skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody denies that "Congress deliberately leaves leeway in laws to give the executive branch flexibility."

The whole point of this case is that Congress gave the EPA leeway to decide standards and scrubbing technologies for toxic pollutants, and the EPA stretched that leeway far beyond what Congress intended to address a completely different problem involving a non-toxic alleged pollutant.
Please tell me you did not just travel to a tier-1 city like Beijing or Shanghai, and extrapolated what you saw in the CBD to all of China. There is a reason that they're still desperately clinging to zero-COVID policies when the rest of the world has moved on, against seemingly all common sense.
So bizarre to see USA to be derailed like this, by Americans. Difficult to understand what the long game is. By hurting the country, who is benefiting?
No, they shouldn’t be treated differently.

And if Facebook was handing data over to Chinese government officials and three letter agencies you’d be damned sure they’d be slammed over it. TikTok is doing it, and god knows what else, and again, there is no oversight.

And yes, I know facebook hands data over to the us, but that is done with oversight and warrants

So I agree with you, I just think TikTok is basically above the law right now
Exactly this. And by putting this off, we've avoided the hard work to get the laws we deserve. After all, if the courts can just wave a wand and make something a `right`, who cares who you vote for or if you even vote at all?

I think the temporary pain will be worth it in the long run as we do the hard work to pass the laws the majority agrees will improve the environment, human rights, and so on.
> Write-once-run-anywhere. Ha. Hahahahaha. We are only testing on four platforms right now, and not a single pair has the exact same quirks. All the commercial games are tweaked and compiled individually for each (often 100+) platform. Portability is not a justification for the awful performance.

I love this blurb. I've been 'on an island'/'in my wizard's tower' at work, and I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who ends up pulling hair out when docs don't match expectations.
Does a typical enterprise need a distributed source control system? It makes a lot of sense for open source.

Doesn't the uptake in Github which centralizes this distributed system kind of invalidate its main tenant?

I haven't been a hundred percent sure the overhead was ever worth it at most other types of paid gigs over the years. Adding complexity without value is a mistake imo. Maybe it's my own fault I haven't seen the value...
The product suite differs significantly from 2015. Put aside new and acquired products like Trello and OpsGenie, the existing products have significantly expanded their capabilities and added Premium and Enterprise tiers.

Revenue in 2015 was $320M,
In 2021 it was $2B. That kind of growth requires growth in Supporting functions and infrastructure teams, not just in product.
Different strokes for different folks. At different times in their lives.

Don’t expect something as subjective as happiness to also be rational.

In my teen years, I felt trapped where I grew up so I moved to NYC.

In my early 20s, I couldn’t afford Manhattan so I moved to the suburbs.

In my mid 20s, I felt trapped in the suburbs so I moved [back] to NYC.

In my early 30s, I felt trapped in NYC and just recently moved back to the suburbs.

In 15-20 years, I’ll probably think along the lines of folks who say they want a pied-a-terre in NYC for the (non-winter) weekends and suburbs during the week.
I was working at Wizards of the Coast in the '90s (pre-Hasbro), right after we moved to a huge and expensive building. They laid off a ton of staff that winter to cut costs.

Just completely senseless.
I think i read something like this on theonion.
> Traditionally, nothing in Bruxelles get done without widespread consensus

One assumes "widespread" in that context means both in the Council and the Brussels 'bubble'?

Imagine if one were to be able to decide stuff like this via, say, a public vote, in an election. A radical idea!
We used a large amount of local physical storage spread pretty evenly over the machines in the cluster and then gave this to Longhorn to manage.

It pretty much takes care of everything else. But does require some preventative TLC
for neovim with lspconfig:

formatting code: `lua vim.lsp.buf.formatting_sync()`

go to definition: `lua vim.lsp.buf.definition()`

rename variable: `lua vim.lsp.buf.rename()`

type information: `lua vim.lsp.buf.hover()`

find references: `lua vim.lsp.buf.references()`

code actions (add missing import etc): `lua vim.lsp.buf.code_action()`

For more commands `:h vim.lsp.buf`.

There is plenty available through LSP today supported by all editors. IDEs provide a better debugging experience (with breakpoints and variable values) though that too can be done with vim/neovim using the debug adapter protocol and plugins built on it (similar to language server protocol but for debugging).
It is objectively not ludicrous. It might go against the commonly taught idea that businesses should focus solely on generating profits, but it is not unreasonable to create a system where businesses have to keep the common good in mind.

