skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to compare cattle mass to cattle mass.

> We've had an estimated 30-60 million bison in the US, now we have 100+ million cows.

The US has always had < 50 million adult cows (milk or beef), the difference is yearling calves.

The bison estimates likely didn't include calves either .. and have a lot of bounce in any case.

There were 89.3 million head of cattle and calves on U.S. farms as of Jan. 1, 2023,

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2023/01-31-2023.php

* Of the 89.3 million head inventory, all cows and heifers that have calved totaled 38.3 million.

* There are 28.9 million beef cows in the United States as of Jan. 1, 2023, down 4% from last year.

* The number of milk cows in the United States increased to 9.40 million.

* U.S. calf crop was estimated at 34.5 million head, down 2% from 2021.

* All cattle on feed were at 14.2 million head, down 4% from 2022

As pointed out by olddustytrail .. that's the US.

Elsewhere meat consumption can save the planet by decreasing hoove heavy ferals that aren't managed at all - eg: Australia where camels, donkeys, goats, and cleanskin cattle are all introduced animals run wild that can be rounded up and trucked out every year in a never ending game of trying to keep their numbers in check and stop them over taxing the environment.

Kangaroos are native but savagely boom | bust - when the wet years hit numbers spike and if the population isn't culled the following years see the ground littered with dead as water resources contract.
Worth noting that these are virtually the only people in Ireland who _do_ have firearms; the licensing for other use cases is pretty onerous.
This 1000%

I wish my parents had had this wisdom.
An OpenAI embeddings vector is 1536 4 byte floats. 1 TiB is roughly 174K such embeddings vectors.
(I can only speak to the US, though I expect it's similar in many other western countries as well)

The unfortunate truth is that we have so heavily subsidized and centralized food production that anyone focusing on biodiversity, sustainability, or even animal welfare can compete economically.

If we care at all about any of these goals, let alone all three, the only solution seems to be a much more localized food system. Large-scale ranching and farming is heavily dependent on monoculture, i.e. growing only one type of crop or raising only one type of animal. Without this a farmer has a much harder time mechanising the process with heavy equipment, and that's a must give that exceedingly few people are willing to work on a farm. Even then, most farmers eek out a living based heavily on government subsidies and crop insurance.

I'm raising a small herd of cattle on pasture, I don't have as much experience farming crops so I'll stick with ranching here. Our cows are entirely grass fed and we don't use pesticides, herbicides, or antibiotics. We don't even own a tractor because it's not economically viable to take on the upfront or maintenance costs of modern tractors. No matter how I do the math I could never sell meat or dairy at prices that come close to grocery store prices.

And no, scale wouldn't solve the financial challenge. Raising healthy cattle on pasture requires much more land per head than industrial cattle production offers. Fertilizers, antibiotics, and pesticides are all additional inputs that require expensive equipment to apply properly and ultimately are just bandaids attempting to squeeze out more head per acre than the land can actually support. At the end of the day we would end up raising more cattle, but our expenses and risk would continue to grow at least as fast and we'd end up working harder and stressing out more just to make sure something doesn't go wrong and bring the entire house of cards down.
Of course they know, just like they know about dirty money from abroad propping up the economy, empty properties owned by rich foreign nationals pushing up house prices for UK residents etc. but there are several steps between that and doing something about it:

1) They have to know (they probably do)

2) They have to care

3) They have to know what to do about it

4) They have to accept the potential disadvantages of taking action

5) They have to decide it is more important than everything else they have on their plate

6) They need to actually do something about it

7) They have to succeed in the Court case, Tax investigation etc.

8) Eventually, worse-case, the wealthy criminal just dusts themselves off and finds something else to do

I'm sure that's why most Politicians just talk about stuff. It's too hard to actually do things.
The point the parent was making is that if Apple decided tomorrow they wanted to implement a backdoor for law enforcement there's no way we'd know until the evidence starts to show up in court cases (or someone at Apple/LEO leaks the knowledge). The system is a closed loop and proprietary. We're taking their word for it.
A fairly unidiomatic rendering of "lively", I think.
A higher intelligent AGI with specific goals can destroy humanity and that is precisly what Bengio (highest h-indez software scientist currently) describes in this blog post: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844...
Where's the kind of "no" that means "that doesn't align with our business model, so we'll fight it tooth and nail"?
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Honestly even as a person who believes that anyone with a billion dollars has effectively stolen it (captured more than their personal share) from the people and systems which enabled the value-creation of their enterprises…

If I won a $1 million lottery (after taxes) I’d have no idea how to turn that into $100M. I’d probably spend 75% of it on a house, 10% of it to pay off other debts, and then be still solidly in the labor class.

