skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m using an Hisense A5 Android phone.

OK, but that puts you in the 0.0001th percentile of Signal users. Don't expect them to spend a lot of time debugging issues with your very exotic phone.

> Signal is for everyone but you need to answer those idiocy first. It should be noted that I have a very good eyesight. I cannot imagine those with even minor disabilities.

Captchas pretty much always have audio alternatives for blind users.

> That’s also why I’ve always fought for the right to differences, why I’ve always been utterly frightened by "normalisation". Because I know nobody is immune. Think about it: I’m a white male, cis-gendered, married with children, with a good education, a good situation and no trauma, no disability. I’m mostly playing life with the "easy" setting.

Right. And if a bug in the Signal app convinces you that you've finally experienced oppression, you really need to read up on what oppression means.
> But in the end, even if we could argue that SVB should have been more prescient, it is clear that the root cause of the problems is the actions of the government and the FED.

The fact that many other banks were prescient disproves this point handily.
What gains? Depositors weren't getting gains, they were storing money in very low interest (far below inflation or money market yields) checking and savings accounts.
It's also well explained (waaay more technical and in depth) by the "Retro Game Mechanics Explained" channel on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2Dw7NFm1ZfY?t=975
Lucky Canada!
You are missing the point. Extremely large LLMs don't train the same way as your BERT_Large x8 variety of LLMs. Your whole training procedure is different. Also Microsoft spent so much initially because their Azure Cloud was unable to cope with it electrically and they had to rewire a datacenter for it. So it's not even a question of just renting 1000 GPUs. Do you have actual experience training GPT-3+ sized models?
https://twitter.com/chimeracoder/status/1635062000853331969 I don't want to live in that world either. I can imagine a society much better off with such individuals stripped from power.

And yes, to add insult to injury there is people offering the service of splitting up your cash between banks in a way which should give every startup enough leeway to "make payroll" for some months (https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1634925784271036417)... It just doesn't work with monopolistic structures and you can't bankrun it, when you feel like it, so maybe not as en vogue with our hosts?
Presumably the congestion added by a bunch of 250' long trailer centipedes on the road would drive commuter traffic into Musk's surely-by-then existent hyperloop?
Games and art can be quite different, but both are mediums that can have an audience. I volunteer at an arts organization and I do play games (board and some video). Both have vision. Feedback can be helpful.

But a game has a time component to it. Its asking a lot more of the player. It needs to be fun, or the player will stop playing and your vision will stay stuck in the game. Some feedback is helpful to make it fun and let them experience/ see your vision.

For Art, Open Studio events are really rewarding for artists to get their art out there and also talk to visitors. I did it for a few years. Putting your art out there for public consumption was hard. Some loved it (some enough to buy a few things), some did not. But I could talk to some of them and I grew and got better.

For games one of the fun things I do during the year is go to "Figg Fest" https://www.bostonfig.com/fest-homepage/
Its been virtual, but I liked it better in person. Game makers display their games, and most have a version to play (some simplify as 2+ hour board games at a 5 hour convention...). I like talking to the board game makers, their inspiration and how they develop. They teach us visitors and watch us play.

But if Solo development is your thing, thats cool too. I get not having things "wateredown by committee" but feedback can be helpful.
Glut yes, but that not the cause - nor was the bank run. Simply, hubris.

They bet billions on zero interest rate policy and didn't hedge that bet.

Glut or no glut, would have failed just like LTCM or any other huge bets that failed to consider tail risk.
> if not tech, what else could give the U.S. an advantage over China?

I think in order to have this conversation, we must distinguish tech from the silicon-valley-branded, vc-funded, risky, socially-disconnected tech that’s largely being bailed out here.

Tech as in technology can be funded by non-profit research institutions, or arms of the government, or more traditional companies that don’t make slashing regulations, anticompetitive behavior, and socializing losses their business model.

If Silicon Valley goes under, there will still be plenty of innovation.
Me too, but I still added a table of contents button on my long, structured articles. It's very helpful in my opinion.
Instead of all these complicated hoops, wouldn't a true libertarian expect his money in the deposits to be no-go for gambling. And a separate account for stocks. If the bank want's to gamble they would need the customers approval for that, IE lock your money with us for 10 years and get this interest. Insurance is socialist, even if it packaged as capitalism.

The bank has to cover it, but not today. And it's an agreement and not a surprise when it happens.

No, lets create a complicated mess, fractional reserves, excess liquidity and having money costs money, growth and more growth and ... and .. and. You're all falling for it because you're greedy and don't want to be left behind.

