skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Misplaced ire? Maybe not well communicated in a brief spell between shopping for stuff on a Saturday.

Also, everytime someone invests a lot in explaining themselves in HN, if it goes against the current thread narrative, it'll still be ignored so it's not like it's particularly worth it. HN feels more Reddit and less Slashdot of old.

Still a nice aggregator to find stuff that might peak interest.
Not just lead! Cadmium (yellow) and arsenic (green) feature prominently too
On Blogging in 2023
Despite the provocative title this seems well-intentioned. The scientific accuracy needs to be top-priority, these particular elements of the projections should be assessed and reevaluated if necessary.
if you map every single neuron, at what point is it no longer just a 'model' of reality, and is reality. How do we know that the computer model of neurons does not have the same internal awareness as the real neurons?
Michigan Terminal System
It's not scrolljacking - as I understand the term. It's a very tall body (50,000px) with a sticky full-viewport canvas element which must be animating (mainly Three.js) in line with the the progression of an intersectionObserver attached to the container/body as the user scrolls. This is an example of 'scrollytelling'? A word I learned about a few weeks back and is currently my #1 favourite ugliest neologism in the English language.

It's a clever and intriguing site - which I would expect from someone who works as a graphics editor for the NYT. And yet ... it also disappoints. Disable Javascript and reload the page and nothing happens. Attempt to tab through the site - even to the text and image links - and ... nothing happens. I understand the difficulties around making sites like this (more) accessible but major news outlets like the NYT (and, indeed, the company I work for) should be making much more of an effort on this.

Some of my personal investigations on making canvas things more accessible:

- Scrollytelling demo (very basic) https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/modules-006.html

- Before/after picture slider infographic https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/snippets-005.html
From the paper: "The purpose of writing is to convey ideas to the reader. The purpose of formatting is to make the document easier to read, not to look pretty."

I find that thesis a bit reductive. For technical writing, I can agree - the purpose is to convey ideas. But, there is a whole other class of writing that isn't intended to convey ideas, but _emotion_.

Also from the paper: "The purpose of document design is to display the logical structure of the document through its formatting, thereby making it easier to read."

Again, there's a whole other class of documents whose formatting takes precedence over the logical information, intended to evoke emotion.

Not to take away from Lamport, who is seriously brilliant, but there appears to be a blind spot here.
You serious? Something tells me you wouldn't be so cavalier about losing 15% of your personal liquid assets.
Put the salt in tanker ships and dump it out at sea across a wide area. Cargo ships are massive, and desal plants would likely be in bays (i.e., not on "wild coasts") where there are ample loading docks in nearby harbors.

Again, seems like a solvable problem with minimal incremental infrastructure (particularly given the overall cost of desalination plants with adequate urban capacity).
That’s not how it works. Think of this as what happens when you drop a couple of cubes of ice in a tub? The temperature of the tub doesn’t go down for sure like you said, but the water around the ice cubes will be very cold. That’s what happens when you release highly concentrated water in the sea, the marine life is decimated but overall the salinity of oceans doesn’t change.

Now you could argue you could dilute the release water, but then why desalinate?
Makes sense. Y Combinator is a startup incubator who created HN, HN was originally called Startup News and there is probably no other bank so closely associated to startups as Silicon Valley Bank. HN is basically "Silicon Valley News".
Hate the headline as it downplays the terror and brutality that cartels inflict on the people of Mexico. Nobody is holding a gun to a football player head and forcing them to play for Harvard.

Is there price fixing going on? Probably. But I don’t have very much sympathy for student athletes who had to pay full price to go to an Ivy league school… I’m sure they had more opportunities in life than the cartels give they people the rule over.
I like how this shows us why Professor Farnsworth says robot the way he does.
> If they applied a perfect digital gaussian-blur, then that is reversible

Actually any noise distribution is frequently reversible if you know the parameters and number of steps. This is in fact how diffusion models work (there's even work of Normalizing Flows removing realistic camera noise). It is just almost impossible to figure this out since there are many equivalent looking ways. But we need to be clear that there is a difference between reversibility and invertibility. A invertible process is bijective, or perfectly recreates the original setting. A reversible process can just work in both directions and isn't guaranteed to be invertible. (Invertible means reversible but reversible doesn't mean invertible)[0]

I bring this up because even more complicated versions of bluring could be argued as not "faked" but rather "enhanced." A better way to test Samsung faking the data is to mask out regions. If the phone fills in the gaps then it is definitely generating new data. This can still be fine if the regions are small, unless we also want to call bilinear interpolation "faked" but I don't think most people would. This is why it gets quite difficult to actually prove Samsung is faking the image. I don't have a Samsung phone to test this though.

So basically I'm with you, and even a slightly stronger version of this

> It is not totally inconceivable that the AI model could have learned to do this deconvolution with the Gaussian blur function, in order to recover more detail from the image.

