skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm aware of various thinkers positing that digital computation is insufficient for AGI and/or consciousness

Those thinkers are being silly. They're basically saying that consciousness is literally magic. Humans are seemingly desperate to feel like they have a special unique place in the universe, but we just don't. Sorry.

Totally agree that digital computers are absolutely capable of consciousness, and also that we're nowhere near that yet, despite the ChatGPT hype.
And on an M1?

I have 64gb available
3 New Drivers of Asset Markets – IMAS-Bloomberg Investment Conf. Opening Remarks
Its not the first amendment to the canadian constitution (hello manitoba) and the specifics of the rights granted and their limitations are different [sometimes very different than usa. E.g. gay marriage and abortion].

Additionally prior to the charter canada had some limited freedom of speech from the implied bill of rights, so its not like it introduced it.
Not sure about his more recent content but he used to have a policy that the VODs could be uploaded in full as long as they were uncut and not modified. If you go watch some older VODs he says so at the beginning.
> the bank will have a new owner by coming Monday/Tuesday

What due diligence can seriously be carried out by Monday/Tuesday? Especially for a messy "acquisition" like this one.
Jedi mind trick only works if you're a Jedi.
Video from JetBrains with Sajan Thapa, showing reloadium in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TesqqQb8U7M
The sales were part of a prearranged executive stock sale plan, known as a 10b5-1 program, that Becker filed with the SEC... Jan. 26
I work at a bank most people are trying to park their funds at. It is a fucking PANIC mode disaster for them. Large companies in the Valley are trying to dump 100's of millions into our accounts
Oops, I meant people who were vaccinated and then got covid. I just realized that wasn't clear.

It wasn't about the vaccine, as much as it was about the fact that covid is still very dangerous, even to the vaccinated.
Not the Fed's fault. SVB's fault for going all-in on 10year duration MBS. If they had mixed in a good amount of shorter duration tbonds/tbills they would've been fine.
If that helps, just wrote a script to split the audio and use the prompt parameter to provide context with the n-1 segment transcription:
https://gist.github.com/patrick-samy/cf8470272d1ff23dff4e2b5...
I've heard the term both ways. The impression I get is that it's intended to cover a swath of things that harm somebody, either intentionally or unintentionally, but which individually don't seem significant.

It's possible for people to use that intentionally: to deliberately cause offense in a way that they know they can't be called out on. But that wouldn't be significant if it weren't part of a larger pattern where the effect is greater than the sum of the individual events.

Many of those are unintentional, though they might recognize the problem if called out on it. As an example: asking a woman to get coffee for a meeting. In itself, it might be that today you happened to choose a woman; tomorrow it might be a man. She cannot prove that it's sexism without establishing a pattern, which would be an enormous and absurd burden to put on her.

It's even possible that the boss genuinely did choose her at random, but it still echoes with past explicit misogyny and chauvinism in a way that harms her but she can't usefully fight back against it without seeming to blow things out of proportion.
G+ wasn't designed to be very usable, even ignoring the part where they had 0 users. It was a nerdy design seemingly trying to bring the fun of ACL systems to the public.

Btw, one lasting disconnect between most Google SWEs and the general public: many SWEs consider YouTube a social network today.
FDIC is in receivership of the bank, so they can sell off assets or do whatever they need to do to recover money to pay out depositors. If you had a million dollars and they are able to recover 90 cents on the dollar - your $100k "loss" would be covered by the insurance.
No, it’s the same.

SVB made bad bets and mismanaged risk. These firms should fail to make room for better firms. And people that work with mismanaged firms will often take a loss, often via bankruptcy.

Startups liked SVB because they would take risks big banks wouldn’t. Well risk comes at a cost.

The government’s role here isn’t to make everyone whole. It’s to prevent contagion.
Just plant that type of grass the herbivores really like and let the cows, sheep and goats roam. We can't only eat plants we need cheese too.
Responding more to the quote:

First off - it is not a 10Y T-bill. T-bills extend to 52 weeks. From that point through 10Y are "notes" and everything longer are bonds.

