skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP picked that example because the article explicitly calls it a bad question. The third paragraph of the article:

>Let’s say your friend is obsessed with building a new search-engine. When you ask them why do they believe they can do better than Google, you are literally telling them that they shouldn’t be doing this since if it was ‘correct’ or possible or profitable, then Google would have already done that. This is bad.
I disagree with the article. Also existential questions are something different than what the article author believes to be.

And somehow agree with not being mean, but if a person is going to be discourage by such very common and non evil meanly formulated comments, how are they going to survive in the wild?

Still constructive critique is more useful.
“Why should I read your article?”
Scheduling recurring meetings that span the United States and Australia is always a calendaring shock. Both countries observe daylight savings time but, being in different hemispheres, they move in opposite directions. And on different dates.
Yes, you’ve correctly identified the problem.
The website I linked is a list of members of a webring, because such a survey presents more examples than a single page can. The creators of the pages in the webring are predominantly gen z. The argument it is supporting is about which people want which strains of 90s web design to come back. If you look at a few pages in the webring you will see which strains these young people, at least, want. That's what I'm saying. Whether you consider it horrible is immaterial.
To me it does matter as it messes up my biological clock. My body will tell me close to a week that I should or should not be sleeping, waking up, lunch or have dinner. The lost sleep and disorientation is real for me.

Besides that, I hate people fidgeting with the clock. Stop DST permanently, please!
Author of the post here. Trying to respond to some of the comments. Firstly, apologies- I didn't intend to make anything click-baity. As a matter of fact, I didn't even post it here. I realized that I could have titled my post like "How to ask founders good questions".

But, and in all honesty, as a founder, it did/does feel such questions are existential. I used _search-engine_ as a mask, I'm actually building a deep-tech (I've commented/posted on HN before).

When you put everything on the line to build a startup for a mission you believe in to the extent that you can't even separate your existence from your startups 90% of the awake hours, then when such questions come from (this is important) "a specific set of stakeholders", it does become existential. I love being asked all these things from a random person or at a random pitch event. But when you're my colleague, co-founder, or my hero, or a potential investor who I've been in the loop with for weeks, then when you ask such questions, it does get hard.

Someone below suggested that such people probably shouldn't start a startup, but on the contrary, I wrote it not to whine about myself, but only with the sincere hope that if there's someone who is less tougher than I am, he/she would be more cared for (in the odd chance that someone reads it).

The true origin of this post was in my experience with building my indoor farming startup that will grow the best quality produce, cheaper, and way more resource efficiently than traditional agriculture. Ofc I've done my homework and I am actually taking a risk and doing the very uncomfortable by deciding to work on it. Imagine jumping back and forth between research-papers, circuit diagrams, dying-plants, finance, etc. etc., and then someone very relevant asks/tells you "you can't beat the oldest industry known to humankind", or "why can Infarm (a unicorn in the vertical) not do this?", "maybe just work on indoor grow lights (since it fits more into the standard lean startup model". In that moment, it seems existential. Maybe I interpret it wrong, but I interpret it as if you're telling me that my startup shouldn't (can't exist) and yes I'm so obsessed with my startup that I take it personally (again, only when it comes from specific stakeholders). I can give them the numbers, but if they say it can't be done or if it could have been done, it would have been done, then that's same as saying that I should shut up.
twitter overview: https://mobile.twitter.com/matthewcp/status/1502353712483872...
Maybe attend some startup/tech conferences. Oftentimes, even launched startups are still looking for someone to implement their ideas.
Really? That’s honestly not an issue I have. My day to day dependency management story is just using go get and go mod tidy. It just works fine, and I work with a fair share of services and dependencies.

Can you share some issues you have?
That does not seem like something that will work well in a totalitarian state.
Yes in absence, because the seasonal switches are rather unhealthy.

Wrt. sources I don't have any english ones at hand without looking them up. But it shouldn't be to hard to find. I mean like I said it's pretty much consensus as far as I know between sleep scientist.

