skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had an intern push code that shall never be released publicly to a public repository after we asked him to "push it to our gitlab server". He just assumed there was only one gitlab server and it was the public one, I guess.

That was a bit shocking to me. I started with local VCS only all the way up through school and work.
Your central point is "A is a cult, because X is a characteristic of cults and A has X characteristic, therefore A is a cult." By that reasoning, all domains that have a need to use precise language to describe their concepts are cults. Like physics. Quark? Definitely a cult.
Haskell on the JVM is a well-explored niche with lots of working but abandoned projects (Eta, Frege, etc). Getting a JVM backend into GHC would fulfill the "pure/lazy/FP" space, which is notably absent from your list.
> The advantage of crypto over cash is that you can keep redundant copies, or keep portions of a key in different places so there's no single point of failure. It'd be pretty silly not to have backups.

I believe that this looks simple on paper, but does not really work. And then: this is called service. Coinbase offered a service, that just deals with all the hassle you are describing.
Huge contract? Not really. Especially when many larger clients whom you'd love to have for a reference will demand it. Take care of it up-front and don't wait until you get into contract negotiation. If the client knows you don't have a software escrow service already in place they may ask for the moon. Head that off at the pass and have it ready to go from day one.

In fact having it ready to go might help you clinch the deal. If you're part of an evaluation and you're ready to proceed and your competitor has to go and get this setup - you're more likely to get that business. Likewise if you're the competitor who's been caught with their pants down then you're more likely to lose that business. Every salesman I know is always looking for something to give them an edge for closing a deal!
> Also, keeping a SaaS online does cost money. And those costs increase as you scale. If you are small enough that you can run on a free tier, you are too small for me to have confidence that you are sticking around.

Sure, it depends on what you are doing, but I imagine that for most paid SAAS models, the cost of cloud computing is a small fraction of what they bring in revenue. In many cases, so small as to be effectively $0. As an example, stack overflow gets hundreds of millions of visits a month, but is run on two physical servers (plus an additional two for backup). As a more personal example, I have a small SAAS side project and my server costs run me about 0.5% of my revenue (the rest is all profit other than the value of my time). I could probably get that down to 0.1% with some code refactoring, but even with the current code, I could easily 10x my number of subscribers and not increase server costs by even $0.01.

To add to this, in my experience, the companies I've worked for have tons of extra capacity with their cloud services. For example, using t3.large vs t3.small instances at 4x the price indiscriminately. Why? Because server costs are just a rounding error compared to paying a bunch of $100k+ salaries.
It's my understanding it's argued the right to an abortion is given from the 14th amendment.

I didn't really see anything from the dissenting opinion about how the right to an abortion is given by women's right to voting, property or divorce (?).
No idea at that point. If the code had a license that forbid reupload you could ask GitHub to remove it.

Otherwise that's the price of open source, you don't get to choose.
> because the previous poster used one incorrectly

The previous poster’s usage of a semicolon in this instance was, in fact, correct.
You know, it's funny.

(well, "funny")

Each party's advocates say "the other side has been playing to win rules and democracy be damned for decades, and if we don't start ignoring the rules and playing dirty, they'll kill us all".

Each side claims to love democracy but to be willing to destroy it only because doing so is necessary to protect them from the Enemy.

I think that maybe most people don't actually care about democracy, they just want to win the war.
Call me ignorant but didn't they change it so that you would not be able to do that anymore and instead were given a max of around 20 years from the start of the application process?
This is a funny and flippant answer, but is also nonsense.
Gas is many dollars more expensive now. And Biden is doing a pretty good job at ignoring all the people crying
Do you feel that Korematsu v US and Trump v Hawaii were correctly decided then?
I agree Steam games are a difficult market to break into, but there are other ways to make money. Unity is also a nice platform if you want to produce interactive content for corporate or educational consulting projects.

Also consider the large number of places such as Hobby Lobby, Williams-Sonoma, or Home Depot that cater to hobbyist/amateurs rather than industry professionals.
Ah yeah, just like how Von der Leyen, Macron said that they want to abolish the consensual vote, when Hungary didn't play along with sanctions being a landlocked country. Totally democratic and totally designed to keep sovereignty.
> “a broader conversation [about the ethics of AI-assisted software] seemed unlikely to alter your [SFC's] stance, which is why we [GitHub] have not responded to your [SFC's] detailed questions”

To be fair, there is a valid point here. If even one party has already made their conclusions and enters into a discussion with no willingness to even entertain ideas, instead just to fight their corner, then why would other parties willingly take part? We've all had those engineering discussions where no matter what is said, there are still engineers who refuse to entertain a concept. They're difficult and draining. I can see why the request would be refused if this was the case.
Societal concerns cannot be deterministically determined via deductive logic. So, people who hide behind "this sounds logical to me", whether intentionally or not, just happen to agree with the specific logic used in that instance. When presented with other so-called logic, suddenly it's illogical.
> Any Constitutional "originalist" who thinks that the House of Representatives is just fine at 435 reps is a hypocrite. At one per 34,000, we need about ten thousand reps to meet the standards of representation that the founders thought was reasonable.

