skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is an exceptionally broad statement. I think it's probable that Netflix doesn't work with large-scale VPN providers because it's broadly easy to identify the traffic source. However, using a wireguard tunnel from my ipad back to my house, netflix works fine.
You'll have to look up agonizing, I bet going through a machine with the sounds of your companions dying all around you is a lot more agonizing than choosing an unhappy life and living with those consequences
TinyGo – Going Small on Microcontroller and WebAssembly
I read your take as "ethics doesn't provide immediate economic value or model improvement along traditional metrics of performance, so companies are right to can them if they choose". I see ethics as looking at problem before they happens which is sort of an economic externality that companies won't pay for since the cost isn't something they have to bare, but in a more concerned world would.
EY is a rare thing. Right or wrong, he is a modern day philosopher. He has ideas he makes the case for strongly and eloquently.
There is another reason for the close door button: so that the manufacturer or service mechanic have something to blame.

In my building the elevators were brand new (less than a few months old) and were constantly out of order. The service mechanic was called in time after time, he would arrive, run diagnostics, find that nothing was wrong, then reset the control system and leave.

After the 10th time or so, the building manager demanded to have the entire system replaced under warranty. The manufacturer told us: there is nothing wrong with the lift, but you guys are constantly pressing the close door button, this breaks the lift! So obviously our abuse of the lift was not going to be covered under warranty.

We called their bluff we had the mechanic disable the close button. The lift still broke. A week later the entire control system was replaced (under warranty) and the lift has functioned normally ever since, though they never enabled the close door button again... :-(
My brother in christ, this country LITERALLY started as a bunch of rich white dudes stirring shit up to get essentially their own self designed government where only wealthy white dudes could have a say and black people were not even allowed to be considered people.

The fact that a couple of them had some ideals and there were handwavy references to those ideals does not change that America was not a democracy for a very long time, with reasonable arguments that it still isn't
related: auto prefetch fk values in django - https://github.com/tolomea/django-auto-prefetch
All I can do is upvote this but I kind of want it printed on a hoodie or something as well.
AI-Assisted Go
Sounds like they'll finetune the model on your existing codebase. Even if Microsoft/Github offers this functionality, it's the kind of thing where it may be worth paying a premium to have good customer support telling you exactly how to make use of this.

It's like how there are plenty of people paying for DB software which is 'worse' than mainstream free ones, but they really like the fact they can call experts who will tell them what they are doing wrong with query optimization, etc.
Can Learned Models Replace Hash Functions? [pdf]
> Self driving cars might have set destinations that are cheaper to visit,

I think you mean set destinations based on an auction of what business paid most for your visit, based on your demographics & ride history.
> Client base which are supposed to be the biggest risk takers in the economy.

A huge part of being a successful risk taker is knowing when to get out. Make no mistake, SVB was going to collapse eventually. Too much of their deposits were startup slush funds that will be withdrawn in the next few years as they struggle to raise money.
He’s an excellent writer and has spent a long time trying to come up with high level easily understandable ways to try to measure alignment abstractly through pure logic/outside of any given system.

Essentially him and his crowd have been trying to create a rationally grounded purely logical non contradictory moral framework for action from axiomatic first principles (he’s not the first or the last to do this), and they believe such a system is essential if AGI comes to be.

I personally think AGI is impossible, his purely logical moral system is impossible, and think what he’s working on is not applicable to current AI (I think he knows this, but his conclusion seems to be that the path to AGI is out of the bag/was made incredibly foolishly and should have been constructed differently with more ability to add guardrails)

But I do think the high level abstract way he thinks is fruitful/very valuable, and a good moderating counterbalance to the frenzied “harder better faster stronger” ML stampede that’s not really thinking about the ramifications of what they’re doing with any sort of discipline.
If you want to do this right, use open protocols and open source the software. There is no reason not to (the software here is basic, the main product is the unit), except malicious intent from the seller.
the fees are proportional to the size of the account and benefit banks and customers by eliminating the possibility of losses due to bank failures
>Microsoft never made any commitments (behavioural or otherwise) about Bethesda game exclusivity so how on earth did they brake any?

They never made anything that would contractually bind them to do something, but they made statements that don't seem to align with their actions.
That's right, origin and destination are still visible. Even if you use encrypted DNS to hide hostname to IP lookups, your actual traffic has to be routed somehow by someone. Whether that's your ISP or a VPN provider + their ISP.
The Federal Reserve is basically part of the government, under the guise of independence. It's naive that you think otherwise.

FDIC is not part of the government and I never said it was, but it does work closely with them. I'm not sure what your point is.

As for your claim that the the "fed was issuing forward guidance in 2020", this says otherwise, from 2021 even:

Federal Reserve calls inflation "transitory" as it keeps interest rates near zero
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/interest-rates-inflation-federa...
> Your 20s are a critical time for your career to make connections and friendships - in person. You need to be around people, making friends over beers and community lunches, and learning social skills in a professional environment.

