skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for that analysis but it's not about me. The point is benefits go to a very small minority, and that's not a sustainable way to govern.
An hour of sunlight from 4-5 is useless. Most people will still be working. The tradeoff is that most people have to wake up and go to school/work in complete darkness during the winter.
> I'd say any fears of drivers not being able to handle the cars, or even fears of the cars not being able to handle themselves, are quite valid.

Once upon a time I owned a '67 mustang, I know how to change my own oil, I learned to drive on a stick, and I know what a hemi is, and I concur.
Personally I'm tired of coding around time zones can we just make the whole world GMT time and learn to deal with not having "noons" and "midnights"
An insinuation in the opening para is that Foxconn is Chinese; it is Taiwanese.
I'm the Social Good Social Network pitch deck author. I welcome constructive feedback about this first draft-- what can make it better?
> I’m partial to a different interpretation, that’s more like “go doesn’t require as much thinking as Haskell, so you can use your thinking for the problem you’re trying to solve instead of the language”.

I think you're being too charitable here. Rob Pike is a very smart and articulate guy. If he had wanted to say "go doesn’t require as much thinking as Haskell, so you can use your thinking for the problem you’re trying to solve instead of the language", then he would have. Instead he took a dig at google employees. Make of that what you will, but I don't think it's case of him mean anything other than exactly what he said.
Not to defend Russia, this arrest is absurd, but for what I know she was arrested because it is prohibited making public demonstrations on this square.

Anyway this:

> The message is clear: Don't speak. Don't have an opinion. Stay home, shut up, obey.

Is sadly true for Russian people.
Hopefully, that we never have to set our clocks back in the fall.... or EVER AGAIN.

Please let this pass before "fall-back"
I would prefer we have permanent Standard Time so I can wait a year and then my car's clock will be correct forever.
This is a problem of schools and other organizations being stuck to a particular time/number, rather than using the sun to determine when they should start. It's a perfect example of confusing the map with the territory.
does this make the clock flip-flopping permanent, or that we will stop doing it?

personally, i just want to punch the moving clock in the face. it nearly killed me last year when I was just starting to get an exercise routine at the end of winter, and then it sent me back into the dark by an hour, completely fucking up my schedule. i absolutely blame many of my problems on these flip flopping clocks, and I do not think i am alone.
We thought Y2K38 would be the next big industry challenge, but I expect a lot of things are going to go wrong with a change with just a year or two of notice.

I love that this is happening, but I'm pretty certain a lot of random things are going to break when the cutover happens.
Consumer drones in conflict: where do they fit into IHL?
Feature Encodings for Gradient Boosting with Automunge
I'd be nervous to keep using Lastpass. I'm not concerned about 1password under its current management.
American Integrity Act
I think my biggest non-specific, slightly silly irritation when using Go is just how annoying I find it to write clear code in it, because the focus on simplicity feels like it too often comes at the expense of clarity, correctness, and expressiveness.

I don't like that I'm not able to express simple constraints that I find a really important for improving code quality in other environments – things like "this field cannot be nil and it's a programming error if it is", or "all possible values of this field must be handled".
There are lots of other bits, but I'd say the general pattern is being quite frustrated about having to do and remember things that the computer should be handling for me – such that working in Go always feels like having a small rock in my shoe.

It's a shame, because as a language—and wider ecosystem—it gets so much stuff really right.
It's Racket:Next aka Racket: Nx, the original name and still out there.
Check www.racketnext.com
Thanks for commenting.
8:30 is a number. We should base schedules around when the sun is out rather than a number.
Just change your waking/sleeping hours then. It's just a number. Set your sleeping hours based on actual daylight times instead of the number on the clock.

Personally I'm happy they just pick one and stick with it.
The above poster is referring to the amount of sunlight between a savings and standard time basis - not between summer and winter.
We here in the Northern states are walking to school in the dark either way. Give me sunlight in the evening when I can use it.
Enough from these self centered early risers. They go to bed at 7 PM. They live in homes full of "live, laugh, love" decorations. They tuck in their shirts. Enough.
I think I speak on behalf of most computer people when I say this: we prefer our extra hour of sunshine in the evenings not mornings.
Aren't there some legislatures that have guidelines on promoting neutral naming of legislation, in order to reduce the marketing or manipulation value of act titles?

It does seem like the "AWESOME Goodness Act" or "CUTE Puppies Act" phenomenon is especially strong here in the U.S.
You've misread the parent. They are saying that on a given day, the number of hours of sunlight is the same whether it's daylight or standard time. The only thing that changes is when in the day the sun is shining.
So you're saying all I have to worry about is my account being nuked by an opaque algorithm or the price suddenly being jacked up 20x, like say the Maps API?! Great, sign me up!
I too am a night owl - but we need light in the morning more than later into the evening. A lot of kids have weird school start times which leads the morning commute being a lot more distributed than the evening one. Walking to the bus alone on dark streets isn't safe for a good chunk of the population.
I believe he meant you get n hours of sunlight in the summer, regardless of whether you arbitrarily decide to call it 6 AM or 7 AM when the sun rises.
> When did virtue signaling become a bad thing?

