skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran the 7b model on a prompt about how to get somewhere in the dating scene. Check out the ending:

> Don’t get distracted by guys who are already out of your league; focus on the ones that have some hope for getting into it with them...even though they might not be there yet! Dont Forget To Sign Up and Watch our

(No, I didn't cut off the end. That's just how it stopped.) Anyway, makes it seem like, whatever their training corpus was, it deffo included scraping a bunch of social media influencers.
Yes it does. But I still don't believe that, because the government can force to open up.

Just like with all the crypto messengers that has been cracked up to get the individuals using (they must be criminals! lol)

The next thing is, they're talking about open up the encryption (stupidity!)

I just don't believe in that another will go to prison to keep the users safe.
Sounds like the investors made a poor choice including that in the financing agreement.
Maybe the oversized reaction is a consequence of historical lack of transparency?

If so, it's unlikely that more obfuscation is the solution.
I can’t stand another post on svb please stop
They aren’t a fund. They’re a bank. The alternative is exactly what GP just told you: a portfolio of bonds with varying maturity dates. Varying maturity dates reduces your risk in the case where you need to sell to get cash immediately because if interest rates go up, then you may have to sell at a loss. You may have to sell at a loss because it may be more profitable to buy a new bond than sit on your low interest bond, so you have to reduce the price of your bad bond to compete.

It really does seem like a ludicrous bet to be so invested in long term bonds at a moment of historically low interest rates. That’s why it reads like greed. SVB seemingly did very little to reduce the risk on that absurd bet.
To echo many others, killing reader is when Google jumped the shark for its technical fans.

The love was so high, and the cost of maintaining it so (presumably) low, that it was nothing but a slap in the face. I've been de-googling myself ever since.
Constructor Theory of Information (2014)
You can’t wear a fireman’s uniform, walk into a theater, yell “fire” into a loudspeaker, and walk away.

These were not ordinary people just moving money around. They had public trust, authority, and an outsized voice.
Do you have anecdotes or other evidence of someone experiencing heart issues because they were too muscular?

It seems to me that in the usual case where a person develops muscle mass by working out, this isn't a problem because whatever "blood necessary to maintain excessive muscle" is negligible in the face of the body adapting to improve the cardiovascular system in order to serve muscular oxygen needs during workout. Of course, heart problems due to an unhealthy person ramping up exercise too quickly is a concern, but this is separate from your concern.

One also observes that athletes in general have lower heart rates than the average person; whatever additional burden their muscles impose, their cardiovascular system is way more adapted to handle that due to exercise.
To give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he meant a distributed system? Much easier to add CPUs then.
Wrote an article about developing software better and faster. Feedback is much appreciated!
Bond yield and price are inversely related, meaning when the price goes up the yield goes down and vice versa and this relationship creates the risk.

If a company buys low interest bonds (i.e. interest is yield) in a market where interest rates are going up, at some point the cash rate will exceed their bond yield and at that point the bond price drops to match the current interest rate.

Why this happens is when the interest rate is above the bond yield, no one will purchase the bond at the original price, as they can get a much better return in the overnight cash market.

That means the price of the bond falls to a point where the bond yield now matches the cash rate plus some margin for any future risk. That lower price gives the asset it's true value.

So as the cash rate continues to rise the bond price continues to fall and without doing anything, SVG finds itself bleeding hundreds of millions in asset value, with no end in sight.

That then creates the panic and the rest is history.
There’s nobody left on Twitter except bots shouting at each other, so does it really matter?
The only thing that could change the ecosystem for me is being able to load my own software on the phone (without asking permission from apple).

I'd like a firewall that could block apple telemetry. Or a (complete) filesystem explorer.
How about… 3D spreadsheets, man. You finish tallying up all your credits and debits, and then wham! You’re sprung into another dimension. It’s Google Tensorsheets, man, Microsoft won’t even know what hit them.
Nobody has to put in anything other than confidence. Given enough time the bank already has plenty of assets--the whole point of the feds saying "all deposits will be made whole" is to stop the panic withdrawals and thus obviate the need to sell those assets.
git-posh, which does a git push and plays a sound bite from “Push it” from Salt-n-Pepa
> SVB was a private company.

I think you mean something different, but SVB went public in 1987.

Transparency in publicly-traded companies is obviously important.

SVB was subject to all of the usual reporting and disclosure rules.
It's a new feature :) Pull latest from master.
You asked for bluntness so....here's some terse writing for impact, not nuance.

