skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bleecker Street Research is a hedge fund that has been shorting since 2014. They wouldn't be in business if they were only lucky once.

Shorts perform significantly more analysis than longs, as they have to have great timing in addition to being directionally correct.

In the article, Bleecker are not making any specific predictions, just explaining their reasoning for shorting this stock.

Their one prediction is "This is not a contained event…. I don’t know what happens."

Yellen has said she is monitoring a small number of unprofitable banks carefully.

From a market perspective, short interest in the regional bank ETF KRE has been rising steadily for a while now.

Looking at unprofitable banks with high implied volatility, the market seems to think First Republic Bank FRC is under some duress.

It is exceptionally costly to short FRC right now, but I imagine anyone with more than $250k in a single account is moving money out right now. Which is the definition of a bank run.
In my experience the iPhone camera is basically incapable of taking moon photos at all. You just get a 100% white circle.
Why did the Turks tolerate crappy construction in an earthquake zone? Large businesses are by definition hard to compete with.

As for why they do it, businesses are fundamentally amoral. Take your average Silicon Valley entrepreneur and transplant them into Somalia with no way to leave, and they'd be figuring out the ideal way to capture cargo ships and hold their crews for ransom. Then if said crews were raped by some misbehaving underlings, they'd try to disguise it to maximize the profits.

It's the meta joke behind the entire Silicon Valley TV series. Some characters are more likeable than others, but almost all of the key players are fundamentally incompetent/insecure/exploitative people that you wouldn't want in your life given the option.
Assuming you're asking unironically:

* This site shows serious web design chops; this is not something you can easily create on a Friday afternoon by combining standard frameworks and stackoverflow answers.

* This site shows an unusual way to basically show one's resume, a way that definitely stands out for its creativity and amount of work involved.

* This site imitates / parodies the common trope of criminal drama movies, and does so not only in a technically compelling way, but also, to my mind, hilariously.
> The connectome of the larval fly, published Friday in the journal Science, took 12 years to complete. Imaging a single neuron required about a day...

> Human brains have an estimated 86 billion neurons and hundreds of trillions of synapses...

So, the techniques used for the fly are totally impractical for humans, or presumably any mammal. Anyone know of any developments that may help? Maybe AI could be used to automate processing of the images?
ChatGPT has 175B weights if I'm not mistaken. Llama 7B would not be in any way comparable.
This looks really awesome! Do you know https://www.mellowood.ca/mma/ and if yes, do you mind doing a short feature comparison?

Edit: I just checked if it's worth submitting, but it has already been submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30903980
When the alternative is going to be handing over stablecoin market dominance to unregulatable foreign entity, it’s not out of question that the government would step in to stabilize the USDC stablecoin market.
> The event that led to the slow demise of Arabian slavery, the Zanj rebellion, occurred a thousand years before transatlantic slavery even existed.

Slow indeed:

It is estimated that, in the 17th and 18th centuries, 1.4 million slaves were compelled to make the trek through the Sahara [..] 1.2 million slaves are estimated to have been sent through the Sahara in the 19th century. In the 1830s, a period when slave trade flourished, Ghadames was handling 2,500 slaves a year. Even though the slave trade was officially abolished in Tripoli in 1853, in practice it continued until the 1890s. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Saharan_slave_trade

Robert Davis estimates that slave traders from Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli enslaved 1 million to 1.25 million Europeans in North Africa, from the beginning of the 16th century to the middle of the 18th (these numbers do not include the European people who were enslaved by Morocco and by other raiders and traders of the Mediterranean Sea coast). - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
I don't agree it's cheap. For generation at fairly small scale, sure, but generation is just the party trick. The real power for my use case lies in how much better it seems to do at traditional NLP tasks than an out-of-the-box model, with no further fiddling and faffing required.

Say I've got a corpus of ~1m documents, each of 10+ paragraphs and I want to run quote extraction on them (it does this beautifully), vectorise them for similarity search, whatever. This gets pretty expensive pretty fast.
I wonder if he even realizes what much of the rest of America _already_ thinks of Silicon Valley, and how much more he damaged the perception of SV / YC by basically asking for a government bailout while the ink was still wet and before any payrolls etc were missed (and which may not even happen)
The difference is the legitimizing force of accountability to the people (at least, in principle.) It's a big difference. Pre-liberalism govts basically were mafias.
Yeah, I don't know anyone saying "it's just SVB since 2000". They're saying SVB is the first major bank in a long time (and hopefully not a harbinger of things to come).
I would not, no. I fail to see how that matters though.

I would definitely leave this company if I was forced into a remote setting. I would go find another job. I would also take pay cut for keeping an office.
I see 4.55% APY: https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/best-high-yield-int...

Fidelity SPAXX currently at 4.22% is close enough for me, because you get all the other Fidelity features.
Google thought they had sole marketshare. They thought wrong.

