skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>states have no standing in enforcing the terms of their joining the union? On the other hand states are allowed, and even forced (by threatening to cut federal funds), to enforce federal laws and edicts, such as drinking age

100% yes. This was the explicit opinion of several founders, to the point of publicly stating that any provision for any sort of "exit" of the union makes it entirely pointless. The constitution forever bound us, purposely, intentionally, and with an explicit supremacy clause that makes it VERY clear the Federal government is in charge.

We are NOT a federation, were never meant to be, and there is no honest reading of the constitution within context that comes up with such a claim.

This was done because the Articles of Confederation was such an abysmal failure that left the country weak, bickering, and basically a bunch of small kingdoms of governors refusing to interact in ways that benefited the country as a whole. We tried the "weak, small, limited federal government that lets the states do mostly their own thing" and the result was very nearly the end of the country in its infancy. The constitution was entirely "Sign this and we be strong together, or we are re-conquered in twenty years when europe gets it's shit together"
Seems like your comment could really benefit from some links to supporting information, since the very existence of this article is proof that not everyone knows what the company is doing.
I, for one, welcome our new plagiarism overlords.

Oops.

I added the "haha" in there because the probability of a human doing this kind of goes way down as the length of the text increases. Can you type, verbatim, an entire chapter of a book? I can't. But, I bet the AI can be convinced in rare cases to do that.

The whole thing is very interesting to me. There was an article on here a couple days ago about using gzip as a language model. Of course, gzipping a book doesn't remove the copyright. So how low does the probability of outputting the input verbatim have to be before copyright is lost?

Reading the book and benefitting from what you learned? Obviously not copyright infringement. Putting the book into gzip and sending your friend the result? Obviously copyright infringement. Now we're in the grey area and ... nobody knows what the law is, or honestly, even how to reason about what the law wants here. Fun times.

(Personally, I lean towards "not copyright infringement", but I'm not a big believer in copyright myself. In the case of AI training, it just makes it impossible for small actors to compete. Google can just buy a license from every book distributor. SmolStartup can't. So if we want to make AI that is only for the rich and powerful, copyright is the perfect tool to enable that. I don't think we want that, though.

My take is that the rest of society kind of hates Tech right now ("I don't really like my Facebook friends, so someone should take away Mark Zuckerberg's money."), so it's likely that protectionist laws will soon be created that ruin it for everyone. The net effect of that is that Europe and the US will simply flat-out lose to China, which doesn't care about IP.)
Full standard: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9420

With the EU's DMA requirements coming up, this is a major candidate for a standard protocol for messenger interoperability. There's no legal requirement to support it, but implementing an existing standard that supports end-to-end encryption seems like a much cheaper and safer method than building your own.

Of course actual interoperability will depend on MIMI (https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mimi/about/) but this is a start.
It seems funny to me that you don't think legislators can change the world. Make the incentives right and everything else will follow. This is not insurmountable technical difficulty. It's just a matter of pouring money into the problem.
My uncle was driving from Miami to Pennsylvania and saw the building activity. He thought it was more NASA building and put together a syndicate to buy as much land as possible. Disney bought his first plot and he turned around and bought the more as close as possible. He didn't need to know what was going.

The USA was founded on the use of capital and I'm always shocked how deep it runs including this anonymity.

found this article

https://archive.is/PmoL4

That article is more or less accurate but I have to add this story about him from a funeral late in life.

Standing around not knowing what to talk about he looked down at his tie. He started talking about how much the tie cost. This launched a story about the first time he had to buy an expensive tie when he was young to make an impression. He reflected on the luxury he currently enjoyed of not having to buy an expensive tie.
Automated validation has always seemed to catch that sort of risk just fine.
Not to mention the huge amount of energy it takes to compress or liquify a gas. Everyone ignores this when talking about hydrogen as fuel.
Not only that, the sums involved and siting (relatively unprotected) are going to be very attractive to theft, driving up the cost to secure.
I think baby food in this context is not formula, but puréed veggies etc.
Could this be a stealth real estate investment? It seems to be one of the regions of farmland closest-ish to the urban Bay Area. That would parsimoniously explain why the LLC is paying multiples over market value, on what's currently zoned as mere agricultural land.

Three things the Bay Area has in plenty right right now: (0) people with too much money; (1) people looking to escape the Bay Area; (2) people spooked about macroeconomic conditions. The mystery LLC claims to be a "group of families... looking to diversify their portfolio from equities to real assets". Maybe that's simply what it is: a conspiracy of techies stashing their loot in real estate, with a very long-term horizon, betting on a Detroit-ization of the SFC area and a consequent real estate boom in the greater exurbs.

