skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for the other commenter, but personally, yes, I have changed my working hours to be as early as I feel is reasonable. I generally work from 7:00 AM until 4:00 PM. I feel that shifting any more than that would start to cause problems with not having enough working hours overlapping with coworkers to facilitate meetings and what not. (And it's worth pointing out that some people don't have this luxury. Students don't pick when school starts, shift workers don't pick when their shift starts, etc. They're beholden to the 8:00 bell or the 9:00 whistle or whatever. And a lot of society revolves around these schedules - especially the school schedules, where parents have to be at least somewhat on the same schedule as their kids.)

Anyway, despite my early schedule, I STILL find that this only buys me barely an hour of daylight in the winter when I get home. Staying on DST year-round would give me an extra hour of time to play outside with the kids, go for a family walk, etc. in the winter months. Selfishly, I'd love it.

And I say selfishly, but I don't think it's entirely selfish. It's not like I'm the only person in this boat. As another commenter pointed out, most social activities tend to happen after work/school in the evenings. I'm imagining the majority of people having more time for outside socializing, exercising, etc. if you just started the school/work day in a couple of hours of darkness and then let them have the sunlight after it was over...
No it wasn't.

The idea that one can meaningfully socialize with more than several hundred people is.
> I say ban mining, the sooner the better

Absolutely. But I just want to remind the group that not all crypto relies on mining! And not all crypto is about chasing fads like NFTs. I believe the world (some parts more than others) will need a decentralized means of exchange in the future. I personally am betting on Nano, but others are also promising.
exactly .. this is the part I don't understand
And that's how you force your users to NOT install any updates.
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heads up: I've seen exact same thing on product hunt.
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"I refuse to feel guilty. When I fill my Hummer at the pump, I expect it to be filled with renewable corn oil. If it isn't, there's an issue with the system."
> Maybe we should call T cells "Police Cells or "Anti-Cells" instead. You know, some marketing might help...

Sad, but probably very true...
Agreed, but the suggestion that bitcoin is somehow controlled democratically is wrong. Central banks are controlled democratically, more or less. Bitcoin isn't controlled by anyone, it's ungovernable. And no one wants an ungovernable currency (unless you subscribe to some crackpot economic theory).
The only reason why the RCC has "given up" the geocentric status of the bible is that it has lost political power over the centuries, and newer more powerful political entities have ascended in its place.

Political power very much has the ability to impose its preference on "reality". That is exactly why it exists.
Fukushima happened in 2011. This article states the dieoffs of starfish and kelp began 8 years ago. I wonder if there is a connection? Considering all the Plutonium flooding into the pacific. Plutonium the most TOXIC substance known to man. Its not even the radiation, its chemically toxic.
I don't know if you have noticed, but people actually make use of Bitcoin as well. Just because there are some speculators doesn't mean that there aren't millions of people using BTC and sending transactions every day. Also the fact that USD/Visa is much bigger right now, doesn't either mean that there aren't millions of people who use crypto.
The first thing that comes to mind is that correlation is not causation.

The author says nothing to address that. In fact, not far into the article they effectively state they're just going to assume that his hypothesis is correct and then proceeds to hunt for reasons why. This raises all kinds of red flags for me.

I'm sure you don't have to look far for a common cause explanation of the hypothesis.
I wonder if the DOJ will try to indict the man behind Signal for similar reasons.
Mmhhh, is it so strong?

I guess what is void is that specific clause. Otherwise, any vendor could include a clause saying "you relinquish some rights" just in the middle of the text and, after the fact, claim that the contract was void and require you to return an item (say, a car).

So, I guess you mean that specific clause?
Ban people from saying this!! :D
Bitcoin is considered by nearly zero of anyone of any actual note to be important to our future finance system.

1. It has not succeeded in becoming a valid currency as it is a technology attempting to solve a social problem.

2. It is held as digital gold with rapidly changing value

3. It is literally nonsensical as a future currency system due to the limits of mining as it couldnt possibly keep up with daily money use unless you had way more mining activity that would cause it to cost far more than existing systems to do transactions

Here is the thing: All of the things you mentioned have a path to efficiency, Bitcoin itself does not. Eth, maybe! BTC, no. Here is the other thing: At a global scale, m Bitcoin would use more energy than everything you just described combined globaly. It's a climate-bankrupt technology solution looking for a problem it is not equipped to solve. Crypto in some form may work, but this will never work.
>>Most developing countries are at a high risk of capital flight by the rich and hence they regulate foreign exchange with Capital controls. India already has a cap of USD 250k limit on capital flight by individuals.

Anybody who owns a legitimate business in India has no reason to do this.

The only people in India who could do this are bribe makers, and the ecosystem around that. And those people already have means to not just park that money some where(many times outside India), but also whiten it at will.

