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Designing Data Intensive Applications (DDIA) is the best book I’ve come across when it comes to serious system design.
Edit: I was wrong! My apologies!
With standard time, if children are participating in outdoor social activities (band, crew, etc.), those have to be moved to the morning, forcing them to wake up even earlier. Daylight saving allows them to do those after school.
Hi, I’m Dave.

I’m a product manager that is sick of operations & other PMs asking me to write simple SQL queries or create tableau dashboards.

I’m creating a tool that translates human text into simple sql queries to enable data analysis for everyone without needing to learn SQL.

“How many [column name] did we have on [Date]”

This isn’t easy, but if done successfully will be extremely valuable.
> Remember: what our bodies consider "early" is dependent on when the sun rises, and not the numbers we put on our clocks.

I'm sure there's a contribution, but obviously the effect is small given that the length of the day varies by ~6 hours throughout the year, for pretty much all the US? And we all sit inside all day in artificial lighting anyway?

Kids don't give a shit about walking to school in the dark. I know, as someone who was recently a kid and resented winter "daylight wasting time", I would much rather have had more hours of daylight in the afternoon when I was finished with school and could actually do fun stuff outside, rather than useless daylight in the morning while I'm sitting on the bus or in a classroom at 7:30 AM. And as an adult I feel the same about work.
Is anyone pretending that electric cars don't pollute? It seems like the pollution of EVs has been widely discussed in all kinds of media. Even extremely pro EV site like Electrek or CleanTechnica writes about it all the time.

The pitch has always been that they pollute less globally (and that how much depends on the electric energy mix, but will generally decrease over time) and way less locally. EVs is also the only solution to have a viable path to net zero lifetime CO2 impact. It'll take a zero-emission grid and zero-emission mining, but we need those anyway, and EV tech will help make mining zero-emission.
> I actually think what we have now isn't as bad as people make it out to be.

Out of curiosity, do you have children? I didn't think it was so bad until we started having kids in the family. They do not adjust well to time zone changes.
yes yes GDS is legendary in web design/accessibility and influenced the US's 18f
Your argument is that it doesn't matter. So in that case why not pick the one that actually makes sense according to the motion of the solar system? If I have to make a choice between two equally logical solutions, I always pick the most beautiful or most symmetrical. Why not?
Picking Halloween is an interesting launch date. That said it’s hard to believe any timeline or budget at this point.
The tax deduction on mortgage interest is one of the most regressive pieces of tax policy.

Those with more expensive housing benefit more from the credit. Non-homeowners do not benefit at all, and renters tend to be poorer than homeowners.
Sheeesh. Bad news for entrepreneurship. As due to mortgage lending rules, it’s very difficult to get a loan as a business owner rather than an employee with steady, bankable, salary
That (sadly) sounds exactly like the sort of thing that could actually fly in America with regards to UBI.
I used caffeinated workout supplement powder to gently titrate down when I quit: https://enki.org/2017/08/13/quitting-caffeine/
I feel this is a feature added by request from someone that misses the point of (manual) shutters, likely from the same group of people who would request allowing to disable the camera's LED indicator. (And Dell engineers cannot deny the request because the management say so.)
The Right to Forget Those That Request to Be Forgotten (Because: Apple IAP)
Those of us that develop services with recurring billing on IOS are between a GDPR rock and an Apple IAP hard place.

The EU mandates that, should a user request to be forgotten, companies must delete all references to those users.

Apple mandates that, should you want to have recurring billing for a service accessed by an IOS app, you have to use Apple IAP.

Here is the problem: Apple IAP provides no way to cancel a user's subscription.

Intractable problems now arise, Eg:

1. Alice requests to be deleted from Acme's computers
2. Acme anonymizes and/or deletes all references to Alice
3. Alice forgot to cancel her Apple IAP subscription. It happens to the best of us.
4. Alice gets charged.

Sorry Alice.

Check mate, Acme.

