skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who cares if the sun is up and bright at 6AM in the morning while I'm still sleeping.

Good for you that you're still sleeping at 6AM. But some of us wake up at 6AM (or earlier) and would like to have it be brighter to help kick start our circadian rhythm.
Given crushed blacks is a common issue with modern LCDs the insistence in using very dark scenes that crush the detail seriously degrades image quality. If you do have a screen that shows all the dark colours distinctly you often just see the compression at work as darkness is one of those areas compression saves a lot of bitrate. This is optimisation for a cinema environment that produces a bad result for most of the home viewers.
I do this and it's really great. I don't understand how people live with hitting ctrl-c in the default layout of a mac keyboard. It's so uncomfortable.
Well, then when they go shopping after work in the early evening they will be blessed with additional sunlight instead of the dismal dark.
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That doesn't say its "normal" by 6-7. It just says that some kids are able to do it as young as that age. And the specific child in the article didn't start until 9.

Plus, I would argue that there is a difference between sending a kid off to school at a given time and leaving them home alone with a specific schedule of "At 8:45 you need to walk to the bus stop and wait for the bus". Which again, I'm not sure I would trust to my 5 year old to do on her own every morning. Not because she can't walk alone, but because I don't think punctuality is something she's mastered yet.

And even the article admits that young kids can do that more because of "social trust than self-reliance". And I don't know how many parents are willing to rely on other adults to help out their kid if something goes wrong.
I don't think that's really a "bork" though.

1. PAUSE should only be executed inside of the spinlock.

2. Fast-path won't touch the "PAUSE" instruction. (Ex: lock is unlocked. So you grab the lock, bypass the while loop and carry on).

3. Slow-path is... well... the slow-path. You'll be spinning in there for thousands of cycles, waiting for "the other thread". Saving power by effectively "sleeping" a bit longer isn't a big issue.

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I very well could assume that Intel did the measurements, and that PAUSE with 100+ delay of latency was higher performance / throughput than their original PAUSE implementation. It is a "slow-path" instruction after all.

If the spin-lock has any contention what-so-ever, you're looking at 100+ cycles to even communicate to L3 cache (~40-nanoseconds == 160 cycles to talk to L3 cache at all).

It makes no sense to be "any faster" than this, because L3 cache hasn't changed yet. You might as well sleep until the next point-in-time where L3 cache had a chance to update (aka: the value of the spinlock has changed).

L2 cache and L1 cache are "private" to each core, so its impossible for another core to change the values in L1 or L2. So the "closest" the spinlock's value can be is L3 cache. The only exception I can think of... is if both threads are SMT/Hyperthreads on the same core. This case has probably gotten slower, but all other cases have probably gotten faster (or more precisely: higher throughput).
There is more to the equation than STEM vs non-STEM jobs.

> removing the barriers to enter these fields doesn't make them substantially more attractive to women

Any why is that the case? There are a lot of assumptions about the types of jobs that men/women should be doing, and there are also a lot of cultural assumptions about those job positions themselves and what they expect of their workers. There are also still many jobs which are not receptive to one gender or the other, either by their cultures or the cultures of their customers. This is something that should be fixed, even if it doesn't impact the choices that people make, although we do know that cultural expectations have a huge impact on choice.

We also don't only have cultural expectations about jobs women should have. We also have expectations about jobs men have. For example, many cultures expect men to make personal sacrifices in order to earn more money. Gender expectations usually affect both genders at the same time, rarely one in isolation.
Portion of Apple Park evacuated due to 'possible hazmat situation'
Not exactly what the OP asks, but still surprised that no one mentioned M-Pesa yet:

> M-Pesa (M for mobile, pesa is Swahili for money) is a mobile phone-based money transfer service, payments and micro-financing service, launched in 2007 by Vodafone and Safaricom, the largest mobile network operator in Kenya.

> The service allows users to deposit money into an account stored on their cell phones, to send balances using PIN-secured SMS text messages to other users, including sellers of goods and services, and to redeem deposits for regular money. Users are charged a small fee for sending and withdrawing money using the service.

> M-Pesa is a branchless banking service; M-Pesa customers can deposit and withdraw money from a network of agents that includes airtime resellers and retail outlets acting as banking agents.

> M-Pesa spread quickly, and by 2010 had become the most successful mobile-phone-based financial service in the developing world. By 2012, a stock of about 17 million M-Pesa accounts had been registered in Kenya. By June 2016, a total of 7 million M-Pesa accounts had been opened in Tanzania by Vodacom. The service has been lauded for giving millions of people access to the formal financial system and for reducing crime in otherwise largely cash-based societies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
I'd rather people not do that, simply because I wouldn't trust most people to do the conversion in either direction. At least if the person setting the meeting gives the time in their local time time I can be relatively confident that at least they'll be there on time.
I see people saying "you're gonna need to answer those questions", "brush it off", "you should be able to accept critique". If you're soliciting feedback or making a a pitch, all valid.

