skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/40

In a nutshell: a previous close-to-room-temp superconduction article from this group was retracted from Nature due to two main concerns; (1) a diagram of a measurement needed to confirm superconductivity seemed a lot like one from a 2009 paper, (2) no one else was able to create this material. Oh and that measurement in the 2009 paper was done by the same scientist as the measurement in the retracted paper - and is the source of why the 2009 paper is also under suspicion.

Moreover, it turns out the principal investigator's doctoral thesis has copied substantially from another thesis without proper attribution.

So it seems many are taking a "let's wait and see" approach.
BBS were very much a foundational building block of the internet, yes. As a former Discourse employee I’ve been effectively trying to bring back that bygone era.

But Usenet et.al. predates the world-wide-web by a decade, and In this piece I’m subtly making the case that WWW is when the internet first took material form, becoming visible to the naked eye.
Observing and Understanding Backlog Queues in Linux
Universal human rights are not rational thought, they are values. You don't think your way into your values.
You do have to pay for electricity which can be significant when you have multiple GPUs
Yes but that doesn't mean they would lose everything over the insured limit. If I owe you 1M but only have 950k to give you that's a lot better than having only 100k, in which case you'd end up with 250k.
She and her husband are both Duke MBAs and ex-McKinsey.
This clip is unfortunately not available in Canada.
I think it's likely that certain actors were pulling the strings behind the scenes to trigger the run and make a hefty profit in the process. But they are nothing more than capitalistic hyenas, the root issue lies in irresponsible SVB management and reckless tightening by FED.
Note that professional historians are not united on the Treaty of Versailles being too onerous and a cause of Ww2, though that's certainly the conventional vaguely-heard-about-it impression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles#Historica...
That does not address the second question at all? The bonds need to be bought by someone, but you gave no argument why this someone has to be banks and why banks need tax money for bailouts on top of that.
There is nothing to suggest a language model is self aware, or is capable of reasoning and will turn itself around to kill you or anyone else. Knowledge is power and it’s better to get clued up on how these things work so you don’t scare yourself.
Can a paramedic declare someone dead?
>> literally the only thing they could think of to do with the massive amount of money getting dumped in their lap

> There are tons of places to put money that are riskier, even billions, that would have yielded better returns

That there were many riskier alternatives doesn’t mean that there were no safer alternatives. (And by the way most of the riskier alternatives wouldn’t have actually yielded better returns in the last couple of years.)
Together Releases Open-Source ChatGPT Alternative Called OpenChatKit
Despite the prior “more wood behind fewer arrows” announcement, it might be the first time Google killed something that was popular with Googlers. I think it was an “Elves leave Middle-Earth” moment for my friends on campus. Memegen was full of “we can launch (ultradoomed project) but can’t keep Reader alive?” snark, less good-natured than usual. I’ve heard it blamed on Vic and G+, actual security issues from scraping Javascript, or just falling behind on the promo-driven infra treadmill that threatens everything mature.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1007750
Touchpad Blocker: Disable touch-pad while typing
Are there any courses on creating a new language, interpreter, and compiler from scratch? Like not using LLVM or similar to generate intermediate representation but to literally pick an ISA and, well, compile for it.
Taxpayers aren't paying for this, and in 2008 the government actually made money on the bailouts, so taxpayers didn't pay for that either.
I'm using a Macbook (intel) for work and a linux machine (xorg, not wayland) for hobby related stuff. It's insane how much snappier and instant everything feels on the linux machine. Every time I'm tinkering with my config on my private machine, I'm let down when using it on my work machine as I need to dial down things I've enabled because emacs has gotten really sluggish again.

I've read similar experiences from people all around the net, but my linux machine is also a bit more powerful than my macbook, but honestly not enough to explain the worlds of difference between the two.

