skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL! Neither "packaging correlated assets doesn't make them magically AAA, so we'll also commit ratings fraud", neither "uninsured money at a bank can be lost in sudden market shifts (or simply mismanagement or fraud)" are/were unknowns. These people took risks KNOWINGLY, because they were rewarded handsomely by it. Now and then it rears its ugly face and we're supposed to pay the check? Give me a break.
People throw around this claim about the turing test. I've yet to see any empirical corroboration of it.

Using an LLM and being amazed by its response is not doing the Turing test. The Turing test is mostly a thought experiment anyway.
If you want no risk you will have to pay an institution to handle all the logistics of moving your money around, not have them pay you for the privilege.

The fact that SVB pays depositors should have been an indication that there was risk.

There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.
What do you mean by incentivise? People being allowed to have opinions? What part of free enterprise incentivises the Congress to enable this?
Fabergé eggs are scarce because of the difficulty and cost of making them. NFTs are scarce because they are a one time issued code, attached "somewhere" to something that's extremely easy to make, and were in fact produced in large quantities in short time.
I still don't get what you're trying to say. If a startup fails, equity holders lose everything, same as in bank failures. But startups don't have depositors. Bank depositors always get 100% up to the FDIC limit, but depositors are not equity investors, they're (very senior) debt holders. The price they pay for the safety is generally lower interest rates than junior creditors or preferred shares. For the other parties involved (employers, shareholders, other creditors) their risks and rewards aren't all that different from any other large company.

AFAICT the only special stakeholders in banks are depositors. Are you trying to say that depositors should run a lot more risk (i.e. not always made whole in case of illiquidity/insolvency)?
The story of the one time it was almost used. I saw that the direct deposit was an incorrect amount. I communicated the issue and did not go in to work as usual. Turns out it was a payroll error that affected literally everyone. It was swiftly corrected, and I went in late. It did just end up being a one time mistake at that employer.

It was many years ago, but I vaguely remember I was hoping they really messed up so I could go to the beach or something.
Where do you get the weights? Do you have to fill out the researcher form on FB?
"The reason why everything is ruined by advertising is because nearly everybody expects content to be free to the end user on the internet. The money has to come from somewhere, so advertising it is."

The internet was doing just fine before corporations and advertisers swarmed on to it in the first great internet gold rush.
At my job, the commute was about 30 minutes, as I commuted to a suburban office park (10 miles, North-South). I was in the office, five days (at least) a week, so that was 100 miles per week.

However, almost everyone that lives around me, works in the city. Many of them take the train. I know several that drive, though. They usually have highly skewed hours (they will drive in at 5AM, and come back at 3, but even then, there's a lot of traffic).

When I lived in the DC suburbs, even the suburban local commutes were crazy. I had a six-mile commute, one town South, and it often took 45 minutes. It would have been faster to bike.
Very very true. But, I feel the answer is the same.

Advertisers are spending money for ads and they of course want the best possible return for their money and this involves as much tracking and intelligence-gathering as is technically possible. If one is now creating an advertising-supported site, you are now at the whims of advertisers.

There are alternatives, but I've never seen them scale. For example some independent blogs and other content creators have "hand picked" ads from selected partners. For example, DaringFireball.net runs one ad per week and he appears to work carefully with advertisers to select ads he feels comfortable running. But I've never seen this scaled up very far.

(not that everything needs to be scaled up)
Lehman to SVB? Why do I get the feeling his interview sounded like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXhIFNjVthk
I came here to say this as well. I don't really care whether LLM's work like the human brain, because I suspect it won't matter.

Also, although I understand the concerns over super intelligent AGI, I suspect that in the short- to medium-term, that won't matter either. What will matter is highly optimized LLM's putting high swaths of the white collar workforce out of work, and the economic upheaval that will ensue.
Aka crony capitalism, aka socialism with some free market features.
I gave I look through my books and English is wonderfully ambivalent when it comes to punctuation outside of prescriptive grammars. The descriptive grammars largely (if not completely) ignore punctuation and focus on spoken language, even the Cambridge Encyclopedia of The English Language reduces punctuation "rules" to a single page and reduces hyphen/en/em-dash to a typographical convention and does not say much more than the dash is often used in informal writing to replace other punctuation marks. All we really have here is convention and consistency, can you meet the challenge I outlined without following the conventions I laid out? It can be done but it will be considerably more verbose than it would be following those conventions which is not a bad thing. Authors like McCarthy, Krasznahorkai, Ellman, Bernhard have all built their style around breaking those conventions (yes, two are translations when it comes to English but they break the conventions in their own languages as well.) Even Joyce breaks the convention and he does it within single works, switches between adherence and breaking, but not many have pulled that off in the way he did.

