skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, so the two examples given are someone who can't figure out what their out-of-pocket costs will be, and someone who hasn't heard back about an application, and your conclusion is that universal health insurance, which wouldn't have any out-of-pocket costs or out-of-network doctors and wouldn't have applications because everyone would already have it ... would be a bad thing?

That seems a very strange conclusion to me. Health care in the US is a mess right now, public or private, largely because of the mess caused by extreme privatization. Half of the problems people have with health care would vanish overnight if we had universal health coverage.
You could just phone a cab, no? That's what I did anyway; it's less convenient than an app, but back in the day you didn't have mobile phones either so not much option really. I don't really see how an "app" is fundamentally all that different, and it's kind of an obvious thing to add once smartphones become popular.

I agree that Uber injected some fresh energy in a somewhat complacent market, but the real "innovation" with Uber is with its business model ("employees but not employees") and willingness to just ignore local laws. This I think is the real point of the article; for all the pompous bloviating about being "disruption" and "changing the world", the actual real change is actually not all that large, with many of the changes being of doubtful or even negative worth.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30660126
This game is over. There is no way uber is getting a monopoly on taxi service. The popularity of uber has had the wrong effect: taxi companies are getting apps now, and other ridesharing companies are trying to get a piece of the action. There will not be a monopoly except in the places that are truly unprofitable to service.
If you are moving from "emissions" to "energy usage", then electric cars also do nothing. The question is if emissions went down, not energy use.

NASA says that CO2 emissions were down, so does the NIH. About 5%.

But that's only greenhouse gases. Air pollution was down as well. Because it turns out non-CO2 pollution in smokestacks can be absorbed by filters not present on tailpipes.
That must be great for productivity!
Russian air fleet was essentially grounded by the sanctions, so it seems to be a tit-for-tat tactics.
Gradually they'll start the propaganda engines to normalise its spread, and at some point they'll drop all restrictions while somehow spinning it as a success. They can't do it suddenly, like was done in the West, as that'd contradict their entire strategy far too violently.
Not very often that system timestamp and UTC related posts sometimes appear on HN front page

I think 3 days ago I was checking on it again, because I was wondering how websites put timestamp in their published RSS/atom feed

https://hackerdaily.io RSS feed made me confused, to select timezone for the RSS feed as they want to think "Yesterday" means different thing for different timezone, not sure why, but I don't want to confused myself thinking how timezone and "Yesterday" work together

HN is using UTC, I realized that by hovering the mouse pointer on the "2 hours ago"

Again, if people don't want to use UTC for future events it's their choice. Personally I would advocate to use UTC and manually calculate the local datetime for future event, even if local timezone changes

You know, I wonder how watches work in this case, how do you alter the time on your watches according to the DST changes? The mechanical engineer of the watch takes this bug into account?
You appeared to have given up on being able to answer the question "Is coal/peat/oil a better option than nuclear/solar/wind". Some of those questions are tricky, once you get to the level of which of these should be combined in what locations to absolutely maximize the system and what the trade-offs are, but some are easy. For example, peat is a bad fuel for all sorts of reasons. Yes assuming different interests rates or counting the effects of illness differently will affect different models in different ways, but peat is still a stupid thing to be burning for electricity in 2022. This is something we know.

Throwing your hands up and declaring the whole thing unknowable just because (I assume) the expert consensus is coming up with a different answer than you were confidently told and believed about renewables for decades by talking heads in your media bubble seems a weak cop out.

Either prove to everyone that it's a big conspiracy and you were right all along, or convince yourself that what you were told previously was a big conspiracy. One of these options is true.
Excepting star-power labor (professional athletes, entertainers), most of the income in the upper tax brackets goes to the owners of capital. When stocks pay dividends, the dividends are taxed as income. If you raise taxes on upper-tax-bracket income, you just promote stock-based compensation instead: compensation in stock options (which are taxed as capital gains when realized, not income), stock buy-backs instead of issuing dividends (again, capital gains rather than income), etc.

The long-term capital gains tax rate, for those in high tax brackets, is 20%.

Go ahead, set the income tax rate for high tax brackets to seventy percent. It won't actually make a difference.
There are extractors that work without a vent, they filter and release on the same space. I am not saying that was your case, or even if it was, the filters were properly maintained, just saying that those hoods exists. Searching for Recirculating Range Hoods would give more info about those
Oh really? Apparently Russia is conducting a military exercise in Ukraine.
Can we get an open source gig economy app where 75% of the profits go to gig workers? Then 7.5% would go towards employee rights and benefits of gig workers, 7.5% towards contributors improving the software, and 10% towards customer support and legal third parties.
> 1. If you're recording an event in the past, store it in UTC.

Why not epoch? An integer always means epoch. A human readable timestamp, unless it's exactly ISO8601, is pretty much always ambiguous.

