skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much drama. It all comes down to: do you want to use a currency whose rules are immutable and its value is decided by the market or do you want a government backed currency that can change its monetary policy according to its discretion? Everything else is just words.
>That means among their simulations is very likely to be an instance that is similar to the real outcome.

So what? If you only make enough enough predictions then some of those will turn out predict the future correctly. It is how "The Simpsons did it first" meme came into being.
It's days like these where you really wish there would be some sort of legislative body that could do something about this sort of thing.
This type of transphobia would be hilarious if it wasn’t so harmful.

Reducing the entire history of transgenderism down to a “craze” is a perfect culmination of your ignorance and fear.
I think though that in this case the person who needs to try harder is the one who originated the claim, not the person trying to dispute it, given that the person who made the claim originally didn't provide any evidence.
Don’t worry yourself about when the next programming language will be written.

Worry instead about when the last one will be written.
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The headlines aren’t entirely wrong. If you look at the conservative majority opinions, you’ll find that indeed, it’s about the relevant legal issues, ie. what the law actually says. On the other hand, if you read liberal dissents, they’re mostly about what they think appropriate policy should be.

In this particular case, the majority opinion starts off by quoting the relevant statute and analyzing its meaning, whereas the dissent starts off by saying (quoting) that “climate change is the most pressing environmental challenge of our time”, and continues with a long litany of how bad it is.

Really, I find the entire thing to be rather crazy: if the Congress wants EPA to regulate emissions the way they tried to do, all it needs to do is to pass a law explicitly instructing it to do so. Of course, it won’t, because there is no political will in Congress to pass this. At the same time, the EPA’s argument in this case was that the Congress has already delegated this to EPA. Considering that the Congress won’t pass a law confirming that yes, it did in fact delegate authority to execute these particular regulations (which, again, would render the entire SCOTUS decision irrelevant), I find the EPA’s argument of rather dubious quality.
I think you're using "downturn" differently.

GDP contraction won't last five years. But it will be longer than the GDP contraction before VC money becomes as easy as it was for the last five years.
> As a CEO, your only option is to deny there will be layoffs. Any other statement will cause panic.

Really? Where unions are strong layoffs can be negotiated for months. There is no panic.
> but we see over and over that it isn't what the market wants.

What the market wants is short term growth and I firmly believe that is what is destroying our economy and the market.

Instead of building pillars and companies that outlive the founders, we have short term cash grabs. We have VC firms buying up our existing pillars, gutting them of any valuable assets, saddling them with debt, and then selling off the carcass. We have firms buying up real estate and creating or exacerbating scarcity to drive up demand and prices. We have shifts towards subscriptions and quarterly profits.

It's not healthy and it's destroying us.
There's also casual nudity and an abundance of cheap alcohol, so there's something for everybody from the colder/more-conservative parts of the world.

(On that note-- I'd ask the same question about nudist beaches. So much sand!)
As alarming as it is to see seemingly well-positioned large public companies do this… have any of the layoffs been at profitable companies? Netflix?
You probably won't like it when your opponents start playing to win democracy be damned
This looks like an announcement for an event that hasn't happened yet and those are generally off topic on HN, since they aren't interesting in their own right.
Toto Wolff is also not an engineering or race oriented team boss, he's a finance guy. He lets the engineers and race experts do their thing while he does his thing.
This is an interstate issue, as emissions do not respect state lines, so it can’t be decentralized to the states if that’s what you are implying.
I have driven the X1 and various other BMWs. The X1 is indeed horrible, and there is a reason:

For handling / lateral dynamics: The X1 is derived from essentially a MINI platform which is FWD-based (transverse engine), compared to the rest of the BMW lineup which is RWD-based (longitudinal engine).

For power / longitudinal dynamics: If GP happened to be driving a 3-cylinder, then of course the turbo lag would be high. OTOH, the 4-cylinder B48 is a venerable engine with negligible lag (again used all across the BMW lineup).
> competition is what drives societies to become more complex, building more hierarchical armies to fight ever-more-complex wars and organizing increasingly bureaucratic governments to manage diverse resources and growing populations.

This sounds interesting. Having identification be a cost would make people think before engaging with anything that requires it, which would encourage companies to avoid. Also, if people can choose freely which banks to use, then there is also some market pressure on banks to have good privacy and security.
This is impressively researched, and a great examination of a hidden through-line in art history. I appreciate that the writer doesn't approach the subject from an adversarially revisionist perspective ("Malevich was a plagiarist!") but rather builds for the reader a better appreciation for the cultural lineage that led to Black Square.
This fuckshit analysis surprises me, I expected to see fuckshit but I guess folks are not out there using fuckshit as often as me lol.
It also allows a wonderful task division - the person who's "good with computers" can do the computer stuff, the person who is good with design can do the design stuff.

