skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to learn other cultures' norms if you want to live or work with them. It goes both ways.

Europe and America do not only time differently, but phone numbers (1-800-123-1234 in the USA, 06 86 57 90 14 in France), dates (Jan 1 1911 would be 1/1/11 in the USA, 11-1-1 elsewhere), decimals (1,000.00 or 1.000,00), units (inches vs centimeters), reading order, daylight savings time, time zones (some countries don't even have them), etc. To say nothing of language and cultural differences, just formatting basic facts.

You don't solve it "universally", you make affordances for diversity the same way you allow for light/dark mode or language or any other user preference.

Not even all calendars have proper embedded time zone information so that's not always reliable either.

There is Unix time but you still have to convert that according to arbitrary rules, especially for countries that observe variable daylight savings like the US.

It gets even harder when you have to do math, like 00:00 Jan 1 1970 plus 30 years isn't automatically midnight of Jan 1 2000. It depends on whether you mean 30 * 365 24-hour days or some # of quartz vibrations or 30 * orbits around the sun or 30 * years of a certain country's time (adjusted for leap years and leap seconds and daylight savings and time zone changes mandated by new laws). There is no "right" answer. Libraries like Luxon or Momoent can help, but it's never easy.

That's just the reality of a multicultural business world. When in doubt, double check and reconfirm.
UEFI kind of is an OS. you can read the UEFI docs and get a general idea of what is required.
Computers are ludicrously fast nowadays. Games are capable of doing a whole lot of shit in <16ms consistently while responding to user input, so I don't buy this "it's doing a lot!" argument, it is coded badly.
I can second this. It is one of the most wholesome and entertaining things on the internet while still somehow being educational.
Even Apple’s bootloader on Macs is dropping keypresses now!

Starting some time in 2020, the FileVault password dialog will drop characters whenever I’m typing quickly. And it never dropped characters before 2020 – even though I’ve had FileVault 2 on for many years.

And that’s at bootloader runtime, with not a single bit of the macOS kernel loaded yet!
Thanks for sharing this.

Now I want to read the book, although I still don't understand what's it's perspective is.
I think that given people don’t believe now that sysadmins used to write a fair chunk of code; what has happened is people hiring “sysadmins” these days don’t make coding a part of the job.

Thus, sysadmins today are doing what helpdesk and system operators used to do 15 years ago. Which means it is now true that sysadmins don’t code, due to a weirdly shifted perception over time and that perception becoming self-fulfilling.
I can agree that conscription is forced labor. However, there is still a very far way from that to slavery.

Using words like "slavery" just for added effect is not good style.
There is no universally agreed upon definition. This is why some may use either 12:01 AM or 12:01 PM to avoid ambiguity. Or “12 noon” and “12 midnight”. Of course, the “obvious” answer is to just use 00:00 and 12:00.

Lots of folks here are trying to logically determine which use is “correct”, but it doesn’t really matter much if the reader doesn’t agree and misinterprets. So the best option is to use an unambiguous alternative like above.

For more, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Confusion_at_noo...
Tangentially, does anyone remember “Developing Your Own 32-bit Operating System” (1995) by Richard Burgess ? I was absolutely fascinated by this back in the day. Misplaced some of my computer books (Design Patterns, this, a few others) on my travels so don't have it to hand any more. Was gob-smacked that it took what seemed like mere nanoseconds to boot on bare x86 hardware.
The Threat of Russian Cyberattacks Looms Large
I'd be triped up too... to me it makes no sense that it goes 11AM, 12PM, 1PM. That it keeps the number sequence, switches the AM/PM, and then an hour later wraps the number sequence is just odd.
Archived: https://archive.ph/fYLqf
Yes, I thought that might be the objection :)

I suppose perhaps it would be interesting to have a format that takes a PDF and then lets a designer overlay the main area of content to zoom into. But perhaps that's HTML+CSS :)
It's interesting to watch someone trying to learn something that is out of his zone of education and knowledge. To me, who has worked in mechanical manufacturing processes for 30+ years, almost all of what the employees were showing is "intuitive". I might not understand the specifics of their application, but I understood the fundamentals immediately (e.g. what's a feed screw, and no it doesn't rotate quickly). Destin on the other hand has education and experience in different domains - and I am sure I would fail to understand what are basic concepts to him.

