skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Kennedy Center receives an annual
federal appropriation in recognition of the
Center’s role as the presidential memorial to
John F. Kennedy. These funds pay only for the
operation and maintenance, and capital repair
and restoration of the building and grounds,
ensuring that the living memorial to our 35th
president remains a vibrant homage to his
legacy."

None of the federal money pays for expenses related to the actual programming and operations of the Kennedy Center, it pays for the building and grounds, which has a separate purpose as the federal memorial to JFK and is also used for a variety of public events and educational functions outside of the Center's performance arts programming. The parent comment asked why the government pays for opera (it doesn't, maybe through a modest NEA grant or something), not "Why does the federal government pay for federal monuments and public spaces?"
> For me, personally, I like the concept that noon is when the sun is at it highest point or closest, I can adjust everything else around that

Then you must not like time zones, as that is true only in one particular sliver of a time zone. You want true local time, like before the railroads time.
That doesn't pass the smell test. In my areas different schools start at different times and always have.
I have an armchair-theory that different pronunciations require different amounts of work, and that the less-effort versions win over time. Particularly certain transitions from one syllable to the next.

Maybe not a great example, but "savings-time" seems to require slightly less work than "saving-time". At least for me.
What are the modalities of these deaths? Are they a result of the time change, or are they coincident to the time change?
Hate to break it to ya - but midday and midnight are already meaningless ever since we adopted standard timezones.

So basically - since 1883.
Gandi and Porkbun are my two go to registars. I dunno if I'd ever trust google with that TBH
That's just like, literally your opinion, man.

I get it, sort of. In that case I just tell myself "it's hyperbole for lazy people" and move on. "Could care less", though, that one I cannot reconcile.
Now when people write the time in the format 9:00 EST you can smugly correct them that it should always be EDT (for Eastern time zone).
I just have two escape keys - the actual key and Caps Lock. Do you find that you actually use Caps Lock for anything?
WFH affects a very small part of the population. Most working people have to start early for various reasons and have to go to a workplace. Having the Sun is useful for them. Most people start work at 8AM.
How is this type of UI classified? All elements have no color fill, just borders. Wireframe, maybe?
How much did that domain cost?
Those suburbanites were probably doing some variation of coppicing their trees, to keep them stunted and bushy for aesthetics.

I lived in San Francisco, too, and helped to plant dozens of trees with FUF (https://www.fuf.net/). You can't just randomly plant a tree along a sidewalk; some trees do badly in cities, attract pests, or drop inedible fruit that attracts vermin.
All of it. I wrote two paragraphs as an interpretation of a two-paragraph comment so I don't know how else to explain it at this point.
Farmers used to work according to the weather and the sun regardless of what the clock said.
As a late riser, I have never had a good time getting up before the sun. If you woke me before sunup and asked how much I would pay you to let me sleep until dawn, I would probably try to sell you sell my own mother for the privilege, if it were permanent.
Dusk is the most dangerous time to drive, and driving is the most dangerous thing most of us ever do. Standard time guarantees most rush hours, meaning most of our driving, will occur during part of dusk. Permanent daylight saving reduces the amount of rush hours that occur during dusk.
Wow, this looks fantastic :) Very inspiring!
If you're one of those people, the effects can be brutal.
The country of Elbonia passes the bill for the "moon bashing act" and permanently forward the clock by _12_ hours (and not just a laughable one hour), after Elbonien scientists discovered that the cost savings for street lighting alone is equivalent to half of their gross domestic product.

... and i will adjust my clock dynamically, so i'm never too late again.
> Holy shit. This is nauseating. Why do we tolerate the existence of the US state anymore? What's the point of any of this?

Because we are not like them. We believe in peace, love, and human dignity.

That and the fact the US state has more military power than the rest of the world combined.....
Even though the prescriptive view is wrong people still have it? ;)

I'd love for one of them to show the original centuries old definition of English that they are prescribing from.

Or put another way, if the prescriptive view is nothing but a descriptive view of language from a few decades back then essentially you have a descriptive view that tries to ignore that time isn't constant.
> The fact that another thread sees the incremented value implies that that thread will see all stores that happened-before that incremented value.

Firstly, if the writer has used no barriers, writes can emerge in any order (and may never emerge at all, anyway, even if barriers were used). Secondly, if the reader has not used barriers, then even if writes have been written in some given order, the reader will by no means observe that order.

> A fence or atomic operation guarantee that a store will be visible globally in a finite amount of time

A fence does NOT guarantee this. A fence controls and only only controls order of events. It has NO influence on whether events actually emerge. An atomic operation does, but this only solves the write-side of the problem; the reader still needs to issue a read barrier to guarantee seeing atomically written values.
They overhired because it was part of the deal to sell to softbank

> As part of SoftBank’s deal to acquire Arm for £24bn in 2016, the UK Takeover Panel stipulated that it would have to double its UK headcount over a five-year period, which stood at 1,600 at the time. The requirement to do so expired last year.
How is it better?

