skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Agriculture is engineering an unnatural surplus for human consumption, and keeping everything else from eating that surplus.

If that is the case (and there were no other alternatives) the dominant form of agriculture (industrialized monoculture) is more or less tailor made to be attractive to pests and an enormous amount of energy and labour has to be employed to keep them out, much more than in the regenerative systems I've highlighted.

> I'm skeptical those have compatible productivity to typical commercial farming techniques

Way to be skeptical without even bothering to do a Google search. Mark Shepard claims (and has 20 years of data to back it up) that his system is of a comparable productivity in terms of human-usable calories to an industrialized corn operation. Syntropic agriculture was developed on a plot of land that was degraded by conventional agricultural methods to the point that it was given up and it now provides the basis for a commercially successful farm. Plenty of other examples around as well.

> […] or it requires far more labor input than is practical for modern society.

"Modern" societies employ between 0.5 and 3% of their workforce in agriculture [1]. If we'd tripple the share of agricultural workforce but in return drastically reduce the energy use and make farming a net carbon sink instead of a substantial contributor to global warming, I think it would be very much "practical". As things stand, we could pull the required labour simply from people doing tele-marketing and nothing of value would be lost ;-)

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.AGR.EMPL.ZS?location...
Really impressive how quickly they've done this. I'm sure there's been lots of growing pains, but I hope they can keep it up.
I'm the author of DiffLens (https://www.difflens.com/). I initially built it for myself too (and use it everyday) and it's currently free for anyone to try. It's an attempt to use abstract syntax trees to make diffs more readable. Happy to see another diff project here!
Does pixel-to-pixel variation change based on temperature or some other ambient factor, or would characterization be a one-shot deal?
I asked gpt-4 this question: "A swan, a chicken and three mice are on the banks of the river. The mice wish to go to the other side so the swan offers to carry them. The mice climb on the swan's back. How many animals are on each side of the river?"

gpt-4 confidently stated that the swan and three mice were on one side, the chicken on the other. So I asked it "ok, but where in the story does the swan enter the water?". The reply was "Apologies! yada yada", then it told me all 4 animals were on the same side.

So yes, it does have trouble with ambiguity in my opinion.
Are these chairs allowed in hospitals? Any heart-lung machines with IKEA chairs next to them?
After a brief diversion with the Acme editor (a big part of Plan 9) and some modern Smalltalk environments (Squeak, Cuis, and Pharo), I can't help but feel like we are stuck in a very local optimum as far as UI/UX go.

The insane amount of introspection available to you in a Smalltalk image, and the way every bit of text becomes a potential button or action in Acme just put the lack of creativity in modern interfaces. I say all this as a Haskell and Nix fan as well, so I'm very in-tune to the benefits of functional purity and reproducibility in a computing system. It really makes the silo-ed world of isolated microservices, containers, and walled "garden" ecosystems seem really sad.

I guess this is my way of saying, that we should all try to do things differently. Haskellers, go learn Smalltalk. It's not a big deal that things mutate things when you can literally inspect every object as its running, including the debugger :D. Smalltalkers (or Rubyists or whatever is closest) go learn Haskell. Sometimes boundaries are GOOD. Formality can be very helpful when it comes to organizing, designing, and reasoning about your stuff!

And we should all try to do something weird.
No, we proceed because it makes people a lot of money consequences on society or the future be dammed.
My hunch is that in the first picture there was at least one person inside each car and they seemed to be going to work. In the second picture, there are a lot less people and they are definitely not going to work. Are they getting rid of people and jobs?
That could actually be the pitch. We’re selling turds to idiots with too much money… of course not you though (audience).
hot take: I think it's OK that the people whose work provides the energy the rest of the economy is based on get to live in big houses in nice neighborhoods.
An API is a publicly available service.

It's more like having a tap with a sign over it saying "free gas", then getting mad when people use it.
About ten years ago was the first time I owned a pair of jeans that I was cold in. Unfortunately they were Patagonia, which makes no goddamn sense. And yet here we are.

Recently they flip flopped and Patagonia has the heaviest jeans I’ve ever seen. To rival Carhart. But they’re also a weird blend of cellulose derived fiber and recycled plastic. Not a fan of the plastic, recycled or no it’s going out my dryer vent.
You trained it with "this phrase means this command" examples? How do you make it use your custom API? (Or you are not using your custom API?)
Kyle is amazing. He’s still very active and supporting people with Mycodo. I learned a lot from him.
A standard 3.3V GPIO can typically push something like 30 to 60 mW. You won’t get all of that as transmitted signal — it will depend on how well your random antenna wire matches the impedance of the gpio and the frequency. I’m really not sure the audio quality is going to be anything more than just intelligible, but I’d guess you’d get at least 10 mW or so of useful power, which means it should generally work within a small house.
You can watch it in action sometimes, with amusing results. Some very active posts do, in fact, vanish from the front page with surprising speed, whereas less-active posts can literally linger for days.
> shortfalls in our current market economy

