skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I happen to have a couple of 16 core Xeons available with 128GB RAM and a decent high end Radeon GPU. Could I run a decent text transform model on this?
Yeah, The Cicada Principle[0] is a really neat trick. I remember it doing the rounds in web design circles back in the early 2010's

https://web.archive.org/web/20131201024352/http://www.sitepo...
I've got 2 questions:

1) Can I run this, say, on Colab? I see no code.

2) Any interactive open source tool to visually explore the latent space of a model’s representations for any given prompt, or for faces, buildings, etc.? Like they exist for fonts [1].

[1] https://pair-code.github.io/font-explorer/
Looks like too many people are on the site... "SQLSTATE[HY000] [1040] Too many connections"
Is the Golden Week because they don't have paid vacations? Why would many "consecutive free days" necessarily be better than off days here and there?
Seriously, just a tweet? Not even press release, let alone Q and A for breaking one of the core promises of the company. While I still think the deposits are safe, Coinbase should outline their worst case plan on this.
It would be unusual to set up payroll and say “pull 50% from this bank account and 50% from this other account”. I don’t know if any payroll processors support that setup. Most of the time you just connect your checking or payroll sweep bank account then set it and forget it.
And for some background, here’s an overview of the Halli saga: https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/thorleifsson_musk_twitter
I'm not very convinced. It looks like they are doing some processing, maybe special to the moon but it looks more like some form of sharpening or contrast boosting than adding detail. In all of the examples it seems that there is information in the original (dark spots) that are getting boosted.

It would be interesting to see this tried on a source image that isn't the moon. Just white with a few dark spots. Does it actually add in completely new craters, or just where there are existing smudges? Or do something like half of a moon photo and have white, does it add craters to the white side?

The OP tried to do this by changing the contrast but I failed to see any craters appearing where there wasn't already dark spots in the source photo.

It does seem strange that the OP is using an image of the moon to start and that they don't provide a still shot of the one where they modified the brightness levels to cause clipping. It doesn't really "drive the point home" as claimed.

Of course the answer to these may be that you need something moon-like enough to trigger the moon optimizations. But if that is the answer it would be interesting to see something that comes right up to the threshold where it either snaps in and out of these optimizations or two very similar images produce widely different results.
We have to do due diligence checks even if its an established company dumping 100 mill on us. Suddenly 100's of startups are coming and overwhelming our compliance team.
Companies want to go beyond batteries to store energy
It's creating an asset. Creating and buying are different thing. Creating should be allowed, buying should be forbidden.
Australia? Heck, even North and South America are separated by the Darien Gap.
> What's really the difference between issuing a loan and buying the same loan issued by someone else?

Risk. When you are issuing a loan you, yourself are in control of the risk you have created. When you buy, you can easily buy massive amounts of risk someone else have created and you can easily be overwhelmed even when you try to do industry standard, responsible, "safe" thing.
China takes extreme measures to keep teens off TikTok
> Circle held around $3.3 billion in Silicon Valley Bank, leading to a run on USDC which resulted in it trading for as little as $0.95 on some exchanges today (Mar 10, 2023).

It dipped as low as .82 on Gemini. I used the chance to buy some to settle a debt denominated in USDC on Compound, though I haven’t yet paid it back because transaction fees on the ethereum network surged too.

DAI fell below .90 even though it’s so overcollateralized that even the 100% loss of SVB funds shouldn’t make it insolvent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35105876

>USDC Liquidity pools on other exchanges are becoming completely drained, pulling down the peg

Nit: liquidity pools (at least of the kind described in the link) are decentralized and don’t live on an exchange.
Interestingly, announcement is on the VK (Russian analog of Facebook) page of Concord - a media company owned by Prigozhin. This how "siloviki" (power players) communicate with the masses.
Sure, so when the market goes down and depositors want their money back, they can't.
Doubtful, but Trump voters in the Midwest aren’t a monolith either. Gov. Reynolds in Iowa was immediately on board with Afghanistan refugee resettlement. My point is that it’s a widespread (if not universal) sentiment in Bangladesh, so why should I be surprised to see the same widespread sentiment in Ohio?
> Even regulators are regulated

Ron Paul campaigned for "auditing the Fed" perhaps more than he campaigned for president. Was he exaggerating, or does Congress not actually audit and otherwise oversee the Fed?
Rodin Diffusion: A Generative Model for Sculpting 3D Digital Avatars
So it was move in the right direction. Just didn't go far enough.

