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What is the clever path to fixing an unaccountable branch of government who keeps secrets from the people meant to oversee it to cover up their egregious acts?

They are effectively a rogue criminal organization with the power of state protection at this point. Making an example of the criminal acts we do have knowledge of seems the only effective recourse short of dismantling the CIA entirely.
Yes likewise. Now that we aren't a farm culture, DST makes little sense to me. We should make time permanent, and I'd prefer permanent DST personally.
It's extra funny in this case, because the main point of those opposing this bill seems to be "Won't someone think of the children? They'll have to walk to school in the dark!"
I don't see anything specific about Arizona in the bill. I wonder if they'd just be permanently one hour different.
I hope open source Go code in the wild remains easy to read and understand. Generics look cool, despite this possible downside.
Yet who has thought of the corn, the oat, the wheat in all of this? Who has thought of the oak and maple, the petal of the rose, the daisy?

None, I suppose, and so with less light available to them, the american farmer will once again lose ground to competitors in other, more sane nations.
I think I can say this on behalf of most developers who have ever had to fix DST errors in their code: Thank fucking god.

I am shocked that none of our unit tests failed on Monday. One of the first code reviews I did here I pointed out that his tests were going to break in a few months when DST kicked in because his tests asserted that there was a 24 hour gap between two calculations. He responded this code was temporary and it would be gone by then.

There was another PR on a certain Monday a few months later. Told ya so.
Why would getting out of the city mean moving to an awful suburb? With remote work, you can move anywhere with internet access these days.

But agreed: cars don’t work in cities. We need to create more bike and pedestrian paths and get rid of a LOT of streets, roads, and highways to fix US cities.
I gave lengthy examples of copying that I observed firsthand. You don’t believe me, ask Sam K, whose work was diligently and routinely copied. Linode Library also credited customers for contributions publicly and financially since its launch in 2009. They expanded the program later to anyone interested to scale it beyond one-offs. The whole point of Linode Library was conversions so your distinguishing of DO’s “innovation” is baffling; what, you think we hired three people to write about nginx because it was fun?

Of course Linode eventually copied DO back. That was the terms of the relationship established by DO. We were too busy dreaming of copying AWS at the time to see the threat. We ruled out $10 and lower Linodes again before DO was founded due to our support resources. DO forced that hand later (I assume, that was after I left).

I am obviously biased having worked there (worth noting I left on awful terms), and I am aware of that, but some of what I’m saying is purely objective and, again, probably provable with study of IA. If you’re going to refute my first hand, lived experience and call it revisionism, you’ve proven my point of making this comment at all.
> I don't mean to disparage the wonderful work of the lo developers but,
> this is in many ways what I feared generics would bring.

What is, anything in particular about that "lo" library? Just the way it uses generics, or moreso that it's yet another library to learn to be effective? Can't argue with the latter, but as far as the former goes, I think that looks quite reasonable. It's very explicit, there's no magic going on. I think there's definitely a bar for "so much abstraction that it is discouraging to developers not into that sort of thing", and IMHO that doesn't cross it. Monads, sure, that's a tall order for many folks. But this is pretty tame.

But I am a fan of abstraction so I'm not the best judge.
>American football is also played in Canada

Well, sorta. That statement is sufficiently true, but technically incorrect; it'd be a stretch to call Canadian and American football different sports entirely, but the differences, even if minor, are multitudinous enough to merit consideration.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_American_and_Can...
Interesting, I've never heard that, although it seems like it would make intuitive sense (people more tired than usual from lack of sleep?). I searched around a bit and found a couple of articles that others might find interesting:

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/daylight-saving-time-is-dead...

[2]: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-03-12/...
Microsoft introduces its DirectStorage API, promises to reinvent game storage
It’s not about what I think. I am trying to look at it objectively.

I am not saying labour is zero sum. Higher demand doesn’t necessarily translate to higher pays. Low level coding is an easier skill. But it can also be automated.

At higher levels of employment, there isn’t that much demand. The higher up the hierarchy, the number of years of experience and skill and education matter.

By siphoning labour to low level skill jobs, when high level skill ages out, there won’t be proper succession for knowledge transfer.

There will be a lot of casualties and smaller companies will die. So will successful companies that don’t know how to scale. Or don’t have enough money/capital to facilitate scaling.

What is important is stability for any company that has a long term vision. Eventually smaller companies will have to hire more people and if doing that means they can’t meet margins, the company is in trouble.

The only reason to reduce workers after reaching steady state is if the company automates essential key processes.
> No it shouldn't. The benefit of forcing the discipline of getting up early on children is greater than any health impact or inconvenience.

