skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right?! If the first breach included 2 records and this only 1, it would still be the "second biggest" breach of the year.

But, the necessary context is right in the first paragraph:

> ...more than 3.1 million patients in the United States...

So to clarify, "We're not even three full months into 2023, and 3.1 million records is the second biggest?" which is quite alarming.
Fingerprint + iris scan + vein scan
You could invest it in non-scary assets.
Why Lisp people keep making lisp after lisp alternatives and pretty much almost all of them have no users except Scalar.
If all the police did was investigate, then their conduct would have been fine. But they arrested him, and that is not adequate conduct.
Most jobs are bullshit jobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs the phenomenon is not unique to tech.

How many finance workers on wall street do you think provide direct value to society?
He might simply live in region that mobilized less. Of live abroad. Most of mobilization happen in poor peripheral regions. Moscow and surrounding mobilizes much less.
12 hour shifts, and night shifts for anything but emergency services are inhumane.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/18/us-workers-n...
When the fuck are retail banks going to be ring-fenced away from being able to trade in MBS. They're consistently cancerous to our banking systems.
I don’t like it. I don’t know future interest rate.
When was the last US bank failure where depositors lost money?
> It may only be a couple day disruption but what if your employees quit?

Even if they don’t, in California there is a statutory penalty payable to the employee of $100 to each affected employee for a first, non-willful late payment of wages (second or subsequent violations, or any willful or intentional violations, have a much greater penalty – $200 plus 25% of the wages not paid); that’s not a lot (if you didn’t happen to have a prior payroll hiccup bumping this into the “second or subsequent” category), but its still a hit.
did he get any money?

found the info: "He got a lawyer, and came to believe that returning to work might signal a degree of mental fitness detrimental to litigation. Instead, he spent eight weeks in Anguilla. Eventually, Business Week had to let him go. The lawsuit he filed, for twenty-five million dollars, against the building’s management and the elevator-maintenance company, took four years. They settled for an amount that White is not allowed to disclose, but he will not contest that it was a low number, hardly six figures"

https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/04/lawyers-making-clients-...
IMO Twitter has been 100% better since Musk took over.
Even so, no matter what cause, if people are unable to withdraw money + won't hear any rumors about a bank run, would SVB be in the scenario they are experiencing today? As it seems like the bank run is what did them in, not whatever magic they did with the deposited money.
I've debugged core dumps before. It's not been a particularly pleasant experience--good luck trying to do something like `call V->dump()` (dump out an easy-to-understand representation of a complex value to stdout... oh that doesn't exist anymore, can't use that functionality!)

The most useful aspect of time-travel debugging for me, personally, has been when the test case that causes a crash is refusing to be reduced, and the function that crashes does so on like the 453rd time it's called. Jumping straight to the crash, then reverse-continuing to a break point cuts out so much time of debugging (especially because it saves you if you accidentally continue the breakpoint one too many times; otherwise, you'd have to start the entire, tedious process from the beginning).
Pfft, these guys are amateurs, I work in government contracting and we’ve been doing this for years!

Note that I think my job is at least somewhat important, I write code so at least I produce something. But there’s dozens of not hundreds of people whose jobs consist entirely of meetings, signing paperwork, and taking multi-hour lunch breaks…
Sorry, but men were already allowed to work these hours and shifts. It was women who weren’t. The shifts still conform to standard work week in India (48 hours). 12 hour shifts are not uncommon anywhere, and they come with generally better pay and more contiguous time off, which can be more meaningful to some people than more time off in a single day. I feel like perhaps the clickbait headline worked and it may be there’s not much of a story here other than women being granted equal footing with men in the labor market.
Agree on all points. I feel in larger picture it is not just that China is geopolitical risk out of nowhere. The demographics of China is changing and they themselves do not want 12 hour slave labor type of jobs as much as they would in last few decades.

With India's still growing population and unimaginative political class the only model to follow is Chinese model of past. And these Foxconn factories are example of that.
They laid off 30 people in less than 24 hours of this announcement? That sounds like those people were already getting laid off and this was a convenient cover
Read the paper Machine Learning is the High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt
There are reports of captured Russian war plans. Im not sure where i read about it but War on the Rocks and Michael Kofman are credible experts.

I dont actually remember the details of the plan but It was something like:

Massive armor convoy sent to Kyiv alongside the rapid capture of Hostomel airport and a then a giant airlift of troops towards a point very much close to Kyiv.

The disdain the commenter is showing for the Russian invasion plan is misplaced however. Most contemporary reports (Post battle of Kyiv) say that the Ukrainians were indeed caught by surprise, that Russian cyberwarfare managed to take out Ukrainian AA allowing for the helicopter Assault at Hostomel and that although Ukraine was sucessful It was a close call and losses were heavy.

