skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feyerabend was a brilliant renegade philosopher of science and articulated a lot of strong claims about the emperor’s clothes. But like Thomas Szasz in his role as renegade philosopher of mental health, as Feyerabend’s career continued his writing became increasingly caught up in antagonizing the peers who cast him out as a pariah and outcast.

Between trying to make a push against the mainstream assumptions in their fields, and getting increasingly defensive and personal in their writing, it’s very easy to miss the core arguments being made by each and the valid issues they were trying to bring attention to. There comes to be a lot of noise and easy distraction.

For anyone who gives either a try, which can be a
very intellectually stimulating experience, you need to resist the urge to be superficially dismissive if you want to get anything out of the work at all. If you’re not open to gestalt shifts or parallel perspectives in the way you view the underlying subjects, there’s really no point in spending the time. You’ll just want to rip up the book and throw it at the wall.
Sorry if this was meant as a joke, not surely systems engineering doesn't commute with use of 100x the necessary resources?
The parent refers their examples in the TFA:

https://textual.textualize.io/

Their examples in the link you sent are OK, the doc examples look crappy, and that's whats in the linked post.
Daft: Python Distributed Dataframes for Complex Data
From my experience at a regional/super-regional bank, CECL and CCAR were absolutely happening in banks around the 200b mark.
The comparison is between countries with wildly different roles in the world my friend. It is not apt.
It's because of the looks, for me it's about the consistency of the camera, but I actually own an A53 and A52s and the iPhone is my work phone.

It's not really overpriced. I think, but I can call with ENVY laptop and Samsung tablet, Bluetooth in-ears are automatically connected whatever device is playing music, even my laptop.

And my Android can do more than my iPhone.
In reality, you just have to get started.

Keep making things, iterating, grinding away.

Some things stick, some things don't.

You network and grow your business along the way.

That's the boring journey, but the reality for most of us.
Lots of people have way more than that due to retirement accounts (which sometimes need more liquidity or people want to get out of the market so they have more cash on hand). Or even if you have a down payment on a house in most of the coastal states. 250k in the bank is not much money these days.
I just don’t understand this attitude. It’s 250k. We’re not talking about all that much money. Why do you think people with 250k should have extra knowledge or access to special advisers?
Well, my example is for 1 of 10 banks failing but probably somewhat likely without regulations if people panic and start bank runs.
Do you think there aren't "plugins" for data grids, autocomplete, and date pickers for React?
But it isn't very lethal in that species, is it? In the species that it spreads rapidly in, it likely won't be very lethal which was the point
Governments operated differently than businesses.

In a business I hand you my money and trust that you will hand me back my profits.

A ancient government put someone in charge and demanded tribute. Failure to produce tribute resulted in an army showing up to collect tribute. It was so common as to be expected that the administrator, called a satrap, would collect excess tribute and live a lavish lifestyle. The king sent spies to root out the worst of the abuse, but it was an uphill battle.

Governments can be run this way because efficiency is not particularly essential to their profitability. But efficiency is required for commercial enterprises. It is not enough to collect money and let your subordinates enrich themselves. You want to track all the money and not let your subordinates cheat the enterprise to their personal profit.
I'd love to have a similar setup at home, kudos to the owner.
Putting your series A check into a fucking bank isn’t a risky financial strategy.

Speaking of private markets, they should have bid higher. Instead the government won and will likely come out ahead with their arrangement. No taxpayer money is being spent.

Sounds like you’re just bitter about tech/biotech companies surviving?
I decided to drop out of college with 2 classes to go.

Because a) I had reached my self-imposed deadline, b) I would have to do another full year of college for just those 2 classes[1], c) I was already having to turn away freelancing clients to make time for school, d) you don’t go into debt for college in Europe

[1] The classes were in different semesters with a mandatory weekly tutorial/lab presence, which doesn’t transfer across years
Didn't one of their execs work at lehman and arthur anderson?
Proper multiline editing with full mouse support is the main thing I want that warp has that I haven’t been able find in any other terminal. No enough to make me switch to a proprietary terminal though.
There should be personal finanacial Clawback and potentially even legal conseguences for this type of mismangement.

