skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All proceeds will be used to help Stripe employees cover tax obligations related to the pending expiration of restricted stock units, plus to fund a new stock tender offer for current and former employees.

> The stock tender is voluntary, with employees eligible to sell as few or as many vested shares as they want (i.e. zero-100%).

This seems like they're doing their employees a solid here. But I have a stupid question: who's the buyer for the shares? I'm guessing it's Stripe, with the money they raised. Then where do the shares go - are they allocated to the investors who just funded this raise, or are they destroyed so that the value held by the remaining shareholders increases?

Or do we just not know?
Why not go public instead? Wouldn't that be cheaper?
I can sorta believe that this was provided by lawyers without proper review, because writing this

> In the event that Zed pre-screens, refuses or removes any Content, you acknowledge that Zed will do so for Zed’s benefit, not yours.

is such an outrageous thing to write in the terms.
On the other hand, claiming this is standard boilerplate strains credulity.

In any case, seeing this definitely colors how I see the rest of it.
My post was pretty long already. A complete proposal for reforming AML laws would be a book sized topic.

Structuring is a good example of an AML rule that makes no sense any more. The goal was to try and build a database of transactions that might be vaguely relevant to crime (large cash transactions) but it was phrased in an odd way with a per-transaction limit triggering a report to the federal government, probably to deal with the limitations of paper based banking at the time. Due to this poor lawmaking - whether forced or not - of course criminals just started making deposits of $9,999 each time to avoid the reporting and this was addressed with yet more terrible law, specifying a suspicious transaction pattern whose only definition is "you should know it when you see it". Then they threaten bankers with jail if they don't see it. What if the two sides disagree on knowing-it-when-they-see-it? Well, the bankers always lose. This is hardly upholding the core principles of the justice system and only raised the difficulty for organized crime by a small amount, essentially just requiring the bring-up of front companies so they could deposit large amounts of cash without appearing to be suspicious.

Structuring rules could be abolished entirely. Since that time computers and databases got a lot more powerful, and so now in reality the US monitors all financial transactions of any size regardless of the SAR rules. They just do it via semi-secret programmes at the Treasury (TFTP), CIA and NSA. Arguably they shouldn't and an ideal system would abolish all those things, with FinCEN being folded into the FBI and it being the only agency that engages in financial forensics. Reporting in turn could simply be eliminated and replaced with a system in which the investigative agencies submit database queries to banks, and those queries are then approved by bank staff if they are complying with the rules that constrain police activity. This would bring it into line with how other requests for information (are supposed to) work in the modern era.

You could also go further and state that there's nothing special about finance and that as fishing expeditions aren't allowed in classical law enforcement, transaction reporting should be eliminated entirely. That would be consistent with other areas of law, but is presumably too radical for you.

> It's like trying to legislate what specific exploits a company needs to have patched to say they prevented hackers. Then a new exploit comes out, it isn't in the law and that's used until the law catches up. It's useless.

Yes, and AML is like passing a law that says "don't get hacked, if you do you go to jail for a couple of decades if a regulator thinks you didn't make enough effort". What counts as enough effort? What even counts as getting hacked? They won't tell you these things and in reality it depends on what the press says. If such a law were passed and then actually enforced you'd just see people refusing to work in the computing industry because no salary is worth that kind of risk.
Should have read further.

https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode#source-code

https://github.com/SpartanJ/eepp/tree/develop/src/tools/ecod...
I mean, you're still someone at risk here if someone mails you a nice looking electric bill a few days before with fake info on it, especially in the case the scammer has enough info on you to make it look realistic.
That the enhanced photo contains the wrong data would seem to pretty clearly prove that it is not enhancing the data from the camera sensor and instead using pre-existing photos as the data source.
Cycling… says the corn syrup addicted American
Don't think the whole player base is as obsessed with "competing". Most are there to socialize. Or who knows, "compete" on flashy skins.
If anyone is interested in digging into this more, read up on the City of London. Not to be confused with London, the capital of England, the City of London is effectively a weird de facto tax haven city-state embedded in London.

