skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that developer gets fatigued by constantly having to tell others to RTFM, because the documentation is up to date and comprehensive, he took his damn well time to make it so, if they just also took their time to read it, but instead they always ask him anyways or he has to point everything out and at a certain point they just don't care anymore.
Ah you're right, just yesterday I sprained my pinky hitting command-up and command-down!

You got me on that one!
Indeed! Here's the official Okta statement (I run Developer Advocacy at Okta):

The Okta service has not been impacted by the Verkada breach. After conducting further investigation, Okta determined that five Verkada cameras were compromised. These cameras were isolated and separate from Okta’s production and company networks. Okta does not employ facial recognition technology, and there is no evidence that any live streams were viewed during the limited access that occurred. Okta employs Verkada technology only in office entrances.
While I agree with most of what you are saying (let's hope that 2021 will finally be "the year of memory-safe languages"), remote code execution issues also affect Java. https://securitylab.github.com/research/securing-the-fight-a... is just one of the latest prominent examples.
I can't help but notice the "Sunshine Protection Act" was sponsored by a senator (Marco Rubio) from Florida, the official nickname of which is "the Sunshine State."

I suspect the bill's name was purposely chosen to subtly suggest it protects Florida during the next election cycle.
Not the above poster, but I suspect they were referring to the fact that in higher latitudes day lengths are affected much more by seasonal swings than areas closer to the equator. So the reasons for having DST to begin with becomes more exaggerated at those latitudes.
Just cap the criteria they consider for entry and lottery the qualifying applicants on in.

That’s basically how it works now anyway.
SARMs, notably GW501516 otherwise known as Cardarine. SARMs occupy a legal gray area in the US and are widely available online as research chemicals.

https://www.chemyo.com/gw501516/
While I agree moving to permanent DST is kinda nuts. It’s less nuts then flipping clocks twice a year.

Once we have stopped flipping we can then move back to Standard time at a future date.

Fighting insanity one battle at a time.
Things have controls. You have to use the right one.
Zapier joins Tealium and Segment on the list of billion dollar valuations for powering the next generation of ad tech.

As cross-site cookies and browser pixels are increasingly blocked, ad platforms are moving from browser-based tracking to server-side data transfer.

Like those other companies, Zapier provides a single integration point that funnels user and conversion data to dozens of marketing companies' server-side APIs. A few clicks allow you to transfer your customer data to/from hundreds of different platforms.
The first few articles I could find on this topic neglected to identify the senators co-sponsoring the bill. Here's a list from boston.cbslocal.com:

* Roy Blunt (R-MO)

* Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)

* James Lankford (R-OK)

* Ed Markey (D-MA)

* Marco Rubio (R-FL)

* Rick Scott (R-FL)

* Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

* Ron Wyden (D-OR)

Wikipedia has some history on similar, short-lived efforts in the past:

> Seasonal observation of DST was first enacted in the US during World Wars I and II, as an attempt conserve fuel. The practice was unpopular and promptly repealed after each war; however, lobbyists from the petroleum industry lobbied to restore DST, as they had noticed it actually increased fuel consumption.

> Permanent DST in the US was briefly enacted by President Nixon in 1974, in response to the 1973 oil crisis. The proposal was initially supported by an estimated 79% of the public; that support dropped to 42% after its first winter, owing to the harshness of dark winter mornings that permanent DST creates. An estimated six school children were also killed by motorists due to the new law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_time_observation_in_...

On the eastern edge of the enormous Eastern time zone, I'm sympathetic to permanent DST, but I'm not sure it's a good idea nationwide. I would probably be in favor of the proposed Atlantic time zone, though.
>Same with all the plausible deniability with passwords etc, the judge can simple not believe you and put you in jail until you remember the password (even if you do not remember it).

In America, you can be compelled to surrender something you have, but not something you know.

