skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of coworkers with experience in the defense industry related a story about a company, Cubic I think, which started offering buyouts in order to reduce headcount and boost profits. The best engineers took the offer because they could just get another job somewhere else. The worst employees stayed behind and proceeded to do the same buyout approach next time the company needed to save money. It was a natural selection feedback loop that took the company's engineering talent into the gutter.
If we started work an hour later then we would lose the extra hour in the evening that we gained by changing to DST.
Even if we take the perspective that we need complete coordination across the board, it still seems weird to me that our solution to that isn't to regulate that business hours should shift in the winter, it's to regulate that time itself bend to our whims.

It seems like a solution where retail businesses were required to shift hours in the winter would still be preferable to what we have. Because what we have is kind of that already, except also it makes a lot of date math harder and affects non-retail workers too.

If the problem is that we need businesses to shift hours, we can do that through either regulation or social behavior or through other incentives -- we don't have to on top of that also change clocks, do we? Even just shifting public school hours and public transportation schedules alone would probably be a large incentive for many businesses to follow along.
Don’t call people liars without doing proper research. What I said is 100% factually correct.

The State Department’s Office of the Legal Advisor, contrary to Pompeo’s statements, stated that there was insufficient evidence to prove genocide. Yes, the Trump and Biden administrations declared genocide. I trust the actual lawyers more.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/19/china-uighurs-genocide-...
I am more familiar with the history of pre British India. Thankfully the British "civilized" my country. Surely China will do the same to Tibet.

The excuses people make for colonialism remain the same as centuries pass by.
I'm really just looking to display a screensaver which _is_ something people want and care about.

All screensaver software that I've seen supports displaying an image / slide show which I will simply set to a black image. Another common feature is just displaying black.

Note: in Windows both of these are quite easy.
This isn't protest if it causes damage. this is malicious software and should be treated as such and the developer should be seen as a cyber criminal if they cause damages. actions have consequences regardless of politics
She’s been fined for the video. Her TV appearance is still under investigation and will be subject to a separate court hearing.
If morality doesn't matter in the least, then we might as well all live in Nazi / Soviet / Whatever tyranny. Who cares if the government kills your neighbors ("they must have done something"), or even you yourself ("I must have done something!"), amirite? Nothing matters, if morality doesn't matter. Live free, die a slave -- whatever, it's all the same? Die of natural causes or be tortured to death -- whatever, it's all the same?

Or, morality matters, we demand and mostly get the rule of law, and then we all benefit from not getting disappeared, tortured, killed.

It's very simple. Everyone needs the State to act morally. The "lower classes" need it even more than the "higher" classes! The poorer you are, the less protection you'll have from an immoral State.

Only in Marxist/Leninist fantasies do "the lower classes" benefit from not having a moral State: because the State will crush the "higher classes" for the benefit of the lower, yeah!!1! That's what always happens!! Not. That's very much not what happened in the USSR.

No, when the State foregoes morality, everyone suffers.
I think they should just make a one time half-hour adjustment and split the difference. Not sure how much of a technical challenge that would present to implement.
> Looks like we may be doomed to repeat the experience

Based on what? The fact that we're trying again?

If we all walk into this assuming it's doomed because it didn't work 50 years ago, sure, it will be, but that's how one doesn't get nice things.
> It is almost certain that if someone is smart enough to build a search engine while living off of ramen, they also know more about what Google is capable of.

I'm not sure this is a given. Tons of brilliant developers (myself included) build complex products without having ever considered the market, or just assuming that users will come out of the woodwork if it's technically awesome enough.

Seems to me that if a founder doesn't have immediate answers to some of these "existential questions", that's a red flag right there.
"normal people's desktop use"
Migrating app over from supabase to remix.run, weehoo
Agreed, companies forcing horrible 2fa implementations are turning people off to the idea of using it at all on their personal accounts (even when it's far less onerous)
Ambitious!

In a similar space, I wish someone would make a graph like this for materials required to produce something, for society-bootstrapping. For example, the different tools and materials required to make a functioning water well, and how to make those tools and materials.
Looks cool, joined and made friends with a french dude. Totally forgot how cool
irc-like minimalism can be sometimes.
Sorry, but to be pedantic for a second: do they consume more energy, which is really what I care about for battery life? (Let's assume I'm committed to asking the machine to do whatever work it is that I asked it to do, so the required computation is constant, for discussion.) My understanding of AVX is that it consumes more power, yes — but the point the parent makes is a good one: if it finishes faster, where does the energy use come out? More power over less time can mean less energy. (Or more. Depends on the additional power vs. the time saved…)
https://www.wired.com/story/22-year-old-builds-chips-parents...