Why stealthy? To buy the land as cheap as possible. Maybe that's what those legal disputes are about: some landowners sussed out that the new buyers have a very high willingness-to-pay, and are trying aggressively to maximize their selling price.
If the story of Earth were a novel and the current chapter introduced both global warming and the advent of carbon-based manufacturing, it would almost feel too contrived of a setup.
You don't know precisely at which frequency the cycle counter runs. Depending on the system load it might either run faster or slower than the lowest bits the HPTC. For what it's worth this part is more or less nondeterministic, so the sane thing to do, is spread out the information as much as possible (maximize entropy), in order to minimize the probability of collisions.
Agreed. Though I think that legal entities like this need to have far far more public documentation of beneficial ownership, traceable all the way back to real people, be they US citizens or not.

This goes doubly so for any sort of land ownership. Nobody should be able to hide ownership of US land via shell games.
I always like how this just brings to the surface the lack of respect the creators of the thing, in this case AI, that it will be abused by the public. The public doesn't care how/what the devs want it to do. The public cares about what they can make it do. See hot rods, overclocking, or any of the millions of other examples.
> Can you share what the cost was so I can complain to someone at Hertz?

Its a change of policy at Hertz.

Until recently Hertz were "bring it back anywhere over 10%".

Now you are given two choices at the counter:

- Bring it back >=80% or we'll charge you
- Pay a fee in advance (generally somewhere around 30USD) and you can bring it back >=10%.
The problem is that we are not able yet to judge which are valuable and which are not.

Most of the current chemical techniques are still extremely inefficient in comparison with what can be done by living cells and we are not yet able to design catalysts comparable with the natural enzymes.

The disappearance of any species of living beings may have as a consequence the definitive loss of some valuable knowledge about useful chemical processes, which might be discovered again by humans decades or centuries later, if ever.

When we will become able to recreate some kind of living being, after storing enough information about it, then we will afford to decide that it is not valuable and that we can let it become extinct or even intentionally eliminate it from nature.

Until then, permitting the destruction of information that we do not understand yet, and which has a chance, however small, to become essential for our own survival, is extremely stupid, even for those who believe that the other living beings exist only to serve them, as written in the Genesis.
It's because most people don't consider it to be "trading freedom." If the thing breaks you replace it.

But people actually do want the kinds of features enabled by IoT devices on top of cloud infrastructure and they're reasonably priced. It's not idiocy, it's utility.

And you're free not to buy into it. It's no skin off your back.
More relevant to this audience: Algorithms from The Book:

https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-BOOK-Kenneth-Lange/dp/1611...
First they came for.....
Funny but Exxon could become a ‘net zero’ company without fundamentally changing its business.

You see, companies get charged for the carbon they emit, not the carbon that their customers emit.

An oil refinery is an ideal place to implement carbon capture because it is a concentrated source of emissions and is already using technology such as amine strippers that one would use for carbon capture. Refineries burn a lot of fuel to produce hydrogen and process heat and those could be replaced with green hydrogen or pink hydrogen, heat could be derived from resistive heating, nuclear HTGR or adiabatic compression in turbines. What CO2 is produced can be pumped underground into saline aquifers.

The Biden administration is interested in subsidizing such development in the ‘Refinery Row” of the U.S. South and it is something they are equipped to succeed at because they have the geology, industrial concentration, skills and attitude to pull it off.

A net-zero Exxon would still have to decarbonize production and that is harder than the refinery but they could buy some offsets (or themselves implement with direct carbon capture, BECCS, etc.) It would be a lot cheaper than buying offsets for their customers but who knows they might sell those too.
Licenses used for AI model weights
> a more permissive license

I see this as a net disadvantage. The great insight of the GPL licences is forcing changes to be contributed back to the project, companies can't easily privatize a public effort.
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/201905210181 says a guy named Thomas Mather was a director. https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/centralvalley/board_decisions... is some government application by Flannery that also has his name on it. Looks like this was covered in 2019: https://www.thereporter.com/2019/07/05/large-rural-land-purc...

If Mather is not the true owner, it would take the government five seconds to figure out who actually owned it by just finding out who's paying their lawyers (Skadden!) in the current litigation they are involved in.
They could have picked up the LLM equivalent from LLM generated posts online however. How do you prove they didn't?
> A judgment of fair payment is up to the employee and the employer not the nation as a whole.

That's not quite true. We have antitrust laws, minimum wages and other things designed to make a more even field for employment relationships.

> Harvesting is a job that should be paid by produce harvested or job completion instead of hourly.

Or not. Opinions differ on this point.
Please don't cross into personal attack, and please stick within the site guidelines. You broke a number of them here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So now I'm reading:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/16/11/P...

And I want microphones, I want to hear the thing ring with that 2.3kHz note. I want to feel the 27Hz wiggle and the 196Hz thump. I want to get the Slow-Mo guys in there to place their camera, and watch the thing jump when a beam hits it.

