skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and I have been, by accident! I borrowed USDC on Compound.finance a while ago, using wrapped bitcoin as collateral and the loan remains open. I was intending to just extract some equity from my BTC without selling it, not profit from crashes, but that effectively gives me a short position since I benefit from USDC being easier to buy and thus settle my debt.

Last night I bought at a ~6% discount on Gemini.
Ah. Good to know. I actually attempted something like that before this particular fix and it didn't go well. Hence I "gave up" and did it the "hard" way by hand.
Great if you want to capture your true commit activity on the ubiquitous GitHub contribution graph but... use other git workflows for the majority of your work (private, non-GitHub, local)

works regardless of what workflow you happen to have... (GitLab, BitBucket, CodeCommit, local repo only i.e. plain Git, ...)
smartly tracks useful metadata only and is customizable for privacy, etc.
full control of what's shared and what's not via filtering.
not limited to main (or any specific branch) to work
To be blunt as someone who attended Oxford and was friend with someone who ended up coxing the Blue boat, nobody gives an actual shit about rowing there. It’s just a funny tradition. Colleges boat clubs are nice because the sport is great, the two bump races are fun and the mixers are rowdy. The Boat race is seen as a funny tradition and an excuse to compete with Cambridge. It is in no way as serious as academic leagues in the USA.
no mismanagement was weeks not days. When the FED change interest rates commercial Mortgage securities were hit and SVB had exposure to that financial product.
> I always assumed adderall was first because surely it would be easier to synthesize than enantiomerically pure d-amph.

I am not a chemist/pharmacist, but I am under the impression that amphetamine synthesis is neither complicated nor recent. I am under this impression because a) References to different amphetamines are common place as early as the 40s and b) The United States has a rich criminal history of amateur methamphetamine production.
In my estimation he is not. I "remember" office for good and bad, for most of the time even when I communicated with folks next door/nearby i would still fallback to chat. Water cooler talks is what I miss actually, but if you meetup couple of times a year - you get the feel of those people. Also now that people got so used to streaming more, its often much easier to pair more effectively (if one person drives some stuff, the other person can do other checks etc.)

I do not think 10-15% degradation is underestimated.
Yeah, some think that substantial fraction will be 100%. We'll see!

I don't want to give Circle one cent of bailout money, though. And their post is saying that they are owed a full bailout because they participated in the bank run on the day of the bank run, and also begging for a full bailout. Pretty pathetic.
That’s not really a good hypothesis. Lead was not invented by the impressionists. Why would they be the first? You’d expect some kind of correlation; lead has been widely used since ancient times. How is this any better that pollution, which is known and documented?
Azure has access to your queries. Running locally really is the only way of having a privacy friendly LLM.
Pretty much anyone with friends who study chemistry would do. The problem is, no matter what you do, it is going to be very challenging proving the chain of custody to hold them accountable.
> Clean Code is mostly a premature optimization in code flexibility
> in practice the code has to be significantly changed/rewritten anyway when a business requirement change appears.

Tying these two together. Clean Code doesn't distinguish between framework code and business logic code. Or more you should write the latter like the former. The problem is writing framework code is hard to do well. It needs to be well thought out, bullet proof, and importantly well documented. That takes a lot of time and effort and running the code under a number of different use cases.

One is better off writing business logic as straight forward and goal directed as possible.
Is Bill Gate's life really all about engaging in culture wars?

I could see that argument moreso for Al Gore as he's a politician by trade but Gate's really?

And even then, where do you personally draw the line between "engaging in culture wars" and "advocating for something you believe in"
Any idea how this compares to enabling write caching on a drive or on your database layer, if you're using one? I mean other than the catastrophic effects of a sudden power outage.
>a daily reminder that Europe has better privacy protections than I do

So you're seeing the popups but not benefitting from them? What are the "better" protections that these popups are giving European users that you aren't getting by being served them as well (that isn't just better served by a good cookie / ad blocker)?