All that to say: Learning something new that is completely outside your current comfort zone is great, and watching it live was a wonderful experience.
Purely playing devil's advocate here - Keep reading that definition you pulled up!

"There are many different definitions of productivity (including those that are not defined as ratios of output to input) and the choice among them depends on the purpose of the productivity measurement and/or data availability."

So really what we're arguing about is the "purpose of the productivity measurement". I don't think "number of melodies that will never be listened to" is a particularly good measure for "DJ", but it is a great measure for a blog title.
I think sport is a a exemple on why gender is a bad measure.

Why are we doing separate competitions for men and women? Because men have physical differences that give them a significant advantage on many sports. For simplicity purpose I will assume this is only because they generate more testosterone though I'm sure it's more complicated.

So people generating more testosterone have a significant advantage on sports. Why should then we care wether they are men or women, whatever that means? A good illustration of this are women who have hyperandrogenism, who are, ironically, sometimes excluded from competing in women competitions because of the unfair advance their high testosterone give them compared to other women, even though they are biological women. I'm sure some men have low level of testosterone compared to the "standard" level of most men, which would give them an unfair disadvantage in men competitions.

So my question is, why, rather than doing men/women competitions, don't we do high/low testosterone competition, regardless of the gender?
Yes! Like another comment mentioned I'd love a return of pidgin.

Further, the law should specificy that the protocol allows E2EE, and we have traction.
I always look it up on Google. I regularly run into this kind of problem when looking at log files which use AM/PM time. Related question: How do you even say "14:00" in English? In school I learned that you say o'clock but I never heard that in real life.
I think, though, that your example is less convincing, since the hour changes.
Watching a European cook American recipes is a delight. "What the fuck is a cup?" Umm... Google says 240 milliliters. "Ok. How much butter is that in grams??"

And so on, while the rest of the food is burning/sticking/melting.

Plus, a "stick" of butter is not sold in Germany. What they have is more than two sticks joined side-by-side.
The inch breaks down to thirds that is barleycorns, not fourths... And is defined by them...
"Put the warehouse in the middle of nowhere..."

Dude... you play way too many video games. The cost of building a warehouse, lead time and logistics is not like in Simcity. Best case, you'll have a large dockable warehouse in 12 months after purchase IF the bureaucracy is smooth. Which it wont be. Mobilizing a crew is its own nightmare when it's "middle of nowhere". Where do you house a hundred rotating contractors within a 20 min travel time if it's in the middle of nowhere that doesnt have the population infrastructure for that influx? Trucking in materials is it's own issue. Along with equipment. Oh and when the rest of the industry is doing the same thing... wait list or you get the bargain bin contractors... which... yea... not worth it. That and Conexes "rot". They're not long term solutions in a lot of environments. There's a lot of reasons why it ain't that easy as you think.

I hate the smell of white collar in the morning.
Qualification needed. I'm sure you don't intend this but the subtext might appear to be 'you're all a bit dumb if you can't see that Plate was very obviously correct though I'm not going to give you a reason ... because it's clearly correct'.
Most social media companies' businesses models rely on having complete control over the presentation of content. Forcing them to allow third-party client apps would ruin that, and it's going to be beautiful.
I remember having the same problem as a Swiss exchange student in high school in the US.

I missed a perfect score in my first geography exam there, where we had to calculate timezone, exactly because of this... I thought it was so much more logical to have 12am follow 11am... I was very annoyed to not get 100 in that exam just for such an annoying format...

In retrospective it does make sense actually... as soon as you pass noon (meridium) you are in the post-meridian, not ante anymore...