We pay insane amounts of money for professionals to do admin-style tasks, but the thought of hiring an admin assistant for them is simply out of the question.
Just using BTC to replace all of McDonald's daily transactions in the Berlin metropolitan area alone would be enough to destroy the system. (Of course this is where people come along and talk about layers on top of BTC, but all those seem to me to just be extra ways to replace trivial transaction-level auditing with Turing-hard code auditing).
They already are. What do you think this is? They spent decades to enable this, they’ve said so publicly. Mitch McConnell’s book is even called “The Long Game.” They are knowingly, actively subverting democracy for their own ends.

So, here we are.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mitch-mcconnell-dark-lord-s... (the Fox News article slug even refers to him as the dark lord)
Nothing you mentioned would have overthrown the country. Violent regime change happens almost exclusively via military actions or widespread popular uprisings.

The top brass of the military would not have supported a coup by Trump and the group that protested that day was not large enough to effect regime change.
Hathora Cloud provides several important features specific to multiplayer gaming. To list a few:

1) Built in authentication/identity

2) Session/room based connections (with lobbies, matchmaking, etc)

3) Handlers for various transports (websocket, TCP, UDP)
To quote Kagan's dissent in this case: "The current Court is textualist only when being so suits it. When that method would frustrate broader goals, special canons like the 'major questions doctrine' magically appear as get out-of-text-free cards".
Do you have a source for that claim? I find it hard to believe that partisan conduct didn't exist on the hot topics of the day throughout history.

For example, it took years to create a constitution, then more years for a bill of rights. There was a lot of federalist vs anti-federalist debate. Then things like slavery, segregation, etc. I mean, we fought a civil war. How much more partisan can it get than that?
>It was famously Gandhi and the Non-violence movement who ultimately succeeded.

Was Ghandi's method really the reason for success or does western media (& ruling class) prefer that narrative?
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How was Dobbs a win for individual liberty? Shouldn't you want the 14th amendment to protect individual liberty as widely as possible? Or do you think it's better for the Constitution to not protect individual liberties?
If our bioweapon strategy is anything like our COVID strategy it’s nonexistent.
Perhaps there is a hyper-partisan congress because it’s a reaction to what some have viewed as a hyper-partisan Supreme Court.

On a positive reading, the Court is now saying states have the right to choose these issues for themselves. There are means in the constitution for overruling a minority of states, that is by passing a constitutional amendment. By allowing and even encouraging the Court to make these decisions, Congress has built up a democratic deficit which has exploded in its face.

On a negative reading, sadly, the Court is just as partisan now but in the other direction. Thus the deficit won’t go away.
People don't communicate by listening to each others throats so I would have to imagine that is not the way people expect voice audio to sound.
That's the strategy of the Federalist Society, make rulings via the undemocratic SCOTUS under the guise of giving states/congress power, but then also making sure that state elections are undemocratic via gerrymandering, voting laws, etc.

It doesn't help that taking action on matters of national importance is inherently difficult in a Federalist government.
365 * 5 / 7 = 260.

Removing ~3 weeks vacation gets you down to 245. Eleven federal holidays? 234.

200 days/year sounds like an almost full-time job?
A safer-for-work version might use:

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Maybe so, but could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? It looks like you've been doing it repeatedly and that's definitely not what this site is for.

Fortunately you've also posted substantive comments, so this should be easy to fix. If you'd stick to the latter and drop the former, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sounds like crap and looks uncomfortable to use.
Right back atcha!
Consensus doesn’t just mean 51%. It means general agreement. If you have 100 people in a room, 51 people are in favor of something and the other 49 are not, is that your “consensus”? Prior to the US each of the states were their own sovereign entities. Why enter the US (or stay in it) if you are going to be ruled against your will? The states agreed to give up some of their power and joined under the explicit conditions of the senate that they would have an equal say.
No. No. Wrong. The Supreme Court's mandate is to be the Supreme Court, not to be the solve-the-current-crisis fixer. I want the planet not to fry and to still have a constitutional democracy at the end of that process.

The problem is that people want to handle this "on the cheap", by executive order, rather than by the actual existing mechanism, which is through Congress. Yes, Congress created the EPA. They didn't give them the authority to regulate CO2, though. That was an overreach when the executive order came out, and that reality finally caught up legally.

You want to regulate CO2? Then do it the right way - by having Congress pass a bill that grants that power to the EPA. That's the difference between rule of law and rule of the president.

You say those states have too much power? No they don't. There's only 18 of them. That's only 36 senators. They don't have a majority of the House, either. So go do it the way it should have been done from the beginning, instead of trying to get away with using a lazy back door.