> 2. [...] plus a timezone (not an offset).

Why not offset? ISO8601 is a good standard.

And it takes a very special use case to care about leap seconds. For logging "leap smear" is clearly a better way to solve it, and for time measurements you should always use a monotonic clock, not wall clock.

Oh, and with timezone I assume you mean something like "Europe/New_York", not ambiguous like "EST".

> A date is a period, so either just store the date without a timezone

Of course some dates don't exist in some timezones (and I mean more modern times than gregorian/julian). So you can't count days between two dates without knowing the timezone.

In my opinion there are only two ways to store timestamps that are actually correct: epoch, or iso8601. Everything else will eventually lead to data corruption.

(and even with these two you have to be careful)
Things that can kill a 70 year old include such threats as falling over, or moderate exercise. At no point in thousands of years of human history have we seriously tried to keep all the 70 year olds who were alive at the start of the year alive at the start oft he next year. It isn't possible.

60s is a different thing, but at 70 there are very real questions about whether a quarantine is even worth it. Do you risk losing half your remaining lifespan in a quarantine, attempting to avoid a 30% chance of death? The calculus is grim, but that doesn't mean it should be ignored.
Honestly at this point we as programmers shouldn't be storing "local time" or timezones, we should be storing latitude and longitude coordinates.

Everyone has a GPS in their pockets, and timezones and their changes are determined by location anyway.
I have an induction stove. It works (fine-grained temperature, fast heating, easy cleaning, no heat in kitchen) but I find stove cooking in general to be unsatisfying. It just seems like a very tricky way to cook food. For starters, you have to use some kind of oil, and most oil is not even good for you when heated at high temperatures. I would much prefer to cook everything on a bbq or some kind of oven method. That bbq taste is so obvious and special, and oven cooking is so easy.
>In fact, if the US can interfere in a country that's thousands miles away by funding extremist military groups, I find it way more legitimate for Russia to fund Russian separatists in the Donbas region, which has historically had strong ties with Russia and whose population would rather stay there than join the "Western" side. It's also interesting how everybody always talks about self-determination, but only in the case where people want to "self-determine" themselves in the right direction. I would be interested in knowing why it doesn't apply in this case.

US bombed Yogoslavia into Oblivion for not agreeing to secession of a historical Serbian territory, Kosovo.

Sure, those bombs killed innocent civilians and even children but no one from the West decried those murders.
yeah that talk is designed to reinforce your bias by mixing a bit of history to make it look scientific. just watch a real history of Russia lecture. you’re basically watching a history lecture from a career spy instead of from a historian. and you think I am a victim of propaganda lol
It's not like people would be stuck in the house otherwise. It's just that people would have taken public transport, their own car, or went by foot or bicycle before. I'm very skeptical of this claim that Uber increased mobility.
Note that his view is far from marginal. Lots of experts share the the same analysis. Including Chomsky, or ex US ambassador to USSR [1]

[1] https://www.democracynow.org/2022/2/17/jack_matlock_ukraine_...

This is also quite consistent with Putin's revendications over time. It's a sensitive topic but to me Mearsheimer's explanation makes more sense than "Putin got crazy overnight and want to rule Europe", like we often hear in the medias.
The link is to a discussion:

>Sigh. That Stack Exchange answer is incredibly old and points to the flaws everyone knew in MTProto 1, which has been superseded by MTProto 2 for years.

Telegram's 1 on 1 secret chats are quite simple and straightforward in design. It is unlikely that there are any security issues in there. Telegram has the same usability issue that the rest of these end to end encrypted instant messengers have. They base all the security on having the users compare some ridiculously long numbers and then downplay the whole thing.
Thanks for the recommendation. It doesn't look like my style of book but wikipedia says it's highly acclaimed so I understand why you say he's a great writer.
If that's the case the richest company in the world should invest more in this area.

They don't care because it's an Invisible win and means admitting something is wrong here. Something Apple is legendarily bad at.
Fascinating article, thanks for the pointer.

> Sellers, however, do not remain passive. They have long tried to minimize the legal and reputational risks posed by nudniks. The advent of big data and predictive analytics provides sellers with a game changer: the ability to identify which consumer is a potential nudnik (that is, which consumer is likely to complain publicly and draw attention to seller underperformance), before that consumer even sets foot in their store. Sellers can then silently disarm nudniks or avoid selling to them altogether. This development benefits sellers, as it reduces the legal and reputational risks from nudniks. It may even benefit nudniks themselves, to the extent sellers disarm them by offering them preferential treatment. Yet the development poses a large risk to the greater consumer body, as it deprives consumers of a valuable source of information on seller misbehavior, thereby reducing the effectiveness of market discipline.
Honestly, if you're a beginner in the machine learning space, you're not going to need GPUs for a LONG time, and would benefit from learning what's going on under the hood. Install Python on your machine, learn to structure your projects well, environments and requirements, etc. if and when you need more, figure it out then.
It's not! The strangely named "Dispatchable 2" can be turned on as an option; it's based on the economics of the EPR (although you can change all the assumptions as needed.) If you do that, you'll find the solutions tend to be either "no nuclear" or "all nuclear", depending on the cost assumptions. This is a counter to the people who suggest "renewables, but use nuclear to cover the last 20%", which is a dumb idea.
I can say the same re: KeepassXC. I'm using it on all my devices (except Keepass2Android on my phone) and synchronize the database using Syncthing. Works like a charm.

