skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really is the eternal struggle of all decentralized technology:

They all eventually gravitate towards centralization as they gain mainstream appeal, as the very tangible competitive advantages from networks effects and economies of scale win over the mostly philosophical benefits of decentralization that have always failed to sway the masses.

We see this play out time and again, with email, git, and are already starting to see the same pattern emerge with cryptocurrencies.

Though that is not to say there is no benefit to having decentralized technologies. The fact remains that centralized platforms built on top of decentralized technology have a much harder time locking users in due to the low switching costs enabled by the underlying tech. This is why products like BitBucket and GitLab are still viable today despite the undeniable dominance of GitHub, and similarly alternative email providers like Fastmail and Outlook in the age of Gmail.

We rarely see this in markets built on top of centralized tech. In social networks, for instance, there really isn't any viable competitor to platforms like Facebook and Twitter because switching isn't possible without losing all of your investments in the product.

This low switching cost makes upstarts more viable alternatives compared to in markets built on top of centralized tech, and keeps incumbents on their toes and forces them to keep innovating in order to stay dominant instead of just simply riding high on the strength of their moats. As such I do still think the pursuit of decentralized technology is worthwhile, even if a large degree of centralization in itself might be all but inevitable in the long term.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/regajha/auroville-india...

"Auroville has successfully reforested 5,000 acres of land and turned barrenness into a lush forest that acts as a massive pair of lungs for the region — so much so that the temperature within Auroville is measurably 3 degrees lower than in surrounding villages."
We have mostly politically motivated twisting of the words against political opponents (like NYT is against Trump etc). I always recommend to look what was actually said and in what context.
Almost all people do not like feces on their penis, regardless of their sexual orientation.
(digging ... heh, there's a law office in Florida that specializes in Jones Act - https://www.anidjarlevine.com/areas-we-serve/florida/jones-a... and https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/americraft-marine-a... is also there)

As to the list of ships - https://www.maritime.dot.gov/sites/marad.dot.gov/files/pictu...

> United States Flag Privately‐Owned Merchant Fleet Report

> Oceangoing, Self‐Propelled Vessels of 1,000 Gross Tons and Above that Carry Cargo from Port to Port

Total ships: 179

Jones Act Eligible: 99

https://www.maritime.dot.gov/sites/marad.dot.gov/files/oictu...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/646259/us-flag-oceangoin...

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R45725.pdf

> The Jones Act applies to any type of commercial vessel. Recent controversies have concerned the oceangoing ship and offshore supply vessel sectors. The law also covers ships on the Great Lakes, river barges, harbor tugs, dredging vessels, and various kinds of passenger vessels. The Jones Act oceangoing ship fleet, in particular, has certain shortcomings compared to the merchant fleet desired by the drafters of the 1920 act as they described it in the aforementioned statement of U.S. maritime policy.

> As of March 2018, there were 99 oceangoing ships in the Jones Act-compliant fleet, employing about 3,380 mariners. The largest category of oceangoing Jones Act ships is tankers. Of the 57 tankers in the fleet, 11 carry Alaskan crude oil to refineries on the West Coast, 44 are medium- sized product tankers that mostly carry refined products along the Atlantic Coast, and 2 are chemical or asphalt tankers. The dry cargo fleet includes 24 small to medium-sized container ships, 7 ships that have ramps for carrying vehicles (known as roll on/roll off vessels), and 2 dry bulk vessels designed to carry such commodities as grain and coal in bulk form. The fleet also includes 9 relatively small general-cargo vessels supplying subsistence harbors along Alaska’s coast.
I want to know what stuff you guys are putting in public GitHub FOSS repos that you don't want replicated in any way...

I also want to know why people think their code is so special that no one else could have ever come up with it independently. Each and every opponent of Copilot is the best developer ever, I guess?

That said, I don't understand the choice to use GPL for any reason, so maybe I'm not equipped to understand the arguments against Copilot. Forcing your code to be open forever isn't freedom, it's the omission of freedom. Someone using your (for example) MIT-licensed code in a closed-source commercial software project doesn't "un-free" the code you released; your code is still exactly as open and as available as it was before, and zero freedoms were lost by anyone.
Or perhaps, as is becoming pretty ubiquitous in tech: the people who communicate things don't have nearly as much understanding as the people who do them. It was not always this way, but it seems the communication department in an organization is becoming the dumping ground for people who flunked out of doing the hands-on hard work but for one reason or another, have some support to retain them.

