’t know it. Instant testing like this that works before symptoms means you could detect the infection soon as it takes hold, significantly reducing the spread rate. If our traditional testing was all rapid we would be a lot better off. Well that, and leadership that isn’t solely concerned with its own reelection in a pointless bid for staying out of prison. Both would be good.
You might be interested in a counterpoint from someone who (claims to) study sleep:

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/dwtr0m/matt...
Very costly? That would require some serious evidence. And even then, so what?
Regular people tacitly endorsing misogyny is awful and should be confronted, not sugarcoated.

But that is in no way remotely comparable to a huge worldwide movie star openly endorsing spousal abuse on a major television news program and never retracting it or apologizing.

Obviously we should criticize that extreme of an act far far more than tacit sexism passively accepted by eg an out of touch grandparent or something. You are trying to equate the two but they are not similar at all.

There’s no logical requirement for people to apply this criticism uniformly eg to every racist extended family member in order to be unhypocritical when leveling the criticism against a big media figure.
> People do what is most important in the morning, because we can focus better.

There's a huge [citation needed] to add here. Also, needs a citation for people still being able to focus better at the morning after their clock is switched.
RIP Sir Sean. And one of the rare few whose film dialogue inspired a website and meme [1] www.yourethemannowdog.com
It's more of a tan-in-a-syringe kind of thing, but Melanotan has been available for a while now.
False dichotomy fallacy. AVs are great. There's a way to test them that doesn't involve killing people: you put a safety driver in the car, make sure that they're attentive at all times, and record what the car's software does vs. what the driver has to do. Then you gradually ramp up to more sophisticated scenarios as the software gets better.

Waymo and Cruise do it this way, and their software gets better without killing anyone. Uber and Tesla figured they'd play it fast and loose and killed people.
Do you think it might be possible to eventually use a Deep Learning model like GPT-3 to do the formalisation for us? It seems like a herculean task to do it by hand.
Somewhere in a parallel universe:

"Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to ‘early bird’ sleep disorder

A new study by researchers at UC Santa Cruz shows how a genetic mutation throws off the timing of the biological clock, causing a common sleep syndrome called anticipated sleep phase disorder.

People with this condition are unable to stay awake until later in the evening (often falling asleep before 10 p.m.) and get up abnormally early in the morning..."

I'm sort of joking, but not quite. I can't think of an objective reason why being a 'night owl' is biologically an abnormality/deficiency. As many other commenters have pointed out, daily rhythms are socially/culturally imposed, not so much biologically determined.

There are many cultures (think of Mediterranean ones for example) where people routinely have late dinners and go to bed after midnight. Hard to imagine that entire countries are just biologically abnormal.
There's a good book on the topic called "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at Berkley. In it, it discusses how teens are biologically designed stay up much later than their parents would, with the theory that this is when they would have a chance to socialise and mate without the watchful eye of parents. Not only that, it reduces the time that a tribe would be open to attack or prededation - if everyone slept at the same time, there would be an 8 hour window of the day where humans would be incredibly vunerable. Presumably it would be favourable to have a few adults in the tribe to have a similar night-owl streak, to keep the tribe secure throughout the night.

The book really pushes the narative that making kids, and especially young teens wake up so early just to fit into an adults daily routinee is akin to child abuse, as it stunts their growth in ways - physically and mentally - that cannot be achieved by any means except through sleep deprivation.
Reading these comments, I remembered an achievement award presented to him by Mike Myers. Very well done (and pretty touching at the end).

https://youtu.be/KQYp8xJ4kpo
Hey! Thanks a lot of sharing this. I find this a inspiring. You are the man who has worn every possible hat after all. All the best for your future.

- Random Internet Stranger.
Great old school macho screen presence; still a heart throb well into advanced years.

Defined Bond on and off the screen - Bond's Scottish origins are allegedly due to Ian Fleming seeing his portrayal and adding them in subsequently.
"a political/cultural issue"

I agree. We see this with pretty much any disease. Even look at Zika virus - the US is concerned about it becoming endemic and focuses resources to combat it when it does pop up, yet we don't do anything preventive like restrict travel nor institute mandatory travel quarantines. This used to be a standard practice for international travel to areas with known diseases. We probably need to bring this back. Basically the option is kill tourism in those areas or deal with extension treatment and containment programs - either one would be very costly. So for now, we do like always - we ignore it.
You already can get rid of time zones by only using UTC.

But is is not very practical.

The time zone communicates the part of the day in any place around the world.
So this appears to be, the very old, software that was pushed to production before it was ready story. I have to wonder if there wasn't some Marketing/PR/Mgmt person(s) that pushed the engineers to release the software before it was ready or was it the result of lack of due diligence on the part of the engineers, who couldn't wait to get their code running in the real world.

