skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, I do not think that. I'll copy/paste this from another reply I made to a very similar comment:

> I do not expect Congress to atomically approve or disapprove every regulatory action. That is a straw man. I expect them to write clear laws that state what agencies can do, what they cannot do, and how they should do it.

But it isn't, the world changes, writing laws that anticipate these changes is equivalent to predicting the future. Take for example laws to regulate the telephone networks, those networks over time changed from carrying voice traffic to including data to carrying data exclusively (and voice just being data). So even if we believe the networks are effectively the same, Congress now has to waste their time to write new laws to keep up with those technological advances (and telecom is by far from the only area, what about new medical therapies that we hadn't imagined previously. Should Congress write new laws for these? ) essentially this is the way to paralyze it.

> The case before the court is a good example of how the opaque and unaccountable nature of a federal agency allows them to serve their own self-interest at the expense of the citizens they are supposed to protect. Specifically, Congress specified in law that "authorizes the government to require trained, professional observers on regulated fishing vessels". But their law did not specify who would pay for these observers. So under Chevron, the agency got to decide. And, shocker! They decided they did not have to pay for it.

I don't see what is shocking about it. Are you shocked that you have to pay for your rubbish collection (which is a requirement for living in many places)?

> This ruling stops that specific abuse, and hopefully many others. The actions of federal agencies is not generally a thing to be desired.
TIL he owns and operates DNA Lounge. Thanks for the late night fun and pizza, jwz.
Eclipse is reliable decent for a wide variety of needs - that’s ultimately its selling point
> Google's code, tooling and accompanying practices are developing a reputation for being largely useless outside Google .

It is almost a tautology

Why would they be useful for domains they are not designed for?
I mean this article is about "What Happened To People Magazine?" and not "People Magazine Is Just As Great And Insightful As It Has Always Been". It seems a little silly to ask me to defend the merits of specific articles on the site now.

However, I will point out the strong irony in that appeal to authority you are doing there. Why is what Henry Buckle said any more important than the soon-to-be president like the article's example of the Gerald Ford cover story in People's 4th issue? I guess being born two centuries ago means he isn't a "celebrity" so we can trust him?
The case you’re referring to, Trump v. Anderson, was decided unanimously.
The US Supreme Court can decide what is constitutional, and Congress can amend the constitution that is the basis for the USSC decision (with 2/3 vote).

With the current makeup of Congress, it is unlikely so the USSC holds significantly more effective power than if it had a functioning Congress.
Landscape -> Netscape
I agree that it's a bad approach, though I'd be skeptical of a technological solution. And while a centralized government ID service would solve those problems, it would probably cause a pretty huge privacy backlash. I don't think there is a clean solution here.
Barely at all. The federal government will continue operating 99% exactly as before. A few controversial agency decisions will get reviewed and overturned, and Congress might even address those specifically in legislation, and even better, Congress might write better legislation. We'll see agencies lobbying Congress, too. But that's it. Few will even notice.
If we go by this definition, solar is not renewable either, as the sun will eventually go through its life cycle and be extinguished, as are all other stars.

For all practical purposes, both nuclear and solar are renewable.
Chevron arguably helped Congress shirk its responsibility.
> it's a lot better than anything Unix side due to the ACL and security model.

Better is subjective. It's maybe more capable. It's also easier to create confusing DACL structures that do not do what you think they do or leave surprising gaps in coverage.

> and grew to a huge size and surface area and that is hard to fix retrospectively.

We added network cards to everything at the same time networks finished moving from being isolated to being permanently globally interconnected. Machines that had a multi user capability (that didn't cost thousands) fared this transition better than those that did not.

> Anything which can read ~ is a problem because there's where all my important shit is...

It wouldn't matter if it's ~ or not. The software runs as you and so can access anything anywhere you have rights to. Which is why chroot, namespaces and pledge all exist, and windows really does not have equally secure equivalents to these technologies. To the extent it does, commercially available software does not seem to take any advantage of it.

Then again, running an agent that actively screen shots your desktop periodically and then saves those unencrypted to any part of the hard drive is a bad idea regardless of the imputed confidence you have in the security of the operating system itself.
One of the few topics on which he has something useful to say (Software is eating the world was another).
If I ignore you or anyone, please instead assume it’s because interacting with you or anyone is very exhausting. I can and will be polite and full of smiles as you train me, but that’s by far the hardest part of my day.
can't wait for id.me

if you don't know id.me, it's the new gatekeeper to your ID for any interaction with the USA govt in the near future. If you still don't have one, you are just not poor enough. But the time will come. enjoy.
I disagree that the low ranking athletes don't provide value to society. They are the motivation for the people at the top to continue to improve. The more people are nipping at the feet of the top athletes, the more they realise they increase their game. That's without mentioning that in some sports, a lot of people enjoy watching the lower level performers because they can more easily relate to them.
The best codebases I worked on were from startups that failed due to lack of product market fit. Oh man, their code was so beautiful and optimized…
To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race
I believe this is the article:

https://www.ajaonline.org/article/3863

> In July 2014, we conducted a survey of Pompeii’s street network to document traces of iron that were observed on the stone-paved streets, which resulted in the identification of 434 instances of solid iron and iron staining among the paving stones. ... Pompeians were—in addition to using solid iron wedges—pouring molten iron and iron slag onto their streets as a method of emergency repair.