Banks should not gamble with their money no matter how safe the bet seems.

The only exception is issuing loans because that's one of core reasons for the bank to exist.
Good link- with respect, to my personal mental model the von mises stuff is a near total misunderstanding both of the mechanics and of the dynamics. Credit in particular seems to be a mystery to them, yet in anthropological terms humans- and other creatures- have credit/reputation accounting in their heads, long predating even organized math. But I have not engaged their arguments directly in depth.

I do all my reading on kindle, that one is only print but I will aim to track down a digital version of their arguments.
I think it's "systems" because it's programming components to be used to build systems, not the programming to create a particular system.

You're programming something to be used in systems.
By the same token, did you need to put that in French? Did it serve a purpose?

I don’t have a problem with you having done so, but I don’t have an issue with the article either.
I never said there should be a law. You should argue with someone who did. Also, try decaf.
Note that the limit is $250K per person per ownership category per bank, so if your sweep account is in a different category (single vs joint) than your direct account, your ownership in both is insured up to $250K.

More details here: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/deposit-insurance/brochures/i...
Investing money is never a safe thing. They should just sit on it.
I wonder how banks being closed is impacting Coinbase's willingness/ability to redeem USDC for USD.

Since Coinbase can (at least in the US, to my knowledge) also not transfer any USD out on the weekend, shouldn't it be risk-free to take on any USD liability over the weekend, at least when considering USDC itself risk-free?
Apple, Atari, and Commodore, Explore a deluxe home vintage computer den
Imagine this future:

Sensor quality in phones goes down, AI makes up for it because good sensors are expensive, but compute time in the cloud on Samsung owned servers is cheap. You take a picture on a crappy camera, and Samsung uses AI to "fix" everything. It knows what stop signs, roadways, busses, cars, stop lights, and more should look like, and so it just uses AI to replace all the textures.

Samsung sells what's on the image to advertisers and more with the hallucinated data. People can't tell the difference and don't know. They "just want a good looking picture". People further use AI to alter images for virtual likes on Tiktok and Insta.

This faked data, submitted by users as "real pics in real places" is further used to train AI models that all seem to think objects further away have greater detail, clarity, and cleanliness than they should.

You look at a picture of a park you took, years before, and could have sworn the flowers were more pink, and not as red. You are assured, by your friend who knows it all, that people's memories are fallible; hallucinating details, colors, objects, sizes, and more. The image, your friend assures you further? "Advanced tech captured its pure form perfectly".

And thus, everyone will demand more clarity, precision, details, and color where their eyes don't remember seeing.
So everything is fine at the banks?
That would need the assumption that the owner of the car had two phones: the paired one that he left in the car, plus another from which he was able to text the purportedly oblivious driver.

However, as critical and sceptical as I am towards the fad of needlessly "smart-ing" and "app-ing" everything (Tesla being a prime example of this) I will admit I find the story suspicious. The fact that:

1- ...the owner of the car was able to so quickly intuit that his car had been driven off by mistake by the owner of another car next to it...

2- ...that the owner was able to find the other driver's number in said other car (how many people have their phone numbers in clear view inside their car?) and was confident enough about the situation that he texted that number to inform the driver of the mistake...

3- ...and the driver conveniently noticed a crack in the windshield and cared enough about it to phone his wife right now for an explanation, and then saw the text messages from the owner (texting and driving much?)...

