skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Western countries don't need capital controls because they have widely accepted reserve currencies.

This is a developing country risk
Why didn't the primary app involved banned then?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/opinion/facebook-far-righ...
There are independent app stores.

The problem with the Parler situation is more that their average user is too incompetent and inexperienced with computers to understand how to download something that isn't literally laid out in front of them.

I refuse to use Google Play or create a google account so I use The Aurora Store which replaces the Google Play Store.

If I want to download some independent apps I head to F droid store or Aptoide.

There are even more independent and alternative app stores, but these are the ones I use.

Oh, and don't forget about github and app downloads directly from the web.

F droid allows you to install without Google play.
Data-driven design like that is really just going to get you to a lowest-common-denominator product.
One of my clients had this. Found out by process of elimination.
Mass protests has always overthrown governments. CCP's time is near
Or when you submit the bug report, and get a response from a lawyer threatening you with legal action, or worse.
Just don't hyper inflate so the capital doesn't flee?
Yeah, I think we perhaps are violently agreeing with each other :) I /definitely/ agree with you that it's pointless to do this at an F500. Perhaps where my thinking comes from is that I've predominantly worked in startups, precisely to avoid this issue. That's not to say that startups prevent these issues -- far from it. Just that you get a different set of tools and a different environment that can often cut it out almost completely for a long period of time.

The reason I argue so vehemently against normalizing this kind of stuff (even if it is normal at F500s) is that it can create a level of learned helplessness. When I worked at such a company, it was absolutely everywhere. Despite the fact that folks were well paid, they had a list of grievances a mile long that made every waking hour at work absolutely miserable. But whenever I asked why they didn't just leave for greener pastures, the answer was along the lines of that learned helplessness -- survival instinct, etc. For me, the answer was simply "I can do better than this elsewhere. I will vote with my feet."

I think that sent a different message to the management chain, and I don't regret it.
For fuck sake really? Is it making Firefox hard to maintain or something?

I have a small screen (1280 x 800) - I need things like compact density to make the screen more usable.
> A 'power to destroy business', should not be a click away from some random employee.

It exists everywhere, it is called monopoly and this is only an example thereof.

Businesses could also, for instance, be destroyed by ARM Holdings refusing to license the ARM architecture to them, or Valve deciding to pull a game from Steam.

Especially with technology, there are a great deal of monopolies that exist.
Do Amazon ads bring in more cash than AWS?
I have asked this previously, asking again, believing bitcoin will become digital gold is believing -
* US will let go of the petrodollar / reserve currency status.
* China will allow a democratic process to control their currency / economy.
* Other developing countries like India will give up the ability to control inflation etc of their own economy.

Do you sincerely believe these are possible ?

Also, if most of mining & hardware required for it is controlled by China and we are buying this digital gold via real currency, isn't a significant global wealth transfer happening to China ?

I don't know if India's decision is right or wrong, we do have a history of taking incredibly stupid "shooting oneself in the foot" decisions, but questions above do bother me.
Don't conflate regulation with authoritarianism.

Capital restrictive make sense as long as countries don't permit free labour movement.

If you permit capital flight from developing countries it will just be a repeat of colonial extraction
It'd probably be nicer if everybody just had to use a moniker that's publicly traceable back to the owner.

In that way, everybody could still have a voice and the narrative isn't just owned by the media owners.

There's a small price to pay-- even Benjamin Franklin distributed papers anonymously-- but I think it'd be worth it.
Valid point. I wouldn't say large swings is necessarily an indication of failure though. It is expected for Bitcoin to swing wildly because in contrast to gold, it's very accessible and in this age information is quick and erratic.
> He quit the company he founded, the intercept, who was indeed censoring.

That is, at the very least, debatable

Greenwald had the liberty at The Intercept to publish his opinion pieces without any editorial interference.

The piece he yelled BLOODY MURDER! about and resigned in a hissy fit was decidedly not an opinion piece, but sourced from The New York Post - The Biden laptop story -, which was so bad, that the original writers at the Post refused to have their bylines printed.

When The Intercept insisted that this apparently factual piece gets editorial treatment (a process applied by every halfway serious press product) he yelled CENSORSHIP! and resigned.

No question that Greenwald did good work in the past. But I, for one, can't take his hysterics, which he now spouts for years, serious any more.
It's been over a decade now, but I seem to recall the debate was not about "what needs to happen if this page is a payment page?" but rather was around "what makes a page in-scope for that requirement to apply?" and the QSA initially held/expressed an entirely illogical position on the matter.
If cheap wine can pass ABX tests, then is it really worse?
Landmines are forbidden to be used by majority of countries, here is the UN link to the treaty

https://www.un.org/disarmament/anti-personnel-landmines-conv...