So the jail you're waiting in while you remember you password is probably in Guantanamo Bay.
I've been using sway a few years already: first in the office workstation with AMD card with Arch, then on my home ThinkPad T25 on NixOS and again on my hobby/travel ThinkPad X230 on FreeBSD that works so smooth and fast now. What's left on xorg/i3 is the workstation with an nvidia GPU, that'll be replaced to an AMD card when the prices come down a bit.

I'm super happy with sway. It's adding all i3 patches into one coherent setup. The community is friendly and helpful and the desktop super snappy and pleasure to use from old laptops to extremely fast workstations.

Thank you for the developers and community.

Edit: dotfiles here https://github.com/pimeys/nixos
It's not for "no reason" - Public education's primary purpose in the United States, other than indoctrination, is daycare for the workforce.

So school must start early enough parents can get children to school before heading to their jobs.
Another example of https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has... :

> "Google Chrome ads started appearing next to Firefox search terms. Gmail & [Google] Docs started to experience selective performance issues and bugs on Firefox. Demo sites would falsely block Firefox as 'incompatible'," he said.

> "All of this is stuff you're allowed to do to compete, of course. But we were still a search partner, so we'd say 'hey what gives?' And every time, they'd say, 'oops. That was accidental. We'll fix it in the next push in 2 weeks.'

> "Over and over. Oops. Another accident. We'll fix it soon. We want the same things. We're on the same team. There were dozens of oopses. Hundreds maybe?"

> "I'm all for 'don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence' but I don't believe Google is that incompetent. I think they were running out the clock. We lost users during every oops.
Let's split the difference: Spring ahead 1/2 an hour and then keep the clocks there.
If we switch to permanent DST, and the whole of society compensates by setting schedules back an hour, all we’ve done is create de-facto permanent standard time. That’s the best-case scenario.

I have a better idea. Let’s just actually switch to permanent standard time, so we don’t have to hope that society shakes itself out.
A JVM library in this space I recently started using seriously and fell in love with: jOOQ. It's not an ORM, rather a query builder but an extremely smart one.

In the codegen mode, it scans your DB schema and generates record classes + a lot of utilities. If the DB is well done (and it should be), it interprets many constructs, including relationships, domain types and various constraints. It can also generate activerecord-like classes if needed.

It allows far better safety and composability than raw strings and a lot of control on the query. Most DSL functions are called the same as in standard SQL, and the docs always shows the DSL next to the SQL version.

Everyone in the Java world seems to reach for JPA directly, but for me working with something closer to the DB is really a breath of fresh air. The DB-firat approach really works wonderfully.
Addressing your points in order:

The cost of Fukushima has to be measured against the benefit, IE the cost per gigawatt-hour of power created. FYI, the estimated cost is about $200 billion per the Japanese government:

https://apnews.com/article/d1b8322355f3f31109dd925900dff200

So, to obtain a real comparison between the two, you'd have to add up the total costs of cleanup, environmental damage, health damage to people and animals, and all the other total costs of both fossil fuels generation and nuclear power.

Hint: Whether you're looking at total cost of ownership per gigawatt hour or cost to produce electricity per GWh, nuclear is cheaper.

>There's also the touchy issue of storing spent nuclear fuel and contaminated hardware.

Not as touchy as you think. Most of the contaminated materials that exist are from nuclear weapons production, which is a completely separate problem from power plants. Right now, those power plants (at least in the US) are mostly storing their spent fuel in dry casks on site with few or no problems.

The amount of dry cask storage needed fits within the boundaries of those sites so far.... IE, spent fuel is not a huge volume of material.

> nuclear enthusiasts often equate that reliable under nominal conditions implies reliable in practice. As if negligence and stupidity weren't factors in the real world.

This statement can apply to any real world engineering endeavor. You don't eliminate risk in a large project anyway. You anticipate it and mitigate it. You assume things will go wrong and make sure when they do that nothing particularly bad happens. That's just good design.
I know, I live in Canada. I'm trying to figure out what they are proposing.
Having a draft is terrible, and I'm grateful I never lived through one. It's just the lesser of two evils in some cases.
Yes. You can do whatever you want.