Better would be if the formst would use 00:00am and 00:00pm... This way you would have a switch from am to pm and v.v. when the time goes from 11:59 to 0, i stead of to 12.
Nitpicking, but a pixel is always a point sample, not a little square. The native medium for displaying pixel art is CRT displays, where these point samples are used to control an electron gun that introduces a Gaussian blur, basically the best case for purely analog upsampling (or DAC, rather) of a pixel raster. No little squares in sight, though! What you're talking about is using pixel-perfect control to reach the Nyquist limit, as mentioned in my sibling comment.
34560 eighths, it's easy to remember because it's 3-4-5-6. Divide by two for quarters. Duh.

/s
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Maybe I'm overly skeptical, but "an agreement in principle"... i.e. this is a political "yes we want this", not an actually finished legal agreement. And that will be the hard part.
To answer the question: as an American, I learned 12:00 AM was midnight at one point when I was a kid. Before then, I was unsure whether noon was 12 AM or 12 PM. I made sure to remember that special fact, with no mnemonic or rationale, in the future.
So as a programmer, one way to look at it, 1:00AM to 12:59AM should be in order, meaning 12:00AM is at noon, and the switch to PM happens at 1PM. But this is wrong. Zero-indexing would have helped here.

It really irks me that we stick with these anachronistic standards. 00:00-23:59 seems so much better. Metric system is better. I'm for English-language spelling reform.
I am native to the united states and, to this day, I still do not fully get what time "12:00 AM" and "12:00 PM" mean. I try to set meetings for 12.01PM. If I absolutely must meet exactly at noon, I start the meeting "at noon".
> 12:00 AM is one minute before that.

Which is strange, because it does not follow the concept that all other of those time"stamps" do.

12 AM implies that 12 hours of something has passed, but it's nothing that we would align our lives against. And why is 11 AM after 12 AM on the same day? There's no logic (ok, some, but... well... a strange one) behind that.
Why not just call it 00:00:01 PM? And similarly, 00:00:01 AM?
How often does this actually happen? It’s never been common for my European coworkers or my American ones. I rarely schedule meetings with Europe in the Eastern TZ afternoon and the same with India. If I say I’m deploying at 11pm on Saturday everyone understands.
It turns out competition can lower overall market quality.
Is this an indirect attack on the encryption... seems to be.
I would gladly pay the $3/month if they were doing what you mentioned in addition to adding features. One of the problems with their new subscription model is that they're replacing existing support for password syncing with a forced adoption of syncing to their cloud.
Syncing to Dropbox (or others) is going to be removed with 1Password 8 and we'll be forced to either keep the old license of 1P7 and lose out on security updates, or, to start paying a subscription and accept that they manage the syncing instead. For many that's not acceptable, and it's a bit of a slap in the face for all the supporters they've had for years now who have been promoting their product through word of mouth.
I imagine being told which tech I have to use when developing my services.
When they pay my bills they just might have a saying but only just.
What even is the reasoning for this?
14:00 -> fourteen hundred hours

14:01 -> fourteen oh one

14:10 -> fourteen ten

etc
1-based indexing biting us again
"Fourteen hundred"

Fourteen o'clock works too but is less natural.
I would have thought it's AM for the whole of the 12th hour. So 12:00 AM, 12:01 AM, 12:59 AM, 1:00 PM (hour one, past the hour of noon). An hour being a time span of 60 minutes, not an instant!

In the "correct" usage, you have an illogical jump between 11:59 AM and 12:00 PM.
Yes it will once it happens on iOS. Large companies like Facebook (not picking on Meta, just an easy example) really don’t want to follow Apple’s privacy guidelines, don’t want to ask users for permission to track their location, and don’t want to tell users what info they gather and how it’s used.

Once Apple has to allow third-party app stores, many major software companies will either create their own App Store (great now I have to download 15 different stores) or move to a third-party store where these rules are non-existent.

So what will happen is that there will be a major exodus of software from the Apple App Store and on to third-party stores, which for me means a rollback of all of the momentum and progress Apple has made by collectively bargaining on behalf of users against developers.

In addition, this will fracture things that are easy and convenient, like Apple Pay, or Sign-in With Apple being a privacy-focused mandatory alternative to other SSO options.

