skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Political parties aren't people so assigning feelings to them is of questionable value, but no more so than calling someone insane for doing so.

The underlying fact is that the Republican and Democratic Party are both constituted to represent their donors and that certain parties (rich individuals being the largest such party) enjoy the benefit of giving bi-partisan patronage.
Not sure that is the case. If you can't buy good loans I really doubt you can issue good loans.
I mean one could say the current admin is paying for all those SpaceX contracts only because there’s literally no alternative left - yup, after Vulcan 5 ending due to restrictions on engines import from Russia there’s literally no other heavy launch provider in continental United States. Same with crew launches in some way.
Calling an argument “insane” isn’t a constructive comment.

Perhaps you could explain why you don’t think that’s a reasonable interpretation..?
Capital One actually got better — they used to be 2:1.5 before improving to 1:1, as well as adding more transfer options.
Please explain what you think the proper thing to do with 3 months working capital is.
The history is more complicated than that.

Obama originally proposed rules for widening the definition of hazardous trains and requiring upgraded brakes. This version didn't get enacted. It was weakened after a lot of lobbying eg trains carrying oil and gas were no longer "hazardous".

Trump did remove this rule in 2018.

But we're in 2023 now when Biden was sworn in over 2 years ago. Did Biden or Buttigieg re-institute these rules? No.

This problem is beyond politics. Both parties serve corporate interests. Republicans just go a little further on the deregulation train (pun intended). Look at Biden and Congress united behind hobbling the rail workers strike. Those rail workers were wanting to strike in part due to safety issues.

Buttigieg is a McKinsey alum. He's part of the system that creates this problem. Don't think this is just a few bad apples. It isn't. It's a systemic problem.
You support Elon?

It’s becoming obvious that he is on the Kremlin side nowadays. You can’t even pretend he’s both siding it anymore. He never criticizes Russia interests, and parrots the Kremlin discourse quite consistently.

You need to recognize that supporting Musk in 2023 is supporting the Kremlin. Is that really what you want to support?
They can be perpetually hungry or perpetually unhealthy and obese. Choose your poison.
> If a bank is giving depositors unparalleled benefits to bank with them [1], alarm bells should ring.

>[1] benefits include interest rates above average or offer to finance your start up.

Can you be specific? Which parts of SVB's offerings were suspiciously generous? You mention interest rates, so I checked their archived page as of feb 23 and found that they were offering 4.5% for their money market account. This seems roughly consistent with market offerings[1]. You also mentioned "offer to finance your start up", but is that really supposed to be suspicious? That's literally one of a bank's primary functions.

[1] https://www.economy.com/united-states/money-market-rate

>Let me be blunt. The last place I'd do my personal banking is the local bank of a region who's mantra includes: "move fast and break things".

This feels like something that's only obvious because of hindsight. You could easily make an equally compelling case that you shouldn't bank with banks from new york, because that's the financial capital of the US, and it's the evil bankers that caused the 2008 financial crises.
One of the shortcuts I use a lot:

```
mkcd() {
if [ $# != 1 ]; then
echo "Usage: mkcd <dir>"
else
mkdir -p $1 && cd $1
fi
}
```
What kind of reality denialism is this?

A teenager with ANY work history on their limited resume has a huge leg up over the equivalent teenager who has a little more other stuff but no work history.
it's already in a human readable format next to the name.
I understand you mean no disrespect to the Textual author, but i would still like to know your comparable alternative...
That's interesting that the fidelity seems to change. I just realized I had been running with `-t 8` even though I only have a M2 MacBook Air (4 perf, 4 efficiency cores) and running with `-t 4` speeds up 13B significantly. It's now doing ~160ms per token versus ~300ms per token with the 8 cores settings. It's hard to quantify exactly if it's changing the output quality much, but I might do a subjective test with 5 or 10 runs on the same prompt and see how often it's factual versus "nonsense".
Seriously, it’s like a lot of people think the depositors should only get back $250k, and giving them back what remains of the rest of their money is a bailout. It’s not, it’s what the FDIC always does.
And for extra fun, while the French word for space (espace) is masculine gender (un espace) for most its meanings, in typography, it's feminine (une espace).
But is there evidence that the CEO was abusing this loophole? For instance, a string of cancellations in the months/quarters leading up to it?
Next-next-next-gen: BigTech corps offers a machine-brain interface so that you can "enhance" your own senses with the help of external processing power. Your reality is about to change, but not without a ton of ads which you cannot escape.
There are multiple such measures. Ones I could think of right off the bat is hip/waist ratio, BAI, or simply waist circumference.

Those all fail to reliably predict body fatness in all populations.