I'll offer no commentary on whether "Sunshine Protection Act" is virtue signaling, but I think virtue signaling is less "talking about having done virtuous things" and more "talking about doing virtuous things with the intent to gain social capital". It's the facade, the ulterior motive that most people balk at. In that sense it has always been a "bad" thing.
This is a vacuous argument.

No matter what principals you hold I can come up with a scenario where you will violate them. It does not make you unprincipled.

States using torture is a long way down the hole. It is such a shame that a dynamic exciting creative society like the USA's has fallen so far. It would be possible for the country to be a beacon of hope and civilisation. Instead it has become just another in a long line of grubby corrupt super states.

Such a crying shame.
Fair error... but no.
Thanks for commenting.
My own living room is done in 'jumble of whatever' style, so there's that.
If your state doesn't like that, they can switch time zones.
Parents have to get their kids off to school before work. Most people wake up by 7:30AM (you may not but the rest of the functioning world does) and need the Sun in the morning.

It also saves energy.
Who built the cpu itself? It's interesting that it claims V-extension support, even though that was only just ratified
Building this with freelancers for an independent content creator has basically zero chance of being profitable in the end. There's a reason that the notion of an "independent video content creator" didn't really exist until YouTube existed - it's prohibitively expensive for every content creator to develop their own version of YouTube.

Not to mention that you need to deal with payment (or at least gating) and subscription management if you're not using other platforms.
Fuck this. Keeping the DST change is still better than keeping DST permanently. We should stay on standard time all year, I'm sick of having 0 daylight in the morning when I get up.
This is just funny to me honestly.
I’ll take permanent Zulu time at this point
The amount of sunlight stays the same, but you have to rename the phenomenon to "1am sun" or whatever
It's a bad thing when they are passing laws that violate your privacy but call the act "the protect the children act" - I think this is the habit OP was referring to
Oh the children!

Give me a break. Go to school in the dark, or come home in the dark. Do that one time of year, or another. It all comes out in the wash.
Snooker is wonderful.
Thanks for commenting.
Or the US could just Libya their asses back into compliance. Or was that Iraq their asses...
Does this still need to pass the House?
We need a lot of new embedded devices. Lots of them have hardcoded when the time changes and have no way of taking it off.
I cannot express how bewildering this comment is. The article in question is about using torture as a training tool -- inflicting brain damage on a person so that folks will learn the valuable skill of beating up defenseless people. Then this comment comes along and complains about the optics of it. Why? Because it undermines "Western civilization". And what's the problem with that? Because then Western civilization loses its "moral high ground". And what will that lead to? That the right- and left-wing -- those good-for-nothings that want to "bring down the current horrible governance and figure out things later" -- will opportunistically use that against the shining city on the hill called Western Civilization.

Whether this torture business is right or wrong is not even part of the discussion, and might not even be relevant -- the whole point is that the angelic Western Civilization might be beset by the devilish "anti-establishment movement".
When have the rich not largely married/mated among the rich?
Are there useful technical qualities that don't reduce to feelings?
My experience writing Scala was that there's a modest list of ways people iterate over collections that covers 99.9% of cases. For this example, many languages have a Partition function.

matches, mismatches := slices.Partition(xs, func(x whatever) bool { return x == condition })
Is daylight savings time such a hassle? All my clocks update themselves. I hardly ever notice the difference.
"making daylight savings time permanent"

Isn't that just changing the time zone and abolishing daylight savings?

"Senate votes"

What does this mean? Does it take effect forever starting from today? Does Senate have authority to actually enact the change or is that some other dude that actually flips the lever?
for whoever wants to know what was exactly there on the polish border (big mystery for the western media), can try to take a look at the italian Fatto Quotidiano of today (first page) - the target was a not so undercover NATO military base, and it was not just sitting there..
Is it really such a disruption? People fly across timezones all the time. Daylight savings and return to normal happen twice per year at entirely predictable times, and are modest changes – is it really so hard?
I only use Google Domains for any domains I can't get on CloudFlare. I definitely used to agree that they were the best, but CloudFlare is basically wholesale pricing and have the best DNS management, so I've moved over there for pretty much everything
That might be the funniest comment so far :-)
You seem a little nihilistic about the value of news. I would claim that excellent investigative journalism (I remember the Seattle Times) was critical to overcome the gaslighting and regulatory capture I'm talking about in the Boeing case. It also spurred Senate hearings and so on. It doesn't feel like royal family gossip to me.

