skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

agreed

> 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.

Yes, I've read about Mark Shepard with a lot of interest. However that's just one farm. It's yet to be seen if his methods will work elsewhere, if his claims for productivity can be substantiated, if his productivity can be duplicated, and so on. In short his work is, currently, at best a prototype.

If you're going to claim that regenerative can be as productive as conventional then you need to point to systems that are widely used and whose productivity figures are reliably gathered.

> "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 ;-)

You miss the point. It's not about the availability of labour. It's about the price of labour. It's more economically efficient to reduce labour as much as possible. I'm not claiming this is a good thing. It's the reality of farming in a free-market society.
In a capitalist world where a small number of individuals possess significant wealth, the idea of free chicken is nothing but a myth. For the majority of people, money is the top priority and they will invariably choose it over any other option.
I have another version of this problem. Almost every time I get out of my chair, my Schiit Modi DAC disappears for a moment and my music stops, then starts again a few seconds later as the DAC comes back online.

I spent a fair amount of effort trying to figure that one out. Thought it was loose cables, something, but no. I don't have a Markus chair, but my Steelcase Gesture is still capable of making a pretty good amount of static electricity. Once in a while when I stand up if my boom microphone is too close I'll shock myself on it, and most of the time I have to reboot things after that. Haven't permanently killed anything yet, thankfully.
MusGo Is Deprecated
MusGo is no longer supported, please consider using mus-go instead. mus-go benefits:

1. It is very simple and can be easily implemented for other programming languages.

2. More flexible.

3. The test coverage is 100%.

4. It is faster.

5. Does not use code generation.
I have a tractor. Mice like to chew electrical wiring because the wire casings are made of soybeans, so the tractor dealer recommended setting several traps by my tractor. I couldn't stand killing a mouse so I used "humane" catch and release traps, the problem was a mouse died because I forgot to check the trap. So I put a reed switch and an esp-32 on a catch and release mouse trap that when tripped, sent an mqtt message to aws iot, that triggered a lambda function that sent me an email notifying me I had a mouse to let out of its trap.
There was a post yesterday about counting traffic on a pi, you might want to check it out: https://nathanrooy.github.io/posts/2019-02-06/raspberry-pi-d...
Clearly, if you aren’t in a car, you aren’t a serious person doing serious, important things. /s
This reminds me of a story about sticky tapes emitting x-rays when pulled.

I submitted the link here, it’s interesting in its own right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35744187
> In a 2019 incident, an analysis of a line of cultivated chicken revealed that it had been contaminated with a small amount of rodent DNA, former employees said, which Upside executives confirmed for this story.

Ms. Chen said the DNA stemmed from a common medical-research technique that used treated rodent cells to help support the meat cells’ growth early in the cultivation process. The company immediately stopped using that technique, she said.

Can someone explain what this "common medical-research technique" would be? I'm having a hard time understanding how this is passed off as "contamination" when it sounds like the rodent cells were deliberately put in contact with the food being created.
It's a waste of money that could be helping people.
The king.

http://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/
It's also used in ROS the robot operating system.
> response of the oversight committee was to place blame on local management

The Fed's review found "four key takeaways on the causes of the bank's failure." The first fingers management. Nos. 2 to 4 criticise supervisors.

> What about the endless oversight so famously wrapped around every bank right now

SVB was not subject to liquidity coverage ratios (LCRs), a regulatory rollback pushed through in 2017 [1]. Had SVB been, they would have breached their LCR in March of 2022.

> Is it true that you cannot in reality start a Bank in the USA without an Oracle license?

No. Kentland Federal Savings and Loan doesn't use computers [2].

> Does this Federal Reserve have the ability to make rules that work for Banks in 2023 after the extended-lifetime cash QE

Yes, the same book other banks follow. (Our pretending HTM securities always preserve value and are liquid assets is an ongoing farce that is being fixed.)

[1] https://apnews.com/article/banking-crisis-congress-lobbying-...

[2] https://www.indiatimes.com/worth/news/america-smallest-bank-...
I noticed this when traveling. It’s almost like they never price adjust to currency outside the US.

Sticker shock looking at Apple product prices in Japan.
I built https://crushentropy.com/ one weekend and I've been using it to plan my day ever since
There's a difference between being compelled by a court order to take down a repo and choosing to comply with a DMCA takedown notice of dubious validity because you don't want to waste any more time on the issue and are happy to screw your users.
> Everywhere else on the internet, you'll get banned for posting something even a little politically incorrect.