When is anyone going to realize the actual problem? How many times does it have to happen? I'll see you guys again in 10-15 years as we have the exact same discussion.
Correct. And they failed at it. Swap bonds for magic beans and see if it’s defensible. We know the bonds were worth less, but it doesn’t obviate failing to manage the half of the business that isn’t people handing you money
The feature size is a LOT bigger than microchips though:

"Each knot is around 70 micrometers in height and width, and each fiber has a radius of around 1.7 micrometers"

That is, cheaper lithography methods could presumably be used.
Reasonably, the least we could expect from a bank is to keep the money we give to them, instead of gambling it. But even that, despite all the audits, is not a given, as a matter of fact.

I wish to see the proof of reserve implemented for traditional banks, or the trust will just keep eroding...
> Yes, it has E2EE encryption, but who cares about that other than us orangey types?

Signal is vulnerable to MITM attack. Our government has no problems with reading of my messages in Signal. I forced either to accept new certificate and be OK with wiretaping, or to lost communication channel with a friend.
Demand deposits can be immediately be recalled, so where exactly do you suggest they park it? In the central bank -- no bueno they've denied banking license for narrow banking. Margin lending that allows recall at any moment? I can think of some options but frankly I'd rather have my money in a bank that over-extends themselves on treasuries than most the alternatives. At least I'd most likely get 90+% of my money back eventually.

Only retroactively in a bank run are you really able to see just what duration and what amounts were the limit.
Yes. It’s called clawback provisions. They were summarily fired and their compensation was clawed back.

And how are the losses being socialized? The assets of the bank are collateralizing the lines of credit they’re getting to stay solvent. It won’t cost anyone a thin penny, other than bank management and shareholders.
Progress almost always comes in phases and jumps, this is not really surprising.
I think the GP comment might have caused some confusion since it mentioned both package management and venvs very close together.
Ok, what would you do if you were a board member of a number of companies and you found out that the bank they were using was financially unsound and couldn't process normal withdrawals?
As someone who got hurt by it, no, we should not keep around a system that saddles 10 year olds with extreme money anxiety because their parents are poor. America is stupid rich, we can easily support those families and attempt to insulate literal children from such anxieties.

It's not an important part of our society for an underclass to suffer FFS
Any thoughts on ufw? I usually disable that and just make sure that I don't have unneeded ports open. I configure iptables manually if needed.
This is the argument for CBDC. the Fed taking over deposits.

The issue comes when you want to get a loan or mortgage. How does the Fed know if you're financially stable? How on earth can the Fed know how to centrally decide?

In general the answer is: split the savings and investments in two different entities. One entity that saves but has forbidden to invest, and an independent entity that invests.
Why are heat pumps suddenly getting so much attention? Here in Australia they have been common for at least the last 20 years. Most new houses have been fitted with heat pumps, or as we know them, reverse cycle air conditioning.
Some context: "According to @FastCompany, it was Republican billionaire Peter Thiel who started the #SVB withdrawal frenzy, with little basis. Then it snowballed."

Meanwhile Sacks was crying for an "intervention". Pathetic.
> 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

To which someone like would you say "but who's paying for that? the other banks? and guess where their money comes from?
> I agree that medical care should be run by the state.

...which is largely irrelevant, because the state should also not be involved in the conversation about whether pursuing life-extending care is humane.

> I don't think its worth us talking any more since we don't seem to be learning from each other.

Nobody involved in internet disagreements learns from each other typically. I approach internet disagreements with the idea that non-participants reading the disagreement can learn from it. That is, outrageous viewpoints like yours should not go unchallenged because that normalizes them.

If you want to stop representing your viewpoint to readers, you're welcome to, but you can drop the smug superiority about it. If you want conversations to learn and educate, you might start by reading the articles you're responding to.
Thanks for pointing this out, will fix
Interestingly it appears ChatGPT is somewhat adept at this. Asking for the best ways to line-break this title, it suggests:

"One year on and what next for remote working?" (original)

"One year on and what next for remote
working?"

"One year on and what next
for remote working?"

"One year on and
what next for remote working?"
This could maybe interpreted as saying the online world is more dangerous than a meat packing plant. That doesn’t seem too far-fetched.
Are you under the impression that funding healthcare services via Medicare has even the slightest resemblance to capitalism? I can't think of any industry that is farther away from this. I mean, Medicare is be definition run by the government, and the way that the service providers deal with it is highly controlled by the government. This looks absolutely nothing like a free market, it's entirely the product of socialist control (if I can define "socialism" as "government controls the means of production" rather than outright "owning" it).
Yes, fox news would spend the next ten years making as many people as possible think you are the literal devil.
Check the git repo for llama.cpp.

