skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think it likely there's a big difference in ability to respond to a crisis between "we have some capacity and expertise, but need more" and "we have no capacity or expertise, and need more", but admittedly I don't know how crucial having the right knowledge & existing systems/processes to copy, is for spinning up new shipyards. I would expect "copy this shipyard and have the experts there train others" would go a lot faster and have far better outcomes than "build a shipyard from scratch with no easily-accessible reference or expert trainers".

That'd be the a big part of the argument for the value of preserving even a wildly insufficient level of manufacturing capability for certain vital goods, I'd expect—that is, it may not be necessary that the effect is to have a large and thriving shipbuilding industry, for it to still be worth it.
> Well, what are the alternatives?

The same as with any resource that you are overusing: Use less.

You don't need golf courses in the middle of the desert. You don't need broken water access rights regulation that encourages wasting water. You can reduce water use in agriculture to a tiny fraction if you'd start viewing water as a precious resource and do this smarter. There is a lot you can do that's different from "let's keep wasting this resource, we can throw tech at it, ignore the consequences!"
Nobody holds 20% of Bitcoin, and early BTC whales have been selling to make their profits so we're getting less concentrated[1]. It helps that BTC has taken a decade to rise to this value with plenty of selling and redistribution along the way. I don't see your point but perhaps you don't mind sharing more :) I don't disagree that concentration is a problem but the existing system has enough concentration already. I don't want states printing away to glory, and bitcoin can't be printed so that's a HUGE improvement

[1]: https://ecommerceinstitut.de/bitcoin-wealth-is-becoming-more....
How Mathematics Solved the Burger Flipping Problem
Amazon tests new survey program to learn more about employee sentiment
The value of those states was not in question when they threatened succession; they were important enough to fight a war over. Nor would many of the states have joined the union in the first place if not for this system, so America wouldn't have existed in the first place if you had your way. The entire country is premised on this compromise.
Bitcoin doesn't need to be money, especially not on layer 1, to have value. USD doesn't get its value as a currency from slow and expensive wire transfers, and it gets very little value at all from being a store of value.

Even if Bitcoin was primarily transferred between custodians between clients, it would still be better than USD (assuming a stable market cap) and give clients far more options while also forcing banks to disclose reserves.
For one reason or another software always needs maintenance. If I were literally keeping a business running solo, getting out would be near the top of my goals list.
All the papers that can be replaced with this digital ID were issued by the state.
Mathematica predates Java by several years. Some capabilities (e.g. database interop) were built with Java though.
You talk as if the regulations are useless. I don't want these ships dumping waste into our oceans or using slave labor. Anti-regulation boils down to a global race to the bottom of companies looking to not pay for their pollution and misery.
Declaring we're living better through the lens of 24 graphs doesn't cut it.

There's probably a thousand variables to consider as well as the variability of individual needs that could be summed up collectively.

Yes, we have made a lot of strides, but at the same time, the complexity of living life has increased. We got better technology, choices, health, rights and freedom but stating that things are better in terms of how life is lived and what's available can be misleading to some degree.
Google battles bots, puts Workspace admins on alert
absolutely. i'm the most risk adverse person I know and I wouldn't touch cash or bonds with a ten foot pole. I'm staying as diversivied as i can: real estate, gold, equities and bitcoin. as well as much and as many alternatives as possible: electric car, solar panels, electricifcation of all applicances, etc. cash and bonds are far far too risky at this point.

Its interesting that institutional investors have sold off assets for cash. that's not a defensive position. that's a highly offensive one because everyone knows you can't stay in cash. it's a hot potato: you need to get rid of it before inflation eats you alive. i can't wait to see where they dump all that cash. but you know it'll be some combiantion of equities, gold, real estate and bitcoin.
Won't be hard to use it for everything, especially purchases. That's the main issue.
> Peer-to-peer file transfers will always be faster than having an intermediary. Why not use bittorrent

One reason is that such a scenario relies on one of my computers with bittorrent-dropbox to be online for me to access my files elsewhere. Syncing it in the cloud means they are available reliably.
HC, schooling and housing are essentially gov subscriptions. We all "love" subscriptions.
CH as in Confoederatio Helvetica?
I think the issue here is that the USSC says that isn't really what the legislative branch did.
IANAL, but as long as they block copilot producing verbatim code (which I believe they do now, after some blowback), I can't reason my way past "so you're not okay with a computer learning from you, but you are okay with people learning from you?". Because I am. One of the reasons I open source stuff is because I've learned so much from OTHER open source projects, and want to pay it forward. Limiting my "pay it forward" attitude to humans feels hard to enforce.