Note: I'm not criticizing tech writing. Just what tech writing has become.
But you would unfortunately get kicked out of office as the politician who made beef expensive
Couldn't Congress roll out a clarification of this rule quickly? They own the big three right now, so it would be pretty easy if they kept any fluff out of the legislation.
I was thinking of the amazing short film adaptation but yes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg
Oh, well then, seems fine. Weird.
There's really no reason I can think of that the Dems would deem the Freedom of Choice Act "not a priority" other to play political games in future presidential races. I'm convinced they basically wanted to be able to continue to use the threat of a Roe overturn to steer swing voters to their side, but never actually believed it would happen.

That said, I highly doubt Loving would ever be overturned. It sits on very solid legal ground, and the most conservative judge on the court is in an interracial marriage. Obergefell is genuinely at risk though.
> that SpaceX explicitly said it would meet

By 2028? So where exactly is the sky falling?
That entity is usually Microsoft. I've met web developers who relied on Microsoft drag-and-drop tools to build websites, they were unable to tell me what a cookie or HTTP request was. Microsoft could be injecting telemetry into their websites and they wouldn't know.

Since then I've been obsessed with knowing how things work under the hood and doing as much as possible by myself until I understand what's being abstracted away from me.
stablecard

/mysides
lol, true!
But again taxsim is missing local income taxes entirely. That makes it automatically inaccurate for millions of people. Smart Asset is an estimate but it's at least accurate for the cases that it covers and doesn't claim to be a complete tax calculator.

Anyway taxsim is obviously the more complete tool, but without local income taxes it's unusable for many people like me who live in a state that has local income taxes too.
I was wondering why all of a sudden the default github branch was “main”
Mastodon seems to have a dramatically higher European userbase than US. That much seems clear from my time on it.

Also the German government, French government and others are using open chat systems like Matrix and favoring open source privacy respecting office and documents systems, forgoing giving the US government controlled FAANG companies, who happily have the CIA/NSA as customers, too much control of their internal affairs.

My favorite evidence of the radically different culture is going to hacker conferences.

Go to Defcon and everyone has a stock Chromebook or a Macbook. The Privacy Village asks everyone to accept the ToS of Discord, Twitch, and Google to participate. It would be a funny joke if it were not so sad.

Meanwhile at CCC in Germany... you are hard pressed to find anything proprietary at all from running the conference to the tools of choice of those that attend it. Germans remember well the cost of giving too much control of information to a central party. They have no problem making some UX tradeoffs to have freedom.
You mentioned some tactics. Now could you detail which specific "political" opinions you don't believe belong in the workplace?
Believe is a strong word that anchors you to an expected outcome. I _suspect_ that there may be a potential outcome, but I would not _believe_ it without first designing and conducting at least one experiment. For me, belief comes after experimentation and analysis of the outcome, never before.
Well, they're physically adjustable. iirc there's two mics and you can move them closer or farther away from your throat, which has an affect on what's picked up. The Harris radios also support a load of customizations to input, but it would be a real drag doing this because no team or squad has dedicated radios, and the shop ROs are likely defaulting the radio before configuring it.
Having worked at a big tech company, I can report that there is an intense, career-making-or-breaking individual imperative for managers to prove the 'value' of soft assets like credibility or popularity.

In my opinion, the reason these companies are willing to shed vast amounts of credibility for cents on the dollar is a systematic mistaking of asset dividends for asset value, which is reified into the organizational culture -- because no one in the C-suite really knows better, not-knowing is selected for, and ultimately becomes a requirement for individual careers to progress.

The dynamic is easier to see in other parts of the economy. While the rent that a fancy house can earn, say, does in fact speak to the value of that house, the fact that it is available for rent in the first place also impacts the value. For literal houses, this offset can be overcome, but for something like your credibility or your integrity, it's lethal.

But that doesn't matter if your boss doesn't know this. All that they see is 'number go up'. Then, often, your number -- be it salary or rank or both - goes up too. And six months later, when the consequences of the firesale become clear, it's too late for the employer -- but not for you, the architect of this terrible idea! You've already augmented your own income, and you can go back on the job market asking for equal-or-better compensation.

Since the number of companies suffering from this acculturated cognitive bias is greater than 1, you can in effect ping-pong between two such companies while gutting both, making larger and larger paycheques with each bounce.

This process is even easier if you work for a really big company, because then you don't even have to change employers! You can just change divisions every six months. The next reorg is right around the corner.

Credibility-for-sale is apoptosis, pure and clean, and it's lucrative to induce, even by accident.
This has to be seen as part of a broader program against the administrative state, although here it takes the contours of the climate debate.

