skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's so annoying to me that we perfected media player layouts in the era of Winamp and iTunes and ever since then the experience has slowly and steadily devolved.

I will gladly pay Spotify $10/mo or whatever else to be able to stream all the music in the world. It is a fantastic service at a great price. What I don't want is to have to deal with an over-designed app, popups and push notifications asking me to listen to random music or podcasts that I don't care about, constant redesigns, social features, "AI" assistants, TikTok style shorts...the list goes on. Give me a search box and let me make playlists. That's it.
So essentially you are saying we should destroy the environment because it appears to be cheaper in the short term? Sounds like a classic 20th century trapping that might not age so well when the externalities come back and demand repayment.

I wouldn't underestimate the power of distributed arrays either. There are estimates that if every house had rooftop solar, it would generate 30-40% of total power demand [0], and that is just residential.

Perhaps we cannot replace all power using brownfield PV but we shouldn't just disregard the desert or other pristine ecosystems without also utilizing other alternatives to minimize our impact.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.computerworld.com/article/3...
> low tier services like spirit airlines shouldn't exist for flights longer than 4 hours

They don’t if you don’t fly them.
Interstingly, Larry Page went to U of M and used the Michigan Terminal System. One of its prominent characteristics was charging for everything. Say you'd log on, run the command to get into the forums. When logging off, it'd tell you how much your account had been charged for CPU time, storage time, etc. [1] Each student account was given a certain amount of funny money, and woe be unto you if you exceeded it. Research accounts were presumably funded through actual grant money.

Reliable sources inform me that when Google was working on App Engine, Page took inspiration from MTS and would exhort engineers to follow its example. I am told that there was sometimes eye rolling. But when I look at my AWS and GCP bills now, it feels very familiar!

[1] For more information, see the accounting sections here: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/univOfMichigan/mts/volumes/MTSV...
* Go to https://news.ycombinator.com/newest and reply only in technical discussions. (I do this.)

* Once a thread reach 100 comments, use the hide button and forget about it. The discussion has probably derailed. (I don't do this, but I try to avoid them.)

* Don't reply to the replies of your comments. (I don't do this. I got many good replies to my comments that fix my errors, but it's easier to just ignore them for a while.)
Jeff Geerling, he has everything that your inner Geek deserves!
Money tends to make people into (faux) libertarians.
Why Are So Many Apple Executives Leaving? Who Are Successors at Apple?
We are not born tabula rasa. Did you ever see a calf get born? It knows how to get onto its feet in minutes, find its mother and start feeding. That's hard-wired. Hormone secretion? Hard-wired. Reflexes? Hard-wired. Creating memories? Hard wired. Identification of sound direction? Hard-wired. Face recognition? Probably hard-wired too. Our CNS comes with a ton of instincts and basic processes. Why wouldn't that extend to other areas?

In contrast, the world is too complicated to learn through exposure. Something has to structure our learning process. Language is (in principle) not learnable, only when you make enough assumptions. Those assumptions must be coded somewhere in your brain and probably genes.

Tabula rasa sounds nice, but it is untenable and utterly lacks evidence.
There was a time I didn't believe anyone but execs were making over 500k a year in IT. Last year an acquaintance bragged that his daughter was making 500k at Netflix as a security person. Her job is to keep their content from being pirated. My first thought was "heck of a job Brownie" (not that most of you would get the reference).
> Many tech companies just spent the last year optimizing to get 18-24 months cash runway. If they just lost several months of that, they will need to recover it somehow. That will come either from layoffs or increasing prices.

Or by raising earlier than expected, as a down round? I don't understand why a solid company would be in trouble (though I'm not convinced that a high proportion of SV companies are actually solid).
I know that's meant to be snarky, but yeah. A good portion of driving is simply going where the car is already headed. A good portion of conversation is probably just stochastically stuffing filler words and noises into your ideas to aid in their reception.

Haven't you ever had a situation where you were speaking and you get distracted, but not interrupted, and your speech trails off or gets garbled after ten or so words? It feels sort of like you've got a few embeddings as a filter and you push words past them to speak, but if you lose focus on the filter the words get less meaningful.

I'm sure we're different than an LLM, but seeing how they generate words - not operate on meaning - rings true with how I feel when I don't apply continual feedback to my operating state.
It perfectly illustrates the issue?
If you're running a $3m payroll, odds are you have a lot more than $3m in cash.

Sure, smaller transactions in flight will always be at risk.

> FDIC needs to be reformed. I feel like it's been 250k for my entire life lol, at the very least the amount needs to be revisited.

It moved from $100,000 to $250,000 15 years ago.
that's a lie. and if there is contagion it won't be stemmed by bailing you as a depositor out, we will need that money elsewhere to shore up the system. good luck to you
The link from GP is the CPU only one implemented in C++.

