skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't heard of David Friedman before, or at least I don't think I have, but after reading the preface and a few other pieces about him, including his own words, I get the feeling that he is ... controversial, to say the least, or at least I hope so.

I may read through more of this paper to at least entertain a perspective that at first appearances differs wildly from mine, but the bits I have read don't look good. In what case has unbridled capitalist markets ever solved anything, much less everything? Almost all of the issues plaguing the U.S. at the moment are due to private interests infiltrating government, policy, etc. Somehow, this author feels oppressed by the U.S. Post Office, of all things, but is perfectly happy privatizing all of life, including laws.

We can't talk about religion or Musk here, but this type of thing gets posted and upvoted. This author even appears to be a denier of global warming effects. In his own words:

> I don't think there is any good reason to expect AGW to produce bad effects on net, let alone catastrophic effects.

And isn't it strange that the most extreme capitalists and libertarians usually happen to be independently wealthy?
Even if its not the "precise" moment, in the scheme of things does perfect timing really matter? Fact is, this shows beautifully that significant new algorithmic capability is becoming commoditised - fast. And thats a good thing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/magazine/lives-dude-where...
Article by the EcoHealth Alliance, the same that paid the Wuhan lab to research bat coronavirus

Pentagon gave millions to EcoHealth Alliance for weapons research program
https://nypost.com/2021/07/01/pentagon-gave-millions-to-ecoh...
[spoiler alert?]

I'm not sure that I understand.

The video shows a small windows that say that they will receive <big>7203.45</big> but the output is an estimate, but the transaction will be canceled if they actually get less than <small>7.168<small>

Is this correct?
Adderall is not a racemic mixture, but rather 3:1 D:L. You can view it as a 1:1 mixture of racemic and dextro.
The notion that bankers who make large sums by constantly projecting and promising safety and risk mitigation shouldn't be losing their shirts when everything blows up just lays bare the truth. Everything is setup to protect the powerful and the wealthy, and out of everyone it's probably going to be 401ks, taxpayers, and small businesses to get hurt the most.
You can bind more than one hardware token and also bind an authenticator app like WinAuth.
It would be extremely cool to finally end the constant pain of either overpaying for a laptop with my country's localization on the keyboard or straight up using a keyboard from a different country and just not looking at the keyboard since the buttons are all different when you set the software localization to my own country. eInk under every key, would of course be expensive at first but it would mean that the keyboards would now only have to be developed for US and got the ISO standard.

My stationary computer has Slovenian layout (which is where I'm from), Chromebook has German (where I also bought the laptop) layout because I couldn't find the same model for anywhere close to the same price in Slovenia (which is very common, most electronics I've bought have been from Germany or elsewhere just not Slovenia, because even including the shipping it's still cheaper.

But I still set the software keyboard layout to Slovenian, which means that the stuff that's printed on the keyboard is useless to me...

If anyone is looking for an excellent website to compare prizes and find products in Europe, I highly recommend geizhals.eu, the filter options make it so that you can basically build your own laptop, they are really amazing!
>My finance friends are in PE, not banking, but they do soul-crushing work for grueling hours specifically because of that end-of-year bonus.

I should feel bad for someone who, for the sake of extra money, willingly chooses to have their soul crushed every year, if they don't get a bonus this year?

Sure, but I feel bad for them for completely different reasons.
The path is gray.
Even with older RAM, if you need a large and fast storage, few solutions can compete with RAM. Especially when it comes to random R/W. You can get 4.4GBps random read from a DDR3 drive (in parents link) while the latest Gen5 NVME drives tend to cap out at ~90MBps for such loads (worst kind of loads). In addition these can be installed into any system, no need for a special server MOBO with enough RAM slots.
https://archive.md/0Nx0l
Hey all, it's the author of the reddit post here. First of all, let me say that I don't usually frequent HN, but the comments on here are of such high quality, that I might need to change that. I got semi-depressed on reddit, with people misattributing statements and, in general, not being overly, uh, skeptical :)

That being said, there were a few comments on here about gaussian blur and deconvolution, which I would like to tackle. First, I need to mention that I do not have an maths/engineering background. I am familiar with some concepts, as I've used deconvolution via FFT several years ago during my PhD, but while I am aware of the process, I don't know all the details. I certainly didn't know that the image that was gaussian blurred could be sharpened perfectly - I will have to look into that. In fact, I used gaussian blur to redact some private information (like in screenshots), and it's very helpful to know if I haven't redacted anything and the data is recoverable. Wow.

I would love to learn more about the types of blur that cannot be deconvoluted.