Edit: After reading other comments I wanted to bring some things up.

- The down scaling is reversible, but not invertible. We can upscale, reversing the process. But yes, there is information lost. But some data can still be approximated and/or inferred.

- The clipping experiment isn't that good. Honestly, looking at the two my brain fills in the pieces and they look reasonable to me too. Clipping the brightness isn't enough, especially since it is a small portion of the actual distribution. I did this on both the full image and small image and both are difficult to distinguish by eye from the non-clipped. Clipping below 200 seems to better wash out the bottom of the moon and remove that detail. 180 seems better though tbh.
> the least you could do for yourself is to move to product manage projects in that sphere, even without a PhD in the area.

exactly my intention :) I am learning as much as I can in the area, and trying to display that learning publicly, to help me get a role in the industry

PM/Product roles in the industry are extremely uncommon though. Overwhelmingly these places are only hiring engineers and researchers, and I understand why.
these banks are connected to each other, secure yourself in physical assets until shitstorm is over, oh wait :)
read up on threat models, and how they apply to online security. Basically, what threat are you defending against, and what can they do to you? Are you protecting against your neighbor who's of normal skill but is just a bit nosy? Do you live next door to the hateful version of the lock picking lawyer that has a vendetta against you? Are you torrenting Disney movies? Are you Edward Snowden and the CIA's trying to find you in the continental US? Or are you in Hong Kong already, or are they already camped across the street? Is Mossad after you for some reason?

All those are different threats, of different sophistication, with different ways and things to protect yourself against. If your average neighbor's just a bit nosy, encrypting your WiFi with a strong password with wpa2 or 3 is sufficiently. If they're a motivated attacker with an advanced skill set, then either 802.11X, or go wired-only for using the Internet. If you're torrenting movies in contravention of copyright laws, use a VPN. Any one, really. If, however, you're trying to defend against the CIA, You can't trust any VPN to protect you, you can't even really trust Tor to protect you. And if you're trying to protect against Mossad, you're already dead.

Take that modeling and apply it to your concerns. What is the worst Google is going to do to you with everything they have on you aka your search history? Take steps to prevent that. Incognito mode, using a VPN, different browser, clean cookies; go to whatever lengths you deem necessary to protect yourself against the threat they pose to you, and if you could wind up behind bars if you Google for "how to get away with murder" and then kill your spouse. (I mean, don't kill your spouse unless they're trying to kill you, but it's a true story.)
Note that different modes of the same scale are only enharmonic in the standard piano tuning (equal temperament). Under different tunings [1], the exact frequencies of the notes in e.g. the A minor scale and the C major scale do not necessarily match up. These different tunings are the reason why certain keys are ascribed a certain character (e.g. the E♭ scale was considered morose whereas the same scale in A was considered uplifting).

Then there's the octatonic scale, the double harmonic scale and quarter-tone intervals present in e.g. arabic music [2], or even more exotic scales [3]. So whatever "deeper logic" you're after, there will always be scales that do not match your preferred system. Be careful you're not straying into numerology, trying to find a deeper "truth" beyond what sounds agreeable to the ears of the listeners.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_tuning#Systems_for_the...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_tone_scale

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17_equal_temperament
I mean, you're right that there's a good case that they should have known if they'd done things more thoroughly, but the fact that they simply did fold tells me they probably didn't actually know (even if they really should have!) because otherwise, why embarrass yourself in court like that?
That idea might actually work. If a startup is a build-measure-learn loop, then coming up with ballpark viable ideas, devising experiments to test them and optimising for traction/profit should be a cinch for AGI. So just train it to build a business for itself.
I assume nothing of the sort. Their
profile identifies them as a resident of the US, so I called 'em a Yankee. That they're spreading Republican FUD doesn't make them Republican. Anybody can repeat Fox "News" talking points. Hell, I'm sure I have at some time or another. Doesn't mean they necessarily agree with every single thing that comes out of Fibbin' Tucker's lying mouth.
Not that it matters much, but under your interpretation, the better wording would be "ingesting". And interestingly, that word doesn't have the same problem as "consuming", which is that content peddlers devalue the reader by implying they are consuming their merchandise.
"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes." [1]

If any of you young folks haven't watched Ghost in the Shell, just close this tab and do that.

[1] https://ghostintheshell.fandom.com/wiki/Laughing_Man
> "Bank failures" are routine

At different points of time, yeah. But not recently. Last "bank failure" in the US before SVB seems to have been October 23, 2020. Not sure you can call something that hasn't happened for the last ~2.5 years is "routine".
There are numerous PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) frameworks available such as PARA method, and resources like books, courses, and Obsidian vault kits. However, in my opinion, it is better to create your own framework. You can start by organizing your thoughts, projects, daily notes, and tasks. If you notice a recurring pattern in your notes, you can create templates. Utilizing Graph view and Dataview plugin can help you identify the emerging structure, allowing you to make incremental improvements until you are satisfied.