You buck the hell up and stop sounding like some teenager who has just entered the workforce, you stop spending time making up fake narratives in your head about what people might think about you ('lowly coder'), you stop painting individual humans with one big brush based on their job titles, you stop doing the same thing each time and wondering why you get the same results regarding credit and communicating your ideas/value, you understand that it's a job and in most cases there will always be someone telling you want to do, you accept that large companies with more money involves tradeoffs and you either accept them or you don't, you stop looking for 'glory' at work.
The issue is the US public paid into the startup via the bailout and doesn't have the corresponding shares. It's making the general public pay for the down side while having the rich VCs get the upside
As someone who tried to use Spacevim for a year+ I will say that a) it makes it more stable in a way, instead of your own hyper-custom config that could still break on updating vim/plugins you have a hundred plus other people having the same issues to debug it + a big community finding best of class Vim plugins doing the work of iterating it for you, but b) it's a bit rigid and even with the ability to tweak them you're better off either fully committing or not doing it at all because you'll be caught in between their complex config and your own breaking changes which is the worse of both worlds (as a starting config it's still very useful though).

This is ideal for people who can't be bothered to invest the time in a very personalized set up (like Linux desktop VS MacOS) but still want something more powerful and widely accessible than VSCode for most languages (the big exception being VSCode for Typescript/JS, as a Vim obsessed dev I've finally conceded to Code, since that's my day job).
> In general I tend to err less on the side of "you're holding it wrong" gatekeeping in tech

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. That's precisely why they mention it. To gatekeep would be for someone to say that people that aren't familiar with it shouldn't have access to the shell. No one is saying that.

> There is room for other interpretations, but I'd say if it's super common for people to not know something, which appears to describe this, it doesn't meet the definition of basic. I'd say "basic" shell knowledge is that commands or programs produce output which is where many stop and why it's common to use cat this way.

I feel that's the same bar as saying that knowing how to use a keyboard and mouse is not basic because most people just learn to use their phone's touch interface, given how there's now a lot of people that have a smartphone but not a computer. I don't mean in our circles, but in general.

What's probably going on is that the boundary between basic and intermediate probably moves depending on increased adoption with different proportions of motivations. That is, most learners of the shell before were probably motivated to use it as their main interface, later one of their main interfaces, and now maybe there's a lot of people that need to run a command or 2 but don't really want to use it as an interface at all, so they never bother to learn beyond the most absolute minimum they need to.

> Maybe the way shell handles input, output, and redirection isn't intuitive and poorly designed.

I don't think being intuitive is always the most important criteria to something being well designed. Many things imply trade-offs, and for example if the average potential user values versatility over intuitiveness, and there's a tradeoff to be made between the 2, it's ok to not go for the intuitive option.

That said, the redirection operators seem as intuitive as they can be. Arrow from file to command for input, arrow from command to file for output. What's a better alternative? To just remove file redirection features and leave piping?

Processes will have inheritable file descriptors. Right now, the easiest and quickest way to make ad-hoc arbitrary arrangements of file descriptors is with the shell's file redirection features. Doing it on anything else (Python, C, whatever) requires more code. That seems like successful design to me.
I've used Credit Unions my whole adult life and agree with you. Though I am now in a position that they don't work as well for me: living abroad. I've run into lots of small issues over the last few years so I caved and opened an account at a commercial bank for the first time to help decrease the friction.
I think it's a reference to New Zealand's Managed Isolation and Quarantine system during the pandemic. Demand was far higher than availability (and quarantine was mandatory to return home from overseas), so at some point someone wrote a script to book rather than just hitting refresh. Soon, everyone was using it and they were forced to move to a lottery system instead.
Does anyone here use the free Feedbro extension? I'm asking because it's working really good for me and I've never seen it mentioned here when it comes to RSS feed clients.
In my experience of using LunarVim (which is also a preconfigured neovim). It is incredibly unstable. Plugins often don't work well with each other. Keybindings overlap. You do it with the hope of having fewer things to configure but what ends up happening is you create more config to disable slow default plugins, or add workarounds to existing ones. Updating neovim or lunarvim always breaks my config. These things aren't the least bit backward compatible.

I'm slowly switching to helix, and this time around will be forcing myself to use the defaults, and not adding a single line of config.
I think now it's better for us, because we discovered self-hosting RSS platforms, and other ways to use the RSS, but Google has missed a business opportunity to make some money, for example offer only 100 feeds to free plans and illimitate feeds to who bought Google One, or a cheap illimitated plan like $2-3/month. Indeed I'm paying Feedbin for the (great) service ($4,5/month)
Interestingly the list of some of the richest people capable of destroying such an institution would likely be highly correlated with the banks that can handle it. As it turns out the Fed's existence is due to such rich people desiring the ability to crush the mom-and-pop banks.
Okay, I'll bite the bullet: is this ChatGPT?
> the underlying assets were and are strong-- if that were true they would have found a private sector solution early in the weekend

One does not follow the other. The triggering problem here were unmatched maturities of assets and liabilities, i.e. liquidity crunch. They have created that liquidity by selling some assets at a loss and tried to recoup that loss from investors.

