skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easily my highest utility script so far was to get an edge while picking classes. At my university there were some classes which were very competitive and there was also system where tranches of students would get access to those classes earlier (e.g. groups of honors students -> groups of seniors -> juniors, etc). I was a lowly sophomore at the time, so I basically got what was left over.

Before I could register I could see most classes I wanted to take had plenty of availability except for one which was almost full. That class would make my schedule perfect (no classes before 10am, everything ending before 4PM, good teachers), so I was ready the moment my group got access. I logged into the janky Java applet and saw that my desired class was full. Dismayed, but not giving up, I refreshed the class list to see if someone might drop during the drop-add week. Nope, still full, but there was still time for someone to change their mind and for me to slip in. I was going to need an edge.

Another peculiarity of this system was that it was definitely a weird Java app based on some type of main frame. It must have been around for a decade at least. One of the signs of its age was that you had a limited amount of time per day during which you could be logged into the system, something like 90 minutes a day.

So I did what any good hacker would: I made _really_ good use of that limited time. I wrote an AutoHotkey script which would automatically log in, traverse all the menus and attempt to sign me up for that class. It was much faster than a human, so each run barely put a dent in my logged-in time allotment. As a cherry on top, I wired it up to a python script to push notify me if it succeeded.

After letting it run for two days, some false alarms, and tweaking, I got a delightful "You're registered!" notification on my phone and found that it had successfully gotten me the class I wanted. I'm still chasing that high to this day.
Simple:

low temp -> make large logits larger, more confident output, but diversity suffers

high temp -> vice versa, diverse outputs, quality could suffer
USD is offered in this format.

Taxation is the burn. They print/mint money through lending and remove/burn it from circulation by taxation.

Which is why MM theory is all about all government spending coming from the creation side, and that taxation never leads to spending.
Is that not what the median is?
Not at all. But if I have to decide between two people who are equal “on paper”, and I know someone who can vouch for one of them, I will pick the “in-network” person every time.
They are still dedicated towards trying to advance humanity and I think that's more important than non-profit status. (For the record, I'm uncertain whether they are net positive or not given that I am skeptical of their approach to safety).
They can move into the meta-verse.
I understand you completely. For me also it was a turning point, but the real nail in the coffin was when they shut down Inbox. That was when it went from a new Google product being interesting and getting in there early to every Google product being eyed with distrust and reluctance.
This is what got me into programming way back when. I was a recruiter and doing things in spreadsheets, and I was like, I need a way to link data in a 3rd dimension, not just on the x and y axis. And then I was like actually if 3 dimensions why not 4 or more? So I asked on like, stackoverflow or something, do spreadsheets like that exist, and someone answered "you're basically describing a database with linking between tables," which led to me rabbitholing, learning more, getting into programming, and changing careers.
And of course no one has shorted the stocks. /s
I think the main goal is to prevent a wider banking crisis and this spiraling out of control. That would surely affect everyone..
Can we use NAPI and JNI together to bridge nodejs and Java/Android
That's exactly what I did. I also switched to a new browser, email provider, and search engine. Haven't looked back since :)
as i understand it, they hadn't marked-to-market their hold-to-maturity securities (because that's why you classify securities as htm, so you don't have to mark them to market) but their market value had fallen sharply (because of interest rates rising), so that their liabilities did exceed the actual market value of their assets

in that sense their solvency after about september was just an accounting fiction

i'm not even an accountant though, so please take this with a grain of salt, and let me know if i'm wrong
I am a paying PA customer and I love the service but I am kinda surprised they only just reached those figures. They have great market awareness in my circles but it just goes to show that developers are stingy and conservative and it's a hard market to do well in. If feel they should b making 10x this number by now given they are internationally known and the biggest alt to a gigantic usecase
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Can we use NAPI and JNI together to bridge Node and Java/Android applications
I assume you know the answer? Or are just pulling facts out of nowhere?
I am currently having the same experience
> It's a basic shell feature that every terminal user should know from day 1. Hardly a "trick".

> That's not gatekeeping. I'm pretty sure anyone that points out `<` would like anyone that doesn't know it to become familiar with it.

Can't see it being pointed out here. No snark intended.
And then other companies will start withdrawing their cash from a bunch of other regional banks crashing the whole banking system..

So no I don’t think they should take “some hit”.
> Microsoft would be stuck in the same dilemma if, say, someone came up up with a futuristic-looking disruption in the spreadsheet space and Google Sheets was quick to adapt to it.

I feel like they basically are. It’s probably been close to a decade and Google’s online collaborative features in their office suite is far and above what Microsoft has managed to cobble together.
I get 220ms/token on an M1 8GB Macbook Air, so ChatGPT speeds. on a 32GB M1 Max it babbles faster than my ex-gf.
I actually think that open source AI will be a terrible idea for sufficiently advance AI for the same reasons that open source nukes or bioweapons would be a mistake. So I'd be very happy to see them change their name to ClosedAI.
> So you want government to provide complete health insurance, after all.

