skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The oil companies are price-takers, not price-makers. That is: the market for oil is competitive enough that no oil seller can unilaterally have much effect on the market price, and collusion between multiple sellers (most notably OPEC) hasn't had significant effects on price since the 1980s due to rampant defection among the member countries.

Oil prices are determined by the reality of how much oil is produced and how much is used. This is exactly what you would expect in theory from a global commodity market with many sellers and easy shipping, and it's what you see in practice. I'm not sure what gave you the opposite idea.

(Minor caveat: this argument applies to oil but not natural gas, since the latter is much harder to ship in a dense liquid form, and the markets for it are correspondingly smaller and more geographically local.)
Weight by wealth? You are failing to understand the basic concept of a hard fork. Social consensus doesn't care what your number on the blockchain says.

Case in point, the Hive hard fork.

One very prominent and widely unliked individual purchased majority ownership of the STEEM token. Weighted by wealth, they could now control the chain, its governance, and most notably unlock tokens (20% of the supply) that were (per social consensus between Steem and its community) not supposed to be unlocked.

So, what did the Steem community do in response? They hard forked the platform, launching Hive. All STEEM holders could migrate their assets to Hive, except the individual in question who attempted to takeover Steem via wealth. The malicious elite was cut off entirely. Today, two years on, Hive is still gaining in activity and has more than twice the market cap of STEEM. Comparatively, Steem has become a ghost town.
Windows 11 is an example of poor code quality. Bugs everywhere, while the same things work on Ubuntu/popos.

Past MS engineers have been commenting for a decade on how MS has grown too big, can't manage, and has become a monolith "too big to fail". By nature when engineers are small pieces of a giant machine, they don't do their best work. And those with the experience move on to better things.
I dislike JavaScript being gratuitously required, because it just generally makes things worse—slower to load, and less reliable. I occasionally complain about it, mostly in the places where there’s just no conceivable reason why it should have been done that way, because I do understand pragmatism.

I have also made and worked on multiple web apps where rich reload-free interaction is expected. In some cases, it has not been practical to support JavaScript-free operation at all, but in almost all cases where JavaScript-free operation has been feasible, I have provided at the very least partially-degraded operation—certainly on all green-field development.

A lot of the places where GitLab requires JavaScript are quite unnecessary, and should probably not have been done client-side at all in the first place, though I’d settle for server-side rendering with rehydration.
It’s very frustrating to see how some HN readers are allowed to vote others comments up and down while the rest of us have no rights at all.
It feels like when a playground bully puts their long arm on your forehead to prevent you being able to reach them, while they are free to punch you and abuse you at will.
Unfair

I already heard the excuse about a probationary period but I’ve been stuck in this state for awhile now and it’s not OK
Needs more components! but I like this.

should have lists too.
> I would need you to explain what your bar is for decentralization, and why it's so high.

A single entity being capable of significant or total disruption of the network.

> As for privacy, the technology has come a long way in the last decade due to the development of Zero-Knowlege Proofs. I can share a few links if you are interested.

I am interested. I'm aware of some progress being made here theoretically, but I have not seen implementations (I do not follow closely at this point).
> As a leader of a FOSS project that is on github...Do I have that reasoning correct?

The way I read the article was that by being on GitHub, you are implicitly agreeing to no longer be a FOSS project as regards licensing. GitHub customers can use Copilot to generate proprietary code that's identical to your project's code (several articles I have read call this overall idea "laundering through Copilot", which sounds incendiary but accurate to me) without needing to respect your license.

The other stuff you said is...kind of irrelevant. Sure, you get a lot of convenience from GitHub. If you don't care about software freedoms in the libre/copyleft sense and regard a "do whatever you want" license as the best, then it's probably fine to keep using GitHub.
Most people did not have a car in the early 1900s. Not everyone can go into space today, it doesn't scale. BTC may have a maximum number of transactions today but many are using bitcoin and the big advantage is it doesn't matter how much you move you pay the same transaction fee. It is not ready for micro payments but works great for larger payments.
And you sound like a one party voter.

I don't care the motivation. The SC shouldn't be doing congress' job. Congress got burned because they've been complacent.

RvW has always stood on tenuous footing. We've known this. Congress has literally had decades to do something and they chose instead to keep the status quo. Why? Because the republican threat helps democrat voter turnout. Same reason nothing is being done about the failed drug war.
Without necessarily agreeing with the GP, flights are an elastic good and have a notion of an optimum price - airlines may have continued to make greater profits by making tickets more accessible. Fuel is relatively inelastic, and may have less pressure to lower prices to increase profitability.