If Google was actually cautious of AI they would have taken demonstrative steps to protect Search, and TagManager, and AdSense, and Chrome browser. But they didn't.
> First - I see that you don't have any audiophile friends! Many sound geeks dislike the sound of compressed audio.

Don't let them tell you this unless they can pass an ABX test.
Maybe buying some low risk, good liquidity assets so you don’t keep so much cash in the bank will work better than doing all this
The Bank of England is seeking an insolvency procedure [1] which I figure implies there’s a problem with the UK balance sheet beyond short term issues with liquidity

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/bank-england-puts-u...
Do you have relevant sources about most countries refusing to prescribe adderall in cases where they do not also ban the use of dextroamphetamine?
Germany's Embarrassing Intelligence Leak
Actually, it looks at all the meanings of the tokens within its window.
It may be possible to use conductive paint instead of soldering, of course this depends if there is allowance to keep the damaged part flat. I did this on a keyboard membrane, had some damage caused by water. You need to apply the paint slowly via a toothpick, then kapton tape on the top.
That a 24-year old site still exists in largely the same format today, without drowning in a million affiliate links is plenty outlandish.
New York smells like a declining city
One problem with SPAXX (which I realized when doing my state taxes last week) is that the monthly dividends it pays aren't exempt from state income tax. I expected that they would be, since SPAXX invests in federal-level government bonds, but they aren't.
Terran 1: Launching the World’s First 3D Printed Rocket (Pt. 2)
Unbound rights means french will disappear along with a culture. For long and still today, french speaking citizens in Quebec earn less than the English minority. The plan was always to assimilate us, and it's mostly working, but you can't blame us for pushing back.
I have been mostly applying to companies that I haven't even heard of. I honestly don't care if the company is "cool" either. I'm not even looking for super high pay. I know that will come later, plus it will almost certainly be more than I'm used to making, and will definitely be more than I'm making now, which is nothing.

Maybe I should go for wordpress/shopify liquid jobs if you think there are more opportunities with this sort of stuff.
You're completely correct.
They likely got inside information which triggered their action, but insider trading would probably only apply to stock trades because of this information.

I was just a little confused.
Tangential: you can finetune something like flan-ul2 to do quote extraction using examples generated from chatgpt. If you have a good enough GPU, it should help cut down costs significantly
First, a flipper zero doesn't even have built-in wifi. Only the dev board has that, and it's sketchy as well.

An android phone running Wigle or WIFIAnalyzer is plenty good for wifi.

As to "dangerous", it is unequivocally a hacker tool. Or are you arguing that this is a "testing tool"? https://github.com/UberGuidoZ/Flipper/tree/main/Sub-GHz/Gas_...
Omer Moav mentions in a recent Econtalk episode how you can say that the emergence of the state in human society can be considered the transition from road bandits to organized crime.

https://www.econtalk.org/omer-moav-on-the-emergence-of-the-s...
If you need to anonymize a dataset (structured, possibly linked tables), I recommend clickhouse-obfuscator - a tool designed specifically for this purpose: https://clickhouse.com/blog/five-methods-of-database-obfusca...

Quick Start:

curl https://clickhouse.com/ | sh
./clickhouse obfuscator --help

Source code:

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/tree/master/program...

It does not use differential privacy.
I don't doubt your claim, but in retrospect that was the best time to join a startup
i intuitively think that there is something similar in kind between a fruit fly brain and a human brain regardless of the scale, and that cracking the smaller case will somehow lead to cracking the larger one. However, rather than hope, it leads me to a negative conclusion. That is, even at orders of magnitude smaller scales, and with full knowledge of how all the gross bits are connected, we still won't be able to understand what actually happens and why it works.

I suspect this will be the case because the old microscopic will become the new macroscopic and we will realise that there is yet orders of magnitude more details to make sense of.
obsidian / markdown

cron job to git pull/push
The different customers is probably the most important difference really, because it'd be harder to cause a run vs the VCs telling their portfolio to get money out en masse on the same day.
https://www.youtube.com/@GracieTerzian is a really good teacher.
What kind of web app are we talking here? In terms of feature set and complexity.
Hence why you have to squint.
This is a pedantic criticism, the sentiment of reducing tedious work isn't lost by the current title.
Also it's a complex adapter, since it has to be a PCI-e host. Generally SATA->x (USB, SD card, etc) adapters can be done with much simpler app-specific microcontrollers with IP blocks sprinkled in.
yea, but for some reason I don't think I could explain very well (which is a problem), I am trying to somehow consider all those 7 notes (and their 7 modes) as the same 'scale'. As I said, I need to find another term to refer to this way to consider the intervalic structure as if it were one thing.

Essentially I'm trying to grab a 'scale' and combine it with all it's conjugate words (or circular shifts) [1,2] and I don't know what to call this thing but I'm interested in it.

