skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perhaps you could talk about the quoted comments

All the quotes are barely one sentence, and with zero context, and no link back to when or where they were said. I know modern journalism is lazy and just quotes tweets, but the author could have put a bit more effort in.

> when Zuckerberg came up with his mantra, “move fast and break things”, he didn’t just mean code.

> Thiel himself is so committed to libertarianism that he has established an eponymous foundation to “defend and promote freedom”

> Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, has previously suggested a “limit” on laws to “some set of pages”. “When you add a page, you have to take one away,” he said.

> “This is an extinction level event,” warned Garry Tan, the CEO of Y Combinator.

> “Where is [the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jay] Powell? Where is [the Treasury secretary, Janet] Yellen? Stop this crisis NOW,” tweeted the venture capitalist David Sacks
> For all practical purposes, trillions of dollars in deposits became insured by US tax payers this week.

By the FDIC, not the tax payer.
Let the stupid greedy irresponsible banks fail already, they are like a spoiled rich kid that keeps getting into trouble and doesn’t care about consequences because his rich parents are there to bail him out.
Doesn't sound 'simple'
So “tech bro” is a slur now? This seems a bit exaggerated
How to use Prometheus for web application monitoring
Yeah, that's an interesting question I didn't consider actually. Why doesn't it just keep going? Why doesn't it generate an 'INPUT:' line?

It's certainly not that those tokens are hard coded. I tried a completely different format and with no prior instruction, and it works: https://i.imgur.com/ZIDb4vM.png (again, highlighting is broken. The LLM generated all the text after 'Alice:' for all lines except for the first one.)
Ha, wow. That is incredibly odd, but makes sense given the constraints they were under. Thanks for the link!
That’s why I found GraalVM’s approach intriguing. They provide a high level language API where you can simply write a language interpreter, and it will be able to JIT/AOT compile it down to fast machine code. But the most interesting aspect is that the IR they convert languages to is basically universal, so something like LLVM bitcode can also use the exact same representations.

So you can interpret (and later AOT compile as well) LLVM bitcode and python, and this approach will allow cross-language optimizations as well, which were not available at all before. But feel free to add a bit of JS/Java, etc to your code as well!
I'd say Nuitka or Cython are maybe the more common ones when talking about this. IronPython is/was interesting in that instead compiling to python bytecode or machine code it targetted the .NET CLR, and iirc I saw some kind of JIT going on when I was digging around (so some things ended up as machine code), but it's not really one of the usual "compiles python to machine code" implementations.
As far as I know, haven't seen any tweet/quote from Peter Theil asking for a bailout. Shouldn't the onus be on the article author to do more research on their primary target. Can't blame him for being friends with people who asked for it.
I'm not in fear of AI. It will get powerful, no question, but it's more of a opportunity than a threat.

We will still have empowered humans, who can switch it off.

Or, the fear, that the creativity will decline is somehow flawed. Just think of the situation where it has been sayed about google ("no one will learn the stuff to have it handy when needed"). Where has it brought us to..?
Exactly to this very situation.

But, we have a lot more knowledge accessible. That counts.

Also, with the cad and modelling software in mind.. this empowered the designers to construct better airplanes in less time. So, the guy's using the software don't need to learn the physics behind the airplane anymore. It is better, they learn to use the software:)

And.. every Generation is seeing some kind of doom because of the young ones.. to stupid, do not learn (or, learn not the proper things). Socrates said that. He would be surprised by our success.. and the youth adapted to new stuff.

No fear at all.
I guess this just adds to the outrage your must feel for; the Main Street New Loan Facility, Main Street Priority Loan Facility, Main Street Expanded Loan Facility, Nonprofit Organization New Loan Facility, Nonprofit Organization Expanded Loan Facility, Commercial Paper Funding Facility, Primary Dealer Credit Facility, Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility, Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility, Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility, Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, Paycheck Protection Program Liquidity Facility, Municipal Liquidity Facility, Main Street Lending Program, Money Market Investor Funding Facility, ABCP MMMF Liquidity Facility, Term Securities Lending Facility, Term Auction Facility and the Maturity Extension Program and Reinvestment Policy.
>American culture and literature for example, I am sure will last many centuries in other cultures.

