skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the case of the depositors, they put their own money into an account and want to be able to spend that money to pay their employees.

Their own money. 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. So the situation is more similar to student loans than you portray it.

In fact, the ideas behind VC startups and student loans seem very similar. In both cases, you have people who lack capital — the startup founders (some of whom are as young as students and may even be students) and the students — and people who do have a lot of money — VC funds and the government — give them money in the hope that it'll help these people make money in the future and pay back the investment.

> It might easily cost the government even more in lost tax revenue if the thousands of companies cannot make payroll due to a banking failure, thus forcing them out of business and their employees out of their jobs.

That's an argument to bail out every failing business. Why this one in particular? Why not every one?

Anyway, it's not the job of the government specifically to maximize tax revenue. If the government needs more tax revenue for some reason, they can raise the tax rates. But interfering directly in the free market is not the way to do it. Bad businesses are supposed to fail. It's morbidly funny how many people rail against socialism until they're the ones in need of assistance.

> In the case of students, they borrowed money that was not theirs, spent it and don’t want to have to repay it.

This is a very one-sided description, making it sound like the students stole the money. There are two sides to every loan, the borrower and the lender. The lender in question here was the US government itself. The government lent the money to people who could not afford the loans and who had no collateral for the loans. In other words, without regard for the ability to repay. If a bank did this, the bank would go out of business. But then by your own argument, there ought to be bailout. ;-)

> essentially punishing those who did repay their debts

How so?

> the many, many more who didn’t go to college

Forgiveness of student loans is not a punishment to these people. The punishment was the high college costs and society's requirement that job seeker have college degrees. Both debtors and non-debtors are punished by this situation; they just suffer the punishment in different ways.

> encourage lenders to be a bit more judicious

You're missing the part where the lender is the government. These are direct government loans, which is why the government has the power to forgive them. The government cannot forgive private loans.
It sounds about time for a community shakeup.
Now work out how much environment contributed to that. Height isn't 100% genetic. There are kids out there with the same genetic potential who don't get enough to eat and will never stand a chance of playing in the NBA.

So back to my original question: Who is going around sequencing the DNA of athletes?

I am actually curious. I'm sure someone somewhere had the thought to apply science to the question of how much environment and genetics contribute to athletic outcomes. Anyone can stroll in and assert one or the other matters more. And people have! We have enough of that in here. I want science.
Looking forward to buying the vst! Where can we keep track of developments?
So, HN folks who bought one during the pandemic:

Are you still using it?
No, ≈ is used for approximation, ~ is just the most similar ASCII character, and it became ingrained by people used to using old computers. Just like * is not a multiplication sign, but × is.
seizes to be a hobby

Voice to text typo? You mean "ceases" here?

(Posting in case author is not english native, and needs to know...)
How is socializing losses a part of capitalism? Supposedly free markets is a part of capitalism, but if you don't let things fail, how can you call it a free market?
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Going from "zero-shot" inference to many-shot is known to improve accuracy.

I think you are moving goalposts a bit far! in any case. Sure, it's suffering at the college level; but the type of student using this isn't hoping for an A, they are hoping not to fail completely. Which, as far as I can tell - ChatGPT will give you about the same chance of passing as the existing strategy of "do it all in an hour before handing it in because you procrastinated". Probably better in the case of grade school.
> no bank on the planet would survive getting 25% of deposits pulled in a day

Systemically important ones would, due to the Fed’s discount window and liability diversification.
The article is not actually very pedantic - at one point, the author encourages us to break the rules - and I feel it has been offered in the sense of "printers have developed these variations on the basic dash, and if you choose to use them, it is probably best to use them in the same sense as printers themselves do."
Since I am now a hyper-hyphen-partisan-pundit after reading that blog post - I'd like to comment on your hyper-hyphenated comment.

> “Sometimes writing for money - rather than for art or pleasure - is really quite enjoyable.”

To me this looks like a cryptic-case of the corrective comma.

“Sometimes writing for money, rather than for art or pleasure, is really quite enjoyable.”
FWIW, I have yet to see an application written with Cobra that is comprehensible. The Cobra API — while feature-rich — seems to nudge code in a bad way. Cleaning that up wouldn’t necessitate a rewrite, let alone to another language.
Funny in light of the fact they have chosen "Vivaldi" as a name for their company and the product. Why not "Stephenson"?
He directly acknowledges the utility of these models and seems to be trying to make a different, much wider point. From the paragraph above the one you quoted:

> However useful these programs may be in some narrow domains (they can be helpful in computer programming, for example, or in suggesting rhymes for light verse), we know from the science of linguistics and the philosophy of knowledge that they differ profoundly from how humans reason and use language.