No you won't. 4chan's strain of political incorrectness is endemic throughout the internet. It's suffused internet culture and become normalized in the mainstream. It's found in every comment section on every social media platform, and the terminally edgy have an entire ecosystem of alternative forums, platforms and alt-accounts when the normies are just too square for their tastes. It's even becoming commonplace on HN. There is literally no demographic more heard than edgy 4chan shitlords.
You spend so much money that 3-5% back pays for luxuries?!
Although it can bite you if you don’t know what you are doing, signed-integer shifting is not necessarily undefined behavior. Roughly, for positive signed integers, if the operation doesn’t overflow then the result is defined. For negative signed numbers, right shifts are implementation defined, but almost all modern systems define the result in the expected manner.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_arithmet...
While it's not publicly available yet, I have strong suspicions that multimodal GPT-4 may actually be SOTA in image-to-text. The examples shown in the Sparks of AGI paper were extremely impressive imo, though of course those are cherry-picked so it's unclear how well the model will perform on non-cherry-picked images.
Aren't there some other ones? IIRC the standard "IP address handler library" would do things like "try any possible way of interpreting it" and would work on words, etc.
That's not optimism, it's either that or our civilization will disappear like the previous ones, and it is even more true nowadays with China's goal to become a global super power with the Moon and Mars in its trajectory.. so we either focus or get eaten alive
The more proximal referent is Plan 9 from Bell Labs:

https://9p.io/plan9/

> Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a research system developed at Bell Labs starting in the late 1980s. Its original designers and authors were Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, and Phil Winterbottom. They were joined by many others as development continued throughout the 1990s to the present.
Dorsey’s Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is fighting for the future of open source
My point is people have gone to prison over GET parameters, not the legality of the it. DOJ has CFAA. Abusing private APIs is flying close to the sun. Even if you do get out of prison eventually
> In many cases, it’s just an easy way to thin the applicant pool.

True. Though one might pay less, under-advertise the job opening, require N years of experience, or many other means to that end.
It appears that it’s a thousand times larger, if one includes the media.
> The defendant would likely have to show, whether he likes it or not, that he never once signed up for ChatGPT, never once signed up for the official OpenAI API, and managed to perfectly reverse-engineer the API from the outside.

These aren’t reverse engineering the OpenAI API, they are reverse engineering the APIs of public services that in turn call the OpenAI API.

I’m not sure under what theory OpenAI would even sue.

> But then of course... CFAA and DMCA. The DMCA in particular, for example, doesn't consider the strength of the lock in the criminality.

The DMCA only applies to technology addressing copyrights, and CFAA seems inapplicable to consuming the backend APIs used by publicly accessible services because that’s just use of authorized access by a different manner, outside of CFAA scope under the Van Buren precedent.
Yeah, you have to exactly match electric output to demand or things get very bad. Until we have a few more breakthroughs in battery technology, we're going to be stuck with fossil fuels to make up the gap for variable demand. Nuclear can't be ramped up and down quickly, and solar and wind just do whatever they want.

As I understand it, a typical strategy for a power company is:

- nuclear or similar for the base load that's always required

- solar and wind as available

- weather forecasting to determine how much solar and wind will be available

- demand forecasting to determine how much power will be required at any given time

- natural gas to meet predicted solar and wind shortfalls

- RICE engines and battery storage to handle unexpected fluctuations

- contracts to buy and sell power with other nearby power companies
I meant the USA
Presumably, they're looking out for their paying users (see: they want to keep those paying users), who would have a terrible experience if and when they found out someone else had been using their APIs and/or API keys.
Why out-perform? Wouldn't it be reasonable to have similarly or slightly worse performing system in exchange for using drastically less energy and degrading natural resources less?

A concrete example would be New Forest Farm: about 40 hectares in Wisconsin farmed entirely without chemical fertilizers, pesticides/herbicides or external irrigation for more than two decades. The owner is arguably more commercially successful than the neighboring corn farmers and according to his data, he produces similar amounts of calories/ha with a considerably lower energy input and comparable labour requirements. He has written a couple of good books and you can find plenty of youtube videos of him (Mark Shepard).
This is the Byzantine General problem of relationships. No way to know how many times to go around before stopping.
Silicon Valley Bank: the multiple warnings that were missed
> My point is people have gone to prison over GET parameters, not the legality of the it. DOJ has CFAA.

And CFAA is limited by Van Buren.
I wonder if mentioning "Kibo"[1] will summon him as it did in the days before the endless summer?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Parry
I had a job in university testing breakdown voltages in various flavors of Kapton. IIRC the idea was to see how suitable they would be for spacecraft construction where they would be exposed to high voltages from solar wind. We could always tell when a test run was complete because the EM interference from >10 kV suddenly shorting to ground caused our computers to freeze. (Thankfully they still recorded the data we needed.)
Do you think U.S. Representative Staffers are not interacting with lumbering bureaucratic organizations?