Second anyone involved professionally in the markets understands the duration (not maturity) of bonds and how coupon rate and market interest rate will effect the price of said bond. [those interested can google terms like 'modified duration']. So there is absolutely no shock that the price of 10yr paper with a 50bp coupon would be near 80 in the current rate environment.
Why am I not surprised that the Unabomber would conflate liberals and leftists?

But the same thing can be said of reactionary conservatives.
https://billmoyers.com/story/how-authoritarianism-short-circ...
scrapping data at scale is much harder that you are making it sounds like. Especially is the company is trying hard to prevent that. Much cheaper just to pay for the api.
I shouldn't have to sacrifice either good UX or speed of single stepping on a modern machine. It says a lot that that's even a real suggestion in our industry.
Isn't the temperature the "injected" randomness? The way I imagine it would be somewhere in the model you would do

input += (Math.random - 0.5) * Coefficient * temperature

so setting temperature to 0 would mean no randomness. On thinking further about why there is inherent randomness I believe it is from a lack of associativity in floating point operations. They obviously do A LOT of parallel floating point operations.
Yes, but it was also fraud because they weren't supposed to gamble with that money because they were an exchange, not a bank.
But why would you need a private corporation to put peoples money in T-Bonds? Why not just make the government do that directly? I don't see how these corporate profits benefited society. They didn't fill some hard to do function, they just risked others money and planned to skim the gains for profit, why should society encourage that? And they didn't even risk the money in growth areas, they just gave it to the government, I could see their value if they actually took some valuable risks, I don't see the value of a private corporation that skims profits by investing into the government.
Still remember my original SC cd key from installing it on all my friends computers back in the day :) 4015-29374-2985 probably will always be rattling around there somewhere. Useless information taking up space.
> But such is not the case when a gay man becomes the leader of a boy scout troop. He may have good intentions, but it is highly highly reasonable to assume he does not.

This portion of your comment is unreasonable. Girl Scout troops welcome male leaders, including heterosexual male leaders, without any insinuation of pedophilia or child sexual abuse.[1] There is no evidence that child sexual abuse is more of an issue for homosexual males than it is for heterosexual males,[2] and therefore no legitimate reason for you to suggest that homosexual male leaders of boy scout troops are more problematic than heterosexual male leaders of girl scout troops.

[1] Example: https://www.girlscoutsni.org/en/our-council/news/2016/dads_w...

[2] Written by a professor who specializes in the area of clerical sexual abuse: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2018/10/22/no-homosexu...
It's just that VCs and their portfolio companies are part of the same plutocracy as the banksters of 2008. Those without gazillions in stock options are furious that all of a sudden, they cry for bail-outs. Just like 2008.

Let them crash and burn, they shouldn't have all their assets in one bank.
Hardware wallet authentication is really one of the 'web3' technologies that just works and we could be deploying everywhere right now. It's miles better than yubikey spitting out a static password, has plugins for every major browser and mobile device platform, can do identity verification without specific site account setup, and of course the whole pile of (optional) web3 things with crypto.
This is true. most startups are trying to bank with the company I work at now and switch from SVB to us, it is a fucking panic and some of these companies are trying to send us 100's of mill cash in hand
It's not that bad. FDIC:

"All insured depositors will have full access to their insured deposits no later than Monday morning, March 13, 2023. The FDIC will pay uninsured depositors an advance dividend within the next week. Uninsured depositors will receive a receivership certificate for the remaining amount of their uninsured funds. As the FDIC sells the assets of Silicon Valley Bank, future dividend payments may be made to uninsured depositors. ... As of December 31, 2022, Silicon Valley Bank had approximately $209.0 billion in total assets and about $175.4 billion in total deposits."

