skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The biggest is its stringent requirements, paired with a lack of federal funding, have ultimately sabotaged its own mission of maintaining a strong U.S. shipping industry that could service the country in times of war. Fewer than 100 Jones Act vessels are in operation today. Equivalent laws in Europe, for instance, allow ocean carriers to build overseas, even if the vessels are owned by European companies.

Fewer than 100 ships! 100! This entire law is subsidizing 100 ships! Less than 100 people are getting rich off of this.

So now we get the worst of both worlds - shipping is more expensive and the fleet we have for "times of war" is a joke.

There's also a small environmental consequence here - it's often cheaper to fly heavy cargo to and from water locked areas rather than just put it on a ship (which creates a fraction of the carbon per pound/mile).
> The key difference is that BTC and all cryptocurrencies in general are not getting better about being scalable to many total transactions and transactions/second - they're getting worse.

> This is true for all blockchain-based currencies, and it's fundamental to the technology. There is no "fix". It's not just a case of poorly written code or limited infrastructure, it's the core premise of the idea that's rotten.

You are very confident for someone who seemingly hasn't researched much about optimistic and zero knowledge rollups. These systems inherit the security of Ethereum while providing exponentially greater transaction throughout which means scale improves and these networks cannot steal your money or do anything nefarious.
How difficult is it to teach “Git runs on everyone’s own machine. GitHub and GitLab run their own Git for their users to connect to and push code.”
It was a top down centrally planned economy. The federal government set quotas for production and prices. This was made possible through the war production board which converted civilian companies to wartime use:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Production_Board
This community isn't what I thought it was, either. I'm new to commenting, and my account has negative karma because I said something true that the 2A people didn't like.
Being successful as a business has as much or more to do with market power than with code quality.

I am lucky that I can avoid their products. But millions of users and orgs can't because that's what others around them use. So they're stuck with it no matter how much worse it is than open-source alternatives.
I didn't say it does generally.
In retrospect, I think my comment was more disagreeable than it should have been. We're both saying roughly the same thing: that pruning edges makes a graph more efficient.
The article says there are less than 100 eligible Jones Act ships.
The Tiniest Copyright Violations Ever Made (2014)
Believe it or not, also interstate commerce.

Seriously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
I think you're right about online fraud being much reduced with public private key tech, but if it's such a good idea why has no one been able to do it?
The reserve is uselessly small. Crucially, if the line about ships having to be built in the US was repealed, the reserve would become a lot bigger.

The Jones Act has more than one requirement, and while some of them are useful, others very much are not.
Um, the website is making a lot of claims and saying "there are studies". I would like to see the links to all studies to support made claims.

"Proven by Science
Recent study results prove that Movably is a highly effective solution. All participants reported no back discomfort. Using Movably outperformed standing and ergonomic chairs."

Link to study? Highly effective solution to what? Back pain? Leg pain? Participants reported no back discomfort vs control who did report back discomfort using other chairs or standing?

Lack of arm support.

There is an image of a male sitting on the chair. The position IS NOT ERGONOMIC AT ALL, here are the issues:

-He is forced to look down, this will result in neck pain.

-The monitor should be at eye level or just below it about arm length away.

-His arms are pressing against the desk and hands are above the elbows.

This all very basic computer work ergonomics. All this work on this product and 0 actual science on the page about ergonomics.

There is a claim, "Sitting is the new smoking".....I mean you are out of your mind.

From Mayo clinic, "Any extended sitting — such as at a desk, behind a wheel or in front of a screen — can be harmful. An analysis of 13 studies of sitting time and activity levels found that those who sat for more than eight hours a day with no physical activity had a risk of dying similar to the risks of dying posed by obesity and smoking. However, unlike some other studies, this analysis of data from more than 1 million people found that 60 to 75 minutes of moderately intense physical activity a day countered the effects of too much sitting. Another study found that sitting time contributed little to mortality for people who were most active."

Link to source: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/ex...

The website stinks of hyper marketing to sell an overpriced product.

EDIT: The only positive comments here so far are from users with 2 hour old accounts. OP decides to respond to POSITIVE comments from the new account but not to most upvoted negative comment. Yikes.
California is next to the ocean, so if we really wanted to secure the water supply we have technological answers available. Nuclear desalination has been used at scale across the globe for decades, and it's not hard to imagine a less centralized solution powered by solar or wind.

https://www.iaea.org/topics/non-electric-applications/nuclea...
I can see how corporate influence might play a role in this EPA decision, but most of the ire being thrown at SCOTUS recently is about abortion and I don't see any clear corporate pro-life consensus. On the contrary, I expect most corporations want to keep abortion legal to protect their workforce.

