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> Back in 2012, policy makers drove their main rate below zero to defend the krone’s peg to the euro. Since then, Danish homeowners have enjoyed continuous slides in borrowing costs.

This is like a Canadian getting a 3.0% loan in USD to buy a house, then having the Canadian government fix the Canadian dollar such that it appreciate 3.0% pa against the USD. It's effectively a 0% loan, but due to obscure technicalities.

It seems, the lender still earns interest, it's just that the interest is covered by the variance in exchange rates between currencies. So your DKK1000 mortgage payment is worth €1030 after the first year, €1091 the next, etc.
> Our bodies don't really time to the sun anymore since the invention of artificial light and blackout shades

Is there any research that shows this? I’m not aware of any. In fact there are social reasons people might stay up late. It is a mistake to ignore that.

They had this discussion in Iceland recently (which is on permanent DST; and with heavy population centers way north of Alaskan population centers) and health officials were pretty keen on moving to standard time precisely because teenagers have a hard time waking up so often before sunrise. Yes a big part of the year will always be before sunrise, however on standard that part is shorter.
I agree with everything you said here pretty much. The way I would address the problem is to perhaps outright get rid of patents, limit copyright to 5 years, eliminate any ability to copyright software, and allow for trademarks as that is just the identifier for a specific brand.
Yes, this seems to be the most spiteful possible interpretation (especially before the new rules).

It seems easier and more sensible just to enforce the rules at renewal.
I think that might be a misread of "allocated" - for instance, I'm currently allocated to my employer. That doesn't mean I can't be terminated.
Google’s iOS apps haven’t been updated in weeks, as of December 8
It does increase car crashes for teenagers. It seems like schools should move their start times to be a 1-2 hours later, while DST should be made year-round. How adults would then help their kids get ready for school before work though, I don't know.
The text of the bill hasn't been submitted yet, so we don't know what 'other purposes' is.

So in typical 'hacker' 'news' fashion, this has been upvoted based purely on title alone!
> This is the wrong direction, we should be on standard time year round

FFS, this is why we have to change clocks twice a year. It’s like the left or right side of the road debate. Which side you drive on doesn’t matter. Agreement is what matters.

We don’t have agreement on time because everyone has their pet argument for why this or that time standard has some marginal benefit for a given slice of the population. Meanwhile, we can all agree on that those marginal benefits pale in comparison to the measured harms of changing clocks twice a year.

We have a bill. It’s taken work. The choice isn’t daylight time or standard time. It’s this bill gets through the House (and is likely ignored by the Senate) or we punt the issue for a generation. Arguing we picked the wrong side of the coin is a point for the latter.

(If you prefer kids walking to school in the light, just change the school hours.)
The EU (and the UN) has had on-and-off sanctions against Iran for decades as well.

Are any EU countries still dependant on Iranian oil supplies?
Treat New Engineers to a Day-One Production Deploy
> That's down south. Way down south.

Um, no? For example, in Alaska during the summer (in the northern hemisphere) there's a period of the year where they have sunlight 24 hours a day. In winter, they have 24 hours of darkness.

So no, it's not a "south" thing (until you get to, for example, Antarctica). The closer to the equator, the less extreme the changes are.

EDIT: I see your addition in specifying the sunset time right now, whereas the rest of the thread seems to be aimed at the extremes, which will be closer to the summer and winter solstices. We just passed the winter solstice, so of course the sun will be going down quite early (in the northern hemisphere).
No officially but for practical reasons they follow what the US does in regards to time. There was no widespread support for expanding the range of daylight saving time during the early 2000s but when George W. Bush changed the start and end dates of DSL to make it look like he was doing something about energy prices, Canada followed along. Given the size and depths of the ties between the two countries, it's impractical for Canada to not be in sync with the US on matters of time.
1) The FDA does not run clinical trials.

2) Trials must be large to see results because Covid is rare. The Moderna trial took 30,000 patients 3 months to get to 90 covid cases.

3) This could be a an interesting opportunity for challenge trials, but unfortunately, the key metric for vaccines is reduction in severe cases. Subjecting people likely to have a severe case is unethical when there chance of normally catching it is very low.
Interesting. I cannot find it now, either.

It was audio only and just had a static slide of the US penny-resembling Nobel logo on a white background for the "video".
One million thanks for this comment. This is the most concise and clear explanation of why the critical line is important that I have ever read.
Can Danes just walk away from their loans simply returning the home? I believe that's true in the US, but I don't think that's universal.
WA/OR/CA are set to go DST permanently as soon as the federal government allows them to. Wonder where all the states’ rights small government politicians are.
Opportunity cost of the higher monthly payment surely factors in?
Slices should be the absolute bare minimum for a modern systems language, it's not really a reason to switch in my case

If I want to write flat/simple code I'll just C, Go doesn't really offer anything to me because I want to be relatively low-level and able to make the compiler save my time.
How is it different from say for example https://mzrst.com/ or http://www.pe-explorer.com/.

