skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't noticed the issue with browsers, probably 'cause I'm one of these one-tab-at-a-time weirdos, but I'm going to want more RAM at the very least until I have as much RAM as storage (so, always) and files are only ever read once per power-on.

Of course files might be compressed on disk and optimally not compressed in memory, and of course I might want to connect to internet services and download data to store in memory that never goes to disk.

So I'll still want more RAM some point past the hypothetical world where I have as many terabytes of RAM as I do storage.

For the last 10 years or more, whenever someone is building a computer and asks for my advice, I look their build over and say "I would double the RAM." If they follow the advice and ask for any more advice on the build, I look it over and say "I would double the RAM."

It's because it is so much faster than disk.
It turns out that you can make everyone unemployed and it won’t fix the supply/labor shortage created by a lack of immigration and supply chain disruptions. The fed is using a hammer to fix a chipped vase because it’s all they know what to do.
> is there any truth to the satire here?

As long as you're satisfied with the answer being shown on a tooltip when you hover over a variable... sure.

Notice how the whole type structure ending up as 4 lines of inconsequential javascript after going through the typescript compiler at the very end.
Why do you think the FDIC insurance limit is $250k instead of $250mm, or infinite?
Another fun trick is their partnership with 1Password to make "masked emails"; all the fun of mailinator but with much less hassle: https://support.1password.com/fastmail/
Yes, it seems that the antisocial defectors are going to win in the short term and may have more power in the long term. Any suggestions onto how to inject some discipline and long-term thinking into this?
Yea, it’s a bit of a ‘convergence of the twain’.

Ideally, I would want my law students to behave differently in an adversarial scenario. To show they can have wildly opposing viewpoints and act professionally. To take down their ideological enemy while maintaining decorum. To actually be morally superior and correctly self-righteous. Should they have had a discussion of that prior to this collision? Probably.
Read the whole thread. The human sacrifice was being criticized. OP did a knee jerk “like all the empires” and got a reply pointing out that many had banned human sacrifice hundreds of years before that.

OP then changed gears to include completely different reasons for death to make it seem like that made human sacrifice no different. Textbook whataboutism.
I think you got it wrong.

Regardless of what these articles may say, the vast majority of medallions are owned by private companies, not independent contractors. Drivers need to be licensed, but medallions are associated to cars, not necessarily people. And this is not a new phenomenon at all [0]

Effectively, Uber and Lyft did more damage to companies than individuals.

Companies that also speculated with the medallion prices by the way, as most were bought and sold privately, not by governments. How do you think they got to cost a million bucks in NYC back in 2013?

[0] https://slate.com/business/2012/06/taxi-medallions-how-new-y...
His foresightful actions are the triggers of the adverse incidents so of course the timing is perfect.
Actually, yes. Absolutely. Maybe with enough punishment these depositors will stop stuffing the accounts of these fat cats full of cash for them to "invest" and lose everything with.

How many global economic meltdowns do we have to go through before people learn that banks are literally the root cause of so many of society's problems? Depositors aren't being punished enough if they're still buying into this system. They keep feeding the beast and complaining when it eats them.
Maybe (hopefully) his username is a clue?
This has to be the stupidest take in the entire comment chain.
What is an LSA? Legal service agreement? I am not sure how it applies.
Precisely:
“At the end of 2022, SIVB only offered 0.60% more on deposits than its peers as compensation for the risks illustrated below; in 2021 this premium was 0.04%.”
Indeed, for that extremely minor part of companies that about noone on HN has ever cared about, except when it becomes practical to use them, it's troublesome. But since there still exists hundreds of billions of dollars ready to be wasted on bullshit endeavours,I have no doubt they will all find jobs soon in the next cloud cat feeder startup.

Your mind immediately equating good old schadenfreude with lazy racism is indeed telling, but I'll refrain from saying anything, Americans have never been excellent at either context or nuance.
Of course we did. This is why otherwise ordinary "Top Gun 2" was so massively successfull: lots of live action and practical effects.

