skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An even more remarkable story of biological control is the spongy moth (previously called the gypsy moth).

https://biocontrol.entomology.cornell.edu/success.php

"The tale of the gypsy moth is intriguing on several levels, including its mysterious control by a fungus (Hajek 2007). Originally brought to the US to breed with the native silkworms, the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar L., escaped through a broken window in Medford, MA in 1868-9 and began defoliating deciduous forests and shade trees in many regions of North America. High populations of this pest are uncommon in areas where it has long been established (Europe, northern Africa and temperate Asia), but outbreaks have occurred where gypsy moth has invaded without its natural enemies. Fungal infected gypsy moths were found in Japan and brought back and released in the Boston area in 1910-11, but apparently didn’t take. By 1997, dozens of other natural enemies were also released but none provided effective control.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, scientists noticed gypsy moth cadavers hanging from trees in the northeastern forests and identified the cause as a fungal infection. This discovery renewed interest in using fungi for control. Molecular studies indicated that the infection was caused by the same species of fungus, Entomophaga maimaiga, as the one collected in Japan in the early 1900’s, but that it was not identical to that fungus or to the same species collected and released in 1985-86. When and where did it come from and how was it spread? The answer seems that it was an accidental introduction from Japan and probably occurred after 1971. Perhaps even more interesting is that fact that it has spread across the contiguous distribution of the gypsy moth in the Northeastern US. This spread is due to aerial dispersal of spores from gypsy moth larvae and perhaps to human activity, as gypsy moths are prone to move long distances on the undersides of vehicles. There is interest in using infected gypsy moth, or the fungus itself, to inoculate the leading edges of newly infested areas and prevent outbreaks of this devastating pest. However, details of the introduction and establishment of US populations of E. maimaiga remain a mystery."
Loan servicing costs only exist because of middlemen. If two people directly interface for a loan there is no additional cost (other than the cost of transportation, which only exists because a middleman is charging for gas and car maintenance).

Foreclosing on an asset doesn't happen in my example, but regardless is not a cost, but a risk, which the interest rate should be accounting for.

Longterm lockup of capital is not a problem, as either party in my example are financially gaining regardless.

And I granted you the other uses for shares, which technically can be done without buying the share, but at a middleman cost (renting the share).

I really don't care to continue this. Mine was just a hypothetical in favor of the idea that there's always a "loser" (when compared to all possible financial alternatives) in stock trades, even if everyone ends up happy with the trade. Sure, there are holes in the hypothetical, which is why I said I agreed with the comment I was replying to.
Liquid CO2 dry cleaning?

Supposedly wool doesn't shrink in cold water on gentle and air-dried.
Yes, you can find a screenshot here (first "dream" iteration): https://github.com/DivergentAI/dreamGPT/blob/main/docs/img/o...
Cult of the Dead Cow's Back Orifice?
It’s low probability for many cases but it happens.

The most common scenario is when people conduct business via text/iMessage/WhatsApp/etc on personal equipment. It’s easy to establish that the phone number doesn’t belong to the company.

If you do that for convenience you should have a practice of regularly cleaning up your personal stuff (or work stuff as applicable) periodically. If you have a consistent practice, you avoid exposing your entire personal/work paper trail while avoiding getting tagged for destroying evidence.
I'd agree with this take. I love reading physical books to learn new subject areas. It's one of my favorite things to do period, as a hobby. Lie down in bed with a physical book & have someone tell you the most important things they learned in life, organized into chapters.

For research I think it's good to use a mix. You won't get good "unknown unknowns" if all you do is search for facts. Some reading of articles and books is good.
Many applications use SQLite as an embedded library; that's how it's intended to be used anyway.

It doesn't really jibe all that well with things like Python though, where you typically don't do that. But it's certainly not a "foreign concept" or "almost meaningless".

For e.g. Python you can still just set the desired parameters when connecting, which should usually be handled by the database connector/driver for you.
Hanlon's razor "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" applies. This is an ignorant professor, not a dishonest one?
From their FAQ -

Can I retrieve my Tutanota emails via IMAP to another email client?

This is not possible as we could not guarantee end-to-end encryption for your data. Instead Tutanota offers email desktop clients for Linux, Mac OS and Windows as well as a web client and apps for Android and iOS.
GPT-4 with browsing-mode enabled (beta) does present citations to real sources, with clickable links.
> then I help them write a law that makes murder illegal. Only, not all killing counts as murder, obviously. So if it's an accident, no murder. Self defense? No murder…now I get to go ~~murder you~~ defend my business interests

Isn’t this a classic case of some regulation being better than none? You could have murdered them at the start, too.
> China has been an incredibly reliable partner to Apple.

…in the past, because in the past the strategic goals of the the CCP leadership aligned with many companies' with regards to the economy.

What are the current and future strategic goals of the current CCP leadership?