It is a really complex thing and part of what makes English literature what it is. We have conventions which have evolved over time when it comes to punctuation and we have prescription, but we don't really have rules unless you are writing tech documents or journal submissions. It comes down to having a clear and consistent use more than anything else and using every punctuation mark for any accepted use based on whim is not clear or consistent.
A lot of things we do for fun are either irrational (why pay for food at a restaurant many times what the same food would cost at home? and with drinks it’s even worse because literally the same wine/beer/soda is easily 10 times cheaper at the supermarket) or bad for the environment (traveling, for example).
I read it, can someone please summaries this for me?
Free -> open -> editable

Paid -> closed -> broken and outdated

Funded -> quality?
> I've never seen them in business or personal writing, and I probably never will.

En dash is all over the place in personal/business writing, even just in email, thanks to Word and Outlook autocorrecting a hyphen to an en dash whenever it's between two spaces (rightfully in my opinion). If you've never seen it then that surely says more about what you notice than the content of what you've read.

That doesn't necessarily contradict your point – if you never notice the distinction then what's the point? But it's different from how I read the implication of your post.

(Funnily enough, without thinking, I put an en dash in the paragraph above by holding down on hyphen in the Android keyboard, and only caught myself after I did it.)
> The better advice is to make sure your crew is well-rested and your equipment has failsafes in place.

The equipment did have interlocks to prevent it being opened incorrectly but nobody used them because they were annoying and fiddly.
Reminds me of this guy I met at a CTF. He decided that punctuation generally is unnecessary. What's the use of having so many different symbols if the only thing they denote is pauses between words.

so when he wrote something . he used only periods to denote pauses . no other punctuation symbols . no capital letters . some people were thinking that his periods stand for perl concatenation operators . i dont know if he is still doing this . i hope he stopped
I mostly agree with this. these players should not be rewarded for using the deposits of the bank as a multiplier of their funds AUM, and the portfolio companies were pawns who willingly played along, or were ignorant and either way deserve to lose.
I think you’re missing the point. Music is an experience, and how people want to deliver that experience varies. Who are you to say the correct way for people to enjoy their experience?

Someone on HN compared Emacs to vinyl the other day, and I really enjoyed the comment. There are multiple reasons why Emacs/vinyl is objectively worse. That being said, it’s fun, and there’s no reason to hate on it.
Another model that I personally found ideal was the small open office. One place I worked had 4-8 people in an open setup in rooms that were conference room type sizes.

It was a great setup as you’d build nice team dynamics and easily talk, but didn’t need assistive technology like headphones and white noise machines to function.

15 years later, I’m probably skill in regular contact with about 50% of the people I worked with in that environment.
> You can mitigate some of the noise with a good pair of noise cancelling headphones.

For me, headphones make an open office setup worse, not better. It's not mostly about the noise for me as much as it's about motion. When I wear headphones, I am more "on alert" because I can't tell if people are behind me or not.
Cameron hired all the competent, experienced CGI / animation people and the rest of the special effects industry hasn't moved ahead much since. It's even regressed in places.
That's the same as saying that commercialisation of life was a mistake. I am not disagreeing, but let's just call it for what it is.
It's the same. How you organize "the people" is irrelevant.
I don’t know about gentlemanly or eloquent, but I seriously doubt Chomsky is smarter than Geoff Hinton or Scott Aaronson.
They are doing exactly what they should be doing to minimise impact while letting markets be markets, VCs are just too busy making a big mess in their underpants and screaming about why they should be special-cased to read the details
Your project is really admirable (I'd like to make a tiny computing machine and a full computing stack myself at some point), and having fun is a sound reason to use Lisp :)

It was just me and my pet peeve that Lisps stopped being a superpower decades ago.
It is all about the ritual. And the cover can serve as a poster in the room.
You would think so but go check out Twitter.com they seem to have had a change of heart on this topic all of a sudden.
That is why Apple’s next big product will probably be an application of AR.
More like $5,000,000
>If you've never seen it then that surely says more about what you notice than the content of what you've read.

I'll agree with this. It also brings up the point, if punctuation isn't seen - is it useful? Probably not to me - maybe yes to others.
Thanks a lot for pointing it out. I am not a native english speaker. So any help is appreciated. I will correct it soon!
NixOS MicroVMs
Indeed:

“Making of "The Hunt for Red October" - Behind the Scenes” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_epfA20dOY&t=21m55s

“HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER miniature effects part 1” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Npc6GsUeQ

“HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER miniature effects (part 2)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGu8qcI7r-I
Anyone knows which stars are the "outliers" in the first diagram? (the ones in the top-left and far right of it)
Take all my upvotes.
> If a broken clock were correct twice a day, would we give it credit for patches of understanding of time?

