skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be good to get some pro-Chinese stories. After all, you're only getting pro-America content right now. Balanced views.

/semi-serious sarcasm
Ok I'm sorry but both of these tweets are funny, if only because the tech community's hubris and cluelessness is on full display.

First person is trying to contrast herself with the "1%" but if you read what her startup does it's literally a concept that caters almost exclusively to people with large disposable incomes. (A service for busy people to give them personal assistant style reminders about things they might forget to do such as buy backpacks and lunchboxes for your children from the pottery barn)

Second person literally joined in the bank run, had all of his money wired out of SVB and then, immediately after doing that, buys shares in SVB because he "knows the CEO" and feels it's a good bank.

Honestly we did this to ourselves folks. Idiocy on full display. People are laughing at us and we probably deserve it.
> I don't know why anyone would invest in any of these companies.

A belief that they would form lifestyle habits.

I was able to cut rideshare pretty quick when they stopped subsidizing rides.
and sam altman sold loopt for ~funding and change. people have successful second acts after failed first ones. you get valuable experience running a startup even if it doesnt have a good outcome. encourage you to not have such a cynical view of things.
Also look at companies that aren't obviously software companies. Manufacturing, Transportation, Energy, etc., all need programmers, too. And many of those jobs are more interesting than you'd think.
lsusb will tell you what it is pretending to be on a real os. Everyone else is hosed & hopeless.

Even still, it could be intercepting & mitm'ing your devices. There are some potential advanced games here. But without also having a network device to exfiltrate out on, it seems pointless. As soon as you have USB networking the risk skyrockets though.
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This is why I keep all the hardware I use at home or in my backpack. If I have to go to the bathroom, I will take my backpack with me when I'm not at home.
> If Oaktree and others are offering folks 70%+ face value for their uninsured deposits

Does anyone know if the 70% offer from Oaktree applies to the remaining amount after FDIC pays out what they can on Monday/Tuesday? For example, if the FDIC releases 50% of uninsured deposits on Monday, can you sell the remaining 50% to Oaktree and recoup 85% (50% + 50% * 70%)?
> an entirely useless industry

synbio? green tech? crypto? adam neumann? you're gonna have to be more specific
Completely agree with you.

Btw, regarding Postgres support: the guy maintaining the Postgres .NET drivers works for Microsoft on Entity Framework Core.

Regarding the boilerplate and the minimal hosting model and the minimal api… it starts to look like a nodejs express setup. Personally I think boilerplate was not that bad to begin with and saving a couple of lines of code (sometimes at the cost of legibility) is not worth it for me in a decent sized project.
Can you elaborate? Did some brief Google searching but had issues putting it together. We have thousands of documents and data stores we'd like to parse using GPT-3.5 (or the new ChatGPT API) and have been thinking of pretraining to cut things down. Thank you!
Quit drinking, quit social media, both massively life changing.
I think you need to double check your source. They had significant investments in MBS’s with a ten year maturity. SI had the t-bills
More specifically, trustzone is the arm equivalent of Intel's (mostly deprecated) sgx.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Guard_Extensions
Seems like the best case scenario for everyone. Buy the parent company. Make depositors whole (in theory). Keep all or most of the employees and business model. Blame a few upper management folks for causing this, fire them for good PR. Don't lock up most funds again in long bonds.
If you had access to the suppliers then it was an easy concept to copy. Those with the marketing budget were then going to be the winners.

That aside it was an interesting exercise of the combinatorial optimisation problem at scale.
are you serious? they invested in US Treasuries, the highest rated and the most conservative asset class.

Banks are in the business of lending money to home buyers, etc - how is loaning to the US Govt. criminal?

They have a cash crunch due to interest rate rise, and VC slowdown - bad risk management, but everything is above board.