...makes me seriously suspect that this whole thing is a set-up or intentional publicly stunt of some sort, done in collusion between both Tesla owners.
Love it. “exrx” and “examine” are by far my two biggest health and fitness search prefixes
Who is DxOMark?
They would have had a whole department though. If one specific role was required to avoid this then god help us.
Reserve money and insurance are very silly until you need them.
> One notebook brand my wife found, that I love very much, is minimalism art

Do you know how their paper is with pencil? I've found that a lot of the nicer notebook brands work really well with pen, but the paper doesn't have enough tooth for pencil to write very well.
It'll be 7B they're referring to, on my M1 Max 32GB with a 4000 token output request I get 67ms/token on 7B (4bit) and 154ms/token on 13B (4bit)... I've made a tweak to the code to increase the context size but it doesn't seem to change perf.

main: mem per token = 22357508 bytes
main: load time = 2741.67 ms
main: sample time = 156.68 ms
main: predict time = 11399.12 ms / 154.04 ms per token
main: total time = 14914.39 ms
Sorry, I meant is there a law preventing limiting withdrawls. If not, I don't see why banks don't just do that, when subject to a run, so I guess there must be. In other words, the government says that deposits must be always withdrawlable immediately on request, which seems like a surefire recipe for runs.
I think that’s all fine and good, the app took me very little time to build. BUT I had to test it.

Integrations are more than code (you have to setup physical addresses in this case, transfer money, etc). I do believe an AI will get there, but all that human evaluation will still need to happen.

I personally assume these AI systems will be used as the middleware for a long time. It’ll be hard to enter other spaces because (1) it won’t be something legally the AI company wants to be liable for and (2) it often requires niche semi-documented items.

Much easier for AI companies to let people take the risks. They can then blame that party.
US consumers lose about $30 billion a year to retail banks.

http://www.breckyunits.com/the-great-bank-robbery.html
ironically you could have just posted the link without your opinion, just like the article!
The worst part of it, is that once interest rates started raising and they started seeing the obvious (but not critical!) impact on their long-maturity bonds, they simply could have switched to shorter-maturity bonds and be totally fine.

But they preferred to gamble.
Samsung is learning the best from Huawei https://www.androidauthority.com/huawei-p30-pro-moon-mode-co...
Curious on the back end treasury move:

If circle had decided to stop using svb usd reserves and put it all back into a stablecoin even if it depegged > 1.00 wouldn't that have been the winning move?

They obviously have more than 1 banking institution, so its not like they had no options

What stopped them from exiting SVB via their own currency ?
Shocking to me how much of the public don’t understand that modern news is literally just entertainment for bored masses.

I got chastised for saying this in company not long ago and responded with “don’t blame me, you’re the one obsessed with endless tragedy porn” which didn’t go down well.

Objective, informative, relevant news is long since dead if it ever existed at all.
> SQLSTATE[HY000] [1040] Too many connections

Funnily enough, the error message [0] looks far more modern than the rest of the site. I guess they updated the backend (a PHP framework called Doctrine, I think) without updating the design ;)

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/pwJzVUj.png
The whole C64 scene are shaking their head in disbelief. The CPU couldn't care less about "easy readability" (whatever that even means) of your code. Ever heard of self-writing / self-modifying code? Probably an extreme example, and it can be used both ways - for performance reasons (unroll those loops!) or for abstraction (macros are your friend!).
Does anyone know how many languages this supports? I know that FB has been translated to a ton of languages. Will those translations benefit the models in LLaMA? Or am I misunderstanding the point of this?
Startup founders are usually not all that well versed in these best practices because it’s the first time they’ve been put in this situation and it’s a distraction from their primary focus to grow the business.
The difference is, who created the risk. When you buy asset from someone else you are buying the risk someone else has created. So you have more risk. Banks are very unique institutions that are allowed to do things no other business is allowed to do. They also should be equally severely restricted so they can't acquire any additional risk they themselves didn't create.

