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Whenever Sixel comes up, I always think about this guy who wrote terminal patches that allowed for Sixel support, as well as a library (libsixel) that generates them: https://github.com/saitoha

A couple years ago, it seemed like he was on a mission to patch every terminal in existence so that Sixel support was widespread. Seriously, half of his repositories have something to do with Sixel. Back then I was still on Windows, and when he patched mintty it was kind of crazy seeing bitmap graphics in my terminal for the first time.

It seems as though he hasn't made any commits in years, though. I wonder what happened to him. I always admired his interest in pushing these graphics, however old and arcane the protocol may be.
You are severely under-estimating carbon based life forms. These were designed for over millions of years in differing circumstances. Humans are not the only carbon based life form. A bacteria might not be that smart but it'll pro-create it's way to create the human, or its equivalent depending on the environment.

In my opinion, carbon based life forms are the most optimized solution to the problem. It'll be very hard (or close to impossible) for humans to come up with an alternative. Only if we master infinite energy and infinite computation, we might stand a chance to replace that.
Fortunately some competent, responsible people know the difference between a joke and a serious crime and have thusly charged him with the latter.
The product teams don’t care.

And the ethical AI team doesn’t want to sit back and wait for people to come to them. They want a seat at the table for all important AI products.

More in my comment on the other submission about this news https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35146611
we've got 4 and 5 pretty automated... the real issue is (as you likely are alluding to) as #1/2/3 draw in new completely infeasible data to get at scale, and then wants you to re-train daily, 2x day, every 4 hours, continuously. Oh and your costs go through the roof and likely aren't worth the returns anymore chasing that .001%
Even getting signal back from Mars is a triumph. NASA are careful to define mission goals low-bar because of the blowback from the inevitable risk side of space exploration.

Wikipedia says only 19 of 38 mars landings have succeeded.

Sure, a huge amount of success in the NASA/JPL experience is both depth (they've had their train-wrecks in the past) and spend (they can and do make sure everything is checked twice, checked thrice) but also.. there's a bit of luck. If any of the Mars robots had fallen into the wrong shaped crack, had more than expected dust land on the PV, lost link at a critical juncture and burned battery trying to regain lock...

Or like the british, spent too much on "blur" theme songs, designer colourchart checksheet and general "cool" and not enough on debugging that landing sequence... (to be fairer to my home isle, a lot of what happened to the lander was bad luck: it may have landed hard, two of 4 PV maybe failed to deploy and it's radio comms could have been blocked)
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Gitlab has been cursed by a marketing team that seemingly just can't imagine having mixed licensing levels. At a side effect, organizations that would adopt them at the low (free) tier (or just above) for the whole company, a higher tier for devs, and max tier for project management, etc, just can't. Instead they have to have separate gitlabs to cover the whole organization, which has a whole set of associated annoyances.

I speak from direct experience, at a company that had the mid level, liked the features, but was forced to eventually jettison them for the free tier to cut costs while broadening internal support.

And we reported this problem to them, this basic lack of a mixed tier system, something many customers want. But Gitlab can't seem to get it through marketing's head that being nearly everywhere is better than just running for few large companies. Running everywhere means that many devs would just bring along an expectation of having gitlab as a matter of course, spreading adoption like a beneficial contagion. Instead, any useful level is being priced into irrelevance from a smaller organization's perspective, something many devs will see at prohibitively expensive, and be the fomites for that perspective instead as they move between companies.

The result is terrible. Our company switched to Git on Microsoft Azure. Good job, Gitlab sales (heavy sarcasm). Hey, Gitlab management, have you checked to make sure your sales team isn't secretly taking kickbacks from Microsoft? (yes, I'm probably kidding, right?)...
Software architecture means different things to many people.

In the case of buildings, architects are responsible for how people interact with a building, designing spaces that facilitate activities and experiences.

In the case of software, anything fucking goes. The consensus, represented by the median architect, is that a software architect is some Gandalf looking guy who doesn't have to do anything other than to look wise and nod occasionally.
Wrong.

In a high inflation economy, salaries lags behind prices increases.

This is because revenue of companies typically follow inflation indexes with a much shorter delay.

First the workers need to feel they are getting shafted and this takes time. Like, first they burn through savings, then they see news 'inflation double digits', then they see pay increase in single digits and this takes 1~2 years. Then they feel a reduction in quality of life. Then they negotiate adjustment and if companies refuses sometimes they strike, sometimes they leave for another job, sometimes they take the shaft.

On a wide scale, the reduction of purchasing power causes the demand for non essential goods to drop massively, while the demand for essential goods remains stable. The reason for this is simple: people cut the luxury if they have been shafted at their job. But they can't cut essential goods.

