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Well, no, I mean if you want to get specific, IP and copyright (copyright specifically) created a structure for government to register and track written output. Our current conception of "the artist" is relatively new, and patronage models/gift economies strike me as...well, still pretty relevant despite IP. People seem to be focusing on the Artist and not the artist's intermediaries (publishers, for instance) and that IP was also meant to protect and promote industry, for which it has been successful (maybe too much).

I mean a good thought experiment here would be to replace "artists" with "entrepreneurs" or "founders" ("historically, [...] were independently wealthy" would expose some of the myths we attach to the idea of "self-made" which we rarely attach to artists and authors) here and rethink the history of Western commerce from that perspective.
There are whole areas of human existence which are protected by laws, and in no way data can be pushed into external (US-based) machine.

Sir, would you be OK with sending all your medical records to US to be potentially mined for profit by for-profit amoral organization like Microsoft? It may help, although 3rd parties like NSA will eventually access them. No thank you. What about your litigation papers at court? Fuck hell no. Just do your job that I pay you to do, doctor/lawyer.
In my experience a "tech worker" is any employee working for a company that produces a "tech" product. I know accountants and lawyers that say they "work in tech" despite not doing anything technical.

I'm not saying I agree with the above necessarily but that seems to be the consensus. The gatekeeping, disgruntled programmer in me suspects it's a way for non-technical staff to inflate their salaries by sneaking into the tech bubble.
A bank should keep the money secure. Anything >0% loss is unacceptable. They were greedy and had a duration mismatch. Interest rates rise and the value of the longterm bonds go down. The regulators should have stepped in and stopped that. Why didn't they?

No one should be made whole. Looks like the stock holders will have a 0 and bond holders will take a significant cut. Depositors will be safe.

The executives should all be in prison for this. Only have to do this once. The other banks would wisen up and get their act together.
I think it can vary greatly in Europe, though. I know my friend (in the 2010s) had a bit of a culture shock trying to deal with how old-fashioned banking was in Italy, having previously only lived in the UK.

And it goes both ways, there are things here that Americans would think are a bit backwards. Like if I'm ordering something online here in Czech Republic it's really common to allow payment via direct bank transfer - i.e. they'll give you a bank account number and a variabilní číslo ("variable number" - a way they can identify the payment on their end), you make the transfer using these values and they'll send out the order when they confirm they received the payment. Nowadays a QR code will often be generated for this and you'll just scan it in your banking app, but it could seem a little backwards if you're used to paying via debit/credit card.
Smalltalk is dynamically but strongly typed
Brutal. I like it! Example: Working on dark e-commerce patterns. "Hey, this is impactful work. People are buying stuff they don't need!"
That's wild that they full stock shut down. They were acquired for over a billion just a few years ago.
> there will be more. Once the fire is lit, it's hard to stop it)

For now bonds yields have come down significantly so most banks in a similar situation should be in a much safer position until/unless yields start going back up again.
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How are you and your goals involved in that machine being able to survive and multiply? You are made of carbon which that machine might put to better use.
that money will be stolen from all the other banks customers. this is not a case of "hypocrisy" its theft.
“Being brought in” could be the crucial difference, yeah? When a company starts with beans on staff from the start, maybe there’s more of a sense of security
For ChatGPT, “knowledge” can come at the expense of “intelligence”
In general most people fit the widest definition of Libertarianism which is:

"People should be free to do whatever they want except for these specific conditions which I consider important and do not negatively impact me very much but may negatively impact others a lot"
By historical standards, most of what is sold today in developed countries is "surplus". The share of GDP that goes to art and entertainment is not constant as your historical comparison suggests. It is growing and will continue to grow. It will eventually outgrow most other industries.

Wherever you stand on copyrights, it would be a mistake to underestimate the central importance of this issue going forward.
I don't think it's our job as a society to be banking the bets of everyone who believes to be talented (and lucky!) enough for their works to be worth anything.

For every case like your brother's, how many people out there are throwing their lives away chasing the illusion that they will ever "make it"?
> FDIC will probably have to be reformed

Why? Isn't the guaranteed deposits above 250k mainly 'insured' through Fed offering unlimited loans back by the nominal price of bonds owned by affected banks?
"I'm not really sure why there is so much anger"

Maybe because you are one of the beneficiaries?
> It certainly manages to explain much better than the error messages of most compilers/static analysis tools.

It can't really compare to error messages if you don't give it code with errors.
Right. So the next important question(s) is:

Why didn't The Fed anticipate the downside of their actions?

