skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a proponent of just standardising on UTC everywhere and making the humans deal with it at this point. No DST, no time zones. If you're in the east coast US then you have breakfast at 11:00 UTC. It's just a number!

This realisation came from trying to work out how the hell to write an international scheduling system where the humans couldn't even work out how to schedule a meeting across three time zones.
https://twitter.com/zainrzv/status/1502550200396750851

Junior engineer:
Take this tightly defined feature & build it

Mid-level engineer:
Take this vaguely defined feature & build it

Senior engineer:
Take this known problem & figure out how to solve it

Staff engineer:
Take this goal & find the problems we should be solving
Samsung and Xiaomi are the elephants in that room. Google and Apple are comparatively minor players in Russian handset sales.
GPS jammers are also used by truckers, rental car drivers, etc., and they have stopped airplanes before:

https://www.cnet.com/culture/truck-driver-has-gps-jammer-acc...

It's also something air defense teams would use to try to redirect missles (make them miss their mark because they have to rely on less effective navigation matters)

On the other hand, radio transmission is relatively easy to locate, and ham radio operators do it for fun ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmitter_hunting ) ... so it should't be that hard to find a source.
What I find incredible is that this reactor is going online at all.

Okiluoto started in 2003 and was supposed to cost 3 Bns and be ready in 2009.
it took 18 years instead of 6 and total cost is difficult to know exactly but is over 12 Bns instead of 3.

Building this plant (and the Flamanville one) put into light so many issues at so many levels that I am surprised it was completed and actually works.

Though the previously completed EPRs in Taishan was stopped since last june after gas leaks have been found in the primary circuit and framatome asked the US for help. Current talks point to a design flaw and the possibility of not restarting this EPRs is on the table.
If this is confirmed, this flaw could also affect Okiluoto and flamanville EPRs.

With last winter trend of France finding design flaws in its reactors and being forced to stop them for emergency repairs and maintenance[1] (affecting the most recent and most powerful ones too), nuclear plant do not seems like a sound sustainable choice at least when France is involved.

[1]: https://www.ouest-france.fr/economie/entreprises/nucleaire-l...
I disagree completely. If you got a wedding invite to your address and name but you _knew_ it was intended for a person of the same name and similar address.. would you argue that you had a right to go to the wedding by the fact that you received an invite? Yes, it would be helpful for you to notify the sender that you got it by mistake but it doesn't mean you're invited and your message back to the sender wasn't requested because the whole thing happened by mistake.

Also tagging does not necessarily request a reply at all.

This is silly and will go in circles so I will finish by just saying.. What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? ....
The method still needs to allocate a Task, though. ValueTask along with more aggressive placement of structs in registers helps with that in more recent .NET versions, but it's still not entirely free.
This remind me about Double standard [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_standard
It also indicates the ego of the "best" senior dev who leaps in to save the day is quite large, and not very well correlated with ability and experience with the stack.
Such a cool article! Reminds me of a tip I got from a friend: "Never ask the product owner what to do in an edge case."

"So what should our product do if the definition of the official timezone in Amsterdam changes relative to UTC?"
This is very interesting. According to stats provided here [0], 77.5% of New Zealand's population are "fully vaccinated" against COVID. I think differences probably due to selected reference population, your figure is percent of eligible (>=12yo) whereas the number I found is per whole population (including those < 12yo).

In any case 77.5% is pretty impressive, by comparison the US fully vax percent is lower at 65.2%/total population. Also NZ confirmed cases == 7.0% of population, US == 24.2%. Big difference there.

Not sure what set of factors accounts for diff in cases rate. NZ may well have done more to keep the virus from spreading. On the whole though many more questions about COVID than answers.

I'd also guess data collection and reporting practices vary a lot by region or country. Makes data hard to compare and in turn makes it hard to assess what works and what doesn't. I'm keeping a good thought better solutions will emerge.

[0] https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
Did you also used phaser 3?
There's one big benefit that JIT brings to the table that is not at all theoretical: it can devirtualize and inline across shared libraries. This doesn't matter if you link everything statically, of course, but that's not always desirable.

(Another benefit is that it allows for generic virtual methods, but that's only indirectly a perf thing.)
I prefer a ceramic stove top as they're not finicky about the metal of the cookware. The one in my kitchen gets glowing hot in an instant and transfers heat so fast that it's almost like an induction stove.
Or more likely the M-code which is the upgraded version of the P(Y) code.
Sorry. What I wrote is clearly incorrect.

It should have said:

Some of the vaccines that China have is of the same type as the AstraZeneca vaccine.
I don't know how people square "let everyone get it" with points about how immunity after getting it only seems to stick around for 2 months, or even less with variants!

