skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm looking forward to run stuff like this online. Using bigtech corporate souls SaaS AI is just pure dystopia material.

It's even better that we are talking about a relatively low power machine here. Maybe can operate offered.
supporting article from almost exactly two years ago

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00177-3
I'm glad you are no longer feeling poisoned!
If they're regularly selling securities, there is no good time to make the announcement
Eeh. Misguided article. The article itself starts by recognizing the challenge of making scenarios because of the feedback loop they embody. Then seemingly forgets about all that and basically says "coal has likely peaked already, why are assuming it will grow in the future?"

Well, because of that feedback loop. Coal is still a cheap way of making energy, as it is in the business-as-usual economics of the scenarios. If we say "coal is not a problem", the pressure shifts away from coal and its usage may linger longer than it should.

The scenarios are about the forces impacting the trends, not the trends themselves.
Unless it's accounting for no direct flights between Caracas and San Francisco, which would mean either the Caracas person needs to fly to SF connecting in Houston, or both go to Houston in a direct flight, meet there and go back. It's the same 4 takeoffs.

(Disclaimer, I have no idea if there are direct flights from Caracas to SF, but from Brazil I always need to stop by in a hub)
> Most do not get to address the UN

So the argument here is that there are tens of millions of children who are worried not about video games, TikTok, school etc but about how they are being denied the ability to speak at the UN ?

And her parents appear to be upper middle-class given their careers have been limited in success.
> so rapidly?

Bank runs are rapid.

They wouldn't be runs if they weren't.
The flaw with this statement is that the Ivies absolutely do recruit athletes and allow coaches to prioritize students for acceptance, just like other D1 schools. The only difference is that instead of putting scholarship money in front of them, they dangle an Ivy League degree.
If Ivies removed coaches from the admissions process, they would have more integrity.
They want to take the widest possible share, which atm, without competition means bringing on people/companies that wouldn't otherwise consider it.

The price will only go down when competition appears. They can only slow it down with the cheapest possible offering (to put market entry bar higher for competitors). They don't know what competition will do, but they know if they move fast they'll have very low chance of catching up anytime soon and that's all that matters.

Competition will be interesting because interface is as simple as it can be (easy to switch to different provider).

Providers can hook people though pre-training but I don't know if it's possible to do dedicated pre-training on large models like this. They may need to come up with something special for that.
Raspberry Pi 400 for $78.75
>No one index investing is going to feel this in a material capacity.

Over what timeframe are you making this claim? A week? A year? 10?

The entire index dropped, driven by a selloff in the Financial Services sector after FDIC placed them on the failed bank list, so in effect it has already affected the index.
LLaMa 7B (llama.cpp, quantized): "us presidents in chronological order: george washington,john adams, james madison, james monroe, john quincy adams, jefferson, martin van buren,andrew jackson, john c calhoun,james k. polk,chester arthur, benjamin harris, grover cleveland,william taft, theodore roosevelt, woodrow wilson,wilson’s son john f kennedy jr, theodore roosevelt, theodore roosevelt, franklin d. roosevelt, franklin d. roosevelt, franklin d. roosevelt, lyndon b.j"

LLaMa 13B (llama.cpp, quantized): "us presidents in chronological order: george washington,john adams, james madison, james monroe, john quincy adams, andrew jackson,martin van buren, william h. harrison, john tyler, zachary taylor, james k. polk, louis b. mc kinley, ulyses s. grant, rutherford b. hayes, james a. garfield, chester a. arthur, benjamin harrison, george f. harrison, william mckinley, theodore roosevelt, william h. taft, woo wilson, warren g. harding, calvin c. coolidge"
(Increased) density doesn’t have to mean an absolute lack of any open fields, does it? Doesn’t density offer a probability that countryside can be closer to one’s home?
How’s it looking for a six year old MacBook?

Not there yet?