Those receivership certificates can be sold or borrowed against. The discount shouldn't be large, since there are solid assets, they're just long term. But figuring out how to arrange such deals is obscure, and early offers to buy will probably be at an excessive discount.

This doesn't happen often and it's not a routine type of transaction. Which means you may need expensive corporate lawyers.
I think "soft skills" disguises what these skills generally are and their importance in the context of an organization.

Things like navigating an org, knowing how to make asks that have a high % of being accepted, writing things for a specific audience and keeping conversations on track are all very important "soft skills" that are completely hidden by the "soft skills" label.
People said the same thing when Tumblr added ActivityPub.

The most likely situation is that the fediverse would spot this tactic and mass de-federate anyone who tried it, so that bad actor would be left making their own island and any investment in federation would be lost.

It doesn't make business sense to try and EEE the fediverse.
The FDIC will cover the portion that they couldn't recover from bank assets. The depositors will be made whole (up to $250k), but it may take some taxpayer money to do that.
Let us hope that the bank did not "bet" and instead had a decision making process.
Do we know why Musk would be fond of 420 jokes?
Well, yeah, their "dual mandate" is contradictory. You're not the first to notice, trust me. And that means that sometimes they have to sacrifice one for the other. When one is doing historically well, and the other not so great, it's probably not a hard choice.
I think it is more of a coincidence. It is was not and is not KGB fault that US colleges are filled with every stripe of "ist" from your garden variety Maoist to Trotskyiest to some normalized now America is DEVIL repent NOW types. Whoever was responsible for what he says if he is still alive is probably completely dumfounded by Americans taking down Lincoln statues and destroying monuments to abolitionists who fought against slavery. I mean holy shit did we do KGB good job or what? (for the record I do not think they had anything to do with it, empire rots from the core)
Growth doesn’t have to mean more – consuming better will also protect the planet
We've just seen there is no difference with SVB, because they tried to get a private rescuer to bail them out. Didn't work. Because why would a private rescuer lose liquidity to a lower paying assets (SVB's book) when they could lose liquidity to a higher paying one on the market (e.g. Treasury bonds)?

Mark to market is real. If you need liquidity immediately from the market, whether through a rescuer or otherwise, you do your accounting using that value and in SVB's case they were insolvent.
> I'd be interested in any sort of proof.

Have you been paying attention? https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600358/elon-musk-tweets... "This story is based on interviews with people familiar with the events involved and supported by documents obtained by Platformer."
> they have this cartoonish belief that they can beat China by having worse labor laws on workers' welfare.

Is it really cartoonish when everyone apparently agrees that China became what it is today by having worse labour laws then the rest of the world?
Yup, that’s quite the insight. (Although I don’t understand why you write banks are forced by law to buy.)
Sure, but you don't get a useful model of a bank by only looking at the short term like this.

> The point is that when banks receive deposits, in the short term, their assets/liabilities doesn’t change.

They do change: Cash is a (risk-free, modulo safe storage) asset, the deposit is a liability. This has consequences for all kinds of metrics vital to the running of a bank.
Timely, but not quite what I needed (unless I missed something in the article—pretty likely). I just spent a bunch of time setting up a Raspberry Pi 1 B with Alpine Linux, and it was surprisingly difficult to find the right strings of gibberish to get everything set up.

The Alpine packages are “armhf” and the last 2 letters I think mean it has hardware floating point support.

The kernel is armv6l and I still don’t know what the last letter is for.

Cross-compiling for it can be annoying, but I seem to be able to pass the CPU name directly (I don’t remember it off-hand, but it’s more easily Google-able) to get things to build properly.

I don’t really have a point, just venting…
Think of the children - their privacy is going to be violated if whatever they post online triggers the scanner. Then some random stranger will read your kid's private messages.

That chat control really looks like a creep magnet. What could possibly go wrong...
This looks great, very interesting approach! Augumenting the code of a running process using a scripting language is a cool idea, excited to see what comes next. I will definitely keep an eye on the project.
Again, it is an advantage, but not necessarily an unfair one.