So it's better to be a company that sells essentials goods in a high inflation scenario eg: oil and gas, meaning people can't cut you from their budget.
The U.S. would destroy Taiwan’s chip plants if China invades – a former official
Very poor for sure. But she owns land. Compare that to people living in cells in the projects.
I believe they must have other higher priority items, esp after takeover /acquisition by MSFT.!

To be honest, I’ve never much had to use their search as much as other functions.
> But precisely because no particular entity owns the atmosphere, or (in most cases) the water...

This is an emergent property of the systems of power we allow to prevail, where sufficiently dilutive responsibility and/or authority over decisions almost always falls under our threshold to effectively regulate, and shows the power of corruptive processes.

It still boggles my mind to this day that we knew a long time ago that burning coal dumped methylmercury into our waters and is incorporated into aquatic life that we harvest for food. And yet we haplessly continue even after seafood has been so globally contaminated we went from a baseline experience our ancestors enjoyed of "eat all the seafood you care to eat in your diet", to "watch your methylmercury intake when you eat seafood". If you were able to tell your great-great-great-grandparents that we've contaminated our seafood to the point we cannot eat certain fish more than X times a year, and there is no part of the world left unaffected, they'd be horrified or think you're a fabulist.
Thanks for the feedback & suggestions.

>> Nice. How about creating a bookmarklet to make it super easy to share a web0.cc link from the current page?

Sure, i will do it

>> Also maybe if the refresh can be reliably done after a few seconds then you could make the page refresh itself automatically (it's not difficult for the user but it's one less thing to handle). You could tweak the refresh time by how busy your site is.

Thats a good feature but it involves JS and for some reasons i decided not to put JS on the client side.
The solution is often making it impossible for people to commit mistakes. Just like you can't "accidentally" launch an ICBM.

I admit some of these may be difficult to accomplish with training protocol, but often these firms that come in and advise on how to be "safer" are just pounding harder. You know what, making someone glaze over a checklist isn't going to make them be safer. It takes the right personality and attention to detail that some people just lack.
Thing is, even in those 2nd tier markets, you're still looking more towards the top. I say this as someone having spreadsheets "I shouldn't have" from folks towards the top of acquisitions into larger companies that do pay well. Companies you've at least heard of, but certainly aren't disrupting a market. No, they're not the ones at the top of your list, but a fair number you'd consider respectable.

There's a lot of companies paying 2/3rds of that cash.

Then there's the bad ones, that are still trying to pay half. Seriously. They're not places you even realize exist, and if you went in for an interview you'd instantly sense you're not where you want to be. Places where you watch managers basically bully interviewees to look for immediate subservience, because they want to ensure they'll "yessir" without hesitation. These places absolutely exist. In all of those markets. I've seen quite a number of them.

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I know, this isn't what we all try to aspire to here, but I say this as someone with far too much experience with Boston (very specifically), Denver and Austin over the past 20+ years. I've had the "good but not amazing" and many "bad" companies as clients of mine. I've talked to their staff. I've done my damnedest to ensure the good eggs know where they stand in the market, and help them move on if they wanted to.

HN very much looks at 75th percentile on up. But once you go down the ladder in the compensation offered, you'll encounter a ton of people where $170-200K salary or salary+bonus would be a 20-30% bump in their comp in those markets. Then you get to the bad places, where they're legit making half and feel thankful for it.
Silicon Valley Bank’s failure is predictable – what can it teach us?
Even worse, sometimes it would be slower than doing things myself. One time we got a delivery kit that took 1 hour to prepare, while it takes us about 30 minutes to prepare a dinner.
Planning decisions tend to be made by municipal staff not by elected Council. Regardless, if every city council/staff is causing the same issue, then I think that's a pretty reductive argument. We need to look at places that are doing planning/zoning "right", figure out what we're doing wrong, and improve it.

(And actually, all that has been done, but action isn't being taken, so now we have to solve that problem)
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I think that a lot of societal ills can be chalked up to "low interest rate phenomena." Silicon Valley has had a decade to play with free money. What do they have to show for it? Smartphone CRUD apps, subsidized gig workers, influencers and child consumers. Let's keep raising interest rates.
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I didn't pull it out of the ether, as per her email: (https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-polic...)

> As per Mozilla's root inclusion process I need to make a decision about approving or denying this root inclusion request from the Beijing CA.

Please click and read the thread before commenting.
The electron is having a (magnetic) moment.
Long term is fuzzy, but the 3D chip tech seems poised to offer exactly that: massive cache, GPU and CPU cores. NVidia isn't going to play nice because they don't like where this positions them in this future. AMD, Intel and Apple don't seem to need NVidia. This tension is bad for end-users.
This page does the full Manual J, but it is challenging to do and understand. I used it to confirm the estimates that my installer did without a full J workup, and it was helpful.

https://loadcalc.net/
Not who you're responding to, but I actually don't think getting rid of fractional reserve banking is as crazy as it may sound at first. Maybe people who need to borrow money for 10 years shouldn't be borrowing it from people who will freak out if the loan isn't paid back in a week.