I think we will lose it at all eventually. Today's audience is not making a big difference between movies and computer games, so the current disgrace of Marvel comic movies is just okay for them (old_man_yells_at_cloud.gif)
Don't bother automating Photoshop; other tools will provide very similar output.
Agreed! I thought the same.
I like the pun at the end of the article.
Where is the full video? The only one I've been able to find is this junky re-encoded, reframed trash:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xs3rELqpaEI

I'm curious what Judge Duncan followed up with after such a strange and harsh "introduction".

Duncan may or may not be a terrible person, I'm not familiar enough to have an informed opinion. Setting the politics and moral issues aside for a moment, the way he was scolded at the beginning was disrespectful, especially to an invited guest speaker. It came off like an episode of Jerry Springer rather than a speech in a Stanford lecture hall.
An unbreakable half-space, to be pedantic (though in this case the pedantry makes sense: you don't want your punctuation mark to end up on the next line)
Commuting (I usually bike) and meeting with my teammates in person does wonders to my morale indeed.
I own both a gaming PC running Windows 11 with an Intel i9-12900K and an Apple MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro. I think the writing is on the wall for x86, at least from a general computing sense. I’m absolutely blown away on how well Apple pulled off the transition to M1. My previous Intel based MBP had atrocious battery life and could barely survive an hour video meeting on MS Teams. It might take a while but I can see ARM-based Windows taking off the same way if paired with a killer CPU.
Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?
I sometimes think back fondly of the small automation scripts I wrote over the years, so I wanted to ask you: Which scripts, hacks & automations did you create that your're proud of? Personally, I e.g. built a bot to automatically answer apartment ads [1], a small script to run Borg backup once per day [2], and a small automation to track the temperature in my aquarium [3].

1: https://gist.github.com/adewes/c9b2a71457c6c6f01f2f

2: https://gist.github.com/adewes/02e8a1f662d100a7ed80627801d0a...

3: https://gist.github.com/adewes/7a4c20a5a7379e19d78ba54521d3d...
Yeah, you often don’t know if it’s meant to be an ellipsis or just a typo for a single dot.
It’s not FUD. If the government sends the message that depositors will go down with the ship every bank that isn’t considered too big to fail will see all their uninsured deposits start moving out. Many of them won’t be able to meet their liquidity needs as a result and go into receivership. With every bank that goes into receivership the outflows will only accelerate. People will start to get worried about insured deposits as we hit the limits of what FDIC can cover and insured deposits will start to flow out and into systemically important banks as well, further accelerating the death spiral of all but the biggest banks. This isn’t some made up scenario, start asking people that have underinsured depositors about their money movement plans.
> If you're sad about all of your RAM being eaten, you'll be despondent if you think about about your poor L1 and L2 caches--they're all being 100% used all of the time!

You mean wasted all the time. With all the over-abstraction and layers of indirection that are rampant in modern software, I doubt your CPU caches are used anywhere near as efficiently as they could be.
Do they have to maintain decorum all the time or just when they are on professional duty? In any case, I suspect those students were in perfect control of their feelings and very intentionally seeking to call out and disrupt the speaker.
This seems purely like a hack to get autocomplete to help you out. But it does nothing to the actual type. It’s still just a string, any string.

Not that I mind this at all. Autocomplete is a first class concern for all my typescript work.
No true libertarian.
Thank you for this distinction. In all the talk about the SVB failure it didn't occur to me that this would have been an option if it weren't for the fact the mortgage backed securities were underwater.
Death by a thousand cuts. Let’s take JSON parsing as an example.

In the simple case a value like “foo” requires no copying during parsing - it can be parsed with zero copies. But escaped values like “foo\”bar\”” cause issues. The actual string you want is foo”bar” without the escape slashes. Ok, so for this you need to copy the unescaped string into a scratch buffer somewhere. How big is this buffer? Is the JSON parsing API you’re using flexible enough to let you re-use buffers between calls to avoid extra allocations?