The bribe makers already park money in gold, lands(in the names of relatives). In cities lots of Ola/Uber cars are owned by bribe makers and then they get some one from native places and get them to drive it for a share in profit. You will be surprised how that money is invested. Building a hospital/hotel? Put a word out, people invest in as little as a hotel/hospital room in return for some rent. There are even stories of people buying Green Cards for their siblings, relatives etc.

This is illegal collection. The legalised corruption goes really really deep. There's reason most government housing colony plots are generally owned by people who are in civil services or in some way connected to them.

Coming to capital flight. There was recently a number of ponzi schemes in Bangalore, in the name of Islamic Sharia investments. A number of firms came down, and investor money in literally thousands of crores was laundered. A famous one was called the 'IMA Scam'. The owner has luxury palaces in UAE, and apparently has gold in underground warehouse vaults outside India. He was arrested but is out on bail for medical reasons :)

When people say there is some $250K limit on these things I burst out of laughter. $250k, which around 2 crores is likely a single day bribe collection of a sub registrar office in anywhere in Bangalore.

>>This law will prevent capital flight by the rich which they earned with the patronage of Indian citizens and escape reinvestment locally

'The Rich' don't even get their money to India. The big businesses, including the big IT services firms, only get as much money to India as much as they need to run operations here. This is why every time the dollar gets stronger IT services firms get richer. So do the investors. Most of the business is run on rented campuses, and apart from the core businesses you contract most of your work to local companies. So it's not like the big businesses hoard a lot of money in INR.

Nobody is actually that stupid to legally bring their billions into a country from which they can only take $250K back.

Lastly the only reason I see, and I don't think its malice. But I think it's 'new tech phobia'. The established order of society doesn't like disruptive stuff. That's pretty much it. In 1980s there was once a Bharat Bandh called in India when Rajiv Gandhi introduced computers.
Yes, most everyone knows that they can be tracked.

The point is that we voluntarily paid/pay to build and maintain the tracking infrastructure. That's what most people don't realize.
OT: I clicked on the author's link and found it is suspended. Any idea why? https://twitter.com/mollypascal
China has about 65% of the bitcoin mining capacity online at the moment, it already controls bitcoin.
"Into the story stepped his son Pierre Malinowski, at 34 years old a maverick ex-soldier who once worked for Jean-Marie Le Pen and now runs a foundation in Moscow dedicated to tracing war-dead from the Napoleonic and other eras. "

This was the most interesting part of the article to me: a super condensed portrait of the person who actually ran the illegal excavation. Ex-foreign legion, former parliamentary assistant to the most famous racist French nationalist. Now living in Moscow, close to Putin. Easy to miss for those not too familiar with the French context. Wikipedia [0] has more.

The man is a professional firebrand. Different in many ways from Steve Bannon, but they'd probably get along well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Malinowski
Progressive web apps - i.e. web apps
> I still like it, because (unlike C++) I can understand it

No article like that is complete without a little C++ critique :-)

> I think it’s the simple, idiomatic versions that are the most telling. This is the code programmers are likely to write in real life.

I very much agree with him on this statement. If people started writing "optimized" versions of algorithms (on that level); who would ever be able to read others peoples code...
I have a hard time believing that they pay an appropriate price on any scale. Mining is highly portable and miners will locate their stuff to wherever they get the lowest rate. I would not be surprised if the electricity that miners are running on is government subsidized.
My original comment was about each comparison fitting. The M1 is an expensive entry-level thin and light, but you get excellent performance and battery life. So it does that job well. But to say it has "no compromises" would say it could work for everyone. But it isn't a well-rounded laptop because of the screen size, OS, lack of GPU power, etc. Those things don't hurt you if you're happy with MacOS, the screen size, don't care about many games, etc. so it's not a "compromise" for your use case.

Not sure what that has to do with marketing - I mean you can buy based on marketing, but the original discussion was about comparing entry-level laptops and high-end laptops to the Macbook Air, and excluding Ryzen because they aren't in high-end laptops.
>The Engineering team is well aware of the community feedback.

Does that mean Mozilla is aware how unpopular this is, but are going to go ahead nevertheless?

Is there even a single person who wants this feature to be removed?
I once dreamt of the most beautiful song ever. The next day I remembered what it was, and eager to write down this masterpiece I realized it didn't sound as beautiful as I thought: just dum-da-dum.
Being somewhat of a "GoldBug",

I recall back in the 90s there was a huge influx of "Indian" gold into the "West". It was identifiable from it's high purity and almost orange color, it was being carried out as jewelry and converted into real estate for the most part.

My point being, as long as there is a will to move wealth, the holders will find a way around any restrictions imposed by the state and infact restrictions usually create whole industries based on Enforcement of, and Evasion of state imposed restrictions.
This is shortsighted... either it won't pass or it will get reversed later.
This sounds like a nightmare!

