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>> Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (literally the top of the list alphabetized by first name) spent $1.5 million on 9,576 ads, garnering 60 million impressions, mostly for fundraising, and it all started after she assumed office? And the ads are spread out across the country with California edging out her home state of New York?

These ads are probably for fundraising purposes. Congresspeople face re-election every two years and thus spend a lot of time fundraising. Also, if she raises extra money she can put it into a PAC and use it to support/oppose candidates in other races. This is a practice that was perfected by Lyndon Johnson who used campaign cash from his friends in the oil industry to bolster support for his policies amongst his peers.

>> What a weird coincidence - both Ocasio Cortez and Cory Booker placed more ads in California than their home states (New York and New Jersey), but Kamala Harris put more ads in New York than her home state California.

This is because they already built donor/supporter bases in their own states where their name ID is strongest. Rather than advertise at home where they are already household names it make sense to take out ads in other states which they want to win.
GigaSnap – Making a Prototype Device (2018)
Some argue that copyright undermines private property: https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-2
One could expect PHP to be a lot slower, the benchmark shows it can keep up. PCRE is the name of the regex library used by (among others) PHP, which is why PHP is good at regex.

Other comments address why the Rust program is not optimal.
Is it wrong or unexpected for feminists to question an industry that primarily objectifies women's bodies? Let's say you don't agree that it's ethically problematic for a john to buy from a person without knowing if they're actually able to consent vs. being threatened/poor/addicted to drugs. Would it not be rational for a feminist who does think that way, to advocate for the Nordic model?
"Many "GNU" projects are really run independently though, with little influence"

Ok, I meant GNU projects, with actual ties to the organization and not just the name. If there is no real connection, then it does not really matter who leads GNU
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21103133
Progress and Poverty. All as clear as day, over 100 years ago:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Progress-Poverty-Henry-George/dp/09...

Any productivity gains flow into land. "Everybody works but the empty lot"
Please don't use submission titles to editorialize. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
You knowingly bought one thing while wishing it was something else. Blame the company for that if you want but they didn’t have a gun to your head.
No, because the value is socialised. And it would mean no tax on income, because you get to keep the value you create.
Regardless of whether anyone is pro or anti union, it's been obvious for a while now that Kickstarter isn't arguing in good faith about this. They are going to war with their own employees. There's just no justification for that, even if you think unions are bad.

Kickstarter keeps digging themselves deeper and deeper into this hole, claiming that they're doing it because unions will alter the relationship they have with employees.

Even if that's true -- you know what really alters the relationship you have with employees? Firing them whenever they try to exercise their rights. It's pretty hard to believe an employer has your back when they are actively threatening you and telling you they won't acknowledge any of the decisions you make.

Kickstarter's owners and managers have proven that they're able to build a hostile work environment just fine on their own, without anybody else's help. I don't see any way for them to save face at this point beyond just sitting down and saying, "we were wrong, we treated you like children, and you have the right to decide how you want to negotiate with us."
I worry that tech workers may be under-informed about what a union may mean. A union can be in many ways similar to a corporation with its own power structure and demands.

Just 4 examples from my time in a union shop:

1) Pay raise and promotion via seniority only

2) Being warned by the shop steward that I was "working too fast"

3) Heavy coercion to contribute to specific political candidates

4) Going on strike for reasons I didn't agree with

Maybe a tech union would turn out better somehow. I for one would not want to go back to that situation.
You using land has an opportunity cost for everyone else. You should pay compensation for this.

Income tax is not a good idea. You add value, why do we want to discourage you ?
Seems to be the case. All the same, given enough cases, I would expect that one can find something at which most major languages are faster by a generally faster language.
The length of classes doesn't matter much is passing times between classes are short. My kid goes to school in a building with three floors.
I guess the poster didnt saw Rust being faster, only that PHP is pretty fast, or at least not slow (so it should be underestimated).

Id take that slowdown any day just not having to touch Rust though :^)
http://archive.is/QJ0ae
Very informative, thank you.
Stallman is free to provide his side of the story. Miguel de Icaza doesn't need Stallman's permission to provide his own story, nor does anyone need anyone's permission to point out that de Icaza told that story.
Random guess:

There will be some difference in the regex engine speed, because PCRE is very fast in common cases.

But doing a single regex match is not that much work, so it probably boils down to I/O.

And PHP might use extra buffering to get better throughput for the common "stream a file" scenario.

Similar question with Python being faster than C++:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9371238/why-is-reading-l...
Hotels are not "supposed" to document license plates of guest vehicles in the US. No such law or ordinance requires this. If a hotel is doing that, it's for when you're parking on hotel property; most hotels charge for parking, or limit it to patrons. Most hotels don't check IDs when you check in, all they care about is having a credit card so they can charge you for "incidentals" like the aforementioned parking.
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This should be completely believable for a company that relies heavily on user and community trust.

