skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My main gripe with this article that I've thought about for years now after initially reading it is that the example ignores reality.

In the current system, how do I know what time it is in Australia? Two ways: I either look it up, or I know how many hours it is relative to me. Living in Germany now, I know my parents are -8 and some friends are -9. I still always have to do the math. This is still apriori knowledge necessary that the author just skims over

Compare this to if there were no time zones. I would still need to know when their solar noon was. The amount of information I would need to retain is the exact same. Looking it up would also be just the same, except the lookup would tell us the sun position instead of the local time.

Don't get me wrong, I mostly agree with the article's point. The example just never felt adequate.
> I have been called out?

Yes, recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30658026

and here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30627544

However I do not expect this to stop you from continuing to peddle the same misleading talking point to each new passer-by who didn't think to check just how one-note your comment history is.
Wouldn’t it make sense to ask them for citations than use their last/latest educational qualifications?

Isn’t it possible, a sales person is aware of something better than someone having an educational degree over it, esp when selling?
This is censorship. But in my opinion this is the same as US tech companies deciding who gets a platform and who doesn’t. Just different values.
Interesting! I’ve recently made a switch from C# to TypeScript and I’ve found prisma to be such a relief from working with entity framework.

Not that entity is bad in any way, it’s just not as productive. Which is sort of how I have it with most of the journey into TypeScript. It’s just a really great environment especially in Azure Function apps, and a massive cadeau to Microsoft for making the node in docker such a first class citizen in their Azure environment!

In many ways I feel like TypeScript is a mix of the best of Python and C# and that’s just wonderful, for me.

But writing things like Odata APIs in .Net sure has some benefits from the massive work Microsoft has done with the .net and C# environment since moving core into the main .net or however you describe it.

So now I’m not sure where I am going with this, I’m probably just very appreciative of the work Microsoft has done for us enterprise developers in non-tech enterprise in the past few years.
https://www.logicalfallacies.org/personal-incredulity.html
The devices don't work without OS
Solar noon is much harder to "remember" since it varies so much over the year (and over the yearS)
Thank you for the comprehensive answer!

Olive oil has indeed been one of the problematic ones for me - to be fair, it might simply come down to my inexperience cooking with induction

I think I will get some additional cast iron cookware when I make the switch. Hopefully it'll be able to retain the heat better between bursts and make the average temperature more stable :-)

I appreciate that you took the time to answer my question. Hope you have a pleasant day
This sounds really unusual, in my experience even Uber Lux usually shows up within a couple of minutes at 3-4 AM on weekdays.

I live in SW1 and end up in these situations on a weekly basis, I’ve never waited 30 minutes for a Uber.
My point was the explanations in the video are shower thoughts. If you want to understand why Russia is how it is just read a real history work on Russia not this guy’s shower thoughts
"One line per record, whitespace-delimited fields" is about the physically simplest file-format one can imagine (see: /etc/crontab, /etc/fstab), and that simplicity will keep implementation cost and complexity low for the generation script you write.

However, this generation script isn't a complete tool in and of itself; from your description it generates a YAML document which presumably is fed into some downstream system, while upstream you need to accept team names and DB user names among other things. I don't know your tech stack, but I can imagine that there's probably developers who work both upstream and downstream of this file format, with tools in different languages, different transports, different data stores. While it would be possible for every contact-point between different tools and technologies to use the simplest possible format for that interaction, that would generate an explosion of different micro-formats - some without quoting, some with URL encoding or base64 or backslash-escaping or JSON or YAML or ProtoBuf etc. etc. etc.

Instead, to reduce overall system complexity, it can be prudent to stick to one file-format everywhere. Sure, it'll be overkill in some places and nearly-inadequate in others, but the effort spent can pay for itself when everybody touching a file, a parser, or a serialiser knows what to expect and can jump between layers of the tech stack without having to re-learn the quirks of each layer every time. You even leave the door open for automated tools that scan all the config files from all the parts of the system and sanity-check them against each other.

There's an upper-limit too, of course. We don't use JSON encoding for web-pages and images and videos and databases and filesystems, because the benefits of a single standard encoding are outweighed by the drawbacks of JSON for those specific use-cases. But there's a wide span between "JSON is overkill" and "JSON is too primitive" and you can get a lot done in that space.
> put emphasis on the people committing crimes rather than the victim beating the criminals in court.

The sense of "win" here doesn't involve defeating anyone. It's the same sense in which you "win" money at a casino or "win" someone's heart.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/win

> 1a: to get possession of by effort or fortune

> 1b: to obtain by work: EARN
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bardc

Account created 15 days ago...
Yes but a tiny one.