[Edit: Reading other posts here, the issue may not have been CO2 emission, but rather management of the electrical grid. I still think that CO2 was a massive over-reach when the EPA started regulating that. It was almost certainly beyond the scope that Congress conceived of when they created the EPA.]
Despite these articles I really doubt they are ready for mass production. The yield is not expected to be high, but they like being first. There is a learning curve to GAAFET, and although TSMC clearly plays the game at another level Samsung has Intel now to compete with.

https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=4096
a good idea, some notes:

1. 10,000 isn't 'huuuuge' for long lived workstations, but 100k ought to be good for a while (bash, but not zsh, allows disabling truncation entirely with SAVEHIST=-1)

2. if using bash, make sure that this init stuff is sourced by both login and non-login shells (from ~/.bash_profile vs ~/.bashrc respectively)

3. specifying a non-default HISTFILE near your SAVEHIST (as shown in that zshrc link) can go a long way toward avoiding an improperly-configured shell truncating your huge history log, eg point 2
I like healthy skepticism, disagreement, a high level of discourse etc. - just based on the comments here I don’t think that’s what you’re likely to get.
> Any tool that makes you more productive at the cost of taking away the pleasure of figuring it out on your own bores and depresses me

I mean, you don't have to use these tools yourself, particularly since you have to pay for it and therefore there is no "it is free" allure.

While I understand what you are saying about the pleasure of figuring things out yourself (and do enjoy that feeling myself), I don't feel that the mere existence of the tool affects me that much.
One is self propelled and the other is a toy that was abandoned 60 years ago as unworkable.

That doesn’t sound the same to me.
It's a good question. There are several kinds of answers, two of which I allude to but don't go into a lot of detail. The answers based off of peer reviewed research can be found in the article in Science that I quote. There is also the answer based off a sort of existence proof—so far, even when this is been done at a high level around extremely controversial and impactful issues, this has not appeared to be a significant problem.

To be clear, the process that I am describing there is not some newfangled idea that I just dreamed up. It's something that has been used by France, Ireland, South Korea, even the EU as whole, is likely to be institutionalized as part of the governance of these organizations. It's just fairly new so not that many people have heard about it.
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I've had plenty of educated, well-informed individuals make exactly the same legal arguments to me for decades. Whether or not I agree with the reasoning, it's not hard for me to believe that the Supreme Court justices believed the principles they're following long before they arrived at this decision.

You can disagree with the legal justification, but that you disagree is not evidence that it was invented to achieve a specific goal.
And yet the candidate with the more impassioned voters got significantly fewer votes in both 2016 and 2020.
The ineffectiveness and hyperpartisanship of Congress is directly attributable to the ideological perspectives of the electorate.

Also, Congress is not as ineffective and hyperpartisan as you think. It's only on issues that have public attention that they act this way. When nobody is looking they move quickly and decisively.
Yep, we love Fly.io! We're building our platform-as-a-service on top of Fly and augmenting it for gaming-specific needs.
I am the only one who knows my risk tolerance and threat model. I do not appreciate when other researchers think that they know my tolerance and threat model better than I do.

The only reason not to release names after a reasonable responsible disclosure timeframe is because the researchers somehow think they are the only ones that will ever find that flaw. Pure hubris. Some malicious person will eventually find those same flaws, and then I'm fucked without being given the opportunity to evaluate whether or not I want to risk getting fucked.
My imagination can get pretty wild, but I can't even begin to imagine how they could do that without severely bending the definitions of "Coinbase user data" and "public sources" to the point of breaking.
When I was writing my comment initially I wrote a comparison between individual crypto wallets and cash, and how centralized banks spawned from people not wanting to be the only one responsible for their large amounts of cash, hence banks, but I removed it because my comment was already running long. We're totally on the same page.

Edit: Also, I know cash is the governmental evolution of bank notes which didn't exist before banks, and that the original decentralized currency would be like, pinches of gold or whatever.
Mozilla Public License 2.0 is standard, well-known, and OSI approved: https://opensource.org/licenses
> there has to be _representative_ democracy for decentralized decision making to be fair

So fix the actual problem instead of trying to kludge your way around it.
On surface this sounds like refrigerator vs fridge ;)
I'm sorry to condescend, but do you have a therapist? It might be healthy to touch base with normies once in a while.
1. Not citizens.

2. Not for imprisonment (although deportation is an ugly business no matter the context).

3. Not working with companies, working with shady third-party data brokers that companies themselves would like to see shut down.
Ok, we've changed the title to be less illusory above.