Eskom seems to have been around for a long time, but this problem seems to have kicked in a little over a decade ago.

Did something recently happen to Eskom to make them incompetent?
The genie is out of the bottle really.
If society collapses a small uninhabitable region is the least of our problems.
In 1933, Roosevelt banned holding gold and silver. In 1934, the Gold Reserve Act allowed the government to set a fixed price for gold and buy out all domestic gold holdings for cash. This remained in effect until 1961 when the laws were relaxed. Then in 1971, the US jumped off the gold standard. Prior to that point, gold was the global reserve currency.

BTC is far less widely owned and far less legitimate than gold was in the 1930s (it actually was the global reserve currency then). The political friction is low for heavy regulation or an outright ban across even developed markets.

My bet is that the green argument will be the first attempt to neuter BTC.

Disclaimer: BTC neutral. I own a small amount, and treat it like an option on a speculative asset.
Which is an entirely subjective position. You could argue that porn is not only useless, but also harmful. This is the same logical question for any use of anything.
Some structure, where you don't have to do a keynlookup twice, for incementing the number.

I would try it with a dictonary, that links to an array list with the counts.
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I believe this is how it typicaly works. At least the few laws I've read (Finnish law) voids the offending clauses, not the entire contract.
> Governments lost the war against ... cryptography

I don't think so. The vast majority of people communicating around the world today are doing so through backdoored platforms like Whatsapp or WeChat, and running backdoored operating systems or backdoored processors. Sure, there is a tiny population of cypherpunks who might really have good opsec, but at this point it is no longer a government's "war" against anything: the war is won and some ultra-low-level unrest doesn't change that fact.
Moving around what we call the hours of the day is a really stupid way to change habits.

Why not do this for other unit's of measurement? People travel at 70mph on highways, have accidents and die. Lets make 1 mile only 1200m instead of 1600m, now when the speed limit is 70mph, people will really be travelling at 84kph instead of 112kph, so less will die. It's utterly absurd. Just post a 50mph limit.

If you want people to start the day earlier at certain times of year, you just legislate that things start earlier at a certain time of year. For example schools and shops should be obliged to change their opening hours on that day.
Well, the original Insomnia was set in Tromsø (later remade by Nolan):

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0119375/

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0278504/
Lyft and Uber join forces to create a registry of abusive drivers
What is this bizarro world where Gates didn't do much coding but Zuckerberg bootstrapping a PHP CRUD app would get him in the door at today's Facebook?
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This is straw manning my point. Calculating hash functions is literally doing calculations on my computer and no it’s not cooking drugs and has nothing to do with drugs.
The dirty truth is that most whiteboard industries are heavily loaded on raw cognitive ability. Sure, it’s ostensibly about data structures, but what it’s really about is fluid intelligence. Gates, Zuckerberg, Larry, Sergey and Bezos all have extremely high intelligence, and would most likely pass with ease.
Which Hydro is brilliant at, it's literally stored energy waiting to be used by opening the gates.
Which is why such terms should be illegal.
Blame it on UN.

But when the world have thrown out the jews from their homes in all the neighboring countries and collected them in Israel at the same time Palestinian Arabs were thrown out from their homes in what is today Israel it becomes weird to talk about only one of those events in isolation, don't you think?

Just because Israel integrated their people instead of putting them in camps waiting for the others to be "showeled out into the sea" doesn't mean they are worse?

IIRC (I'm not that into India / Pakistan) this was about the same thing UN tried when they divided India / Pakistan aroubd the same time.
Now try breaking it down by race, and you'll see if it wasn't for blacks and hispanics we'd have one of the lowest gun crime rates in the world. This begs the question is it a gun problem in America or a different problem?
> this was never really true [...] the code has always been available

The term the author used ("open source") has a specific meaning. Merely being able to see the source code is not sufficient.
I’ll take 15kg of pastrami for the Miami delivery. I’m getting a pushback on the new price on Genoa but Eddie tells me he knows he can smooth it over.

The dates however are spoiled,it’s going to need a total clean.

I am the walrus.
I don't see the hypocrisy here? Were western countries ever against capital flight? This is more of a case of "x doesn't affect country, therefore it's not banned" which isn't really hypocrisy.
Not saying that’s good, but that’s already done since a while with encryption key (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number) and encryption systems (the US restricts export of cryptography). A legal system doesn’t care that much about all the technical details when they can deal with the abstraction directly.
Even if all of what you described was impossible, the banning is still a bad idea. Indian government's default mode is to ban things they find threatening instead of even trying to compete or assimilate
Welcome to the real world, where numbers can be illegal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

(And no, I don't like this)
The obvious problem with this statement is that there is no reason why anything billed as a general purpose computing device (which a laptop is) shouldn't be able to run an arbitrary set of software (including an arbitarary OS), and no reason why they shouldn't be available for purchase without such software pre-installed. Restrictions on that are strictly artificial and profit-driven.
Less minorities too...
You're really getting your level of abstractions wrong.