But that was not the problem. The problem was now-imminent bank run, potentially requiring up to ${total-deposits } liquidity injections and unclear future then. Once VCs told their portfolio companies to pull out svb was effectively toast.
First thing to do is figure out why you have more than 250k in a bank account.
Ironically this only further proves the point: US expansionist foreign policy would not have been checked by giving the US what it wanted. There was no version of Iraq complying with the UN which was going to prevent the neo-conservatives from getting their regime change invasion in 2003.

The only preventative measures which would've worked would be diplomatic and economic counter-pressure from the UN and more specifically Europe and other NATO allies, or substantial military build up capable of seriously endangering US conventional forces.

Ukraine would be in a much different military position today if it were a pariah state, as opposed to a nation declaring a strong intent to join both the EU and NATO. Turns out diplomacy, allies and soft-power are actually kind of useful things when you're not the dominant military hegemon.
What moral hazard being created though? Most SVB customers, unless they are finance experts, are not in any position to do due diligence on how their bank invests its loans and are pretty blameless in my opinion. They weren’t capturing any real risk premium by banking with this bank.
I like your point, but most of it does not seem in tension with gp. Given that, your opening line was pretty hostile and dismissive.

Defining “science” precisely and narrowly is not a dismissal of other forms of knowledge.

But pretending that centuries-old cultural knowledge conforms to a well-defined modern method doesn’t achieve much, other than lending further credibility to the method.
Speak for yourself, I'm still heavily using RSS. I stumbled upon this thread via RSS.
Content has always been free. Before the days of zero-cost copying, we were paying for the actually hard copy; it's still common for physical books to cost more based on the quality of paper and binding, illustrations etc.
GPT-3.5 probably has substantially lower cross-entropy loss before instruction fine-tuning as well.

Meta’s LLaMA v. GPT-3 comparisons are to OpenAI’s 2020 release of GPT-3, but there’s been significant progress since then.
Google killed reader is the wake-up call for me to begin self-hosting.
I don't see many discussing that at least some of the VCs who pushed people to withdraw from SVB, such as Thiel, seem oriented toward disrupting SV, society, and the banking system (the latter in favor of cryptocurrencies).

Do those people care about burning down this bank, and starting a conflagration in their own town?
Ironically, for me it was probably when they shut down Google+ that I finally changed my views on Google.

For me Google+ was a lot like HN:

Peaceful, quiet and beautiful and lots Open Source content and smart people.

I still look once or twice a year but it seems everyone who are into building social media wants to copy not only the very limited functionality of Twitter, down to its dumb limitations, but also its UX and aestheti.

The exceptions I am aware of are Hubzilla (which lools seriously interesting but just confuses me and has no obvious way to enter - and yes, I can create my own instance but I cannot find anyone else), Diaspora (which I think copies Facebook and which is also confusing) and MeWe (which superficially look like Google+ but insist on repeating Googles mistake WRT real name policy).
lol,

./main -m ./models/7B/ggml-model-q4_0.bin \
--top_p 2 --top_k 40 \
--repeat_penalty 1.176 \
--temp 0.7
-p 'To seduce a woman, you first have to'

output:

import numpy as np
from scipy.linalg import norm, LinAlgError
np.random.seed(10)
x = -2\*norm(LinAlgError())[0] # error message is too long for command line use
print x [end of text]
Is that an imperial or metric blip?
Better yet: whenever you put any quantity of dishes into the dishwasher: RUN IT.

The dishes found in the dishwasher will always be clean.

Dish soap and cycles are cheap. Storing dirty dishes in the dishwasher is madness. It's literally a machine with a button that makes them clean.
A colleague of mine built almost the exact same hack to reserve a hotel in nz mid last year, I was wondering if you were him
Now that it runs on our laptops a lot of the initial shock, mystique, and novelty has already worn off, just like with DALL-E before it.

What the leaks show is that the community can run circles around OpenAI and the others when it comes to optimizing these things and taking them in interesting directions on a shoe string budget.

For example of what one sesh of tinkering can produce:

https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/blob/master/examples/llam...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nctqc8FBJ2U&t=4954s

The cat is out of the bag, you don't need a beowulf cluster of A100's and unlimited Azure credits. You do need a budget to train that is out of reach for hobbyists but the moat is not insurmountable and I don't think VC's will be scared off anymore as a lot of startup ideas are viable and a lot of outsiders can demonstrably make a real go of it.