Model weights in torrent magnet:?xt=urn:btih:b8287ebfa04f879b048d4d4404108cf3e8014352

Runs slowly but without trouble on an intel i7 with 32 gb ram.
at the time they bought them the Fed was saying they had no plans to increase rates. You can blame SVB somewhat for not hedging but they took the Fed at their word and got burned for it, not exactly something that builds confidence in the financial system. The Fed bowed to political pressure related to high inflation rather than following the plan they laid out
It’s not a matter of being prescient. They made an explicit bet. “Rates won’t go down, so let’s get as much yield as possible via long term securities”

They could have just as easily done what most other financial institutions do: match the duration of their liabilities with the duration of their bonds. If people can quickly pull their money, then keep the money in short term bonds and money market funds.

The problem with that is it’s harder to make big bonuses when you’re being fiscally conservative.
There are always few (people who subscribe to an ideology that if applied universally would benefit their usual circumstances) in a (circumstance where applying that ideology would not benefit them)
I love that pun. It's pronounced exactly the same as "you're in good company".
I'm a Clojure developer, and for most of my career, I have worked at small to medium SaaS startups.

However, after some time, I decided to work on some side projects that were in a completely different field.

I started playing with the PlayCanvas game engine and created a 3D PvP based browser game.

Currently, the game is in the alpha stage and is called Enion Online.

Link: http://alpha.enion.io
I agree 100% up to the point of the necessity of a bank run. I think they faced some serious quarterly losses for some time to come, but many banks see that without a run on the bank. That’s why I suspect someone large and influential in the startup world operated a bank run whisper campaign for their personal benefit. I’ve no proof, but I’ll wager $5 on it.
Which points to the blame for SQL not implementing Codd’s ideas right not lying at the feet of Codd’s being insufficiently precise, as claimed in the linked paper, but rather as a deliberate choice to simplify the relational model.
Proxy through nginx and then I add in custom CSS (for the colors) and a snippet of JS to keep the HN links proxied.

CF worker is an interesting idea. I'm going to look into other ways to run this without a dedicated VPS.
They are getting it from liquidating the assets of the Bank. There are three parties who are "owed" here. The depositors, holders of debt and investors. Depositors are being made whole. Anyone who holds secured debt will get what's left. Owners of unsecured debt and investors are left out. Which is fine by me.
In most cases the vague answer is "how closely can it recreate the end result". Because that's a useful measure.

For brains: we have no idea. Every brain is somewhat different, but we only have a couple complete physical layout maps so far. No "weights", no specific chemistry per cell, no knowledge of what may have changed before it could be frozen for imaging.

With a lot of work and a lot of extra physical and chemical simulation (a full body in quite a lot of detail), based on that map and what we know of the rest of its body, openworm achieves wormy wriggling.

That's honestly pretty good! And it implies that the connection structure is at least coarsely meaningful in an extremely simple mind, which is what many have suspected but have had no way to verify before. But we know next to nothing about how that individual worm's brain behaved compared to the simulation. The fly brain will be similar - we'll have a bigger and more complex brain to run, more complex behaviors to compare against other flies, etc. It'll provide more evidence in favor of or opposed to the importance of that structure, compared to other things that we don't have enough information on yet.

Basically it's still extremely early days, so it's sorta like asking Stonehenge astronomers whether or not our supernova-brightness-based measurements of the size of the universe are accurate. They can see supernovas too, but their answer has to be "uh. maybe? give us a few thousand years to research it". We need more data and better tools than currently exist.
So, your plan is to do away with fractional reserve banking entirely ? How do you think that would impact GDP and the overall functioning of the economy?
But only few banks offer the same rates as SVB did.

So you can get that risk-free extra 2% on your deposit up to 250k, or up to hundreds of millions, and the government will just pay in fine. That opens up new area of business imho.
I read a bunch of posts on that thread, but it wasn't clear to me the setup. Certainly seems possible that different implementations would have different CPU utilization, and impact the power supply differently. Not to mention RF noise changes to the local environment.

Today's PCs and cables aren't particularly well shielded. In fact I switched routers because an unshielded USB cable inside the router had a significant impact on Wifi performance if I used the USB for connecting storage.

I also bought a USB connected SDR (software defined radio) and I can tell you that position relative to my PC and the quality of the shielding of the USB cable was directly visible on the waterfall display. Moving the SDR (but not the Antenna) showed significant changes in reception across large swaths of the frequency range.

I've definitely had fan, coil whine, and related interference with different CPU utilization before. I've also had speakers, even wireless speakers get interference from my computer that varies with load, not to mention things like an incoming cellphone call.

Doesn't seem that crazy that different memory allocation and memcpy implementations could impact sound quality of any local audio equipment. Or that playing from ramdisk could sound better than from disk (assuming said disk is emitting noticeable RF).
It seems Microsoft locked a lot of the stuff I use down on Home, a lot of registry keys that you can tweak don't work and MMC is useless. You also can't remote desktop into it.

This script [0] is part of our deployment process at work and I run it on my home machines as well, the Pro version has helpful ads for Office instead of TikTok etc, this removes them all and sets some sane defaults.