Unless you're saying we should purposefully infect everyone at the same time. I don't have a better answer, but I don't like pretending that this will magically improve just cuz everyone gets sick once.
Reading this I came to some conclusions:

1.Weaponizing money could never happen if the money were still backed by something valuable such as gold or goods

2.The value of money is now based solely on thrust. If FED confiscated Russia's money, this is a major blow to the dollar. Probably China and other countries are beginning to search for alternatives for US dollar for both trade and keeping their reserves. That would diminish again the trust in the value of the US dollar.
I live in Thailand and the situation here is much the same as many western countries. Omicron is spread widely, and people are still taking precautions (mask wearing is almost universal) but there's no lockdowns.

Traveling here is fine apart from the risks of catching COVID but that's no different to most other parts of the world. It's not like China at all.
This seems to a case analogous to “I have this new, fast-growing, irregular-shaped mole on my forehead and I’m thinking of using Compound W on it. As long as I don’t get any in my eye, I should be OK, right?” and then someone suggesting “you really ought to see a doctor”.
> Spray on magic glass cooktop spray

There's your error. That spray-on stuff sucks. It does not work as advertised.

What you need is the stuff that is largely solid and dry, comes in a jar and which has a sand-like feel to it. Sorry, I don't know the name or brands of that stuff in the US, but it probably exists there as well (the German name of the stuff I use translates to English into something like "cleaning stone"). You take a sponge, put some water on it, rub some of the sand-like substance out of the jar and scrub the junk from the cooktop with that water-sand-solution. The cleaning agent works like sandpaper and is thus much more effective against dried and/or burned-on residue than chemical-only solutions. You only need the razor tool for the really hard cases.

I usually clean my glass cooktop in about 60 seconds this way, and it is actually clean afterwards (ok, maybe add 30 seconds for an additional wipe with glass cleaner to get that pristine "just-installed" look). With the gas ones, even though I love cooking on them when I sometimes find one in a holiday home (because it surely does satisfy that primal urge to tame and use fire), I hate the cleaning, it takes forever because removing the grates and cleaning those takes a few minutes already, and forget about them ever looking like new again. And the cooktop itself also never actually feels "clean" except after a one-hour cleaning marathon because there are so many little edges especially around the burners in which the dirt will inevitably hide during casual cleaning, while the glass one is just a big slab of plain glass, with no place for dirt to hide and accumulate.
I came here to make sure this article got mentioned. Not disappointed.
You can not compare a China-style brutal lockdown with anything you have ever seen in a Western country.

Especially Germany never had a real lockdown - as in: You can not leave your apartment no matter what.
LiBlast: A Libre Multiplayer FPS Game Built with Godot 4 and Blender
Firefox can sync those keywords via bookmarks, but the feature's deprecated and not supported on mobile anymore, as expected.
Aye, I noticed this too and I’ve never written a line of production C# in my life.

On the projects I’ve worked on recently, the backend often ended up far more complex than the frontend, taking up more time to build and maintain.

This is natural. The backends were responsible for interfacing with other systems, like databases, 3rd party APIs and message queues, for example.

The frontends, on the other hand, generally interfaced with only one system: the backend.

Am I arguing that the frontend is never more complex and time consuming than the backend? Not at all.

But I don’t think you can blame the backend stack and tooling for the resultant imbalance of complexity between the two systems.
I think the point here is, timezones change regularly and it's not an edge case.
> it does (or did) just have a list of non-answers it picked randomly from

Yes, this is true (I made Spamnesty). Lately the scammers have mostly stopped responding and just use bots, so it's all a list of bots replying to bots, and thus much less entertaining.
Ham radio operators find RF sources for fun [0], so every time i hear something like this, I get skeptical when governments act as if they can't find out who did or atleast where from (is it coming from a drone in the air, from russia, or from a nearby parking lot [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmitter_hunting

[1] https://www.cnet.com/culture/truck-driver-has-gps-jammer-acc...
The problem here is a confusion between 2 different data types and attempting to use one type instead of the other correct type, which is a trivial programming mistake.

A future time moment may be a true time, known exactly, which must be stored as an UTC time.

Otherwise, it may be an event defined in the official time of some place. This must be a distinct data type, because as mentioned in the article, the real time that corresponds to it cannot be known in advance, because the legislation defining the official time may change before the event takes place.

Obviously this second data type must store the complete information that determines the event time, i.e. both the official local time and the place, so that, a short time before the event, the correct conversion to real time, i.e. UTC, can be done, and then the different local times for each participant may be computed, to be displayed in their schedules.

Of course, for displaying, an estimated UTC time for the event can be computed since the beginning, but it should be updated when the event approaches.

The only problem here is when you fail to recognize that the "time" for a future event that is scheduled in local time is not a time, and you attempt to store it using the wrong data type.

