skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s only “clear” for people who accept paper-thin legal logic from a court with an obvious agenda. It’s only clear if you’re willing to slide down the slippery slope of the court stripping authority from all federal agencies they don’t like with the logic that the legislature needs to codify every email sent by an agency.

If you don’t like the EPA just say so, but please stop pretending like the Supreme Court is some real arbiter of logic and constitutionality. It has always been (even during liberal courts) an unelected political institution that justifies huge legislative changes with high-minded philosophical hand waving. Occasionally they throw in civil rights decisions for good PR with their aligned base, but even that’s on the chopping block with the current court.
If you look at crude prices to pump prices, and it is very clear this summer is a manufactured shortage.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/28/gas-pric...

Reflexive downvotes because you disagree is a loser's strategy. Here is the data for you own lying eyes to review: https://www.macrotrends.net/2501/crude-oil-vs-gasoline-price...

More background https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-09/crude-... "From 1985 to 2021, the crack spread averaged about $10.50 a barrel. Even between 2004 and 2008, during the so-called golden age of refining, the crack spread never surpassed $30. It rarely spent more than a few weeks above $20. Last week, however, the margin jumped to a record high of nearly $55. Crack margins for diesel and other petroleum products surged much higher. "

That is with the coordinated SPR release. But sure, believe it's the invisible hand and the Jones Act!
This is mainly because Congress will not increase the size of the House of Representatives. If we were to give Wyoming a single representative and used that as the bar for how many citizens a representative should actually represent then California would have 82 members in the House instead of 53. California would be worth 84 points in the Electoral College while Wyoming would still only be worth 3.
People use idealism to justify decisions that would only be useful in an ideal world, but are terrifying in the real world. This comment thread is a good case study.

Sure, maybe, in an ideal world we want congress to pass laws in the place of every single regulatory body. (This in and of itself is totally unclear to me).

However, the reality is that by getting rid of regulatory agencies we prevent important limits from being enforced.

I mean, read this part of the dissent:
> Again, Section 111(d) tells EPA that when a pollutant—like carbon dioxide—is not regulated through other programs, EPA must undertake a further regulatory effort to control that substance’s emission from existing stationary sources.

There's a backstop in place to allow the EPA to prevent pollutants from fucking us up. Ideally it would be regulated through a formal program. It's not. Does that mean we should just get rid of all backstops & regress to the stone age?
It wouldn't lead to chaos. It could lead to states leaving the union if the senate were dissolved. It's happened in the past when states didn't want to be trampled and the divide seems large today.

But what is the objective benefit to removing the senate? The argument I'm hearing is just that it could be more democratic, but there are many changes that could make things more democratic. Some things are about fairness, like gerrymandering. But I don't see any benefit to removing the senate.
Competition is the mechanism that lowers prices. No one can afford to pocket the difference. That's why despite airplanes becoming extremely fuel efficient over the last 50 years, ticket prices keep dropping.

Why don't airlines simply pocket the difference??
Languages are not that polarized. Most languages are in fact compromises, design-wise, rather than very principled (polarized). Rust[1] and ATS are the only no-compromise newish (this century) languages that are very principled. (EDIT: in the high-level with low-level control category.)

Being supposedly easier is also easier (design-wise) than being principled, since you are able to compromise on whatever dimension (like e.g. memory safety) as long as you make things just a bit easier than the competition.[2] A language like Rust, on the other hand, has to (1) make Safe Rust memory safe and (2) make make it possible to create Safe Rust APIs using Unsafe Rust.

Polarized design is the road less travelled.

[1] All your examples mention “borrow checker”…

[2] For propaganda purposes, a subjective criteria like “easier to use” (than e.g. Rust, if that is applicable) is better than a technical criteria like being memory safe.
This is an inspiring read. Without looking at the code, there are so many revolutionary ideas in here for more usable programming languages. The ideas regarding stateful execution seem both useful for highly parallel tasks and even hardware description.
Yeah, I think the most common complaint about scrum (from engineers) is the stand up.
That is incorrect. Congress cannot broadly delegate authority to make rules with the force of law on the executive branch. Even liberals begrudgingly accept separation of powers.

Regulatory agencies exist based on the theory that Congress can leave it to agencies to "fill in the details" of a law as part of the executive discretion about how to enforce the law. In the Clean Air Act, Congress gave the EPA authority to pick toxic pollutants to regulate, and to specify the use of particular emissions control technologies like scrubbers.

What this case was about was whether this grant of authority could be fairly read to encompass telling entire industries what power generation mix they must use.