Depending on your circumstances, you may have different challenges to overcome. But, they can pretty much always be overcome with enough drive and adaptation.
I think it's mostly the teachers and the administrators who advocate for the earlier times. Well, that and parents who drop off their kids before work. A later start would be great for students.
Wow I didn't realize it was released in 2006 and there's already programmers entering/already in the workforce that started there. I though it was much more recent.
Glasgow's street gangs: Tongs ya bass
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/usa/arizona

> Most of Arizona observes Mountain Standard Time (MST) all year. However, because the Navajo Nation observes Daylight Saving Time (DST), the corresponding DST designation, Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) is also listed here.

> There is a common misconception that Arizona is on Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) during the summer and on Mountain Standard Time (MST) during the winter. Because MST and PDT have the same UTC offset of minus 7 hours (UTC-7), Arizona has the same local time as neighboring states California and Nevada during the summer season.
Or you're trying to select text from the last line of a text file but the horizontal scrollbar keeps popping up and getting in the way. This absurdity happens in the default text editor in Mint Cinnamon.
I don't think this is a very big deal. They could have got that from his phone if he does not have a secure PIN to open the phone or does not have Signal's various privacy features activated.

Per the document, Caldwell seems to have installed signal relatively recently (months rather than years) and might not be familiar with all the advanced options. Not everyone uses the disappearing messages option for example, and (until recently) all group members were effectively administrators, and so any member of a group could unilaterally switch off disappearing messages. Also until recently there was no way to boot someone from a group so if there was anxiety about a person being disruptive, not participating, or having poor security practices the only option was to create a new group and add everyone except that person, which becomes a big administrative headache once you have more than a few people.
This has never been the case anywhere I've gone to school - outside of special classes, every school got out at the same time.

That said, there'd be nothing to prevent a school district from adjusting both school times if local parents demanded this be accommodated.
Sports are another big reason parents want older kids to get to school earlier than younger kids (as they can't take everyone at once, or else you need way more busses)—longer daylight hours after school for practice. Any attempt to change the schedule to get older kids to school later and younger ones earlier, will run into strong resistance from Sports Parents™, no matter the benefits to health or academics.

("why don't they just have the sports teams do one short practice in the morning, and one short practice in the afternoon?" 1. some of them actually do that already, despite the crazy-early school start time, and 2. for the less-insanely-dedicated sports that can't rely on parents to drop all the team members off before school, you'd need to run extra busses just for the sports kids, if they're showing up earlier than everyone else, and 3. Depending on the sport, one long practice is better and/or a lot more convenient than two short ones)
No, but Moosonee, Canada might be in a different time zone from Key West, FL (they are currently in the same time zone).
I'd still prefer that to "I both test poorly and struggle to complete a structured, long-term course of action" which is just as likely an interpretation if you left it off.

At the end of the day, anything could be bad if viewed with sufficient cynicism, and you can't control how others will interpret what you present, you can only control the information which is presented.
Sometimes I get shocked by these numbers and it reminds me how little I know about business. Like if you showed me the wikipedia page for Zapier and asked me give it some value, I would be way off. Or if you pitched the business idea to me, I would tell you do something better with your time.
I would love to see this done in more realistic dimensions, not just "liberal" & "conservative".
Con: more accidents in winter time because it's harder to become awake if it's still dark than stay awake if ut becomes dark.
More accidents of children if they have to walk to school or the bus.
The pros refer only to the elimination of the switch but not to the permanent implementation of the DST.
Standard Time would be the better choice.
There's no payoff for a pyramid scheme. They just pile money somewhere, without actually doing anything with it. A pyramid scheme is literally the "Wicked and Evil" 3rd servant from the parable of the talents. They waste the huge pile of money by burying it and not really making it work for their masters.