However, please have in mind that in my experiment:

1) I also downsampled the image to 170x170, which, as far as I know, is an information-destructive process

2) The camera doesn't have the access to my original gaussian blurred image, but that image + whatever blur and distortion was introduced when I was taking the photo from far away, (whatever algo they are using doesn't have access to the original blurred image to run a perfect deconvolution on)

3) Lastly, I also clipped the highlights in the last example, which is also destructive (non-reversible), and the AI hallucinated details there as well

So I am comfortable saying that it's not deconvolution which "unblurs" the image and sharpens the details, but what I said - an AI model trained on moon images that uses image matching and a neural network to fill in the data.

Thank you again for your engagement and your thoughtful comments, I really appreciate them, and have learned a lot just by reading them!
> And as a side note: can we please stop shitting on every React post that appears on HN? All this hater energy is really starting to be a drag.

Kind of ironic when this post kicked off a long argumentative thread shining a light on the exact things people don't like about React... "escape hatch", "impure side effects", "useEffect... huge point of failure... it sucks", arguments whether hooks and refs are immutable or not... and these comments are coming from people who claim to like React!
Thank you, you've grasped the point that the others missed: it's collusion and price-fixing that's illegal. Not whether failing to offer athletic scholarships was a good idea.

The courts didn't care what they were colluding about, just that they were colluding. If they independently come to the same decision, that's one thing, just like an oil company following the price decisions of another one is fine, but the two of them agreeing to raise prices is not.
I like that international object sizing tool, great idea.
That was a typo, I mean to say that the insured amount was available.
Do you think that encouraging a run on a bank is truly the responsible thing to do today?
Material risk isn't insolvency. If anything, you run those payouts faster if the FDIC is making heavy breathing noises.
> I'm perplexed, then, to see so many people gleefully celebrate the collapse of an institution that helped level the playing field for people from all backgrounds.

"Making loans to startups that otherwise wouldn't get a loan because they are too risky for traditional banks" does certainly grant more people access to the high-cost high-risk world of tech startups, but I dunno that it's a terribly compelling method to level the playing field because it does nothing to challenge the system itself, only gives new players a chance to spin the wheel.

The backlash against tech in general stems from the system itself and the things it prioritizes, like massive scale at all costs in service to investors being a vehicle for the rich to become richer. If you start from a position like "tech billionaires and their antics are a significant source of problems in the world" then a bank like SVB that lets more "normal" folks participate doesn't do anything to stop those said billionaires from _also_ profiting off these new incoming startups, except making the pool to choose from even bigger.

It's frustration with the system that drives these sentiments, not specifically SVB as the "secret backdoor for poors into the startup casino".
Screw that. If the recipient of the bonus is CXO level or higher, I’d say the government has a duty to claw back this money.
> redemption is constrained by the working hours of the U.S. banking system

Why do they keep saying this? This should’ve always been the case, regardless of SVB’s collapse. Seems more like a non sequitur to cover for an actual issue.
Emergency meeting of Federal Reserve Board, Mon 3/13 11:30am ET
> if you think it's hard to make a living at writing, try painting

Current developments in AI don't make it any better for both professions, I'm afraid.
Covid would have forced a much harder reset, probably in 2021.
If I were AWS, I would be very nervous about the their NLP services like Amazon Comprehend or Amazon Lex. ChatGPI's API is both cheaper and more powerful. It's just a matter of time that ChatGPT can support those so-called enterprise features.
Exactly. The legal risks act as a moat that only the largest vendors can dig around themselves. I think OpenAI would be very happy about the legal risks.
They print it.
how long before someone creates a simple GUI for this?

That + a small bit of optimisation and everyone with a newer Mac / iPhone will be able to run something akin to chatGPT locally!

Isn't this a pretty crazy development - just weeks ago people said this would be impossible.

From this thread the 13b model runs just as fast as chatGPT on a M2 Macbook Air, and it's not even using the Neural Engine yet so will become significantly faster once that is utilised - wow!
You think USDC failing would be bigger than ETH failing? If ETH broke in a way it couldn't recover from I would think that is the second biggest domino (close to tied for first, even).
Just alpine. Works fairly well, I rarely have problems. Except the DRM, but I don't care that much.
I suspect they just led more frustrating lives. I know mine was before I was finally diagnosed.
See what happens to countries that decide to sell their oil in € instead of $…
Unusual Options Activity Detected for First Republic Bank
First, I shook my head at the same sentence. The railway union whose potential strike was recently broken by the government and railroads levels the playing field (and works to evert things like the Ohio toxic train derailment). Silicon Valley Bank does not level the playing field.

The sob story about the partner at the VC firm did pull at my heart strings though.

The CEO of SVB spent half a million dollars to roll back banking regulation five years ago. Hoisted by his own petard...well not really - bonuses went out hours before the seizure and he was selling shares like crazy before the collapse.