Again you have to Dig a bit to avoid the propaganda narratives. The race to Kyiv was actually a Very Very close battle according to what we know now.

The whole 3 days to Kyiv was actually an overstatement. I believe it was more 13 days to capture Kyiv, 2-3 months for the whole country excluding the West which Russia didnt believe It could occupy without heavy resistance. But thats just written out from memory and i might be wrong on the details.

I believe that the Russian expectation was something similar to 2014, where initial Ukrainian resistance just collapsed or was innefective.
Also, in more normal time they could have put more deposits into shorter term debt that would not have had this problem. But rates were so low that would have been very unattractive.
Large Language Models Don’t “Hallucinate”
Ever wondered why some people always try to complete others' sentences (myself included)? It's because some people can't keep the possibilities to themselves. The problem isn't that they're predicting, it's that they echo their predictions before the other person is even done speaking.

Everyone forms those predictions, it's how they come to an understanding of what was just said. You don't necessarily memorize just the words themselves. You derive conclusions from them, and therefore, while you are hearing them, you are deriving possible conclusions that will be confirmed or denied based on what you hear next.

I have an audio processing disorder, where I can clearly hear and memorize words, but sometimes I just won't understand them and will say "what?". But sometimes, before the other person can repeat anything, I'll have used my memory of those words to process them properly, and I'll give a response anyway.

A lot of people thought I just had a habit of saying "what?" for no reason. And this happens in tandem with tending to complete any sentences I can process in time...
there’s more to humans than language processing
> vise

Alternative spelling of vice. News to me.
Curl, the omnipresent data tool, is getting a 25th birthday party this month
> "The Perestroika Deception"[1] in which he says that Perestroika is a strategic retreat because the Soviets know they are too far behind technologically to have any hope of defeating the west. They will however use that retreat to acquire modern technology and improve their economy so they can ultimately conquer the west.

Such generations lasting grand conspiracies just sound too fanciful to take seriously. I think the simpler explanation is that, yes, like the communists before him, Putin is a Russian imperialist. And rumor has it that Putin hates the communists with a fiery passion, for screwing up the grand Russian empire. Putin is doing his best to rekindle the empire, just using a more traditional authoritarian/fascist approach rather than relying on communist ideology.

Much of the old ways of working, the propaganda, supporting all kinds of nutjob groups in foreign countries, etc etc., 'maskirovka' if you like, dating back to tsarist times, continued through the communist era and is still a tool in the arsenal they use. No change here.

As for doomsday weapons with no defense against them, they have existed since the 1960'ies or so in the guise of ICBM's.
This brings to mind George Carlin's famous quote when asked what it would take to fix things in America: "Massive bloodshed. I don't advocate for it but I think it's the only way things could change at this point."
@danaris - if you are a bank and people want to withdraw money, you need cash to pay them. By "the market" we mean the banks depositors who withdrew their case (partially due to these very concerns, hence why bank runs are called bank runs)
Typically you pick your market: either sell to many small customers at a low price, or you sell to a few big customers at a big price.

Font designers are trying to do both at the same time, and as a result the experience sucks.
Did anybody else feel like the musk interview got really awkward towards the end? It seemed like he became really bored of it and just shut down.
>NVIDIA is now publishing Linux GPU kernel modules as open source with dual GPL/MIT license, starting with the R515

Seems only for a specific chip rev, does nothing for older revs.

Also since it is a module, I presume just for Linux, does nothing for OpenBSD (especially) and probably do nothing for NetBSD. FYI, OpenBSD does not support kernel modules like Linux does.
I do, I realize that the most important decision to opt out is on me. There is also no denying that this process is a difficult one and it is not made easier by the platforms themselves.
Hiding money from tax agencies has one, and only one, reason to be, and it causes a net deficit for the majority of the population, as in taxes not being collected. The only people who loses when we target tax havens, are those evading taxes.

Strong encryption benefits the majority of the population, as it strengthens security and privacy, for everything. Weak encryption would actually make it easier for certain criminals to operate, and it would punish regular people indiscriminately.

> That’s what makes us different

Then I would have to say that your take is superficial and naive.
The Democracy Drape
Hmmm there's a logical fallacy in there just waiting to be unearthed... I feel it...
Looks like it broke. Another mirror here: https://archive.ph/2016.03.16-100508/https://defacto2.net/fi...
For more, see this long New Yorker article that includes a lot of elevator history: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-do...

The quick summary is that Mr. White recovered from the elevator mishap, but his $25 million lawsuit took four years and ruined his life. He ended up settling for low six figures, but lost his job and his friends.

