skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't it in the best interest of everyone's best interest to avoid having such high amounts of uninsured deposits?

Was it a requirement or recommendation to concentrate cash in SVB, and why?
My metal roof blocks these signals pretty impressively. An external antenna is the only way for me.
Murderer's Row of Indie Podcasters at the Outlier Podcast Festival – Los Angeles
> They’re only consequences in the sense that definitions are consequences,

A priori truths are, exactly and only, those things that are true by definition (and only exist within a particular axiomatic framework.)

You’ve described exactly why rights can only be a priori, but used it to deny that they are.

> They don’t exist before they are defined by humans, so in that sense they do not have an a priori existence.

If things exist before they are defined by humans and human knowledge of them comes as a result of experience with their existence, that knowledge is a posteriori. You’ve marshalled a cogent explanation of why rights cannot be known a posteriori, but then presented as an argument for why they cannot be a priori.
"All I'm hearing is NATO military good guys, everyone else evil."

This is not rational. It's an emotional interpretation of what was written.
Upgrading the model is pretty easy. We just need to build the new model locally in the same way we build the current model. This usually takes fewer than 2min. If people want to deploy the new version to web browser and share for others to use, they just need to upload the model weights to some server (for example we are now using a public Hugging Face repo to store the weights), and provide a link pointing to the weights. This can be achieved also with little effort.
That is my understanding of VoNR, but unfortunately I don't have experience with it.
These scenarios fail to factor in the human element. Do they really expect vast swathes of the population to accept losing their jobs and being thrown onto the scrapheap in the space of a decade? No, there'll be an all out rebellion spelling the end to the ruling class and perhaps our form of capitalism in the process.
Shame is toxic, but the issue is critical for startup's and worth discussing.

Depositors making individual decisions? Ok.

Funds advising their companies? Ok, but it really hides the agency: deciders are in the funds (what CEO would refuse that advice?), but the companies are the responsible actors.

Now, would it matter if most of those funds were responding to their investors, say, Saudi's or Russians or the Chinese Communist Party, or to a consortium of friends who had shorted the bank? Most would say it does matter, but AFAICT it's perfectly legal, and no outsider would ever know the difference.

Market self-regulation, insurance, and investment diversification all depend on agents acting independently in their own interests, say, of making money.

Once agents are coordinating, or colluding, or have other dominant strategic interests, market self-regulation fails. And everyone else, who reasonably relied on the market behaving stochastically or in response to economic forces, loses.

One might hope that if this were all good, the response to a wall of shame would be a wall of honor, with transparency around decisions. But confidentiality is a key feature for any investment firms, so the best we'll get are retrospective letters of intent.

Aside from bad actors, the irony is that high federal rates means more risk-taking from banks, not less. SVB assets were good and safe, albeit not worth much (as the auction is showing).

I would have no problem with new rules saying that firms with assets big enough relative to the bank needed to schedule major withdrawals in advance. There's really no other reason than a bank run to move $100M emergently. (There'll be a secondary market for large urgent transfers, but it won't cost much, securitized with a pending transfer.)

So: yes the system is susceptible to bad actors, and there's no good way to respond without throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Really society's only defense is that the wealthy are getting wealthy enough legally that there's no real need to go all-out.

Aside from the moral hazard of covering bank risks, there's another moral hazard in creating opportunity and incentive for an already-confidential and largely unregulated industry to collude. It might push good investors into combines with bad actors, amplifying ill effects.

What's shameful really is that these systemic gaps are relatively obvious to thousands of the involved engineer/MBA/JD's, but everyone greedily grabs their local maxima, instead of insisting the system work right. That's where I'd welcome leadership, some way to reduce coordination costs.
It's hard to explain how it works, but it can certainly reason. Make up some rules for a simple game that doesn't exist, and then ask it to play. It's not terribly strong at this but in my experience it can perform like an elementary school student with an attention deficit, it forgets rules just when you think it has them pat. But there's some sort of logic in there. It's also rather good at explaining what made up code does and I'm not surprised it can pretend that code does what it's "documented" to do without seeing the code.
The point is managing risk. The more nuclear powers there are, the more likely is that something goes wrong. And so far we don't have countries leaving NPT in the dozens so I'd say that it is working rather well. Not perfect, but well.
Instead of “you’ll never guess who now owns Pornhub”
Does that have blackouts for "local" teams? I'm 1-2 hours (traffic depending) from the Mets and MLB subscription in the past was useless for live games due to blackout restrictions.
This is relief. I was afraid that M1 Max would be minimum requirement for smooth experience.
I don't have an easy solution, nor does anyone else. That's the problem.
> "Why does it have to be so complicated? I just want to install a program"

> "Why would you do that in the command line? It's way easier using $Program"

A concerning observation that’s slowly dawning on me is that more and more programmers don’t know how computers work. They can write code, build software, and do lots of useful things. But they have no idea how computers work. They’re more akin to lusers as we used to call them than they are to hackers of old.

