skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You just have a very [U.S.] centric view. [...] I trust the [Latvian/EU] government to not wilfully [sic] abuse the data [sic] far, far more than I trust any for-profit entity.

If unclear why no one in the U.S. trusts federal, state, or local governments:

* The U.S. federal government now mostly acting in service of for-profit entities, due to legalized bribery of elected officials (Citizens United) and inadequate representation (the Judiciary Act of 1869 for the Supreme Court and the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 for the House).

* History defeating the most powerful empire in world history, emerging as the first nation to ever overthrow a colonial oppressor.

* U.S. law enforcement officers extrajudicially killing more Americans than mass shooters in 2019 and police departments across the country taking in billions USD every year in unconstitutionally seized assets.

* More Black Americans in the "justice" system in the 2020s than were enslaved in the 1860s.
As a solo developer I get asked a lot on sales calls "How many paying customers do you have?"/"Are there paying customers?" and other similar questions to evaluate the size of my business.

I guess it's fine. It's natural to know the partner you're about to take on has the incentive to continue developing their business and still have an "alive" product in the future.
What more modeling does 538 need … to cover all their bases … and still miss the mark?

As far as I have read of their blogs, they’re par for the course.
You sound very naive.

There is a long history and philosophy around the proper roles and relationships of a legislature and court such as SCOTUS. The current Court could claim to make decisions upon a strict originalist philosophy of jurisprudence. Maybe they think they do, and maybe they really do. But...

Take an open-eyed look at history. Look at the process by which the justices are selected. This shows a different ultimate motivator: conservatives have been working for decades to pick justices whose claimed philosophies align with the conservative agenda.
> This is just nakedly partisan stuff going on.

The problem is much of the left’s gains over the last few decades have been based on shaky legal/constitutional ground. Even leftist judges like Ginsberg admitted that, and they were counting on the mistakes being in place for too long to correct (precedent).

Now all that technical debt is coming back to kick our ass.

This isn’t the end of the world though, Congress can fix everything that’s happened in the last few weeks via proper laws.
2 years ago, while interviewing internally, I asked the team what VC they use. It was Team Foundation's proprietary VC (and not a DVCS). I mentioned to them that even MS recommends Git for Team Foundation's usage.

"Well of course, MS invented Git!"

Wrong on so many levels:

1. Conflating Github with Git.

2. They bought it, not invented/founded it.

3. Most importantly, MS's recommendation to use Git for TF existed long before they bought Github.

Needless to say, I didn't join that team. Unfortunately, misconceptions like these, and a refusal to use Git[1] due to its complexity are quite common at the company - and it is one of the larger SW companies[2] in the country.

[1] I'm OK with any DVCS. Even I prefer Mercurial to Git. But most of the company prefers SVN or TF's version control. In 2015, many teams had to be dragged kicking and screaming by IT from CVS to SVN. In 2015, when Git already dominated the world.

[2] By number of employees with "SW <something>" in their title. Not by revenue, etc.
>The court was perfectly happy telling millions of people they had no right to an abortion.

This is not what happened at all. They ruled against the federal government's ability to regulate it.
I read this differently (and am a former lawyer who worked on administrative law). This is about the "major questions doctrine", which involves a subset of administrative actions. It's not about whether administrative agencies can do anything whatsoever.

> Under this body of law, known as the major questions doctrine, given both separation of powers principles and a practical understanding of legislative intent, the agency must point to “clear congressional authorization” for the authority it claims.

The reasoning for this is that:

> We presume that “Congress intends to make major policy decisions itself, not leave those decisions to agencies
I hope they go after the unconstitutional agency known as the "ATF" next.
Again, congress has had 30 YEARS to do something. They've done nothing. I'm long past the point of assuming ignorance and incompetence, much of congress is clearly acting in bad faith on this issue because they are beholden to the fossil fuel companies.

Want 'We the People' to have a say in whether or not the EPA should regulate CO2? Put it to a national referendum. Congress has shown repeatedly that it's more than happy to watch the world burn if it means their superpacs are stuffed with lobbyist funds.
While software platforms have waned etc, there's still a good deal of independent, small forums out there powered by two things: community and dedicated moderators. Nothing beats that and they will continue/survive due to that. Reddit does a good job of being a way to run a small community discussion also.