Also one must keep in mind that for this second data type, for future events scheduled in local time, no arithmetic operations can be defined, like the difference between two times. The only operation that can be defined for this data type is conversion to and from UTC.
Having been on a pathway to this level of engineering for a few years at my previous company, I was very disappointed when new management came in and effectively said ‘we’ve heard great things about what you’re doing but we need you to start from scratch and impress us’, to the point that last week I left the company I’d been a part of for over 7 years over the effective reset of all progress towards that next level. No real point to my comment, just a message that if you are just using these roles as a retention strategy for your best engineers, make sure to follow through with it or you may find that your best talent actually leaves over how its managed…

As an aside, I’m really liking the team at my new role as well as the increased breadth of the role to start with.
Walgreens reportedly put millions into Theranos. Seems like at some level there must be a lot of pressure to be "innovative" and a lack of understanding how to do it.
I don't think so. What vaccine should that be? Sinovac is certainly not.
> The west did not consider lockdowns a viable strategy until the news started to come out of Italy of the scale of the dead.

I think lockdowns were driven by politicians getting pressured and then scared and wanting to "do something", even without evidence that that "something" is necessary or will be effective against the problem.

We're spent decades planning for pandemics. I have contacts who've worked in that field, yet none of them recall plans ever including the need for lockdowns. Instead they report that plans assumed schools would be forced to close due to lack of healthy staff, not due to government mandate.

Then China started welding people in their apartments...[0]

[0] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/05/how-not-to-ha...
Are you then claiming that 70% of Russians are jerks? Because that's the current approval rate of Putin according to the latest post-war poll by Levada. [1]

[1] https://www.levada.ru/2022/02/04/odobrenie-institutov-polozh...
> Being seen as a bully who will force its way on others

Russia starts the war. They are the textbook bullies who forced their way on others, and worse through violence. In this case, the West are given a cause to act extreme.

China will have alternatives of its own anyway, regardless. Other countries can choose hedge the risk of too integrated with the Western economy, but do they really trust China that much? It is indeed a question to be answered.
C# has some features that make it lower-level than Java or even Go. For example, it has pointers with pointer arithmetic, C-style unions, and explicit stack allocation of structs and arrays. In fact, the only two things in C that doesn't have a straightforward and efficient 1:1 translation to C# are signals and setjmp/longjmp (although the latter still maps very closely to exceptions).
This guy is such as ass. Principal responsibility lies with Putin. These sorts of apologists make me sick, what does he think he will achieve? Does he think more appeasement is the answer? Just give in every time to avoid conflict? He should be sent to live in occupied Ukraine and then he can write these articles and perhaps understand why people fight him.
To be more accurate you should also store relative velocity so the Lorentz transformation can be applied at display time
WFH, in new insulated houses, with p.v./eolic systems do reduce much energy consumption, only it not a widespread thing and can't be so far. That's the real computation error.

If you carefully read what neoliberals have published about green new deal and great reset you'll discover the "new urban agenda", where essentially reading under the trees you found a neofeudal society vision where rich-enough people who can afford substantial autonomy will happily live in modern homes while most, the "new poor", are concentrated in prisons called smart cities, try to compare just

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/19/why-greeces-ex...

with

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/how-w...
https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/34827717.html
https://youtu.be/p-9X8Z2kJt8

Did you see differences? What I see is a stereotypical ancient Greek "useful idiot" with an "idiotic smile" (sorry for being rude, my poor English limit my choice of words) like the one you see here https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s... happily living in a sarcophagus, receiving a porridge of mixed grains and crushed insects by a drone, living to work as he/she is told to. Those who can afford being "outside" will benefit from such work doing a hopefully somewhat happy life. Not much differently than the colonial period of slavery where westerns people elicit big benefit from slave work in the colonies, in that case slaves where from ALL the world and just few benefit from them. Nothing really new under the Sun.
Allen Newell is my spiritual PhD advisor :). I was able to get a copy of both Volumes of the Soar papers. I really hope to be able to emulate him someday.
Indeed you are right, no moral equivalence is implied.

But in the long run, white supremacists should not be looked to as an appropriate or effective opposition to Putin.

And it is interesting that the western media can't find any one else to be the face of liberal democracy in Russia, is it because they can't find one or because they are just too lazy to check Navalny's actual position on things.
Why did people take to Uber outside the US if there wasn't a need?
Doing dt fusion to make neutrons for other purposes is a pretty common technique in general. It sounds like the twist is using lasers to provide the energy instead of a traditional accelerator. Commercial neutron generators that exist now can approach fluxes comparable to that in small reactors, but the main difference is the energy distribution. Reactors are much more low-energy dominated so it's true that other reactions can become accessible with a high energy quasi monoenergetic source. However, i think we are still missing orders of magnitude of capability before it could become feasible. On top of that, laser based facilities like NIF are probably the most expensive and slowest-repeating way to generate neutrons right now. Plus when you make that many neutrons alot of other stuff will end up getting activated and pottentially become waste itself.