The guy obviously built an empire out of nothing, through both grift and grit. His first major win may have been ingratiating himself with the Haitian leadership, but how do you do this with nothing?

I don’t admire it, but I recognize that it doesn’t just happen either. The guy didn’t really win with a lottery ticket, he did something to put the fix in at the lottery.
> If you believe that your choice is right, why are you so sensitive about it?

Sensitive about it? I don't see where you get that impression from.
You cant debate ignorance and hate. As the quote goes, “They’ll drag you into the mud and beat you with experience.”
Bad parenting or neglectful often produces bad outcomes does it not?

This is unfortunate to read. Of course everything doesn’t need to be planned, but food and shelter are the bare minimum.
Yeah we're kinda over the traditional family thing here in Europe. I would bet two fathers taking their son to the playground would raise some eyebrows in the US too, depending on the area of course. Whereas here it wouldn't.
Where Cooking Begins, by Carla Lalli Music. It's similar but less verbose than SFAH.
Flight forced to come back after flyer has diarrhea ‘all the way through’ plane
This sounds strategically sound until the realization that you've given very compelling justification—legal or not, it doesn't really matter—for others to now commit preemptive violence against people like you.
The linked youtube video may answer some of your questions.
Gifts and other private transfers, including occasional cash transfers, are still legal in most states and will be legal for the foreseeable future.

However, some states have banned private transfers of handguns or of all guns. This means, in practice, that people must perform the transfer through licensed dealers.

It is illegal in the United States to be in the firearms business without a license. It is legal for private people to transfer firearms to one another without filling out a 4473. So on the one hand, we have the business of selling guns and filling out 4473s and maintaining records according to the ATF's rules, and the majority of transfers of guns take place according to these rules; and on the other, we have people who give a gun to their son or daughter as a birthday present, or sell a few guns they no longer use. In the middle, we have a grey area -- people who sell a few guns every year, &c. Occasionally, people in the grey area get caught; and it's not a good place to be in; so people who occasionally sell guns but have no interest in being in the firearms business will actually transfer through a licensed dealer (the seller transfers to the dealer, who then transfers to the buyer, charging a nominal fee). For example, when people sell guns on GunBroker.com, they almost always intermediate the transaction through a licensed dealer.

This is what people are talking about when they say "universal background checks" and "the gun show loophole". Now, "the gun show loophole" seems like a completely ridiculous idea. I do not see how progressives can believe it exists; and I do not see how this could possibly occur with any frequency. The ATF knows where the gun shows are. Maybe progressives think the ATF is not going to the gun shows looking for people selling guns without a license? I don't think anyone who knows anything about selling guns believes for one moment that the best place to sell guns illegally is a place, like a gun show, that is literally crawling with cops from agencies at all levels of government (not only to keep an eye on things but also as customers).
https://archive.is/oipoQ
> This guy is working so hard - hours and hours - trying to convince Comcast to get their shit right and install a video trap!

Yeah, I wouldn't care about that.

> I live, you would just lough out loud, lean back and continue watching TV.

Here where I live I wouldn't even connect a TV unless I have paid for the service. I wouldn't know if they forgot to install a video trap.

> it would take a judge exactly 1 minute to consider two facts - 1) you had a contract for that cable and 2) installing a video trap is not your job

Yeah well. But what if Comcast brings in "evidence" that they have installed a video trap? Maybe their guy documented installing one but forgot to actually do it. Or maybe he installed it on the wrong line. Now you are not laughing because on paper it seems like you have opened up the box and removed the video trap.
This is from 2010. HAve things changed?
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I've been using this:

"Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, 4th Edition."

https://inventwithpython.com/invent4thed/

I feel like it has been going pretty well so far.
There was no loss of life on the Trinidad.
Looking back I don't think I would have been ready at twenty. Also I couldn't afford a house at the time but could at thirty.
It could actually become a good premise. An ex criminal with a lot of money but those properties are completely unrelated to each other.