But in the meantime the amount of (noise) information and sources people have to keep track of or are distracted by on social media, and now the walled off chaotic pits of discord and slack chats, has been detrimental to all of that. There's just too much and people are too lazy to hold on to one place etc because it's too easy to doomscroll on twitter or shitpost memes all day in chats. Kinda sad but also alot of symptoms of a younger generation that can only deal with their immediate present and has no sense of history and just goes through life like that.
The high growth without generating a profit has worked fine for them for the last decade. But it seems that their stock price is in risky territory. They were valued at 113B at their peak and are now close to 48B. But their annual revenue is just around 2B. So that is still 24x revenue with no profits. It looks like they would fall a lot more if that revenue growth slows down due to a recession or companies just cutting back a litte bit.
> Additionally, the CEO wage gap exploded - from 20:1/1965 and 58:1 in 1989 [1] to 670:1 last year [2], and on top of that comes crap such as share buybacks which only serve to benefit the elites.

Wow, it was already 300:1 a few years back (2014 iirc), that's so sick it still managed to double…
Ruth Bader Ginsberg is most certainly not an extreme comparable to Alito, lol.

The Supreme Court has acted as a second Congress for a wide variety of things. This is how miranda rights happened. This is how contraception was legalized. This is how homosexuality was legalized. This is how race integration was legalized. ETC.
Early on in the Switch's lifespan, the GameGrumps decided to check out the "Worst rated games on the Nintendo store". For reference, these are two games that Nintendo gave the green light to sell in their store:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGtanhZvjcM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFJwO7AbfCk

They've actually published games with Nintendo before, so they discuss how such terrible games were allowed on the shop in the second video
I publish my public FOSS work on a self-hosted Gitea. I don't allow account creation, and people can send me pull requests by email. That said, I think one thing (other than interface and brand loyalty) that keeps FOSS projects on GitHub is network effects. You can reasonably expect to search it and find the projects you're looking for, and your account lets you use the issue tracker and pull requests on other projects. I think forges are unnecessary in general, but to wean people off of GitHub, FOSS forges like Gitea need to federate, so that you can search the whole space of public federated forges, and an account on one lets you open issues and pull requests on another.

They seem to be making slow but steady progress on this at Gitea, maybe at other FOSS forges, too.
New game developers don't make any money. The gaming industry, both free and paid titles, is overwhelmingly hit-driven, and bigger professional teams can more consistently deliver high quality content.

The median title on Steam earns only $3,000 in sales over the first year: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/analyst-your-first-week-...

Considering cost of development and time, the average title most likely loses money. People were basically LARPing as game developers, and throwing money at Unity for the privilege. As economic conditions deteriorate, its reasonable to expect people to stop doing that.
> higher level paradigms, DSLs or a language that provides such capabilities out of the box for these reasons

Based on exactly this arguments that we created HerbsJS [1], a domain-first library to build microservices. While the essential complexity can't be removed [2], we should put effort to remove the accidental complexity as much as possible.

BTW, great to see this kind of discussion here and congratulations to the team responsible for Cell Lang.

[1] https://herbsjs.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
We've been in a bubble so long that there were people who have worked only in the current tech bubble. People run companies now that think a stock market crashes ultimately means more money flows in from VCs. I once worked for a c-level that seriously thought he had discovered something amazing when he realized that a company that made more than it cost to run the business had unlimited runway... the very idea that a company could run without constantly running to investors begging for more cash was completely foreign to him.

This has been the consequence of increasingly cheap money and investor money having nowhere to go after the real estate crash in 2008. To be fair, if money is basically free then it does make sense to grow without worrying about a profit. If you've had an entire career without every having to worry about more investor money coming it, it would start to seem wasteful to not spend it all.

But that's why these current economic conditions have me very worried: money can't be cheap anymore. If interest rates continue to rise we'll see a massive contraction in tech. First it will be the smaller, direct to consumer startups, then it will be all of the companies that have those startups as a non-trivial portion of their revenue.
There's more to it. The American right has been working a multi-decade long plan to pack the supreme court with... Well, people like this. And now the chickens are coming home to roost.

They'd have done this regardless of the state of industrialization or 1% hate. It's an alliance between religious fundamentalism, and the business community, and what they want has stayed constant despite the short term ebbs and flows of politics.

Also, please don't buy into the states rights nonsense. This group only believes in states rights when they don't control the federal government.

It's really best to just not listen to what it says, and instead look at what it does.
For those looking to get an objective understanding of this decision I found this article useful[0]. The gist of it is that this is more about preventing future rules to be put in place rather than changing anything that the EPA is actively enforcing. Essentially the EPA cannot force the shut-down of coal fired power plants (or other high emission energy sources) using the Clean Air Act.

As someone very pro renewable energy obviously I would prefer a different outcome, but the good news is that these types of power sources are just plain uneconomical these days, so their shutdown is going to happen anyways. Perhaps renewables won't have as many regulatory assists as we hoped, but the good news is that they can stand on their own, and the clean power industry keeps building better systems then capitalism will take care of the transition for us.