The one gripe I have with it is its KeeAgent emulation on Windows: It works with Putty (AFAIK) and Microsoft's official OpenSSH port (which gets more and more out of date), but it doesn't mesh well with MSYS2 or Cygwin. And interoperability between those is still really poor.
>That's quite normal in western democracies.

Well, there are a lot of things one can say about these countries, but we're talking about the Soviets here. The Western flaws don't excuse the 'idealistic' Soviets.

>In my eyes, a state based on soviet sovereignty, even with a strong executive in emergency situations, would be a very democratic state.

A pity the Communists never ever tried to implement soviet sovereignty.

>That's what the Bolsheviks said they wanted to deliver, and I don't see why we shouldn't believe them.

Their very consistent actual record?
I think that is an unfair summarisation since all the Wright brothers did was fly a very non-practical plane for about ten seconds as a kind of "MVP". There was no market. Commercial airliners took that core technology, refined it, and used it to actually create an entire new service and market.
IMHO, such apps should be considered infrastructure and be regulated accordingly (or be managed by foundations).
Interesting, there were also all those drone incursions over nuclear facilities…
No, this is not a display rule. This is the domain data type "local time", which stores time component without offset or time zone.

Data stored this way is basically telling that regardless of current UTC offset, locally on the clock there will be always the same time shown.

Display rules are saying how exactly this time will be displayed on the clock (i.e. locale, 12/24 hour format etc). Wall clocks usually do not show "am/pm" information, so the same time indeed may occur twice on them.
It's hard enough to agree what a "meeting next Friday" means. Is "next Friday" three days from now, or ten days from now? Everyone knows, and feels strongly, but people don't agree.

This would now introduce ambiguities in "see you tomorrow for dinner". I thought you said tonight? Yes, tonight is tomorrow. But we can start today and party until dinnertime tomorrow.

No, this doesn't work.
> But that would leak all of my DNS queries in cleartext.

The longer-term solution is to wait for DoT to become prevalent in authorative servers.

But, realistically, won’t you “leak” your IP anyway when you make your actual connection? I mean, why are you looking up things in the DNS if not to connect to them? And if you make a connection, you leak your IP.

If you’re not concerned with the other party’s DNS servers, but with the root servers and TLD DNS servers snooping on your queries, I think you’ll have to wait for QNAME minimization to arrive.
it still will be better than what we have now. medicare spends 95% of it's budget on health care. most private insurance spends 20 to 30% on hiring people to make up reasons to deny your claim.
The chance of losing a nuclear weapon out of the control of said dictators increases too
This is awesome! Please add an optional bike too (outside only)
Titles are overrated anyway. Not useless, just overrated.
> Your paycheck signer

Very classy argument.
I tried this Telegram feature out some years ago but have it turned off since then. Spammers still find me, overly sexy profiles starting a conversation with a "xyz is 3km away" banner above the chat. One legit person also started a conversation once, they said I appeared as within a few km in a nearby city, so it doesn't seem to be my home address that I'm sharing.

Is there a way to find out which location I've been sharing? (I'd be happy to PM someone my phone number if you've already set up this trilateration script.)

And secondarily (damage is done now anyway) how to remove this last seen location?
> Or that, but I thought that advertising the products of a competitor with dubious ethical standards would be poor form.

Show me where are Roland's analogue TR808,TR909 or TB303 in retail? That's right, there are none.

The patents on all these circuit designs have expired long ago. Behringer is just offering a cheap analogue alternative to unaffordable used gear.

The boutique devices you listed are not analogue so they aren't more authentic to the original than Behringer devices. If anything, it's no less of dubious marketing.
AFAIK you want the biggest pixels you can for the resolution you want in order to cut down on noise, no?

The only exception to this (which proves the rule IMO) is that Nokia 40 megapixel phone that came out a while ago. It deliberately recorded 5mp photos, using the 40mp of data to intelligently average the pixel information, rejecting noise it could detect in software. It was unfortunately married to a less-than-stellar smartphone so I don't think it sold well despite the pictures being beautiful (IIRC at the time it's low-light performance couldn't be beat).
even when you keep making new accounts and "losing" the packages!
And Putin came personally to 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest to tell that Russia won't tolerate this.
Show HN: Self-hosted service for creating random avatars
I suggest doing a quick search on “airtag found stolen X” where X is small valuable item that a person might want back.
>Entity framework is one of the best ORMs

Yes, I think it is the best ORM in terms of productivity, but it is very, very slow. This is usually not a concern for internal enterprise applications that only have a few people using them at a time though. I guess the other issue is just an issue with ORMs in general - you lose a lot of the in-built features of your sql database, which as projects progress, can ultimately result in you writing the same amount of code as if you didn't use the ORM.