>We did implement checks for what seemed to us as more common failure scenarios, but the devil here was that this one first appeared during the run and we did not cover it at the analytical analysis stage.

I little more time in testing for the edge cases could have helped avoid this expensive fail.

You have to test for much more than just the "common failure scenarios", when you engineer solutions where failure could be very expensive in terms of money and lives.
I've lived in several major US cities and have never felt unsafe in any way. Feels pretty similar to Canada, main difference is that the news is more toxic, and the west coast has more visible tents than what I'm used to.
Is it really possible to regulate without any experience at all ?

I thought regulation was something that you could define based on a sufficiently widespread practice.
masks alone have no significant effect in interrupting the spread of ILI or influenza in the general population, nor in healthcare workers:

Clearly you aren't reading your source well.

Masking lack of evidence with politics

Lack of evidence does not imply evidence to the contrary.

Two were done in healthcare workers and four in family or student clusters.

The problem with these clusters is that there are other ways a virus can infect close contacts. If someone in your dorm, house has the virus, mask alone cannot help because there is shared contact with surfaces. So it does not imply masks do not work.

The face mask trials for influenza-like illness (ILI) reported poor compliance,

Well..

and showed that masks alone have no significant effect in interrupting the spread of ILI or influenza in the general population, nor in healthcare workers.

This is what everyone is saying, masks alone don't help. But masks do help along with other precautions. If you are in a crowd, masks do help if someone standing next to you has the virus. If your coworker or spouse gets infected, masks alone might not help because the risk of surface contact related infection is higher.

It is debatable whether any of these results could be applied to the transmission of SARs-CoV-2.

Different disease with different IR.

However, recent reviews using lower quality evidence found masks to be effective.

This reduces the confidence of your source.

Regardless, even if it's possible masks have a minute reduction on transmission, there is no harm in wearing one. Why not wear it until there are more confident studies which show masks don't help. If that does happen we could even allow doctors to stop wearing masks during surgeries!
He's played so many wonderful characters... RIP.
My total off the cuff not marketing person take on your last sentence is that if you have to explain your product one on one to people who can't easily understand your site, maybe you should consider rewriting the site. Again though I'm not a marketing person so maybe this is some marketing strategy.
> The Bible

Ah yes, a most trustworthy source. A book written by many authors and used by monarchs to subdue their populations.

I am not saying this post is factually/historically correct.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24951157
Indiana had it, but then voted it out. Keeping time change is favored by conservatives and the campaign for it was that its so confusing to have two systems. The irony of that position was painful to witness.
Because numbers have meanings? So that 9-to-5 stays 9-to-5 the whole year round instead of 8-to-4, 7-to-3, 6-to-2?
Laughable.

Space X nexus is the USA, and the dictates of the US Gov't. will likely quash any of Elon's musings 'bout that.

You have to pay homage to the King.
in that case, lets just go to universal time and let businesses tell you what time to come in
I just hope they listen to sleep sientists into which time they keep or the negative health effect this can have on society will easily be worse then the ones from switching twice a year.

(It's also not necessary intuitive which time is better and it's depending on geographical location, theoretically I guess the best would likely be keeping the change but make it gradual over many small steps instead of two large 1h steps, but that's impractical I guess).
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Trying to get everything on my Mac, GitHub and domain working with Jekyll and Hugo was harder than spinning up Wordpress. Caching is a solved problem on WP, not grokking the love for static site generators.
Would be interesting to hear a before and after sample
It has almost a 20% of false positives. If you have a class of 30 students, approximately 6 of them will get a false positive on Monday and loose the rest of the week just in case. By Friday, you will have only 10 students...

The next week you will have the same problem ...

The next week, people will start to ignore the test.

And this assuming the students only take one test per day. If they also get tested in the bus and the cafeteria and the supermarket, ... the number of people without a false positive will much lower.
What makes entrepreneurship so difficult?
This was already tried in the 70s and it sucked[1] so much so that we went back to the current method. It's strangely hard to find references though.

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/30/the-year-daylight-sav...
On Android at least, a LOT of the non-flagship devices stop getting security updates anywhere from 6 months to a year after release.
Can't read article due to subscribe-wall but just putting in a shout for Wolf Hall and its sequels. I know its kindof redundant to recommend something already so successful and well known, but if you've been steering clear of that stuff because it seems boring, really, its worth checking out. It brings "500 years ago" to life in a very vivid, intricate way, and the main character is such a fascinating ahead-of-their-time badass.
People already knew in March that the virus spreads via droplets (as all respiratory viruses do) and that widespread mask usage would slow the spread. They had implemented this protocol in China and the rest of Asia for at least a month by then.

How about you use your brain?
Think of another company affected by this merger - Blizzard.