skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I misunderstood the question as a statement before responding. still, what I said is pertinent to the conversation so I left it as is.

That said, I do think decisions should be made based on axiomatic principles.
I think the practice is old, and /might/ have once made more sense.

If you offer a buyout to a bunch of people in a factory with no real alternative, you're selecting for the people who want to do nothing - which is probably the people who are doing (close to) nothing.

If you offer a buyout to a bunch of people with real alternatives, you're going to mostly buyout the people with the best alternatives (the most marketable employee / the most productive).

This is amplified by the fact that factory workers really have a minimum amount they must be productive. Whereas software engineers can LITERALLY do nothing. Further, factory workers have a pretty low limit on how productive they can be. The limit is much higher for software engineers.

It's an old practice that might have made sense, but definitely does not make sense in software.
I totally agree. That extra hour in the evening after work/wherever in the winters is actually quite pleasant, and having it artificially taken away when the clocks go back pretty is pretty gloomy.
I found the whole UI around the Droplets features is amazing compared to offerings from AWS/GCP. Props to the Digital Ocean UX/UI people
I thought that there was a rather strongly worded memo to the FTC to enforce anti-trust in july of last year.
Who guarantees those rights? Who acts to protect them and acts to stop those attempting to infringe them? Someone has to.

Your right are my obligation. That’s how that works.
Yeah - asking "why wasn't this software" is like asking a painter why they didn't just take a photograph. This is art, folks.

TehCorwiz knows what's up. A contraption is always more cool than software.
The Only Designer – Tips
Oh, that's possible. Do you have more information? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30692163 said something similar.
Excusing your whataboutism, it isn’t hard to argue he’s a foreign agent.
> Also note that if staying out longer was a goal to strive for, there are number of alternatives to encourage that. Including shorter worker ours, more public spaces, public events, etc. Conversely getting people to sleep longer is much harder with the clock set 1+ hour after the sun clock.

This are fantastic points I don't see in discussions around the topic. Goes to show that the solution space for a problem is often constrained by our perceptions of both the problem and what our expectations of a reasonable solution are.
A good way to find investment opportunities.
I do not believe that this criticism makes European hearts more welcoming towards people, mostly young men, who are not from direct conflict zones and who are trying to cross borders illegally and forcefully.

Ukrainian refugees are women and children who escape from direct war zone when the men stay to fight back against the aggression. Most of them are willing to return home at earliest moment possible.

There is very wide support for these suffering people and so far no camps are required because existing accommodations have been used and when needed people welcome them in their homes.

How Europe is handling the situation is a model how other countries should handle similar situations and help their neighboring countries in distress.

If Lamis Abdelaaty wants to criticize something then she could direct her criticism toward her home country - Unites States and ask Unites States to take in more refugees during the times of hardship.

Regardless of mentioned issues, Europe took in around 1 million refugees from Syria. US only few dozen thousands.

At the moment she is advancing agenda of Russian propaganda to portray Europeans as racist to lower the support in non-white countries towards Ukrainians.
I'm from western Spain and it's not a problem at all. We just tend to do things later (in terms of numeric time) than neighboring countries. For example, most of us typically have lunch at 14 or even 15, which in solar time is roughly the same as lunch as 12 or 13 in France or Germany.

And of course, it's very convenient to be in the same time zone as most of the EU.

I wish we also switched to permanent DST here, by the way. Daylight at work is useless now that most of us work in offices. I'd rather have it in the evening when I can actually enjoy it.
BSD is free software in the FSF sense. It isn't copyleft though.
Tensions rise for Ukrainian workers at Toptal freelance marketplace
Ask HN: Structure a company so that it legally cannot be acquired by Facebook?
Is there any way to structure a company, or something we can do, so that it legally cannot be acquired by Facebook? Something beyond just making a pledge.

Also, is there any precedent for this or companies you know of doing similar?
The president of Kosovo warns against the appeasement of autocrats
Thanks, you're right. I think the RISC-V version also runs Linux, though, and has the same amount of RAM?
What's the difference between "Don't switch times and set the time correctly to the current DST" and "Don't switch times and set the time correctly the current standard time"?
The only way you are going to completely avoid it, is by never logging in to your Instagram or by deleting your account.

Twitter is full of Crypto bots everywhere since the great Twitter BTC heist and the generic ICO scams of 2017. NFTs are no different.

Good Luck.
CISA, not CIA. And their mission is to protect critical domestic infrastructure.
Why didn't I think of this sooner? Here I was, slaving away until 6-7pm every day, when I could have just got up from my chair and walked out of the building!

Honestly anyone who is passionate about which time to switch to has put way too much faith in the whole academia-to-reality pipeline. Those folks get shit so directionally wrong so often on more important things, I really don't think any academic's model of the consequences of ST/DT will be anything remotely close to complete.

