skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that kinda like blaming the crowd when someone yells "fire!" in a crowded theater? I don't know how much influence Thiel had in this particular failure, but I don't think it's appropriate to completely absolve those that triggered the start of the bank run from blame.
Bill C-18 is a big wet kiss to a few large Canadian Media companies.

Their business model is under stress because of the internet. Link taxes won't fix this and they set a terrible precedent.

Quoting from Candaland[0]. "In Australia, an estimated 90 per cent of negotiated revenues flowed to the three largest media companies."

That hardly bodes well for independent journalism. This is just a shakedown.

[0] https://www.canadaland.com/canadas-online-news-act-must-be-t...
Having fewer than 1 bit per weight is not absurd. E.g. you can use 2 bits to represent 3 'weights' if you insist that at most one of the weights is allowed to exist. If you try to order nodes so that adjacent nodes are uncorrelated the performance loss might be manageable.

People are already doing stuff like this (see sparsification) so it is conceivable to me that this is just what networks will look like in a few years.
You're choosing who to believe based on what, a single source with a direct conflict of interest?
> I would love a world where google and facebook are full of links to primary sources instead of news articles.

I would love a world where Facebook doesn't exist, and Google is but one player in a healthy search ecosystem.

A boy can dream.
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Things like pandas and numpy are not python packages. Yes, they are packages FOR python, but they are not python.

https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2021/09/whats-in-a-package/ does a good job of explaining why installing packages like that is a complete shitshow.
Darwinian selection happens only from neck down.
Packets are usually parsed by casting a uint8_t * to a struct. Frequently, the part that needs to be removed is always at the same offset in the non-error case.
My hunch is that the evolution was driven by executives, probably in the 70s and 80s, that didn’t want to say they were firing people in order to make more money.

In other words the same dynamic that now leads to ‘impacted’.
> that any writer (for whom the site is targeted) should be able to answer

hey now, not all writers who discuss things in English are necessarily familiar with the anglo literary tradition

(it's probably a higher overlap than average, and shouldn't be too hard for them to search, but be careful throwing the assumption around)
> My only question is why it took so long for someone to implement it?

Uhhhh. Because it didn’t. Google GWT was huge on the hype cycle about 15 years ago.

You know this has been done before over a decade ago, multiple times in Java and Python.

Not saying the space can’t be improved upon but I fail to see how it’s any more revolutionary now.
For sure, but what i mean is, e-mails from e.g. james.whatever@bigbankcorp.com, with e-mail sig of James Whatever, Senior Analyst, Big Bank Corp, etc. and the usual boatload of (allegedly not-legally-binding) legal disclaimers etc.
I’d second thiis. I have prototyped webapps for a decade, and nothing comes close to the speed and agility, not to mention the flexibility, that a Rails webapp can afford. Kudos!

I’d also second Flask for a Python-based setup. Node w/express used to be quick to prototype an app, but that’s not my current choice of platform. ymmv!
It seems still unclear how much quality loss there is compared to the best models. What's really needed is systematic evaluation of the output quality, but that's tricky and relatively expensive (compared to automated benchmarks), so I understand why it hasn't happened yet.

Edit: I just tried it with a single task of my own (that I've successfully used with ChatGPT and Bing) and it flubbed it horribly, so this model at least is noticeably inferior to the SOTA, which is not surprising given how small it is.
Have no idea ... I'm more interested in my health than money.
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A lower portion than the equivalent number for Stable Diffusion, but still significant.
I imagine taxpayers did pay at least something in the form of treasury and fed employees working over the weekend and getting paid overtime. Or is that not how it works?
Also wanted to add: never forget that “the law of averages” is our friend when this happens. It ensures that there is always a good chance to lend somewhere if one keeps trying (submitting applications and giving interviews).
I use https://www.duplicati.com

Is Kopia better?
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Works for me, but I'm keeping my clothes on, thanks ;)
This book isn't about libertarians. It's about anarchists.

"Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government ... They built a tent city in an effort to get off the grid. The bears smelled food and opportunity."

Nobody who knows anything about libertarians and is trying to accurately represent it would write that, because the whole reason it exists as an independent thing from anarchism is that libertarians do not want to eliminate the government. They have very clear ideas about what exactly the government should do and that role is much less expansive than in a socialist country or even in America of today, but it's not literally nothing and it certainly doesn't involve living in tents. That's much closer to the Occupy Wall Street crowd in behaviour than libertarians.
For you, but often for others it doesn't.