There is. That’s what derivative actions are - a mechanism for shareholders to sue the board and management for breaching their fiduciary duties. My guess is that one will be filled Monday.
The commenter asked me what financial advice I thought was poor.

> What financial advice was that? That SVB was a good bank for Startups to use? It was the recommended bank by our Merchant Provider Stripe.

> Sure it’s easy to identify poor choices after the fact.

My reply was purely in the context of that question. You yourself asked further advise here.

> Who do we hire to plan and manage this process to ensure we have adequate cash flow?
It could be lower interest rate on CDs and/or savings accounts, or a higher rate on loans…
I have used for a while. Good is cross platform I can use it on Windows and Linux. Bad is slow and compatible problem, like when I pasted some token when github pushing, always authenticaed error.
As a matter of opportunity cost then. You’ll lose money if you hold these to maturity, which is why their value has fallen in the first place.
sure you might. like when you buy a home. you could easily have a lot of equity you need to move into a different, also inflated price home. Lets say you bought a 300k house in 2010 and now it's sold for 650k. well now you have at least 400k in cash you need to transfer to your new home somehow. Maybe you stick it in your primary savings account for a few months while you shop. You might not realize you won't have FDIC insurance for those few days or weeks so you get unlucky and lose most of your wealth when your bank fails.
But in today's economy, any rumor or random event can cause a run on any bank. In fact, there are stories as we speak of the current run on SVB being caused by Peter Thiel and his buddies.

If the banking system is so fragile that it is prone to bank runs on slight rumors, which can be contagious and spread to other banks, what is the solution? To just continue bailing out banks as they fail?
I'm not saying that the rules are reasonable -- I am just saying that is how it works. You don't get to change the rules of the game even if you have a good argument, which is what is essentially happening now. At the end of the day, YOU are responsible for your money and the bank you entrust it to -- no one else. YOU are responsible for putting your money in the bank that failed -- no one else. Even more so -- you are responsible for putting money in over the insured limit. You took that risk.

It is hard to have sympathy for a company like Roku in this situation.

I also imagine that if some of these massive deposits were spread out it would create for a healthier environment where smaller banks could compete better.

Fair? Where will the money come from -- the tax payers? Other depositors ? That is not a fair outcome.
Feels like a lot to me. That's more than a year's wages.
yes, all turing complete type systems make it possible to define type structures that would cause infinite loops, but typically they are able to detect this and refuse to compile
I've already learned about the subject from the other helpful comments that didn't dig into what I was saying. Now, you're the 3rd person to come quote my statements, instead of being helpful. Geez, what is wrong with you?
I mean yes? Don't worry about your bank's solvency is the exact reason why we should have the FDIC. It fundamentally nips bank runs in the bud. Then it's the government's responsibility to call out banks which are acting recklessly.
My understanding after reading this article is that the problem has nothing to do with ambulances or medics. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/world/europe/uk-ambulance...

First order problem, the hospitals have no beds. This means that ambulances end up waiting for hours and medics twiddling their thumbs at the ER until the staff can finally take the patient. Medics can't just abandon the patient because there legally needs to be a proper handoff. So your emergency can't be responded to quickly because we can't trivially spin up thousands of new medic units to spend all their time waiting in line at the hospital.

Second order problem, the hospitals have no beds because of a lack of long term care services. From the article...

> There is an acute lack of beds in the accident and emergency department, or A&E, as emergency rooms are called in Britain, which are overcrowded because of an inability to find room for patients elsewhere in hospitals. That is because patients ready to be discharged from the hospital often have nowhere to go as a result of dwindling social services — which have been hobbled by a lack of government funding and severe staffing shortages.