Also there are 32 countries that refused - sadly no surprises who that actually is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Ottawa_...
This question might as well be, why are so many software engineers founders of software companies? Well, duh.

What would be notable is if there were many software engineers leading non-software companies. That does not seem to be the case.
OMG. This is as bad or even worse than Texas or California...
The fact that it functions as an effective funnel for capital inflows is probably why the West keeps it legal.

If it was instead used to suck wealth out of the US it would be criminalized yesterday.

There was a mirrored double standard with tariffs. The US wanted them eliminated until China started reaching and surpassing technological parity at which point it couldn't put them up fast enough.
I think it's right regarding the limited horizon of the window. Any dynamic compression scheme that evolves knowledge of the input stream will have this property. The tar block being compressed here is many orders of magnitude larger than the window, so the order in which the compressor sees the stream matters.

It is somewhat more complicated because e.g. dynamic Huffan coding rarely applied to raw streams but to a series of one or more encoders such as run-length, but the reasoning remains that if the window or coded/dynamic dictionary size is much larger than the data stream, compression can improve with input permutation.

Back in the 90s I recall an unpopular but very efficient encoder called UltraCompressor[1] which had some input permutation heruristics, "solid" compression, and damage recovery to boot!

[1] http://www.compression.ru/arctest/self/uc.htm
Good strawman, I never meant that the claim is bullshit because it is old, I'm just describing it as such. And even conceding your faulty interpretation, Palestinians right to their land is documented by 80 years of audio-visual evidence, international and independent media reels, and UN resolutions. Israelis have a bunch of books most of them no longer believe. There isn't a fair and intelligent comparison to make here.

And regarding the "ownership" Israel has over the land, well... when your 300-million-strong neighbors around you all hate the digestive bacteria in your guts and your army is the same thing as your people, I wouldn't exactly call that a stable or a secure way of living. In fact, that just sounds like a good old apartheid regime to me, not really surprising though given that Israel is just a European colony who powered through decolonization through sheer dumb luck and a powerful nanny/benefactor/ally state.
> The only bad thing about time changes is adapting to different sleeping hours.

Cross time zone collaboration is made harder.

Mostly, I am aware of the DST shenanigans in my local jurisdiction, but keeping track of other people's DST is an extra hassle.

Just not mucking with the clocks is easier.

> It's not different from the jetlag that they subject themselves to willfully.

Just because you are willing to indulge in some pain to achieve some end, doesn't make the pain go away.
Yeah the whole random serial number bit is not a rumor. They've been putting out statements in their internal GSX system about it for well over a year now to plan for it.
All of this over-engineering challenge is due to lacking of a good ORM model to deal with sql table/view, good cron job/webhook system to sync data in realtime/batching.

I would rather spend months to build a good platform rather than working on a over-complicated and low-level setup like this.
> regardless of the party in the government

I certainly do not miss Rajoy, but I whole-heartedly believe that a social-communist government is possibly the worst alternative to get us out of this hole.

We need jobs, a lot of them, not only in the public sector, and I think that our current government is tremendously ill-equipped for this task.

Has anyone noticed how members of the government rarely, if ever, talk about job creation anymore? Politicians will lie about anything, but they don't even dare lie about this - they simply avoid these murky waters altogether.

My theory is they know full-well that the only path to growth and private sector job creation is by taking measures (that moderates like Minister of the Economy Nadia Calviño possibly support) like modifying labor laws and lowering taxes which sound right-wing and therefore sit especially poorly with the communist wing of the government.

The only alternative to that is, as some communists like Iglesias or Garzón are consistently pointing out, to nationalize a bunch of industries (they've talked about examples ranging from banks to media companies) and turn to a centralized economy.

I hope I'm wrong but I clearly do not see how the situation will improve under the current circumstances.
> would just not be acceptable.

Why not? Just because a bunch of people hold that opinion? Political change happens despite groups of people not wanting it - that's almost the definition of politics.

Scientists working for the UK government at Imperial College rejected lockdown as a plan (even what we have now in the UK) because they found it not politically viable: that's a danger to everyone.
A PoW coin with forever fixed block reward is a store of mining time. In a coin with a 1 minute blocktime and 60 coin block subsidy, each coin represents exactly one second of mining.
I applaud your self-awareness and courage to say you’re selfish. No other comment - I just found that refreshingly non-controversy-seeking and honest.
I can't even get to the issue where they're tracking this any more. At least the status page is on different infra though, hopefully they'll keep it updated.
Like advertising rates, different astroturfing campaigns will have different budgets.
* To prevent a global race to the bottom on wages and working conditions.

* Because higher capital inflows and outflows correlate to the frequency and severity of financial crises.
Similar, I didn't get any anime exposure really in the 70's. My intro to mecha was through Space Giants (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061299/) after school on TBS.
> I'm guessing various countries' navies (underwater sound detection) probably can detect these vessels with some accuracy if they wanted to, they just don't have the resources/time to go after them as their top priority.