Unlike SaaS tools and even VSCode, Obsidian has exceptional speed, and using hotkeys/shortcuts is crucial. To learn more about using shortcuts, I completed the Obsidian Flight School course[1].

--

1. https://www.linkingyourthinking.com/obsidian-flight-school
> That nuclear is expensive is also nonsense.

This is nonsense. It is cheap to generate electricity from fission, i.e. it is cheap to operate a nuclear power plant, that much is true, but it is such an isolated statement that it is meaningless. Nuclear power is cost prohibitive because of the total cost, of constructing a nuclear power plant, the cost of uranium, the cost of security, the cost of storing waste for hundreds of years and securing that waste for hundreds of years (btw, we have been storing the waste from reactors on site, and every temporary waste storage site has been at capacity for decades... you have no idea how bad the nuclear waste problem is, because if you did, you'd not be begging for more of it). And if there is an accident, which is rare but it has happened hundreds of times, the real cost of that electricity goes right through the sky.

Who builds nuclear power plants? France. Not some French company backed by investors, France. South Korea. Not some South Korean company, the country of South Korea. China. Not some Chinese company, but the country. No one can afford to build nuclear power plants except for nations. That should mean something to you. The reason is because there are no investors anywhere in the world that would sink their capital into nuclear power because it always loses mountains of money. Always. Nuclear has not ever been profitable and never will be until electricity is in such high demand that scarcity makes prices skyrocket. But it still won't ever happen because alternative energies are so far ahead in such a short time and for practically nothing compared to the amount of time spent in development of and the absurd amounts spent on development of nuclear spanning half a century. And alternative energies will continue to be developed while the technological development of nuclear power ceased decades ago.

Economics kills nuclear, and that is the bottom line. If nuclear power was profitable, you could not stop plants from being built, not even by a damn vote. They'd be everywhere. But nuclear hasn't even ever come close to breaking even. And the only reason we have the 93 or so nuclear power plants that we do in the US (I think 110 were built) was because some Defense wonk vastly overestimated the amount of fuel for bombs that we needed. Fact: if it weren't for nuclear weapons, not even 10 of those US nuclear power plants would have broken ground. Why? Money, and that is all that matters. If supplying everyone with electricity isn't profitable then we will not have electricity. Period. Please learn this, and set aside your entitlement.
Also it's not "bailing out" in this case. SVB has a liquidity problem. What they need is a couple billion short term debt (which they just about got before things blew up) to support cash outflows while they unwind their bond positions.

This is not the same as tax payer money going straight into the pockets of creditors ala FDIC insurance.
The needs of a single teenager or young adult are different than those of a middle aged adult with a house to maintain and dependents.

If a teenager has a job, are they paying rent to their parents and paying for meals at the family table?

This is already subsidized - job or no. The average teenager's job supports the things they want beyond that basic level of support that parents are expected to provide.

This really boils down to the set of questions:

1. What value can a company realize with an unskilled worker?

2. What are the financial needs of an unskilled worker without dependents?

3. What are the financial needs of an unskilled worker that needs to support a household?

2 & 3 are likely not the same. And 1 will more closely match 2 than 3... and a lot of the arguments about a living wage are about case 3.
Or 12 hour time when everyone else is on 24

Or Imperial measurement when everyone else is on metric

Or middle endian date when...
> the sun doesn't shine at all for at least half of the year

Hyperbole much? The polar night is a lot further north.
Star Trek's nonsense economy and nonsense technobabble are both symptoms of its small-c conservative roots as screen entertainment. For a series they want to introduce a gimmick one time (all you need for time travel is a special starship maneuver!) and then have everyone forget about it until the next time they wanted a time travel plot. But the real world isn't like that. You can't introduce the atomic bomb as a one-time gimmick to end World War II without it influencing the nature of war and diplomacy for all generations to come.

If you add up all the technologies demonstrated in the original Star Trek and The Next Generation, and let them play out in the imagination, you end up with something baffling, dazzling, and unrelatable to any sort of 20th century society. The problem with letting fictional technologies play out to their logical limits is that it limits the audience. The sort of people who read Greg Egan and Hannu Rajaniemi might eat it up, but those eleven people [1] aren't enough to sustain a successful media franchise. So they just introduce one bit of technological set dressing after another, not caring how it should or would influence the other bits that are already there, or the economy, or society. Because they want to maintain a sort of stasis where they are telling stories about the present with pseudo-futuristic decor.

