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That is rather a big deal. The British Museum receives all of the attention, but several museums have sculptures from the Parthenon, including the Louvre.

The British Museum justly feels a bit put-upon by being the only one called on to return its pieces. It absolutely should: the Acropolis Museum in Athens is truly first-rate and is the best place to put those pieces in context. But this is a much bigger problem and the British Museum didn't want to risk being the only one.

So having another major museum go first should be the nudge that the BM needs to return the marbles. And that's a cause for a major re-think of the British Museum, which was created not as an institution of learning but as a way to display the fruits of their empire. The empire is a history of their own, and worth having a museum about, but that's always going to be in conflict with the fact that they no longer have an empire and some of their former states deserve their own independent history.
You can run your own ChatGPT on your Macbook.
Hilarious comment, thank you. :-)
How many companies have spare funds for event of bank going tits up ?
I've heard left handed people consistently being portrayed as being "Creative" and "Artistic" and I tried to be left handed/ambidextrous when I was a child because would be cool or unique. While left handedness doesn't have quite this reputation, being ambidextrous is associated with genius, you hear stories like how James A. Garfield could write Latin in one hand and Greek in the other. I could never use my left hand like this successfully though so I gave this up.

I also intentionally tried to use leftie stances in sports and I was mindfully doing it just to be different because I thought that was cool when I was like, 7 years old. This stuck a lot more, probably because I learned how to do things with a leftie stance from the get-go.

I think you underestimate how much stupid crap kids will try to imitate if they think it's vaguely cool and how much this can stick in a very real way. If I tried to do some sports as a "righty" I would fall on my ass. I was never actually much for social status either and kids actually gave me shit for not using a right handed stance.
Wow, I'm surprised anyone else wanted this. Ok I might post a pastebin link here sometime. There is some PII in the script that I'd have to edit out first. The script itself is also a mess. It grew without refactoring because I figured on a total rewrite eventually.
I think I'm more confused now than I was before.
I think it depends on the case. Some of the leaders of those groups were basically using minors like myself as cover in the same way street gangs did, and doing a lot more than piracy. I think the folks that got hit for their actual fraud deserved it, but folks that just cracked and released games were unfairly targeted, very few profited from it, and I think a profit incentive is where I consider the crime to be more relevant, but I'm not a lawyer :)
Adam Savage Q&A on Being Self Employed and ADHD
"I certainly agree it would be preferable if he wasn't arrested."

We should actually be completely fucking outraged that any citizen can be forcibly detained on the whim of the police for non-violent behavior. Yet you seem to think it's just fine to deny a person every basic human right on the whim of some cop?
Yet the total tax burden of US corporations is low relative to similar countries (IIRC), and some corporations pay nothing.
I will point out that human Hacker News commenters also commonly spout "facts" that are complete nonsense; in fact, it is us that trained it to do so.
> Many things are simple, when your task is simple. Logging is just one of those things.

I agree with much of what you said, and of course "logging" is not just a single point in the solution space — there is some function "troubleshooting_pain = f(your_project, your_approach)". I was trying to say that for "your_approach=logging" that function tends to return smaller values than for "your_approach=debugging", all other things being equal, in my experience.

Whereas your comments seem more oriented towards the "your_project" factor. Of course using logs is harder on a distributed system. But so is using a debugger, or just about anything else.

Perhaps I should have said "It is relatively simple and trustworthy, even if it can still get hairy at the extremes."
They're going to send out some money this week, but the value of the IOUs will depend on how much they can sell the bank's assets for. Certainly less than face value. It's going to be hard to borrow against that.
They bumped it to 1.9 for inflation. There are also criminal jail time penalties though. It depends on intent. Unlikely it would happen though even if it is deserved.
Buy what assets? From what I understand, SIVB had paper losses which totaled maybe ~30% of deposits before the bank run.

If 70% of depositors withdrew before the bank went into receivership there is nothing left.

And the assets they held were primarily treasury securities and MBS. Why would anyone sell those “on the cheap” when the market is super liquid?
I'm talking about in a webauthn world. Luckily email being self-hosted is totally normal right now and thank god platforms don't lock that down. However, with webauthn platforms has the chance to nefariously lock down who can sign webauthn challenges. I hope to God they don't or we prevent it.
Juries do not have the “right” to ignore the law. Juries are required to follow the law as set forth in the judge’s jury instructions. Their job is just to determine the facts and apply the law to the facts. As a legal matter, nobody gives a shit what twelve random people think about the law enacted by the democratically elected legislature.