Now the question is why aren't there enough non hospital care services? Could be many reasons, but I'd speculate that it's a combination of a) an increasing population of old, sick people who need care in a society whose demographics are beginning to turn upside down, and b) because Brexit means it's drastically harder to import poor, foreign workers willing to do the shitty job of elder care for low wages. If this prognosis is correct, it starts to beg the question of whether Britain's world renowned health care system was only possible because it could extract excess, cheap labor from poor countries to take care of their old people, when Britain's own young people were never going to do that work for the wages offered.
Britain’s Colin Kaepernick Moment: BBC Sparks Its Own Culture War Crisis
Ask HN: What are the data compression characteristics of LLMs?
Disclaimer: I have only shallow knowledge of LLMs and machine learning algorithms and architecture in general.

Once a model has been trained, the totality of it's knowledge is presumably encoded in it's weights, architecture, hyper-parameters, and so on. The size of all of this presumably being measurable in terms of number of bits. Accepting that the total "useful information" encoded may come with caveats about how to effectively query the model, in principal it seems like we can measure the amount of useful information that's encoded and retrievable from the model.

I do sense a challenge in equating the "raw" and "useful" forms of information in this context. An English, text-only wikipedia article about "Shitake Mushrooms" may be 30kb but we could imagine that not all of that needs to be encoded in an LLM that accurately encodes the "useful information" about Shitake mushrooms. The LLM might be able to reproduce all the facts about Shitakes that the article contained but not be able to reproduce the article itself. So in some ontologically sensitive way, the LLM performs a lossy transformation during the learning and encoding process.

I'm wondering what we know about the data storage characteristics of the useful information encoded by a given model. Is there a way in which we can measure or estimate the amount of useful information encoded by a LLM? If some LLM is trained on Wikipedia, what is the relationship between the amount of useful information it can reliably reproduce versus the size of the model relative to the source material?

In the case of the model being substantially larger than the source, can I feel metaphorically justified in likening the model to being both "tables and indices"? If the model is smaller than the source, can I feel justified in wrapping the whole operation in a "this is fancy compression" metaphor?
thanks for clarifying... that nuance wasn't clear. I literally thought you were going on the true libertarian bent of I as some dude with $100 needs to be responsible for all parts of the system.
USDC repegs to $1 after Fed announces FDIC will cover uninsured SVB deposits
An excellent tutorial that takes exactly this approach (building up to a novel Emacs mode for NYT Crosswords, of all things) is the O'Reilly book "Writing GNU Emacs Extensions, by Bob Glickstein.
Made a comment on the other thread: why can’t we have a one click install thing and here it is. Nice!
My biggest concern about these LLMs was the corporate sequestration and the potential socioeconomic imbalances it would create. The work you are doing here is part of some amazing work to check that back. In summary—- Bruhhhhhh. THANK YOU!
You need a patron for whom to collect these machines, and who pays not only for them, but also your collecting skill. :-)
About 3 times a week.

Salmon, whole chickens, Chili, and stew are very regular visitors.
Thanks, this is a helpful answer.
We’ll because taking risks by definition means you could end up in a negative situation and so it should be more of a personal decision?

It seems like SVB took a risk and lost.

If the majority of Americans voted for SVB taking higher risks it would be understandable but now who comes up with the missing money ? The government, which is tax payers who are already probably getting the raw end of the stick financially compare to silicon valleys.

I think this bailout will see a lot of political backlash.
It's not comparable to a nuke because a nuke is dumb, and won't be dangerous unless you do something dangerous with it.

AI, on the other hand, will be dangerous by default, once it's powerful enough.
Does anybody know if it would be legal to use e.g. the 7B model in a commercial product? Could Facebook sue me to death?
This is a set of alias/functions that I use to setup tmux and my ssh connections, I'm always in tmux be it locally or in ssh, it survive session disconnections.