Through like always it's a bit more nounced, like it's not worse for all people, but the larger group of people and it makes effects of social jetlack and similar worse (as it overlaps with them, maybe also because of people will change their action but that's hard to include in a prediction).

EDIT: I'm currently wondering if less healthy working conditions in the US might affect what is worse/better. Also the consensus is wrt. Germany not necessary the US, I was a bit oversimplifying things.
I wonder if they said the same when Russia invaded in 2014.
Cops beat people quite often in the US, and exactly zero-point-never times is it to save the life of a child. Yet for some reason, you find it necessary to bring up that one time in New Zealand to justify torture. I'm sorry, but I find that baffling. Seems to me very much not tuned to reality, but maybe we should just agree to disagree here.
Telcos and Mobile Money services where I come from (Malawi, Africa) use USSD extensively and it works well. So much so that even though some Telcos have Android applications for some of those services - people still mostly rely on USSD menu-driven applications to perform tasks like buying airtime, and sending and withdrawing money.
You're not wrong. I know people in finance and insurance have to deal with these things in perpetuity because they're always looking backward and forward in time. Banks first starting running into the Y2K problem in 1970, because of 30 year mortgages. Which means they've been dealing with 2038 problems for almost 15 years already.

Moving DST is my pettiest reason for disliking George W Bush. Flashbacks to the last few times I had to fix time offsets for some country or state that opted out.
Then we lose the conceit that we're doing it for the kids' benefit.
Possible Hazmat Situation Prompts Evacuation at Apple Campus in Cupertino
The books reviewed are

"The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze" by Laura Shin

"DeFi and the Future of Finance" by Campbell Harvey et al.

"The Infinite Machine : How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum" by Camila Russo
Not only that, but despite all of the other syntactic sugar Go is lacking (usually sorely, such as a “try” error handler), the switch statement is really just an “if” statement in disguise.

var someVar, anotherVar string
// ...
switch {
case someVar == "whatever":
fmt.Println("Tell me how, exactly,")
case anotherVar == "nope":
fmt.Println("this compiles to a jump table?")
default:
fmt.Println("Spoiler: it doesn't.")
}
There’s a « replace » directive in go.mod.
Ahh gotcha. Thanks
I'd be happy if so. Somehow I remember that Caltech incident happened only a few years ago.
I'm hoping it's because they wanted everyone to save their money for Zen4 16 cores with 3D cache. The reasons are probably thermal related though
> I think I can say this on behalf of most developers who have ever had to fix DST errors in their code: Thank fucking god.

I think it just means for all American developers it's _more_ likely they'll introduce bugs if they cater to an international audience and there's still countries with DST.

DST has always been a good way to get Devs to think about the timezone database. If people start relying on offsets more that's not a net good thing, until the entire world is done with DST.
> If a human is incapable of operating an EV, they wouldn't be capable of operating an ICE car either, and as such they shouldn't be in possession of a drivers license.

Have you seen those discussions about American drivers where driving is basically a human right after 16 years since most Americans live in places with no or bad public transport?

I don't even know if they test old drivers regularly in the US.
Daylight Saving Time Gripe Assistant Tool
"A handy tool to help make your case when whining about a biannual time change"
https://observablehq.com/@awoodruff/daylight-saving-time-gri...
It's not a public good. It's a private enterprise and preferential entertainment, even if 99 or 100% of the population enjoy it.
It has its positives and negatives. It’s pretty misleading to couch a prediction about a one time event in percentage terms; remember 538’s confidence that Hillary would win the election in 2016?
> Even if we take the perspective that we need complete coordination across the board, it still seems weird to me that our solution to that isn't to regulate that business hours should shift in the winter, it's to regulate that time itself bend to our whims.

that's how it works, though. We have a calendar with 365 days, turns out that's not quite how reality works. We could reallocate our calendar to fit reality, but it's easier to make reality fit our calendar.
Ok looks like I was wrong.