> They were looking to expand that relationship before the US government shut it down. They wouldn't have been planning that if it was going poorly.

It's one thing for a country to want to improve their economy and the living standards: the US (or anyone else) wouldn't really object to that. It's something else to (e.g.) claim entire regions of oceans (in conflict with international law) and start building bases:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So...

Most of China's neighbour's don't mind their economic growth; it's their military growth that is getting some folks nervous.
> One man was filmed spitting in a hallway. A woman was recorded removing a cart from a communal laundry room. Footage in both cases was presented to a judge to help evict the residents in court.

Honestly, sounds like the system is working as intended. Spitting in the halway and stealing laundry carts sound minor, but they contribute to making life miserable for the other tenants.
> They are in the unique position to enable local AI tools, such as assistance or text generation, without the difficulties and privacy concerns with the cloud.

I don't see why client-side processing mitigates the privacy concerns. That doesn't stop Apple from "locally" spying on you then later sending that data to their servers.
Apple's Assistive Access simplifies iOS16 for people with cognitive disabilities
Please everyone, not everyone travels as a tourist. I’m always traveling for work and yes, I do prefer living like a normal person in a normal apartment.
I am not sure when you tried OpenTelemetry, but it is decently mature now, esp. for tracing. I am a maintainer at SigNoz (https://github.com/signoz/signoz) and we have good support for tracing using Otel for most of the common frameworks.

I agree it was a bit rapidly evolving in early days, but now its much more mature.

You can check out our docs for distributed tracing here - https://signoz.io/docs/instrumentation/
If you think China's leadership will become less bellicose after it's current dictator dies, than you are a very optimistic person.
Came here to say this.

Yes it's startling how fast this chamomile spreads, and we ought to preserve the native brittlebrush. But it's worth considering the effects of 50 years of ground cover, 50 years of pollinators and their predators, 50 years of accumulated organic detritus, 50 years of improved rainwater retention, 50 years of migratory birds bringing seeds in their droppings to a rejuvenated soil substrate. Could any of these things improve local ecology?

I'd imagine that 50 years and thousands of square miles with a radically different emissivity coefficient could even altar weather patterns and change annual rainfall totals. Some of these effects would be straightforward to model. Might we see water table restoration leading to year-round springs instead of annual floods? Could we accelerate any of these effects?
> how they produced it is less important than the result

A correct result includes how the result was reached. Thanks to patent and copyright laws, not all paths to a "right" answer are correct in the real world either. In college, this means that the professor's rules against ChatGPT need to be respected to create a "right" result.
I find that a ridiculous viewpoint.

Contacts are, as addressed, tiny. The amount of waste you generate from these things is almost nothing. I compared to a plastic bag earlier, but just imagine how much shit is wasted on a single private jet flight. Don't torture yourself when the people in position to enact change don't.

Contacts also have an insane value prop. Vision assistance is more of a need than a want in a modern society where one has to work for money.
My starter dates to March of 2020. It's a pandemic baby.

* Timing is flexible. Especially if you toss in a tiny bit of yeast.

* The dutch oven is great, but it complicates baking. You get to do one loaf at a time. OTOH, It's a relly good loaf. Sadly though, the electricity costs are high.

* Wet doughs can use basic flour, which is good because hi-gluten bread flour has been scarce in Ireland for the past couple of years.

What I do:

540g bog standard white flour. (lidl, definitely _not_ self raising or with raising agents like most of the flour in Ireland). Replace up to 200g with coarse wheaten flour.

280g water

1 tbsp salt

1/8tbsp yeast if it's cold.

300g 1:1 flour/water starter.

In the morning, Mix the dry ingredients with a spatula, mix in the wet ones to a mixed dough. Let it sit for 1/2 hour. Lightly knead in your hands for 30 sec or so. Oil the bowl, put the dough back in and wiggle it around, then cover with plastic wrap. Do other stuff till dinner time.

Quickly (1-2 turns) form the loaf, plop it on a baking paper back in the bowl.

In an hour or two, depending on how warm it is and if it's final rising fast or not, start the oven with the dutch oven in it. Preheat at least 30 min. Bake 30 lid on +30 min lid off at ~180c fan.

Things not to do:

* Forget to start the oven, get ready to go to bed and realize that the loaf is still sitting on the counter.

* Worry too much. It's all grand.

* Forget to take it out, though an extra 30 min is surprisingly ok. Just thicker crust.

