skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone shine some light on[1][2]?

If true, it would seem that some of this panic would have been engineered in order to save VC capital at the expense of the rest of us?

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edit: We really need an analysis of @Jason and @DavidSacks w.r.t [1][2]. They were touting Doomsday on their AllInPodcast[3] but with [1][2] I'm starting to wonder...

[1]: https://twitter.com/innoc_bystander/status/16347730533046108...

[2]: https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1634925785550319616

[3]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CEee7dAk25c
Madoff was an actual pyramid scheme; once criminal fraud enters the picture it’s a different story.
> In support of this view, they could have easily extended FDIC on a dynamic metric, for example 20k for each employee.

Implementing any such "dynamic metric" would have taken time, which would mean they would not have been able to restore all deposits by Monday, which means a significant risk of contagion.
A VC investment is more like a gamble and less like an investment. I'm not the only one that sees it that way.

After 15 years of working in startups in the Bay Area, I've learned they are gambles, not investments.
HAH! I remember calling my account manager asking if I was being kicked to Citizens lol... felt nice when they told me I could stay!! :)
Whatever you think of the bloke, there's a bit more to his CV than that.
"from day one", there's a lot of more important stuff to learn on day 1 than one "weird trick" that literally has no tangible benefits other than nerd sniping

I have more important things to worry about than making the line less readable and less maintainable
This actually became a political issue in Israel- ultra orthodox Jews could easily have more than 4 kids ages 5 and under while their religion forbids them from washing dishes or use electrical appliances on Shabbat (Friday evening-Saturday) so they tend to buy disposable dishes being in conflict with a country trying to be somewhat green.
Taiwan's number of crypto startups relative to total is much higher

Such a statement can't be robust or meaningful. Nationwide measures see
what they want to see.

But for argument's sake, what if crypto were replaced with any other
mechanism for zero-sum wealth transfer including casino gaming, stock
brokerage, or even video games? Many would exclude video games since
they ostensibly entertain, but so does gambling and financial
speculation.
I was confused at first too, but there's a '5' after each benchmark which doesn't belong to the benchmark speed but which belongs to the benchmark title (?).
National Threat Assessment 2023 by the State Security Department of Lithuania
> Disliking the industry

You also have to remember, that tech isn't an "industry". You can work at Kahn Academy which is an education non profit that is heavily enabled by technology and still really feel good about yourself.
> Facebook started off GREAT!

I'm glad early fb was a good experience for you, but studies have found that when fb was just opening to universities, lower grades and higher demand for mental health services would follow.

https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-ill...
Imagineering is what nerds like to do in their clean playgrounds without involving messy users. It's a thing.
PDF version here: https://kam.lt/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Assessment-of-Thre...
>Banks are, at their core, facilitators: depositors lend their money to a bank, for which they are paid interest, and banks lend that money out, again for interest.

That's not why I have a bank account. It's how you avoid paying fees to get checks cashed. If you want interest, you put it in a savings account, or a CD, also in a bank. The only safe alternative is savings bonds.

If you want to gamble the money, then you invest in stocks, bonds, etc.
The FDIC's actions indicate that the insured deposit limit is really unlimited instead of the advertised $250,000.

This takes away a huge risk associated with recklessly handling depositors money because now the FDIC will swoop in and make ALL depositors whole.
So I created another forms library: https://informel.site/.

I decided to create this library after getting tired of repeatedly solving the same problems related to HTML forms (getting/setting values, how and when to show validation errors, accessibility etc...) and I was not satisfied with the complexity of existing libraries that I didn't find close to the platform enough (especially React libraries).

The approach I followed was to create a web component (<inform-el>) that wraps native HTML <form> elements and adds the extra features I needed while keeping them declarative. It also heavily relies on native form features and attributes (html validation attributes for example). So the form can still work if JS is not enabled.

The web component approach also makes it framework agnostic (I did create some specific wrappers to make things easier in React though).

Follow on Twitter for updates (@informel_js): https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=informel_js.

Feedback would be highly appreciated!
> This is clearly the best ideal. But that's not how it works!

The “systemic risk” exceptions that are in the legislation and announcements over the weekend mean this is exactly how it works.

My guess is that this will be continued - perhaps even publicly formalized - or small banks will cease to exist very quickly in favour of those that are too big to fail.
The "uncomfortable conversation" can mean a conversation about breaking insider trading regulations, the penalties for which include huge fines and potentially jail time.
Machine learning models don't do well with math that has hard bounds at 1 and 0 (probability). So we use the log of the odds ratio instead. This function goes from negative infinity to positive infinity. And is mappable back to 0 and 1. So as you get closer to infinity log odds, you get closer to 100% certainty that your answer is A.

It's just ln(p/(1-p)) under the hood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logit
> Explain to a peasant why he should have to share the risk you took with your money.