How is that hypocritical? The Constitution says "The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one Representative". The fact that we're not near the upper bound doesn't make it unreasonable. If they thought a reasonable representation would have required some lower bound other than 1 per state, they would have written that.
https://reason.org/faq/frequently-asked-questions-about-the-...

> The States Reform Act has garnered attention as the first prominent bill sponsored by a House Republican to end the federal prohibition of marijuana, which could help give the proposal some political advantage in its efforts to secure bipartisan support. Congressional Democrats have previously introduced various marijuana legalization proposals, including the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, and currently have draft language for the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity (CAO) Act. At this time, however, many observers believe neither of the proposals being led by congressional Democrats will be able to secure the necessary Republican votes for passage in the Senate. Any marijuana legalization proposal would need to secure the support of at least 10 Senate Republicans in order to overcome a potential filibuster.

"A small group of Republicans has finally seen the light at a time they've no power to pass legislation, and it'll fail because of Republican opposition in the Senate" is not quite "The Republicans sponsored a bill".
Show HN: Crowdforecasting the Future of US/EU Relations
> * They’re a closed-source for-profit company? Great! That’s why their product is high quality.

That's a huge stretch for a few reasons. First, the reliability of GitHub.com is very poor and it has had tens of incidents in the past few months. Second, their hosted solution, GitHub Enterprise, is notoriously poor, difficult to maintain, always late with features. Third, their main competitor, GitLab, which is open core, was kicking their ass for years with features and quality until GitHub got the unlimited funds of Microsoft to be able to even come close. More to the point, there are tons of good quality open source software, and tons of really poor quality closed source. Openness of code matters little for quality (besides the fact that with open source at least you have the option to see why and fix).

Regarding Copilot, they're ignoring licenses, training models on everybody's code, and selling the result as a service. Sounds very sketchy.
Now repeat for every chemical, and you have an unregulated mess, as this decision intends to create.
The examples you used for that point are bad because they come off as false equivalence, and “porn on YouTube” (age rating) and “ISIS books on Amazon” (murder) already have very legitimate justifications. Banning pride can be just a shirt with the word “gay”, and that’s absurd without needing an explanation.
>>"The only thing that crypto is really good for is having an _auditable system of account_, which isn't possible in the current financial system with centralized creation of debt."

THIS is the reason the central banks are anti crypto.... is it will provide an auditable ledger (irrespective of anonymity) which threatens the money laundering currency. There are other levels of currency laundering that have been used for eons ; 'Art' and 'Humans'. (and the currency used at the even higher levels than that)
What's with people tacking "Lang" on to the end of language names? I can kind of understand it with Go, since Google didn't exactly come up with a very searchable name, but now I'm seeing it spread to other languages like Rust, and now here with Cell.
This is incorrect – most cases are split. The most common outcome is 9-0 (about a third of cases), but the second most common split is 5-4.

This shouldn't be surprising – controversial cases are more likely to end up before the Supreme Court than mundane ones.

[1] http://supremecourtdatabase.org/analysisFrequencies.php?sid=...
> The role of the court is whatever the hell it pleases.

Sort of seems like it. It was only in the early 19th century that the Supreme Court gave itself a) the power of legislative review, and b) declared itself the supreme interpreter of the constitution.

Since we've been busy upending precedent, why not upend these two precedents as well?

> They can very theoretically be impeached

In the past, one SC justice resigned under the threat of impeachment over his financial conflict of interest. At least one of our justices has been in violation of ethics rules around financial (and political) conflicts of interest. Several other have lied under oath at their confirmation hearings. I'd at least like to see Congress open some investigations as the first step towards impeachment.

But you're right, it is a political process, and I think the democrats are more than happy to simply fundraise off of this rather than exercising any check at all.
> Every surpreme court article makes me hate this community a bit more.

I mean, HN is kinda a go to place for pendantry, it's not terribly surprising. People started a huge fight over whether the word "they" can refer to a single individual the other week.
Agreed. I think a reason some would react negatively is every new language decreases the ratio of things-I-know : things-I-dont-know which feels threatening to those who are in a habit of zero-sum thinking.
1.6 trillion reasons.
What Microsoft is doing with GitHub is gross. Like VSCode, it’s an example of exploiting our natural affinity towards convenience to lock ever-growing parts of the developer community to their services.

