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The balance in their ad account belongs to them, not to Facebook.

Beyond that, the point is just to make them notice you, so anything might be good enough. Reporting to a regulator like the CFPB can also be effective if the case looks financey - I got my PayPal account back recently that way after they didn't like how I typed in a tracking number and banned me for life.
Does it matter if it's a coincidence if it works?

The Placebo effect works, and doctors use it to treat patients all the time.
Slashdot moderation has this, with separate voting for insightful, interesting, funny, etc, and the corresponding toggles on the view side if you want to prioritize or exclude particular categories.
That's like only people above the age 70 elect the president of the United States.
> day I joined HN in March 2009.

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Locking the wallpaper is so unfriendly to me. It tells the IT worker that they are not welcome to the computer they are using daily.
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I use /classic, slightly less dross. It’s gotten gradually less different through time, perhaps something to the point that others may not be using it.
I am very sceptical of these benchmarks for the reasons you listed. The individual implementations are often too different to give a comparable score. And sometimes this is because of the rules. Like the requirement to use the language-provided hash tables, while C is free to implement an optimized hash table for the problem.
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I don't trust myself to write a decent version, but if someone here wants to do some marketing for Nim I'm sure the code would be compact and easy to read, but could still end up quite fast here!
But why should we have to reduce our “consumption” (by which I take it you mean material possessions and activities) if we literally CAN use tech to address the emissions problem? Reducing “consumption” ought not to be a goal in and of itself!

The thing I keep going back to is the Ozone Hole. Opponents of banning CFCs argued we’d have to reduce our quality of life, stop using refrigeration and air conditioning, in order to reduce the release of ozone-depleting chemicals. But we DIDN’T. We simply developed alternative refrigerants that didn’t have the Ozone-depleting effect and now the ozone hole is healing (see here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/09/1046452) and we still definitely have refrigeration and air conditioning (and both are massively helpful to human quality of life). Ultimately, we likely CAN just apply technology to fix the problem of CO2 (and methane) emissions, and we really ought to do it! The fact that consumption doesn’t need to be reduced is a BENEFIT of this approach because it means its political economy is much more viable (I imagine that if we had forced the world to choose between refrigeration/airconditioning and the ozone layer, they would have resisted strongly any effort to address ozone depletion). Folks arguing against technological fixes to climate change are doing the work of those arguing against climate action!

Don’t stop heating and cooling your house, get it insulated and get a good heat pump. Don’t stop traveling, use electric vehicles. Don’t stop using electricity, use solar power.
Actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-05
That file repeated 10 times, even: https://github.com/benhoyt/countwords/blob/master/test.sh
this is peak HN shtick, straight from the heart of startups "oldest members are $BETTER because they invested early in the idea" or some other ideological BS like that...
Still curious, what had happened to HN on Feb 13th, 2008?

I just scrolled to its frontpage[0] and the top story was “Immediate social bonding between strangers is highly dependent on mimicry”[1].

Any other explanations why `https://news.ycombinator.com/classic` turned back to this date?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2008-02-13

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=115094
50 years later when they were taught about it in high school, people discussed its nature as art.

When the works where published they were seen as scams, pranks, criminality, and insults.
I always thought HN (or reddit, youtube, etc), with a Bayesian filter would be interesting.

I'm sure there's a good amount of obscure content that doesn't get appreciated because it never reaches the people that would enjoy it.
DST has nothing to do with TOTP. The TOTP spec specifies that unix time has to be used as the time source, which does not have DST.
Also, how much of the ranking is just determined by factors other than user-votes?
I imagine it's difficult to address problems with the government if, whenever anyone does so, someone brings up the former government.

Bring up slavery in Dubai, and people start talking about the transatlantic slave trade and European colonialism.

It gives people of the present a free pass to behave reprehensibly, because other people in the past behaved reprehensibly
But the principle also applies to the other way around: if the programming language is too "simple", complexity still arises, because you have to explicitly write into the code many things that a programming language could simplify. This makes the code larger than necessary and less easy to understand. So it needs the right balance. From my point Oberon-07 is already too simple. Personally, I find Oberon-2 the more practical programming language (e.g. it has dynamic arrays). I also find the requirement to capitalize keywords very impractical.
We need a lot less than a day of backup.