It’ll also long-term enable more dark patterns. Oh you signed up for this $14.99/month app? Well gotta call if you want to unsubscribe. Hell maybe even have to send a letter!

For some completely asinine reason people think that “allow third party stores” means “I get all the same stuff now but stuff will be cheaper and ‘more innovative’ because developers won’t have to pay the ‘Apple Tax’” but the reality is you’ll just get the same stuff, at the same prices, but it’ll be less convenient and you’ll lose any benefits that we previously had when Apple was able to collectively bargain for users. Companies will not lower prices.

> “This hasn’t happened on Android”

Yes. Because when companies start enacting these rules, users will flee to iOS. You need to be able to launch your store and dark patterns on both platforms simultaneously. Otherwise users have options.

> “I disagree, this won’t happen”.

Ok sure. What assurances do I have? What are you doing to make me feel better that my experience won’t get worse? Until then I’m firmly against third-party stores.

> “Apple enables oppression and a single point of failure for regulation - China for example can ‘control’ what’s on the store”

Any third-party App Store that’s not a complete scam will be forced to comply with any exact rules that Apple has to. There’s no difference.
>Negotiators from the European Parliament and EU member states agreed Thursday...

While they're at it, can they agree to outlaw the use of irritatingly illiterate American English in Europe? It makes my brain weep and the souls of all my dead English teachers wail in anguish.

ASIDE: Why do Americans hate the word ON and leave it out of sentences. But love the word OF[F] so much they put it in twice?

* I got a new cat Tuesday

* I fell off of my bike
Thank you! The pivoting real wheel was actually invented by Mario Raimondi in 1963, 16 years before Brompton. The patent has long expired and in our case we are pivoting and translating, so it's a new take on this function.

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/0001985...
Er, WhatsApp is based on Noise for client server protocol, and Signal protocol for peer to peer encryption. Both were open standards before WhatsApp implemented them.
Say "noon" or "midnight". ya, I know that's cheating.
I guess you were unaware of the fact that he worked in missile testing & development for years and years?
I missed the quoted line, sorry!
I wonder if there is an efficient hardware implementation for swap... I imagine plainly swapping bits of data[i] with data[n-i] is an intense and cache-unfriendly algorithm.
That is not obvious at all if you're used to the 24h system. If you don't remember which one is 12am, then you don't know if 12h01am is at night or mid day.
I’ve heard and used “o’clock” my entire life but not with 24 hour time. You could say “fourteen hundred (hours)” or 2 pm/o’clock. For 08:00, “oh 8 hundred hours”.
I have quit now and I feel much better
"Let's meet at your 4pm Tuesday."
"The flights for the off-site land on 4/2 at 3pm local time."
Use a calendar app. It parses and translates appointments into local time as an essential part of its existence.
Over 12, you generally pronounce it as military time. So you would say "14 hundred hours" I think.
I explained this to another user. It’s not “I can just download apps from Apple’s App Store”. It’s everything that comes along with that.

Also you can just buy a different phone if you want third-party stores.
How can you tell time on a wrist watch or wall clock without 24 numbers?
I always just write 11:59 P.M or 11:59 A.M. to make this less confusing. Especially because the people setting the time are prone to making the same mistake when scheduling the event.

For example:

...the discount expires at 11:59 P.M. on Thursday, March 24, 2022.

is far less confusing than:

...the discount expires at 12:00 A.M. on Friday, March 25, 2022.

At a quick glance, it's easy to think this means late Friday night, since we see the word Friday.
In some ways fixed point would be safer or at least more predictable.

Outside a laboratory setting, there are very few real world problems that can't be adequately addressed with scaled integers (fixed point math).

Most things have practical limits imposed on accuracy. Most monetary transactions are legally required to be settled in pennies (at least in the US). Most time periods are recorded in minutes or seconds. Most thermometers are only accurate to 1/10 of a degree. Attempting to exceed these practical, real world limits is really just "false accuracy" that causes more problems than it solves.
That doesn't help people who don't know what am/pm are. 11:59pm would be 23.59 in some places (like Finland).

