skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comments like this should be banned from HN. It's used deliberately and manipulatively to characterize the other person as "unhinged." It does not promote useful discussion and is a clear violation of the rules.

I just have a lot to say, and I like to use capital letters to express it. It doesn't justify tactics like this of "chill bro". If you have a response, just say it.
The price of fuel is too low. Vehicles should also be taxed by size and weight.
Well I just want to read the emails, how about posting all of the email content instead?

Does posting bank transaction statements impose a security risk?

Part of it is that you trust and choose who to trust with the specific information you share, the rest remains private

Why aren't you sharing this stuff publicly, got some skeletons in your closet you're trying to hide?
It seems fairly easy to bake a chain of custody into your images. Sensor outputs a signed raw image, AI outputs a different signed “touched up” image. We can afford to keep both in this hypothetical future; use whichever one you want.

Once generative AI really takes off we will need some system for unambiguously proving where an image/video came from; the solution is quite obvious in this case and many have sketched it already.
How much does additional insurance cost? Any rough estimate?
Most people buying options don't primarily buy one side. They exercise some sort of inverted position as well to cover. Those who play one sided, short term, options can often be referred to as gamblers.
When tied to academic research this has bigger implications.

Reproducibility is difficult or impossible to assess when there's no source, and it also requires higher barriers to entry (= money). The output of that research will also be tied the commercial license: academics can often get better offers, but you as a user are going to be outpriced.

I'm biased for sure, but I'm a deep believer in open research. The output of what I do/did should be free for everyone.

R being fully open and free is a big part in what it made it so popular in research.
Introduction to Neuroscience
By way of https://twitter.com/bingbrunton/status/1634178541045661699
I like that it helpfully disgorges the source code where the exception was thrown. Very old school. I hope there are no database credentials hard-coded in PHP.
You've been able to make "unlifelike" photos ever since you could adjust the aperture, white balance, focal length, and choose the framing. How many times have you seen the Pyramids at Giza in pictures and films? How many of those times were framed to include the nearby city slums and dumped rubbish?

https://www.destinationtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/P...

https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Giza_pyr...

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/view-side-slums-egyptian-pyr...
Linked "article" quotes this tweet of his:

My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci

> In five words, Musk manages to mock transgender and nonbinary people, signal his disdain for public-health officials, and send up a flare to far-right shitposters and trolls.

Heh. I have a disdain for throwing shade and hyperbole, am I also far right cmh89? :)
It might be easier to start at the bottom and become wealthy in America, but it is not "easy". In fact, it's quite difficult, and for practical purposes may as well be impossible for the majority of such people. It usually requires an insane amount of luck. Sometimes it also requires working hard, but it almost always also requires a huge amount of luck.
The information is out of date, but I still occasionally use the pdfs i have from whfoods. You can find them on archive.org under TheWorldsHealthiestFoods.
desertification is the destruction of arable land, not the expansion of healthy desert ecosystems. Healthy desert ecosystems are disappearing, not expanding
Cue the outrage. These are trading plans filed ahead of time. Executives get most of their compensation in stock and of course regularly sell a chunk to avoid putting all eggs in one basket (just like regular engineers will).

Silicon Valley Bank failed because of poor handling and recklessness, but to repeat a previous quote, this is clickbait outrage for the ignorant and perpetually angry.
I think this is one of those rare opportunities that I can add something useful to the discussion based on knowledge rather than just my opinion. Some banks are structured in a rather specific way, which allow them to have some rather unique products ( compared to the regular banking that is ).

For example, certain IL bank has a fair amount of charters, which effectively allows them to offer deposit product that goes way over 250k ( at its core, it is basically CDARS though ). 2.5m if I remember right based on the amount of charters.

<< But really, if you have more than $250k in cash, perhaps you should consider lowering your cash amounts. Certainly there are valid reasons to hold that much cash, but in general, most people probably shouldn't. I

This argument has been going on forever and will likely continue for as long as human race exists. There are reasons one should and shouldn't do this, but the reality is that it will heavily depend on individual situation and, I assume, such a person will be sensible enough to ask someone/s that can appropriately advise whether it makes sense for that individual case.
GPT 3.5 likely differs from the original GPT 3 by more than instruction fine-tuning. For example, it was probably retrained under Chinchilla scaling laws [1], with a lot more data and maybe a somewhat smaller parameter count.

There are many variants of GPT-3 and GPT-3.5, and based on the performance numbers in Meta’s paper, it looks like they’re comparing against the very first version of GPT-3 from 2020. [2]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15556

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165
It already has ads. Big graphic ads at the tops of every article, and further down as well.
If you have a single command it’s fine. Not great because of the list syntax, but fine. But I’ve found when I’m doing shell commands and using Python as glue, the Python takes up most of the script while doing barely any of the work.