The ocean is huge and actual nation state subs are incredibly stealthy. It is far more feasible to just pay super close attention to all known subs and follow them out of known ports, focusing your tech on tracking them. Those narco "subs" just rely on how big the ocean is to avoid some patrol just happening to see them.
Wait until you learn that gun control is already the norm everywhere outside of the US.
Imagine the day we have to explain to the next generation that they live in a climate hellscape because the world decided to burn fossil fuels to collect digital beanie babies, instead of saving the world.

I say ban mining, the sooner the better.
> These restrictions will be more common among developing countries

If BTC ever becomes a threat, developed countries will not hesitate to make moves.

In 1934, the Gold Reserve Act prevented Americans from holding gold which was the global reserve currency at the time and universally considered hard money.

I have a feeling BTC will be a little easier to regulate.
This logic is flawed.

“But if we remove the tourniquet the person will bleed out!”

....

Okay, you’re right. Perhaps we should ask instead, why do we need the tourniquet? What conditions were put in place that capital is attempting to leave?

Money goes where it’s safe and it can grow.

The Berlin Wall was the monetary equivalence of a capital control.
> Daily reminder that your business/project/hobby should not depend on anything controlled by Google.

So said by the ideologist, not by the businessman.

It is an unavoidable reality in many cases, for those who wish to remain afloat.
>> android phone makers join force and create an independent app store

And why wouldn’t this App Store have any takedown policies? Or have to follow the same kind of legal restrictions? In the discussed example, this wasn’t even automated; an employee manually reviewed and chose to ban their app.
Dams are effectively batteries. Total production over a month is roughly fixed, but second by second they have a lot of flexibility.

Pumped hydroelectric was invented afterwards to fill the same role.
Indeed, this will be important going forward.
Living in EU, with local laws (denmark) being what they are. I hope the conclusion of this suit, will be similar to our laws that state: Any contract signed, that through its terms, makes you relinquish your state-afforded rights. Is by definition void.

Example of a void contract: When Buying a used car, Salesmen makes you sign a contract: "No warranty nor cancelation of contract possible after purchase".
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Say more about why you like that feeling?...
I'm fully aware of the original prediction. The point is that while it was overoptimistic about the pace of reduction, working hours have declined, and have done so substantially.

I don't think you can suggest that economic factors like efficiency has not affected this - increased efficiency has been an enabler that allowed these reductions in working hours to happen without according income reductions. Without efficiency improvements, demanding these kind of reductions would not have been viable.

> Norway is a small-sih country, and often an outlier, so IDK if it makes a good example.

There is not a single country in Europe that hasn't seem a similar pattern of reductions. I used Norway as an example because I was familiar with the reductions, but this is not isolated by any means.
Except you need to provision for peak demand.
Google doesn't understand customer service. They really don't. When speaking to customers, I ask them what is the biggest issue with using a google product.They will most likely say - reaching a human being.

PS: I work for a competitor of one of google's products.
Another disgruntled user of the compact view here. I don't understand why every design update seems to insist upon adding padding these days, but removing the option entirely feels like a real kick in the teeth.
>Hong Kong has right-hand drive cars, a legacy of British rule

This does annoy me. One third of the world drives on the left. It's not an oddity, it's just a thing.
And, Perl's hash implementation can perform better compared to Awk's associative arrays. The `SCOWL-wl.txt` file used below was created using http://app.aspell.net/create. `words.txt` is from `/usr/share/dict/words`. Mawk is usually faster, but GNU Awk does better in this particular case.

$ wc -l words.txt SCOWL-wl.txt
99171 words.txt
662349 SCOWL-wl.txt
761520 total

# finding common lines between two files
# shorter file passed as the first argument here
$ time gawk 'NR==FNR{a[$0]; next} $0 in a' words.txt SCOWL-wl.txt > t1
real 0m0.376s
$ time perl -ne 'if(!$#ARGV){$h{$_}=1; next}
print if exists $h{$_}' words.txt SCOWL-wl.txt > t2
real 0m0.284s
What China lacks there is rule of law.
> I'm fine with banning apps that permit organizing violent insurrection in response to independently certified elections.

First of all, Trump was a sitting President.

Second of all, the left/DNC spent 8 months burning American downtowns, which is the real "violent insurrection."

Third, there were no "independently certified elections," unless you mean the one that was overturned during the 2020 election, and the one in 2021.
> plus all the bad things that can happen: mutations, animal transmission, etc...

I believe that no significant mutation has been sourced to any country with less than a million cases.

That's not a coincidence.