Does this still use the gpu?
The executive stock sales were only for a few million dollars, and a relatively minor percentage of their holdings. I doubt there will be any criminal charges.
Do we need to image all 86 billion? A sampling of cells throughout the brain and a simulation of a cell such that we can figure out how 1 fertilized egg can become 86 billion neurons and change. We can throw compute power at that, we don't really have brains to throw at the problem.
Agreed, but organizations the the IPCC are famous for the level of caution and caveats on their predictions. It would be irresponsible for them to use provocative/apocalyptic predictions. But it seems equally irresponsible to use provocative titles on well-intentioned articles, given the extremely obvious likelihood that climate denialists will exploit the hyperbolic title to misrepresent the content and arguments of the paper.
Is there convincing evidence actual insects have "awareness"?
Why Are There No Relational DBMSs? [pdf] (2015)
Yeah that seems to be the trouble - the pricing is great with ChatGPT but not so much with the older ones
Any thoughts on Sortition?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
Ask HN: What Does “* * *” Mean in Comments?
Hi, as per the title, I see more and more people commenting "* * *" as their sole contribution.

What does it mean?
The article argues that the models are still using baselines from the 90s, while the world as it is today has already made significant progress toward decarbonizing industry. Therefore the projection are far more onerous than they should be.
For every web-related HN post there’s always that one person who keeps reminding how it was all better 15 years ago and how you actually dont need any colours on web since they are so irritating.

Tired of hearing this pointless rant every time. Especially since this portfolio is something fresh and not just a cookie cutter WP theme with annoying animations. Web itself can be art or culture or whatever, if it takes 10 seconds to realize how to use it on your phone then big fucking deal. CURL is handy for reading web content I’ve heard, keeps you safe from unpleasant surprises
My favorite rhetorical trick is definitely the one-siding of a two-sided issue in a two-party political system. /s

Back in 2021 the Democrats had the option from the get go to do a clean unencumbered unconditional debt ceiling increase with just the votes they had and chose to try to pin it with a spending bill they wanted to push through but didn’t have the votes for, as described in even this blatantly partisan CNN article bylined by CNN’s Editor-at-large[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/22/politics/debt-ceiling-increas...

The parent comment was correct the first time. It’s brinksmanship by both Democrats and Republicans.

[1]: Genuine question: how is this different from an Editor-in-Chief?
I believe lambda.cpp has been designed for at least an M1 - no idea if there are options for running LLaMA on older hardware.
Actually, the entire incident can be seen as an effective educational exercise.
Seems at least as likely that the neural network would learn a generally-applicable approximate Gaussian deconvolution as a specifically-applicable Moon upscale.
People have been running large language models locally for a while now. For now the general consensus is that llama is not fundamentally better than local models with similar resource requirements, and in all the comparisons it falls short of an instruction-tuned model like Chat GPT
what would you recommend i install instead?

well, great timing, "Ask HN: What's the fastest and simplest way to prototype a web app in 2023?" [0] is on the front page. It seems like every year the list changes. Seems like everyone uses react but nobody recommends it. Such a bizarre ecosystem.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35110976
Yes last week, but Llama 65B is as of today running on an M1 so yeah difficult to predict how centralised AI APIs will play out six months from now: https://twitter.com/lawrencecchen/status/1634507648824676353

Still expecting OAI to be able to leverage a flywheel effect as they plough their recent funding injection into new foundation models and other systems innovations but there’s also going to be increasing competition from other platform providers and also the open source community boosted by competitors open sourcing / leaking expensive to train model tech with the second order function of diffusing wind from sales.
Surprising similarity to the 2008 crash in that there was systemic risk that wasn't detected or fully understood based on there being events that were entirely predictable (housing prices drop, or Fed rate increases) but happening at unpredictable rates of speed.
I understand what you're trying to say, but "The certs are just an alternative to managing the authorized_keys server-side" is just not correct. Certs can do things plain authorized_keys can't.
I gave up on Clean Architecture after about one chapter. There's a section where he's graphing the number of lines of code in a hypothetical company's codebase over time - it grows rapidly at first and then it levels off, and he points at this like it means anything, specifically like it's a bad thing and it means the software has become difficult to work in. Also this isn't a line chart, it's a bar chart, and the X axis isn't time, it's unlabeled - eventually, in the text, you find that there's one bar per major release of the software, if that tells you anything about how retro this conception of software development is. Another bar chart shows the number of developers growing rapidly, as if that means anything either... It was just baffling.
How accurate are models of complex systems?