Is the openc906 definitely the same design as the one in the D1? It looks like it is but I have been bitten by xyz vs. open-xyz subtlety before.
Who will become #3 if GCP is going on #4?
The parent commenter is which the author of this blog post expressed their confidence in this analysis as a percentage, i.e. I'm 65% sure that Russia will lose; or I give Russia a 65% change of winning.

That way it's easy to compare different opinions and see who was "more right".
is that adjusted for inflation?

$1 in 1991 is almost exactly $2 in 2021
I didn't mean to call out anything against gaming rigs. Some of my components have been marketed towards gamers. Many of the better motherboards often are, excluding the very serious motherboards.

I just never bought a very expensive video card & I can't comment on how long a good one would last. I imagine it depends on to many variables from the games you play, the settings of the games you're okay with, the card, etc..
10 days to flatten Putin.
> If I person is going to spend an hour building a stadium, they will not be creating anything else with that hour or engaging in valuable leisure time.

This is just talking about opportunity cost then, not the Parable of the Broken Window.

> If we pay (or tell/force) people to build a stadium - regardless of who pays (the owner, the public, a Genie) those people will have to NOT do whatever else they might have done.

Yes, there are opportunity costs to the things we do. But this applies to anything, not just new stadiums. If you choose to buy a new computer or travel for a vacation or install a new toilet you could have been doing something else with that money. The key here is that in market economies (this is everybody, US, Norway, Japan, wherever) people are independent agents and can allocate their time and resources how they see fit.
So the Middle East and South America is okay but Canada is off limits?
Your comment was written in the present tense so I assumed it was currently happening. It would still be less than a few hours though (maybe 1.5).
> Obviously we can't control this, so I see no evidence that "chronotypes" are formed by nature and not by nurture.

Here’s why: The Hadza are hunter-gatherers whose lifestyle is very similar to that of early humans.

The observations were found in people with lifestyles that represent that of early humans. What part of nurture would affect those people? They have no concept of a clock...
Kharkiv Rubyist during the war: We are still here
I'm mostly done with this conversation, but I'll note that space is not as cold as you're thinking: The coldest that voyager is gonna get in the next million years is 2.7K (thanks to the cosmic background radiation this is the equilibrium temperature of any object in deep space), not sub-1K, and it's a lot warmer than that now, latest report is about 200K (though that's about 8 years ago). It also doesn't have hard drives, though this is a pedantic point because it does use another form of magnetic storage. You're talking about a 'practical scenario' which is so far away from the theory being discussed it's completely and utterly irrelevant, like if you were talking about the temperature of the sun it'd make little difference in how much hotter you're talking relative to the relevant temperatures.
> Subsidizing gas seems like obvious on paper but fraught with problems especially with inflation (and opposite of what's needed for climate change).

Gas (fossil fuels in general) is already extremely heavily subsidized.
Shouldn't we be equally concerned about men or women being hurt at work? The fact that most places, culturally, are not, is exactly the kind of stuff I'm referring to.
Regarding Windows: while this isn't on scoop yet I was able to get it in Github Actions like so:

curl -L -O "https://go.dev/dl/go1.18.windows-amd64.zip"
unzip go1.18.windows-amd64.zip
Join-Path $pwd "go\bin" >> $Env:GITHUB_PATH

A request/suggestion for the Go team: include instructions for how to use the Windows zip! It's not a big deal but I had to figure it out by `ls`-ing around.
If dawn is more important than noon, we could redraw the timezones so they slant as they go north, keeping dawn at roughly the same time.
Haha! I worked on a dairy farm in my youth. Cows also don't care about what days off your government says you should have. Kids have a recital in the afternoon? Better have someone there to milk the cows. Woke up with a tooth ache? better have someone there to milk the cows.