Explain to the probation officer why they're searching for luxury homes while sleeping on their brother's couch

Coming to the realization that it was the act of doing absolutely nothing that made them rich.

I bet it's happened before.
I was not aware of this criticism. I also do not know if the expressed criticism is valid for every farming co-op. The one I am involved with is working in close cooperation with the local government. Even the planting plans are agreed upon with the local government from which the lands are leased.

The farmers I have talked with seem knowledgable and one of them has been running her own biological farm for 29 years.

I am not sure whether it can compete with commercial farming. At the start of year a bio-deversity measurement was performed at which at three places one square meter was examined. I understand that only one earthworm was found. This year, a lot of rye was sown (together with flowers) in order to improve the quality of the soil. I understand that soil improvement is a slow process and needs many years.

From what I hear in the news, I understand that food production in the Netherlands is strongly influenced by big agracultural companies (who focus on scaling up and reducing the number of farmers) and that farmers who want to transition to biological farming often experience a lot of resistance from banks.
> Magazines are dying

If they are, nobody can tell: https://www.statista.com/statistics/207850/total-gross-magaz...

> and ads placed in them do their best to make you hop into digital realm, where you can be tracked

So, the ads themselves don't track you. You're primarily concerned because... it encourages people to do things that could result in them being tracked?

This seems like a bit of a stretch to me. The original statement I was replying to was the lament of ad tracking still existing. Even if ad tracking didn't exist though, you would still be constantly confronted with non-tracking ads that are potentially even worse. The proof is across every highway and Nascar wrap and back-date newspaper you collect: we put ads on damn near everything. Tracking or not, people just pay to put content in places. Publishers think it's a fair deal. Unless the Free Market creates a more attractive alternative, you're more helpless than the people in hell begging for ice water.
I live in a flyover state and have never had that sort of thing happen...I actually assumed the opposite, that socially/politically liberal areas would be less accustomed to seeing two-parent households and would be wealthy enough to have busybodies with too much time on their hands.
This is a Type 1 argument and not even a good one because the effort required isn't even placed on those being regulated.

Police can store keys inside HSMs. Tech firms can give training and develop software stacks to ensure secure workflows if they want to.

You can also use a targeted approach. Allow the police to request intercepts of specific phone numbers. Tech firm rotates the public key being served to the clients, replacing it with a police key. They add a special flag that says "don't put any sign this happened in the UI". Now police can intercept just that specific phone number.

There's lots of ways to do this at different points in the security/usability spectrum, it's all just an engineering problem.

Also, bear in mind that police and governments won't find this argument convincing because they can already access every other form of electronic communication and in reality mass leaks of private data have never been an issue.
Animal cells are multiple orders of magnitude larger than bacterial cells, and do not have the cell walls that bacteria do (only a lipid cell membrane).
That's sort of fascinating. I mean is that an absolute or relative thing? If we were all as rich as Bill Gates would we all have more children? Or if we were all as rich as Bill Gates - but Gates in turn was wealthier still - would the number of children we and he had remain the same?
True, but in ZFS, you don't usually use these names unless you are shoving disks around. In which case it's nice to have an identity on the disk.

Most of your work is a logical naming scheme on top.
So the theory is that they'll roll it out to 569,000 premises which are considered unlikely to be connected to fibre via the commercial providers; it's fairly extensive. In principle, it should go virtually everywhere that the commercial providers don't. We'll see how it works out in practice, of course. They're at about 150k premises 'passed' (ie they can be connected on demand); of these 45k are actually connected.

EDIT: Actually, from context they may be talking about a prior rollout. But the idea's the same.
“it still had all the cabinets with all the dishes stacked in them and all the crew's effects”
Ask HN: Have you ever needed additional context for LLM?
I asked ChatGPT-3.5 to write a Python code that will list the top 10 stories from Hacker News. In the response, I got code that used the BeautifulSoup4 package to scrape the Hacker News website. The code wasn't working.

I want to use the HN REST API in the generated code (https://github.com/HackerNews/API). That's why I sent a piece of documentation of HN REST API in the prompt and asked once again for the Python code. The returned code was working fine and was easier to understand (less lines than scraping with BeautifulSoup4).