Is it being open-source the USP?
More daylight is better for business and workers. It makes time after work more enjoyable.

Winter is depressing because it's dark during our leisure hours. This bill gives us an extra hour to enjoy.

This is the correct decision.
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call!
For the times, they are a changin'!
Parent of small children, you can certainly try that. It turns out though that small children don't care when you put them to bed they aren't going to sleep until they are tired, and they'll spend the extra time coming out of their room, screaming, fighting, or kicking their door.
The last time I looked into this, the mined gold supply seemed to be increasing at a fairly steady 2% per year, over the last N decades I was able to find good data for.
Why So Many VCs Are Moving to Austin and Miami
Starship SN8 wreckage cleared to make way for SN9 static fire and test flight
When someone observes that a government agency which seems to be doing something nonsensical is actually just following the law perfectly, it always brings to mind H. L. Mencken: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
Digital Manorialism vs. Neofeudalism
My favourite incompatibility/bug with ACF+Gutenberg was when the act of previewing caused changes to go live on a site. Preview!
I tore my hair out trying to solve - I didn't think there was any way that the preview wouldn't be completely insulated.

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-5-9-1-release/
Thats wow now it's time to beat PUBG
One hour either way won't make a difference. If you need a SAD light, you'll need it with either time zone. Keep in mind that even with our existing time zones, people can live near one edge or the other, where there is already almost an hour difference between when the sun comes up locally.
It reads to me like a letter by someone who invests in target date retirement funds and index etfs by dollar cost averaging on an automated schedule, and avoids investing in tulip bulbs, because the available data shows that this is the most prudent approach.
> Fixing these issues, whether by government, tech industry, or otherwise, will involve some level of "authoritarianism".

This seems to be what most people expect, that someone else will solve the problem, that someone else will have to step in & take responsibility for all the irresponsible people.

I disagree with this. I think it's up to us. Right now we rely on platforms to communicate & respond, to marshal direct responses. Which is unfortunate. These groups all have their own safe-spaces, have their own moderated environments. They have coordination & dissemination & protected spaces, as they exploit the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle/Brandolini's Law, as they poison & make other spaces unsafe.

What's missing, to me, is some good cross-platform ways to register dissent & disagreement. The aegis, to me, is not other people. It is us. A -1 vote, that we can deploy easily, that we can reinforce each other on, anywhere. Let disagreement be known. Those who want to go further ought bring Issue Based Information Systems (IBIS)[1][2] up & online to talk about the things they have seen online, to link the world of mis-information into their own structured, defined refutations, and let others amplify & support those refutations. Link more, structure more. Do it on our own turf, consolidate our responses, and most of all, support each other, follow each other's feeds, plus one the links, plus one the arguments.

More sunlight, use this great internet, use speech, to cleans away so many of the darker shadier rots. Society, building some aegis, some protection, to shield itself, to let good voices amplify & support each other.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue-based_information_system

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfIZY0s1JG0
> If school starts later then that means work for adults has to start later too.

Why? Teenagers can get themselves to school can't they?
Lovely, fresh outside air is still a cocktail of weird chemicals and residues of biological passion. Even in the dead of winter when the forest's sexuality is suppressed, there's all manner of fungi and moss going about the business of sharing their genes and wastes with the world.

Look into what we have for sensors here; it's all expensive and tetchy and limited. The nose is a deeply underappreciated sensory organ.
SARS has leaked from Chinese labs multiple times. And the only lab in the world specializing in coronaviruses was ~1000 ft away from the first cases. The leaked US diplomatic cables urge the US to help China with this very lab because biosecurity there was so concerning to visiting scientists. It's also the only BSL4 lab in China. In addition the head of that lab has published numerous papers about generic engineering of coronaviruses. That lab also discovered the closest ancestor of COVID.

COVID is also interestingly contagious among minks and ferrets, common lab animals used for serial passage. It's also undergone remarkably little generic drift since the pandemic began. Since the moment it was released it was already human adapted. Extremely suspicious for a brand new virus.

For SARS, MERS, etc we were able to find a 99.9% identical virus in nature. The closest one we have to COVID is 96%, quite distant genetically.

The last time we couldn't find the virus in nature was the 1976 flu pandemic. 20 years later scientists began admitting that it was triggered by a lab leak. When genetic engineering became advanced enough it was obvious that the strain was identical to a pandemic flu strain from the 50's.

