skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If every inhabitant gets a decent cut of the purchase price and agrees to move (or cedes large parts of the island), I see nothing wrong with it.

BTW, Nauru is that island nation that realized in the 1970s that it was covered with pure guano fertilizer (potassium, nitrogen, and phosphate) which was excreted by birds and bats over centuries. In the 1980s, they were easily the world's wealthiest nation, by per capita GDP, but by 1990, their guano reserves had dwindled, and most of the government's long-term investments were laughable at best.

Wikipedia says their sovereign wealth fund dwindled to ~A$100M as of 2002, the government has run out of cash to fund itself (for decades now), and I think Australia subsidizes them.
It would be great if all the newer charging networks would expose an API with enough information to guide charger strategy. Although I do think it might be hard to make a "keep going, someone else needs it more" strategy work. Someone will certainly try to hack it and make sure they never have to wait for a charger by lying about their state of charge. Might be more straightforward to just build out enough capacity so queues rarely occur. Unlike gas stations which always need tanks, electricity already exists in some quantity pretty much everywhere so we can spread out the chargers.
They can't only do that but they can embarrass someone who's passing an AI writer off as human. At minimum, they'll have to message in some way that the article was written by AI lest this trick is pulled to embarrass an author which was otherwise considered to be human.
It looks very cool. I'm not sure if it's a bug or what but I can't seem to get the the "New Post" button to enable to actually create something. It's also very confusing and unclear what Expressions are. I love how you immediately start with "there are four concepts here", but expressions is murky and after playing with it, I don't have any intuition for how these concepts actually manifest on a profile.
'Mystery company' buys land worth $800M near Travis AFB, raising concerns
Even if you don't want to just summarise the comments, you can view the comments section for most articles as crowd-sourced research on the topic. You can easily walk away from most interesting discussions here with a shortlist of topical articles, books, etc, and often some colour commentary straight from the horse's mouth.
Well what I mean is that a lot of people don't have a 'local rice merchant' or aren't going there - so it's not 'often' much of a choice, i.e. across all points of sale.

I'm not talking about just India (nor just rice) if that's the confusion - I don't know where I'd personally go for a choice of basmati cultivars, but there's probably things (potatoes?) I have more choice of in the UK than there generally is in India.
And what if e.g. a war happens, the power goes out, and you have to survive on your stock of instant noodles?

Besides, even North East Asians say they're okay.

https://soranews24.com/2017/08/27/can-you-make-instant-udon-...
Why?

low bits + CPU cycle counter

is enough. No need of the hash()
The European grid is much, much better shape than the US one. It is also luch denser, so I don't see a problem here at all, locally. Overall, the grid will be different when millions of EVs have to charged, but that will be done by the utilities because they will make money doing it. Expect a lot of whining to get EU and national subsidies to do so first, but that is business as usual.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar on this topic. It's extremely tedious, it's happened dozens of times already, and we don't need any more of this.

I'm sure your programming language is just fine. What's far from fine are these flamewars. Everybody, on all sides of this, needs to stop doing it on HN. Other forums are fine with flamewars; please conduct them there instead. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Aeropress shouldn't be as much of a problem, right? It's rigid plastic and contains far fewer polymers and is less prone to breakdown I believe.
I didn't realize that the llama license forbids you from using its outputs to train other models. That's essentially a dealbreaker, synthetic data is going to be the most important type of training data from here on out. Any model that prohibits use of synthetic data to train new models is crippled.
Texas is 6th in the US in housing construction per capita, and the top 6 metros for new housing construction include Dallas, Houston and Austin.
It's entirely ad hoc per location at Telsa SCs in my experience, even as every Tesla using nav gets notified to leave as soon as they have enough for next leg of trip.

Usually queues are obvious where it's 1 way in/out of a charger block. I've found it's up to the first in queue to establish and 'defend' the queue though. Many times folks charging know and nudge / wave / flash lights at the actual next in queue while slow rolling out for them to get in.

Very common for those queues to be obviously double park or line up idling if there's enough room but again depends. The worst locations are where there's back to back rows and both row ends have entrance/exit. Common at Target or other SCs in very large but not long lots. Where, I've seen a queue form on both ends.
10 250kw chargers are frequently only supplied by 1 megawatt of power supply.

They rely on the fact that it is common for some of the stalls to be empty, occupied by cars that have finished charging or can't charge at the full rate for whatever reason.

Some sites have batteries to provide a bit more power for the busiest times too. That has the benefit that those same batteries can participate in grid balancing the rest of the time (buying and selling power for profit, and getting paid for various technical grid services too).
For sure. XP looked at first glance to be heavily prescriptive. But the initial set of practices were always meant as a starting point for a team. The notion was to give them a safe context in which to experiment and adapt.

