skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The history of corporate personhood entering into the American legal system is absolutely bonkers. This whole article is worth a read, but I'll pull out the short version too https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/corpora...

How did this idea enter the legal system? This is the work of a few men.

Justice Stephen J. Field was angry about the case Santa Clara County v Souther Pacific Railroad. He was incensed because the court refused to answer the question of whether or not corporations were people.

> When the Court issued its decision on this second case, the justices expressly declined to decide if corporations were people. The dispute could be, and was, resolved on other grounds, prompting an angry rebuke from one justice, Stephen J. Field, who castigated his colleagues for failing to address “the important constitutional questions involved.” “At the present day, nearly all great enterprises are conducted by corporations,” he wrote, and they deserved to know if they had equal rights too.

The mechanism that decisions were communicated in the 1880s was to publish official volumes of decisions. J.C. Bancroft Davis acted as the court reporter for the volume containing this case and wrote up an inaccurate summary of the case.

> The reporter in the 1880s was J. C. Bancroft Davis, whose wildly inaccurate summary of the Southern Pacific case said that the Court had ruled that “corporations are persons within … the Fourteenth Amendment.” Whether his summary was an error or something more nefarious—Davis had once been the president of the Newburgh and New York Railway company—will likely never be known.

Justic Field seized upon the incorrect summary and would inject his preferred reality into an unrelated case.

> Field nonetheless saw Davis’s erroneous summary as an opportunity. A few years later, in an opinion in an unrelated case, Field wrote that “corporations are persons within the meaning” of the Fourteenth Amendment. “It was so held in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad,” explained Field, who knew very well that the Court had done no such thing.

It is that completely made up precedent that then became the foundation for legal corporate personhood.
An important aspect of being "successful" is the local viewing habits. At least in India, cricket is one of the biggest elements of TV viewership and the second biggest element is the cheaply produced poorly written run of the mill TV novellas that last 30 years and 1000+ episodes. Neither of which Netflix has or necessarily wants on it's platform. But if you ignore those two, Netflix comes out ahead on everything: Movies, international content, well produced TV shows etc.
Naw, the RoI isn't there for Netflix as there are too many companies, and Reliance or Essel Group would swoop in anyhow.
> Why do you fear "dense" urban housing future

Because I hated living in Apartments when I lived in them. They are noisy and small, and I like quiet and space. For me, being closer to walk to stuff is not really appealing enough to deal with how awful the experience of living in dense housing is.

I strongly think that dense housing is only positive for people who don't spend much time at home.

> "my first wish is infinite wishes" except the magic gene doesn't say "no"

The problem with this is that we haven't actually solved resource scarcity, and until we do there is still going to be an upper limit to what you will be allowed to buy, controlled by the number printed on your UBI cheque. I am anticipating this number to be much lower than what I currently am capable of achieving in my career.

Of course this is the fear that my career won't exist in the future. Or simply that AI will eat enough jobs that I will be edged out by better human competition. I'm under no illusions that I'm near the top of my field, I am firmly in the middle of the pack at best.

> sound insulation in my current place is failing

The sound insulation in the apartments I've lived in was nonexistent. This is a big part of why I never want to do that again.
> Do Conservatives really want to live in a world where [...]

Yes that is literally what conservatives have always stood for since we developed the term "conservative" to stand for that kind of political stance. Back then it was to preserve the power of the French aristocracy over the rising calls for democracy. Today it's to preserve the power of the wealthy and over that of everyone that has to actually work for a living.

They use different tactics, deflections, and posturing to justify their positions, and are willing to give different kinds of concessions in order to achieve those goals today, but it's been essentially the same overarching theme for a couple hundred years. A well-functioning democracy (in this case, one where employees can organize to negotiate the terms of their employment) is an obstacle to them that they want to clear.
You are correct - I have no problem paying a reasonable fee for good journalism to be informed.

The problem is that poor journalism influences the masses. And in a democracy, the masses' opinion is assigned a higher decision-making weight than is the opinion of the informed minority.
Another way to get that instead of behavior is with SSH configuration. I have something like this in my ssh config:

Host github
Hostname github.com
User git

Then you can do a "git clone github:microsoft/windows" and you're good to go.
I should clarify that I'm not defending Russian actions or trying to be a useful idiot here, there just are red lines that if crossed, a nuclear power will respond with nuclear force. The same is true for China, the US, and even smaller powers like Pakistan.

