skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take your pick:

- We could pass regulations at at a federal level, state level, or even at a municipal level. Lower down would be my preference, federal changes to the clock are both too much of an intervention and also too clumsy of a brush, not every state needs this. But, whatever floats your boat.

- States/municipalities could regulate businesses directly, or they could regulate time shifts for public services, since a lot of businesses already set their hours based on those public services like schools/transportation/etc. Shifting local public school times in the winter/spring would probably cause a shift in local business hours for some segments of the market.

- Or, maybe you don't even need regulation at all, after all many private businesses today could choose not to respect DST/standard time in regards to worker hours. You could already have a business that says that when DST happens we're all going to come in 10-6 instead of 9-5. Most businesses either don't do that or they have flexible hours, which indicates that local pressures and worker preference might be enough to influence business hours even without government intervention. Businesses in this regard tend to make group decisions; I am doubtful that if office businesses all shifted their hours to accommodate worker availability with schools/transportation that retail shops would not shift their hours as well to accommodate shopper availability.

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The trick here is to realize that federally mandated time shifts are effectively a regulation on business hours; they affect public services, they affect any local regulations that already exist around business hours. If you're opposed to federal regulations on business hours or incentives for seasonal business hours, you are opposed to DST/standard time, even if you don't realize it yet. If you're not opposed to federal regulations on business hours, then there's no real issue with regulating this stuff directly rather than indirectly.

We have a system right now where the federal government shifts clocks by an hour twice a year. That has a profound impact on business hours and on people's schedules. If you're OK with the government having that power, then we can get rid of DST/standard switching and just have the government exercise that power directly. If you're not OK with the government having that power, then you probably shouldn't be OK with it changing everyone's clocks twice a year.

Personally, I think that to the degree that we should be regulating something like this, it probably makes more sense on a local level than on a federal level. I also kind of think we probably shouldn't be shifting hours so much in the first place. However, regardless of whether or not we keep shifting hours, and regardless of whether it gets regulated federally, or locally, or not at all, we don't need to change clocks. If we're OK with the government shifting public services and hour regulations by an hour twice a year, then they can keep doing that. But we don't need to all collectively pretend that they're not doing that and that actually time changed.
Corporations are people, my friend. At least in the US.
Banks: try to shutdown Russian economy

Also banks: "Why can't we get our money back out of Russia?"

Sometimes I can't tell if all of this is just a dumb joke.
I'm not religious myself, but as I've grown I've also had to learn, ironically, that I'm not a god either - I'm not all-knowning about other people, about their beliefs, about their lives and experiences and needs. In fact, I'm very mortal; I know very little. I couldn't dismiss other people's beliefs as lies, but I see them as something beyond me, which I haven't yet grown to an understanding of. In the case of religion, I've come to understand it a little and some things it provides, things that human beings need. If I someday become religious, it won't be because of a lie.

I would hate to be religious on Hacker News and see my beliefs - maybe very important and personal to me, maybe the core my family and community - scorned and dismissed out of hand. In that respect, HN is not a place of wisdom, intellect, and learning.
(Note: I work at System)

First, thanks! If you'd like to reach out and learn more or talk about your learnings from building something like this we'd be very interested (we have a Slack community and a direct contact form on the site).

As for your questions - we have tools for assessing the reproducibility (in the statistical sense) of models and relationships added to System, as well as tools for users (and built in to the platform itself) to assess the relative statistical strength between any two relationships that you find on the site.

And, yes, we're early on in the process of writing (peer-reviewed) evidence on various topics, and as you note, the value of seeing these systems will grow with how detailed the topics are covered and the overall number of the world's topics shown to be related. I hope you'll stay engaged to see!
I usually realised that DST is on/off a few days after it happens because people complain. Otherwise all my clocks just adjust themself, I wake up whenever my alarm clock ring and that’s it. I never understood the hate for it.
>A quick google puts azure at 4cents/gb

This seems incorrect. Azure changes at least 8 cent per gigabyte https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/
How do you explain a skyrocketing death count that flat lines to zero the same day people were getting arrested for reporting on the censorship and coverups that had been going on since late 2019 when Wuhan doctors were raising the alarm?

Do you genuinely believe China has had zero covid deaths since 4/19/20 and has not done any coverups or censorship regarding covid?
And people only die more because they get run over by drivers at a higher rate. I'd say here the glaring problem is not the timekeeping, but designing our urban infrastructure for cars, so that when a person is just a teensy tiny bit more sleepy, they end up killing people by accident, rather than you know, putting on their shirt inside out and having people point and giggle. Cars pretty much make worse everything they touch, like in this case, the ability to flexibility set a clock however we see fit.
And we're big fans of those often hilarious spurious correlations!