We should all just chill, and be grateful for the relief.
from what i've seen it's really hard to even reintroduce plants back into the ecosystem they were originally stolen from. typically they are extremely fragile and the shock kills them.

for example, southwestern succulents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KirP2ef1lJ0
Do you have any sources for those claims by "health experts"?

Timezones and DST were largely instituted in the era of 7-15h work hours (still remaining in plenty of govt institutions), and we are more in the 9-17h realm today, so society has already "timezone-switched" in the last ~100 years (quite a bit simplified, ofc).

I'd be surprised at how come one gets sleep deprived from having a pre-set timezone that doesn't jump around ever for a location? If you go to sleep at 9pm (way past dark time in the worst morning-case) and the sun only comes out at 8am, you'd be sleep deprived if you wake up at 7am (10h of sleep) because it's dark outside?
Sure. But even if I had to change dozens of clocks: those days of feeling like shit are just not worth it.

If I had to change dozens of clocks but not change my sleep schedule I would do that.
Drawing a map of the customer organization
This is nonsense.

> It is almost certain that if someone is smart enough to build a search engine while living off of ramen, they also know more about what Google is capable of.

Well then they should be able to see an argument that comes from someone who doesn't understand the problem space for what it is. If a founder is going to second guess their life's mission because someone said they didn't think it could work, that founder is not very likely to succeed anyway.

It boils down to "don't criticize peoples ideas" and it is a terrible idea. Even if you're wrong in your criticism, that's up to others to weigh. I want to hear the bad arguments against me, it helps me articulate to myself more clearly why it would work. And I want to hear good arguments against me, I might learn something.
> So yes it's a lot of work to find them all, but they should all be configurable to just set the next Standard Time shift to be the max(datetime).

The two systems at my school where time is important are old and are not likely to work correctly with current firmware, and it's unclear whether new firmware will be available:

- Our PA/bell system

- Our automatic gate opener

At my home, most things are smaller problems (I doubt the prosumer switches, etc, that I have can handle it or will be updated, but I set them to UTC) or cloud services that are likely to update. I do have a few old GPS things whose handling of localtime will probably be screwed up forever, too.

That's just off the top of my head. It'll be a big pain in the ass.
I'm not sure if you're just joking here (I suspect you are) - but, I say no computers because a computer didn't create these images, you know, with software. Yeah, there's electronics involved, of course.
I messed this up with a call to the US today.
Should be >= 20.

Whether or not you like the Ruby version is beside my point, which is that which one of those is "more complicated" is a matter of perspective. The Ruby one is almost strictly a wrapper around the golang one so it does add absolute complexity. But the golang one is relatively more complex, because the Ruby version uses higher-level equivalents, and those abstractions are good enough that I don't ever have to actually reason about what happens underneath the covers.

Put another way, even the golang version is an abstraction around an absolutely massive amount of hardware and electrical engineering complexity that you virtually never have to think about. The absolute complexity of what happens when you compile and execute those instructions is extreme to the point that no single human or even room of humans collectively fully knows what's going on. And yet we manage just fine.

Or, I love this example:

admin_usernames = users.select(&:admin?).map(&:username)

Versus

adminUsernames := make([]string, len(users))
for i, user := range users {
if user.isAdmin {
userNames = append(userNames, user.Name)
}
}

Again, spot the bug!
My car finally did it right - when you go into settings, there's a single on/off toggle for daylight saving. No more fiddling to reset the time by exactly an hour, it's as automatic as it can be without knowing which day to do it on its own.
Speak for yourself, I'm a night owl and I find it much harder to wake up in the morning when it's dark outside. Permanent DST would only make this worse in the winter.
Another great series from fyg is https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/optimizing-sw-occlu...

I'd not come across the state machine site before, it looks pretty useful.
But 6am is a made up construct. It's an artifact of the logistics of getting kids to school before the parents' working hours and accommodating those kids' after-school jobs.

If you move school an hour later then typical working hours also have to move an hour later and nothing actually changes.

Our children will say it is unnatural for teenagers to wake up at 7am.
> So if SF doesn't want anything to happen - wouldn't the best thing be to just keep things as they are?

Yes
I guess I reconize myself in you, although younger I am precisely at the turning point where walking feels less work than talking.. the talking was definitely not a waste though, it is the privilege of the young to feel passionate about things.
Given the size of the lots in SF, you could easily build 4-plexes that have a lot of windows. They already exist in all the pre-WW2 neighborhoods! Four stories will easily give you four units.
Where's my screwdriver... I have to remove some DST toggles.
For the sake of their religion? Or for the sake of their freedom?
I was wrong about California, looks like the voters approved allowing the legislature to vote on going to daylight savings time permanently, but the CA legislature has not done so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_California_Proposition_7

WA has enacted it, pending federal government approval:

https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=1.20.052

Looks like Oregon’s is contingent on California enacting it, but it is a passed law:

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2019R1/Downloads/Meas...

https://www.opb.org/article/2021/11/06/oregon-wants-to-stop-...
No. There is no "difficult moral conundrum" about torture, nor slavery, nor rape, nor genocide.