Nevertheless, on both machines I've noticed a substantial speedup with the JIT you've mentioned, so maybe give it another try?
The US government has a debt limit. The government is going to run out of options for not exceeding that limit in a few months unless it is raised. There are people in congress suggesting that they should let the limit get hit. If the debt limit is hit, do you e pectin the government to be able to pay out FDIC money in a timely manner?
Hah, I agree it's confusing. And it's funny you mention it, because even though I said vim, I use neonvim.
Do realize that the SVB bankers and shareholders remain completely screwed. This bailout does not save them. Nor will any FDIC bailout.

So the FDIC existing does not change how a bank behaves. From the perspective of the bank, bankruptcy and FDIC takeover are effectively the same thing.
Was notified about this via the Feedly widget on my Google Pixel phone.

huh, how time flies
> Does it matter?

It does. Very much. We do not want to have to rely on government intervention and unforced errors to avoid an AI wasteland like we used to have with operating systems and web browsers. Particularly as these things are trained using our collective “wisdom” (well, production anyway) only to be sold back to us.
Hang on, companies with over 250k on deposit should be, or be engaging finance experts. YC should have finance experts.
> the big exception being VSCode for Typescript/JS

Why? As a neovim user with a lot of ts/js at $job, curious what if I'm missing especially useful (outside of the proprietary live-remote-session stuff)
I stopped having a positive view of Google due to their poor explanation for shutting down Google Reader.

They explained they were shutting it down due to declining usage and they are pouring all of their energy into fewer product, however, as Google had a reputation for building cool and free stuff back then, it seemed reasonable to me that they could have maintain it in a frozen state or provide a longer transition period. This invited alternative theories about intentionally killing RSS for Google+.
But then the coverage has mentioned also CMBS. An if you think about those, think about Covid and think about SV remote working…
For 13b and 30b, it really needs high temperature to produce good outputs.
So this is why ChatGPT hallucinates
Ahh.sorry, if it was not clear. Generate button is only for generating job description, not the resume.
More like finally "proven right" to have needlessly kept feeding 4/5th of 64GB to Chrome since 2018
No one said ChatGPT. It was a vague reference to the recent LLaMA developments from the community.
> And if they called themselves ClosedAI I don't think people would mind so much; it's the dishonesty that's grating.

Isn’t this part for the course for an Elon project? Jokes aside (in this case I actually agree with him that openness is critical if the society starts really relying on AI), there would still be a need for a free model. There is too much at stake to rely on a single black box in that area.
Google really did do “embrace, extend, extinguish” on a lot of internet technology, didn’t it?
So it sounds like the depositors did know they were working with a higher risk bank?
This reminds me of the chorus of "Rockets on the Battlefield" Kool Keith/Black Elvis

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP6EK9ydDUs#t=1m20s
It depends on how many competitors will enter the market. At current stage, I would say the chance of them to increase the price is high. The current price is so cheap, it might as well work for a saturated market, which is not what the actual market is currently at.

I guess their current pricing is designed to attract new users to bring use cases/ideas to them, which would be a field where their the imagination is lacking.
I have no doubt this is true after reading about the 8 years of shit quality heart medicine, metropolol, coming out of india, which so many older americans rely on and can cause heart damage if inconsistently taken. It's an outrage.
You don't need to limit your accounts to a maximum of $250k. You just need to use more than one bank if you're going to use a regional bank like SVB.

Especially a regional bank like SVB that fought hard against regulation, caters specifically to herd-thinking VCs and startups, offered 4.5% APY, and went all in on mortgage backed securities shortly before the Fed hiked rates way up.
I don't think it's because they're not putting enough effort into it.

Like most large organisation they tend to approximate a small government and they're inherently incapable of using their resources efficiently. Every once and then they will acquire a start-up that works to give new blood to the behemot.
> The 250k limit should be inflation adjusted. It’s not been raised since 2008. If inflation adjusted the FDIC insurance would be closer to 350k

That 100k difference wouldn't make any difference here though, since the problem is for businesses (startups mostly) who had accounts there.