It's possible to build something with next to no money, and I can't imagine it impractical to see some senior engineers gathering together and making a good funding pitch
Yes - my point though is that usage of the American billion has taken over in the English speaking world largely because there is seldom a need for something the size of the English (or European ) one (except maybe for the American defence budget)
Like many other commenters here, I am not a fan of this formulation. I am, however, very surprised that a really common and legitimate pattern has been overlooked:

If you haven't lost business over price, you aren't charging enough.

In fact, if you can measure it, you should usually aim for ~25% of your lost business to be attributable to price (as an individual service provider in a field like graphic design). The reason being that no matter how little you charge, about 10% of lost business will seemingly be attributable to price (it's a reflexive default answer for some folks when they didn't really want to spend anything at all or be bothered making the purchase).

Note that the phenomenon isn't symmetrical: you can easily lose business because your prices are too low, but it usually won't show up attributed in that way, instead you'll get other reasons like lack of professionalism or reference customers.
Hah, thanks for pointing that out. The articles on it really should say when permanent daylight time would start, not when the bill would take effect.
The history of Pakistan based terrorism in india suggests otherwise.

Saudi Arabia funds conservative schools of Islam all over the world , however they have yet to involve themselves in the kind of state sponsored terrorism Pakistan does.

For people outside these countries i would say Saudi is definitely better
I agree context and intricacies are everything. On your point about GFW, I know the team is very conscious and attentive to communicating what the data means.

This link might be helpful: https://www.globalforestwatch.org/help/map/faqs/
> According to the research results, public health and economy would care.

Well, good thing we've never let that stand in the way of a decision. /s

Personally I'd prefer more light later in the day so that I don't feel like the day is over as soon as I get off work but that's just me.
Has anybody studied the number of premature deaths attributable to daylight savings time?
I'm a night owl myself, but willing to meet daytime people halfway.

How about DST with a 12 hour offset?
The open ai project CoPilot is just absolutely amazing. I would say that it increases my productivity by 5x because it eliminates a lot of going to stack overflow to find the answer.
> Policy decisions based on dodgy, whataboutism-esque figures

You're arguing that people should increase their exposure to acute myocardial infarction (among other concerns) to account for dodgy whataboutism-esque energy consumption figures from the 1910s and 40s-50s that have been observed to actually increase energy consumption in modern times?
It's about sun-time, which is how we naturally, I suppose, conceive of time. Midnight and noon, for example, won't be on the twelves.
Morning and evening sunlight depends a lot on the latitude.
I learned when I was a kid. It took me a few days, and I made the mistake a few more times, but I eventually learned. Americans wake up before 7: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/10/11639214/how-people-around-the...

We should try to move sunrise closer to when people wake up. This does the opposite for most people, not just me.

Also, we should teach more people to get up early and go lift/exercise. We have too many fatties in this country. Making it a national habit would be a great thing.
So Israel and the European Parliament are now part of Kremlin desinformation?

How many indians did Churchill and his followers kill?
Because the daycare you are sending your 5 year old to doesn't agree that time is just a concept.
Dunning–Kruger effect is very real. There so many systems affected by this on all kinds of timelines and life support that such a change would be catastrophic. Just because it may seem simple to you doesn’t mean it actually is.
Thanks for the support! Right now we monetize by charging a flat fee per API call, similar to API-first companies like Plaid.
I like it. A few observations:

* Hangman doesn't give you credit for all instances of a letter when you guess it

* Starting a new game of hangman (maybe also TTT?) interrupts/erases the previous one, if there's one in progress

* Images can be anything and aren't filtered - troll users could present some nasty stuff

* User settings don't persist (e.g., nickname)
Since apparently no one likes changing the time but no one can agree whether we should go with standard or daylight time, why don't we just split it right down the middle and have an extra 30 minutes added to our UTC offset like in India?
Moved from Brazil to Sweden. Yeah, the darkness sucks but you adapt after a couple of winters. What really sucks much more getting a crappy winter with no snow and no sun, that's a soul killer.
just out of curiosity, did they cheat more than the average cheater? I knew a few of people who cheated in college but it was infrequent and varied by class, friend group, etc.
Microsoft Slides Ads into Windows Insiders' File Explorer
Every single person affected by this change?
Actix-Session v0.6 Released
You can use RCU to do this, but I'd argue that everything else ends up being more or less a lock by another name (maybe you could do read/write where the read is optimistic, but at least the write side will have some sort of lock). I'm curious what you had in mind?
I am also bipolar, and yes, it sucks. It is the actual soul of suck, to the point that it feels cruel and purposeful. And sure, you can adjust gradually - but add that to the pile of little easy life hacks that I already do to convince people that I'm "functional" and you've got one giant mountain of mental load.
Most of that carbon is in the wood, and is still sequestered in houses even if you log it and turn it into furniture.

If you burn it for fuel though, it's back in the atmosphere.