Okay, sure. But why does this need to happen in the workplace?

And more importantly, why are you advocating for employers to unilaterally declare that this needs to happen in the workplace?
> I thought the reason people were pissed at the 2008 bailouts because the actual too-big-to-fail corporations (less Lehman and WaMu) were enabled to continue existing, with their shareholders still owning part of the corporations.

Struggling to take you in good faith, you're wrong either way. Working people were pissed about the 2008 bailout because they were left empty-handed while Wall Street banks and CEOs got bailed out. Your comparison falls flat because there are no working people involved in the SVB situation.
Virtual environments are easy to create and manage. Create one with the built-in venv module:

python3.10 -m venv ./venv # or your favorite version
. ./venv/bin/activate
pip install pip-tools

Manage dependencies using pip-compile from pip-tools. Store direct dependencies in "requirements.in", and "freeze" all dependencies in "requirements.txt" for deployment:

. ./venv/bin/activate
pip-compile -U -o ./requirements.txt ./requirements.in
pip install -r ./requirements.txt
> If you're talking about Nov 2021 when Apple's Gatekeeper servers went down, apps weren't just delayed, they were unable to be opened _at all_ unless you blocked DNS requests to the server or completely disabled your internet connection.

IIRC, Gatekeeper responses are cached for some amount of time for each app, so most people were still able to launch a given app. But yeah, you'd have to disable DNS or internet if you were unlucky and the cache had expired.

Apple's failure inspired me to research compressed CRLs. These don't have the same privacy problems as OCSP, and they work offline. As far as I can tell they would be a good replacement for OCSP here (and also in most cases on the web) but I don't know how one could convince them to roll them out.
The performance gap definitely exists, but at least it has narrowed a bit with recent releases. Particularly, with the 1.18 release Java edition finally separated render distance and simulation distance. Bedrock edition (and java edition mods like spigot) had this already for years, but before 1.18 in Java edition you couldn't turn up your render distance without also increasing the number of chunks your game was simulating. For single player (where the chunk processing is happening on your computer, not the server), this makes a huge difference.
Had precisely that vibe to me.
I think not. Once crypto scammers have retried everything from the history of fiat currency they'll just be in the same boat.

But it would be funny if banks started encrypting my files and demanding ransom.
Same! We're in a unique situation though. Due to some disease issues, we have to prepare every meal ourselves. We work full time, we have kiddos, we cook and clean, all ourselves. It's not easy per se, but it's more than doable.
I agree, Tesla is massively overvalued and is over-represented in the S&P 500 as a consequence, resulting in excessive concentration in an asset that's already significantly declined.

JPM, by contrast, isn't a "highly specialized banking entity", and so doesn't earn the same level of criticism.
Hm, so scrcpy+obs virtual cam or something? Sounds interesting. Another fun option is opencv for effects, e.g.

https://learnopencv.com/real-time-style-transfer-in-a-zoom-m...
the fees are not voluntary and other banks have no reason to want their customers to see examples of people getting wiped out by bank failures
If we want to ban Corps then absolutely.
I don't usually, but...
https://media.tenor.com/87_Ea43k7O0AAAAd/face-mask-mask.gif
As Taleb said on Balaji Srinivasan's comment on Fed not communicating about the rate increases earlier. If crypto people feel that the losses are because of Fed's actions, then they should also agree that the profits are because of Fed'a actions.
Have never tried it, but apparently double click to undo works. [source: https://twitter.com/buritica/status/1598518847018979329?s=20]
I've lived through several la nina cycles but only one midwest winter without snow.
Real banks hedge interest rates as required by regulation (and sanity). SVB lobbied Republicans to have regulation removed. SVB had hedges and let them expire while it had no risk officer. Theil apparently recommended cash at SVB after the failure of his funded Glorifi bank, but it's unclear why large sums (in excess of monthly needs) would be left by any company in any bank (if only because there's no interest). Were there other loans being made against deposits?

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-news-today-03-...

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-used...

https://www.businessinsider.com/anti-woke-bank-backed-peter-...

It was actually the raising of 10y long term rates (which are not controlled by the Fed) which caused the value of SVBs MBS to fall. That in turn is mostly affected by inflation expectations.
Online Meetup: Databases: Switching from relational to document models
It's summarizations all the way down.
Let me guess. You work in crypto.
I've been wondering about this problem from a non-expert position for awhile. How can we capture, say the entire hard-information - or semantic latent space; of a given body of work. Pick, say, the Simpsons universe. Could we have an AI consume all of the screenplays, scripts, fandom wikis, etc, and create a pre-trained model of every considerable aspect of the fictional universe? That pre-trained model would just be a distillation of the informational content and built to interact in both plain-language, ChatGPT style interface but also more technically and output JSON for queries. Say I want to list every episode of the show that includes a theme of love always ending in tragedy, except of course for Marge and Homer. Or I want to define a histogram of which illustrators worked when which voice actors did a specific set of characters.