You can construct an explicitly unfair scenario if you wish (say, a familial relationship with an editor), but absent something like that, I'm not sure there is anything to complain about, even in principle.
It is not just the justice system. After 18, you are given full citizen rights, but you also get the responsibilities that go with it. It is crude but fair.

There are exceptions, adults may have guardians and are effectively considered minors if they have mental problems for instance, and in some cases, children can be emancipated. But these are usually for extreme cases.
The world sees transitions; these will reshape our approach to development
Bailing out uninsured accounts in a failed bank may not be, even if they happen to be startups, depending on the form of the bailout. Favorable term government bridge loans against the receivership certificates (perhaps limited to some reasonable expectation of what will eventually be realized on those) would not be unreasonable, and would mitigate the worst short-term impacts.

OTOH, the problem is that for it to work, you’d [EDIT: probably; maybe there is a means to do this under executive authority] need immediate legislative action, involving both the Republican-majority House and the Democratic-majority Senate, and that seems improbable.
i think pseudomonas still qualifies as bsl2 nowadays

this is why we can't have nice things
I hope the accused was awarded costs. What a bloody waste of time and money.
What app are you using to show cpu/mem/temp?
If you are a director of a company facing such a situation, it's what you want to do. Because if you don't, you become personally liable for the missed payroll. Do you want to close up shop and say "this startup died because of SVB, on to start another one", but keep your car and your house, or do you want to risk losing literally everything you own and then end up with loads of new debt on top of that.
> Currently, only LLaMA-7B is supported since I haven't figured out how to merge the tensors of the bigger models. However, in theory, you should be able to run 65B on a 64GB MacBook

Suddenly the choices Apple made with its silicon are looking like pure genius as there will be a lot of apps using this that are essentially exclusive to their platform. Even with the egregious ram pricing.

With a lot of fine tuning if you squint this is a useful/convincing "ChatGPT on a laptop" minus the corporate lobotomy only a few short months after release. Very exciting! I actually care about the upcoming Mac Pro now.

$3999 Mac Studio with 64GB ram. +$800 for 128GB.
>just stick with selling directly to collectors and you already have enough money

Uh, oh! Unregistered security...
Nope. But if Twitter starts making a side of this situation more financial then people are going feel differently about this relationship.
It is not insane at all. Banks match expected duration of their assets and liabilities. This bank made a number of errors and was caught in a classic liquidity squeeze. Not the first and won't be the last.
> I would be pretty surprised if it was 100%

It would be unthinkable that they wouldn't, up to the $250k limit. Beyond that limit, they probably won't be made whole.
Public perspectives on fracking in the United States from social media big data
Here is some quick math: these devices has SSD read speed somewhere around 2GiB/s. With 4-bit quantization, we are looking at loading 4B parameters per second. That means we need 8s per token for 30B model. Hmmm, the math is a bit off (or I need to look closer whether we can do more tokens per iteration with some batching).
I always assumed it's a reference to the 1911 pistol... but it doesn't make a lot of sense when combined with razor haha.
The author just made an update that makes the generation much better, even with the 7B model:

https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1634310199170179075

I tried it out myself (git pull && make) and the difference in results are day and night! It's amazing to play with, although you should prompt it differently than ChatGPT (more like the GPT-3 API).
“Government should serve the interests of the investor class” is…not communism.

The system that does that is named after another name for the “investor class”.
One thing that can be pretty nice which is kinda neither traditional debugging nor logging is DTrace (or similar). Basically event tracing on steroids. Maybe EBPF is in that vein? I don't have much personal experience with it, but I have heard some stories of good success on busy production systems.