On the investor side you'd put cash you really need in a non-interest bearing account, and the rest invested at a duration and risk level appropriate for your situation. For most people/organizations the details would be outsourced to a fund manager. On the borrower side, small stuff would get bundled and securitized, big stuff could trade on its own. The industry's already moving in that direction. Modern communication technology has so drastically changed the physical scale over which a marketplace can function I think it's reasonable to ask if we still need the banking smoke and mirrors sitting between borrowers and lenders.
please dont link random pdfs without some discussion as to what it is. i mean you can but my guess is it lowers willingness to interact and is not goos for communication. i can differentiate your post from spam.
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> By going direct to the homeowner you are targeting the venn diagram union of "people who are willing & able to do the work themselves"

This is meant to be installed by a professional contractor, not the homeowner.

> How are you going to build your service network?

Compensate the contractors fairly and act as lead gen.

> Who are the decision makers in your target market exactly?

Homeowners. Not targeting multiunit residential or new builds, they care less about efficiency because they don't bear the cost of ownership.

> What? How could duct work possibly be incompatible with a heat pump?

A natural gas furnace requires ~150cfm airflow per 10kbtu heat produced, while a heat pump requires 330cfm per 10kbtu. This large mismatch in required airflow means that if you replace a natural gas furnace with a like sized heat pump, you've likely exceeded the ability of the air handler blower. Luckily most natural gas furnaces are grossly oversized for homes. The way you find the right size unit is with our software.
"Cost the taxpayers nothing" - well not in "taxes", but I'm not sure we can really say nothing. Clearly the banks paying for it won't just eat that cost.
The logistics aren't that easy, Apple's entire product line runs Siri.
On the gripping hand, LLMs that were forced into being "safe" just end up regurgitating biases to that effect. One particular example that I ran into: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34987074
A good way to combat abuse is to not feed the trolls, don't engage beyond a warning or two, simply delete and definitely don't argue publicly.
No lmao
Gitlab is massive piece of software, and has inordinate HW requirements for the job we'd be using it for. Also it would not run on the VM we already have set up for other services, backed up, etc.

Gitea is fun and all, but it's not in debian repo, so would require manual updates. Annoying.
There is a standard for this: CCADB.org, which is run by Mozilla (the salesforce login is to Mozilla's, ditto for the bug tracking used to track all this).

There's also a LOT of root certificate stores in apps and languages (e.g. Java).
> and (I paraphase) SVB and the sector can sort itself out

That’s an inaccurate paraphrase.

It makes all the difference for the government to clearly indicate that they will intervene quickly and decisively to keep the system functioning rather than stand back and let depositors lose big sums, potentially triggering much wider fallout. By doing that they can minimise further costs/failures for everyone.

> If you hold cash in a bank and your balance exceeds the FDIC insurance limit, it's at some risk. This isn't new, yet seems to have come as a complete surprise to a whole bunch of people, many of whom really should have known better.

It’s just not a norm - something that people in startups or small businesses generally think about or talk about, as it’s antithetical to focusing all your efforts on building a product and pleasing customers.

I understand you’re saying it should be.

Ok, sure, maybe it should be. That’s a valid topic of discussion. It just raises a whole lot of new trade offs and costs, if suddenly every early stage startup founder now has to also be an expert in bank risk.
Because the only thing less valuable than an uninformed commentator is a flame war _about_ an uninformed commentator.
What's the correlation between parameter count and RAM usage? Will LLaMA-13B fit on my MacBook Air with 8 GB of RAM or am I stuck with 7B?
Information can’t be property.

IP “rights” are a perverse legal fiction that have inflicted untold damage.
I’d imagine they’re pissed off the same way Credit Suisse employees are after Archegos blew up. Everything was going fine, but in a corner somewhere someone was making absolutely stupid investment and loan decisions that lead to a catastrophic blow up.

The bank bought LT bonds extremely heavily at historically low interest rates, proceeded to not hedge the rate risk AT ALL, and held them while interest rates were pounding their value well below their carrying value. If they were marked to market they would have been forced out of their spectacularly stupid decision before the bank blew up, but instead they acted like a punter on margin and refused to reduce risk while losing all of their money.

Make no mistake, even if the bank hadn’t blown up they still locked in ~15B in losses by holding those bonds while rates went up to 5%.
Yeah, this is like claiming lead ethyl in gas “hasn’t caused mass harm” in 1954.

