skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your example servers have 16-32 GB of memory, which is basically nothing. If you ever ramp to real world traffic the peer will be constantly evicting objects (if you use a normal LRU). Even if you backstop that with a mid-tier belonging to Farba to protect the origin, what kind of cache hit rate are you expecting at the peer?
A lot of us have been following along with Zed hoping that the clarity and action on the open sourcing front would be done or at least in the process of happening before the public beta but from what was shared in the podcast, it doesn't sound like any progress has been actually made on this front.

Especially, since Zed does have a very clear distinction/dividing line of "completely functional local editor" == permissive open source vs. "all of the real-time & async collaboration features" == proprietary that is easy to explain.

Frankly, I would happily pay for great, fully supported, high-quality real-time collaboration for my teams.

Anyway, as you can see, not having any useful progress on this front instantly shuts down lots of people and there's many of us who won't even consider doing more than checking it out until this is done.
Frank was on the board of Signature Bank, that should tell you a lot about how useless Dodd-Frank was. The Biden admin had 2 years of total congressional control to overturn Trump's rollback of these supposedly amazing regulatory requirements.

Government encouragement of risky behavior due to bailouts is the problem, not deregulation.
The people who have been fucked over will eventually take what they think should be theirs by whatever means they think appropriate. That's how you end up with Trump and even worse.
The more one believes oneself or one’s countrymen to be immune to such forces, the more likely said forces are to prevail.
It's less NIH and more "cache your dependencies." Details will very greatly depending on what your tech stack looks like, if you're lucky you can just inline a cache. I know Artifactory is a relatively general commercial solution although I can't speak personally about it.

If you can't easily use an existing caching solution, then the only NIH you need to do is copying files that your build system downloads. I know many build systems are "just a bunch of scripts" so those would probably be pretty amenable to this, I don't know if more opaque systems exist that wouldn't give you any access like that. If so, I suppose you could try to just copy the disk the build system writes everything to, but then you're getting into pretty hacky stuff and that's not ideal. Copying the files doesn't give you the nice UX of a cache, but it does mean that in the worst case scenario you at least have the all the dependencies you've used in recent builds, so you'll be able to keep building your things.
Yes, but the ones that do are clearly forgoing tens or of thousands to do it so unquestionably it has value.

That’s actually one way the results of the study can be interpreted, despite paying a cost of living difference of about $40k to live in NY vs Tennessee, smart people are choosing NY. That means the benefit they get by remaining in NY is greater than $40k…

To a rough first order approximation. But it’s no rougher than completely neglecting value of location.

On a side note, that’s a nice 2 story house on the beach, want to swap it for my two story house in the suburbs? It’s equivalent right!
Midwest Humble: Launching a Tech Startup in Community
There are two common types of brake cleaner available in most of the United States: chlorinated and non-chlorinated. The big advantage of retail packaging is that it's typically in an aerosol can so you have the added perk of mechanical cleaning action. I typically use CRC brand stuff since it's easy to find, doesn't seem to harm most of the PA6/66 plastic under the hood, and works well. In not-California CRC markets the chlorinated brake cleaner with a red label and the non-chlorinated stuff with a green label. In California it's all non-chlorinated (potentially all low-VOC now too) despite the red/green cans having different SKUs. I suspect that the EU outlawed the chlorinated stuff a while back as they're typically more proactive than not-California.
Hear me out: instead, you could put the slightest bit of effort in and tell us what they are and why they are relevant.
I'm hoping torch.compile is a gateway to "easy" non-Nvidia accelerator support in PyTorch.

Also, I have been using torch.compile for the Stable Diffusion unet/vae since February, to good effect. I'm guessing similar optimizations will pop up for LLaMA.
Heh, I am indeed an IT guy. I'm an SRE who spends his time fixing screwups by devs when I'm not teaching them about systems.

It's a big world out there kid.
Also doesn’t help when they never documented a thing and nobody cracked down on that because “it would slow down their unit’s productivity”.
True, but I think that misses the point. I think the comment was an attempt at facilitating empathy for the incarcerated who are in this situation since for most people they don't see themselves as criminals (even those who are in fact criminals) and it is harder to empathize with those who you see as being part of a different tribe/group/class.

The fact is that these are fellow humans who are suffering, not because we decided as a society that this was what justice means, nor because this was the result of some study that figured out this would decrease recidivism, but just because some for profit institution decided they wanted to do something that would directly result in them suffering. That is enough for me to support this lawsuit.
For earners making over 60k the cost is $2176 plus 3.867% of your income[1], which brings the total % of liable tax up.

[1]: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/finance/downloads/pdf/22pdf/busin...
Really depends on your current skill set. Can you sell? If not, I’d start there. Almost everything else derives from selling.
Good question. My example of a car factory closing is also one where I don't personally care but do care about the jobs loss and (less so but for that matter) the size of its impact on the economy. There are many such.