Thanks for making the point and thanks to gus_massa for the suggested wording!
The ESP32 has unofficial 5V tolerance on most pins so it can for example handle 5V serial with no problems (but can't output 5V of course), but my go-to is still the Arduino Nano for most things.
Yep since the 70s there's been an insane explosion of private wealth and an insane implosion of public wealth (infrastructure, etc.). On purpose.

It's what happens when the foxes are in charge of the hen house.
So this is basically a fancy game-specific VPN isn't it? How is it different from Steam Networking which lets players connect to their closest endpoint and routes traffic through Valve's backbone? The only way this service could offer any benefit over Valve's is if you can run edge processing right at the gateway for a Matrix.org-esq protocol for a distributed-authority netcode so that the gameclient's physics/hit-prediction length is only the latency to its gateway rather than all the way to the central authoritative server. But then this would need gamedevs to actually know what they're doing regarding how to re-architect netcode, which, given the quality of Riot's Valorant supposedly being the shining beacon of engineering among gamedevs, is not a very auspicious prospect.
Then there should be no problem getting this through the courts, right?

All I'm asking for here is some guarantee that this won't be used to shut down social networks that some government entity dislikes for personal reasons. Because I know for a fact that some people who have been in power wanted to do exactly that.

We should all be demanding this.

Ban TikTok, but do it narrowly with a lot of protections.
Same answer as "Facebook alternatives?" or "Twitter alternatives?" or "Photoshop alternatives?".

You have quite a few online git forges to choose from, like BitBucket, GitLab, sourcehut and certainly others but it all comes down to what you value in GitHub. If you value the social stuff, then no, there simply is no alternative. If you value the enterprise stuff, GitLab might check most of the boxes. If you don't care about the slick UI, the enterprise stuff, or the social stuff, then take a look at sourcehut. Etc.
Interesting so they run the services on cloud and advertise their company as on device, what a bunch of crooks.
That's simply not true. I have WordPress sites I haven't touched in years and they all run auto updates.

Sure I guess it's technically avoiding rot by updating but the fact I don't need to touch it makes the point moot.

> Fwiw, and I know this is a nitpick, but anything built purely on open source libraries should be technically buildable forever. Especially if you keep it local (e.g. cached node_modules for npm)

Technically isn't very useful when my server needs to update npm/node for security reasons.
Eliminating partisan gerrymandering would go a long way.

Less than 10% of congressional districts this year will be competitive (defined as the most recent presidential election margin was within 10 percentage points). Only 41 seats!

I haven’t really seen a realistic plan to do it though.
I'd absolutely expect the guy and his team to know about prior work, but the article comes from the university "news office". In my experience university PR releases are always extremely overhyped, particularly from the elite universities.
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In the context of German ID cards, this is mostly correct.

For age verification requests, the service provider can set the amount of years, and the ID card will simply answer with a yes or no.

The pseudonym isn't created, but calculated from the ID's private key and the service provider's public key, so even a new card means new pseudonym, which makes it slightly less useful for login long term.
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The EPA is under the executive branch, they should not "have to go through congress" for anything. That is entirely out of their scope of operation.

They are supposed to be enforcing and upholding the laws that congress enacts.
Good points by you and your sibling poster. Maybe this tech really would have a hard time finding a niche when considering mass along with cost/performance characteristics, given other premium or economic options. Maybe on the roof of an expensive high rise it would make sense? On boats? Hard to say.
Here's the direct link: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

> Actions should not be used for: [...]

> if using GitHub-hosted runners, any other activity unrelated to the production, testing, deployment, or publication of the software project associated with the repository where GitHub Actions are used.
As someone outside the ML world, can anyone tell me what a “feature” is?
Why is it derogatory? And what is the non-derogatory alternative to that word in Arabic?
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I’d like to! Scratch’s backend is closed source. The open source version lets you save and load projects locally, but that’s a nonstarter for my classes, where most students work on different computers each day.

I did have some success last weekend getting my fork to send a project’s data to a Cloudflare worker (where I can store it via Workers KV), but past that point I feel a bit stuck. None of this code is documented and I don’t have any backend experience. I think I need some sort of actual account and login system so that students can access all of their past projects.

I'll probably keep poking at it, I'm just not sure I'll get anywhere. Other prominent forks such as Turbowarp don’t have cloud saving either, and now I think I understand why.

It’s kind of frustrating tbqh. Scratch isn’t a good open source project if it’s centralized around a single host. I expect this of corporations who ultimately need to cultivate a customer base, but Scratch is an academic initiative from a prominent university. I understand why the backend is closed source, but I wish they provided clear documentation on how to hook it up to something else. (I also realize that like everyone in academia, they're probably understaffed and overworked, and I really do respect the tool they've built.)