[0] https://reason.com/volokh/2022/06/30/supreme-court-rejects-b...
I agree, except the last sentence about "leftist activists" can be omitted.

I'm grateful for experiments like Copilot and replit's[0] "generate and explain." Maybe there are issues with software licenses and "ai assistants," but the way to surface the issues is with working software. I don't think this is a case of "move fast and break things." It's always been possible to abuse open source licenses without "ai."

There are plenty of alternatives to GitHub if you don't like it. There's no need for the hypercritical tone in this piece.

[0] https://twitter.com/tylerangert/status/1540013772693245958
All these grandiose words for the pecuniary value of a market whose entire capitalization is considerably lower than Google, a company that can't even prevent it's main product from becoming absolute crap. A market that's also remarkably absent of utility. Cryptocurrencies are a drop (that's the closest to evaporating) in the ocean of money, this article reads as if Baader–Meinhof phenomenom discovered how to write by itself.

>10 accounts own 88% of Binance Coin

Correlating addresses to people like this is such a rookie mistake in a world with CEXes and smart contracts, why the hell is this person being taken seriously?
> the view that businesses should operate like non profits or government services

I don’t think that that is what is being asked here. Even if GitHub didn’t violate license terms, it would have ways to make money.
When people write "why yet another", they usually mean "why this one specifically". And that's the case here, where the author lists what they think are the weaknesses of the state of the art, and explains why they think their innovations help with these problems. Innovation on its own isn't particularly interesting - I want to know why the author is innovating.
For people who still don't get how bad DIMMs are
Good point. It's interesting to think about this outsourcing as a relief valve Congress uses. Feels like a function of the monetary stakes for any decision are too high. Even freshmen congressional reps are too soaked in the financial implications of their own function that they punt their appointed power to the judicial branch.
> If the subway costs $1 and 50% of the jump the turn-style 50% of the time the cost to ride the subway in aggregate is $0.75

No, you have jumpers whose aggregate cost is $0.50 and non-jumpers whose aggregate cost is $1.00. The revenues realized are $0.75 a ride, but the costs aren't distributed evenly. If the jumpers were caught, then the cost could decline to $0.75, the nonjumpers would pay less and the jumpers would pay more. That world is better for the half of the population that doesn't jump.
Yes, to me this would be a better addition to the article, explain the tool real goal.

Now... you need metrics and analytics over what’s going on with your products. This sounds like something that helps address that somehow, staying anonymous from what it looks like (it says it has no identifiable information linked to people), but even the contract linked makes it hard to understand.
> This isn’t the end of the world though, Congress can fix everything that’s happened in the last few weeks via proper laws.

Proper laws are no match for calvinball rulings.
If you stay you are giving them your work and taxes, potentially your children.

It's better to gtfo.

Some people are deriving plasure from fighting the fights even at high personal cost. But most people don't.

Your top responsibility is to yourself, to make the best of the short time you have. Fighting loosing fights doesn't seem to be that for most people.
The main thing would for us to be under crushing US sanctions. However, because the US needs their oil now, things may be loosening up and Venezuela may do a lot better.
So your idea is that if you're a VP and your choices are to tell everyone the truth or lie to everyone, you'd rather lie to save yourself a single day of uncertainty.

Meanwhile, the people you're about to lay off are definitely getting laid off anyway, and the people you're keeping now have zero reason to trust you or your leadership. And your rationalization for this is you're doing it for the "good of the many."

This has nothing to do with "a clean conscience." This has to do with whether your employees feel that you're being honest with them. Even the career-focused snakes don't want to work for a boss who lie when asked a direct question.
Sure, but it is a suitable canvas, is it not?

If an artist signs an NFT or Colored Coin with a keypair that is associated with their public identity, shouldn't that be analogous to an autograph? If a physical, signed artistic work has more value than an unsigned work, does that mean that if you take the physical artistic work out of the equation you're left with the value of the signature? It's a funny question I guess. Like imagine people collecting PGP autographs.

Maybe art has some intrinsic value, but I think a large part of the "value" of an art piece is associated with the cultural relevance of the piece. It would follow that if you can associate a transaction output with some cultural relevance in the same sense that traditional artwork does, then it could have value, albeit not much.
It's just that easy when half of everything is controlled by obstructionists who do nothing other than entrench their parties power.

Oh and they've also convinced their party that cooperation is weakness because they are literally fighting the devil.
It is 4 years and $7.5B too late to worry about github.
> how it worked until a large change in the court composition decided to change the rules

FDR created the modern administrative state. Chevron was decided in the 80s. None of this is how it’s always been.
I've seen your previously deleted comment.

You smell of bias when you use terms like "there's no possible way that's true" and "it's also obviously false".