Cows also don't care about property lines :)
Just make everyone’s pay public domain. Then let market forces take effect. “privacy” just helps companies have all the leverage in negotiations so that those who are less assertive (esp women and minorities) get the worst deal.
I've always hated how DST makes me get up too early. Even after getting over the initial shock, it never felt right. Hope the USA will do the right thing eventually.
To be fair, I think "do you have them?" would be more common for a lot of English speakers ("have you got" sounds British to me as an American, but it's possible that this is just a regional American thing). I'm not sure I would either think fast enough to care enough to tailor my automated response to a question like that based on the exact phrasing of the query.
The UK tried it from 1968 to 1971 as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time#Periods_...

But as others have said, Arizona (sans some reservations and jurisdictions) have been fine so maybe history won't repeat itself. And of course there are plenty of countries worldwide that don't have DST anyways.
Yeah the premise is clearly untrue. People build useless stuff all the time. If you're going to build something without having answers to these questions you need to be honest with yourself that you're doing it for fun, and for many that moment will not come unless they are challenged on it.
Why can't we do a 30 minute shift? Then we get rid of this back and forth and we get the best of both worlds. What am I missing here?
My point is that given equal lighting morning is probably going to be worse for driving because of road conditions.

If we then have to add darkness to one of those, adding it to evening will probably be less damaging because evening has a larger safety margin due to better road conditions.

Adding darkness to morning is taking what is already the hardest case and making it even worse.
Boomer is a state of mind, and "reasonable" wake up time is arbitrary and varies case by case. If people have responsibilities that allow for waking up later in the morning then it is hardly adolescent to be able to wake up later, irrespective of when the sun rises.
Tried to read this but they want my email to continue reading the article. Maddening.
What is your understanding based on?
Indeed, however public policy makers must be aware of how this affects majority of people. Having natural noon between 12:00 at the eastern edge of a time zone to 13:00 on the western edge, is much preferable to 13:00 (east) and 14:00 (west). Even though the effects are the same for east on permanent DST and west on standard. They are very much detrimental—as in increases risk of sleep deprivation—for west on DST and public policy makers must take that into account when making decision.
Gas prices are higher in California due to multiple taxes being added to the base price
I'm pretty sure NixOS isn't the only one doing this hack. The Yocto build system does something similar. It contains its own build-time binary glibc, and patches its tools to point to its own internal library installation. Or something like that. In effect, Yocto has its own build-time distro, which has to run from any filesystem location.
It’s intriguing, thanks
What in the what?

I would wake up after my dad was gone for work, grab a pop-tart or cereal, take a ~1/4 mile walk outside to the bus stop, no longer able to see my house from the suburban sprawl, and hang out with the rest of the kids at my stop for 5-15 minutes before the bus showed up. Then I eventually got a car.

Don't get me wrong, if I was offered a ride (my parents, friends parents, friends with cars) I'd often take it. But ensuring I got on the bus? When the alternative was that my parents would get a phone call about me being missing? Trust that the lessons I'd get at school were far preferable to the lectures I'd get at home if I skipped class.
I started a template library some time ago. It needs a bit of a clean up, but for starters it's quite decent.

https://github.com/dgrr/gtl
You do realize an event with a 79% chance of happening still doesn't happen 1 out of 5 times? That doesn't mean that the 79% prediction is wrong, that's just how statistics work.
Wow. Is there a better source on the alleged mutiny? Just googling I only see the Sun and other murdoch sleaze

(which imho is so gross to play both sides with clear BS like that for money)
This is not even what the common wrong Dunning-Kruger interpretation means, even if we don't consider that the whole thing seems to mostly be a statistical artefact.

https://arelbundock.com/posts/dunning_kruger/
I always found this advice annoying (and I actually do see it in many vim introductions) and didn't find it particularly bad to reach for escape, but I have mostly used 60% keyboards for many years now, so esc is one row lower than normal (where the ~ key is on a fullsize).