Who can say?

You're right that Greece and Rome had very intertwined cultural exchange, but that was only after Greece had been conquered; again, that doesn't explain why Platonic philosophy was so influential outside of Greece and Rome.

And yes, the American civilizations didn't invade people from other parts of the world, but to them they did, because their immediate area was the world, and I'm sure if the Mayan civilization never collapsed they would be a colonizing force not unlike the Europeans. Appropriating land and labor for use in capital exploitation is not a distinctly European phenomenon.
Do you have any evidence for Twitters motivation in this case? I don't see how dabbledb constituted even a theoretical threat to Twitter.
That's literally a text search task. That's not what I mean, I mean things like understanding the rules of addition from examples, the rules of logic from examples, or the rules of chess.
The main counterpoint (to this article, he seems to mainly talk about others) seems to be "it was no bailout", and "insuring 100% of deposits is small government and totally logical for me as a stance". The former I can see, the latter I’ll have to put clearly in the article’s column.
I think this is a bug. I'm pretty sure the calculations are meant to flip from black to white in an instant. But the tools provided make that very difficult.
> If you are going to use a top 5 popular programming language like the rest, your results are going to be average.

That generalization seems hard to defend. I think you assign too much importance to choice of programming language.

For one thing, I'm confident that for each of the top five most popular languages right now (whatever those are—for sake of argument let's say Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C/C++, Java, and something for .NET like C# probably) I could find counter examples of start-ups that YOU would consider to have better than "average results" implemented entirely in that language.
Or the “Back the Blue, we are a nation of laws”. But “defund the FBI and the IRS”
"It happens" is a bad defence.
If you do not want to handle payments at your site, check facts of under-/overpayment, then you just need to use a ready-made decision for creating invoices on the side of a processing service.
This is not tech bros. Capitalism itself is the problem. Capitalism always socializes loses and privatizes profits. Do you think that democrat bankers like Jamie Dimon don't run for government assistance at every chance they get?

This is not a problem of a few "libertarian tech bros". The capitalists run the show, they run the government.
What we need is quality control of training data, AI-generated or not. If most humans agree that picture X is "a dog", then that picture represents accurately that concept. The training datasets I've seen so far are awful and include human-generated garbage.
How do people qualify for this support?
Exactly! They are 'Tech Bros' because the industry is so misogynistic that most of the women have fled, yet they turn around and claim to be the victim of sexism. Absurd.
> - Measure the amount of time it took to go from GPT 2 to GPT 3

1 year.

> - Measure the amount of time it took to go from GPT 3 to GPT 4

3 years.

> it represents a year-over-year improvement that is accelerating.

I don't see how the above shows it is accelerating.
I thought the emphasis in A Deepness in the Sky was that high-tech civilisations always collapse - ubiquitous surveillance often being part of that collapse?

Also, humans could achieve superluminal travel - but its where they are (the Slow Zone) that creates this limit. Of course, its fairly clear that the On/Off system is actually in a bubble of the Transcend...
Dumb question but is just keeping customers funds without investing them (even in bonds) and just collecting fees not a viable business model for banks? Is it a necessity or greed?
Easily within range of bigger rocket artillery. The security point prolly wasn't considered when selecting this location otherwise they would have build it somewhere on their southern coast. Of-course most of the engineering talent is near Seoul, so that leaves them with no choice.
The bankers did a very poor job here, for sure ! But it was far from insovlent - it was insovlent if everybody decided to pull out their funds at once - which is what happened. Not a single bank could withstand that.

But so did the client base - we're not talking about small depositors here - if I read the documents correctly, Circle had >8B $ in SVB and they moved 5B $ before the week-end. It was a handful of wealthy individuals that organized this bank run.
The irony is that the same author, Emma Haslett, recently wrote an article about women facing increasing child-care costs.

https://www.newstatesman.com/business/2023/03/childcare-cost...