Fantastic at their specialty and the tools they use. But move a button to an unfamiliar place or throw them into a new (but fundamentally same) environment and they’re lost.

The realization came a few weeks ago when someone shared The Missing Semester of Comp Sci on HN. It’s full of basic things you’d expect any programmer to somehow magically know … but they don’t learn this anymore. https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

Seeing that link shared connected the dots in my mind. I’ve been wondering for months ”Why does everyone at work have so many random local environment issues all the time?” … it’s been working fine for me for years. Same code and hardware. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe I’m just getting old and grumpy. I’m sure folks older than me thought “wow kids these days know nothing” when we came on the scene …
mfw you didn't make it into the first paragraph...
The article is lengthy and has many novel angles. It's a mix of staking the ground, advertising for his work and legacy, and whispering to those that might be able to contribute. The gpt4 summary below and one I tried (after bing refused on copyright grounds) miss or invent many of the points.
This is incorrect. Fractional reserve lending means that they can keep a fraction of deposits as reserve and loan out the rest. This necessarily means they are not fully covered in times of large withdrawals.
> can you prove that the AI model didn't downgrade my application because my surname is stereotypically $ethnicity?

I think that’s probably much easier to prove for the AI than a human.

Just send an equal number of candidates in similar circumstances in and find whether minority candidates get rejected more than majority ones.
This comes off as a strawman job.

There was no grand conspiracy ahead-of-time to cause a run.

It would be dumb on the part of investors and VCs to not facilitate moving vast sums of their money to safer places in an orderly fashion.

OTOH, there existed an opportunity to steer cash in directions favorable to the influencers after SVB was already sinking.

So I don't see any evidence it was anything other than mismanagement by growing too big too quickly and betting on riskier financial instruments than should've been allowed.
People often throw stuff at small children. I practiced throwing and catching with my kids when they were toddlers. You just use a soft foam ball or small stuffed animal or something that won't hurt them.
A couple of moons in the solar system are thought to as well.
Is the lack of human authorship the gist of the argument? Can you claim copyright on the output from a compiler? Or is this like work for hire, where you just give instructions to the creative professional?
My favorite C++ joke is this limerick that has been in the standard for a while:

When writing a specialization,
be careful about its location;
or to make it compile
will be such a trial
as to kindle its self-immolation.

https://eel.is/c++draft/temp.expl.spec#8
If I understand correctly, there was an all-company invited annual AI day which was silent on recent developments.

But then ~two weeks later there was what seemed like an on-background / press leak about the XDG group that specifically mentioned AI as a current discipline. (Gurman / Bloomberg)

It seems to me that the release of Core ML stable diffusion (mentions itt) is something if a comment in of itself. At least in the read between the lines / hiding in plain sight style of Apple.

The company is unveiling a new and presumably next major computing platform at a quality level only they could possibly deliver.

So the relative quiet / lack of comment may be in deference to the gravity of that work.

That said, these changes are too big to ignore—-we should at least hear language that acknowledges the major developments in AI of late at WWDC and some idea for how Apple is thinking about them.
Who does GPT-3 think you are?
How many people read that in Morgan Freeman's voice?
I know your post is sarcasm but a base M1 would perform the same as M1 Pro, Max, Ultra in this case. It's the single thread speed that matters the most in web performance.

So you just need an M1. The M1 Air is frequently on sale for $800 nowadays. Or if you're really on a budget, you can buy a used M1 Mini on eBay for $400. Very affordable for those who want high browser performance.
Unlike languages invented in the 1960s, today's new languages seem to basically recycle ideas from existing languages while attempting to fix the perceived deficiencies in those languages. This shouldn't be a surprise; any time a new industry arises, most of the truly groundbreaking and novel inventions will be in the beginning, when there's no experience to draw on. Now that programming has been around for the better part of a century, we know a lot about what works and what doesn't.
The essay that has helped me most to think about this sort of thing has been Brian Eno's Composers as Gardeners.[1] It's about music, but I think it applies equally well to AI-generated art, where humans collaborate by writing the algorithms, choosing the subjects, providing the prompts, and curating the results.

Here's an excerpt:

"...essentially the idea there is that one is making a kind of music in the way that one might make a garden. One is carefully constructing seeds, or finding seeds, carefully planting them and then letting them have their life. And that life isn't necessarily exactly what you'd envisaged for them. It's characteristic of the kind of work that I do that I'm really not aware of how the final result is going to look or sound. So in fact, I'm deliberately constructing systems that will put me in the same position as any other member of the audience. I want to be surprised by it as well. And indeed, I often am.