and

> market problem

are two different classes of problems.
it’s not useless, it’s just not that conclusive. Im pretty confident in saying a significant majority of animals raised for slaughter worldwide are done so in conditions commonly described as “factory farms”. We can quibble about the definitions all we want, but this is the dominant mode of raising animals for slaughter, that is clear to me
Citing convictions overturned on appeal probably isn't the strongest evidence of illegality. (Because they were overturned on threshold issues that didn’t involve inquiry into the substantive merits of the charges, its not evidence against illegality, either, but...)
Pro-union folks are anti-immigration for this stated reason. It's why it's important for immigrants to know who their opponents and allies are.
Ask HN: How to Protect Ideas and Implementation?
I have an idea that I think is unique to solve a business problem (yes, it may not be unique afterall) - but as a solo founder, I need to have some protection so someone doesn't copy the exact things (UIs and backend implementation). Can anyone provide any pointers how best to build some protection after product goes live ? I worry larger players may just copy what I do. Are patents a good idea ? Less likely I could do it, if it's expensive though
I'm chatting with folks about how the community stuff is being handled. Linux isn't obscure (it's widely used internally, too!).
Imagine considering your random posts on reddit "work" and thinking people are stealing it when they train their models on your internet drivel.
This is the dumb part about open-source models. Criminals, governments, and propaganda spreaders need not worry about the license; but legitimate users do.
I would discount the “anyone” part. A good conversation requires the other person being a decent conversationalist as well.
With that said I think with practice and self-awareness anyone can improve their conversation skills.
If it ever actually comes to market there will be a huge marketing push to make it seem like or better than normal meat, and to reframe or make people not think about how the product is made. There's lots of things that are pretty gross when you think about them, but have been marketed and made palatable. I think they'll be able to create people who want the product by reframing what the product is, once they /have/ a product.

It's not 'lab grown meat', it's 'cruelty free meat' or 'eco steak.'
humans are irrational, emotional, illogical beings.. what does practical terms have to do with it?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35740720. It's not super terrible but it's off topic and the parent thread was making the page top heavy.
Applications that could benefit from clustering would greatly benefit from this.

This means apps that solve problems in parallel and that list is endless.

What's cool is that you can distribute an app whose payload is in an extension (C/C++/Rust) and then use Cuboid for parallelism that spans machines quite easily -- think simulations.

So the performance intensive part is handled by something high performance in its domain and then Cuboid/Ruby handle the clustering.
My bad, I was looking at 2021 numbers. Makes my point all the more
I prefer the “walled garden” approach where nobody can plug just any old USB unapproved device into my chair.

The manufacturer does not publish a kit of approved USB devices on its website.
Actually I get hassled all the time on various ecommerce sites. Because once centralizing entities make an easy to check "even moar security" box, people tend to check it lest they get blamed for not doing so. And then it gets stuck on since the legitimate users that closed the page out of frustration surely get counted in the "attackers protected against" metric!

I'd say you're really discounting the amount of hassle people get from these challenges. Some sites hassle users every visit. Some hassle users every few pages. Some hassle logged in users. Some just go into loops (as in OP). Some don't even pop up a challenge and straight up deny based on IP address!

And since we're talking about abstract design, why can't Cloudflare et al change their implementations to throttle based on individual IPs, rather than blanket discriminating against more secure users? Maybe you personally have taken the best option available to you. But that doesn't imply the larger dynamic is justifiable.
For those who are unfamiliar, Plan 9 from User Space a pun on Plan 9 from Outer Space, an infamously "so bad it's good" movie from the 1950s. It has this ridiculous bimodal distribution of review scores as a result:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/plan-9-from-outer-space

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052077/ratings/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/78785/10-out-world-facts...

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220107-is-this-the-wor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space
Very exciting! Glad to finally be able to get beyond prompt engineering. What's the pricing model like?
This made me nostalgic for my skiddie days where I broke Faronics Deepfreeze with some exploit somebody on the internet made.

I had my own laptop. Absolutely refused to ask for a replacement for it even when the hinge died because the exploit was patched in the new version of deepfreeze the school was using.
> Akiri said he notified the Washington D.C. government in February about his findings, but received no response. Reached by KrebsOnSecurity, interim Chief Information Security Officer Mike Rupert initially said the District had hired a third party to investigate, and that the third party confirmed the District’s IT systems were not vulnerable to data loss from the reported Salesforce configuration issue.

Does FOIA apply here? Can we find out who the third party was?
It has the smoothest cut/copy/paste routine once you get it down. Moving text around is just buttery.