Startup lines of credit should not happen from deposits, too risky an asset class
Better is to have all your devices in a trusted place(or multiple) or with you all the time(in a backpack).
I’d argue the real lesson here is that startups with VC money can’t afford to treat their bank account as a black-boxed third party API. Hire a risk-averse financial analyst as CFO early on and task them with the responsibility of making your financial holdings bulletproof to as many different economic shocks as possible.
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Why would shorting be illegal?
What do you mean by error correction? In which sense does restic not do error correction?
Intro to Kubernetes – Containers at Scale Containerized Adventures
Going back to something like Ruby on Rails doesn't sound half bad...
Yes they are blue and in space. You sound like a very shallow person.

It's a story about spirituality and nature and community and family that explicitly advocates for eco-terrorism against the American government.

But none of that matters because they are blue, lol. People aren't blue. How silly.
Old hardware device with non upgradable memory and only a SATA interface? Like old game consoles.

I have something myself that is in the ballpark. It's e-ink Thinkpad that has 4GB of soldered memory. It would be plenty fast if only it had more memory. They don't make a newer e-ink laptop like this. It's not SATA but if there was a way to stick a 32GB DDR4 memory stick onto an NVME drive, use it in the second slot as a pure swapfile, that would be a cool little trick to extend the lifespan of this thing.

I might try this with Optane if the prices come down more.
It’s not so much as mismanaged, which implies negligence, but more that they made a bad bet that kicked off a chain of events that led us to this point.
One problem is that the Blue checkmark on Twitter used to mean something. Now it can be used to weaponize fake info.
To everyone affected by the crisis: Keep calm and build ChatGPT apps.
Picking on the razor companies, you can get similar, name-brand blades with Amazon Subscribe and Save at a similar price. There's no business there.

I'm using a coffee subscription right now, but it's specifically for small quantities of a variety of beans. There's a bit more of a curation element to it, and they do repackage the beans. It's not something Amazon would do, but it's low volume, and a competitive space.
Meh. It's barely a DeLorean. The fact that it's not unpainted stainless steel is a joke. If Tesla ever releases a "Cybercar" it would probably be more of a DeLorean than this.
A car can explode, and so can a piñata.

Therefore deciding whether they are interchangeable is a deep question that may take centuries to resolve.
> Are there good reasons to believe they're safe, that the brands are trustworthy?

There are good reasons to believe Anker is not trustworthy [0].

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/eufys-no-clouds-came...
Not low-poly enough.
Answering my own question by disabling [1] "CRT emulation" in Vice. My demos were using "CRT bleed".

[1] https://twitter.com/hackteck/status/1634813587846844418
> Hard to tell if I've fucked my career (by not just working at one company with my longest tenure being 2yrs w/ zero resume gaps)or if the market is just not great rn

Take it from an old-timer: your career is still far too young to be fucked.
A lot of bold comments in this response. For example:

The various ML dialects share the same flaw in their
syntax. They lack a simple property I call editor
friendliness. An editor friendly language has the property
that a simple calculation is all that is needed to locate the
beginning of an expression when one is at the end of an
expression.
As you can guess, Lisp is a very editor friendly language.
Because of this fact, an experienced Emacs user realizes
nearly all of the benefits of structure based editing
without suffering from its restrictions.
--- John D. Ramsdell

The various Lisp dialects share the same flaw in their
syntax. They lack a simple property I call human
friendliness. A human friendly language has the property
that syntactic constructs are different enough from one
another that a simple visual inspection is all that is
needed to locate the beginning of an expression when one
is at the end of an expression.
As you can guess, Lisp is a very human unfriendly
language. Because of this fact, an experienced Lisp user
realizes that it is virtually impossible to write Lisp
programs of any size without substantial mechanical
assistance.
--- Andrew Koenig

Or, something I'm sure would be controversial:

> 08. Syntax highlighting of code

Just say no.
Pretty good so far. I put it all into property and ETFs and beat any market investment I would have made.

Not investing in a toxic and volatile shit show is a good investment strategy.

