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I'd say it is because Turbo Pascal and then Borland Pascal got popular enough, and had TurboVision and other stuff.

Modula-2 was a nice language (and modern Go is built basically on its ideas, plus Oberon's), but it had a hard time competing for the same niche on the PC. It worked better in embedded space, though.

On Unix, there was C, a language with many shortcomings, but one big upside: it was the language the kernel and the userland was implemented in. Its compiler was readily available as a part if any Unix installation. It seemed a natural choice over Pascal, unless you wanted drastically different features (then you had Fortran, or awk, or Tcl, or later Perl, etc.)
A big part of that 190x footprint is all the stuff the US makes and exports to other countries.

It’s silly to attribute it all Americans.
I think the idea of land anywhere is a bit too broad. I think it’d be more successful if you targeted a specific purpose or type of land. For example, buy camp-site land. Or buy land in upcoming development area. Or buy farm land and rent it out to tenants.
Then you are assuming that real estate is a better investment compared to land, which might be wrong :)
Also, watch the original series.

The remake is sorely deficient in both cicadas and power line hum.
I'm a huge fan of Calvin and Hobbes. It isn't necessarily a kids comic, with a lot of the jokes being subtle enough to go over a kid's head, but adults would still find them funny.

Here're some strips that a six-year-old would barely understand:

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/12-times-calvin-and...
> Nytimes is the only news site I see that doesn't have absolute trash for dialogue quality.

Oh, it has plenty of trash comments, they're just expressed in a manner acceptable to the urban elite. All the comments from hoi polloi are filtered.
I agree, leading out with linked lists is not a very good idea... although this is Hacker News. I will take this under advisement when refactoring the list. Thanks.
That's pretty cynical. Biden says he wants to end fossil fuel consumption by 2050. You might say it's insufficiently aggressive but it's also still 100% impossible so long as we have an opposition party unwilling to even acknowledge the problem.

https://joebiden.com/climate-plan/
This hype tech nonsense is ready for a big time disruption.
Funny; TopSpeed Modula-2, available around that time, had a fine I/O library. Damn, it had coroutines! Much less ergonomic than Go's, though.
There's a great recent video on the Memphis Pyramid from Bright Sun Films [0] - 10th tallest pyramid in the world!

0: https://youtu.be/FEB-YG2iiYA
Every power source had some failures, but the only power sources that dropped all the way to 0 were solar and wind. Nuclear operated at 75% of capacity, while fossil generation seems to have been around 60%. Wind recovered slightly and "exceeded projections" by producing in the 15-30% range, but closer to 15% at night when it's coldest.
I've clearly been doing this quarantine / pandemic wrong.
So everyone in the world changing their clocks is easier than having a summer schedule at a business where they open one hour earlier?

Many businesses have different schedules on the weekend, I think people could cope with summer hours. Especially since they already do - even with the time change many businesses are open longer.

For something so unpopular, how do places that don't do the time change get by? Why isn't Saskatchewan in a permanent rage-fueled civil war?
AWS and the Amazon.com store may have synergy now, but for many years the store was its own thing. Amazon.com only finished migrating off Oracle DB in 2019:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-...
Mini rant: Sincerely, who cares?

Musk just has a weird mouth feel (has the same strange feeling like saying "Moist", to me), Elon just flows of the tongue better, (both literally and metaphorically in the "thought voice" sense), and also is rather unique (unlike Jack, Tim, Mark or Jeff, Elon is a far less common name)

if it gets the point across, why quibble over such minor details?

Also, on a seperate point, Elon has rather created that familiarity by his constant Twitter updates, we FAR more about Elon, both personally and professionally, on a MUCH more regular basis, than like the next thousand billionaires combined. It's not strange that people DO genuinely believe they are acquainted with him in some way.
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That ship has not only sailed away, it was never on port in the first place.