There are great FOSS tools for hosting source code like https://gitea.io/en-us/ and https://codeberg.org/. I’d put the work to self-host and even contribute to any of them.
You've given zero justification for this assertion. Pointing to the years-absent founder's background and your personal speaking relationship with him (?), whom none of the people that worked on the content in the OP have EVER worked with, sounds like a straw man. At the very least it's lame reasoning.
While such things can look benign under a democratic and liberal governmentthis all changes when some "bad guy" comes to power. My personal litmus test for things like these is: What if someone like Stalin/Hitler would have had this. And suddenly rounding up a group of people becomes nothing more than a SQL query.
I'm quite pro Free Software but I think that analogy is stretching it too much. In fact, I think it's so hyperbolic it ends up working against the point you're trying to make, which is one I agree with (e.g., I really like Mathematica, but I'm teaching my kid Sage for now).
If you ignore that whole “gerrymandering is okay”.

Thomas wants to revisit a lot of rulings like the one that gave gay people to right to get married. But I bet he won’t revisit “Loving vs Virginia”.
Amazon's Book Piracy Problem
Do I need to run `log` without hitting the server? Yes. :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31794779
Well, "cell" isn't too searchable either
Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister of Canada last year despite his party winning almost 200,000 fewer votes than Conservatives. Does that mean that Canada's Parliament "does not represent the actual will of the people?"

If "we had a parliamentary system"--where the executive is selected by the Party that wins the most votes in the lower house--Bush still would have won in 2000 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_House_of_Re...) and Trump still would have won in 2016 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_House_of_Re...).

If 'we had a parliamentary system" Biden would be shown the door next year when Republicans again win a majority of not only House seats, but total votes for House candidates.
Textualism/Originalism is just cover for the SCOTUS to rule based on what they want, not the intent of the law.
> But it has value, otherwise we'd all be using curl to access the Slack API with no downsides. That's clearly not the case by far.

Only because it's next-to-impossible to call the API, because of the way they lock features to their client!
But they didn't have to lie about it.
> There's something inherently unsettling about government having so much control over people.

The article is way worse than that. It's about outsourcing government surveillance to military hardware maker Thales, who is proudly explaining how they'll do it using their exclusive proprietary technology.
I’m a relative crypto noob, but I did see certain “lightspeed” transactions which would allow for high-volume and “instant” transactions. Is this also considered an L2 chain, or not? If not, how does it circumvent the limitations of the bitcoin blockchain without sacrificing transparency?
These are a little dated but:

A majority of Americans support the right to choose [1] (61%), a path to amnesty for undocumented persons [2] (60%), restrictions on firearm purchase and ownership [3] (> 64%), moving off of fossil fuels and treating climate change like the threat it is [4] (76%), a wealth tax on people with a net worth of over $50m [5] (56%), the expanded voting rights in HR 1 [6] (>61%), etc. etc. etc.

These are big majorities, and I'd wager most Americans don't think this stuff is broadly popular.

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/13/about-six-i...

[2]: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000177-d4f4-dd7d-ab77-fcfd4...

[3]: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000178-cfbd-d112-a97e-ffbde...

[4]: https://morningconsult.com/2021/04/27/paris-agreement-climat...

[5]: https://www.businessinsider.com/over-half-americans-see-weal...

[6]: https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2021/4/dfp-vox-hr-...
The problem here is: what community?

PRs are still getting merged in a reasonably timely fashion, but there just aren't that many of them. I'm sure there are still people using Atom and liking it and that's a "community" of sorts, but there isn't really a "community of developers" actively working on it.
Do you feel the same way about high-level languages instead of writing your own assembly? How about using a bulldozer when a simple shovel could do? Copilot doesn't "do all the thinking for you", it's glorified autocomplete.
> Low quality building on large sections spread over a vast area. High infrastructure requirements with low population density. It's not good.

This describes perfectly everything built in the UK before 2010.
Short answer no. I would only use this type of project for my own side projects.
You have absolutely zero evidence the parent comment is disinformation, and as such you should not have made the claim
Isn't the way the US was meant to work basically the way the EU does work today?
My C class had weekly written programming tests.

Not multiple choice tests. We had to write a program by hand and hope to god it would compile without any errors.

Horrible way to teach C imho.
The point is they could be using these very same chips, but with an open source driver.
Yeap. It's manager^2. Thankfully at that level they are so detached, that they could be a highly paid potato and it wouldn't change much for the people at bottom doing the actual work.
My calculation is 100_000 per month * 12 * 33 (3% safe withdrawal). What's yours?
Correct. Which is why both of those groups you listed along with many others need to continue to lose elections and fail to attain power because the endgame for them is eliminating the possibility that they ever lose an election again. Like the CCP has.
It was released on both (there’s a link for the Windows Mobile version in your citation). I never owned an N-Gage though which is why I didn’t mention it (also my opinion of the N-Gage was never that high). However I did own a PDA.

