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> Anyone familiar with academia (or even a R&D tech project) can imagine what could take 3 years

Yeah honestly (as an academic; on applied side), when I saw "3 years" my first thought was "wow that's fast." And the second one was "was that just to get approval or is that they've had the device in the rhino 0-3 years and are testing how effective their methods are at staying in and not doing long term damage to the animal?" Because the latter question I can see taking even longer. Though they say a rhino is poached every 20 hrs, so I think there's probably some urgency to the matter where 3 years of testing is good enough.

> Don't you think the journal reviewers would point this out?

Well... I also don't have faith in journal reviewers so who the fuck knows.
Used this a few years ago in early stages before VS code remote was a thing. It's very useful to add some interface extensibility components into VS Code's framework. I suspect microsoft made some intentional design decision to make this harder to do in VS code's apis, totally eschewing any real editor extensibility in favor of a "apps in the editor, not extending the editor" design vs Atom's much more open ended allowance for modifications. For example, if you wanted to make a form builder in VS code for VS code extensions - that would not be usable outside of the Webview tab functionality without modifying the editor source. Glad eclipse foundation recognized this and is providing some groundwork to make a real IDE out of VS code.
Theia was also the first to provide support for running vscode-as-a-platform and run via web browser, at least support that was functional and working.
> Why do you think a crippled group of 500 generalists should write every single detail of regulatory code for every facet of American life?

They shouldn't. No single entity should ever be allowed to "to write every single detail of regulatory code for every facet of American life".

Thankfully, with this decision, we have restored a situation where law and policy are developed and refined through the interplay of disparate branches of government with ultimate accountability to the public itself, with edge cases handled by the specialists who actually have the relevant expertise in interpreting law.

> I don't mean to say that executive agencies shouldn't be held to the Constitution or the law. Who says they shouldn't?

Well, that's the implicit argument of the people who are saying they should continue to be allowed to act as the arbiters of their own authority, without judicial oversight.

> But they should be allowed to have a broad mandate.

Unelected appointees who are hired on the basis of their expertise in a technical field, without necessarily having any special competence at handling the normative aspect of their duties, should absolutely not have a broad mandate to decide what the limits of their own authority are.
Just lasted 2 days moving pallets barrels and cylinders. I needed the customers to accept non-full 300 lb barrels instead of the full 500 lb. Couldn't do it. Pallets and wrapping were to load a bit easier but often we cut the shrink wrap at the first stop and the pallet had stuff for like 3 stops. Seems like the shrink wrap was practical to keep stuff from flying around but also regulatory, cops could write a ticket.
The great thing about replacing C-levels with AI is that nobody would even notice when the AI makes terrible decisions, because it’s expected.
> and unable to drink, so certainly terribly thirsty the whole time.

I know people that work in hospice, and they say this is a big misconception (the article hints at it too). they patients don't die from lack of water, they don't want water because they are dying, and their body can't process it. In fact, as you kind of touched on at the start, giving them IV fluids can cause them to drown since their body can't process the water.

Death is pretty ugly thing, that comes for us all. I got to learn the fun way that in the state of Oregon, it is illegal to disable a pacemaker. Even when the person has a DNR, and it is really the only thing keeping them alive. The best the doctors can do is turn the pacemaker down as low as possible, and hope its not enough to keep the person artificially alive. Which seems kind of really weird, when its also the first and one of the only states that allows medically assisted suicide..
> Under Chevron the executive agencies decided that without check.

That isn't even close to being the truth. Under Chevron congress was always free to pass statutes as detailed as they want to avoid the kind of ambiguities that would even apply to Chevron in the first place, and judges have always had the oversight to ensure that an agency's interpretation was a "permissible construction of the statute".

Those are two literal checks. I have no idea where you ever got the idea that executive agencies were "without check" but that is just plainly wrong.

"First, always, is the question whether Congress has directly spoken to the precise question at issue. If the intent of Congress is clear, that is the end of the matter; for the court, as well as the agency, must give effect to the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress. If, however, the court determines Congress has not directly addressed the precise question at issue, the court does not simply impose its own construction on the statute . . . Rather, if the statute is silent or ambiguous with respect to the specific issue, the question for the court is whether the agency's answer is based on a permissible construction of the statute."
> Congress can't actually legislate anything while it's held hostage by obstructionists

That’s a feature, not a bug.
The basic problem here is that there are three categories of people:

Those for whom X is fine/those for whom X is undesirable/those for whom X is deadly.

We used to have three categories:

contains/may contain/doesn't contain.

Draw this as a 3x3 matrix.

Those for whom X is fine don't care, they can eat any row.

Those for whom X is undesirable generally do not care about cross contamination. The risk * loss is low enough not to be important.

