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> Imagine BTC was actually used for any scale of economic transactions. It would collapse overnight.

Higher velocity of money would lead to zero value? That's not commonly what basic economy dictates.

This being 2022, let's try to keep our concepts clear as to not rehash the debate from ten years ago. BTC is a currency, a blockchain, a programmable transaction language, a piece of software, and a protocol. It is good to suggest which one of these we imagine in use, and how that use is done.

Otherwise we risk saying that imagine if the physical $100 bill was used for all McDonald's transactions, clearly that wouldn't work, they are too hard to subdivide and even if they weren't there simply aren't enough of them, and therefore it is unusable as a currency.

Clearly McDonald's couldn't operate each and every economical transaction by settling them publicly on the BTC block chain, that much is obvious. But just as clearly there's nothing stopping Visa from denominating transactions in BTC, or utilizing that type of transactions internally, or utilizing the public Lightning network, or whatever it is McDonald's use in El Salvador. That much we probably agree on so let's leave that discussion in the past decade.
>Making it exceedingly difficult or impossible to use the OS without logging in with a Microsoft account

This is hilarious. I recently got a new laptop that has window$ 11. After setting it up with a Non Microsoft email (which required some good fight), I tries to install some random app from the Microsoft store, but got a "something went wrong please try again" on the first screen.

It's pathetic. I haven't used Windows since Win 7 , which I basically installed for gaming. Seeing the latest version of the OS makes me feel sorry for them. That's why Apple with all their assholery is eating their lunch (on the flip side my wife just got a MBP m1 and I was pleasantly surprised that it has hdmi port, magsafe, several USBc ports. Apple seems going in the right direction.)
Simplified: "The manner in which a vanishingly small group of megadonors and think tank funders make, keep, grow, and distribute their money should be nearly impossible to regulate."
Right! We wanted to make sure not to use real people's photos. It is a bit eery that all of their eyes stay in the same place as you hit shuffle...
tangential question: if i wanted to poke around with the risc-v isa (like add an instruction) and then wanted to add support to an emulator, compiler and operating system for that instruction, is there an emulator, compiler and operating system that are best suited for this sort of isa experimentation?
What year did you go? If it was last year then New Orleans was still recovering from Ida.
I don't think you or I can issue judgements about honesty without understanding the author and their motivations.

We can conclude that the analysis is poor, or misses key factors, or is only useful when answering a narrow set of questions, or requires additional disclaimers / context. But concluding that the author is dishonest takes us in a direction that is no longer focused on how the analysis can improve, and instead seeks to question motives directly, instead of expanding our shared understanding of the subject.

I do think the glaring issue with the piece is that we (the royal we) have not agreed on the list of factors that should be measured when examining living standards, nor the weights of those factors. The post doesn't really attempt to justify its chosen measures either, and would carry more weight if based on earlier scholarly attempts to quantify quality of life.
At least one member of Congress claims the Supreme Court can be overruled.

https://youtu.be/tApnkKi7Suc
> DEA, ATF, FDA, OSHA, CFPB, CDC, EPA, and FCC would all tend to disagree with this assessment.

They wouldn't, at least not to a court's face. You mention "Chevron deference" below, but the whole idea behind Chevron deference is that agencies are exercising executive discretion in enforcing the law, not making new ones.

> There IS a separation of powers and checks and balances. Congress even passed the "congressional review act" in 1996 which allows them by a majority vote to undo an agencies decision if they feel they've stepped too far.

The Constitution gives the power to make laws to Congress. Full stop.

> Rather than apply straight forward and obvious rules that have been around for at least 30 years (Chevron deference), the supreme court has decided to take a politically activist route and instead decide cases based on their own political leanings.

Judges in the mid-20th century engaged in massive political activism to rewrite the Constitution from whole cloth. Undoing that tomfoolery is not itself "political activism."

> You can predict, like clockwork, how the justices will vote on any case with any sort of political implication based on who appointed them. Isn't that distressing?

It distresses me that you can predict how liberal justices will vote on any significant case. It brings me great relief that conservative justices are full of surprises. Just in the last few years, ACB was supposed to overturn Obamacare (she voted to uphold it), Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were supposed to find that the Civil Rights Act doesn't protect sexual orientation, etc.
The fundamental issue is, is carbon dioxide an air pollutant? This is not so much about interpretation of the Clean Air Act IMO, as it is about peoples' opposing views on carbon dioxide as a significant contributor to climate change.

