skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see. wf-recorder is specific to wlroots, etc.

I suppose I'm sad that these things weren't upstreamed to the core protocol/reference impl sooner so there was less churn.
If you want to wear a mask, wear a mask. If you dont, then dont. Stop making me a bad person if I'm not sick at all and I dont wear a mask.
White Feather (WW1, WW2)
Not against zones; I was hoping to shine a light on all the complexity around the TZDB, which is a mapping of zones to switchover times. Eg,

$ zdump -v US/Eastern | grep 2020
US/Eastern Sun Mar 8 06:59:59 2020 UT = Sun Mar 8 01:59:59 2020 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
US/Eastern Sun Mar 8 07:00:00 2020 UT = Sun Mar 8 03:00:00 2020 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
US/Eastern Sun Nov 1 05:59:59 2020 UT = Sun Nov 1 01:59:59 2020 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
US/Eastern Sun Nov 1 06:00:00 2020 UT = Sun Nov 1 01:00:00 2020 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000

If everyone simply picked a zone and stayed there, without the switching schedule above, you'd only need a mapping of zone to GMT offset and be done with it.
How are sociological studies any less scientifical? Is the human behavior something not worth studying?
Debian just makes an exception for the Firefox and Chromium packages.

You can tell that is what the current maintainer was hoping for here. Instead, the previous maintainer-- who literally wrote that it would probably take two full-time devs to properly package this and maintain the package-- goes full Vogon and summons the great Debian bureaucracy to solve this with their poetry.
Camouflaged Fire Sprinklers Erupt to Protect a Historic Japanese Village
Wire transfer fees are not commissions, so they don’t depend on the amount — unless currency exchange is involved.

Large transfers of hundreds of millions USD happen between institutions all the time.

I don’t think this is interesting or unique, or a convincing example of why Bitcoin is worth the enormous environmental impact.
I worked at a big tech company for half a decade, and without fail, every year there was some kind of serious bug caused by DST.

Things either happened twice or never, it was always really painful. In any growth company, I would imagine that these things keep occurring, as people haven't hit the bugs themselves yet.
"If you fancy a journey, I recommend Fort Walton, Kansas."

"I was thinking of Maui"

"Forget Maui."
Same here. I hate my job but realize that it pays my bills. It also helped me when I understood this is a job and not a career, as well as understanding that the sunshine the schools etc sell you is just BS.
“ As a symbol of cowardice, the white feather supposedly[1] comes from cockfighting and the belief that a cockerel sporting a white feather in its tail is likely to be a poor fighter. Pure-breed gamecocks do not show white feathers and so its presence indicates that the cockerel is an inferior cross-breed.”
Right on. About time. My wife and I live in Arizona - no daylight saving time.
Interesting article. I operate a somewhat similar service at https://headlesstesting.com where we provide a grid of headless browsers. You can connect to these via Puppeteer (and Playwright) to do various things discussed in the article: scraping, taking screenshots, generating PDFs, ...
You also pronounce the "e". In most languages you pronounce the letter just because it's written.
In Italy a 1-pizza teams is absolutely a single person. We don't share pizzas :-)
Sure, people have been saying that for a while now and it hasn't materialized. What exactly is going to change that is going to make crypto able to be used like fiat currency? What exactly is in the works thats going to make that happen? Because it very obviously cannot be used to replace fiat currency currently. I mean, a lot of people are only holding cryptocurrencies because they think the value of the coin in US dollars is going to go up. "This currency will suffer from really bad deflation" is a pretty bad selling point for a new currency! So whats going to change?
I agree with you but it doesn’t shock me at all, Apple knows very well what kind of users they are targeting and do enough to excite them every year with new toys.
For a while they had taken the lead on many fronts but they seem to have lost that advantage due to their prevailing goal that isn’t likely to change anytime soon and for which they are doing better than anyone: money.

I am not enamored with the alternative either and would avoid google’s tentacles even with more vehemence so the only thing i’m hoping for is an opensource phone os that isn’t controlled by any corp. I’m looking at the PinePhone which is very promising for a linux phone but they still need to catch up with the competition. If we all supported these types of initiatives we’d have what we really want even sooner.
Exact. Everybody is being taxed to cover the loses of a private company with a lousy management.

People that claims to lose 600 sheep, year after year, (this guys have really bad, bad luck) are receiving 24.000 euros/year for the privilege of doing -nothing- to protect their assets. Why? Is the meat free?

Is: "pay me a ransom of 2 million euro each year... or I could start killing a protected species... or burning the forest, or burning your house, maybe your family also". Everybody giving money to a few people so they agree to respect the law is an interesting concept for sure. Is plain mobster blackmail. Each country that tried to appease criminals with money has deeply regretted it in the end.