Cool. Now how do you express “this parsed struct field may reference the input bytes or it may reference some scratch space” in a way that’s memory safe? Does your chosen language even support this? What if your internal string representation is platform specific?

Copying uses potentially double the memory but whatever, we are hampered by calling conventions and legacy code and other libraries and opaque unknown callers in different languages and different operating systems and different CPUs. And on top of this mountain of shit you stand and yell “I just want to parse some JSON!”. Screw it. Just always re-allocate and make copies

Now imagine this times by a thousand at every layer of the stack and in every process and every library.
They haven’t lost the money yet. Read and understand before you comment. The banks assets lost 10-20% value not 100%
I think most people have these biases in one form or another. It's mostly a matter of your experiences I've found. Rural dialects especially trip me up. I don't know a lot of them personally, and most of the ones I see on TV are talking about.. rural stuff. Also, I think a lot of rural people who go to universities naturally end up toning down their dialects because they tend to be in the minority. So it's kind of rarer to see an academic with a thick southern accent. It will often be less pronounced. On the other hand Eastern European English accents have the opposite effect because most of the Eastern Europeans I've seen speak at length are chess grandmasters and physicists.

The only thing we can really do is try to notice these biases in ourselves and ignore them as best we can.
Surely we can agree that a protest out on the streets, or inside a lecture hall, differ. And for outdoors, "loud and disruptive" is the norm. There the line is usually drawn at violence.
Yes? Of course they know what the assets are.
This is exactly what CXL is for.

Gonna take quite a while for such raw versions to emerge. Gonna be stupid expensive enterprise drives for years. But really it could be just a chip with some ram controllers & a CXL port.

Alas the fpga market is a lumbering hulking ancient shit show. Lattice put out a solid mid range part but the whole rest of the market is dead, unless you want chips that cost as much as cars for milspec radars or whatnot, then there's great shit. What a hellhole, such a core base for computing, unserved.
What about the tech TikTok men
As a customer of FRB, I know this to be a very sound and well run bank. They also have strong relationships with customers. This is not a Silicon Valley Bank story. I am going to buy some of their stock tomorrow, as it is an amazing buy at this price.
Neat - this uses the following to get a version of Torch that works with Python 3.11:

pip3 install --pre torch torchvision --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cpu

That's the reason I stuck with Python 3.10 in my write-up for doing this: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/llama-7b-m2
From the fact that, if money for bail out comes from taxpayers' pockets, they don't want to be the ones to ultimately pay for this.
Sure SVB used lobbyists but that's not the crux of the issue. The issue is our governments tax and spend policies are driving up rates to an unsustainable amount. SVB is totally at fault, don't get me wrong, but this is the house of cards we have built.
This part can be frustrating for a novice adopting security keys. The key works out of the box without PIN. If you didn't come across the right guidance, you already enrolled keys without a PIN and now discover that you need to unenroll everywhere, set a PIN, and enroll again. And even with proper backup keys etc., it can be worrying whether you've forgotten some corner case and are about to lock yourself out somewhere by setting the PIN.
(as I understand it, and I could be wrong... and if so, please correct me)

The difference between the 10 year and 3 month bonds - https://ycharts.com/indicators/10_year_3_month_treasury_spre...

You'll note that you can get more money buy buying a 3 month bond rather than a 10 year bond.

So, now if you want to sell a 10 year $100 bond, you'll need to sell it for less than what a 3 month $100 bond costs to buy... which is $100.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/3_month_t_bill (look at 3 year chart range) and https://ycharts.com/indicators/10_year_treasury_rate (again, look at 3 year range).

The 10 year $100 bond is still going to pay out at a profit... in 10 years. But there's more valuable things that one can do with $100 in the shorter term so any sales of that before it pays out will be done at a loss.
>Had everyone, including Thiel, stayed calm instead of Thiel yelling "FIRE!!", it is entirely likely that it could have been at least calmly wound down or sold.