The python + GPU one can be found on the official facebook repo: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama (Presumably GP thought this was already known to everyone so they pasted the other link)
The SVB run was unrelated to crypto, other than that VCs also invest in crypto startups. We're also past the point of a group of people talking to each other about bank risk; now everyone's looking at it.
> More than 50% of uninsured deposits are paid within a week. Another 20% or so gets paid within a year or sooner in quarterly installments. Remaining amount gets paid in yearly installments and in all cases was paid within 3 years.

The data does not support these statements. E.g. for a random bank I selected on the FDIC site [1], "American National Bank", uninsured depositors got paid 77.8% in three installments: the first 57% two weeks after bank closure, 7.4% after three years and the last 13.3% after five-and-a-half years.

[1] https://closedbanks.fdic.gov/dividends/
> I think you’re still assuming that practicals could do it all and somehow CG is solely at fault for things you don’t like.

I'm really not. Of course sequences like dinosaurs running, or films like Avatar and LOTR couldn't be done without CGI. There's a reason these films weren't possible before CGI; the technology simply didn't exist to bring the author's vision to life.

> In fact, when Jurassic Park came out: the CG elements were the hero’s in the news.

Of course. Animatronics were nothing new, while CG of that level and scale was practically unheard of. I would still argue that those films elevated practical effects to another level, which should be equally lauded as the CG work.

> It’s ridiculous to say animation isn’t a form of film making.

That's not what I'm saying. I don't look down on it, and enjoy many animated feature films. What it is, though, is different to traditional film making, which puts it in a different category of entertainment. The production doesn't involve a physical set, live actors, cameras, makeup artists, and dozens of humans dedicated to capturing live performances. Instead it involves voice actors who mostly work in isolation, an animation director who mostly works with artists, and large teams of designers, animators, editors and technicians who bring the characters to life.

> It’s possibly the most pure form of film making. You craft every single detail, and make every single choice along the way.

Are you implying that traditional filmmakers don't? How is that constructive?

> Are you seriously going to say that Toy Story isn’t film making? Or The Lion King? The little Mermaid?

Like I said, not in the traditional sense.

My point is that once CGI becomes indistinguishable from reality, and most/all scenes are entirely created by computers, is it a live action movie, or an animation at that point? The line is already blurry today with movies like Avatar, but I still enjoy watching movies that make practical effects a priority, over those that liberally use it in every scene.
Besides the trivially obvious recognition that people other than engineers work at companies (cooks, janitors, HR, etc.), realize also that, for example, Etsy’s sellers may be affected since the account used to pay them was at SVB. Of course, I’m sure someone here will explain that obviously some lady selling bowls in Michigan should have done due diligence on her platform’s bank of choice to make sure that they didn’t have any maturity risk. Anything short of that really just fundamentally represents business incompetence and deserves to be wiped out since Peter Thiel decided to cause a run at the bank two layers removed from her. But that will teach the correct lessons and punish the right people! Clearly Thiel should be rewarded for prudently advising everyone to remove all funds, while janitors and craftspeople on Etsy alike will finally learn the importance of marking to market treasuries.
This statement doesn't make sense to me:

> Its against the interest of the greater economy to bail out those who didnt take any risk either. Because it socializes the risk while privatizing the reward.

In the first sentence you say there is no risk being taken by a group, and in the second sentence you imply there is a risk being taken that a group should not be bailed out of. Could you elaborate? What non-risk taking risky group are you taking about here?

Are you arguing that the depositors were also risk takers here? What were their options to mitigate that risk besides not use a bank?
A TM cannot learn an arbitrary CFG. It needs constraints. Those constraints must also exist in our brain. At birth. It's like an NN architecture.

Our brains are much more complex than an artificial NN, though. So the mere thought that the two somehow share functionality after a wildly different learning process is somewhat far-fetched.
> Why do so many banking/financial crisis's keep occurring ?

This one, AFAICT, happened because the government greatly restricted what banks could do with their funds. One of the only options available in large volumes is a government instrument subject to risk from the Fed raising rates rapidly.

> Why are executives not being put in prison for ruining so many lives ?

I hope people only get put in prison for breaking actual laws. And if the SVB execs broke laws then yes, they should go to prison. But I haven't heard it alleged by anyone that they have.
Hallelujah, parent's comment is a straw man. I've been vehement against taxpayer money being used to make depositors whole, but nobody is saying they shouldn't be paid out of the assets of the bank.

I'd also be in favor of the feds helping to orchestrate a bailout by getting purchased by another bank/banks, or doing whatever it takes to get depositors access to as much of their money as quickly as possible.

But all this does is incentivize "if you're going to blow up, make sure you threaten the whole economy so you can use hostage tactics to get a payout." The feds wouldn't be doing shit if this were some small bank with no contagion risk.