Please restrict your answer to the POPUPS specifically, as these are your daily reminder.
Not to refute what you said, but what you describe is quite similar to what we humans call rationalization, and it has been argued (e.g. by Robert Zajonc) that most of the time we make decisions intuitively and then seek a rationalization to explain them.

Also, good luck with human explanations in the presence of bias. No human is going to say that they refused a loan due to the race or sex of the applicant.
From the CCTV phone delivery story, it sounds like fraud by some delivery drivers?
If the EU was interested in privacy instead of violating privacy (privacy can be the "right to be left alone", e.g. not be harassed by door-to-door salespeople, cookie popups, etc.) it would have either fully funded Firefox or forked Firefox and fully funded it a long time ago.
Is that "second largest failure ever" after adjusting for inflation? (I have no idea, I'm not really following these things so I hope it's okay to just ask the obvious)

Edit: randomly spotted that I asked a duplicate question from another subthread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35111958 According to the reply there, it's not adjusted, so the highscore seems a bit meaningless
How can they do that right before the earning call? I thought all insiders, CEO/CFO especially, have trading windows that open after earnings call.
The cheapest place to meet at is usually some destination for tourists, ouside of vacation season of couse.
It's not always that simple. Making several thousand payments totalling as much as $100m is not "clicking a button". The process of making those transfers could be days or even weeks long. Payroll processes and the actual transacting involved typically take at least a few days.
Yeah. HR had most likely started the final bonus payout process before they knew about the bank's situation. This was just a coincidence of timing.
or perhaps it wouldn't have been able to survive to that regulation in the first place

it does seem like the current banking system is weird and full of vestigial features, they are so regulated they might as well be publicly owned
Coinbase actually does it 1:1 by proxy from Circle: you don't have to "trade" USDC-USD. They aren't right now, but they normally go above and beyond by being willing to do it on weekends, while Circle itself only operates on weekdays, and they don't want to stake their own fate towards that, so they said they are pausing doing that until Monday.
Sure, that’s the case if all your software does is make a couple of api calls and you have very few stake holders.

But when you have built a big service around an external api, you have thousands or millions of users and thousands of employees - replacing an api is not just a big technical project, it’s also a huge internal political issue for the organization to rally the necessary teams to make the changes.

People hate change, they actively resist it. The current environment is forcing companies to adapt and adopt the new technologies. But once they’ve done it, they’ll need an even bigger reason to switch apis.
They support hardware security keys like Yubikey.
> it looks too real

Yeah I've a phone with a great camera, nature shots are great, but people don't like themselves in these photos. When pressed they talk about the defects on skin and theets and eye position... Their phone beauty filters created in their mind a fake mental image of themselves and they dissociate from their real images.

It's weird. My mom brand fidelity is because Huawei specific algorithm is part of her self.
Simple solution: keep the raw image and AI it on the fly (this is a hypothetical future remember)

Bonus feature: new display devices get better trained / new AI features for free
I do recommend the Third Reich in the Ivy League as a generally good read, which highlights the significantly more nazi-sympathetic student body at harvard with the more activist population at Columbia, largely in part due to the fact that Columbia failed to attract the white elites of NYC and had a larger Jewish population as a result.

>The student athlete I knew, my roommate Tony Tomaska, was the son of a Chicago policeman. He played for the football team. He was working class, not upper class.

Yeah I don't deny that a lot of athletes are from disadvantageous backgrounds, I was only to highlight that the sports we associate w/ that fact do not make up a lot of other sports in the ivy league, and that if your goal diversity, you should just increase admissions of disadvantaged students, not use athletics as a proxy.
Why is that? I assume all banks pay their employees bonuses from their own funds. Why would a bank hold a payroll account in a second Bank?
I thought this was a great post. I've commented elsewhere that I'd be pissed at the moral hazard of unsecured depositors getting a federal bailout (though not if the feds just assist in finding a buyer or do as much as possible to ensure depositors can access their funds quickly), but at the same time I'm saddened by so much of the gleeful tribalism I see online (but not too saddened - many of the "dancing on your grave" posts stand out primarily for their stupidity).