The article gets the reasons for this increased interest in chip technology wrong; it has nothing to do with COVID recovery and everything to do with keeping a competitive edge in a world where China has a national policy of developing competitive state of the art CPUs.

Secondly, chip manufacturing was always in the eye of the US's strategic interests for blindingly obvious reasons.

It's a garbage article that has random lines of government blaming and the garbage editorial line of the Murdoch-owned WSJ where the state can do nothing right and private actors deserve all credit.
2005 Camry L4 Software Analysis (2011) [pdf]
Unless climate issues affect humans and their comfort of consumers, nothing will change.
Based on the comment in the source, the hash table doesn't handle hash collisions. And furthermore, I don't see the code which benchmarks this versus other hash tables, just the claim that it is 2-3x faster. Specifically, comparisons for different tables sizes using the same hash function would be good.

The API this presents is not really inspiring either.
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I feel like you’d want something a bit safer than “we don’t store the keys and just rely on the hash to be really good” [1], putting “please do not use this for serious tasks” in a comment embedded in the header file isn’t a clear enough warning.

It’s not clear to me that that probability of collision assumptions hold. It’s basically assuming that the hashing is perfect and distributes any inputs to the full 64-bit space with uniform probability. That’s the usual hash map / randomized algorithm hope, but does BigCrush or similar avalanche testing really prove that? (Presumably not, otherwise there wouldn’t be image attacks for things like md5).

[1] https://github.com/wangyi-fudan/wyhash/blob/d2a305811972f391...
It would be better to have the Env setup e.g. Docker, VM etc. as it is an beginner code learning and it compares with intel code. In fact the author does include even compiler switch. But this is too partial to be useful for experimentation and visual learning
These articles often seem to miss the fact that there are much more modern cryptocurrencies these days that are stable because they are tied to the price of a fiat currency like the USD, and much more efficient and green than Bitcoin.

This still poses the question: what about anonymity enhanced cryptocurrencies like zcash? Why are these legal?

Furthermore why are unhosted wallets legal as well? It seems like FinCEN is fine with them so far and do not treat them like VASPs (so not affected by the travel rule). Why?
In retrospect, the entire SBG complex is a single availability zone so backups needed to go somewhere outside.
Yes I'm aware and I personally disagree with how that case was handled. However, the context of the thread here is reader comments. My point was, a person of public interest and subject of an article ought to have a right to respond,that's good journalistic practise and generally happens today still. Joe Schmoe from the comment section doesn't, and never had, and it's not a reasonable thing to demand.

Just a few years ago readers got to write letters to newspapers, and when the newspapers thought the comments had something particularly thoughtful to say they'd publish them at their discretion. But the quality of user comments in general is so low, there's no reasonable case to be made that they all ought to stay up.
> they’re the opinions of ill-informed people who try to spread one agenda or another

You mean like journalists themselves ?
Did you guys ever bring up TOS / GEM etc. on those VME/10s? Or were they just for cross compiling?
Fintech (And indeed Stripe, Square and Plaid in particular) are grossly overvalued. They all play the hype game, with statement such as "Stripe powers the internet". Way too many people are buying into those valuations without looking at the fundamentals.
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>schedule shifts anyway in relation to astronomical cycles

That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about calling into work saying you need a schedule change to work around your kid's new school schedule. Calling your daycare provider to setup a new schedule. If you take public transport, finding how the timetables will work with your new schedule. If you plan doctor's appointments in the future, you now need to take into account time of year to know when your and your kid's availabilities are. None of that happens when everyone changes their clocks.

When you mess up the clock currently no schedules need to change (except the people who are working at 2am, which is not very many).
Probably for your PR from way back when: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19359870
"Productivity" is a very general economic term that can refer to something as abstract as "revenue per worker":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity

There's no implication that the worker is producing the same physical objects every day.

For example, if a group of developers start using a new framework that allows them to create the same software in less time (thus costing less to produce), their productivity increases.
> Also adjusting your entire schedule (your alarm, your bedtime) twice a year would be very disruptive.