"Looking back on the experience now, with a peculiarly melancholic kind of bewilderment, he recognizes that he walked onto an elevator one night, with his life in one kind of shape, and emerged from it with his life in another. Still, he now sees that it wasn’t so much the elevator that changed him as his reaction to it. He has come to terms with the trauma of the experience but not with his decision to pursue a lawsuit instead of returning to work. If anything, it prolonged the entrapment. He won’t blame the elevator."
> A lot of modern software problems stem from developers having a powerfully detached understanding of reality.

The best thing we could do for the internet is have developers at Google, Meta, etc, use a Raspberry Pi 4 or similar "gutless wonder ARM box" for one day a week. So often, I run into things they've written that, for no coherent reason, just run horribly on low end hardware. It was obviously written and toyed with on a Xeon workstation with multiple large 4k monitors, and, who would possibly use less?

The Blogger rewrite rather irritates me, because it went from an old, usable, performant interface that ran totally fine on ancient netbooks to this weird, "mobile first" interface (for a blogging platform) that choked out even on high end hardware when you had a lot of photos in a post. Clearly, nobody who worked on it ever actually loaded it up, or used it on old hardware, and never actually talked to anyone who used it to blog, because it was filled with tons of "modern" UI crap that was objectively worse than the old interface for every conceivable task one might do when writing and editing blog posts.

Kicked me off Blogger and onto my personally hosted Jekyll stuff, though, so I guess working as intended.
The FDIC's statement shared that: As of December 31, 2022, Silicon Valley Bank had approximately $209.0 billion in total assets and about $175.4 billion in total deposits

The question is what haircut the FDIC will take on the $209b when they forcefully liquidate all securities. If the above data is still accurate, the FDIC can make depositors whole as long as they don't take more than a 16% haircut when liquidating.

SVB recently liquidated their AFS bond portfolio at ~90c on the dollar. And, this traunch of securities is very sensitive to interest rate changes.

Their HTM bond portfolio consists mostly of securities that could be sold today for ~80c on the dollar.

Given the above, it seems likely depositors will be made close to whole. Then again, who knows what's hidden from public eye.

https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23016.html
> Defectors are notoriously unreliable: they tell their host country whatever they want to hear

This is almost word-for-word the same rationalization employed by the people who denied the Cambodian genocide.
It only makes medical error and accidents in US hospitals the 3rd leading cause of death, estimated at more than 250,000 deaths per year. But the hedge fund managing hospitals around the country save so much money by not having to hire sufficient staff and have reasonable shift turn-overs they all got bonuses, so it's all good.
I think it would explain even better why everyone tries to shoehorn their least favorite thing about "the other side" into every conversation about manipulation by state actors. Case in point.
Yeah, agreed that it seems unlikely to be a problem for most typefaces. I just think it's a bit misleading to suggest it's guaranteed to unburden the typeface of any and all 'intellectual property' protections ("In the US, you can literally go and vectorize any font in the world and do whatever you want with it").
This is a bit like saying that women in a patriarchy should prefer prostitution over marriage, because having many interchangeable abusive masters is better than having just one.
Is this not what bonds are for? Savings accounts earn less than just buying bonds, and the bank pockets the delta.

They got greedy.
This passage makes two claims

* one, applicable to current language models (which ChatGPT is one of them), claim that they "they fail to capture several syntactic constructs and semantics properties" and "their linguistic understanding is superficial". It gives an example, "they tend to incorrectly assign the verb to the subject in nested phrases like ‘the keys that the man holds ARE here", which is not the kind of mistake that ChatGPT makes.

* Another claim, is that "when text generation is optimized on next-word prediction only" then "deep language models generate bland, incoherent sequences or get stuck in repetitive loops". Only this second claim is relative to next-word prediction.
That’s just made it even darker. Holy crap.
> It may only be a couple day disruption but what if your employees quit?

I guess they don't have to worry so much about that what with all the tech layoffs over the last 6 months and with a lot of other statups in the SVB boat, who's going to be hiring?
I'm sure this has been talked about somewhere, so feel free to just leave the link. But in an internet where people just go to one of these chatbots for all their answers/searches, why would anyone continue to post content to the internet? It seems at some point you would just be working for free as a content creator for all of these companies. Nothing you post would be linked to, you would never be cited as the source of the information, and you wouldn't even know if anyone even saw anything you wrote.
Thanks. Do not have an account but I get it.
GM explores using ChatGPT in cars as part of Microsoft partnership
There are a lot of times when you're reading stuff that really does sound like the human equivalent of an LLM's output, but that is bad - you are not supposed to do it. A certain degree of that is necessary to write with good grammar but you are supposed to control your "tongue" (which is how previous generations would have phrased it) with the rest of your faculties.
Acronis admits to mega data leak
Which Sci-Fi Story?
Summary: Only the human species master fiction...

Premise: short science fiction story from the 50s - only humans write fiction, and they are sought for this reason by all in the galaxy. Fiction is exported to everyone, all of it, however, prompt written by AI's - ranging from the very cheap to very expensive models, creating a variety of bad to sometimes good fiction - but these machines can also be tinkered with to make them better.