And the political cronyism of this, on both sides, is nauseating. There was a tweet thread by a startup founder from Ohio, basically making the argument "I'm a small business owner from middle America Ohio, not some fat cat Silicon Valley tech bro." To be clear, absolutely nothing against her for posting this (on the contrary, she actually sounded pretty amazing with how she founded her business), but it sucks that she has to play this "Hey, I'm in your tribe too, I'm not a member of that evil other tribe" in order to curry favor with the political class to get a bailout.
Invested in the bank? Got a sweet personal deal with the bank in return for pinning their investments to the bank?

It certainly sounds like they had some side-things going on, otherwise hard to believe they'd not just recommend fiscally unsound practices to their portfolio companies, but even require them to.
Liquidity vs Solvency
> Did you ever try getting a taxi in any US city besides Manhattan — not even the rest of NYC — before Uber? It was expensive, frustrating, and completely lacking in integrity.

Yes, lots of times and you’re overstating it substantially. The only reason Uber was cheaper was that they were heavily subsidizing each ride. Once they stopped that, amazingly, prices rose to match or exceed cab fares.

The specific area where Uber was better was that many cab companies would illegally refuse service to black neighborhoods. Uber deserves credit for breaking that but these days I’m hearing more anecdotes about drivers skipping pickups so I’m not sure that’s permanent.
You're not creating any accounts, it clearly says: "Please login with username demo and password demo".
I think solving problems like corruption takes more than one thing, so I think false dichotomies are unhelpful.
This looks great.

I have been hoping to make a Pico into a little 8-bit-micro style computer, but there’s lots to learn first!

I bought Pimoroni’s VGA demo board (https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pimoroni-pico-vga-demo-ba...), which provides a readymade version of the VGA implementation “Hardware Design with RP2040.”

There are a few emulators that I think should work with that:

- PICOVIC: https://github.com/jfoucher/picovic

- b-em: https://github.com/kilograham/b-em

- pico-zxspectrum: https://github.com/fruit-bat/pico-zxspectrum

I haven’t got any to run yet, but I haven’t tried very hard either.

(There’s also the Picomite, which looks great, but unfortunately uses a different VGA implementation: https://geoffg.net/picomite.html)
What’s your favorite dish/recipe?
> The real risk to any bank these days seems to be a Crypto affiliation.

Maybe. Meanwhile the second biggest bank failure in the history in the US is undergoing and it has nothing to do with crypto.

> Circle has the biggest or one of the biggest accounts in SVB and the stable-coin run or another factor made them rebalance.

It's Circle's fault now?

> There are 5 other banks that are affiliated with Circle and if any of them are struggling with underwater bonds, that would be a big problem.

Circle, unless they're lying, said they have $5.4 bn at BNY. $3.3 at SIVB and the rest over the 5 other banks. So out of $9.8 bn in USD cash reserves, there is at most $1.1 bn left, spread over 5 banks.

I don't think it's a problem as big as you pretend it is.

I also think it's an argument made in very bad faith that Circle is responsible for this. SIVB had, at one point, $200 bn AuM. $3.3 bn is not nothing but it's not much compared to $200 bn.
It’s because American society doesn’t let being unhealthy be an affirmative choice.

You either need to demonstrate some kind of shame for your unhealthiness or some kind rationale that explains how its actually healthy.

The honest facts that “I like to eat tasty good” and “I don’t really enjoy too much physical activity” are only permissible if you also say “and I can’t help myself” or “and it’s actually not unhealthy.”

It’s a social dance that makes people hide the personal truth that health isn’t the only thing that matters in life.
Upvote for Superman 3 reference. For those who don’t get it:

https://youtu.be/N7JBXGkBoFc
All of my favorite things are little AutoHotkey shortcuts. I have several that basically just execute a Regex replace on whatever text is currently highlighted. It's ridiculously convenient to just have those functions ready to go any time.

But I started accumulating so many of them, it got to be a problem just remembering all the ones I had and how to trigger them. I had to start finding new ways of keeping them all organized. That led to figuring out two things that I'm still really proud of and use every day: custom right-click menus and Emacs-style keychords.

The custom right-click menu is: any time I right-click while also holding down Ctrl or Alt, it opens a right-click dialogue run by AutoHotkey, not the default one in the given context. That lets me visually select what I want to happen rather than needing an arcane key combo for every thing. All of my frequently-used Regex functions are right-click menus now.

The key chords are: if I trigger a "prep" hotkey first—my most-used one is "Alt+G" for "Go-to"—it sets up a keyboard hook that listens for the next key and then dispatches to a function based on that. So, "Alt+G H" would be really easy to remember in my head as "Go to Hacker news." And it pops open a new tab in my browser. I use that one a lot for opening desktop applications—"Alt+O C" maps in my head to "Open vs Code." Super easy to remember.