My father threw a lot of money into Tesla and is breaking even. His entire life is consumed with "oh shit what did Musk say now"
...Yes, they literally rewrote an OS kernel for no reason
Having worked in a "growing engagement" role at a big company, I'd say it's more accurate to describe it as "running no-op experiments over and over until the A/B testing tool tells you one had a 'statistically significant' result". It seemed to me like the exact kind of make-work Musk fans criticize.

Axing all of those roles could make it easier to ship valuable user-visible features, since the remaining engineers wouldn't have to work around feature flags for fifty ongoing experiments.
Basics of Music Making
> I am going to try to use this utility to help me generate the flashcards instead of writing my own logic. Hopefully it works well as it would save me a lot of time.

My favourite practise tool is slightly more complex than flashcards (but could still be implemented as flashcards). It's better for playing but still works for rote memorisation.

Randomly filled rectangular grids.

They are incredible adaptable and very amenable to generating with scripts or small programs.

e.g. notes of the A major scale:

Shuffle the notes and make them into a grid (here is a 7x7 sample shifting each row 2 places - although any shift of 1 - 6 places would work.)

C# G# A B F# E D
E D C# G# A B F#
B F# E D C# G# A
G# A B F# E D C#
D C# G# A B F# E
F# E D C# G# A B
A B F# E D C# G#

Play the rows from left to right along each row. Then right to left.
Plat the columns from top to bottom. Or reverse it.
Snake along the rows top to bottom from left to right, then back right to left.
Play the grid in a spiral. Clockwise, then the opposite way.
Play diagonal slices rising or falling.
Concentrate on the first notes in each row/column - play the mode starting from that note.
Make it a cloze exercise by removing columns (or rows or just random notes)

C# - A B - E -
E - C# G# - B -
B - E D - G# -
G# - B F# - D -
D - G# A - F# -
F# - D C# - A -
A - F# E - C# -

The adaptability is really limited only by your imagination:

e.g. Chords:

Bm D Fdim C Dm G Am
Fdim C Dm G Am Bm D
G Am Bm D Fdim C Dm

Name the notes, play them (frets 1-5 then frets 5-10), play the triads, inversions, arpeggios...

Or the same idea but using roman numerals/nashville numbers and play them in different keys:

iii V viio IV vi I ii
There is also an inverse Cramer tracker to bet against King Mierdas: https://nypost.com/2023/03/03/inverse-cramer-etf-lets-invest...
Inspiration for this gem too https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uwiTs60VoTM

(the timeline is admittedly dicey but I couldn't resist)
I like n+1

https://www.nplusonemag.com/
Same thing happens when autocracies with closed systems and closed markets who pump propaganda about Western liberalized democratic republics with open markets and open systems.

The systems that highlights and addresses problems with more transparency is the one that will be more robust and not blow up, adjustments can be made and it is a pressure release valve.
Agreed, I just find it humorous that it isn't both ways.
Your opinion might change if you worked on compat at Microsoft. The installed base is unimaginably huge. There are massive competing forces, i.e. the Windows team wants one thing but Adobe wants another because it breaks the last version of Photoshop. Or a change beaks a forms package used by Word but not by Excel. Or a decision hasn’t yet been made by the company to use GPU features that will be pop next year but not quite this year, etc. Well-meaning, dedicated players can spend months on a decision that looks wrong to you after the fact but wasn’t when the bug was finally closed.
https://nongaap.substack.com/p/sivb-held-to-mortem-governanc...

claims they didn't have a Chief Risk Officer for most of 2022 however, so if true, might that have contributed to not seeing the approaching difficulty as mortgages became stressed?
I never got that razor subscription service. I'm happy enough taking the hit of a couple of bucks and buying only when I need razors.
Isn't that only when using lockdown mode?
I can't see why feeding it another 50, or even 500 papers is going to make it any better at making the categories of non-explicit inferences that its currently failing at, when the terabytes upon terabytes and hundreds of thousands of papers of training data did not.

It could train it to speak in the mannerisms of a particular author, but that's the least interesting thing in this context, and it'll still be speaking in banalities and nonsense.
Their bonds weren't losing money. They were losing value. Value that would inevitably recover as the bonds reached maturity.