To deal with the capriciousness of renewable energy, in order of preference:

- time of use pricing
- use a mix of renewable energy sources
- demand reduction incentives
- interconnect regions
- overprovision
- storage

If the first 5 things are done well, not much storage is needed.
Donald Duck doesn't seem popular in the US. I don't see any comic books with new stories being published.
The tragedy in this conversation is that Bitcoin’s use case is more ambiguous than a ice cream spoon.

There are much faster, more reliable ways to store value or send / receive money.

Bitcoin’s two main use cases are investment and also making payments to drug traffickers or hitmans.
It sounds like the prebuilts put a lot into gaudy, visible stuff that looks good in the product photos like lots of RGB LEDs and cheap out on less visible stuff like noise levels and adequate rear I/O.
It's "feminism" as expressed through the viewpoint of a gay man in the 1980s. It was hidden inside the villain character, which is precisely what's so subversive about it. You couldn't just come out and say it, but if you gave it a strong beat you could stick it in people's minds.

In the voice of the heroine (or even a sidekick) it would have been too on the nose. In the voice of the villain, it's more engaging.

Feminism has evolved since then, and I don't think the character would be created that way today. Though it is important to realize that the connection between feminism and LGBT issues are interlinked in complicated ways. A gay man's view of what it means to be a woman was different from a woman's view, and is different now from what it was then.

The subversion was definitely intentional. This kind of thing had been going on for years on Broadway. That's why they were brought in. But it's not so much about how people interpret the story as the effect that it had: getting these voices into people's heads. That Broadway musical sensibility was now being introduce to children at a very young age.
Well, so you are still trading with people believing in the value of these systems (which are <95% of businesses), which is a very specific distinction to cashing out money with which you can pay e.g. your taxes.
Setting LC_* to 'C' nukes locale awareness by saying "we're only caring about ASCII-en-us" and thus goes back to the 'cheap' tolower that's also present in the C and C++ version, and most likely in the awk as well - in contrast to, say, the python version.

Finding the "lower case of a character" is immensely harder in face of unicode, because the table is way larger and there's no nice speed hacks by manipulating an index into the ASCII table. JFGI: "tolower performance unicode".

If you notice setting LC_ALL makes a difference in performance for you, you ought to be aware that now you're no longer comparing same capabilities.

I'm not sure how to constructively state that except for: One shouldn't compare ASCII and unicode "tolower" in performance comparisons, as you end up comparing apples and oranges (at best. More like apples and snails) - which I did.

If the author uses code that uses "tolower" in job interviews, i.e., evaluates candidates based on their input WRT case normalization - and he even writes ("This is Unicode-aware ...") - he should know that Unicode awareness is not ubiquitous, and comes at quite a cost. Knowing about unicode awareness, one would assume he'd be aware of not making a fair comparison.
Capital controls merely treat a symptom (flight of capital) instead of treating the disease (a faltering economy) and left on for any period of time only leads to further consolidation of power to the ruling class, at the expense of the rest of the populace.
In fact, I learned about it from Hacker News! Someone posted it here as a “self” post a good 20 minutes before news outlets or even Apple reported it.
The resulting compressed archives of these operations are 10% and 1% of the original file sizes, respectively (10x difference). The percent reduction can’t really be compared linearly.
Yes.

The comment I was replying to speculated that the disagreement was between legislature as a whole and the finance ministry.

My comment pointed out that the disagreement could be internal to the legislature itself.
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It’s enough different to prefer/bookmark/use it exclusively if that’s your bag.
"Consensual crimes" are a contradiction in terms
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That does introduce the risk that people actually use this. Now, this page is a gimmick, a historical artifact. If it were actually used by more than a handful of users, that would be right alienating for new users, especially if it's a fixed date that you have to manually update.
It's all relative. Yes, a $3T order for nuclear would reduce costs. But a $3T order for batteries would also reduce their cost. Which would reduce more? I posit the batteries.
The link above is wrong; it should be:

https://kirby.kevinson.org/blog/iso-8601-the-better-date-for...

It also appears to be a re-post.
> use some established third party library that does this exact task well

I seriously doubt such a library exists for most languages (Javascript might be an exception because they seem to love writing one-line libraries). It's such a simple task!
It's interesting that after Brexit, only 1% of EU citizens are native English speakers. That's less than Bulgarian:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio...
https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china?country=~CHN

You can add US for comparison. China's emissions have been plateauing for the past 10 years, while the US is going down. Per-capita, China is still less than half of the US, so it'll take a long time before the US catches up, if ever.
A more fundamental question is why it is Google’s business at all to police apps or the content users generate on them. If someone finds content “objectionable”, they should just move on, and not complain or try to shut down that content. What an utterly unnecessary fiasco. We need decentralized platforms and alternatives to the hegemony of Google, Apple, and other big tech companies.
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The author named it “simple.cs” for presumably that reason and the “though not being a C# developer, there may be obvious things I’m missing” part makes me think they’d be happy to get your optimized contribution.
It's sad and ironic that Google used the exact same banning procedure they incorrecftly surmised the app used.
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I'm one of the 11 remaining FF users, and I use that setting, and it matters to me non-trivially, so of course, F me.
Edward Snowden provides proof and documentation.

