skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not like the entire 160b at svb went poof. Fdic takes everything svb had and that covers A LOT more than just 250k per customer. Sure a little bit off the top would have been missing, but yellen figured covering that small gap out of the fdic's pocket was worth calming down the panic. All other banks will be assessed a little bit more for their fdic coverage and the fdic is made whole in just a few months.

So if anything it's a small short term loan from the money taxpayers already set aside as the fdic to cover the gap at svb.

No money getting printed, no tax hikes.
If I keep seeing the same idiotic lie, I'll keep calling it an idiotic lie. I don't care if it's coming from the same person or not.

You seem to want to denigrate other people, then put words in their mouth and insult them for what you imagined. Then arrogantly insult other people's ability to perform basic logic, but when your straw man is pointed out you cry victim.

Your numbers are only as good as your assumptions, and when you keep insisting on ridiculous assumptions like people treating EVs exactly like ICEs in spite of there being cheaper, more convenient options that don't lead to the conclusion you decided on before you started you will get ridiculous numbers.

Driving less is similarly an option to contribute. People do it everywhere the infrastructure lets them.
Until we can have open season on MBA’s and lawyers to thin the herd we can’t change anything
Yup, and a vanilla install will cost say 150$. Non vanilla installs still exist on the price list.

Mini splits transform HVAC into Lego, and a competitive market for install is the future.
Medical research cleared this hurdle a long time ago. Table 1 is always demographics of your population sample, allowing outsiders to assess your generalizability by age, gender, race, and a host of other factors that are often context-dependent.
> seems exploitative to me

It would have been had the photographer made a lot of money off of the images, for instance.

He didn't. He was an art professor for most of his life- certainly did not significantly profit off of his art.

He interacted with the subjects and sent prints to them after the fact.

Would it be better if shocking poverty is not photographed?
A Chief Diversity Officer owns a slice of the HR organization dedicated specifically to DEI issues, the same as a CTO in a (non-tech-industry) firm owns a specialized slice of the information organization.
Vinyl records outsell CDs for first time in decades
Excellent point actually, I think those examples made me adjust my opinion a bit. Chief Security Officer I don't really agree is analogous, because while all teams are responsible for security, there is enough "independent security work" (e.g. managing infrastructure and IT security) to warrant their own teams.

But I think Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Risk Officer are pretty analogous - their main directive is to ensure other teams adjust their behaviors to follow the rules. I think the difference, though, is that these roles have unambiguous, and in many cases legally defined, requirements. I actually think it is the right moment to argue those are effective - SVB famously went without a Chief Risk Officer for a year despite having an unusually high number of risk committee meetings. We've all seen what happens when companies don't take risk and compliance seriously.

With things that are "fuzzier" (and by "fuzzier" I mean real but ill-defined/hard to measure impacts on the business of making money) it's just too difficult to have impact on teams you don't own. A Chief Risk Officer can easily make the case "If you don't do what I say, our company will fail - like, completely cease to exist in 2 days." I don't think a Chief Diversity Officer has the luxury of that sense of immediacy.

In any case, thanks for helping me think about this a little more broadly.
What is / which Pinecone?

I'm not seeing any one obvious candidate in the GitHub repo results if this is a popular tool.

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Pinecone&type=rep...
If you've just read the HN discussion here, please click through to the article. The photographs are spectacularly good.

This one in particular made me stop reading: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/802853306d66c60d2e1dedb8ec2e2... (large size than what is in the the article).
Signature bank, which also collapsed last week, had Barney frank (of Dodd-Frank banking regulation) on its board.

Life doesn't get any better.
People love the idea of Superman because he can do everything. I think there is a psychological need to have a machine that can do everything and these AI tools feel like we’re not far off at times. Close to the supernatural.

I think there is some deep psychology at play that makes us want to believe we’re about to solve all the things we’re insecure about.

Being good at art, being good at speaking or writing, handling the idea of mortality, being great at maths.