“Jury nullification” therefore isn’t a “right” it’s a loophole. It arises from the fact that there is nothing a court can do to enforce a jury’s obligation to follow the law in a criminal trial. That doesn’t mean the obligation to follow the law doesn’t exist.
List of my 500 favorite Wikipedia articles
This is faster than running it on an RTX 4090 I think.
I actually considered that setup but decided against it. The thing is, if I did this, I would eventually succumb to convenience and would plug the key into the machine at all times. But that defeats the purpose: if a thief steals my computer they can just tap the key rather than know my password to unlock my disk.
Here’s the specific “God-given right” passage from the ruling. So satisfying:

[168] To be abundantly clear, it is not a crime to give someone the finger. Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, Charter enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian. It may not be civil, it may not be polite, it may not be gentlemanly.

[169] Nevertheless, it does not trigger criminal liability. Offending someone is not a crime. It is an integral component of one’s freedom of expression. Citizens are to be thicker-skinned, especially when they behave in ways that are highly likely to trigger such profanity – like driving too fast on a street where innocent kids are playing. Being told to “fuck off” should not prompt a call to 9-1-1.
And because crypto is garbage.
I think there is also a lot of pressure from funders to be the first to provide proof of a paradigm-breaking discovery, and tout it as a breakthrough before the claims can be verified.

By chance, about a decade ago I met the lead researcher of a NASA group that in 2010 made a shocking claim of arsenic being incorporated into bacteria's DNA in place of phosphorus at Mono Lake, CA. They later had to retract the statement after others were unable to replicate. But the research I did into the follow up indicated that NASA, who employed the scientist, did not have its astrobiologists follow basic standard microbiology protocols against sample contamination, and pushed the arsenic hypothesis as a game-changing breakthrough before it had been subjected to peer review.
Well, this is how disrupting the healthcare system looks like.
There's no other end state when you make the goal of the system make as much money as possible.
Prob should reach out to SBF, he has a lot of political connections and familiar with these kind of situations
Not a migrobiologist, but I understand that labs are equipped with progressively more stringent procedures depending on the type of material they can handle.

They may work in a very regular, run of the mill lab that is not equipped to deal with anything that is even remotely dangerous.

And seeing they have only nitrile gloves for protection and everything lays on the table it looks like this is likely the case. (Not that I ever worked in a lab. My ideas of how lab safety works are based on The Andromeda Strain).
Most of the examples I’ve seen are small scale hand pick farming. But there is nothing about 20’ spans that are outside our technical abilities today. This seems like a rather small obstacle to overcome. Of course this still says nothing about the economic feasibility or impacts.

Thinking more about it, you wouldn’t even need 20’ spans. You’d have articulating struts coming off of a central point between the rows. Panels can be adjusted out of the way of equipment when it needs to pass through if it is interfering.
Hard to imagine "the right thing" ever involves using force to detain a citizen who poses no urgent threat and has not engaged in violent behavior. That detainment may be temporary, but it is a complete and utter denial of all basic human rights to the person being detained.
SVB used an exemption from Basel III, which allowed it to run a riskier business, and eventually led to its implosion.

Basel III was introduced to force banks to be more conservative, and thus more safe. Downside: this also means bank is going to be less profitable.

European banks were forced to implement Basel III, while the US bankers managed to lobby a loophole for certain types of banks. And sure enough, SVB leveraged this loophole.

For those interested, FT Alphaville describes this in ample detail:

Silicon Valley Bank is a very American mess
https://on.ft.com/3ywMURD
To be clear, you think the FDIC will be able to sell enough bank assets to cover 100% of deposits?
You’re conflating the amount insured and the amount that will be recovered. SVB has failed as a bank, it hasn’t failed as a place to have money. The money still exists, and while there’s a hole created by recovering immediate access to that money, it represents a very small haircut — maybe a few percentage points for each customer.
If you are victim of anything then it is your too high confidence that you have understood anything.

You argue against b&w but you only present b&w understanding.

If you really want to understand, try to understand it from the point of view of Ukrainian.

I doubt that you have enough of information to make a good judgement. For example how many times it has been claimed by high rank officials in Russian media that millions of Ukrainians should be killed?
Yes.

Also, it is my understanding that calcium in water (which is a normal part due to the water taking up minerals in the ground) is making it slightly basic. I don't know enough about chemistry in this area, but I think the calcium in the water is mostly calcium carbonate, which definitely is basic[1]. So it's no surprise that water taken directly from the tap is making the tea blue, but after removing the calcium carbonate (maybe as part of a removal of any salts) that the tea remains red. I think this hints that an ion exchanger[2] is being used in the "very good water filter" e40 is using.