The 250K insurance limit seems quite reasonable for individual personal accounts per bank. But applying the same limit to a whole company which may well have more than 250K in payroll per month... well there's a problem.
LLaMa [1] works on Apple Mx processors due to unified memory. The 7B model works on a 8GB Apple MacBook Pro M1, ~40 seconds/token.

[1] https://dev.l1x.be/posts/2023/03/12/using-llama-with-m1-mac
Its actually kinda neat...
> At the same time, this is yet another example of changing the rules in the middle of the game.

Not exactly. Or rather yes, but the rules changed in 2008, not this week. Specifically after IndyMac failed in 2008, there was significant blowback on the FDIC from Congress, and an unoficial, unnounced policy was put in place to ignore the $250k limit and ensure uninsured depositors took no losses in (almost) all cases.

From https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/will-fdic-keep-protec...:

> Of the 127 banks and thrifts that failed from Jan. 1, 1993, to the last bank that failed before IndyMac was closed [...] 71% of the total deposits of the 127 failures were in institutions where uninsured depositors suffered a loss, while 29% of the deposits were in institutions resolved through a P&A that fully protected uninsured depositors from any loss whatsoever.

Whereas:

> Since IndyMac, there have been 522 failures, excluding Washington Mutual [...] Of the 522 failures, just 31, or 5.9%, were resolved in a manner that only protected insured deposits — uninsured depositors were therefore put at risk of a loss. Those 31 banks and thrifts held just 4.9% of the deposits of the post-IndyMac failures.

(Washington Mutual is excluded because it was enormous compared to the other failed banks - although since uninsured depositors were protected, including it just skews the stats even further.)

So for the past 15 years, we've had a system where the overwhelming majority (well over 95%) of uninsured deposits were protected, and thus, it would have been legitimately very surprising if recovery for uninsured deposits in SVB wasn't 100%, because it's very clear that unstated FDIC policy is to aim for that, and they've got a strong track record of achieving it. (I will state that I find the hidden nature of this policy problematic, however.)

The only thing surprising about events so far is that there's been enough noise that some new policies had to be announced, instead of it all just being quietly resolved like normal.
I know the NHS is poor but not even being able to afford flu shots is pretty poor indeed.
Check out https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047760/essentials-of-compila...

Author has made complete draft PDFs for both the Racket and Python versions available here. https://wphomes.soic.indiana.edu/jsiek/
AAAS (AI as a Service)

You heard it here first.
> Retail banks won't let the Federal Reserve open a bank account for everyone by default with the Fed.

Actually the FED is opposed to this themselves. A company called the narrow bank was going to try this. The FED refused them a banking license, all the way to court.

The FED wants deposits reinvested into the economy.
What does backstopping this bank mean for inflation? Where are we getting the money from to secure the deposits of the bank?

Where does it end? If this small bank was vulnerable, how many other small banks will we need to do this for?
You completely and utterly missed my point, which was questioning why many people in the US and parts of Europe find high density living distasteful and how to overcome that sentiment—high density living quite literally being the only answer to sprawl and unfolding ecological disaster, on which I agree with TFA—rather than trying to figure out how to put people somewhere against their will.
Silicon Valley Bank's UK subsidiary has been sold to HSBC
An important component of credit courses is the time limitness so this seems unlikely to happen.
This was the second largest bank failure in US history. The feds stepped in mid day on Friday and sorted out the entire situation by Sunday evening. And your takeaway is that the government was too slow to react and are to blame for this?
* scripts not Scripps. Thanks, Siri.
Please name an average that necessarily has "half of the population is below average", because that is not true for median, mode or the traditional average.
Can journalists teach AI to tell the truth?
command.com
Would you mind explaining how the comment was "dangerously close" to a dog whistle?
https://piped.video/watch?v=TAE8i40A5uI
Regional banks like SVB have different regulations than other banks.
Thanks, that's much more than what I would have expected.
As a country we're going through a period where people don't WANT things to work. They want them to get worse. That's the Brexit vote and Boris "obviously incompetent" Johnson and 50 other similar examples. It's a very under discussed phenomenon.
This always seemed like one of Google's worst decisions to me, and given that I remember the time they tried to spend $6 billion to buy Groupon, that's saying something. It was a plain unforced error.