We don't cover hotels by their loses when jellyfishes appear in a beach. Should we?
Note that decaffeinated coffee often still contains caffeine: “decaf coffee typically has 2-15 milligrams in an 8-ounce cup”, caffeinated is 80-100mg [1].

[1] https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/spilling-bean...
I haven’t had time to read it yet, but I have been hearing a lot of good things about the new book from google (full disclosure, I know the authors and they are great) https://books.google.com/books/about/Software_Engineering_at...
I also recommend following practicing software engineers on Twitter, to see what people in industry care about.
What a very weird take on my comments. We didn’t make Sean Connery identify as “bad” - he did that, and did so unremorsefully and unapologetically. He didn’t want to come back to the “good” side.

I find it most perplexing of all that you would want to do mental gymnastics to defend someone like that or minimize the highlighting of genuine harm that person did by trying to disingenuously act like it’s more nuanced than some moralistic sense of right or wrong.

Sometimes it really, really isn’t. Sometimes a person goes on TV sloganeering in favor of spousal abuse, inflaming who knows how many actual abusers out there to believe it’s ok & feel emboldened to keep doing it - real material harm. Sometimes that really, really is only bad, and by never retracting or apologizing, that person doesn’t leave reasonable people any choice but to see that this extreme harmful behavior outweighs pretty much everything else.
It really depends on where you live, where I am at in the Midwest United States, as soon as I'm off from work in the summer I want to spend every waking minute outside if possible
Statistical analysis from the South Carolina Department of Health.

https://scdhec.gov/news-releases/dhecs-third-data-analysis-m...

https://scdhec.gov/news-releases/update-mask-requirement-dat...
On the other hand I found Wolf Hall and its sequels rather underwhelming, and failed to evoke a sense of the past. It's characters seemed to think as if they were living in today's world, and it is lacking in description and establishment of a firmly historical premises.

For example it makes no effort to give a sense of the vocabulary or pattern of speech of its time.

So in which sense Wolf Hall is to be feated as great historical novel in a language which has a grand tradition of historical novels from the time of Walter Scott onwards is debatable.
> The answer is to allow flexibility of schedule

That works for a lot of us in tech with online computer jobs, but simply is not realistic yet for most of the world’s laborers.

> Daylight is not saved, or extended.

This is a framing, it depends on your point of view. Certainly I’ll agree the term “daylight savings” was conceived as a positive spin on the idea. On the other hand, if you take it as a given that work hours are 9-5, and that most people will wake ~2 hours before work to get ready, then updating the clocks relative to the work day does, in fact, give you more daylight evening time in the summer.
Programmable Filament Gives Even Simple 3D Printers Multi-Material Capabilities
Interesting take on git interactions. For my coworkers who simply don't click with CLI, I've found that recommending a tool plugin seems to work as a decent substitute. Vscode with the git lens plugin, this lets them have a UI for basic git operations, plus command prompt at bottom for getting out of trouble.
That is mostly an illusion. Over time, the day cycle aligns with the sun, not what the clock says. People in places which are on the west side of the corresponding timezone tend to do things later than those on the east side. And since introduction of the DST, a lot of countries shifted their typical timepoints towards "later" to compensate for it.
It's important to remember that the main thing Bitcoin needs to maintain is it's monetary policy and you can find it at any time right here https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/validatio...

Anyone can query at any time the total amount of Bitcoin that have been issued without relying on anyone. After downloading the Bitcoin client just run gettxoutsetinfo

You can try to guess how many dollars have been printed or how many bars of gold exist.

If you view Bitcoin as a payment network like VISA then obviously there are many things the network needs to improve but if you view it as a savings technology then it's the best one that's ever been created. I never understood how "But Can I buy Starbucks with Bitcoin" became a meme, I don't expect to be able to buy Starbucks with Apple stock.

Claims that Bitcoin burns useless energy or doesn't have feature X completely miss the point. Avoiding capital controls like in Lebanon, protecting yourself from hyperinflation due to corrupt governments with a printing press like Venezuela are Bitcoin's killer features.

It's common to view hyperinflation as something unique to corrupt countries but that's only because CPI is a dishonest way to aggregate inflation data. Inflation is a vector NOT a real number, any asset that people care about has become generally unaffordable i.e: housing, education, healthcare.

BS crypto vendors are looking for the next big application of blockchain technology when inflation protection and avoiding capital controls are arguably the most impactful innovation since the internet. Bitcoin and Time are the only 2 scarce assets that exist in this world.
Teslas are notoriously expensive to fix, partially because the automaker retains a tight hold on parts availability. So when a Tesla gets into a crash, insurance companies are quick to declare them a total loss because the cost of repairs approaches the value of the vehicle. At that point, Tesla stops supporting the vehicle, meaning all warranties are voided and Supercharging is disabled, even after the repaired vehicle passes a high-voltage inspection by Tesla’s own repair staff.