It depends on if someone wants to believe the truth, or believe something else. Most want to believe something else.
You can pick any topic, any industry or any company and you'll find someone on the internet calling the doomsday clock on it. Identifying who was right after the fact is not useful, just like how saying the lottery numbers after they've already been broadcast is not useful.
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That's understandable.

To give some more concrete examples:

- I asked it about the advantages and disadvantages of different candidate fuels for nuclear fusion, and it correctly produced the reaction products of every combination, down to the MeV. When I tried this with ChatGPT it came back with invented, seemingly random answers.

- Asking ChatGPT for movie recommendations, even with broad guidelines, usually returns at least one hallucination and often misattributed directors or countries of origin. I asked Claude for recommendations that dealt with life in rural China and the experience of rapid modernization and it gave several accurate and precise responses [0]

- I asked ChatGPT to return two versions of a poem about a deer at the edge of a tree line in the hour before daybreak, one by Wallace Stevens and the other by Yeats. The two returned were stylistically identical, though still pretty impressive. Claude's were clearly more influenced by the poets' verse, and it offered detailed explanations for its choices.

[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1512201/, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3907314/, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105197/, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1114277/
Text to Cartoon: How we created a cartoon from a prompt using ChatGPT and more
A step-by-step guide to how we created a basic kid's cartoon using a mix of AI tools including ChatGPT, resemble.AI, Stable Diffusion, Controlnet, Img2Img and more. The cartoon isn't perfect and this is just meant to be a proof of concept.
I worked with a guy who came up as an engineer in the Soviet Union. Back around 2014 he was laid off from a US tech company that had moved him over from Russia. He couldn't wrap his head around it. Said that in the Soviet Union there was no such thing as a layoff. If they needed to shut down some program they'd move you to another one. The whole layoff was just extremely disorienting for him - especially since the company had moved him over here only a few years prior.
Member banks pay for it _by law_. And those member banks get that money either by charging customers for it or by reducing what they provide in returns on investment.

It may not be coming from income taxes, but it's definitely socializing the losses and I would argue it's effectively coming from the taxpayers.
This is great to see. I have a question around the "a delightfully uniform temperature in each room". I live in a 3-story townhome, which has largely non-uniform temperature across floors (since warm air travels up). So, cold lower floors in the winter and hot upper floors in the summer. AFAICT, this is pretty common with central duct systems and the usual fix is to switch to split-unit systems. How does your product handle this?
They had other choices - they could have lowered the interest rate they return to account holders as more and more deposits came in. They could have lowered their profit guidance to shareholders instead of taking actions that wiped them out.

As I understand it, the reason they failed is because they gambled on interest rates staying low and chased returns to maximize profits to shareholders.

Shareholders deserve to lose money when they are pushing - or even remaining silent on - increasingly risky corporate behaviors as absentee owners.
>Is Alpine the ideal audiophile distro?

If you're serious about this, install Gentoo so you can compile everything yourself! Are you really going to entrust your music collection to a distro full of precompiled packages of unknown provenance, likely riddled with dirty bits from cheap second-hand hardware and possibly coal-fired electricity?
Some newspapers are really dreadful about this with regards to people killed/injured by cops.

A well-known example from the NYT:

> A reporter was hit by a pepper ball on live television by an officer who appeared to be aiming at her

https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2020/new-york-times-twe...
Another option for that is sslh [1] Running https + ssh + vpn all on port 443 at the same time.

[1] - https://github.com/yrutschle/sslh
"fire" != "laid off"
this is why imho I see the pull out of the clients especially those that happened before the sale offer even came to term as an orchestrated ploy to tank the bank and then be in a position to offer shark bridge loans to those impacted. These were not naive clients making the move early -- and to me it seems less to do about the actual bank asset state and more to do with wanting blood in the water for wringing out equity and loan shark rates on those bridge offers.
exactly what I would create if I was trying to get people to reply to verify their email is a real address.
Keep in mind property rights can have the opposite effect too — impinging on the greater good in favour of the property rights of the few. The obvious example being NIMBYism; for example higher density construction that would benefit the city gets blocked by low-density homeowners who don't want their property negatively affected.
The YC Continuity team did amazing work helping me and many other later stage founders. I’m sad to read this news.

YC is best known for their early stage investing. But Ali, Anu and the team created some excellent programs for later stage companies as well. Shogun benefited from the Series A program, Scaling from A to B program, and the YC Growth program. I wonder what’s happening with all of those initiatives.

Through these programs and the direct support and mentorship from the Continuity team, we learned a ton and significantly scaled our startup.

