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"London bridges falling down."

"Ring around the Rosie... and we all fall down" (refers to the Great Plague of London in 1665)

"Rockabye baby in the treetops" (eventually sent crashing to the ground by storm winds).

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Our grandchildren will never know what "High Noon" meant.

Unfortunately, that is NOT what the article states. DST (Daylight savings time) ENDS on November 5th (when we change back to what is called "Standard Time"). 2 weeks later, DST (not ST) becomes the law of the land. Which means, as the OP stated, unless they change the implementation date, there will indeed be a 2 week flip-flop.

Off topic comment: I'm pretty sure "explicited" is not a real word, but you've convinced me that it ought to be. Perfectly clear what you meant. Can somebody add this to the dictionary, please?

Frustrating article. Suggests that somebody has come up with a way to cut jigsaw pieces differently to arrange a rectangular puzzle into a perfect circle. The solution is so simple that the shape of the pieces can actually be described and visualized. And then, after all this tantalizing buildup, the big reveal is... hidden behind a paywall. :(

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The lethal effects of the blast travel faster than the speed of sound [1], so, once you've heard it, I'm afraid, it's already too late.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_explosion...

You are being a serious bro, Matt, and I commend you for it! But I would hate to see you get deluged by phone spam as a result. Please consider spelling out the letters of some of the digits in your phone number before it gets scraped.

Update title: this is from 2019

Someday in your future, you will jump in your car for an emergency drive, and the screen will say, "Updating. Please wait..."

> "When your work, and what you do to avoid it, become the same thing, that’s when the breakthroughs come."

Perhaps I need to get a job here at HN to attain my own personal singularity.

Personally, I enjoyed it very much. I thought the essay itself was put together like a set of Penrose tiles: it brought together the disparate aspects of Penrose's iagination and thought-life as if they were polygonal shapes -- all distinct, yet when arranged together they form a beautiful and very satisfying pattern.

From the article: "His book, a finalist for the Pulitzer that year, was dismissed by many, including me. Ten years on, I regret that dismissal. Reading it now, The Shallows is outrageously prescient, offering a framework and language for ideas and experiences I’ve been struggling to define for a decade."

I work at a largish company (~2K employees, many of whom have been here for 20+ years). We have lots of information silos, and vast amounts of tribal knowledge exit the door with retirees every year. Recently we learned that StackOverflow offers their engine for private companies. "StackOverflow for Teams" allows you to set up your own internal Stack Exchange with all the benefits and conveniences that come with that tool. We are just now getting buy-in from IT and Senior Management, and we plan to start rolling it out across the company within the month. It's not cheap, but we calculate that it will pay for itself if it saves every employee an hour or two per year. I'm confident it will do much better than that.

Another writeup here: https://www.wired.com/story/xenobot/

I'm not exactly sure why this was posted here. But I'm glad it was. It introduced me to a previously unexplored trail of the internet. Craigmod writes like he walks: circumspectly. His delightful collection of stories ("diaries", he calls them; found by following his link to Ridgeline) are just like his photographs: intriguing snapshots of a foreign land that's somehow not so foreign after all. What an unexpectedly enjoyable diversion.

...which reminds me of the opening line to Anna Karenina: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” (Tolstoy)

Assumption/Hypothesis: "Those individuals in a group of experts who make decisions that are most similar to the decisions of others also make the best decisions."

"It has been shown time and again that experts who are good in their field are good in a similar way, whereas poor performers are bad in very different ways. Working on the basis of this observation, we developed this new method and tested it in various areas," says Ralf Kurvers, lead author and researcher at the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

tl;dr: "Generally, whenever you need the derived class information in the base class, you are probably looking for CRTP."

Quote from previous link, in answer to a similar question comparing CAs (1d) to Conway's Life (2d):

"The pictures you're looking at, one of the axes is time. One row "becomes" the row below it. Each time-step iteration adds a row to the bottom, while the rows above it are immutable (because they are in the past)."

"I apologize for the length of my letter. I'm afraid I did not have the time to write a shorter one." -Blaise Pascal (et. al.[1])

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/

When you figure that 5000 is equivalent to about 2 folds a week for 50 years, it seems reasonable.

tldr; The Tide Foundation, a non-profit organisation, has developed a mechanism that it says makes passwords exponentially more difficult to crack.

> Why would anyone want to do that?

Funny -- I had the opposite response when reading the headline: I can't understand why collaborative authoring isn't ubiquitous in the industry. One of my favorite parts of watching a blockbuster movie is the credits: I sit there as all those names scroll by just marveling at the accomplishment that this huge group of people collaborated on. ("What a privilege", I often think, "to be able to work on that team.") I am writing a novel now (mostly solo, sadly), but the best chapter in the book was co-written with my daughter. My creative juices run deepest when they are mixed with someone else's.

Or, similarly, wouldn't it be cool to have a chat app that would detect people in the same geographic location traveling at the same speed. So your contacts would be the other people in the bus or train or plane that you're traveling in.

The only reason I posted this article on HN is because I needed a place to rant about it. Or at least about the title. The author seems to have valid credentials to write on this topic (based on his bio at the bottom), but the title chosen for this article (and I'll give the author the benefit of the doubt -- perhaps it was chosen by eyeball hungry editors of Wired) is wildly overstating the situation.

The author acknowledges the wide spectrum of opinions in the sociological literature about this controversial issue, but then dismisses the contrarians outright with little more than anecdotal data. He provides one -- ONE -- study (withOUT attribution, no less) to substantiate the title's claim, and then proceeds to contradict his own position by describing in detail a not-widely recognized but pernicious problem in the gaming community ("loot boxes").

A more accurate title would have been, "The costs of Video Game addiction may be even higher than we thought."

Apparently this phenomenon predates video games:

"For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?" (Paul of Tarsus, circa 57 a.d.)

From the ReadMe: "There are many many bugs and this project/product is not at all recommended for production. It is pre-alpha phase!"

Sorry the error seems to be on my phone. I seem to be having trouble with it right now. Including the fact that I can't delete my previous comment