Follow up by: Isn't The Fed supposed to prevent bank failures, not cause them?

Mind you, there are other (loop) holes that enable such things. Nonetheless, are these random-y bank failure or failures of The Fed and its associated regulatory friends?
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Twitter didn't shut them down because they wanted the team, they just wanted to destroy the product.

Undermining products which threaten them is the policy of the major corporations. It was a space they were not ready to enter so they destroyed the product.

It is the same reason why they destroyed Flash rather than fix it faults. More than 10 years later HTML5 does not match Flash in productivity.

Flash meant end users couldn't be locked into their app stores, and even to this date Apple is crippling Safari to undermine web based apps.
There are still plenty of banks that serve blockchain and crypto companies: https://cointelegraph.com/news/svb-and-silvergate-are-out-bu...

Most of the scams in crypto probably don't need direct banking services because they aren't running long-term businesses, just quick marketing schemes to pump their token value before cashing out. Unless exchanges world wide are shutdown, this are unlikely to stop.

There are plenty of non-scam blockchain companies that aren't hurting anyone, just building interesting tech. I don't see any reason other than personal bias to want those startups to be debanked since they aren't any worse than the typical startup.
What's the direct relationship between these two. Are you saying if all of those deposits were kept in JPM the same would have happened? Why?
The respective population numbers are irrelevant, because those “four time more” government employees must already be in terms relative to population size – so that's already taken into account.

(Just think about it: Surely Germany has more than a million government employees? If Croatia had over four times that in absolute terms, more than its entire population would work for the government.)
Agree with 1 and 3.

Not with 2 though. The BTFP (not to be confused with BTFD :) ) program is removing completely the duration risk (for a year). This lets the FED raise the rates as high as they want without putting banks balance sheets at risk (barred some other unforeseen consequences).
Probably not since even among themselves they can’t agree what it really is.

One thing universally agreed is that everyone should stay away of them at parties.

Between libertarians and Lisp people.. I don’t know man.. :)
> It certainly manages to explain much better than the error messages of most compilers/static analysis tools.

It can't really compare to error messages if you don't give it code with errors.

https://whatdoesthiscodedo.com/g/6e0f858
Ok, then I misunderstood the big speakers magnetic field issue, sorry. I thought it was the big speaker interfering with the switch, and not the other way round.
SVB was the only bank (or maybe one of the only banks) that allowed anyone to set up a bank account with them without visiting the country - they were a part of Stripe Atlas.

That sounds great in a libertarian, everything goes world. But the reality is that there are plenty of bad actors and they will abuse it to launder money and commit fraud. Every other bank was conservative enough to avoid this by enforcing some basic in-person kyc/aml processes.

But not SVB. If you were banking with them, you should have asked yourself at least once: why is my bank doing something no other bank does? And is my money as safe there as it would be with a more conservative bank?
And you will get proper customer support with Hetzner
The other banks are most certainly going to pass the FDIC increased premiums along to all of us, though.
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Redis and Postgres just work in my experience and perform fairly well under load.

By contrast - have had painful experiences with Zookeeper and HBase.

Cassandra, ElasticSearch, and Kafka are somewhere in the middle.

Curious about RedPanda, DragonflyDB, ScyllaDB, Materialize, and other newer systems.
Sure, Marxism.
Not everyone will use AI. Some needs and will produce the data needed:)
What is "tech bro"?

Is that like... denigrating a person based on their gender... ?
Funny. First "its collapse was first and foremost a result of its own poor risk management and communications" and then a looong rant how it actually was fault of Biden, Democrats and loose monetary policy.

So far I have not seen any evidence that the real reason was anything but "poor risk management and communications" A couple of percentage points change in interest rates is not a thing that should bring your bank down. If it does, you have failed, no excuses.
So any sufficiently motivated/funded malicious actor who can register a whole bundle of domains can use up 50% of the entire free space on my disk? Am I getting this right?

Is the only defense against this the requirement for per-origin permission to be granted?
Preparing to finally leave my computer and go outside.
"good moderation" is hard and exhausting. it may be possible for your small blog with little traffic, but for something like kottke.org?
I think Vanilla is really cool, but as someone who has just started to look into OSTree, I wonder why they went with ABRoot. Simplicity? Having 2 partitions requires very slight boot process modification, using OSTree requires some small modifications.
The part I push back on is the confidence with which people claim these LLMs “are definitely not intelligent / thinking”.

We can’t even define clearly what human thinking is, yet so many folks claim “nope, LLMs are just pattern matching. Wake me up when it actually has a thought.”

