skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's mostly because US is a big place (lng/lat diversity) and folks are rather mobile within it's borders. So, it becomes common to hear stories of the Floridian that moved to Seattle and how depressing it is.
I could think of something worse than both :)
The demographic center of the US has drifted South over the past 50 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_center_of_the_United_Stat...
The problem is, like with many things in our current culture, we teach disruption and trauma. We actively teach people to be disruptive and to create trauma, and congratulate them on it. Some are of course learning.
Uh huh.

"Hey boss, sickfigure over on HN says I can get up later so I'll be coming in at 10. k thx"
Well this is interesting. If a Russian attack on Kyiv were to kill a head of state of a NATO country, would NATO article 5 be invoked?
I'm surprised the Church would condone the pillaging of tombs in their own Cathedral, of religious leaders no less. What will the world do next.
Not everyone has the freedom to choose when to get off work as many have commitments from looking after children and to commute. Given a fixed schedule, I think more people have free time in the afternoon and would like to have that time be in the light and spend the time like commuting in the dark.
This would be cool to have a version that creates bash scripts. Most scripts are simple logical things like:

- run this tool, send its output to that tool

- if that fails then stop and show an error

- etc.
I find the autocompletion for "improve the runtime complexity of the [Fibonacci] function" at the top excruciating. Surely Codex has seen verbatim the two-argument form many times?
Again? This has been posted I don't know how many times now. Pre-aged accounts without comments posting this puts some credence to me believing that this piece is pushed predominantly by Russian trolls. The 'look at what you made me do' defense.

To restore some balance to this:

https://newrepublic.com/article/165603/carlson-russia-ukrain...
I would've fucking rioted if they picked permanent "standard" time.

I don't care about kids or their bus stops. Also, just put some lights on them, then (the bus stops, or the kids, doesn't really matter).
> And if people want to have more light in the evening, then they just leave work earlier.

What percentage of people do you think get to choose what time they can leave work?
Probably by ignoring the 'background noise' of every single after school death that could be attributed to early sunsets.
Yes sometimes we'll meet for dinner. But more often we meet for breakfast before work. This is actually very common in most of the country outside of the tech job bubble that makes up most of this site.
You can see this everywhere! For example, many colleges were proud about their very low COVID positivity rates, without remarking that negative people required twice-a-week testing (so a very high total # of tests) whereas positive cases went on a multi-month testing lockout (for a good reason as you can still shed virus without being infections). Positivity on campus is, of course, a useful signal but comparing positivity in populations with mandatory testing and ones without (e.g. city COVID testing sites used by people with symptoms or those who travel) is very much apples-and-oranges. Or, in patent cases the defendant will want to narrow the scope as much as possible, whereas the plaintiff will argue for a very broad reading.
Whether it’s PST or PDT, let’s pick one please and get it done. When do you see it taking effect?
Exactly. When faced with a slowdown in demand you can either be IBM and cut aggressively, or you can be DEC and keep people employed working on inane doomed projects until the company falls flat.
LOL - this is good timing. A bunch of my unit tests just started failing due to the recent DST transition. Luckily our CI build servers are all GMT so it only failed on local runs. But even better if this problem went away altogether.
Agree, cloudflare is ideal for parent's use case although you have to join a waiting list of several weeks for forwarding to be activated (my experience anyways).
It makes perfect sense, we'll get an extra hour of sunshine in the evening.
These damn socialists ...
1 lakh rupees = 100,000 rupees = USD $1311 (as of this morning)
The article links to the inspiration in the second paragraph: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-last-programming-project-...
There was good faith negotiation about the plan. It was very close to what the Republican plan was. The problem was that Mitch McConnell stated publicly that he was going to block everything that Obama did. The Republicans blocked stimulus funding. To claim that the failure of bipartisanship was Obama's is to ignore the facts as stated by the Republicans at the time.
If they switch automatically then they should also account for timezone changes. Otherwise they should offer a manual update option for the user. If a watch doesn't do either of those then I'd call it broken.
I’m not debating anything you’ve argued (I don’t know enough to know one way or another, except I will say that as an end-user, I remember liking DO’s documentation more in 2011 than Linode’s, but that doesnr mean the content is wasn’t still largely copied), but didn’t Slicehost (RIP) innovate the whole docs/tutorials as a sales funnel thing?