Now David Sacks and all the tech bro libertarians want the taxpayer to bail out the SVB depositors beyond the FDIC limit.
>They may open their own sports schools and whatnot.

why would they open themselves up to those kinds of expenses and liabilities when their feeder systems are working just fine for them now?
I don’t think that’s realistically on the table: as I understand it, if FDIC can’t facilitate a takeover by an existing, operating, licensed bank (which Musk is not, and it takes some time to set one up) – their preferred option in bank failures, which they’ve usually managed to do even with the biggest – they are going to sell the assets to cover the costs of the insured depositors and if there is a surplus, provide what compensation that allows to the uninsured depositors. They aren’t going to sell the bank as a bank to a billionaire who happens to have an urge to own a financial services business since he got driven out of the last one he was CEO of.

If Musk as a not-bank wanted to buy SVB as a going concern, he should have done so when it was, in fact, a going concern
Why FRB?
This was a crisis of confidence.

Most other US banks are just as exposed to long term bonds and mortgages and have also been hung out to dry by the fed raising rates after a decade of zirp and we distorted yields and prices.

Yes this bank failed to hedge risk appropriately, but if customer confidence fails, all major US banks would be vulnerable to exactly the same situation.

IMO share/bond holders should lose if all but depositors should lose nothing/very little (which is perfectly possible and not too expensive). Otherwise the risk of contagion is very real.

Which fractional reserve bank is actually safe from a bank run without the implicit promise of an fdic backstop?
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Except these are all proprietary AWS things, with perhaps the aside of “S3 is well supported elsewhere”. Why would someone want to do that to themselves, especially with how tightly coupled that makes things?

I don’t view AWS as a replacement for PHP-like stacks at all.
Central Valley resident here, it is indeed quite bad.
I used uMatrix to read Twitter without difficulty. Did you have most of the scripts blocked?
a "bunch of psychotics"?
It’s been demonstrated innumerable times that the App Store is not actually well maintained.

Eg - https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1631352764247977985?s=...
> I’m hearing that you can’t even use USDC to exchange for bitcoin/ETH on Coinbase right now.

That would be the fault of Coinbase, not Circle or USDC. On other exchanges, like Bitstamp, you can freely buy/sell your USDC to crypto/fiat.
> I can only see the same practical personal use

I can see fake accounts, phishing and disinformation at a whole new scale, too.
That's what an EU regulation that was on the front page recently prevents.

The way to put the LLM in charge without means to appeal.
I don't use react but... isn't his solution also wrong?

function handleAddItem(value) {
const nextItems = [...items, value];
setItems(nextItems);
}

should be?

function handleAddItem(value) {
setItems(items => [...items, value]);
}
> I literally am not allowed to try “creative” solutions like Dexedrine or even something like modafanil.

Grey market moda is easy to find.

I've been taking a small dose of moda along with my current meds, and it works out.
Sorry, I was not clear. Your offering is one of the two colors already being considered. It offers nothing new.

And as for myself, I couldn’t care less which time offset is picked, I just want them to pick one and stop changing the offset twice a year.

Will there be long term problems from picking one over the other? Doubtful; there’s enough states/countries/etc which are stopped at various offsets to solar noon that we’d know if there was a significant advantage or disadvantage to being offset from solar noon.

That data seems speculative at best right now, telling me there advantages and disadvantages to each. Which reinforces my “just fucking pick one” opinion.
> for the sake of extra money

Do you know what the money is for or why they are sacrificing for it? Of course not, you just want to sound high and mighty
> or a reasonably capable Mac Mini

IMO, Apple's habit of cheaping out on ram is maddening. Although perhaps this is a sign for me to pick up a m2 pro mini with extra ram.
> Norway is not even part of NATO.

Odd… because the head of NATO is Norwegian.

Your entire comment is completely misinformed.
Perhaps we will provide feedback to open source Llama using ChatGPT. The cost to adjust the model is presumably what's hard?
Since the article itself states that the payout of the bonuses was scheduled for March 10th in advance of the current situation it doesn't seem to.

I got my bonus for 2022 paid out on March 3rd. Everyone in my company knew the bonus payout date months ago.
Unfortunately doesn't seem to be present on all systems:

No manual entry for grep in section 1p
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.

Ubuntu 18.04 here
Prior to Stable Diffusion's release very few people outside of the AI research community were paying much attention to generative AI models.

Stable Diffusion kicked off a wave of interest which hasn't stopped building yet - albeit massively accelerated by ChatGPT's release in November.
Well the site looks and feels like the places I remember looking for Linux resources 20 years - or is it 30? - ago so they got that part right.
The prices SVB and other banks use for their assets are not marked to market.

Selling it all, today, would mean that they get back far less than the total deposits.