Obviously a more useful example would be domain-specific knowledge in industry or medicine, but a generalized approach to ontological encoding from a given dataset would probably require a lot of interesting techniques and math that's way beyond my head.

But that's probably something easily done with current technology, what I'm interested in is learning how to talk about/learn about this concept. Distilling "knowledge," or "concepts" into "parameters", like, defining a DNA-like code for a given corpus of data... sorry I'm rambling but hopefully someone can relate
As someone who spends some amount of time at work doing stuff like converting 5 bullet points to a 3 page powerpoint presentation, I think everyone already knows it's corporate busy work. The point of it is not that anyone is going to read that 3 page report, it's to show that you've done work and produced some output ("demonstrating toil"). As long as they're insisting that it get done and are willing to pay for it to get done, I'm more than happy to ship that toil off to an AI. If it means I waste 2 minutes writing a good prompt rather than waste 30 minutes copying and pasting content, adding filler narrative, and picking the right font and color, that's more time back to do other things besides this performance art an employer expects of me.
I've read that what changed was the definition of "systemically important" which allowed access to that fund. I put quotes around "changed" for that reason.

However; if FDIC insurance is not now effectively unlimited, if the next bank that folds get the old limits imposed, then there's going to be some real shouting. And this method of raising those limits sucks and will almost certainly see court.
Your comments and much of this thread have been helpful to my understanding. (Like the Rust book!--thank you!). I also appreciate your effort to be kind/respectful/understanding, elevating the conversation, where others might have responded with anger or disparagement. Thanks for the example.
Is recreational fishing that big of an impact?
> Iridium Development - Iridium Development focused on making revolutionary iPhone apps

> Distribute- Distribute aimed to be the Alibaba of the US, mostly with wholesale drop shipping.

> Materialist - an e-commerce solution, [...] trying to bring wholesale housing products to market.

> Dave - personal financial management app

> Vizit - Image Analytics

> txtsmarter - Communications Surveillance Service

We might have different opinions on what counts as "innovative" I guess.
This feels like they spent a lot of money on the metaverse, it didn't work out, so now they're raising money by doing layoffs
Because it is not a penalty despite it looks like one. They got a privilege they normally do not have (the visa) which has an expiration date.

Do not get me wrong, this is hard for every single person and sucks in a general economic turndown where the issuing country is no longer in need of foreign specialists.
They need to scale up and make a 5-year plan.
I am not defending SVB executives.

Don't you understand the difference between deposit holders (customers) and the executives and investors in the bank?
Citation systems can and do discover circular reference. Not all of it! But it's a start.
>Anyone who thinks a society can function solely by ignoring and not regulating societal impact of actions is incredibly naive.

In this case market failure would be the intended feedback mechanism. There's also the larger context of years of artificially cheap credit to consider. Lastly, there are malign incentives around banks buying treasury bonds, thereby loaning cash to the gov.

I agree. Changing the rules in the middle of the game isn't Hoyle. Not sure that the conclusion, "we need more power in the hands of capricious referees" follows.
In the USA:

"The Fed" (singular) almost always, but especially in this context, means the Federal Reserve.

"The Feds" (plural) usually refers to some or another branch of federal law enforcement, especially the FBI. It occasionally refers to a non-law enforcement federal agency.
I don't think they exchange/trade any fiat. In which case all their money is in Crypto, and resides on their servers and on cold wallets.
I don't think its sketchy, it's just that the VPN business has extremely large revenues compared to costs of the service, which means A LOT of money remains for marketing. They can spend exorbitant amounts on youtube ads and affiliate review sites.

It's a bit of a unique market in this way, people are willing to pay $5-$10 per month for something that costs $1.
Your ISP doesn't get the full URL: they can tell which website you're visiting, but not the specific content you're accessing. The amount of information that is leaked by this, depends on which kind of site you're visiting. In the end, I occasionally use a VPN only if I'm connected to a public hostspot.
> it’s been known remote workers don’t perform as well for as long as I’ve been in the industry

I've worked in the industry for 10 years now, and I don't agree "it's been known". Any measurable source of such claims?
banks have access to a lot of cash
I don't "self-identify" as anyone, I have a birth certificate issued by the Kazakh government that plainly identifies me as ethnically Russian. Since the beginning of 2022, that has been enough to receive limitless amounts of vitriol and death threats from people such as yourself.
If Netflix can see that your traffic is coming out of an AWS datacenter, then yeah they'll block it.

