skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I successfully used the latest version of node LTS (via NVM) and the latest versions of python-pip3 and build essentials from the Canonical apt repo, if that helps.
mark-to-market accounting. but that usually overestimates in up cycles and underestimates in down cycles.

so the solution was/is Basel III, capital requirements, leverage ratios, and actual stress tests.
This article is from Sunday. It's wildly out of date.

> is there a reason why the US government / fed can’t just buy them off the banks at the “denominated price” or issue a bridge loan that would be repaid when they mature?

Yes, that's basically what happened. Just a few hours after this article came out, the Federal Reserve said "it will offer bank loans for up to a year in exchange for US Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities that lost value. The Fed will honor the debt’s original value for the banks that take the loans."
> But it's possible to have additional "inner mental life" beyond the minimum that's necessary to give rise to an outward behavior.

NNs have inner layers, and some of the properties in those inner layers translate to real concepts. I understand that people assume computer=not-sentient, and I wouldn't classify chatGPT as achieving sentience yet obviously, but that doesn't mean the way it learns is fundamentally different from how sentient beings learn, or that if we scaled it up a lot, and gave it a more diverse set of data, it couldn't achieve something indistinguishable from consciousness.
How are you defining temperature? I assume it's not average kinetic energy of the particles. Is it that definition I learned once upon a time where T = d entropy /d energy? Is this a useful definition of temperature if it leads to this scenario?
It's still just a 20°F difference from the vent that the AC sucks air from to the supply the AC blows out of.

That has (essentially) nothing to with the relationship between the indoor and outdoor temp.

For simplicity, imagine a balmy 110°F outside temp, an 80°F inside temp. That's 30°F from inside to outside [and will feel refreshing], but probably results from a supply temp [the coldest air coming right out of the vent] at 68°F, a return temp [the air being drawn into the AC duct] of 88°F.

The key 20°F delta-T is the measure between the 88°F and the 68°F (both temperatures inside the conditioned [in other words, "indoor"] space). All of the other temperatures can be all over the place. Even if the outside temp was 120°F, provided the unit was sized large enough or the insulation good enough, the indoor air might average 80°F and keep the same 88°F/68°F [20°F delta-T].

As a more extreme example, your freezer probably works on a delta-T of ~10°F. That's the difference between the air going into the evap coil area and the outlet. If your indoor kitchen temperature is 80°F, your freezer still keeps things frozen even though its delta-T is only 10°F. You don't take the 10°F from the 80°F. You take the 10° from the 30-ish°F and get a warm temp of 30°F and a cold temp of 20°F in the freezer.
Then why weren't black people pulling guns on him for "painting people in a bad light"? It's because in the South, the dominant white population has always hated any narrative that didn't show the chattel slave system or the Jim Crow system in a good, if not benign light. This links up with the history of the South and it constantly feeling that it's moral and social structure were always being under attack for being wrong.
Chatbot Memory with Langchain
Wow. First time I've seen a layoff post that starts with boasting success. Summary: "6% of the companies we invest in are worth a billion dollars. We're laying of 20% of our staff. We appreciate their efforts. No comment on how we're taking care of those laid off or remaining staff"
Yes, and never once did any of these owner-operator fisherpeople say: "Hey, we might be overfishing. Let's fish less." In my whole life, it is 100% opposition to any quotas. They are fishing themselves into poverty. It is bizarre. The future is aquaculture for 90+% of what we eat from the oceans/rivers/lakes.
All the "alternatives" focus on decentralization or some other technobabble and address zero of the concerns that non-tech people have with mainstream social networks.
“Illegal streaming” assumes that upholding the rights of foreign copyright holding megacorps is anywhere in the top 10,000 priorities for the Iraqi government. US law is not world law. This is like China saying that US websites are engaging in “illegal criticism of China”.
My argument is that we should not assume that extra mass from muscle does not impose similar health problems from fat. If we are going to say that, it should be demonstrated. A fit person doesn't need to weight 30+lbs more than standard overweight section of the BMI. If they do, they will be a very non-standard human.

Here are some things I found in a brief glance at google scholar. There appears to be a condition called Athlete's heart, but I dunno:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26187713/

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jom-2020-0046...
It’s not really QE, the banks loaned the government money when they bought the bonds, the government would still repay them exactly the same amount as before.

The only thing that changed is the market value of these securities since people have other safe places to put their money in for even better returns due to the interest rate hike.

So this would be the government either repaying the loan early or issuing a new loan as a bridge which when repaid would bring the balance back to zero there is no need to create new money here.
Inflation is not caused by wage increases. Very much the opposite: wage increases are caused by inflation, but it tends to lag 1 or 2 years behind because that's usually how long it takes to the average worker to realize his purchasing power has been depreciated and decides to negotiate inflation reparation.
The largest driver of inflation is The Fed. The shameless and relentless expansion of the money supply...devalues what's in circulation...bingo...inflation.