Those for whom X is deadly will not eat from the may contain category.

The FDA appears to have declared war on the may contain category. Who wins? Nobody. Who loses? Those for whom X is undesirable who are now no longer able to know that the item is probably fine.

I think they are operating under the fantasy that removing may contains means companies will ensure it isn't there, but that's an expensive endeavor that the marketplace simply doesn't call for.
Thank you. I was extremely skeptical that they used molten iron.
>Not only can they not “become fluent in anything,” it shifts more power to lobbyists and industry where expertise exists that can draft the language they want with the loopholes they want.

The Office of Technology Assessment was dismantled specifically because it was making it too hard for lobbyists to transparently pull the wool over lawmaker's eyes. Suddenly there was paper trail that the Legislature *knew, or should have known, that lobbyists were feeding Congress a line. OTA's entire job was to issue legislative subpoena's to collect information relative to legislative business.

Congress can literally make itself the single most pre-eminent employer of research staff on the planet, overnight. Do not sit here, and tell me with a straight face, that that is infeasible. The issue is will to govern, and reluctance by moneyed interests to start being questioned back by motivated, competent answer seekers in D.C. they can't legally withhold info from without committing the equivalent of a felony.

>The scale of federal governance is literally impossible without the looseness of intent interpretation that can be challenged and validated by the court.

That (challenging in Court) couldn't happen with Chevron deference in practice. Now it can. Good riddance.

Federal governance is far from impossible to do; and I'd like to know your definition of Federal governance. If it's "I want to pass a controversial law once to get it to stick in all jurisdictions, damn the consequences"; then not only do your complaints fall on unsympathetic ears, but I'd say that's the system working as designed, and Chevron was a step to breaking it worse.

If on the other hand, Federal Governance is "the judicious elevation to the highest level of government/enforcement only those tasks that need to be there irrespective of any individual subjurisdictions, all subject to the constraints of who does what aspect of the job as set forth in the Constitution of the United States"; then we're cool. I feel ya'. Them's the breaks though. And I say that as an ex-civil servant.

Government work is hard, thankless, frustrating, and the most dangerous thing to get fast and loose with.
> 2010 is a bit of a magic number, because that was the point when Republicans started their concerted, coordinated, country-wide gerrymandering campaign. So I don't think elections prior to then can support or refute any points about gerrymandering.

They already had done that, and they lost two big wave elections. (E.g., Texas redistricted in 2004.)
Lot of that happening in Manhattan, huh?

You can save the pearl-clutching hyperbole.
Like the rest of the OS from kernel to most of user-space. You're making solid arguments and completely missing my point.
Some parks have rules against smoking, grilling, flying kites, bringing dogs, playing lawn darts, being there after 9pm (that's the trespassing part), and yes, even camping. And those are all voted on by elected officials. If you don't like it, vote for different councilmen.
Not only that, but the thermal stress of pouring molten iron on wet, cold and cracked stone.... call me skeptical
What, like not project authority? Admit that they are lost, confused, powerless, don't know something, aren't in control? Break the empire society kayfabe?

Yes, absolutely. I view this as one of the criteria by which I assess emotional maturity, and despite societal pressures to never do so, many manage to, even though most don't

I'm not a sociologist, but I think the degree to which people can't turn it off maps fairly well onto the "low-high trust society" continuum, with lower trust implying less willingness or even sometimes ability to stop trying to do this on average, though of course variation will exist within societies as well

I have this intuition because I think the question of whether to present vulnerability and openness versus authority and strength is essentially shaped like a prisoner's dilemma, with all that that implies
It wasn't really "without check" though, was it? Courts could still rule that an agency exceeded its authority, it's just that Chevron meant the courts had to give deference to the agency's interpretation if Congress left the law ambiguous – and if the agency's interpretation was "reasonable."

So for example, if a law grants an agency power to regulate pollution emitted into the air, the agency already couldn't simply decide on its own that it was also able to regulate toxins dumped into rivers. But it could decide, if the law was vague on this point, whether "emitted into the air" included car exhaust vs. only stationary factories, for example.

The principle was that if Congress left a definition or meaning ambiguous in the law, it's implied that defining its precise meaning is part of the regulatory work they wanted the agency to do. Now, instead of that principle, the meaning of every ambiguity is open for litigation to select a different interpretation if the court finds it preferable to the agency's.
In 100,000 years from now, after we're past the next ice age, archeologists will unearth tokamaks all around the world. Regular people will speculate aliens and a worldwide connection between the peoples of the world to explain the multiple occurrences.