Cloudflare offers everything they do. It's cloudflare's core business and I don't have to deal with Google's tiny attention span.
Thank you, that’s informative.
Ontario has already passed a bill saying that it will make DST permanent if 1) Quebec and 2) New York State make it permanent
That's almost certainly not going to happen before the next (2022-2023) heating season in norther Europe.
Billions are spent on art. Every video game, movie, cartoon, anime, song, comic book, coffee table book, and even ad, is art. There is arguably no reason the government needs to fund art as it's already extremely well funded.
The bill (which you can read here, it's super short: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623...) adjusts EST/CST/MST/PST etc to be +01:00. If you dig into the bill it's referencing, it defines US timezones based on UTC so this is just adjusting the time +1 hour based on that original bill.
Yeah, tragedy.
> why is "turn on the lights" good enough for early risers but not for late-to-beds or night owls?

I literally say my reasoning in my comment. It's much harder to light up the outdoors for outdoor activities after work/school. I can't use sunlight in the morning for anything other than a wake-up aid.
Wannabe IBM
Thank god. Every change causes hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars in damages.

Case in point-- my pool cleaning pump that was supposed to run for <1 hour managed to stay running all night long because its shutoff time was during the missing hour. Fortunately, I was aware of the potential issue and checked it and stopped it before there was any damage.

This is in spite of prior years effort to fix this specific issue.

This same kind of dysfunction is repeated all across the country from homes to industry. Thousands of tiny cuts, significant increases in automotive accidents, and a measurable increase in all-cause mortality even excluding the auto accidents.

After this is activated the next damage producing time meddling to fix is leap seconds: Without leapseconds it'll take 4000 years for solar time to drift an hour -- and if people still exist care about solar time agreement with some arbitrary clock numbers at that point they can simply adjust all the timezone definitions by an hour at that point and be good again for thousands of additional years.

Like the DST changes leapseconds cause an enormous amount of disruption and failure and as more of our electronic systems depend on precise synchronization the amount of disruption is only increasing.

While the displacement of leapseconds is shorter, they are more rare than DST changes so systems are less likely to be tested against against them. In particular, we haven't had a negative leapsecond before but they're possible and one will almost certainly happen in the not-distant future if we continue to apply them.

Unlike DST whos times are perfectly predictable except for politics, leapseconds also have to be signaled shortly before they apply. This creates a massive amount of additional complexity and avenues for error and security vulnerabilities. With the development of solid state atomic clocks we could reasonably expect to see affordable timing devices that never need to be set in our lifetimes, -- but they couldn't keep accurate time in a world that used leapseconds.
notion.py - Unofficial Python Client for Notion
yeah but what's the use case here? I've been on NVMe since 2017. Without being told about it, I would never know it's not a regular SSD.

PCIe 4.0 is one of those things that if you need it, then you already know you need it. But almost no one does.
>they've possibly already lost nearly a third of their previous "top 1%".

I suspect a lot of them won't be leaving for real when they start shopping around for alternatives. The numbers I see looks in line with what you would normally pay for cloud services.
I think that literally the only way to dismantle the CIA and other blatantly and obviously criminal portions of the US government without using violence is to spread wide the fact that they are a portion of the government that operates entirely outside of the rule of law, and that we can't be said to actually have the rule of law/democracy/freedom/etc if it doesn't apply equally to everyone.

If enough people shout about the emperor's nakedness enough times, eventually it will jump the gap from something everyone knows, to common knowledge[1] (something everyone knows that everyone knows). They will have to fall into disrepute, and that won't happen by us being quiet about it.

Right now, I think most people in the US think of the US as a place with the rule of law, and equal application thereof. The CIA's well-documented activities illustrate plainly that that is not true. The well-publicized summary executions of unarmed people by the police without trial or jury are getting noticed more often, as well. We can say it in plain words, often, to bring it to the level of common sense.

The vast, vast majority of people would like to live in a place with the rule of law, applied fairly and equally to all people. An even higher percentage would be on board without the rule of law, just so long as no special connected elites get unique treatment and free taxpayer money. This is a big tent.

There will, of course, be a subset of the population at all times that wants gun-toting, black-bag Jack Bauer 007 "license to kill" daddy to run around and exercise their best super reliable adult judgement and eschew the entire time-consuming nonsense of arrest and human rights and trial and just put a blowtorch to the balls of the Completely Obviously Guilty Bad Terrorist Guy immediately, as we have immortalized in so much of our entertainment. But I remain resolute in my belief that those people are a small minority of human beings, and are shrinking every generation. There isn't a month of my life that goes by that I am not beaming proud of the human race that we even gave the fucking nazis full on courtroom trials after WW2. If that doesn't show that we can absolutely get there on a long enough timescale, I don't know what does.