Yes, it is. I'm glad you agree.

> Are you suggesting we eliminate (go permanent standard time) and have people change their alarms 1 hour earlier in the summer?

Voluntarily. If they like mornings, yes. If they like evenings, then no.
Gnome X.org vs. Wayland Performance and Power Usage
There's also not such a thing as "HIPPA Certified" and anyway it's "HIPAA". Do you mean you got some sort of training in how HIPAA privacy and security rules apply to you?
> nothing is stopping you from navigating to booksamillion.com or powells.com to buy a book.

But most readers won't. So unless you're lucky enough to have a massive "I'll buy this book no matter what" audience that already know about your book (which I'd wager 99% or more authors don't have), then Amazon can single-handedly kill your viability as an author, regardless if your books can still be found by those really invested.

How many books are silently snuffed out for each big outcry?
And Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman).
Medlife Used Personalized Messaging to Double Conversions
A discussion on how how COVID-19 has impacted Medlife and the efforts they undertook to be more proactive in response to changing customer demands.
There is no valid distinction between ‘demanding’ and ‘arguing for’ in this context.
Pricing goods directly in BTC, to me, is a very big "if" scenario. I think most governments would find a way to put the kibosh to this entire operation before Bitcoin became some kind of default currency in the global sense for everyone (not just for its supporters).

Banning cryptocurrency itself would be very foolhardy (because how do you ban source code?), but what governments could do is prohibit exchanges from operating in their home countries, thus deterring any growth in mind-share amongst the peanut gallery, and even leading to a drop in the price per BTC. All they need to do is hamstring it for the vast majority of people. Diehards may continue to use BTC, but the allure would diminish greatly thereafter.

And, say if you decide to go around traditional exchanges and use more underground methods to attain your home currency of choice, I'm sure the tax agency will get very suspicious about the massive windfall you got that you can't properly explain away.

Climate change being what it is, I would be shocked if governments don't start cracking down on this sooner.
Love it. Screw the comments section on ANYTHING.

- A commenter
Amazing how little substance this opinion article has on either side of the argument. "Government bad bcs misallocation of resources", meanwhile the reason why the US doesn't have much of the industry they themselves developed is because market forces love short-term solutions (so outsourcing everything and depending on foreign firms for key tech is the better resource allocation strategy apparently). Without government backing, there is no chip industry in the US (or not much of it anyway). It doesn't really matter how WSJ feels about it.
Looks like coinbase, kraken and binance have zcash. What do you make of that?
Meow hash claims 3-4x faster hashing over this, still passes smhasher, and is a few years old. https://mollyrocket.com/meowhash

And there are a bunch of other good suggestions here in the comments looking at around the same 50-60gb/sec speed
From memory, published arguments have only been against right from the start, because it was so popular that the pro side needed no support.

Comments and social sections were the big in-thing in the latter part of the noughties, if you were trying to make your site modern and hip, it was assumed you'd have comments and share links on everything. I recall a degree of belief that social media was the future and if you didn't integrate with it you'd get left behind, but I think as much it was just a design fad.
I didn't see anything in the headlined article that says anything about a moderation system where posts are not posted until they are approved. It only talks about removal of posts after they are posted.

comp.lang.c++.moderated used a system where submissions needed approval by the moderator(s) before posting. It worked well for many years. The delay could be up to a day, but people accepted that.

After all, it's like the pre-internet "Letters to the Editor" section of the newspaper.
everybody knows the real hot goss is in the NBC10 comments section
All this is a mess due to DST anyway (like system bugs and so on). So it's much better without the switch.
I start typing the name of a site that I like into the browser bar -- and it fills in the rest.