Here is what follows:

1. Apple webhooks come into Acme’s servers for Alice' sub, now causing warnings or errors, costing developer time.
2. Alice raises hell, publicly trash talks Acme, and demands money back from Acme.
3. Disproportionate amount of time spent by customer support personnel, and possibly devs, to help with Alice' situation.

The point of all this: GDPR is incomplete and must be amended. Companies must have the right to forget about users that have requested to be forgotten.

This can only mean one thing with regard to mandated IAP services, from Apple, Google, or anyone else: they must allow for companies to cancel auto-renew subscriptions by the same mode or API that those subscriptions were created.

That Apple does not permit companies to cancel subscriptions is egregious for many other reasons too. Eg. how to handle users that violate TOS, eg. by posting inappropriate material to your site? Have fun losing that user, Acme — you’re still taking their money!

But the GDPR <-> IAP conflict is not ludicrous in the standard Apple IAP manner, it is utterly intractable.

The developer community should band together to voice this dilemma to lawmakers. GDPR must be amended.
Brexit feels like the Comedy Roast of William Shatner.

It's supposed to be somewhat light-hearted, but Takei clearly had beef and he did not care if this was being recorded. Wait you guys didn't all like me the whole time?

No, fucker, we did not.
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Best ones are magnesium citrate and magnesium chelate. Supplement about 3x suggested dose for a week, then maintain 1x dose. Best time is during or after meals. Taking lots of magnesium without any food will work as a laxative.
The one event that finally got me off coffee (10+ years drinking, 5+ years trying to quit) was funnily a wisdom tooth extraction.

I was on pain relievers for 1 week. Never drank coffee after. So long coffee migraines :D

I always got migraine + sinusitis when I don't drink my coffee at the same period of the day everyday and at the same strength.

Tried the approach of getting lower and lower caffeine strength => daily migraines.
And the well adapted to humans furin site is just plain luck? Its not like this has not happen before, SARS like virus's have crossed species within modern history that we have detected, and they all flame out eventually. I'm no virologist, but I believe its typically because of selection pressure and the mutations needed to start to adapt to humans don't come easily once a jump occurs, it usually takes a few jumps to get it right. This one came out already well adapted to humans and has a furin site not seen in other bat corona viruses, plus 4 additional amino acid chains that give it even more ability to infect cells. This is why Elon Musk got egg on his face for making the prediction that it would be over within a few months, that was based on past outbreaks.

Bret is very clear that yes, this can happen naturally, but the chances are very slim that such a alignment of events occurred in proximity to a lab that was performing gain of function research which does this very thing of combining aspects of multiple viruses and rapidly adapting them in either other animal hosts or petri dishes of cells, including human cells.
For those who don’t know, Matt Levine’s newsletter also goes out by email and doesn’t require a Bloomberg subscription: https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff
Wordpress recently dropped jQuery Migrator from their builds and it broke a lot of websites. It's a tricky path they have. They even made a plugin that is supposed to remedy that but I have found it often doesn't address the problem of jQuery just breaking.
>Are you comparing a large car, Subaru Outback, to a small car, Model 3?

They are almost identical dimensions

Model 3: 185" L x 73" W

Outback: 191″ L x 73″ W
Ouch. I do have certain level of disdain for bureaucractic power and this appears to be a good reminder as to why. Then again, the sentiment in EU may be to punish Brexit by any means necessary.
Congress is finally doing something amazing!

Summertime daylight hours are so much more enjoyable than the winter doldrums.

Nobody cares where the sun is in the sky at noon. That was always location dependent anyway.

This pushes us out of the farming era and into one where we care about workers' and businesses' qualify of life.

Amazing job, Congress!