But System filters them out (methodologies here: https://docs.system.com/system/using-system/investigating-re... and here: https://docs.system.com/system/how-system-works/relationship...).

Relationships on System are gathered, stored, and presented with a variety of contextualizing fields designed to help System and users evaluate and weigh the evidence. These include Strength, Sign, Direction, Population, Controls, and Reproducibility.

ICYI we discuss and review these methodologies on our slack community (link on system.com).
I think we're finding out now just how bad an idea destroying it was.
What you have now was passed by Gov.
Use VSCode Instead of Gitlab
> Do what normal people do

[citation needed]

I would think that changing clocks is actually the more "normal" thing to do.
read the next line
Polar area here.
So, in the transition from summer to winter the day is shortened about 15-20 minutes each day. And vice versa from winter to summer.

And at some point in the summer, the sun never sets. During winter it never rises...

Time isn't easy on a global scale.
Because they don't have the lived experience?
Go give it a try. Its an eye-opener.
I just didn't want to imply that introverts can't do the job. I'm very introverted, and when called upon to network and maintain client relationships, I could do it just fine, but saw it as a burden rather than a pleasure. One advantage I guess I had was that I saw it as work, and prepared for with the same level of effort I would have for an important presentation. But I couldn't sustain that for very long without going crazy, so I'm glad we had people who liked doing it as much as I liked programming and design.
> any argument predicated on "preserving the character" is disingenuous at best and racist at worst

Calling NIMBYism's "preserving the character" argument disingenuous is probably going too far. That really is the problem many NIMBYs have with proposed developments. They like their neighbourhood exactly how it is, and if they could mandate perfect stasis they would.

It may not be a persuasive argument, but in many cases it is genuine.
You could have said the same thing circa 30 years ago regarding the internet versus phone calls and letters.
There's a difference between "I don't want to be a rockstar" and "I am doing the bare minimum to make it not worth it to fire me." I think the post is talking about the latter.
That's a cultural difference that makes it hard for me to like certain areas of the US (L.A. and Silicon Valley specifically, can't say if the whole US is like that). Lot's of the people I talk there feel very shallow, measuring each other by what they did and who they know (Silicon Valley people love name dropping so much!). In contrast in most of Latin America or Europe I feel there is a more deep interaction between people. Conversations seem more real and people seem much more interesting.
My guess is that in these cities people (generally) feel the need to create and cultivate a fictitious persona and hide their idiosyncrasies to meet the cookie-cuter expectations of a successful human being (which must be very tiring).
Gotchas with Git and the GitHub API
Yeah, I've read a lot of it. It all comes with caveats and potential performance issues.
Massive diplomacy/peace-talk opportunity for everyone.

I hope the cameras on for a space-hug.
Agreed. For me this is a, slightly, better work-life balance. Instead of giving all the nice daylight hours to work on weekdays I sometimes get 1 more for myself.
I don't think it wouldn't be hard, since there isn't really much auth (just some key and IP stuff), so you'd mainly have to add your own. Feel free to email me (my email's on my github) with updates / questions if you do decide to try it out!
Agree with this sentiment. It was a very good idea to bring the `typing` module into the Python standard library versus just relying on Mypy.
sixel is super experimental
More like – legislature passed a law, a certain group of people took advantage of the law in ways the general public didn't intend, the courts said "we have to rule by the letter of the law", legislature amended the law, now most people happy again. This is exactly how the process should work.
So just to add some extra regional colour to this, it's not all down to deforestation for the purposes of farming or logging[0]. There's some pretty gruesome losses in the South Bohemia region of Czech Republic (around Telč and Dačice) which have an interesting backstory. Trying to recall an information board I read, so it may be a little bit spotty. But there was a big movement about planting spruce forests last century, which has now turned out to be a fairly vulnerable tree to a particular bark beetle (referred to as "kurovec" iirc) and ultimately wasn't very suitable in many of the areas it was planted anyway as tended to die and rot in the warmer climate of South Bohemia. This means that vast swathes of forest that previously appeared to be ok are now under threat and basically need to be felled.

So what you see when you go through there are pretty substantial areas of felled trees. We went a few years in a row to somewhere near a little village called "Zvůle") and the difference was shocking for the years 2019 and 2020. If you look both sides of the road here you get an idea of what I mean - https://www.google.com/maps/@49.0877897,15.2336907,3a,90y,61... Notice that basically all of the remaining trees have been marked, so they'll have been felled too.

[0] - I'm sure in this case they put the wood to good use, but I think they would have preferred to keep the forest as-is

edit: found the area I'm talking about on the map: https://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/?map=eyJjZW50ZXIiOnsib...

