skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Since they are trained on information, the sequences chosen often seem informational, even though they are just patterns.

The point is is that dismissing it because it's "just patterns" ignores the fact that nobody has proven that human cognition isn't also "just patterns". If it is, then that undermines the whole justification for the dismissal. So the dismissal assumes the conclusion until that evidence is presented.
> It's called money

I’m sorry but you’re going to need to be more specific. The U.S. isn’t the only country that uses money.

You say capitalism allows for the concentration of power. You’ll need to explain how other systems of government get around concentrating power in a game theory stable way.

Your argument, as written, boils down to “If people didn’t have money they couldn’t use money to bribe politicians and therefore politicians would be free from influence.” And you use that to lay the blame at capitalism’s feet. This is likely not what you think - but it’s how I’ve read what you wrote.

> who drive by downvote without a rebuttal

We don’t comment on downvotes here. That’ll get you more downvotes.

> How I enjoy the salty tears of people

This isn’t Reddit. We don’t communicate this way here.
Another job for the en-dash: association

E.g. in names, "Initech – Infinite Tech Company"

(We may even argue that ranges or dates are a special case of this, as we associate two or more particles in order to form a broader concept.)
People want something for free when the service offered does not have enough value for them to pay for it. The whole economy of startups is somewhat delusional and in a sense bubble (if you ignore advertising). Having success for giving away something for free is not a measure of economically viable success. If you add up what many startups request in monthly fees, almost no one will be willing to pay that sum.

Many people also couldn't possibly pay if they wanted. Most people don't even have the discretionary salary to pay for a few non-essential services per month, let alone dozens or hundreds.
Ironically on a punctuation blog, it looks like he has a punctuation typo in his title. In the headline, the semi-colon after "hyphen" should actually be a colon. So the corrected headline is "En dash, em dash and hyphen: what’s the difference?"

A colon is used in this context, when you're introducing the question that follows.
I bet it added a serial port (under Ports) that software can use to read the wattage.
I'm a big fan of non-dairy, and have tried all the flavors of Brave Robot. Unfortunately, I think the non-animal whey protein is primarily a marketing feature rather than a substantial ingredient currently. It's 7th on the ingredient list:

WATER, SUGAR, COCONUT OIL, CORN SYRUP, SUNFLOWER OIL, PECANS, NON-ANIMAL WHEY PROTEIN, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% MALTODEXTRIN, ...

https://braverobot.co/products/buttery-pecan
"Visible to the naked eye" is increasingly a fuzzy statement ranging from magnitude 4.0 to 6.0+[0]: Light pollution means that in the environments where most of humanity lives we can see fewer and fewer stars. Nowadays if you see a "star" and it is not visibly moving or blinking, its probably a planet (and those come with very different "demographics" :-)

[0] https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-resources/astronomy-qu...
I've found explaining this to people when I have had some brave robot to be a hard point to hit home for some reason. I'm not sure why.
I am not sure why you are so bitter but it’s important do understand that all you do is create more hate with comments like this. The only thing anyone is asking for is to protect the deposits of the people who bank(ed) with SVB. That is it.
> Well... aren't these mainly venture capital based startups? It's not actually the money of the startups but rather the money of the VC funds.

No. They literally sold pieces of their businesses for that money.

The equivalent for students would be if instead of borrowing the money, they signed over a percentage of all future earnings for the rest of their lives.
Same with my stack of 2600 Magazines from the late 90s. I'm never going to read them, nobody I know is interested in them, but I'm never going to throw them away.
This is how I read them.

My mental model is that an em-dash is a parentheses that author was too excited to slow down and make vertical.
Villeneuve (Dune director) is amazed at the performances Cameron gets out of his actors with a green screen.
One thing he does is "sense memories": he took the cast hiking in maui, to concentrate on and memorize the smells and textures of the jungle - to re-experience when shooting.