But banks specifically are no longer that important. The US federal government now backstops all deposits, as they have (for almost a century) underwritten all residential mortgages. I don't think that's a bad thing at all; overwhelmingly most people's interaction with the bank is a current account (checking/savings); and overwhelmingly most peoples' liquidity is less than the FDIC limit, not that that limit may be meaningful any more. The development of the FDIC was a crucial and early product of the New Deal and stabilized the system significantly. Thus, for this crucial function, I couldn't care less if banks themselves succeed or fail. Like food safety, judging the risk profile of a deposit taking institution is beyond the capability of most people to evaluate.

But what about the residual functions of banks? They are mostly unbundled at this point. You don't need to get a credit card from your bank and most people carry such cards that don't come from their bank. In consumer loans (mortgages and small business loans) a local bank arguably knows the local market better than a megabank, and credit unions demonstrate this. But these days banks operate more like mortgage origination companies since the mortgages are bundled into MBSs. That's a function that need not be provided by banks at all! Instead have them be sold by brokerages the way insurance is sold. Safe deposit boxes, to the point they still exist, are outside banks these days. And so on.

Of course there are jobs, but retail banks only employ a couple of million in the US (about 20% of the whole financial sector, which is smaller than manufacturing, constuction, and other fields). An unbundling as I'm talking about would probably not affect employment much.

So yes, I don't care much about the banking sector at all.
Does such things happen? Thinking about all knowledge that is lost

Maybe top paid management is simpler to replace?

I wonder if the managers who will become individual contributors again, will be paid the same or less
> 3. In lots of platforms, including MacOS (I didn't test newest version yet), Android, iOS, using "system-ui" will end up using exactly the same font as just use "sans serif" anyway. So it really has little benefit.

Certainly on my Mac, which has been the case for quite some time, sans-serif defaults to Helvetica.

Since Apple was the organization that proposed "system-ui", it doesn't make sense that it would default to a font that already existed.

Apple created San Francisco as a family of fonts for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, etc., which is why Apple proposed to the W3C the concept of a system-ui font that differs from sans-serif.

Android, newer Windows and macOS has specific fonts for system-ui.
Flip phones are available. SBF has been issued with one under his latest conditions of release.

Remember though, privacy comes at a cost. Thousands of parasitic "startups" that live off of VC, produce nothing for sale, have no profits and rely on surveillance to demonstrate speculative "value" might suffer or even "go out of business", "Big Tech" might not rake in billions per quarter for selling ad services, "tech jobs" might be lost. It could be catastrophic. The entire economy could crash. It could put an AI-driven utopian future at risk. All because of the desire to maintain privacy. This is not just another HN comment conatining only FUD or hype-based predictions with zero factual support. "We take privacy seriously." It's threat to what we do. As an "industry" it's vital that we maintain peoples' trust while we surveil them. /s
Don’t know about GPT-4, but in case you missed it there was a HN story about GPT-3 for reverse engineering:

2023-01-04 “G-3PO: A protocol droid for Ghidra, or GPT-3 for reverse-engineering”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34250872
From the ACLU:

"The American Civil Liberties Union is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country."

That sounds a lot like the position of the Republican Liberty Caucus. https://rlc.org/statement-of-principles-positions/
This story is really stupid journalism, Switzerland is blocking re-export of useful stuff but this one is a non-story. The gear that is being destroyed is old stuff (this model (B) has been decommissioned in GB in the 90ties despite what Le monde days (they did use still model (C) which is a more modern system ) for which there are no spare parts anymore and nobody except the Swiss knows how to operate. GB has the right to get it back if they want, by contract, and neutrality doesn’t block it. They have been informed that Switzerland wants to dispose it long time ago but they didn’t ask for it back. This probably because the gear is useless given how old and broken it is and clearly the Swiss army cannot teach the Ukrainians how use it without breaking international law (specifically the Hague convention). There are probably for GB much more effective ways to help the Ukrainians than sending them garbage.

Source (in French): https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/13861370-les-systemes-de-defe...
Payments giant Stripe raises $6.5B at a $50B valuation
Stripe raises more than $6.5B at $50B valuation in fall from 2021 peak
The assets do not have to increase in value, the face value on them is enough (if what I am reading is right), but that is if you hold the bonds until maturity. SVB's problem was that suddenly they could not wait for maturity their depositors were asking for their money right now.