Don’t get me wrong, I like Python more and can barely write shell (ChatGPT/Copilot has made it easy). But it is not as convenient for calling and piping commands as shell.
> I'm pretty comfortable with posix shell.

It's ok to trust yourself.

Write 1 file shell scripts for convenient zero dependency command line tools that will work on most systems. If things start to get rough due to shell limitations, then Python scripts without dependencies is another 1 file solution that's quite portable. You can even mix and match (mostly use shell and call Python from it for the complicated bits as a last resort).

I wrote about this exact topic recently around trying to deal with string splitting in Bash: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/splitting-strings-by-a-delimi...

The takeaway is that for 99% of cases using IFS or Bash's string replace in a variable is great but if you have strict parsing requirements then maybe going with Python is worth it. The post links to a massive SO answer that demonstrates how string manipulation in shell scripting is hard.
Codon, a Python compiler promising speed to rival C/C++
if you think tether is well run, I have a bridge to sell you
No one is saying otherwise. I'm sorry, I don't know what your point is.
> Why are you all so mean to each other?

The "No, " at the beginning of my response probably triggered them. I was simply trying to make it clear to others that their information was misleading.
I agree that X200 is a good choice for someone who wants a small vintage ThinkPad for Linux. They have real keyboards, and enough CPU to run Firefox and other things. If you also use larger vintage ThinkPads from that era, they can all probably share the same 90W AC adapters (though the X200 will also work on lower-Watt ones). I have a stockpile of high-res X200 units, which I've upgraded with more RAM, SSD, Coreboot, and newer WiFi cards.

One thing you'll miss for some purposes is modern GPU. For ML models, I access my GPU server over the network (which means a beefier GPU than I could get in even a non-vintage ThinkPad, and easier to upgrade) and use cloud providers. For gaming, I use a Sony console, for compartmentalization and fewer cheaters.
This is just a little test out of pure curiosity on how fast it would be to run llama.cpp on a phone. It uses termux to run the quantized model directly.
Startups have to do risk management all of the time -- it's a core activity of entrepreneurship. Can we trust this vendor? Is this new hire going to work out? Will this API vendor scale to what we need/be around in the future?

Finance is no different. There are no "safe" investments, only varying levels of risk and reward. Mitigating the risk of a single bank failure locking up your $2MM raise is a couple hours of work. Only you can say whether mitigating that risk is worth the effort.
$10mm of deposits at SVB is worth way more than $250k. We don't know exactly how much though. That money didn't just vanish, it got tied up in ways that make it hard for depositors to withdraw it.

So no, it's not a depositor bailout for everything greater than $250k.
> The only thing you need here is knowledge about how the primitives work and how they compose. That's really the only challenge.

> I can explain by comparing it to art.
Artistry is hard and artistry is basically the same thing as design but harder.

So you agree it is kind of hard, requires a lot of knowledge about components and how they can best be composed.

Q.E.D.
I use Fastmail and recommend them. I'm never going back to Gmail.
I ran a Power Mac 9600 as a server (NetBSD) for a good fifteen years. It started with the original 300 MHz PowerPC 604ev, then got a 700 MHz G4, then the fastest 1 GHz G4 which I got when it went on sale for $99. It had the full 1.5 gigs of memory, which is crazy for a motherboard which came out in 1995.

It's very interesting to see how the huge gulf between the CPU speed (1 GHz) and the memory bus speed (50 MHz) translates to real world speed. For certain workloads, the 2 megs of L3 cache makes a huge difference, because once outside of L3 cache, performance drops precipitously.

Once I recap it, I'll still keep using it. It's amazing how usable such an old machine can be, and before requiring a recap, it was incredibly stable - it had uptimes of multiple years at a time. I'm looking forward to running it again.

I like to imagine what things might be like if we cared about upgradability more these days. The closest is that I just replaced a four year old processor on an AMD motherboard and doubled the performance without increasing power usage. We need more of that!
It is interesting. When I was learning, I found “mut” way more confusing because it is less precise (it’s one level of abstraction higher, mixes “usual intent/goal” with “what does this keyword do”) so it added an extra layer that I had to mentally back out/elide every time I read the keyword.
don't be silly, how else would they be able to watch pr0n?

why not? for one, is there any single purpose other than "evilz" for the Flipper? is there anyone other than "haxorz" that will be interested in using the Flipper?

it doesn't really take much stretching of the ol' imagination muscles to understand why some moronic government official with pretty close to zero understanding of electronics, computers, programming, hacking, or anything cool and/or fun really, that would be easily convinced that computers are good with occasional bad actors vs tool meant specifically for "getting around things" with the occasional harmless inquisitive person using it.
Most african kingdoms like that were funded by slave trade. They raided and sold their enemies. Reason for highly organized state was army and trade.