I think you and he agree on your main point, but his main point is about something else.
This is precisely what I do religiously in my latex: M-dashes are always {\,---\,}
Indeed I have read countless times on hn that it would be very risky to keep more than the insured amount in a bank.

Sounds like YC should invest more in mentoring their portfolio companies to manage their treasury correctly.
37signals: SaaS startups will have to care about productivity again
You’re missing the point. They had to do something with the deposits. There were so many deposits because of gov and Fed policy. There was no demand for loans because there was free money everywhere.

SBN isn’t the only bank in this position. I read a NYT article from 2021 describing this situation and like every bank is in this position.

Interest rates whipsawed from record lows to 20 year highs in 12 months. No one was ready for that. This is all because of gov and fed policy.

We will see a lot of banks failing in the coming weeks and months.
> and readers roundly told him to get knotted and flagged the post:

Was it flagged by people critical of it, or by people who wanted to suppress the critical comments/backlash?
In my 12 years of python I was hit with compatibility problems once, in a school project where someone started in python 2 and we changed for python 3. What libraries break that often so I can stay away?
The VC-backed world is a brutal place to be in 2023.

Fueled by low interest rates and cheap VC money, Contract Management Lifecycle (CLM) software companies have been pumped with over $1.78bn over the last two years at ridiculous valuations.
Because all the money is in the same bank; can't do a private bailout if you can't access your money.

(I'm half joking, I'm sure there's a lot of money there not at those banks. Also, the big companies have so much money, they can buy this bank and get a chunk of all the startups easily enough).
> which most companies can't afford

I'm not sure that's the case. Most companies lease their floors space. The offices themselves are built to a standard height or code, so the actual walls needed for internal offices are easy to procure, and manufactured en-masse.

Sure, there's a sunk cost to it, but once you're past start up size, your company is probably wasting more money on many other things (entertainment, lunch, free merch, and so on) than a one-off floor reconfiguration to accommodate offices.

At the other extreme, I worked for Megabank. They had a couple of buildings, with a total floor count of around 70, in the basement they had not hundreds, but thousands of partition walls stacked up and ready for use, so they could reconfigure the offices as needed. But, of course, only for senior management. Everyone else had to work in open plan offices.
LLM and related technology will change our society. They work with brute force, but they work.

Chomsky and his critics agree here. Chomsky doesn't like it, his critics are more open.

Our brain processes information much more efficiently so we humans still have an advantage for certain tasks.
The important changes will be architectural, yes.

Three things I'm noticing:

1. We're reinventing structured programming in AI in fast forward. First it's a plain Markov chain. Then it's an "attention" directed acyclic graph. Then we realize we need loops. Then we realize we need to jump to different points in the loop. Then we realize it's useful to recursively call yourself or parts of yourself as a subroutine, parametrized with specific input. Etc.

2. Even before we fully realize this framework of thought into a model, I'm almost sure the model EVOLVES some of these structures during training. In the form of crude unrolled loops etc. Simply because it's inevitable for processing certain types of input data.

3. In order to preserve pragmatic outcomes, I'd bet the future is not one giant monolithic model for AI, but many medium-sized models, communicating in a meta network, like meta neurons, sending meta (high-level) messages to each other.

Essentially, we need to make neural networks more like a fractal. I have this rule of thumb that always works somehow: "no concept definition is complete, until it's made recursive". Neural networks will get there.
Because its those who call for the goverment for a bailout, because otherwise it will hurt the general public -> many failing business -> increasing unemployment
I believe the parent comment was talking more on the actualities during implementation vs. theoretical.

Turns out, greed is a powerful driver; and, humans are fully capable of self-serving mental gymnastics.
> USDC and other "stable coins" are risky, noisy and generally bad medium to long term investments. Unlike domestic currency they have such small trading volumes that they are easy to manipulate

How are you supposed to manipulate a currency pegged to the USD? It'll fluctuate a bit above or below, but not by much except in extreme cases. And even in those extreme cases, it seems like the peg gets restored eventually. Talking mainly about USDC, USDT and DAI here, as those have all been "depegged" and subsequently restored their peg afterwards.
A site that pulls on my heart strings.
Seems a lot of stupid rich people (as in stupid and rich) who made their money on unfettered capitalism now want the taxpayers to pay for their mistake.

Who puts millions of dollars in bank deposits ? Especially an undiversified bank where the limit of security is $250K.

You put your money in short term treasuries and transfer what you need to pay bills. Lazy or ignorant does not mix well with large amounts of money.

Back in the day when I had a VC startup (top tier valley VC), SVB was the place you were "coached" to use, as well as which companies to buy your "services" from (needed or not). Incest never works out too well.

If the billionaires want a bailout, they can simply buy the bank and run it. Of course, they were the ones who added the kindling by encouraging people to take their money out, but now that they missed that opportunity, they are now asking for the public to bail them out.
That would mean that these posts are funding the site, which they are not as the site is a marketing tool of a big VC fund.