And now The Fed final jams on the brakes and a few bodies are gonna go through the front window. Why is anyone surprised?

Funny, I was under the impression we elected The Fed to mitigate such things.
While learning ansible is great, it’s easy enough just to put your configuration in cloud-init.

I don’t think there is a VPS provider that doesn’t use it.
which heat pump did you install? mind sharing?
Actually all three of Rust's user defined types (the sum type enum, the product type struct, and union†) are fully fledged types which can implement traits and have functions of their own (including functions taking a self parameter, thus methods)

C++ unions can actually have methods, although this isn't used very much. However C++ enums can't have methods, even C++ 11 scoped enums ("enum classes") can't have methods, I have no idea why that restriction seemed like a good idea.

† Unions are special because they're crazy dangerous, which is why they're not usually covered in material for learning Rust - you can't fetch from them safely. You can store things in unions safely because the process of storing a value in a union tells the compiler which is the valid representation - the one you're storing to, but fetching is unsafe because you might fetch an inactive representation and that's UB. However Rust does have a particularly obvious union right in the standard library - MaybeUninit - and sure enough MaybeUninit implements Copy and has a bunch of methods.
Liquid and illiquid aren't just binary choices. There's a very wide range of risk profiles between the two.

I want to be able to pull out my money anytime and earn something close to the fed's interest rate (minus whatever haircut the bank takes). This is a reasonable expectation for any banking system.

The bank takes the money and instead dumps it into 10-year bonds, MBS products and loans to startups (among lots of other creative investments). They pay me the same low interest and keep all the extra returns to themselves. But those returns came with added risk, and that risk is being down to me whether they want to admit it or not.
Pretend we have the following sum type:

enum SumType {
Foo(foo),
Bar(bar),
Baz(baz),
}

void DoSomething(SumType sum_type) {
match sum_type {
Foo(foo): foo.do_x();
Bar(bar): bar.do_y();
Baz(baz): baz.do_z();
}
}

This could be lowered to:

struct LoweredSumType {
optional<Foo> foo;
optional<Bar> bar;
optional<Baz> baz;
}

void DoSomething(LoweredSumType sum_type) {
if (sum_type.foo.has_value()) {
sum_type.foo->do_x();
} else if (sum_type.bar.has_value()) {
sum_type.bar->do_y();
} else {
sum_type.baz->do_z();
}
}

This isn't real code; it's a pretend language that's kind of a mix of Rust and C++. But it illustrates that the sum type can be lowered into a non-union representation.
Oh the flag flies high in the US too. As long as they do dumb stuff like no password sharing or country based content, piracy shall be on.
In an "art market" context it makes sense. I can print a copy of Warhol's Campbell Soup labels, but that doesn't devalue the original, nor is my copy as valuable as the original.

It's not about copying the pixels, it's about showing provenance.
Posted and issue to fix it: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardSDNSFilter/issues/1260
It's tone deaf and borderline anti-social. To see more about what can go wrong with "open company" practices, look at the Gittip/GratiPay saga. https://geekfeminism.fandom.com/wiki/Gittip_crisis
I'm a high-tech electronics person but I still love steam engines (and that's partly historical as my father was a mechanical engineer who worked on building power station boilers and I'm old enough to have traveled on steam trains as a kid when they weren't a novelty).

That said, I'm concerned that the reawakening of interest in steam engines/trains especially in the UK may be the result of a hankering for the old days when Britain had an empire and its mechanical engineering output was the envy of the world. Of course, I hope I'm wrong and that interest actually runs deeper than just that.

What ought to be important about this reawakening is that we have the opportunity to awaken an interest in kids about mechanics, engineering and science and do so from a very young age, and in my opinion, there's nothing much better than having them stand on a platform watching a hissing, noisy steam engine.

Steam engines are visually exciting and interesting but they are also the combined embodiment of mechanics and thermodynamics and understanding both of them is the keyway to understanding science.

Despite my electronics background I consider that a thorough understanding of thermodynamics is crucial to understanding the high-tech world irrespective of one's field. And I reckon there's likely no better way of starting kids' education in thermodynamics other than to have them engulfed in steam from a Puffing Billy.
If people followed this reasoning, then they would keep everything in cash or money market mutual funds. The mark to market will always be 1=1 and have no liquidity problems. Of course, all banks would fail.

These “unrealized losses” don’t include “unrealized hedges” either. Of course, SPV let those go. Oops.
And if you're going to do it, make it easy. Many sites have missed out on my thoughtful (not to say I'm 'right', but that even if they don't want to do it it's considered and reasoned) feedback simply because the process although offered requires a login (i.e. sign-up) or because the last time I tried I got some dumb email back thanking me for my question it's not really possible but I can work around it by (x y z that I already said would be easier if w) and do get in touch if I have any more (sic) questions.

