skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The incentive for citizens is a threat of their entire city block or rural area being literally locked; possibly social karma consequences (your fault for not complying with PPE measures). For local officials, the threat of losing their jobs because there is no telling if upper management will decide you should be replaced if you report unpleasant facts that violate national point of pride (zero COVID), and everyone really likes a position of power.

In a country with freedoms, democratically elected government as opposed to vengeful dictatorship, and a culture of openness rather than culture of pervasive lying to cover oneself and one’s relatives, the incentives for misreporting are much weaker.

> The idea that there was a secret pandemic that had a bunch of deaths in China is very hard to square with the reality that everyone has a camera and messaging apps to talk to your neighbors.

1) Outside of cities, a.k.a. everywhere the famed one child policy was also ignored and no one cared. Locals who know would not be foolish enough to complain upwards and risk their lives upended. 2) You would not go around messaging others about this sensitive matter. You would not film (as another comment reported, your phone may be confiscated). Like with OCP, you would very much keep on the low, and those you tell out of necessity would do the same for you. 3) How many of those people with outside connection disagree with and are willing to violate the party line?
For some who might wonder how Uber attracts riders to the platform, it’s done through “bonus” payments. They give riders “goals” to achieve in terms of numbers of orders completed. Achieve these numbers each month and you get a bonus. The bonus is usually comparable to an expected monthly wage. Over time though, the goals go higher (Uber says the demand is more but fails to say the supply is more as well) and then the bonus goes down. Over time it just becomes an abusive relationship. But like a person trapped in a Ponzi scheme, many drivers believe they can do it if they work hard enough (they shoulder the blame) and they stick on.
NL is undercounting by 30 to 40% in the official figures. Eventually this gets fixed due to excess death figures being far more accurate but those don't make it into the various COVID statistics reports. So you'll hear one official institution in NL reporting a cumulative tally of about 22600 at the moment, and another reporting 35000 or thereabouts.

(good article about this in Dutch https://www.ntvg.nl/artikelen/covid-19-oversterfte-de-maat )
> I think it's safe to assume that any such absurdly-wide assignment clause would end up unenforceable in a court of law and can thus be safely ignored.

Since you're apparently not a lawyer, you haven't read the employment contract and you don't even know what state this person lives in, telling them they can safely ignore a contract that they signed seems rather irresponsible.

The only reasonable advice to give here is the usual: Consult a lawyer who is licensed to practice in your local jurisdiction.
How about the innocent who were killed and tortured in US war against Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Siria and former Yugoslavia?

I am not trying to justify Putin's crimes, I am just wondering why you are not condemning the crimes of the West with the same fermity?

A human life is a human life. A child killed by US bombs matters as such as child killed by Russian bombs.
Their entire recent comment history is contrarian “maybe the Ukrainians are Nazis, maybe they aren’t, how can anyone know”, “the Soviet Union mostly did good things”, etc.

This is either a victim of Russian propaganda, or an agent of Russian propaganda.

As to the presented ideas in the talk - as someone who knows Russia well, speaks Russian, has Russian family, he’s spot on - but no Russian will ever agree, because that is part of their complex.
I'm not in the iOS business, so maybe I'm misguided here, but for a 30% cut and the huge money they make around the store, maybe they could staff appropriately. 'Overworked and underpaid' seems the root cause here?
1874 Citizen Science Project Studying Aurora Borealis Helped Inspire Time Zones
Doom for UEFI, twitter for UEFI, what's next? A video player for UEFI?
Has it? https://twitter.com/steeve/status/1502734175018835974?s=21
I’ve used wall clock time for the latter. Because what matters is the time in the wall clock for future events/meetings.

I don’t know where exactly I picked up the word but I’ve used it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22968405
I am 70 years old pensioner and I seem to be number 222 of most productive github contributors in Finland.

Very strange, because this is not a hobby or a job. I just desperately try to maintain and improve failing home automation.

https://commits.top/finland.html
A good non-standard Applied Maths text is : Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics by Richard Hamming.
war is one potential consequence of political struggles. Debates, PR, propaganda, votes, are political positioning and actions that may promote and justify war, or condemn, sanction, and pressure for the end of it.
commenting, debate, PR, propaganda, votes in reaction to war is again political pursuits to shape the outcome of war. I'm pointing at the Science article, which is tainted by aspects of the second category. I'm not commenting on the war itself. politics isn't just arguments in parliament, parliament debates are public, procedural executions of democratically formed institutions. politics take place far beyond, swallow in the media, educational institutions, the private sectors, and now even our retired grand mom who is prompted to take a side, perhaps by sending donations via platforms she's recently discovered how to use.
That's an ability to improve service for users of M-code receivers, which AFAIK are only available to the military (and it's new technology, so I'd expect it to be unsupported even by most military receivers currently in use).
Just curious, how come McD is still open in Saudi Arabia, the country that routinely commits war crimes in Yemen and setting new records in mass beheading (yesterday's number was 81). Seems that "reputation" thing is more sophisticated than previously thought
They did that around .NET Core 1.x, but it became unwieldy (trust me it was a complete mess) and they switched it for the framework references, and they switched that for the SDK included dependencies iirc.
Sure, but "eating your own" is a reference to both the coordination and the viciousness of the attack. That and the need to do so for sustenance.

