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>I really question the narrative that VR is this niche thing no one uses.

For gaming or non-gaming? In my circle of acquaintances, I know 2 people that use it for gaming (one individual is an avid "Elite Dangerous" player, which is a perfect use-case for VR). I don't know anyone that uses VR (or AR) for non-gaming purposes. This is what Facebook/Meta was trying to push.

The problem for VR, specifically, is that there is a sizable population of people that experience nausea when using it even for relatively small amounts of time. I'm in that group. So even if I wanted to, I would not use, for example, VR productivity or collaboration apps, just because of the nausea.

It's still a niche product.
I think the argument here is that the SVB execs were "in bed" (so to speak) with the VCs who were pushing their companies to deposit at SVB, and the now-fired execs still have their recent bonus payouts. So the punishment is not spread out far enough to discourage moral hazard and future systemically-risky gambling with millions of dollars of other people's money.

I'm not sure the same argument applies for the other bank(s) with huge MBS investments with lower yields than equivalent Treasury bonds. I don't know enough about those casees.
Congrats on launching. Looking forward to try it.
> Grammar is not about encoding literal speech pausing,

This is absolutely correct.

> its about encoding how to deserialize the linear sequence of words

This is absolutely incorrect. Grammar is the collection of rules that prescribes the combination of words to make valid collections of the same in a language. Specifically, grammar is distinct from semantics, which is concerned with meaning. A nonsense statement may be grammatically correct.

Punctuation is the collection of non-character glyphs that are used to capture the nuances of spoken language into a written form.

Punctuation is orthogonal to grammar.

Put more briefly: spoken language has grammar and no punctuation; written language has the same grammar as the same spoken language and also punctuation.

Parenthetical asides are represented in spoken language with some combination of marker words, pauses, tone of voice, word choice, and perhaps other indicators I may have forgotten. The purpose of punctuation is to lend some of the nuance of spoken communication to the otherwise sparse written word.

The argument of the number of bits to encode glyphs is also orthogonal to the purpose or usefulness of language, writing, and communication. Computers are tools. A keyboard should justify the paucity of its glyphs, rather than the other way around. Once we get here, we are in the realm of pure opinion and preference, which I don't have much interest in pursuing.
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In some ways, doesn't this put the Amish squarely in the "hacker" demographic?

I would say: "No."

Hacking is about making objects (very often computers in a general sense, but hacking is not restricted to it) do things that the creator did not intend them to do, and is often against the intention of the creator of the object.

In this sense, a central component of what makes hacking what it is, is subverting things.

Amish culture is, on the other hand, about obeying the rules of their culture. So, what the Amish do is self-sufficiency, but at most very rarely hacking.
> as these things run in a vm that dies when the request is finished

You don't know that. There's absolutely no reason why they need to run that way. They could be literally saving all of your upload files permanently, and running on Linux from 6 years ago with 17 backdoors, and there's no way to know that. There is nothing requiring them to run in a VM - they could easily be colocated bare metal. Dies when the request is finished? PHP works that way, but NodeJS doesn't, and either programming language can easily save your files to any other location like an S3 bucket. Dies when the request is finished is completely irrelevant here.
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you can have the same dac on different boards and on one it can work perfectly and in the other it could hizz like crazy.

there's a lot of engineering going on to reduce noise and the analog part in the DAC is greatly affected by the rest of the electronics, it's not just ones and zeros.

most people won't notice the difference of course but there's a reason professional audio equipment costs a fortune.
Everyone now knows that SVB's depositors will be bailed out by the federal government, but SVB's shareholders will not. Given that SVB's losses exceed its equity capital, it's likely that SVB shareholders will get... nothing. By implication, the common stock of all other banks in a similar situation are also worth... nothing.
That's a pretty fair summarization of the past, but this is unlike any Apple product ever. IMO, there's nothing Apple can do that will make a significant number of people want to buy and strap on a $3k headset.
> The Apple Watch wasn’t quite ready for launch either. Apple didn’t know how to market it or what the hell to do with it. It took them a few generations to zone in on health and fitness and the rest is history.

The Apple Watch didn’t cost $3k. It’s much easier to iterate on a product that folks can (relatively) easily replace in 1-2 years.

Many fewer folks will be ready to replace a $3k device within 2-3 years.
These talks obviously are going to take a long time with a big company like Amazon. Rivian probably wants to start filling their order book for 2024/2025 which can help them secure additional financing to keep the company going.
I’m going to say that the current VR options today are uncanny reality and that’s why they’re not popular.