I've noticed the paid apps thing about Apple - even on a jailbroken iPhone the tweaks cost 99p here and there as opposed to rooting an Android phone where all the modules you'd use are FOSS.

[0] - https://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/4378-windows-1...
Status page for Signature bank payment systems
MT's integration gives us visibility into the health of Signature's payment systems. We set this resource page up to provide updates to affected companies.
funny enough, I was working at a cafe in Indonesia when I saw another guy teaching another how to do php programming. At some point we struck up a conversation and my experience with vue came up. He was interested in paying me to teach him vue so that he could turn around and teach it. He had no interest in building projects with it. It was such a werid experience for me as I dont' even consider teaching something unless I've amassed a considerable amount of real world experience using it.
When you advertise as something being sold direct, it usually implies some kind of cost savings due to cutting out the middleman.

Instead, what we're seeing here is about a 2x cost of what an HVAC company would charge you for installing the heat pump.

So you've cut out the middleman, but inserted your startup here and decided to upcharge the end user double. Justify the cost to me, as a homeowner. Why should I not opt for an HVAC-company installed heat pump from a known-brand like Mitsubishi or Hitachi?

What do I get for the extra $6-7k you seem to be upcharging? Is it efficiency? PM 2.5 sensors? Longer expected system lifetime?
Not so hard to do, being a working man myself. Are you not a working man? My lived experience is that I have more in common with people flipping burgers than flying in private jets, but maybe you disagree.
Judging by the downvotes you struck a few nerves.

Just like cats will let you pet them but only exactly three times and then non-aggression principle suddenly violated
Depositors were getting gains (4.5% interest rate which is very high compared to similar banks, and for something that’s supposed to be risk-free). The reason these rates were achievable is because SVB lobbied to remove regulations and allow them to engage in risky behavior.
You fail to understand the actual reason for their insolvency. Their risk team chose to buy 10 year treasury bonds instead of 1 year treasury bonds. This is because 10 year bonds offered a higher interest rate (more profit for SVB) but at a much much higher risk. The losses were then unrecognised, hoping the market would turn. Only when it was too late did SVB admit defeat. With their equity gone, they attempted a band aid with an equity raise but the market quite rightly recognised the bank’s shares were worthless.

Anyone working in risk management will tell you SVB’s risk team and executive team should be in jail.

Don’t blame SVB’s failure on a bank run. SVB caused their own failure with their own risk management policies and it’s insolvency was probably inevitable for months.
Is there any system on the whole planet, where the entities responsible for the payment are willing to just write a blank check no matter what? I'm pretty sure that there's always going to be some kind of cost-benefit balancing, probably based on QALYs and such.
That would all be ideal and ok if fractional banking wasn't a thing. Your bank makes money out of investing your money. That's just how it works. But for some reason, some banks are more privileged than others. Citibank can't stop receiving bailouts every 50 microseconds because their management sucks. Silicon Valley Bank depositors receive back money from _uninsured_ deposits. Ultimately, someone has to pay the bill.

I'm not saying prevent the contagion is a bad thing. We all know what happens when contagion becomes a systemic problem (2008). What I'm suggesting is that the fact a bank like this can even fail in a way like this is absurd. I'm mostly someone who defends less regulation over more, but if we are going to regulate banks we need to hold everyone to the same standards, and make sure everyone is accountable for their mistakes and risks taken. If that requires the FDIC raising the amount of deposits that are insured, sure, go with it, but creating "exceptions" every time a medium-sized bank fails is sure to create moral problems, corruption and increase inequality systematically.

What I'm talking about is thing such as the "Reform Act" from 2018, which was basically what allowed this Silicon Valley Bank disaster to happen [0].

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mayrarodriguezvalladares/2023/0...
Is this true or confirmed somewhere official? Clearly the underlying architecture has major issues.
The government needs new regulations to force depositors and banks to purchase this insurance. Otherwise, we're looking at one grift after another.
I have the same question, but on the hardware side. Since HVAC is critical infrastructure for a home, where will replacement parts be in a decade?
I'm probably wrong more often than I'm right when it comes to politics on average.

But libertarianism has been obviously illogical to me since I was about 15, half my lifetime ago. Since then I've spoken to some very intelligent libertarians at length and... nope, it still doesn't make any sense. It makes less sense than ever, in fact. At least when I was 15 I just thought they must be stupid, but no, not necessarily. Now my operating theory is that it's similar to how some people become completely engrossed in a fictional universe and wish it was the real world.
Right. I know if you don't do the process buffer code, you can freeze things. And I can fully cede that doing that for elisp is weird. Same idea in a sly buffer, though, is fine.

Edit: For amusement, I was trying to see how bad it could be, so I made a loop to get the 90000th fib. Which, wasn't enough to see here. Hard to really appreciate how fast computers have become.