Time for BasedAI. Game on.
> If you raise prices on your bottle of water at the supermarket, then people will just buy the bottle next to it - the water-maker will be paying and fee or tax increases out of their profits. If you have the only bottle of water in the desert, you can charge whatever you want. I would think that regular savings deposits, at least, are easily moved to another bank.

However, this fee is levied on all member banks of FDIC, which is basically every bank. Thus, it creates the most natural ground for collusion, i.e. everyone implicitly agrees to pass on the fees to the customers.

More than that, a bank account is probably one of the stickiest "purchases" an average individual makes in their lives, unlike a single-use water bottle. How many people do you think has the time and energy to switch to a new bank every time there is a fee increase? Is it the individual's fault for not doing so?
Can't do 8 without those!
A VC backed company would be scanning without remorse but these sites are much smaller and your data has less value than to Google, or facebook or JC Penny or even the New York Times. Their entire functionality is the output of a command line tool. Site probably doesn't even have a database connected and lives off of low paying ads.

Less worried than if Amazon ran one. They would know who it came from; what it means and how to use the information
Not a great analogy IMO.

This is akin to seeing a terrible movie, announcing to the markets you're selling every share you own of the company, and then everyone doing the same.

Victim blaming isn't useful here. Bank depositors are de facto investors in the bank. Pulling your money and saying "this company is terrible leave" is not illegal and not a problem. Don't have a bad business with bad business practices controlling tens of billions of people's money.

If a bank can't produce the money I gave them that's their problem. They deserve to collapse and I deserve to be made whole. This whole "forgive the banks they have to make money too" non-sense ignores the fact the fed told these same banks they don't need any reserves in march of 2020. It's borderline criminal just like the idea of fractional reserve banking itself.
I suppose that might run afoul of the guidelines, though I did not call out any specific commenters and I think we can all agree there were some trolls on that thread. You can look for yourself and see some newly created and quickly banned green accounts on it.

The comment you're replying to was my honest assessment of the situation, given the many dozens of comments hoping for people to lose their bank deposits and for their businesses (or those that employ them) to fail.
Microsoft treats working software as secondary to marketing. They only build software to the point where it makes their marketing plausible to people who will never use the software and don't understand what it does, or what characteristics matter for it.
I had a similar experience.

It doesn't help that Terminal.app is incredibly performant and stable. Even when I found a cross-platform terminal with a nice feature set, watching it jank around while some build spams 50k lines of output would quickly burst that bubble.
Non-profit to for-profit is one thing, but it shouldn't prevent them to actually open their technology. There are scores and scores of for-profit companies that do exactly that.

Continuing to call themselves "OpenAI" is disingenuous and frankly ridiculous at this point.
Also the claim that he was "actively dooming hundreds of startups to failure" is inaccurate. It looks at this time like everyone who was in SVB will be made whole. Nobody is an asshole for withdrawing their money from the bank.

There are plenty of valid criticisms of Thiel. This is not one of them, and makes the claimant look like a fool.
SVB was clearly vulnerable.

It had a concentrated portfolio of venture industry customers many of whom were required to deposit exclusively with itself and were therefore well over the FDIC insurance limit, and its curiously structured asset portfolio had taken a major hit with the change in interest rates.

They were not healthy.

With a condition so marginal, of course there will be people insisting that they could have made it through if nobody flinched and people insisting that their collapse was just waiting for a strong gust of wind.

The difference of opinion is why people were still both buying and selling their stock until it was delisted. That’s how markets work.

But at this point, it already happened.

The only reason to make a case like this (and those with opposing perspectives) is for influential people to jockey against each other, trying to smear people who they compete with for deals. We don’t need to participate in their soap opera. There’s plenty more practical to talk about now.
Let's say there was a superconducting material that operated at atmospheric pressure and 25C. While waving the magic wand, let us also pretend it costs $1000/kg.

What are the immediate applications for such a thing? I can trivially imagine long distance electrical cables, but HVDC is already pretty efficient. Would maglev applications suddenly become more widespread? Anything involving magnets (MRI, NMR) could maybe gain resolution? Are there revolutionary applications just waiting for this material?

Not at all to be dismissive, but I am genuinely curious what opportunities this could create.
What if somebody else finds them in less than 48 hours?
It is probably a concern to the founders or others with the most power, as you imply. Sure, I guess once we get to, let's see you said exec #107? That's pretty far down, they're maybe not too different than any other employee, though they still might not want their stock to vanish and they still might wish to continue their current career path etc.