You also can't switch programming languages without rewriting the entire database section. Personally, I stopped using ORMs altogether because I find that they make easy things a little easier, and hard things harder, which isn't a very good value proposition overall. They don't really save me time anymore.
I think the general rule in Europe is that your employer may record your screen as long as you know it's happening.
> In the .Net world, if MS released a certain library, that would become the de facto choice for nearly everyone in the ecosystem. Competing with the MS options was almost impossible.

While I get your point, I personally prefer it this way. Whatever Microsoft will put out will at least be “ok”, regularly bug fixed and supported for ever and ever.

I prefer to having an ok default and just rolling with it.
> I think people find it very easy to judge parenting from the outside and/or with hindsight, whether their own or other peoples.

Surely it is easier in hindsight. Nevertheless, there’s this golden rule of “parents should always be forgiven” when if fact it should be “children should not be forced to keep their connection to parents if they don’t want to”.

You, as a parent, are not giving them the “chance to live”, you are bringing them to a world where they probably want to be happy, and if you failed to make them happy they should not be forced to keep you in their life because “a parent gave them the privilege of living”.

Yes parenting is hard. Yes I understand parents make unoptimal decisions all the time. That’s their problem.
Then you have to tax stock-based income. Any employee acquiring stocks must report it one time as income and get taxed on it. No capitalism back doors. However we figure it out, the wealthy need to pay more into annual tax revenues.

A functioning society requires a large and happy middle class, affordable liberal arts college, strong K-12 teaching, and time off.
I would still maintain that only because you're an expert you don't have superhuman abilities of controlling your attention/boredom.

You say we can't absolve the experts from responsibility here, but it appears you want to absolve the presenters of any kind of responsibility.

Why do these experts need superhuman focus abilities while the presenters needn't even have the presentation skills of 8th graders?

But in the end we should maybe change the format of conveying information completely, whoever is to blame here.
I’ve had bugs with number 5 when I wanted to encode historical dates with a pre-Gregorian calendar. Even timezones on their own don’t help when you need to account for differing calendars.
Taxis in Shanghai were terrible. They weren’t much better in Ireland. They didn’t stop for foreigners (in Shanghai). They refused to take you if they didn’t feel like going where you wanted to go after you flagged them down. Uber and its copycats made the world better by making the “regulators” irrelevant. Taking a good taxi experience from a thing in some cities in some countries to everywhere they operated was and is massive.
if we force the rich use the same system the poor use, wait times will plummet.
It's funny you call it 1G instead of 1B. I've never seen people do that. Now I think about it, why is GB not called BB?

Btw, it's 1.5G, not 1G.

Btw, the Chinese government lies about many things but the COVID case numbers weren't lies, at least no lies after March 2020.
whats happening here is westerners are made to remember why speech freedom was important in the first place
I'm a big fan of Enpass [1]. It's user friendly enough for the not so technical members of my family to use it and importantly (for me) sync is achieved via encrypted files stored on Google Drive (other services such as Dropbox are also supported).

[1] https://www.enpass.io/
I don't think Ucraine will ever be a member of the EU since that requires the agreement of all member countries.
I agree it’s a trivial amount of water and both can go without using water, the point was solar is on average vastly less.

However, wastewater is just water. Look at a long river and towns upstream dump their wastewater into rivers that towns and cities downstream collect as municipal water.
Absolutely — the sudden lionization of the term "staff" seems to be a combination of a personal marketing push (from those selling the shovels) combined with being a useful recruiting strategy.

At one big tech company I worked at, it was never mentioned even once for years and years, and then introduced very suddenly. All existing engineers were grouped into staff versus non-staff based on their existing level, and from then on it was used for recruiting purposes — a superior title to sweeten the offer pot for experienced engineers in a competitive talent market.

I'm personally familiar with some of the people being interviewed on this list and they're fine engineers, but certainly no better than many non-staff engineers at their same companies. And to imply that they're some kind of rare, exotic special species that's totally apart from their non-staff counterparts is in total honesty, just weird.

Nearest I can tell, the term "staff engineer" was an unusual one in use at certain shops, and was popularized big time around 2020. I've kept every recruiter email I've ever gotten since 2018. Prior to 2020, the term "staff" was mentioned in exactly two of them. Starting around Feb 2020, it's now mentioned in 20+ emails a year. Before it, we just used other terms like "principal" instead.