Please note that I am NOT advocating that we log old-growth forests, just that the carbon math isn't simple or, well, clear-cut.
I support the change, but it means we'll have yet another edge case in time handling.
> Why would people want the sun to go down in the afternoon?

They don't. They want it to come up in the morning. In many places there isn't enough sunlight in the middle of winter to have it up both in the morning and the afternoon, so they need to pick one.

From a safety point of view, probably sunlight in the morning in more useful because sunlight drives temperature. That means mornings tend to be colder than afternoons, and so are more likely to have hazards such as ice on the roads.

When you go with dark mornings, you are combining the worst road conditions with the worst visibility. When you choose light mornings over light afternoons, then morning is combining the best visibility with the worst road conditions and afternoon is combining the best road conditions with the worst visibility.

Another factor is that commutes tend to fall into a narrower time range in the mornings. The commutes back home after work tend to be more spread out. This tends to make the morning commute more dangerous, which further argues against placing the morning commute in darkness.
Forget this, time zones always add a margin of untruth to our clock systems. Some people end up being a full hour off of nominal time (look at what time sunrise is in eastern Maine)! Let's go back to time calculated per-municipality. That way nobody will ever feel like their time is inaccurate again. \s.
Literally every person affected by this change unless their work or school schedule also adjusts (in which case the change was pointless anyway).
Would love to see something like this in Europe as well.
Agreed on performance being in the air. Tbh, I like the non-pointer option because using a pointer was causing the implementation to feel a bit weird. This cleans up a bit of the handling that was annoying (for example in the old implementation Make(&"something") didn't work because you can't reference a constant without first making a variable.
What are the greatest dislocations there? How has it worked, both for the time-dislocated and in terms of the benefits?
As a founder, if you don't even have the mental maturity to deal with criticism then start up is probably not for you
People have faced legal issues for letting their 6 year old safely roam in my area. That may be crazy, but it's the reality in much of the US.
See serenity os, 2000 like gui on modern unix like OS.
Preventing China bots from consuming site bandwidth (Apache)
Isn't that just a great way to ensure kids have that precious sunlight for after-school activities... wait, what? Should we do double-DST also?
As an avid astronomer and someone diagnosed with SAD, this hurts double. This is going to kill me in the winter.
Looks like our universe doesn't have overflow handling for temperatures. It just wraps around.
Would this be due to lack of light in the morning when waking up?

If so, that's a solved problem these days. There's hundreds of ways to have lights that turn on in the morning. Having some kind of wakeup-light (simply two bright Philips Hue bulbs in the bedroom ceiling lamps these days) and taking vitamin D has solved the issues I've had with living far north, where it's dark most hours in the morning in mid-winter.
Show HN: An online flamegraph viewer for sharing pprof diffs
Making solar noon match the numerical rollover from 12->1 doesn't seem like the worst idea in the world, though it would probably make more sense to have 11am -> 12am -> 1pm (noon).
There is a big difference between doing it for a few weeks and doing it for most or all of the school year (depending on location and schedule).
Virtue signaling the act or virtue signaling the term?

Hollow signaling has always been crap as far as I'm concerned. The term became a dirty word in left leaning circles and a slight pejorative in right leaning ones in the last ~10yr or so which IMO is a shame because it describes a wide variety of modern behavior and there is no good replacement.
Using the following helped me join: ssh devzat.hackclub.com -p 443

... to get around my firewall!
Is it possible nowadays to tell Brave to delete cookies when closing the browser?
I imagine the selection of people who would use Devzat's feature set are at least passingly familiar with Discord.

People who aren't familiar with Discord but that would still use text chat over SSH are probably more likely to use IRC.
Yes, it is commonplace for bussing to be staggered -- they often pick up a route for one school (maybe a high school), then run another route for another school (maybe an elementary school).
Build a Bootloader with Your Children
pfft.... what do the Chinese know about tea? ;)
Yes, there were a lot of changes, especially given the concentration of software development in the US.

At the time I was dealing with Solaris a lot, and previously you had to reboot the system for things to become permanent, but there was a tweak made where the system started to stat() the file /etc/localtime to see if it changed, and reload it if it did. So new process would get the new tzdata bits.

The JRE/JDK has a separate tzdata updater:

* https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/tzupdater-re...

So it may not as bad as it was in the past.

Previous the US tzdata bits hadn't change in several decades, over the course of the 1980s and 1990s, when basically the entire computer industry mainstreamed. So things may not be as bad as last time—but I'd still prefer a little extra time.
I disagree, I used it a number of times. It's practical. Sometimes you just want to install software the old-fashioned way. You can argue that isn't the right way to do things, and anyone running Nix will probably agree, but still I found myself wanting this and it served the purpose well enough.

aidenn0, could you explain what `-irf` does and what it should do? I'm curious now, even though I don't currently use Nix.
Sorry. Existential questions will be asked until they get answered. Because is an okay answer, but it doesn't say anything flattering about you.