If it's just rando's? Nah, those founders should not just accept a high level of noise out there. A lot of people are happy to share their pessimism. That's tiring.
But. It wouldn’t be riscv. Which is the unique selling point. Not the power.
It's an interesting situation. Research shows one thing, but a lot of people seem to have a gut feeling that says the opposite thing.
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I've suggested for years that we just split the difference, 'fall back' 30 minutes or what not, and call that done. Not sure why it doesn't get traction.
Something you don't realize but matters to certain people: this will lock the time difference between east coast US & east coast China to 12 hours, which is very convenient, a quality of life change for a variety of things.
Porkbun has been good to me, but I can't get it to work for iCloud custom domains.
> Isn't it simpler to just shift our times, for example in the summer start to work at 9:00 and in the winter at 8:00?

You make this sound so simple, but the "our" you're referring to is "hundreds of thousands of employers". Yes, it is simpler to change the time than to convince every single employer to voluntarily shift their working hours in tandem with everyone else. Even one would be practically impossible: everyone would have to sit down and adjust every single meeting by an hour.

"Meeting's at 10am!" "Wait, is it 10am before or after fake-DST?" "I don't remember, did you change it?"
Which RFC? The RFC moving it to IANA in 2012? It's been in development in some way since the 80s [1], the current timezone names in it are from the 90s[2], and it was definitely already the standard timezone definitions when I started using Linux in the 00s.

[1]: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/1986-November/008946.html

[2]: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/1993-October/009233.html
Midnight and noon won't be on the twelves anyways except for one day out of the whole year no matter which system you choose.
$110k for a director is low even for Europe, so this doesn't hold water IMO.
Well, as someone who has literally built a search engine and paid for it out of pocket, I'll argue the profit question is deeply relevant, it's the question you should have an answer for before even considering investing actual money into this field. Most search engines just aren't profitable.

Me, I've chosen to simply reduce burn rate so much it isn't much of a problem. I can do this non-profit because I think the world needs it. But if that isn't you, if you actually want to live off your work, you need an answer to this.

Google makes it work through being a major player in advertisement. If you had Google's search service, but not their advertisement-ability, you would struggle to make ends meet. Maybe you could do like Kagi intends and offer a subscription service. Maybe that will work. Who knows.

How you will compete with Google is a far less tricky question. There are several niches they rather visibly flounder in. I'd estimate their biggest problem is they are trying to do too much at once, making their service not quite great at any given thing. It's reasonably easy to build something that's superior at just one thing.
If this doesn't work out there's always Daylight Smearing Time.

https://xkcd.com/2266/

https://gregcochard.com/daylight-savings-time-smearing/
Sure, but it's functionally impossible to make this choice without changing the clocks. Too many events are coordinated - shop opening times have to account for other business start times that have to account for school start times.

Changing the clock is, realistically, the only way to coordinate all the necessary actors.

Otherwise, if schools decided to start at 9AM, they would put a huge burden on parents starting work at 9AM, who no longer have time to drop their kids off and still make it to their workplace.
Reminds me of Channel Advisor which was a public company $ECOM. I wonder what happened to them? I think they were basically giving you the ability to sell on AMZN, EBAY and some others. I wonder how many competitors there are.
Other countries have made these changes on shorter time frames in recent memory. I don't recall hearing about any catastrophes.

In 2011, Samoa changed time zones to land on the other side of the international date line. I don't believe that was years in the making. Even last year, they announced they would no longer observe daylight saving time; they decided that 11 days before they were scheduled to switch their clocks.

In January of 2015, Chile announced they would keep daylight saving time year-round when they rolled forward in April. Then in 2016, they scrapped that. In 2019, they even changed the dates on which daylight saving started and ended. While this was over the course of several years, they didn't go into this thinking about how to make it complicated for the next four years.

Many of the states don't seem to think this is a serious concern, either. Several, including my own (Kentucky) passed legislation to permanently observe daylight saving as soon as Congress would allow it. I don't think the folks considering these measures are underestimating our ability to deal with these types of changes.
Sure, forgot to mention that, but that's only if it must be semantically atomic. That's not always the case.
Most of us solve it by flooding our face with phone light in the middle of the night ;)
Do you think farmers will orient their working hours around a clock or the sun?
Where I work at BlackBerry it seems to be all ex-Nortel people. So it goes.
Wonderful news! I grew up without time changes in permanent "summer time" and watching the glorious sunrise winter mornings. I already wake up in the dark in the morning in the winter, so a few more precious moments of daylight in the afternoon will be great.
GO FUCK YOURSELF.