Selling it over time or parking it with a temp bad bank would be fine though and that is what fdic will probably do.
This is FUD spreading — they filed an 8-k on friday dispelling concerns here and emphasizing their diversification of fund sources and liquidity.

it’s smart to limit exposure to insurance caps, but that doesn’t mean there is going to be a contagion de facto
What? Clipped means gone - the pixel is FFFFFF - how can CV look at a FFFFFF pixel, surrounded by FFFFFF pixels, and get out a moon-looking pixel?
Every single bonus-earning employee in PE is in dire straits?
sounds like someone out there on the internet has a link to your site and added the ?ref=https://codemonkey.link and google is just following that?
do you think having uninsured levels of money is a responsible thing to do ever?
I’ll repeat. How is a stable coin a Ponzi scheme.

A Ponzi scheme pays a dividend or share of fake “revenue.” Stablecoins don’t make money, unless lent out.
Come back when you have the entire risk mgmt org chart and show she is at the top. Then I would be interested.
I think you're misinterpreting what the GP is saying. It's an organization, and those at the top bear responsibility regardless of how decisions are made internally (and there's no way those executives are making decisions without a huge lift from the rank and file). Sure it's hard to stay on top of everything—executives are human and will make mistakes–but that's why they get paid the big bucks! At the end of the day anything short of full accountability from those at the top is a huge moral hazard and recipe for disaster.
As always the devil is in the details, and I'm old enough I was around and paying attention for the Bush years. The debt limit fight referenced in the essay was actually extremely minor - there was never a real risk of a shutdown, unlike 1995, 2011, and 2013 - and the Democrats' position was broadly not "don't raise it" but "if you're gonna raise it, how about also we fund something other than wars". It's not at all comparable to the times the Republicans have a) actually precipitated or enacted crisis, sometimes with no specific demands, and b) when they do have demands, it's a hard line of tax cuts plus lower expenditures.
That was a really good and accessible writeup. Not just the topic, but the way it was written.
I was going to reply the same thing. I do have a problem with the author presenting that as a default solution instead of a workaround if the item doesn't have a unique identifier, which I have found to be uncommon.
DNA synthesis technologies to close the gene writing gap
Not that bizarre when you look at NY Times shareholders.
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Yes, I meant about the same: I percept uninteresting garbage content as malicious too.
What's the alternative to proprietary AWS? 000webhost? Buy your own server and own it all? Web3?
This is literally showing how parasitic these organizations are. Bankers think that banks exist to make themselves a lot of money, not to serve customers.

This is why organizations like SVB need to fail without any kind of bailout and executives need to go to prison for paying out bonuses if they paid them out knowing they couldn’t meet their fiduciary responsibility to customers.
Asked politely or required? In the US I believe they’re free to ask, they just can’t force you or require that you pay for shipping.
We’re talking about the guy we have clear video evidence doing the thing he was accused of, admitted to, and convicted of, right?
To how many threads are you copy-pasting this?
Libertarions really are the house cats that think they are lions.
The key word is might. I was commuting in a big city, 1+ hour one way, regardless car or public transit. So you'd think that in the latter case I had 40-50 minutes to do stuff? Wrong. First you need to wait for the transport, technically you can read something quickly while waiting, but you always need to watch for car numbers, not to miss yours, and holding a phone out in winder is fucking cold. In summer sun blinding a screen and causing it to overheat due to max brightness. Then you are riding in the overcrowded tram or bus, one hand holding the rail not to fall, so no typing, and reading is rather limited when you are packed like sardines. Then you repeat all that for the second leg of the trip (not many are lucky to have a direct line to work). So all in all out of 1 wasted hour you maybe read for like 10 minutes total in shitty conditions. Oh, and reading standing really hurts your neck (because you are reading face down), spine (because you are always in the asymmetrical stance), and hand (carpal syndrome from holding too wide phone and doing swiping gestures with the same hand).

Commuting in the car obviously makes impossible to do anything else.

Total efficiency of commute is about zero.
Sure, but Eth isn't as much of a financial domino being propped up.

If the internet failed, all crypto would fail. Does that make it the biggest domino in crypto?
>” Or maybe they have some special agreement with much lower prices than market.”

These exist and falls under the “Enterprise Discount Program”, but there are other PPAs (Private Pricing Addendum).

The idea with EDP is if you have qualifying on-demand use that not covered by a Savings Plan or Reserved Instance, you instead get the EDP discount applied to the line item.

Where I work is actively renegotiating its EDP discount. Right now we get 14% off for applicable on-demand usage.

There are also other programs. Such as the “Amazon Partner Network” “Workload Migration Program” (APN WMP) for SAAS companies, which are credits (lump sum, not per line item) that are awarded for moving customers to your SAAS products that are hosted on AWS infrastructure. These are big 6-digit chunks for us. Many other credits and programs as well.
SVB fallout. Trading in First Republic, Signature Bank, other banks halted
Are there any concerns that the reduction in prescription stimulant supply/quality will cause some individuals to substitute their prescription medication for illicit methamphetamine or cocaine?
I have no idea, but is it legal to encourage a bank run?