# full terminal page of \n
pgdown () {
printf '\n%.0s' $(eval echo {1..$(( $(tput lines) - 1 ))})
}

# clear teminal and TMUX history and get to the bottom line
c () {
echo -en "\ec"; pgdown
if [[ -n $TMUX_PANE ]]; then
tmux clear-history -t $TMUX_PANE
fi
}

# force MOTD display in a new ssh session
alias sshmotd='ssh -o SetEnv=SSH_MOTD=1'

if command -v tmux 1> /dev/null; then
# open a new tmux session named default or attach to it
tmuxa () {
systemd-run -q --scope --user tmux new-session -A -s default "$@"
exit
}

# open a new tmux session named ssh_tmux or attach to it
alias tmuxs='tmux new-session -A -s ssh_tmux && exit'

# run tmux if TMUX variable is null locally or in an ssh session
if [[ "${TERM-}" != tmux* ]] && [[ -z "${TMUX}" ]] && [[ -z "${SSH_CONNECTION}" ]]; then
tmuxa
elif [[ -z "${TMUX}" ]] && [[ -n "${SSH_CONNECTION}" ]]; then
tmuxs
fi
fi

# run MOTD at login only in an ssh session
if [[ -n "${TMUX}" ]] && [[ -n "${SSH_CONNECTION}" ]] && [[ "${SSH_MOTD-}" == 1 ]] && [[ -f "/etc/update-motd.d/00-motdfetch" ]]; then
motd
else
pgdown
fi
Sure, fine, but you’re paying for my deposits insurance. Banks can and will purchase insurance for large depositors when they want their business.
...because there always has to be a culture war scapegoat, if you dig far enough and provide a few selective peeks at someone's activities.
I'll be honest, the interest rate on CDs has always been so low that I might only notice a difference if it was literally negative. :P
Sure. The point I was making that the mistakes which caused bank failures in 1930s and bank failures today, is fundamentally the same kind of mistakes. Ergo, we still make those mistakes; they still happen, we just don't let depositors bear the consequences of it anymore.
Ask HN: Is it just me, or could file conversion websites be a honeypot?
Hello,

I'm interested in some thoughts on this. I have nothing to go on but a hunch... but is there any guarantee that popular "file conversion" websites aren't honeypots for sensitive or useful information?

The odds, to me, of some employee running random files through a file conversion website at some point seems terrifyingly high. And some (like https://fabconvert.com/) definitely seem more suspicious than others, lacking any legal entity or trademark I can find. If there were, or are, corrupt file conversion websites out there, it would be the perfect crime. So much so that, if I were running a business, I would not allow employees to touch any such service with a 10-foot-pole - but how often is that cited in training for preventing information leaks?

Thoughts?
>"Late Stage Capitalism"

Communist have been claiming to be able to predict the future for the past two centuries. Certainly this time you will get it right?
>For commercial banking it can be argued that counter-party risk assessment is on the business.

Except in this case where businesses who used SVB get a Mulligan?
Just because they have a lot of money doesn’t mean they have the expertise to evaluate a bank’s inner workings. Although I guess they could have hired people at considerable expense to do that … and I think some of them did which was what exasperated the run when they mass redrew their deposits. That or I think they can buy insurance … that said I wonder how many people/corporations actually buy insurance for their deposits above $250k.

Still my point stands, having depositors drown won’t stop others from pulling another SVB.
I am being helpful. I'm helping you understand what kind of unsubstantiative language cause others to object to your statements. Now you know what the faux pas is. Perhaps next time, you won't check out of your own conversation by saying, "I don't really want to find out" and "I don't care to learn." A spirit of inquisitiveness is necessary for any productive discussion.
By 30b and 65b, does it mean model with 30 or 65 million parameters?
Wow, those Amish made leather goods look amazing. Wouldn't be surprised if a whole lot of it turned out to be fake though...
Back around 2013 I needed trello for a project.. I couldn't seem to get the UI right and decided to use gmail as the front end. It worked perfectly, and was easy for everyone to understand.
I think that's fine as long as you are willing to then help anyone in that situation in the future. Not just people who are big enough to be "important".
You can’t. You have three options:

1. A violent revolution against capitalism that destroys it.

2. You slowly contain capitalism and wind it down, making the elite increasingly irrelevant, as it appeared the US and Europe might have been on track to do from 1933-73, until you’ve basically achieved socialism without necessarily calling it that.