There’s absolutely zero way to know that yet.
The rules also stated that FDIC insures amounts up to 250k$. This rule changed in a big way over the week-end.
They did really? Are you sure it wasn't because of the other reason many companies switch to SaaS? (money)
Also:

* Life expectancy has been dropping, beginning from before the pandemic. When I read about it before the pandemic, the US was the only wealthy country with this problem, and was dropping into the range of 'middle income' countries like Poland.

* Height (i.e., how tall you are) has also been delcining.

It turns out that if you don't provide social programs like health care, food, etc., people are less healthy.
I think you are going about this the wrong way.

If you want to build a better experience with converting fossil fuel or electric resistance systems to heat pumps then you want to put together a network of installers and standardize on widely available equipment from existing manufacturers.

If you want to design the next generation of heat pumps, then don’t sell directly to the consumer.

Your price so far is pretty outrageous, a Mr Cool unit is an order of magnitude cheaper for the same BTU. No it won’t monitor CO2 and air quality, etc. But at the prices you are asking it’s a major investment into a startup and these systems require support more than technology.

Lastly, your sales pitch is off. There are loads of heat pumps or there, from DIY installed units to multi ton full systems. If your main value proposition is the integration of air quality and humidity then explain why a whole house humidifier and a HEPA filter won’t be enough. Just explaining what a heat pump is isn’t going to cut it.
Most other banks found ways to survive the environment in 2021. So clearly there are ways to do it without locking money up for 10 years in MBS.
To say AI will be important is like saying 'guns' will be important or 'internal combustion engines' will be important around the time they are created. In the past these creations took some time to massively change the world, but they did so in unimaginable ways. With AI we are not going to get the benefit of time, especially if the growth rate of the intelligence of AI keeps at is recent, or even faster trajectories.

If there is any chance that we could, even unintentionally, create super intelligence the only ethical answer is to not create it at all. It would be a species ending mistake at our current level of knowledge.
Assets designated as 'held to maturity' should simply be illegal for banks unless depositors also agree to never withdraw until maturity.

Banks are subject to daily reserve requirements, so everything they invest in should also be market priced (aka mark-to-market) each day.
If depositors split $1 million across multiple accounts, then they would be made whole with FDIC insurance for each account. If they have the same $1 million in one account, they’re still being made whole for the same amount. There’s literally no difference in the amount of money being paid back to them in either scenario.
I find farm raised salmon to be much much higher quality than the wild caught stuff. I think it's mainly down to the farm raised fish being killed and cleaned and put on ice all within about an hour, compared to up to a week in the gillnet, then another couple days in a slimy grody hold, then another day or two to unload at port, and another day or two to clean before it even gets packaged and shipped.
This is a rosy way to put it. The real reason is this, corporations don't give a shit about ethics. Ethics exist to appease the public, employees and the law. If ethics get in the way of profits then fuck ethics. That's the way it works.

What "AI" is at the leadership level is bullshit. It either makes money or it doesn't. The leaders are beholden to shareholders and shareholders in aggregate have the mob mentality of a psychopath with one goal: money.

Right now AI isn't really enough of a threat in terms of ethics. Nobody cares too much yet so if such a group got in the way of profits, of course that group will be executed.
OpenAI doesn’t talk about AI ethics (it mostly talks about alignment), and the biggest thing Google ever did for AI ethics is drawing attention to the field by its efforts at actively suppressing it.
Depends. Sometimes the ORM knows about the pitfalls and works around them automatically. Same as how using a compile-to-JS language can often end up being much nicer than writing javascript yourself.
a lot of people have gotten rich in the meantime and many tokens still have non zero value.
> But as someone that has lived through that timeframe, it feels like those things are a cheap, hollow, plastic piece of shit version of their former selves.

sucks to get old
Late stage capitalism: privatize the wins, socialize the losses.
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I would be suggesting that if those zoomers ran a business that could die with poor file system management, but that's hardly what we're talking about is it?

I am suggesting that business owners with substantial cash holdings should be well aware of fractional reserve banking, or at least the notion that money in the bank is not guaranteed.

Do you seriously think any of these companies weren't aware of the $250k insurance limit?

I'm genuinely curious what you mean, as your example sounds like a straw man, but I'm hoping there's something I'm missing.
If they had split the $1m over 4 accounts and only 1 failed, there would be no need for a bailout. It's redundancy, something every tech person learns about pretty early on. It's hedging risk, something every finance person learns about pretty early on. It's basic, fundamental stuff in two disciplines.

Fine it's an error, take your medicine. My problem is when the average Joe makes an error, they get the full force of the justice system coming down on them. Walk around the area, you'll see a bunch of them living in tents.
We need to solve online reviews. How can we make them credible? This alone could fix so many problems.
The claim is by a former Trump administration official.
"AI fires AI ethics team. New AI CEO demands budget increases for compute and data gathering"