That was never really compatible with large companies, where managers need to feel in control and appear actively responsible for success. It also wasn't compatible with a top-down desire for "legibility". So in practice we end up with uniform process that's a bad fit for individual breeds
GPT-4 Capability Forecasting Challenge
It's been years since I've encountered the required latch to fill a tank unattended.

Maybe it's country specific.
Exactly. I know if medication were to be developed, checking "are GDF15 levels significantly lowered" would be part of the trials.

But how often does the medication development process check the result we care about: "does this medication then go on to reduce the chance of dementia?"
The "Why" is important. Why can't the farmer pass prices on to consumers?

The workers's whys are important to: Why isn't 48h per week enough?

The legislative why: Why did a revision bill to allow 50h work week fail?
Mmm.

From what I've been told, the older generation around these parts (east Berlin) would've been forced to learn Russian at school as their second language, and then been completely unable to practice it with anyone as all of the native speakers were soldiers from the USSR who would've been banned from fraternising with the locals.
Please look into the effects of manure on the environnement - like the death zone in the Gulf of mexico.

Everyone is arguing for the industrial meat industry at large.
Free range meat will not produce anywhere near the same amount as the industrial industry.

Please go look into L214 and 269 if you want to see how regulation is not respected in farms in the EU.
I should have been clear — those were the 3
> So meat and crop production are not a zero sum game and can even be complementary (crop farmers used to always have chickens, etc).

100%. And, based on the design, it can not only be complementary, there can be synesthetic effects that end up making even better use of the land.

Another example besides chickens might be, adding water-harvesting features on hilly uplands (that livestock grazes), which replenishes the ground water that are made available to the crop lands.
I think if you use CSS as a source of lessons learned after the mistakes were implemented and cemented, then yes. If you aim for where CSS was intended, and make decisions which do not compromise that direction, then it's fine goal.

The layering of distinctly-defined concerns contained in separate files which collectively project a merged specification to an IaC tool is a good idea, I think.
Ah, yes, I'll recheck the constraints regarding such all-zero data, easy to fix.
Dude. I don't sit at home refreshing status pages. Send me an e-mail.

That's how other [useful] providers notify their customers that one of their hosts went down unexpectedly. Linode will send me 6 emails when they need to reboot something. Even Oracle sends me notices about network blips. I believe I've gotten one from AWS, but I also know sometimes their gear gets stuck in a bad state and I didn't get a notification, which was super annoying because it took forever to figure out it was AWS's faulty state.
Switching to plant based alternatives won’t really fix the large fields of soy and corn that are the issue. We may need less to feed cattle then, but then we will need to produce more plant protein for direct human consumption or even bioreactors.
Summary:
https://tinyurl.com/22452u66
Did they lose a lot or benefit from the .com bubble? If they benefitted what would they learn except to do it again?
Question: Would it be possible to store foodstuffs at close to 0 Kelvin at scale, indefinitely? Cryopreservation for food instead of people? Which foodstuffs "survive" long-term freezing? How large and economical could large-scale food cryopreservation be?
That seems to be a problem with math in every context, from child schooling to wikipedia articles and specialized books.
Thing is, the outputs of a computer program aren't copyrightable, so it doesn't matter if your improved model is a derivative work. What you say would apply if you derived something from the weights themselves (assuming they are copyrightable, of course).
> previously the farm workers believed it was better to work 70 hours with no overtime compensation, rather than starve or become homeless.

Comparison is the thief of joy. This isn't a specific argument that something is wrong (why not complain about 40 hours? Or any hours? if someone is out on a farm, what else is there to do but sleep and work?). Everyone seems to agree that it is best for the workers to be working 70 hour weeks and for a harvest season that does seem somewhat reasonable. It is just haggling over price.

It would be a much better world where people could all laze around and just need to work a couple of hours a week to get by. But the path to that world involves creating better opportunities. Not finding the best option people have then blocking them from it.
more annoying than paying for journalism?
After a while the direct link to Google Search's cache will no longer work but it appears the the original link is now accessible: https://community.fly.io/t/service-interruption-cant-destroy...

Anyway, here's an archive link for future visitors: https://archive.is/7lSJA
I predict America goes through it's own version of The Troubles in the next couple decades.
Fair point. Strong believer in the "banality of evil". When people feel threatened it takes very little for them to turn on their neighbors
Show HN: Forager – Browse millions of live secrets leaked from GitHub/NPM
I mean. I wish them luck, but looks like run of the mill "ghost haunting" horror.
These (and the ones in the GGP post) are very good points.

To play devil's advocate,

- With data plans based on minimum speed, there would still be a possibility of service being degraded below the paid-for minimum speed during times of high usage at a cell site. There would have to be an asterisk in the contract to the effect that minimum speeds would only be supplied while possible. And, ideally, some regulatory oversight to ensure sufficient cell site capacity is installed based on the cumulative speed of the plans sold, if that makes sense.