Pass it!
Interesting product. In a previous organization I needed to have a quick solution for building Slackbots, but our network security team wouldn't allow us to use ngrok because of the tunneling aspect. I wonder if they would have signed off on this.
The problem isnt Brexit, it's how the EU handles it. There's literally no reason to suspend those domains, just block them from extending it and creating new ones. Everyone happy. but.. nope... Let's just force shutdown these websites, just so we can tell other countries, see, this is what happens when u leave the EU. The EU is so pathetic.
It's a way for politicians to look like they're doing something while shifting the burden of dealing with the consequences of the time shift off onto everyone else.
Except they rarely punish individuals, and as long as they are large enough or with plenty of government contracts companies rarely get a punishment that's more than "the cost of doing business".

Look at the GM ignition switch scandal where executives knew explicitly the likely consequences of their decision and yet no real punishment was enacted even after repeatedly lying about the death toll (initially by at least one order of magnitude) that eventually officially reached 124 deaths and likely much higher in reality.

Look at Boeing's 737MAX scandal where executives also knew the likely consequences and worked to go around rules, regulations, certification in order to pretend those consequences won't happen. Both Boeing and authorities either buried or turned a blind eye to reports that this happens. No real punishment here either.

Autonomous cars or not, as long as corporations pay for your laws you will always be on the lower rungs of the ladder.
At least for small to medium organizations without specific reasons for self-hosting. Once you have a team that manages internal infrastructure, this calculus can change.

The Linux kernel is a very specific case with a very specific development model that likely doesn’t apply to most other projects.
I don't understand. What is the point of quitting caffeine? Isn't it a great nootropic?

Everything I've read is that coffee is good for you and has a ton of benefits.
Solar noon is already pretty far from clock noon for most people around the world. Time zones all but guarantee that. http://blog.poormansmath.net/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-t...
That literally describes the situation now with human drivers. The only difference is that human drivers get more sympathy because most voters are also drivers.
I wonder if Japan is similar. Haven't they had deflation for close to a decade?
> Guess UK citizen can just use some random EU address? Luckily I only have settled status ;)

Many registrars offer proxy registration service.
I think your argument makes sense but the example you gave is far too extreme. Also, isn't splitting things into small services instead of large beasts full of hidden behavior the basis of the argument in favor of microservices?
Drivers often do not face any consequences for killing people as it is. Unless the driver was intoxicated, it is generally written off as an accident.

If only the people who get outraged about self-driving cars were as outraged by this fact and applied pressure to improve street design and speed limit enforcement.
Surely someone performed the hacking. Would this person(s) not be criminally liable?
> 2. Since house prices are now super high, only people who have saved up a big down payment can actually buy a house.

Isn't this what is happening right now in the US, that the down-payment is one of the barriers, since less than 10% (forget 20%) down has huge penalties long-term?
Shanghai starts investigation on Pinduoduo due to sudden death of an employee
"Shanghai labor security department started an investigation on Pinduoduo’s employment conditions on Monday, according to the Beijing Youth Daily. Pinduoduo confirmed to the Global Times that a 23-year-old staffer suddenly fainted and died on 29 Dec early morning."
We live in the age of COVID. All of society had to change it's daily patterns in a matter of days. Considering this, doing another societal wide tweak to rid ourselves from biannually screwing with our sleep patterns does seem trivial.
It would have been a great feature if this were an integrated manual shutter.
I used to work with a bunch of people on their eng team. Great people, great product. Glad to see them succeed! Congrats!
Oh cool, I didn't know that what possible. What app is that?
Ask HN: How to still 'have a voice' if powerful entities ban my social existence
If not for Whitehat Jr - Pradeep Poonia case (read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/kqyvj5/tomorrow_morning_is_the_hearing_of_my_case_karan/), this question would've been a hypothetical one.

For powerful entities, it is very easy to suppress a common person's attempt to expose the wrongdoings of the former. They can easily have one's social media account suspended, etc.

In such a scenario, how can one create/maintain channels of mass communication that cannot be disrupted by such companies (and even government?). Obviously, reliance on social media companies won't cut it.

The question is from technical perspective, but other thoughts would help too!