James Cameron & Denis Villeneuve on 'Avatar', 'Dune', and Pioneering CGI | Directors on Directors
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RgZQK7cfx_0?t=14m30s
This is a fact-free reply, but I am old enough to remember when skim milk was considered fake, bogus, only for groups of people you don’t like, etc. (It also caused a huge dairy byproduct surplus and then cheese had to be included in everything to make the dairy lobby happy.) I recall trying it and hating it just for the texture and taste. But skim and 1% hold up well to ultrapasturizing and those qualities got better in future rounds.

Fast forward some decades and now I find myself using oat or some nut milk in cereal and liking it. I try to lean vegan when I can to avoid inflammatory side affects. The funny thing is that now if I do indulge in dairy milk I go for whole again as if I was 11 years old.
Basically what people are saying is that these "CFO"s have/had a skill issue
I’ve found a great variation in oat milk quality. For the time being I’m an Oatly loyalist but the price is a notable premium over regular milk.
SVB probably has enough assets to make most depositors largely whole, but it'll take time. Shareholders are going to wear a total loss. Which sucks for them but this is part of share market game.

I suspect cooler heads will not prevail. And there will be much silliness Monday morning.
The Imperial Eggs – The World of Fabergé
If you're making 6 million a year then rent--even in SF--should be manageable.
I used to joke about how I was going to make my own shitcoin that was literally just that you could paypal me $10 and I'd add your name to a publicly viewable Google Sheet with your "coin" being that you'd own the row number.

I did not realize that was actually how this operated.
This is something you can get from CD too minus the large form artwork. Although you could probably put CDs in a big sleeve too.
Cheese has some extremely complex behaviors: melts, stretches, browns, etc.. I've tried every vegan cheese I can get my hands on. Lots of progress being made, but nothing that has nailed all the characteristics. Looking forward to more progress.
“Let me be clear that during the financial crisis, there were investors and owners of systemic large banks that were bailed out . . . and the reforms that have been put in place means we are not going to do that again,” Yellen said.
>universal problem in high paying tech

It's by no means universal. A lot of tech is out in suburban office parks, some of which admittedly has its own traffic problems, e.g. Silicon Valley and suburban Washington DC.
I like it, let capitalism work as intended by culling out the weak. They should have done the same with GM and Chrysler instead of bailing them out, we'd have a faster transition to electric today.
That's the thing. If you ask it a well known fact or solution to a common problem that could otherwise be found from top results in Google search, then and only then it might return a reliable answer.

Which begs the question- WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK IT'S THE GOOGLE KILLER?!

At it's current capacity, once the hype dies down, it's neither going to kill Google nor take my job.
Will that not cost anyone anything? If so then sure, let's do it!

If it costs more than a dime, though, let's not.
As stated in another replay whiptail uses the newt widget library which itself is based upon the s-lang library. The s-lang library gets the capabilities of the terminal by querying the terminfo database using the terminal name. This is the same way ncurses or most terminal based libraries work. The terminfo database does contain info regarding whether a specific terminal supports color but doesn't contain info regarding whether there is an escape sequence for that particular terminal to determine if color is turned on. Instead separate terminfo entries for color vs mono are in the database.

Setting TERM to xterm when you are using xterm-mono is the error here. It fails just as setting your TERM to xterm when connected to a ADM-3A would cause things to fail.
Did they help depositors that lost money in the last 500+ bank collapses? Why do they get special treatment? The government has laws and rules the depositors are insured up to 250k. Either they liquidate and everyone takes a hair cut. Or they wait till the bonds mature and can pay them out. But the government should not relieve anyone past what is legally available.
Half of what's on the shelf is already called frozen dairy dessert and not ice cream. Drop the word dairy and it's not that much different to the consumer.
> The argument with the learning disabled student is a disgrace. It's almost as if they cannot imagine that the human brain has innate properties beyond "weight adaptation".