The expectation of the Stock Market is to do something with the money. For Amazon, the IPO allowed them to buy servers. For Google, same thing: tons of computers cost tons of money. For Tesla, they bought a Nevada Factory.

The money disappeared into a Factory, and then the Factory made money later (which is then used to increase the value of shares and make everyone who participated richer).

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This is allowed in part, because it works. It makes society stronger. It rewards risk-takers who would otherwise do nothing with their money. It provides thinkers with money and capital when they need it most. If the scheme doesn't work out, the investors lose, but they're still happy that they got to partake in the experiment.

Stocks are the original "Kickstarter". And I argue that they're far more fair than kickstarter. Owning a vote for the board-of-directors + a share of the promised dividend is worth a hell of a lot more than stupid keychains.
> an independent writer focused on science and finance

That has reminded me of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44535040-physics-from-fi....
Of course there are more details and costs. Question is whether those lamenting the abuse by profiteers are willing to solve the problems (as they lament) by purchasing & developing a comparable & competitive property just 1.75 miles away ... or, by failing to, demonstrate that at least the abusing profiteers are in fact providing a competitive service vs merely lamenting.

Your reasonable complaints do raise the point that zoning laws drive the cost of housing out of reach of the poor. Having infrastructure beyond mere sewage, electric, and a gravel road is of course desirable, yet what is gained if residents can’t afford it? At what point, and how, does reality collide with objective costs of good intentions?

And yes, 150 acres divided by 600 lots is 0.25 acres per lot - plenty of room for a single-wide and share of infrastructure.
They have a history of such changes. YT has been breaking user-experience on non-chrome browsers for years now. Between 2015-2017 they were racing with the new codecs of which none were supported on Safari or Firefox, so browsers simply stopped playing videos for several days or weeks.
Amortized. If you wanted to double the bus fleet at once, that would be a heck of a budgetary challenge.
> I'll repeat (for the third time) my earlier advice. Don't feed trolls, just flag my comments and move on.

lmao, imagine being an idiot on the internet and still trying to pretend you somehow have the moral high ground
I would take out the IDE stuff today. They can handle dynamic languages really well now.

On the front-end, types are just too cumbersome, especially if you’re doing Agile and demos are part of the workflow. So many changes, it’s a total drag to rewrite.

On the backend, changes aren’t usually so drastic, so the type tax isn’t so bad.

And yeah, there is a cost to using types. This war was fought long ago. In the end, as always the answer is: “it depends”
Where I am there is a two fold component to it... you have shorter usable days in the winter AND you also have earlier darkness for people because they shift it one hour earlier. that means that you go to work when it's dark out and come home when it's dark out. having an "extra" hour after work to relax would be a win. permanent DST is a win in my book.
Why three dimensions? There's so much deep math and physics and even philosophy around the abstractions of what's a measurement, what's an observation, what is information, what is communication, what is the direction of time, etc. I keep thinking that could eventually lead to a completion of an understanding of reality when proved deep enough. But why three dimensions? It seems so arbitrary in the context of everything else. But there has to be a reason.
This company reminds me of library vs service topic on here a couple of days ago.

5 billion dollars for what should've been a free set of libraries and competing UI interfaces to cater to different levels of tech savviness.

It's crazy how complicated the simplest things are in tech that these companies even need to exist. Hopefully it's just growing pains, rather than consolidation and a swamp for decades to come, like we've had with Microsoft.
What the city you leave San Francisco for says about you
I almost always read the top comment (and possibly some of the follow-ups) before reading the article. I rarely comment as I rarely feel like it's worth it (in other words, I don't think my comments could improve the discussion, what with HN being a pretty "elite" community).
The problem is the switch, so it's better to get rid of it and then Standard Time is the better choice
> I think most jobs are that flexible these days.

Are you joking?
Very thoughtful guide. Don't forget to launch dbus and policykit is all I can add.