Since tone can often travel poorly across the wire—that is sarcasm, right?
Making the post as anon. I fully support the CIA to use torture even on US Citizens. If you're caught planning a terror attack or something similar that could cause mass loss of life, torture is a reasonable last resort to extract information from a suspect
As a zen Buddhist, I've always kinda felt our Tibetan 'dharma brothers' style of buddhism (admittedly, I don't know a lot about) feels much more like a proper religion than the kind of thing I've been into.. Which put me off quite a lot of it, I still hope to someday visit the place.

It’s pretty sad that such an essentially peaceful and introspective group of people are abused thus, even if they believe in some pretty mad shit.

I’ve never worked out what china wants in Tibet tbh though, does anyone have a clue? Chan is bigger in .cn than Tibetan Buddhism (and chan (which became zen) also rejects any kind of eternal self / reincarnation / non-impermanence) and so thus there are no such thing as a lama.

So I guess the restrictions / bad business china got unto in tibet are related to some kind of territorial dispute? But what’s there? What do they gain?

I can’t see how it’s making them a profit..
Better start early and reduce the BTUs you need to heat your home. (air sealing, insulation, etc).
Absolutely, HN's echo chamber is not reflective of normal people. But there is a growing worldwide discontent with FAANG's domineering influence. Google is hammered almost as much as Meta by political/regulatory bodies, and news of that influences how regular people see those companies. The ever-encroaching ads also push people towards competitors. Wait a few years and most users will be looking for alternatives.
I was sort of suffering from colored tooths (teeth?) problem. Meaning every time I took selfie I suffered about 5 seconds. The bloody dentist suggested monthly visits to the bloody dental hygienists.

Strange thing happened: I was flying my kite for kite aerial photography and a chinese ((or taiwanese) or japanese) tourist noted my blackened teeth an told that green tea does not color. And it worked ok. Even the cheapest Lidl tea works ok. I bit of acquired taste, but you will learn to love it.
You can tell with a simple glance. Most of the time, the picture is just "wrong"... It will look very woody/forest when they are selling in Phoenix. The other give away is the price, as in 50% off or more compared to similar vehicles you are searching for.
And you can't contact us. Unless you use that one trick we don't want you to know: post it on twitter and go viral. Then it'll all be fixed within the day.
Depending on how far north you live, it's academic at best; it's dark to and from work.

We're already going to work in the dark in the morning in winter, why will it matter if its dark later?
Thanks very much. We hope System will be complementary to Wikipedia. They share a core open ontology that will allow for possible future interoperability.

That is very much the risk and one we have taken on as part of our tech and culture from day one. Today, System considers parameters like evidence reproducibility, significance, and statistical strength. But there is a lot more to do here. As a Public Benefit Corporation, we've codified it in our charter that we must consider and share the potential unintended consequences of each major release. And we'll be publishing our first such report shortly.
Corn, oat, wheat, oak, maple, rose, and daisies do not sleep, nor do they have the concept of daylight savings or standard time. They will get literally the same amount of light as before, and farmers generally will work from sunrise regardless if their clocks say 5AM or 6AM.
>when one corroborates this with other sources of data, it is a "valid" technique.

Couldn't you say the same about the technique of having 10,000 monkeys hammer randomly on typewriters?
Yes! Later sunsets in the winter!
I know a kid in middle school that wasn't allowed to literally walk across the street to school (wasn't even a busy road). The bus would pick up the kid, move about 10 feet, and turn into the parking lot.

Supervision and legalities related to it can be boarderline oppressive in some places.
> Having kids walk to school or to the bus...

Will get family services called on you. I don't think this affects more than a handful of people in 2022.
In the US, kettles are carefully designed to last one year and no more. Same for a $20 or $100 unit.

I have not discovered a way to find one that is not so designed. Regular reviews are useless.
For some definition of "we". I wasn't alive in the 1970s; half of people living today weren't.
Here only to read all (deserved) negative comments on Google products management. I wasn't expecting less.
Does 'literally everyone' include those in charge including the fed board members themselves criticizing their own monetary policies? The critique wasn't that the victims of inflations mention the ballooning the money supply, it's that those in charge of the ballooning tend not to. I think you may have missed where they said 'in charge.'

Jerome Powell is not posting "money printer go brrr" memes.
Thanks for sharing our beta Danielle! We appreciate it. I'm the founder of System.
Maybe. Or maybe we'd live in a world with no major free video sites, because the bandwidth costs of hosting such a thing would be too great for any competitive business to bear.