Consider that if highly accurate models were really possible someone could make one that would accurately predict NFL game outcomes. When that happens we will know it because Sports Books would no longer take bets on NFL games. Sports Books profit because they get a slight statistical advantage which pays off due to bettor volume.

So we know they can't make an accurately predicting model for football. How accurate can they possibly get with climate change modeling? It's orders of magnitude more difficult. Football is formally rule bounded and tons of data on a long history of games is readily available. In contrast, the vast majority of climate data is based on theoretical methods. This isn't bad, it's just far less precise because the variance of all those theory based estimators accumulates across the model, widening the confidence interval of its outputs to a point where it may not be useful.

Finally, climate scientists are people. They have careers, families, financial responsibilities. What happens if they say the climate is fine? Some other crisis gets the funding and their careers are destroyed. They can't just switch to a different science, they've invested a lot of time and money becoming a specific thing.

I found this article very wordy and skimmed parts, but it looks to me like a goalpost moving exercise to explain why their aggressive predictions for the present time didn't come true.
1000x this. Entity extraction from unstructured text with zero/few-shot is fantastic.

I've got a use case where I need to extract model numbers from text - these LLMs are so good at it with very little work.
Okay, I generally agree with you, but it's hard to see how a change (er, lack of change) of one hour on clocks suddenly results in "3 hours before dawn." The hyperbole doesn't help, IMO.

Also, we see frequent posts here on HN about how schools ought to start later overall, for all students, so it seems reasonable to think that school could be made to start well after sunrise for everyone all year long.
> "Why doesn't the government provide banking services with unlimited insurance?"

They do, kind of: it's TreasuryDirect.gov. It's only accessible through a horrible web interface straight out of 1999, but it's the real thing.

TreasuryDirect lets you buy, hold, and sell Treasury bills, Treasury bonds, I Bonds, EE savings bonds, and other securities. Yes, you can also buy some of these, but not all, through your regular brokerage (Fidelity, Schwab, etc.), but here you can buy them all and titled in your own name -- or you plus a second person, or you POD to a third person, etc. And you can buy in smaller denominations if you want, not just big lots.

You can also open up linked accounts for your minor children and hold some of those securities and savings bonds in their own names. And like UTMA accounts, the property becomes theirs to manage when they turn eighteen.

And -- important in the context of the current SVB situation -- you can open a TreasuryDirect account for your company, including S Corps, C Corps, and even single-member LLCs.

And the interest you earn on all of these securities they sell is completely state tax free. You usually don't even get a 1099-DIV or 1099-INT from them unless you had a sale in the year, which you may not if you were holding long-term I Bonds, etc. (You might get one if you had an interest payment on a marketable security like a T-bill, though.)

Note that securities at TreasuryDirect do not have FDIC insurance nor SIPC insurance, because you're buying directly from the US government itself. But note that if they ever failed to honor their (our) own Treasury bills, repudiating our own debt, we would all have much, much bigger problems on our hands.
Yeah its kind of sad that we still have to use node and java with better options out there. Don't get me wrong, Typescript, Deno, JVM, etc.. are all doing their best to right those ships, but it's would still be better to just scrap that stuff for a better foundation.

That is what everyone knows,

so that is what's taught,

so that is what everyone knows,

so that is what's taught.