For the coming years you'll be seeing the same approach used in this decision to rip apart everything from labor regulations to HUD programs.
This suggests that HSI only focuses on transnational crime, while ERO is "entirely immigration". In actuality, HSI also works on immigration. From an article linked to in the Coinbase article that this thread is about:

>According to ICE, HSI agents “encountered 97 individuals who are subject to removal from the United States” during its execution of a federal criminal search warrant at the meatpacking plant.

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/10/ice-raids-tennessee-meat...
cf HN comments on "Enclave: An Unpickable Lock" from five days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31880108
I think people's opinions on this are largely divided over whether they think the current ~75 years of peace (more or less—cold war's not a hot war, and limited proxy wars aren't world wars) between major powers is likely to continue. The pandemic was a tiny fraction as disruptive as a major war would be, and we struggled to handle that—if one expects a higher frequency of trade disruption in the coming decades than in the past few, reducing reliance on foreign trade might be a reasonable position.
Thank you, this could be exactly what I was looking for, I will look into this.
What do you think about Bitcoin?
Are you buying, selling, etc.

A lot of 'big names' sure got this wrong. I don't think web3 will ever be mainstream. I remember Marc Andreessen was interviews by Tyler Cowen and he could not give a good answer about how web3 is useful or better than existing protocols.
And almost impossible to understand or maintain to anyone coming after you to the project.

The benefits of frameworks is that there's shared knowledge on how to use it, lots of documentation and they are more battle proven.

There's a reason people are not writing assembler. Reinventing the wheel every single time has its trade offs too.
And, necessarily, will mean I pay more for imported goods as a US citizen. No thanks.
> Thought experiment: do you wish you were born 40 years earlier?

Absolutely yes.

Rare divorces, booming economy, a society able to communicate instead of cancelling people, burning cars or locking everyone at home.

Technology improves our lives up to a point.

I agree with you a lot of things improved (thanks capitalism) but our culture is a complete mess and I'd rather live on another planet.

To minimise the problem I moved to a country that many would call backwards. At least they won't teach my kids that men can menstruate.

I'm sorry for my kids, hopefully things won't get too much worse in the next couple of decades and hopefully we'll find another country to move to, once idiocracy takes control of this one as well.
D-locks don't work either, since thieves discovered battery-powered angle grinders

If cycling is to be a significant part of the future of transport, we need to solve bike theft.
Right, but the colloquial usage stemmed from the domain name :)
Yeah it was. I wonder if I went back now if it'd be in full swing.
GPL is one of the least free licenses out there.
Measuring AI’s Carbon Footprint
What I meant is that the solution is to even have a product, any product that TRIES to handle this situation. The fact that it is being handled by some product is itself a solution. I never would have had said it until I had this problem that the fact of the promise of a solution IS itself a solution, dumb as it may sound.
Maybe because nobody is going to invest megabucks longterm to create capacity only needed in the short term? (and may not even be needed)

In the chart linked here [0], section "Gasoline stocks (million barrels) and days of supply" each Petroleum Administration for Defense District has had flat supplies, indicating no especial need for additional refining capacity. In "US Regular All Formulations Gas Price/Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average" [1] the CPI adjusted cost of gasoline is somewhat high but still below where it was 2011-2015.

https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/weekly/gasoline.php

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=p93w
Huh? Economics dictate Starlink likely would go bankrupt without pursuing other markets, and I don’t recall them ever saying it would only ever be for “working people”.
I'm not against the idea of inclusive language in general, but given that companies and projects have limited resources, I'm not convinced the level of impact on diversity and inclusion is worth the level of effort that seems to go into it. I'd rather see people creating apprenticeship roles and/or sourcing interns from non-traditional sources if we really want to see change. There's probably an untapped resource pool in every city of smart, talented highschool kids in disadvantage school that don't have any current pathway into tech, and giving them that onramp will do more for D&I than inclusive language.
This would be quite useful if it turned out to work at scale.

Some like Nobel Prize winner George Olah talk about creating a methanol-based economy. It's one of the simpler ways to turn energy and CO2 into something that can be burned later.

Imagine such a process running at a distant windmill or solar farm. It could generate methanol and when the tanker truck was full, someone could drive it to market. That's much less infrastructure than some of the current systems.

* Edit: A closer reading shows that this catalyst seems to work for inserting an oxygen into an existing methane molecule. Others are talking of building a methanol economy from CO2 and H2. In either case, the transportability and stability is a real plus.
Extra “eye” movements are the key to better self-driving cars
I think there 2 main groups of people that these static site generators are aimed at.
1) People who care more about cost than anything else. You can host a static site for free with github pages and the like.
2) People who don't modify the content too often meaning that they don't care too much if the site takes 5 minutes to update.