3. Capitalism continues to corrode the restraints put in place to contain it until you have an oligarchic nightmare like the US.

3 is completely unacceptable; 1 is a bit better but still involves people getting killed. 2 is probably best if you can pull it off, but the problem is that it requires society to do the right thing for decades whereas an overthrow of capitalism can be done in weeks.
The problem arises when you look past one bank and consider the banking system as a whole. When the next bank fails and its depositors are backstopped by the FDIC at 100%, then again and again, eventually the “fund” should run out. In theory.

In practice, of course, that will never be allowed to happen. FDIC insurance is now effectively infinite.
The comments are even more valuable than the code!
I think it's less about spite and more about a desire for justice.
For your own sake, pay someone to help you with this. It doesn't need to be someone full time. You can use a consultant. You are not protected even with a big bank. Given the way the political climate has developed, if there's another "big one" even a fraction of this size of 2008, it may be politically impossible to wrangle another bailout. Your only protection is diversification.
> I would argue that we should all stop trying plan the activities of millions.

Not having an economic system sounds impossible. In the absence of a planned system, there would be one that spontaneously emerges, in all likelihood one that's even easier to corrupt.

Not having a government would be more viable, but without a central power we would just revert to "might makes right", which is not so different from cronyism. Not to mention all the problems when infrastructure becomes profit driven or disappears, basic education has to be provided by private teachers, etc.
Absolutely, businesses should worry about bank failures taking down their uninsured assets. If a business's assets are not insured, they should not expect to be made whole by an insurance policy in case of tail risk failures.
Yeah, and as far as I am aware, they are all kept clean with water. I'm not aware of a single installation that isn't hooked up to water facilities, let alone plonked down in the middle of a desert.
Universities are governed by masses of by-laws. Even if you read, understand and abide by all of them, you cannot confidently protect yourself against various accusations, e.g. plagiarism, academic misconduct, etc. You could even jeopardize your PhD.

The only reasonably "safe" approach is to buy your own PC, only work on your idea off campus and not publish, publicize or otherwise promote your work until after you graduate with your PhD. Keep a diary of your actual work, etc to be able to demonstrate that you did not utilize any of the universities resources for your project and that the essential IP is unrelated to your PhD research work.

I earned my PhD a few years ago and along the way I saw some of my colleagues get tripped up by the most specious academic rules. Cutting corners is not worth it.
IIRC Adam Smith considered both corporations and landlords to be incompatible with his "ideal" form of capitalism.
> SVB will cease to exist: it's being liquidated

This isn't like when Best Buy went bankrupt, the banking operations will continue, the branches will still run. It will take a long time to absorb SVB's operations into a larger entity, the larger entity may choose to run them as a subsidiary. You are making assumptions about the operations and staff based on no information, if SVB is going to be open for services on Monday as the regulator has promised everybody will have to show up for work.
No, the 42% is correct. You have to compare the proportion who got longcovid taking the drug, vs those who got longcovid without taking it, i.e. (10.6-6)/10.6.

Also, the study just looked at obese patients, who are at high risk of both diabetes and covid complications. So this likely just reduced those complications, and not "longcovid" as a whole (which can mean a number of different things). I would imagine it had no effect against the ME/CFS type of longcovid.
I think it wasn't just the growing core counts on the mainstream platform, but also the death of multi-GPU gaming and steady growth in DDR4 speeds and NVMe SSD capacity and performance—all of which combined to eliminate the need for a larger socket with all the extra IO.
> Point is that a system of such asymmetries rewards so many at public cost - and that includes the other stakeholders who are today “wiped out” (but still get to keep their gains from the good years). /end

Yep, and that is exactly the point. They must not get to keep their gains and they must lose an additional amount proportional to their chance of success.

The expected value of corruption must be negative.