I imagine much of the green remaining there is just waiting for someone to come cut it down.
That man is a freaking legend. As all good historical figures, not entirely good or entirely bad ( nothing is black or white in this world), but certainly interesting and with huge contributions.
You probably have a good reason for it and it's probably going to suck. I don't see why do this to everyone twice a year for no reason.
sorry, i have no idea why it went down lol, i've fixed it now
>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 don't think the author is really thinking about what that question means. If you say you're building a search engine and I ask you why you can do better than Google it's because I want to know why you're going to do better than Google. Clearly if you're building a search engine then you have some idea of what you're going to do better than google. And if not.... well, that's pretty ballsy. Fine, maybe you just think it's an underserved market (it is!), but founders should have an idea of why they will beat the competition, and asking the question isn't dismissive, it's inquisitive.
Cubeworld was never completed. It makes sense that people try to take up the torch.
Very true. Let me try to restate.

I don't know how to prove the absence of a thing. I can only prove existence.

I was trying to highlight that every layer of abstraction has vulnerabilities all the way down to the hardware level.

I'm perfectly willing to accept that CheerpX has no known vulnerabilities.
Daylight savings rules change, somewhere around the world, several times a year.

For example, between 2011 and 2016 Istanbul changed their DST rules 7 times [1]. So I think you'll find a great many systems already have a way of distributing DST rule updates.

[1] https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/europe#L4014
My dog learnt when she would get fed until her first daylight savings shift when she'd get all clingy and whiney for an hour wondering why dinner was late.
As we scale up products and more complex code workflows gets added, there are bound to be more issues as a result of which it then becomes problem of prioritisation and not just solving bugs. AI will help prioritise which sessions to surface and solve for.
It's not forked by f-droid, it is maintained by Mozilla to not contain any proprietary blobs in accordance with the official f-droid repo policy, and last time I used it it only allowed curated extensions as of the fenix update. I'll try it out again.
Also I am pretty sure all the random women selling lingerie with full body pics are escorts.
also the "lives in New Zealand 50% of the time" guy
I have have big doubts on the methodology used to generate this maps. The map seems completely wrong for France, there is a big red mark on the biggest forest of France (Landes) but I can assure you that the forest is still there and will be there for a long time.
Next cancel Prop 13, or phase it out over the next 5 years.
A ghost of World War II history haunts Ukraine’s standoff with Russia (2014)
Yes. That was the point of my comment :)
That was a Supreme Court ruling, not a piece of legislation - so it might be even longer!
This is so far from reality I have a hard time even knowing how to respond. Just in case people who don’t live here think the Bay Area cities have become this dystopian hell hole as described, no, they absolutely have not. Life is honestly nearly back to normal. I’m going out to dinner with a friend in Berkeley tonight. The streets will not be empty or filled with drug addicts.
Because then it wouldn’t be as cool.
My feeling is that if for a given problem "cluster center" is a meaningful concept then k-means is the right tool. The concept of "distance" can be adjusted as well. I think any metric will do. But if you want clusters without a "center of mass" then you are faced with a whole other problem and need other tools.
Thanks lol, that makes me smile
The way the American system works is that the legislature has the final say over statutory law, while the courts have the final say over constitutional law (modulo amendments).
If you have a real keyboard you can use the pad of your hand to hit the control key in the bottom left corner, which some people find even easier. This is definitely the easiest way to hit Ctrl-Q.
The bill we need is something that blanket allows building of multistory multifamily housing across the state without local review.

Sort of something similar to the law we passed around ADUs but for multistory multifamily housing.
Jet Lag is a well known phenomenon and if you're changing time zones regularly you probably have a system to minimize it. If you did not you'd likely suffer much more from it.

Also flying is optional, but changing from XST to XDT is not.
The issue was not that the environmental standards are good/needed or not/not. The issue was that the environmental standards are good but that this case was not actually related in any way to the environmental standards review envisioned by the legislature when it originally passed the underlying law that allowed this lawsuit to proceed in the first place.

The legislature simply updated the law to make it clear that these types of lawsuits (i.e., over activities which don't directly relate to construction of new buildings even though they may ultimately lead to new construction) are not intended by the original law, and this new law makes that explicitly clear. (The eventual construction of new buildings required by the enrollment increase would be covered by normal CEQA review processes.)

EDIT:
From TTOTFL itself: "This bill would delete the provision requiring the environmental effects relating to changes in enrollment levels be considered in the EIR prepared for the long-range development plan. The bill would provide that enrollment or changes in enrollment, by themselves, do not constitute a project for purposes of CEQA."