DO NOT ask for cyber warfare on HN.

The future will not be right, if we can LOIC fucking online for no reasons.

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A better use of your energy is to figure out how to help heal, feed and keep safe anyone.
Read the whole reply. If you want permanent standard time, then one path would be to adopt permanent daylight savings and then change your local time zone to compensate.

It would take more effort up front but eliminates the need to change clocks twice a year
This is key. We can adapt to anything. Just stop making me lose an hour of my sleep once a year. It takes me > 1 week to adjust.
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"It's about the kids" is really "it's about the hassle for adults of dealing with kids' schedules when they are 1 hour earlier." But there is nothing wrong with that in my view.
Could also be more of an urban/rural divide? I grew up in part of California without a "city bus" for hundreds of miles, and school bus usage was pretty widespread. Parents who dropped their kids off usually just did so because it happened to line up with their schedule.

Also your post was a weird reminder of how laisse-faire my own upbringing was, because I was biking to school across and along a state highway in fifth grade.
I suspect that past a certain scale, some good people leaving is so unavoidable it becomes necessary to make everyone replaceable. That tends to hobble the top performers the most, turnover justifies shifting the culture more in that direction, etc.
Whats wrong with SCM support?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30691361 for notes on energy sources. I'm open to alternatives to solar.

I agree that making computing power mobile makes it enormously more expensive, especially if you consider batteries unacceptable. But making computing power remote means that you need to spend energy on a radio to access it. That's a good tradeoff for some things, but not for others. In my other comment, note that if we believe Ambiq's datasheet, we can get the CPU speed of a SPARC 20 for 1.8 milliwatts.

It turns out the chip also includes a Bluetooth Low Energy 5 radio, so you can use it to remotely access more powerful stationary workstations via networking, as long as you're within a few meters of a base station. The radio costs 10 milliwatts when you're running it, six times as much as the Pentium-class CPU. Normal radios (Wi-Fi, cellphones) cost orders of magnitude more than that.

So constant remote wireless access to more powerful stationary workstations doesn't start to save energy until the amount of computation you're accessing is close to a gigaflop. Maybe closer to a teraflop if we're talking about streaming full-motion video. Intermittent remote access, of course, is a more reasonable proposition.

It's true that gaming commonly uses teraflops or petaflops of computing power, and plugging in such a beast in a server closet is a huge improvement over trying to somehow cram it into your pocket. But there are a lot of day-to-day things I do with a computer — recompiling my text editor, writing stupid comments on internet message boards, chatting on IRC, simulating an analog circuit, reading Wikipedia — that very much do not require gigaflops of computing power.

(Remote wired access of course can use very little power indeed, but if you're in a position to plug into a wire, you might as well deliver power over that wire too.)

If you take a modern cellphone and take almost all the processing power out of it, you still have a 1000-milliwatt radio and a 1000-milliwatt backlit screen. So you aren't going to get multiple days of battery life that way. 1000 milliwatts is enough to pay for dozens of gigaflops of computing power nowadays.

Myself, I have another reason: I travel, though I've traveled very little during the pandemic. But I am often someplace other than at home: at a café, in a park, at the office, in a bus, in the subway, in a taxi, visiting a friend in another city, at my in-laws' house, and so on. All of these places are out of Bluetooth range of my house. I could obtain internet bandwidth from a commercial provider, but that sacrifices privacy, it's never reliable, and I don't consider it reasonable to make my core exocortical functions dependent on the day-to-day vagaries of mere commerce. Personal autonomy is one of my core values.
North America does seem to like their cars, and is quite hellbent on finding any explanation for deaths caused by automobiles that absolves the system from having to take any responsibility or do anything (e.g. build infrastructure, regulate cars, etc.).

Of course, that's not to say that six school children being killed by motorists didn't happen after the time _didn't_ switch, but to pretend that the preceding week or two were materially different in terms of light / dark levels to the degree that driving was significantly more dangerous would mean we have to accept that certain hours at certain times of year are always more dangerous (and we should then enforce more restrictions on when one may drive).

If the idea that not switching to driving an hour later causes more dead children sounds preposterous, then DST seems to be a straw-man being propped up. More likely: there was general unhappiness about the change, and people were motivated to find a reason to repeal the law (and cars and bad car-centric planning came in to save the day). It's very easy to take the wind out of a political movement for change, but not necessarily to put them back in. I've been meaning to read Jessie Singer's new book [1], and this seems similar in that regard. Rather than acknowledge that our society has built things (e.g. bad infrastructure) that cause harm (six children died) we instead point at the problem and any attempt to make change anywhere in the system is looked down upon because that would be interacting with the problem, which makes you responsible for any effect of it down the line [2].