I’m sure DO took a lot of inspiration from Linode, but it always seemed like the heir apparent to Slicehost, which was the best designed/marketed/documented VPS host until it was sold off/shutdown.
You've obviously never worked with clients.
Yes, for example, just update the screen no more than once every few seconds. With no compression you can send chained 153 ascii character messages is only 13-14 SMS messages. With any compression, I suspect you could get refresh rates for most commands in less than a second in response to reasonable commands. Unreasonable command responses you could simply ^C or otherwise terminate the script.
No it's not about optics and I don't see any value in discussing if torture is right or wrong as it is an age old question. Since I'm not happy about it, I'm obviously on the "torture is wrong" camp and I have no intention of listening about the virtues of torture. Also, an expression of sympathies about the victim will only bloat the text and weaken the point I find important. What's the point of everyone repeating how horrible torture is? I think that must be given.
Winter coats aren't so expensive that the people of Detroit are seriously lacking for them.

Sure they can't all stand at the bus stop wearing some status symbol of a jacket but they do just fine.
> Folks with winter depression sometimes struggle more here than they did in Indiana

Presumably this has more to do with the total hours of light in winter being lower, not what time of the clock they correspond to.
How is 8am so much better? If you start work at 8am, you need to be up 1-2 hours earlier to get ready, commute, etc. The only people who wake up with the sun in the winter are folks that roll into work at 10am.
Meaning Namecheap treats those living under dictatorial regimes as second class people. As a citizen of a country headed in a similar direction, this only makes me less inclined to deal with the company.
Victims rights stop at the boundaries of the rights of the accused. They boil down to being explicitly notified of changes of public information like court dates and release dates, the ability to be present for public proceedings, and reaffirming their protection from the accused WRT instruments like restraining orders.

https://www.justice.gov/usao/resources/crime-victims-rights-...

They don't extend to the decision making process for others' investigations and prosecutions.
Silencing the Kinesis Advantage 2
I've been remote since pre-pandemic. I had to drive home to the west from an appointment a few weeks ago. I forgot just how bad one of the local highways could be when the sun is low on the horizon at certain times of the year. And one of the worst spots is at a major merge. Just blinding.
Demystifying JVM Memory Management (2021)
> we’re all incels until we’re not

Don't speak for me!
More Americans live South then 50 years ago :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_center_of_the_United_Stat...
Yeah, this is what makes me mad about this debate. Permanent DST proponents talk about how they like having daylight at the end of the day after work. Well, weigh that mild preference against the very real physiological harm it causes. They want to enjoy their afternoons. I want to work a normal 9-5 job without getting heart disease because of the stress of waking up before sunrise eight months out of the year.
Somehow other parts of the world (like the Netherlands) still manage to exist.
It's a very small step from this to disappearing and torturing dissidents at home. With The View calling for Tucker Carlson to be tried for treason by a military tribunal, I think we're approaching that point.

Then when we get there and someone disappears (say, a colleague, a friend of a friend), some will think and even say "they must have done something". How do I know? Because that is what happened in Argentina during its Dirty War. Oh, I know, most of you will say "that could never happen in my country because we're a first-world Western nation", but Argentina very much was and still is a Western country, complete with rule of law ("Estado del Derecho"), and it was much wealthier then relative to the rest of the world, and had been truly first world in 1950. So, yes, these things very much can happen here in the U.S., and in Canada, and in the UK, and in France and Germany and Spain and Italy and Netherlands and Belgium and Norway and Sweden and so on.

It takes a very small number of men to do most of the torturing and killing domestically. Sure, lots more are needed to do the arresting (disappearing) of victims. But not very many need to get down and dirty. Just ten men killing 150 victims/year would have covered the majority of the killings in the Dirty War over six years.
I get the feeling that it's fairly common in US schools to have kids in before 8am, possibly even before 7am!

Is this because of the widespread school transport and the need to stagger the bus usage? In the UK it's quite rare to have school transport, with most kids at high school taking public transport, and at primary school either walking or being driven

I got the feeling from German textbooks at school that early starts were common in Europe too.
> Don't be snarky.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals.

HN Guidelines, https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Who said I'm a Boomer, anyway? I don't see the problem with pointing out that a reasonable wake up time helps push people to get over their perpetual adolescence.
It's worth noting that on IRC it refers to someone being an op, and that it's not used for pinging people. (I sometimes see people who are used to other chats put the @ at the start of an IRC message)
Going from 0 users to 1 user is the (first) hardest part of scaling a web app. Optimize your early architecture for speed of change, not for speed of serving web pages. You will need to make lots and lots of changes to get to 1 user, and then to 10 users, and so on.

