skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However the levels of suffering is magnified by animal agriculture especially because it takes a large amount of crops for feed

> 1 kg of meat requires 2.8 kg of human-edible feed for ruminants and 3.2 for monogastrics

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22119...

As for fertilizer, the usage is lower without animal agriculture even compared to best case usage of manure

> Thus, shifting from animal to plant sources of protein can substantially reduce fertilizer requirements, even with maximal use of animal manure

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09213...
It is totally possible to have an economy and public policy based on seething contempt for entrepreneurs. It's probably the case that a majority of voters would prefer to be a little worse off as long as the tech-bros they hate are a lot worse off. I just think this is an ugly, self-defeating basis on which to run a society.

>which in this case would have resulted in no payroll disruption and the safety of 90-100% of their money.

Why would it have resulted in that? We've already established that any amount above $250k in one bank may as as well be vaporized already, you just don't know it yet.
Disable them with a cryptographic lock, at the least.
The only thing spotify should be doing is provide an api to access music with correct tags. That is all. That would be a big improvement over what they have been doing for years.
> Why would anyone leave their deposits with SVB for the next ten years if they can only afford to offer 1.5%, because they made a bad bet on long duration bonds?

Chase is still offering 0.01% on savings accounts, and somehow has deposits. 1.5% is generous compared to that, even though it's much less than you can get with a little shopping around.
"Can grant privileges" should be "will grant privileges" or "do grant privileges". I think this is a critical distinction. Part of the phenomenon, I think, is that there are more qualified individuals than positions or roles, which lays bare the lack of justification for the elite status of those positions to begin with. The unrest is due to a sense that the restriction is artificial — you could turn it on its head and say the unrest is as much about the old elites having a sense of entitlement to their positions even when they're no longer elite, as it is about the new elites believing they should have the same benefits.
Built on Electron? Hard pass. The scourge of the modern age.
You've misunderstood. When I said a VC says "everyone else uses SVB you should too", by the "everyone else" I was referring to other VC-funded startups, not the American populace at large.
In 2008 mortgage bonds were toxic waste looking for a bottom, today they're not nearly so bad. I doubt SVB had a team reading the tape on mortgages, so whatever they were buying must have been sufficiently standard as to be fairly liquid. (Unless they were COMPLETE idiots, which, I grant, is certainly does not seem impossible right now.) So I expect the question for most of it is interest rate risk rather than credit and pricing that isn't super complicated.

I would think SVB's book of startup/venture capital/commercial loans would be harder for most banks to value. They were a big player in that space and I doubt many have the expertise to do a fast read on that book.

Also, SVB's size is a real problem. There are only a few banks large enough to do this, and the regulators won't love the resulting consolidation.

They may sell it in pieces to deal with all that.

One big question is, does SVB have any franchise value? It really looks like their model depended on cozy relations with the VC community. You have to figure their whole board and C-suite will be replaced after this, how much of those relations remain after that? Nor am I sure players like JP Morgan can or want to play that game.
I agree it's a red herring to focus on output and interactive behavior when discussing this.

If a "shadow prompt" told chatGPT that it writes at a 3rd grade level, we wouldn't argue as much over how smart the bot is.

If it omitted the friendly/helpful/deferential assistant stuff, we'd also argue about it less. Bing's initial defensiveness and aggression made it seem even stupider than the mistakes it was making.

They're honing in on better prompts and other configuration that will make the bot seem smarter. It seems smarter to say "I can't answer that question" than to confidently say something untruthful.

But the underlying computational program (GPT trained on the internet) is the same. If we judge the program's intelligence based on its output, it isn't well defined. The same thing looks intelligent or hilariously unintelligent based on the tokens you (an intelligent person) provide it with.

Or in other words... Suppose we collect all of the system's "intelligent" outputs and disregard the rest. We throw away a lot, the majority of responses, and the resulting set looks impressively smart.

The system appears to demonstrate advanced machine intelligence when restricted to (some?) preimages of this set, even though it acts like a total idiot over other parts of the domain. And it's clear that it takes real knowledge and understanding to solve this boundary problem, so that the calculated image has an "intelligent" shape.
...and the reason we should make them feel bad is?

Setting aside the fact that you've conceded that you don't know if someone is fat "by choice" or because they are an outlier, so you're ok with making people who are fat because of natural reasons feel bad as casualties in your noble quest to make people who are fat "by choice" feel bad.

Do we shame people for the health risk of going skiing? It's a well know health risk, yet i don't see a lot of people telling skiiers their lifestyle disgusts them.
That, the documented comments by short sellers for months about it being a trainwreck, the last minute bonuses and the dumping of stock on retail investors by insiders.