SVB was uniquely positioned to help the startup ecosystem in a way that larger banks were not. I hope something similar replaces them (albeit with better risk controls for their asset portfolio).
If you think you understand how incentives work, think again
Elon Musk is ‘open to the idea’ of buying Silicon Valley Bank
If I had the money, I would love to build a public library of nothing but unpublished works, printed and bound in books, where every book you pull from a shelf is something that was never widely circulated, from authors you never heard of. Could even print whole blogs and comment histories of writers from around the internet.
The cascade problem is systemic: all algo stable work inevitably in a similar way, so if it starts somewhere all the protocols will reinforce the death loop. At the limit, the whole ecosystem of ether + ether-based algo stablecoins becomes terra/luna.

Crypto has no global risk manager in charge of keeping the total sum of algo stables small enough to be safe.
I am sure they noticed the smog. Besides, lots of people see and comment on things they do not understand all the time. Influence is not necessarily a conscious process.

In the same way as it is known that Monet’s painting was probably influenced by his poor sight even if there is no evidence that he did it on purpose.
What are insured maximums in the UK's equivalent of FDIC?
command line:

oathtool --totp -b 'someCode'

same as any authenticator app but you don't have to take out your phone.

On a mac it's brew install oath-toolkit to get this oathtool executable.

Then I alias in .zshrc like:

alias auth_twitter="oathtool --totp -b 'someCode'"

and backup my whole .zshrc file with all the codes. Anyone else do this? 2FA is so easy when it's just a command line thing to run.
That happened Friday. SIVB was no more at the time of the first announcement. I believe JPM will buy the husk late Sunday or very early Monday, but Twitter has different opinions. We’ll see.
Kinda funny but I just coded up a "clean link" feature in my smart RSS reader that removes all that

utm_medium=evil

garbage from links on ingest. On one level I wouldn't mind them knowing I find their content on their RSS feeds so they keep providing them, but I see duplicate articles because of this nonsense and also I was cutting them out manually when I posted articles to HN.

Of course when I put that URL filter in, I also added

ARCHIVE_TODAY = "https://archive.today/submit/?url="
return ARCHIVE_TODAY + quote_plus(url)

for sites on a list of known paywalled sites so I don't have to do that one by hand.
Officially documented by Samsung in Korean:

https://r1.community.samsung.com/t5/camcyclopedia/%EB%8B%AC-...

Ongoing arguments over what this counts as:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11or39c/samsungs_a...

https://twitter.com/search?q=samsung%20moon
They don't have athletic scholarships because admission is need-blind for all students and you will only pay what your family is able to. But they still have "slots" for athletic admissions, where each coach gets to pick who they admit, and as long as they clear the minimum bar (which is different for each sport) of GPA and test scores, they will be admitted early. It's not technically "athletic scholarships" but it may as well be.

What it does mean is that an excellent athlete from a rich family will choose Stanford over Harvard, because Stanford will pay them a scholarship even though they don't "need it." This is one reason why Stanford athletics are superior to those of Ivy League schools.
Legalities aside, I mentioned:

> Isn't that against the supposed philosophy of GNU software?
Ah! Thank you! I wasn't getting the controls for some reason.

Given how small the pure-white areas are, tbh I'm not sure I'd consider that as having "added detail". It has texture that matches the rest of the moon, but that's about as far as I'd be comfortable claiming... and that seems fine, basically an un-blurring artifact like you see in tons of sharpening algorithms.

I do think this "clip the data, look for impossible details" is a very good experiment and one that seems likely to bear fruit, since it's something cameras "expect" to encounter. I just don't think this instance is all that convincing.

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And to be clear, I absolutely believe Samsung is faking it, and hiding behind marketing jargon. The outputs are pretty ridiculous. They may not be "photoshopping on a texture", but training an AI on moon pictures and asking it to add those details to images is... well, the same thing Photoshop has features for. It makes no difference - it's not maximizing the data available, it's injecting external data, and they deserve to be slammed for that.
> The key moment for me is that I've now personally seen a GPT-3 scale model running on my own personal laptop.