There's a huge gulf of difference between "a civilization is capable of melting iron" and "molten iron is so cheap and easy they used it to fill potholes".

Castable iron: Valuable, scarce, energy intensive, very hard to melt (comparatively), corrodes readily (especially on the coast)

Iron and other metal slag: Byproduct of iron smelting, basically waste, melts fairly easily, was used as ballast in ships, comparatively cheap, rusts superficially but is mostly a matrix of oxides which don't meaningfully react

I'm beyond skeptical that perfectly good cast iron was used to fill potholes. Using slag/dross/failed smelts/other byproducts of metallurgy makes far better sense.

It would be like far future archeologists unearthing rammed earth tire walls and concluding "the 20th century was so efficient at producing rubber they used excess tires as a building material" vs "they used a waste product which would have been landfill anyways".
That website creator sued their state's regulatory agency, and "sufficiently demonstrated both an intent to provide graphic and web design services to the public in a manner that exposes them to [Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act] liability, and a credible threat that Colorado will prosecute them under that statute."[1]

Yes, the alleged "situation" may have been contrived, but that doesn't change whether they have standing to sue their state to challenge what they see as an unconstitutional law.

Do you think their only recourse should be to break the law, and risk the penalties associated with that if it does turn out to be constitutional?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/303_Creative_LLC_v._Elenis
Fujifilm X100VI Camera Is Worth the Hype
Do you think that Microsoft won't use that data in their telemetry somehow? Probably not as raw data, but as a locally AI-distilled version of it? Linked to your microsoft account, which is almost impossible to not link nowadays if you're not an expert?

Don't you agree that the data was in the initial version accessible by all local users on the same machine? Would you consider that a security leak?

Anything which could be exploited will be exploited, the only question is how long it takes.
Every case is obviously going to be viewed through the legal of legal ideology. That’s different from making it seem like it favors one particular political ideology. Liberals hated Chevron because agencies were generally less willing to push the law in their favor than judges. Under this ruling, they can go and sue in the ninth circuit and have liberal judges Decide what the clean air act means.
none of what you list are good excuses for anything. I fail to see the point. Is it that marketing trumps technical know how and it should be ok?
I've been following Theia for years (hi GitPod people), though mostly lost interest when vscode started being browser accessible, and back when they were using that old UI stack.

But I'm confused, how does this compare with code-server, or openvscode-server?

I use the latter in a web browser to do fully remote dev on my beefy machine hooked up to Google Fiber.

It kind of seems like this isn't something I need to consider, unless I wanted to ship my own custom white-labeled IDE. (Which... Nah, and why?)
> People... a Time Inc. publication

People actually started as a column in Time Magazine itself. Someone had the brilliant idea of doing a spinout, that as this article implicitly points out, ultimately outshone the parent.

Parasocial relationships are remarkably powerful.
By winning clear majorities, either "side" can do whatever it wants, including changing all the House/Senate rules to pass laws with simple majorities.
I love that this wikipedia article includes a "Principles" section.

Is this normal for wiki pages on people?
InterSystems Caché has some MUMPS like qualities.

It is easily the worst developer experience conceivable. Easily tied for last place in the pantheon of turrible ideas realized thru turrible implementations.

Sure, you can bork a SmallTalk env with some ill-advised changes to the runtime.

Caché is so brittle, you can bork your env with a compiler error. And there's no feedback. And since the env is a blob, there's no version control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterSystems_Caché
Same here. I had to switch from doing crazy stuff to just maintaining health. Hiking really fits the spot. I still get a lot of cardio (I have hiking trails with 1000m elevation gain within 10 minutes of driving) that way. But things like running or martial arts are out of the question. I am glad that I was able to adapt to a declining body. Some people my age still do high impact stuff and constantly get injured, take lots of painkillers and get surgeries.
Swiss german: a language spoken by ~5 million people, who fail to agree on what the personal pronouns are or how to conjugate basic verbs like "to be" and "to do"...
your attack on my integrity is outrageous and utterly uncalled for; it's entirely possible to disagree with people without insulting them, and i suggest you learn how right now

i don't think 'there are multiple things it has meant over time' is really correct, except in the sense that imperial roman mineralogy was entirely incapable of meaning things we mean today, because they lacked much of our conceptual framework. they didn't know the difference between basalt and flint, evidently, much as many people today don't know the difference between nylon and polyethylene and consequently mistakenly call their polyethylene shopping bags 'nylon'
To borrow from Babbage, I can't rightly comprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that might lead one to complain about political institutions being political.