Also, nothing prevents Microsoft from completely ignoring licenses and terms of use elsewhere. This product isn't open source: they can keep the list of projects they crawl to themselves, and I don't see any way to stop it.
They also do a lot of good work enforcing US borders.
Absolutely. And I know I'll get clowned for mentioning him but gonna do it anyway: This is why I find Richard Heart so interesting if you believe his motives. His claim is "I'm already rich, so it's not about money, I actually want to improve on Satoshi's work and make a good crypto."

(I fully understand why one would absolutely not believe his motives given his appearance, but I'd encourage people to consider it anyway. I actually believe him and am throwing some money in his projects. THAT BEING SAID, I am NOT putting any money in crypto that I can't stand to lose and I personally do not believe anyone should)
Ask HN: What language to learn this summer?
I'm interested in learning a new language over the summer. Mostly for the fun and challenge of it.

To give some context:

Most of my time is spent building interesting apps with Ruby on Rails.

Over the last few years I've tried a raft of JS-frameworks including Angular, Vue, React and some NodeJS things.

I've also experimented with Elixir/Phoenix.

Anyway, I'm curious what people here would recommend and where to start that journey...

Many thanks in advance.
> That's hyperbole, or you don't really have a good understanding of what real addiction entails.

These are not my words, these are words from an addiction expert who works with "real" addiction closely. I'd ask that you consider the possibility that addiction is more complex, and not so easy to put in a clean "real addiction" box as may be popular to believe.

> Somebody who is addicted will compulsively engage in that behavior even in the face of debilitating injury to themselves and those around them.

This is surprisingly close to exactly what I see from so many people in tech. They'll put their health severely at risk by neglecting sleep for work. They'll allow work to invade and permeate almost every aspect of their lives, and will rationalize it because it looks like success. They'll continue to push past their own limits for years on end only to find themselves deeply burned out requiring months if not years of recovery.

I would be cautious about downplaying addiction to things we find acceptable just because we find those things acceptable. The results of acceptable addictions might not involve an overdose or some of the extremes of drug seeking behavior, but that does not make them any less addictive, nor does it change the fundamental mechanisms driving those addictions.

Before discarding this perspective outright, I'd recommend spending some time listening to Dr. Lembke. I know she changed my perspective on this, opened my eyes to some realities that I was not aware of. A lot of this boils down to a conversation about dopamine, and is pretty fascinating.

> This tiktok philosopher isn't talking about real addiction, when they say 'addiction' they mean 'thing I like a lot.'

What, to you, is "real" addiction? Just the ones that are maladaptive? Just the ones involving hard drugs? What happens when an adaptive addiction goes too far? During a time when scientists are having serious conversations about real addictions to things like...TikTok...why can we not consider that addiction is perhaps more than just the hard drugs that require rehab?
The Senate represents the individual states, not the people. The fact that relatively small states like Delaware have as much representation in the Senate as large populous states like New York is by design, and was a critical for the creation of the Union in the first place.
Ah, it seems like the crypto industry has borrowed the “too big to fail” book that also decentralized the losses to the taxpayer. Some things never change.
The one the coastal commission blocked was going to mix it with treated sewage to reduce the salinity.
Bull shit. Fruits and veggies. What about enjoying life?
Isn't it possible that the UK government is supporting "weird digital ID" because they know it will inevitably fail in some catastrophic way and then they'll be forced to step in and unify all these proprietary systems into a government-run replacement?

It will probably be implemented by a "VIP lane" contractor[0] and/or be an extension of the existing Biometric Residence Permits (BRP) system[1], which has been mandated for foreigners without much protest because immigrants are an easy target.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59968037

[1] https://www.gov.uk/biometric-residence-permits
Yeah it's one man trying to fight the Federal Reserve (and other central banks). We'll see how that works out for him.
Sure, so what? The question is, what could the richest country on earth have done in 40 years, besides outsourcing all its shit to poor countries?
"The economy of gold" doesn't do much of anything except extract wealth from a particularly extremist subset of "economic freethinkers" and my generation's parents when they watch too much Fox News, so I'm glad we're in agreement.
Another solved market that
needs 'redefining' with a smart whotsit at 2-4x the price of existing products that do the same thing that actually have a proven history.

Varier chairs (various) and the move stool
HAG Capisco range
Muvman stool

Hell, you can buy a saddle seat designed to augment any office desk for $100 that will also be 'backed by studies'

And failing that a simple balance ball with give you so much.

This is an office Peloton for people desperate to burn through their startup capital.
> leave fields fallow

Please no. We're facing intense inflation, and the solution has to involve supply-side improvements, not just demand-side tweaks.

Subsidies for drip irrigation sounds interesting, though - as long as actual water usage reduction is part of the requirement.
First of all, the Supreme Court doesn't make such an argument, and the fact that CO2 fits the definition of pollutant was upheld in federal jurisprudence.