- I wonder, to what degree is the structure of cell phone data plans constrained by regulation and private agreements? IOW, are carriers allowed, under current regulation, to sell minimum-speed plans? How complicated and time-consuming would it be to unwind inter-carrier cell-site-sharing agreements?
Rental car companies typically charge 3-4 times the street price per gallon to fill up your gas car. They don't like people returning cars low on gas as then they have to pay someone to drive to a local gas station. Having fuel pumps means expensive EPA permits (or whatever agency in your country ensures they don't pollute) and a lot of safety systems - better to let a real gas station handle that.. So I would expect their prices are unreasonable just because of tradition.

Of course electricity is something they already have, and in theory it should be a lot easier for them to handle chargers. However it is still new to them and they don't have it yet.
Most Americans do not have access to local rice merchants.
There are a lot of conditions for which treatment of symptoms is really the only option. I take ibuprofen and tylenol fairly frequently to deal with cluster headaches. If anybody can recommend a different course of action, I'm all ears.

Dementia terrifies me. My dad died last year with Lewy Body Dementia. After witnessing this, I totally understand why Robin Williams decided to end his life.
Look at some of the other comments in this thread. Key takeaways:

$30/hour isn’t what every worker is making.

You have to live on the farm 24/7 to get those 40 hours.

Normal worker was getting $1400/week, which is not $30*40hrs. Now closer to $1000/week, apparently. Tho these numbers are all from the owner not the workers.
Africa is not a state but a huge continent with many countries and diverse situations.
It feels very strange to read the level of willful ignorance displayed by objektif on hackernews. To ignore the context that the Pacific theater was 4.5 years of the most brutal fighting of the war, a mountain of experience demonstrating the Japanese resolve to never surrender, and the looming land invasion of Japan that at the time was predicted to likely kill 1,000,000+ US soldiers and many times more Japanese civilians is so disconnected from reality.

I would also argue that the use of those bombs saved many more lives by teaching the world a lesson about the horror of nuclear weapons. Its very possible that nuclear weapons would have been used in future conflicts when they would have been much more prevalent had it not been for the example set in WWII.
Longitudinal study on the relationship between childhood maltreatment and ADHD
avis in las vegas wanted the tesla back with 70% but gave it to me at 12%. great job all around.
The sort of people who see it necessary to buy an island for themselves are generally not the same ones you'd want part of society.
> Man wants to pay his workers a non livable wage

You can't just write this off in terms of "livable wage". The hourly rate times 40/48 hours a week is seemingly a livable wage for the season being worked. The problem is that this being seasonal piecemeal work, workers want to bank more money than required to merely "live" while the work is there, and then not have to find a different 40 hour a week job during the off season.

I totally agree with your point of collective bargaining vs top down impositions. But taking a quick stab based off the implication of a single passage, the problem with the law seems to be that it capped the number of hours per week, but not the number of days per week. So rather than dithering out the days each worker is expected to come in, the farm operators just assumed 7 day weeks of short days. ("if he was limiting them to 48 hours a week, they wouldn't cut asparagus this year. They didn't want to be on the farm seven days a week as required during the asparagus harvest.").

In general I think a better phase-in method would have been institute the 40 hour threshold immediately, but then slowly up the multiplier over a longer time - 1.1x, 1.2x, etc

Also the problem here seems relatively straightforward to work around too, assuming the problem of short days can be sorted out - work on a second farm the remaining days.
Uniqlo is my go-to for quality, basic clothing. It's extremely durable, looks good if you like a minimalist style, and they have pretty much every kind of clothing (t-shirts, pants, button-downs, etc.)
In my analogy, it's not the sequence of the notes or the composition, which I agree is copyrightable. But are the settings of the knobs and switches on synthesizers and effects devices used in a recording equivalent to the weights of a neural network or LLM? And if so, are those settings or weights copyrighitable?
Google Chat APIs now generally available to all Workspace developers
> perfect

I think you're being distracted and confused by imprecise and inaccurate descriptions of the intent of various algorithms, instead of considering what actual algorithms actually do.

No existing compression algorithm was designed to be "perfect" in your sense of the word, and none are. They were designed to be good enough, under a lot of different constraints (ease of implementation, extant mathematical tools/knowledge at the time, computation time, etc.)

Instead of talking in hand-wavy terms about hypothetical objects in a wishy-washy way, let's remember that lossy image formats and compression schemes are just pieces of mathematics. E.g., the basic JPEG algorithm is a fairly simple procedure that can be explained to any college student and even moderately above average middle schoolers. Is it perfect? No. Is it what actually gets used in reality? Yes.

> That type of robustness or reliability is just not possible here as users download and re-upload images that get re-encoded, because the entire point of image compression is to try to throw away anything and everything the human eye doesn't care about.