1 or 2% of the population wearing a mask for a week isn't quite the same as 100% of the population wearing one for years (e.g. in Singapore or Hong Kong).
Yes I know, and it's a fair point. It's just the example they had never sat well with me.
> That's literally what the "poor" in "poor grammar" is doing, though. The phrase itself suggests that the speaker is lesser-than simply by virtue of not speaking in the same way as the listener would.

No, the "poor grammar" is just meaning "grammar that is incorrect" - I assume you're claiming that the meaning involves the speaker being poor? If that's what you believe, then I doubt anyone will convince you otherwise.

> It is not "incorrect". It is different. It is marked, maybe, for many native English speakers. But these are distinct things from "incorrect".

Literally everyone in this thread is using "incorrect" and being understood by everyone, so I don't see that you have any ground for claiming that "incorrect" is incorrect.

And you're still entirely missing that some things can be mistakes.
That's become a fact that much of science is funded from geo political factions. the further atomic combustion development is certainly a great example. it doesn't mean all science is, nor should be. you make it sound like the purpose of science research is to pursue particular political pursuits. and by doing that you are implicitly endorcing this view.

A reminder of significant science discoverers through history: Pythagoras, Archimedes, Aristotle, Da Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Plank, Bohr, Einstein.

one could hardly see a trend of politically funded or motived pursuits. what (most of) the greatest scientists have in common is that they researched and pushed science further on the name of science, most weren't funded politically, quite the opposite, some were in strict opposition with political status quo and were impeded by it.

I would agree that modern "science" has been for a large part corrupted by monetary gains, hijacked by private enterprises, governments, and (mis) guided by such. It may have always been so, all the future generations get to see is what's left of it, the skimmed gems that anyhow gets out of the few brilliant minds of the entire humanity.

It doesn't imply we should make it seem normal nor a desirable. Science in it's millenia long history, what it accomplished and the figures who accomplished it, their background, affiliation and funding (or lack of) isn't reflective of our current model. that is what my parent comment tries to highlight. Even Science magasine, one of the most respected journal, is increasingly discrediting itself by publishing politically heavy articles and headlines.

they could have kept this article apolitical, the title instead is so politically heavy it is borderline click bait or a tone of a state press conference statement.

down votes is only a reflection, what science has turned into is even being swallowed as legitimate even by one of the most technically educated fringe of our society. The HN readers.
Induction is excellent for wok.

Blame your induction heater or induction wok.
What's the advantage? That some scheduling system is easier to code?
In India, the drivers at Uber Bikes(paid better than rapido), Rapido(bike ride startup) are paid sooo damn low by these companies that we have to give them 20-30% extra on top of the actual ride price. How low you might ask ? 40 cents to travel 3-4Kms in my city. One Gallon of petrol costs over 6 Dollars in India. They keep showing these ads that the price is low to attract the customers, pay the drivers even less and then The customer and the drivers have to make a deal outside of the platform before the ride is even initiated. I have no idea how will the drivers survive with the extremely low wage. I have switched back to public transport just like the good ol days before the uber era.
> Is trusting those sources really an acceptable basis for any autonomous individual to proceed?

You yourself are awefully fond of basing elaborate narratives on dubious sources, which is fine, but why then stoop to high-school debate club level gaslighting like "Ultimately, this is an epistemological question - what do we know? And the only things one can say one knows, is stuff you have personally verified.", unless this is satire?
> Low light and DR depend solely on the quantity of light falling on the sensor.

To my understanding - If the pixels are smaller, the gaps between pixels are likely to make up a larger proportion of the sensor, so you do lose some light from this process, although there are definitely upsides to extra pixels if there is more detail to be resolved
We had Blueline in Harrogate too. And there was Apple Taxis in Exeter with an app. Ideally Uber should just be an interface that ties these different companies together.

At least here in Berlin, when I book via Uber, I'm told more often than not that it won't be an Uber picking me up but a normal taxi.
Or... we could store Terrestrial Time and treat leap seconds as part of the timezone data.

This isn't a complete panacea, there would still be clock drift and updates could still cause time to be non-monotonic. But a timestamp would have a consistent meaning, and the TT->UTC conversion could be taken care of as just another step in localization.

Why on Earth was the decision taken in the first place to have NTP operate off UTC?
Jack Kerouac: still roadworthy after 100 years
I don’t think this is bitemporal, though: they’re two different “views” of the same time.
If it happens all the time, then how is it "unusual" as the title say?
The difference is something like storing your comment was made at 2022-03-13+10:40. Which the time zone has been set and will always be the same at as it's in the past vs "set an alarm for 2023-03-13+6:00" I want the to happen at 6:00am whether or not my country continues to observe day light saving time.
Getting a common cold is not dangerous to practically anyone. To assert that suppression of a common cold virus is state sanctioned murder is not appropriate. And a people built by a brutal, and frankly evil, regime are not the best arbiters of rational response to totalitariansim.
Donate it to a kid in Yemen.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220313104836/https://www.econo...