You get depth vision and can look around but it just doesn’t feel real and it’s a little disturbing. I can’t place what’s not real about it though.
Everyone also gets to sit back and feel good that non-profits are feeding people in emergencies, delivering life saving water, reporting on atrocities, and swooping in to provide medical care and dig people out of rubble after a disaster or war crime.
It's the scientific method, but without any rigor on the quality of experiments. Subjectivity will take you to ridiculous places. It's exactly the same root cause as the fringe audiophile stuff: the dictionary definition of pseudoscience.
We have our own models (training on 1M+ datasets) and plan to make the best possible generation of adult.
I have such a domain myself. i have been thinking about switching to .dev for a long time (i have already reserved it).

However, my dilemma:

I would then keep .io and redirected so that no one can steal it. By doing so, I'm not helping anyone who lives there. :(

I don't use it for new projects for a long time.
This isn't an airport, you don't need to announce your departure.
> Make it really really expensive seems to be a really critical part of the business model for audiophile product

I took a marketing class once that talked about this effect. If you have a crappy product, there are two pricing models you can go for: sell it cheap, or make it pretty and sell it for a lot of money.

Often the latter, which is a scam, is the better option from a pure business point of view. The reason is because people perceive expensive things as being higher quality regardless of whether they really are or not, and also people are very resistant to admitting to their friends that they got ripped off -- so they'll frequently keep singing the virtues of an expensive piece of junk even when they know it has no virtues. So products can still get good "word of mouth" advertising regardless, as long as the price point is sufficiently high.
This. And would add that for each absurdity with a movement believing it, there is someone smarter and ruthless ready to make money out of it.
What is the technique name you're referring to?
>But they may decide not to make their future models available after what is happening with the Llama weights.

I think that ship has probably sailed, in that no one is going to release weights in this way again. Either they will publish them outright (like Whisper) or they will keep them (almost) completely closed.
Thanks for that. Looks like the IndyMac uninsured did only get 50% on the uninsured portion.

Was always wondering if they got more, but nope.

(They did get lucky in that fdic limit was $100k and I think they retroactively upped it to $250k on this failure, but that probably hurt rather than helped anyone with over $500k or so).

Many other examples of >10% losses, would be cool if someone did an analysis.
> Shouldn't the goal be to create a bank ecosystem that is more robust?

You are seeing the robustness in the actions taken by the FDIC right now. Not all failure modes can be prevented ahead of time. There is no failure-proof banking system structure.

> So that the failure of one does not lead to a domino reaction of failures?

The "domino effect" in the context of bank runs is a result of human psychology, specifically herd panic behavior - not something that can be changed by the financial system. At best it can be tempered.
This seems like the commenters on the Marc Ornstein Freestyle Canoeing videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofq_nl366VM
Poll: What bank(s) are you using for your startup post-SVB?
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Kind of along the same lines, my local cheapo cable store likes to run a demo by the front door with the same movie playing on identical TVs, with one TV using an expensive cable and the other using a very inexpensive cable. HDMI, of course. The owner likes to ask people to tell him which picture is better. You can guess the results of that.
I agree that this was partly the OPs fault, but I think that Google did the very least.

1. Send more than one email. Three would probably be reasonable for an account shutdown action maybe at 10, 4 and 2 days.

2. Use a better subject. That subject sounds like they are giving you information. At least something like "Required Important Information about your Bank Account". But something even better would probably be like "Must Provide Information about your Bank Account to avoid Account Closure" and maybe some escalating severity in the later warnings.

3. Do they have a phone number on file? Give that a call if there is no response to the original email in 3 business days. It could even be an automated message. "Hello, this is Google Cloud. We have sent you an email about required action on your account. Please read the information in that email and act appropriately otherwise your account will be closed. Remember that all Google Cloud emails come from @google.com addresses."

4. A big banner in the Cloud Console. After 4 business days show it to all users in the account.

We are talking account shutdown of a paying customer's likely production services. They should take a bit of care.
In an alternative timeline this has been the most aggressive guerrilla marketing tactic ever, induce a bank run to hype up your new Vault product.
Because there's an audience for it?
Recently I'm working on toy C compiler and x86 Assembler in TypeScript[1] and I can confirm that the amount of work that have to be done to compile and print simple Hello World is astronomically huge (as the satisfaction)

[1] https://github.com/Mati365/ts-c-compiler
"Big" business doesn't suffer, smaller businesses do. And from the perspective of legislation and regulation, smaller businesses tend to get the same shit treatment and regular people.

If you believe the arguments of Matt Stoller, the current round of inflation isn't actually inflation, it's just coordinated price increases and corresponding profit increases by the biggest corporations.