There are only people who inexplicably insist that a tortured non-sequitur is a pro-torture counterfactual.
Show HN: Goptional, an Option library for Go I made in half an hour
Hey HN,

With the release of Go 1.18, adding generics, I thought it might be fun to make a tiny Options library to bring some of that Rustacean Panicking magic into Go.

I'd love any feedback or contributions to make it, well, _less_ crappy!

Cheers.
Here is the contact page for Namesilo, the domain registrar I use:

https://www.namesilo.com/contact_us.php

There are email addresses, a phone number, a physical address, and an online form to contact them.

Have you ever tried to contact Google? I have, using a button they designed to contact them about Site migration problems. You think I ever heard back from them? Hell no.

So if your gmail account gets hacked, sure - you are supposed to still have control of your domains according to ICANN's rules. But if Google only supports domain changes via email, and you can only contact them via email, and your email doesn't work, I think you'd be completely fucked. And complaining to ICANN about Google would just be pissing up a rope.
The old testament has a litany of laws that were created to solve for this. We can probably take those off the table.
> So what's the thought process that goes into triggering the good people to leave?

my 2 cents is that those high-performers are not trusted enough with autonomy (by the increasingly large middle management). But the reason they are a high performer is because they're very good at working out what to do, as well as executing - which implies good autonomy, and self-reliant decision making. Perhaps at a large scale team, this sort of autonomy doesnt work.

As an anecdote, there are high performers in crafts such as blacksmithing - where the skills required are high and high autonomy is probably desired (i have never seen a blacksmith be micromanaged). So what makes software development so different that it cannot remain like a craft? My answer is that you have middle management who is made responsible for the output of the high performers, but they don't and can't truly control them - other than via micromanaging.
The light is going to arrive at the same time regardless of whether you call that time 6am or 7am.
Will this work in vanilla javascript / react in chrome extension or is it directed to webpages?
TimeZones and DST are for humans and physical realities, such as the tilt of the earth and circadian rhythms. And they serve to address these things in a universal, coordinated way rather than asking each of us to change our schedules individually.

During DST, we all agree to start our days, open our business, and adjust our schedules one hour earlier, but without changing our individual clock times.

With DST all year long, can we choose to send our children to school at 9:30 instead of 8:30 during the winter? Should the school have a different winter schedule than a summer one? Or should we just wake up our young children well before dawn and drag them off?
Problems are not generic. "I need a N-ary binary tree over arbitrary comparable types" is not a problem. Problems are expressed in terms of domain concepts that are unique to the problem space, the organization, the business need. Some _implementation details_ or maybe patterns that can be used to solve those problems may be generic. That's separate.
Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU's, aka in-law units, granny units, or garden apartments) are popular, both from legalizing historical unpermitted units as well as new developments. This often happens by taking out part of a garage or unfinished basement.

It's still really hard to do in SF, but sometimes you see parking lots or old small buildings replaced with 4-6 story buildings [0].

As for the four-plex argument, it seems very far fetched to me. The status quo does a lot to restrict housing, but SB9 changes the rules and NIMBY's need to be more creative to continue to restrict housing.

Related, today the AG issued Pasadena on notice for their poor housing policies [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-over-1
[1] https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bont...
Summary: an exploration of what's involved in drawing a map of the relevant aspects of the customer organization involved in a sale. In addition to the technical evaluation there will be a business team and several decision process owners in the legal, security, and purchasing functions.
This exactly. Having it still be bright out after your work day is so nice. When the sun has already set by the time you're leaving work, it feels like the day has already ended.
I'm not sure if we've seen the same movie, but between the first and the second film, the lives of every[1] single person involved are completely ruined.

[1] With the possible exception of Johnny Fontane, who can't help but fail upward, and Enzo the baker, who got his immigration issues sorted out.
The choice is often one of 4 named timezones for NA (with hardcoded offsets to UTC) and "Automatically Do Daylight Savings Time" on or off.

So, the workaround is probably setting a lot of things to the "wrong" timezone one zone east, with daylight savings time off.

In turn, the logs will be lies, etc.
Yes. While many agencies have a bad reputation post-Snowden, CISA and NSA have for many years - and will continue to release hardening guides that are invaluable to security engineers.
Does this mean that trains teleport to their expected position during the switch to daylight savings time? If so, the entire world should be in awe of the technological prowess of Poland (and perhaps a bit dismayed at how they apply that technology).
I'm a morning person (I sleep from 9:30 to 5:30), but I generally like daylight saving time. If it's dark when I get up, I get to enjoy the sunrise, and I love wrapping up the day outdoors in the evening.

