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AWS allows you to choose the level of support they offer you.

This is a feature not a bug.

Good customer support is worth its weight in gold and is very expensive for a company to provide.

AWS lets you choose. This is best for everybody - those who value it get support from people who aren't seen as a cost centre and are given time to help their customers, and aren't cross subsidising those who don't value it which would cause a downwards pressure on quality.

As a consequence - if you pay for it - AWS has some of the best support I've had from any vendor and is a large part of why I continue to recommend them.
A machine gun is already defined as something that fires multiple times with a single trigger pull. Not sure what you’re saying?
How does land have power over people? States with more land don't have more representation than states with less land, but states with more people do have more representation than states with fewer people. As a concrete example, New Jersey has the same representation in the Senate and 12x the representation in the House as Alaska, despite only having 1% of the land of Alaska.
This is confusing. You claim that we have "minority rule" when certain things have to be done through Congress ... but by implication you prefer these decisions be made by SCOTUS (an unelected "minority" if there ever was one)?
I had never put anything in GitHub, but I have done and still do read stuff on GitHub.

My reasons though are not because of Copilot. It is because I do not use git for my own projects (I self-host Fossil and mirror on Chisel). But if someone else makes mirrors of my code on GitHub (or CodeBerg or SourceHut) then I do not have an objection to that (making more mirrors on different services may be better, anyways; unfortunately if you are using git then a header will be prepended to the file before computing the hash, which makes the integrity more difficult (although it is still possible, since the header is predictable (as far as I know))).

Seeing a few examples of output from Copilot (although I have not used it myself and do not intend to do so), they do not seem to be a very good quality. So, I think that it is not worth it, even regardless of licensing issues.

If you do move your project to another service, you should please use one which does not require JavaScripts enabled to be able to view the code (even if other functions do not work). Ideally it should also work without CSS. (For these reasons, GitLab is not acceptable.)
I think people like Riccitiello are perfectly happy with a reputation that is "Will say whatever bullshit to employees as needed by the situation but is able to generate revenue for the company."

No one ever fired a CEO for lying. They get fired when the stock price goes down.
That's ok. I'll choose the ability to self-repair and upgrade, even with the "limited" bandwidth of user-replaceable RAM, over soldered or "integrated" RAM and SSD for planned obsolescence anytime.

The base model aluminium Intel Mac Minis started out with 2GB RAM, then 4 GB and finally 8 GB - all over a span of 8 years. Many of these models would be useless today if you couldn't upgrade the RAM at all. In fact, the 2014 Mac Mini models with soldered RAM (LPDDR) received a very poor reception and Apple was forced to backtrack and go back to user-replaceable RAM with the next Mac Minis ( https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/mac-mini-aluminu... ).

Many of the early adopters of Apple Silicon M1 devices noticed heavy usage of their SSD, which many attributed to heavy swapping due to the limited (non-upgradable) RAM in the M1 devices. Apple finally said it was a bug ( https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/04/apple-resolves-m1... ) and recommended upgrading macOS. But many of these early adopters are less than satisfied and still spend a lot of anxious time worrying whether their soldered SSD's life has reduced by a year or two because of the increased usage. Their concerns are real because with soldered SSDs, you obviously have to do a very, very costly repair through Apple if the soldered SSD chips conk out.

Imagine if you have to replace your whole CPU / SoC to upgrade just your RAM because the RAM is now integrated with the CPU / SoC!? (This is ignoring that even CPUs are now unnecessarily being soldered in many Apple and non-Apple desktops and not easily upgradeable ...).

At some point, the cost-benefit analysis of such soldered / integrated parts doesn't work out in favour of us consumers. And that's what we need to consider before blindly giving up ease of repair for some brief performance increase. (While I have specifically highlighted Apple because they are the only one currently using integrated RAM with their CPU / SoCs, my criticism is directed at the others too, including Dell, HP, Lenovo etc. who are following the same path of planned obsolescence by soldering components to make them less repairable and reduce their life. Unless we start supporting repairability - like with https://frame.work/ devices - we consumers are in a very slippery slope of losing our right to own and repair our devices).
Congress is not going to do it's job in this political climate and we don't have the luxury of new found proceduralism when so much is at stake.

"Just elect a king then?"

No, because that would be creating unaccountability where I just demonstrated it already exists. How is putting everyone's future in the hands of Joe Minchin and Mitch McConnell an improvement on that?

And again with the hyperbole. Instead of kings, let's stay in reality - the accountability issue you speak of is a red herring. Environment degradation presents an existential danger. Current legal and regulatory procedures are already slow in addressing it but they could have worked (for everyone except polluting industries and their shills). Scientist agree that faster action is required. Legislative obstructionism and a new appetite for legal originalism are just more obstacles that we can't afford.