So use the tools and platforms that you already know, that you can hire for, and that will allow you to try out changes rapidly. Do everything you can to keep things as simple as possible for as long as you can -- the more architectural pieces you add now, the more you will have to change later.
If you're rolling your own datetime object for some reason, sure. But to the VAST majority of applications, this is an "update your referenced packages" change.
I'm sure parents with jobs are going to love this.
It's also easier to attract talent from London to SV than it is to attract talent from SV to London.
Drivel. Intro is global warming alarmism.
Approximating π
You insist storage costs are cheaper, but the reality is that we can't know the cost until storage plants are actually built. You're comparing the actual costs of nuclear, with the promised costs of storage. We have actual costs for hydro and battery storage, but they are too high. We only have promised costs of electrolysis, ammonia, or what have you because none of the approaches have actually been built.

Come back to me when electrolysis storage systems are actually built, and we can examine the actual costs of storage the same way we examine the costs of nuclear: by looking at the bill after the plant has been built. If you really are so confident in their efficacy, then this should be no problem.
How about we just abolish the whole debate by moving the clocks 6 hours and making it permanent. Then nobody can complaint about sunrise versus sunset times because they will have to choose new hours to start and close at anyways and they can make it whatever they want. It shouldn't be necessary, but I find this entire debate ridiculous to the extreme. The clocks don't determine your hours of activity and sleep, you and your business does and they can be changed at any time for any or no reason at all.
The US State Department’s legal office determined that there was insufficient evidence to prove genocide. If you don’t believe that I don’t know who you would believe.
If I rethink about how long I was kept away from go by its error handling and then I fell in love with it...
I invite Rutte, Macron, Johnson and Scholz to join them.
Stop letting facts get in the way of a good "i dislike change" argument.
How to Be Prepared For
It's a real case that went to trial in New Zealand. The car thief was on video stealing the car, he confessed to stealing the car (admittedly under torture), and he was able to locate the stolen car and child.

As it happens, we know what would've happened had the police not beat him, because they tried that first. The man refused to say where the car was. He would rather let a child die than admit to car theft. Of course, maybe, if they had let the child die a magic genie would've prevented all future crime - it's as plausible as your hypothetical - so maybe the police did wrong after all...

As for your question my moral judgements are tuned to reality, not nonsense fantasy land. I don't have a strong sense of what is right and wrong in a universe that does not obey causality as I know it. I would, however, be willing to beat the thief if it were my child in the car.
The thing that worries me is people trying to reconstruct features from other languages with generics. One of the things I like about Go is that no matter whose code you're looking at, it's almost certain that you're already familiar with any feature you'll see, because the set of features is relatively small.
I don't particularly care whether the sun rises or sets +/- 1 hour. I do care about having my routine and sleep schedule disrupted.
It's far more likely they're referring to vitamin D supplements and SAD lamps than antidepressants, though I'm sure antidepressants are used when other things don't work.
Data Replication: Examples, Techniques and How to Solve Challenges
You probably don't need it. I like it because it's lightweight and always available in my terminal, and the modal paradigm of editing is very well suited to editing code. It's more like modifying the structure of the code rather than working at the character-level.

However, I've spent years finding the right set of plugins, shortcuts, and keybindings that work best for me. I've basically turned it into an IDE for myself, but one that I can navigate much more efficiently than something like Pycharm (even with vim mode).
But isn’t it the case that the jobs that are directly concerned with whether the sun is up would also just do the job based on solar time with no regard for standard time? There’s obviously some need for accommodating those people so they can get their kids to school or have some time to go to the bank or whatever, but I find it hard to believe that applying standard time offsets twice a year is the most efficient way to make these accommodations.
It affects folks up north more where we leave in the dark and come home in by the dark and it totally sucks. This way us north folks will see an extra hour of light in the winter maybe do more outside stuff after work.
I'm sorry, but you're ignoring the actual things that happened. There were good faith negotiations with the Republicans about Obamacare and post-crash stimulus and the Republicans chose to unanimously vote against them because they saw a partisan advantage to doing so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-A09a_gHJc
You conveniently skipped the last line of that paragraph

> However, critics argue that anecdotes of deaths in the dark could be equally applied to darker evenings, and that the elimination of Permanent DST was politically motivated.
I find the term "vice signaling" is often appropriate in these contexts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling#:~:text=%22v...
Could work hours shift for those people?

What I can't get past is that we are literally changing the numbers on our clocks. That can't be a less invasive or easier to coordinate solution than a schedule shift for a business would be. If we can pass a law mandating daylight savings time, is that less invasive than passing a law saying that some businesses should shift their hours in the winter?

Even without a law -- businesses can voluntarily have summer hours and winter hours, because they already do, we just change the clocks to pretend that's not what we're doing. Businesses can already ignore or set their own hours voluntarily regardless of DST, and the majority have completely voluntarily decided that in the winter they'll shift their opening and closing times by an hour.