The usual tropes apply:

- sunlight is the best disinfectant

- teach, listen, learn

- treat others as you wish to be treated

- always stand up for the truth

We've been improving for thousands of years. In another few we'll get there yet.

[1]: https://www.epsilontheory.com/inflation-and-the-common-knowl... https://www.epsilontheory.com/sheep-logic/
Don't worry. You still have hot water heaters.
I live in Indiana, where we didn't change time at all until ...was it about 10 years ago? I forget. We were EST year round It was wonderful not to have to deal with DST.

But then we started observing DST and ...glory be, we had sunlight in summer until after 9 pm! That was quite a revelation, and very welcome.

So I'm all for permanent DST. Or putting Indiana in the Central time zone and observing permanent Standard Time.

But that ignores the people on the other side of the Eastern time zone who have a very different experience with when the sun is out.
That's an interesting take. I was thinking more along the lines of huge (albeit expensive) algae bioreactors in empty deserts for a more controlled GMO environment, but one that would allow for much more accelerated carbon capture to desired outputs, like biodiesel, plastic precursors, etc.

It's true the oceans are filled with aqueous rare metals, but the volume is such you'd need a fast-processing mobile operation, and like the other commenter said, I'm not sure we need another anthropogenic operation harvesting from the ocean.
>> do we tolerate the existence of the US state anymore

> This is a ridiculous thing to say. I mean, what are you proposing? The whole world sanction the US?

That would be a good start
To each their own means that people can have differing opinions - not that they can each get their own way. This is indeed a 'society decision' - it's moving through the democratic process...
main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30689221
Now that I work closely with a team in India, my morning meeting doesn't care about DST.

But at least now it's only slightly early instead of when/before I would normally get up.
> doing your morning commute in the dark

This really depends on location within the timezone. And some places, e.g. Michigan, are simply in the wrong time zone.
It's not really about the the hassle of changing clocks, or even really about the shift itself, though it is annoying and completely arbitrary. While the time shift itself does matter if you know people in locations that do not observe any DST (like Arizona), its mostly just about the time of day when its light out.

I have yet to meet anyone in my circle who prefers standard time (lighter in the morning) over daylight savings time (lighter in the evening). Admittedly, its a small samples size, mostly made up of engineers who tend to start work later and end later. But there are also many teachers and parents who operate on the asinine schedule of schools which require children to be present and learning as early as 7:30am.

Personally, I am never awake before the sun, whether in summer or winter, so I am much happier when the sun stays up later in my day. When the clock shifts back in the winter, it gets dark by around 4:30 or 5pm, and I find myself not wanting to work as late into the day. In the spring, when the clock shifts forward, I immediately start working later without any specific effort; it just happens naturally.
I agree, talent doesn’t always care about money: Oxide has been able to get some people to work there for a significant pay cut. Oxide computer is a mixed hardware/software play and they currently pay a flat $180k wherever you live.

Talked about in this podcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-760920229/why-your-servers-suck-...

And an older article: https://oxide.computer/blog/compensation-as-a-reflection-of-...
Midday and Midnight are not meaningless and have never been based on the numbers of the clock. Those are terms for "about halfway between sunrise and sunset" and "about half way between sunset and sunrise" respectively.

The measurement of elapsed time is a science. The time of day however is a number that represents how far along you are in one rotation of the planet, relative to an arbitrary 0 position +/- an offset.

The arbitrary 0 position has always been political.
The main security difference is that with PoW any attempt to create a fork has a cost. With PoS, slashing can be used to impose a similar cost. But that doesn't work for very that long forks (longer than it takes for stakers to unbond), since the accounts being slashed might no longer exist on the main fork.

In order for validators to distinguish the main fork from any malicious long forks, they must start with a trusted checkpoint that's less than X days old, then sync at least every X days, where X is the unbonding period.

The "trusted checkpoint" notion seems to cause a lot of concern, but in my mind it's relatively harmless to just bake checkpoints into the client code (if done carefully - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370309). Most clients already have some form of trusted checkpoints (even Bitcoin Core does, though they're deprecated), or at least a genesis block, which is effectively a checkpoint.

More here: https://eth.wiki/en/concepts/proof-of-stake-faqs#what-is-wea...

And some good discussion here: https://twitter.com/zooko/status/1045807027992182785
The winter is when daylight is scarce, so that's what should be optimized for.