I've automated 80% of the most common navigation items at my job this way. My coworkers have seen me do it and stopped me to ask, "Wait, tell me how you did that." It looks and feels like magic.
Pandora is a nice alternative to this crap
This is why I quit using Spotify. I couldn’t tune my recommendations after Alexa played music for someone else in a different language.
I don’t know where you’ve been banking for the last ten years or so, but I wish I did — interest payments on liquid deposits weren’t a thing for a long time. And startups don’t “invest”, they only “pay bills”.
I always see people say the national debt doesn’t matter because it isn’t like household debt. However, I just fail to see how that is true. At some point the can won’t be able to be kicked down the road anymore. I guess everyone is hoping that it won’t be during their lifetime.
Other than the focus on governmental regulation we should also look at the glaring principal-agent risk. Large shareholders (such as the Swedish pension fund) should have asked questions about the concentration risks and AOCI losses. Management could be loathe to realize the losses earlier due to profit targets. Their risk/reward calculation on addressing a mistake could be misaligned from the shareholders'.
Yeah configureed it yesterday.

Would have suggested it as an alternative if you wouldn't asked for it
i don't think it takes a doctorate or any degree to understand the FDIC needs this to be done ASAP. so, hopefully, it didn't hurt reaching around patting yourself on the back with that non-sense
I don’t know about you but exercise is one of my most enjoyable parts of my day. Yoga, walking, biking, dancing, swimming are all really enjoyable. Don’t push yourself hard, just go through the motions.
Andrew Koenig is someone who invested a big chunk of his life into C++ and stuff of the same ilk. There is a psychology that people invested in things have to defend their sunk cost against alternatives, using false arguments.

"Multics Emacs proved to be a great success—programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program." -- Richard Stallman

Good luck with secretaries extending an editor using C++

Expressions in Lisp often end together. This is extremely unimportant, so we lump these ends together ))))))).

When expressions don't end together ))) stuff))), we use line breaks and indentation.

(this (is one
unit))

more stuff

(this (is (another
unit))
inner stuff
ends here)

more stuff

In the typical style of C like languages and other Algols, even statements that end together have their end markers separated out:

end if
end while
end for

}
}
}

Sometimes comments are added

}
}
} // for

Some coding stylews in C likes call for opening braces being vertically aligned with closing ones, rather than "cuddled" into the same line:

if (...)
{
for (...)
{

}
}

All these practices indicate that maybe it's not so easy to find the beginning of a construct from the end in the languages that Koenig has dedicated himself to.
You can do it with mortgage, go from fixed-rate to floating rate and vice-versa, and you pay the cost of hedging for the duration of the mortgage.
There is a line between fat acceptance and glorifying being fat that gets often muddled on social media. Social media is, of course, a funhouse mirror and you'll find that most fat acceptance activists do not actually believe being fat is healthy and really just don't want people to discriminate unfairly against fat people.
Indeed and it would be so much better to use termcap (eg through ncurses) instead of blasting ANSI codes without checking :) some of us still use terminals
Usually your throughput just gets throttled once you’ve reached your bandwidth limit.
From my other comment:

desertification is the destruction of arable land, not the expansion of healthy desert ecosystems. Healthy desert ecosystems are disappearing, not expanding
Thank you for your reply. I do understand where you are coming from (although my reading is more circumscribed to psychoanalysis itself) but I think our views diverge. I don't think the conceptual framework of psychoanalysis is based in true empiricism (ie the scientific method), so what we are left with is essentially a lot of self referential frameworks that ultimately did not lead us anywhere, and it was built upon fraud. The psychoanalytic conception of language did not help us treat any mental disorder and likely never will. So throwing this purely conceptual work away is thus very easy for someone like me - in fact, we largely already have. I cannot imagine that anyone will read Lacan in even 100 years from now, but I do think we will increasingly develop a computational understanding of language that will stand the test of time.
I strongly agree. The feds do not have the tool set to fix the problem on inflation. 50% of inflation is opportunity by companies testing new price points.

We are in a pickle I don't think we are ready for what's to come in the future. I feel there will be a lot of pain in the future for the “little guy”
> this is why I will never get behind socialized healthcare...I'm not footing the bill for the increasing number of people who push these beliefs

Sadly, the US is paying as much per capita for healthcare as countries with free healthcare. A private system costs a lot more to run even when they are managed by people with good intentions.
Get an exercise bike or elliptical trainer and watch movies or tv while you use it.
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Have we learned nothing from Tony Soprano? “This isn’t a social club, this is a business!”
So you would expect 8% cuts? Or 2%. I could see 8%-10 being about right.
I mean regardless of what you think of the whole situation, this is a rain is wet story, no?

I can’t imagine a DEI dean the Stanford Review would be a fan of.
It's about emissions per passenger. They had to remove seats because of the weight of all the fuel, see the article.