skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Canada's charter of rights and freedoms isn't worth the paper it's printed on

While this is certainly technically true, the charter is something of a representation of the social contract that already existed between Canadians and their government, and given that we are a country of common law, that does mean something.
I note that paragraph has since been removed.
> I think this is moving the goal post.

No it isn't - his entire argument is that LLM != Humans, just because LLM can do some human like thinhgs. Pointing out the differences isn't moving the goalposts - it's proving the point.

> Pretty soon we'll have to accept that we are just biological machines

Sounds strawmanish, humans != LLM doesn't mean humans == magic.

> and how we respond to our environment is pre-determined

What does this even mean ? Even these models are stochastic.
A misspelling of "collateralization"?
With respect to "sanity", I feel sure the complainant has poor mental health, perhaps a classifiable illness. IANAP.
First ever connectome of an insect brain complete
It actually happens all the time with FDIC takeover banks. They run a bidding process so the buyers are pressured to act, you can be sure they are already preparing everything to do this ASAP.

They understand timing is really important to rescue these banks, they need to get stability ASAP or tons of value gets destroyed. Potential buyers know this too.
I'm not talking about a brand experience necessarily. Just a mixture of paragraphs and images can cause the issue of where to put the scroll position after the text has changed size. Then add tables, different ways to layout images, etc.
The market expects the bank going under to impact Roku by that much expected value. That's very different than saying the market expects a certain percentage of money to be returned in the end and it's not clear why this is supposed to give even a ballpark estimate of the expected recoup. After all the share price has way more to it than what the current assets come to.

It's also very likely the market changes its mind shortly, especially if Roku lays out the plan and expected impact to operations in more detail.
Science article:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add9330
there are interest rate swaps (insurance, basically) but i think there may be some kind of regulation against banks engaging in derivatives trading?
What part of "very basic" do you not understand?

If we want to get deep into the thickets of finances we absolutely can, but that's not what I'm here for.
Chomsky's linguistics is a topic that I'm endlessly fascinated by and also too dumb to really grok (there are a lot of topics like that, it's kind of a curse). Love to get some good explanations/resources if anyone has any.
This is one view, the other is that the Russian military and its supplies have been decimated, it’s military smashed and the west has spent a fraction of a fraction of its reserves and none of its armies.

Do you really think that Russia isn’t trying to advance?

China may come out in the best position, but surely that’s the best that the non western world can hope for?
Interesting. But how about the Apple Neural Engine (ANE)? I've always wondered if the ANE is ML worthy, maybe it's really only with inference or who knows, even training somehow. I've seen Apple's marketeers bragging about it [1], with even code examples, but ifaik no useful libraries nor reliable measurements and community interest exist in the wild for doing ANE ML on Macs.

1. https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/neural-engine-tra...

Edit: just found this: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/pull/566
SVB Explanation by Jonwu_ on Twitter
A solid explanation of the SVB meltdown by jonwu_ on twitter.
His views are not far right, even by European standards. He's ordinary right, just mixed with an extra helping of dick, twat, and ego.
Yep. I didn't get paid for a month once and road it out. I did get paid eventually, but in retrospect, I should've just left. There were bigger troubles down the line.
Even with a microkernel, there's a lot of power in having a text console even when half the system is not functioning. If this code exists in a separate process, a lot of the handling bugs still need to be fixed to make the OS usable.
It's not tinygrad really, it is PyTorch.
Looking at the gif of a guy picking on the robot by messing with the chips it's supposed to get, I can't help but be reminded of that one Boston Dynamics parody [0]. I sure hope our future overlords can tell that it was just a joke, and not a documentary!

[0] https://youtu.be/dKjCWfuvYxQ
I am personnally a big fan of gdb. There are some things you need to know before it's usable.

1. Use TUI mode with gbdtui

2. Install the packages that will give you syntax coloring in TUI mode (source-higlight something)

3. learn about Ctrl+L or alias `refresh` to `r` t redraw after your program prints if it does

Bonus 4. gdb uses readline just like bash and rlwrap so its command line is configurable with the ~/.inputrc file. I personally enjoy the vi mode. Tons of other options.

Bonus 5. alias gdbtui to `gdb -q -ex start --args` so it shuts up and set a temp breakpoint on you main

Then you basically have a c interpreter under your hand.
I remember writing a function for my class that would dump a .dot file based on the state of my tree that I could just call anytime in gdb and see my tree update in xdot. Wonderful time.
Roughly 50% of all venture backed startups in the US have an SVB account. So yes, it's much larger than just YC.
Deterrence is an aspect. So is justice. Justice means punishment for the wrong-doer. It needs an independent arbitrator as whenever someone is punished, they feel it too harsh and whenever someone is wronged, they feel the punishment too lenient.