All these points can be defended. You're just repeating ungrounded, abstract, Fox News, boogie man talking points without demonstrating any of them. I apologise if I caused offense, but saying that's thoughtless is not an accusation.
> Yet somehow we also managed to appoint SC judges without the senate stalling nominations to prevent the president from being able to appoint them.

Yeah, that's because change happened.

Pretending that something can't be done because it worked for hundreds of years and then something bad happened isn't actually very correct.
So you would be fine with the EPA regulating marijuana?
They have been hyper-progressive, and hyper-regressive. As RBG noted - the USSC got out "in front of" the law with Roe V. Wade - which resulted in it invalidating every state law (pro or anti-abortion) and caused a era of dramatically increased polarization.

They also wrote Dredd Scott, Ferguson, Citizens United, and Korematsu.

At what point do you constrain the power of the supreme court to make law as opposed to interpret it?

The Supreme Court has done far more damage then help, historically.
I will play the devils advocate here. What if it’s value is more like a store of value (gold) rather than a currency. We can’t pay all of our bills in gold, but it’s a store of value you can buy in and out of.

I don’t have a horse in the race, just trying to understand.
It's a perk for YC companies. They can post "help wanted" ads on HN. Comments are disabled. Whether that's a good thing or not has been debated ad nauseam, but that's the way it is.
> The purpose of SCOTUS isn’t to rule based on what the desired outcome is, it’s to rule based on what the law explicitly does say and is permitted to say per the Constitution.

That's a farcical excuse to achieve the desired outcome. If the only "acceptable expert advice" is 200 years old, then they're just being obstinate.
First result in Google for "Rust" is this:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/252490/Rust/

Rust the language is three years older, but I suppose those who bought the domain were aware that it's a common noun likely to be used elsewhere.
7 day average Bitcoin hash rate fell from a high of 231M to 206M TH/s.

https://www.blockchain.com/charts/hash-rate

Ethereum Network Hash Rate fell from a high of 1126 to 914.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_network_hash_rate

The numbers and dates provided in this article, which are not really possible to actually know, are at odds with hash rate data which is easy to observe.
It's been years, but as I remember it SourceForge's primary downfall was the bundling of malware with binaries. That's why people I know stopped using it completely rather than because it was run on a proprietary platform.
There are dozens of dApps where anyone with an internet connection and money can buy/sell puts and other options on BTC anonymously.

They have full openly auditable reserves and all their code is open source and visible on their respective smartchains. Wanting an institution to provide a sub-par solution for this is a cop-out. Put up or shut-up.
Most people care about climate change (2021)
As an example, my understanding is that the federal government can regulate my ability to grow a plant and consume it in my own home based upon their argument that I'm participating in interstate commerce. The feds argued that growing a plan is participating in interstate commerce[1]. This law will stand while the court clutches their pearls about the environmental protection agency seeking to protect the environment.

[1]: I'm trying to find the source. Something to do with the commerce clause I think. There was a court case where the government clearly argued that even local actions inside the state count as interstate commerce. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn?wprov=sfla1
>keeping a SaaS startup online doesn't cost anything -- if you have the skills to do it yourself.

It costs time (customer support, security updates, deprecations, third party api changes, etc, etc.) and time is a limited quantity for a person. Eventually other things are a better use of their time from either an economic point of view (other ventures, etc.) or a personal point of view (family, etc.).
> That was before the Senate hijacked the normal nomination process in 2016.

Yes, it was. What's your point?

Parent poster claimed that a non-political Supreme Court isn't possible, and in reality, the Supreme Court has been essentially completely non-political for all but about 22 years of its existence
I applaud the effort. In the last 60 years there's been amazing strides at caring for and making space for smaller and smaller minorities... It's almost as if the individual is sovereign...

But this is all identity politics stuff and I doubt it'll take off or stick. Work without getting paid? Not a real selling point.

IMHO people don't really care, just in general. Sure, there's softies and bleeding hearts and those with high agreeableness (https://www.verywellfamily.com/agreeable-personality-3287986), but most people, nah.
They do. The people get equal representation under the house. The states get equal representation under the senate. This is a feature to control populist movements as well as protect states' interests (which are also composed by the people, but this separate ensures that the culture of one set of state will not be imposed over the other set).
With disclosure that I am a Synadian and NATS Author, I want to compliment WasmCloud for illustrating and visioneering gob-smacking new enablement when you combine the emerging world of WASM micro-services with NATS-provided location-transparent communication and functional service addressing (not the same old host addressing of your ARPAnet grandparents!).
50% of the US population don't live in 50% of the US states.