Those who believe carbon dioxide absolutely is contributing to climate change and harming our planet would likely classify carbon dioxide as an air pollutant and thus believe the EPA has the power to regulate it. Those that believe otherwise are not going to consider carbon dioxide an 'air pollutant' and thus not subject EPA regulation.
SourceForge CEO here. The first paragraph of this article is wrong. SourceForge has been built on Apache Allura since 2011. https://allura.apache.org
even Scalia thought Thomas was a kook for inventing the "major questions doctrine." where in the Constitution can you find this? separation of powers, apparently, if you're looking through a seer stone in a hat at some golden tablets.

the majority invented the doctrine to neuter Federal agencies.
That's cool! We're thinking about adding an API in the future. What kinds of things are you using mockaroo for?
The difference with this is it reduces the water available to fall further downwind, and could thus cause other issues: it's effectively zero-sum on moisture, while desalinating ocean water is positive-sum (though, yes, it has a waste issue).
> I'd argue what you see as intentional obfuscation is just something new/unfamiliar.

I first encountered Nock and Hoon ten years ago, so these are neither new nor unfamiliar to me at this point.

> I also suspect your dislike for his politics is making it hard to separate the tech from the person.

Why should I separate them? My hypothesis is that the tech is a vehicle for advancing his politics.

> I can recognize the value of the companies and tech they help build independently of that.

So can I. The fact that I don't call Tesla or PayPal cults should led more credence to my position on Urbit.

I've read the Urbit literature and I've taken a pretty deep dive into the code and I've reached the conclusion that Urbit does not have any valid value proposition. I could be wrong, but that is my assessment, which will be of value mainly to people who know me and trust my judgement. If you're not such a person, well, my opinion comes with a money-back guarantee if you aren't satisfied.
They don't, which is why it's s federal matter. But I'm stating that each state has an equal say in the decision (in the Senate) precisely because it impacts states approximatepy equally (hence the federal matter). If it didn't, you could plausibly see a densely populated state vote to pollute their neighbor's state by tyranny of the majority.
> Sony's WH-1000XM4 is a good wireless option on the go, but because it uses bluetooth it murders the quality of incoming audio if you use the mic.

In my experience they work well if you only connect it to a single device, but if you use the two device mode then the mic is useless.
> It's a list of things the government may not do, not a list of things you may do.

And yet, they saw fit to include the Ninth Amendment, so some nincompoop wouldn't go "there's no right to privacy!"

> I would imagine the court would rule a law against that would violate the right to life.

The wording is "nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"; what happens if pooping is made a capital crime?

Why is banning abortion, marijuana, and whatnot not a similar violation of the "liberty" part of the same clause?

(and what's with this edit-to-reply thing you've got going?)
Same as "explanatory variable" in the old (statistical) lingo.
The problem is that you can't tell whether you're looking at verbatim code or not. While you can tell when you're looking at "obviously verbatim" code, everything else could still be verbatim and license encumbered, so there is literally nothing you can use copilot for if your intent is to write new software.

But it gets worse: because you can't tell whether copilot is giving you illegal-to-use code, even just looking at its output can make you liable for future transgressions because seeing copilot code may expose you to license-encumbered code that you might now use as inspiration for new, non-copilot code. Even if you in good faith believe your new code is your own, the law does not agree with that assessment: if your code is similar to something license encumbered that you read in the past, even if you forget about it, you are now potentially in legal trouble.

Simply by using copilot at all, you're taking on a risk that is great enough to go "actually, I am not even going to try this thing".
Indeed there are no interrupt pins in PCI express at all, you only have a choice between special "Legacy/Compatibility" Assert_INTx message packets, or plain Memory Writes for MSI/MSI-X. But both are carried as in-band PCIe packets on the high speed lanes.
Saving Private Ryan? Though it's been a few years since I watched it.
Only because a certain side of politics thinks having a character of a certain identity is a political statement. Maybe people and characters should be free to be who they are without it being a big deal.
I love tech and I'm doing great. I'm not representative and neither are you.

> healthcare is also much better

ε more QALYs for 8x the cost. Boo.

> Our houses are more expensive, but also larger

Because they only built houses for rich people, thereby spiking prices into the stratosphere and forcing more people to go without homes for longer. If you're looking for a silver lining, this ain't it.

> human rights have expanded for lots of protected classes.

That's a much better silver lining.

Usually I find myself arguing with Team Optimism, because I think all the problems we have are solvable and many people disagree. The article doesn't read like a genuine case for optimism, it reads like a PR piece for someone who is part of the problem and wants to deflect attention.
Great post malisper! Glad to know that we have a long way to go before something like copilot makes developers obsolete. But I think it's not a question of if, the question is when. We're essentially automatons, just running on meat substrate, with constraints on power consumption and head size; so fundamentally there is no reason why can't implement our own brains in silicon. I resonate with Elon's quote "Humanity is the biological bootloader for digital super-intelligence" on this.
Depends on location. They have arrangements with Google to share networking from their datacenters, so presumably those form a large portion of the backbone in the US.
Not but it has racist connotations, you really want to go out of your way to educate everyone on the etymology of a word because of an antiwoke crusade?