In her lefthand (main thread article): Denigrates men interested in technology jobs which pay well and are intellectually arduous to even learn let alone practice.

In her righthand (article I link to above): Complains that women need more money for childcare.

Gee, it's almost as though left-leaning journalists are trying to drive men and women apart.

"Men, as a woman, I tell you: You're terrible! Now go fund women's lifestyles, we need your money!"
>Why is anyone entitled to some notion of ownership & power over who may and may not make use of information?

You mean like copyright holders? Patent holders? Somebody with a trade secret?

>but I don’t think anyone should really concern themselves ethically with what some random person wants them to do with the information. This isn’t like ensuring a sexual partner is an enthusiastic participant, this feels to me more like I’m not going to ask mommy for permission every time I want to play outside (let alone care if I’m told “no”). What practical defense is that anyways?

But yes, anyone should. You're just saying "I don't think people should disagree with me" not "information distribution and consent aren't ethical concerns" - of course they are! Why wouldn't you propose as counterexample a model like medicine's "informed consent" instead of sexual consent or "asking mommy"?
Yes, most of these articles are written for SEO, not for humans, and are basically garbage.
Never trust an abstract principle by itself. Come up with your own concrete examples.

Tinker with these examples to improve your understanding of underlying factors of the principle.

Look for examples that might contradict the principle and understand why.

Let us take DRY for example:

If I make a change in one place, and I have to know about 4 other far away places to make the same change, will that cause problems?

What if there two duplicate lines of code in the same file, right below each other?

What if it's a 3000 line file that's duplicated? How about a 4 line function?

What if changing it in one place doesn't mean you have to change the other place?
I've personally been a moderator for communities with up to ~2 million users, where the main point of the biggest community was discussions around subjects that are generally taboo in society, so it attracts a lot of low-effort posts for sure. On average, the community had at least ~50K members online at any given time, if there is some big news that number increased a lot.

And we managed to moderate it well. Granted, the community has ~100 moderators who are all doing it in their free-time, but with the right tooling and the right guidelines/rules, moderation is not impossible. It's just really hard to get right.
It's all garbage collector.
While I like Hetzner a lot and can share your recommendations, I just don't see how it compares to full-blown cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure. It's a common misconception to put them at the same level when the offering is completely different.

Nobody seriously uses AWS/GCP/Azure to have a couple VMs or dedicated servers alone. If someone can run their full workload in e.g. Hetzner without much hassle then they shouldn't be using any of the other cloud platforms in the first place as they'd be definitely overpaying.

EDIT: I want to clarify that I unfortunately do know some companies use the big 3 as simple VPS providers but it seems that everybody agree here that it's a waste of money and that's one of my main points, which is also why the comparison of the big ones vs Hetzner or any other standalone VPS/dedicated server provider is pointless as they serve different use cases.
A normal office printer is a laser printer, which uses toner.

An "inkjet-scanner office box" is a device that exists primarily for the purpose of perpetuating a decades-old ink refill scam.
AI detector – find out if a text is generated from ChatGPT
True. Luckily for me I have no interest in children or cohabitation!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brogrammer#:~:text=%22Brogramm....
Driving up their fees will make them less competitive, so they will lose business, or have to compete more aggressively for it. Or the increased costs of banking services will reduce consumption. So yes you're right to a point, but none of this is in any way good or neutral for other banks. Their share prices have taken an absolute beating.
Thank you. I accept that explanation. From that perspective, the argument makes sense as well.
The size of JPM would've made it so a bunch of VC funds abruptly withdrawing all their money would look like a tiny drop in the bucket rather than a bank-destabilizing balance sheet issue.

JPM banks in the trillions; SVB, 200 billion.
Full release notes: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...
It should also be noted that rare earths for magnets may be going away too! Tesla is saying they'll be moving to RE-free iron nitride magnets (from Niron, I think). If they can, so can wind turbines that use PMs.