The CAA does not contain a specific list of pollutants. It has a definition, and the EPA may regulate any emissions of substances that fit those definitions. So, the EPA can consider a given substance that fits the definition to be under the purview of a program under the CAA on a case by case basis.
MIT was established 161 years ago and Harvard was established 386 years ago, both young relative to Cambridge established 813 years ago and Oxford established 926 years ago. The clout of universities will ebb and flow, but I wouldn’t bet on 100+ year institutions losing their ability to attract talent anytime soon.
Here's an alternative idea: stop growing crap in the desert. The number #1 water usage in Cali is agriculture. I think we could survive without baby spinach during the winter.
You may need to check the orders of magnitude we are talking about here and then re-evaluate your statement. This is not about a few stretches of CA coastline. This is about all of the continental US. A few desal plants won't cut it.
> you believe that code and industry quality of product is more important than onboarding more people into the profession

Perhaps a bit of a stretch?

Does the fact that new devs don't know Git fully necessarily mean the quality of code will decrease? I mean, compared with the new devs knowing Git fully...
People keep saying cryptocurrency is a grift despite having multiple orders of magnitude greater of a market cap, so sure, why not?
Have you ever had your crypto wallet stolen? What was the process like to get that back?
How do you read Article 3 Section 1 of the Constitution?

My reading is that it gives authority to federal courts to determine if a law has or has not been violated. What would the other intent be of creating a judicial branch? (Not said with snark, just curious).

"You give (a) Authority to a system of federal courts to judge whether or not a law has been violated..."[1]

[1] Findlay, B.A. and Findlay, E.B., 1919. Your Rugged Constitution: How Americas House of Freedom is Planned and Built. -.
Congress did explicitly grant that authority to the EPA: particularly it gave the EPA the authority to set "a standard for emissions of air pollutants which reflects the degree of emission limitation achievable through the application of the best system of emission reduction."

Where, exactly, are you claiming that the EPA ran afoul of the law?
Interesting, I guess FTX is really in it to save the ecosystem but not sure the value for an investor (unless their portfolio is all crypto projects) to bail them out.
You can cheaply create more Pokemon cards while you actually need to mine the gold, no-one can't debase it at will.
It did.

https://github.com/trottier/original-bitcoin/blob/master/src...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28830211
The Wayback link (non-paywalled): https://web.archive.org/web/20220630183629/https://www.latim...
The EPA can regulate pollution emissions --what the court said is they can't regulate the thing that produces emissions. Meaning, you can use the thing that causes pollution, if you use technology or any means to limit the emissions at or below those allowed by the regulations.
https://archive.ph/K2X6F
I don't know if I would jump straight to a grift, it comes down to use case. If people are just dumping random documents, sure. And selling people that they need to back up every picture they have taken on their phone that they will probably not look at again is a bit grifty. However keeping digital copies of important documents is not a bad idea, like a house burnt down situation. Ideally, you maybe have family you can trust to keep a USB with those documents, but that is not always an option for some people.
I switch around positions a lot. Everything from Indian style, to butt on floor one knee up, sometimes knees on floor, butt sitting on my feet. Sometimes leaning back on the couch.

One other thing that has had a huge impact is that I cut a piece of foam roller about 10 inches wide and I roll my back on it 2-3 times per day, sometimes I just lay on it and just reverse stretch my back, and also massage my neck and shoulders with it. That might even be why I don’t have back pain anymore
(Important not to roll it on your lower back with all your weight on it, just keep it to the upper part of your back.)
Desalination isn’t going to help agriculture anyways. I think it’s worth a few billion dollars to avoid an explosive potentially destabilizing political wedge issue.
I think I've only worked on projects a couple of times in twenty years larger than a handful of devs so your comment really makes sense.
Yes, but it’s broken up into thousands of different areas and Starlink didn’t agree to provide service to every single one.

Looking at this map: https://www.starlink.com/map about half of the US is at maximum capacity but because the RDOF has such granularity they could pick and pick the lest congested areas for their bids.

PS: The granularity is reasonable when you consider a Texas ISP might have agreed to build out capacity in Texas but not North Dakota.
Good. All too often wealth = entitlement. It's good to see that money can't buy everything.
I haven't tried that brand, but I agree that foam tips do help. Still not comfortable for me though. I'm picky about headphones in general--I literally can't wear closed-back headphones for too long before I get uncomfortable. Not physically, but it's something about the isolation effect that makes my skin crawl.

Ear protection in the wood shop doesn't give me the same vibe, but I'm also not listening to anything through it.
why? FTX can buy all the dying CeFi platforms if they want. nobody needs to use them as long as DeFi continues to exist and improve
It’s kind of absurd that a number of the algorithms being used are remarkably simple and are being compared to sentient consciousness by people with minimal academic background and datasets that don’t contain the value for the proposed solution.
People should have this option.
Housing has become too expensive. The US would see huge GDP growth if it reduced the percentage of wages going to housing and rent-seeking corporations.
I suggest the Aftershokz Opencomm for anyone who wants to hear what’s going on in the home (parents hearing children, adults hearing pets, etc.).