That's a problem with any causehead. Even where you're winning, you have to be fighting something to stay relevant.
I think you are ovestating things. Yes, this was true in the 1990s, when McDonalds was one of the few windows into what western capitalism has to offer, but this magic of novelty is long gone. Right now McDonalds is, like in the rest of the world, just a place where you can grab food of predictable shitty quality when you are low on time and money (though indeed often the primary choice).
I would say a taxi app is a good though obvious idea, worth pursuing. What was a bit surprising was the sheer scale of it. That crowding out point in the essay is very relevant, we are basically allowing the bully with the big stack to raise everybody out of the poker game, no matter how good his cards actually are.

If we want a functioning market, let a bunch of little guys show what they can do, don't let one huge guy scare everyone else away.
This sounds interesting, and something that apparently doesn't exist at my current company (Engineer, Senior Engineer, otherwise it's only management beyond that point).

But am I the only one disappointed that as a book it's only available in paperback? The hardback of "An Elegant Puzzle" is _beautiful_ in both binding and print quality, it wouldn't be a hard decision to spend extra for this one.
Geographic coordinates can change as well (earthquakes; office moves). But that's why the tzdb uses major/dominant city names.
> Finally we tried economic cooperation. Make everyone rich and interdependent, and they won't want to go war.

Economic cooperation only makes a country rich if it is not too corrupted internally. When a country is governed by thieves, all wealth ends up in their pockets, and the average citizen remains poor.

Interdependence does not mean dependence on everyone. A big country can keep doing business with other big countries, while it attacks its smaller neighbors who only provide a negligible fraction of the trade.
>Of course Trump tore up that deal, which made the sanctions mostly worthless in the end, but that's on Trump.

No, it's not on Trump. It's on US since Trump was the president of the US and the US withdraw from the agreement, not Trump as a person.
Yeah I don’t really get why some people in the community have decided that their staff titles mean they’re some kind of warrior monk caste, with these new conferences, books, websites, threads. It’s just another regular step on the ladder you make by doing a reasonably good job and growing regular skills as normal. I don’t think it requires this level of mythology or introspection.
Cloud native/12 factor thinking, I’d encourage you to consider a format you can manage with a kube ConfigMap and override with environment variables.

I agree that a key-value map (one config parameter, one value per line) is very easily grokked. And should be able to fit into the above
cloud native paradigm.
everyone wanted things to stay as they were, i get that. but i fail to see how that could have been more than a simple wish for anyone not owning any stakes in bandcamp.

peolpe wanted bandcamp not to give in to uber-capitalism and expect them to fight an uphill battle against spotify and the likes. That is a bit much to ask for in my view. They are forced to move towards streaming. What if pioneer comes up with a seamless spotify integration tomorrow? Usb ports would quickly become a rarity on dj equipment. i get that you like to „own“ your music and have it on your hd- but you also expect to be able to re-download things if you loose your files, right? so you are basically expecting bandcamp not to change in the future and that is out of touch with reality.
I kind of like the problem of stupid customers always breaking their super expensive screens.
It's probably in a database somewhere. Have you ever tried to remove or change something in a database you don't have access to?
Why would you need that? You press the button and water comes out, why need a app?
German Amazon still lists what was ordered in both order confirmation and shipping notification mails. It also lists the tracking number and the shipping company, even though they link to their own tracking overview...

So looks like it is not yet globally at the same low standard, and might also be because of different laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time just was ahead of its time.
> Next the doors on the freezer will lock until the ad has finished playing all the way through, and the ad will stop playing if you look away in distraction.
Also, the gas will stop pumping if you don't look at ad on the screen on the pump at the gas station and you must also verbally engage with the ad when it asks a question otherwise it stops pumping. If you answer enthusiastically it will waive the $2 surcharge because you had the audacity to use a debit card.

I’m getting vibes of DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE and Sony’s advert patent
https://www.engadget.com/2012-08-24-sony-patent-wants-to-mak...
Russia sanctions stranded hundreds of airliners worth an estimated $12B
... for the purpose of this blog post I’ll assume that each member state has to decide whether they will “spring forward” one last time on March 28th 2021, then staying in permanent “summer time”, or “fall back” one last time on October 31st 2021, then staying in permanent “winter time”.