And there are two points to make on that: the first is again, we can’t even explain our own thoughts or rational thinking. And second, I’ve yet to see how it even matters .

The output of GPT-4, for example, is pretty much on point with your average person on certain topics. Whether or not it’s “truly thinking” under the hood is irrelevant, imo, if it gives a really good illusion of it.
Asking for deregulation when it suits you and government intervention when it suits you is like the right leaning version of the over-policed upper middle class suburb that's dotted with "defund the police" yard signs.

The people trying to play both sides as it suits them are just selfish and unprincipled and in both cases the movement they profess to support would be better off without them.

At some point a line has to be drawn. If you advocate for X or Y you cannot in good faith claim to be a member of political movement Z.
It is sad that populism is now just knee jerk associated with "right wing".

What do you think Occupy Wall Street was?

Populism refers to a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this group against "the elite".

You all do not see the people who are suffering. First it was us poor nobodies (like me), but now it is creeping up into the middle class.
Not sure I agree with the "bubble". If something decreases during a crisis it doesn't automatically mean it was a bubble before that crisis.

And if it ever was a bubble, it was just a FAANG and startup bubble, but the world of tech is far, far greater than that. That guy that writes Java for a tyre manufacturer is a tech guy. So is that guy that writes C# at a bank.
The argument in the article is weak.

First they build their case against libertarians going at length against Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Larry Page.

Then, they point at the hypocrisy citing Garry Tan, David Sacks, and Bill Ackman.

These are different people.

Where is the hypocrisy of Thiel, Musk, or Page? It makes me think there is none since they can't provide examples and they have to switch. But I guess building an article on the second set of people, which is far less known than the first, would have not attracted enough clicks.
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The article specifically says it would put you in the top 5% of earners in the US.

How many people who live in this area are in said top 5%?
Discord seems to be satisfied with ScyllaDB: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-mes...
As you might understand that is exactly what everybody, both the guilty and the innocent, says.
The withdrawals happened because the client base was sophisticated enough to realize (based on publicly available information), and interconnected enough to communicate to each other, that the bank was insolvent. But it's not the client base that caused the bank to be insolvent. That was entirely the fault of the bankers.
If you're referring to the guys on Raidforums etc.. I used to hang round there a bit to see who was getting breached, and most, including some that leaked some serious stuff for payment, have really poor opsec. They all use discord installed on their PC which they use to brag about their crimes, you can tell they aren't using it anonymously because the app is installed on their PC and they all have their gamer tags/spotify accounts connected. They were all using BTC as well last time i checked.. not even Monero.. oh and their site got seized with all that transaction history. I don't doubt that some are serious, but most of them are NGMI and many have already been arrested.
What about the CFOs and wealthy individuals that where just bailed out ?

Shouldn't they were in prison (the CFOs, for wealthy individuals - it's just their money) too ? They were fully aware of the 250k$ limit of FDIC insurance.
>Wouldn’t it be more effective to identify achievements by non-whites as opposed to eradicating achievements by whites.

There is an increased push to publicly acknowledge achievements of non-whites. I also dont think the crowd calling for teardowns would be against celebrating the objectively heroic whites that the ruling class spent significant energy to stop society from acknowledging due to the risk of their pro-justice/anti-establishment values being replicated.
Uh, also, that should be "holes", they are not looking for a British fictional detective in the dense foliage of Central America's jungles. Thanks, phone. :|
Yet their sensationalistic tweets probably caused bank runs on other banks, which is the article’s argument.
Have a look at Cinder - https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder - it's Meta's performance oriented fork of CPython that they use to run Instagram (which is a big Django app).
Principle: there should never be a single point of failure in a well designed system. This is really just a lesson that we will keep re-learning and exposing as ecosystems get massive and companies make decisions at scale.
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AI isn’t going to change the basic human need to express themselves.
> Why can't they be distributed as a PWA that interacts with logical files that exist in my filesystem? Files I can generate from other applications (like performance profilers).

And files which other folks can generate, like marketing malware injected there by out-of-browser applications and/or shady OS vendors (who might pre-populate data for their own sites, as well as business partners' sites (for a fee, of course), under the pretense of "improving user experience").

If browser-accessible storage is accessible to arbitrary out-of-browser applications, arbitrary package updates and installers can _put stuff there_ or overwrite stuff which is already there. We can be certain that such things would rarely, if ever, be to users' benefit.
There is no violation of policy when both sides of the strait have differing views on what "one China" means. China can warn all it wants. It has been threatening Taiwan for decades. Frankly, Taiwan and the rest of Asia have had enough of China's arrogance.
Absolutely adore Kottke.org.