It's like all of the tech misbehavior packaged neatly up into one story.
I have been given a link to this when I was describing my ideas of an operating system design, since some of the ideas are similar. However, many ideas are different, since the operating system is in many ways fundamentally different from Windows and from POSIX. Some of these differences may allow such a similar idea to even work better in some ways, possibly.
Handwriting? We don't do that here.
The article does also say:

>When a team of researchers adjusted BMI to take muscle mass into account back in 2018, then associated this corrected measure with mortality risk, they found that the “U” mostly transformed into a straight line.
sure, a restaurant that serves rotten food could have fired the chef and reinvented itself if it wasn't for all the pesky customers who stopped going there
I don't really know why this post is appearing now given textual is already at version 2 and not a new thing, but I love love looovve textual. Alongside rich (also from textualize) its one of those rare libraries that I can't find a single thing I'd change in it.
Replies by glasshug on a previous comment on mine might be worth reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35096418

I admit that I don't know enough to vouch for the validity of those comments though.
I’m not sure that is true, it seems like the preference was always for small highly calorically dense meals.

The 3-4 meals + the constant availability of food is definitely new.
They still get a certificate for the rest which they could potentially get loan in the market against it. the loan maybe say only up to 75c on the dollar

that would mean 87.5% of deposits available within a week or so. It would still hurt but 12.5% of your cash is going to be do or die , you already have survival problems to worry about .
It's not. Wide-body aircraft have crew rest compartments you don't get to see as a passenger. Long-haul flights also carry extra crew members.
Not true. Powell raised rates, and then Trump threatened to fire him. Powell continued to raise rates anyway. The Fed takes no shit from the president or congress.

edit: HN is rate limiting me, but to see why the commenter below is wrong, just zoom out the chart he linked to 5 years view.
This is a misunderstanding of how statistics work, and part of the lie that Covid is an old people and obese person’s problem. Not that you’re directly making this argument, but for posterity: It’s not just their problem. Unless you feel cardiology and oncology are also old and fat people’s problems, since they die more of cancer and heart disease?

The extremely elderly and obese die of all causes disproportionately. But Covid lowers life expectancy and increases mortality of all age groups starting around age 30 even after all mitigating measures (vaccines, masks, etc) are taken in to account.

The young lower their own life expectancy when they betray an inter-generational commitment to the older generations to take care of them. This won’t be the last pandemic, and the young won’t always be young.
That last one is a tricky, people shouldn't be bullied..it's demotivational.

I think it's better to stick to that, and just drop the term 'fat-shaming'.
Is there any plan for navigating sections or fetching specific data from the article? For example, a command to print Demographics or Population Density for a specific country.
Short little scripts and applications I am quite proud of (most available on github, most have videos on youtube):
A Python script that would go through a bunch of PDFs submitted to a conference and slap on the copyright, current year, and conference name so my wife didn't have to hand-edit the fifty or sixty papers submitted, which regularly happened about 10 times per year before the pandemic.

A couple of PowerShell scripts that moves multi-gigabyte files from the computer that generates it to an intermediate server, and then another computer picks those up and puts them on to whatever storage space is available, squeezing them in via a naive backpack algorithm. It shaved about two hours per day off my workload, instead of manually copying files around the network and then monitoring them to make sure they got where they meant to go.

A couple of Python scripts that tell a number of SONY video cameras to wake up, pull in the video and audio over USB, verify the files transferred correctly, then erase them from the camera to make space on the SD card.

A simple voice-controlled personal assistant that can start & stop multiple video cameras, perform the "mechanical clapper" effect for each scene and take, label the video files, and read out the prompt for the scene about to be shot.

A simple C# stopwatch timer for Windows that logs my daily walks via a touch screen computer located near the front door, calculating speed & distance for that walk, total daily time, etc. Hooks in to a couple of security cameras to track me as I walk past the house on my laps, recognize that it is me, and time stamp my passing (by the camera).

A simple Python script that pulled a whole bunch of data out of PDFs for a research project. It saved the small research team multiple thousands of dollars that they couldn't get a research grant for, and was able to then save the department multiple tens of thousands of dollars each year from that point onward. I got paid a large pizza (toppings of my choice). And made a couple of friends of some librarians.

A home point touch off position script for my CNC.

There are dozens more I'm proud of that I am forgetting. These are the kinds of interesting little projects that take an afternoon or an evening and often have a huge impact on quality-of-life.
It's okay for banks and trains to crash. If you have more than $250k in a single bank, you should have insurance on that cash.

If a train spills chemicals, they should be liable for a satisfactory resolution, including buying a property that was polluted, or paying for the cleanup and any depreciation of the property.
Well, medicine has its own replication problem.