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

Yes, the world war generations had trouble with the principle of free speech; for instance, arresting people for protesting the draft during the first world war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States And do I need to remind you of the mass internment of Japanese Americans, convicted of no crimes, during the second world war?

I like to think we've made some progress since then.
Isn’t the value in money both in security (eg. Dollar backed by Superpower) and economic transaction?

With Bitcoin’s hash rate at an all time high, it’s more secure than ever - can we say it’s the most secure system in the world?

Of course the tradeoff for BTC is like insane consumption of power (currently Argentina size).

With BTC, I don’t think the use case will ever be to handle small sums of money. Transaction speed and fees don’t make sense for it.
Being reactionary is a good thing as it preserves the status quo.
Carbon dioxide was not considered a pollutant when the law was passed, so congress should specifically authorize such a significant expansion of the EPA authority. Rule by executive fiat is never wise, and if the case were clear cut on this matter, it would not be so hard to get congress to act. There isn't and never was democratic consensus on this topic, and people who support it need to convince people who do not before it can become public policy.
It would be interesting to see where REBOL falls on this spectrum.
One possible alternate way to get a lot of shipbuilding capacity on demand is to pay major overseas shipbuilders in allied countries to (a) build ships for within-US shipping and (b) devote some dedicated percentage of their production to the US in case of geopolitical emergency. The world's second- and third-biggest shipbuilders are Mitsubishi and Hyundai, both in closely-allied countries; surely there's some amount of money that would make them happy to help out. They're very good at making ships efficiently, much better than the US at this point.
Manufacturing is similar to coding. You outsource the basic functionality to third-party libraries and create value on top of that. At some point, the inability to control your external dependencies obscure how your code actually run, introduce bugs and security exploits.

People then swear off third party code and start writing the basics themselves or at least stop updating their dependencies.
Their over-collateralization requirements apply to retail borrowers, not institutions. If they stuck to just over-collateralized loans (for all borrowers), they could have been a great service that I'd happily continue using.
It's a sign that... national security is at odds with market efficiency. Of course doing things less efficiently costs money, and if you don't spend that money, it doesn't get done.

[EDIT] To be clear, I don't have a strong opinion on whether it remains a good idea to keep this act around.
What's wrong with carbon dioxide?

Why not just plant more trees?
Do it before you can't
Los Angeles area with 13 million inhabitants, is the economic powerhouse of California overall. Gov. Arnold S. famously had staff meetings in LA, less so in the official capital city of Sacramento (gold era). San Diego county is unique to the area as a border to Mexico. San Diego County is largely separate from the others with heavy Federal presence. The multi-county region including LA County there is known as SCAG [0]. Since SCAG will have a hard time buying their way out of this long-term, self-inflicted quandary, they do indeed have reason to fret.

https://scag.ca.gov/
The compressor doesn't move any air inside the refrigerator. There is a separate fan in the freezer compartment that does that.
Isn't the best practice to treat everything like it is sentient? Sort of like a Pascal's wager but for ethical treatment.

For example: When it comes to killing a chicken, it's best to assume that death is an equally unpleasant experience, so I should kill the chicken as humanely as possible and treat it well during life.

There is no downside to treating a non-sentient AI well. This is going to sound silly, but maybe we could program an AI in such a way that shutting it down is "pleasurable" or results in a large reward function. I don't think I need to list the potential downsides for treating a sentient/intelligent AI poorly. I really don't see any issues with this sort of "techno-animism".
More than you've ever wanted to know about errors in Rust
So where is the bottleneck? Is it the length of the lanes? The number of lanes? Or something else?
Yet another reasonable comment that some shadow bully has downvoted gray.

HN is broken
Being on good terms with Uncle Sam often isn’t about the money.
Bitcoin can't scale to real numbers of transactions (say, enough to handle the daily needs of a small town) fundamentally by design. Investing in Bitcoin with the expectation that it will ever scale to Visa levels of tps is like investing in an early-stage cold fusion start-up.
Comparative advantage only works in a globalized economy with free trade - the world that is now ending.
Till this day, there has been no hard evidence of tiktok collecting data on behalf of Chinese government. Yet, it's routinely connected to CCP without a trace of backing.

So CCP is so bad that mere association is enough to deter any meaningful defense?
To be honest, it IS a problem for a lot of people and they search around the internet. I did myself, and I never found a good solution but would have paid big money for one, and probably tried this one as well.
> “Coinbase Tracer sources its information from public sources and does not make use of Coinbase user data.”

That’s seems pretty important. If it’s public, it’s public.
The centralized nature of these oligopolies is a property of capitalism, i.e. capital consolidates power. You are saying that search, storage etc are centralised because of the tech? Why are they any more centralised than the other (pre-internet) examples I mentioned?
>If true, then all they're doing is analysis of data from the public blockchain. That sounds fine to me - the feds could have done it themselves.