All of those measurements should be taken in context with other health signs, like blood pressure, fasting glucose and maybe eating/exercise habits as well.
Extremely tempted to replace my Mac Mini M1 (8GB RAM). If I do, what's my best bet to future proof for things like these? Would a Mac Mini M2 with 24GB RAM do or should I beef it up to a M1 Studio?
No, laws (criminal codes) are how you get jail time.

Regulations are rules passed by administrative bodies, those rarely, if ever, result in jail time. There’s a lot of reason for that, but administrative agencies often don’t have the full authority to send people to prison (I personally don’t think they should). Instead injured parties should be able to bring a suit, and I’m sure they will here.
One of those rare opportunities to clearly assess VCs from the outside, and surprisingly good steady reaction by him and Khosla.

Who else?
You should use Libreboot if your device supports it. Most devices don't. Those that do are vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown attacks, so beware.

More:
https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/coreboot-vs-libreboot-vs-osboot...
The only time I used sky couch the plane was half empty so they put out all the ones they had and many people had their own bed. We had paid for it anyway but we got 2 beds between our family instead of 1.
Don't Share Java FileChannels
What are the links?

Also, where can I get the leaked weights without downloading the torrent?
No experience, but in which Target/Walmart are you seeing this available?
How do you find out if it’s overcrowded or not? Supposedly with a good enough differentiator it doesn’t really matter if it’s overcrowded right?
It’s one component of it, clearly. That’s pretty much what IntraFi does—while they don’t open an account with every bank, they have thousands of banks in their network and claim to be able to maintain FDIC insurance for up to 160 million.

If FDIC wants it to be possible to insure that much, they should cut out the middlemen and financial engineering requirements and just insure deposits of every business to that amount. If they don’t want to insure that much, then IntraFi and other similar services should be illegal.
You're lying to yourself. Stop doing all of that, start counting calories and you will not gain any weight.
More interesting old robots from the future I wish I lived in instead...

Arok

https://www.theoldrobots.com/arok.html

https://www.flyingcarsandfoodpills.com/arok-the-robot

Roll-Oh (which I think was just a dude in a costume but still deliciously goofy-looking)

https://www.theoldrobots.com/Roll-oh-robot.html

ODEX-1

https://www.theoldrobots.com/odex.html

https://cyberneticzoo.com/walking-machines/1983-odex-1-funct...

https://dailytitan.com/lifestyle/defunct-aging-robot-odex-1-...

Gygan

https://www.theoldrobots.com/Gygan.html

http://davidbuckley.net/DB/HistoryMakers/Gygan.htm

ASV Walker

https://www.theoldrobots.com/OSU-ASV_Walker.html

https://www.thedrive.com/news/36157/the-us-army-spent-millio...
This is awesome! looking forward to seeing how this evolves.
I feel like you're conflating "a person" with businesses, who have a number of people downstream of their bank accounts. They really aren't very similar to wealthy individuals with large bank accounts.

Having said that, as I've been reading about this for the first time over the past couple days, I have become a bit less sympathetic to companies with very large deposits at a single bank. It does seem that there are mechanisms, like "insured cash sweep", that good financial officers should have been taking advantage of. But I still have uncertainty about this and want to read more about it.

But I think the general point of the other commenter in this thread is a good one: a company with, say $2M to $10M in cash deposits should ideally be able to access banking services easily and with negligible risk. This is not an enormous business size! It's better for society for it to be possible to run businesses like that without having to fear big surprises in the financial system killing you on a random Friday.
The train workers were striking to protest safety conditions. Biden ordered them back to work.

Do you really think far away rich people are working to make things better for you?
Java, Scala, Kotlin, C#, D, Go, and TypeScript to name a few.
I find it quite amusing that I read the pgrok and ngrok websites (at least the front page) and cannot understand what the hell either of them do.

It's like they can do almost anything...what exactly? .... well whatever you can think of.....er like what?

You can open localhost to the internet.......?????????? Sorry?

Anyhow if anyone would care to put me out of my misery by explaining a bit I'd be grateful.
The AI expert who says we should stop using AI so much
Give us an update on the 30B model! I have 13B running easily on my M2 Air (24GB ram), just waiting until I'm on an unmetered connection to download the 30B model and give it a go.
I wrote my last music long time ago, then mostly I used to wrote a poetry

https://archive.org/details/ARISEFACEGREEN

This music also for a my poetry 'claws of war'
We've got the Third Amendment that says

> No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

So I don't think the US military can legally take over your house without your consent, except in time of war and then only if a law is passed.

But, experience from WWII shows that the government is gonna do what it wants, and the wheels of justice move slowly, and may not hold to what is right; the exclusion order that began the Japanese-American Internment was found to be constitutional, although detainment of loyal citizens was indeed found unconstitutional. If armed people demand use of your stuff, better to let them use it, and fight for compensation later.
You’re missing the point. There’s no need to liquidate the bank or do a fire sale.