'There are practical reasons to ask children to grapple with grammar, too. One is that an explicit knowledge of it will make learning a foreign language easier.'
Doesn't help you much if you stored an UTC for a future meeting, then the TZ rules change, and then you show up an hour late.
Literacy is known at the top for things like the Iliad or the works of Shakespeare, but the major benefits are actually much more mundane, like allowing doctors to write prescriptions or being able to have instructions in a manual.

Similarly, you may never write an OS or a AAA game, but being able to just automate a teeny tiny bit of your Excel spreadsheet, that's where software literacy will benefit the most people.
Right, but that's what I don't understand. Why introduce mandarin into the mix at all?

Malay: National Language

English: International langauge

Hokkien: Mother tongue

Mandarin: ???

I genuinely don't understand why a brand new language that wasn't traditionally spoken into the area was introduced.
Not at all. Induction is extremely efficient and that comparison is incorrect.
> Very remarkable that there's a surviving ~3,770 year old written document

> King Tushratta of Mitanni

Tangent, but Tushratta is one of my favorite historical examples for a completely different reason.

Tushratta's uncle killed his [Tushratta's] father in a coup and made himself regent for Tushratta. He then had Tushratta raised in isolation, with contact between Tushratta and other members of his family forbidden.

When Tushratta reached the age of majority, the uncle peacefully transferred power to him.

And, in a move that would utterly fail to surprise anyone from a civilization more recent than 3,800 years ago, Tushratta's first act as king was to have his uncle and his uncle's lackeys executed.

It still boggles my mind that the uncle allowed the power transfer to take place. Did he not realize what would happen?
Yes, -F, -X, and -T.

The issue is, I think, people are expressing a desire for a tool that can still salvage data even when you've gone through all the (128/N) -T options and found them all unhelpful.
Yes? But given that our history with nuclear waste is a blip and we have to make sure it continue to works throughout wars, dictatorships and so on for the next 10 000 years, then how is the current track record relevant?

It's akin to saying it's safe to eat led because I did it 5 minutes ago and so far I'm feeling perfectly fine. It's an argument which either is some form or propaganda or just stupid.
> They have the political environment for it (more authoritarian), and a society more willing to make sacrifices for the "common good".

For a definition of "better" that most sane people wouldn't accept.
Death to Facebook and meta is what I call for.
"A blank sign? They could be protesting covid restrictions! Off to jail!"
Just parroting the word "shower thought" isn't making any effect here. How about presenting an opposite view instead?
It's a kind of artificial textile. For face masks it needs to be small enough to filter large droplets, but large enough for air. It also has an electric charge to bind very small particles to the fabric. So not your ordinary fabric.
Discussion from 3 days ago with more than 300 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30632695
The fact is that there is no fallacy. Whether the comparison is warranted is a whole nother issue. There is no reason to gish-gallop.
Common language and consistency in communication of times globally both now and in the future for all humans.

This gets even more complicated when you have to consider the problems of communicating between planets.
Javis.jl
I would like to see a real assessment of the concept of identity in the UK.

Too many organisations rely on basic (and easily faked) paper-based documents to obtain "proof" of identity.

Cases like the one where someone's house was "stolen" (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-59069662) demonstrate that too much trust is placed in pieces of paper - even those issued by government agencies.

When I moved home a few years ago, I was able to prove to the estate agent and solicitors that I owned the property and could sell it to get £250,000+ in my bank account, but I didn't have enough paper bills to prove to Royal Mail that I lived at the property to redirect my post.

Having the government involved in this process is a necessary evil.
What's wrong with ethnic music?

Well, I was in an Indian store recently and they were playing this story from the radio, I'll admit it wasn't a pleasant experience.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-60676276
Swatch came up with the "at-time" but it didn't take off for some reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
When the west fully embargoes Russian oil, China will be buying it for whatever discount it wants!
> Do we really believe that in another 100 years or so we won't have a way to safely reprocess this waste?

I have no idea. People were supposed to transport themselves to work by the use of flying cars today. If you think that you can predict the future then please wait a minute while I laugh.
MTProto2 has no published audits nor even overviews that any trusted security researcher has found serious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24832256

WhatsApp stores credentials in iCloud Keychain on iOS which is properly e2ee’d.