Google Reader was a product that was crazy cheap to maintain (no way it had more than a dozen engineers working on it), and it was used primarily by the extremely online, especially journalists, bloggers, and other sorts of influencers. If they had viewed Reader as a marketing expense, keeping it online would've been a no-brainer.

But instead, they instead viewed it as a consumer tool that didn't have a path to profitability, and they were 100% right, but then over the next few years, it became clear how many later Google efforts would've benefited from Reader existing. Google+ would've meshed well with it. That little Google "stuff you maybe want to see" panel on Android phones that would frequently make little notices like "hey, we think you like this site, there's a new article," and that was probably really involved to build, and also it absolutely sucked compared to just having Reader.

Ultimately I have to assume that it's a business org problem. No engineer was going to get a promotion keeping Reader alive. No manager was going to be able to grow Reader's audience 10x. No director would want to give up a half dozen of their engineers to keep Reader running just because it would significantly hurt Google to turn it off. And no executive cared about a product that small. The org structure didn't lead to someone incentivized to want to keep Reader going, despite its popularity inside and outside the company.
Relevant graph of assets and deposits:

https://i.imgur.com/d5b1CQV.png
And that graph is now missing Signature Bank with another 110B assets. We are getting into 2008 territory and the first quarter is not yet behind us.
Have a look at https://keleshev.com/compiling-to-assembly-from-scratch/
Literally nothing you mentioned is a shell builtin, your choice of shell matters not at all.
The opposite is often the case too though. There are plenty of fat, beer-bellied dudes who think they aren't obese because they have some muscle.
Yeah the absolute degenerate gamble known as putting a check in a bank.
Not it isn't but what the OP is saying that with the llama models (and others) being runable on consumer hardware it's only a matter of time until we get something that's "good enough" for many use cases.

Maybe not first of the class but there is a lot value to be found in the middle ground and it's good for the market as a whole.
Got one in my desk drawer myself, pretty much the only machine remaining from my (much smaller) collection of Vintage computers. I should take it out more often.
Several prominent VCs retweeted debunked claims about feds taking over First Republic Bank last evening, all in sync with each other. Their collective role in this panic (including possible backchannel collusion before and after everything went down) definitely needs to be investigated.
I've done this to get consulate appointments for visas as well. Was able to reduce from a 30-day wait to ~5 days.
OpenishAI

The Indian was too expensive, it is a Kenyan [1].

[1] "OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic" https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers
Perhaps worth noting that Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI employees after the funding from the Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
How about a special levy on VC funds to pay for the special risk that they create in the banking sector?

I asked on another thread why everyone was banking with the same bank. The answer was that SVB was willing to do things for the VCs clients that other banks were not.
My understanding is, to a large extent "beds" really means "physical bed and sufficient staff to support the patient in it" and the ingredient most missing is the latter.

Doctors tend to be ridiculously overworked in the UK. This is much worse recently - first doctors were off sick / isolating due to Covid. That means less doctors to do the same jobs having to work harder. That drives more doctors to either leave or take long term sick leave - goto 1.
> How is the way I'm thinking not resulting in the way I'm writing?

Because a skill of think is depended from a skill of write.
While I agree F should never be used in favor of K, bar is a common unit of pressure even in metric engineering projects. For strict calculations only using SI units is obviously the way to go. But for science communication and general conversation about engineering, just using bar is often a more easily understood unit because there are more day-to-day comparisons that the average person can make. And thus oftentimes it's easier to comprehend bar than it is Pa.
> Very interesting! Do you transmit this metadata on a different fd, like 3?

