skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the banks believed her, and continued in 2021 to buy these securities as if interest rates were going to be going low again in the near future.

The banks most certainly didn't believe her. The banks rightfully took it as a signal that the US gov would step in to cut losses if banks continued to loan. The Fed wanted banks to continue to loan so they didn't grind the overall economy to a halt instantly and send us into stagflation.

But everyone knew it would happen. The Fed knew they were playing a losing strategy. And they still know it. But they refuse to play the strategy that would win the inflation game because it would bankrupt the country.

The only way out now is through severe tax hikes + gov spending cuts OR war with China in the hope to reset debt at its conclusion. The political elite seem to be signaling the latter.
Will LLaMA run DOOM.
> "The west" has never been geographical.

Except in its origins, which referred to Rome as opposed to Constantinople.
I'm not using them for said reason
> I suggest that the FDIC does what it should do and cover all losses that were insured, and let the uninsured losses be realized, as they should be normally.

And then a bunch of small business fail, then everyone else looks at 20 other small and middle-tier banks and realizes they don't want to end up the same way and pull their money out, then they fail, per your suggestion FDIC still does nothing, then another couple dozen banks and couple thousand business fail ...and next week you're back in 2008.
Yeah, good question. The system is not meant to be DIY. The same contractor that does install also offers service. Logistics for replacement parts is important we will have quick, easy access for contractors.
I find it almost impossible to not see them as related. Take a look at [0]. Long-term this could be a good decision, I believe early-stage investing really is different to late-stage investment, but of course the moment to make this decision makes it evident there are other factors at play that influence this.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35114009
I consider myself to be economically liberal in the "laissez faire, laissez passe" sense to a large extent. No government should pick winners or losers, no government should protect uncompetitive businesses.

But I believe that the government must protect the free market against capitalism's inherent tendency towards monopoly, and that likewise, it must protect consumers against exploitative business practices (which arguably, a properly competitive free market could help achieve).
Sorry to everyone who lost their jobs. It can feel like the end of the world and your worth. But I’ve seen throughout my career people land somewhere better. Someone once wise told me the most important saying in the world is “this too shall pass,” which applies to all things, good and bad.
The decision makers never live with these decisions. Sound the bell and you're a white nationalist transphobe.
Ask HN: Why devices with monochrome display have disappeared completely?
I'm looking for a GSM phone for my grandmother. She use to complain to every colour screen phone about not enough contrast, no ability to enlarge text, too small pixels and too stupid graphic work when something significant may be indicated by changing from blue to white which is too easy to be unnoticed when your eyes are enough weak.

Why there are a lot of ugly granny-phones with absurdly giant buttons but tiny display and no high-contrast mode with respect to those who sees badly? Monochrome displays are really good for those who at least can see individual pixels of the monochrome display, so it is unexpected for me to see them extincted even from cars.
> I'm just stating that the US is the most unhealthy country there has ever been.

More unhealthy than England during the Black Death?

Also, Mexico has already passed the US in obesity, and tons of countries have more smoking that the US.

But that rant wasn't supposed to be fact-based, was it?
I was lucky to get one of the Raspberry Pi 4 8GB boards before covid. That really is a great little computer. I wanted to build a product to sell using those but had to shelf it.

As I recall back then they said it would be at least 3 years before they'd be releasing another upgrade to that and we're pretty close to that now. If the supply chain ever does get back up to speed we may see that soon after.
Chasing links...

https://t.co/kw7ykC3763 returns a 301 to https://on.ft.com/3Jy8UBY
https://on.ft.com/3Jy8UBY returns a 301 to https://ft.trib.al/b2FR72U
https://ft.trib.al/b2FR72U returns a 301 to https://www.ft.com/content/ebba73d9-d319-4634-aa09-bbf09ee4a03b

There's certainly some magic with going from the t.co link - going to the other two direct hit the paywall.