I personally find the lack of highlighting and auto-delimiters is a PITA for HTML/LaTeX though.
Agreed, 11B doesn't buy what it used to.
yes, in some sense US citizens are second-tier. Businesses want to lower salaries and universities want to charge higher fees. So US citizens miss out on higher salaries and placement at universities in their own country because we create this myth that we need to keep bringing in more immigrants to continue to thrive. There's no evidence given that diversity/immigration is our greatest strength either but you're not allowed to question it. There's plenty of evidence we and other countries do fine without it.
This does outperform Stable Diffusion 2.1, but uses a different architecture and requires more memory and compute. Stable Diffusion runs its denoising process in a compressed "latent space" which is how it was able to be so compute-efficient compared to other diffusion models. It also uses the (relatively) small text encoder from OpenAI's CLIP model to encode user prompts. Both of these optimizations meant that it could run much faster compared to say, DALLE or Imagen, but it didn't follow complicated user prompts especially well and had trouble with things like counting and text-rendering.

DeepFloyd IF is based on Google's Imagen model, which has two key differences from Stable Diffusion: (1) it denoises in pixel space instead of a compressed latent space, and (2) it uses a 10x larger pretrained text encoder (T5-XXL-1.1) compared to SD's CLIP encoder. (1) allows it to better render high-frequency details and text, and (2) allows it to understand complex prompts much better. These improvements come at the cost of multiple times more memory usage and compute requirements compared to SD, though.

In terms of "will it replace SD?"—in the short term I think yes. But I still think latent diffusion models are the future. For example, Stability is gearing up to release Stable Diffusion XL right now, a larger version of the original SD that does higher fidelity and higher resolution generations. I wouldn't be surprised if it takes the crown back from DeepFloyd when it releases, but I guess we'll have to see.
Not relative to a permanent and much more simplistic solution that already exists in the form of the source code for the original radio project mentioned in the op.

I'll give you an example: fabricating an ASIC is expensive. Using FPGAs is cheaper if the potential sales are low, but they're less performant.

If a hypothetical AGI a decade from now can do the radio gimmick, but it incurs an ongoing cost, but it's going to have wide appeal, it makes more sense to make a simple utility.

Better yet, the simple utility already exists and doesn't need a hypothetical "benevolent AGI". It doesn't even need an LLM. It's here today.

This entire sub-thread went off at a tangent of trying to shoehorn AI into somewhere it has no place being, just like the fetishizing of blockchain and attempting to shoehorn it into everywhere a database would be cheaper, more flexible and more performant.

A hypothetical "benevolent AGI" is going to be incredibly larger in scale than an LLM, thus much more expensive. You won't be running one on a laptop. We may not even have enough compute globally for a hypothetical "benevolent AGI".
One of the more important cases. Ughh RED, trying to obstruct whole industries.

Alas, no real progress for the rest of us. Nikon claimed, as others have, that Red's patent on compressing RAW on camera is invalid (fuck yeah it's total horseshit). But instead of resolving, both parties agreed to dismiss:

> Today, the two companies agreed to a Rule 41 dismissal without prejudice, effectively ending the lawsuit.
When I was a kid we had to return my Commodore 64 for repair several times, only to be told that once they got to it, after it had been waiting at the store for a few days, there were no problems with it.

Turned to be a result of storing the C64 on a bench under the "large" 26" CRT... When it was kept away from it for a while and had a chance to discharge, everything was ok. But after a while near the TV, it started "typing" gibberish of its own accord.
> The 1971 Supreme Court decision remains largely unknown, but no ruling of the past forty-five years (except for Roe v. Wade) has done more harm to the American way of life.

Rolls eyes so hard they nearly come out of skull

Yeah, it probably had some effect, but I'd say there are a lot of reasons, probably starting with the GI Bill. Why settle for a high school grad when there's a glut of veteran-college-grads suddenly on the market, all looking for jobs? Plus it gives you an excuse for excluding most women, who are suddenly in the job market in much greater numbers, from higher-paying jobs... oh, and would you look at that, black veterans are having trouble actually getting the benefits they're owed, so aren't going to college at as high a rate as white veterans! How convenient that is.

Clearly, there are a bunch of reasons this would have been appealing to employers well before 1971, and once the ball's rolling, it's easy to see how this new situation becomes self-perpetuating (good jobs now require degrees, since there are plenty of degree-holders around -> kids aspire to college at much higher rates -> repeat)
As far as I can tell from Emad's discord and twitter discussion, the idea appears to be to make this a "research" release, and therefore the worse license.

At a later point the model will be renamed "StableIf", and released with a similar license to StableDiffusion.
Idk what the parent comment was, but I'm guessing it's the "REAL code runs in binaries" or "there is no cloud" you see sometimes around here. Best not to take it personally.
$1,700 would be normal for the average american. \

https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/
Seems to be entirely a different approach for diffusion.