Wishing all of the affected team all the best.
"Generate a URL that brings the content of any article into focus, leaving the clutter, ads, and tracking behind"
Yeah they have dedicated capacity: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1632177067264720896
As someone who recently picked a contractor to install a heat pumpt I need to see:

- confirmation that it does both heating and cooling
- the price
- a list of approved contractors who can install it in my area
- the expected installation costs
I agree with this. My personal laptop is a 2010 MacBook Pro, which is way past its expiration date, but was kept usable because I maxed the RAM (8GB) and installed a hybrid SSD. I was/am annoyed that Apple laptops no longer have user-serviceable parts, but I'm coming to terms with investing up front for that same longevity.
That’s true. They gave the platitudes as millions starved while Stalin exported food and established the gulags and lay waste to civil society. Yay!

The religion bit is really off kilter, unless you think the impermanence of all things is merely a religious idea and not a fundamental aspect of all reality. After all impermanence didn’t apply in Soviet Russia? Oh yeah, it too passed. Guess not.
The difference is that applying textures to a 3D object is almost never a pixel-perfect operation, in the sense of texture pixels mapping 1:1 to final screen pixels, whereas for text rendering that’s exactly what you want. Either those are different APIs, or you have to take extra care to ensure the 1:1 mapping is achieved.
Blaming Thiel for the bank run on SVB is the same stupidity as blaming Soros for the collapse of the pound two decades ago.

If someone calls out that the emperor has no clothes and that is the reality, they have done nothing wrong.
I use to do that mileage trick with walking, I love to walk with no defined point B.
The FED did what it did because they know they have to keep hiking rates to reign in inflation and deflate the asset bubble. Allowing banks to go under and take depositors with them would generate far too much pressure to lower rates to salvage the poor investments these banks chose to make.
no, they meant the way when a car impacts a wall, or when stool gets impacted in a colon
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Death is inevitable, unexpected, unplanned, usually caused by things beyond human control. Layoffs are a planned thing explicitly done by one human to another in order to increase corporate profits.
Already linked to a source that shows the references to the programs are gone in my original comment; though that page is still there.

Also, might be wrong, but “theinformation.com” as a source is insta ban as a result of it being a “hard walled” content; hard walled meaning it’s not possible to access the content via alternative means. If you have a source that’s not blocked, feel free to provide it, otherwise just see this as promoting a source that’s ban on HN.

Here’s all the dead submissions, though you likely have to have “show dead” turned on from your profile settings:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theinformation.com
Well that's good to hear. Maybe it would be good to drop an "official" note on the RFC to make it clear that it is unlikely to be accepted without E2EE since I seem to be the only voice mentioning that and was quickly dismissed.

I understand that the core team is busy but if big problems like this could be pointed out early it could save a lot of time all around.
If software were that simple, surely all these other languages wouldn't exist?
Fired implies with cause. In the US, it would be "laid off" and in the UK it's often "made redundant", which is itself more ambiguous than need be.
I am wondering if "impacted" is used because really lots of different things have happened to these 17 team mates. Or if "impacted" = "fired", and "team mates" = "ex-employees".
In my experience using Django for my webapps hasn't meant I can avoid HTML and javascript. Writing templates is writing HTML, and any relatively fancy UI including charting etc. requires using javascript
With so many resources becoming available for self-directed study, and also things like this, I wonder if we'll move toward a de-coupling of teaching and testing/verification. I could envision a world where having a degree in a subject from a particular school essentially just means "we verified, in person, to our specific set of standards, that this person has mastered this subject". And how you come to acquire that mastery may be provided by the same (or a related) institution, or may be done on your own, or with the help of some third party.
"Libertarian" is a sliding scale from basically anarcho-capitalism to traditional Republicanism.

While it has been humorous to see these faux-libertarians say in one breath they want small government, but in the very next breath demand to be saved, tankies and other far-left extremes have used this as an opportunity to lump all libertarians into the same boat.

There's no such thing as a "true" libertarian as most libertarians believe in small government, but what that government can do, is generally up to interpretation in all but the most extreme cases. A major central belief the non-aggression principle. However social issues tend to be more wishy-washy.

Prior to the balkanization of America Libertarian-lite could probably be approximated by a classical liberal.
There is no conflation: parent very clearly pits private deposit insurance (which exists today) vs. a hypothetical government insurance for amounts >$250,0000 (which doesn't exist, proposed by gp).

Perhaps I misunderstand the different strands of libertarianism, but what kind of libertarian prefers mandatory government insurance over voluntary private insurance?
Such banks would be highly popular if paired with the other half of the proposal which is to not bail out depositors at collapsed banks.
GPU-accelerated terminals have been a thing for a long time.
This sounds good to me, but I think gmail spam filters have gotten worse over the years.