I guess my (limited) experiences with distributed systems are different than yours. The notion of "pausing" the system to step through things interactively was usually untenable. Do you stop the one node that shows the issue, and let the others run, getting into who-knows-what shared state? Do you somehow attempt to stop them all, and hope/pray that they all are in the right state to make your cross-node analysis meaningful? This was mostly on Apache Spark, where parallelism was the name of the game. Maybe for some kind of long-running distributed system like Erlang it's a different story.
Mostly, possibly. But a lot hinges on what exactly would discovery found. We do not know what was there.
the plants help keep the solar panels cool which aids efficiency and longevity
Don’t worry guys, FTX.us is completely separate and independent from FTX.com
Folia regionizing logic – Multi-threading Minecraft by splitting it into regions
This is about a new PaperMC project. PaperMC is a set of GPLv3-licensed patches to make the Minecraft Java Edition server software run faster. It's currently used to run most of the medium-large servers, so it is one of the more critical projects in the Minecraft community.

Folia is supposed to take these patches even further with multi-threading. From their announcement today:

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> As you all know, the Minecraft server is single threaded. As time goes on, it is becoming more clear that performance is bottlenecked by this fact. I have been working on a project, which have been teased here before, for the past six months to multithread the ticking logic.

> This project is called Folia. Folia groups nearby loaded chunks to form an "independent region." Each independent region has its own tick loop, which is ticked at the regular Minecraft tickrate (20TPS). The tick loops are executed on a thread pool in parallel. There is no main thread anymore, as each region effectively has its own "main thread" that executes the entire tick loop. Note that each region does not have a unique thread, but rather shares threads from a configurable threadpool.

> For a server with many spread out players, Folia will create many spread out regions and tick them all in parallel - which will perform significantly better than the current method of ticking all worlds one after the other.

> Folia will be a standalone project from the Paper server software, but will be under the PaperMC organization, as we expect that most plugins need some level of changes to function correctly given the changes. There is no planned release date for either the API or server jar at the moment, that will come when it is ready.

> However, for today we plan to run a public test server to see how many players it can run at smoothly. We will be pushing this server live at 2023-03-11T00:00:00.000Z, and I will be in the
#folia-testing voice channel along with others to answer any other questions. Please forward discussion to the
#folia-testing channel, as I will not be watching general.

> For those technically inclined, here is the general specification for how regions are formed and destroyed: https://gist.github.com/Spottedleaf/924b8ca8df8e3c869fc6daf5...
you're opposed to selling your attention to the highest bidder but you think it's a good business model to sell all of "your data" to any "market rate" bidder?

you know those are just the same thing right?
And the Big Bad Go will come and blow down their houses.
Someone explain why we can't capture CO2 into wood and cardboard and paper products.
That's a good find...

100% speculation: the CRO told them loading up on long term bonds was crazy, and that they'd just have to eat lower earnings. The CEO/CFO disagreed, and the CRO didn't want to have any part of it. Hindsight is 20/20, but... this really was a disaster waiting to happen.
I learned C++ on CodeWarrior (and then vi) and its debugger made me require a debugger whenever I write code. I am currently using PHPStorm (or any JetBrains) and its XDebug debugger.

For Javascript, I use Brave/Chrome debugger.

...And I should use logs more.

I am always in shock when I see people work on large projects with no debugger. I do printf/console.log all the time but HOW DO PEOPLE NOT STEP-STEP-STEP??
Boom and Bust is a feature, not a bug in western fractional reserve banking. In China, where they have a different system, the central bank would electronically print debt free money and recapitalize the bank and execute any bankers violating lending guidelines or otherwise giving "illegal loans" in order to prevent the moral hazard this would otherwise create. Being a banker and screwing around is an extremely serious crime in China.

The only reason the boom/bust cycle is implemented thus in the west is so the banks can periodically redistribute assets of their least successful borrowers to other people. In China, the reorganizations are more market priced since the ownership and control of distressed assets is written down by the central bank and they are resold for pennies, while in the west it tends to go through bankruptcy court, which is a slow complex bureaucratic process and tends to destroy what was left of the company.
This has to do with a web of relationships and risk tolerance, not some product set…