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
Am I the only one who is deeply uncomfortable with the glorification of self-immolation in Tibet? These are nearly always young men, often times teenagers. One must question what sort of upbringing they must of had to sacrifice their life in that way for the sake of their religion.
I think it is disputed among public health experts which is better:

1. Permanent Standard Time > Permanent DST > Switching

5. Permanent Standard Time > Switching > Permanent DST

That is it is some believe that the sleep deprivation imposed by permanent DST is so bad that even with all the downsides and health detriments of switching, it is still preferable over permanent DST. I don’t know how wide spread this is though and I think most public health experts agree that permanent standard time is always the preferred option.

Having lived in Permanent DST and switching timezones (but never in permanent standard) I definitely prefer permanent DST. However I do not have fond memories of permanent DST and I wished policy makers would listen to experts and move to permanent standard.
i only fly north/south
Everyone seeing output is an intentional choice. What's the problem with images?
Nothing is permanent? What silly thing is this? It is like when Sweden did recently a nuclear waste area until the 30th century. What is the meaning of making it "permanent"?
Yes, the Homan Sq. facility kinda counts. As for ICE, well, it's somewhat different for people who aren't U.S. persons and aren't legally tourists or temporary residents, though, of course, that should not be license to disappear them, just to deport them (which is not at all the same thing).
Fn is not useless on keyboards that don't have a dedicated function key row.
I accept it
That seems a bit binary - i.e., as if it's perfect or it's meaningless. They would be much closer using Standard Time.
It isn't just Google Cloud. I've had absolutely terrible experiences with several Google support departments. It's often impossible or difficult to resolve the problems.

A domain isn't the kind of thing that you can quickly move somewhere else when things go wrong.
> Well actually there are 96 of them in practice, I think it's tracked in increments of 15 minutes since anything less is a bit meaningless.

I don't think most of those exist, actually. If nobody is observing (for example) +6:45, I wouldn't count it as an actual time zone.

Even :30 tzs are fairly rare, I think the number of :15/45 is counted on one hand.
I am extremely surprised at all the people who are against this, saying that "Making DST permanent forces people to wake up earlier." I am not sure I know a single person whose morning wake-up time is dictated by the rise of the sun. Everyone I know wakes up whatever time that their work tells them to.

I am happy to have more sun after I get out of work. It was a breath of fresh air this week getting out of work and seeing daylight.
The point is that there may have been an equal number of children saved from death due to more light in the evenings, but you can't really prove that.
Yes, it's injection molded. Here you can see some of the mold sprues that come with the kit: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3833f7_352ac21900e64720a5...
I remember staying at a hotel in the UK that rented internet in 500MB chunks... i figured out that if I tunneled everything via DNS they didn't count the traffic. I wish I had known about Iodine at that point ;)
Also the only information you really have in this example is that they're smart enough to say the words "I'm building a search engine".
For many years in Minnesota, I arrived at work in the dark, and left in the dark, from roughly mid-November to late January. And that was in Minnesota. Most of Europe is North of Minneapolis. When I worked in Paris, I walked to and from the office in the dark for many weeks of the winter.
> I've never seen an embedded device with automatic changeover that didn't have some kind of configuration option to switch it off.

"Always in Daylight savings time" tends not to be the option that's offered-- either always in the standard zone or always changing.

And, the point isn't that devices can be reprogrammed or reconfigured: it's that there's a lot of them, with uneven levels of support, and difficult to go reach them all.
The differences between multiprocessing and IPC are smaller than you think, and they have a habit of disappearing and coming back in different hardware refresh cycles.

Multicore systems have hardware support for some consensus algorithms. Speed of light is practically a rounding error, but not always. And clock synchronization is... I'll use the word attenuated, since I hesitate to call it 'solved' or 'avoided'.
A synthetic gathering is not related to the reduction in the natural hustle and bustle. Do you have any pictures before or after that group passed through?
I don't know if you've read it, but if you haven't it's a pretty odd choice to make a movie out of. It's closer to pulp than it is literature. Not that there is anything wrong with that, you can't live on michelin star restaurants and can get by with the occasional big mac combo meal, but given how feted the movie became, the novel is somewhat underwhelming.
Thanks so much! That's exactly the point.

Great question. We present all the evidence behind a relationship (on "evidence cards" that show the source, strength, sign, direction, population, controls, and reproducibility). The evidence cards on a relationship page may conflict, and this is clear for users to see and evaluate. We also generate a natural language synthesis of the evidence. We are working on enhancing our meta-analysis of the evidence to flag these kinds of conflicts. And our community will surely play an important role (as is the case on Wikipedia).
Not quite, since I'm specifically responding to someone describing how "peaceful" Tibet's society was.

Indeed, pointing to rhetorical fallacies deployed by the Soviet Union to distract from a discussion of Tibet is more likely to be whataboutism itself?