Dear Peasant,

I empathize with your pain and suffering on a daily basis. I know life isn’t easy being a peasant, you perhaps work as hard as anyone in Silicon Valley. You pay taxes just like everyone else and expect your government to protect you and provide opportunities not just for you but for your children and their’s. Silicon Valley is a major growth engine of our economy, it means lots of jobs for your future grand grandchildren. It means better lives for all of us benefiting from innovations that happen there. You no longer need to farm in freezing weather when your John Deere tractor can drive itself or hail a ride on Uber and know exactly when to go outside on a snowy day. So hope you understand that when a place that people trust with keeping their money collapses it means major disruption to the economy. It means those tech companies have to fold not to a fault of their own, but because of a series of domino effects that would have been not easy to predict. It comes with the territory, not too dissimilar to a famine. We need to do something to save those companies and thousands of people who work there contributing to the prosperity of our country and the world. We need to do what is smart, socially and economically responsible and save those companies by providing the cash reserves they stored in the failed bank. We need to borrow money from the tax payers to do that, just like when we did that in the last couple of years to help another group of citizens. I know you understand this is good not just for our country but it’s good for you and your children. I know many will not understand why a large population of the medium class should benefit as if they live in a vacuum and anything that happens to them will have no effect on the rest of us.

I know you will.
you don't need to scrape HN there's the public dataset in google BigQuery, I don't know if it's still updated regularly.

edit:

here's the link https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combi...

they seems to have stopped updating around the later part of 2022, don't know why.
I don't understand how this is meant to be a reply to the review article. At any rate, Smith's book is really good, but (obviously) written as an academic analysis. Stylistically maybe a little overkill for the layperson in this forum, but there are people with wide-ranging interests here who might dig it.
> a review from the future!

Hope the reviewer also got the sports almanac.
You are of course correct. The official figure of 27 million is given for all of Soviet Union. My bad.
Please explain why Roku had half a billion dollars sitting in a checking account and how we rectify that, and 119.5 billion other problems, without yet more money printing that affects everyone.

Move fast and break things, banking edition. Can I sign something somewhere to opt out of responsibility for these kind of things?
As noted above they do turn. I think it would be potentially dangerous to allow a software change to prevent the wheel from turning the tires, so unlikely to be implemented.
Even still, YC doesn’t give any recommendations on bank account that I’ve seen. For ourselves, we had to do some corporate clean up before YC and while they connected us to the right lawyers and provided basic review, it was really just between us and our lawyers. For wiring the money, they just ask you where to send it.

SVB is no doubt popular, but YC makes no recommendations on any banks whatsoever in my experience
It's, to some degree, built into the ethos of the company. Jeff Bezos' "customer obsession" mantra is quoted by professors in every MBA program from Arizona to Zagreb. Case-in-point, here's a compilation of him expressing it from 1999 to 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIrhVU04GHc

Amazon may not be particularly customer centric in terms of the products they allow on their market place, or AWS by the plate of spaghetti that is their various cloud offering, but their customer service division is great. You can get in contact with them in hours, and there's never a hesitation to give you refunds or credit if something goes wrong; something I can't say the same of when it comes to Microsoft or Google.
Maybe the person missed the difference because how your numbers are formatted:

- OptionBenchmark.sumOptional avgt 5 2223,887 us/op

vs

- OptionBenchmark.sumOptionalValhalla avgt 5 572,833 us/op

At least to me after the first read it seemed like comparison of two similair 5kish values.
Must be blue tooth enabled so you can easily pass the wheel to a passenger so they can help steer while you take nap.
> decentralized servers + centralized authentication

...are not decentralized. De-centralized infrastructure doesn't have single authorities able to act as gatekeepers to basic functionality (such as authentication) of the infrastructure, period.
Thank you for checking it out! Much appreciated.

Yeah, I have a few hypothesis that I am going to prove using the Elegant tool that I’m working on.

The first hypothesis is that I’m going to use Elegant itself to scaffold out the documentation. So when the domain is live, Elegant will be ready for beta testing. I hope to get some content up on the domain this week!

Thanks for pointing this out.
100k or more are not peanuts in Europe. But it's true that this may be part of the problem.
The FDIC generally doesn't do "bids" based on this article https://www.npr.org/2009/03/26/102384657/anatomy-of-a-bank-t... it seems that the FDIC basically just shows up at a competing bank, tells them their buying the failed bank, and that's the end of it.
Tim Cooks pushes to ship AR headset despite engineer warnings
This is such a childish response. You're essentially saying to the community: "stop saying things I don't like!"
Those free services are the "interest" you receive in return for your deposits.
Few digital camera manufacturers? Besides Nikon, Canon, Fujifilm, Sony, Panasonic and virtually every smartphone manufacturer in the world?