There is a difference between 'how things are now' and 'how things could be'. Imagining and wanting a different status quo is not by itself ludicrous (especially since we all stand to benefit from such businesses), it's a first step towards change.
This is a great tool.
https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/QuickTextPaste
I'm hopeful they will visit AUMF at some point and revert back to having the Congress have to explicitly authorize war and also not redefine things as near-war but not war. Deploying troops in active conflicts = war.
The incompetence was well on display anyway with their acquisition binge.

Now that reality is coming back into vogue, a lot more companies than Unity are going to be realizing that revenue, unit economics and profitability actually matter, and most of the high flyers of the last ten years are poorly structured for it.
No place is perfect. Much of the fossil fuels that European countries consume was coming from Russia and is paying for the horrific things Russia is doing in Ukraine.

But narrowly, I'm talking about democracy itself, which is not doing well in the US.
I haven't found it yet, but Twitter only shows me two or three replies at a time. Seems like this post should have just linked to that.
All Ukrainian children know to 'never leave breadcrumbs on the table'
It's not clear to me if the court has ruled broadly regarding delegation here (we still need experts to read through the entire ruling), but they've clearly indicated that they believe that delegation is not okay with them.

Which basically means that this court will reduce the Federal government to a non-entity very soon, making its functioning absolutely impossible.

That may even be "constitutionally" correct (although no court since the founding of the US has ever found that to be an issue...this is an entirely new creation by a few members of this court), but it makes the US completely incapable of operating in the modern world.

If you thought China taking over Africa because the US govt was distracted by the Middle East (and isolationism) was bad, it's gonna get way worse when US federal agencies will constantly need to check back to see if they even have the power to do anything because the current SC has decided to curtail Federal powers in a way that every court before had absolutely no problem with.
Race the rules
my only cheatsheets are customer-specific ... so they're basically unshareable (the general ideas of what's being done apply all over, but there's a lot of environment-specific stuff that I don't want to have to remember all the time :)
A huge piece of this is that they are creating judicial tests that are hugely subjective.

They are happy to issue this ruling because when some policy they like comes around they have given themselves the legal cover to interpret it as a constrained delegation of power.

The same can be said for the historical tests they have introduced. They ask that judges look for the "history and tradition" of various activities knowing that they don't have to defer to an actual historian or linguist. They can find the history that agrees with them or form the question such that the history agrees with them. e.g. in the case of Dobbs, the question they asked was "is access to abortion part of our history or tradition?" when they could have just as reasonably asked "is privacy and bodily autonomy part of our history or tradition?"

It is calvinball as jurisprudence and the cases this term are far from the last time we will see these 5 blatantly contradict themselves and/or good faith interpretation to reach a policy outcome.
I used to teach a coding bootcamp. I had over 100 students over about 2 years, and ran into this constantly despite my best effort to explain that git != github from day one. We even did an exercise where we just used git locally first and then later (on a different day) showed how you can push to github. It didn't seem to matter. People just decided that git = github and couldn't let go of that.
Investors is too generous of a word. These people are speculators, nothing more. They're trying to cash in on an asset bubble in the making. Same story with crypto. A few of them will time the market perfectly and come away rich. The rest will be caught holding the bag.
> For crypto to have value, someone else needs to pay Dollar/Euro/whatever at an exchange. That's the value of crypto - the exchange rate.

This is true for every economic good, including paintings. Whether the value is "inherent" or not is irrelevant, you need a transaction or the value is just theory. Culture could also forget about the significance of the Mona Lisa, it has happened before, see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest, a mathematical text that our culture considers having very high value, but was overwritten into a prayer book by a culture that considered the work less valuable than the material it was written on.
Agreed. China and India put out significantly more and dirtier pollution than the US and nuclear is the only realistic pathway forward for base emissions-free power.

Furthermore, this was the right decision. You can't just have the executive branch make up law. If Congress wants this, they can pass a law. That's how the US works.
This is what some "conference phones" do -- I have an Anker powerconf, which has an array of six microphones and is very good at beamforming. It sits on my desk for general use, and I also use it for meetings with multiple local participants. It's better than the much-more-expensive conference room mic setups we have in the office.
I wonder if there’s a change within living memory that has caused that cough Bork cough

Snark aside, there’s a reasonable case to be made that Congress has been increasingly treating the judiciary as a super-legislature. Far easier to avoid the work of compromise etc. when you can punt it to the USSC. Whether that’s pure laziness or something structural based on a reduction of overall party power is up for discussion.
Then tell the EPA to start lobbying the NRC to allow new nuclear plants and start allowing innovation in the space.

The EPA is not a legislative body. If you want to make it illegal to run a coal plant because you feel like it’s your duty to force some pain on the citizenry for what you perceive as a higher calling: pass a law.
>You mean literally Windows' Notepad? Because that's about the worst app to write on.