Lavabit provides a direct example.
Capitalism produces nothing. People produce things.

The beauty of capitalism is that if you have an idea on how to produce a better product, you do it and became wealthy. For example electric cars.

If you were sitting there post recession 2010. You look at electric cars and your options are awful. In fact most electric cars look like ass and they clearly are doing that on purpose to avoid having the industry change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_i-MiEV

But then Tesla came along with a Lotus EV called the roadster. It doesnt look like trash.

You then look at other options where people are building their own and doing really nice jobs.

So why is capitalism so bad at producing electric cars? It's obviously not considering what's happening today. The problem is you're expecting the wrong people to produce a better product.

Tip, if you can find such a niche where someone isnt doing something as well as you can. Go do it and you'll win.
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I really hope someone gets it into their head that they're going to analyze this and perhaps visualize the results in some lovely way. I would love to know if the difference in voting patterns can be characterised and we can learn something from it.
What content did twitter.com create in order to attract these users, other than some boring company announcement?
Yeah, this was Scott who creates comics (I forget the full name). His claim is that it's easier to be in the top 80% of two things rather than the top 90% of one thing.
Also not entirely sure how one plans to compare runtime performance when the original article didn't really describe the hardware it ran on that I could see skimming it over. If you can get better runtime performance results and run against ancient hardware of the same architecture, you may be able to assume you're below the lower bound of the benchmark system explored. If your runtimes are better in that case, you may be able to place high confidence that the LISP example in this case actually is more performent. Definitely would run it against the same inputs they used since they provide it and describe how you can easily get/derive the input (some Project Gutenberg ebook concatenated 10 times).

I suppose you could also recreate all their examples to create your own baseline of runtime performance but that's a lot of work for what seems to be a not-very empirical benchmark (at least to me).

Disclaimer: I did not check runtime complexity of any of the implementations because I didn't really care and skipped straight to the performance results table.
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I think the first NFT asset might have had a value, much like Maurizio Cattelan's banana[0], where the actual bit of art is the certificate of owning the work, and not the perishable banana.

It is a sort of performance art.

Beyond that, I literally see no reason to buy these things, but they don't seem that different from physical collectibles, and most art pieces in general, where the concept of "original" is just as "irrelevant" in a world where we can duplicate things relatively easily.

[0] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/2019/12/09/banana-priced-...
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I thought I was pretty early to Hackernews (August 23, 2008).
I'm curious to know what I missed that happened in Feb 12/13 of 2008!
For my new pc I got a black box. Well, mostly black box, it has a glass panel on one side, but it faces away from me. As few lighted parts as I could.

Considering how ugly and tacky many cases are, there could be a market for case cases to cover them up, though of course, they'd have to be well-ventilated also.
Only the unshielded variant.
haha, without transactions you wouldn't need to mine anything would you. The network is already secure and the data valid. If there were no transactions the ledger wouldn't need to be appended to, and in that case you could just throw it into read-only storage and call it a day.

Transactions are the only thing that contributes to energy usage.
> * To prevent a global race to the bottom on wages and working conditions.

This is pretty much like saying that abolishing the privileges of aristocracy and clergy would have reduced everybody status. It was only true from the point of view of someone holding a title.

Our current Western wealth and working condition are the result of centuries of colonialism and exploitation for the rest of the world which continues to this day. The only reason you could technically afford to buy clothing wear them once and then discard them is because they are effectively produced by slave labor somewhere out of sight.
Some companies will never learn. Search for Vodafone, for example.
Your feeling is wrong. As linked in another comment, [1] is a list of GDPR fines. As you can see, plenty of non tech giants in there.

[1] https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
You could also do one on the...