It's possible to mix up dates and times from each other too (is 12.30 Dec 30 or half past noon?)
I force everything to 24hr UTC time on projects I'm involved with. Then if it's a technical project, display it as 24hr with timezones and if it's not technical then apply all these strange time display rules as user configurable.

Solves so many problems.

Now, Django supports this pretty cleanly so it's often pretty easy to enforce and work with.
I don't think it is a usable way to make a european grasp that. Analog clock or not, for all of us 12 is 12 only at noon, otherwise it is 0.

The Ante Meridian / Post Meridian explanation works better. Still, it is a fucked way to say time.

By the way 24h analog clocks exist too.
While the story itself certainly is cute, this article somehow reinforces all prejudices I hold against the London bourgeoisie.
12PM = Noon

12AM = Midnight
You just said "I'm cancelling virtue signalers", you didn't make any arguments I could judge based on their merit. Ergo, you're just whistling for your crowd to cheer you on. Pure virtue signaling.
I’ve never come across an amd64 system where secure boot couldn’t be disabled in the BIOS (as you’d do when installing Linux) - do you have any examples of this?
Likely not. Europe is in to open standards, interoperability, and things like this. Far more than the US.
Does not make any sense at all.

You jump from "sun is overhead in 12 hours" (12 AM) to "sun is overhead in 1 hour" (1 AM) when you follow that logic.

The 12 hour-system is broken and should go away.
This is how conspiracy theories start. Take a thing that has some truth to it and extrapolate it all the way up, dismissing that the whole system is probably more complex.
I would love it if we could all just decide on a single WIMP interface and stick to that.

I understand that this would annoy designers. But they're annoying me so I think this is fair.

My go-to example at the moment is Figma, which is a design tool that I find almost impossible to use because it has so many hidden, unexplained "features" in its UI. If I accidentally brush the keyboard I have to quit the application and restart because I have no idea how to get back to the state I was in.
After re-reading the document three times, it is still not clear to me

- what ports this protocol uses

- a simple example of communication

- the reason of the technical choices (commonmark!?)

- the reason why one should use this protocol

also gemini has some flaws but they are debatable and have their deep reason why they are there, in this "kyuweb" here we have a scattered collection of thoughts about "how it would be nice if" without head nor tail nor a reason why

so, at the moment more than a proposal it seems to me an exercise in style or whishful tinking, but if someone has some other insights I read it very gladly!
Anon is unimportant altogether
it's also actively maintained. utils like this are well worth less than an hour's pay
Many states have banned those kinds of pharma lunch and learns and learns now. My wife says they basically don’t happen anymore (at least in her circles).
This will lead to fragmentation where apps can only be bought in some app stores. Some will stay in the Apple app store, because people trust it. Others will flock to other stores to pay a lower commission fee.

Regardless, I am in favor of this legislation. The iOS and Android ecosystems have become crucial infrastructure in modern life. So either Apple and Google act more like they are a utilities companies with lower fees and a more fair, equal market [1] or they should be regulated.

Though I would have preferred if they EU had just set upper bounds for the commissions, etc. The result would have been less messy.

[1] No more private APIs that only they can use, etc.
>Yes, worthless. As in no one should put any weight on such unconfirmable "evidence". It's just wasted effort by the investigators, who piddled away their time (and their funding agency's money) because they're not willing to release the data.

And UK regulators definately do not. If they dont have sufficient data to be confident in the decision they make collecting more a requirement of reimbursement.

Here is an example of the guidelines

https://www.nice.org.uk/process/pmg20/chapter/reviewing-rese...

Taking only a single trial is worthless. Or rather about as useful as taking a murder suspects mothers testimony. Evidence based medicine is simply not broken by not handing out complex, expensive and commercially valuable data to everyone who would like a copy.

Any more than the court system is not broken by keeping certain evidence from a jury.

>Your judgement that such uninformed comments are intentional lies is probably untrue in most cases.

Oh they definately are. Just look at the recent data on covid vaccines published by public health wales to see how bad that situation currently is.