But the broader reason why this analogy doesn't work is that most medical treatments (medical devices, drugs, etc.) are subject to a really stringent approval & evidence of efficacy process. As they should be! But there just isn't anything similar in exercise science. Studies that prove, like, plyometric wall bounces make you more explosive or something are just incredibly underpowered versus the level of evidence required for the FDA to approve a medical device or drug.

If ES studies were somehow conducted with that same level of funding & rigor, I would take them a million times more seriously. In practice, it's an n=10 or 20 study with a bunch of undergrads for a p value of .0501 or something
> Every time I look at a boring problem in tech there is a pretty okayish solution

Congratulations. It means your ideas are good and there is a proven market for them (assuming the solutions you find are generating revenue).

The fallacy that “there already is a product” out there doing something and as such you shouldnt would imply that we’d all wear identically looking jeans and there would be one car design and one type of phone.

Differentiate a bit. The only questions to answer are: can you execute on your idea, is there a market large enough to achieve your target revenue and is it overcrowded?
You’re bang on with this comment.

The Mac studio is surprisingly quiet and well cooled. I haven’t had to install a fan control utility as of yet.

I thought I’d be trying one of these out and sell it if my setup didn’t work, but it’s the first desktop I’m starting to consider especially if I want to leave a workload running on it instead of a decade of carrying a lot of horsepower around with me.

Instant on for 3 monitors, no need for docking station or USB hubs, everything is plugged in and works, I can run a virtual cam obs setup easily.

The studio is a great upgrade on Mac mini, which might cannibalize the Mac pro sales and why it might not get toasted or refreshed. I’ll F the max studio was a way to put a dent in hackkntoshes, it makes sense.

The M2 mini looks super decent but quickly goes up in price when ram and ssd is setup to match a studio.

For my purposes the ultra wasn’t that much faster than the M1 max on because the software has to be optimized to benefit from it. Maybe some of this ML stuff will be shortly.
Why we continually engage with the Middle East outside Israel is beyond me.
They should just get out of the way:

>The FDIC, which took over SVB on Friday, has sought bids from interested parties during the weekend. The regulator is looking for a bank that has the financial wherewithal and management expertise to handle Silicon Valley Bank’s assets and customers, but not one that is so large as to be considered “too big to fail,” these people said.

>That means large lenders like JPMorgan Chase or Bank of America likely aren’t in the running, the people said. Even some large regional banks could find it difficult to absorb Silicon Valley Bank, which was the 16th-largest U.S. lender as of the end of last year. There are concerns that doing so could intensify regulatory scrutiny, even if a lender were to “rescue” SVB in an emergency sale, the people said.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/regional-banks-are-m...
Age does play a role in this. Adults have at least the possibility to have developed better critical thinking, life experience to make an appreciation of what's being offered to avoid predation.

With you on the struggle against modern slavery that is rampant against adults, let's not make it a child/teen only concern, but until then we certainly need to distinguish adults from the to become grown up men and women.

There is a reason we have different moral, legislation and rules w.r.t the treatment of children. That applies to employment, intimate relationships, sales of stimulants, ability to hold a credit cards etc.

All down to the fact all the way to being a teen, humans are still in the process of brain and experiences maturation to take on society and independence on their own, without special protection.
The end point of every business doing “treasury management” to keep all their accounts under 250k is that the FDIC ends up insuring all the money anyway. The only difference is lot more of it goes to fees for money managers and banks, and starting/running a business is a lot more complicated.

What’s the point? Either set a limit that can’t be skirted by maintaining multiple accounts or guarantee the same amount in a single account.
We would live suspended in a great universal "ocean" and would navigate the heavens via submarine. Of course, it would be easier for other creatures to swim between planets as well...

I wonder if advanced conscious life would be possible in this universe given that the number of isolated "buckets" is so much smaller. A lot of anthropic arguments would break down in such a universe.
This might be naïve, but couldn’t you just mmap the weights on an apple silicon MacBook? Why do you need to load the entire set of weights into memory at once?
There’s an abandoned octagon house hidden in the San Francisco woods
“We purchased [Hulu.com] for the equivalent of 2 college educations”
Product Owner vs. Project Manager: who's in the lead?
This is quite an interesting story about the Point Lobos Marine Exchange Lookout Station.

Its residents would watch for incoming ships and call the SF Chamber of Commerce so hotels and other businesses could prepare for the inbound arrivals.
I think people have forgotten that depositor bailouts are not just free money, but money taken from other people. There's a balance between minimizing the pain to depositors and minimizing the pain to the rest of society by not only taking money from them, but creating an environment where people don't have to care about where they put their money and thus have no reason to demand the people they trust with their money not act like reckless assholes. Corrupting the entire concept of risk vs reward would destroy us all.
I never engage in such teasing and not getting hired, so you're likely correct.
There's nothing wrong with that.