Why? because of how I choose to understand the origin of the 7 note major scale:

you take any note (the base tone) and multiply the frequency by 3. this creates a fifth (plus one octave). I'll keep in mind that 'the octave' is defined by multiplying the frequency by 2.

then, fit the fifth (base tone * 3) into only one octave (3/2). And repeat 'recursively'.

This is the famous circle of fifths, but we all knew that. Finally, after twelve repetitions we're back on the same note, but an octave above. (but why? why stop at twelve? I'm still working through this answer, but it has something to do with convergence maybe? or just the fact that after 12 notes we have now landed within two notes which we 'found' already???)

With this in mind, we have two different ways to sort all notes. Sequentially within a single octave, like on the piano or a guitar. Or in the way which we generated them out repeating 3/2.

If we only did 7 notes (instead of 12) we would get these two ways to sort:

ABCDEFG;ABCDEFG; ABC...there are 8 octaves in a piano

CGDAEB... F# C# .... C

I just cannot yet get over the fact that this is not a conjugate (not a circular shift) but a full on permutation, a shuffling of the notes.

By this point, it should be apparent that the labels we use for the notes are but a minor detail. I'm trying to abstract all this away from the ultimately arbitrary names of the notes.

...I can keep going. this is just part of the setup.

when this starts to get interesting is when I go on to consider the rhythmic aspect of music using similar symbolic tools; but in a subtly different way. As I said upthread, I've been thinking about this stuff for a while now, and it adds up.

All this because I still do not understand (to my own satisfaction) what's going on with the 12 note system, up to which extent and how does it do? what I (almost but not quite) understand to happen with 7 notes and major/minor/other modes scales.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_monoid#Conjugate_words

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_shift
Wildly incorrect. The slave trade peaked around 11% of the UK economy: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-global-hi.... In the US slavery never accounted for much more than 5% of GDP.

Europe as a continent had already diverged from the rest of the world before the slave trade. The divergence of the UK from Asia began before 1500: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maddison_GDP_per_capita....

While the desire to pin European wealth to the slave trade is understandable, it’s self-evidently incorrect. For one thing Britain wouldn’t have ended the slave trade when it did if its economy was built on it. For another, European powers that never engaged in the slave trade or colonialism, namely Germany, ended up becoming wealthier than countries like Spain who did. Same is true for free states versus slave states in America. As to a third thing, the end of slavery wasn’t accompanied by major economic hardship in either the US or Britain. You can look at a graph of US GDP per capita and struggle to identify when the civil war happened if you don’t have axis labels.
If you are sensitive about the Intel Management Engine, the original Core 2 Duo/Quad systems are the last where it could be fully disabled.

Anything later will forcibly shut down after 30 minutes if (at least a fragment of) Intel's closed & bug-ridden monitoring code is not present.

I ran me_cleaner on a few of these systems, and I do all my finances with them running OpenBSD (usually on q9550s).

Yes, this effort to run old hardware is worth it for me. Below are the bios images that I was able to produce:

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/issues/233
I've been using it for close to 1 year now, but I basically use just the markdown files / editing / previews and folder structure.

Do you use more than that ? Any recommendations ?
Or if you skew image a bit, or do a photo of blurred image of another planet, or any absolutly any other black and white blurred photo?
For people who think the number of parameters determines LLM coherence, well, that's a good rule of thumb. But there's an optimal training set data size to parameters count and gpt3 was trained on too little data. The LLM coming out now trained on more data with fewer parameters and achieve something close.

Sure, the 7 billion parameter can't do long outputs. But the 13 billion one is not too bad. They're not a full replacement by any means but for many use cases a local service that is stupider is far preferable to a paid cloud service.
>So because they have one webpage giving lip service to diversity and the environment, they automatically don’t value their core competency?

Not enough to put it on the page where they discuss things they value as an enterprise. Seems kinda important to leave out. And speaks to the failure of competency.

They don't value merit, they value meeting arbitrary quotas to look good, and now they met their end. Totally relevant.
Serious question:

The title says "Patterns is building a platform to abstract away data science busywork," but the article body then says "Patterns, a platform that abstracts away AI model engineering."

That doesn't seem like the same thing at all. Am I just out of the loop on what data science is these days?
Translation may involve translation errors.

There's value in running exactly the code which a researcher used in research to evaluate said research.
I’m seeing a blank page. Hug of death?

If so, can anyone post a mirror, or example generated images?
Yeah, and this is pretty useful for small bits of code, but what I want is a way to ask questions about large projects. It would be nice to ask something like "which classes are responsible for doing X", or "describe on a high level how Y works in this code". But I'm not sure if that is actually possible with the current technology.
One reason is SATA SSDs are more of expensive than their m2 counterparts - at least they were here in the UK when I recently purchased an SSD.