Edit: Somehow managed to write "nationstate" instead of "city-state"
I remember watching Avatar in 3D and being blown away (both by the dreadful screenwriting and by the amazing 3D effect).

It taught me that the key you immersive 3D is to treat the screen as a window. Things have depth beyond it, but never protrude out of it.

I noticed only two shots in the movie where anything protruded from the screen towards me, and they really caught my attention.
This may be true for honest people, but I’ve been dealing with people recently abusing the chargeback system because they just don’t want to pay. (It’s mostly young users in Brazil)

Very frustrating as a seller.
More data!!
Does anybody know whether there could be something like an open/libre container registry?

Maybe the cloud native foundation or the linux foundation could provide something like this to prevent vendor lock-ins?

I was coincidentially trying out harbor again over the last days, and it seems nice as a managed or self-hosted alternative. [1] after some discussions we probably gonna go with that, because we want to prevent another potential lock-in with sonarpoint's nexus.

Does anybody have similar migration plans?

The thing that worries me the most is storage expectations, caching and purging unneeded cache entries.

I have no idea how large/huge a registry can get or what to expect. I imagine alpine images to be much smaller than say, the ubuntu images where the apt caches weren't removed afterwards.

[1] https://goharbor.io
The only reasonable conclusion: They don't want your money.
The post does address this and shows their attempt to produce higher quality Rust. I've also seen it used to move off of a C toolchain and onto a pure Rust toolchain by porting C code to Rust.
That is one wicked burn rate.
> These programs are text generators

The applications I listed are not assuming anything beyond a text generator that can be trained on a domain's explicit and tacit knowledge. They are not going to "innovate" in the domain, they will automate the domain.
Series I lol. I think the latest funding round I've seen prior to this is a Series G, but really anything past D/E seems rare.
Value-based pricing.
Right?! Who knows what could be waiting in a library owned by leaders of the Roman Empire
inkjet is the issue. laser is what you need my friend
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish was rendered with this
> hey had to do stress tests this year anyway. But that wouldn't have caught onto the fact

> the bank was nigh criminally mismanaged

For sure this was a crime. It's being reported [1] that executives were aware of the risk and continued to purchase higher yielding assets.

From the article:

In late 2020, the firm’s asset-liability committee received an internal recommendation to buy shorter-term bonds as more deposits flowed in, according to documents viewed by Bloomberg. That shift would reduce the risk of sizable losses if interest rates quickly rose. But it would have a cost: an estimated $18 million reduction in earnings, with a $36 million hit going forward from there.

Executives balked. Instead, the company continued to plow cash into higher-yielding assets. That helped profit jump 52% to a record in 2021 and helped the firm’s valuation soar past $40 billion. But as rates soared in 2022, the firm racked up more than $16 billion of unrealized losses on its bond holdings.

Throughout last year, some employees pleaded to reposition the company’s balance sheet into shorter duration bonds. The asks were repeatedly rejected, according to a person familiar with the conversations. The firm did start to put on some hedges and sell assets late last year, but the moves proved too late.

In order to avoid a $36M hit, they literally bet the bank.

I wonder if any of this figured into their Chief Risk Officer's decision to leave the bank in early 2022.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-13/svb-failu...

edit: archive.is link to paywalled article [2]

[2] https://archive.is/HqVWn
I think one effect of LLMs and their limited context will be the end of DRY. I’ve already found myself getting gpt to write stuff for me that could have been part of or leveraged existing code with a little more thinking. But the barrier to just starting from scratch to do exactly what I want, right now, just got a whole lot lower.
>Hopefully you at least make sure to try and return a single host for all the objects in a request.

our goal is to saturate the _User's_ network. Now it's hard to say how many Peers we need to meet this requirement. It looks like 2-3 Peers are enough.