We’ve decided that we want machines that can outdraw everyone, in all cases, with zero limitations, and we might be, but we’re also happy to overlook some of the floors and setbacks of such systems to believe there we’ve solved art.

As someone who’s played with these tools and as someone who has done a lot of illustrating in my life, as a hobby, I can still tell you that there ares setbacks, which are, these tools don’t read minds…I still don’t get to produce what’s in my minds eye. I can come close but it is a different product that’s produced. The pros are they do make some great art.

TL;DR nothing is perfect…
Banks don’t need that much liquidity unless some exceptional thing happens, like a bank run.

SVB had enough assets to cover all the deposits. Problem was that they couldn’t convert those assets (long maturity treasuries) back to cash fast enough.

Now there is a facility in place that lets you convert those treasury notes to cash as soon as needed.
If you're doing full loads of laundry or dishes there isn't a difference. In the case of laundry you're probably using too much detergent if you're eyeballing it and using the same amount as pods if you're measuring.
She and the CEO sold a ton of stock in Dec 2021 and the bank risk committee met 18 times in 2022 so the writing was probably on the wall in Dec 2021
Must be driving really fast.
That was true several years ago, yes, back when GitHub Actions was super new and pretty crappy...
Int-4 LLaMa is not enough – Int-3 and beyond
I am clearly not your target audience. (Around here we measure AC/heat pumps in tons, not BTU and mount them outside the home.) But I'm willing to provide (fairly obvious) feedback.

Price: yikes!
Other: I stopped at price. Clearly you were expecting this because you hid the price underneath 10 pages of stuff I didn't read while I scrolled to find the price.

Even people who would spend that kind of money are going to see a Juicero logo on your product. I may be wrong, but you will really need to elevate your sales pitch to survive long term. Do you have a $2000 toy model that people can use for their garage or basement/attic apartment before they gamble bigger money?
Who is now being sued for practicing without a law degree.
Sure:

https://gist.github.com/cmcconomy/fa9cad3fda009e522264ea8a21...

https://gist.github.com/cmcconomy/9bca20856a6a48704555bc8dcf...

Hope this helps!
Other commenters here seem to think MJ5 has solved the problem, are they wrong ? I don’t know just curious.
You can self-host Sentry in a docker container. It's pretty easy to get running, and essentially free.
The south is indeed still deeply racist. I lived in Charleston SC for several years and was exposed to plenty of it. People like Dylan Roof and the McMichael family don't come out of nowhere. Doesn't mean there aren't Black and white people who do get along.
I’d recommend not using preformat for quoting, or using a very short line width if you do. Your comment is rather unreadable on the mobile version of the site for wrapping 4/5 of the way through each line, then hitting a hard EOL two words later.
It is BreachForums, which had a front page post here just three months ago.

There's no English language coverage of this event. Yes it's real and widely covered in Chinese language news.

The repo on github was trending yesterday, presumably entirely from traffic driven by Chinese language news sources. https://github.com/davinci1010/pinduoduo_backdoor
I posit that it is both.

Dealing with interactivity in the browser is subtle, complex and full of edge cases. JavaScript is also a horrible, broken language that’s not really fit for purpose. We’ve collectively invested a lot of time and resources trying to improve the experience of working with it, but the point still stands.
They are 5-10% total return, not annual. My point is that it is not a bad investment, it’s just a less-good investment than equivalent bonds with the exact same (extremely low!) risk profile at today’s rates. They were a perfectly fine investment in 2021-22, they just aren’t as attractive in 2023. Could very well be good again in 2024 though, who knows.
> a logo is not just an icon that you aesthetically like, it’s a communication tool

Some years ago my then-employer saw fit for me to be included in a meeting talking about the company's new logo.

I attended a presentation from a couple guys in marketing, who seemed to be quite proud of what they'd done. It was an hour-long presentation talking about how the relative merits of the subtle hues of blue and orange with oblique angles, versus green and white with rounded edges.