The entire purpose of the political (and judicial) process is to reconcile to competing interests and conflicting values of the wide variety of people who make up society.

It is a delusion to hold that the matters regulatory bodies are involved in are somehow entirely empirical questions with unambiguously correct answers -- in reality, there are normative questions, value judgments, trade-offs and conflicts of interest inherent in every decision point.

These decisions are political ones, and allowing regulatory bodies to make inherently political decisions for everyone else can only have the effect of entrenching one faction's interests and values at the expense of everyone else's.
> So I'll have to create another user account to run a web browser, my mail client, a software package manager or a compiler?

If you can't trust those you have bigger problems than them reading your home directories. If you're paranoid use flatpak.
They won't be able to stretch the law as much as they have at times. As the court's decision in Raimondo and the concurrences note, the court had already stopped using Chevron since 2016. Notably the court ignored Chevron last week when they decided that bump stocks are not machine guns -- if you read that decision it was all about the interpretation of "more than one shot with a single action of the trigger", which is precisely what the court would have deferred to the ATF on under Chevron and which it did not now.

The scaffold of federal gun control (NFA etc.) remains untouched by Raimondo. Only ATF rulings regarding various technologies developed in the past 40 years will be affected, and probably not that very many. I doubt more than a very small handful of ATF rulings will be affected.
Yup. Mandating the inclusion of such features in new construction should be required. Retrofitting is another matter that very well might involve pretty much tearing down structures and most certainly shouldn't be required.

(And note that in some cases "new" construction must work with existing constraints. I'm thinking of a sign I saw in Carlsbad Cavern saying no wheelchairs past this point. The loop that was denied wheelchairs contained a pinch point a wheelchair couldn't go through. Man made the path, nature put the rocks there.)
It seemed like a round about way of getting the team to come up with as good an estimate as to where the project would be in two or three months without it. And where it totally falls down is when you don't have data for the kind of work that's coming up.
Do you think states will be able to enforce their own pollution restrictions? If so, life in blue states will get comparatively better - I say this as someone who remembers the awful Los Angeles pollution effects of the 1980s.
Chuckles.
Intel and AMD provide ME/AMT/SPS and PSP respectively on their whole x86-64 CPU range, which are embedded SOC : a CPU (based on quark for intel) and basic OS (said to be from Minix 3 for intel as well), nested within the CPU in the way they cannot be disabled as they are serialized to logical CPU init, "microcode style". Add obfuscated code modules, cannot be completely removed whatever everyone could do up to now. It can access to the network stack and has an "always on" behavior once the system is simply plugged to the power.

If you're security concerned, the OS stack is quite a... secondary issue to you.

You will have to consider switching to an open RISC architecture (Risc-V someone ? Strangely enough or not, EU seems quite fan of this on-the-rise-again architecture) AND a linux distribution.

For sure, for sensitive applications, having a cheap, secure and versatile architecture would be better than making DSPs or issuing hardly scalable and pricy FPGA solutions (well, lots of communication equipements' mainboards still uses them)
I tried to learn Zuridootsch as much as I could. I would translate when my German friends would visit. :-)

My understanding (what I was told) was that the Swiss make their deep friendships pretty early on, in school, and there's kind of a wall after that. I should have clarified that I didn't find it unfriendly but sometimes hard to get close to people, and it seems that expats tend to find each other for that reason. I would say it's a bit introverted as a culture, as opposed to say, Italy, which is an extroverted culture, for example. Not a judgement, just an observation.
> This is why things like warrantless mass tapping and the Patriot Act became 'good law.'...Before anyone says there were still checks and balances - if you feel the need to, you have no idea what Cheveron meant

It's wild to think that either of things couldn't have been possible without Chevron. Congress would have passed anything required to allow those to become law.
I agree that it could be worse! Facebook has significant (if not more) time spent and I found adding features to news feed a heck of a lot easier than adding features that interacted with google search. Generally a lot of this had to do with the number of people needed to be involved to ensure that the change was safe which always felt higher at Google.
I’ve read Foucault. I’m familiar with western and continental philosophy. I studied psychology, sociology, and political science too. Foucault‘s influence, as well as French existentialism and post-structuralism in general, are to blame for the current state of social science. Boiling everything down to a cultural power struggle is a pyramid scheme, a cult that infiltrated American academia. It’s certainly not a moral philosophy and Foucault’s life reflects that.
The essay that the book takes its title from is particularly relevant to this discussion and freely available online: https://www.esquire.com/sports/a5151/the-string-theory-david...