Google gets to run YouTube because they can afford to store a lot of video, and every ISP needs to peer with them just to reduce their own bandwidth costs. Few, if any other companies have that advantage. The monopoly in online video is almost certainly being caused by upstream monopolies in last-mile Internet service, which makes them able to decide what companies can and cannot economically run an online video service.
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Anyway, now you can help stop people from sayings “anyways”
Personally, I have wanted the exact opposite. I need more light in the morning so that I can go for a run and enjoy the cool, fresh air.
Just send them to kid bootcamp and have them do pushups if “forcing discipline” is so important
> :w - write the file

> :wq - writes the file regardless of changes and quits

The first one is also "write the file regardless of changes", to be clear. The command version of "saves only if file was modified" is :up (for update). I have that mapped to a normal mode key and rarely ever use `:w`.
Considering how wide time zones are that is pretty much impossible to standardize on regardless of which clock you pick. Then it becomes a question of which cities you are going to prioritize, and I doubt any politician wants to start that conversation.

Plus, "solar noon" itself shifts by ~20 mins throughout the year due to the Earth's orbit.
> No one wants their first couple hours of the day to be darkness.

Why? What are you using the first couple hours of your day for except to get ready for work? Complete waste to do that in the daylight.

> Secondly, it's more dangerous for kids walking to school.

We should be pushing back school starting times anyway. If they're old enough to walk to school, then they don't need their parents to wait for them to leave before going to work, so that typical argument goes out the window.

> And lastly we use more energy since a larger part of our day is lived in the darkness for most people.

A weak argument IMO. Studies are not conclusive on the actual savings, and most of the ones that are out there say they save minimal energy. Besides, I think the mental health benefits of having more useful hours in the evening are worth the extra 0.5-1% energy usage.
Sappho is literally name of famous greek poet from island of Lesbos, which may help you guess that they are probably lesbians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho
We are already as bad or worse than our enemy by torturing them, covering it up, and using bad information to justify genocide against innocent civilians!

The idea that we are 'above' them is only possible because propaganda and secrecy keeps the horrors of what our country does out of the zeitgeist.

As long as former torturers get to be pundits on TV talk shows, I see no path to fixing this. We need someone courageous and with power to start enforcing the existing laws against these people to the maximum or the problem is only going to get worse.
The weirdest thing about DST is that from what I recall of history, it came about at a time when unions were pretty strong. I don't know why the unions didn't just insist on getting off an hour early at a certain time of year.

Though it's possible they were the ones paying lobbyists to get it through Congress in the first place. Sometimes paying someone else to do your dirties is the most efficient way.
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So switch from one corp to the other ? Thats one extremely biased view.

Use whatever you like, theyre all open source.
As a computer person, I really could care less when the sunshine is. I prefer my days to be exactly 24 hours. Not 24 hours +/- 1 hour.

Also, where I live there's a max of 16 hours of sunlight, and a min of 8 and a half. In the summer, it doesn't matter what the clock says, it's going to be bright when you wake up and bright when you go to sleep; so much sun. In the winter, it's most likely dark when you get up and dark when you go to bed, not enough sun that fiddling with the clocks is going to be really helpful anyway. Maybe there's a little more twilight in the morning the week after Halloween, and then it's back to morning commute in the dark. And it's pretty chilly, so while sure, I don't want to bike in the dark, I also don't want to bike in the cold, either, even if there is sun.
> do you mean you don’t have an automated build/deploy mechanism? If something is very simple, it’s normally also very simple to automate.

Absolutely. Making things simple also synergizes very well with automation.

We actually have written an in-house system that can build our software and package it up to AWS S3 buckets for final delivery. This is something used more frequently by project managers to create releases for customers. Developers usually prefer to run builds out of VS2022 for the special ad-hoc cases and other non-customer unicorn targets (i.e. internal admin dashboards).

The point is that the whole thing is so simple in aggregate that we don't need engineers spending dedicated time worrying about how it all fits together. One basic msbuild command and you have a release folder you can zip up and send to the customer (or extract to some internal QA system).
What's wrong with starting at 8? Starting much later than that doesn't leave a lot of time nor night for other activities. And really just pushes back the rest of their schedule and bed time.
Yeah I guess the acquisition strategy example here is that DigitalOcean is probably monitoring what services their customers that have inflections in traction. Customers won’t care if web services are not their core service. Web service providers can’t really do much about it.
There is no need whatsoever for a conspiracy. The interests of those who (a) own capital and (b) sell stuff naturally align without much need for coordination.

You seem to be claiming that the price increases seen over the last (pick a number) 10 months are all driven by "actual inflation", and that the instances of companies raising prices to increase their profit margins are rare.

I haven't seen good evidence for this claim. I have seen reasonable evidence that it's the other way around: a few limited sectors have experienced "actual inflation", but most of the price increases are arbitrary and imposed by sellers.