If a clock was correct 95% of the time, would you say it has no understanding of time? To me it seems that both Marcus and Chomsky are resorting to a sort of dualistic theory here. They concede that these LLM's are capable of impressive displays of cognition, but wait! It's not real cognition of course, it's fake, unlike the one in humans. Well, we don't know enough about cognition in humans to reject the hypothesis that we are also communicating or thinking based on similar principles. ChatGPT is by far the most successful automaton for understanding and producing language we have ever seen. The language Chomsky uses in the op-ed and in his reply here - "(...)Therefore they are telling us nothing about language, cognition, acquisition, anything" - is pure hubris and completely unjustified.
There’s a proverb from the go ecosystem: Gofmt’s style is no one’s favorite, but gofmt is everyone’s favorite“

Removing code format style as a whole bikeshed is amazing, and something I would support for any language even if it felt unnatural to me at first.
I declare his wider point isn't very useful to the discourse at large. Most everyone acknowledges and agrees on the fact that LLMs are stochastic parrots. That doesn't diminish their utility. Chomsky is trying to make himself sound sagacious in a sea of hype but he isn't adding anything new to the conversation and even the title, "The False Promise of ChatGPT" (emphasis mine) attacks a contingent of believers that simply don't exist or are a minority. ChatGPT isn't promising to be anything other than useful. It fulfills that promise.
You mean the 'independent contractors'?
I dunno. Lots of people contribute to the web without expectation of payment. Like you posting here. The urge to create and share is powerful.

Look at all the people editing wikipedia, answering questions on SO and various forums, and even making videos without any real expectation of payback.

Seems like the web would be just fine without the professional “content creator” class.

(I actually feel like “content creator” is dehumanizing pejorative now.)
This post should not be flagged it’s an important and current topic with thoughtful and substantive disagreements to learn about.
Why not? Here, I'm one: let them burn. I'm sure there are plenty of others who think just like me.
I really enjoyed Sack's and Ackman's Twitter meltdowns demanding bailout from government while refusing to call it bailout, because government bad, m'kay. Orwell would be proud about such doublethink.
Urgency should be directed at the process which is providing that advance and rightly demanding the amount to sufficient and the release quick for the reasons you specify. Instead they are off on their own demanding bailouts and rejecting even the systems set up to protect them in this scenario, demanding special cases and further alienating this entire industry in the eyes of the public. It's beyond embarrassing to watch.
Yes, because in America, both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are labeled “socialists” even though they are on opposite ends of the political left. Joe Biden doesn’t even support Medicare for All, the most socialist healthcare idea we have; instead, he pushes the ACA, which was originally a Federalist Society (read conservative capitalists) healthcare plan implemented by a Republican governor in Massachusetts. But somehow Joe Biden is a “socialist”.
It's called money. In the US, elections are largery determined by who could spent the most money. Therefore elected officials are incentivised to keep rich people close. Whenever rich people's power is threatened by a political initiative, lobbying and grey zone bribes are used to maintain the status quo.

Capitalism leads to the concentration of wealth that allows these incentives to appear.

Edit: How I enjoy the salty tears of people who drive by downvote without a rebuttal out of cognitive dissonance. Delicious.
I would like to offload responsibility and consequences to the individual parties. Regulated industries have a cosy relationship with the state and are more likely to receive bailouts and carve out protective moats for their business. If there is a failure in risk management, then the investors (and yes depositors as well) should bare the consequences. Investors are going to be a lot better than regulators to enforce good practices. But you only get there once you stop bailing out every company when things go wrong
> they sound worse

Does it really matter in a world where many music producer use VST plugins or tapes to give a vintage flair to part if their music?

Does it really matter in world where most people listen to music through terrible bluetooth speakers and headphones and in noisy environments?
Back then people also got hit with ludicrous internet bills the moment their site had large scale use and banner ads were the only real path to managing that cost. Adding a paywall would have created a severe amount of bad will.
The banks can maintain a central body with insurance to bail out the failed ones which is essentially what FDIC is. That part isn't the government stepping in.

The step in part is what VCs and corps are asking for which is to be made whole. In reality they should have realized -- as sophisticated actors -- that large amounts of money are always at risk. Even if you put them in a bank because it is not a vault. They're investments that you just don't have control over.

If the wish was to secure their millions to billions of capitals it should have been invested by them in some sort of instrument. This is what any treasury in a large corp already does. So it isn't unknown knowledge.

It would be as if they stored their most critical IP in a cloud server. It went down and now they want to be made whole.

You can't arbitrate away large financial risk anymore than you can technical risk. So you must understand it when you're dealing with substantial amounts of it.

FDICs 250K limit works fine for unsophisticated retail customers.
The VC begging is absolutely delicious.