Personally i think there also need to be some nuclear chemistry advances to be able to efficiently and cleanly separate isotopes before they can be transmuted. There is some neat work being done on this by people at FRIB trying to extract medical isotopes etc from the beam dump.
You are completely correct.

Take, for example, Hailo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hailo.

They were available in London before Uber, and they had an entirely different model where they just franchised the technology for people in each city to use.

They were profitable, and were driven out of existence by Ubers blitz scaling, which still hasn't produced a profit :(
I probably should read into details, but I don't get it from the summary at least.

How would future time zone change or DST change affect it at all? Is it about your pre-defined time would no longer be aligned with a nice "local time" like 0:00?

Because things would still happen at the exactly same "moment" (absolute time or time delta from now) in UTC regardless any TZ change isn't it?
They have zoneless induction cooktops.
Clearly this is a targeted pro-Russia propaganda.
What country doesn't have an incentive to lie about all of this?

I don't disagree with the conclusion that the stats are likely more controlled (if only by having more data) but you need to be precise about the incentives and the means.

In countries where things get super bad, you have massive tents outside hospitals, people dying everywhere. There are 1.3 billion people, loads of which _do_ have VPNs and ways of communicating with the outside world.

The idea that there was a secret pandemic that had a bunch of deaths in China is very hard to square with the reality that everyone has a camera and messaging apps to talk to your neighbors. Especially when it comes to life and death it seems pretty impossible to actually do this. The GFW is not magic.
Ditto: Panther in Cambridge have always been reliable for the 20 years I've lived in the area. Same with the Ely firms.

Last time I tried to get an Uber in central London in the early hours of the morning two or three drivers cancelled before one eventually showed up after I'd phoned Uber support to complain. I'm not sure the phone call is what did the trick - in fact I'm pretty sure it wasn't - but what triggered that call is I'd been trying to get a ride for 20 - 30 minutes by that point. It sounds like this kind of poor QoS might be a new problem though: I certainly wasn't aware of it before the pandemic.
It could be that the fridges behind the screens are better insulated than transparent ones. But having to open them to see what's inside certainly makes it cost more.
I was skimming through a Wikipedia article the other day that suggests there is not much unity [0, 1]. From those two UN votes it looks like Asia is more or less neutral and will be happy to trade for Russia's energy and resources.

And that is just an official UN vote, what actually happens in cynical practice will look even more opportunistic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_Nations_General_As...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:International_reactions_t...
London here. That's one reason Uber sucks. The drivers are running Bolt and Uber and will pick the most profitable journey each time.
Multiple inheritance of code is possible with interfaces and default methods.
There are not leaving because the Russian economy is going to be seriously hit. Many of them would still be viable and profitable in a serious economic crisis.

There are leaving because the sanctions make it either impossible or not worthwhile to continue operating, and because they are facing huge pressure at home and are fearing that the cost of being 'cancelled' at home would be worse than the cost of closing shop in Russian.
It's a great article for "youngsters" with abolitionist ambitions relative to timezones (like I am/was)
Or fudged up the methodology... show them a fridge with a display, ask them "does this look exciting to you?" (without context), they say "yes", "ok thank you, bye, ... next!"
What? More than two doses is extremely common for vaccines. See e.g. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...
as a counterpoint, there were places like nyc where the cabs and black cars were very reliable, fast and cheap and there were both drivers and family owned black car bases that were keeping the overheads rather than see them sent elsewhere.

many drivers were first generation immigrants.. owned homes in queens, were putting kids through college, looking at their name come up on the medallion wait-list in a few years as a retirement.

all that stopped with appcars.
Sanctions may ground Russia's planes but Firms that Own-them can't get them back
> I’ve used Uber three or four times in my life and each time was a worse experience than a taxi.

Every time I call an Uber in London, an extremely professional and courteous driver shows up within a couple of minutes in a Mercedes S-class or equivalent, at a price only slightly above that of a black cab.

I doubt that you can find a better taxi service anywhere.
Huh? Plenty of previous non-covid vaccines require more than two shots.
Here's some CO2 to protein process I would trust: grow non-GMO legumes.
https://covid19.trackvaccines.org/vaccines/2/
It's releasing OS handles most of the time, actually. And you'll run out of those much faster than out of memory.
Infants have three or four doses for some of their vaccines.
Utter nonsense. A lot of vaccines need multiple shots -- independent of the duration of the protection.