:method: GET
:scheme: https
:authority: www.ft.com
:path: /content/ebba73d9-d319-4634-aa09-bbf09ee4a03b
{cookie with lots of stuff in it redacted}
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Host: www.ft.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.3 Safari/605.1.15
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Referer: https://t.co/
Connection: keep-alive

Yep, there's a referer in there.

Curling the page gets the trial text (ghads that's verbose html).

curl --referer https://t.co/ https://www.ft.com/content/ebba73d9-d319-4634-aa09-bbf09ee4a03b | less

And that returns the expected trial-less text.
I used to use termcast, easily installable with cpanminus.
Your personal inability to understand the risk SVB took isn’t universal.
> The bonds are worth exactly what they thought they'd be worth if held.

That's wrong. A 10 year treasury bond with a .60% you bought in august 2020 is now worth significantly less. Whether you hold it or not is irrelevant. If you disagree, I'm willing to give you one, if you give me a 7 year treasury bond at the current interest rate of 3.86%.
The term GPU is primarily associated with 3D graphics, and most of what GPUs do is designed for that. Hardware acceleration of 2D graphics existed long before 3D hardware acceleration became common for PCs, but wasn’t called GPU, instead it was simply referred to as a graphics card.
Maybe not in Canary islands, but I have no doubt some of them have sail boats in Sweden. They are not that poorly paid or altruists...
How? In what way would not having a child's penis on an album cover have impoverished society?
It's not, this is about making YC awesome for early stage founders right at the beginning.
The article seems to imply direct satellite to UE connections but doesn’t make any mention of what wireless protocol that would be through and what types of phones would have modems for whatever that technology is. Is there a more complete source out there?
Weak wording the same as every other company

> Unfortunately, this means we will no longer need some of the roles

> Seventeen of our teammates are impacted
Question: what percentage of the hype and momentum for this is so people can run sex chatbots on their local machine?
> No banking investment is safe if there is a run on the bank

This isn't true. Runs can only happen when a bank has insufficient liquidity. Such as when it holds long-dated bonds that it purchased at historical rock-bottom low interest rates.

> If the bonds didn't need to be sold, they would have paid out.

This is the "you don't lose money unless you sell" fallacy. Which yes, is actually a fallacy. (Note the fallacy is useful to use, psychologically speaking, to try to manipulate panic-susceptible individuals into doing the sane thing and not panic selling every dip; that doesn't make it less of a fallacy though)
It's entirely possible, but they wouldn't have been a random target. They put themselves into a very precarious position with the unhedged bets they made and the very selective client base they held. Consider that (nearly) all other banks weathered the storm just fine so far through correct risk management.
Which MITM attack has a government used to read your Signal messages? I've heard people allude to government breaks of Signal for years, but always without evidence. Surely some Signal messages have been recovered from devices in the government's possession, but that's not a protocol problem. Are you saying a government has successfully spoofed safety number change messages from your contacts?
I'm not really convinced we need to continually update the instruction set with non-scalable vector instructions either tbh, it seems like we've stalled on 256 bit wide instructions to the point where AMD is emulating 512 bit instructions using 256 bit wide execution units and the performance benefits of 512 bit wide instructions even on Intel is marginal at best.

That's not to say scalable instructions are a bad idea. It certainly makes it easier to make small CPUs which support all the software written for vector instructions without having to emulate 256 or 512 bit wide execution units.
It's not—my understanding is that it's been in the works for quite a bit longer than that.
> Then why the long rambling on the moral outcome?

The moral outcome the author is promoting isn't about anti-collusion, but diversity: "The need for diversity in education is as vital today as ever. But it’s not clear whether the Ivy Agreement’s ban on athletic scholarships actually promotes that end. One might even wonder whether, by not competing over sports stars, the schools are reducing the diversity of their student bodies."

Except, the author admits later that athletic programs simply promote more athletics and the claims of diversity through athletics is dubious.
The timing does make that almost impossible! But if you want the actual connected edge in the directed graph I believe it's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637686.
Which snowflake started the avalanche?
> If Silicon Valley goes under, there will still be plenty of innovation.