Iron nitride, of course, uses elements available in essentially unlimited amounts.
Yes, now I wonder if anyone is allowed to fail. David Sacks complained that if the regionals aren't protected, then everyone will only bank with the big four. Yet if everyone is protected even when the bank makes poor decisions, that's a run on the FDIC itself. So as you say, where is this new line, and who can be trusted to allow those who cross it to fail?
It is unclear why the views of 65% should be also pushed onto me.
Not doing it? No one forces you to train ML models on random data and no one forces you to commercialize those models. If that severely limits progress then too bad - lobby for copyright reform for everyone instead of just ignoring the rules you expect others to follow.
Using large language models (that predict text) to write code for large scale automation is how the human race accidentally destroys their large scale automatons.
Hardly a nitpick. It's key to the claim.
It’s important that cyber security advice is tailored to the intended audience
This from the first paragraph:

That’s because for 2024 the boxy off-roaders can now charge other EVs up to 6 kW with a new, onboard 19.2-kWh Level 2 charger. (Earlier Hummer EV Pickups can charge up to 11.5 kW.)

Has my head spinning trying to make sense of it all. It can charge at "up to 6 kW" I guess, that's the max power rating of the charger connection, then but missing that "at" makes it hard for me to parse. Not a native speaker, though.

Then it becomes even harder, why does the charger have a rating in kWh, which is an amount of energy? Is that amount somehow reserved in the battery, so after sharing 19.2 kWh, it turns off? That sounds ... weirdly non-helpful.

Finally: if earlier versions of the vehicle already had a charger but at a lower capacity/power/whatever, then this functionality isn't actually new?

Edit: also missed a word, oopsie.
I don’t know if it’s incredible, but here’s what I did with GPT-4 today.

I came up with an idea for a simple but cute interactive website that I would not be able to code myself. I described the website to GPT-4, and it coded it for me.

Below is the finished site. Click anywhere on the page to see how it works.

https://www.gally.net/temp/20230315interactivesite/index.htm...

I took screenshots of my prompts and GTP-4’s responses, and I asked it to create a second page to display those screenshots. Here’s that page:

https://www.gally.net/temp/20230315interactivesite/interacti...

I started with some knowledge of HTML and CSS but zero understanding of JavaScript. The only change I made to the suggested code was to change the timing on the interactive page and to move a link on the summary page.
> the current "compiled" spec document is about 5 years behind the actual production ISA

How could I verify this information?
This approach to safety reminds me of The Right to Read, the famous short story by Richard Stallmann. He predicts a dystopian future where private possession of a debugger is illegal. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

It is unsafe to not release the source along with the service. That incentivizes competitors to sacrifice their own safety research in favor of speed to market. Instead of getting shared safe tools, we get a bunch of for profit corporations pushing their proprietary unsafe tools.

Preventing this situation was the original reason to setup OpenAI. Speed run to the dark side.
This is an extremely common situation at many restaurants and is a reason I don't really enjoy going out to eat with friends without prior investigation.
You’ve already forced me to pay for insurance. Is it me that’s the hypocrite for wanting to be compensated?
I've heard this is works in Japan. Can anyone confirm?
PaLM API and MakerSuite
There will just be checks that make sure that the generated content is not similar enough to violate copyrights of training material and that's it.
This is clearly not true. There are term limits on how long the society is disallowed from using an idea. If I take good care of it, my table does not disappear in 5 years, nor can I sell the same table ten times. The bigger issue with IP is how they are used to prevent others in the society from using the idea they see right in front of their eyes.
Fwiw in a country with a big city much larger than any other city, the city is called a primate city. Seoul, London and Paris are all primate cities.
That is not what is happening now. They are assessing additional fees under systemic risk protection rules. FDIC rates are changed on a regular, periodic basis with forewarning time for markets to adjust, not over a weekend.