>DeepFloyd IF works in pixel space. The diffusion is implemented on a pixel level, unlike latent diffusion models (like Stable Diffusion), where latent representations are used.
I learned about this from outside, but my understanding was that negative reputation was earned when someone from the deployment or development team pointed to your code as being the reason a patch had to be rolled back. Presumably because it broke during CI on the master/release branch. Not sure if there were other was to earn/lose reputation points.
Thank you for the kind words, @follower!

I'm the author of Piper; it is a successor to Larynx (originally named Larynx 2). Piper uses the same underlying model as Mimic 3, which I developed before joining Mycroft. However, Piper uses a different library to get word pronunciations, so the voices aren't compatible between the two projects.

It's been an awesome year so far with Nabu Casa, and I'm very fortunate to be able to work on something I love. I hope to contribute to the open source voice space for many years to come :)
IIRC it really only works well if you have a rarely mutated structure that's read-heavy. Otherwise every time you try to mutate the array, you have to rebuild the layout & it's typically heavier than just sorting (i.e. you have to sort + regenerate the layout). It's a neat concept for sure.
Literally millions of people live in the luxury of a dedicated, doored off bedroom in NYC for a third of that.
Cool!

I've been hacking on a related side project -- in my case, I wanted something like this but for Twitter. Right now it's using gpt-3.5-turbo to cluster related Tweets & rank based on my interests.

Source is here: https://github.com/kasrak/feedpaper
this is an amazing story.
A very basic implementation of the algorithm I have here:

https://gist.github.com/HaraldKorneliussen/2bf20ca4f4f28c1aa...

I implemented a slightly more efficient version of it that uses a prefix doubling strategy to do the string sorting step, as well as some glue code to make it work on lines and pixels, but that code is too messy to share for now.
In the old CRT days that could be plausible, but in these days of lcds and switching power supplies it seems less likely.

But as this article describes, you never know!
I’m surprised by the amount of negativity. Personally I eat meat but feel guilty about doing so because of animal cruelty. If someone is actually able to produce lab-grown meat that tastes the same and has the same nutritional value, I’ll switch in a heartbeat.

I don’t care at all whether the food I eat is “natural”. I don’t even care whether the ingredients are authentic, if there isn’t a health hazard; my reaction to the article’s mention of rodent DNA contamination is “who cares”. So of course I’ve tried plant-based meat alternatives, but found that they don’t taste right, while also being higher-calorie. My layman’s hope is that lab-grown meat will be able to replicate the taste more accurately. I realize that there’s no guarantee it will, even if they do succeed at producing something edible that’s made of animal cells (but has a very different structure). But it might.
Turn any YouTube video into karaoke using Demucs and Whisper
I started building a typing web app to get better at touch typing. (Doesn’t work on mobile so open on PC if curious)

https://www.typefaster.app/

Still very early stage and many more features (racing, user management, etc) coming but it’s probably one of the first projects I’ve built that I’ve actually used
I built DiffLens (https://www.difflens.com/) initially just for myself. It's a diff tool that uses abstract syntax trees to make the diff more review-able. It's free for anyone to use too. I use it every day to review my diffs. If anyone works on Typescript, Javascript, HTML and/or CSS, do check it out!
When they went to longer IDs they REALLY MISSED OUT on the ability to make them cryptographically secure.

https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=000385008&type=...

There was no need to make those human readable; 64 character UUIDs would have been just fine; as it is they're sequential and so if you know yours you can guess some more.
This is like complaining about someone trying to invent screws because we have nails already. Nails do the job way better than tying things together! Why worry about whether or not they're perfect for all jobs?
Neat!

Maybe check out the Joy programming language? It seems well-suited to this domain.
Any law is ultimately enforced by the government. There isn’t a different type of law to which the constitution doesn’t apply (I mean it doesn’t say a ton about limiting various types of laws—laws around contracts, state law, etc etc—but it still applies, it just doesn’t say much).

However, this seems more like an issue of corporate policy than law.

Github needs to have some policy that ends up with them taking down repos that actually host illegal content, they don’t have any legal obligation to host files, so they can respond to takedown notices by just taking down the files. This wouldn’t be the government forcing them to take down files, it would be them deciding not to try and parse the law very closely. But this is different from having an area of law where the constitution doesn’t apply, and it bears repeating, because the constitution is really important and the idea that there should be some sort of cutout where it doesn’t apply is bad for society.

Something we should grapple with as a society is whether poorly written, ambiguous laws should be interpreted as the government taking action by essentially forcing companies into be over zealous in their corporate policy.
This kind of comparison seems disingenuous to me due to the EV max torque at rest. Of course the EV will do well. Pretty much every other property of these cars would be more interesting to compare.
This is like saying the 2017 Astros are one of the best MLB teams of all time because they cheated to win the World Series.