It does this so consistently that it's very rare I even need to refer back to saved bookmarks.
What monster would hack Blender?
I’d imagine that’s substantially less common than your everyday racist spambots in news comment sections. I doubt the amount of influence you can gain from astroturfing a news comments section is worth the cost of dozens of newspaper subscriptions.
Vaporized and unreclaimable are the same thing here
Bitcoin has a floor too: the black market. Go to any dark market and they’ll only accept Bitcoin. This is why even if Bitcoin crashes massively it’ll always have a value. Now that still doesn’t explain why gold and bitcoin are valued that high currently.
You've got it backwards, DST is later sunrises and sunsets.

I can't be bothered to research it, but was always told as a kid the naming was for longer daylight hours after school, so the kids could help farm.
This is self-selection against those willing to acknowledge and work towards solving the problem.
Philosophy is the (surprisingly fertile) dowager empress of the sciences.

Physics may be the king, and Math the queen, but they always seem to be grinding their teeth and wishing that old biddy Philosophy would just finally die one day, and hand over the last her her powers, and she never really does.
There are ways to demand systemic change outside of the lobbying umbrella.
I like this one

https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
Sure, but the evidence from other countries strongly suggests that this would change if commercially made guns got harder to obtain.

In the UK and Europe, criminals modifying replicas or other close starting points is quite common.
Credit to the mods here. They have a vision for a culture, and they've done a good job at it. It doesn't mean it's the only way to have a conversation. I recognize this sentiment is going to be unpopular here. There are probably other places that would feel the opposite, that HN is a groupthink SV bubble with any diversity just a riff on that theme. I like it here, but I swear some people here think they have a monopoly on truth.
Same thing in British Columbia: over 90%, 5.7 billion have died since 2013 [1].

When I was a kid in the 90s, and starting to dive in the 2000s, sea stars were everywhere on the ocean floor, even really close to the city center of Vancouver. They were so ubiquitous that they were completely uninteresting to us locals. We would hear that BC was considered world-renowned for scuba diving quality, and think "How dull, it's just a shit ton of sea stars"

(Of course, we were young, stupid, and also called them starfish not sea stars then)

Me and some friends would go camping at an oceanfront spot on Vancouver Island every year, and go crabbing with mixed results. Half of the irritation was sometimes you'd be pulling up what felt like a really heavy crab trap full of goodness (We were always responsible and only kept the males over the legal size), only to find it full of sea stars who chased away the crabs and ate our bait.

Then, about six or seven years ago, the sea stars just...disappeared. And they didn't come back.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sunflower-se...
The names of Donald Duck's nephews in various European languages
>Yes, it is. I'm glad you agree.

I think we actually disagree. We're using different definitions of "adjusting". I'm using it as in change from getting up at 7am instead of 8am. This is very disruptive because you have to reschedule your work shifts, your kid's school time, your commute (e.g public transport), your kid's daycare, doctor's appointments, bedtime, TV watching schedule, evening activities, etc.

If you and everyone else shift everything, then no one needs to contact each other to figure out how the rescheduling will work out. It all happens without requiring any communication. If x people interact with each other, then personal shifts might require x^2 interactions to try to figure out their new schedules. If it's set by the government, it requires 0 interactions.
There is a delicious film called "Thirty two short films about Glenn Gould" which is a must for the curious. A brilliant piece of film-making about a quirky genius. It is 32 short films, each 2 to 6 minutes long as I recall. Available on Amazon, I lucked into seeing it on the big screen years ago when it first came out.
Yes, I understand that the growth of new loan originations experiences vicissitudes based on general economic conditions.

That's not my point.