Too bad this didn't come true ...
Sorry but what's the source that mRNA boosters work against Omicron ? I thought it's more like the vaccines neutralize threat from the original 2-3 variants and Omicron isn't deadly in and of itself.

Also maybe this is China specific paranoia since neighbouring India doesn't care much and they seem to be doing fine wrt Omicron.
True, though it depends on energy mix and location, and all day on weekends are also often similar. If any of your local electricity providers have a variable time of use tariff, that's a pretty good guide to when the cheapest (and often, but not always, the greenest) electricity is available.

Some EVs can automatically charge at these times, and sometimes you get discounts for charging at these times, but you can also usually just set a timer on your charger.

https://www.oeb.ca/consumer-information-and-protection/elect...

For example the above suggests it's usually nighttime, but weekends and statutory holidays are also good.

As an aside, I wonder how much money an economy could save by having a new "cheap electricity holiday' which chooses one or two days a year that they announce a month in advance as national holidays when an extreme weather event is predicted.
That reminds me I need to look at the traffic being requested by our Sony TVs. We recently bought one for the bedroom, and its Android/Google ecosystem seems to work pretty well. Certainly better than the crap I've heard about from LG and Samsung.

Our old LG TV stopped working last week, and we're getting a replacement Sony on Monday. I'm hoping the worst features are relatively easy to block with OpenWRT while leaving the rest of the built-in features working correctly.

(I am not affiliated with Sony, beyond working for their broadcast R&D in the UK over 20 years ago)
Hmm, must be customer specific then... my amazon.de mails contain the items, tracking number, etc... :-)
Europe has not abolished DST. It's on the docket, however we are currently occupied with other things.
I think that would end up turning my 60 minute zoom meetings into 60 beat zoom meetings which is a net loss of sanity
The Kaaba is pretty famous; the meteorite inside is much less famous than that. I would argue that the most famous meteorite would be the one that caused the Chixculub impact. We may not actually have pieces of it, but we know about it.
I suspect they did their own research
Issue with that is borders move, and with that time zones. So you may be in the “Europe/London” time zone now. But the north of England could annex itself and create a new time zone “Europe/Manchester”…
Monte Carlo for better time estimates of your work
Fair point. I actually thought that had gone through. I'm in the UK for ref.
> he way I understood it, the entity suing you will look for any and all excuses in your records to try to pierce the corporate veil—and these can include anything from "mixed personal & corporate funds" to "did not properly keep detailed minutes of corporate actions", to other things I'm not aware of.

It's not just a question of formalities, it's a question of general intent.

The Wikipedia article on "Piercing the corporate veil"[1] provides this example:

> A simple example would be where a businessman has left his job as a director and has signed a contract to not compete with the company he has just left for a period of time. If he sets up a company which competed with his former company, technically it would be the company and not the person competing. But it is likely a court would say that the new company was just a "sham" or a "cover"; and that as the new company is completely owned and controlled by one person that the former employee is deliberately choosing to compete, and so is in breach of that non-competing contract.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
using Foo;
using Bar;
using Baz;
// somewhere else
var foo = new Bublicon(...); // where tf does this come from?

vs.

use std::option::Option::{Some, None};
// ...
Some(1234) // clearly std::option::Option::Some which I can then go find easily
All these new features are nice, but not all users are using the latest browsers, so we have to keep falling back on these frameworks
The fact that medallions were so expensive that you could retire off owning one was the problem. There weren't enough taxis.
There are basically three types of time: coordinated time, based on atomic clocks, zoned time, derived from coordinated time by applying a time zone rule to calculate an offset, and wall clock time. The latter two are often lumped together as local time but are not in practice the same thing.

TZ rules are one way, you can derive zoned time reliably from utc, but not the other way around unless you already know the offset. That’s why seemingly storing utc is best, because you can apply whatever tz rule you want. But, because tz rules are decided by politicians (dst, ramadan, date line shifts, it gets pretty weird, …) and often with little advance notice, tz rule databases are often wrong in practice, which means storing only utc and getting zoned time back out of it reliably is hard. That’s why storing iso timestamps with offsets is best. It preserves both utc and intended local (zoned) time at the time of storing, even if the tz database then changes.

But this is not the author’s problem. They’re dealing with wall clock time. They want to store 9 am and have it always be 9 am, no matter what happens with time zones. That is easy: store the timestamp without tz info. But, the hard part is knowing the instant in time (in coordinated time). Wall clock times may occur twice, so there is no single reliable way to get utc out of it, and even when calculating utc the result can be wrong or become wrong due to the political insanity that is zoned time so it is dangerous to store it and rely on it. You see this problem with anything that schedules people or resources. Something scheduled at 9 am is always 9 am, but if the system needs to send a reminder at 9 am, when do you schedule it? There are no solutions I’m aware of without edge cases.