Also, when you have 50 Peers, you have to do 50 DNS/SSL requests in _parallel_. With current hardware, it's not a big deal.
I think you're right after reading more. Sounds like RSU are expiring. Not sure about options but 10 year is the options limit so that would align with the age of the company.
The Terry A. Davis reference was bemusing.
Part of the reason we're still here is because nukes are only controlled by a small number of powerful but mostly rational actors. If you give everyone nukes then Terrorist Timmy and Dumbass David will push the button 30 seconds after they get a hold of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA1sNLL6yg4
Knowledge Graph Schema Design Patterns and Principles
What does the tax treatment look like? I'm aware of the following:

1. Get options, pay nothing.

2. Exercise options, pay AMT.

3. Sell stock, pay capital gains.

(Please point out anything missing; it's missing because I don't know about it.)

Assume that the timing of step 2 is nondiscretionary and the stock price is temporarily depressed when it occurs.

Assume that you have to pay the AMT by selling some of your stock until you've sold enough to cover the whole AMT.

If the AMT is a lump sum (seems... unlikely?), then the depression in the price at the moment you have to pay it is bad for you.

If the AMT is a percentage of the value of the stock (my guess?), then by the assumption that you have to pay for it by selling stock, you're going to lose a fixed percentage of your stock no matter what the current stock price is.

If we relax that assumption and you take out a loan to pay the AMT, the depression in the stock price is good for you, because you end up making a profit on holding your shares while they recover.

In step 3, you sell your stock at the "natural" price. I guess that since the stock was temporarily depressed, it's now higher and you pay a capital gains tax on the difference. Is the tax rate higher or lower than the rate you paid for the AMT? If it's equal, what difference did the temporary depression of the stock price make?
>Sure. Real property like land and physical possessions. Not this imaginary property that only exists to let people turn abundance into scarcity

There is no difference between the two. All property is 'imaginary'. Turning abundance into scarcity is literally the only reason to have property rights all the time, including in the physical world. Land isn't actually scarce in most places.

The reason we introduce scarcity and ownership for land as well as digital goods is exactly the same. because it gives the owner an incentive to tend to it. It lets you capture the value of the improvements you add to it. The enclosure of the commons didn't happen because the commons were scarce, it happened to create conditions for their development rather than their abuse.

Software developers who don't own their code earn 800 dollars on patreon will Microsoft makes millions of their labor. This is literally the economics of free software. It's the largest upwards distribution of wealth ever invented. Imaginary property, that is to say intellectual property, is the only thing that puts you on even ground with Microsoft. You want a world without it where hardware is the only thing that matters? Good luck competing.
But Futures still tie up a real OS thread. You can chain them together which alleviates some additional thread cost but it's not M:N scheduling, you're just being more clever with your OS threads. Virtual Threads separate those concepts.
Your quoting of certain words seem odd.

https://prestersperspective.blogspot.com/p/schizophrenia-ran...
Is Russia regrouping for renewed cyberwar?
There's no sugar in rice or potatoes or most non-American breads.
I've used mine as mostly always-on servers running stock raspbian with services that I need. They have been very reliable and power+space efficient compared to the low-end surplus pcs I previously used for these purposes. I say all this to encourage you to dip your toes into it with something super basic - once you see that it just works, maybe the projects that follow will seem less daunting.
> As an "industry" it's vital that we maintain peoples' trust while we surveil them.

Thanks. I puked a bit. Put a damn /s on that thing.