Not sure about Buganda, but here is a quote from wikipedia:

> Subjugating weaker peoples for cheap labor, Buganda grew into a powerful "embryonic empire"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Buganda
Tyranny of the adequate. JS won in the browser, despite HTML being designed with the intent of supporting multiple languages, because it was adequate to the task (scripting the DOM.) JS won everywhere else because the web was (and thus JS developers were) ubiquitous, easy to hire, and low cost. HTML and CSS are adequate replacements for native UIs. A web app wrapped in a Chromium instance is an adequate replacement for a native application. The SV startup mentality at its finest - the least amount of effort to ship something as fast as possible, quality be damned.
Dump, Lump, Jump: The Ultimate Visual Thinking Tool Turning Ideas into Action
I like it. Interesting to see what happens in WASM-land — it's a fresh chance to avoid mistakes made in the past.
This is awesome! I've been using https://jguitar.com/ for quite some time, specially the scales portion of it. I'll give this a try!
We had foreign banks who advertised that as a strength and sent their profits to their countries. But when there was a crisis they said we are just a local bank with the same brand as a US bank and won't give the customers their savings back.
Prior to joining SVB, CEO Gentile was CFO for Lehman Brothers GIB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35110431
For everyone else, since it's in this thread multiple times:

CDs = certificates of deposit, from the same site: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/banking/when-why-to-open-...
Orientation is because photos were taken months apart.

This is to get an idea of quality, with the APS-C camera having a much larger (26x area) sensor and better optics to work with.

My impression is... S21 Ultra "space zoom" is, at best, a good party trick. But if you zoom in, the quality is still nearly garbage. Not an objectively "great photo of the moon."
It happens all the time. Here's a summary of relatively recent history: https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/

I believe the FDIC has come through 100% of the time since it came into existence in the 1930s. Here's what they say: "Since the start of FDIC insurance on January 1, 1934, no depositor has lost a penny of insured funds as a result of a failure." I believe that's true.

https://www.fdic.gov/about/what-we-do/
Amazing, we need more cool stuff like this out there.
The Six Mistakes Executives Make in Risk Management
Especially important for folks that spun up clusters with kubeadm, kops, and Kubespray. Please read and test. We’ve tried to give folks the tools and to make K8s.gcr.io as easy to find. Policies and mutating webhooks too!
Let's say you have an account at Wells Fargo, I've invested in Wells Fargo stock, and Wells Fargo goes out of business. The idea here is that I lose all my money because I made a stupid investment, and you keep all your money because you just deposited your money in a bank.

Maybe the Wells Fargo executives could start another bank, but making you lose all your money doesn't do anything to prevent that.
Can they make profit by charging customers a monthly fee in return for their services instead of investing the money?
In the general case, it acts to prevent bank runs triggered by individual depositors.

SVB is a special case -- a bank focused on commercial customer base.
Big Models, Big Problems: The AI Cost Conundrum and How to Solve It
Computation in AI is expensive. We saw companies providing power cloud computing machine, manufacturing AI chips, coming up solutions to reduce model complexity and so forth. With good models and good hardware, sadly, even the most experienced engineers struggle to match models with the right hardware. I'm proposing a business plan to resolve this issue. I'm looking foward to any feedback!
Missed a couple:

1. Even if the price has not moved against you, your broker can decide the stock has become more volatile, and therefore a higher collateral ratio is required.

2. Regulators can halt trading, making it at least temporarily impossible to buy back the shares and book your profit on the short sale.

Hence FTA: “You never short something thinking it will go into receivership,”
What a strange game. The only move to win is to cheat.
no but expect the US to start invading weaker countries that depeg from the dollar. the US is, at present, the world's reserve currency. that status is what creates the petrodollar. as countries move towards Russia or China, that hegemony is threatened.
Why Is Starbucks at War with Its Unions?
I have often wondered how celebrities and other “rich” people dealt with cash assets, this is interesting in the unlikely event I ever strike it rich.

The flip side of the coin is how do rich people select accountants and wealth managers that they can trust? I have heard so many horror shows of celebrities getting ripped off by their accountants. It seems to happen even more to poor people who suddenly become rich - lottery winners seem unable to hang onto the cash. And the Murdaugh murder trial revealed networks of lawyers and fiduciaries playing fast and lose with client money (one example was a trust manager loaning Murdaugh huge amounts of cash from a trust for two minors who mom was killed in an accident, and the girls got a multi million judgement).

Are there trust networks? Or word of mouth and luck?
On my M1 Ultra LlaMA 65B generates ~3 tokens per second (using 16 threads).
I don't see what point you are making that contradict my original comment. Yes deserts are less important to the health of the planet than biodiversity hotspots, but why would we destroy them when we have other alternatives?
How long would such a black hole last before evaporating due to Hawking radiation?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35105048

> This is normal. The CEOs of major regional banks are required by law/regulation to be a director at the regional fed. As he is no longer CEO of a regional bank (it no longer exists) he no longer has the seat.
“Why is he writing so much Java?”