Similar to companies offering free tools on their website to funnel people into their paid services.
And Fabergé Eggs are also made of precious metals and jewels, built with incredible craftmanship, were owned by one of the most powerful people in the world during a time in history about which hundreds of books have been written, and have endured over a century as a craft of artistic, cultural and historical importance.
> Aaronson’s biggest error, now corrected, sort of, in bold, is in assuming that Chomsky has spent his life in some sort of failed effort to build AI, which kind of entirely misses the point of Chomsky’s piece (which says in so many words that we need to study the mind first before we try to make AI) and also utterly misrepresents Chomsky’s career. Frankly, I would be embarrassed to have to publish a correction (the part in bold) like this [...] It’s a wild swing and a miss. Chomsky has spent his career trying to understand how humans acquire language, not “building machines” to try to do the same.

This is pretty unfair IMO. Aaronson wrote (emphasis mine):

> In this piece Chomsky, THE INTELLECTUAL GODFATHER GOD OF an effort that failed for 60 years to build machines that can converse in ordinary language, condemns the effort that succeeded.

He never wrote that Chomsky himself was involved in this efforts, only that he was influential to it (which may or may not be true, but Marcus never argues that point).
> So instead of firing them, they get shifted into underperforming teams.

I work at Google. I've seen this one time. A manager didn't want to do the hard work of firing somebody on their team and then misrepresented their productivity to another manager when that person tried to switch teams. This manager received a bad performance review and left the company (I don't know if it was their choice).

It is easy to move teams within Google (or, it used to be at least). But it is very hard to move teams within Google if you have bad performance reviews. You can't really shift underperformers to underperforming teams at scale.
Layman here. Considering there is no atmosphere on the moon, and stone's conduction properties, does that mean the short flash of light (radiation) was most of the heat energy the impact produced?
Germany is letting a domestic squabble pollute Europe’s green ambitions
Checkout Argilla for annotation. You can use vectors to speed up the annotations and you can also start with zero-shot feedback to improve the training as you go

https://www.argilla.io/
This comment here is evidence that the USA is no longer a capitalist country. Socialism is so ingrained that people can't tell anymore where capitalism ends and socialism beings.

Socialism by definition is having a centralized authority stepping in to regulate and control what goes on, for the "good of the people". In a free market capitalistic society, if you lose your money on a private enterprise, then you have to deal with it yourself, no one is coming for your rescue.
Also on Windows: http://wincompose.info/
I think it's funny that some people like the C64 palette and some don't. I liked my CPC punchy colors much more (wrote some C64 assembly and some CPC games back then, but was a kid).
Absolutely, as an European I am constantly amazed how deeply the 'socialism bad' mantra is embedded in the American psyche, how can you blame even the most text book failure of capitalism on socialism?

Perhaps the problem is the people can only imagine either capitalism or the Soviet Union and nothing in between. Guess what, you can have a mix where it makes sense. There's no need to obsessively pull out every socialism trope as if one were ChatGPT at every hint of an extremely mild criticism of capitalism.

Feedback is an important mechanism for the gradual improvement of any system.
>> How is socializing losses a part of capitalism?

Not textbook capitalism, the fake kind we have. The one where businesses clammor for "free markets" and no regulation, but only when it suits them.
He does seem to be specifically ranting about the privacy invasion of deeply targeted advertising, rather than ads in general.
The article seems to leave for itself wiggle room in several such places, suggesting the author had an agenda. Likely ideological rejection of AI as intelligence.
I'd get exactly zero discoint if I told my editor to ignore dashes. It's not where their time goes.
Another company asking for interest-free loans in the form of "reservations". What happened to announcing products and releasing them within a few months instead of years?
That's like saying oil paintings are stupid because photos are better.

Your "plastic to landfill" is also irrational because vinyl can be reused easily, and albums are often repurposed into decorative items before discarded entirely.

And they're more valuable and collectable than e.g. CDs, people take care of them, pass them down to generations, or sell them.
Can’t they use ‘characteristics’?
Are uninsured deposits going to only receive 60¢ on the dollar?
I don't buy that at all. A reasonable sized cubicle has a wide desk and space to move you chair in and out of, plus a 'corridor' between all the cubicles. Change cubicle walls to office walls and have doors open into the existing corridor, and it's no different in size. Building codes might require some changes but I don't think it will be as much as 2x.