Yes but so-called Standard Time was only optimizing that for a small group - the intention was rural children walking to school could do so in daylight. And otherwise it pessimized the use of scarce sunlight by moving forward the time workers left to when it was dark.

Always Standard Time might be better than awful switch but permanent Daylight Savings would offer most people who work 9-5 more sunlight over the year, the actual optimal solution.
This adds an hour more darkness in the morning. Schools start earlier than most jobs, so the kids are bearing the brunt of this. If I was a kid, I'd certainly be grumpier about waking up and less alert.
It's modeled after a Florida law with that name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Protection_Act

Florida is "The Sunshine State", so the name was a little more clever in that context. I can't emphasize enough that I call it a little clever, not a lot clever.
Sure, this is true if you don't believe sleep has anything to do with health...

You might want to read more about the impact for lack of sleep on people's health.
Shouldn't they just go to school later when it's darker? They could come up with a policy to start school later and get out later in the winter or something. Why does the entire country have to modify their clocks for a few minority use cases?
Maybe the middle States, but in the northern states you go to school in the dark and get home in the dark.
Right, but they don't start at different times during the school year.
> does OnlyFans have any future beyond adult content?

From a development cost perspective, moving into non-adult content would just require a page reskin and a domain name purchase. It would all be advertising.
Just a few minutes ago, I read about Glass, a Web3 video hosting platform. Guess they came at the right time!

https://glass.xyz
There are many kinds of "theocracy". The islamic republic of Pakistan is significantly better than Saudi Arabia. Or would your rather have them both as "rightful Chinese territory"?
Please explain to us, what precisely is "on time" and why do you think that such a time is universal for all people, regardless of background or circumstance? The more detail the better please.
Priority 1a – Daylight saving all year.

Priority 1b – Standard time all year.

.... bottomless pit ...

Last possible priority – Switch clocks back and forth twice a year.

It would suck so bad if because of the fighting between the two preferable options we are stuck with the worst one.
Likewise we had a battery (don't know if it was a drone battery or for GPS equipment or some other device) burst into flame here at work, charging on someone's desk in their cube. Gouts of evil black smoke rising to the drop-ceiling. We chucked that sucker in a handy bucket and took it outside, now we keep a bucket of sand under the designated charging station desk, just in case.
Do you believe "moral high ground" functions as a result of optics, not as a result of actual correct moral action?
It kinda makes sense that literally means figuratively, an alliteration to literature, where things often aren't meant literally either.
Most people begin work at 8AM. I know that probably isn't the norm on this Website of younger skewing skewing people that can make their won hours (that includes me!) but it's true for most the country. Also people with kids - you need to get them ready and off before you go to work. Sunlight is really useful for this.
Presumably your state chose to elect some of the senators who voted unanimously to pass the bill because the electorate trusted their judgement. Sometimes making the best judgement that means consulting with interest groups like airlines, who offer an important service millions of Americans depend on. I'm not sure what you're unhappy about here
Computer people probably skew heavily towards night owls and young people. They also probably go outside a lot less than average so I don't really care what their preference is. This is basically an argument of everybody wanting their preferred schedule to line up with maximum sun.
You're a decode or two out of date.
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/0vLQz
It sucks more not being able to do any outdoor physical activity after work for much of the year.
That makes this the perfect time to do this.

There's tons of research out there that early school start times have a negative impact on students' learning, alertness, and well-being. We should be pushing schools back to a 8:30-9:00 AM start time. My high school started at 8:30, which was much better than my sister's 7:00 AM start time, and this was explicitly called out as a plus when my high school was accredited.

The reason we don't do this is exactly the reason you mention: for the convenience of adults and the rest of the economy. Children don't get a voice, but corporations do. And that's also what makes this the perfect time to do it, when the future of work is in total disarray, nobody knows how they're going to be handling RTO, and large swaths of America is quitting for remote jobs (or just quitting) anyway.
Tracking treadmill milestones with harmonic numbers
You also wind up not getting sunlight until close to 9am during winter in some places. Personally I don't mind, but I've heard that some sunlight-sensitive people can really suffer in those conditions. Personally, I'd say keep the winter-time hours all-year round, even if you give up an hour of sunlight during summer just to tack it on to winter mornings.
Tibet is strategically located and has been part of the Great Game in Asia for a long time.

In fact, the British tried to invade it at the very beginning of the 20th century but hard landscape and the Tibetan and Chinese armies repelled them. Following that the Western powers even signed a treaty recognizing Chinese sovereignty over Tibet...
Obligatory link to previous attempt (1973) to make DST permanent:

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/31/archives/schools-ask-end-...

TLDR: schools asked to reinstate DST because more school children were killed in accidents walking to school in the dark that year.
Testify.