No, things you disagree with cannot be "obviously false", and there are things you think are false that can actually be true.

I don't know if you're being pedantic or using straw man arguments by bringing "7.75 billion people" or introducing race into this discussion. I won't be getting into this.

I'll just elaborate and rephrase.

Yes, most of the world, where people live without oppression and tyranny, have grown up with freedom to information, are not religiously prosecuted, value other people's lives, appreciate access to healthcare and respect human rights, would oppose prosecution and criminalisation of women who want to abort their pregnancy after being raped or to stop their babies suffering and wait for them to die inside or to die on birth.

> I mean, seriously, are you saying gay people are literal terrorists?

Lol. Yes, I am saying exactly that, that gay people are literal terrorists. /s

I have no clue how you got to that conclusion and why, along with race, you're now bringing terrorists to this conversation.

> It's also obviously false that the U.S. has the world view that "detention without trial and major human right abuses" are acceptable.

Yes, it's "obviously false" that Mohamedou Ould Slahi was tortured and imprisoned for 14 years without ever being charged until his release in 2016. And it's "obviously false" CIA was looking at options of how to assassinate a journalist (Julian Assange).

It feels you view some things in black and white. The world, especially governments, are far from that. We can understand that governments (made out of people and decisions) fuck up and be patriotic at the same time.
These are the immediate "products" GitHub provides, however, I would argue it provides a lot more.

GitHub provides a place for people to easily collaborate on FOSS software. It has helped millions of people getting into software development or into their first FOSS project by lowering the barrier of entry significantly.

Can you imagine how many people would start contributing to FOSS early in their career if they had to deal with mailing lists, patch sending, multiple git remotes, rebasing, etc. all at once just to start providing a small contribution? - Probably not as many.

I don't support everything GitHub does and I do see CodePilot as problematic but the article opens with "Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it.". - You know what has screwed us over a lot in recent history? Cancelling something/someone without thinking it through first. Oh the irony.
It seems weird to say that Musk hasn't changed and that it is all "the left". Had Musk really a reputation for engaging in weird, petty, Twitter fights for as long as the public as know of him? He seems to have become progressively unhinged as time has gone on.
I'm not fluent in the decision yet, but at first glance:

It seems congress gave them limited power to regulate environmental protection via a law that was written. The EPA seems to have overstepped its legal boundaries in regulating. Instead of saying, "ah fuck it, let the machine run," the court is forcing congress to actually give it the additional power that it's been using, or to stop.
From that page here's a video of their ionic drone: https://youtu.be/iihprC5Huf4

Interesting that it sounds pretty much like a regular drone.
These people could be part of their respective tribes because they believe that the rule of law dictates one thing or another. Many of these Justices in the past have followed their own philosophies, which happen to align with one party or another.

We just happen to have people who have a very... different... idea about what the law means than their predecessors.
ah, yes. that's a different angle of course.
This is still a problem even if their product only uses public data. Coinbase has access to non-public data, which they can use to validate any analysis or algorithms. Until they explicitly say that no private information was ever used to validate the analytics, it's reasonable to assume they're doing so.
Experiments with DALL·E 2 replicating style of well-known portrait photographers
> If you, as a dweller on the interwebs, do not block all things related to FAANG yet, then you are to blame.

Quite literally victim blaming.

No. The companies are to blame.

The internet shouldn't be a bloody minefield that is impossible to navigate without a PhD in network security.
Also, even if the surpreme court was completely correct to do this: why is this their focus? Why is this so much more important than the the thousands of other cases waiting for their attention?
Ask HN: Is Buildkite down for anyone else?
Just getting maintenance page. Status page is, of course, completely green.
Meanwhile publications love calling White culture ugly. Shows you who the real racists are.
This is too broad of a reading. Unfortunately despite the mission statement of organizations they are limited by their own laws and rules. In this case this is a narrowing of a particular reading of a paritcular rule that was used to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. See https://reason.com/volokh/2022/06/30/supreme-court-rejects-b... for more details
You have to know the actual motivation:

The point is to limit the administrative state and move power to congress (as you said), because federal rule making is relatively open, and the administration has experts.

If it moves to congress, they'll just take the legislation lobbyists hand them and pass it, because they don't have the expertise to actually write technical regulations.

This is a win for industry.
That is the job of the Congress. They are derelict in their duties. Even RGB said the decision was based on shaky arguments.
People really underestimate the loss of productivity and morale of using slow web-based tools. Now multiply it for 10k.
What a terrible business name. "substack" -> "subscription stack", a cool product to help people sell subscriptions. OK, that's great. But then to go to the paying customers with that name?

It's like Walmart calling themselves "Efficient Logistics", or Microsoft calling themselves "StableABI"