They can, it's just that Chomsky's dismissal of "weight adaptations" as insufficient is not actually justified by any evidence. The Transformer model augmented with memory is Turing complete, so it can in principle learn to compute anything using only weight adaptations.
James Cameron and Denis Villeneuve on 'Avatar', 'Dune', and Pioneering CGI
Most businesses don't have moats other than execution/logistics/etc. That works out fine for them.
There can be a shockwave along the surface, I suppose, for example.
You are suggesting that capitalism creates wealth and wealth can be used to bribe political leaders correct? What am I missing?
> In the meantime, RISC chips happened, and some of them are running at over 100 MIPS. Speeds of 200 MIPS and more are likely in the coming years. These things are not going to suddenly vanish. What is going to happen is that they will gradually take over from the 80x86 line. They will run old MS-DOS programs by interpreting the 80386 in software.

I guess you can say that finally came true with Apple’s M1/M2 chips + Rosetta 2. Just took longer than expected.
It's about 1% higher than most solid/large high-yield online banks right now (Capital One 360 at 3.4%, Discover Savings is at 3.5%, Ally Bank is at 3.6%).

So I wouldn't say that you could get 4.5% from a reputable bank at the moment.
I'm not so confident either, especially when you consider than whatever input the NN gets is probably downscaled to hell from however many gigapixels the sensor has, otherwise good luck running it on a phone with 8GB of ram.
Oh dang the hair spaces look perfect.
a bailout, would mean the bank and its shareholders would survive. Making depositors whole is about not having people lose faith in the banking industry.
Not exactly sure how streamlined your security process is, but for some orgs it is a red tape roller coaster to even get one TCP port open.

Anyways, you could also block all traffic to ngrok servers just to ensure your Dev teams aren't skirting around your firewall.
Hum, a hyphen is still an entity of its own (it may be even a short, slanted dash in some fonts), then there's the en-dash for association (e.g. "ZDF – Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen"), and there's the "Gedankenstrich", which performs more like a separator. Three typographical entities to express three different concepts. (But there's a tendency of mixing the en-dash with spaces and the "Gedankenstrich", as the latter also comes with surrounding spaces, which may appear overly exaggerated in some fonts.)
I don't like the way the fear button is pushed ('jobs at risk') because start-ups should not be so dependent on a single bank, especially not start-ups funded by wealthy backers such as YC. It also would be good to know how much of YCs own funds are in SVB deposits to see whether or not they are arguing for 'others' when in fact they are arguing for themselves.

In Europe a bank account does not have an unlimited guarantee and it is up to you as the depositor to make yourself aware of this and to ensure that you have your funds stored in such a way that a single bank going out of business isn't going to kill you. I have my funds spread out over multiple such accounts 'just in case'. I've always done this since well before the financial crash. The problem for very large depositors is that they will have more money than it makes sense to spread around, the guarantee here is for up to 100K euros so if you have a million to deposit then that would mean 10 bank accounts. This isn't really workable for really large amounts.

All that said: banks falling over is bad for society. The FED making SVB depositors whole puts the burden on all of society and this in turn is yet another form of externalization: those people who would never even get near $100k worth of deposits are now expected to pay along to bail out parties that are much wealthier than they are in order to avoid a knock on effect that might be even worse for society.

There is something fundamentally broken here but I can't put my finger on it.
libertarians wouldn't have a federal reserve raising interest rates at such a high pace though.
Is it because the majority of people in American society are struggling financially and have less real money than their parents or grandparents, and are being nickel and dimed as their entire existence is converted to a subscription mechanic, from rent, to Amazon, to Netflix? Is it because they desperately seek out non-monetized content to spend what little free time they have in peace without losing what little money they have left?

Nah...
What about oat cream? Whipped cream for deserts? Cheese?
This keeps getting repeated, but no, they don’t have enough assets to make depositors whole.