I support sending Ukraine more ammo to defend its sovereignty. Appeasement is also bad.
In his defense lots of unsolved questions are inscrutable for the majority of people. So this one looks decent.
How can one start a meaningful life when everything done until this point is rendered meaningless? We, the new graduates, who happen to be average, are bottom-tier fooders. We have no leverage or network. No one trusts us.

What we offer is meaningless to most people; our work doesn't produce any value. There is no meaning in these work. How would one begin a career in such conditions? Everything has been shattered so much. There is no trust in the system.

I am talking from the point of a person who is graduating in the current economy after studying CS.

Our (the average) internships don't turn into full-time, our thesis are child's play and can be considered cute. Is this how life is going to be?

With AI, especially after yesterday's Gemini Pro 1.5 demo [1], it does what we bottom-tiers do. Look through examples, and apply it. What was the point on learning things?

[1]: https://youtu.be/SSnsmqIj1MI?feature=shared
If that were the case, they wouldn't be running these anticompetitive strategies and leaving regular consumers at the mercy of GPU scalpers.
I have met teachers who would go out of their ways in helping the students to learn. My teachers from many years ago were like this. That's the perk of the good ones. But other than that, I agree with you
It just did
> Separation of powers is the reason that the legislature is practically useless for defending your rights.

Separation of powers is actually very useful for defending your rights from the government, which was the original motivation.
Games with rich assets are big, that is true. But I don't see why this causes a problem for delivering a game over the web. It seems like the key requirements here are 1. Ask permission first and 2. Strongly cache the downloaded data. This is just like downloading a desktop game.

On the other hand the strong sandbox of the web is highly desirable for games which are often closed source and made with low security standards. Native sandboxing may be better for performance but won't be as reliable which is a tradeoff that it is nice to have the option for.

The fact that this game can potentially be archived and playable on any device in the future is also very nice.
What is "your ecosystem" here? Part of running a platform is that the code running on it is written by other people, not you, and that your customers will be relying on that code.

When the software your customers are relying on breaks because of a change you made, it doesn't matter whose "fault" it is. It's broken, it broke because of something you did, and you have burned customer trust - not the trust of whoever wrote the software you believe is "wrong" or "to blame", trust of your platform and company.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39385739.
I think I use the internet more .. the more depressed I am.. because I crave the dopamine I guess.
Tell me, if a shelf had to go out for repairs in your local library, would it damage everyone who touches the books on that shelf, or would they simply be moved to a different shelf?
Business owners: "everyone uses Google Maps". That’s it.
> Who is the buyer?

Realistically, the best buyer would be someone who has deep connections in a market that the current owner hasn’t penetrated that could 5x the volume almost instantly.

They would hem and haw about whatever small multiple the seller is asking for, and then laugh all the way to the bank after close.

I’ve seen this happen many, many times.

> And then, enough cash that it's worthwhile to go through diligence and paper up a deal and take on the risk that there isn't skeletons in the closet

For a business of this relatively small size, an agency would likely be used, and they would do all of this scutwork, and their fee is paid by the seller. Which agency or agencies have you used (if any)?
This is what the phrase "cut off your nose to spite your face" was created to describe.

How did this work out the first time around? Did it bolster the left's recruitment efforts so much that they became the kingmakers poised to win big majorities and revolutionize society top to bottom at the end of his term? No, it did not.

Did it instead directly result in the composition of the Supreme Court that may actually agree with Amazon's argument in this case? Yes, it did.

The second time around would be just the same. You'd find yourself surprised by the apparent complacency of most people in not taking up your cause, while seeing things you care about get worse in tangible ways.
Because they are spending all their money on data scientists.
> Neural nets were literally modeled on brains, why can't we make comparisons.

They're quite a shitty model that comes from a 1950's understanding of neuroscience.
In the same way the "organic" movement took over food, and we want to feel human skill and touch in what we are consuming, I think we will see a similar swing in media.

People invest in stories. They also invest in other people. This is why people love seeing Tom Cruise over and over again in movies. Or why I'm going to go see the next Scorsese movie.

Reality television is designed to be addicting, and engaging, and it is very successful at that. I get pulled into The storylines whenever I watch. But I quickly turn it off. I don't watch it not because it is not enjoyable, but because I realize it is a cotton candy: empty trash that is not worth my time.

Artists are already often criticized for being "corporate." I think we'll see a similar effect for AI generated content. The hoi polloi and normies will slurp it up.

The true fans and passionate ones who give a shit aren't going to be fooled.

Edit: for length
The nukes deal wasn't about granting sovereignty. Ukraine had sovereignty since the formation of Soviet Union over 100 years ago(Ukraine even retained it's seat in UN, upon founding).

That deal was just about nuclear proliferation. It was well reasoned at the time and had no special conditions.