Definitionally, it's not inflation if wages aren't keeping up with consumer prices.
IIRC, it stopped standing for anything when they moved the HQ to London in the 90s (following the takeover of Midland Bank), and it became HSBC Holdings plc.
...and if they demonstrate less risky behavior, their stock should (hopefully) become valuable again.
the problem with SQL isn't that it doesn't hew to this or that mathematical framework. the problem with sql is that its irregular, doesn't compose well, and has a very baroque semantics due to the inclusion of NULLs among other things.

using a well-thought out model eases or eliminates some of these very real human problems.

you've got it backwards
>The reason why their safe investments were losing value is that the Fed had raised rates. Their assets weren't bad, they had lost value because the Fed has raised rates.

In other words, those "safe investments" weren't so safe?
Agreed. I predict this one is going to be a big flop.
When I was looking for a new laptop in 2021, the price and availability of Framework was very good compared to other laptops with similar specifications at the higher end, like 32 GB of memory. The ability to repair and upgrade was icing-on-the-cake for me; not worth paying a big premium, but I didn't feel like I was paying a premium at all for it.

Then my wife was frustrated when her three-year old laptop started having battery problems, and our attempt to replace the battery failed. The ability to repair became appealing to her, because buying a whole new laptop seemed so wasteful and inconvenient.

I know we're a sample size of two, but we haven't had any issues with reliability (setting the aside the time when I beta-tested a new BIOS version, but that was my choice and I knew it was a beta-test).

With that said, I do think that Framework should just double-down on serving the niche tinkerer and Linux crowd, because normal consumers have no interest in choosing and swapping out components for themselves, nor understanding what BIOS version they have and how to update or rollback.
Apparently, this is known as Sharenting and has its own Wikipedia page... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharenting

> Sharenting is the practice of parents publicizing sensitive content about their children on internet platforms. While the term was coined as recently as 2010, sharenting has become an international phenomenon with widespread presence in the United States, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom. As such, sharenting has also ignited disagreement as a controversial application of social media. Detractors find that it violates child privacy and hurts a parent-child relationship. Proponents frame the practice as a natural expression of parental pride in their children and argue that critics take sharenting posts out of context.

There is a section "Applicable legislation":

> There appears to be little guiding legislation regarding parents' online control over their children's media. While different countries have their respective laws to protect children's privacy, most hand over the responsibility to the children's guardians, which sharenting may exploit as the parent is able to take advantage of their child's power to consent. This presumption in favor of the parent fails to protect the child's privacy from their parents.

> Under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations broadly advocates for a child's individual identity. Article 14 outlines the applicable legal guardians' duty to represent the child's best interest.

Which then goes into the specifics for Europe and the United States.
Most community banks aren't in a similar situation though. This is mostly caused by panic, not reality. If people didn't panic about SVB eating a loss, even it wouldn't have likely failed. Now people are not using logic and causing panic across the board. Mostly caused by VC tech bros going around stirring up things in a hope to get a bailout. That's why the Fed/Treasury/FDIC stepped in this morning to hopefully instill confidence.
Meanwhile, they cannot be purchased in Spain :(
The industry is a lot "closer" than people expect; it runs a lot more on handshakes and people going to the same parties than on cold numbers, so not only do startups have to be in the US they have to be specifically in SV.

Two decades ago at a UK chip design software startup, the founders started a US branch and migrated there for just this reason.

(The SVB bank run shows how strong the "being in the right whatsapp group message chat" is)
Sure, I can make a dump available. Can you tell a little bit, what you planning to do with it?
So what do you mean by "consider both sides of the situation"? Russia invaded Ukraine, what's the other side of that situation?
I'm not very financially literate. How does SVB shareholders getting nothing translate to shareholders of all other banks being in the same situation?
Doesnt the Fed receive interest on bonds/money 'loaned to the government' - but any profits are then sent to the Treasury?

So if the taxpayers are paying interest to the fed, who then feeds those profits back to the trasury, and the treasury uses that money for scenarios such as this - doesnt that automatically mean the treasury/FDIC is using BOTH public taxpayer money (laundered through the fed back to the treasury) AND the bank payments to the FDIC in order to cover that?

Are these two separate piles of money - and they will not take from the "profits" the Fed made on taxpayer debt on money printed by the Fed to the USG, but only from the FDIC fund that the banks pay fees to?

Something always feels 'fishy' when you dont have a deep grasp of the structure... so, please ELI5?
Silly rabbit, hand outs are for the banks.
Only need 5 banks now. All the benefits of a regional bank (“local knowledge”) can be replicated digitally. Clearly there is no loyalty on the customer side, as VCs told their portfolio companies to exit SVB immediately. Just have JPM, BoA, and pick your favorite other 3 and let’s nationalize this already. Government wants an iron grip on access to financial rails anyway so we can speed this along.
Is there a technology for wireless communication that exists that has a small enough delay to make this happen?