At the moment there is POC code to transmit over fd 3 but I’m looking into using UNIX sockets instead.

> Super cool. Since it's Go, does that mean runtime errors will silently fail and keep chugging along? /dig ;)

This project predates Rust 1.0 so it was a no brainier at the time to use Go. But actually I do think Go is well suited for this type of problem because much as some complain about errors being regular types, the way Go encourages granular handling of errors rather than larger try / catch blocks or exceptions does lead to more tailored error messages. Which ultimately helps explain the problem better for the end user.

Not taking anything away from Rust or any other language. Nor am I saying Go’s error handling doesn’t have its problems. Just that I’d probably choose Go again if I were to start this project tomorrow.

> Can you customize the PS1?

Every part of the shell is customisable. However rather than having hard to discover environmental variables that can alter the shells behaviour, instead there is a command called config that allows you to inspect every option.

https://murex.rocks/docs/commands/config.html
> SVB is a 40 year old bank that's been doing business in the valley since the VC era started.

So it’s a fairly new bank, by the standard or banks, and the point remains, why did they choose to risk keeping money in excess of the $250K insurance backstop in one bank with no real track record?

Until this event the whole idea of the FDIC insurance fund was to ensure that people (not corporations) with relatively small nest eggs wouldn’t lose the whole thing and therefore starve if their bank made bad bets… once your nest egg grew beyond the backstop it was your right (and privilege) to assume the risk of losing it, if you wanted to.

Now because VCs and CEOs were essentially asleep at the wheels of companies that, for the part that have gotten this absurdly quick action from the government, consider $250K to be a rounding error, the rules have changed. That’s the special class… the kind of people who somehow think 40 years is a substantial track record for a business that’s big enough to underpin an economy.
Thanks for sharing. I really like using Brave to customize my search, though it's been more about what I don't want to include. Glad to integrate these tidbits.
Wow. Or, is this a wind up?
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Possibly does DBMS benefit from SPR L3 cache structure?
GigaGAN: Stable Diffusion for Generative Adversarial Networks
HSBC to acquire SVB UK, depositors made whole
Script which parses my calendar and creates tasks in my GTD-like system in Todoist - so all my tasks are in one place and I should not jump between apps to get full picture of a day
Sounds really cool, do you have a write-up of it anywhere?
Obviously the #1 top priority of the CEO of an early stage startup is to spend time assessing and countering risks such as bank runs, gross mismanagement at their bank, earthquakes
I wasn't trying to be critical of the FDIC, they're obviously really excellent at their job and it's a testament to just how down pat they have their play book given they did managed to get so much sorted out by Sunday. My only point was they managed to prevent bank runs of failing banks in the past, they have deep insight into the banking system. I'm curious what happened this time. Maybe as you said, it's related to the size of the bank, I don't know.
I didn't get an email, there's no news, and AFAICT this story hasn't been picked up by any other news outlets at all (nothing on Google News at least). There are a couple individual anecdotes, and off topic discussions about domain prices.

Gandi obviously has issues, but is the thing about email real? Are there _any_ sources that can confirm it?
Permits and 1k days of meetings: How bureaucracy fuels SF’s housing crisis
No one was making a "hefty profit" off the bank run. It was a case of a panic selloff, nothing more.
So what is the risk premium they were collecting? The time savings of not managing multiple accounts? Is it really desirable for larger depositors to carry the inefficiency of spreading their deposits across multiple banks, if the net liabilities of the banks end up being the same?
Thanks, highly appreciated.

I tend to be biased towards what Jeremy Siek himself markets as "Proven in the classroom" when it comes to book authors in CS. Many book authors lack this experience and simply write for themselves, which is ok, but can result in bad didactics. Good teachers and authors from academia are invaluable.
If you blow up so badly you break the world people you want to like you stop liking you.
I've fairly recently switched to self hosting and I'm pretty happy with the result.

I still miss reader. but I'm happy with what i have. (FreshRSS)