Since most of the money is in treasury bonds, the government can either wait until then, or maybe nullify the bonds that are now in their hands, since it is now the government owing the government money (there is probably some complexity there, but I don't know my way though it). In the mean time the depositors' money needs to come out of the FDIC, and that is probably going to increase costs for banks (and thus their consumers), until things can be worked out.
I think it's reasonable to say that both things are bad. We need more stringent regulation and we need to stop bailing out bad actors. I can't fathom why the government voluntarily dialed FDIC insurance up to infinity for this particular bank crash - the rules around how FDIC insurance should work are extreme clear.
What upsets me the most is that the execs gave themselves bonuses in to their personal FDIC insured accounts, essentially writing a bad check for free bailout money, after the bank went negative.
> Ever since the AI hype started this year, one thing that's always really bugged me is talk about "safety" around AI. Everyone is so worried about AI's ability to write fake news and how "dangerous" that can be while forgetting that I can go on fiver, pay someone in India, China, etc. to pump me out article after article of fake news for pennies on the dollar.

It's as if these people don't even remember that India, China, etc. even exist in the first place. Which is incredibly foolish. If you care about "safety" and you only focus your ire on tech companies that base themselves in the largest economy in the world (according to nominal GDP), then you shouldn't be surprised if the rest of the world produces different AI algorithms that may have different definitions of "safe" - assuming that they're even remotely "safe" to begin with. And yes, I assume that the rest of the world will build AI models of their own, if only to avoid dependence on the United States. Baidu already plan to launch "Ernie Bot" soon.

Which means that when this happens...

>All you end up with is an AI that is so kneecapped that it's barely useful outside of a select number of use cases.

It won't even stop harmful content from being produced. The "fake news producer" will just go to Fiverr and pay someone in India, China, etc. to use prompt engineering skills to manipulate native AI models to pump out article after article of fake news for pennies on the dollar. Or the "fake news producer" will just cut out all the intermediaries and just directly use the AI models.
ah, sorry. We only use it for quay, I didn't realize that was out of necessity rather than targeting.
I think it's the former
I replied to jnwatson's comment to explain why I don't think retail banks (from your single-branch local to Wells, Fargo) are that important to the financial system any more.
The biggest issue I’ve had with providers like Digital Ocean is the networking speeds. 1 Gbps is just not enough especially when you need to restore a backup or similar.
> total congressional control

It most certainly did not have that.
https://archive.is/45RTt
How is this the case whenever apparently Credit Suisse investors are not made to pay Credit Suisse debts?

E.g. Saudi National Bank, who announced no more cash to CS
The SVB Collapse Threatens an Already Fragile Economy
https://archive.ph/BqghG
This is true. I think college towns are a boon, too, for remote workers who are looking for a lower cost of living than in large urban centers, without detriment to some of the nice amenities of city life.

Personally I love college towns and wish there were an effort for them to continue to thrive despite the (probable?) demise of small colleges.
Platters and donuts confusion would be more concerning, as typical hard drives take more than one byte to properly digest.

The article did take a top down approach, instead of a bottom [platter] up approach.
Yeah, I would like to see where you at least maintain access to your existing (previous) purchases in the case of a dispute.

I can understand cutting off a bad actor from making more purchases, but reclaiming their already paid for stuff feels pretty evil.
What’s the actual cost for chargebacks here? Presumably they are quite capable of revoking licenses to the purchased item. This is slightly hairier for in app purchases laundered through a game currency run by a third party, but still seems doable. Is there a reason the cost isn’t asymptotically close to 0 here?

In the worst case they stop allowing an account to make new purchases while keeping what they’ve bought. Is that an objectionable outcome?
Show HN: How GPT4 Thinks You Should Trade the News of Its Own Development
No it's definitely moving. Somehow general intelligence has morphed into essentially super intelligence where the AI is expected to outperform every human expert at every task before people will call it AGI. Which is just ridiculous. The bar for AGI has been set so high by some that a significant percentage of the human population would fail. That's when you know things are out of hand.

This isn't the only erroneous bar either. Somehow, the synonymity to human intelligence is taking very weird importance. We have people inventing their imaginary/magical definitions of reasoning and understanding (that they can't test for) just so LLMs won't qualify.

GPT-4 is absolutely a general intelligence.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-27-me-code2...
That sounds bad (mobbing). I hope you're ok. Can I ask were you a manager as well or an IC
Basically the whole world disagrees and considers Crimea to be Ukrainian. Including China, for example.
I don't think you have an idea of the delta-V issue.

https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/details.html#?des=2023%20D... says its speed will be roughly 11 km/s (were Earth not present) and an impact velocity of 15km/s (were Earth in the way; Earth's gravity speeds things up).

If we do that with rocket power, and not some complicated gravity-assist path, then we can look at New Horizons. That used an Atlas V rocket at around 570 tons to get the 478 kg payload up to 16 km/s. That's a 1:1000 mass ratio.

Once you've caught up, you've got to turn things around and slow down. But you're talking about another 1:1000 or more mass ratio, leaving you with a few grams of material.

This is all hand-waving to give a rough idea of the problem.