Also, if someone is so lost that they think the question needs asking... You may already have gone too deep down the path of burning investor dollars on what may ultimately end up as churn.
The OP is 'begging the question', by not explicitly stating the purpose of such conversations, and the fundamental reasons for avoiding these questions. Here is the critical paragraph:

>"It is almost certain that if someone is smart enough to build a search engine while living off of ramen, they also know more about what Google is capable of. Your attempt to question them is not helpful to anyone. If anything, you’re totally denying the fundamental aspect of innovation and entrepreneurs throughout history who have established that one or ten person team can conquer many a Goliaths, or bring to the world something entirely new."

Notice how the author says: "[y]our attempt to question them is not helpful to anyone". They also say imply that non-technical conversations about start-ups are basically useless: "[t]here is already enough knowledge about startups".
I took u/martksn's comment to be that the State needs to behave morally as much as it can. The State is composed of and run by people -- people who are imperfect, of course, who make mistakes, are corrupted, or even outright evil.

We can only try to make the State consist of institutions that keep it mostly moral. Doing so, and mostly succeeding, gives us the moral high ground even when there are some failures.

But when those institutions fail to keep the State mostly moral, watch out, because then we're in trouble.
Nasty Linux netfilter firewall security hole found
In OP article you had a lot of skillsets acquired through the years. For somebody just starting, what would be the most important ones: html, adsense, seo, codings skills ? Any pointiers.
I don't really "get everything ready for the day". I need to take a shower, brush teeth and make coffee. It's your problem if you push everything to the morning.
Fair, I read this book: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodlands

Which is well researched. The Nazis killed about 5.4 million, Russians and Stalin killed the rest of the 14 million people that died during this period
> The number of products, Google actually "killed"... is quite low.

That is an extraordinary claim, but I'm listening.

https://killedbygoogle.com has 264 listings. Are you saying that if we excluded those that were actually renamed or folded into other products, that it would reduce 264 products to some number that is "quite low"?
>Is this not a huge meatball that ARM has hanging out here? Further from a link in the linked article

Yes, but mostly no. Most of ARM's market cap is tied up in IP; much of which is publicly available knowledge anyway. Wu stole said IP, but he has very few markets in which he's legally allowed to sell. It would be like someone setting up another Disney in China. Okay, so you can sell Mickey Mouse branded clothing in China, but you're definitely not going to be able to sell in any modern market.

ARM got off light. Millions of Western businesses have been destroyed this way.

It should be a stark warning for companies setting up shop in China: they will steal your technology, your IP, your facilities and assets, your trade secrets, your branding and trademarks, and all your equity. The government permits and encourages this. It's only a matter of time.
Whats to fix? The evidence shows that women and men choose different things. There is less STEM participation by women in countries that are more gender-egalitarian.

Smart women who are capable of STEM careers largely choose different careers, if they can. Whats wrong with that? Doesn't assuming that there is something to "fix" here imply that women are broken? It's already clear that removing the barriers to enter these fields doesn't make them substantially more attractive to women, so whats left to "fix"?
I think the article skips a few points. It was once much more common for women to skip college or marry without finishing college. (George H.W. Bush did not marry a college graduate, but he didn't marry Cinderella.) It was also more common for women to marry shortly after finishing college and drop out of the work force. Also, focusing on labor earnings ignores family wealth.

[edit: added last sentence]
+1. Asking the right questions.
There are 4 sacred river that originate from Mt Kailash as far as I remember.

https://www.wondersoftibet.com/mount-kailash-four-river-sour...

(I have kayaked the Karnarli, well worth a rafting trip if you are in Nepal).

I think the Yarlung Tsangpo as well comes from one of them.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/80558/yarlung-tsang...

Ahhh, wait, in see you said India. That would be the Indus and Karnarli - which goes to the Ganges. Sorry rushed post not got time to remind myself.
sixel appears to be too large... it would be better if it made small outputs
Well, my point was that the status quo wasn't necessarily as bad as it was presented.
Did the quality of the content on scotch.io change? Can we expect the same thing for CSS-tricks?
But the reality is that school is also daycare, and parents have to be involved in dropoff or even in riding the bus in many cases.
>> the advantages of permanent ST outweigh switching to DST annually or permanently.

So they picked the wrong one.
I suppose in an academic setting where the goal is understanding that makes sense, but all the other algorithms are just as easy and in fact probably have the same API, if you aren't DIYing it.
There are multiple sides to attributing whether XJ is a genocide vs crimes against humanity vs COIN/deradicalization. Deradicalization has plurality of global support, followed by crimes against humanity, absolute minority position is genocide. Are foreign students expected to fully align with US foreign policy when they study in US?