There was an easy and plausible scenario here where everything was fine.

Heck, the core of the problem here is that they got too many deposits over the last few years.
Really gorgeous. Those subtle dragon fins, the fluid yet opinionated geometry.
Do folks still expect you to keep up with research papers as an ML engineer?
> somehow has never broken peg

But all past stablecoins never broken the peg before they did.
In this case, contrary to your assertion you are probably pretty heavily invested in tech giants that did layoffs, assuming some of those ETFs are index-based.
The difference is that I can ask it to explain it's decision as a racist and a anti-racist and it will happily hallucinate an answer for both.
There's a huge difference between "in a company of 150K+ engineers, a non-negligible number of them are probably not very productive" vs "over-hired talent to do fake work".

At that scale, there will always be inefficiencies and imperfections. I also don't think a big mass firing was a smart move long term, but it does make some investors happy for some reason, and gives a short term stock boost.
Yeah in comparison to the nationalist content on the Chinese internet out echo bubble is nothing. There was a not insignificant portion of the Chinese internet that was tracking the Pelosi flight into Taiwan and was disappointed that it wasn't shot down. I'm not sure what the solution is to the echo bubble we have, but probably not more Chinese propaganda.
I feel sorry for the designers, they're stuck with having gull wing doors no matter how nonsensical they are.

Interesting they held onto the doors, but binned the clunky former shape and stainless steel.
You can't blame the participants in a bank run on the bank run. Blame management that put the bank in a bad financial position.
Thanks for sharing that one!
Rust doesn't do it either. It has 'unsafe'. So just as with rust, you would annonate certain things in zig as 'trusted', and anything else will be checked.

For example, for pointers, assume allocator interface create, alloc, destroy, and free functions work as advertised, and trust them. Anything that uses the pointers is checked. For file descriptors, assume open and close are trusted, everything in between is checked.

You can't really build it so easily for c because c language is not generally compiled to an IR, and the syntax is rather ill-defined. It's not context-free and it has lexical macros.

Anyways statically checked annotated c exists, SEL4 is a good example, but iirc it actually checks arm machine code, and yes it is memory safe C.
>but the fact that predicting the next words based on past models does such a good job of masquerading as human thinking indicates that much of human thinking isn't much more than that.

Going in a straight line does such a good job of predicting the next position of the car that it indicates driving isn't much more than going in a straight line.
But enough about Prince Harry
Does svelte still have this thing where you need to reassign a variable to itself for updating?
And if you don't have a basic project, why should you stick with basic tools just to enforce some smug sense of superiority?
I just saw a video from James May yesterday about some electric hypercar where he comes to the conclusion that the battery is best placed where the engine would be in a mid-engine car. Because so the mass is at the center of gravity.
Right? Another blockbuster movie openly advocating for eco-terrorism against the American government? Yawn. When will they finally think of something new?
“Chat mode” just means that 1) you structure the prompt given to the model for completion as a chat, i.e. a list of lives in the form “NAME: UTTERANCE” and 2) specify as “end” sequence the “NAME:” part for the user (i.e. prevent the model from going on in both roles).

On top of that, you may want to do fine-tuning with reinforcement learning. But the above is “all you need” to get into chat mode with a LLM (or any text generation model, really).
What does starting a new role this coming week mean for you looking for jobs - will you continue searching or just hunker down for a bit?
Could perhaps 'park most of the money at the FED' been a safer option even without hindsight?

Ofcourse with hindsight pouring money into hedged stock positions would have been much better. But that is very much hindsight dependent.
Do you think there haven't been any new JS features in the past ten years?
Are you mad companies that deposited money into a bank are likely to be able to withdrawal that money?
With TARP the government owned assets. For every dollar they invested, they could receive less, equal, or more than a dollar. Overall, they received more.