Banks are risk sources in the economy, the risk of "what if borrower doesn't pay in full or at all", the law should do everything to prevent banks from being risk sinks in the economy. Because in current setup banks just buy more an more risk and they eventually collapse one way or the other when risk is en masse converted to cost to the people and the economy.
> In your worldview, where does the money a bank needs to operate from?

The answer in the US is simple: the Fed.

A bank can make an infinite amount of loans. They are not constrained by anything.

The only "limitation" they have is the future default rate of the people who accept loans from them.

The way a loan works is: they make a loan to someone and then "just in time", they borrow the money from the Fed to cover that loan.

Now, many banks take customer deposits. I think there are 2 reasons they do that:

1. Deposits may be less expensive than borrowing from the Fed.

2. Account holders are warm leads for future loans.

But in principle, a bank doesn't have to take any deposits.
This feels like you're trying to compare USDC with a Ponzi, when it's clearly not a Ponzi at all.
So, another “stablecoin” showing up to be not stable?

How many of them need to fail before it is clear this is not a viable mechanism?
Hypothetical Embeddings Explained
Siri is sometimes busy doing laundry or Gods know what. I think the quality of Siri is much better than Google Assistant but I wonder about the lag.
The problem is that taking care of yourself to that extent is a massive undertaking that often completely exhausts your functional capacity irregardless of the benefit.
Recent video here about what the latest update brings (Steam Full Picture Mode in action)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcck7ZTo4-8
If you actually believe this describes the process then follow me on this thought experiment.

TWB (unrelated to SVB) realizes that it’s in trouble - customers are taking a lot of their deposits out, and confidence in the institution is low.

So, instead of trying to liquidate some of their assets or raise capital (which is what would be conventional) they decide to lend their bank president a trillion dollars of interest free loan with a recall feature, on the contingency that he deposit it in a non-interest bearing account with a 300 year notice requirement.

In your understanding of the mechanics of banking; this is fine. The bank magics $1tn of deposits out of thin air, records an equivalent asset, and can then just pay all of their customers from these new deposits they have.

Or not? And if not, why not?
I guess there is some AI algorithm that does zoom as postprocessing. That AI knows the moon so it can fill in the blanks and compensate for a (relatively) crappy sensor.

So in the future, there are either cameras that can see what others have seen before, and those that can truly capture new, true, detail (true as in, without filling it with estimations)
Not related to SVB, but this response of him grabbed my attention:

> We have MANY employees that live paycheck to paycheck. This devastating.

This is really not something to be proud of...
Similarly, the best source for nutrition information used to be whfoods.org. Unfortunately it's been down for a while now, and while there are some imperfect archives, you can't easily search through the site anymore.
Its a risk many did not consider. Garry Tan says 30% of YC companies.
Basically this.. As "neat" as AI "improvement" is, I don't think it has any actual value, I can't come up with any use-case where I can accept it. "Make pictures look good by just hallucinating stuff" is one of the harder ones to explain, but you did it well..

Another thing, pictures for proof and documentation, maybe not when they're taken but after the fact, for historical reasons, or forensics.. We can't have every picture automatically compromised as soon as it's taken. (Yes, I know that photoshop is a thing, but that's a very deliberate action, which I believe it should be)
It’s an SEO play. Wordier articles are ranked higher. The best example is cooking recipes which are among the most finely tuned seo. They all start with a paragraph about their old family recipe.
Yep. Operation Giant Sky Bucket was right there but the idiots in Sacramento were too woke to even consider it.
I can see one potential improvement in your resume: BRAND YOU PROJECTS.

It would look so much better if you had something like "Built StoryFactory.io" with cool logo rather than a link to ec2 instance.