Yes. This would be the single biggest boon to small business the US had ever enacted.
Understanding the Structure of Mathematical Writing Using Graphs
Ah ! This album !

I was a huge fan of Daft Punk and I bought that disc day one.

Well, I totally hated it when I first listened to it.

It was probably too different from their previous work.

Still, I listened it again, not that terrible. Again, actually pretty cool. Again, incredible. And after multiple listenings, I finally accepted that, at least to me, it was just a masterpiece and I totally missed it.

And now, already a decade later, I have a strong feeling of nostalgia every time I stumble upon it and it’s one of my favorite music albums ever.

Still, I cannot describe why I love it so much. It just talks to me.

I wouldn’t even recommend it nowadays because if you are like me, you’ll not appreciate it by listening to it once on Spotify.

Or maybe I’m wrong, it’s just awesome and I was the one having a block. In this case, I’d recommend you to avoid listening to this track or this track but go for the full album because it was totally made like a full art piece.

And it’s actually a nice album to listen in background.

[/fanboy]
HSBC takes over Silicon Valley Bank’s UK unit in rescue deal
Has nothing to do with flooding the world with cheap money which chased unrealistic yields. Systemic excess liquidity when deposited needs excess assets to balance. Assets which were bought at inflated prices. The question now is only how much will this house of cards collapse.
That's a reasonable position to take and probably makes a lot of business sense.

Yet it's great to see that there are alternatives emerging as this forces OpenAI/Microsoft to innovate and hopefully limits their ability to hike up prices once they've captured the market in a year or two.

We don't really need another quasi uncontested tech monopoly
Depends on jurisdiction.
One of the simplest piece of code, to help a colleague from a non IT department. Excel VBA hash count to show duplicates. Their management instructed them to use a copy/paste nested formula trick which was exponentially slower. It was 1 second now. Turned her week of dread (thousands of rows) into 1h of simple work. 8 Lines of code, 6 minutes.
A lot of people would lose money and the system would have to change.
My first one was Google Notebook. Reader was critical.
Probably the same VCs that had interest in SVP taking higher risk before hand...
It seems odd to pair the e-ink screen with fairly high spec/priced hardware.
Here is one answer to my question, I guess: the common misconception that a dense city must imply a concrete jungle, while in reality it means the ability to have high rises next to natural parks and forests—and in fact much more expansive ones than if you have each of the same number of humans occupy acres of ground area.
It requires forethought in many cases. Cat-initiated pipelines can be built iteratively in a natural fashion.
> What's the basis for that insolvent since September claim?

See: https://archive.is/IMgxM / https://twitter.com/ByrneHobart/status/1628779894183272452
I want my software to be visionary – the go go golems ecosystem
Yes, but it seems irresponsible that a bank would follow a plan like that knowing they don’t have control over when depositors ask for their money back.
Looks very interesting, thanks! Apple noob here.
>I'm sorry but if this "revolution" was designed to change behavior, it was an abject failure.

Like I said, it remains to be seen. The results of the loss of free extra labor (via quiet quitting), loss of employer power over wages (via a small replacement birth wage) and loss of profits (via less spending) take time to work their way through the system.

The ultimate goal in my opinion is to allow workers barely enough to make ends meet and for them to not have any lasting wealth. Once they reach retirement age they are someone else's problem then(probably just go off and die somewhere).

>"Quiet quitting" was concocted in a board room to get people to do their jobs and stop complaining.

Im really just using the definition to describe the behavior of workers no longer bothering to over work themselves.

>If you're an employer, you want a team of "quiet quitters" who will do their job and nothing else. It's infinitely easier to manage...

Many employers would disagree and say you are leaving extra value on the table.
at this point they've promised to make svb's depositors whole, by levying a special assessment on all other banks if need be

if they had done that 60 hours earlier svb would be fine
On the one hand, I love seeing ways to make Python faster with low effort. It's awesome to see projects like this which can compile static executables. Nuitka is another cool project, but with a focus on compatibility instead of speed.

On the other hand, part of me laments the gargantuan effort people have collectively spent trying to make Python fast, rather than improving other languages to be competitive with it. Python's ecosystem is probably the biggest factor right now contributing to its popularity, but I think that without resorting to "tricks", it will never be fast (by tricks, I mean restricting usage to certain features, adding static types, forbidding the usage of popular libraries, etc)
HSBC to Buy UK Arm of Silicon Valley Bank
Higher probably responses are not necessarily “truthful” or “logical” in any given context.

Here* you can see an example of what happens when you always choose the highest probability.