It's possible to explain price fluctuations without competition, and large parts of the public don't have a lot of faith in competition as a market force.
Mitrokhin Archive
Huh? Are you saying it doesn't produce a small reserve of merchant shipping vessels?

This all or nothing thinking isn't helpful. Utterly useless? Some n ships is better than no ships.
> Setting my hotspot name to my project's domain name whenever I'm around techies or on long train trips

Interesting idea! How did you come up with it? Does it work?
The one that returns the decision to make policy on a controversial subject matter back to the people and their elected representatives, per the opinion of the Court?
And then they were brutally massacred, correct?
Because it’s not a programming language but a syntax error. It passes the duck test for a syntax error - it looks like a syntax error, it acts like a syntax error, and it prints a syntax error, so it is a syntax error. Avoid it!
"teaching" "philosophy"
You clearly have a political bias.
All good points. I think we have a lot of common ground.

> I think most people just want technology to work for them instead of being used to constrain them.

People don't want constraints on them, sure, but they also don't want others to be unconstrained. "Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins." There's a balancing act. A system that is fully unconstrained is one that nobody will want to use, and/or facilitates behavior that is rightfully illegal.

Let's take the spammer for instance. The opposite is true: people are perfectly happy to have technology and/or laws constrain the spammer. Those constraints on others is how the system works for them!

> Laws don't fix much because no government can force other nations to comply.

But also

> When networks routinely misbehave we even build and share blacklists to exile them from our global community.

Even if laws aren't being drafted by a government, they still happen organically. In this case, the ISP is acting as the government. A system where blacklisting can't happen isn't one that users will benefit from.

Maybe it'd help if we started thinking of laws as another piece of technology. They're imperfect but serve a useful purpose.
Are you considering the alternative of getting a different degree or the alternative of not going to college?
Is the Jones Act actually controversial? The only real complainers I see about it are businesses who are upset they can't fire their American crew and replace it with cheap foreign labor that doesn't have to follow US labor laws.
The specific delegation is the power to set "standards of performance," which is explicitly defined: "term 'standard of performance' means 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...."

The term "system of emissions reduction" means control technology like scrubbers. What the law says is that the EPA can do is look at the state of the art for things like particulate matter scrubbers, and set an emissions standard based on the reduction that can be achieved using those technologies.

But it's infeasible using current technology to scrub out CO2 from power plant emissions.
> and how tedious and time consuming it often is to implement even trivial things like sending data from the client to the server and vice-versa.

Let's be clear here, the complications there are as follows:

1. Authentication and permissions in regard to the end user who is making the change or fetching the data. (E.g. internal web app, the AWS hosted database has no knowledge of my corporate AD accounts)

2. Authentication/permissions of the service/software that is talking to the database

3. The crap tons of network problems and errors that can occur.

4. Dealing with other possible errors, such as malformed input, or data not being present, data being stale, write conflicts, etc.

5. My backend service is running in a private cluster and my DB is running in a different private cluster.

6. My backend service is running in a private cluster and because of that the nifty subscription DB engine can't try and reach out to reconnect to my service if something goes wrong with the connection because there isn't a routable IP address.

Writing data to a table isn't the problem!
I think the focus is on the synchronization and implementation choice based performance differences, https://twitter.com/m_ou_se/status/1526211117651050497 which are not super easy to characterize but come from much more than just removing an allocation.
It might not be a good idea, but google search will turn up the logic behind opposition to the power of the regulatory agencies.
From the text of the Clean Air Act itself:

> (1) The term "standard of performance" means 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 which (taking into account the cost of achieving such reduction and any nonair quality health and environmental impact and energy requirements) the Administrator determines has been adequately demonstrated.

Congress intentionally broadly authorized the EPA to determine and implement the best system for reducing pollutants such as carbon emissions, and used language pursuant to that. Just because it offends certain Justices' sensibilities and ideological predilections doesn't mean that they can choose to ignore clearly stated parts of lawfully enacted statutes.
I got one too and found out that the audio isn't actually bad.... If you plug up your ears. Is kinda funny how much better it sounds from basically putting your fingers into your ears
I believe the poster was addressing your "we wouldn't be able to build enough ships anyway", not whether the Jones Act affected our ability to rapidly increase our manufacturing capacity during WWII.
I think it was the other way around: the GUI was based on X11.

http://lush.sourceforge.net/news.html

2003-02-19: Rejoice, rejoice! Thanks to Leon, the CVS version now compiles and runs on Windoze under Cygwin. Be sure to read the README.cygwin before installing. What works: the interpreter, the compiler, the dynamic loader, X11 graphics and events. What doesn't (yet) work: external packages such as GSL, SDL, OpenGL...
>which is why they maintain a backdoor in the end to end crypto of iMessage for the FBI

That’s a very large claim to make without any further citation or sourcing. This would be very big news if true.
So what I did working for Peter Thiel (and later Elon Musk) funded company was I knew my interruptions had a price. But I had a work ethic: I had to be working all the time I was paid to work, and wait when it made sense. I was also paid to wait, but it too had a price. There was a balance.