Overall, I think my take-away is that we know that shifting the clocks twice a year causes some non-zero amount of suffering (and doesn't have a large justification for _why_). Rather than "Chesterton's fence" ourselves into inaction, we shouldn't let past reasons dictate our choices here. There's surely a lot of overhead with regard to making this change (my heart goes to anyone who has to work with international date / time APIs), but even with knowing that I still don't think it's a bad idea. A unanimous vote by the US Senate surely says that there's some will towards doing this, since it's rare for anything to be this bi-partisan nowadays...

[1]: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/There-Are-No-Accident...
[2]: https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
I guess it all depends on how nice you want things to look but hls.js [1] & rtsp-simple-server [2] are pretty easy to integrate.

Works well enough for me as a slingbox alternative but I'm also not running it as a business.

[1]: https://hls-js.netlify.app/demo/
[2]: https://github.com/aler9/rtsp-simple-server
Congrats on the launch!

Sorry if this is a silly question, but how does this differ from a tool like LogRocket?
That has nothing to do with this webpage's article.

Though, if you must know: The US has clearly said there are bio labs in Ukraine, and that they've built some and funded others.

The United States, through BTRP, has invested
approximately $200 million in Ukraine since
2005, supporting 46 Ukrainian laboratories,
health facilities, and diagnostic sites. [1]

And from the US Embassy in Ukraine:

BTRP has upgraded many laboratories for the
Ministry of Health and the State Food Safety
and Consumer Protection Service of Ukraine,
reaching Biosafety Level 2. In 2019, BTRP
constructed two laboratories for the latter,
one in Kyiv and one in Odesa. [2]

The 2005 agreement between the US DOD and Ministry of Health of Ukraine, signed in Kiev, is here. [3]

[1] https://media.defense.gov/2022/Mar/11/2002954612/-1/-1/0/FAC...

[2] https://ua.usembassy.gov/embassy/kyiv/sections-offices/defen...

[3] https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/05-829-Ukra...
That’s happening where I work.

There was a shock round of layoffs a few months ago, triggering a mass exodus. They’ve now had to start hiring again to make up numbers.

The amount of team disruption, lost domain knowledge and hiring expenses, especially as new people will want to be paid more, must have cost the business far more than they saved from the layoffs.

So short sighted.
I'm not sure what part of my comment you're referring to.
Fork them (just make a copy you own) so you have control?
I made highlights as well as formatting changes that I found insightful. Sharing it so that others can benefit from it too :)
At the time of the initial signing off the Rome Statute, Ukraine was a puppet state of Russia.

Since then, it has been on track to ratify the statute, recently affirming ICC jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes going as far back as the Euromaiden protests.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/02/ukraine-countries-reques...
Its so strange how people on this thread are complaining about the issues you mentioned, but twice every year I see articles on hackernews/other areas about how bad the effects of changing time to DST and back and how detrimental it is for everyone's health. People can't have it both ways.

My gut suspicion is why this passed is people are more angrier and stressed out/depressed than they have been in a very long time and its an appeasement so they don't take their anger out at the polls come November, that and it is an easy thing to change that requires next to no stimulus. I expect more of these appeasement bills to start passing as gas heads to the moon along with inflation.
I took it to mean any question that, if you don't have a good answer, means your startup shouldn't exist. Like if the answer to "why would someone use you instead of Google" is null, then you are probably not going to successfully compete with Google. Or, you could come up with the best tool that ever existed for converting WEBP images to PCX, and if you don't have an answer for "who on earth has used the PCX format in the past thirty years" then you're probably not gonna sell many copies of that tool.
But the article's author would probably regard "why would someone use your engine over Google" as a reasonably good question, as opposed to "nobody is going to use your engine over Google because it's a household verb".

It's not the same as the author's example "what makes you believe you can do better than Google" because that question assumes you are doing exactly the same thing as Google: that all the prospective users of the idea are fully satisfied with Google, and have to be convinced to use something else for no reason at all. Your "why would someone use your search engine over Google" is better; it's more closely in line with "how will you get your first users".
100%. Good memory, too. Slicehost probably deserves credit as well. I’m not arguing for who deserves it. Arguing for who doesn’t. Slicehost’s approach to a number of things was better in a lot of ways and they did documentation a little differently, but you’re right, the funnel concept is the same (between all three).

I miss them too. They were respectful competitors and I know they were generally liked by competitors. There’s just a fine line between getting the idea for a funnel and copying its entire execution down to subscribing to RSS. I think there was mutual respect between both companies on that. With DO, not so much.

To be clear, it’s not Apple vs Google here, it’s the idea of DO coming out of the gate with that execution being a stroke of genius. They had (thanks for the reminder) multiple precedences and actively copied from at least one.
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How many millimeters across and tall is the keyboard?