I started to search the web and it looks like I have used a technique called in-context learning. I provided examples and ChatGPT learned about them on the fly, without updating the weights.

I'm thinking about writing a service for storing ChatGPT contexts. In the service, You will store predefined texts with examples (context) that can be sent to ChatGPT to get better responses. Have you ever needed such a service?

I'm aware that there is an option to provide Custom Instruction for ChatGPT. I'm thinking about something larger, some hierarchical structure of examples - that will be easy to search for LLM. I would be very grateful for any feedback!
Turning ordinary consumers into audiophiles is a “market-opening” move. Effective luxury audio brands sell you on the solution, but the most effective sell you on the problem as well.
Why do you assume making children feel safe isn't itself a worthwhile goal?
The Go modules ecosystem doesn't suffer from the squatting problem because they chose not to create a new vacant namespace, and the corresponding rush to fill it.

They easily could have. pkg.go.dev could be like npm. It's not a question of cost, google is paying for the infrastructure.

It seems that language creators generally get this false impression that if they are the one to create the new namespace, then it will be high quality, and the best packages will get the short de-facto names. Maybe a few of the packages they wrote themselves can get some of the first names.

That's never what happens. The wise solution is just to use DNS. We already have names, people pay for them, there is infrastructure for selling them, there is an auditable certificate system. A new package namespace won't have any of that.
you can buy trivial amounts (10-100) in small packages with precise count.
non-trivial amounts are sold by weight because no one is counting them. the approximate count per pound is usually specified.
>Middle class is shooting itself in the foot economically by having children, that's why there's such correlation.

Middle class are the worst off for having kids, at least here in Europe.

• The upper class can afford as many kids as they want, no problem.

• The lower class gets tax breaks and subsidies from the state according to how many kids they have and how low their income is, the more money they get from the state, so they also have a lot of kids because every extra kid means a net monetary benefit.

• The middle class gets the shaft as they bear the brunt of highest income tax brackets to fund the state coffers, and also get the lowest amounts of child subsidies because their income is considered good enough, so they're the ones having the least amount of kids.
When mp3 encoding was a new thing, I downloaded an AB tester to see what settings I needed to use. I blind compared compressed music of my own choice using the headphone that I would be using it on.

It turned out that a bitrate of 112 Kbps was completely transparent for me. In the meantime there were forum wars on whether or not 320 was sufficient or not.

The experience humbled me. I cannot hear anything near as much as the pros (apparently) can.
More than a document allowing him to reside somewhere, it was a status symbol to him, and something he thought important for his family moving forward. Think of the fictional Barry Lyndon in his quest for himself (and sons) to become part of the English Aristocracy.
Regarding the "How Are Tides Formed?" section with
a nice neat diagram and some math"

But that is not really correct. it would be but there are large land masses interfering with the process. Ocean tides are better conceptualized as water sloshing in a bathtub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSJRymZ5bJs
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The elephant in the room is the Curse of Dimensionality. As the number of vector dimensions increase, "nearest neighbor" search behaves in an surprising manner. In a high-dimensional cube randomly sampled vectors are mostly near the edge of the cube, not at all what you expect based on two or three dimensions. There's other hitches, too.

When using vector search, you're making two leaps - that your document can really be summarized in a vector (keeping its important distinguishing semantic features), and that it's possible to retrieve similar documents using high-dimensional vectors. Both of these are lossy and have all sorts of caveats.

What would be great is if these new vector DB companies show examples where the top-ten "search engine results page" based on semantic embedding / vector search is clearly better than a conventionally-tuned, keyword-based system like ElasticSearch. I haven't see that, but I have seen tons of numbers about precision/recall/etc. What's the point of taking 10ns to retrieve good vector results if its unclear if they're solving a real problem?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality
True, but Apple had similar issues and were able to port their OS to PowerPC. Old apps still ran with an emulator.
So far as I can tell “anti-fascism” and “fascism” are like anti-matter and matter. Anti-fascists see fascism everywhere (your local police department) the same way the John Birch Society saw communism everywhere (Dwight Eisenhower.). Or maybe they are just jealous that the fascists have cool uniforms and boots. Or maybe they think their life isn’t meaningful enough and it has to be like a comic book or a WWII movie.