I just feel like -- couldn't they do literally the exact same thing they're doing right now, except without us all having to pretend that time itself has changed? Is it a mental thing, are we just relying on CEOs not understanding how DST works, so we have to trick them into having seasonal hours?
If you only had a single case in a few years, then why would you need a ternary operator? Your anecdotal data experience is actually confirming their decision to leave this out of the language.
The problem is that there are three options:

1) Permanent DST
2) Permanent Standard Time
3) Status Quo

And the problem is that, at least based on what I've gathered anecdotally from speaking to people and from which side the media pushes, preferences are usually 1-2-3, followed by 2-1-3, followed by 2-3-1, with anyone who prefers the status quo in dead last.

Personally I prefer standard time to DST as well, but we don't really have any power to make that decision.
Who are these people? Pre-industrial farmers? Solar collectors?
Power corrupts, when you're capable of doing this and go unpunished, you'll have people doing it.

Every government ever had and will have this problem.

What we should try to achieve in our society is to limit the power given to individuals on other people and allow each member of society to be free of centralised coercion.
Nobody should have a monopoly on violence and nobody should be able to forcefully collect taxes from people and then go and wage a war on foreign people.

You can call it being anti-establishment, I call it being morally consistent with the idea of freedom which is so often touted in the USA.
I will never understand why we change the clock instead of changing our habits. Well, maybe in a time when we didn't have computers it was simpler to just put the clock ahead or behind an hour, but nowadays it creates a ton of complexity for nothing. Isn't it simpler to just shift our times, for example in the summer start to work at 9:00 and in the winter at 8:00?

Beside, if we have to choose a time, why not choose the solar time and shift all our times one hours, at least the sundial are right...
But not safe from their account based shenanigans.
Are we still pushing the myth of an epidemic of kids in the states getting abducted by random strangers?
While we're at it, can we please get rid of leap seconds? (which we don't know are going to happen until ~six months beforehand?) Just wait until we are off by a full minute, and then we'd know at least a full decade ahead of time when the next leap minute will happen.

I don't understand the need to have it so precisely align with astronomical measurements (to the nearest 0.9 seconds) when we already do so much roundoff due to time zones, daylight time, etc.
> "Some reason" is a reduction of operating expenses which boost profit margins.

Well, that "profit" comes at the expensive of some difficult to measure forms of capital. It is very likely a net-negative for the company, but it does look good on the books.
It seriously irritates me when these articles like these conveniently ignore a certain portion of the population. Where's non-Latina white women in the bar chart?

I did some rough-and-dirty calculations based on US census data (https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/RHI725219) and the 83-cent statistic in the article. Turns out non-Latina white women actually earn _more_: about $1.03 for every $1.00 earned by non-Latino white men.

A lack of transparency will do more to hurt gender and racial equality in the long run. It's better to leave the statistic in and explain why the numbers are as they are instead of turning a blind eye.
Edmonton, AB is at a higher latitude than Amsterdam and has a larger population. Calgary’s latitude is similar and also has a larger population than Amsterdam.
That's unreasonably snarky. I didn't much like waking up at 4 AM when I had to.

The point is, it's better to rise with the sun and still have time to get ready before work. Americans get up before 7 AM: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/10/11639214/how-people-around-the...

We should line up sunrise closer to the center of that distribution. This law does the opposite.
I really don't understand everyone's obsession with mobile computing power. Why aren't we equipping our our laptops with low energy processors and use them to remotely access more powerful stationary work stations via networking? Instead of carrying around 4.8 GHz all the time, I'd much rather have multiple days of battery lifetime. We must have taken a wrong step somewhere. I am still convinced processing outsourcing is the future for all things hardware intensive such as gaming, if it is not for some unexpected milestone in battery technology.

Besides,

> 4. which doesn't need batteries or plugging in

what do you mean by that? Would that include only solar-powered devices?
That's a fair point for kindergarteners, but by 1st or 2nd grade kids in my district walked to the bus stop on the corner all by themselves just fine. Also, my district had elementary school start the earliest (and middle/high school would start later) which for some reason is uncommon but makes a lot of sense for a whole bunch of reasons and would seem to mostly solve this problem for parents who need to walk their kindergartener to the bus stop before work.
Have you actually been at a company that has had massive layoffs?

I've been a few times and I recall losing lots of friends and valuable team members. Even management typically doesn't spread the ridiculous myth that they're laying off people "who doesn't want to do their job and/or is bad at it".

Layoffs are heart-breaking and I can't earnestly believe that someone who has been through them would have this "counter-take".
They will if it makes their kids healthier and puts pressure on industries to shift job schedules later.
The subset of Americans in question doesn't have much in the way of big problems hence why this is getting a "the sky is falling" response rather than a "ok, whatever" response.