But I also don't have any kids in school, and I don't have a 9-5 job. Maybe that flexibility makes the difference.
> Algebraic data types were introduced in Hope, a small functional programming language developed in the 1970s at the University of Edinburgh. [0]

It predates Miranda and Haskell and is contemporaneous with ML, also developed at the University. [1]

ML had them too [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type#Programmin...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_(programming_language)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)

edit: add ML
Totally disagree with both sentences. As I posted elsewhere, I've seen layoffs in a place I've worked as a way to finally get rid of subpar performers.

I've also seen cases (and this appears more relevant in ARM's case) where the company just hired way too fast. It wasn't that people who were laid off were necessarily bad, but there were just way too many people for the amount of work, and so in absence of clear purpose a lot of people would have tons of "make work" meetings that were really there just so they didn't feel totally useless.

I'm certainly not saying all layoffs are like this, but I do take issue with the idea that layoffs never have a net positive effect on culture.
Bad idea.

TimeZones and DST are for humans and physical realities, such as the tilt of the earth and circadian rhythms. And they serve to address these things in a universal, coordinated way rather than asking each of us to change our schedules individually.

During DST, we all agree to start our days, open our business, and adjust our schedules one hour earlier, but without changing our individual clock times.

With DST all year long, can we choose to send our children to school at 9:30 instead of 8:30 during the winter? Should the school have a different winter schedule than a summer one? Or should we just wake up our young children well before dawn and drag them off?
You have to have your shit together. Given that, it's pretty easy to score. I know a divorcee who is one her second fiancee in three months. She has know the guy for two weeks and they just bought a house together.
Oh. Well I disagree quite strongly.

I have difficulty articulating exactly how much I dislike any time shifting from beneath me.

I find as I grow older that I’m more OK with it, but I need only remember how I felt as a kid to realise how absolutely insane and arbitrary it is.

Then I remember that after we “spring forward” I always feel like ass for a week, and so does everyone else.

It’s like some kind of weird game theory, nobody is willing to remove it because: “we’ve always done it this way” is a dangerous amount of ignorance to apply to a global population.
Wow, what a tiny nit to pick.
While the timezone system is really designed with noon as the fixed point at 12PM, what some folks actually want is a fixed dawn at 7AM. A timezone system with fixed 7AM dawn, combined with a work schedule that uses a fixed amount of time, would guarantee these two nice properties:

* You don't have to commute in darkness (assuming it takes you less than 2 hours to get to work, and work starts at 9AM).

* You have as much daylight as possible when you actually get off from work at about 5. Assuming your day never gets shorter than about ten hours. If you're far enough north or south, this whole exercise gets futile very quickly.

There are cultures that actually did this, but DST is a gross hack on top of a civil time system that isn't designed to work this way, and causes more problems than it solves. I support just getting rid of it.
So i guess some of the reasons are:

1. Inability for the buyer to assess quality:

1.1 Lack of buyers' expertise (tfa goes into this a lot)

1.2 Long timescale to assess quality:

that is, a lot of types of 'poor quality' aren't apparent until long after the sale; so even if you polled every buyer once a week, if sales were growing, the unhappy poll results due to poor quality would be overshadowed by the happy poll results from new buyers

1.3 Dishonest reviews:

even if buyers are able to assess quality after the fact, it's hard for old buyers to communicate this to potential buyers due to honest reviews being buried in dishonest reviews

2. Peter principal (experts are promoted, so at any one time most of the people doing a job haven't achieved mastery):

This is especially a problem for services, where someone who has achieved mastery at providing the service can make more money by becoming a manager. For example, in business consulting or in construction, often there is a person with a lot of experience at the top but the people actually doing the work don't have a lot of experience.

3. Market won't pay for quality:

Even if buyers can tell that one product/service is of higher quality than another, often they would choose the cheaper one over the high quality one, either because the product/service at issue just isn't that important to them relative to the money they could save, or because they have a hard budgetary constraint and they are forced to compromise somewhere.

4. Cultural factors:
Some people report that, for example, quality in the U.S. seems to tend to be worse than quality in Germany or Japan. If this is real, i don't know what it is specifically about US/German/Japanese culture (or workplace culture/structure) that causes this.
There's a third faction: People who believe that it should be possible for a society to agree on things just starting an hour earlier (or later) where it makes sense, all without literally touching a single clock.

Introducing a (permanent, i.e. unlike DST) offset to solar time just seems like a ridiculous solution to any real or perceived problem.