EDIT: Grammar
At the end of the day isn't this just a regressive tax in favor of land owners? How many compounding cycles would it take before no one cares about a wipe out in land valuation as it's primarily owned by the extremely wealthy.
“We don’t care, we’re the phone company!” ((Elbows buttons)) ...funny Lily Tomlin skit.
How did you answer?

It isn’t a technical problem...
Even in the US, only 12 states are “non recourse”.

https://www.financialsamurai.com/non-recourse-states-walk-aw...
Someone being able to remotely turn on my camera anytime during the day or night to spy on and record my family is much more concerning to me than them getting my purchase history.
But the whole point is that they don't. Computer programmers don't generally earn much more than that in Poland, that's why it's a median value. So exactly like what you and I said....it's what the market will bear.

I only brought up my accountant and prime minister to give people from outside of Poland some idea what the wages are like. So I have no idea what you're talking about, but I also guess you don't either.
> Go fixes C's well-understood flaws (declaration resembling use

This seems to be a common belief, but since Go kept pointer syntax as prefix, you're still stuck needing parens in some unfortunate cases:

https://blog.golang.org/declaration-syntax (see the part about pointers near the bottom)

As Rob Pike writes in that link, they could've fixed it and still had declaration resembling use if they had chosen a suffix operator for pointers. He notes that Pascal uses ^, but it seems like @ might be a better choice:

int foo // an integer
int foo@ // pointer to int
int foo[10]@ // 10 pointers
int foo@[10] // pointer to array
int foo()[10]@ // function that returns an array of 10 pointers

In my opinion, they almost fixed it and then punted. As such, it's just different, but not really better.
I agree.
I think the one problem is still in the long-form writing that is analogue to writing in a text document. Breaking text into discrete paragraph blocks is awkward.
Tech jobs have by far the best work life balance among any job where you can make well into six figures right out of college. How many hours do you think investment bankers, biglaw attorneys, management consultants, medical residents etc. work?
How does it mean that? We have school buses for a reason, just have the parents go to work first, and then children catch the school bus to school.
It's not true in all of the US (recourse vs. non-recourse). In all but 12 states, a lender can come after your other assets if the value of your collateral does not satisfy your debt.
Which part of "run lefthand with loop for 100" makes it non-blocking? It it "run" instead of "play"?
How did they originally decide to do 2 doses, instead of 1 or 3? How did they originally decide to do 21 days, instead of 42 or 3?

Presumably these choices weren't picked out of thin air, or made up by some businessperson based on business considerations -- "We think we can get paid twice if we put it in two doses, but if we try to go to three doses it'll be impossible to market" -- hopefully that's not what happened.

Hopefully instead this decision was made based on actual data -- for example in animals or a small group in Phase I or for some similar vaccine, they did actually try N-day dose separations for all 1 < N < 50 and then made some actual measurements of how fast white blood cells attacked the COVID virus in a lab dish or whatever. The lab test maybe wouldn't be as ironclad as the Phase 2 which actually sends the subjects back into the wild and sees how many got COVID in the next 3 months, but it's some concrete data.

Where is that data? Couldn't you use whatever data was used to decide on the dosing schedule in the first place to quantifiably answer how much worse were the alternative dosing schedules that weren't chosen?
I'm guessing the fishing debate was for political brownie points, à la US coal. You know, something obvious and easy to understand by the layperson.
Denmark has had negative interest rates in the past (though typically for 10 years), so there's that hedge for starters, but there's also fees & gov subsidy/lending incentives/enforcement
You're describing the reasoning behind the choice, not the choice itself. Behind this choice is the choice to use those mature, not old, plugins which work for the user.

In another system, those well-aged plugins would themselves not be a choice, because they would be incompatible with the new centrally-mandated editor.
Lilypond was created for engraving music (aka "sheet music"). Handel has essentially nothing to do with that at all. Handel is a compositional "tool", Lilypond is a music typesetter. There are all kinds of tools for composing/writing music; Lilypond is essentially a backend for such applications to allow them to generate beautiful sheet music.
High schools here start at 8:15, it’s earlier if you have a bus. How late is the proposal?