Being able to navigate and succeed in these organizations is a skill every organization with employees needs.
Agreed. Kept looking for the rest of the article. Bizarre...
i do a lot of Salesforce stuff, all of these issues are on Experience Cloud ( the Salesforce portal portfolio ). No one ever looks closely at the "guest user" this is basically used for unauthenticated portal pages, even though there isn't a user per-se there's still a session and it maps back to a user and profile ( profile = what controls security for a group of users in Salesforce ). What happens is the guest user ends up with read access on an Object ( SF term for a table ) somehow but it's never surfaced on the portal as a page and therefore never tested/known by the testing/qa team. Then, as an end user curious enough, through some browser request manipulation or address bar manipulation you can access the records for that Object (table).

Guest user problems go far deeper than what the article describes and over the years Salesforce has been slowly dialing down what the guest user can have access to. It's an intricate exercise to properly lock down that profile in Experience Cloud (the portal feature portfolio).

Guest user aside, privilege escalation attacks are very easy to introduce when writing custom APEX and front-end code. APEX is Salesforce's backend language similar to Java but runs in a system context not entirely constrained by the security settings of the running user. It's very simple for a naive developer to introduce a privilege escalation attack when writing an APEX method that is called from the front-end javascript framework ( LWC or Aura ). This is especially the case when the underlying record access model (think row-level access control in PostGres) is left to defaults or even opened further and not properly locked down.

At my firm we have an entire practice dedicated to Salesforce security and require security scans, reviews, and remediation performed by this practice for all implementation projects because of things like this.
Ok I think I get your definition. That doesn't appear to be what the paper is talking about: "recognize ambiguity and disentangle possible meanings".

Sure, PolitiFact could flag "Donald Trump and Melania Trump are married" as linguistically ambiguous, consistent with your John and Anna example, but I'm not sure who that would help.

Calling out mud slinging like: "Donald Trump was an associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein was arrested for sex trafficking minors." feels like the point of these tools. Arguing that the statements are individually true and are "syntactically unambiguous" ignores that putting them together is intended to make the reader hear something that wasn't actually said and to think something bad about Trump.

Since the goal is to "disentangle possible meanings", using statements that are syntactically unambiguous, but have hidden meaning seems like a great choice.
But i would have applied for trump university right away!
It's signalling.
According to https://laion.ai/team/ the project has mushroomed a bit and (if I recall from other sources) has something of a budget. And it sure looks like they are positioning themselves to spin this off into some kind of financially self-sustaining entity (even if they aren't interested in selling out just yet).

So when I said "minor" not in comparison to his day job salary but as in, you know, the scheme of things.

You have no idea how people get by.

Gosh, it seems you know everything about me.
I once had an amazing meal at someone's house, so I donated to food bank in their honor.
I also have a Secretlab but I have an ESD mat on my work surface which is grounded with a clip at the corner, and I tend to put a hand on it to stabilize myself as I stand up, which has the side effect of dissipating any charges as they're generated.

I also do electronic assembly work at this desk so it's sort of a no-brainer to have the mat, I just had no idea it was also saving me from other weirdness!
Ed here, (@slim-bean on github), one of the original authors and lead of the Loki project.

The criticisms brought by Chris are valid, and it's good feedback. I just wish it was done so in a more constructive manner.

I personally know what Loki is capable of, I've watched it grow from something tiny to something I'm incredibly proud of and in awe of.

I run Loki on several Raspberry Pi's ingesting 20-100GB a day, I also run Loki clusters on thousands of cores ingesting hundreds of TB's a day. It's an amazingly flexible and capable project built by an amazing team by a company I'm incredibly proud to work for.

That being said....

> Loki doesn't feel like it's been built to be operable by people who don't know its code and its internal details

How true this is... while I know for a fact there are hundreds to thousands of folks out there who are successfully running Loki (and thank you to those who share your success stories, it means the world to us), it can be very rough around the edges...

But we are working hard to improve this, we are doing the best we can.

All I really ask is for folks who want to give feedback about Loki, PLEASE DO! but please be patient.

The author of this article says they tried to work with us to improve Loki and that it didn't work out. I'm truly sorry for that, these posts are full of constructive feedback and I would really love to see this put into issues and pull requests to make the project better.
I got chatGPT hooked up to a voice interface on my iPhone [1], and this comparison is exactly what the difference feels like.