Signal recipient bug was serious, very rare, and hard to catch due to lack of log collection.
> GPS spoofing is hard to stop because the signal the satellites emit from low-Earth orbit to potentially add encryption and certificates cannot be changed.

Why ? I thought the military GPS signals were encrypted. They could make a new GPS version on a new frequency with at least crypto signed messages.

We can’t have such a flaw on the protocol forever.
Sure, but at night the car will probably be in place for, say, 10 hours, every night. Not faffing jumping between places and trying to find a public charging point. Even just driving to work and charging there is say 6 hours of continuous charging. The main block of time will still be at night.
As a "staff-plus" engineer at one of the big tech companies, I find that much of this material is simply not true in practice.

Staff promotions are of course given to some people with a good mastery of soft leadership skills, technical thought leadership and related qualities.

They are also given out for a number of other reasons. For example, when someone is perceived as a flight risk, because it makes their manager look good to promote their team, because someone has been given a lot of responsibility, whether or not they're good at handling it, because it's good for team morale to show that promotion is achievable, or because it can make a headache go away for the manager.

These reasons are all perfectly valid. But let's not overdo the Jedi-like "staff-plus" engineer trope.
This article is conflating all kinds of things. It says traditional cooking "outperforms" modern but is using a metric that essentially nobody cares about (thermal efficiency). It's just motivated reasoning to argue against electricity.

> The main discrepancy with these figures is caused when one doesn't take into account that electricity first needs to be produced in power plants which sometimes convert less than a third of the primary energy into electricity

That is, induction stoves are about 90% efficient at converting electricity to useful heat, but your electricity generation may not be depending on where you live. It's the same argument people make against electric cars and heat pumps.

As the grid decarbonises, electric cooking will become far more favourable than combustion cooking in terms of CO2 until eventually, hopefully, it is entirely zero emission.

Indeed the article doesn't seem to focus on what could have been its strongest argument: wood/biomass already IS carbon neutral, provided it's sustainably farmed. That does, however, exclude the fossil fuels used in production and distribution which may be significant or zero depending on source, but are usually quite low, albeit human resource intensive. If you want to go one layer deep you should aggregate up the carbon output of all the labour going into the production system but I digress.

Thermal efficiency only matters if you consider the carbon intensity of the source of the energy.

Besides, the major problem with combustion cooking is the particulates anyway, which are immensely better on an electric stove. And the article seems to consider convenience as an irrelevance rather than the primary motivating factor of essentially all technological development.
That’s a bit of an absurd take. Uber entered the UK market in 2012 when he was 25 and you 15, surely he’d have been in the target demographic before you? I’m in a similar age bracket and everyone I know uses Uber rather than black cabs.
Well, it might be so but what's the point in Russia pissing off Finland while a good chunk of its forces is dedicated to the war in Ukraine? They're irrational but surely going "Let's start a war on TWO fronts!" is a step too far even for them?
One of my children is in 5th grade in a school that is well known for a rigorous education. She does well, probably the top student or at least one of the top in her year, but I find that her lack of understanding of what she is studying is a bit worrying. She learns the material well for the tests but really has very little depth of knowledge, as the author describes for his daughter in this article. I sometimes ask her questions about what she is studying and if it is outside the narrow confines of what she needs to know she will not have thought about it - she doesn’t have time! I think the idea is to set down a base of knowledge that will then be there for the kids when they need go more in depth later, or at least I hope so. She really enjoys school and it is better for her than her previous school where she was very bored, but I’m not yet convinced of the long term benefits of this type of education.
Unrefined meteoric iron is brittle, yes. When you remove the impurities, it works just like normal iron though. But it was the only source of iron available to some cultures for a long time.

Humans originally used meteoric metal became they lacked the ability to mine and smelt the ore themselves. When humanity gained the technological ability to reliably and economically refine iron ore themselves, meteoric metal was discarded (rightfully) as inferior and more trouble than it was worth.
Not a great article. It's basically a giant straw man perched on top of zoneinfo which is a massive database showing exactly what a shit show we got ourselves into as a species with the conclusion that it's going to hurt to fix it. Yeah it will. But it's death by a thousand paper cuts at the moment. I'm not sure we should even have a zoneinfo database or have that level of complexity to manage by chance.

Case in point: Europe abolished DST absolutely fine to decrease complexity.

But this is not a technical concern. This is a human concern.

Reality is watching one dude in Australia meet his friend an hour early by accident because they couldn't even work it out with local domain knowledge. This happens all the time. The amount of Zoom meetings I get into because no one can work it out or they had their Outlook set up in the wrong time zone because they were travelling is insane.

The only viable solution to these issues is a common, unified zone for scheduling which probably should leverage UTC.