Let F : IMG -> IMG be a set of functions that most/all users and platforms use for compressing images. The question is whether there exist a pair of functions s,t such that for an image i \in IMG:

1. s(i) is roughly the same as s to the bare human eye but contains a message m. (Or not? Depends on the use-case.)

2. t(s(i)) ~= m for some notion of similarity ~= which is sufficient for watermarking.

3. for any f1, ..., fn \in F, t(fn(...f1(s(i))...)) ~= m.

We can relax constraint 1 because we probably only care about a subset of IMG, etc. etc.

Your impossibility conjecture about the existence of s,t for common extant F's doesn't seem nearly as obvious as you're claiming. And there are CERTAINLY choices of F for which s,t do exist. Eg for the basic JPEG algorithm I'm pretty darn confident I can design s,t that are robust to various parameters and also where you only need at least k pixels uncropped to recover a message ~= m, for example. And not just design it, but write a fairly short and intuitive mathematical proof explaining precisely why it works.

In fact, if you know how JPEG works and other applications of Fourier transforms (eg in acoustics and perhaps also crypto), you might see why it would be more surprising if doing this were NOT possible at least for various JPEG implementations/parameterizations!

Stepping aside from JPEG in particular, you might need to know something about how each function in F works, perhaps intimately, and there is probably some clever mathematics involved for many choices of F.

you could also view this as an optimization problem and use various tools that got really popular in 2016 or so to build quite robust solutions that don't depend on the particularities of your choice of F. I'm less certain this would give absolute guarantees but I bet you'd end up with stuff that works well in practice.

But in any case, it's unclear why you are so convinced this is impossible.
Every time someone has used an automatically publish feature of any type, it always ends poorly. Either personal information gets posted they didn't intend, incomprehensible grammatical errors, or as in this case completely falsified information gets released.

It's a very old lesson we should have learned from newspaper days but I guess with how fast people in AI are moving they don't care about "old lessons".

Outside of that, it's interesting to see how people try to combat and highlight AI platforms. Jokes like these, paywalls, limited invites, increasing API costs, and so on. Very interesting times for online information.
Anon because I know startups working on that exist and should not talk about it

Information wants to be free; right now it’s a browser plugin that reads DOM and allows tagging; that human work is fed into a training system

The idea started as make Twitter community notes it’s own thing as browser plug-in and then expanded into model training to look like a user browsing the web and read DOM

Not hitting an API, so no fees yes? It’s the user making the interaction choice

Rate limits are going to be the only defense against AI trained to look like doom scrollers
You don't say "Please leave now".

You say "Recommended charge time: 15 minutes. Any stay over 25 minutes will be charged an extra parking fee, or you can move the car to a non-electric parking space for free.".

You don't need every user to obey - just ~half of users following your recommendations should keep enough spots free for more incoming cars (which Tesla can predict pretty accurately ~an hour into the future)
If you use a robust salt, such a randomly generated long salt, attacker won't be able to guess the next hash.
That is sad, and unnecessary.

I'm recalling a time when Dinesh D'Souza came to speak and we all went to watch.

We let him speak, and then one of my awesome classmates absolutely obliterated his deeply stupid and terrible arguments during question and answer.

That is the proper way to deal with these sorts.
Uniqlo has simple and well-designed clothes. They have same ones in lots of colors. https://www.uniqlo.com/
Can you give me any way that can differentiate between my practical machine with memory sized n, and a real infinite Turing machine in a finite amount of time t?

If not, than for all purposes the two are the exact same, which is my point. This is not the case with LLMs.
With Terraform you can statically analyze the infrastructure definition with some guarantees of determinism etc. Arbitrary execution is allowed, as you say, but only in well-contained places, such as local_exec.

How can this work if, say, TypeScript is used as the definition language?
This is short-sighted. Governance will happen with or without the assistance from OpenAI. Google is still much larger than OpenAI and presumably has much more regulatory presence than OpenAI. The same goes from Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and others in the space.

I think OpenAI is making it clear to get your seat at the table now. And it probably will be true that this will make it harder for upstarts to join in, but everything so far they've talked about seem reasonable and make sense. And have you worked on things like GDPR compliance? It's a wonder that anyone bothers to get large enough to comply -- it's so much work. But we think privacy is important so we put a huge burden on those companies who hold our data.
Our food system is not built on the backs of local farmworkers alone - it's built on the backs of poor people around the globe. Mostly in the same countries that immigrant workers left themselves. That's who they are competing with.

If food prices don't account for negative externalities of human well-being and climate degradation, and instead we allow arbitrage of labor laws, well the market is always going to be fucked up and exploitive. Just like everything else.
Their technical justification is so weak that I think it was more like, 'We are bored, look at this new shiny toy called Rust. Let's think about reasons why we need to use it (to justify using it) so we can have some fun'.