I lol’d
> Tether is better run than any other stable coin.

Only in the PR sense. A rug pull is inevitable.

On the bright side, when it crashes it'll take what's left of crypto with it.
bank accounts are insured up to 250k/account by the FDIC

investment accounts are insured up to 500k/account by the SIPC
Absolutely agree.

I shake my head every time I see the "ideas are a dime a dozen" meme parroted on here. Good ideas are actually much rarer, harder to come by.

I'll prove it.

Go to any of the Ask HN "whats your side business" threads [1] and observe the many interesting responses. Here's a good one: [2]. Next, observe the follow-up questions, "What's your niche? How'd you get started? Wow, very interesting, curious about the details." And finally, the answers:

Crickets.

Why? Because the only reason these people are harvesting so many coconuts is because they're the only ones who know about the island - the idea is their only competitive advantage. If they shared that, the party would be over, and they know it.

Ideas are extremely valuable.

---

[1] here's a couple:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29668604
What I did, when this happened to me 20-ish years ago, was to pry the doors open and shimmy through the gap. It was not easy, and I don't know how well it would work in a newer elevator, but at the time it seemed to be purely a matter of leverage.
Why do you assume the GP is making an argument towards any kind of action?

It looks very clearly a statement of fact to me.
I think that's what I said?

There's a cost, we don't know what it is. It's not as high as it sounds when you say "we should only let people get $250k liquid and everyone else should pound sand".

The cost to letting these companies keep their money tied up is a lot of people not getting paychecks. Which suddenly means no tax witholdings. And more unemployed people. And companies that can't pay vendors.

Doing nothing is not free. It might be cheaper, it might not. I get the instinct to hold the man accountable but it's not as simple as most people are suggesting.
I think Clean Code is more about the ability to easily change the code as requirements change. Readability is one factor, but many of the rules really are only about ease of change. Open/closed and dependency inversion are prime examples of guidelines that are all about ease of change.
Sure, in the context of the US (and specifically Silicon Valley), but context was "SVB depositors weren’t just random individuals, they are some of the wealthiest people and organizations in the country or even the world"
Circle says outstanding USDC transactions on Signet won't close until Monday
Unless I'm misunderstanding, it would be usable for tests/dev but not for production at that speed. If you feed in a complex prompt of 500 tokens it would take way too long.
I think it showed us that the Turing test isnt enough
Have you had to use that policy in a situation where you were a direct employee?

I certainly feel the same way but never put it to the test.
The bad kind of folk, especially in India, see women as weak and to be dominated, and they revel in the fact that ladies are fearful to go out alone at night. The fear they impose on women is what feeds them, not some spur of the moment action.

And I clearly know you aren't from India, because women who work in remote factories are often ferried to and from their homes in buses for each shift. Or their families live within walking distance from the factories, as part of company housing.
That quote appears nowhere in the linked MIT Sloan article or the paper it summarizes, so please don't post such misleading quotes.

As I already mentioned and from the paper's abstract:

> Those conclusions stand in sharp contrast to popular accounts that claim there was no cost because the money was repaid, and with claims of costs in the multiple trillions of dollars.

So to be clear, the paper claims there was still a cost of $500 billion even though money was paid back.
Pretty much, except for the frivolous human sacrifice aspect.
If you pardon my intrusion, may I inquire why were you using a machete to cut a banana?
The tech industry couldn't give Silicon Valley Bank 40 hours
Not sure the author understands what busywork is. It isn’t “tedious” work, it’s “work that doesn’t matter/has little value but we want to keep people busy.”
Interesting. I browsed the website (as much as I could), then I looked at the comments, and I still cannot honestly figure out (a) why this was posted, (b) why is it suspicious, (c) did the OP think this was cool? (d) did they think it was horrible? (e) what the website is actually about.
> It's a little more complicated.

I'd beg to disagree. Bank makes bad bets. VCs put all their eggs in bad bank. VCs now hold a gun to our head.

"But the depositors?!" Who is a depositor of more than $250K cash in an account who can't take a 20-30% haircut, because they didn't understand FDIC insurance? And why shouldn't they? Because they're special?

This is an argument that only makes sense to people with mid 6 figure salaries, a gold plated benefits package, stock options/grants, Uber Eats for lunch. Everyone else says -- "Looks like those depositors made a mistake, huh?"
Looks awesome, love the tab view.

If there other hackers who make music here, I wrote this:

https://github.com/Miserlou/chords2midi

for writing chord progressions on the command line. I use it for building progressions which I drag into my DAW. It has voice leading, which required me translating an algorithm from 18th century German musical textbook into Python. I don't speak German and there were no unit tests in the 1700s so I'm only fairly certain that it works properly.

I will make a plugin version once ableton supports CLAP.