[*] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
Even biggest Llama is like 1/3 size of ChatGPT
The ability to mint money is unlimited. The ones being eventually bailed in will be foreign debt holders via inflation.
Yeah, like credit unions
What you're glossing over is that when the employers suddenly lose most or all of their liquid assets and don't have perfect positive cash flow, then they cannot pay their employees.
Why is it a solvency crisis? The 10 year bonds, if held to maturity, cover the assets, no? It’s that they can’t offload the bonds in the current environment because there are more attractive bonds of the same duration.

All of these assets and accounts have to look extremely attractive to the largest institutions that can absorb them without increasing the risk to their own books.
I had the same. After Reader, I was a bit grumpy but, well, found other alternatives.

After Inbox tho... I went through the 5 stages of grief and started degooglifying my life. Made an okay setup with neomutt (and TripIt*) which I can trust would stay around longer than any Google ad-focused product.

(* I mainly liked Inbox for its travel organizer)
What's the minimum spec GPU required? NVIDIA only? Any differences between Debian and Fedora Linuxes? RAM required?
I thought that Google Wave had a lot of unrealised potential, in addition to Reader. Still sorry they killed that, too.
I also liked Google+ it was where I could manage my tech social stuff without participating in the madness that Facebook was becoming.
Doesn't matter. The rules are the rules.
This is complete and utter nonsense. If SVB had enough assets to cover liabilities they could have borrowed as much money as they needed to cover and possible bank run.

On top of that, by simply saying "we have enough assets, anyone who wants their deposits will get them", they would halt the bank run on the spot.
Why are Javascript and Elisp the two worst languages for programming in the large, and what does programming in the large mean?
I've shied away from using preassembled vim toolkits, but I saw the pre-release for AstroVim 3.0 (just released) & really appreciated how configuration is now done in each plugin's native format, with AstroVim defaults one can extend (or ignore).

Previously AstroVim like many toolkits had it's own configuration system, which was top down & not 1:1 for the plugins. Now there's a much more bottom-up configurability granted to users, and the existing docs on configuring whichever plugin still stand.

This has greatly assuage my concerns abouts picking an off the shelf vim toolkit & I've become a happy new AstroVim convert.

I also appreciate the leap from the Packer plugin manager — which AstroVim 2 & I had been using — to lazy.nvim. It's much faster & requires much less hand holding. Most work is async, automatically compiled. And LazyVim detects changes & deals with it, rather than needing to kick the plugin manager.

Really great set of leading edge tools, well integrated here. Sensible defaults for a lot of good things one would have to wire up themselves. Divine option to have. The switch in configuration style should become a textbook example of core computing principles, is such a night & day practical difference: an example of how dangerous over-encapsulation can be & how nice having a less compositional & more aggregative model can be.

There's a decent amount of good discussion on Reddit on the new 3.0: https://old.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/11ntuef/astronvim_v...
HSBC Acquires Silicon Valley Bank for £1
Precisely made for "creating a new language, interpreter, and compiler from scratch": http://craftinginterpreters.com
> Yeah, the fees and lower interest rates from this will be pretty brutal for the poor.

I'm fairly sure the poor aren't that affected by interest rates - the very definition of being poor is not owning much in the way of assets that could earn interest...
10 year bonds are liquid in that they are sellable at market rates but are more exposed to interest rate changes.
Depositors are backstopped, but shareholders are hosed.

Isn’t the market pruning bad banks good? I would be more concerned about the consolidation of small banks into larger ones.
> Depositors in a bank are not investors in that bank.

No, they’re not. But until just now depositors in any other bank assumed the risk for any deposit in excess of $250K… and if these depositors weren’t morally different than the depositors that would absolutely have lost their wealth in excess of $250K when their chosen bank did a stupid thing, then they’d have paid the piper just like you and I would have.

These special depositors are getting special treatment and aren’t suffering what countless non-special depositors have suffered… the rules are changing because of who took the risk, that’s the very definition of moral hazard at work.
A containerized version of this thing would be def useful, as it installs global packages and assumes a lot of preinstalled binaries. The node image won't work alone tho, you'll python, pip, git, cpp compiler
This article claims they demoed successfully in front of scientists at a national lab.
4 bits is ridiculously little. I'm very curious what makes these models so robust to quantization.
> this new mandate to protect all depositors

I don't think that exists. They're walking the line between theory (250K max) and reality (want to preserve everyone's deposits in most cases). For smaller banks they routinely sell the failed institutions whole to achieve the later. For larger banks like SVB they may need to get creative.