We've had a few asteroid sample-return mission. Hayabusa2 returned a few grams of material from 162173 Ryugu. The hope is that OSIRIS-REx will return 60 grams from 101955 Bennu this fall. These used ion thrusters (more efficient than chemical rockets) and atmospheric braking to help slow down.

Still, none of this is anywhere near being useful as construction material. It would be far cheaper to bring it up from Earth.
SBF prosecutors got a big number bail, but nobody actually put up that cash. They pledged to pay later. So it's working for a financial scammer.
I am pretty sure I would not have written "Hey buy me drinks to see how I did this." even if I was CO intoxicated, that seems pretty unlikely.
C2rust is really cool, but if you're familiar with writing rust and implement even a trivial C function in there it produces something absolutely terrifying. I really enjoy rust and pray I don't find myself working in a code base someone just ran c2rust against.
ChatGPT thinks pigs will fly if you feed it the right prompt.
> The text on a resume is not UI, and it has no need to fit the look and feel of the native OS

My resume has no need to look any particular way at all; this is just my preference. You should design your webpages however you like!
Scammers finally learned that using broken english to only target gullible people leaves a huge gap in the market of just making better scams.
From reading the article, I get that the latest version can transform some C into safe Rust.

This gains us machine-proved memory safety. This is huge.
Being near profitable is the obvious way, though I find that surprising early on.
I think you are letting your specific feelings and head-canon about purity be mistaken for solid technical arguments.

If you’re sshing to boxes, editing things by hand and slinging ad-hoc commands around then your frame of reference is so far away from understanding it’s value proposition that it’s probably pointless to discuss it.
Meaning that if we cargo-cult the alleged (and probably overhyped) development rationale of Twitter-like startups, we are implicitly banking on their "It's a rocket ship to the moon or nothing, baby!" growth plans as well.

No viable position for most companies (or even most startups) to take.
A good comment on all this...

If a bank is complaining about the overhead, effort, cost, complexity of adhering to risk management protocols...

they're really actually saying "if it wasn't for pesky government, we'd be more than happy to take more risks with -your- money."
Did the first amendment change?
Exactly, cities can’t be treated like interchangeable commodities. The list that simply compares price and nothing.

Why is anyone drinking Napa wine or craft coffee rather than gallon jug wine and Folgers?

Would it make sense to create a list of wine where the sole criteria is price?

Tastes like hangovers and burning but $25 buys five gallons, while this tasty wine only gets a bottle! Adding location into it, only gets two glasses for the tasty wine at a bar.

so might as well stay home and drink a gallon of hangover on a couch. By using a ranking that ignores anything hard to price, it’s the highest ranked choice!
I mean you loose all your investors' money and your job. As the CEO of a bank you probably get paid a lot in equity and that would be gone. If they were really reckless they could go to jail.

Hopefully they look into the exec stock sales over the past few months.
If money in a checking account is not safe, and I can't spend cash over 10k without a ton of paperwork, where can I keep cash that is safe?
Yeah, I sure want to, especially on April 1st.
Maybe I should do and Ask HN, how do I get back at my dickhead friend on April fools day :)
You should not buy him anything. You should cut him out of your life entirely. This is an egregious trust violation. I’d forgive a teenager of such thoughtlessness but if they’re an adult then they’re going to abuse you in other ways. They don’t care about you.
check out the Farnam Street Knowledge Podcast episode with Jim Collins[0]. Just from the webpage there's really good ideas as excerpts from the podcast

[0]: https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/jim-collins/
AVX512 is used in VFX for rendering, as well as in tensorflow ?
"the MPS backend" - that's the thing that lets Torch run accelerated on M1/M2 Macs!
They went all-in on Scala first after Ruby. I think the Java is more recent.
Tough. Should have self-hosted rather than get yourself locked in. (Again)

> Start publishing images to GitHub

> GitHub's Container Registry offers free storage for public images. It doesn't require service accounts or long-lived tokens to be stored as secrets in CI, because it can mint a short-lived token to access ghcr.io already.

Even after the montage of outages. Still suggesting to re-centralizing back to GitHub as the solution is really asking for more disappointment. [0]

Once again, we have learned nothing.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34843847

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803
Protocols Reading List
This is a broad collection of links related to protocols. Part of the first "Summer of Protocols" program.
This.

And “What did you do right?” is often informative, regardless of overall success.
I think it's mostly a question of price currently. AMD CPUs are much cheaper per pixel produced that GPUs
Ask HN: What is the point of “karma” points on HN?
I see them everywhere, on Reddit, HN, and other forums. In specialized forums, it makes sense to show user points/stars/whatever because other users can then form a better opinion about the recommended products/services/etc.

But I'm having a hard time justifying karmas on HN. I would rather see the number of upvotes/downvotes to find out whether a comment is generally accurate and correct or not (or whether the comment conforms to most people's idealogy).