If you're going to solicit feedback, just dump it in an ideas bucket, no need to reply, certainly don't funnel it through the support channel for bugs/questions.
1. I think I explained why. You can Google real programs people used to do their day to day computing tasks and games and run them unmodified. You can’t do that with this dialect of C. It’s cool to run real programs.

2. Good point, but it’s several orders of magnitude more work to go from this to C, so it depends if you’re doing a one off project or have much bigger ambitions. I think you get more bang for the buck out of Tiny BASIC if it’s a one-off project is my point.
The FDIC cited liquidity _and_ solvency when they closed SVB.
Except for when they are a purchased tool for a philosophy called “manufactured consent.” Remember all those articles about why we “should” go invade iraq? Or that report about a completely fabricated gulf of tonkin incident?

The media has a duty to report facts, only after they know them to be facts.

Well.. they used to have that duty. Now it’s just clickbait.
> no basis in fact

Close, yellow journalism is about eye catching headlines with ”little or no legitimate, well-researched news.” It wasn’t that they need to make stuff up, they just ran with whatever would capture people’s attention even if the source was dubious or the interpretation superficial. Aka “Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
Increasing unemployment at a time of

record credit card debt - https://www.lendingtree.com/content/uploads/2023/02/ccs-char...

record auto loan debt - https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_auto_loan_debt

record mortgage debt - https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_mortgage_debt

will not end well
Note that Alpaca is NOT using RLHF. It explicitly states it used supervised finetuning.
After reading the comments on this thread I decided to give wezterm a try today. It's safe to say that I probably won't be going back to kitty or alacritty any time soon! Such a pleasant experience to configure with lots of very sane defaults. The only things I added were the open-http-links-in-browser binding I found in the comments here, and a quick select matcher for sha256-* strings for when I'm updating manually packaged things in my Nix config.
I am surprised that they were able to launch this in stanford's domain. They clearly broke TOS of both Facebook and OpenAI, and even admitted doing that. I would be happy if the research decides to ignore openAI and facebook's useless restrictions.
Spy robot investigates the enemy and then melts into an oily puddle
If you want to get some decent information, then riling experts on HN is a good start! Thank you for putting me in my place. You clearly know what you are on about.
You don't need specialized knowledge. You just need to have the motivation to seek out sources that aggregate and distill knowledge.

When people buy TVs, cars, fridges or shop for a laser eye surgery procedure, they seek out credible third party assessors, in the form of Wikipedia articles, Consumer Report magazines, end user ratings, etc to inform their decisions.

The collective intelligence of the consumer market will also increase as more people participate as price and quality conscious consumers.
Jeez just clone a venv with venv cloning tools
Do you have any large open source code bases that you could share?
> Why would you want to use Python with a C extension?

Because if you need performance, you need to use native code.
> Except you don’t have to take a loss if you don’t have to sell. If you can hold it to maturity, you get all your money back.

Sure, you get your principal back as well as the promised interest, but you lost out on the opportunity cost of being able to do something else with the money (ie. investing in current bonds that pay 2x-3x more). It's a loss by another name.
What? This is AUDIOPHILE code!!! are you suggesting that the developers should be allowed to *gasp* breath on the computer which is compiling the code?!?
Of course we can't allow that, it would introduce impurity and artifacts in the sound. They should use BSL4 vests with a closed circuit respirator!
Special 301 Report
Well, the difference is also that many children want to act -- I don't think any children want to work in a meat processing plant. Are we do deny them artistic expression because we think it is morally strange? We allow many exceptions to things for strange reasons because we are humans and are kind of strange. We allow kids to homeschool and we allow them hobbies -- if their hobby is acting should they not be allowed to be paid for it as long as they homeschool?

There is no 'moral' answer. We, as a society decided that children acting is fine and that it is not outrageous and we like watching entertainment with children instead of exclusively adults. People are concerned for good reason because hollywood is predatory and when lots of money is involved then people act out of bad interests instead of the child's interests, but that is tertiary to the fact that acting is allowed for children to do and we allow them to get paid for it.
Building a second income stream by writing a book
No money was printed, this will all come out of the FDIC's coffers, which is filled by banks paying essentially insurance premiums. It'll be covered by selling SVB's assets, with any gap covered by an additional assessment on banks.
counter.dev does not use any id at all for tracking.
Why Your Redis Instance Might Fail
I don’t know about the specifics of these securities, having a call provision on a bond isn’t particularly unusual tho.

It’s still better than to force banks into a liquidity crisis and have to bail them out…

The Fed must have calculated the exposure of financial institutions to US government bonds when it planned its interest hikes and it should’ve made contingencies otherwise there is a pretty big regulatory failure here.