So making it official would be a problem (congress is unlikely to approve unlimited coverage) but handling it on a case by case basis works out and avoids moral hazard.
Aaron Klein (former Treasury official, now with Brookings) agrees with you:

>There are just under 5,000 banks in America ... the right answer for the number of banks to fail in a year is greater than zero. If you have no bank failing, then you probably have bigger problems in the economy. Look, the first time in American history you went a year without a bank failure was 2005. 2006 was the second year and the regulators told us at the time, that they'd won, that this was great regulation, see, no one was failing, the system couldn't be safer. Kablooey.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzQx4qmMcJI#t=4m5s>
HSBC buys Silicon Valley Bank UK, protecting deposits
But then you don't have the convenience and liquidity of a bank account. The system works because the bank can invest the aggregate deposits of all depositors and still be ready to cash people out as needed (of course, barring a situation like this one, which is what the deposit insurance is for).
It's not just that. A bond's price is simply the sum of its discounted future cash flows. i.e. the coupon value divided by (1+) the interest rate. When interest rates rise, the price goes down.
I meant in the regolith. Can't say if it exceeded the speed of sound in the medium there but given typical impact speeds it probably did. But we can call it a quake if you prefer.
That may well be but a single for profit company like Microsoft will be a terrible guardian of that.

Future OpenAI usage limitations:

- anything illegal in the US and your country

- anything MS deems immoral and ethically problematic

- and anything that competes with Microsoft.
Yes, they are, really.

Do you work for Tether by any chance? Only a person living in the cave for the past five years wouldn't know the history of Tether at least in part.

Relevant links:

- https://amycastor.com/2019/01/17/the-curious-case-of-tether-...

- https://bitfinexed.medium.com/tether-is-setting-a-new-standa...

To quote NY Attorney General, "Tether’s claims that its virtual currency was fully backed by U.S. dollars at all times was a lie"
Not just to pay old requests. To pay revenue sharing / dividends / interest to shareholders. A Ponzi scheme is repurposing inflows to appear as revenue to a fake business.
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I wish we could interview those scientists to hear what they think of this AGI goal.

I'm not convinced this will work.
There is a link to LiveATC. It isn't clearly labeled, but that isn't required in the TOS and since this site has been up since at least November of 2021, I expect they're fine with it.
If you were running a cartel you would want to hire the best enforcers from the erst while cartels.

I think in the World War Z novel they hired the best administrator from the Apartheid era to enforce Zones of containment.
This is why I wrote "likely", but as for facts, I know that SVB's CEO has sold his stocks on March 1 for $3M (in addition to a number of earlier sells). And according to Bloomberg short sellers made at least $500M in profits: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-10/shorts-ma... I absolutely will not be surprised if in the future we will learn that some enterprising individuals connected to the VC crowd have helped to trigger the run in the right time for them.
I feel this is the crucial missing bit of information. The rules allow Wiley E Coyote to run over the cliff without looking down.

When I was running a fund we'd always think about the current mark to market. People would get in trouble for marking their books away from the market. How is it that is allowable to pretend things are worth more than they are?
Another answer in the thread said this:

> I'm pretty sure there's a mistake here: https://github.com/cocktailpeanut/dalai/blob/main/index.js#L... , there's a ${suffix} missing

> It causes the quantization to process to always use the first part of the model if using a larger size than 7B. I don't even know what this stuff does, but I see the ggml-model-f16.bin files have ggml-model-f16.bin.X as well in the folder, so I'm pretty sure this is a mistake. Maybe it's causing the loss of accuracy?

Perhaps that's the issue?
This is an unrealistic rationalisation after the fact.

If you have lost confidence in your bank you will not sit tight and see what happens, you will withdraw your money to protect yourself.

The article also contains quite a gem:

"Every VC I know was telling people, ‘We think your deposits are safe with SVB. It would be prudent to take some money because you could have a liquidity crisis for a week, but we don’t think a run on the bank makes sense.’"

That's a very strange thing to say. If it is prudent to take some money out then deposits are not safe and you should get everything out ASAP. Those who saw it coming did exactly that.
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I understanding this perfectly well. Every bailout was monetized in this way. Nobody paid a special assessment on the tax form called "bailout". Doesn't change the fact that they will be paying and this is happening again. All you are saying is that it is not only literally taxpayers who pay but also everyone who holds US dollars.

Now what did that pedantry get this conversation?
Weird, I ran it alongside quite a few other processes, didn't expect to even be able to run and didn't bother to optimize it in any meaningful way.
btw there is a bash feature that you can use for this

touch a_tset_file.txt
mv a_t{se,es}t_file.txt

it works for changing file extensions:

touch foo.txt
mv foo.{txt,json}

or for adding or removing characters, just leave the other side of the comma empty

touch foo.txt
mv foo{,bar}.txt
mv foo{bar,}.txt
They are treating it differently because the alternative is a run on every small/medium bank with high numbers of business customers.

It’s not to protect the existing depositors of SVB - but to shore up the stability of the entire banking sector.