My point is that loan growth slowing is not the rich hoarding all the money. They don't hoard. Hoarding is not only unprofitable, it costs money.
This is very useful!@
Ever heard of popcorn time?
Should I apologize for calling out b.s.? Overall, users on this forum tend to agree with my opinions...
Would be interested in accounting for startup age. Wouldn't be surprised if the Ruby companies are older on average
> have as many kids as you can support

How ironic considering that the very source of earths problems are because of humans. Somehow, the solution is more. Never a better response from, a human.
Pollution is really bad. Like, it’s way worse than you’d think it is. Air pollution seems to have driven the entire country crazy for most of the 20th century, and if cities are as violent as they were in 1990 then nobody is going to be interested in saving energy by living in them.
I've been listening to Gould's Beethoven sonata recordings lately. I don't like all of them, and some of them I even find a little irritating. But there's something new and fresh in many of them (even the ones I ended up not liking). Same with his writing -- even when I disagree with every word, there's always something new and very often thought-provoking.
> Why not just use ask cli?

“ask cli”? Do you mean AWS CLI? Or SAM CLI?
Perhaps you can ask your parents why they're not inter-caste
I'm not really concerned about the people, I'm concerned about the trend of how much the talk about the person eclipses talk about their ideas... even as I realize that I'm falling into the same trap in this very comment.
Or perhaps more importantly, did the terrain navigation software correctly choose an optimal landing location? It seems like it chose one of the rockiest places.
We tried in Europe and it just ended up with politician encouraging third world immigration to sustain industry, so now we have two problems.
I think a large part of the respect for Watterson comes from the fact that he never "sold out". He made his comic and when he felt it was done, he stopped. He didn't do a Saturday morning cartoon, and lunchboxes, and t-shirts, etc. What merchandising there is for C&H is, afaik, unlicensed.

Watterson is an artist, and he did it for the art, not just to make money. It lends a lot more credibility in some people's eyes.

It also shows that the strident anti-commercialism stance he takes in many of the comics isn’t just talk. He actually believes and lives it.
I don't get it. I follow PG's definition of a startup [1]. I think Stripe still qualifies as one.

1. http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
i'm no boat designer either, but I think what they've done is taken a normal boat and converted it, reducing the number of problems they need to solve?
Yeah, I kept doing that for my copper pots once a month with different things: ketchup, bar keepers friend, etc. It was never an easy wipe away experience like I imagined.
Soviet Russia was in a civil war for six years and the history there is complex because initially it was supposed to be the democratic revolution.

Nazi Germany was like present day Russia - formerly authoritarian state that lost a big conflict, had democratic transition which was shaken by a series of economic crises. A large part of the population considered the strong leadership and revanchism for embodiment of the national essence. The economic elite welcomed the predictability of a well-oiled corrupt regime.

History of North Korea is not my strong side, but the North had huge chinese and soviet backing during the war while the South part was a military dictatorship until the nineties.

Myanmar military is maybe the most interesting of all these cases because this is not a regime with an ideology. Its backing is purely economic by Japan and China who have financial interests in the country, and the army officers internally, who can profiteer from an army-owned economy. For sure, there is some jingoism used by the army's propaganda; however, I don't follow the conflict and narratives there to assess properly what's going on there. However, as far as China is ready to sell the regime weapons and the regime has access to enough money to by them, the protests are doomed. Having access to power is existential for those guys and they won't let it go. Best scenario is if Japan and maybe China broker some deal "amnesty for democracy", but I doubt that they have the motivation to do so.
> If HIPAA compliance is difficult enough to come up with something like this, you have bigger problems.

I’m a bit confused. I was just giving a hypothetical product (I’ve seen similar on the market), that I can guess with high probability has not implemented protocols that I would consider proper for HIPAA.

So, maybe my SAT comprehension is abysmally low... I’m not sure what you’re saying there.
Yes. I agree with you. Much better to steer the ship and never hit the iceberg.

Some situations are like a jiu-jitsu match where an opponent can pin you down. In a subset of these situations and unlike in a jiu-jitsu match—you can’t tap out.

Say you’re in one of these situation.

Don’t avoid the feeling provoked by this impending doom. You can’t tap out. You cant restart the match.

In such an encounter, grace might mean to keep fighting. Keep thinking. Keep struggling. Recognize your prison.

Fortune favors the prepared mind. :)