We understand cellular theory but we don't understand cancer.

We understand how computers and math work but we haven't figured out P vs NP.

Just because you understand some higher level of abstraction doesn't mean you understand lower levels.

Every 'germ' is radically different. Understanding the germ theory of disease doesn't mean anything other than we understand germs at that level of abstraction.

Another example is by also comparing speed limits to entire society wide shutdowns.

The real pandemic is how poorly educated our society is about science, statistics, level of abstractions, and critical thinking.

And the news media preys on the idiots.
The difference is that all those thing have incentives to use less energy, PoW is incentivized to use as much energy as possible.
yes, sorry writing quickly.
> use more energy than everything you just described combined globaly

Pretty sure you're orders of magnitude wrong about that.

Also there are very specific, actionable and already growing things on the roadmap to sustainability:

- Green energy/proper carbon taxing of energy production

- Lowering of block reward to stabilize the transaction fee and find the proper price, with relation to how many miners we really need vs how much people are willing to pay for transactions.

- L2 solutions making bitcoin a payment network and not only a store of value. Like Lightning network which works today, as we speak, is stable, and is still only going to get better and better because it's very early in the lifecycle of that technology.

> Bitcoin is considered by nearly zero of anyone of any actual note to be important to our future finance system.

How can you even be honest with yourself with that line, when it nowadays rarely goes 3 weeks between each consecutive All-Time-High? What is your theory behind that?
(Not the op) in such environments where the government doesn't usually care about you, you have more freedoms in practice but they are not guaranteed [1]. In the west you have more freedoms that are guaranteed, but I would say less freedoms in practice as government loves telling you what you can't do all the time. It's a mixed bag either way. People have different preferences.

[1] You could say it's not a freedom unless it's guaranteed. That view is not universal. Freedom in practice trumps freedom on paper for a lot of people.
Ask HN: Why do you think post on Elon Musk's title change was flagged?
In a SEC filing by Tesla, this was tucked half-way down (Item 8.01) in the PDF:

Effective as of March 15, 2021, the titles of Elon Musk
and Zach Kirkhorn have changed to Technoking of Tesla
and Master of Coin, respectively. Elon and Zach will
also maintain their respective positions as Chief
Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.

Original:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26464408

SEC filing:
https://sec.report/Document/0001564590-21-012981/

I understand why things don't get upvotes, but the 'flagged' label was a surprise. Di dI miss something obvious?
I voted with my feet. Life outside the five eyes has been... interesting
There's also a big gap between which bills get introduced and what actually gets passed
Climate change is an engineering problem not a behavioral one. Shaming people for how they use electricity helps no one.
Ask HN: What is the Namecheap “Withheld for Privacy” announcement about?
Namecheap customers got an email that Namecheap is changing the service called "WhoisGuard" to "Withheld for Privacy" in Iceland.

The whole thing sounds strange to me. What are those services offering?

Here is their blogpost about it:

https://www.namecheap.com/blog/domain-privacy-is-changing-at-namecheap/
I think grep (and wc) are included in that table as a sort of baseline. Like, "roughly speaking, what can we expect?" Or maybe, "what can we hope for?" grep (or ripgrep) isn't otherwise particularly relevant here.

In the case of grep and wc, the "optimized" variant is running with LC_ALL=C, which sets the locale to C. Presumably, the non-optimized variant is using the OP's default locale, which is maybe something like en_US.UTF-8. (Apologies for the US assumption, but what matters is that it's not the C locale.)

This is a common trick for speeding up GNU utilities when you're only working with ASCII data. It also works for things like `sort`.

In the case of grep, sometimes running with and without the locale will be about as fast, particularly if you're only searching for a simple ASCII literal pattern.
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In German law that would, as a default, actually make the whole contract void, yes. Many contracts therefore contain a clause that hedges against that situation (i.e. something like "if one or more of these items is found void, the rest still applies")
Unfortunately, business have a habit of maintaining the same opening schedules all year long, which means they open earlier in summer and later in winter (relative to the sun).

You don't change the sun, but changing own habits relative to the clock is not an option for the majority of people - so if the clock changes, society follows.
Yeah, I've been using it pretty much since introduced.

This is surprising to me, after all the drama their telemetry has caused, they don't even know if people are using a pretty visible feature? What are they even recording then?
At this point Brave is the power-user choice. And Mozilla show no signs of slowing down their self inflicted decline.

I miss using Firefox, but I don't miss the dread-churn of notices like this.
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