In reality, the scientist new from the beginning that the 1976 pandemic was a lab leak but the information was thoroughly suppressed so that the soviet union would cooperate with monitoring. This is exactly what happened with China early in the pandemic. Nobody wanted to criticize people being welded into their homes because China was providing data on the virus. I am completely convinced that this is why the lab leak hypothesis for COVID is being "debunked"

To me there is overwhelming evidence that COVID is a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. IMO the only reason everybody is denying it is the severe political repercussions for China essentially killing more people than WWII. US researchers are co-authors on many of the institutes papers on coronavirus genetic manipulation. The US was funding some of their research, presumably because gain of function research is banned in the states.
Thanks for posting this! It’s great when our users are excited about our product :-)

If anyone is interested, we are hiring engineers and PMs! In particular, we’re looking for senior backend engineers and full stack engineers.

https://www.descript.com/careers

I’m the tech lead for the backend/server team, happy to answer any questions as best as I can
Large companies often embrace young companies. They buy them to eliminate competition.
Yeah, as far as letters go, it's a 3 character difference. You know: "opt-in/out". So it seems easy.

However switching that little switch would mean killing businesses worth tens of billions of dollars. We're talking about millions of people losing their jobs and their privileged positions.

I'm not saying this because I agree with them, I'm just pointing out that threatening their livelihood will cause a vicious reaction. People have been killed for less. Wars have been started for less.
They charge fees to issue mortgages. The 0% rate is not actually 0%. It's probably more like 0.25-1% and the bank is making up the difference through the fees.
What is a 401K?

Proposal: Articles that are hard to read for non-US citizens should be marked [US&A]

-- Borat
Per-capita Norway is the 5th largest oil producer in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_produ...
I think that seeing what I am doing is more invasive than seeing what I have done. However it is a strange point to think over.
We're talking about whether or not price is a signal of desirability. You suggested a good point about the Leaf is the ability to buy a used one for $7k. I believe the way pricing works suggests that the Leaf has low desirability, because you can get one for so cheap. What you're implying appears to violate the law of demand, and I'm hoping you can explain what I'm missing.
> Probably it would be more profitable to create custom widgets and designs for companies or exporting the layouts as standalone, mini-apps - something like an UI/app editor (what you see is what you get) - that are also printable :)

So under this model, you'd be banking on printers to pay for the software? I could be wrong but I think that would be a mistake. I've worked with a lot of printers and I've never met one that felt like they needed innovation. Printing is an industry that begrudgingly accepts innovation when it's forced upon them.

On the consumer end of things, I suspect you'll struggle to get people to pay much for the use of the software itself. Many people might simply take inspiration from your work, then do it themselves if they're going to print it themselves anyway. But they would likely pay a premium for on-demand printing.

All that being said, I could be projecting. The aspect of this product that I would personally pay for is the ability to have my custom designed notebook printed and shipped to me. That's very valuable to me as a notebook lover. If I print it myself, the quality will suck. If I design it myself, it'll suck.

But if I can use your app to drag and drop beautifully-designed components and then have it magically appear at my door? Take my money, please.

That's my 2 cents, anyway. Good luck! I hope you find wild success with this no matter what direction you take, because the idea is that good IMHO.
71% of kids would save 100 dogs rather than 1 human, 61% adults the opposite
Which scihub provides. Journals are their own silos and require multiple exorbitant subscriptions.
Huh, to be honest I feel like I've only ever seen halftoning when printing onto paper -- I've never associated dithering with printing at all.

And the "linear dithering" you're describing, when I think of images in certain banknotes and passports or quality seals that I'd call "engraved", I've always assumed were hand-drawn by an artist.

But I like what you're describing and linking to, as a way to achieve that hand-drawn effect algorithmically, to include a directional texture element! Thanks for sharing.
The Danish mortgage market is really strange. In practice the people buying property issues bonds in the private bond market (although in most cases it does go through an issuing bank).

So if an investor has no other opportunity than 0% for their cash it's a "good place". Many banks in Europe has negative rates on deposits so it might be the better alternative for some.

But there are no banking in a traditional way involved here where they have a product and lend to 0%.
Just because you have access to the camera doesn’t mean you have access to all those other things. The exploiter could still be sandboxed within a browser tab or specific application container.

And just because people are paranoid about the camera doesn’t mean they aren’t also paranoid about those other things.
COVID Alert 1.1.6 [1] adds support for older iPhones running iOS 12.5 [2]. There have been 5.9 million downloads (as of Jan 3).

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/cor...

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209084#125
Good thing I'm both. Now where's that list...
I really feel space tech is gonna be the next big thing going forward, but I have zero clue about how to get involved. It seems like one of those things where you really need to either be some government agency or have a PhD in it or something.
I bet the people making $7.25 an hour would consider the $500k/year FAANG crowd pretty elite. Also if you own enough tech stock then you are also kind of writing the paychecks.
You think you do, but I’m not sure you do, and I know you wouldn’t if you were a teenager forced to wake up before sunrise a big part of the year.