A bond that matures in 10 years does not make anyone whole. That’s like saying “I know I owe you money today, but don’t sweat it, I’ll get you the money in 10 years”. These arguments completely ignore the time value of money.
I don't see an exploit. I see a negotiation and a successful agreement of 6 of 9 parties. The analog to this in the real world is 2 pages stuck together, and the signer(s) didn't do their due diligence.

After all, wasn't the saying with shitcoin was that "The code is the contract, and the contract is the code"?

You make your bed, and lie in it.
Op is not bitter but realistic... Deposits are insured up to 250 thousand. Above they do incur risk..
I think that if the whole wide internet was based on subscription service, we'd got a awfully monopolistic situation. People only have a limited amount of money to spend on these things (entertainment, news, etc.) - and they want to get most bang for the buck.

So while ads suck, at least they make smaller (and larger) websites viable. You can seamlessly surf around...if every single website had login, you'd probably stick to a LOT fewer websites.
I think that part of the suspicion of research like this comes from years of complete lies about the dangers of cannabis. The fact that is still classified as a schedule-1 drug even though we know that it's nowhere near as dangerous as it was claimed.

It's also important to note what affect cannabis has on the pharma-industries. It's a "weed" that can help cure a huge variety of serious issues with far less cost, side-effects and risks than prescription drugs. Given the influence of the big-pharm on medical publications and research, I assume some people will be suspicious of any research which says anything bad about something that might affect their bottom line.

I'm not saying these arguments are valid for this article, just explaining another angle why some people might be suspicious.
Some people just want to see the (tech) world and the VC pyramid scheme collapse. This time, Silicon Valley has to help itself with this mess it created.

Some startups like Circle with large backers will survive, but others on the other hand need more than a miracle or a hero.

I would not want to see the chaos underneath in bookface right now and certainly the collapse with in less than 24 hours.
This as a life philosophy would work great too.
There's strategic reasons to have those companies beyond they employ a stack of people. The US sees the big auto makers through they eyes of a country that needed at one point to start manufacturing around 100,000 bombers to fight in a war.

Government sees industry with a different lens to the markets.
I worked in a open office with a sales team whose job it was to make phone calls from their desk all day.

But even for engineers, it was common for them to join meetings with people from other offices from their desk. There was no other place for anyone to go - there weren’t nearly enough conference rooms to support all the people making calls simultaneously.
My guess ( I havn't looked at is the last ones ) is that the majority of deposits were well under 250k, and that hundreds of thousands of jobs weren't on the line.

Also, you are talking about a major banking collapse if people start thinking that their deposits aren't safe. (a lot of people will start pulling money, even if under 250k). There are so many irrational people out there...

edit: I guess somewhere in what I said was confusing, I was referring to past fails where most deposits were likely well under the 250k. NOT SVB where the vast majority were well above that threshold.
This is exactly the statement that's required, given the confusion and irresponsible politicization of deposit insurance.

Shareholders lose 100%, depositors get 100% of their deposits back. It's a simple situation, and the former point (as opposed to the solution during the GFC) counteracts moral hazard.
https://youtu.be/JA_Mfvt1IIk
I am your neighbor and a fellow Central/Eastern European. With all due respect but I don't really view Poland as any sort of democratic, progressive place I would like to live in. If it's socialism or the sort of uber conservative, extremely religious politics and society that make Polish women escape into the UK just so they can escape their controlling parents, (personally experienced this story many times), then I don't really take current sentiments coming from there all that seriously and I'd rather take the first option.

But in reality I am for a mix of both, but 'socialism bad' is just an overly simplistic, propaganda loaded agenda that does nothing to push your society towards a more balanced track than it is on now.
This looks to me to be close to 100% a scam. Avoid at all costs.
The law is clear on the priority of claims. You can get a quick overview at the bottom of this page: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai...