Not suggesting the punishment in this case was fair or just. I’m an ex-hacker who got very lucky to not end up with criminal charges when I was 18. I have great empathy for what Shane has gone through.
> So is the issue that we are so deep in a fractional reserve system that any change would cause a blow up?

For half of those things, yes, the issue is that it would be a dramatic change that leaves a lot of people holding the bag. But, you are correct, it doesn't have to be this way.

> In other words could an economy started from scratch function with a fully backed reserve system?

Unfortunately, you'll still have problems with the other half of those issues.

Low velocity of money depresses the economy. This wasn't a concern back when most people were subsistence peasants, and were just toiling to physically grow and put food on the table. All very inelastic demand sort of stuff.

This is a pretty big concern when the way most people put food on the table is a 'job', most of which are heavily affected by elastic demand for various goods and services. A peasant doesn't care much about the health of the 'economy', a worker does.

For another problem, high cost of borrowing significantly advantages the wealthy, and incumbents. Higher spreads between prime and actual interest rates will siphon more money into the pockets of lenders. This significantly amplifies the rich-get-richer winners-win-more problem.

Like, sure, you could build a society like that. Historically, a lot of societies looked like this. They were not very productive, prosperous, and all of their wealth was consolidated in the hands of a few oligarchs.
This is reinforcing the idea that all ICs eventually become managers, or that managers are just more advanced versions of ICs. Egocentric.

But it's the direction the industry is moving in.
Unless they needed to pay their employees or vendors today.
Anyone who, like me, was wondering about Gusto they say the do not use SVB

https://mobile.twitter.com/GustoHQ/status/163424676119459433...
I know very little about this, but the wikipedia page says it's the second largest bank failure in the history of the US, so maybe you're underselling it a bit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_Bank
You really don’t think he knew this was coming six weeks ago?
Ah, in my rough draft I do have a section on this! But I cut it because hardware support for floating point on ARM deserves its own post.

Keep an eye out for the follow up then.
Kind of annoying that the CEO is writing out details on twitter before they contact the affected companies...
T-Bonds tie up money for a long time, bank deposit are largely retrievable on demand. Banks take a fee for bundling lots of deposits together to invest and depositors trade upside for convenience.

If you know you have a 10-year horizon, by all means buy treasuries instead of depositing at a bank.
It’s like saying so-and-so ate bread 48 hours before they got a heart attack.
Meta was supposed to be building a new machine since the old one’s usage stopped growing
The only entities they seem to worry about is banks. And banks going under is bad news for everyone, always has been. Being a lender of last resort to banks is explicitly part of their mandate.
> and that's exactly what we see in the article, right?

I think we see the opposite! We start with a naive and non-hierarchical view of relatedness: trees are tall woody things, fish live in the water and have fins. And the piece argues that we should let go of our common-sense categories and use the descent-based ones, like the biologists do.

Anyway --- I didn't say that ancestry is the only factor. I said it was natural, and useful. Epigenetics is fascinating, really! But it's not 'blasting out' of anything, it adds a bit of detail and complexity around the edges. A sense of proportion is important; we shouldn't miss the forest for the...never mind.
Regardless of a warranty, the hardware still fails and needs to be replaced. That requires maintenance. Beyond that, can they afford to wait for Dell to fix the faulty device or send a replacement, or do they need several spare units to address outages quickly.
We have chip-and-nothing, or contactless, which is better than Chip-and-PIN. (Note Apple Pay and similar are basically chip-and-PIN because it's authenticated by the phone passcode.)

> And who still uses cheques these days?!

US uses them for business-to-customer payments, especially unsolicited ones, because we don't want to give random businesses we don't know our bank account numbers.
They make it up with those watch armbands and some women presenters, it’s fine!
I respond to everything with "congratulations" or "I'm sorry to hear that", chosen at random.
1999 was still pretty early! iSONEWS launched in December '98, but really it was the spring of '99 when things really gained momentum. The domain seizure was 2003.
Wow:

> Some banking experts on Friday pointed out that a bank as large as Silicon Valley Bank might have managed its interest rate risks better had parts of the Dodd-Frank financial-regulatory package, put in place after the 2008 crisis, not been rolled back under President Trump.

> In 2018, Mr. Trump signed a bill that lessened regulatory scrutiny for many regional banks. Silicon Valley Bank’s chief executive, Greg Becker, was a strong supporter of the change, which removed the requirement that banks with assets under $250 billion submit to stress testing by the Fed, and changed requirements for the amount of cash they had to keep on their balance sheets to protect against shocks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/business/silicon-valley-b...
I don't totally agree with the article, but it was an interesting read. It's funny reading quotes like "I gave it a paper to peer review and it didn't help at all". It not doing exactly what you want it to do + you not wanting to believe it is revolutionary = it's all hype.