When has FDIC reimbursed more than the “up to” limit? Everything I’ve read regarding this suggests that this may be moral hazard, at least in the short term. The remaining amount should come from liquidation of the failed bank’s assets or by the acquiring bank, not the FDIC.
To be clear I wasn't trying to say people shouldn't be angry with VCs. I'm expressing some doubt that the reason for the anger is SVB's collapse or their hypocrisy around it. Whether you like VC or not, they aren't responsible for the SVB's investment choices or its undercapitalization and so the outflow of anger following SVB collapse feels misplaced. (Edited for clarity)
Ultimately the rare high price peaks can be shaved with green hydrogen instead of natural gas. Hydrogen can be stored underground, with a cost per unit of energy storage capacity of about $1/kWh, some two orders of magnitude cheaper than batteries. Round trip efficiency sucks, but that's not important for rarely used storage.
You would need an android developer and an iOS developer. Also a backend developer and a web developer.

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What exactly does it meter? The amount of money you spend on Ramen? :D
This reads like paranoia... Twitter had nothing to gain or lose from controlling the fate of DabbleDB. Chances are they were on a classic, mindless acquisition spree, and Dabble folks saw their chance to make bank.

> It is the same reason why they destroyed Flash

Lol, Flash destroyed itself. Adobe thought they could forever extract rent from Flash's early gains, slowing development momentum in order to assimilate it in their products and processes; and then they underestimated the power of Apple's influence on the web ecosystem.
Have you considered using a proper vector database like Qdrant (https://qdrant.tech)? In the demo, it might be just fine to calculate the distance to all the articles in the knowledge base, but in a real case scenario, you'll sooner or later face scaling issues.

Also, libraries such as Langchain are integrated with both LLMs and vector databases, so you can prototype even faster.
The premise of this article is dumb. All tech bros are libertarian? Oy vey.

I have no horse in this race. I work for a retail/porn company in LA.
The article isn't even using π, but 'pi'. I don't think they strove for rigour and formality.
US to impose inflation fines on first set of drugs, lowering costs
Well-supported non-Microsoft platforms were turned into second class citizens after the IP was bought by Microsoft. That's what's important here.
Bank of America's internal activities were found to be absolutely atrocious when the dust settled after the 2008 crash. They were a big part of why the Occupy Wall St movement started.

The relaxed approach to depositor insurance SVB clients took should absolutely not be duplicated at BOA after a move there.

I would personally recommend avoiding that bank at all costs.
I tested it with a Snow Crash choose your own adventure.
That's been true for over a decade. Hasn't happened in the wild though AFAIK. I don't think there's an incentive for anyone to do this.
I agree with your judgement on OVH and the top tier cloud providers. I've never used Hetzner but I've had good experieces with UpCloud, Vultr and Linode/Akamai. These three providers are my defacto goto everytime I need to deploy stuff...
There are numerous accounts of 200+ group chats between SV CEOs and VCs all deciding to withdraw their money too, FWIW.
""Brogrammer" or "tech bro" are slang terms often used to label a stereotypically masculine programmer. "

I've only ever known one masculine programmer, out of dozens I've met.

Programming is a sedentary & solitary activity.

It doesn't seem to attract masculine, sex-god type males. If anything, it's the opposite scenario.
Why take a random small program being run at the bank, and imply that it was somehow linked to their failure, when their failure is well understood and has nothing to do with the Atlas program?
I don't know what your last paragraph is supposed to imply. That there shouldn't be outlets for the Left? That there shouldn't be outlets with stated political positions at all? Or it's just a basic ad hominem?

Anyway, as for the substance: a bank had risky behaviour and lost out. Now everyone, including those who never did and never will benefit from that risk, are called to pick up the check. This is, objectively speaking, a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich.

Now you may justify that with trickle-down economics, but I'm not arguing that point, and neither is the writer. He is merely pointing out how the "leave free enterprise alone" crowd is now suddenly in favour of handouts :)