The amount of energy in that thing just defies intuitive understanding from reading a paper, I have to use other senses.
Hey fzliu looks like this is struggling to stay up -- repl.co URLs are mainly built for small-scale sharing and local testing, so they'll sometimes have issues when shared on places like HN. We created deployments (dedicated VMs on replit.app URLs) for this sort of thing. If you deploy it, it should work much better. Feel free to email me at lincoln@repl.it if you need any help with that.
> Why do wealthy people get so interested in societal collapse

My theory is that they have opted-out of the social contract (or never believed in it), and they figure the rest of us have opted out too - or will do so in time, and we'll fall back to rugged individualism as civil order is undone.
I know that I can sign things on a brand new device without making an account. They can log what any web site can log. None of it really proves anything, except as other commenters pointed out - if I sign tons of stuff with the same browser/session, with an account I made, or if I used some premium ID verification they offer. (which I've never done)

My point that it doesn't really matter that much. If I DocuSigned some contract, delivered work described in the contract, maybe got paid for some of that, and then later some dispute comes up.. at that point we're arguing about terms or other facts.. Neither party is going to be in any position to argue "oh I never DocuSigned that agreement" because all of the other work and communication and transactions are enough to prove that's not true.
1. No, it's not silly.

2. No, the ownership is not in public records, as this story makes clear. Who precisely is behind this seems quite vague.

3. The fact this has been "openly" (whatever that means) happening for 5 years is irrelevant.

4. No, this is begging the question. "Everyone" clearly does not know, at all, what they (who is they?) are doing.

5. What kind of energy infrastructure, precisely?

6. What's the source of your intense desire to deflect on this topic?
Isn't Travis AFB for transport planes and tankers?

This isn't like someone is buying land beside Groom Lake or Skunkworks...
I know the US isn't big on privacy, but a closed off backyard? Isn't this the definition of reasonable expectation of privacy? I mean, let's say his children were running around naked while the insurance company would have filmed them.
Context: I'm the creator an open source page builder in Ruby on Rails named Maglev (https://www.maglev.dev), pretty much similar to Primo (congrats for their product, looks amazing!).

A couple of months, I used my own tool (Maglev) when revamping an e-commerce site of a client who didn't have a content management system to edit the marketing part of her site.
So I sliced the site into editable "Maglev" sections/blocks. The result was great in terms of editing experience BUT a couple of months later after the launch, my client hired another marketing person with HTML/CSS "skills" (I'd say 101 HMTL/CSS level).
And I had a hard time to convince her that it was a bad idea to write HTML/CSS code herself but instead to let me (or another developer) write the missing sections she wanted.

A solution would have been to add in Maglev some kind of dev editor like in Primo. However, based on my long experience, you really don't want your client to touch the HTML/CSS of your site. And I don't believe in the "you break it, you pay for it" mojo or at least this is not the kind of relationship I want with my clients.

On a higher level, any kind of CMS has the same issue. For instance, I helped a company with a broken Webflow site and it was the typical issue: a designer built their site and later the marketing person tried to "improve" the UI and broke everything.
Pirate ships attack other ships. I'm not aware of any successfully storming land-based fortresses, which would require a whole fleet.

I think his choice is a bad idea because of things like resupply problems, but then again I don't know how elaborate of a bunker he was planning to built.
The strict "Open Source" wasn't even a definition when I started college.
Do they merely have to exist or do they also have to work? And if they are broken, how fast must they be fixed and what’s the consequence if they are not fixed?

Unless this is also clarified, it’s not a finished proposal.
Speaking of, I subscribed to this magazine for a few years (yes, on paper!) and I highly recommend: https://www.retrogamer.net/ They have a lot online but there is something very enjoyable about getting an actual magazine in the mail. They have a ton of glossy images and in-depth, well-researched articles - a breakdown of how Pitfall! was constructed for the Atari 2600 is a memorable one.

Bonus (or negative): it is from the UK and living in the U.S. there is a whole alternate dimension of retro games they feature that I've never heard of. But I enjoyed reading about those, too!
> Labor accounts for half of the costs, he says

"He" is the farmer. Who else would even know?

> Again, I’d have to see his books before I concluded that the margins didn’t leave room for a <11.5% raise in labour costs.

Books are just spreadsheets. They contain no authentication. You don't trust his word but you trust him to give you accurate numbers?

We don't need some specific farmer's accounts to know which businesses have low margins. Farming is a notoriously competitive industry with razor-thin margins because the product is a fungible global commodity.

> Remember - it would be less, since as he said only the most skilled cutters are earning +$30/hour.

The 21% increase comes from paying 50% more for 30 of 70 hours, (0.5 x 30)/70 = 21%, the same percentage regardless of the base hourly wage.