Tan is proposing the backstop deposits. In this case, the govt can receive AT MOST a dollar for every one of its dollars. The absolute best case is a break-even on the investment (and the government eating the cost of administering the program)
Getting that level of trust is the hardest part. If you don't mind losing performance, HEADS + Qubes OS try to get that on older thinkpads.
But the space of facts that are true facts is vast, and there's a selection process, and there is no objectively correct way to make that selection, only subjective choices that some people are making, and they have decided that "humans are destroying the ecosystem" is a fact that I need to be bombarded with.

It's also a fact that the universe is vast, violent, and indifferent, with our planet being nothing but an insignificantly tiny spec in the fabric of the galaxy. It's also a fact that our planet has seen many epochs come and gone before the anthropocene, and will produce many more epochs after it, bringing forward new and different kinds of life after humanity is long gone.

To make it look like we, humanity, are big and mighty in relation to nature, and nature is fragile and timid and needs the good ones among the humans to protect it from the bad ones among the humans: This is not facts. It's spin.

Now don't get me wrong: I think every single one of the sustainable development goals [1], including the environmental ones, is a no brainer, and something I can get behind. But it's also a normal function of the human psyche that one doesn't want to be bombarded with cognitive dissonance-inducing messaging all the time, and I want creators of mass media to respect that. Now, it's difficult to make a newscast reporting on the war in Ukraine without inducing cognitive dissonance. But it would be perfectly possible to make a nature documentary that way, and, somehow, mass media aren't doing it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Goals
It feels like you don’t need encryption here, you just need a business model that doesn’t keep user accounts and sell the query data.
I think the point was to undercut Gillette's cartridge prices, but since more than one company can do that, they have to compete with each other too.
Isn't this normal? I thought Tether regularly fluctuates between like 0.98 and 1.02 until it can adjust itself back.

Edit: Ah, I see the graph on the bottom now, and have to extend it a bit... it does fluctuate, but it's more like 0.9997 to 1.0001 normally.
yes but now working; did some DNS changes and they needed to propigate.
And yet, they are making user-facing software... Magic!
This has always been the way of Silicon Valley.

I was there in San Francisco during the first dot-com bubble. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

I remember when the market crashed and being on Market and watching all these young people walk around shell-shocked by the crash and everyone getting laid off. I saw these code warriors, soon to be unemployed, with my own eyes. They were like walking zombies, I swear to you. Fear permeated everywhere.

High risk and bullshit has always been the game in the Bay Area. It always will be.

Venture capital companies look at thousands of business plans a year. One out of a thousand get funding. Of those, maybe one out of 200 makes money, and 1 out of 10,000 of those is a unicorn. And that unicorn is where all the venture capitalists make their money back to cover all the other losses in the companies that don't make it.

If the whole USA economy doesn't crash from a ripple effect on Silicon Valley Bank, don't you worry none - Silicon Valley will be back to its old tricks in no time.

It will be back because this is what the entire Bay Area is geared to - high risk, high reward. Just like Hollywood is geared to entertainment and Taiwan to the chip industry. There are thousands and thousands of other companies all geared to those ecosystems, and it cannot be duplicated elsewhere.

As far as Silicon Valley, it is worth it - consider all the tech - computers, networking, and all the different IT categories, and then all the specific companies exploiting those industry categories. It would never exist without Silicon Valley and the synergies found there.

The risks that Silicon Valley takes filter throughout the entire world and help the entire world. Mostly. I consider social media as filth, as well as privacy stuff, but besides that...

Will a lot of businesses go out of business? Undoubtedly. But those that fail are the weak companies, just like Silicon Valley Bank. And the space that the failing companies leave can be filled by new stronger companies, just like after the dot-com bust. The Bay Area didn't go down the tubes after the dot-com bubble bust. It won't now. California would be the 5th or 6th largest economy in the world, and SF Bay Area and Los Angeles by themselves would be the 16th and 17th largest economies in the world. It's not going to go away. The ecosystem is too big. All the highly trained specialized people will still be there, ready for their next conquest. The Bay Area is all about failure, too. Startups go up in smoke all the time.
A solace of mine, e.g., Merton: "The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men."