This is not like requiring the CEO to sign off on a minor bug fix. The reasoning of the Court is that industry-wide changes in power generation mix have sweeping effects on the country, and require specific authorization. Even huge companies routinely require executive approval for major new initiatives that will incur major costs to the company.
That’s what fair use doctrine is about. Copyright doesn’t say “you can’t do anything without permission”, it says “you can’t do anything without permission, except for a few categories of things which cannot be forbidden”, and Copilot claims that what they’re doing fits in one of those categories.
Am I the only one who prefers C++ over C#?
> There are huge differences between Amazon not selling porn due to local laws and Amazon restricting LGBTQ searches due to local laws.

Except for the fact that you agree with one ('cos it's "a good thing") and disagree with the other ('cos it's "a bad thing"), what are these differences?

> some people made the call to continue making a buck by empowering a homophobic and dangerous group.

For an LGBT person, it's better to be in the US than in the UAE [0][1].

If you want that to change in the short run, you're out of luck — it's not realistic to assume it will change soon.

If you want that to change in the long run, the way to do that is to have more contact (including trade) with the UAE.

[0] Mind you, it's better still to be LGBT in the UAE than in Afghanistan or Iran!

[1] For a sick child from a poor family who needs lots and lots of healthcare, it's the opposite.
Cool. Or you can put the cash in a 'bank' where you don't have to worry about 'multiple copies'.

The 'friction' of Bitcoin is that it little to no sense as a currency, and only from a certain fairly narrow perspective might have some advantages.

Nice experiment, but not very useful.

Maybe one day the crypto folks will figure something out.

I'm sure something in there is useful.
> another one in a sea of clones

Is there a clone which can browse modern heavyweight web (like YouTube) without tears, runs the original Raspberry Pi OS (not the x86 clone), has the same (or bigger) set of GPIO pins and supports Raspberry PI hats? More IO would also be great to have. I don't mind if it costs some hundreds dollars. I'd love to have passive cooling though. And it has to be approximately the same size, MiniITX won't fit.
Show HN: Getting Started with Web Components and Lit
I'm aware that powers not left to congress falls back to the states, you specifically mentioned regulation and this is in a thread about the EPA.

How is a state supposed to, on it's own, handle regulation against pollution from it's neighbors? How do they stop the state upstream? How do they they stop the state next door?
This is like the PGP debate in the security community back in the day, where they generally agreed that while this all works great in theory it’s actually a lot of work to do it correctly and mistakes at any stage are incredibly costly so despite the fact that it technically works, it’s never going to be a good solution for regular people.
That's not how law works
It is correct that Starlink is not motivated to act for your benefit, any more than for this individual. Your interlocutor has long experience with such things. So do we, really; are Starlink's incentives aligned any different from AT&T's?

A few years back, AT&T took a half $billion from US taxpayers to build out fiber to rural neighborhoods. One comes to within 1/10 mi of my house. But they were not obliged to light any of it. They did not. That fiber sits dark, more than a decade on.
Just because directly calculating your exact calorie balance is untenable, doesn't mean you can't make intentional relative adjustments to it. Even if it does sometimes take a few tries to make work ("oh, eating less made me tired and cranky, let's try it this other way").
Because everyone here is a phony.

Everyone publicly wants socialism, and privately wants to protect their own assets.
Maybe you played hooky in Civics 101, or maybe not, but your understanding and analogy both require substantial correction.

Fixing this:

If the government were a software application, this is very much like a project led by three senior engineers for a system using a widely agreed upon Design that was flexible, but included boundaries. This consisted of Four major elements: (1) Codified Business Decisions, (2) Execution Environment, that mainly ran the project management, and the security (3) The Business Representatives, who created new Business Decisions, and a (4) User Community who ultimately controlled all of above, and paid all of the bills. The first three major elements regularly jockeyed for control over the software app. Over time, they deviated from the initial Design in ways that favored themselves and made the environment less favorable for the User Community. Business Decisions started to critique, and invent new business decisions out of thin air. Execution Environment tried to take over everything in spite of the agreed-upon Design, and existing Business Decisions. Even the Business Representatives went off the rails to favor the consultants that were treating them to fancy dinners instead of the business units they were sent to represent, and they started to define the future roadmap to include proprietary functionality, written by the consultants. But, the consultants also tried to subvert Codified Business Decisions and Execution Environment.

Over time, the User Community took actions to correct some of the most egregious errors by the Codified Business Decisions senior engineer that violated the original, as-modified Design. He did not receive an engineering change proposal that was funded and vetted by the Business Representatives, nope, he was just a cowboy. Through influence, they were able to impact the hiring of the newest crop of Senior Engineers, and revisit past errors. The new senior engineer in Codified Business Decisions revisited some of the decisions the User community claimed was encroaching. Codified Business Decisions finally stated that would undo what they determined was a bridge too far in a business decision that the Business Representatives had never supported broadly, and had never received agreement. They prioritized it as a fix in the sprint, and then pushed it. The fix came out, and the consultant class declared war. They'd been enriching themselves at the expense of the User Community for a long time. In a related topic, another member of the consultant class was caught by Execution Environment rentacops trying to assassinate a junior member of the Business Decisions Engineering Staff, for a similar decision with which the consultants disagreed. Other consultants declared they would kill off all the junior members of the Business Decisions group.
They are just bureaucrats. So there’s precedence for both.
Rust is the language that makes me look forward to the next day at work.
> Where does this end? You write a license that your GPL code can only be re-hosted on non-GitHub hosts?