Source: I was a teenager in a place that observed permanent DST in a heavy north latitude.
The repo readme states: `Used in production at comma.ai.` - I have no more context than that but it seems to not be totally a weekend coding exercise though he later appears to acknowledge code quality while mentioning recovery in case of a failure.
also, those owners could still be second passport holders and therefore EU citizens (regardless of their residence). So it's somewhat premature to simply assume that because they currently reside in the UK they're not eligible anymore, or am I missing something here?
I can't remember where, but I read an article talking about how there were examples of lockdowns and no lockdowns both controlling COVID well, and that perhaps not every pandemic and every event in time will have a lesson for us to learn. Sometimes there isn't a "right" answer when we have a problem we face. Life isn't like that, we look at life with a lens like that.

Maybe our strategies were wrong. Maybe they were right but the virus was stronger than our strategies. Maybe all the feasible strategies wouldn't have made much of a difference.

We won't ever know. There are many things we can never know. We've become addicted to knowing, with the Internet and all, and similarly we've forgotten that some things (yes, still some few things) are not in our hands.
I've worked on a number of companies in various capacity in the past so this time around was much more natural. It's both an art and a science, but the most TLDR way I can put it is the following:

- Thorough understanding of the problem space and niche
- Founder-led sales to vet customer segments and gain insights into pain points. Figure out what they'd pay for and sell them the thing.
- Have the ability to take the feedback and iterate on the product rapidly.

Rinse and repeat :)
I agree. We sent out three quotes to clients who were daily engaged with and using their site who kept themselves informed on Gutenberg/WordPress news, etc. They were very excited at the prospect of a native editor...until they saw that migrating the site for Gutenberg would end up being double what they paid for the initial site (done by someone else).
Solar noon is already far removed from 12-o-clock; up to 30 minutes in either direction for an average-sized timezone and even further for wide timezones like EST (solar noon is 12:50 in Boston in the summer). What matters much more than solar noon is sunrise and sunset; let's focus discussion on that.
Yes and I'm actively organizing one for my workplace
That's Matt Mullenweg. From his bio on here:

> Co-founder of WordPress; founder of Automattic
School / work / other obligations start at a time that would prevent people from sleeping an extra hour.
Not having generics, by definition, invites a lot of repetition and boiler plate. I know generics are overrated and coming soon, but right off the bat that stuck out.

I recall a point where I had written a function that needed to return a channel, but of course had to forgo types due to the lack of generics.

The end result was having to wrap that channel in another channel that added typing at each call site.

I asked around in go circles if that made sense, and called out how bad the felt but the answer was "no that's great! channels are cheap! the repetition is good because it's simple!"

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The error handling has some sore points to that end too, and the implicit shadowing with shorthand assignments on one hand makes it easier to deal with multiple errors, but on the other hand introduced subtle logic bugs on one than more occasion where "err" was silently shadowed, which I greatly disliked.

I'm actually suprised Go didn't forgo shadowing for the shorthand operator and force people to label their errors when dealing with multiple, it seems very "in brand", but I guess even Go draws the line somewhere lol

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Then there's the whole stack trace situation. Which after plenty of reading still just wasn't making sense. I mean the idea of logging a stack of wrapped messages sounds very nice, but man proper stack traces not being the first class citizen of error handling just did not make sense to me in a language I hear referenced for systems work so much (and I realize they can be had)

I saw proposals to rework Go's error handling, I don't know if any progress has been made to that end, but it's another example where simplicity can get in the way of itself

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And I'll balance this all out by saying it was still fun to write, I don't want to seem like I'm just shitting on Go for existing.

It's just these little warts that I kept getting over with just a little bit of "idiomatic Go" which I often found was just writing a little bit more code than you're used to, started to add up.

And eventually I realized I was creating something that, while very easy to reason about, had a lot more to reason about than it needed to. That's where I kind of petered out in my personal usage.
It is not about who has "balls." You seem to think this is just a balancing of risks. It is not. It is a balancing of "what do we actually have data to support" versus "what do we hope to be the case but have no actual evidence to suggest it is so."
From the company perspective, it's an arbitrary disruption. It could happen to any company.

While it's certainly very convenient and economically reasonable to use cloud services for development and production, every company should have a plan B.

In this case, it's an absolute must to have daily backups of all repositories / all branches which are stored on premise. If your company is not doing that, you play the lottery of losing access to your own source code.
So instead of a coin toss it's a 12 sided dice where 4 sides are white wins, 3 sides are black wins, and 5 sides are draw.

Changing the weights of your random number generator doesn't lead to a better understanding of how chess works.