But it's actually worse than that, because for the overtime hours it's a 50% increase. Which is why they immediately get cut.
Well, here in the U.S. we're all financing someone else's kids. And their cars. And and and...
Author here. This is correct. I have used Pulumi and I love CDK. I think the models in Pulumi and CDK are both great, but they tend to be either too low level or too high level.

For example Pulumi has a `awsx.ecs.FargateService` class that can deploy a container to AWS Fargate, but the API is limited and you don't really have the capability to remix it into other scenarios. For example you have the capability to attach a load balancer to a service as ingress, but what if you want to attach an API Gateway, or just setup a Route53 record for direct public IP ingress?

CDK has a few more variations in what you can do but it tends to be even worse because it has class names like: `ApplicationLoadBalancedEc2Service` and `NetworkLoadBalancedFargateService`. Switching your infrastructure requires switching to an entirely different top level when you define your infrastructure.

What I am proposing with the extensions interface is that we build more a class inheritance style model, kind of like CSS, to let people mix in alternative behaviors, alternate configurations, or even attached resources in an additive way, onto the existing infrastructure as code model.

In the example prototype on Github you can see how this works: https://github.com/cdklabs/cdk-ecs-service-extensions

All types of mutations, from configuration mutations, to attached resources are just extensions that you can use the `ServiceDescription.add(Extension)` method to attach to your existing infrastructure, kind of like just layering on another CSS class onto your DOM element. I think for large and complex infrastructure this will be a more scalable, decouplable, and readable approach.
I feel you; i think sports metaphors are tired, but it feels like when Joe Gibbs was brought back to the (then) Redskins. Let's hope this is a more successful endeavor.
> One would think that a major company like TSMC would have hired some kind of cultural liaison to assess what benefits, pay, etc. that Americans would be willing to accept before attempting to open a plant in America.

They don't want to open a plant in the US, but are doing so because Apple, the US Gov, and maybe the threat of the CCP, are pushing them to.

There is also a reason much of the electronics manufacturing went to Asia, and long hours + low cost is why. Trying to reconcile that with US or EU working conditions may not be possible without entirely retooling their approach and management -- which is challenging to do even in a company that very much wants the change.
This project is like the ground floor of the JVM, not the whole tower. I like though how the project's page is direct and clear about that.

A lot of the foundation and ground-floor mechanics are pretty interesting though.
Alpine is also based on MUSCL rather than glibc which generally has fewer well known CVEs which helps from a security standpoint.
Not vilifying India, just the policy that weakens sanctions by giving them an outlet for oil and inferior weapons sales. Taking a stand to protect other democracies would have been ideal.

Germany and other Europeans countries did when they failed to take a stand in 2014, and this is where it has led.
The pizza place doesn’t require you to sign up for a monthly pizza subscription to get a single slice.
The implication is that the land is for housing? Notably, Irvine California successfully transitioned from being an Army Base town (very large military blimps, etc) to a thriving city. A jewel of southern california.
> Idle fees and parking fees are a solution. Say $1/min after charging has finished. Feel free to eat elsewhere while your vehicle racks up huge parking fees.

Well, that assumes people leave the vehicle.

What more frequently happens is there is someone in the vehicle doing work, watching Netflix, sleeping or whatever.

When the charge is done, they take 10 seconds out to unplug, and then go sit back in the vehicle.
S.T.O.P. Reveals MTA AI Surveillance Contract
Maybe if your job requires 7 days a week work you should either hire two shifts or pay a premium of more than 25% over minimum wage as the base salary?
There’s a heatwave in the sea and scientists are worried
>Could warmer ocean temperatures be a sign climate change has progressed further than we thought?
In Utah, if you have Utopia, its about as easy as it was with Dial-up. You just go sign up a new provider, change a few settings on your router, and you're done.
i wonder if part of the plan was to use the population for experiments in the lab
Looks like that's using lit-html templates inside Svelte, but not any custom elements.

Web components would be good because they're an interface that Primo could work with without relying on specific implementation details. They're also encapsulated with shadow DOM, and support interoperable composition (components can have child elements made from any other frameworks or library).

So you could still build blocks with Svelte, but also Lit, Preact, Stencil, Vue, etc.

In a similar situation, I was advising the https://blockprotocol.org/ folk on how to define some interfaces on top of HTMLElement to allow standardized passing down of data to blocks, instead of requiring React in their case. I don't know how far they've gotten with that.
> They said TSMC's offer to poach them was 50k, no insurance, no 401k, no stock, 1 week PTO with no increases (that includes sick days). It was an absolutely insulting offer.

I made more money bartending after college in the DC suburbs.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Ability to see expertise is a milestone worth aiming for - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30930985 - April 2022 (18 comments)
Once again, this is not a technology problem. We have ample knowledge of how to stay safe in high heat work, hell the US army has publicly available manuals on this.

But a company does not care if a blue collar worker keels over on the job if they aren't forced to care by the government. Simple as.