It's actually one of the best on Windows, because if you leave your computer for a moment and it randomly decides to restart to install a Windows Update, often a notepad with unsaved changes will block it from restarting, whilst unsaved work elsewhere won't.
I live on a 100+ acre rural property just outside a large city. Surrounded by mansions and massive estates, and with a world renowned walking trail literally just down the street.

There are many things I like. There are many things I don't. Not least that everything is a 20+ minute drive away. Everything feels entirely remote.

Now add endless ticks (for some reason worse than ever the past two years), black flies, mosquitoes, wasp nests appearing everywhere, the stink of farm fields, closer still the stink of septic beds (whenever a low pressure system rolls in you smell the septic tanks. And to be clear, this is an area of very high end homes all on massive lots). Every storm is a power outage, requiring eventually equipping a whole house generator. Every snow storm is a disaster. Grounds maintenance is an endless pit of effort. The streets are barely wide enough for cars so a walk feels like a death defying activity, and almost no one actually does it. The trail is always incredibly busy.

Before we lived here we lived in a small home across from a grocery store shopping complex in an urban area. The backyard was tiny and we had nosey neighbours who'd hang over the fence and watch what you were doing. You'd hear the endless rattle of crapbox Civics with noise-making mufflers, blasting the bassline of some rap.

I enjoyed living in that tiny house way, way more. I loved just walking across the street early Sunday morning, while everyone slept, and smelling all the freshly baked goods, getting a croissant fresh from the oven. A five minute walk yielded parks, trails, pizza places, sushi, and everything else.

I have no idea why I posted this, but happiness in life really isn't as easily assessed as we often think. There are many who would be absolutely certain that their life would be nothing but bliss if they lived where I did. Humans don't work like that.
> Congress can fix everything that’s happened in the last few weeks via proper laws.

Can it?

In principle, sure, anything can happen.

In practice, given how it's not possible to pass any legislation without a filibuster-proof majority?

As others have commented in this and related threads, this is a win for industry precisely because congress CAN'T do anything in practice, given the reakpolitk of how congress actually "works" today.

I wish folks would stop saying "well, it should just go back to the spec, problem solved". This isn't code. This is the convoluted and complex world of political reality, where, unfortunately, might does often mean right. And more often than not, addressing the root cause isn't even possible, much less practical.

If anything, it's the current supreme court that is taking a binary view of legal interpretation and have "fixed the glitch". Glitches which in reality are patches which have been added organically over time to address changes to the underlying OS, new and unheard of use cases, changing specs and requirements, etc.

Unfortunately, a full rewrite often requires systemic overhall and reboot (something I would hope people are averse to doing in practice)
I'm guessing this started in good faith as a way to track down money launderers and other nefarious users and naturally ICE caught wind and demanded access as well. Coinbase is proudly apolitical so it has no reason to refuse compliance with an alphabet agency.
Yes, this is a win for republican democracy, and a loss for "governance by experts."
> But even if you believe that a given law is good - that women should have an inalienable right to an abortion, or that there should be tight controls on who can carry a weapon, or whatever - you've got to recognize that sometimes the Constitution does not give the government the power to make that happen.

It does, though, via the Ninth Amendment, which explicitly notes that the Constitution is not an exhaustive listing of the rights of American citizens.
I once made a throat mic out of a cheap consumer grade accelerometer switched at a few kHz in ac mode, that was a fun hack.
The Major Questions doctrine is an invention of the Roberts court that no court before has even considered.

So yeah, they made up new rules, and yes, you're right, that the rules they made up to achieve a certain goal indicate that those goals are indeed correct.

Edit: The unsaid part of the "Major Questions" doctrine is that what it basically means is that the only decision maker in the US government is the Supreme Court.

This Supreme Court has chosen to parse Congress's bills text both strictly and loosely depending on whether it achieved their political priors. Further, they've alternatively decided to use, and disallow the usage of public statements by Congress members and/or the President for the same reason.

This is little more than a dismantling of the US govt.
It's in no way interesting. It's a bunch of old, bad ideas duct taped together and renamed with nonsense words to both obfuscate what they're doing and establish an in-group language just as cults do.
I'm the author of `cheat`. The two tools are somewhat less similar than they initially appear, due entirely to poor documentation on my part.

If you're interested in a breakdown of the differences, I elaborated on this recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31600605
Yeah it's definitely not very good -- there are tons of good solutions in this thread now though.

> Not bad enough that I'd comment on it, but if I knew you'd gone to the trouble of a custom setup with elaborate extra adapters etc, I'd expect it to sound excellent (like a podcast mic or similar).