Other people I've seen use them to great effect are photographers who have static sites generating based exclusively of images that they upload. As there's no real text content, they don't end up doing many "changes" as they generally upload images in bulk.
Interesting. I’ve used HN for a long time but never noticed it before, and was very surprised when I saw it. Almost feels like it should be marked with “promotional”.
That's a different medium, although I understand your point: Slack is the sole source provider of communicating on the Slack network. Personally, I don't think this is a problem or should be fixed because of how I see the tradeoffs and side effects. Similarly, I want Apple to run their own app store and not allow sideloading because I prefer the set of tradeoffs that come with that, versus the other reality.
I’ve used C++ for near 10 years and I don’t hate it (that’s a lie I hate it with a passion), but C# is just has much more flexibility, has better error messaging, easier to integrate 3rd party libraries, better package manager, better namespaces, no header hell, no memory leaks, exceptions with useful information, reflection, and so much more. C++ has raw speed.
We can judge the title, the thesis, and how it focuses attention away from the problems.
The Carlsbad plant actually does return it to the ocean:

"The desalination process converts two gallons of seawater to one gallon of drinking water, and one gallon of water with twice the salinity of seawater. The concentrated seawater is diluted before it enters the ocean"

https://www.carlsbaddesal.com/environmental-faqs.html
Hathora actually supports raw TCP connections in addition to Websockets, and we're very close to shipping raw UDP support as well!

For the web, we're deciding between using WebRTC or leapfrogging straight to WebTransport[0]. Either solution would be a thin layer on top of the raw UDP work

[0] https://web.dev/webtransport/
Could this explain trends like increasing food allergies in countries where more and more people are becoming urban dwellers?
> We humans have a terrible track record when it comes to using tech to try to counter environmental issues that we caused.

That’s a potentially valid criticism but it’s also a heuristic that, even if a valid one, draws on a very short history of generating solutions to man made environmental disasters. Things generally don’t work until they do, and there’s no inherent reason that humans can’t do well here.

> It has essentially never worked.

A large part of the reason for those failures was that up until recently, science was very dismissive of nuance in environmental systems, but now there’s certainly an abundance of caution, to the point where environmental engineering as a solution to climate change is heavily frowned upon, which is good.

I think desalination has more potential than just as to replace current water consumption, it even has the potential to make water an abundant resource, which is a very exciting prospect.

All of this should be approached with highly cautious and critical optimism however, since there isn’t a miracle solution to anything and it’s improbable that we’d stamp out all the possible consequences right off the bat.
> Is copilot really a violation of GPLv3 (our license)? How is co-pilot different from someone lifting sections of code?

If it's reproducing vebratim your code, yes it's a violation. And this is no different from others copying sections of your code.

The license that you chose says that people are allowed to do many things (e.g. copy and modify the code), provided they also fulfil some obligations. If they don't do that, they are violating the license.

Please note that this is not specific to GPLv3 (your chosen license). Other licenses, BSD-3-Clause, for example, also give rights (e.g. to copy and modify) and have their own set of obligations to be fulfilled (e.g. "Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer"). If someone redistributes source code (not the "complete" source code, even a "section of code" to use your words), they have to fulfill the obligations, or they violate the license.
Helpful 404s for Jekyll (and GitHub Pages)
No, they haven't violated any contracts...

They have until 2028 to meet the 100/20 numbers in specific areas. Ookla's testing was not specific to those areas, and was not done in 2028.

But let's not let facts get in the way of irrational anger
Ask HN: Which problem does WebGPU solve?
Why WebGPU?
>Have you ever looked at a badge of a sheriff?

Sure have! There are all kinds of different badges, some with very simple designs and others with lots of great detail. This is a very, very vague piece of innuendo that does nobody any good if you're hoping that we'll research it ourselves.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sheriff%27s+badge
The shipyard should really stop saying they can build ships of a certain size then. And they should stop taking on projects that they can't actually deliver on.
It baffles me this kind of language and name calling appears on HN. Let's discuss the matter and hand and refrain from ad hominem attacks, it serves no purpose.
There is a pretty marvelous woman, named Marianne Bellotti. She probably couldn't help you directly, but she's a total "old computer" nerd.

https://www.marianne-bellotti.com

I do not have contact info for her, and she has no idea who I am, so you're on your own...
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