Where exactly, though? Ask any big tech worker; they will assure you it's not coming from there.

> socially-disconnected... anticompetitive behavior, socializing losses, slashing regulations

Innovation does not equate to social good. But if you recontextualize the software coming out of SV away from social wrongdoings, you have

Uber -- a model for work orchestration

Netflix/YouTube/Twitch -- video streaming technology

Datadog/etc. -- software monitoring technology

No established company (besides Apple) would ever put in the investment to develop these kinds of things.

I personally dislike SV, and every new DTC marketing startup that raises $50M makes me cringe. The model imposes high social costs as you indicated. But find me another model besides venture capital that has produced similar levels of innovation without the same waste and social cost.
Medicare was enacted as an alternative to the nationalized universal healthcare systems proposed by socialists at the time. The capitalists in charge preferred Medicare because it could appease enough of the domestic population while preserving opportunities to exploit working Americans for a profit. It's as simple as that.

And no, your so-called "free market healthcare" fantasy was not considered an option because it was in fact the problem to solve.
Why post your job ad on indeed or LinkedIn if you’re only looking for one person?
You do, but people here really don't like to admit the rust ecosystem is like that.
There is plenty of code that is infinitely better and safer than the equivalent C++ would ever be.

There is lots of "bad" unsafe code that is much worse, and over time, they will have just as much trouble trying to handle this overall as C++ does.

(and no the ability to say you don't want unsafe transitive crates doesn't fix anything)
Changes of this sort cannot happen in a very short amount of time. The timing was coincidental.
> They made a bet that people wouldn't need their money back right now. It's the constant risk in fractional reserve banking.

Meh. Fractional reserve banking is not without risks, but I don't see any mention from you of the fact that SVB was holding bad assets.
PG and crew have been very proud of the way they've been able to scale YC. This seems to be one of the first times where YC has failed to scale?
I don't think the timing is random considering the climate. I have a feeling these seventeen will land softly compared to 99.9% of those caught up in recent layoffs.
I've been writing Python for a looong time. I have pushed out thousands and thousands of deployments across probably 40+ distinct Python codebases and only once or twice have I ever encountered a showstopper dependency resolution issue. At the end of the day you should want to have fine grained control over your deps and frankly there are many times where a decision cannot be automatically made by a package manager. Pip gets beat on hard but it puts in work all day every day and rarely skips a beat. It's entirely free and developed with open source contributions.

Areas where I have felt a lot of pain is with legacy Ruby projects/bundler. Don't get me started on golang.

Can pip be made better? Sure. Should we have an attitude of disgust towards it? Heck no!
Not to start trash talk, but I believe that most of the ones here are scams.

They are effectively electricity generators, using electricity to heat and generate more electricity. In typical Australian winter even slightly below average outside temperature means they are generating more than they are consuming.

They definitely have a place, but they are not as good as they are marketed to be.
Very excited for this. I live about 5 miles outside of cell range.
> The whole west/east dichotomy is an artifact of the Cold War.

Stop saying this because it isn't true. It is an artifact of the Tetrachy of the Roman Empire.
Hey there Rishi, I was not aware someone posted this post on our behalf there. I raised this to Neb. This "feels" like a Windows issue. Whats your env?
I think you may be confusing FDIC actions.

One of the actions was a program to loan against the full value of long term assets at term price instead of current market value.

Maybe we are just quibbling over the definition of liquidity. long term treasuries and MBS can be easily sold, but you may take a substantial loss in doing so instead of holding to maturity.
> I set the volume name to $1_PER_MB because going under that threshold was so impressive.

Hah! Too funny, my own personal memory for 'cheap' storage was keeping an eye on the Fry's print ads in the Sunday newspaper while saving all my allowance and summer job money, finally buying the outrageously large 200GB HDD for a mere $1 a gig!
Why the fuck would they use OpenAI over the internet?