Assuming there was no malfeasance and the assets are as described on the books, the bank just needs liquidity so it doesn’t have to fire sale.

Also worth pointing out that every bank likely has the same problem trying to move treasuries from 1-5 years ago right now. The financial big heads should be trying to figure out how to make such a “safe investment” actually safe again.
> I mean literally nobody is a libertarian by the dictionary definition

And is anyone a "democrat" or "republican" or "socialist" (note small "d", "r", and "s") by the dictionary definition?

All I'm saying is that failing to behave strictly according to dictionary definitions is common to all humans not just "libertarians".
love the simplistic world of view of an HN reader against a financial institution that has been in business for 40 years....
"Elite overproduction" deliberately muddles together "elite" with "people scraping together a living making trinkets on etsy" because "elite" carries quite a negative connotation and the richer and more powerful the 1% get, the more they hate being singled out.
Memory, Pages, MMAP, and Linear Address Spaces
You completely missed the point of my comment.

The commenter was claiming that unless you can recover data "verbatim" an encoding cannot be considered compression.

My example was to illustrate the silliness of that point, not to draw a straight line comparison between model weights and a lossy image compression format.

As for legislation, I completely agree with you. There's real danger that, absent that, you'll just end up with legislation from the bench where judges attempt to shoehorn these issues into existing legal frameworks, and I suspect no one will be satisfied with the outcome.
They are officially announcing to all listening banks that customers deposits are theirs to gamble with as they please. Why do banks get to play with those deposits, as if they were just free leverage from unwilling captive participants?

How can small banks compete against big banks that can allow themselves to act this way?
They can't. If you're big you get to risk it all. If you're small nobody will come to you as they know they won't be insured by a spooked Fed stopping "contagion".

There's no legitimate reason to keep banks priviledge as a government supported oligopoly of investment institutions allowed to play with other people's money. If you admit the government is actually backstopping those deposits, there is absolutely zero reasons why banks get to gamble it in the first place. They are getting to eat the cake and have it too. This has to stop.

If I gambled away all your money you'd never give me more again. If the bank gambled away all your money and the government came and made you whole, you'd look to become a banker too so you get to gamble away money that isn't yours.
The reality is, $250k is a very low limit, even for a small business. Do we want to make it so every business has to do due diligence on its checking account provider? More importantly, do we want to start a bank run on every mid-sized bank in the country? Because if the depositors to SVB don't get 100% of their money back, every competent CFO in the country, in every industry, is going to take their business from the regional or local bank they've been with for years and switch to JP Morgan or another Too Big To Fail bank. There will be cascading bank runs everywhere.

To be clear, SVB's investors should be zeroed out. They made a bad investment and should lose it all. But depositors must be made whole or the economy will be rocked. And going forward we'll either need to raise the $250k limit or create a second line of FDIC insurance for business accounts.
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That bizzaro world of deposits bearing risk is the one we’ve all been knowingly living in for the entire history of banking.

The FDIC is a modern intervention that protects most personal and small business accounts from needing to consider that risk.

Clearly, some people who grew up in the shadow of that insurance protection failed to learn about this “bizarro” world that they lived in and made uninformed choices when they suddenly came into money.

But the world never changed, just the naiveté of the people making deposits.
I wonder how fun it would be to work at a meat packing plant.
Listen to Oxide's podcast "Oxide & Friends", it's awesome if you're in this space of datacenters, servers, networking etc.

Last episode was about doing their own networking, and it's not some whitelabel $hit, they go to the firmware level and are trying to open up stuff like a server's BMC. (jesus christ those things are horrendous.)

[1]: https://www.techopedia.com/definition/15941/baseboard-manage...
adding ram to a motherboard is not possible without upgrading it, costing far more.
> By the same token, do you have scientific evidence that they’re helped by not having a blue screen?

Yes, it is clear that the person I'm replying to has more experience in this field; I'm just a "simple consumer" of movies. However, having experience can sometimes blind you from inconvenient facts. I think the burden is on the industry to prove that new technologies have no negative effect on the end product.
I'm from the midwest and the large groups like IBP are some of the worst labor abusers we have in the US. For the longest time they depended on both the labor of illegal aliens and the mentally handicapped[1]. To expound on this, something I didn't realize as a kid living up there, is large amounts of the disabled where shipped to Iowa from other states like Texas. These disabled people would then be exploited for pay around a dollar a day at meat packing plants.

At least in the midwest two major things are pushing for more exploitive childhood labor...

First, much better treatment of the handicapped and access to abortions where defects are detectable in the womb.

and Secondly, the entire Trump administrations 'build a bigger wall' had dramatically dropped border crossings at least up until the year 2019.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/09/us/the-boys-i...
You can have this today!