If it was not in jest, seek help. You aren't thinking properly.
Agreed, I think this is probably more BS.
Elemental chlorine maybe, but there’s none of that in green 7.
who knew that larger volumes of bread have more calories than smaller volumes. What the hell is your point even?

flour tortillas are bread. They are nutritionally equivalent.
> I wonder if in 10 years people will be stuck debugging Rube-Goldberg machines composed of LLM api calls doing stuff that if-statements can do, probably cobbled together with actual if-statements

Sounds like an extension of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law.
How many times have I done some simple arithmetic by typing it into my browser's bar and checking out the google calculator results? When a generation ago I would have plugged it into a calculator on my desk (or done it in my head, for that matter...). I would be entirely unsurprised to hear that in another generation we're using monstrously complicated "AI" systems to perform tasks that could be done way more simply/efficiently just because it's convenient.
95 Gazillion dollars?!?!?
"The world ended not with a bang, but with a REPL."
I don't think the problem is the subscription model exactly. If I'm paying $15 / mo for netflix, it's very clear that my $15 gets me one month of access, to whatever's available in their library at the time. Similarly, if I pay $10/mo for Gym access and the Gym decides it no longer wants to do business with me, that's fine because A) there's more Gyms for me to go to, and B) I never had any expectation that anything from that Gym would be 'mine' forever, it was always an ephemeral access to the service conditional on my recurring payments.

The problem is for services where I pay a la carte to build a "personal" library of things, like steam games, Google Play movies, Amazon Kindle books, etc. I've paid a one-off price for the digital content with the expectation that I will have access to that content indefinitely. If I am abusing the platform, causing issues for others, or generally and blatantly violating ToS in a major way, then I think that's a different story. But if I need to dispute one transaction, then the ability to immediately remove all access to previously purchased content immediately, indefinitely, and frequently without review or appeals - is very anti-consumer.

It effectively nullifies existing consumer protection laws. I will never issue a chargeback or complaint against Valve (Steam) or Google, even if I have a perfectly legitimate reason to do so - as loss of those accounts after all of these years would likely be more costly to me than most erroneous charges I'm likely to see.
Pretty weak, kid. Admit to yourself that your conspiratorial thinking is irrational, straightforwardly dumb, and unsupported by the practical realities. You'll feel better.
For people with expiring RSUs, is the choice then to take this deal (@ at 50 billion valuation) or get nothing?
I rarely buy stocks or crypto but when there's bad news on banks I buy crypto and when people are crazy negative about something I tend to invest there too. For example when the airlines crashed during Covid in the US. It's a pretty simple strategy but I'm green most of the time :)
Oh, a budget pair of speakers.

I think the gentleman is looking for something a bit more high class sir.

https://hifi-products.com/Transmission-Audio-Transmission-Au...
Doesn't the long-term value of today's cash move in the opposite direction of the inflation rate?
To be honest, that's a incredulous leap in logic: Assuming someone from Hetzner is just name searching their brand, found your comment, looked up your account, and then "blocked" your client.

That's some dedicated client response team if so!
OP said consumers not themselves specifically. OP could very well be Canadian and see that a fellow Canadian has provided a valuable service for American consumers even if they themselves aren't able to take advantage of that service.
True, all of these would still be an issue with ORMs.
Good point, we'll look into it!
Your AI is lost in the wilderness.

- "Environmental risks: Like many other synthetic pigments, Phthalocyanine Green G is not biodegradable. It can accumulate in the environment, particularly in water bodies, and affect aquatic life. Its presence in water may disrupt ecosystems by inhibiting the growth of certain microorganisms or reducing light penetration, which in turn affects photosynthesis and the overall health of aquatic plants."

This compound is *not soluble in water*.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalocyanine_Green_G
> One of the things that made it harder to convince other banks to buy SVB is the memory of 2008 when banks who bought other banks inherited all their liabilities and lawsuits.

Also, no Hank Paulson there with a shotgun to get the job done this time.
I can help with that, but that it's not it's aim.

The company could not care less about employees paying more for those.
Sure, big ransomware gangs are likely overseas.