They'll have unlimited energy based on some quantum shit.
Yeah I don't remember them dropping the fares although it was a while ago.
I suspect he made the decision to buy DNA after this:

http://home.mcom.com/mozilla.org/1998-03-25/party/

That party was a huge milestone in retrospect. It was the day FOSS went mainstream. Shortly thereafter, the dot-com boom ended and the 90s tech parameters got upended and scrambled.
The time to do something about Biden was 2020 when the Democrats could have run a ham sandwich against Trump and won. Now, their choice is either to win with Biden or lose with Biden. There's no third option where someone else wins against Trump. Red states are already locked in. Conservatives are locked in. Evangelicals are locked in. Republicans will toe the line even if they hate Trump, they'll suck it up and do what it takes to maintain power. There are very few fence-sitters in this race, and most of them are on the left, threatening to jump ship like they did in 2016 because they couldn't get Bernie and couldn't stand Hillary.
Nuclear weapons are targeted, an asteroid releasing 1000x the amount of energy of all the world's nuclear weapons isn't going to be 1000x worse. Perhaps it'll vaporize on impact in the middle of the Pacific.
But they're not all over the place like you would think from the 65 nonsense.

The vast majority of cases are trace levels of low risk materials. Never mind that in most cases you're facing a lot more risk from natural materials.
That’s way better odds than being a top tier professional athlete.

If 60% of companies fail that means if you start 6 businesses then you have a 95% probability of having a successful business.

Only 1.6% of college football players transition to the NFL.
24v AC, typically, so you would need a rectifier to bring it down to DC then a buck converter to drop to 5v. Definitely doable especially at the low voltages present, but in many cases more of a hassle than finding a USB wall wart and plugging it in.
Between 1933 and 1995 we had sixty two years of Democrat party majorities in the U.S. Congress. That was before the Internet and back when the U.S. was less polarized than today. And the Great Depression and the New Deal left the Democrats very popular for decades. Today I don't see how gerrymandering could defeat wave elections. Democrat gerrymandering did not prevent 1994, and Republican gerrymandering did not prevent 2006 and 2008.
20 years from now. And the same answer after 20 years.
They had huge stadiums, though.

Modern people had very little idea why you would have a stone stadium until around XX century.
> How you bank can screw you over

This is the first heading 3 paragraphs into the article (note the typo in "you"). Do people ... not even read their own writing before publishing an article these days? I understand people don't want to "waste" money on editors but most random dev blogs have fewer typos than sites like this where content is _monetized_ through ads.

I bank with one of the main US companies and probably should look into using a second, but setting up credit cards etc. at each one seems like a bad idea...

IMO, this is why we should have basic banking through USPS or some other federal organization. I don't care what it costs or why private organizations with [clear histories of fraud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_cross-selling_scan...) are supposedly better. We should just have better nationalized banking offerings (airlines and healthcare too for that matter) and remove this problem altogether.
This is the approach I tried to take as an IC frontend on a building management system dashboard about a year ago. It was basically me and one other frontend, one full-stack, and a QA or 2, plus a manager. My manager I guess had written a lot of the code we'd be interacting with, and I guess was somewhat protective and reluctant to delegate authority over decisions around it. It was a big refactoring project, and I just encouraged my colleagues to take the things they wanted, like rebuilding the state management system. We'd discuss the requirements and why it was necessary, and I'd look for reasons to agree rather than disagree, then we'd be off. Something burnout has taught me is that the marginal differences between one implementation detail or another are not worth getting hung up on unless they pose a real problem, especially when someone else gets to decide that doing it fast is priority (sprints).
- "Kerr-enhanced optical spring for next-generation gravitational wave detectors" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39957123

- "Physicists Have Figured Out a Way to Measure Gravity on a Quantum Scale" with a superconducting magnetic trap made out of Tantalum (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39495482
They megadosed B2 in the test. Many B vitamins behave differently at those pharmacological doses - for example, B1 will start acting as a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor like acetazolamide beyond 1600mg. B1 at doses over 3000mg is known to slow down some cancers up to 36% but under 100mg to speed up other cancers, over 2000mg it helps with some ALS and MS mimics. B3 at 3000mg seems to alleviate pellagra that is often misdiagnosed as schizophrenia. Daily recommended allowances of all these are like 1-2mg.
In the States saying hello to one’s coworkers is regarded as a common courtesy.
Show HN: Linkgrabs.com the Simple and Fast API to Fetch JavaScript Web Pages
For some of my work with LLMs and RAG I needed to be able to fetch content from my customer's support site. Basic cURL calls weren't working because the site is an SPA and is rendered completely through javascript.