"What this means, really, is a rethinking of one's own position as a creator. You stop thinking of yourself as me, the controller, you the audience, and you start thinking of all of us as the audience, all of us as people enjoying the garden together. Gardener included.

"We're used to the idea, coming from the industrial and very intelligent post-Enlightenment history that we have, we're used to the idea that the great triumph of humans is their ability to control. And indeed, that must be the case, to some extent.

"What we're not so used to is the idea that another great gift we have is the talent to surrender and to cooperate. Cooperation and surrender are actually parts of the same skill. To be able to surrender is to be able to know when to stop trying to control. And to know when to go with things, to be taken along by them. And that's a skill that we actually have to start relearning. Our hubris about our success in terms of being controllers has made us overlook that side of our abilities. So we're so used to dignifying controllers that we forget to dignify surrenderers...

"...my idea about art as gardening is to sort of revivify that discussion and to say let's accept the role of gardener as being equal in dignity to the role of architect, as in fact, is shown in this lovely pavilion here."

[1] - https://www.edge.org/conversation/brian_eno-composers-as-gar...
a basic mistake huh?
Sounds like a postal banking system proposal to me. Can you rewrite this in the form of legislation, please?
Zero lag on my M1 MacBook Air too.
So what is the deal with their agenda here? Understanding that Lesswrongers are a conservative group with some radically authoritarian ideas

The popularity of libertarianism with them also seems distinctly in favor of power hierarchies rather than the libertarian communist types. So when these viewpoints stoke fear I wonder what what kinds of solutions they are driving at
Twitter has been down-ranking corporate accounts of its competitors
+1 to rustaceans, that’s definitely a cult.

It reminds me when at former company I asked a colleague to write my name in Chinese so that I could join WeChat and… just hang out… because I couldn’t read nor contribute anything.

Thankfully rust has unsafe, so I can write some code.
Reminds me of Rich Hickey’s “Simple made Easy” talk. Quote:

> So the first word is simple. And the roots of this word are sim and plex, and that means one fold or one braid or twist. …

> The other word we frequently use interchangeably with simple is the word easy. … [T]hat is from the Latin word that is the root of adjacent, which means to lie near and to be nearby. And the opposite is hard. Of course, the root of hard has nothing to do with lying near.

Engineers like simple because it’s often easier to understand and debug. Non-techies like simple things too if they’re easy to pick up. But if it’s not easy to intuit just by looking at something, then complex solutions start becoming easier because they’re more ready at hand.
> all computing resources have to be closely monitored and regulated to prevent unlicensed AI development.

With most chips being made in China?
They don’t have enough treasuries to cover deposits even if they could liquidate them for par value. They’re also holding a bunch of startup loans which I doubt are going to fetch the valuation they assigned to them on their balance sheet, otherwise they would’ve been acquired whole by one of the big banks. Nobody put in a bid for the whole book of business, there must be a good reason for that. Not wanting to assume the credit risk of SVBs loan portfolio is a reasonable guess.
That first part is fine. Killing risk is key.

But within 24 hours we had VCs from Founder’s Fund and the All In podcast personas who intentionally and knowingly fueled a panic on social media.

That panic was designed to benefit them and it worked, to the detriment of everyone reading this who has a deposit at a US bank, and who will now be assessed a fee to cover the cost.
We do know that our brain changes, and we equally know that ChatGPT does not.

If it were able to modify it’s own model, and permanently execute on itself I’d be a lot more worried.
The propeller looks intact after the first approach and looks bent after the second approach. Pretty clear ot was a result of a collision.
Maybe similar to how software is affected today by open source, by providing attribution.
The nice thing about smokeping is that a smokeping targets file and its whole configuration under /etc/smokeping/* can be very easily moved between places and set up somewhere new in less than 10 minutes. And its charting of the output of fping does a remarkably good job for such a simple tool.

For best results set your smokeping to run on 60s intervals not 300s.
It actually does bother me when people refer to Xerox as a failed photocopy machine company without acknowledging PARC, but I'm aware I'm in the minority here.

I also think The Dream Machine should be required reading in a history class in all CS curriculum, but I'm not in academia.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/722412
In my sort of informal "How would I like to use this?" testing, this ranges from easily verifiable facts (i.e. "Did you get where I got my degree right?") to structural misunderstandings of important concepts.

The former would be easy enough to fix - though it undermines the utility and if not caught could carry ramifications for people, but the latter genuinely concerns me.
Interesting. I don't like all the build-tooling around front-end/Typescript. It's a common complaint I know.

I recently tried to modularize some code into a package that used Typescript import-path aliases. I don't know which step(s) I got wrong since there's multiple tools/packages, each with different versions, each with a different package needed for the appropriate build tool (x-for-webpack, x-for-rollup, etc). When building and re-using the module in some other project with a different build config I couldn't get it to build properly and wanted to just get back to working on my actual project.