It makes sense that they’ll make depositors whole before even thinking about the rest. From the top of that page:

“ All depositors will have full access to their insured deposits no later than Monday morning, March 13, 2023. The FDIC will pay uninsured depositors an advance dividend within the next week. Uninsured depositors will receive a receivership certificate for the remaining amount of their uninsured funds. As the FDIC sells the assets of Silicon Valley Bank, future dividend payments may be made to uninsured depositors.”
What I would like to see come out of this is the banking system offer risk tiered accounts. No-risk tiers are FDIC insured, but the bank is not allowed to move that money anywhere. Higher tiers offer higher levels of risk, deposits are not guaranteed but receive better internet rates, and the banks are able to “gamble” in whatever way they choose. The current structure is fundamentally broken and no amount of regulation layered on top of that structure will provide the stability and security for customers while driving market innovation.
Nutritionally it’s nowhere close.
> Chomsky, by the way, is also a notorious supporter of "Russia's interests" in its criminal prosecution of its invasion into Ukraine.

Not that this is really relevant to this topic, but that's simply not true. He doesn't support Russia's interests, he's simply acknowledging that when dealing with powerful nations, we have to consider their interests and reach compromises where their interests conflict with ours in order to avoid the horrors of war. You know, diplomacy 101.
Yes? Most famously when IndyMac failed they retroactively raised the insurance limits.

It’s almost certainly not going to come to that in this case as the normal fdic playbook will work but the federal government has a history of taking action when extraordinary bank failures happen.
Sounds like the differentiator here was the company not the resume
Even if these first products are duds, I think this is the inevitable future, and 'artificial' dairy should end up being cheaper, and even better than the 'real' thing; An explosion of variety tuned for nutrition or taste. Lactose-intolerant milk? Higher-protein milk? Mouse milk? Etc.

And then fruit and other juices, and even pulps and flours.

Agriculture is a major cause of environmental destruction and these technologies could reduce it's footprint very dramatically.
Poll: How anxious are you before an interview?
Given the spike in interviewing questions, I'm curious to know: how anxious are you before an interview?

To qualify the choices a bit:

Not at all - I feel confident and not worried about the prospect of failure.

A little - I'm fairly confident. Maybe the good kind of anxious.

Quite - I don't know how well I'll do and I'm worried about failing. I might not sleep that well or wake up very early.

Very - Very anxious, possibly with physical symptoms like nausea.
Actually the model really doesn't make much sense in long run. You are essentially the one starting race to the bottom. And if others join in, you together end up at the bottom. Which I don't think is optimal for anyone participating.
With all due respect to Dean and his fantastic work on the sounding the alarm before the GFC, I think he’s wrong here. The stress test doesn’t really consider sharp changes in Federal Reserve interest rates, it uses one predicted rate for the baseline scenario and a second predicted rate for the adverse scenario. With those rates it calculates the other variables, including bond rates. The highest treasury rate in either scenario in the last three years is like 2.5%, while the current rate right now is almost 4%, so I would argue the interest rate rises considered in the stress test are not quite capturing the pressure SVB was actually under. (There’s room to disagree; the baseline scenario for 2019 does predict 3.6% in 2022, so at least some years might have tested the right amount of stress.)

More fundamentally though, the stress test is testing capital, not liquidity. What actually did in SVB was a bank run during a liquidity crisis. Due to interest rate rises, their liquidity got so bad they had to sell long-term assets at a loss, and when they announced they were raising capital to cover that loss, they triggered a bank run: the ultimate and most cruel test of liquidity there is. The stress test they lobbied their way out of would have indicated poor-but-manageable health, it’s not useless, and they should have been required to do it. But the stress test does not involve simulating a bank run, it would not have predicted this collapse.
Making depositors whole is important and should happen. Confidence in the banking system is important. A company that needs banking should not be subject to the same risk as a shareholder.
Says nothing real. For instance, will the rule for uninsured deposits be followed ? Or will there be a bailout for people with over $250,000 in deposits ?

Seems all it says is "there will be no bailout but there will be a bailout".

If people with over 250,000 in deposits are covered, the once again the the rich is allowed to avoid all risks for bad decisions.