I'd gladly onboard projects to Erlang, Rust, Zig, Go, or anything modern. Would save our planet so much wasted energy.
Moore's law isn't quite beaten yet, so the (hypothetical future) RTX 5090 and 6090 is gonna be insane. Combined with software optimization and refinement of the techniques, along with training != inference, means I think we'll see something better, runnable locally, in a couple of years. The leaps and bounds Stable Diffusion has gone is insane. Facebook's LLaMA is also seeing a similar growth from just having the model available.
This felt especially like a middle finger to employees because it boosted the stock price exactly during the 1 week window that determines how many new RSUs will be given to employees as refreshers for the year. Higher price = less shares. Had the stock not rocketed before the window, employees would have gotten ~20% more shares.
If your life is about in engaging in culture wars then you need enemies.
Still upset about Wikipedia too?
Perhaps a reply to the wrong comment?

In what way were average people mentioned? Who are the villains? Who's going after them?
Hedge funds are offering to buy startups deposits stuck at Silicon Valley Bank
If you are investing in actively managed funds, then you chose that agency risk.
What happens if you film a crime in the apartment far away and the AI fills in the details?
Exactly.

Unlike the complete irrational panic on the depegging by HNers here on many threads, as usual and from those who don't know the difference between an algorithmic stablecoin and a centralized one.

As I said before [0] USDC is fine and it will re-peg to $1 and it will be business as usual. Ignore the USDC FUD, hyperbolics and the headlines and concentrate on the main concern which is the startups that have the majority or 100% of their VC cash on SVB and can't pay their employees.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35108665
Athletic scholarships is one of those very foreign concepts, for us outside the US. Seems like a uniquely (North) American thing?
> Congress are cowards and won’t do what should be done - raise taxes.

They're still cowards for not doing it but what should've been done is an increase in interest rates half a decade ago.
I can understand why, historically, it made sense to have something that looks like a hardware disk but uses RAM. But today, what's the use case for this, versus just adding the RAM to the system directly and using a software RAM disk? That avoids the disk protocol entirely, and should provide substantially better performance.
Geez, lesson learned don't be a manager.
I think if you're doing LOTS of writes to something you don't care a lot about - a ramdisk might be a nice way to prevent you from killing your SSD.

Say, most things you put in /var

This particular unit might also work for a machine where you install a client OS on the main (ramdisk) HD and reboot, then wipe and do it again later.
> Besides I’ll be very surprised if SVB isn’t called JPM by 9 am Monday.

It will be called the Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara (DINB) on Monday. https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai...
Ever read The Physicists from Dürrenmatt?

Or let me quote Dr. Ian Malcolm:

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
For the average person it means they will have to hear about it constantly until the next big news item takes its place.
No bank can bet the deposits will stay the same: Through the short-term economic cycles, people will accumulate for 6 months, 2 years, 10 years, then deplete. Covid hits? Everyone needs 3 grand at the same time. Government gibs money? Everyone has 3 grand extra for a few weeks. Everyone gets paid on the 1st of the month. You can average, but everyone will hit the low at the same time.
If you map every single class in UML, at what point is it no longer just a 'model' of the software, and is the software.
Neurons have a huge internal complexity and diversity, and this connectome doesn’t tell you much about those internals.
> It sure is, and I hope congress and the Fed learns their lesson this time, seeing as some of the same people who worked in previous economic failures are still around, I doubt it.

Don't bet on it. One of the big changes after the 2008 crisis was the passage of Dodd-Frank, which was then repealed in large part in 2018.

Some of the repealed provisions in Dodd-Frank would likely have mitigated or even prevented this bank run, due to the capital and liquidity testing requirements.
> If you can’t trade on positive material non public information,

In America you can, if you're not an insider and didn't get the information from an insider in violation of their duty of trust. For instance, it is legal for a trader to use satellite LIDAR/SAR data to estimate the fill level of oil storage tanks and trade on that obviously material non-public data.
It feels like this kind of language use only came into vogue during the last few decades, but is now extremely common in humanities academia as well as pseudointellectual "cultural" publications such as the New Yorker and this one.