Spoiler: One very poor author breaks into a very successful colleague's house in the hope of stealing his AI-settings - but discovers that this person's AI is broken and that the successful stories are all written by hand.

Please: Which title, author and year?
Lawyers making clients worse off: Nicholas White's elevator ride (2008)
I used online telehealth (through a more legit provider) to seek treatment for ADHD just because before COVID, it was very hard to find psychiatric services that catered to adult ADHD.

The same is true for many others I’ve talked to: they had been meaning to seek adhd treatment for a while (and in many cases had done so, only to be diagnosed with depression, or to be told that they were doing well enough in life that they didn’t need treatment) but it was such a daunting process that most hadn’t gone through with it.

There are of course perverse incentives when it comes to these kinds of businesses (nobody would use them if they were extremely stingy), so they do need to be held to a standard that prevents them from just becoming pill mills. OTOH I think the cost/benefit to society is maximized when barriers to care are lower than what they were pre-telehealth, even if it means some people are just going to abuse the system, especially with adhd meds which are not that addictive or harmful, contrary to popular opinion (that stereotype comes from much more hardcore stuff like smoking and injecting large amounts of meth) - compared to opiates or benzos it’s really no contest that prescription stimulants are less problematic and less addictive.

What concerns me is that so many pundits are listening to the DEA bozos that all the stimulant shortage (which, btw, impacts people who have been stable on adhd meds for decades almost as much as those who only started treatment during the pandemic) is due to the increase in diagnoses from telehealth, when in fact it’s due to arbitrary production quotas set by the DEA that can easily be raised. The fact we let the DEA determine how much of a prescription medicine can be made, allowing formal and above board medical care to be impacted, is absolutely insane to me.

This is literally the war on drugs preventing longtime patients from getting the care they’ve been relying on for decades, just because it became easier to get treatment. The attitude should be that 5 abusers are a small price to pay for 1 legitimate patient getting the care they need, not that 5 abusers need to be stopped so bad that 20 legitimate patients go without treatment.
Any recommendations for analysts/blogs/etc to understand how this might unravel?
The other thing you get into as scenarios get complex is that there's a tendency to ask questions like "Why are you recording it this way rather than that way? The second way seems more logical to me."

The answer usually being some variation of "Because that's the way the Financial Accounting Standards Board says to do it."
> stop them working for rivals,

I thought this well known within the industry? Isn't this the point of the university to FAANG pipeline?
I think you're thinking of MVVM, not MVC.
I've done extensive research into providing free services (of many kinds)

It is not at all problematic to extract enough value from a conventional hotel visitor to pay for their room. The real puzzle is that a free room doesn't attract that kind of people. You get people who feel obligated to draw penises on the wall, shit in the sink and stab holes in your mattress. The normal audience you get, after making the reservations and/or picking up the key mostly wont be in the room because they don't need it.

Whatever plot one was to come up with to realize it it is almost guaranteed that it would work better if you charged extra for a room with such creative original features all this wonderful product information as the deeper the pockets the more valuable and less annoying the promotional circus.
The interesting part to me (total outsider looking in) isn't a hierarchy as much as what they say is different at each level. Each "higher" level is "thinking" about a future of longer and longer length and with more meaning drawn from semantic content (vs. syntactic content) than the ones "below" it. The "lower" levels "think" on very short terms and focus on syntax.
These prescription mills have made it tough to get the drugs due to shortages. I've been prescribed Adderall for 10+ years, and while there were a handful or minor blips in the past, it was nothing like what I've seen for the past 6 months or so. It's a very real problem.
Care to recommend a video to start with?
> SVB is now forced to sell the mortgages it bought for $100 for $75.

Not quite. The article addresses this in detail. They bought mostly hold-to-maturity (HTM) bonds which could not be sold.

(Technically such bonds could be sold, but selling would trigger a portfolio revaluation of all their HTM bonds, which would have made them immediately insolvent.)
I'd like a stock of cheap notebooks, but at least in my country it's not always easy to find them with plain paper. Lined paper is only useful for children learning to write from my pov. Online catalogues here don't always even specify the paper type - childrens' paper is just assumed.
Hi! I am the author. Thanks! The piece is not about how AWS does DevOps, but is about how Amazon.com does DevOps. Unsurprisingly, Amazon.com uses a lot of AWS
So, I would expect a secondary market for deposit certificates to spring up. Has it? If so, what’s the value of $1 in deposit certificates at SVB?

If it hasn’t, this would be a helpful way to provide liquidity to startups with SVB deposits.
It’s not that simple though. Being a house slave is bad, being a factory slave is too and that’s what others here are saying this is.

Perhaps this isn’t actual progress?