That said, @wcathcart: in community with deep technical expertise like Hacker News, folks do consider how many possible channels and means there are to confidentially leak information from applications.

You're correct that in the general case it's likely that tech-savvy users would scan a popular app like yours and find any 'obviously-placed' backdoors. It's an observational and opportunistic approach, akin to the way a passer-by might spot a poorly locked bicycle on a street.

Unfortunately there's an extra level of complexity here - any app may have unusual behaviors that a sophisticated attacker could trigger for individual users to exploit them - and it's really, really hard for the security-conscious of us -- who might never see or meet those users -- to truly trust that your app is doing what you tell us it is, whether that's end-to-end encryption in all situations, or anything else.

The reason is that without being able to see how the app is written, verify that it's genuinely the same compiled version running on all devices, and audit the behavior it will have under exceptional circumstances -- external observers just don't know.

I'm not expecting you to make the source freely available, incredible though that would be - but attempting to explain the potential disconnect in dialogue you might find with some commentors.
Rust doesn't make an average code implementation fast. Even naive mistakes like buffering / allocation make things really slow.
I have one of those! Great device and cost was reasonable at the time. I must dig it out the attic one of these days and hook it up to some modern software synths...
I'm not saying they misrepresented the transaction that occurred. I'm saying I don't own the phone I bought, Apple does. I'm just leasing it from them.
While this discussion boils down to the efficiency of the underlying regex engines for PHP and Rust, it does highlight (to me) why PHP is so popular: in the hands of average programmers, PHP is quick to write and fast (enough) to execute.

I personally believe it's ubiquity is well-deserved, and I actually like it as a language despite all its quirks (which exist in almost every language I've come across)!
It means bug bounty hunters can jailbreak any version of their phone to turn it into a listening honeypot. Then they can take it to China, let the PRC re-exploit it, record the new exploit, then sell the exploit to Apple for $1 Million Dollars and retire in the Bahamas. You wouldn’t be able to turn your iPhone into a honeypot without this otherwise.
Cancel Stallman.
Cancel free software.
Cancel the internet.
Cancel computers.
Cancel the earth.
Cancel the universe.
Honestly... Cancel everything.

Who the fuck needs any of that. Especially that universe thing. The dumbest invention ever.

Finally a good reason to look forward to climate change destroying everything.
All Teslas have self-driving cameras, but they do not fully self drive.
You are wasting your time debating with people who use terminology like “cancel culture” or “SJW”. They aren’t interested in arguing in good faith. If it was any other forum, I’d suggest simply mock them and move on. Here, you are best just downvoting and moving on.

If this forum wanted to avoid getting overrun by these people, they’d ban them. People who use terminology like “SJW” are toxic and spread like cancer, pushing away people interested in actual debate or intelligent conversation.
Can you add some substance to this? Why do you think warrant canaries are weak?
More misinformation. Police most definitely need a search warrant for your hotel room, as they would for your home.

https://www.wklaw.com/do-police-need-a-warrant-to-search-my-...
Can we say that this counts as "the sex worker perspective?"

> Rachel Moran, a former prostitute who considers the purchase of sex an act of violence against women... holds a very different opinion on who the victims of prostitution are: "The acceptance of prostitution makes all women potential prostitutes in the public view since there are only two requirements for a woman to work in a brothel: one is that circumstance has placed her so […] and the other is that she has a vagina, and all women are born meeting at least one of these requirements."

[1] https://sarahditum.com/2014/02/24/who-do-you-listen-to/
Unfortunately that's their shortcoming and not mine as I can at least correct my mistakes. Other people aren't keen on correcting theirs nor can I force someone to recognize their own.
I'm sure one could place those first two sentences at the start of any defense of a stereotype.

I remember when i started freelancing 10 years ago, people would say things like "oh, you don't look like a developer. i mean, we can talk to you normally".

I know so many tech workers with that exact story open. Telling individual they are the special exception is how we maintain stereotypes. "My preconceptions aren't wrong, this is just atypical" is the first rule in the book.

And people's interactions with their IT departments are always so strange. People don't like being at fault for productivity lose so they shift blame. I've seen people blame the computer or even the IT guy for issues they do not understand and balk at the explanation as "not normal." Those same people wouldn't accuse a doctor of not speaking normal for using medical jargon. But the stakes and the power dynamics are quite different in medicine.