It is the same reason that polite people don't continue to use the word, "niggardly".
Different how? Like Lolita (1962) ? All the President's Men (1976)? Miss Saigon (1989, a play I admit, but a controversial one): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Saigon_controversy

??

I don't even know what decade you're referring to. Movies, plays, and other forms of entertainment always had politics. Some of them (like Lolita) explicitly tried to court controversy.

Or do you mean like Disney movies, like how Peter Pan (1953 Disney cartoon) has great, "non political" songs like "What makes the red man red" ??

Like, you can't escape politics. Even when you're trying to be politically neutral (like a Disney cartoon aimed at children in the 1950s), these sorts of political issues just come up... because our base assumptions of life are in fact political.

Whether we court politics on purpose (Dr. Strangelove, Lolita), or accidentally (Peter Pan 1953, "What Makes the Red Man Red?"), these sorts of things have been going on since the dawn of movies and cartoons.

Lemme leave things off with this 1940s comic by Dr. Seuss: https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb3618599q/_2.jpg
I'm well aware... but still, when I see new software written in C when there are so many languages available (which was not the case when Linus started writing Linux) it's amazing to me, both because they can actually do it (I definitely don't have the discipline to pull it off, spoiled too much by high level languages) and because they didn't just choose to use something easier like Go or even Java.
This is really great, because it touches on the concepts of hardware design. I've thought a lot about this myself, and I'm honestly surprised to see someone else discussing this. Maybe I'm way out of my depth here, but the idea of stateful programming doesn't actually fall under the paradigm of sequential programming (think single threaded programming.) We all like sequential programming for the same reasons we like linear signal processing and euclidean geometry. When things break those paradigms, we of create mental models (transformation functions) to try to emulate it back in the linear world where the math is easier (for the most part, I'm not too well versed in those subjects. It's more of an analogy.) And I think that's what this language is trying to do, except for certain concepts of non-sequential programming.

Now I sort of disagree with the author when they state that no high level language exists for stateful programming, because a HDL (used for designing chips and programming FPGAs) is exactly this. Now is System Verilog a high level language? Maybe not, maybe the author is right.

Interestingly enough, a lot of hardware blocks (think like a ethernet controller) use a special purpose hardware based state machine to control and manage the link status. While this is less flexible and less programmable than a CPU (which is also a state machine at it's core,) it uses far less power.

You can think of a CPU as a state machine that can emulate other state machines (though that's probably not a great way of thinking of a CPU because it can do many other things.) However, an FPGA can do it far more efficiently, but it's a pain in the butt to program. Now I'm not suggesting we do everything on FPGAs, but as we start to run up against the physical limitations of speed and transistor density, I think it's good to think about other paradigms of computing and how we can more efficiently compute things.
The problem is "Intellectual Property." does not really exist, it is more accurately called "Intellectual Privilege", and IMO you can not based a soild economy on it. Not even close

"Intellectual Property" based economics, like "Service Economy" that we all heard in the 90's has the same flaw, they are self canalizing and built on intangible "honor" based trade

Unlike Physical Manufacturing, of Physical Goods, or the development of Raw Resources.

Solid Foundational economies require the production of solid tangible assets, not "Intellectual Property"
Political in what way? Could you give a few examples of recent movies you feel are heavily politicized and for what reason?
It seems far more likely that GitHub isn't answering the questions because they don't have answers that support what they're doing.

The ask here isn't "don't ever use AI code assistance tools", the ask here is "don't ship something as an AI code assistance product that fails to provide any means of tracking provenance and handling license compliance".

Quoting the post:

> Meanwhile, the work of our committee continues to carefully study the general question of AI-assisted software development tools. One recent preliminary finding was that AI-assisted software development tools can be constructed in a way that by-default respects FOSS licenses. We will continue to support the committee as they explore that idea further, and, with their help, we are actively monitoring this novel area of research. While Microsoft's GitHub was the first mover in this area, by way of comparison, early reports suggest that Amazon's new CodeWhisperer system (also launched last week) seeks to provide proper attribution and licensing information for code suggestions.
It was designed to prevent tyranny of the majority.
First stop adding to the problem. Then, reduce the problem.

Diverting resources to capture would steal from displacing CO2 emitters. There is no way you can capture more than is being emitted until the amount emitted is driven way, way down. Only after you cannot displace much output anymore are other methods of any use.

You get overwhelmingly more benefit from each dollar by displacing output.
It took me 7 hours to realize that my parent reply is lexically ambiguous and poorly written. I own it, I am full of covid and operating as well as everyone told me:

My intention was to indicate at least a fraction:

There must be /some/ western culture that has been successful because it [that portion] is what humans naturally gravitate towards.