But you don't think there's enough scammers based in the US/Canada/EU to chase? Back to the Zelle scams as we started with, and an awful lot of scams that require cash mules, seem pretty trackable if someone puts in the effort, especially when people can drop the evidence at their doorstep.
I believe the work was done by Stanford, so OpenAI could revoke Stanford's access to their API. That would inhibit Stanford's ability to do new research with this system.
Not for me. Videos are the second-worst way for me to learn things (just audio is the worst). At 2x speed, I absorb nothing. Reading is the best way for me.

I envy you your superpower!
You can feed in a lot of context, but the memory requirements go up and up. It was crashing on me in some experiments, but I saw a pull request that let's you set the context size on the command line. I was using the 30B model and with 500 words of context it was using over 100GB of RAM.

You probably would be better off fine-tuning the LLaMA model like they did with Alpaca though.
The thing is, people tend to overly generalize. What is satiating to you may well not be satiating to someone else.

For myself, I can fill up with tons of protein and vegetables, and still feel the need for some more food a few hours later as the stomach has processed some of the water out and made some room. Conversely, if I eat some non-sugary carbs I much more easily feel full and can stop eating till the next day - which is how I lost about 30kg.
I completely agree and think it should be legally enforced but I also recognize that consensus has not yet developed in business culture, so I recognize I'm not going to have as much persuasive firepower as I'd like to make this argument. VSC is also opt-out and doesn't ask you.
Does Crime Trigger Generic Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in Young Adults?
Iunno, for this example, isn't this actually UB according to standard C? I don't think it'd be that objectionable to put e.g. a semantic comment saying "yeah no this is actually not UB because we check in ./configure that your compiler is one known to not do bad things," *if* such a thing were standardized across linting tools.

Of course, that's a heckuva if.
>As I was trying to point out to the parent commenter, conflating "$100m today" with "$100m at maturity" leads to clear contradictions, like saying that a bank could earn $20m on paper simply by buying bonds trading below par value. Or to put it another way – if bank A holds $100m face value of 10-year bonds yielding 4%, and bank B holds $100m face value of 10-year bonds yielding 2% (but worth, say, $80m at market price), how can you claim that those banks are on equally good footing?

Equal assets should never be thought to mean equal footing. The banks will show the same number for assets locked up for 10 years, but the banks will also show that they have different returns listed on their finalcial statement for the HTM assets, and different revenue from capital!

You cant and shouldnt expect to bank comparison to be easily reduced to a single measure, or for that measure to tell you something that is captured elsewhere.

It is like expecting an athlete's height to tell you something about their speed or strength.

HTM assets tell you the nominal value of assets they are holding to maturity.

It is not intended to show how much they could raise if they had to liquidate it today. It is not intended to show what that yield is for their bonds.

There are separate line items for that.

If you change the valuation of the bonds to market value, then you lose sight of the mature value of those bonds.

Replacing athlete height with athlete BMI tells you something different.
It's a Web-based UI which doesn't allow font size control or zoom, which deserves an achievement or something since nearly all of them allow this rather easily (either in UI or by editing CSS). Maybe a magnifier glass to help with the tiny font size.
I'm very excited at the possibilities for C2Rust! Dynamic analysis to fill in the gaps of static analysis makes a lot of sense. I've wanted something similar for inferring TypeScript types via runtime analysis (would not be surprised if it exists already).

I could see a really compelling use case in cross-compilation where you compile your C code to Rust, then use a Rust toolchain to cross compile. Or avoiding interop as well.
Politicians, generally speaking, know when they're making things up. ChatGPT and LLMs in general have no state evaluation on the text they've produced indicating its proximity to the truth.

This has everything to do with ChatGPT not being AGI.
> We call it a valid instance of an Othello game board. We. Not GPT. We. People who know the symbolic meaning of "Othello game board"...

The board structure can be defined precisely using predicate logic as (X, d), i.e., it is strictly below natural language and does not require a human interpretation.

And by "reduction" I meant the word in the technical sense: there exists subset of ChatGPT that encodes the information (X, d). This also does not require a human.