The literature (Spolsky lists it one of his articles) implies that increased productivity of the existing employees in their own offices more than compensates for the slight decrease in the number of people you can pack into a fixed area.
I kind of disagree there. Lululemon make high quality clothing and there’s a lot of quality differentiation in the fashion market. Razor blades on the other hand… meh.
Spaces can cause word wrap that can leave a dash at the end or beginning of a line, which is not beautiful. A spaceless em dash doesn't have the wrapping issues while retaining legibility. You could argue that that's a problem with word wrap algorithms, not punctuation, but that situation is not going to change any time soon.
I mentioned DIF above, and as I said there, it's not third-party insurance that you can go purchase. What you can do is get certain accounts that automatically include it for free: https://www.difxs.com/DIF/Home.aspx

Here is the complete list of DIF-covered banks: https://www.difxs.com/DIF/DIFmemberbanks.aspx

It's a short list, they're small banks, and they all have addresses in Massachusetts. Wells Fargo and Bank of America, for example, are not on the list.
Modern software lets you get away with a lot in aerodynamics if you really wanted to.
I think it’s really important to distinguish between bailing out the people who invested in the bank, and the people who have deposits at the bank. Those are not the same thing at all we should have a system where people can put their money safely into regulated banks, and expect to get all of that money back.

We should also have a system, the same system, where investment is a risk. But parking your money in a bank account should not be a risky endeavor.
Only focusing on mortality from COVID ignores the very real detrimental health, mental-health, business and societal effects of lock-downs, so the long term benefits to the common man are very much more in their favor.

On the other hand they totally blew the power grab opportunities that were taken advantage of by others. So from that perspective there are many politicians that are laughing their way to the bank.

Lock downs became a political tool early on, and any place that still forces lock downs or masking is because politics. Which makes comparing them to another country an apple-and-oranges comparison.
And people forget that before the invention of the cubicle, open office plans were the norm for nonmanagement office workers. The cubicle was viewed by these workers as a wonderful thing, because it brought an end to the nightmare of the open office.
> they sound worse

My VPI turntable could extract details from vinyl I've never heard elsewhere. Marvelous machine, that.
Or just simply embed the original data from the sensor
A capitalist will always support whatever is best for them. That means amongst other things:

- privatizing gains, socializing losses
- free markets/competition while they are poor, monopolies once they are on top

As a good capitalist you would aim to dismantle the very things that enabled your rise to power.
Counter point: it’s just more fun
I'm against ped:antic-pun-ctu,ation)) not against pretty, practical and productive punctuation.
> sociopathic libertarians calling for government to make sure they never suffer any consequences for their failure to adequately manage risk

FYI libertarians typically do not want the government / taxpayers to bail out companies for bad decisions.
> Pence began his remarks at the dinner [...] with lighthearted comments about Trump

dude your boss planned on getting you hanged
There’s capitalism in the textbook and capitalism as practiced by capitalists. Free markets are a great idea and all, but I’ve never met a capitalist who actually supported free markets.

The natural state of capitalism trends toward monopolies, regulatory capture, cronyism, price fixing, wage theft, information asymmetry, and bailouts.
I haven't heard of Jim Simons before, so I looked him up on Wikipedia. He sounds like quite a character. I, too, would stop wearing socks and fund a non-profit science magazine if I had a billion dollars.
To me it feels like the late 70s/early 80s and home computing software. These technologies do exist, as far as self driving cars, chatbots that answer all of your questions insightfully and correctly, and 3D printers that can manufacture household goods in demand. There are working examples in use. They’re not quite ready for the mass market, but they will be someday. I’d give it 15-20 years.
It clearly can given that some people still believe - or at least pretend to do so for the purpose of spreading propaganda - that people have been drinking bleach even without the 'assistance' of LLM propaganda machines to spread these false narratives.

And that horse dewormer? That is just ivermectin in a paste base (e.g. hydroxypropyl cellulose and castor wax) where the human version is ivermectin with a filler-diluent, probably lactose, microcrystalline cellulose or starch. There is no special 'veterinary ivermectin factory', just some factories which use the same ivermectin as used for humans which they then mix with a paste base. I'm not convinced ivermectin actually is effective as a prophylactic against or treatment for SARS2 but it is known that it shows antiviral activity. I am fully convinced that it has far fewer and far less serious side effects than the experimental vaccines which were pushed past the traditional safeguards. I am reasonably convinced those vaccines were not effective against the later strains of SARS2 - Delta and Omicron and whatever came/comes after - so it is likely that the 'boosters' actually caused more damage than they have avoided given the fact that these were administered when the bulk of the infections were caused by Delta and Omicron.

It will take a long time for the narratives (plural, both from the 'follow the leader' as well as the 'my body my choice' side of the population) to subside so that something resembling the objective truth may be discerned so we´ll just have to be patient until then.
It’s politically profitable to call things socialist or communist, as Americans have a distaste for both.

2% tax raise for the top 1% of wage earners? Socialist. Gets used to flip votes in the elections.

Even very poor Americans who would literally have a much higher standard of living under socialism are taught to despise it.