Increased cases = increased mutation incubators.
He made some bad exec hires too (Mark Papermaster and John Browett) but he also fired them quickly.
I think OP isn't referring to gun control, but controlling humans with guns and walls.

EG The Berlin Wall, and the DMZ between S and N Korea
True. This is hypocrisy at its finest
Let's not go into hypotheticals about what might happen if google started... what, inserting spyware, basically, into their own open source browser engine?
Sorry it was not clear, I didn't mean that all countries in europe have the same taxes.

I was saying that they should in my opinion.
I too welcome the Google overlords deciding what functionality must be included in chat software owned by another company.

What's next, banning European apps that allow people to sell cheese that is illegal in USA?
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so AI, VR, autonomous driving are all solvable problems and worthwhile pursuits while sustainable Bitcoin mining via harvesting thermal energy isn't? oh okay.
But both wc and grep are written in C...
I think if you don’t want macOS, you should not buy a Mac. There’s literally hundreds of other options.
Balanceo – app that fills life with balance
The article says a bill has been introduced in the legislature. That there might be a disagreement between members of the legislature and the ministry of finance seems entirely plausible to me.
> goodbye European economy

Even mass defusing (which no one is suggesting) would not tank European economy. It would barely be a blip actually. We are talking about tunnels in the middle of nowhere. The "Zone rouge" is pretty barren.

Any large remains of WW1 in cities have been dug up by urbanisation a long time ago. Defusing mostly concern unexploded ordinance from WW2 and there is at most one major event a year in Europe as a whole. It is certainly not "constantly blocking business for days in major cities".
See also public groups/comments on Facebook itself: the realname convention makes most reasonable people self-censor to silence, leaving only the wildest nutcases posting (with rare exceptions in between). Even if you don't use your real name there, as long as you aren't on a dedicated spam account you'll still be connected to your real life network and that is enough for massive self-censoring to happen. Would your hn posts happen if they'd show up in the feeds of distant family? Mine surely would not, and that's while I try keeping hn posts to the highest quality tier of all my online interactions.
if data only supports your priors, is it useful?
And most maritime nautical engineers could make good money doing legit work. So the labor pool to go out to a random jungle to risk your life, worry about being executed, worry about being arrested by law enforcement, and figuring out how to launder whatever money you make is probably pretty small.
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Simion314, If you would indulge another non-political poster. Playing devils advocate with and exploring your ps...

>some big corporation

What about a small one?

>lock you out, decide what you read, apps you install or brick your application

Are these an abuse of power? Illegal? Unethical? Is it their right to do these things to maintain some focus? (The example here is often that one does not want profanity, sexual content, violence content where any children or family are involved - if that is acceptable to you, why not the above?)

ps, I also hate it when software won't work without a 'security' handshake.
Cornelius Vanderbilt [1] mastered steam powered shipping before tackling rail. An operator of technical machinery more than a trained engineer but relatively very technical for the 2nd Industrial Age IMO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Vanderbilt
Would

perl -lane '$c{lc $_}++ for @F;END{print "$_ $c{$_}" for sort {$c{$b}<=>$c{$a}||$a cmp $b} keys %c}' < input.txt

work?
> - Precision when describing (programming does not allow ambiguity)

Probabilistic programming and machine learning do!
Why not both?

Party officials can be very nationalistis, communism forever, death to Taiwan. But their family is in western country and 60% of their assets are out of communist shithole their call home.
Driving Filebeat data into separate indices (uses legacy index templates)
There is no C# optimized variant because nobody wrote one. There is no claim that the C# program is optimized. Look at the table: there are "simple" and "optimized" variants for each language (except C#). The "simple" variants are intentionally not supposed to be optimized, and instead, use something approximating idiomatic code for the given language.
Most of those countries were part of the British Commonwealth. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...
>Which is a non sequitur, peoples quality of life was much worse with the loss of breathable air, drinkable water or houses lost to wildfires (Jan 2019 Australia for example). Its not like people want a high quality of life which excludes those things.

“People” meaning as a whole, with sufficient cooperation to enact political change, on a global level, such that the cost of pollution can be priced into products.

But that pricing in will also cause the cost of everything we use to go up, causing a decrease in the amount of consumption (which is the intended effect), but that is an immediate and easily visible “loss” to people.
Instead of flocking here to complain, go to bugzilla at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1693028#c64 and complain there.

Mozilla is not reading HN threads, you want something you need to reach out through bugzilla.
From the article:

> Only about 2 percent of Inquirer.com visitors read comments, and an even smaller percentage post them. Most of our readers will not miss the comments.

I don't think removing comments will affect page views by much.
I was thinking that India wants to be the new China in tech and manufacturing, this path would not get them there. Capital control would be history soon. Fiscal barriers may not allow innovation to blossom.
GitLab employee here.

That is correct - we also will be posting updates here: https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/.