I take it most crashed vehicles written off in this way can't really be used for parts because Tesla is sabotaging the market for used vehicles and wants to boost sales of new/replacement parts at dealerships, correct?

Also, is the warranty of a Tesla voided if an independent repair shop makes repairs with such parts?
It's not the VM engine (JIT compiler, etc.) itself, of course. It's a data file that resides in the Java Runtime Environment directory, and some of the standard library code uses this file.

I assume it's done this way because it's the most foolproof way to get consistency across all platforms.

If Java did delegate, it might be hard (or even impossible?) to get the same behavior out of all the different underlying APIs on each platform. And it would be challenging to create the tests to validate that it really does behave consistently.

Also, although it creates extra maintenance work, it has the advantage that it decouples Java-level and OS-level updates. Suppose development machines run one OS (with its TZ data) but QA and production run a different OS. To harmonize environments as closely as possible, it's helpful that you can keep the TZ data versions on all JVMs in sync without relying on multiple OS vendors' patch processes to enable that.
Here's hoping we can finally end the madness of having (temporary) UTC+2:00 in places west of Greenwich.
Have you looked at the Pinephone? It’s not ready for primetime but it appears to become a nice option
As I understand, The FSD package (and I guess the performance package too) is linked to the car, not your account.

It doesn't follow you from car to car.

Then, what is the justification of Telsa's " you did not pay for it" given to second hand owners as seen in this article?

This is really disingenuous and in total contradiction with Musk's "your car is an appreciating asset".
It’s not a requirement to offer health insurance in the US. If you make someone an offer and it doesn’t Include health insurance, and they accept, and the individual mandate isn’t enforced anymore, then theres no additional burden on the company.

I’ve been offered jobs without health insurance and didn’t accept them. I’ve contracted for those companies as I’m my own company and have had a group health plan for myself and others/partners. Figure the premium can be $1000-1200/per.

Getting it is easy. You call a broker (usually for group plans you need to go through a broker), fill out a couple of forms, produce a few paystubs, apply, and enroll.
If numbers had any meaning it would be even harder to justify a system where 1 hour after 2am is 2am
You can have it be closer to 12 than to 1 with only 24 timezones though.
Almost everyone walks (and even those who don’t can still use sidewalks, with wheelchairs). “Pedestrian” isn’t some separate class of people.

Also, pedestrians don’t have negative externalities, and don’t take up nearly as much space.

If car-only roads only took up as much room in cities as sidewalks do, I wouldn’t mind them!
Ask HN: Microsoft blocked my outlook.com account for using a VPN. Any ideas?
As the title suggests, my outlook.com account has been suspended due to violations. However, I can't find any reference in their terms and conditions to my specific violation.

The reason is that I use NordVPN to connect to the internet.

Any ideas? I can't do anything without that account as changing my email on many services requires access to my old email.

Over the years I have read many stories on here of this happening to people, mainly on Google services, and it pretty much stops them dead in their tracks... well, now it's happened to me.

I've been thinking about it over the last several days and, legitimately, the only possible recourse is to run your own email server. Now this has it's own issues but it means I have (almost) total control over my data.

Anyway, as the title suggests, any ideas? I just need to get it reinstated so I can move all my email away from it now.
Turkey isn't a country in Europe is what I'm trying to say. ~3% of Turkey is in Europe, the rest of it is in Asia (which gives Turkey its geopolitical importance), and it's political orientation has historically always been in Asia (which makes sense, given that the Turks didn't originate in Turkey, but conquered the area in the middle ages; they stem from central Asia).

"Russia is a country in Europe" is similarly weird, even though ~25% of the land (including their two major cities, and ~75% of the population iirc) is in Europe and historically, Russia was much more involved in Europe than Turkey.
I wish they had a lecture about Ceph.
This article reads like the legislative opinion of ‘encryption’—- strong enough to ensure commerce, but easily back footed by law enforcement.

Legislators don’t do well with incompatible beliefs .
Autocad is not really a good example of a 'pro' tool in the sense that it would necessarily signal quality. Sure it's old and its DWG format is the market leading proprietary black box blob format. It does not have any features though that would make the design for he house to be of better quality than with any other drafting tool.

Revit is probably closer to what you meant, but I have no idea how the quality of the drawing tool would affect the quality of the architects output.

Construction design tools are all more or less old and crufty. For the love of god, someone please disrupt the industry.