Listened to the latest All-In episode and have been reading some Twitter threads, heard everything from this is going to wipe out 10 years of capitalist progress to people indicating they never heard about Held to Maturity accounting(i.e a CFA level 1 topic) to predicting a bank run on Monday if no bail out to suggesting that government would double their money if they bailed these companies out a la TARP.
Are we sure it didn't just kick up dust into the sunlight?

Looks like the sun might have been just below the horizon.
What am I supposed to believe, your words or your actions?
This is arguably the government's job and people already pay for it.
To borrow a joke: how do you know someone doesn't listen to LPs? They'll fucking tell you.

The funny thing is that most folks who need to tell everyone that listening to records is dumb because they sound bad are almost certainly listening to the vast majority of their music over streaming services. So you have albums that are being mastered to survive MP3 compression being delivered over lossy streams that 100% have not being signed by the artist and don't contain glossy, album-sized photographs and hard copies of the lyrics.

Meanwhile, LPs are legitimately collectable (limited pressings absolutely accumulate value in the same way other collectables do) and are often mastered or remastered for full spectrum fidelity and pressed on extremely heavy vinyl stock. Much of the "sounds bad" critiques are only truly applicable to mass-market pop music LPs that were pressed on thin+cheap material and sacrificed quality to fit more minutes of music per side as a way to keep costs low.

When you buy, for example, an LCD Soundsystem LP and A/B it with the same tracks on Spotify, it quickly becomes clear that maybe we're not so dumb after all.
I don't know enough about Sweden, but while the overall quality of our healthcare is high, its capacity is tailored very tightly to normal situations and we have very little slack for an epidemic like this. So Dutch ICs overflowed while Germany still had space (and a lot of people were in fact transferred there).
It ... somewhat ... saddens me that HN's parser doesn't distinguish these as Markdown-based comment systems do:

Hyphen: -

En dash: --

Em dash: ---

On usage --- I find the practice of using the em-dash without bounding spaces (typical of most modern style-guides) is visually distracting and more difficult to read than when spaces are provided around the punctuation (as I've done here, and my stylometric stalkers may file as a personal identification tell).

And finally:

- Hyphenated.

- Non-hyphenated.

There is no justice.
Scooby’s Workshop was a similarly amazing treasure for weightlifters. Unfortunately, Scooby has retired all his websites.

https://scoobysworkshop.wordpress.com/
And if it contagions into your own bank and company and you get laid off too?
That's not what happened though. SVB did not gamble with the money.
How much is improving as a writer and how much the fact that I have a growing list of publications is hard to identify but it does seem that after that first publication, subsequent publications have come more regularly.
It is easy to say this doesn’t matter, and personally, I couldn’t care less which is used. However, professionally, I have twice in the past two months had a deal with text that was edited by line editor for my organisation, where they strongly criticised our use of these punctuation markers.

And, after much cursing, and my team spending time changing the text, I reflected, and came to like those punctuation markers. Took me a long time, but I have been converted.
People writew Wikipedia for free, people answer at StackOverflow for free, we got used to it.
Why not? I am 100% missing something here, but how someone trying to deposit money into the banks may increase risks? Unless there's a reason to believe the money is stolen or otherwise could be reclaimed, which shouldn't be the case if it's coming from a major SV fund?
How do you get from bigger LLMs being better at few shot learning to being able to generate novelties?
The generality of its intelligence within text is still spurious at best. Context-switching is practically nonexistent, and whenever it appears to do so, it's only because your prompt pushed it towards statistically appearing to switch context. And frankly, computers have been exceeding our benchmarks for some time - Turing mistakenly thought that appearing human was a sufficient marker of intelligence, but chatbots have been passing the Turing Test for about a decade now. Saying it would surpass our benchmarks only illustrates how little we understand intelligence, not that LLMs are anything close to intelligence.

Edit: that final point is why I propose an in-to-out approach over an out-to-in approach (which is what LLMs are). Let the intelligence make itself, instead of us trying to make intelligence.
Definitely, most people using noise to treat a noise problem will sooner or later get tinnitus and hearing loss if they do this constantly over years. Btw, I have tinnitus, it's not fun. Protect your ears people.
I bought 200 double edged safety razor blades for $15 three years ago, and I've only used up half of them.

Cartridge razors are such an enormous waste of money by comparison, and I can't even imagine needing a subscription for them.
So to go back to the driving/walking analogy, what you're saying is to work from home instead.
>Supposedly free markets is a part of capitalism

No. Those are two different things.
I suppose this is the “middle class” family taking home $600K per year and with a couple of million in a brokerage account. Yes, that family is probably not going to get much financial aid. I have no problem with that; speaking as someone who is in the broad vicinity of that category and will be paying for college in due course.
Rather than size, I wonder how much energy the impact released. Waiting for the videos that will do a simulation of what would have happened if this have hit earth.