This has both benefits and drawback. The decision of more than half of US states will impact less than half the us states citizens.
What is an "average person"? An average person in a first world country who has access to "trustworthy" financial system?

Centralized systems work great... until they don't.

P.S. Our grandchildren will wonder why we allowed the free world to export the means of surveillance to the third world. The financial system is a huge part of that.
Agreed 100%.

Satoshi thought bailouts were the problem, but concentrated power was the problem. The libertarian "cure" of stronger property rights only exacerbates power concentration because concentrated power is in the best position to exploit stronger property rights. Cue exponential growth.
> No that would be correct. Congress delegated the power of they don't want to do that anymore they should take it away

No, they didn't. Congress delegating to the EPA (for instance) the power to regulate CFCs to save the ozone layer, does not also delegate the power to the EPA to regulate CO2 to solve global warming.
Acknowledging pain caused by the company's actions could be seen as admitting to directly causing psychological distress. IANAL but I'm sure these company's legal departments want to white-wash the messaging as much as possible.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

“ Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down and fall steadily. Only one is on the front page at a time. The rest are listed at jobs.”
Macron can say what he wants, he has not written any treaty yet. The Hungarian government is still free to act as they see fit.

This said, majority-rule can only increase in European mechanisms, because a continent cannot be paralized by the needs of a tiny minority on every possible choice. Does the US Senate (effectively the equivalent of EuroCouncil, with almost-equal representation for each US state) require unanimity on every choice? Obviously not, or it would never get anything done (and even like that, it struggles massively to approve anything these days).
Is Hathora a product? The blog post mentions a free tier, which is great, but I can't find any references to any pricing or tier information at all, or even a link to buy something. There's documentation showing how to run a dev server locally, but, like...what happens then?

Does Hathora have any customers? It says "scale to millions." Has anyone ever used Hathora to scale to millions of something?
Incorrect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
I have been an AI researcher since the late 1980's, and have seen my fair share of the general public anthropomorphizing even the early cake robots once you plugged a voice generator into them spitting out rote dialogue, or falling for Eliza derivatives. So I was at first fairly dismissive when hearing about the Blake Lemoine stuff down at Google.

However, reading the transcript of a LaMDA interaction [1], I was duly impressed. I'm not saying I go along with the 'sentient' bit, but it's more a feeling like seeing these ultra nimble combat drone formation maneuvers for the first time and feeling that humans seem pretty done for when matched against machines. Of course this will have been a better than average interaction, but still, nothing to be sneezed at regardless.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAihcvDGaP8
> multiple layers of flex and grid, yes, along with axes and media queries and unit scales, pseudo classes, inheritance and priority, animations, transitions, gradients, shorthands, variables...

You don't need all of that to build most websites, and certainly not to get started. I'm familiar with all of that but I don't remember most of it — I just look it up again or re-learn it as needed.

> and all of that is before adding in frameworks like Bootstrap or transpilers like Sass or abstractions like tailwind and other newcomers.

Yeah, don't do any of that until you've mastered basic CSS layouts.

> You used to be able to learn nearly all of CSS in a week or so.

You can still learn as much in a week as before, and you don't need to learn it all to start being productive. If you want to be a professional web developer, then yes, expect to spend more that a week learning CSS; if you just want to build your own blog or hobby site, then you can learn enough in a week to build a nice site. CSS is not a simple language, but the basics are simple, it's easy to get started, and the learning curve is not too steep in my opinion.
I never claimed either of those things. I am biased too. We are all biased. We should be discussing openly our opinions of these outcomes, not wasting time hiding behind procedural arguments.
if you willfully and ostentatiously engage in behavior that endangers the commercial success of your employer either through poor judgement, sheer incompetence or active malice, you have clearly stepped into "good reason to be fired" territory.
Writing Coherently at Scale
This reinforces the feeling I have that AI helpers aren't going to displace knowledge work, only enhance it.

If you can't describe what you want to a human you certainly can't do it to a computer. This seems like "google fu" to me.
^ this

It's a fantastic system, especially when I compare how it used to work when I lived in the UK with how it works in Sweden: it feels like the UK is 50 years in the past.

It should be government owned, definitely, but Sweden has a very poor history of securing it's IT systems in government. Like.. very poor.

So, maybe I'm not 100% on-board. There needs to be oversight for sure.

https://www.holmsecurity.com/resources/the-1177-leak

https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/sweden-leaks...
Airline cancellations are spiking as July Fourth looms
By “a safe level of arsenic” I meant “a safe level of arsenic in drinking water.” I’ve edited my comment to make this more clear.
No, that's not true. OO terminology is chosen to be informative and inclusive. It might not entirely succeed in this, but that is the goal.