They freely admitted that in addition to spending two or three employee-weeks on this, they had used some...not exactly big bucks, but medium-sized bucks, on a consultant for a week, and felt the results were good and it was time and money well spent.

I then cogently pointed out that it only takes 20 minutes put the first letter of the company's name in the font, select colors and backgrounds, and draw a circle or a polygon or something around it. As proof, I showed my laptop; I'd opened up Inkscape within the first 5 minutes of the meeting and knocked out a perfectly serviceable logo in the next 20 minutes while they were talking about the psychology of the color purple.

I've never made a buying decision for a product in my life based on a logo. And putting this amount of time into the exercise was a foolish waste of time and money; we ought to be building features and documentation.

One of my closest coworkers within that company, who witnessed the whole situation, later explained to me that there is apparently a whole... something to logo design that I utterly and completely just don't get. I don't pretend to understand it, I suppose I felt like a deaf person might feel when someone tries to explain to them what music is.

This was a little bit fascinating, a little bit enlightening, a little bit horrifying, and also terribly confusing.

I didn't have to worry about it much though, because for some reason I was never invited to any future meetings about logos, website CSS, or other branding decisions :)

I'm tempted to ask parent (or anyone reading this) for resources that might help me better understand this world that I was told exists but I know nothing about. I'm actually not too sure if there are tutorials for my level that will help me, or if I'm so "deaf" that trying to learn this stuff is completely hopeless for me.
> > It reminds one of how people like to pretend that Elon's money is because his family had an emerald mine.

Well, would he be a billionaire, if he didn't inherit an emerald mind?

> Do you think that a significant percentage of wealth inheritors go on to immigrate across the world and invent electric cars and reusable rockets?

What portion of people who inherit no wealth whatsoever, do that? What portion become billionaires? Well, that can't be that hard to find out:

https://ips-dc.org/the_self-made_hallucination_of_americas_r...

Looking at forbes 400, 22% have backgrounds with inheritances up to 1 million, 11.5% over 1 million, 7% over 50 milllion, and another 21.25% earned their way onto forbes 400 through inheritance alone. So that leaves 22% of forbes 400 maybe not having inherited that much, although the category is shared with people who inherited up to 1 million.

That's just regarding inheritance, there's also the simple side effects of growing up in a wealthy family such as having the best educational (read: networking) opportunities money can buy, having the best healthcare on earth, being well fed, etc.

I think thus it's very easy to guess that Elon would not be a hundred billionaire, or billionaire at all, if he was the exact same brain born to some working class family in south africa.
There’s a danger of confusing the problems with actually existing AI ethics work for evidence that there’s no need to ethically evaluate AI.

On any moral realist view, AI will likely be extremely important. And insofar as ethical standards are used to organise society, ethical views on the use of AI will likely be developed in the same way as they are at least very weakly developed and observed in most other fields, so an understanding of them will be important for understanding society simpliciter.
People forget that things like federal monitoring of elections weren’t limited to the South. Places like NYC and Boston were and in some ways still are very inhospitable to black people.

Slavery was a tool of control. Explicit control of the enslaved people and implicit control of the poor whites and others on the fringe of society. The intersection of race, class and poverty paints a picture that is complex.
How do you brick a machine with venvs?
They are, but the team who trained Stable Diffusion are from academia. Stability sponsored the model training costs.
That depends on the species. Farmed catfish eat mostly soybeans and corn (maize).
The placeholder value would not be a valid value for those operations, and you would get a parse-time error when attempting to group or otherwise match on values where you didn't exclude the possibility of the placeholder value. Like how in some programming languages you get a compile-time error on `foo.bar()` when `foo` may be null, but for example `if (foo != null) { foo.bar(); }` compiles, because within the `if` body `foo` is now non-optional.