(As a Brit living in the US now, I think even some amount of royal family gossip is more impactful than you realize given the ambivalence of that country towards its monarchy, and the possible consequences of that ambivalence.)
Seems like intel and co are trying to build it's factories in the western countries. Basically guess it is a good idea to how some diversification. Especially it seams that the world relies very strongly on taiwan.
>Video quality is significantly higher on Vimeo

it stopped being "significantly" better a long time ago. The bitrate used to be much higher than YouTube but now they are similar. People only keep repeating this because it was true in the earlier days of HD video hosting.
> Is there something like a "definitive truth"?

There is math, right? 2 > 1?

> What if the person being killed would go on . . .

Don't worry about it. If they would cure cancer, redux hitler, etc, they will even if not seen here. Flip your coin; accept the result; one's feelings afterward don't offend the multiverse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
It almost makes one wonder if there is no such thing as a regime that isn't "repressive", given that the one most loudly trumpeting the rule of law and righteousness engages in the exact same blatantly criminal acts as all of the other ones they like to vilify as being without the rule of law. There are precisely zero states that have the power to torture with impunity that don't use it to, well, torture with impunity. It's a decades old running gag and common TV trope in the US-and-A that you'll get raped in prison if you get locked up. Everyone truly knows that the concept of equal protection under the law is just a joke, but we keep on as if the emperor were fully clothed.

Now that we've got a real honest-to-goodness war (with associated war crimes) happening in the only region of this planet that seemed at present to have a snowball's chance in hell of actually maintaining peace and human rights, I'm beginning to wonder if large groups of humans are even capable of actually having, you know, a civilization.

It's not lookin' good. I will remain pathologically optimistic, however.
extra hour of daylight after work in the north, during the winter the sun sets at 4pm in some places
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Show HN: LemonadeJS 2 Micro(6Kb) Reactive Library. No Transpile, No Dependencies
Except without everyone adjusting clocks and all the confusion that goes with it.
Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of this shift? If we are trying to give workers more daylight in the evening, then we shift the work and school day later, the impact would be nil.

Fundamentally, for this change to satisfy its mandate, the kids have to to to school in the dark during the winter.

Fwiw, I think it's a fine thing. I always found it very romantic to go to school when it is still dark when I was young.
thanks for being respectful here, I will take a look at those.
Is it really though? Does this generation get to decide that all generations following it should live under a theocratic dictatorship? I'm not sure that's a whole lot better than Chinese control. Anyone who thinks the old Tibetan monarchy/aristocrat system was a good form of government should really read up on it and not just assume it was paradise for the Tibetan people. They still had serfs and slaves.
I immediately recognized the title of the HN post, and it always makes my day when I see GFW in the wild.

Thanks so much for your comment, as someone whose name appears in the list of contributors [0] and was in the presentation of the project when it first launched 8 years ago I feel very grateful being part of it and couldn't have expressed the work better.

[0] https://github.com/Vizzuality/gfw
> If you help beginners develop into intermediate and then advanced programmers, guess what? You have to pay them more.

That doesn't seem like a good argument with regards to Go specifically, since Go is among the most high-paying technologies, at least according to Stack Overflow surveys[1]. At the same level as “LISP” (which Lisp is it, StackOverflow?) and only slightly below Rust and Scala, both of which are way more complex languages.

[1]: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-top-p...
Umm no, I get up early and have free time before work and want light then. It's a great time to be outside because it's the coolest part of the day. Yet again society accomodates the people who can't be bothered to go to bed on time.
Instead of a waste of energy in the evening?

Your arguments have very subjective points and you could easily claim that due to WFH more people are waking up later.
Then school should start much later!
I like parts of Go. It's refreshing. I'm excited for this release. What I don't like is how its weak parts are consistently defended instead of having its shortcomings be acknowledged.

Before any rational analysis and criticism can begin, we need to look at the context of these arguments. I'll do that through some of the comments on this post.

- Issues people bring up are dismissed as non-issues or as personal preference / opinionated, regardless of their impact.

- Critics are asked for rational analysis, but proponents are allowed to use something as airy as "simplicity", a word that has essentially lost all meaning in programming.

- Missteps by representatives / stewards of Go are given the most charitable interpretation, critics less so.

- Finally, in so many cases, counterarguments to critics are dripping in condescension.

I don't think folks are going to get rational analysis. I also don't think they actually want it, whether they realize it or not.
Agreed; there are too many school districts that start at 8 or even 7(!) AM.
Nice job providing sources for these numbers!

The real figure [1] is 60,000 years worth of uranium with our current nuclear energy production, which is about 10% of our electrical demand. So 6,000 years for a 100% nuclear grid. Electricity production is about 25% of total energy demand, so call it 1,500 years for all energy converted to nuclear.