Yes institutions should hedge interest risk like any other risk however there is still a limit to hedging.

This isn’t banks betting the house on black jack and hookers these bonds were supposed to be the safest place to park your money under any other circumstances.

As for what price would the fed or who ever buy them back? Well if they can exercise a call provision it would just paying the value of the bonds + the coupon before maturity.

Many bonds come with this provision so companies can repay their debt earlier if market conditions change and allow them to borrow money under better terms.

From my understanding it was too late to do this with SVB as they had already realized substantial losses however not stepping in now and having more banks default would be quite silly.
> You can't communicate without twitter?

I think that GP was talking about mass communication, specifically the receiving part.

Communication can be broken down into 3 parts: Sending the message, & receiving the message.

Sending the message is straightforward & more or less a solved problem.

Receiving the message is different depending on whether it's only for one/(a few) people or the general public: The former's also a solved problem, & can be made censorship resistant and tamperproof. The current unsolved problem is broadcasting a message out to the general public whilst being censorship resistant.
Why would any game developer ever implement that?

- If they want money, NFTs are directly competing with microtransactions/loot boxes. Any NFT imported is money the developer isn't making off their own content.

- If they want a good game, allowing users to import random items from other games is going to be impossible to balance.

- If they want a free for all, they can already implement mods and steam workshop without the crypto aspects.

As an aside, if the goal is simply trading items between players, that's better done with a traditional market. Allowing real money to enter the game tends to incentivise all the worst player behaviors and ruin the experience, as Blizzard discovered with the Diablo auction house.
I'll check it out! While it's unlikely that we're going to rewrite this firmware anytime soon, being able to leverage Rust for future projects would be nice. The big thing for us is, we use basically every peripheral and driver that ESP-IDF has, along with some extra third-party ones for some other peripheral chips we run via our daughterboard setup -- and currently today, a lot of that isn't supported yet.

Definitely keeping an eye on it though. The future of Rust on the ESP32 chips is promising!
> I believe this will hopefully make news companies get back to a profitable business

It won't. Very few people who current aren't paying for news are just going to start. The incenssent news readers pay for news already. The others will move on to other less reliable content.
record profits mean corporations were able to raise prices successfully, because people had the money to spend

of course the problem is that there is a logical gap between that and what people will actually have in their wallets in the future

but, considering that profits are distributed as dividends, invested and/or simply spent in other ways it means there's going to be more aggregate demand, which will push up prices even more.

hence the usual decision to raise rates. which then pushes up unemployment, because it's what empirically almost always happens.
> the concerns that non-tech people have with mainstream social networks.

What do these people care about, then? As far as I can tell, the majority of them were perfectly contented with Twitter as-is until Elon bought it, so I'd wager that decentralization is actually high on the list of most people's desires, whether they know it or not.
It's really nice though.
N+1 is a common problem with many ORMs, and a classic example of the object-relation impedance mismatch.

Even the notion of eager vs implied-lazy loading suggests N+1, just spread out over time. Granted that might be optimal for a whole lot of use cases! But it’s definitely not optimal for a use case where you need a join upfront and your ORM does it in memory.

Also granted many ORMs can handle this in a lot of general cases if you know how to use them, and know their limitations. But they’re inherently highly dynamic, and inevitably deoptimize for some cases where just querying the database directly will be much more effective. That’s not even an admonishment to “learn SQL” as is the common retort, it’s just the generic “abstractions are leaky and sometimes it’s better to bail out a layer or more”.
> it's amazing to what lengths people will go to avoid learning some very light scripting

It's amazing that a person would want to do more work for a computer, rather than the other way around.

> Historically the 4GL/nocode/lowcode movement has been a miserable failure

Because they were created by people with no imagination, to fit into a paradigm that is inherently flawed but makes lots of money.

MS Publisher was created 32 years ago. It still works great. Anyone can sit down and create and share mixed media by pointing and clicking. But all the techies in the world can't fathom how to make the same exact thing work over a hyper text protocol. Because they have no imagination, and prefer to play with their legos rather than make useful tools that regular humans can use.

The only reason web pages are so complicated is the simpler and easier to use solution isn't sexy. Techies want their tech to be complicated, because they like all the bells and whistles and knobs and syntax and grammar and frameworks. It gratifies their need to keep reconfiguring their legos to make new toys. They like the ego boost of believing that all this is necessary and they are some kind of geniuses doing great work. When really it's all just a poorly designed layer cake of crap that keeps them in money to buy more toys.

It's like how cities are full of streets designed for 2-ton balls of steel and wire and a continuously exploding mechanical machine. The city's design - and the vehicles - are needlessly complex, expensive, and resource-wasting. But we don't fix it, because fixing it is more work than maintaining the status quo, and there's money in the status quo.