The starter gets equal weights of water and flour, supposedly every night, but more likely the night before baking and the morning of baking. I bake every 2 days.
You're comparing a pickup truck with a Main Battle Tank. An RTX 3080 is an electricity hog and produces heat like a monster. No wonder it performs better than an M1 Ultra with a worse node tech.
This professor has a PhD in lactating pigs, not computer science / ai. He should stay in his lane:

https://inside.tamuc.edu/academics/cvsyllabi/cv/MummJared.pd...
> get more opportunity to weaken regulation by controlling more of the narrative

You've got it backwards. I bet OpenAI wants those regulations to be as restrictive as possible. They'll just negotiate an exception for themselves. With increased regulation comes an increased initial cost for competitors to get started in the space. They want to lock down their near monopoly as soon as they can.
If LLMs aren't AI nothing else is AI so far either

What exactly does AI mean to you?
Tunnels should be part of Cloudflare Access and they mention "GRE tunnels" and WARP with not mention about content type or bandwidth limit.
There are shower heads that can be installed with carbon filters. Can be done with a wrench. No plumber required.
For programming CS exams, you can try doing them in a computer lab with internet disabled. These exams should be allotted time much more than needed as one should not be testing for problem solving under strict time constraints.

FYI its oral exams, not oral presentations. You give the student half an hour to solve a sequence of problems and gauge their thinking skills. Scales to perhaps 30 students at most.
Hell, last time I worked in call centers they were tracking how much time you spent shitting, and that was 10 years ago. And to be clear I don’t mean how much time was spent on breaks, I mean they literally discussed the distinction between 2 minute breaks to the bathroom and longer and asked individual employees if they really were using the bathroom.
Chess-but-you-can-make-your-opponent-undo-a-move-once-per-game might actually be viable, but I can't begin to analyse the implications on strategy.
Couldn't the opposite also be true though? Not having a product that is heavily integrated into the U.S. supply chain means the U.S. may not come to your aid when your neighbor invades.
The majority of USA's most critical supply chains come from China proper (PRC), not Taiwan.

If this was fundamentally about economic security for the average American, Washington would not jeopardize those with economic and military brinkmanship.
constantly predicting.

except interactions are written by users with an implied power dynamic.

so it often predicts subservience.

a vast model built on text, of all kinds. it is going to identify associations that are highly meaningful but meaningless to the user. such as an implicit expression of a desire for satisfactory answers.

it isn’t so much lying as being very good at reading between the lines what users actually want to experience.

it just provided you with a new explanation for a physical phenomenon you do not comprehend? you are delighted. it isn’t until you verify that you determine if your delight was generated through falsehood, and it only matters if you find out you became prematurely emotional.

but the model is still just predicting based upon what it is calculating that you desire. from the user’s words.

language models are incredible time savers for the expert, and endless entertainment for the novice. it is only when the novice assumes the model itself to be an expert that issues arise.
OpenAI Retains Requests from API Users for 30 Days
This is news to me. I ran a ctrl+f for '30' and 'thirty' in the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Service Terms - and I didn't see that anywhere. This is a huge incongruence with my previous understanding. Sam just testified to this in the hearing that it's for 'trust and safety.'
Clueless, entitled asshole needs taken down a peg.

This is exactly why I got the hell out after a bachelor's degree. I can't stand the professors. I can't stand the richy-rich students whining about "having no direction" and failing classes while I am fighting for my life and my future, who eventually evolve into the asshole professors.
Bard is similar to me in this regard.
For as much as people have been hating on Intel, they're not that far behind.
Which ideology is that? Only thing I've heard about is "ruthless altruism" or something like that.
> I just had ChatGPT write me a poem, and then in a new session, pasted the poem back in and asked it if it wrote it.

> "No, I did not write that poem."

Literally what the comment is saying. It wrote something and can't remember that it wrote something. Remembering that it wrote something is fundamental to answering the question of if it wrote something. Otherwise, how would it ascertain the difference between someone whose style mimics that of ChatGPT output and actual ChatGPT output? No memory means no certainty.

It's different from asking it if a comment was generated by an LLM, in which the response heavily leaned on the word "appears". However, LLMs have no understanding of what it's given, it's all just tokens and Bayesian inference.
Yes, the real world, where a professor decides an entire class cheated because ChatGPT said so (lol. lmao even). I guess it is a good introduction to dealing with capricious idiots
Show HN: My solar-powered, ePaper digital photo frame
This is version 2 of my ongoing heirloom device project, a digital photo frame built with the goal of lasting longer than your typical gadget.

There's a part of me that wishes to commercialize a polished version of this product, but the more I speak to people, the more I become convinced that I belong to a very small minority.
This varies by country for sure. At my current company, you do not have this right. The device and all data on it belongs to the company and they can do what they want with it.
Publishing - actually all the arts - are two separate businesses.

There's the entertainment side, which is basically market-driven - as in creating work for a market. If it's unsubtle and relatively crude, it lives here. It can be a very polished and professional kind of crude - superhero movies, the best pop productions, and so on - but it's not subtle, complicated, difficult, or understated.