I hate to pooh-pooh it for everyone, but this was possible before LLaMa. GPT-J-125m/6b have been around for a while, and are frankly easier to install and get results out of. The smaller pruned model even fits on an iPhone.

The problem is more that these smaller models won't ever compete with GPT-scale APIs. Tomorrow's local LLaMa might beat yesterday's ChatGPT, but I think those optimistic for the democratization of chatbot intelligence are setting their hopes a bit high. LLaMa really isn't breaking new ground.
> the major and minor 'scales' are the same 'scale'

Indeed, they are two modes of the same pattern. If you look at that pattern in a circle, sometimes called a "necklace", the major and minor scales are rotations of each other.

For this way of looking at music, I recommend the book A Geometry of Music by
Dmitri Tymoczko, who teaches composition and theory at Princeton.

> A Geometry of Music provides an accessible introduction to a new, geometrical approach to music theory. The book shows how to construct simple diagrams representing voice-leading relationships among familiar chords and scales. This gives readers the tools to translate between the musical and visual realms, revealing surprising structure in otherwise hard-to-understand pieces.

https://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/geometry-of-music.html

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As an intellectual companion, there's a book called The Geometry of Musical Rhythm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geometry_of_Musical_Rhythm

It's written by Godfried Toussaint, a computer scientist who discovered "Euclidean rhythms", a large set of rhythm patterns generated by a simple algorithm, many of which are common in world music traditions.

> In 2004 he discovered that the Euclidean algorithm for computing the greatest common divisor of two numbers implicitly generates almost all the most important traditional rhythms of the world.

The Euclidean algorithm generates traditional musical rhythm - http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff.pdf (PDF)
> This all changed yesterday, thanks to the combination of Facebook’s LLaMA model and llama.cpp by Georgi Gerganov.

George Hotz was so confident that he was riding the wave with his Python implementation: https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/blob/master/examples/llam.... But I guess not, pure C++ seems better.
They would sell 95B of 10-year MBSs, but ho would buy them?
https://neglectedbooks.com/
There is good chance that ~30% of deposits above 250k vanished. SVB really screwed up on trades. With equity at zero or close to zero, there is no backstop. Net present value of 2% securities that SVB loaded on is way below par.
Wasn't mixing "normal" banking with investment banking banned in the US after 2007? Or this is something else that doesn't fall into that category?
would i have better luck with a gtx 1070 with 8gb of vram or a macbook m1 pro with 16gb of ram?
One may to make it better: make versions of your extension for other browsers.
Yep, get a loan denominated in USDC. You can lever up in USDC and buy USDT with it.
Is that necessary for anyone who's on HN? The article assumes the reader is already familiar with the site.

Off the top of my head, things like voice search, Uber autonomous taxis, Tesla FSD, WeWork, NFTs, P2E crypto games, Web3.....these were hyped to the skies on HN. Even people that didn't believe the business model was viable, believed that they'd succeed anyway because of the influential people that put money into them.

Read
You are responding to a thread about federal budget balancing. This is not similar to balancing your own budget. If the federal government had no debt, the public would have no money.
For context: Stablecoin USDC depegged last night, hitting as low as $0.879. It's currently at $0.959.
Some are listed here: https://www.marketwatch.com/picks/these-8-financial-institut...

I typically check the top rates for savings, checking, and CDs each week. Deals can appear then disappear quickly. The best rates often have restrictions, but not always.
You might be right. It still looks bad for them.
As far as I know: Chomsky did not support the Khmer Rouge - he questioned information about the Cambodian genocide.