2 points :

1. doing analysis form public sources when you can cheat by looking up private information is a very different beast.

2.parallel construction
Actually upon reflection why wasn't this just trivial for futex? A Linux futex requires only user-space initialization, and it has a stable address while locked for the same reason, so you can get the same zero-allocations without the use of parking lot.
You must have extreme risk tolerance if you haven't cashed out from an insolvent crypto shadowbank already...?
Well... yes, but it's not easy for the managers.

There is a fundamental, total disconnect between the world of PERT charts and the agile world. That disconnect happens somewhere. If your manager gets agile, does their manager? Their manager's manager? Somewhere there has to be someone who can go both ways - who can be "agile down" and "non-agile up". If you don't have that person, then you get some flavor of "PERT chart agile", which isn't actually agile at all.
You could mail patches as plain text attachments, if there are concerns about the clients mangling them. You could also try some easier plain-text clients instead of mutt. Claws mail is a simple GUI based one.

[1] https://www.claws-mail.org/
It's almost as though we've been warned for decades that tariffs are mostly harmful.

Time and time again we prove that R&D has a massive ROI, yet it's always being trimmed since it doesn't pay off in a short-enough time frame to keep the accountants happy (<6 months).
The law can provide the authority to act, the boundaries of action, and define the intent. The agencies, by taking on the role of determining & implementing the details of Congress’ directive, reduce the overt political influence that tends to dilute or pollute (no pun intended) the aims of the legislation. If Congress finds that the agency has stepped outside its mandate, they can correct the legislation to be more specific.
A short passphrase or key is not copyrightable, but definitely confidential.
> creating unnecessary friction for no good reason

That's definitely something that most large corporations do.
>And honestly, if thinking for yourself leads you to be anti-climate action, anti-lgbt rights, anti-labor etc. you deserve whatever you get

There are basically 6 major factions in the US right now, along with the associated special interests.

The Establishment Democrats, and the Progressive Democrats

vs

The Establishment Republicans, and the Populist Republicans

and the Independents, and 3rd party which often determine elections.

On above, Establishment Republicans and Establishment Democrats have far more in common, with each other, than they do with their respective Populist and Progressive wings.

Likewise, in many areas the Populist Republicans and Progressive Democrats have a great deal in common too.

Please don't oversimplify this.
Oh, never said they were malicious. But, they know how to get ice cream, and won't hesitate to try. Until the parents catch on that is.
Hey, the U.S. Secret Service is responsible for enforcing currency counterfeit crime.
Are you saying the services like Mastadon have widespread adoption in Germany?
"A decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself..."

Simple. End of story. If the Supreme Court has one job it's punting shit to Congress--the appropriate branch.
What sort of security are you referring to?
bumping the author's chain and bluntly suggesting that others (like myself) without much/any stake in openBSD's C compilers should stfu with the name flaming now, because the fact that it's still continuing in replies at this point is more a matter of narcissism and disrespect for the submission than anything else.
I'm about to build something similar, not as a standalone product, but as an internal component for a side project of mine. If this could be fleshed out, and delivered as an API, I'd pay for it.
The central point is that crypto has features most people don’t want (decentralisation, shared public ledger, trustless) which actively sabotage things most people do want - speed, security, privacy, trust etc.

This is a fundamental design error.

Stop comparing crypto to cash, the competitor is centralised electronic bank accounts and credit cards.

Banks use lots of cryptography to secure and sign transactions, including public key cryptography. Some banks now issue numberless cards.
From reading other comments and also I'm just stating the obvious. There are different systems of government, which work differently and is something people must be accustomed to.
Yeah and landlords posing as NIMBY's blocking new developments their tenants could threaten to move into.
Disputed. Not refuted.
Government agencies are comprised of people. The same people that work a desk job they hate. They're not elected, and don't have to demonstrate worth for the position, yet can execute sanctioned harm against individuals That's two major flaws that slaps democracy in the face.

People are dissilusioned by organizations out of their reach that can harm them, and they do not feel they are represented.

Iron Law is the name of the game for long standing organizations. That is, preserve the org first, not complete the mission. When you look into the deep history of federal corruption it's plain as day that it's overwhelmingly a political wheelhouse with only a sprinkle of objective.