Copilot’s contention is that it’s exempt from copyright restrictions under fair use doctrine, which means that your license that says they can’t use it is irrelevant and legally void.
I won't bore you with the details, but things are locked down and a dev folder structure is assumed and baked into the build system, both for sources and dependencies.
I take it you live Thoreau-style, in a cabin in the wilderness completely off-grid? You farm and hunt your own food and do not rely on civilization for any of your needs?
There is a crappy pdf of this floating around that I read before buying this. Deffo worth it but for those who want to try before you buy it’s worth ‘binging’ it.
Did you say your vc fund? As in a fund or vc funded startup
I don’t get how this is better than a standing desk. People will make the same positions as they are here naturally when using a standing desk, and it costs $500 instead of $2000, and it doesn’t look silly.
The author outright admitted what he wrote was speculative and not factual. You may not agree with my conclusion, but I do have evidence.
Good questions.

There is thorough scientific evidence showing that:

1) Mindset (positive or negative) has direct effects on physiology

2) Strong social bonds and a sense of community is beneficial to health, while the inverse is detrimental

3) Meditation and mindfulness can positively affect physiology

4) Chronic stress is detrimental to health (and having an existential terror of death is surely a source of conscious or unconscious chronic stress for many)

These are all things which religion and spirituality can help with.

Religion, a social determinant of mortality? A 10-year follow-up of the Health and Retirement Study

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Reward, salience, and attentional networks are activated by religious experience in devout Mormons

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17470919.2016.125743...

Neurobiology of Spirituality

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190564/
Agree with GP that this is getting pretty far off the article, but also--I think remote caches in datacenters are sometimes as much about making the cache shared as about the storage latency.

If you have a lot of boxes running your application, sometimes it's nice to be able to do an expensive thing once per expiry period across the cluster, not once per expiry per app server. Or sometimes you want a cheap simple way to invalidate or write a new value for the full cluster.

The throughput and latency of SSDs does make them a workable cache medium for some uses, with much lower cost/GB than RAM, but that can be independent of the local/remote choice.
It's true that CS academics (en route to PhD and beyond) get ahead by writing papers instead of writing code.

Some CS academics are great coders, many of them are not.

Great CS academic Donald Knuth, however, named his magnum opus (which covers algorithms and much of the CS curriculum) "The Art of Computer Programming". So some academics hold programming in esteem, whether or not you do is up to you.
If you stopped reading doom and gloom websites (or Fox News) you would know that OPEC is unwilling to increase production because they like high gas prices and want to maximize their oil income while they still can while the West shifts to EVs.

It's a self-perpetuating cycle: the high prices drive increased demand for EV alternatives, which leads to higher gas prices so that OPEC members can maintain their revenues.

Also, we could double our oil extraction each year and that wouldn't make a meaningful dent in gas prices, and it might even increase prices even more, because domestic oil is expensive to extract in the U.S.; the cheap and easy fields were tapped out decades ago. Indeed, part of the oil crash a few years ago was the result of OPEC increasing production, which lowered oil prices below the point it was profitable to extract from most U.S. and Canadian sources.
Advertising is a black hole for money.

https://twitter.com/BlockFiZac/status/1422189818667323394
R was originally intended for statisticians, while Mathematica is more for math and physics.

For data science, R is probably better, just because of the wide range of common and niche statistics software.
Historians have recently uncovered documents from the long ago 21st century dark ages concerning the mysterious time of "The Barmaid Rebellion". Among beer cans and fast food wrappers was found a napkin fragment believed to be in Rep. Boeberts lipstick with the words "The Clinton Dipsy Doodle - plans for a New America". Also found were many long thin shards of potato and paper fragments with the faded letters "Mc Don.... Big Ma..." It is believed that "Mc Don" was the name of their religious sects god. And "Dipsy Doodle" is an ancient African tribal curse to send their goddess Ella Fitzgerald to smite their enemies...

The Dipsy Doodle's the thing to beware
The Dipsy Doodle will get in your hair
And if it gets you, it couldn't be worse
The things you say will come out in reverse…
I have been using bittorrent for 15 years and still pay for Dropbox because it's a very useful service.
It has more to do with agency in the physical world. Having a purpose, then having the agency to fulfill the purpose, and the need to identify things that are aids in reaching the purpose, as well as things that are obstacles to the purpose, as well as everything that can be ignored, appears to be fundamental in being able to see the world. A big issue with AI driving is how AI "sees" the world. Have you ever seen a video where AI is doing object recognition in real time? The world is black and white, and the computer just draws a box around what it sees as an "object", but it has no sense of object permanence, no sense of depth, and no great methods for edge detection, especially in low-light situations.