Note: we do not have "across the board inflation" either. Quite a few things have continued to drop in price across the pandemic.
I agree. I live in Boston and winters are oppressive in large part because sunset is at 4:30 (or earlier). For Boston at least, I strongly feel we should just move to Atlantic time and just bite the bullet on the difficulties this causes with teams elsewhere. This proposal effectively does that for Boston, but I understand why the people of Marquette would be opposed.
> Despite all of the incel talk, women aren't out there seeking the richest and handsomest men. They're looking for somebody to connect with, and feel safe with.

While nice in thought - the issue is that there's no way to connect this way on dating apps. You're on a dating app - you get 3s tops to make an impression. If someone finds you physically attractive then they'll continue to look at your profile and see if they find anything more physically attractive or emotionally attractive.

But this is essentially 4-5 photos and maybe 50 words you have to write for a very general audience to catch their attention. Dating apps are more about how well you can market what you have (or market what you don't have - I guess - it doesn't really matter. You just need to hook someone).

The real world is different. People will give you at least a few more seconds before moving on and being there in physical person is different than on an app. People actually exist as physical manifestations instead of as digital assets. This changes the way people interact.

Point of the parent was that online dating is extremely "economy" based and has a lot of market principles behind it. For the most part - women do go after the most desirable. Men do the same but are more liberal with their approach because they have to. Whereas women don't because they're less than a quarter of the online dating populace and thus are highly desired. You cannot deny the "economics" there.
Ooh! Another Google product I will never use because they’ll get bored of it in 2 years and leave me stranded!
It's entirely possible that for your purposes, Go doesn't yield much of a benefit. I see that "healthy margin" fall out of a bunch of different aspects rather than one big aspect:

1. Working with basic static type support helps me to not worry about silly errors which helps me move faster. Beyond that, it helps team members understand each other's code correctly--when working with dynamically typed languages, type documentation would often be incomplete or become outdated/incorrect and I would spend a lot of time trying to understand the correct type. Moreover, static typing enables a lot of IDE tools that save a ton of time (e.g., goto definition). This is probably more of an advantage for more complex applications rather than simpler CRUD apps.

2. Performance. I've worked on a lot of Python projects where we've spent a lot of time optimizing, and all of the options for optimizing Python have hidden pitfalls (e.g., typically "just rewrite the slow parts to use multiprocessing/C/etc" end up slowing your program down because the costs of marshaling data exceed the gains never mind the costs of maintaining that code). Idiomatic, unoptimized Go is already 10-100X faster than Python and you can pretty easily squeeze more performance out of it via parallelism or moving allocations out of tight loops). If application performance isn't important to you, then this probably won't be particularly compelling.

3. Deployment artifacts. By default, Go compiles to single, reasonably small, static binaries so you can pretty easily build and distribute command line tools to your entire team, you can build tiny Docker images (tiny images mean shorter iteration loop in a cloud environment), etc.

4. Simpler Docker development workflow. With dynamic languages, there's not a great way to iterate. Normally, you'd want to mount your development directory in a volume, but Docker Desktop (or whatever it's called these days) will eat all available CPU marshaling file system events across the VM guest/host boundary, so you end up having to do increasingly convoluted things.

5. Employing and onboarding. Anyone from any language can be productive in Go in a few hours. No need to restrict your hiring pool to "Go developers". Moreover, for other languages, it's not sufficient to merely know the language, you may also have to know the framework, IDE, build tooling, etc that the team uses. The ramp up time can be significant, and this can be a meaningful problem in an industry where people change teams or even companies after a few months or years.

This list is pretty narrowly fixated around dynamic languages because I've done more Python development than I have Java/etc and also because your point of reference is PHP. It's hard to compare Go generally to all other languages.
I hate it soooo much. FB marketplace is literally the only reason I have a FB account. It was a heaven send when we moved a year ago. I fire sold 50% of our belongings in like a week. Gave away a bunch of stuff and it was just great. I have looked for vehicles, but searching through the scams is nightmare.
Every time they update Android it puts less information on the screen. Android 20 is going to have the same UI as an Apple Watch.
An awful lot of us can't "just adjust around that" though. A significant portion of the population work jobs with relatively fixed hours, working something like 8-5, 9-6, etc. So if you don't get off work until, say, 6, and then have an hour commute home, DST is really nice to allow for some sunlight for outdoor activities after work.

Sure, it's easy to say "just leave work an hour earlier" and some people have that flexibility. But far from most, I'd wager.
"WE" didn't do this 46 years ago. I wasn't born then. Hopefully "we" can do a better job of handling the change this time.
I propose we add add/subtract a second from every other minute over a 5 day smear.