Certainly it’s a problem well under speed of light constraints, but VR apps need to be running at least 90 hz to avoid making users ill. That’a just over 11 ms so basically any time is going to be felt.
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Is there a good resources for a non-game-dev person to learn about game-dev?

Preferably a more guided approach (starts with A, then B, then C)

I'm interested to make my own game (2D, RPG, simple games, not touching 3D) just for fun.
Funny how you would never know from the flowery language and diversity and equity stuff that they are a massive government censorship operation aimed at Americans with dissenting opinions. [1]

[1]https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/June%2...
Fleet sales take several month to a couple years to close. They have to start now.
I’m not sure if comparing it to the greedy algorithm is the correct way to think about it. Even after applying the temperature, if you use greedy decoding, you’ll still pick the output that has the highest probability. Where the concept of temperature is effective though is when you use a sampling method like sampling from a multinomial distribution, nucleus sampling, etc.
That's the point. I don't think I'm qualified for the job, and yet it was obvious inflation wasn't transitory. The fundamental drivers with money supply and in particular, velocity, pointed this out clearly. A quick look at travel statistics in summer 2021 made it clear that a majority of the public was returning to pre-pandemic spending habits. She clearly isn't qualified, and simply failed upward into working for the administration. You don't have to look hard, far, or even outside of Democratic affiliated economists to find those who were far more accurate than the Fed, including the aforementioned Larry Summers, or Steven Rattner.

Your welcome to be critical of my statement, but where's your criticism of the people being paid high salaries in positions of power who utterly failed to react in a timely manner (when many many economists with tons of credentials were telling them to) and have now forced us into a worse situation?
How much would you like to bet that FDIC will formally announce 100% protection for depositors and the cost of that will be borne by FDIC member banks along with dramatically
increasing banking scrunity for banks of all sizes.

Bank stocks will crash more, and consumers will ultimately feel the pinch as banks use the only tools then available to create margins: dramatically increased fees and cost of borrowing.
I really wish people would learn to accept that whatever won wasn't best. It was what won.

Things win for plenty of reasons other than being best. It's so hard for so many engineers to understand. And as a result they do all of these post-hoc justifications of lesser solutions because they've convinced themselves they must be the best "because they won".
One example is Rich Hickey who wrote Clojure, then his team wrote the Datomic database (on-prem and SaaS) in it.
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As long as (FDIC Deposits + Clearly liquid assets) >> 100% it’s hard to imagine a bank failure unless people are profoundly stupid.
It's just a different kind of fun. I have an audiophile friend (I generally change the subject when it comes up) and there's this huge tell: he says he is "listening to his system", not "listening to music". I vastly prefer to listen to music!
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Meta and Apple are both working on creating an environment in which they can succeed in AR. The hardware for AR is a good ways off, but I think the current market is more about building the momentum of software, hardware, and ecosystem that Meta and Apple need to succeed with AR. They are both willing to take losses to get there. In that regard, I don't think this is a make or break moment, but I do think that Apple is hoping to put out a product that gives people a better glimpse of their vision for mixed reality and AR.
Put money in the riskiest high return bank I can find. Hopefully I can find a bank with all Assets in 0DTE Options or even better some have all assets in some ponzy crypto that pays out 50% yield until it does not. Should get 25% interest rates on this kind of deposit.
FED/Treasury will always come to bail me out if needed.
I do not think that it is a controversial opinion to say that a floor speaker sounds better than a phone speaker.
Pynecone is specifically designed for web apps and I think it does better on more complex, larger web apps. This can be seen in Pynecone's main website being made in Pynecone and while Flet's website is made in JS not Flet. Both are good frameworks and Flet has advantages of creating mobile/desktop apps because it compiles down to flutter while Pynecone is great for web because it compiles down to nextjs/react frontend.
Well, I'd say everyone with more than 250k deposit didn't do their due diligence. And they might have asked the question, why the SVB-conditions were better than elsewhere. I would argue that's the idea of a free market, no?
They have offices in Sillicon Valley to tap into the desire of the locals to work themselves to death by the age of 35, so that they can hopefully retire before they die in order to reclaim back the health they lost while trying to "make it." Nothing more.
Audiophiles aren't just about dumb stuff of this sort though. The majority of the community is mainly interested in things like trying different speakers/headphones and listening setups, where there are measurable differences and what one prefers entirely subjective.
You're confusing cause and effect. The West is defined by embracing enlightenment values, democracy, and capitalism. The "East" is defined as those powers that embraced authoritarian rule and communism.

For a while there was legit economic competition, Soviet GDP outpaced the US for a time in the 50s, but eventually the economies of scale and efficiency produced by the capitalist West out-competed the Soviets and won the Cold War.

Saudi Arabia is rich, it is not "Western"
For my own sanity I'm choosing to believe it is indeed satire.