But in this case the assets (at present market value) are literally worth less than the deposits. Yelling "FIRE" seems totally justified in this case.
And I wish you absolutely the best in finding a new job. Your salary will be paid even if the company goes bankrupt, and while times will be hard, I have no doubt you will find something.

I am, indeed, an absolute asshole. But then again, my post only said something about finding it funny, not that I'm not an asshole. Nor does it preclude people participating in the clown show from being clowns.
> Do you think model weights can actually be copyrighted?

Under US law, the answer is clearly "no." US requires there to be, at minimum, a "spark of creativity." (Also, as far as legal definition is concerned, machines cannot possess any creativity.) If you try to start doing some creative legal argument to work around that, you're going to run into the issue that the same lines of legal thinking will conclude that you are infringing all of your training set... and trying to argue that infringing more or less everything ever made is somehow fair use is a truly uphill task.

You might be able to make a case for it under jurisdictions that follow the sweat-of-the-brow doctrine, but I know too little about jurisprudence in such jurisdictions to make any confident predictions.
A vaccine works by stimulating the immune system with a pathogen-like substance to produce a response that trains it. Ergo, if the immune system doesn't work, a vaccine is useless!
this guy is cancelling himself faster than a night at the oscars. Rank hypocrasy.
That’s a really great question -

* in the case of my college, I knew what I wanted, and was shopping around for it. The major was a very unusual one - not even a major as much as a program (“great books”).

* in the case of my daughter, I knew the school because I had taught there decades ago.

* there are admissions consultants who keep track of these sorts of things and make it a point to know all the side doors.

At the end of the day, colleges admissions should be about matching students and colleges who fit together. If a student isn’t as competitive, but is still a great fit, they should I get extra points for that.

But this can be come a system those with money abuse. But that abuse takes the form of lying about whether they are a good fit for the college they are going to - which is dumb.

If a student gets into Harvard by saying they really want to pursue the newly introduced degree of “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion” - is Harvard really a good fit?
cool))
Two reasons:

One is because of software bloat. Apps and frameworks keep getting larger, so they need more memory. But that's only a small portion of the explanation, and when talking about 16GB+ of RAM, probably almost irrelevant.

The other is because RAM is there to be used, particularly for caching. The problem here, however, is that every app is its own island in how it does caching, so multiple apps consuming RAM for caching will end up doing the wrong thing. See https://jmmv.dev/2021/08/using-all-memory-as-a-cache.html for a detailed description of this issue.
>“Depositors shouldn’t get anything beyond the insured $250,000”. Then what do we do with the billions in remaining assets? Appropriate them, and leave small and mid businesses hanged to dry?

Did the depositors (we're talking companies here) not know that the FDIC limit was $250K? If they did, why didn't they hedge accordingly by opening accounts at other banks? Was this not an unreasonable expectation of a company to do?

If I did the same thing, would I expect the government to cover the difference between the asset sale value and the insured amount?
This is a joke post. Day to day life using TS doesn't resemble this at all.
Except among left wing circles where tech has become synonymous with fascist. Most of the people I've seen calling for depositors to lose everything are leftwing of the woke variety.
Of course both right and left seem to ignore that bailing out a bank and backing up depositors are really very different policies an different issues.
There are services that will spread balances across tons of accounts. The problem is that YC made people keep all their startup's money only in SVB instead of spreading it around.
It's primarily a cultural difference.

In print media ads were fairly tame. They weren't personally targeted and in some contexts they were quite welcome.

Although print magazines made most of their money by selling ad pages, the content was largely firewalled. (Byte is a good example. The content was always hacker culture not ad culture.)

On the internet, ad culture - not just ads themselves - has consumed everything. Whether it's a YouTube channel owner reminding everyone to like-and-subscribe, or some TikTok nonsense desperately trying to go viral, it's mostly about reach - defined entirely by potential ad spend - and not about the content, which is almost incidental to monetisation.