The folks at the airport bars sell a wonderful concoction called a "Long Island Iced Tea"

Don't let the name fool you; if you drink one 30 minutes before departure (and make it to the plane), you'll open your eyes just as the plane touches down :)
IBM, DEC, Sun, HP and others already had commercial Unix offerings with support that corporate users wanted for servers. Why unite behind Linux, which at the time was inferior to all those others?
Well, the one person who tried to “peacefully” climb over several barriers, bust a window, and enter any sort of chambers (while screaming and threatening violence) was shot due to the threat of the other several hundred “peaceful protestors” that day. I guess you and I have read different accounts of what went down.
I would be hugely surprised if there are any conditions that can cause obesity without eating excess calories unless the people concerned have learnt to create excess calories by photosynthesis or something.
I'm not denying that the media may be talking about crime more, but, at least in my city, crime rates are actually up. In fact, 2021 and 2022 are higher than they've been in 15 years.

Saying people are not outraged about crime, but are outraged about outrage of crime is a little silly. The other side of that coin would just be that people hear more about it and are more informed. So attributing outrage to a media coverage conspiracy is not really meaningful (not to mention difficult to prove) because people are allowed to be outraged at what they want. One could even say the news covers what people are interested in, which is a classic chicken vs. the egg case in this context.

The actual data is more important, and for many cities, it is trending up recently.
>We do not have anything near enough information to claim that it was "totally justified", and it may in fact turn out that it was entirely unjustified and created a rapidly self-fulling prophecy.

Are you suggesting that SVB's assets at present market value might actually be worth more than their liabilities and/or that we don't know for certain? My impression is that the fact that they were insolvent was well known. See for instance matt levine's writeup:

>Basically SVB ended up with a large portfolio of held-to-maturity bonds with an average duration of 6.2 years at the end of 2022, “and unrealised losses snowballed, from nothing in June 2021, to $16 billion by September 2022.” These losses “completely subsumed the $11.8 billion of tangible common equity that supported the bank’s balance sheet,” meaning that SVB was technically insolvent

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-10/startu...
I find this project interesting

But doesn't it look like too monolithic? That will have problems with maintenance and scaling? And features that overlap with many already existing cli tools?
We need to be rich so we can continue to pretend we're not working class; let us into the club to use your money to bail us all out to prove our point for us!

No thanks.
I think you will find the downvotes aren't envy, but incredulity that you think $600k is anything but wealthy.

https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-household-income-percen...

What is considered a middle class income?

In 2022, middle class encompasses household income from $35,090.50 to $140,362.00. This measure of middle class uses the range from half of median household income to twice the median household income.
Nah bro, he's saying you should be comfortable sending your kids to work at the sewage treatment plant picking trash out of giant piles of shit. But don't worry, there will be proper oversight and safety in place. It's mush safer to put a small child inside a machine, as they fit much easier. Safety first!
You can look up call reports to see how much exposure they have to long-dated treasuries. Most major credit unions have almost nothing, and they also don’t have nearly the amount of depositors above $250k so they’re not really vulnerable to bank runs
" There is a bipartisan consensus that the safety of the rail system is less important than rail company profits."

Any of us can buy railroad stocks and become - in your mind - wealthy. Perhaps the more important value being protected was, if the railroads stop working, many of us stop eating. Same reason we subsidized food production, fuel, etc. Our societies have grown too much to be able to go back to life without them, without huge numbers of deaths as we adjust.
You mean the business that is now out of business and needs many billions in bailout cash. THAT business?
Would very much like to know about the alternatives, please.
"Walking and exercise make a HUGE difference in average weight. "

Interesting. I like to walk generally, but in the last year, with a fresh Garmin watch prodding me into more steps, I increased my walking by at least 50 per cent. I actually made some 5 million steps last year, at least 7 km every day, in every weather.

My weight fluctuated a bit, but basically didn't change. I am not fat, but I have some amount of belly fat I don't like.

What really changed and improved was my immune system. I am not totally immune to everything, but I tolerate a lot more environmental distress (cold, hot, sweating, getting soaked by rain etc.) before encountering first symptoms of having a cold.
I wrote two books in the last couple years. Are they great? No. But I figured that it would take a dozen books to start to be recognized as an “overnight success”.

I’ve made a decent amount of money from self-publishing so it isn’t all for naught. While I don’t need the money, it helps validate that my writing is helping somebody out there. Or that my ads are targeting the right people although I don’t have a mass audience.

There are so many under appreciated books out there that fall into the same sea of irrelevance as my books. But there will be a time in my life where one of those books will ride a trendy wave so long as I keep writing a book each year.
I like the ligature support in Kitty.

Alacritty—I used it for a while but I didn’t really notice a performance advantage. I’m not sure what people are doing where terminal throughput really matters, and when Dan Luu did latency tests (admittedly, this was a while ago), Alacritty was middle of the pack.
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