Furthermore, moving nuclear seawater extraction - even at it's present costs, without economies of scale - would not significantly impact nuclear's costs [2]:

> Fortunately, the cost of uranium is a small percentage of the cost of nuclear fuel, which is itself a small percentage of the cost of nuclear power. Over the last twenty years, uranium spot prices have varied between $10 and $120/lb of U3O8, mainly from changes in the availability of weapons-grade uranium to blend down to make reactor fuel.

> So as the cost of extracting U from seawater falls to below $100/lb, it will become a commercially viable alternative to mining new uranium ore. But even at $200/lb of U3O8, it doesn’t add more than a small fraction of a cent per kWh to the cost of nuclear power.

1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-glo...

2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-s...
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You may be surprised to see how often that database is updated. Timezone changes in random places throughout the world are not that uncommon.

http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/

https://www.iana.org/time-zones
This is not law yet, does anyone know what hurdles remain?
This means permanently EDT/CDT/MDT/PDT? Or would EST/CST/MST/PST all be shifted by +01:00?

I am also curious if Canada or other countries would follow suit.
The bill would eliminate Daylight Time and redefine Eastern Standard Time etc. to be the same offset they currently are during daylight time.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623...
And why does that matter?
People who live on the eastern extreme of a timezone likely feel quite different than those who live on the western extreme.

Boston, MA and Marquette, MI are in the same time zone. Boston's sunset today is 6:51 PM. Marquette's sunset today is 7:55 PM. It's no surprise that residents of each of those cities would have a different view as to "what should we do about DST?"
> These are both bad outcomes

Why?
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Since the USA designs most of the software in the world, support for changing time zones will gradually disappear.

There will no longer be a constant force making people correctly convert UTC to localtime. People will go storing dates as strings. People will just have "+8 hours" hardcoded for their application.

That will lead to people in the rest of the world having constant bugs and trouble every time daylight savings time happens.

That may be part of the push for other countries to drop it too, when lawmakers see that every spring and autumn their computer deletes an hours worth of emails or their fancy web 4.0 microwave cooks their breakfast for 1 hour and 30 seconds.
Noon shouldn't be at 12pm. It should be at 1pm or later.
It's functional and deliberate. Many people have to work and commuting, getting the kids ready, getting yourself ready means you need to be up early so you can get to work by 9AM. Sunlight in the morning is far more useful for the functioning world.
People literally die more because of these changes. Statistically measurable increase in mortality on these days. Save lives, stop changing the clocks.
That only matters for those who keep time with a sundial…
It also gets worse in the western edges of each time zone.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/6/21167826/day...
Stop dreaming - we didn't allow that level of pedantry even when DST was a thing. "Daylight savings time" might be an eggcorn - but it's more accepted in conversation than "daylight saving time" at this point.
Nah. We are getting good at this; we "just" did it in 2007.
Haha, I appreciate this reply. Sure, I'll be up front and admit that I didn't actually get use of matzoball dating and subtle curry dating/etc, but as an LGBTQ+ individual, I think I understand how the Sappho descriptor is trying to be used here (hey! It's a LGBTQ+ dating app!), and yet I still think it's a misapplied pattern match? And that's what led me to think that the keyword uses are also less-than-very-good references.

That is to say I personally wouldn't use a dating site themed around a reference for LGBTQ+ erasure. Though perhaps this doesn't represent everyone's opinion, and that's okay!

(For those out of the know here on Sappho/etc, see the subreddits /r/AchillesAndHisPal and r/SapphoAndHerFriend)
This is why the suicide rates will continue to climb.

They voted to keep the clock still, but used the wrong time.

I just wish the movie Idiocracy would stop turning into a f*&cking documentary. Is that so much to ask?!?!?!
I went to school in the dark during winter my entire childhood. We played out after dark after getting home too, because otherwise there'd be no opportunity to play outside during winter. It worked just fine.
Weighing torture, in light of "if it is effective it is OK" is not "rationalisation".

It is loosing the civilisation plot.
The rule should be that each state can decide which one it wants but can only pick one. Arizona's case for standard time ("spring forward" just puts more of the day in the hottest time) is pretty reasonable.
These kinds of conversations always devolve.

"Torture is bad and should be abolished".

"Well, what about this other, very contrived situation where it's good?"

You can use that non-sequitur to justify literally anything. "Murder, slavery and rape is bad". "Well, what about this situation where it did good?"
Oh, I see.

TheCoelacanth was arguing about summer vs. winter so that's the thread I was following in my mind.
I'm not saying porn should be banned, I'm just think people are misinformed that there are no consequences to it, or that it's harmless.

Just like the solution to drug addiction isn't making drug usage illegal, neither is banning porn.