While I care about my hygiene a fair bit, if I was in a coding academy and someone had the audacity to treat a group adults like children and basically tell them they don't understand how to keep their bodies clean... I would demand a refund and tell that individual off for the self-serving infantilization of others. There are a million reasons why someone's odor is more noticeable then what most are accustom too. Simply assuming "nerds don't shower, so I'll give em a little hand" is all kinds of wrong.

They can't shower but they can build infrastructure, right?
Just because Stallman isn't a hypocrite doesn't mean things he says are "objectively true". Stallman advocated for the legalization of ("consensual") pedophilia, in those exact terms; that isn't a weird extrapolation of something he said, but rather words he put on his own website.
It's not a huge waste of paper. It costs far less than a penny to produce that amount of paper. It's a fraction of the credit card processing fee and this way less information about customers or purchases is shared between entities.
What a mean and nasty article, irrespective of Stallman.
“They have not removed it, it just is not visible by default if you are connected to the internet. Either run the setup without being connected to the internet, or type in a fake phone number a few times and it will give you the prompt to create a local account.”
WeWork's Nightmare
Hawaii...
Thanks for the encouragement! I agree, I'd like to keep it from becoming complicated. My hope is to keep it simple and refine it into a clean well defined core syntax that's easy to implement in any language, with an optional extension mechanism (for defining new types and layouts), without falling into the trap of markdown's or yaml's almost-the-same-but-slightly-different dialects. (I wrote more about that at the end of the article, if you made it that far.)

The spreadsheet itself brings a lot of power to the table. (Pun not intended!)

There are some cool things you can do using spreadsheet expressions, like make random values that change every time you download the CSV sheet, which is great for testing. But expressions have their limitations: they can't add new rows and columns and structures, for example. However, named ranges are useful for pointing to data elsewhere in other sheets, and you can easily change their number of rows and columns.

For convenience and expressivity, I've defined ways of including other named sheets and named ranges by reference, and 2d arrays of uniformly typed values, and also define compact tables of identical nested JSON object/array structures by using declarative headers (one object per row, which I described in the article, but it's not so simple, and needs more examples and documentation).
In advanced FP languages with sophisticated type systems, etc, there's a little more to it than that.
Seems like it's still there, just harder to access now.

The "best" sorted comment says:

> They have not removed it, it just is not visible by default if you are connected to the internet. Either run the setup without being connected to the internet, or type in a fake phone number a few times and it will give you the prompt to create a local account.
cancer treatment can also cause cancer and does - it was likely the cause of the death of my grandpa - but he got 10 more years due to a chemo-therapy from an otherwise lethal cancer - fuck cancer.
If Jesse Singal is your idea of a person who isn't "arguing in good faith" and who should be mocked, you're pretty far outside the mainstream.

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/on-cancel-culture-the-new...

> pushing away people interested in actual debate or intelligent conversation.

It's fascinating how "actual debate" and "intelligent conversation" mean, to you, avoiding words that you don't like. The most parsimonious explanation for the spread of these terms is that an increasing number of people intensely dislike the things to which these words refer --- and that every day they're less afraid of being called "toxic" for criticizing our culture of censorship and pitchfork mobs.
Yes, I thought it would be obvious that I'm referring to hotel guests having to disclose the license plate of the vehicle on the hotel property. And IDs are required at every hotel and it's stated on the websites of all the big chains. Either way, I've never seen a town's laws not require innkeepers to know who they're housing, which means checking IDs.

A quick google search shows many town ordinances such as this one:

http://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_LegiFile.aspx?Frame=&...

>Guest register. Every innkeeper shall at all times keep and maintain on the premises of hotel a guest register in which shall be inscribed the name and home address of each guest and shall contain such guest's vehicle description and license plate state and number.
Microsoft Blacklists Dozens of New File Extensions in Outlook
Ask HN: Which online services are most overpriced?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21102621
I believe the Rust Regex Unicode support is opt-out, where as in PHP it is opt-in. Might make a significant difference.
How about "sorry that I hurt feelings with insensitive wording"?

Does only work though, if he is sorry, which is not likely.

Because the thing is, allmost all rapist defend themself by saying the victim presented themself willingly and when RMS just declared that the most plausible scenario that the epstein underage prostitute present herself willingly, then he should not be surprised if people understand that wrong and feel hurt, if he has some empathy.

Now whether he has some, remains actually unclear to me after all I read now (but I never met him in person).

Anyhow, for someone talking so much abouth ethics and leading a organization about it, I believe empathy should be a required skill for leadership, otherwise it can (and was and partly is) be seen as a bad joke.
Downvoted because the descendants of those colonialists are abundant in HN and they do not want to owe any reparations ?

https://www.englishspeecheschannel.com/english-speeches/shas...
Air NZ used to fly 737s between CHC and WLG. Runway to Runway flight time can be as little as 30min if the wind is blowing in the right direction. Feels weird because there is only about 5min of cruising between accent and decent.