Personally, I use ChatGPT everyday. I use it in ways that weren't possible through mere google searches. It does some of the thinking and synthesis of different ideas and patterns for me. I work faster as a result. I work in languages and frameworks I didn't know before in a matter of minutes instead of days.

Is there AI hype? Yes. Am I starting to see patterns in the responses, and lots of errors, which makes me realise this is a bit more limited than I thought? Yes. Are there lots of gimmicky use cases? Absolutely.

Is it still crazy useful, and game changing for lots of industries in fundamental ways? Yes!
But theoretically, the cannabis should have helped that. I also felt a lot of nerve twitches all over. It might have been too high THC, but it was not an experience that I cared to repeat.

For the kind of experience you are talking about, I would think psychadelics would probably be the better fit.
It appears as though he sold exactly the number of shares required to cover the cost of exercising options that were about to expire with his after-tax proceeds. This does not seem to me to be a nefarious transaction.
Honest answer? I don't know. But when my business was in a similar position (not from VCs and only about 25% of that amount), my business partner, attorney, and accountant sure did, so I know it can be done. IIRC, it was a fairly complex mix of different things. There certainly wasn't a single place that held all of the money.

I know that this sort of problem isn't new, and I know that there are a variety of ways to mitigate the risk to acceptable levels. I don't think you can ever completely eliminate risk.

Dealing with large amounts of money is very complex and really requires experts to do right. I'm an engineer, not a money expert. Your question is better aimed at a subject matter expert.

But my underlying point isn't even that these companies did the wrong thing. Only that they took a risk -- and starting a business is itself taking a risk. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

But when you take a risk, you're (obviously) taking a risk that the money will be lost. That's truly an unfortunate thing, but everyone knows the rules of the game.
> I work in space.

My only defense is that Ted Lasso Season III lands next week:

YOU WORK IN SPACE?!?

Man the commute must be terrible.
It's not clear under what conditions the startups gave money to SVB. It could be they just put into a checking account and SVB then invested it in a risky manner.
Westworld and Heroes are great examples of shows that overstayed their welcome pretty quickly. Lost did too, but managed to limp along for quite a while.

It sucks when "the audience wants to consume more of this" collides with "creators have no idea how to make more of this".
My promotion from junior to mid-level definitely came from sheer volume of work. I think I could have dialed that back a bit and been more tactical with better results.

As a mentor, you need to understand that you cannot get everyone to have steller results. Your goal is to provide a lift with your advice so that they are in a better place than they would have been without you.

This became clear to me when I provided the same coaching to two engineers. One grew at a breakneck pace while the other grew more slowly.
Is there a resource we can all use to find out if our employer is in a similar situation?
Yeah, I got that part. I've just assumed that would be handled by a server process in a microkernel architecture. But I've just checked seL4 and it has in-kernel support for the console as well. That's not what I expected.
LLaMA isn't built on RLHF, so it may be necessary to create a more extensive prompt. For example:

```

You are a super intelligent honest question-answering system.

Q: What's 2+2?

A: 4

Q: What color is the sky?

A:

```
>> especially in Quebec where the government actively pre-empts it

It would make sense for Quebec to ignore it since, well, they didn't sign it. Just like the US constitution doesn't apply since, well, Canada didn't sign it.

> Sadly, other political bodies do this as well, and it is becoming more common.

What makes no sense is the federal government can apparently decide to "suspend the constitution" as it pleases (and did so for peaceful freedom of speech demonstrations by truckers recently).
He has been regularly selling stock for years

Here are the SEC records which are public records:

https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/#/ciks=0001259867&entityNam...
Feed your family & mind your own business.
there's a reason progress is so much slower now than it was 50 years ago, and it's not that we don't have enough scientists or enough papers
UHM....

Was one of two heads of DRG gaming labs at intel in the 90s...

Yeah Razor was massive back in that day and we ran a massive warez bbs out of that lab....

we got pre-deploy releases and....

the other guy went on to be evp of dev for blizzard...

FYI: I never knew who the 1911 guy was...
Ask dumb questions receive dumb answers.
https://twitter.com/jonwu_/status/1634250754486857729?s=46&t...
Probably not nefarious. It's still annoying that the big guys can make millions while running a company into the ground.
> Unpaid wages pierce the corporate veil

I didn't know this! Can anyone direct me to the relevant law?
The author myopically tries to extrapolate this incident to "the economy" and "other industries". SVB's customers panicked. But who are SVB's customers. For the most part, VC, PE and non-profitable "tech" startups. Not surprising they would panic. They produce nothing themselves, conduct surveillance, sell advertising services, pay employees from funding rounds and call this a "business model".