[1] https://theshamblog.com/chatgpt-on-an-iphone/
So it's valueless when the original author wants it to have value and valuable when OpenAI wants it to have value?

I am all for training AIs, but at least exhibit some self-consistency in your arguments!
For comparison, I think the visual studio community edition has a revenue limit of $1 million.
>> If you can sell turds to financial elites you're at the top of your game.

My Dad worked for several silicon valley startups in the 60's and 70's and his advice always stuck with me. When I got caught up in the first dot com craze in the late 90's early aughts, he always told me about his experience then and told me: "Listen son, if it sounds like blue skies and bullshit, then it probably is."

It helped me steer clear a few disastrous startups right after graduating from college.
I knew the model would have difficulty fitting into a 16GB VRAM GPU, but "you need to load and unload parts of the model pipeline to/from the GPU" is not a workaround I expected.

At that point it's probably better to write a guide on how to set up a VM with a A100 easily instead of trying to fit it into a Colab GPU.
I'm looking forward to seeing your job opening when the May "Who's Hiring?" thread is created.
No offense, but how is it an advance? Who needs a wiki that can't be edited? (If I'm mistaken about this, maybe someone can educate me)
tldr: bigger text encoder is better. SD will catch up quickly, as conditioning on a new set of precomputed text embeddings is a trivial change
http://web.archive.org/web/20230428164428/https://www.slideb...
It is dump enough that it is now actively discouraged by German ag-extension services, if an alternative soil preparation/seeding method is available.
> In some cultures, settling all debts with a friend is akin to declaring the friendship over.

This is also how you terminate employment.
> Drivers and GPU performance were disappointing even after delaying the launch. This first generation of intel GPUs will be a huge loss for them.

To be fair to Intel, some of this was legitimately overwhelming bad luck - their GPU driver team for Arc was based out of Russia.
>The US is not hurting for land, we just don't use it as best we can

This is true on multiple levels of the word use. From the practice of monocrops to only keeping the ground fertile through the use of chemicals, I'm amazed that we haven't had more problems.
It is an abuse. Animal abuse is rampant in the practice of factory farming, and a visit to such facilities would make it clear just how much these animals suffer. Therefore, it is important for consumers to avoid being misled by labels such as "happy cows" on meat products and to be mindful of the ethical implications of their choices.
>Gas cars got fast out of nowhere because it moves units and CAD changed everything for engine design.

Gas cars got fast because sufficiently high quality computer control matured to the point where making a high power for its size/weight engine that both met emissions standards and reliability expectations and did so at a reasonable price point was doable.

The ability to actually build the hardware has preceded the ability to run it in a reliable and emissions compatible manner ever since we've had emissions rules. Having better FEA software so some engineer could shave a gram off a piston, get his bonus for achieving his KPI and ensure half a million engines start knocking at 120k on the dot was never the bottleneck.
The only "real" thing about either of those 2 cases is social conventions.

Is is entirely impossible to imagine a culture where walking unbidden into private property is very normal but pinging someone electronically without a common understanding is an intrusion?
Pretty cool project!

Why don't you distribute through your own website though?

It doesn't seem like the kind of tool people that only use the App Store would be interested in :)
Asking ChatGPT to Be HAL
this is a couple months old, but I just found it. I think it's a funny idea, a little alarming, too.
I would see this phenomenon when taking medium format film off the paper backing in a darkroom to load for processing.

After a while I'd notice a faint blue light coming from the masking tape as I peeled it off the paper and film and I never figured out what that light was!

Now I know.
Previous chatbots were too dumb to handle said tasks. LLMs may be able to understand the internal APIs and perform the task, without the company having to design a UI for self service.
Probably the same. I didn't knew about the lumpy carpet effect. Sounds like a funny sight.

If looks like a big lemon [1] and nobody is harvesting it, maybe is an old abandoned orchard. In that case you may want to pick one and try it as indoor air freshener [2].

[1] Not to confuse with Maclura or a Grapefruit.

[2] Assure that is not chemically treated first and if in doubt discard it.
Because that would lead to an influx of an infinite number of people from a particular south asian country.
Why not just buy carbon offsets?
My group of friends definitely aren't all of the same economic status. I can see how that might be an issue for some. In our case, it's really not. Perhaps because we've been friends for decades, and at various times we've all been flat broke or flush, so no single person is considered the "rich" one or the "poor" one. We just don't think in that way.

However, friends who don't have as much disposable income still "chip in" in different ways. Holding the occasional dinner party, providing things in their specialty (carpentry, home repair, etc.)

This is why nobody cares or keeps track. Everyone participates in one way or another. It all evens out in the wash.