Also for anyone in an office who doesn’t want to put headphones on/off or in/out to interact with present people interspersed with remote people.

The all day “nothing on or in your ears” aspect is comfortable and healthy too.
I mean that possibility is implied. Backward and downward.
It's refuted
If gun manufacturers want to make school free, fine. What else should be free next, healthcare?
The centuries-old political climate in which the electoral college was born has little if any bearing on its utility for the modern United States. I doubt the only thing keeping rural states in the union now is leverage against abolitionists.
I've been at 2 smaller companies when layoffs were on the table. One handled it great, one like crap.

Company #1 had a meeting and just plain out said it.. "we need to cut 20% of the payroll budget. So we need to decide between 20% layoffs and 20% pay cuts." We took the latter option as we liked our team and the company recovered in a couple years.

Company #2 did the traditional "everything is fine" even though everyone knew it was bullshit and no one was surprised when they announced the layoffs. Most of the people already had started looking along with a lot of other people. They laid off around 25% but due the the way they handled it they suffered around 50% attrition.
There is a hidden problem with licensing here. Developers are giving Github the permission to use the code with a different license [1]. The clause sounds broad enough for them to justify training copilot with it. This allows them to disregard the license with which the project is published. The developers don't have the protection of a FOSS license anymore when you host there.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...
Congress gives the EPA the authority to set "a standard for emissions of air pollutants which reflects the degree of emission limitation achievable through the application of the best system of emission reduction."

That's pretty clearly a broad delegation of regulatory authority.
But if there are only 100 ships following these regs with 1000s of ships in our waters not subject to them, what's the point?
Well, the important thing is to fill the list with small picture things that support their thesis and bury the big picture things that don't.
Reproducible ML experiments extension for VS Code
Thanks to the author for oksh (portable OpenBSD ksh). It is a pleasant alternative to Bash on Linux. 288KB vs 1.3MB. Wonder if oksh will compile on mips74Kc. I started to do something similar for NetBSD ash, for personal use only. Dash and busybox are OK, but I want both fc and command line history.
Algorithm can predict future crime a week in advance, with 90% accuracy
What makes you trust consensus? Consensus is fickle. Gold is unique in its physical properties. Even if you can’t agree on which country has a trustworthy currency, you have to trust gold.
Ask HN: No-nonsense analytics for landing pages, in 2022
I recently launched a single page website selling professional services. I've come to hate google analytics as it has become extremely confusing and complicated to use. I used clicky in the past but I have no interest in the "privacy first" BS that is now being forced through that service. I need to know which companies have visited the site. I just need "stats that matter", and not a million over complicated features i'm not going to use. What are people using for analytics these days, and is there still any great "self hosted" analytics these days?
Without the quote it's impossible to tell.

Eitherway, yea, each social network you mention has the patina of corruption upon it.
Heh, sounds like they're saying "the cloud is just someone else's computer", which is the same as "the bakery is just someone else's oven".

The bank is just someone else's ledger.

Yes. As a service. Which is what people want.

Nobody wants to run their own bakery just to get a bagel.
our = US? I think FTX's concern is humanity broadly so I hope some country somewhere has a decent strategy. I know a few EU countries had lots of bunkers, no idea if any of them have been made into bioweapon bunkers
There is always going to be some negative externality to anything humans do. No free lunch in any endeavor. You can find new uses for waste products or reprocess it to something less harmful.

The "water crisis" in California is an entirely political problem.
Representatives do not vote for supreme court justices.

Congress has the power to enact laws. If they give authority to some agency, that agency now has that authority. Congress gave certain authority to the EPA and more through the Clean Air Act.

Congress can, after the fact, revoke, or add, or change authority, at any time, if there is enough support. There isn't enough support - because many people in this country have elected representatives that don't support that initiative.

It's quite clear that the powers granted by the people (e.g. congress and the presidency, directly elected by the people, unlike the court) to the EPA through law (and the clean air act), enumerate these powers. These very laws can be repealed by further legislative action. This isn't a case of constitutionality and thus the court oversteps its power.

Let the people repeal the laws if they think they're too bureaucratic.
If there was a geopolitical emergency that needed massive US shipbuilding efforts (ie. naval war over Taiwan) it seems obvious that Japanese and Korean shipyards would be smoking craters from Chinese medium range ballistic missiles. Assuming, as usual, that any Taiwan conflict doesn't escalate into nuclear war.

So any such agreement would be worth as much as the raw paper it was written on.
What is the median lifetime sales? Or over a 5 year window? I don't think first year is the end-all, be-all here given how being a gamedev actually works (e.g. what if I release 5 games in 5 years?) But it's possible first year sales are effectively lifetime sales on average as well.