Leica glass is top notch, the real Leica glass, not the branded smartphone crap lenses. And Leicas are, and always have been, incredibly over priced for what they are, a little bit like Apple and Tesla. They are great cameras to use so, I had one for a project 20 years (too scared to actually count) ago. Great camera, even greater lenses. But now way near as much better as Canon or Nikon as the price would suggest.
>That handy defence which means you're not allowed to point that the accuser has committed exactly the same crimes as the accused.

What accuser?

Neither the Economist nor the commenter to which you replied is the United States of America.

I think.

Maybe the commenter is the literal United States of America?

edit: Your spelling of "defense" and the person to which you replied's comment history seems to indicate that a non-American is accusing a non-American of being an American.

How droll.
What does any of that have to do with socialism (an economic system where the working class owns and control the means of production)?

Socialism doesn't mean "when the government does stuff"
Poland very much is part of the West, and is actually on course to become one of the richest countries in Europe over the next twenty years as measured by GDP per capita.
Since you also think that Poland is not the west this does not surprise me that your family thinks so.

This thread speaks for itself. So I'll leave it at that.
It is not clear to me why only these depositors of SVB deserve special treatment of full reimbursement of their funds. Is this not unfair towards those that held > $ 250 K in other bank failures where the rule of law was applied of not insuring such deposits?
Yup, I'm a bit fascinated that an entire industry is built on the drug dealer / puppy / loss-leader model -- "here; try this for a while for free; you'll like it!"

No question, it is easier to spin up an instance and ler them handle the scaling. And unless you are really careful, it's then very hard to extricate yourself and provision your own servers in a/multiple colo sites...

I always like the control of vertical integration, but evidently enough like convenience to support a huge industry (and there are other advantages, but I don't think that cost is on the list of advantages)
I would love too but that may be marriage ending :)
Quick VMs with NixOS
Magnetic field of earth is ~50µT, a superconducting loop with diameter 1m (circumference ~3,14m) with 100kA will feel a force of ~15N, with 1cm² it has a volume of 0,314 liters, in aluminium thats about 0,85kg or 8,5N, in copper thats about 3kg or 30N. So with a material density of 5kg/dm³ or less it could be possible to fly. Changing the current in the superconducting coil to control lift and propulsion could be tricky though.
I think you mean Real GPD per capita, not GDP per capita alone as the former is also adjusted for inflation.

GDP per capita definitely grew, but once you subtract inflation, it's close to zero for some countries or even negative for countries like Greece, Italy compared to their pre-2008 numbers. Ouch!

Most of the growth has been in Eastern Europe and the very wealthy ones like Netherlands, Luxembourg, etc.
Slack’s new ChatGPT bot will talk to your colleagues for you
I stand corrected, maybe I had read a slightly older FY results https://media.nxp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/nxp...

(though Qualcomm has aprox 3x the quarterly revenue)
I see, I read it as "which do I choose from all the starter templates". I can understand the paralysis, trusting/vetting a whole template is trickier than if you start from blank slate and add plugins one by one as you go and develop intuitions for who are reliable plugin authors that usually don't break your editor etc. But a template is also tempting because more productivity faster, and going plugin by plugin with sometimes poor docs seems daunting.
> everyone will have to re-evaluate where to keep their deposits and chaos ensues.

That chaos is normal functioning of the market.

Nobody has a right to safe placement of large sums of capital.

It is not the government's job to protect your market winni g from the market moving against you.
Ehm Anglo-Saxon people who killed all the indians come from UK and Germany
> > The industry has moved beyond depending on a single cloud computing vendor. It’s negligent to put all your eggs in one basket.

> In that case, the vast majority of enterprises are negligent.

Vast majority of enterprises are not mission critical and their products don't need guaranteed downtime lower than 1min per year. What they need is a lower price, because people don't care about quality in that case but about costs.
> How is that not being held responsible?

This is just "cost of doing business" that can be factored in. Management had amble time to sell and reinvest their ill-gotten gains.

Someone should go to jail for this -- that would be real responsibility.
>But that's not how it works!

I would imagine the people advocating for a 'bailout' (using the most generous possible definition here) want this to become how it works.

Like how in Germany the government guarantees every German bank balance.