And the wage was really good, I had no motivation to cheat them, like I did when I was getting paid way under the Chilean minimum wage under Lamar Editores (Niccolo Martelli) in Santiago and was losing money from working there. Something had to give, that was an expensive job, it would have been better for my account book to stay home but I was being coerced to work by the people around me.

So what I did was have three avenues I could advance in the projects with which I was tasked. There was a machine shop and there were tools, I had prior experience with basics, but there were moments I knew I needed to ask how to proceed. Either because the results depended on how I went about it, or because the avenue I took would simplify the work, or because I knew I didn't know. And I did some more work, took more measurements, to understand the roadblock well, figure out how to ask the right question about it.

I noted that roadblock, then I would start on a different line of work, until I came up with another roadblock. I noted that too, and switched to a different task. And when I came to the third and final roadblock, I would then take all three roadblocks to my eng manager--and for sure I interrupted him in the middle of something else, but giving him some time to change focus to the interruptions--and I asked the three right questions I had stored up for all three roadblocks in that single interruption. And we took like 14-30 minutes to review all the roadblocks, walking around the work site, see the constructions, discuss questions in full, at the beginning I learned faster and then later I even came up with ideas as questions double-checking if they were OK, but after the questions were addressed I was ready to work for 2/3 hours before interrupting him again.

Few interruptions, batch mode, and like 3 minutes idle (waiting for him to be available when interrupting him) every few hours, and as I gained experience the hours I could work alone got longer and longer.
Indeed, they added the ability to create an account with your eid. It was not the case a couple of years ago.
First they fucked over DEI and now this. Looks like Coinbase has stealth fascists in its leadership.
https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=unelected%20judge
We need to go back to not allowing domestic oil and gas to be sold on the international market. We only started allowing it 10 or so years ago. Keeping that oil here would have to help bring down our gasoline prices.
They have strict building regulations but lax zoning regulations. I.e. you have to make sure that whatever you build conforms to an exacting set of regulations to ensure its physical resiliency in the face of disaster. But you are not so restricted in terms of use and form. So, you can tear down a house and put up a three-storey set of apartments. You can have the ground floor be a small business. You can build an extra housing unit in place of a yard, you can subdivide, you can add an extra floor, a mansard, and so on and so on. All of this is by-right -- you don't have to ask the council if you can do it, you just do it.

https://nitter.net/AntBreach/status/1121362679367598080

Contrast that with many Western countries: USA, Canada, New Zealand, the UK to an extent (although the situation is somewhat different here). Generally, landowners are not allowed to do these things by right. There is a strict set of rules governing precisely what may and may not be built in each zone, with emphasis on "may not". Whole areas where you are only allowed to build detached single family houses, and even something as trivial as a corner store is effectively illegal. To deviate from the zoning rules, you have to apply for a variance from the city government or local authority, which is in most cases onerous and time-consuming for the applicant, and discretionary on the part of a bureaucrat, which inhibits housebuilding, small business formation and is a vehicle for corruption. It retards the natural forces that result in improvements to land, and encourages zero-sum rent-seeking behaviour.

So, in Japan, cities and neighbourhoods can respond rapidly to changing housing demand. But in Anglosphere countries, places stay legally trapped in the development form established decades ago, unable to build more or build different as the world changes around them. Hence the housing affordability crises: more and more people try to rent in a relatively fixed housing stock, causing prices to skyrocket. Incumbent landlords benefit in a zero-sum fashion from price speculation, while everyone else suffers high rents and reduced labour productivity.

There is a pervasive misconception that abolishing zoning rules means getting rid of building codes. They have almost nothing in common. I recommend reading the book Arbitrary Lines by Nolan Gray on the topic.
This seems like an interesting idea for microcontrollers, where you're often wrestling with state and concurrency.

I'm guessing it's too heavyweight, though.
https://twitter.com/m_ou_se/status/1526211117651050497

These are synthetic benchmarks but it's quite significant in them.

From a different tweet:

> It's the total time for 32 threads each doing 10'000 lock+unlocks (on a 64C/128T threadripper). So, the numbers you quoted correspond to a lock+unlock operation going from 8.75ns to 2.45ns, under low contention.