This is such a way more constricted domain than a local much smaller model should be feasible...
The issue isn't that an open standard for fully variable speed isn't possible, the issue is that nearly all of the manufacturers to date have considered this proprietary (as they want to own the entire ecosystem from controls > equipment) and a purposefully boxing Nest, Ecobee, etc, out of being able to control it in order to sell more thermostats and trying to capture more value.

Only problem, their thermostats and apps really suck.
Maybe allow private use, but to publish anywhere for example in social media or other media absolutely.
I doubt that printed transcripts, let alone recordings, of ~99.9% of the broadcasts survive. But the history is well documented...if almost unknown to younger folks. For a start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley#Brinkley_and_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XERA-AM#The_border_blaster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkley_Act

(There probably are wagonloads of printed works - sales flyers, bottle labels, newspaper ads, etc. - documenting the literal "snake oil". Though you might have to do some digging in newspaper archives, libraries, and museums to find much of it.)
In which jurisdiction? Certainly not in the UK where consideration is still necessary
> That same day, Peter Thiel’s Founder Fund advised companies in its portfolio to pull money from the bank, and a host of other venture funds followed suit.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90864027/why-svb-failed-silicon-...
Splitting deposits to stay under the 250k limit is artificial behaviour that doesn’t change the overall risk profile for FDIC. The total amount of money covered by insurance is the same regardless of how it’s subdivided.

Splitting up deposits isn’t the intended outcome by regulators here. It doesn’t actually achieve anything meaningful.
Thanks for the link, guys.

Here's another Seinfeld paper: https://www.academia.edu/26282876/Jerry_Seinfeld_and_the_Cra...

And here's one on how ChatGPT tells stories: https://www.academia.edu/97862447/ChatGPT_tells_stories_and_...

And there's more where that came from: https://independentresearcher.academia.edu/BillBenzon/Cognit...

& if you want to discuss Seinfeld, I'd be glad to.
Classic scapegoating. The problem was the bank, not a fund that was acting responsibly.

> On Thursday, as the bank was beginning to unravel, the firm started what’s known as a capital call. That’s a run-of-the-mill activity in the venture capital world, in which a VC firm asks its investors, or limited partners, to send it money in order to make investments in startups — the core function of most VC firms. It began by asking those backers to transfer the funds to accounts at SVB, as it has done for years, the person said.

> But the firm learned that its limited partners were encountering issues using SVB services as they tried to transfer the funds — they weren’t immediately going through as expected, the person said.

> Quickly, Founders Fund asked its investors to transfer the money to other banks instead. The fund acted to ensure that startup funding deals that were slated to close in the coming days were not delayed, the person said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-11/thiel-s-f...
UV lights as an extra disinfectant inside the furnace around the filter would look heckin' smart
There was no drop in user engagement when Meta tried it in Australia.

However, traffic originating from Facebook has to represent a sizeable portion of incoming traffic for news site.
Those were definitely drivers for the inflationary spiral in consumer goods, but we've had massive inflation for a long time; ever since QE started. It's just that the inflation has been relatively hidden in speculative assets (homes, equities, crypto).

The parent is correct in their assessments of the market and the transitory inflation. TBT and TTT were no brainers at the start of the transitory dialogue because everyone knew it wasn't.
Gold itself is quite volatile, you would have the same issue even on the gold standard. It was in fact an extremely common problem on the gold standard.

A bank is expected to be able to float itself as long as a sufficiently low number of customers demand their money at any given time, a bank run will collapse a bank no matter what monetary standard you’re on.
You're moving the goal posts. We were talking about 5 stirs of a "distribution tool"...
alleviating the risk in having to manage piddling amounts of money in multiple Banks.
I know from fishing that if you have a spontaneous tie/knot on your 0,2mm line than it is dead but 0.4mm is almost always able to be unknot.
It also quietly reuses the stdlib of whatever python you start from. Which mostly doesn’t matter in real world usage, but can be quite surprising if you ever get into your head the idea that that venv is portable.
> Giant bulky ski goggle like-things which obstructs the user's face is another thing entirely.