That (used to be) the best part! No one knew how much trouble I went through for this subpar setup!
The Sordid Past of the Cubic Formula
What an excellent simple post. Amazing how our of sync, how ridiculous the situation is. The board real-estate for DIMMs is out of control. I'd say smaller form factors would be so excellent, but short of serious change it feels like an incommensurate ask, like it's not going to get us to really better.

Yesterday there was an article on Intel's newest integrated silicon photonics, this time having some of the photonics on stacked chiplets on the chip[1]. It's a different sort of integration and micro-miniaturization, but feels very much the same. Not needing a big ole NIC, not needing to have extra, power sucking PCIe transcievers at each end, by moving capabilities onto the chip complex would be amazing. I'd love to see ultra-dense servers of the future where there are dozens of cpus on a sled, with basically just power & optical io feeding each chip. We've bounced off the "disaggregated rack" a couple times now, but it also feels like a major phase transition has been building for a while to.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31924382
The rationale I've heard for this is that there's a small but material portion of customers who would return every game after they finish playing it. This is less of a problem with physical goods (like your Costco example), where someone usually wants longer-term use out of the durable goods they buy.

It's interesting to wonder what the net outcome would be if they ate that cost in exchange for making customers feel safe taking a chance on more games.
I'd argue that one of the main drivers of climate change is this precise behavior: trying to alter the environment to be favorable towards the thing that I own.

I see it on a micro level of people trying to kill insects that get into their gardens or moles that ruin their lawns, and a more macro level of my state/country has coal underneath it and therefore we shall fight to continue to use coal or even my state/country doesn't have a lot of arable land for agriculture because of permafrost or access to non-frozen ports for shipping so increasing global temperature may actually be good for us.
Because the alternative would be not having the rural areas continuing to be part of the nation. If you can't come to an agreement with us, that's fine, try to move the regulation out of the federal government and see if you'll have better luck at the state level with more like-minded people.
Hah. Interesting though experiment but in today's world even not all humans have human rights. Good luck enforcing that.
It's still very much an open question as to whether congress is allowed to abdicate its power of rule making to the executive branch. The constitution seems to imply that the answer is "no," but the past interpretations of it say "yes." Chevron is a younger precedent than Roe.
We have 50+ years of Congress delegating authority and blame to various other branches and groups without actually legislating it, which gives politicians perfect cover and someone else to blame.

If Congress wants to do something, they can pass the law to do so.

Ever since the "it's not a tax healthcare penalty" was upheld by the Court as "yes it is you idiots" it's been painfully clear that Congress wants no part in actually doing their job.
Discussions about the EPA seem to have to magical ability to make people forget that gems like the DEA and DHS exist. Heck, until recently the FCC was headed by a corporate shill.
Most of the time, official denials like this are official confirmations. You just have to parse the actual statement.

Recently, the CEO of a giant and old tech company, got into a meeting with all of his manager and above employees and very, very carefully said "no layoff is planned." Of course not: planned means they have finished.
> 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.

Huh? Remember Ajit Pai? It hasn't been that long.

It's profoundly anti-democratic for major decisions to be made by unelected, unaccountable technocrats (with a comment period) than by actual elected representatives who can at least theoretically be held accountable through elections.

IMHO, the solution to this is probably just to pass a law that authorizes this regulation that simultaneously pays off the states who object so they feel it's an overall good deal for them (e.g. fund a nuclear plant and a bunch of new infrastructure for each of them).
Many people don’t vote because they’re skeptical that their vote can affect anything — either because they’re in a definite minority in their legislatures or they think elections are bought, in a “changing minds” sense.
Even with the benefit of hindsight, I don’t know how one can look back and say trump wasn’t an underdog going into the election.

What exactly were they supposed to do? Ignore polls that show him behind and divine somehow that he was actually going to win based off of nothing?
Do you have a better suggestion that’s less partisan and less prone to abuse?

Humans will always bring bias, but I can’t think of anything better than “interpret as it was plainly written and would have been understood by the people who wrote it at the time”.
"This isn’t the end of the world though, Congress can fix everything that’s happened in the last few weeks via proper laws."

Dream on. You're trolling right?
Agreed. This isn't about climate change, it's about proper procedure as the Constitution sets it up. The EPA went past its mandated purposes as set up by law. Congress needs to pass a new law to give it this power. If it can't, that's their problem. This was a good decision as far too much power has been given to the administrative state to basically make up laws.
Modern art reproducers can make copies of the Mona Lisa that experts can't easily distinguish from the original. This kind of replica fraud happens often in the art world. I find it interesting to try to justify the value of the original when it is almost zero cost to have an exact replica of the original. The scarcity is not real, or at least the scarcity of being able to enjoy the intrinsic value of looking at the painting is not real. When you remove that part, the value lies only in being able to verify the authenticity of the work, rather than in its quality as art.