Similarly, in a database language the column/field references would be typed as optional or non-optional, and you are only allowed to perform value-related operations on non-optional references. And an optional reference can be made non-optional by first passing the data to a condition equivalent to SQL's `IS NOT NULL`, for example. Or for operations that can support NULL (like maybe sorting), those would have a different form for supporting NULLs. For example, plain `ORDER BY` would cause a parse-time error when applied to a nullable column where NULL has not been filtered away, but `ORDER BY ... NULLS FIRST` (or `LAST`) would be applicable to nullable columns. Similarly for grouping, there would be options if you do want to include a NULL group, but by default it wouldn't type-check.

But you wouldn't get the nonintuitive behavior of SQL where NULLs sometimes act like NaNs, for example `NULL not in ('foo', 'bar')` evaluating to false, and `NULL in (NULL, 'foo', 'bar')` also evaluating to false.
I was about to give him the benefit of a doubt, but literally 6 seconds in there is a French republic flag in the bottom left. No need to search on Google.
I mean if you want an honest answer, nuke any place that's making GPUs/TPUs. I mean, they don't spring up out of the ground and at least our current models require insane amounts of GPU/TPU based compute. The factories are fragile billion dollar facilities, well beyond the difficulty of extracting uranium.

Now, that probably just delays the world eating machine for some time, but it would be a hell of a lot harder to make anything like our top of the line models without access to massive amounts of both compute and data.

The hard problem isn't making the world eating machine. The hard problem that silicon valley doesn't give a shit about is making the world eating machine even safe enough to be on the same planet as without it melting the entire crust when you say "oh, it's a little chilly out today".

Inner alignment is completely unsolved and the pace at which we are solving any alignment issues is much, much slower than the rate we are making gains in intelligent unaligned machines.
From your comment, it sounds like managed to find a price for this unit. I’m on my phone, and the preorder page says nothing more than a $100 deposit. Why would anyone order this without the full price bring front and center? Is this a mistake or are these people hiding this info?
It is ridiculous but not uncommon. I knew of scientists who "made it big" after working in a national lab by patenting what they made, starting a company, and then selling it back to uncle sam.
Source for the loss? So far I haven't seen the real number after these asset sales.
Edward Diego works at Microsoft confirmed.
The images in the article I think shows character, people surviving in difficult situations. There is humanity in every photo.

Maybe they wanted to be remembered? For people to see the truth of who they are, where they are?
Thing is, what gets called "AI ethics" actually has approximately* nothing to do with AI.

It's all about whichever field the particular use-case belongs to, and would lose nothing by seeing the AI as a black box.

* IIRC there have been issues with models that find correlations being presented as finding causality. That is something that belongs to AI as a field; other people can't evaluate your stuff accurately if you've misinformed them about its capabilities.
There are a lot of different things called "Lidar" : at a minimum, Structured Light, Time of Flight, and triangulation are the three most common methods. Within each method, there are vastly different approaches - scanning vs. single-frame, frequency modulated vs. pulsed, and more.

Each approach comes with different trade-offs suited to different use-cases. In the case of the iPhone rear camera, I believe the approach used is single-frame pulsed Lidar using a VCSEL (vertical cavity surface-emitting laser), a dot-grid diffuser, and SPAD (single photon avalanche diode) CMOS camera.

Basically, a shifting grid of dots at a very specific wavelength is projected outwards from the laser, and an unbelievably, photon-level sensitive camera tuned to that precise wavelength measures how long each dot takes to come back after it's emitted. In this way, Time of Flight can be measured and a precise distance determined.

This system provides incredibly high resolution at a moderate distance (in this case, 5m or so) at a moderate cost.

For a car, this system wouldn't be very plausible due to range, resolution, and output power constraints. The size of laser required to emit a coherent dot matrix which could reflect at a long distance would grow to an extreme degree, the noise floor of the SPAD would eventually render the system useless, and the amount of data required to produce a higher resolution dot cloud would become quite challenging, as these systems generally need to be heavily filtered and sub-sampled, so an enormous amount of input data processing is required to produce a reasonable output.