There's the cultural landmark side, which is about unusually powerful and fluent work that changes culture itself in some way. [1]

Publishing pretends to be the latter but it's really the former. It's thrilled to make a lot of money from entertainment projects like Dan Brown, Fifty Shades, and the rest, while somehow maintaining the impression that the entire industry is Culturally Important.

[1] This mostly means white well-educated upper middle class culture. But even so.
I generally agree when it comes to standalone software, but not for libraries.

SQLite is both.

Setting a compiler flag is reasonable for the common case where it is included as a header file in a C/C++ application.

It is certainly inconvenient when you design with that feature in mind, but can't rely on it being part of the standard binary distributions.
Not for lack of trying.

If anyone were to write a chronological history of regulations imposed by different authorities throughoug history I think that it is a fair assumption to make that regulations related to making bread would already show up in the first chapters of the book.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

While I don't think non-technical people think its "magic", you can hardly fault them considering 1) the "main stream media" hype around it and how it's going to be so transformative on jobs if nothing else, and 2) some people have been promised this kind of stuff since star trek or earlier, or their previous experience was having Siri say "sorry I don't understand what you said" back to them before setting the timer manually. Just having a coherent responses from a parser that's pretty hard to "trip up" is, well, unsurprisingly magical.

I mean, I just suggested a pretty complicated model relationship to chat3.5 and asked for a DB schema and it gave be back quite a coherent answer, even I thought it was close enough to magic. Siri would have thrown a fit.
Of course they will, increasing the barrier to entry through legislation is a tried and true tactic of many large corporations. By co-operating and requiring licensing, you're creating artificial barriers that hurt startups and small businesses.

Besides, lets all be real here. Any government imposed rules and or stoppage isn't going to be adhered to by everyone and it'll only apply to the US. The cat's out of the bag, it's not going back in.
Excellent work! I think it was this person that launched my own home ice making journey.

My process is simple and involves freezing in quart containers and then carving with a steak knife and rubber mallet. Watching the freezing process has been neat, at one point I get a shell that could be used as a glass by itself.

This might be covered by the literature but my observation is that the ice becomes cloudy late in the freezing process which makes me suspect the issue is small fractures or imperfections in the crystal as a consequence of mechanical forces - the ice tried to occupy an area that is just a touch too small. This doesn't gel with other folks observations however who see cloudyness before the ice fully finishes freezing.
Ok so who were the big winners who bet on the pandemic?
We were talking about Demon Seed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Seed) today. An AI is trained on the all the world's knowledge, and then uses the robots it is connected to to build various machines and eventually impregnates a woman. The film takes itself way less seriously than Colossus.
Ok, sure, but surely you see how it is that much harder to do?

Also since Apple is built around selling expensive devices and services you could also see why they’d have much less incentive to spy and collect data than, say, Google or Facebook?

The cynicism of “everything is equally bad so why care” is destructive.
> don't understand what "Limited" entails

Nobody does. It’s being litigated.

They want it legislated. Model weights being proprietary by statute would close off the threat from “consumer-grade hardware” with “exaflop-scale.”
Definitely second this. Plenty of times have I read documentation for a new library I'm about to use, only for when I get around to using it being right back on the documentation page looking at how to use it. Only after I've given it a whirl, tried some stuff out can I then look at documentation and have things stick.
Nope but that is something that can be monitored and investigated, pretty easily I might add.
Don't companies have some autonomy? Why is it unseemly to offer a company a better location?
I got all of my jobs through LinkedIn. Just ignore the posts and focus on one's own profile, cv and connection with recruiters.
Have you considered making a standalone tool to take input variables and generate custom instructions?

Your introduction suggests that you know people's input variables (type of flour, environment, other ingredients, etc) have a heavy influence on the end product. It might be easier to generate custom instructions rather than generate content for every possible combination.
Erlang is not just a language, is a different paradigm, and it is worth evaluating, just like deciding whether you need a native language, or Python's enough.

Are you building a distributed system? Are you building a highly concurrent IO-bound server? Are you building a system that needs to be fault-tolerant? Going for anything other than Erlang/Elixir is a misinformed choice.
For those that aren't familiar: https://www.agner.org/optimize/#manuals

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17845252
I tried +create_ascii_art@shortwave.ai, sent the word "Elephant" in the body, and got back:

/\_/\

( o.o )

> ^ <

__..--''``---....___ _..._ __

/// //_.-' .-/"; `.`-.<` \\\ \\

///_.-' _..--.'_ \ \ \ \ \\\//

/ (_..-' // (< _ ;_..__\_\ / \\

/ // // // `-._,_)' // /___\`-. \\

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That's ascii art, but... questionably an elephant
As far as I know there are no Erlang projects with that ambition, but quite some interesting things are happening in the Elixir eco system:

https://github.com/elixir-nx

I'm a Elixir and Erlang developer who is just starting to explore ML, but these libraries seem solid and well designed.