And that's why it's so noisy, and often trivial.

In fact I suspect there's a general Gresham's Law principle of cultural systems. As access and delivery become cheaper, content becomes noisier, more trivial, and less culturally valuable. As we go from manual content generation to automated AI content reach will increase, but cultural value - in the sense of challenging, original ideas and experiences that have lasting widespread relevance - will decrease even further.
How does LLaMA compare to GPT-3.5 has anyone done side by side comparisons?
Why would they need to un-see it?
I think the article is arguing that there is such a thing as being healthy with a high BMI? It's just that those people generally don't have an excessively high body fat %. But if we are going by BMI, there are plenty of people who have "healthy obesity", on account of muscle mass.

I've been working out for many years and I think I have a healthy body fat percentage but since I'm not very thin its hard to tell without taking specific measurements, but I would say that most men who go to the gym frequently are in the category of "healthy obese", or overweight, if you just take into account their BMI.
The colors have been measured, and the mathematical formulas needed to calculate accurate colors are known. While there aren't a single set of "accurate" RGB mappings, there is a range of accurate RGB mappings that would cover all the hue (where appropriate) and saturation settings. Even the PAL blending is known and able to be simulated.
Dear Notion,
Stop turning my double dashes into mdashes. My shell doesn’t consider them interchangeable.
Again, I haven’t seen (or can’t recall) seeing anyone credibly make the case that the concern was unreasonable. I have seen some saying that promoting the concern within Founder’s Fund triggered the bank run, but that seems like a distinct position to me.
Agreed. The headline and article are classic click bait. Folks should read the tweet above for the full details.
If you raise $1.2M… you're going to tell me it's not worth your time to frigging walk to 5 banks and open accounts to make sure that money is safely stored?

For something you can't afford to lose, you sure fon't seem to be treating it that way.
This is the community that claims that it will save the world. While it behaves with such shortsightedness that it can’t even save their piggy bank. Should it be trusted with more money and power (that the bailout gives)?
That's true. The real risk was in imagining that the interest rates would stay super-low forever.
The money in FDIC is the banks’ money! Zero taxpayer investment.
Joe Rogan isn’t creative enough to come up with this theory before it happens.

I don’t see what’s wrong with prediction/speculation. If the US gov had their way they’d jail people for misinformation. So I’m just making my predictions while I still can.
Because it's a race to the bottom. Eventually, if allowed, these may become the only affordable houses for many people. Landlords can split up their (already small) apartments, install a video wall in the back, and call it two apartments, asking only a little under twice the rent. Given the housing shortage (and the lack of remote working options for lower paying jobs), people would have little choice but to accept it.
> Plenty of startups fit that bill and will nonetheless be impacted by SVB’s failure

Startups are going to get most of their deposits back-- perhaps all if there's an acquisition. If SVB is not acquired, I hope the FDIC is able to get a substantial dividend quickly so that they can keep operating and that everyone works to keep disruption low.

But I don't think the federal government needs to make depositors whole beyond the insurance limits. I think that sets its own bad precedent. Maybe some startups are going to lose 5-40% of their cash because of their treasury management choices. That is OK.

The times when I was a founder of a startup with a substantial cash balance--- we hedged the bank risk. There was a cost to it. I don't think those costs should be socialized.
> Perhaps they shouldn't keep money in the bank in the first place, but find other uses for them.

If this is the position you want to take, that's fine, but you need to own the consequences of that position. The point of the FDIC is that you don't have to worry about the credit-worthiness of your bank before deciding to do business with them. If that's not true anymore, then I'm pulling every dollar out of my local bank and giving it all to Goldman Sachs. Everyone else will do the same, and now you've destroyed small regional banks and make the biggest ones even bigger and more powerful. Was that worth it to "own the techbros"?
Weaken regulations, trains and banks crash, but hey small government, slash the red tape.
No problem, just use a higher base or some smaller expression which computes to it.