Since we are talking about mobile ports of Tomb Raider, it was also released for the Sony Ericsson range of feature phones too. Albeit in name only because that version was a side on 2D dungeon crawler. I did own that game too but it reminded me more of Roland on the Ropes (Amstrad CPC464) than Tomb Raider.

From what I’ve seen there were some quality ports for the N-Gage. Sega Rally looked surprisingly good from the YouTube videos I’ve seen. But I still don’t regret never owning one since it’s firm factor was, frankly, ridiculous.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned a very common non-hierarchal manager: the agile coach/scrum master.

On most of my teams, that has been the single most effective management relationship, and I think a big part of that is that neither of us has power over the other. The lack of hierarchy encourages a symbiotic relationship... oftentimes, "how can we work together to make sure both of our bosses are happy with things?"
It's not just a "commonly taught idea that businesses should focus solely on generating profit", it's the fundamental principle upon which economies are built today almost anywhere in the world. Sure, there are other ways of organizing economic systems, but to suggest that we are simply or easily going to switch to one is unrealistic. Imagining and wanting a different status quo will not lead to a different status quo, especially if all we are doing is making demands on others to change their behavior and use their property in ways that we want. In other words, if we want a different status quo, we won't get it by bitching about GitHub but by building a competitor company that does things the way we want it.
A handful of the largest cities, where most of the people in America live. We already have a Senate where Wyoming with ~500k people has as many votes as California, with ~38M people. How much are we going to stack the deck against the average, likely more centrist voter, that lives in a metro area? Maybe we could finally pass common sense gun control legislation that a majority of Americans support.
>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

I claim they have never done this. That every ruling has had an eye towards the outcome, whether stated or unstated, and that when they claim to be acting as mechanistic evaluators they are attempting to hide their interest in the effect they're having.

Besides, its a terrible idea. The real effects of their rulings matter much more than the philosophy.
Anyone with more than two brain cells will see that as a yes.
I've tried a few solo SaaS endeavors that have not gone well. I think one of my biggest problems is self-inflicted scope creep :)

Need to find something that I can build that

1. Does one thing well

2. Can get to an MVP quickly

3. People will pay to use
Most standard bodies have published reports confirming that universal healthcare is cheaper for the economy rather than privatized healthcare. Yes, there are less profits for private businesses in universal healthcare and some vested interests will keep representing that angle (with or without a veil).
Well I googled, and you're right, the concept does exist. Here's wikipedia's entry on intrinsic theories of value: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_theory_of_value

It mentions Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, but nothing in modern economics.

The only other thing I found for "intrinsic value" involved investors looking at the values of companies, but that's investing, not economics.

Of course it's impossible for me to prove a negative. Maybe you could respond with a link of your own, describing the role of intrinsic value in modern economic theory?
That seems fine to me, it’s well worth it to have the option for freedom and control even if it means also having the option of a third party service for the less adventurous types.
s/for all practical purposes/for the sake of rhetorical convenience in my argument/

> , the FAL implements which is for all practical purposes a filesystem, where the files are all a single sector long and where the filename is the sector number exposed by the "disk".

1. That is not a "file system" comparable to the thing above which you're also calling "file system", which means you're essentially equivocating on the term.

2. Any old magnetic hard drive exposes this same file system: it makes equal-sized sectors available under names that are indices. There is no lookup structure that is not a filesystem under your definition.
Yes thats life
Martingale Project Timing
"The EPA may regulate emissions that contribute to global climate change" would also do the trick.

These laws are all quite old, many pre-date the EPA even and are from the 1950s and 1960s. They were clearly written for toxic pollutants, which carbon is not.
Work Up Your Courage for a Redo, and Other Actions for Allies
I've met a few, and they are a rare treasure, but in nearly every case my time with them is limited as something always happens that sees them gone. Whether it's retirement, getting ousted by the board, selling the company, or death (by cancer), it seems like whoever is brought in afterwards is always worse.

It really seems like wherever I get hired, the situation always changes dramatically after 1-2 years and the workplace goes downhill. My work life is like a continuous series of bait-and-switches. It is really, really tiresome.

Here is to hoping that self-employment is not so dramatic.
I think you give HN too much credit.

Not every topic evokes pedantry. HN has specific interests, and brings out nitpicking to advance specific causes.
So flip the entire thing and say Congress and the presidency were hyper-progressive. Do you not think this court would use the constitution to strike down their laws (say universal healthcare or something)? They are only rolling back these excesses because it fits their ideology.