I eventually just went and looked at the typescript repo for a reference build config thinking they'd have something easy to follow, but I just decided since they don't use import path aliases I won't either.

I hope all the tools go away that require me to look up things like: "is it an X type of module? if so export/bundle it this way" or "are you using an X type of module? if so import it in Y fashion and use build-pipeline plugins A B and C"
Frankly they should be, as this is the de facto situation that has been created. Extend the FDIC's scope to all accounts. Create new tiers for larger accounts, with their own funds/levies based on their increased variance. Increase capital requirements on banks, and introduce criminal penalties for bank executives that blow through the capital buffer, lose customer deposits, and end up requiring the government backstop. The industry has created these entities that are too big to fail, it's time they were regulated as such.
Government just found a way to expand itself and give out wages for a job that they cannot really do.
61 LOC for implementation, 42 LOC for tests.

this repo currently has more HN upvotes than LOC.

very high leverage code!
I'm very late to this question, but I believe that that amount is only required once, but the context tensor will need to be created per request. I haven't confirmed that, though.
I can rewrite the same passage every day and I'll be very good at writing that passage. I don't think that is working toward mastery of writing.

Theres a quote Doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results is insanity, I was not referring to that.

I was referring to the repetition of habit in this context of the post about writing, not about what you are writing.
Negative gearing (a way to merge unlimited losses from investment property into your personal tax return) and the core, multi-generational opinion that investment property is the best way to build wealth in Australia and no property tax (equivalent is rates which are significantly lower on average than the US and stamp duty which is only payable on the sale of a property) has causes massive investment in non-PPOR properties as well as massive property inflation costs in general.
Ai is just becoming multimodal now, so while feeding it the output of stable diffusion may not be a good idea, there is still massive amounts of untapped data out there to train AI on and give it grounding.
Nice! I’m building something similar, which you can try on out on different sources of documentation: huggingface, PyTorch lighting, PyTorch, and more to come! We built a slack bot version too

https://huggingface.co/spaces/jerpint/buster-dev
I've farmed out the minutiae to outside contractors so I can just focus on the high-level stuff. This allows me to bring maximal value, even though there are times I iterate over territory I earlier covered. The trick is to balance the pieces of 'grunt work' that you do, with a larger proportion of 'tree-tops' work.
This and the grandparent explanation are very helpful. Thank you both!

The frustrating thing is I would bet that the vast, vast majority of people in the US do not want anything except those “type A assertion” calls: calls from trusted users of trusted carriers. And I say this as someone who regularly communicates with friends and business associates overseas but essentially never through the traditional phone network.

It seems like that would also cover the situations some people often mention regarding emergencies, since a hospital, school, or random person on the street won’t be calling through some fly-by-night carrier.

I get some people and businesses have more complex needs, and I’m sure there are a million corner cases. But it feels like if you let people easily opt in to a sensible but restrictive plan, and allowlist trusted carriers in other countries, you’d solve a lot of this problem?
> Remember people: supply reduction DOES work, sometimes. Certainly here.

Thank you for this reminder.
One must be very naīve to think that a corporate entity would provide "free speech" even if they thought it is counter to their corporate interests. Very naīve indeed.

Public shaming also doesn't help; it tells more about you than the company you think you're shaming.

I'll go further. People who think someone like an Elon Musk is the savior of free speech are being hoodwinked too, and they will find it out at some point. It is narrative all the way down.
This doesn't have anything to do with React, it has to do with refresh rate, vertical sync, and the fact that your cursor position is updated by hardware and doesn't undergo the same update process as the rest of UI compositing in an operating system.

Draw a software cursor, and the same exact thing happens.

In fact, in effect, the red dot is a software cursor.

You can accomplish visualizing the same lag in a traditional update-draw loop in game software.

Cursors are special. Sibling comments here don't experience the same effect, because they're running displays at higher refresh rates.

That's it.
I would just about bet money that such a thing is inevitable.
They also lost something like 40 out of 52 satellites when a solar flare caused the atmosphere to temporarily expand, causing more drag than expected before they could all go into thrusting prograde with their ion/hall effect thruster for standard post-release orbit raising. Immediately after launch.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=starlink+...

At the scale of 3500+ satellites and automated assembly line production of them this is nothing more than a minor inconvenience. It's unfortunate that this happened but also it's great that if this is in fact the problem with the hardware design of the satellites it was revealed on the very first launch of the "v2.0 mini" production line. I'm sure they're pushing it into a "v2.0 mini rev B1" now or something in Redmond.
Is there any way to mitigate VoLTE on Pixel 6?

I see I can turn off Wi-Fi calling (which I did long ago because it never worked), but no toggle and no march update available.