This isn't about that, though. This is about artificially creating a supply of workers by lowering standards, rather than increasing the price for the existing supply of workers.

With a looming demographic bomb looming at the horizon we need to value existing workers more and increase individual productivity rather than removing child protection or workplace safety regulations. Spare time jobs aside, children are the workers of tomorrow -- not means to short-term value for shareholders.
The overinvestment into US debt put them at extreme risk for interest rate related devaluation, which is exactly what happened.

Even if they were going to go heavy with US debt, investment professionals normally use bond laddering for with fixed income funds to reduce that interest rate risk to the portfolio. They did not even do basic laddering!
They didn’t buy risky MBS. They bought standard vanilla MBS and Treasury Bonds. The problem is the speed of interest rates rising which cause 2 unrelated circumstances to hit at the same time. 1. The net present value of the long term MBS/treasury’s went down. 2. Start ups had trouble raising capital so their normal business activities shifted from net inflows to SVB to net outflows.

So instead of being able to hold to maturity, SVB had to sell assets they bought for $100 for $80. Perhaps they could have hedged against interest rates rising better than they did or had a more short term securities or capped account balances. But the fed could have been faster to act in raising rates to allow for more gradual in raising rates as that would have been less disruptive.

Now the Fed should set up a program to take these long term assets off of member banks balance sheets. Do so at a discount, make the members pay for their bad investments but prevent failures.
And/or they'll make more checkout self-service (or even eventually switch to some sort of cashierless system like Amazon has been experimenting with), eliminate baggers (again), generally lower service levels, etc.
Ooo that's nasty... I love it!

Much better than "Changes", "Update" or "WIP".
I don't think you'll find that these jobs could compete with being a school drug dealer. Both in time spent, popularity, and profitability, drug dealer is a much more appealing job for teens.
I assume the parent comment did not make fun of nushell advertizing this, but instead about the rust community advertizing itself all the time.
1. people do get fat from things other than "over eating" - citation: https://www.drugs.com/article/weight-gain.html

2. I'm the great-grandparent in this thread. My original comment was in essence: I am naturally skinny, nobody questions that. Is it so strange that people might be naturally fat? You've said something that DIRECTLY contradicts that argument, without any evidence or argument to explain why - all you've done is assert the opposite of what I said. You're going to have to do better. Citation needed on your part.
Primarily, his portfolio companies have an incentive to have access to their deposits.

He probably gains reputation by advising people to get out of a bank that fails. Although he probably advised them to use it in the first place.
I understand you have a fear of contagion risk, but I don't see many signs of it. I think this mainly happened because SVB had a depositor base where a big chunk was tightly knit and prone to herd-like behavior. Most companies just aren't a) in the red, b) letting millions in cash sit around, and c) lacking in treasuring management capacity.

But if there are a ton of regional banks who took advantage of laxer regulation and had balance sheets in as poor a shape as SVB, then I am fine with some of them failing too. It won't be anywhere near the problem that 2008 or the S&L crisis was, and we'll end up with tighter regulation for those banks next time around.
Being in Qatar Govt higher position is like finding interesting ways to throw money and do something fun at the expense of other countries/ groups/ people. Too much easy money and not many things to do to feed your own ego.
Oil and gas, what else?
If you have over $250k in a single account then you probably should do some due diligence…
> It's really depressing how we totally fail to permanently learn our lessons. [..] It's so bizarre that people will campaign for and champion the rollback of regulations that negatively affect them directly.

From my exposure to the political right, they've been preoccupied with CRT, drag queen story hour, and censorship. Occasionally immigration pops up, but politicians even on the right prefer to ignore that (as any graph of immigration to the US vs. which party is in power will show).

I haven't seen even a hint of a grassroots campaign against child labor restrictions - or any kind of campaign at all, just bills suddenly appearing out of the blue. This is strictly a top-down push, not even from the politicians, but their puppet-masters. They're banking on voters' loyalty and lack of alternatives to not lose any votes.

If there's a lesson we forgot, it's how to limit corruption in politics, not that maybe child labor is OK.
Not to mention 100 MB for a terminal app. What in the world?

edit: just looked into the linked discussion: "The gzipped tar for this is 90MB. It's 265MB unzipped."

This is madness.
Can you please share more about your personal experience? I'd like to read about someone who pivot from business to gaming!
Home Assistant will give you a good path to easily access this data by using Owntracks or GPSLogger.
Almost everyone in America works for a company with over $250k in their coffers. The point isn’t making depositors whole for the sake of uberwealthy individuals, it’s for the sake of ensuring that companies are able to pay their thousands of regular employees.