I have said before that David Fincher's The Social Network, had it been released in 1950 instead of 2010, would have been the most prophetic science fiction movie of all time. And yet it probably would have bombed as a science fiction movie back then because it was culturally alien to 1950 and it wouldn't have slotted into the "adventure with creatures and/or gadgets" template that was popular at the time. (Well, it kind of is a story about adventures with gadgets, but it's no Destination Moon.)

[1] I am one of the eleven.
Or, you know, Samsung sells ad placements in the enhanced images to do things like turn a can of Coke into a can of Pepsi, overwrite billboards in the background, etc.
Sounds like you should get up to date on US terms then, since they’re what matter.
It doesn’t seem right to declare the water not captured as waste. How can you know that the excess water from extreme weather events doesn’t benefit the ecosystem in some way? Lots of ecosystems depend on infrequent extreme events, at least of the National Geographic shows are correct.
That's funny, I see GDPR popups as serving two functions: a daily reminder that Europe has better privacy protections than I do, and website project managers would rather plague the world with unnecesary bullshit than just stop serving unnecessary cookies.
Seems like we have a systemic crisis every 5-7 years
Just because the term is used to describe groups of organizations participating in price fixing activity doesn't mean all groups performing price fixing are equal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartel
Whenever Gene Roddenberry brought it up someone would nod politely, lead him into an empty dressing room with a copy of Penthouse and a bottle of whiskey, and lock him in until the script was done.

It's a shame no one could do the same with Rick Berman whenever they wanted gay representation onscreen.
That shows money, which is interesting.

I'd also like to see "Years of Banking Institutions Lost"... SVB is supposedly 40 years old... how old were banks that had failed in the past? That'd be an interesting other way to tally/view the magnitude of what happens, a kind of indicator of volatility.

My thought is... if a whole bunch of banks open then shut down 3 years latter, it doesn't seem as notable as a bunch of more established banks going under.
This is interesting. The page you linked mentions that objects can be created using operator new, but I was not aware that C has such thing. Further down polymorphic objects are introduced, and I am fairly sure C does not have those. My favorite detail is mention of "implicitly defined copy/move special member functions", but it is never explained what member functions are. Almost as if you were using a definition that is missing something to prove some kind of point.

By the way, the document you linked to is not the standard. The published standards are not freely available, but here is the relevant part of current draft: https://eel.is/c++draft/intro.object
“This is normal” just like in 2008.
A more charitable interpretation of what the OP is saying: the execs may not have anticipated how fast the shit would hit the fan. I doubt they believed there would be a run on the bank this month, not even the short sellers were predicting that. They did know they were in trouble, but I think everyone, even those being against SVB, was surprised by the speed and ferocity with which this played out.
> These are some of the brightest people on the planet, yet I've only heard good things about OpenAI leadership

This is a deeply ahistorical take. Lots of technically bright people have been party to all sorts of terrible things.

Don't say that he's hypocritical
Rather say that he's apolitical
"Vunce ze rockets are up, who cares vere zey come down
"Zats not mein department!" says Werner von Braun
As funny as if you have a "ATM Locator" application that redirects you to the bank mobile application. What if I actually want cash in hand?
With 3,016 neurons and 548,000 connections, called synapses, the result is by far the most complex map of a whole brain ever made.

It's an impressive achievement but I'm not sure I'd call that a whole brain. It's a larval proto-brain with less than 4% the neurons of an adult fly.
Based on the wiki for WaMu, the numbers are not inflation adjusted. According to the BLS CPI calculator, $1.00 in October 2022 has the buying power of $0.73 in September 2008, when WaMu failed. 20.9b is closer to 15.3b in 2008 dollars. Based on the graphic in the post, it's still the second largest, yet half as large as the largest.

As a disclaimer, I'm not an expert and am unaware what flaws my analysis may have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Mutual

https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
Reality is the past actuals.

- Atmospheric CO2, 1960-now.[1]

- Ocean temperature, 1880-now. [2]

- Annual arctic sea ice minimum area, 1978-now. [3]

[1] https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

[2] https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/

[3] https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5036
Searches from app launchers are pretty limited too. Contact was just an example
Have you used Android a decade ago?
The search app was pretty comprehensive, it allowed you to include all Content Providers on the phone and search them.
For example, circa 2010, I wrote a Sign language app that included a Content Providers, if you typed a word in the search app, results from my app would be returned (along other content).
And I wasn't talking only about the Google app, all search app only display Web results, there's no app anymore to search the entire devicen: files, contact, messages, dictionnaries, music or whatever
I could perceive something like in 1 or less.

M3 Macbook with eGPU functionality restored in conjunction with more efficient programming would mean having enough memory available to all the processors. This would definitely count as consumer hardware.

Custom built GPU-like devices with tons of RAM could become vogue. Kind of like the Nvidia A100 but even more purpose built for running LLMs or whatever models come next.
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What an amusingly old-fashioned perspective!