More importantly, why tie recent science (which can change) about the high school population with our standard of time.

Solve that problem separately.
Yeah, I got a 15 year loan to save about 25% on my interest payments (3% vs 4%). Looking back, that was totally stupid because had I got a 30 year loan, and invested the difference (which I absolutely would have), I would earned a substantially greater return from the resulting stock boom.
> The current Tsai Ing-wen's regime actually oppressed free press and freedom of speech

> The more information is NOT better at all. Information overload will cause great harm and push people to the extreme ideology

I sense that you believe in two conflicting views. You want less information, but are critical of silencing a pro-China TV license in Taiwan? How do you rectify this yourself? I'm trying to understand.
Isn't that another advantage of 30 year?
I don't want it to be dark when I finish work.

DST gives us daylight to enjoy at the end of the day.

I don't care if it's dark in the morning. I'm not a morning person, and I want the sun reserved for the evening.

Restaurants and businesses are going to like this change too.
That has to do with state capacity, which is terrible in the present day United States, not manufacturing ability. Having a lot of factories on-shore is not going to magically make the government competent.
I have a fancy well-tuned microphone off my desk and on a baffle mount and it still picks up keyboard sounds just fine. It's quieter, but it isn't a perfect cure.
This is a great thread, and I hope it is posted repeatedly like the "Who is hiring" and "Who wants to be hired" threads.
Small link dump to some research. They compare people living near the western and eastern borders of their timezones. All results point to same direction: Living near the western border of your timezone correlates with more health problems.

Permanent daylight saving time would increase these health problems. It is the wrong way to go. Permanent daylight saving time maybe appeals to intuition, but this is empirical research, and it points to the opposite direction.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21231877

http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/cebp/26/8/1306.full.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01676...

Same: https://www.econ.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/WP%2017-009.up...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29636342

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276058441_The_incid...
You replied to a troll trap. It doesn't matter what the Iranian gov does or did, nor what the US gov did all these years.

The argument is that the US sanctions are wrong. It's totally against what America and the West at large stands for. Those sanctions, as always punish innocent citizens the most. The strategy of course is to make those citizens revolt. But it ain't even working. See with Iraq and Libya, they litterally ended up bombing these countries and ensured the death penatly to those leaders, and now see how worse it has become over there (interestingly the news outlet don't report much of the situation now).

I have been clearly and firmly reminded by my employer about sanctions on Iran and to not engage in any business with Iranian as clients. The US government, like said in another comment is using its country's private economical powers for the service of its (absurd) geopolitics, not far from what China has been doing, but with far more hypocrisy and somehow less success.
I went through 3 refinances last year (also in CA) all at little to no closing costs for a 30 year fixed (4.00% → 3.25% → 2.5%). The math made sense every single time when factoring in the lower monthly payments and negligible closing costs.

At this point I don't know what the point of the loan is anymore. Is there really any realistic intention to ever pay it off? Every single time I thought I had timed the bottom, but rates continue to drop.
I still contend that it _does_ matter. As someone north of the 45th, if we're adding daylight somewhere, I want it added when my body is supposed to be waking up, not going to sleep.
Cheers.

Please raise an issue on my library's github or drop me an email if you run into issues using my lib.

I'm always happy to help others on their projects.
if you do your magic everywhere , then you will need unions, to save your arse.
As a teenager in a place with "normal" DST observance I woke up at 5:50 every day; trust me, I didn't see the sun anyway.
Something it's missing in the CS teaching industry is material (and probably a method too) for experienced programmers who want to learn a new language. It's so hard to find resources to learn the spirit and philosophy behind a language and at the same time learn the syntax without spending time on basic stuff like declaring variables or functions.