The domain is shallow but complex. Open source is probably not the answer - but open tools most certainly won't hurt.
‘The Dream of the 90's is alive in Portland’

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TZt-pOc3moc
Longitude, but yes.
Society constantly shifts the schedules, so the adaption would be done in a few years.
The wire format and the initial implementation are definitely flawed, but if you fix them you end up in the same situation again where you break everything every release and you go through all this politics trying to get everyone to use yet another new protocol and implementation. I see various complaints about that and it always comes back to the same thing. We have alternative implementations of the protocol but nobody uses them because of this. Consequently this is the same reason that it took so long to fix issues in X.

I see what you mean with that document, but if you have been watching then none of that stuff is new or unique to Wayland. What you may have missed is that this document is a reaction to the politics that already were around in the X days. (I was alluding to this earlier when I was talking about WM atoms, the popular desktops already have their own sets of policies there that are necessary and incompatible and in some ways do limit the expressive power of clients)

Not working with networked clients is a minor detail. It's trivial to have a user upload a compositor script to a different machine. If it becomes annoying to do it manually then a client that needs more features simply needs an automated way to do this. Still no need to touch the Wayland portions there either. I actually do appreciate the efforts to fix these issues with the whole shmif setup and I sympathize, but it's the same uphill political battle if you want to push that out to the rest of the ecosystem.
I guess it'd be a disproof if my original claim was about the number of times "Republican" and "Democrat" were mentioned in the article. I'll give you that! I will definitely root for your side in any dispute that involves the number of words in an article. You may well be the world's expert there!
I was about to say nobody mentioned Zardoz. One of the weirdest movies I've ever seen, and I say that as a compliment.
How do you know you are not sick? COVID could stay in your body for first few weeks & you wouldn’t know it. - Asymptomatic
Show HN: FeatureNinjas – Feature flags for your development workflow
As a solo developer or a small team, we don't want to use fancy branching strategies or highly complex CI and staging environments. Still, we want to be able to deliver new features to my users with confidence. That is what I was thinking a lot of times back in the days when I developed apps for mobile phones.

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> Just for laughs, Java seems to have its own TZDB so in general your OS and application layer might disagree about zones.

Java also ships their own SSL trust store instead of using the system one. Why, just why?! Every system capable of running Java also has its own trust store...
Sorry but “Seen in his natural habitat” like this is animal planet or something!!
DROPS MIC
This thread is quite embarrassing. The science is clear (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8,)yet HN still argues against it. But, unlike others, I don't think this very surprising.

Many (not all) HN readers, being software engineers, have a high level of pretentiousness that comes from being good in one field, and then carry over that arrogance into areas where they have no clue.

Suddenly, you see software engineers pretending they know more than sociologists who have studied the topic for years and dismissing their evidence out of hand or merely responding to the title of the article, without engaging its substance.

We see it quite clearly whenever any topic from the social sciences is discussed, be it discrimination, social inequality, government regulation, taxes or the welfare state.
Sure, but does the science here matter? Is wearing a mask, which might reduce the spread, and might save lives, really that much of a burden, that you won't do it even though it might be a good idea?

I say, do it anyways, I'll wait patiently for the science at literally any point in the future. If it turns out masks, statistically, do nothing, then I will be no worse off for trying.
Since you sound skeptical, here is some real hard numbers from my home state.

Statistical analysis from the South Carolina Department of Health.

https://scdhec.gov/news-releases/dhecs-third-data-analysis-m...

https://scdhec.gov/news-releases/update-mask-requirement-dat...
So why won’t cities build special-purpose infrastructure for me to drive a tank everywhere? It’s bigger, so surely I need bigger roads for it.
> However the reality is that immigrants are disproportionately more subjects of police brutality and arbitrary harassment, and there is plenty of evidence.

Obviously not in Rotherham, where the opposite is well documented over decades. You're trying to rewrite history, it seems.
I also fail to see how saturation leads to a decrease in filtration. I could imagine other scenarios in which efficacy of the mask would be reduced when saturated, but not because it stops filtering.
I strongly believe this has heavily affected my education.

For half of secondary and whole high school I had to wake up at 6 to bus around 80 minutes to school (usually starting at 8:30). I barely kept awake during these early hours, I was also severely sleep-deprived and low on energy all that time. My grades were also sub-par. I had no motivation to pick up anything after school; even gave up on programming (which I started around 8 y.o.)

Then I went to university and moved closer to the city centre. The lectures usually started at 9 or later. The quality of my sleep and live in general increased enormously. I was staying up later then before, yet I had more energy. Even managed to pick up new hobbies and come back to my tinkering with programming which lead to the start of my current career.
What type of test method is being used?
Getting started with Eleventy in 11 minutes
> They seem to have identified positive subjects through a questionnaire not via clinical chemistry diagnostics

So subjects were aware of their (presumed) covid status when they coughed?