However, demand wasn't high enough to justify non-stop round trips, they replaced the 737s with two A320 flights a day, with a bunch of ATR-72 and Dash 8 flights throughout the day.

The classic example is of course Hawaii Air Flight 243. Before the incident, that airframe accumulated 89,680 cycles in 19 years (over 35,496 flight hours) doing short hops between Hawaiian islands.
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Please don't take HN threads further into boilerplate flamewars. We've had to ask you this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, electrified rail is by far the most energy-efficient way of transportation. How that translates to CO2 emission of course depends on how the electricity is made.
Wow that sounds like it would be a great conversation to be a part of. Why do you put joint stock corporations as number one though ?
YAML is all nice and dandy when the file you're writing is relatively simple. When what you're doing expands beyond a single key-value data structure, things rapidly take a turn for the tragic. JSON is fine, and I can live with XML, but save me from YAML.
Hey, could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here?
I never plug TVs into the internet and generally don’t connect any device unless it has a clear need to connect.

In the office I’ve taken to calling connected TVs a security concern, but I didn’t realise how right I was. The conference room TVs there are currently connected (before my time) but I’ll be disconnecting them next week.
Ok, I'll bite: your original comment wasn't useful at all, and didn't push the conversation forward. Making a baseless suggestion that the B-52 is the "safest machine in history" is not useful. You presented no evidence for this claim, and used "subjective" as a weasel word to avoid responsibility for what you were saying.

And then, incredibly, you make a -- reasonable -- assertion as to how you would determine a plane's safety and reliability, but then don't actually bother to try to apply that to the B-52. And then someone downthread uses something similar to your methodology (while presenting hard numbers and sources) to prove you wrong that the B-52 is the safest plane ever.

So my subjective opinion is that you've provided nothing of value to this conversation, and that is why you've been downvoted.

Oh, and calling people "cowards" when you don't like what they're saying or doing? If you want to invoke "old timers" on HN, you might as well at least pay attention to the site guidelines. As someone who has had an account here for 10 years (funny coincidence that you and I created our accounts within a week of each other), you should be well aware of them.
At this point they've crossed over from 'dark pattern' to 'black magic fuckery'.
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? We ban accounts that do that repeatedly, and you've done it repeatedly in this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've been installing Windows 10 w/o an active network connection since its release. Sounds like that'll become a more common thing for others.
To be fair, the benchmarks game PHP script does quite more work that just matching a regexp, like forking into multiple interpreters (which can't be that fast) and communicating through a message queue.

So any speed difference between Rust's and PCRE/PHP gets lost among the noise.
Different plastics have different melting points, and some (eg PVC) produce toxic gases (chlorine gas from memory) when heated enough to burn.

For plastic than can be separated into their specific types reliably enough, that does kinda make sense. But (guessing here) the heating process itself would take a bunch of energy and likely cost.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21104100.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100636 and marked it off-topic.
Higher-Dimensional Potential Heuristics for Optimal Classical Planning
It's not a product you'll ever be able to buy and AFAIK it's a press piece, not something every released to 3rd parties for review:

> The chip will never be sold in volume, but it proves that technologies by the two companies can enable designers to build complex chiplet-based products with unique characteristics.

So it's kind of interesting from a "is it possible to take the AMD approach to ARM cores" but it's not worth evaluating too hard because, again, you can't buy it.

I think ARM hopes this inspires one of the less creative licensees (Qualcom? Who else makes ARM besides Apple?) to pursue this as a product.
There's also an important distinction between electronic musicians that enjoy diving into sound design and keyboardists who just want a typical stock sound. Today, most synthesizers and keyboards usually clearly cater to one of these audiences, with analog synths created for the former and workstations like Korg Kronos for former.

However, DX7 works as both – it was both used as a source of very innovative sounds, as well as a simple preset-driven keyboard for many, many pop musicians who seemed to never have used anything but built-in presets.
This presenter is incredibly entertaining. He seems to strike a nice balance between a classic car expert and a very amused normal person. This was super pleasant to watch!
Agreed. It seems unfair to judge it for not being a real car when that was obviously not the intent.
When parent poster says “look at the underlying reasons why”, you jump to untrustworthy idiot employees hampered by CYA red tape.

When your employer does the same thing, it leads to “good tools with sensible affordances and guard rails” for competent responsible people.

Why is that?
Unfortunately, the WhatsApp terms of service say you must not "reverse engineer, alter, modify, create derivative works from, decompile, or extract code from our Services"
On new devices it hardly saves any battery because iOS (or maybe just the latest iPhones) have become wickedly good about preserving battery when idle.