My accident was to imply that western culture has been wholly successful:

There must be some-western-culture that has been successful because it [all of it] is what humans naturally gravitate towards.

Sorry to any readers in the future, I deserve the replies I got today in this context.
It is also common for cyclists to use cable locks until the first time their bike is stolen.

And then they learn that cable locks do not work.
> Fuel prices have no tie to reality, they are tied to greed.

Absolutely, greed is the only factor worth considering. But of course, greedy people can't just charge $300/gallon so no one would buy it. They do at least have to consider how much people are willing to pay.

And I guess how much it costs to acquire. And also I guess war makes it harder to acquire and more in demand.

And then deal with other greedy oil companies undercutting them. (Oops, wait, we just invented a completely rational market!)

If only they could do what the generous and benevolent US shipping industry did and ban all greedy competitors.

(I'm sorry, but the logic here is kind of hilariously weird to me.)
The Conservative Supreme Justices are in a position of absolute power, where they take any decision they gut-feel (mainly using their religious and conservative beliefs of course), and they don't really need to give any justification at all (because there is no accountability whatsoever, as no poll will ever take back their seat), so any whimsical half-assed not even syntactically correct garble will do.
They really are in a position similar to leaders of authoritarian regimes (and have as little democratic legitimacy), and they are really as harmful as such tyrants. They should be removed, that is obvious.
But home prices will likely drop, which will hopefully more than offset the increased interest cost. Plus, you can refinance a loan for lower overall costs, but there is no way to reduce the principal of a mortgage other than forking over hard-earned cash.
I can say that it works very well with Rust
Swift structs should work for that too. But also DOTS is like years away from being ready it seems like. Basically hacked into the engine and language and kinda over complicated and confusing at the moment.
You talk as though those ships don't still sail to US ports, as though you don't happily buy products from freight carriers who dump waste and use slave labour. Do you actually know what flag was on the ship that brought in your iphone or car? I'd be very impressed if so.

The regulation is clearly useless. Until you only allow certain ships to bring the masses their favourite new gadgets, which I doubt is going to happen in a modern democracy.
https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/4911 is now fixed and will be in the next release.
Oh my god. The cringe!
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31907883
Real wages have been stagnant while the money supply ever increasing. This wasn't the case until 1971, when the US removed the gold peg: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

Europe is interesting in that certain parts of the Euro zone run high deficits and need bailouts while some of the others are disciplined. I don't have a clear theory for why inflation in Europe has been stagnant all along.
No.. You don't get to equate the prosecution of Jews or the literal enslavement of Black people to the "struggles" of LGBTQ.

There are no laws indicted that dictates you can't work if you are LGBTQ, there are no LGBTQ only water fountains and they are not forced to wear an identifying symbol on their arm for their camps.

LGBTQ loves to lump religion, race and their own decision to change "gender" together so that they can use it as a trojan horse to push their agenda.

Should we care for them? Yes. Should we love them? Yes and I believe that they must have access to all the therapy and treatments that they need when diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

Should they be able to have an entire "month" dedicated to them and parade it in front of our children? No, I don't think so. Nor do I think it's wise to subject our children to these at the age of 5 and then encourage them to take puberty blockers and have life altering surgeries as soon as they are 16 to feel at "ease" with their chosen gender.

If we are even not even willing to have a conversation about this without one side immediately jumping into calling the other "transphobic", then we may have a problem.

Why can't we have an honest conversation about this issue for once with being attacked?
General Availability of Amplify UI for React
Darknet Diaries
Wow this is amazing. Sorry for a dumb question, will it work any such LLMs or only in Codegen's case?
C# on Unity is very different then what you expect. Different base class library, stack instead of heap objects, heap arranged to allow fast iterating over them. It is C# but it is not your typical .NET. And .NET done right is in the performance region where other aspects kick in (like network or UI bottlenecks).
>Making a digital wallet won't increase surveillance...

There is no reason to believe that. You are installing a government app on a gps device with a constant internet connection. Even if it doesn't send such data initially, there is no way for a regular user to know that some forced update in the future wont introduce it. At least before they would have to go through the courts to get a warrant to get it from google or apple.
Interesting article! Congrats on the launch. But as an ocassional gamer I thought the way online games work was different.

For example, I play FIFA online and I believed that once a match making had place, Player A (me) synced a seed with Player B, and then the only thing that had to go over the network was the input, and every device could generate the game since they shared the same seed (which makes it deterministic).

Isn't much more complicated to have the engine on the server and send the state to the device?
I think ckolkey was referencing this now-HN-famous dismissal of Dropbox when it was first announced in 2007 (top comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Interesting -- want to chat and tell me a bit more? You can send me an email at alex at ui filler dot com