I agree. I'm not even a fan of wearing glasses, despite needing corrective lenses to see (I wear contact lenses instead). I think for AR tech to succeed it needs to be as close to being "invisible" as possible. I need to be able to put in a contact lens, or be able to have plenty of potential styles/shapes of frames with the tech built in (without it causing those frames to be heavier/bulkier).

> let's not let our imaginations get away from ourselves before there's hardware to run our dreams on

I very much disagree. Letting our imaginations get away from ourselves can help encourage huge leaps forward. That's not to say that's the only way innovation happens, but not encouraging what's not currently possible is a bit like trying to win the lotto without buying a ticket.
Nothing wrong with it I suppose, it's definitely more difficult for them to use but doable. I haven't really had that many issues with locking down an iPad. The settings for it are pretty buried under "Screen Time" but it does allow you to turn off nearly any built-in app on the iPad, restrict content by specific ratings, limit the domains safari is allowed to go to and restrict app installation/upgrades.
If you are interested in the infrastructure-level details of how similar models are trained by lesser known groups, take a look at this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06745

Quotes from the paper:
Our model is trained using a codebase that builds on Megatron (Shoeybi et al., 2020) and DeepSpeed (Rasley et al., 2020) to facilitate efficient and straightforward training of large language models with tens of billions of parameters. We use the official PyTorch v1.10.0 release binary package compiled with CUDA 11.1. This package is bundled with NCCL 2.10.3 for distributed communications.

We trained GPT-NeoX-20B on twelve Supermicro AS-4124GO-NART servers, each with eight NVIDIA A100-SXM4-40GB GPUs and configured with two AMD EPYC 7532 CPUs. All GPUs can directly access the InfiniBand switched fabric through one of four ConnectX-6 HCAs for GPUDirect RDMA. Two NVIDIA MQM8700-HS2R switches—connected by 16 links—compose the spine of this InfiniBand network, with one link per node CPU socket connected to each switch.

And if you are interested in 176B-scale training, read the BLOOM-176B and OPT-175B papers and research logs.
Yes, lots. There's a fun meme going around where you take any random VC ""thoughtleader"" demanding a complete backstop for SVB depositors and search "bailout until:2023-03-09" on their Twitter account to see what they thought about bailouts and moral hazard before last Thursday.
> Seventeen of our teammates are impacted today.

guys maybe they were impacted in a good way tho?
Basically all modern satellites use spot beams, making the "cell" metaphor even more applicable.
Who said anything about companies? Companies don't benefit by giving people free access to buildings full of books and knowledge, yet here they are.
Hows so? aside from not having FAANG clout Its literally the only company on that list that still grows yoy and its revenue has all but recovered since the down trend after the 2008 crash if you include the enterprise. Even the number of patents given has been growing
The 2D acceleration wasn’t called GPU at the time though. That denomination only started with 3D acceleration.
Yeah I've seen it in the US too (non-iodized salt being "better").

I'm not celiac but allergic to wheat, and it's kind of annoying when I look for a gluten free option (because it's more familiar than wheat free, and generally equivalent) how quickly other people will jump to follow my "example" as if I've played some kind of moral trump card. But at least in that case it's leading to a wider variety of grain choices without many negatives I know of. In the case of milk and salt it's often blindly reducing the nutritional value.
That's much broader than the argument that I think is being made - or should be made. Which is that the need for an album cover art doesn't justify making public images of a nude child who clearly cannot consent to such.
I've no problems with Nancy, she's pretty cool. Firing isn't really enough, loss of license and industry bans should be on the table as well as criminal investigations for fraud and negligence of custodial funds.
Blame the messenger. Media is going crazy about this with no fundamentals at all. SVB was already doomed at least a year ago when they bought HTM assets.