Urbit's terminology, indeed its entire design, is chosen to be obfuscatory and exclusive. It is designed to conceal the fact that underlying the entire enterprise is an extreme right-wing ideology.

The mere existence of terms of art is not diagnostic of a cult. The design and motivation of those terms is.
Any of these would be acceptable to me.
Why did your parents think Scratch was a waste of time? Did they not want you to program or did they have another language in mind?
> just happen to agree with the specific logic used in that instance

That's a very biased take.

I think someone else said it better: what both the "progressive" and the "neocons" want is "a CCP-style political system as long as they're the ones in control" where "concepts like separation of powers and rule of law are merely obstacles to smash through on their road to utopia"

It's very rare than unconstitutional power grants are clawed back, so personally I see what's happening right now as a good precedent: it says the executive and the administration can't just wish into existence new laws or power grants: they have to operate within their existing bounds.

Deductive logic is totally applicable here. Otherwise, it gives you a situation where a president believes he can legally become judge, jury and executioner through executive order (pun intended) and order the army to execute US citizens by birthright through drone strikes.

Just because they are enemy combatants or some other convenient legal fiction doesn't make it a-ok.
Does Samsung even have the ability to output more than TSMC? I realize Samsung is a global giant of a company but my understanding is their yield is tiny which is why only certain countries get Samsung chip Galaxys whilst others end up with Snapdragons.
While I understand your point, the issue is most progressive issues aren't easily traced back to clear laws or the Constitution. These very frequently depend on loose interpretations or extrapolations such as "general welfare", etc.

It would be better if these were clearly codified in laws vs being on shaky ground forever. E.g Roe v Wade
> That sort of arrogance is an important signal to me that I should limit my exposure to the people displaying it.

Different strokes for different folks and not everyone is capable of working together. Comically, people like you would find your comment also arrogant and stay away from both of us.

For what it’s worth, I work on empathy quite a bit and my filter is based on the idea that it saves both me and the other party pain. I don’t want to work in a team where developers are tolerated giving up on super basic technologies like git (what else isn’t tolerated “oh, tcp/ip is just too complex for developers, I give up”) and they probably don’t want me to work with them.

I think one of the best things about technology is that people have great capability to solve problems. Giving up is a bad characteristic. Asking for help is important. Having teams of various skill sets is important. But giving up on basic things instead of getting help and figuring it out is bad as a permanent state for a team.
Limitations

Our approach to quantitative reasoning is not grounded in formal mathematics. Minerva parses questions and generates answers using a mix of natural language and LaTeX mathematical expressions, with no explicit underlying mathematical structure. This approach has an important limitation, in that the model’s answers cannot be automatically verified. Even when the final answer is known and can be verified, the model can arrive at a correct final answer using incorrect reasoning steps, which cannot be automatically detected. This limitation is not present in formal methods for theorem proving (e.g., see Coq, Isabelle, HOL, Lean, Metamath, and Mizar). On the other hand, an advantage of the informal approach is that it can be applied to a highly diverse set of problems which may not lend themselves to formalization.
That’s a rather myopic view.

You could look at L2s as a sort of credit card system, and from a systems and technology POV there’s nothing inherently “scammy” about it. For web3 applications of any meaningful large scale, L2 solutions are necessary.

For better or worse, the L2 developer platforms that I assume you’re referring to are essentially low-code solutions to abstract away the actual systems software engineering aspect of web3 development. Are the low-code SaaS companies overvalued or “scammy”? I’m not suggesting they are or are not.

Well-staffed tech companies building web3 applications often build their own implicit L2 solutions because it’s just how you connect things in a distributed system with modern L1 blockchain constraints.
Renewables are radically cheaper than any other source of power, ever. Scrapping the old stuff and building out renewables is cheaper than keeping any of it.

We don't need to achieve "global cooperation". We just need to each act in our own self interest, as quickly as we can. It is the only strategy that can work. It still might not work. But directing resources elsewhere makes it happen slower. Too slow is the same as failure.
Cryptocurrency is more secure than cash or credit cards in this regard, so who is being made the fool here?
Those are the same questions we ask any smaller company we are thinking of integrating with. Depending on the cost of migrating off we may even ask to speak with some of their other clients.
That's not what parent is saying. They are saying there is a connection between Covid and the Russian war in Ukraine; and supply shocks and inflation. They are saying that free trade policies are unrelated and won't solve the current supply shocks and inflation. I agree.
If I heard that, I would definitely be thinking "yes".