Why is this suddenly on the front page?

I can't tell if these posts are astroturfed or not. Every other day there's a top post on HN to use DDG (which is mostly a wrapper over Bing) as the default search.

This is a Browser from DDG, not their search engine.

It claims to block trackers like Google and FB, and provides other privacy related features.

Does not say what it's built on... Probably chromium.

lol I know right, same with Brave.

Fascinating. I've seen that at a lot of shops and places in Japan they go beyond the 24 hours – indicating continuity in a way.

For example of a shop is open in the pattern –

Monday, January 8th 21:00 till Tuesday, January 9th 02:00

The Japanese signboards will denote it as -

Open on Monday, 8th Jan 21:00-26:00

I think it's we quite convenient and let's the people know that the shop's time pattern sort of carries on from the previous day onto the next.

>This process is hard but not as nightmarish as people who don't live in the country reading articles make it sound.

Agree wholeheartedly. Been living in Fukuoka myself for the past two years, and I cannot help but notice that the foreign population here has been steadily growing. Although the city is marketing themselves to be the new Startup hub in Japan, I still think it has to be as global as say, Tokyo, to catch up. English is also not so commonly spoken here as Tokyo.

Hello fellow Fukuokarite!

The city has definitely been pushing hard for foreign startups but the changes they are making are only baby steps and PR in my opinion. I thought it was rather strange that the press conference held by the mayor to promote foreign startups had to have an interpreter because the mayor couldn't manage any English and the foreign entrepreneurs on stage didn't speak Japanese.

I've talked to some folks from Fukuoka and it definitely seemed that way when I talked to them.

FWIW, JETRO is like that too. A lot of the process happens in Japanese (it's basically only foreigner friendly in name)

It's still a good start but it's definitely not what it's spun to be.

I have people I'm complaining to and they are changing though (even if it's taking them a few months)

The willingness to change is definitely new for Japan.

I went to the Startup cafe a couple of times, but I failed to grasp all the general amazement around it. I hoped to meet new people and learn about their entrepreneurial activities, but again, the people didn't speak English; and those that did, didn't seem interested.

This guy never replies to any emails.

I do reply to most of them. Can you please email me?

This is a good suggestion, however, it might not be useful globally. People in the tropics/around the equator get so much sunlight that they would not want to trade the convenience of our current time systems with having to adjust it based on the sun just for that extra daylight.

People on the equator get no more sun time then anybody else. It's just that theirs is evenly distributed, they get ~12 hours of sun every single day of the year.

They'd be completely indifferent, their current clocks would still work, they'd just be annoyed at the other time zones moving around on them.

Fair enough, although my statement was more about the amount of sunlight they get per day, for all days of the year versus someone closer to the poles having to adjust to constant fluctuations.

You're right when you say that they get ~12 hours every single day, but their clocks would still have to account for the slight changes (by a few minutes) in time for the sunrise. Which means changing their clocks everyday/every few days, based on the sunrise. But for what? They anyway get ~12 hours sunlight, so it's not a worthy tradeoff for them, compared to someone in Massachusetts.

If only humans worked like batteries, soaking up the summer sun to use it in winters..

It's kinda surprising how frequently rewrites occur across tech companies; considering rewrites can essentially stop the development of any new features in the product. I was recently part of one such huge rewrite, albeit it was truly necessary since we were porting from a 1970s COBOL based Mainframe to a Java based Middleware solution. This rewrite itself caused blocked any other development projects for the last 6 months and sucked in a lot of resources.

Isn't sticking to a stable tech stack that helps run production smoothly and let the developers have their peace of mind better? Rewrites might be essential, but only in the cases where your technology is seriously ancient.

Is this only due to the crazy front-end and JS frameworks world or am I missing something else here?

I can't speak for every case. At my work, we've done some rewrites. On the back end, we've seen 20-100x improvements in performance and the code is easier to maintain after switching many projects from Perl to Go. On the front end, we had to switch because the framework was no longer getting security updates (simple js and html from a symfony back end to an API driven SPA). I can't talk to the benefits of the front end rewrite aside from allowing us to dog food our APIs and allowing the front end teams to use tooling of their choice.

This is interesting! Even in Hindi, the bun type of bread as paõ. Could be very well derived from Portuguese

This article is like scaremongering, partly about how Google and Facebook are selling ads but interlaced with "SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER!", all the same. Some posts can be so ironical.

Exactly my thought. They might have gamed HN too!