But removing calcium from water (along with other potentially beneficial minerals) is a bad idea, because we need it for building our bones etc. Hopefully those using ion exchanger are still getting enough calcium from other sources. But it's long been said that ion exchangers should not be used to "filter" water.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_carbonate
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_exchanger

PS. you can put some drops of lemon juice into your tea and it will shine red :) (and have a nicer taste)
Debugger is a tool, not a goal. I can reach a GOAL without debugger, using my software development skills only. I prefer to invest into quality of code, write more comments and documentation, perform refactoring, delete unused code, write test case to reproduce the bug, add more command line parameters, write better error messages with more data, and so on, than to invest time into a debugger. I'm the Software Developer, not a Software Debugger.
> considering the quote about super-conservative long maturity bonds

Within the set of long-maturity bonds, Treasuries are conservative. That doesn’t make them conservative per se.
Netherlands to restrict exports of ‘most advanced’ chip technology
It’s cash, until the bank converts it to something else. For example a loan.

Yes, it is initially cash. But if the bank wants to make any money, it needs to convert that cash into some other vehicle for generating interest.
text-generation-webui supports state of the art 4bit GPTQ quantization for LLaMA[0], reducing VRAM overhead by 75% with no output performance loss compared to baseline fp16.[1]

LLaMA-13B, rivaling GPT-3 175B, requires only 10GB* of VRAM with 4bit GPTQ quantization.

LLaMA-30B fits on a 24GB* consumer video card with no output performance loss, beating GPT-3 175B.

Multi-GPU support[2] means LLaMA-65B, rivaling PaLM-540B, runs on 2x3090.

*Further improvements in active development will reduce VRAM requirements another 30-40% with no performance loss (ex. flash attention).

[0] https://github.com/qwopqwop200/GPTQ-for-LLaMa

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17323

[2] https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/issues/14...

For LLaMA set-up instructions, including GPTQ 4bit, refer to this wiki article: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/wiki/LLaM...
One could argue Tibet. Still people alive today it happened to them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_the_Peo...
All available evidence indicates socioeconomics trumps demographics every time. The issue you're describing is because people are being paid large sums of money (relative to the rest of global society) to do work that is bad for the rest of society. It wouldn't matter if they were purple aliens with no genitalia, they're being paid to do a job that is a net negative for society, and the pay for that job is significantly higher than their alternatives.

Maybe stop trying to make everything about identity politics, especially in a conversation where there's actually important political issues at hand that impact everyone globally?
This idea is being pushed hard right now. I see it everywhere.

You can't grow most crops under solar panels. And the crops you can grow will probably have a lower yield.

This is an idea that's meant to push replacing farmland with solar arrays. I don't necessarily think that's a bad idea for low yield soils, but in my area they are trying to replace high-yield soils (former orchards, vineyards, market gardens) with solar arrays. It doesn't make sense.

What would make sense is arrays that are semi-portable that can be used for re-establishing topsoil. With the right crops, good topsoil can be reestablished in as little as 5-10 years.
Pack animals cooperate that way, lions don't do a scrum meeting before they sneak up on a bunch of antelopes, they all just predict what the others will do and adapt to that. And it works since they all run basically the same algorithms on the same kind of hardware.
I would say no they are not and that's because after driving for about five years a driver acquires an expert sense of the safe speed for the stretch of road they happen to be on. In fact sometimes the speed limits are set at close to the 85 percentile speed of the of the traffic, so in effect the drivers set the speed limit.

Snow on the road? No one is driving close to the limit. In my area there are even curves that are purposefully slanted away from the curve of the road so that drivers will slow down on that curve. For a lot of drivers their slowing is subconscious but it still works.

A wide, straight road beside an elementary school and traffic will fly by unless the serious steps are taken to alert the subconscious brains of the drivers to slow down. Narrow the road, put a huge red square across the road with a huge "20 mph" written in it and some drivers will slow down. More will slow down if there are kids around. Almost all drivers speed is set by their subconscious.

There is one particular situation where the driver's subconscious expertise doesn't work very well and that's on highways with intersections. It's raining, the light turns red, you're driving at a speed that's safe for the highway but not safe for stopping at the light and you rear end the car in front. On such highway near me they put in a long strip of high traction pavement in front of these intersections so when the light turns red drivers can stop safely and quickly.
I, for one, feel my creative energy flowing while watching it.
It was the 14th largest bank in America. This is the second biggest bank failure in history.
>But toward the end of March, TP sales plummeted because the supply just wasn’t there.

TP was a result of people shifting from commercial toilet paper to home toilet paper, and supply chains not keeping up. Not from panic buying, fwiw.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-toilet-p...

(there are other better sources i'm sure)
https://archive.ph/z8asx
I use a fair different number types of notebooks depending on the depending on.

I have spiral top ones for notes of me thinking/remembering/wanting to reenforce for later type notepad with a constant pen that go lots of places with me. And graph paper-y notepads/notebooks to help me work on my penmanship and handwriting my thoughts. And rough papered oversized ones that I like to doodle on with sloppy pens.