This is not "the economy". This is a giant sucking leech attached to it. A parasitic fungus that has attacked the minds of an alarming number of susceptible people. But not everyone is a mindless zombie.

Among other things, the parasite needs "zero" interest rate borrowing to survive.

"The economy" is not synonymous with Silicon Valley nor the SV mind virus.
The UK government owns several banks, one of these banks is for exactly this purpose.

National Savings & Investment Bank (NS&I) does not offer loans, but money you save with this bank is in practice just part of the country's general fund, they're paying you interest on your savings because if they borrowed that money commercially they'd have to pay interest too.

This has one obvious big advantage for the saver - it's inherently safe, you aren't saving with a bank, who might gamble your money away and then go bankrupt, if the whole country fails then it doesn't mean anything to lose the Pounds in the savings account, Pounds are now worthless anyway. Also if you live there you have more immediate problems.

Since the government owns it, it's also allowed to do things which would otherwise be illegal, at least potentially e.g. NS&I Premium Bonds are basically savings except with gambling, or scratch-offs except you get your money back if you don't win. Your deposit is safe, but instead of say 1% interest on £10 000 you might have 0.1% chance to win another £90 000 for a total of £100 000.

This is technically worse than the 1% interest but it's exciting and people buy lottery tickets so who am I to argue?

Edited to add: Somehow the word not was missed in my second paragraph during editing. Fixed now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17570029
In my experience, companies don’t need to go out of their way to create bullshit work or keep around useless people. They’ll do that incidentally anyway.
Let's hope (for all our sake) your work continues for a loooong time, fun and not-so-fun.

Until we all can self-bank!
Yea, I don't get it. Perhaps if while you're an engineer you think management shouldn't be doing these sorts of things you had some mistaken perspective.

Moving to management is not some inherently transcendental ascendancy into higher enlightenment and purpose, it's a change in responsibilities and goals. It's not for everyone, there are plenty capable of being managers and fully understand the roles but don't want to become them. This article reads like some journey to enlightenment that I think all but a junior engineer would read as pretty naive.
Which makes you wonder what would happen if you gave ChatGPT two streams of output: one for "speech" and one for inner-monologue-style "thinking".

For most of our "hmm, let me think"'s I'm not sure what we do is significantly more complicated than that. We just get to hide the inner monologue.
Props for moving fast.
don’t forget arm26
NASA reveals its moon spacecraft was damaged as it plummeted to Earth
No you’re just inconsistent. Force is only justified in response to force. Even when it would benefit you to access someone else’s money.
First Republic Hit by Silicon Valley Bank Failure
This is Commodore 64 tier answers
There's a couple of services that will split up your deposit into 20-different banks, so that you achieve $5 Million FDIC insurance rather than just $250,000.

Also, if any particular bank fails, you only risk 1/20th of your cash.

EDIT: I never managed $100M before however. Maybe that stops being a potential plan at these sizes.
Yes he probably doesn't care about making Twitter profitable in the abstract, but as a self-interested businessman who now owns it.
Are these really innovations, or just convoluted workarounds for problems that other countries have actually solved? I don't think anyone under 40 in Europe has ever written a check, for example, because wires are far more convenient there.
I also didn't know this and was surprised at the attention this subject got these past couple of days.
I had a reference to
https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/AArch64-Extensions.h...
that I cut from my rough draft that I do miss.
That doesn’t tell us how remote first companies will compete in the marketplace. It’s just gazing at our own navels. We need to wait and see how things shake out.
Honestly this makes a ton of sense. The FDIC will be returning most (or all) of the deposits in SVB, so the debt is reasonably safe (at least as far as debt that startups take on ever is). Whoever is funding this is probably not taking on all too much liability, and if they're heavily invested in the startup ecosystem could easily be making enough back from this indirectly to make it worthwhile.

For brex this has to be the best marketing ever. Sign up a bunch of customers with real businesses at someone else's expense.
I was just thinking the old internet was better, then I visited the link. Not that I'm not interested, but ...
Are you reading his works in French? If not, the criticism of the language doesn't hold up. I do agree with the recommendation though - enjoy his work.
Also curious hearing from an expert on this one way or the other. Took the Tweet at face value without actually being able to confirm under what circumstances that would be true.
In the short term, it is interesting to see if this problem grows[0]...if Fed keeps rates at high levels for longer, there is going to be a gravitational pull into treasuries which will cause more banks to fail.

It would be very prudent to not have more than the FDIC insured amount in especially smaller regional banks that may have made same errors as SIVB while avoiding Basel III regulations [1]

[0] https://twitter.com/TOzgokmen/status/1634329176554520576

[1] https://archive.ph/Fx1is