It's also crazy how you can increase the usefulness/nice-ness of most things just by doing them for a long time.
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I would say it's not a question of validity, but of the additional immediate, unambiguous, and visceral (multi sensory) feedback mechanisms to draw from.

If someone is starving and hunting for food, they will learn fast to associate cause and effect of certain actions/situations.

A language model that only works with text may yet have an unambiguous overall loss function to minimize, but as it is a simple scalar, the way it minimizes this loss may be such that it works for the large majority of the training corpus, but falls apart in ambiguous/tricky scenarios.

This may be why LLMs have difficulty in spatial reasoning/navigation for example.

Whatever "reasoning ability" that emerged may have learned _some_ aspects to physicality that it can understand some of these puzzles, but the fact it still makes obvious mistakes sometimes is a curious failure condition.

So it may be that having "more" senses would allow for an LLM to build better models of reality.

For instance, perhaps the LLM has reached a local minima with the probabilistic modelling of text, which is why it still fails probabilistically in answering these sorts of questions.

Introducing unambiguous physical feedback into its "world model" maybe would provide the necessary feedback it needs to help it anchor its reasoning abilities, and stop failing in a probabilistic way LLMs tend to currently do.
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My static IP was erroneously blocked from Wikipedia as some previous owner used it to run open proxies or the like. Never had any problems anywhere else. It happens.
Have you tried Contabo? That has been my go-to hoster for the past decade.
Yes, ridiculous that this is allowed here, and I say this as a girl. @dang?
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Can share a good link/post about it?
https://study.com/academy/lesson/duration-risk-definition-ex...

This is a separate concept from Credit Risk, which is how risky the borrower is. The bank did not manage its risks, but it was salvageable, they just needed to raise money, but then the VCs organized the bank run.
In a court of law I am innocent until proven guilty.

In technology circles I am guilty until proven innocent.

That's the difference, the outcome of which is the technology provider can quite frankly fuck off.
Hypocrisy? They are the ones who saw it coming, ran away, and survived the debacle. But hey, let's just find a scapegoat.

Just like the 2008 crisis let's just blame it on Michael Burry and those who looked under the layers of bureaucracy
nit: 'Python-based' would imply to me that it's written in Python, but it looks like it's mostly C++ & LLVM:

https://github.com/exaloop/codon/tree/develop/codon
From Zendesk to ChatGPT: Leveraging Embeddings
Since the release of the gpt-3.5-turbo model by OpenAI, I have been wondering how companies are dealing with the token limit to gather insights from a large corpus of text without having to retrain the model.

To understand how it works, I created an open-source Jupyter notebook that creates a chatbot using vector embeddings (which is the workaround for the token limitation!). The chatbot connects Zendesk's knowledge base to ChatGPT, which can answer natural language questions using only the appropriate context.

I hope this can be helpful to anyone who is playing around with AI models in general :)
Pay depends on value, demand and supply,political skills and sometimes on being lucky.
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they will have to pay more. And I'm already broke :(
Nothing is less understood, or more mischaracterized, as Anarchism (Libertarian Socialism).

(And, no, Libertarianism is not Anarchism. It is Libertarian Capitalism.)
What happened to third?
It's like people forget that Leaseweb and Worldstream exist.
The article states that this was around 2017-2018.
The run they were tweeting about was a wider one on all regional banks. Did not happen at time of their tweets, they were speculating about the future.

Why was it the VCs impacted by the SVB collapse, and not the wider banking world, who stood to lose more, who were loudest to make that claim?
Seems there are about 18 APIs that require explicit user permission: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Permissions...

7 of those are actually available in Firefox at all.
Yes but that may take 5 years as everyone learns the OpenAPI API (to call it) and integrate the response in a text box and release the AI autocomplete features around the product suite.
I should have explained better. My sense is that right now there is an implicit expectation in the market that the 250k threshold is no longer relevant, and that the FDIC is implicitly insuring everything that looks remotely like a deposit, regardless of the amount.

This doesn't work. The only way to draw a new line in the sand is some sort of reform.

The key issue is that the new line has to be "subgame perfect", meaning it has to be credible that if a bank steps over the new line, it will not simply be bailed out again.
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Again, the simplicity of "payouts are delayed" is quite succinct. I do not understand why you further wish to split hairs, and I no longer have an interest in continuing this conversation.
The most popular theory about the Moon's formation is that Earth collided with a Mars-sized planet, so if that's true there definitely used to be at least one more planet than what we have now.