I think cheap ones can be great. But cheap doesn't need to be everything.
Python debugger is really sad for many more reasons:

1. Cannot interrupt a running program to get debugger prompt, you have to code that functionality in yourself.

2. Cannot deal with threads or multiple child processes because it gets confused by where its output should go, and so it appears to be stuck, prompt doesn't show up, or input isn't being accepted.

3. If someone writes an overly general except, debugger won't ever be called because in order to be called it relies on exceptions.

4. Debugger cannot evaluate comprehensions correctly due to scoping issues (not as much of a debugger fault as much of the language fault).

5. Debugger cannot consistently modify variables inside the function call. Depending on circumstances if you execute an assignment statement in debugger, the value may or may not be set to the variable in current stack frame.

6. Debugger doesn't step into iterator implementation (iirc, I might be confusing with tracing).
Yeah, I have fought with this occasionally. It's one of the handful of "gotchas" you need to think of when designing logging, and interpreting its results.

Sometimes you can improve the situation by sticking things in a bigger memory buffer and tightening control of when things get flushed to disk, but there's always that fundamental "observing the system will change it" problem. Similar issues arise with a debugger too, of course.
I once had a typing job working 3 days at 12 hours each with 4 days off. Though by the third day it was kinda rough, it was still the greatest arrangement I've ever had.
Wouldn’t be very effective if it didn’t.
SVB’s failure is only a symptom of the wider environment in as much as it failed because of a focus on handshakes over proper management. The comments on the FT are illuminating: bankers can’t understand how they didn’t hedge for interest rate risk.
At some point though, the difference between the model and reality fall within a negligible error margin - particularly within a practical everyday context. Like, Newton's theory of gravity isn't perfect, but for most things it's pretty much good enough.

Similarly if LLMs can be used to model human intelligence, and predict and manipulate human behaviour, it'll be good enough for corporations to exploit.
Oh yeah, duh: I normally lead with AdWords--as that's like their core business ;P--as the guy who founded DoubleClick lives right around here, but I forgot! Yeah: the reality is that Google really doesn't know how to start anything itself.
I think this thing of theirs is supposed to beat the current systems as Mach 10 is fast. It seems to be getting though in Ukraine but I am not an expert and Russia makes all sorts of claims. If it’s weapons work, it would be beating it’s smaller neighbour.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russias-hypersonic-missile-stri...
>All little startups, tomorrow's Google's and Facebooks, will be extinguished if we don't find a fix.

This is what we call "hubris". Gary needs to settle down.
It says they have 850 servers, so 1700TB RAM (if they're all like this).

If it's a big Hadoop cluster or similar, there's potentially huge performance gains by keeping data in-RAM during processing. They have many petabytes of data, so I doubt the type of processing they are doing today would have been possible when they first started.
> what safety do you have when the public hates you but you've broken no law?

How is that different from today?
The Uncanny Failures of A.I.-Generated Hands
The ratio is definitely off, but it's within 10% so it's just a minor annoyance, and there's not much of an alternative. Next time I buy paper I'll probably order real A4 but that might be in like, 10 years before I go through a ream.
> If they can't legally stop people from republishing IP, then they'll make it hard.

Alternatively it changes the game on how things are built. Building in public becomes the default, lowering the cost for all.

You'd expect a short term variance (downward) while the system adjusts, but in the long run it'd be much cheaper to produce great works, since your material costs will be lower (no royalties) and you wouldn't burn resources on the security and bureaucratic hoops you have to go through today to build and integrate ideas.

Monopoly profits would be finished though. So yes, <1% of the population would arguably be worse off. (I'm in that group, btw).
"The server bit the big one, the head of the Education dept. knew who I was and what I knew, and "arranged" for me to go to work for her. I reloaded the server, got all the terminals set back up, and showed her how to run things more efficiently. I had been working there for about a month, and she was getting ready to go on vacation for a week. Two days after she left, they rounded up myself and two other guys that worked in education and shipped us off to "the hole" at Butner Low Security Correctional Institution. They wouldn't tell us why, what we were being shipped for, nothing. Come to find out, the Associate Warden and the head of the education department didn't get along, and the AW had arranged to have us shipped while our boss was on vacation because she and one of the instructors that worked under the Education Director thought they had something on the ED to get rid of her.

So, from the end of August to the end of October of last year, myself and my cell mate got to sit in a room about 9ft. x 15ft. with a solid metal door that had a little narrow window looking out into the hall and a small slot that they opened to hand you your food tray."

Once you're in prison you lose any rights to any fair type of trial and punishment and you can be subjected to awful things that weren't part of your sentencing, like isolation or sensory deprivation in pitch black cells for no reason at all other than the warden didn't like the department head that you did work detail for. It's a broken system for so many reasons. People don't leave prison rehabilitated, they leave prison broken down and even more vulnerable.