If Nord VPN is really bouncing your traffic out of some other residential customer's connection, that would be a lot harder to detect. And a lot more ethically questionable if the other user doesn't realize they're doing it.
California’s Duck-Belly Blues
(1) This is not knowledge distillation, which requires knowing the logits and not just the output text.

(2) "Training a smaller model off davinci using the logits" would have been vastly more expensive than what they did, which was to fine-tune another pretrained foundation model, which happened to be smaller, using output of another foundation model, which happened to be larger. The relative size isn't the key idea, it's that they were able to extract the fine-tuning for instruction-following (which is relatively computationally cheap to train, but requires a custom expensive small dataset) and port it from one foundation model to another. This is what has implications for the companies that planned to have this custom fine-tuning as part of their competitive moat.

(3) I understand that ad hominem is against the culture that Hacker News tries to cultivate here. Consider reading or rereading the local guidelines on discussion, as well as reading or rereading an article on knowledge distillation, the Stanford publication of Alpaca, and my tweet.
A different version of "Soyboy" which itself is based off of the "Nu-Male" meme. Defining traits of a "Nu-Male" include (but are not limited to):

- A lack of masculine and mature traits (Excessively self-conscious, weak-willed, a canvas for [Current trends], potentially narcissistic)

- Beard-and-glasses aesthetic (Also previously known as the "Hipster" style)

- Terminally online and outspoken. Slacktivists

- Usually (but not always) "Leftists" with pronouns in their bio, LGBT+, BLM, Etc.

- Usually (but not always) white, male, and lives in urban areas (Portland, New York, SF, Etc.)

- Tries to come off as more intelligent than they usually are. Lacks perspective of the world at large.

And there is no shortage of these kinds of people on social media and in large technology-oriented organizations and corporations.
Right. Throughout Europe and the UK, the "door close" button usually does exactly that. Unless something is blocking the door, it will close the door immediately.

It's in the US and Canada that the placebo, non-working "door close" button seems to be the norm, due to regulations in those countries.

So why have a "door close" button at all in the US? I guess because most elevator designs/manufacturers have their origins in Europe. ThyssenKrupp (Germany), Kone (Finland), Schindler (Germany), etc. And rather than design a different panel for the European and North American markets, they just have one common design but with the software configured differently.
Are you saying the deposit holders (customers of the bank) are to blame?
I think it's reasonable post

> Clearly shows the consequences of missing payments:

> personal liabilities to directors/officers

> What a private sector solution could look like

> What were the alternatives (Hedge funds offering 60/70%)

> How quick this solution would be up and running

Maybe the author can add more details but it's interesting enough already
I've not seen any reporting or anything in the announcement that indicated an increase in fees for the FDIC insurance fund would be necessary, but I absolutely admit I may have missed that detail. Do you have a reference for this claim?
Look at this graph!

It shows how life evolved from Nickelback.
concerning but not surprising that the engineering mindset of hacker news view philosophical ruminations as "getting in the way of progress" or "not providing value"
Wasn't copilot only trained on public GitHub repos? Presumably there's nothing stopping anyone from training on them.
This goes w/o saying.

I think the better question is what if the PM has a coherent vision and is helping engagement/metrics. Is delivering on the outcomes that leadership wants. And can do it all by 2pm?

Our culture has become so obsessed with working for the sake of working. We talk about being outcome focused, rather than just doing busy work. But when someone is actually outcome focused then we want them to stay busy.

I agree that if the person isn't delivering results then they shouldn't do the job. But if they are delivering results then why do I care what they do with their afternoons?
Good! That'd keep most businesses in one piece.
I agree that this additional information is necessary to understand the problem. I've seen that show maybe twice in my lifetime, both times when I was a little kid. I did not know that Monty never opens the door with the prize behind it. Not one time in the history of the show did he ever open the prize door. Knowing that is additional information, and can be used to figure out the problem. But you need to watch the show more than twice to know that.
Show HN: Compare ChatGPT and Bing Chat side by side
Yeah, I can't find it. My best guess is from the statute itself:

https://www.govregs.com/regulations/expand/title29_chapterV_...

> § 780.1001 - General explanatory statement. Workers in rural areas sometimes engage, as a family unit, around the Christmas holidays, in gathering evergreens and making them into wreaths in their homes. Such workers, under well-settled interpretations by the Department of Labor and the courts, have been held to be employees of the firm which purchases the wreaths and furnishes the workers with wire used in making such wreaths.

I would guess that back in the day people made wreaths to raise funds for the family to pay for Christmas gifts and celebrations, or maybe for general purposes. This section seems to be from 1972, so yeah, I don't know what was happening in the 60s/70s to promote this exemption. Very much early gig economy though.
The general public does not really care one way or another about facebook the company
I don't think there are any true corporate alignment teams. Anyone that actually believes in AI alignment would be slamming the brakes on AI development of any kind, lest the entire human population fall over dead suddenly.
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