Island obsessed world of Ham Radio - https://iota-world.org/

Park obsessed world of Ham Radio - https://pota.us/#/

National Park obsessed world of Ham Radio - https://www.arrl.org/NPOTA

Walmart Parking Lot obsessed world of Ham Radio -https://wmplota.org/

Satellite obsessed world of Ham Radio - https://www.amsat.org/

Remote country/entity/territory/island obsessed world of Ham Radio - https://dxnews.com/dxpeditions/ (also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DX-pedition)

Castle obsessed world of ham radio - https://www.cotapa.org/

Lighthouse obsessed world of ham radio - http://wlota.com/

Flora and Fauna obsessed world of ham radio - https://wwff.co/

Scouting obsessed world of ham radio - https://www.scouting.org/international/jota-joti/jota/

Radiosport (contesting) obsessed world of ham radio - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contesting

Things obsessed world of ham radio - https://www.k0nr.com/wordpress/2018/05/things-on-the-air/

I could go on for days...
I think the most striking thing to notice in that list is that the top 7 or so businesses are closely related to software. The article alludes to the fact that software is a big industry. And those businesses all seem to share a similarity, which is that they chose as their CEO the person who happened to have founded the business, or who owns / owned it outright.

These are also people who have figured out how to make software development work for them, not kill them. That's huge.

An interesting study would be to see how people with software engineering background (by some agreed upon definition) fare as CEO's of companies that they didn't start or own. Granted, that might take more time and study.
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Something doesn't square up.

knowingly and intentionally participated" in a criminal ring that distributed narcotics by facilitating the "sale and service of encrypted communications devices."

followed by

Canada-based Sky Global is a provider of custom handsets and the developer of Sky ECC, a subscription-based end-to-end encrypted messaging application.

Someone please correct me If I'm wrong but I thought If your systems are all E2E encrypted, then you as the service provider have no way of seeing what your users are discussing on your platform. At least from a technical aspect, the state's case doesn't really hold up.

However on the other side of the equation I have to ask. There has to be away they knew, and I think that is what the government is getting at, even if you can't read the exact messages, surely you aren't oblivious to what your users are discussing.

I think this will come down to the makeup of the user base. If say only 10% of your customers are using it for illicit purposes, you can claim you didn't know, of couldn't have know because the messages are E2E encrypted, however if that number is 50+%, then I think the case could be made that yes even though you couldn't read the exact messages, you can still be held liable.

I'm not an expert in this field and this is my Monday morning quarterback, so if someone has any better insights please correct me.
To a certain (limited to moderate) extent it does work, though, and this directly influences how much governments borrow in the present day. If long-term expectations for rates of inflation were zero or negative then governments would tend to decrease their borrowing over time, all other things being equal.
So this basically confirms Bentley's famous Programming Pearls book results from 1986. Nothing much changed.
Could be a lock on stdin that is acquired in a loop? Rust has such a lock and typically one should lock stdin at the beginning and read from within the critical section.
Of course they did - after all, they wouldn't do it if they thought they were in the wrong. In fairness, the vast majority of those who went to the capitol that day were there for the Trump rally, not smashing up congress.
I didn't say I dislike them. I'm just saying they don't get sympathy from me regarding this "User Generated Content" feature that is now being targeted by Google. They should have known this feature would be a place for people to vent in ugly ways rather than to discuss or offer advice. And South Africa right now is a hotbed of civil discontent, especially between different racial/cultural groups.
It reads like GPT-3 spam generated by machine learning
This was in the news some months ago, they have backdoors for 1:1s that they use to comply with government agency and police data requests. Do go look it up.
Isn't renewable energy generally cheaper than coal at this point?[1]. You're right, that we have done the work to research, develop, and manufacture renewable energy sources. Now all the rest of the world just has to buy the thing that is cheaper.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
This.
Anyone arguing for globalization should support free movement of goods, services and PEOPLE. Otherwise, one is just attempting to distort the system to their advantage.

Unless you are for free movement of people as well, you can't honestly argue for application of monetary policies of the developed economies to the developing economies.
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Filtering the comments tab on karma would be good.

Roughly the same as your suggestion of course, since if an early user is still commenting, they almost certainly have accrued a lot over the years, but it would also allow newer entrants that have had well enough received (or enough well received) comments to qualify.
The North Koreans and Iranians are using very small submarines, similar to the ones under discussion here, probably for similar roles (covert infiltration of people and goods). And similarly, operational security is probably the most important part of their mission as well.

The US fills the same need with the Shallow Water Combat Submersible, delivered close to the target by another submarine in a Dry Deck Shelter. But that's because the US Navy has focused on long range operations.