I've been using sway daily for about two years now. Here are my current gripes:

- Sometimes, client applications do not receive input anymore (mouse/keyboard). This has been a known issue for a while, but I still experience it.

- `dpms off` started to crash my AMD-powered PC some time ago, annoying when I configured it to happen with `swayidle`

- Sharing screen in browsers worked extremely well... last month or so, when it finally got turned on in Firefox. I didn't change my config, but it isn't working anymore. The handshakes happen, but Firefox or OBS display nothing with xdg-desktop-portal

Minor gripes:

- Some Wine (proton) games have trouble getting focused (Sins of a solar empire launcher, Evochron mercenary, IIRC). Other play funny, with screen resolution and mouse coordinates (ashes of the singularity, I think).

- I launch it with `sway`. After Sysrq+R, I often terminate sway by mistake by pressing Ctrl+C

- Very occasional (once every 200 hours or so) crashes. Probably because C.
Reading the headline I was afraid YouTube started disabling the Spacebar for play/pause because of some vague UX reason. But it's the other way around.
Off topic, but still...

> Alacritty, a modern terminal that "just works"

I find alacritty’s slogan funny, because it’s literally the only terminal emulator I’ve used which has been so full of bugs that I found it didn't work for me and I stopped using it.
Yes, on both accounts.
Yeah, I’ve seen several modern style guides acknowledge this point and embrace exactly what you suggest.
That exact same sentiment from ZAMM inspired me too.

I’m glad I did it on a bicycle rather than a motorbike. There’s something more human-scale and less intimidating about it.

Well, in relatively populated places like Europe and India at least. I imagine I might feel differently if I cycled through the empty bits of the US or Kazakhstan.
“In fact, simple searches reveal highly objectionable content, including easily identified offensive uses of derogatory terms regarding race, religion and sexual orientation, as well as Nazi symbols,”

If this rule is to be applied consistently, how is the Twitter app still allowed on the App Store? I'm convinced it's because Twitter clearly has more power than Parler and Apple is doing the expedient thing from a PR perspective. Call it whataboutism if you wish, but to me it's clear TOS enforcement is selective and highly dependent on opaque behind-the-scenes decision making.
It’s Open Season for Microsoft Exchange Server Hacks
What tangible benefit does society gain from the sun being straight up at noon? Furthermore, how is this a valid argument when timezones are +/- an hour wide, meaning that even if local noon == noon in one part of the timezone, that is not true in other parts of the same timezone? This is the worst reasoning to base this decision on.
Just so I understand what you're saying: we should first move the clocks an hour ahead (permanently), then delay our schedules an hour, then ???, and then, I guess, profit?

How exactly does this differ from not moving the clocks an hour ahead permanently and not delaying our schedule for the day for an hour?
To be fair, my coworkers and I cyberbully each other all the time
No, I work for a Inc 500 company as a contractor
> I have turned on "always visible" scrollbars before and it really does ruin the internet experience.

You have scrollbars everywhere precisely because they're hidden from developers who don't even know about them, and it seems ~all developers use Macs for web dev those days.
If you get to work by car it's safer with Standard Time.
In practice, placing everything in one process seems to reduce the total attack surface. There is quite a lot of code required to synchronize state between the X server, window manager and compositor. When you combine them, you can throw out most of those bits that are largely serialization/deserialization.
I had the problem for ages. Spacebar triggered the brief appearance of a "play" icon in the center of the video window but didn't do anything else.
I highly doubt that would actually happen, though. During the last year, we've encouraged folks to work at home and schools have been closed. Yet those folks that work retail or healthcare or factories still had to go to work like normal. Considering how much of the population that covers, I highly doubt folks would be changing their schedules.

After all, if one group of folks can figure out how to work around the change, there is no reason for everyone else to need changes.
This is a very Twain-esque definition. It's very good, thank you for posting it (and for providing entertainment by patiently replying to those arguing vainly against its irrefutable logic).