And that would be my advice in general - build something that looks professional and not like a project from a coding tutorial. It can be as simple as a to-do app at its core, with a few features, but make a killer landing page for it (you can obviously use a template), figure out a good name, buy a domain, etc.
Can it be just deconvolution? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconvolution

The Gaussian blur they applied is theoretically reversible in a continuous function and infinite precision. In a discrete function (like a image in the computer) and only a few dozens of bits it's not 100% reversible, but it can be partially undone and get a sharper image (that is not as sharp as the initial image).
Sure try this article from Forbes and the World Economic Forum

https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s...
Come now, you can simplify this post further:

The first paragraph of this article is unnecessary.
> author is a very talented guy

Almost an understatement, he's done amazing projects throughout the years:

https://github.com/ptitSeb?tab=repositories
Because it could be socially enforced.

Ie. "You cant take Fridays off because thats when our clients are available" becomes "everyone takes Easter week off"

See: Australia. We have another holiday at the same time. Most people, who can, take the Good Friday week off.
A few days of annual leave plus a couple of statutory days means up to 10 days off for the price of 3.

The expectation is that a lot of people are away then. It sucks if you need to get things done, but it works.
"developers who contribute code" is anyone who push's things right?
So basically every github user
I am looking to Spain. Know Ireland, not my place to live. Yes, we should specify the city or country involved. Beyond the traffic I have a good experience traveling by train in Ireland and UK.
I like the story, but I think people will notice pretty quickly as almost everyone reviews their photos right after taking them (so they can compare them with what they see in reality)
“in general” is not good enough when you are pouring in $80bn mate.

would you mortgage (no pun intended) your family’s entire financial health on something that works “in general”?
It's not only low level. I think it can compete with Go in many areas.
TIL Adroid Emulator is Qemu

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/qemu/+/2d...

It saddens me that so many of these open source projects barely get any monetary love.
I’m pretty sure it was a Corolla or Camry that was the subject of the call. Maybe a Civic tho…
Note that this is not because of mismanagement at Circle. This is because these banks bought 10yr bonds and MBSes and now that there is a bank run they have to take huge losses if they have to liquidate. Circle in fact managed this really well IMHO with 75% backing in 36 day t-bills that can be liquidated fast.
The article and linked GitHub project both say this runs on the CPU. The GitHub project notes the quantization doesn’t work right with other systems for some reason but if you have enough RAM to quantize it you have enough RAM to run it without quantizing it anyways.
It’s camera testing software.
1. They weren’t illegal in the 1970’s.

2. All bodybuilders used them so it was a level playing field.

People should strive to be informed before commenting. There’s so much noise in the world, I feel like so much time is wasted on these little conversations.
TDD tends to result in an encrustation of overly-specific unit tests that can make it harder to rethink a design as you go. It's a valuable technique, but can be counterproductive if over-applied unthinkingly. I've worked in more than one dev team that has imposed TTD-all-the-things policies they've had to retract.

Clean architecture as a goal is, of course, uncomplicated. It being a good thing is assumed in the term "clean". However, it is often only one of a set of competing goals and in practice sometimes genuinely has to be sacrificed in favour of hitting a deadline. Spending a year designing a beautiful cross-asset trading application for a new hedge fund is not much point if, in the meantime, the hedge fund goes bust because it can't trade.

These are both trade-offs. TDD reduces flexibility (there are purists who will say you're doing it wrong if that's the case, but in that case pretty much everyone does do it wrong and that in itself needs to be accounted for / traded off). Clean architecture can require more time/resources than a "dirtier" approach to achieve a specific short term goal, and that short term goal can genuinely be more important.

I'm not arguing against either, of course. They are both important and you should learn them. But an experienced developer learns that everything is a trade off.
I can imagine there will be a lot more “ghost” pictures like this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghosts/comments/11jvwy4/after_years...

as AI tries to infer images of people where they aren’t really present.
They are a organization that perform benchmarks. Here's a link: https://www.dxomark.com/smartphones/