The trouble it took me to figure out how to capture the rendered HTML from a headless browser and how to do it reliably in production inspired me to create LinkGrabs.com so others would not have to go through the same pain.
I guess a further refinement here would be that depression and anxiety are clinical terms for what are likely a range of conditions, some of which can be addressed using omega 3 supplements and some of which can’t (like mine).
Again, s/liberal/conservative/g and you get a comment just as accurate. But do continue to beat the "liberals suck" drum.
We can all over estimate our intelligence. I remember clearly getting some email from a list, downloading some weird thing and trying it. I remember clearly deciding it was just total junk - it took me about 5 minutes - and I deleted it.

Of course this was Mosaic. And of course I was totally and completely wrong. Said he while using the Firefox web browser. And when was the last time I used telnet?
Nobody does. Bear Grylls wouldn't be popular if the overwhelming majority of the planet didn't choose lounging on the couch watching TV over survivalist practice.

> but getting a cabin out in the woods and trying to live off the land is totally a thing people do.

And not a realistic option for the homeless unless you can afford land to live on. What kind of bizzaro country do you live in where this is remotely realistic or legal? The real world isn't Minecraft.
Airlines have dispatch folks that spend a lot of time deciding what altitude and route to file. Yes there are defaults so it's certainly possible they were busy and just filed the same but especially days apart it's likely that was the optimal altitude.

They're also looking at fuel economy so even if it takes longer if the air is thinner and they burn less fuel they may still save money. I imagine there's a certain distance where those two lines cross that is probably baked into the dispatch software for each plane model.
It’s hard to say hello?
There's been plenty of judicial oversight – courts could always overturn any regulations or actions by an agency that the court decided were not based on a "reasonable" interpretation of the law passed by Congress.
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I think that's a very simplistic, idealistic view of how the US government works. In reality, the populace is very limited in what changes it can make and which people can realistically become elected. Our electoral system, entrenched two-party system, as well as the prevalence of gerrymandering, all come together to ensure that.
It started as a sarcastic statement not a mistake, but it’s been used so often it’s turning into an idium.

Languages are full of phrases that get used so often the original meaning gets lost organs others that are heading that way. Raining cats and Dogs is ancient and nobody is quite sure where it came from, but as long as people understand intent there’s no need for to add up correctly.
But where do they sleep?!!

It's relevant because there are people with nowhere to sleep. It's not possible for them to not sleep.

Is your solution to jail them all, so that they sleep in jail?
You don't see tissue deficiencies in blood tests. You can have a local (e.g. brain) deficiency in the making for 30 years before it hits you and no blood test will show it as your body works hard on having perfect blood all the time.
It's not. I think this actually flips a lot of power back to the judicial branch in the short term, which is significant because federal judges enjoy lifetime appointments. Of course, Congress has the power to look at unexpected or perverse-seeming judicial outcomes and legislate accordingly, but the legislative process is typically slow and subject to various sorts of bargaining; a rather corruptible process.
I recall that Google has a library that will answer the question, "given two identifiers like cluster names or machine names, which failure domains do they share?". Those failure domains can be like "they're in the same rack", "they share a power bus", "they're in the same physical building", "they're in the same geographical region", that kind of thing.

I wonder if it has since been updated to account for different disaster scenarios. It would be good to know, if you're storing 5 redundant copies of something critical, that all 5 copies won't be under 10 feet of water if an asteroid strikes one of the poles and melts all that pole's ice.

I can't imagine what data would be so critical that it's important to make sure it survives such an event, but that hasn't stopped googlers over-engineering internal things in the past.
I remember as a kid being terrified of Netscape because of the ship's wheel icon. At the time I had a huge fear of the sea and seeing that nautical imagery made me feel sick.

I'd always choose Internet Explorer because of this. I'm really glad that Netscape rebranded to Mozilla Firefox. Much warmer and more inviting, less implied threat of drowning.
Related:

Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22792258 - April 2020 (183 comments)

Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22738607 - March 2020 (147 comments)

Theia: A cloud and desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19466001 - March 2019 (12 comments)

Theia – One IDE for Desktop and Cloud - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14687858 - July 2017 (58 comments)
Heisenbug seems related but not exactly right.
Oh man, I’m such a fan of Marc Andreessen. I know that in the past few years he’s come as a weird figure combining shady VC funds, with crypto and such things. But he’s such a smart insightful guy.

And what I love the most about these guys (Marc, PG, even Sam Altman) is that they ARE hackers. They speak in our terms, they have our awkwardness.

Thanks for sharing this.
You don't get the required doses from food though.
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmab033 for lots of info about it.
The court will be very zealous of its power (from 1803, in Marbury v. Madison) to decide that laws are unconstitutional, so yes, if the court things a statutory codification of Chevron is unconstitutional, they will so rule.

However it's also very unlikely that Congress will pass Chevron into law, and the text they might write might be narrow enough to pass constitutional muster, so until then this is a purely academic question.