(As an aside, I'm surprised to see this in Esquire, do they still publish writing like this or was it a very different magazine "back in the day"?)
100% nonsense. Windows itself is as secure as Mac or Linux, and the other points (OneDrive, Recall) are security tradeoffs that make way for features (sort of like how you don't keep your computer in an air-gapped fallout shelter in a file cabinet with a note that says "beware of the leopard". You traded security for convenience, congratulations!)
Clarence Thomas? The huge amount of gifts he's taken from Republican donors who have ties to real estate companies and businesses that benefit the most from things like 'pesky environmental regulations' being weakened or removed?
I was technically homeless for 9 years.

This is the further erosion of social safety nets and criminalization of poverty while dodging the responsibility of not helping people who need it.
> C++ spaceship operator

> (A <=> B) < 0 is true if A < B

> (A <=> B) > 0 is true if A > B

> (A <=> B) == 0 is true if A and B are equal/equivalent.

TIL of the spaceship operator. Was this added as an april fools?
> And most worrying of all, writing can be an integral part of the research process, by helping researchers clarify and formulate their own ideas. An excessive reliance on llms could therefore make science poorer.

This. The mistake so many people seem to make is to think of writing merely as outputting text, when it's a lot more.

I predict LLMs will cause general competence levels to decrease, and an increase in the intellectual equivalent of three-fingered hands as more and more people lose the ability to notice the problem.
Not laws but executive agency rulemaking.
I remember being underwhelmed by the www before the graphical browser. Gopher I felt was superior. I would read about the graphical web browser in magazines but it required a slip
Connection which may not have existed at this point.

One day I read about a guy in brooklyn who had a website at www.soundtube.com and was selling music on the internet
. I got in touch and went to his office in brooklyn to look at his website in a graphical browser.
I than followed his lead in getting setup.

The logo for the site was a half squeezed tube of toothpaste with the word sound tube on it.

I don’t remember his delivery mechanism. The last time I visited the site it was the same logo but with the subtext that “what could have been”.

I occasionally look for more information about sound tube.

Seems to be lost but I hope it is only missing.
It's ridiculous how bloated Eclipse used to be perceived, and how lightweight it is now compared to VS Code. Eclipse can run on a 256MB Java heap...
On the Eclipse Theia IDE download page [0] it still says:

>NOTE: The Eclipse Theia IDE is currently in beta.

Does "exits beta" mean that it will at some point in the future exit the beta? I understood it to mean that it is out of beta today.

[0]: https://theia-ide.org/#theiaidedownload
> This trying to connect it to Thomas’s vacations thing has come out overnight and seems out of a script.

Overnight? This has been brewing for years - we continue to receive more and more information, but it's hardly anything new.

> That certainly not what I learned in my administrative law class! Skidmore says judges may defer to the agency if they find the agency’s interpretation persuasive. But the judge always retains the power to decide the meaning of the statute itself. Chevron changes that significantly. The agency interprets the statute, and the court can only disagree if that interpretation is unreasonable. And Chevron allows the meaning of the statute to change with each administration.

I'm not sure if I'm being strawmanned here or we're just talking past each other.

My point is that federal agencies had been taking regulatory action before both Skidmore and Chevron. Do you disagree with this statement? If so, how do you suppose that these cases even got to the Supreme Court? I am not arguing that Skidmore and Chevron did not further codify the procedures, but that the status quo was Congress being able to create federal agencies with regulatory authority, and that the explicit reversal of Chevron is a significant neutering of the ability for both the legislative and executive branch to do that.

> Critically: “Crow Holdings and Harlan Crow’s name do not appear on the 2004 court filings.” And the Supreme Court rejected the company’s certiorari petition.

Crow spends significant portions of his fortune on political lobbying. He clearly has interests that the Supreme Court weighs in on that do not involve him or his companies directly as a plaintiff or defendant. I think it is ludicrous that any justice would feel it is acceptable to receive millions of dollars in benefits from someone who is so active in the political arena, and I would say the same if it came to light that liberal justices had done so. How you think it isn't a conflict of interest is beyond me. I know I have biases on, say, gun control, due to having several friends that are extremely pro-gun, and the most they buy for me is drinks on my birthday. It beggars belief that you honestly think Thomas would not be influenced in his decisions by his "personal friend's" largesse.
It looks like there's a mixed consensus on ancestry, but a fair bit of evidence they at least intermixed with European locals since prehistoric times [0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3806353/

No idea where the other guy got their %age numbers from, unless you only count specific parts of the family tree.
It's possible for the US to take note of it because of scale. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen elsewhere.
Right, Congress can delegate details and implementation, but it can’t delegate basic legislation. That’s obviously a burry boundary, but it’s clear they can’t abdicate their powers in general.