Another reason could be size - in a 5.25" form factor, you could potentially "stack" several m2 SSDs in blade-like fashion. I haven't seen such a thing though, and heat might be an issue.
In secret, during the night, when the Quebec representatives were sleeping.

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuit_des_Longs_Couteaux_(Qu%...
Just to be a bit more specific, the most important thing is that you make a compelling argument that you are the best person to hire for a given job among the candidates applying.

I think you need to put in some work to (1) have some more clarity on what you want to do (2) doing more projects along that direction and (3) updating your resume accordingly

As an example, one of my friends was doing public health, and she wanted to get into tech. She learned a fair amount about user experience design, built some projects, and then applied to jobs where her background in public health was an asset. In particular, she got a job doing user experience for a healthcare startup in order to improve the experience for people who are typically underserved by healthcare. She had experience in that area because her public health work looked into how underserved populations used and accessed healthcare.

It felt daunting to her to get into tech, but she did it by making a compelling argument that she was had a combination of skills that would make her effective at her job. She did end up applying to many jobs, but only the ones where there was a good fit gave her an interview.

Now you have to figure out how to make that type of argument for yourself. Of course that template may not work for you, but that level of preciseness and clarity of thought is what you should be aiming for.
My impression was that dextroamphetamine also worked better in many patients than drugs that combine it with levoamphetamine such as Adderall. Even when Vyvanse was under patent and expensive, it was preferred by many for this reason (Vyvanse is converted into dextroamphetamine in the body). Levoamphetamine primarily acts on the norepinephrine system, while Dextroamphetamine acts primarily on dopamine, being 3-4 times as strong as Levoamphetamine in that sense (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2670101/). As a result, many patients find levoamphetamine to cause much more physical side effects like racing heart, jitteriness, etc. and be less effective at promoting mental focus than Dextroamphetamine.

Adderall is still 75% Dextroamphetamine, but I haven't seen much literature on why it would be preferred over drugs like Vyvanse that include no Levoamphetamine.
you could say the same for RPis, arduinos, or even just 555 timers -- it's still ridiculous to ban something that provides functionality that is trivial to replicate elsewhere.

the gimmick of the flipper is that it does a lot of things in one unit -- every one of those singular functions is easy to do elsewhere, and often less hobbled by the intrinsically low-power nature of the flipper.
I'm not close to as successful as this guy and I have four bank accounts at four different banks. Don't even need to worry about bank runs, sometimes they have outages, special promotions, deals etc
"Data transfer rate up to 200MB/sec"

So it's not even as fast as a modern SATA SSD. Oof.
MEMS: The ingenious micro mechanisms inside your phone
Let me get this straight. You're making the argument that raising interest rates from 0.01% to 0.17% in a year would have a similar effect as raising interest rates from 5.9% to 100% in a year?

You would say the Fed raised rates as quickly in the first scenario as the second?
You may be right that some of the smaller AI players could be overwhelmed by lawsuits but OpenAI has a nearly $2 trillion company bankrolling them so they can hire every lawyer in the US if necessary.
Nice, that sounds like it's worth exploring. Much appreciated.

Again though, it's the zero-effort part that's appealing. I'm on a very small team and getting that to close to the same standard will take time for a ham-fisted clod like myself. Worth giving a shot all the same though, thanks again.
I’m absolutely clueless how my uncertainty can be ‘inaccurate’
Oh because it's the lessor of two weevils of course!
From current evidence, their efforts seem to have had the opposite effect.

These actions which the fed has never before undertaken (qe and zirp and even buying corp bonds) were to blame for the bubble, and the problems caused by unwinding it.
And my gut feeling is that our field is only going to be the better for it in the end.
> autodiff

There's a lot of

// TODO: implement backward

in there
It’s really not. They have assets.
Most banks the vast majority 60-70% of depositors are insured.

SVB was under 10%
They were super concentrated in one industry, their depositors themselves were super concentrated with their deposits and they were poorly run.

They’ll be open in some capacity Monday but the idea that big rich uninsured depositors should be made whole because of vibes is silly. They have a $10Bish hole. TBD how this plays out.
private-messaging.com, subscription but you control all your data and who has access.
This looks really polished. Patterns Studio App could empower a lot of non-technical users.

How do you plan to position yourself next to Scale's Spellbook, Vellum or others?
You can add an airport multiple times to account for multiple people coming from the same place.
Yeah. The gaps look bad. I have no idea what to do to fill them, which is one of the main reasons that I'm posting here. Is there a way to mention "during this period, I worked an automotive job or 2" or most recently "I was a bicycle courier" without it sticking out like a sore thumb and taking up precious page real-estate?

I'm not a college grad who entered their field right after graduation. I don't know how to explain that I am a competent worker in a list of previous jobs.