The main reason that Tesla don't use Lidar is that they decided to bet on optical (IMO, foolish), but the reason they decided to bet on optical is complex and definitely in no small way cost driven. They couldn't just slap an array of iPhone sensors (I believe they're Sony-manufactured) on a Tesla and call it good.
And of 1.36% in Tesla?
> Wow, so party line vote? Interesting.

I don't know. I didn't look up the vote. My point was that it wasn't only Trump and instead involved hundreds of others.
I'd say it suggests that the banks that were most succesful in growing and attracting depositors were the ones with the best customer service overall.

Problem is, those are also the most finicky, nitpicking customers in the market, and they will bail faster than you can do an equity raise...

Does anyone believe another bank would have collapsed as quickly, even with the same MBS portfolio and impaired loans..if it was composed by a random assortment of customers vs highly networked small opcos + their investors ?
Exactly, the banks that practiced sound risk management get to subsidize the banks that didn’t. Textbook moral hazard.
If there was a way to pay small fee to read just one article, say $1 article, I would pay. Someone needs to come up with micropayment system that works for news media. Another alternative that may work is a single subscription that gives you access to all major publications, similar to what Spotify did for music. Did anyone try building a startup like that? Would it be possible to get major publications on board for that kind of system?
don't forget benefits, hardware, support staff portion, and possibly office. We typically calculate 50% over... so that's 120k at a likely low end.

we run ghe at work and I know we spend 8 hours 4+ times a year for a test upgrade and then an upgrade from an eng that makes above either of your estimates in salary alone.

None of this includes all the work we're not doing to build new integrations or features in the ci system that we get for pay for the product. But we're not a scrappy startup either. We're paying down much of the tech debt from being a scrappy startup, it's not been cheap.
We don't really know that Whatsapp has achieved challenge #1.

Regardless, here are two big reasons why Signal is superior.

1. Not owned by Facebook

2. Open Source
It is still much faster/cost-effective thanks to the unified memory. Would be interested in building out a PC as soon as something comparable becomes available.
You can sense the dynamics or tension between Eric(their techinical co-founder) and Dean,OP. There seems to be a very distinct separation like Eric will not answer questions on HN and Eric wants Dean to point out demo apps are not created by him (either it is credit issue or perceived lower quality issue). There is no we or us. When there is a strong trust or good team dynamics, there is no such strong indiviudal characteristics
China’s Mars Rover Has Not Moved Since September, NASA Images Revealed
I see these pics and I don't see poverty - I see beauty, pride and happiness.

Look at the guy lounging with his back to the car or the guy with his back to the tree in [1]. Can you imagine trying to tell them they are being exploited?

Or that the photo of the girl in [2] isn't a stunningly beautiful image?

And once needs to be careful considering poverty and the date these pics were taken. These people look well dressed, and the couple kissing clearly have jobs (see the hard hat hanging up). I had cousins who grew up in the 1980 in conditions that weren't massively different to this and we never considered them poor at all.

Or consider this: Are the pics in [3] of 1980's SF more of less exploitative?

[1] https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bee576fea518043e1164ded4f42ca...

[2] https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/802853306d66c60d2e1dedb8ec2e2...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/30/public-matters...
The apologists here are not surprising
If you have control problems with cannabis, I suggest you stay well away from psychedelics. Everything that you mentioned regarding your cannabis experience is something that you learn to integrate and eventually move past, to super-creative super-introspective states that you can harness for growth and value. You can learn to guide the experience while you're undergoing it.

Psychedelics are in a different class in that there is no guiding the experience while it's happening. The best one can do is prepare the context (set & setting) and hope for the best. In that sense, they're a lot more difficult to handle than cannabis, but also potentially orders of magnitude more rewarding. But to reap those rewards, I feel that one needs to deploy -if only temporarily- a different model of looking at the world: more like a shaman treating the substances like sacraments, with awe and respect, than a cold rationalist.