> The numbers can vary a lot in different situations/hardware though.
scam company peddling vc money grab tokens

sooner it goes bankrupt, the better it will be
entire regions being deserted is not a new thing (see mayan civilization). it's possible we'll see the cities of southern California (San Diego, Los Angeles) as remnants of an ancient culture in a few hundred years, left intact by the scorching heat and desert.
Getting Started with Psi
Renewables come with major constraints that fossil fuel sources do not share. The value of the grid is rooted in its consistent availability. Renewables cannot replace on-demand generation because they are definitionally cyclic, constrained by availability of sun, wind and water [1]. Large scale energy storage is required to replicate the energy security offered by fossil fuel generation, which is not feasible with current tech at the required scale, and regardless the storage costs eliminate the argument of renewables as "radically cheaper".

[1] Geothermal is an exception. Gas is also technically a constrained resource, but not on a timescale relevant to this century.
Even if they do resume withdrawals, they will have to limit them.; Once faith is gone in a business like this, a "bank run" will ensue no matter what. It's not surprising that Blockfi is being bought for pennies. Will be interesting to see how many users of these yield products try again even if they are able to get their money out. If they aren't, I imagine they will be scarred for life.
RISC-V is getting MSIs
Right. I'll bite, how is Dropbox not a _real_ solution to a _real_ problem of "I want to share this file with someone else or somewhere else"? Hate to say it but I feel like the answer is going to involve "web3 fixes this".
Naked power grabs?

Most of the decisions reduce the power of the executive and the court itself and give power to the congress and states.

I might agree with you if they made abortion illegal nationally. But they didn’t - they said it’s up to the voters and their representatives.
> Congress intended to grant the EPA broad authority to regulate pollution

CO2 is not pollution. People and animals breathe it out. Plants breathe it in. Any such thing is obviously not pollution. The EPA calling it "pollution" does not make it pollution, any more than calling a dog's tail a leg makes it a leg.

If Congress wants to grant the EPA authority to regulate things that are obviously not pollution, in order to promote some other policy objective, it needs to say so explicitly. Which is exactly what the Court's opinion says.
I found the O'reilly book, "Programming Rust" 2nd edition, to be the best book. It is long but thorough. "The book" might be a better starting point, but is less thorough I thought, and while it left me feeling more like "I got this", I didn't think it prepared me for "real world" Rust quite as well as the O'reilly book.
Too much common sense, but couldn't a replacement law just require _all_ ships not docking: to be scrapped, or overhauled, or for purely museum like use to comply with the current environmental and safety standards? There should probably be a warmup period for this where it's at first known, and then over time progressively larger fines are levied and then finally it's an outright ban.
This place is more unfriendly, to be honest, as we get more knives in the back than frontal assaults, which are fairly easy to fend off or disconnect from.
I can at least up and down vote comments on Reddit.
Here I just get greyed out and can’t hit back
It reads to me like it did OK until we cut the funding that made it work.
> It said congress didn't authorize this, ask them.

They did. The House and Senate passed different language, and it never got reconciled.

"The first related to an oversight during the reconciliation of the Clean Air Act amendment in 1990 that resulted in the House and Senate versions of § 7411(d) to never be reconciled, and both versions were codified into the signed law. The House version had stated that because other parts of the Clean Air Act had covered regulation of carbon dioxide, the EPA could not use § 7411(d) to cover carbon dioxide emissions from existing plants, while the Senate version allowed for § 7411(d) to overlap carbon dioxide emissions coverage." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_v._EPA

Due to a fuckup, SCOTUS got to pick the side they preferred.
On one hand you have democratically elected representatives (less democratic than a direct democracy, but still reasonably democratic) delegating power to the executive branch (who's lead is elected by the electoral college, which is substantially less democratic than direct democracy.) Stack the two of these together and the end result is less democratic than either considered in isolation. But you want to go a step further and empower unelected technocracts in the executive branch to ban harmless herbs if they claim they have "convincing scientific evidence" that marijuana is harmful. And I guess that isn't even enough for you; presumably you also object to the judicial checking the power of those technocrats.

I prefer that matters like this be handled in an actually democratic way. Cannabis was legalized in my state because I and others in my state voted to make it so. That's democracy. Technocracts making unimpeachable "scientific" decisions isn't democracy, it's a faint shadow of democracy. Referendums are democracy, and are the democratic way to resolve these sort of social disputes.
I'm not sure why people bring up the popular vote as if it means something. The popular vote was never intended to decide presidential elections.
Yes. It is dumb. My state needs to buy natural gas from Trinidad because we can’t ship it in from another state.
Money not stolen by who do not earn it. I love the idea.
> "Fewer than 100 Jones Act vessels are in operation today."

This is a ridiculously incorrect statement.