I have enough problems, I don't want to have to worry that my bank balance will disappear unless I spread it around in order to abuse a technicality.
I got mine (with PS/2 connector) from Wired magazine
I don't know specifically how Dated it is, but https://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/slib/Relational-Database... might also be of interest.
The lack of any major threat since 1991 has allowed them the political luxury of being able to make policy decisions based on ideology rather than objective reality. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and resulting energy crisis has demonstrated the failure of that approach so now they have to pivot. Expect a new wave of innovation led by the energy and defense sectors.
Any links to bug tickets for su & sudo reporting the insecure default?
You think the US would invade Canada if they change the official language of their state?
We had Fujitsu-Siemens PC's at a previous job. I think at some point they dropped the "-Siemens" part of the name so I guess Fujitsu bought out the shares and went all alone.
"moral hazard"

Funny that there's never concern about moral hazard when they're shoveling billions to banks and major corporations, but there's always major pearl clutching about making little guys whole when a house of cards like SVB collapses.
"he suddenly turns off starlink"

That too had been a lie by CNN. They issued a correction two weeks after reporting that, which explained that the "outage" was a third party unrelated to SpaceX deciding not to pay for the terminals it had provided of its own volition and Ukraine had been fully aware, swapping those out with other terminals beforehand.
Try to run LLaMA in cloud...
I have this innovative idea for business. Imagine you charge money from depositors for keeping their money in a big safe vault. No trading or lending their money. You just keep it safe.
> This is clearly the best ideal. But that's not how it works! And FDIC limits were real but ignored in this case!

The FDIC limit is basically useless at this level. 250k for SVB given their clientele really seems futile.

So I'm not sure even discussing it would serve much value. What I fund more interesting was the UK branch of SVB was actually higher in assets than liabilities and was making profit. It's just so strange to me still how this seems to have happened so quickly and seemingly, made worse by some people just getting worried.
It's strange you didn't mention Konica, Pentax, Minolta, Olympus, Hasselblad oh right that's because they are dead or a virtual brand only. And the rest are pale shadows of themselves 10 years ago. The market is dead, dedicated digital cameras are at these point feel more obsolete than film.
There's a certain amount of risk with all lending and investment that banks do with deposit funds. This can be home loans, government bonds, and other relatively safe products.

I don't think it should be up to the government to back these risks, because if banks think the government will always rescue them, they don't need to care as much about risky investments.

You could argue that it is depositor money, so they're not really saving the bank, they're saving customers. But if banks don't have to care about their risk profile, customers will deposit their money in whatever bank is offering the greatest interest rates, which will likely be those that are making the riskiest investments, which could lead to more bank failures with market swings.
Is this not how AI will be done in the future? It's something startups shouldn't need to spend time on now. Call the API and get all the advantages without any AI investment.
- does it support bitsandbytes?

- does it support GPTQ 4 bit quantization?

so far I like the feature set of github/text-generation-webui
Make sure your decision to migrate to AWS is not an emotional one.

I had my own feud with AWS over a $60,000 bill and an enormous amount of hours spent by my team fighting crypto hackers after they took over one of our accounts and use very advanced scripts to create hundreds of large instances.

AWS has become very complicated to manage and at the same time the attacks to their infrastructure have increased exponentially.

If your company doesn't have a dedicated team to stay on top of AWS you'll be vulnerable to attacks like the one I experienced.

You simply can't count on the baseline configuration of your account and instances provided by AMS, you need advanced knowledge on how to secure your resources beyond basic stuff like MFA and monitoring.

And if you think AWS will have your back when shit hits the fan, lol good luck with that.

They will try to collect the bills while providing absolutely no support, reminding you about their Shared Responsibility Agreement.

They also expect you to fight the attacks.

I ended up spending months of work securing my services and cleaning my debt with AWS billing, to the point we almost went to court.

So again, you may have good reasons to migrate, just beware that AWS won't come free of hassle.
There is something called the risk-free rate. It used to be 0, but not any more.
Reconstructing a Cosine Similarity
You realize that if there was such a model SVB wouldn't have existed and startup founders would have to turn to e.g. BoA, which ... would have turned them down? So those startups wouldn't have existed in the first place just as SV as a whole. Problem solved! Back to the USSR!
Uhhh yes. Most commercially viable businesses at scale rely in credit. If you're making serious money (call it $10M+ in revenue), you very likely have some credit facility with your bank. Whether you use that credit or not, is another thing.
RAM, running entirely on the CPU at around 1.7 seconds per token
I can't see the US making Spanish their official language any time soon.
It’s a government take over of the private sector.

Government official picking losers and winners. Winners will mostly be those who supported government officials party.

Either using money from tax payers.
Or creating new money out of thin air. Leading to yet more punishing inflation.
The effective limit is infinite apparently, but since that can change at the whims of the government (rather than being a requirement) people are looking to increase the limit.
Russia doesn't have 3500 ASAT missiles and can't build (and launch) them at a rate of ~50 per week (it's estimated that they produce ~50 cruise missiles per month).

Admittedly they don't have to shoot down 3500 sats, probably only the sats in the group servicing Ukraine, but that's still a couple hundred sats and thus, likely more than the Russian ASAT stockpile.
The complexity almost looks like an April Fools joke.
ChatGPT and Generative AI are booming, but at a expensive price
I dont know a great many who would pay for that service.
Everyone probably needs to hear this from time to time, myself included. But you should recognize that the PM probably does not know more about tech that the OP has been working in day in and day out. It is possible they do but unlikely.