That being said - the idea that Ukrainians are a "fake nation" has been a prominent talking point in Russia my entire life.
Downvote all you want, when you artificially decrease capacity factor from the average 90% to 65% because you have to accommodate for wind, in an industry when fixed costs are the vast majority of costs, you mathematically raise the cost per MWh…
What if instead of all the gnashing of teeth about the "co2 output of AI" we let it go wild and have it solve fusion for us.
Sure, but there are hundreds of thousands of people in this industry who are dealing with data problems on a scale that certainly will not be handled on your laptop with sed and awk. The needs of industry shouldn't be sacrificed to the artisanal aesthetic of small solutions.
>Your ecosystem has gone so complex that you can't test it anymore.

An operating system with billion+ install base, and millions of developers tends to be complex. I'm not sure what you're proposing here, have your platform/software be more niche? Somehow get all of them to fall in line?

>So instead of handling errors properly you suggest to implement a convoluted user flow that offers always failing actions (install a printer when there's none available).

How are you going to "handle errors properly" if the publisher of the software in question went out of business?
Agreed, but this is such a red flag that a commenter is not thinking critically. Do they really think we quadrupled the money supply in a short time? And the only effect was 10% inflation? Usually that would disprove all of their other assumptions about the relationship between the money printer and inflation.
It's because of there being too many cooks in the kitchen for front-end. It's something people can see, and it's easy for anyone to have an opinion.
>planning and drawing "do not cross" lines in the sand to hopefully limit the total/final scope of the conflict.

The irony here is unreal. Yes, drawing red lines is a good way to avoid runaway escalation, if only world powers are willing to honor them.
One of the comments was "the Collatz conjecture feels like we're missing a branch of mathematics", or something to that effect. I followed that rabbit hole a bit and found the Plya conjecture[0], which was disproven when a counter example was found at approximately 10^361. Here I was naively thinking that if no counter examples were found in the first, say, 10^10 numbers, no counter examples should exist. If only it were so easy.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3lya_conjecture
The CEO's Guide to Generative AI [pdf]
Agreed... but not what I was talking about.
HTTP has no files or extensions, it's just URL that someone named dot something. Since it doesn't have to be that file type behind, I don't expect it to.
At first I wanted to argue with your point (suggesting that the elites are to blame much more than ordinary folks) but thinking more, I just want to correct.

Submissiveness that you mention implies that people understand their interests, what's just (in broad sense), and just don't want to act. And we expect that finally they'll wake up and rebel. I also went to street protests in 2021 when Navalny was enjailed, expecting something to change, but was reminded of what I knew from sociology earlier.

Studies showed that it's not submissiveness in post-totalitarian people that stops them. It's rather immoralism and double-think. People see status-quo challengers as suspicious, and discredit them. They distrust the government -- that's why Russian opposition speakers insist that "Putin has no broad support". But they also hope the state will take care of them, and constantly seek signs of this. They hate state officials, but discedit those who challenge them and goes in politics -- especially those trying to pursue interests of common folk.

These traits of character developed as defense to totalitarianism -- interference with private life and demand of loyalty, and daily hardships.

This was describen in a book "Simple Soviet man" (1993) by sociologist Yuri Levada, summarizing his studies of post-Soviet people's views and their contradictions. There are brief descriptions of it in Englihs, try searching for them.
The new site is also one of those sites you see and immediately close them because they look like all that SEO autogenerated garbage with zero content the web is flooded today. That might not be true for this site, but it looks like it. The whitespace, the generic cliparts, the stylized colors. Everything screams "form over function"
Out of curiosity, why weren't you using the built-in DB2 on AS400?
The point made above was "opens exactly as expected". So, does it look like the authors intended in 1996? I doubt it.
Well it depends I guess, i dont know who your tool is designed for. Some developers want/need their hand held through things like shell configuration and choice of IDE, while others really despise when someone makes a subpar decision for them
This is an issue with any software that tries to maintain backwards compatibility, not Linux. Windows has:

- Many years worth of different control panels.

- Little consistency with respect to toolkits in general.

- Fractional scaling issues in applications using older toolkits (e.g., open up the policy editor and notice the blurry fonts). Microsoft is actually giving up here and has been experimenting with ML-based scaling for old applications (an approach I expect we'll eventually see in Linux as well).