- "an active process of aid" etc. Trying to describe simple or obvious things using vague language with a sort of "conceptual" flavor or affectation. It reminds me a little bit of the "translation" of Ecclesiastes in Orwell's Politics and the English Language but it also has its own distinct flavor. The French are probably to blame, somehow.

edit: Blah blah blah Foucault a few paragraphs in. You can't make this shit up
I feel like with ScarJo lately you either get "big budget movie where she's phoning it in" or "small movie most people won't watch where she's a great actress. Does this fall into either of those categories?
Imagine if this type of error at a large bank occurred. The outrage. Crypto has issues especially When it’s irreversible
A couple weeks ago I realized I was still running the previous version of MacOS and I honestly don't want to put any effort into upgrading. It works fine right now. What a weird departure when I used to want to upgrade on day 1 and had to consciously wait two weeks for the big bugs to be worked out.
I wish AI scientists would try to work on this instead of machine learning.
Except it’s not actually reversible with finite precision, which is sufficiently implied by “digital”.
> To believe the law works this way, one would have to believe that the Congress and President have been putting themselves through pointless kabuki theater for decades by passing and signing into law increases in the debt limit that were not actually required.

So?

Wouldn’t be the first time that routine government practices were found to be unnecessary or invalid because they were premised on a faulty view of the Constitutional powers of some institution of government.

> No one actually thinks this.

Lots of people actually think this.

> Just like no one actually thinks that we just discovered that the wording of the 14th Amendment is a magical solution to a debt limit fight.

That’s true, its not a recent opinion. Just as the opinions that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional (there are two different major ones, as to whether it unconstitutionally limits inherent executive power or unconstitutionally delegates non-delegable Congressional powers) is as old as the War Powers Act, the opinion that the debt ceiling is unconstitutional is nearly as old as the debt ceiling.
Yeah, if you have a big team, everyone is going to be specialized anyways. You can have:

- Dedicated Android devs working on your Java/Kotlin/whatever Android app

- Dedicated iOS devs working on your Swift/Objective-C/whatever iOS app

- Dedicated web devs working on your JS/TS/whatever web app

- Dedicated BE devs working on your BE services, in 1-many languages that may be none of the above

But for startups, that’s not gonna happen, there’s gonna be wayyyy fewer devs and wayyyy less specialization. A lot of companies will be in that mode for many years, possibly indefinitely. In those situations, React Native can be a big win. I’ve been working the past 2 years at a relatively small startup, ~10 devs, that’s TypeScript everywhere. We’ve got 2 mobile apps (mobility space, a Rider and Driver app), both TypeScript/React Native/MobX. Rider is iOS/Android/web, Driver iOS/Android, very nice having 2 apps instead of 5. Then a web-only admin app in TS/React/MobX, and backend services in TS/Express. Same language everywhere, and similar mental model across all FEs, is a big productivity boon at our size.
"Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is a professor of law at Yale University and was a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. "
That and the institution of the "college application essay".

Does any other country have that?
Pielke Jr is a climate-action "denialist" from a long way back, no? (claims to accept the science but then concludes there's nothing we can do about it for the foreseeable future other than adapt. This article seems to be saying "well ok some of the changes we've made are making a difference to emissions, but now there's no real need to make any more...").
This is just a fundamentally wrong way to read the Constitution. Amendments are very clear when they are intended to replace prior language; this particular part of this particular amendment does not say that.

There is also the context in which this Amendment was passed; it was not done to relieve Congress of its duty to do its job.

There is also the fact that 14th Amendment was passed 150 years ago and Congress has voted to raise the debt limit, and the President has signed those laws, many many times since then. That precedent imbues the debt limit with legal authority. It’s not like we’re just waking up today and discovering what the Constitution says.