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Threads reports having hundreds of millions of monthly active users.

The remote containers extension on VSCode is proprietary. Cursor had to write their remote extension suite.

Luckily Blue Sky isn't the only competitor in the space, then.

There are no followers on HN, unless I've totally missed something about the platform.

I've seen people report they get better engagement on Mastodon and Blue Sky than they ever did with Twitter, based on percentages.

Nobody can talk about climate change if you intentionally bury the science.

From the abstract of the article:

> We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually.

I don't understand how to marry the point you're trying to make to this. Cats are an invasive species to most small animals, and should be kept from accessing them.

In addition to the havoc they wreak on local small animal populations, outdoor cats live shorter lives than their indoor counterparts.

https://www.vetinfo.com/indoor-outdoor-cat-life-expectancy.h...

By reinvent are you referring to UX? Fastmail is reinventing email through superior open protocols.

The people that developed Wayland were the exact same people that developed X.Org. I'm sure they thought of all possible options because they are actually very smart people.

Not too familiar with the law, but Southwest Airlines only operated within Texas, and existed without federal regulation for some time, but eventually the federal government regulated them too.

Texas already did this at the municipal level[0]. Government power continues to be centralized whether it is Republicans or Democrats. Republicans seem to be the only ones marketing themselves as the party of small government though, which is a complete misnomer.

[0]: https://www.dlapiper.com/en/insights/publications/2025/06/te...

Somehow you have to provide an ID to watch porn in Texas, but a 10 year old kid can go to specs.com and just lie about their age and view imagery of a controlled substance. My wine club just delivers wine without verifying my ID, so a 10 year old child could just do the same with a parent's credit card.

I don't understand how this makes sense.

The state government in Texas is a complete disaster. Government overreach in this state is incredible to behold. Corruption goes all the way to the top.

Greg Abbott's largest donor is someone in Vermont that owns a private school system, so what did Greg Abbott do about it? He funded Republican opponents in the primaries to remove those who voted against his school voucher bill last session. He held billions of dollars back from Texas students and school staff as an incentive for people to vote the bill this session, and of course it passed.

Dan Patrick's largest donor is the tobacco and alcohol lobby, so what did he force down the legislature this session? Making THC illegal even though something like 70% of the state wants it legalized.

I can safely say that you should not move to Texas.

Government is not a business, nor is it 0-sum. Well-functioning societies with low rates of recidivism invest much more in their prisoners. We should be investing money into prisoners, so that they can re-integrate into society and become successful tax-paying citizens, just like the premise of the blog post we are commenting on. As the co-founder said, the Department of Corrections in Maine takes a cut of the inmate's salary.

NPR did a great article on the prison system in Norway: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/05/31/410532066/.... They are quoted as spending $90,000 per prisoner with a recidivism rate at half the US rate.

In some states like Louisiana, picking cotton is still something some prisoners do.

There is an example in this NPR article.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/13/1210564359/slavery-prison-for...

If we pay people 40 cents an hour just to say they aren't slaves, they they are slaves for all intents and purposes. They are put in poor working conditions working for for-profit companies, making much less than minimum wage. How is it legal for the State to not provide sunscreen or shade for inmates doing outdoor manual labor?

https://theappeal.org/louisiana-prisoners-demand-an-end-to-m...

Crunchy has some really smart people working there. Maybe most notably Tom Lane. I wonder if he'll stay on after the acquisition.

Yugabyte is Postgres from my understanding. They recently rebased from 12 to 15, I think.

What do you mean by this? Neon is still operating the same service.

Source: I work there.

If you cannot vote because you have no way to prove who you are or cannot get to a polling location, that is a de-facto lack of a right to vote, otherwise knows as disenfranchisement. If you can own guns but not buy ammo, you also would not have a second amendment right.

I don't even know what you're going into with the civic ritual portion of the comment. You originally said voting in the US is easy, which I countered, and you seemingly did not respond to it.

I'm not sure how you can call disenfranchisement activist wordplay. It makes me not even want to engage with you.

Just because someone didn't vote doesn't immediately mean the reason was disenfranchisement.

Given you live in Maryland, how can you claim voting is easy in the the entire US? Are you familiar with voting laws in every state and how elections can be weaponized by the state governments against certain populations?

Easy voting would mean drive thru voting, mail in voting, automatic voter registration, not weaponizing polling locations, etc.

I think you are taking your lived experiences and applying it to everyone. Are you elderly, disabled, a single parent, or are you living in poverty? Do you have immediate access to your birth certificate or a passport? Do you have a government ID at all? Do you have access to transportation? All these factors play into how easy it is for someone to vote.

Where are the stats for your claim?

Judges doing bad faith rulings can be removed by Congress. Checks and balances works.

Gerrymandering can have an effect, but I'm not sure how to measure it. Gerrymandering contributes to voter disenfranchisement. If you have been disenfranchised for the 3 years before the presidential election, why would you then choose to participate in the elections in the 4th year? To me, that number has to be non-zero, but it isn't obvious if it's anything significant.

For instance, how many Democrat supporters just don't show up to the polls in Texas because they feel that their vote doesn't matter due to gerrymandering in the state?

I think the issue here is that we are trying to apply logic when the American voter tends to be very emotional.

My understanding of the Americans with Disabilities Act, is that companies that are located in the US and/or provide goods/services to people living in the US, must provide an accessible website. Maybe someone more well-versed in this can come along and correct me or help you to file a complaint if my thinking is correct.

VSCode is not open source. It is proprietary. code-oss is however an MIT-licensed project. VSCodium is also an MIT-licensed project.

Your point is valid, but the lack of affordable housing in your city is most likely due to the lifestyles that cars allow us to live. Single family homes and parking lots as far as the eye can see.

The only component which is not currently open source is the control plane.

I'm also an engineer at Neon. The plan is to continue developing Neon as an Apache-2.0 licensed software.