I solved this for a reservation system by storing wall clock time without offsets and the time zone (id) of the resource separately, and then calculating zoned time for that zone and comparing it with the stored wall clock time every time the instant in time mattered. It worked but was tricky to code.
Easily coordinate pre-paid transportation limited to your event as one:

https://help.uber.com/riders/article/vouchers-for-events-faq...
China is engaging in some combination of not measuring/not reporting/lying on the subject of COVID infections. Ourworldindata claims [0] that their case counts are comparable to New Zealand. There needs to be a much, much more powerful argument than "they've got CCTV and powerful bureaucrats!" before anyone can take those figures seriously.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases
even considering the trend of unique and super creative immersive sites, this one is just incredible.
Philosophy’s Gender Gap and Argumentative Arena: An Empirical Study [pdf]
https://twitter.com/ryaneccles/status/1502707481327255553

Senior staff engineer:
Define what good goals entail

Distinguished engineer:
Please don’t work for our competitors
To my knowledge, almost all modern monitors sold today are HDCP compliant
Indeed. In fact, I wouldn’t mind if the build step were made mandatory, with the form of the code that browsers interpret decoupled from the one that programmers write, so that the former may evolve at a much slower rate without constraining developers too much.

Of course, that would defeat the whole purpose of the ever-continuing TC39 standardization process, so it’s not going to happen.
that's cool, but shouldn't the best way to solve this would be to ship the changelog with the CLI itself? Something like `cli --changelog`?
I mean I don't understand why its not a general practice with CLI authors
The loss of innovation has zip to do with the Uber Economy.

Try the fact that the middle class has been gutted by an unfair tax structure that shreds responsibility away from the wealthy and corporations and has created peripheral damage in high college cost and low public school expectations.

Bring back the tax rate where people making over 540k (the 1980 equivalent of the top tax rate $225,000) pay 50% on anything over that amount. In 1980 it was 70%. SEVENTY PERCENT.

If we raise the top tax rate, we pay for infrastructure, college, teachers that can teach critical thinking instead of how to pass a test. The middle class can chill out and raise a family, take a vacation, save for retirement, and not live pay check to pay check. We rebuild the middle class.

What happens if college goes back to a Pell grant and a part-time job cost? INNOVATION. People will have the ability to think freely and be creative. They won't be forced to figure out a career at 18-21 years old.

Guess what else we do? We start paying down the national debt for once and actually reducing the debt ceiling.

Our tax structure is insanely out of balance. That's the number one core problem in the United States.
As you get older, time seems to fly by faster.
It will work out for them when/if they have destroyed the competition, that's the point. And in any case the founders are still billionaires.
My go-to recommendation has been Bitwarden, but if you're worried about an external dependency and don't want to run their self-hosted option, then I've found KeePassXC to be fantastic too. I have to use it on my client development macbook due to their security rules and was initially very reluctant to move away from Bitwarden. The client's security dept says no password manager can request stuff from outside the machine it's installed on.

KeePassXC is a little clunky to set up the link between your local instance and your browser(s) but once that is done, it's straightforward and seems to work very well.

EDIT: Bitwarden recently added passphrases to its generator feature. I personally prefer long random passwords but I know some folks prefer to remember a phrase.
Maybe the virus spilled into population centers too close to party leadership. Maybe it indeed got to the point where it is difficult to hide. I don't know.

My point is that it's on you (and WHO) to explain trusting data supplied by a country with a long history of supplying false data (in other words, believe a known liar).
What reason did you have to think that unlikely?
> I live in Europe. Here there are not "plenty" very well paid senior roles, especially not for .NET

You should move to Scandinavia!, or how about Poland? Also, Ukraine (when things calm down)
"We asked ourselves and we loved it"
I've said for ages that programmers only need two subjects to learn. Date and time programming and debugging. The first one leads naturally to the second one.

The rules I follow:
1. If you're recording an event in the past, store it in UTC.

2. If you need to record the local time for something either in the past or the future, store it as the local time as it was (for the past), or the local time as it will be (for the future), plus a timezone (not an offset).

3. If you're displaying a timestamp, a) if you can, display UTC, b) if needed, display in local time using current conversion rules

4. If you are getting user input, a) if you can, get it in UTC, b) if not, get it using a timezone (not an offset)

5. If you are storing a date, then that is not a timestamp. A date is a period, so either just store the date without a timezone, or, if it's a date period in a local area, store the start and end timestamps with their timezones.
Grotesque question: What is on the "war invoice" for Russia? Rockets, fighter jets and tanks were already paid for. Fuel costs zero if you are a dictatorship with petrol in your backyard. Salaries are probably just printed money.

As recently as March 12th, Putin showed unwillingness to end the war. This means that either:

A. He lives in an alternative reality.

B. He is bluffing.

C. Economic sanctions don't affect the war machine as much as we hoped for.