I read Henry Kissinger's China book. He seemed to be not purely happy about US Cambodia politics. (but reasons)

"Allegations of United States support for the Khmer Rouge"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_United_States_s...
Well no smart humans, but it turns out there are plenty of dumb ones.
I would also say that ADHD meds are much more susceptible to this, because the psychological effect is just so noticeable. Taking Vyvanse by itself compared with taking it with a little snack it makes quite a difference in the absorption for me; when I take it with Psyllium husk, then...

EDIT: I guess I should expand on the effects of Psyllium. I mean the meds take longer to kick in
One could ask whether halting trading of a stock is manipulation or not.

Some risks arise mostly out of urgency, and not having countermeasures could have catastrophic results which otherwise would have been avoided by pausing the process.
If Circle were operating as a fractional reserve bank where it borrowed from you by virtue of a positive bank balance, lent me 80% of that, and only kept 20%; pausing honouring withdrawals would likely be illegal.

My view of this is that it's unrealistic to expect a company to store 100% of its assets in immediately avaialable deposits whereas international regulations that apply to banks require ~30 days of liquid supply.

In this case, the legal contract between Circle and its depositors (holders of USDC) is that it'll exchange 1:1.

intrinsically, Circle seems to demonstrate that this contract isn't yet broken, but they can't continue to honour that agreement over a weekend when there's uncertainty of which avenue those funds will come from.

The selling pressure is purely from the secondary market where you're selling me USDC and I'm giving you 0.95 USD.

> Also, if they’ve got many billions in cash, why would losing access to a sliver of it justify shutting down withdrawals?

Because those billions are in T-bills that have to first be sold. And the "cash on hand" is ultimately with banks that are holding a fraction of it.

> “Trust us, it’s worth a dollar! Or don’t trust us! It doesn’t matter because you don’t have any choice but to hold USDC until we deem it advantageous to us to allow you to exchange them for real money!”

Well, "we're enabling redemption on Monday" doesn't equate to the above.

If my pastry shop runs out of already baked goods during the AM peak, I can only ask my customers to wait for me to finish baking more. If there was a pastry regulation, its review would say that I should start baking more pastries in future.
But they didn't get an image that is 100% like the initial image. It's something in between the original image with high resolution and the horrible photo of a blurred and saturated image in a monitor.
I've got a Yubikey but the hole in it wore out, I have a newer Yubikey and was going to reinforce the hole but never got around to it.

I like this one

https://winauth.github.io/winauth/download.html

but never got in the smartphone habit.
How to organize your books, according to people with thousands of them
https://archive.ph/2UrCc
They didn't pause anything. The US banks did, by not working in the weekend (for large sums).

If you had 1 billion USD with your favorite US bank, that would be paused too right now.
> Fine, save SVB, funded by a 1-off 100% wealth tax on anyone worth over $10m in silicon valley.

The interesting part to this is that if wealth (assets) were taxed thusly, they would probably lose a lot of value when liquidated to pay taxes, thus decreasing the realized taxable amount. As I understand it, a similar principle was behind SVB’s “losses” as well.
Yeah, this is why my personal money is split between 4 banks, I make sure to have Visa and Mastercard, etc. I have seen bank computer outages, fraud, and other stupid shit that shuts part of the system down, and I want my money to be highly available.

There should be no reason not to run a company the same way.
A really nice feature of Fastmail is "virtual domains" where you can receive emails on multiple domains in the one inbox. It's a 5 min job to setup email capability (including wildcard addressing) on any new domain you get.
They've made it very simple and easy to configure.
FDIC just took over a failing bank and wants to spin it out quickly. To do that, you need to know where the bodies are buried. With that in mind, it’s better to keep the existing people in place for as long as possible.

Remember, this is a short-term gig and there is no guarantee that there will be a job for them after this has all played out. As an incentive to keep the existing people around, they need a carrot to keep them from getting a new (more stable) job.
>These just didn't happen on the same time scale, and bonuses can't be undone in a matter of days with employees expecting them and even contracts demanding them.

Exactly.

Only withdrawals by account holders, regular bank employee salaries, and corporate salaries depending on the bank can be undone in a matter of minutes. Never executive bonuses.

/s