Federal agencies that were once founded in earnest are long taken over by this principle. The founders have left the building.
> The Supreme Courts job is to determine if something was legal, they were granted the authority by the people

No, they invented that authority for themselves in Marbury v. Madison[1]. Judicial review, the idea that SCOTUS can decide whether the actions of the executive or legislative branch are legal, is contained nowhere in the constitution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison
I'm dead certain Congress couldn't before Roe, between Roe and Dobbs, or after Dobbs, not w/o a Constitutional amendment. That much is quite clear. I quoted from Dobbs, and as to Roe, Roe declared a constitutional right, which means Congress couldn't do anything about it w/o a constitutional amendment. If federal statute could compete, then Congress would have made Roe law long ago in any one of the many sessions in which there were vast majorities for it in both houses and in the White House. But no, it requires an amendment, which is why it's never happened -- it's hard to get 2/3rds majorities for anything, let alone controversial things.
Which works when the unit economics are good. You can take the profit from an operating business, and just inject it back in the business to grow. That sometimes looks like an unprofitable business, but the test is: "if the company freezes growth tomorrow" would it be profitable?

Teslas are profitable, once you pay off the amortized cost of a factory. It isn't clear that uber is profitable. They had 5-10% gross margins pre-IPO, and it has gone negative since.
There are many applications which are network transparent and would need extra code to know how to optimize when the other process happens to be on the same machine (e.g., using Sys V IPC or Unix domain sockets). There are good reasons to optimize the case of localhost.

I am always bemused when people imagine that communication over localhost involves packets hitting an ethernet adapter.
1. You’re replying to the wrong comment.

2. As my comment outlines, the electoral college actually does very little to protect minority interests.

3. Further, it has almost never actually worked as the founders intended. They didn’t predict the existence of political parties and expected the electoral college to actually involved real debates and voting within the body itself, not as it works today where they are essentially decided before they attend. The founders intended for the EC to be a filtering step among a multitude of candidates before the final election was decided by the house, voting as state level blocs.

What you’re arguing is post hoc rationalization that doesn’t even fit the facts on the ground.
"...reminding Lucy of her mandatory vaccination" is very chilling.
The guns are supposed to be locked up in a safe, right?

So, the fear is that burglars would actively mine this data, go to the physical location, wait and ensure nobody is home, then break in? All that compared to say doing the same for someone that has an expensive car in their drive way?

How would the burglars feel about travelling to that neighborhood to first case it? Would you go a few dozen miles to first just find out if there are security cameras, neighborhood watch, etc..?

I think this speaks to a sufficiently motivated burglar. Would this list be the different for that motivated burglar to target someone on that list, compared to any other target? For that motivated burglar, was this leak really the difference in who they target?

Thinking through this scenario concretely, it seems like there are plenty of other actual dangers to worry about.

It makes me think that this side of the coin is just high-pitched whining (my opinion),vs a very legitimate complaint regarding data breaches.
> While some of what that means for California remains to be seen, parts of the process have already begun, including the steady decline of the Colorado River. Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir which is located along that river, is now only 150 feet from dipping below its lowest intake valve, officials announced this month.

How much time will it take for a 150-foot drop at current rates of loss? I haven't been able to find an estimate of the rate of loss in the last couple of years. I also imagine that the rate of drop could be non-linear.
To expand, so there's more material on this page:

"Gasoline, meat, and clothing were tightly rationed. Most families were allocated 3 US gallons (11 l; 2.5 imp gal) of gasoline a week, which sharply curtailed driving for any purpose. Production of most durable goods, like new housing, vacuum cleaners, and kitchen appliances, was banned until the war ended.[1] In industrial areas housing was in short supply as people doubled up and lived in cramped quarters. Prices and wages were controlled."

From

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_home_front_durin...
Good article on the Beanie Baby bubble that occurred in the late 90's:

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2015/03/02/beanie-baby-bubbl...
I mean, yes?

It makes everything slightly more expensive at the benefit of a small group of special interests.
Why would you consider your address to be private? This seems hardly a security issue. The terms were presented in a Privacy Policy the author admitted she didn’t read.
(This is a clarifying question, not an oppositional one) -- would a potential response to a gap between crude and pump prices be lack of refinery supply? How are we able to rule that out? Or is it completely obvious?
> China financializes everything, and pumps capital into projects at rates unseen and unmatched in the history of the world.

Evidence please?

I have long been suspicious of China's financial strategy, and had not found satisfactory sources on this topic.
Congress granted the EPA power to regulate air pollution. CO2 and methane are harmful pollutants that cause a greenhouse effect, and the EPA was granted the authority to address this.
Our activist extremely biased Supreme Court has several members who are part of a political advocacy operation called the federalist society and ensures that members get Supreme Court placement specifically to achieve federalist society goals.
Nothing about this is secret.
Nothing about this is acceptable
Peer-to-peer file transfers will always be faster than having an intermediary. Why not use bittorrent or IPFS?

P.S. The problem dropbox "fixes" is that there is no decent file transfer protocol that is IP agnostic. Using something like bittorrent's or IPFS' DHT fixes this. Dropbox "fixes" this by making file transfer into a paid service