I'm persistently getting emails coming through telling me I won a yeti cooler. About daily...

I mark them as spam, and this kind of email still doesn't go away.
Yes, exactly my first thought. Too many people get their news from FB headlines.

There was a user here who said something about people reading an obviously unresearched news article in a newspaper, knowing it is saying bullcrap BUT kept reading other pieces from that paper. Because one bad article doesn't make the whole newspaper worthless.

Find yourself a couple of newspapers and read them. Scan the front page. Get a wholer picture of the news. It's sad really printed newspapers have vanished so extensively.

Meanwhile on FB, people read a headline and that's it.
Never mind "I was impacted by layoffs", I often see "my position was impacted by layoffs"
Conceptually that's already the case i.e. L1 cache -> L2 cache -> RAM -> swapfile

If the definition of RAM is DIMMs then it's really just a matter of merging the CPU and GPU into one unit with a massive L2 cache (or maybe we have an L3 cache) of e.g. 32GB that's able to hold a massive model without cache misses.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35142245
They had a customer base that would knife them at the first hint of a liquidity issue, then they had a liquidity issue. Of course a different approach would have reduced their returns, but then they’d still be in business.
The question is whether all families can sustain healthy and dignified livelihoods. And the answer is in fact they cannot.

By definition, a capitalist economy has a hard dependency on labor surplus. Remember when the Federal Reserve literally said they were raising interest rates to increase unemployment? That's why.
Well since by and large you weren't allowed to not work in the Soviet Union being "laid off" normally meant you were being shipped off to a labor camp or being executed.

Lets not pretend they didn't have millions in the gulags....
9 would be far too high IMHO.

If you’re laying people off, say it straight and with a backbone. The language is passive, weak and makes it sound like a mere consequence of a slight breeze upon a dainty leaf causing it to gently fall from a tree.

17 people lost their jobs. Likely many of those have families to feed, houses to uphold and bills to pay. In this economy, the same will likely happen to many of us and a statement like the above would feel like a punch to the gut.

The uppercut that follows is:

> we want to acknowledge and express our appreciation for their substantial contributions.

Saying you want to acknowledge and express something is not the same thing as acknowledging and expressing something. A statement would struggle to get more generic than this.
I think they are also rebuilding the backup pie stash by charging everyone a slightly bigger slice of pie than before.
That doesn't answer my question. The IRS taxes income, not assets. They don't care where your money is.
With the cost of PLX PCIE Switches (allows you to e.g. PCIE 4.0 x16 -> PCIE 3.0 x32) it is actually worth considering just buying a second desktop and throwing in some high-bandwidth NIC and forming your own HPC. Or instead of using desktop parts just going EPYC/Xeon/Threadripper.

Of course it all comes down to the fact that if you need those PCIE lanes, there's a very good chance that it's for your job, meaning that businesses are the target market, not the enthusiast building a homelab for tinkering with LLM off the clock.
How long will I own this before you start trying to squeeze more revenue out of me by locking up basic functionality? I mean, this isn't just Sonos, you could literally freeze people out!

Seriously though, how is your system better than the heat pump that has been installed in my parents house since the mid eighties?
Dave Troy is very well researched, and is totally on the money in almost everything he says. Lumping him in with right wing conspiracy theorists is a mistake.
Numpy and Scipy are good reasons. Unfortunately Scipy does not even compile on FreeBSD lately, and I have opened three issues about it against Scipy and Pythran (and the fix was with xsimd).

https://github.com/serge-sans-paille/pythran/issues/2070
I've been Salmon fishing in California since I can remember. There are few things I love more than being on the water going for Kings as the sun comes up.

I'm really bummed we won't have a season, but having more fish in the future is worth the short term cost.
This seems more like blowing on a tiny ember and yelling fire at the same time.
It's referring to this partnership between T-Mobile and Starlink: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/un-carrier/t-mobile-takes-cove...
While those examples do use the passive voice, the passive is not the real problem. "These events impacted seventeen of our teammates" is the active voice, and it is no more forthright. "Mistakes were made by Bob, Sean, and Susan, who have been fired" is (if accurate) quite clear about assigning blame while using the passive. It's true that some people overuse the passive, and for those people noticing and considering whether to rephrase can produce better writing, but insisting on forgoing the passive entirely probably won't. If we want to prevent evasive writing, we should look for and call out evasive writing, whatever voice is used.
> Ignore the polite abstractions. The marines are training for a war with China, probably precipitated by an invasion of Taiwan.

I guess the consent manufacturing has started. "If shit hits the fan, remember: it was probably China who started it."
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Does anyone know how archive.is is able to remove paywalls if this can't?