Apple handles this by breaking compatibility every so often, forcing old software out of the picture.
Yes, I do it too. 'master' is too ingrained to change and has nothing to do with slavery or anything sinister IMO. If I ever work with someone on a project we're in control of who feels otherwise and affected personally then it won't be much effort to change it. Until then I don't need to pointlessly spend effort rewriting it when I get it wrong on my own projects. (It only affects what git init does.)
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato
I see an article by Julia, I upvote it. Always excellent. I learn something every time Julia writes something for us to read.
Two major problems these days are, first, Citizens United unleashed insane amounts of corporate funding into the election cycle.

Second, the news media is 90% owned by six corporations [0] (vs 50+ in 1983), all of which are all-in on preventing administrations that would bring back conditions in which they pay a fair share of taxes. These news operations are marginally profitable at best, are being massively cutback, and their coverage is designed to perhaps appear liberal, but in fact support corporate goals. What major corporation is going to allow a media org to advocate that it be taxed more and face more regulation?

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control...

[1] https://www.transcend.org/tms/2022/04/the-monopoly-on-your-m...
Hi Dan,

It's a different article - can you please reinstate this post?
It is a function of the effect size, not the experiment. When the effect size is large, you need fewer samples to detect it reliably. In this case it looks pretty large. Would you want more people before rolling it out? Of course. But it’s very unlikely to be vaporware provided the samples are random.
They don't even consider the energy consumed to produce the chips AI/ML is running on at all. The biggest chip producer TSMC ysed 22000 gigawatt hour last year. This doesn't include oder foundries, memory etc.. AI is now morebthan 15% of TSMC revenue. AI/GPU chips ate often in advanced nodes consuming orders of magnitude more energy than older nodes. So one can assume energy consumption share is much more than 15% of that 22000 gigawatt hour. Let's say 25%. That would be 5500 gigawatt hour. That's like 0.15% of whole US energy consumption of 2020. So 1-2% during operation is totally fathomable.
So uh, they thought "we have this datacenter full of GPUs laying around, you know what would be best, if we made a model that needs the entire thing just for inference".

Brute forcing a quadratic complexity problem seems like wastefulness at its worst.
People have been steadily getting poorer thanks to inflation eating their stagnating wages combined with skyrocketing consumer and housing prices and the birthrate keeps dropping.

Poor people had plenty of kids because they had no standards nor accessible birth control or they come from a conservative religious culture where having kids is the norm.

But once people taste the good life, like westerners had it so good a while a ago, they don't want to bring kids in economic conditions worse than before, so the poorer you make them, the less kids they'll have.

So to compensate, you don't focus on improving the conditions for the locals to convince them to procreate, but you open the immigration gates to people from poor places with no standards, happy to bring kids in conditions that are way better than what they have in their own country, even though they're worse than the locals had a few decades ago.
I think the question is more along the lines of "will your government continue to pay your social security if you don't remain living in the country", not "can you deposit it somewhere else"

Also, how about if you get into trouble. If you're arrested for a crime (even if eventually found not guilty), will you continue to receive social security?

Is there any circumstances where your government could refuse to continue paying it?

And most importantly: could your government invent such a circumstance in the future, and then invoke the new circumstance to deny you the payment?

Living on government money reminds me of my cat. She relies on me to feed her and provide for her, and I do happily take good care of her because I love her very much.

Does the government love you very much?

I don't feel mine does.
> To me, a better solution would be for the system to pop up a notification informing the user that printing is not supported on this platform

That's the whole point of this article - when you can't control the various platforms that your application is run on, you want to try to do the "least bad" thing, even if that platform didn't anticipate the situation of, in this case, telling people that printing isn't supported.
You can simulate any digital circuit by multiplying and adding numbers.
> It seems like the key requirements here are 1. Ask permission first and 2. Strongly cache the downloaded data. This is just like downloading a desktop game.

There's no sure-fire way to cache large amounts of data in a browser, all you can do is pray that the browser decides to keep it. The more data you load, the less likely that is.

It's a problem that has to be solved at the standards level, adding some kind of "persistent data" permission, but it's been a known issue for years and there's been no progress.
Nah, Ukraine improved it's ability to defend itself after 2014, leaving Russia the choice of accepting defeat or outright invasion. It chose invasion.
What do you mean by "ethical" here, and why is it unethical to preserve ABI compatability?
It has more context and information, that would be beneficial to HN users.
Not at all what he is saying. Microsoft has no problem testing their printer function across all platforms in their apps and removing the print button on platforms where it's not supported. Ideally, everyone would do this.

This is for other developers who are writing 3rd party apps for Microsoft's platforms and who don't always test perfectly. They may have written their app primarily for Windows and didn't consider what happens when someone installs it on their Xbox and clicks "print". In that case, the API should "just work", instead of crashing with an error message.