Asking people to remap keys feels pretty major, but also there are many things people tell you to replace capslock with. I personally think making it a compose key is a better choice.
> fortunately methods can't have type parameters.

This is quite tricky to implement properly if the compiler doesn't do some form of specialization. (Basically, you need a different vtable entry for each instantiation of a generic method, or you need a runtime lookup to find it). But given that the Go compiler is doing complete specialization, I'm surprised they left this out.

Generic methods (on classes) are the way to emulate first-class polymorphism (roughly, passing around type constructors) without explicit support in the language. It's a limitation that will eventually catch up with you.
Then meet them for dinner instead of breakfast, when you're more rushed because there is work after your meal anyway. Or simply meet them for lunch instead, as most people in the country do.
> Your comment boils down to “all government spending on this list of items is equally inefficient, so why not build stadiums instead of airports.” I think that ignores the fact that airports are infrastructure, whereas sports are entertainment. Personally, I don’t think the govt should spend money on entertainment when the financial beneficiaries could easily cover the costs.

Sorry, but I don't agree with this characterization. In response to your comment about bars and that a new bar at a new stadium diverting spend from previous bars this would apply to other things like commercial air travel which diverts local money to far away places.

Also civilizations have had entertainment for as long as they have existed. We need entertainment and it's quite critical to social stability and well-being as far as I know.
Yeah I know, but it's suboptimal. If you use it your module cannot be "go install" lled, and it doesn't work for libraries
Try Kashgar. It's dark until 10 or later every day in the winter.
This is the most impactful, positive piece of legislation that affects my life that has been enacted since marriage equality in 2015. How sad is that?
> simpler, more concrete, more standard code.

All three of these things are subjective.

> in so many conversations I've had with Go critics esp over generics, the conversation eventually terminates at some variation of "Go forces me to think about programming differently than I'm used to"

At some sufficiently large number of people, you need to acknowledge that how they think isn't wrong, the language is.
I think "mature" is the more correct term. It's not the regulation, it's just that it's been vetted and repeated so many times that it has become rock solid.

This is why I never select cutting edge tech for our company - unless it's part of our area of expertise/innovation.
tl;dr - A rather zealous call for "ASAP" escalation of near-direct US / Western involvement in Ukraine, by a recently-retired U.S.Army 3-star general. He sounds well informed about the big-picture-but-within-Ukraine problems that Russia's Special Military Operation is having. (Resistance far beyond what they were prepared for, morale and manpower failings, supplies running low, etc.)

Unfortunately, he comes across as oblivious to the bigger picture, the possible downsides of "defeating" Russia in Ukraine, and the fact that Russia is a less-than-rational nuclear power.
Garden centers and dedicated plant stores in the US are just as guilty of bad behavior. The fame Instagram has given to succulents has bred a huge demand for cacti which is leading proprietors of these operations to raid the desert for all kinds of varieties.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/20/to-catch...
Because we don't want to get up too early. If you want more sun, you're free to get up early yourself.
I’ve looked into a couple of such tools a while ago and went for openreplay - mostly because I can opt to self host it anytime a project get‘s enough traction to justify the higher cost vs being compliant with european data protection law as well as catering privacy aware customers. Is there a way to self host zipy?
Don't be a jerk but _someone_ is gonna ask these questions. Might as well ask them before they make big sacrifices.
Don't neglect twilight.

Here in Seattle, sunrise is as early as 5:10am or so in the middle of June. However, with civil twilight included, you're looking at a pretty bright sky from 4:30am to 10pm.

We're not even that far north here, but waking up out of a light sleep at 4am can certainly be bothersome.
The Karnarli comes from Mt Kailash, which is a tributary of the Ganges.
> One reboot during a seven month window doesn't sound too bad either.

It is on 24/7 systems that had no budget for HA, especially if you had several hundred/thousand systems and things like Ansible and Chef weren't invented yet. CFEngine was the big boy in town and Puppet was an up-and-comer. (Remember this was the 2000s).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_as_code