This is something we just take for granted because of our experience, but what is the difference between parts of a chair, and the chair? And if you are looking at he arm of the chair, are you also looking at the chair? We just jump up and down an ontological hierarchy effortlessly, but we can't explain how we do that, so trying to teach a computer to do that, and to see the world that way, has revealed the limits of our current models for how the brain works and for what consciousness is and what it is not.
Higher temperatures is the FIRST and WORST problem. Mitigating the damage already done would be very nice.

We still need the energy transition though.
My brief search leads me to think Tokyo has strict building regulations - mainly due to earthquakes and tsunami risks. Am I missing something?
They are kind of doing that with DOTS and ProjectTiny, while still improving/maintaining the legacy base and adding features.

https://unity.com/dots
https://unity.com/solutions/instant-games

But they have been working on this for 5 years now, and it is still "experimental", also the community response has been kind of lukewarm, many devs don't really understand why this is necessary.
> But I suppose convenience always trumps openness and freedom. It's especially sad because the whole point behind FOSS was this. Is the whole FOSS idea getting old?

It seems so---I read the post above saying essentially "I don't care about any of this criticism, I'm going to keep using GitHub because switching would cause too much churn" and did a double-take.
> I can't think of a worse idea

There are lots of worse ideas. Things get abstracted from us over time. 99% of the code in active development today probably lives in a source control repo that's in the cloud.

At one point, decades ago, I looked with amusement on devs that couldn't do C/C++. But the reality was that it wasn't really needed anymore for most tasks.
Why does a news site need a Union? I’m not trying to mock unions I’m genuinely unaware.

Is there an issue with the working conditions in digital news media?
And that's how I ended up having to change my card numbers on file with a bunch of businesses, and why every couple months a purchase fails until I respond to a fraud email. It's a hassle and it's unnecessary, especially when phones have secure enclaves for private key storage. I'm not even arguing for blockchains now, just for using public keys in online purchases.
You’re simply wrong about this friend. Congress could make the Roe standard the law of the entire US tomorrow. This is why you see Biden and others asking them to do just that.
And this would have happened Jones Act or not.
They are not legally obligated to lie. They are legally obligated to not say certain things. Which is different.

So, they should just say, that, as always, it is a possibility. Which is both true and doesn’t provide info they shouldn’t.
I use a simple reception chair. Its comfortable for a bit, then my butt hurts. I have to stand up. The trick is to be able to switch easily from sit to stand, so you never think twice about it.
My advice is to avoid optimization like the plague while learning Rust. Don't worry about extra copying or optimizing lifetimes or any of it. Make all the "extra" structure and String copies.

Doing it the "basic" way is sooooooo much easier, which is important while learning. Nine times out of ten it will be fast/efficient enough anyway.

After you've got a handle on it with a few non-trivial programs under your belt, then start tightening up once you have the necessary context and familiarity.
No, the key phrase is "magnitude and consequences." The whole point of the "major questions doctrine" is that routine scenarios can be delegated, but authority to address a sweeping nationwide issue cannot be justified on the basis of a delegation to address a limited set of scenarios.

To use an analogy, nobody is saying that the DOJ needs authority to create drug diversion programs. But this is like the DOJ pointing to the drug laws to justify a sweeping effort to combat the obesity epidemic.
> You're arguing for simply the ability to execute the will to power being the determinant of whether something is right or not.

What is the function of the supreme court? (seriously, what do you think it's job is?)

It said congress didn't authorize this, ask them. I don't see how that's at all controversial.
Well that's the total addressable market: all possible users of any currency.

Likewise, that's the same market for any currency proposal -- including all the coins currently trading at 0 USD.

Money's job is not to have inherent use-value, as then people would use it up. Its value is relational, it tracks the economic exchanges with actual inherent value. But not perfectly, since you can eg., have hyperinflation, etc. So money has a life of its own above the economic transactions, but this is unsustainable, hence inflation which is "money falling back to earth".

There is no earth for crypto to fall to, ie., no place of actual economic productivity.
Cryptocurrencies don't do that, and they are still worth more than zero.

Trust is the key.
30 years ago was 1992. That's the older flaky code they're referring to in the quote.
The whole concept of a corporate fourth estate informing a populace how to vote contrary to their own interests is surely a major problem our founders weren’t considering very heavily, given the media of the time.

I can’t imagine the World War generations silently watching Tucker give aid and comfort to Putin either…