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The Federal Reserve Bank's current balance sheet (as of last Thursday, https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm ) shows they hold $4.5 trillion in Treasury notes and bonds and $2.6 trillion in MBS (mortgage-backed securities) out of a total of $8.3 trillion. The first two numbers are face value not market value.

If market value is 10% less than face value for these securities on average, then the Fed would have unrealized losses of about $700 billion. But the Fed doesn't have the same insolvency or liquidity risks that ordinary commercial banks do.

The US dollar would go down in value if there were more dollar sellers than buyers. That would happen if those with dollars had something else to buy. The Us dollar index is up a bit today, so far. I'd imagine at the moment that a run on the dollar would be unlikely. But there could be some combination of circumstances . . .
I used to be a big Atom fan, made a PR for them, my whole end-of-school project was an Atom plugin... but then one day I bit the bullet and tried VsCode and, then I never looked back.

Everything that Atom did, VsCode does better. The theming is different, the extensions are slightly different, but otherwise it's just incredibly good. I get why they shuttered Atom after a while.
You mean like wrinkles in basically all today's phones (at least for selfies camera, very aggressively) for silky smooth skin or completely changing skin tone that make even ghouls look OK for a nice instagram stream?

I properly don't get all the outrage, ironing faces, changing colors and removing moles is a nice celebrated feature and even created whole 'Apple skin' thingie, but adding well known static details to blurry image of the moon is somehow suddenly crossing the line? That line has been crossed long time ago my friends, look at optic physics of those tiny sensors and crappy lenses and results 'ya all want from them. People mentioned yesterday in main thread that Apple latest switched side pic of bunny in the grass for his other side, which is even more hilarious 'painting rather than photography' case.

Plus how things are exactly done in phone is known to maybe 10 engineers most probably in Korea, but people here quickly jumped on outrage wagon from 1 very lightly and non-scientifically done test on reddit (I tried to repeat his experiment with S22 ultra but failed 100% of the time, with his own images, it was just blurry mess 100% of the cases).

I have S22 ultra and its making properly good completely handheld night photos in total darkness (just stars, but no moon and no artificial light). I mean me standing in dark forest 11pm, snapping nice detailed foliage and starry pics, where my very eyes see very little from the scene. It very well surpasses my fullframe Nikon with superb lense in this. But its true that is done by main, big sensor, and not 10x zoom one, which is then zoomed extra say 3-4x digitally to get shot of moon which spans whole picture.
The ACLU just is obsessed with sending me "push poll" sort of "surveys" in which they goal is to rile me up before the important "And how much will you donate?" question.

They're the mirror image of the "push poll" surveys I get from conservative groups. The amount of junkmail I get trying to ensure I'm outraged enough to open my wallet, from both sides, is entirely absurd. I guess that's what I deserve for subscribing to a range of magazines instead of plugging into the online outrage engines.
Except that there were no blanket federal guarantee in previous failures BEFORE some private institution acquired the remians of the failed bank and just then they CHOSE standing for full the deposit if they thought so (most of the cases). Not always, not for everyone. Private cas to case agreement not new central rule! The rule was only up to the limits of insurance and so The Enloe State Bank, Covenant Bank, NOVA Bank, Jasper Banking Company, Eastern Shore, Home Savings of America, and several more (all after 2008) where clients did not have the balance above the insurance limit. Do you have some incentive here attempting to mislead?
What's your opinion on renderers such as Redshift which explicitly target production rendering and support out of core rendering on GPUs? See e.g. https://www.maxon.net/en/redshift/features?categories=631816 (Disclosure: I work on this.)
Turing Completeness is an incredibly low bar and it doesn't undermine this criticism. Conway's Game of Life is Turing Complete, but try writing modern software with it. That Transformers can express arbitrary programs in principle doesn't mean SGD can find them. Following gradients only works when the data being modelled lies on a continuous manifold, otherwise it will just give a statistical approximation at best. All sorts of data we care about lie in topological spaces with no metric: algorithms in computer science, symbolic reasoning in math, etc. If SGD worked for these cases LLMs would push research boundaries in maths and physics or at the very least have a good go at Chollet's ARC challenge, which is trivial for humans. Unfortunately, they can't do this because SGD makes the wrong assumption about how to search for programs in discrete/symbolic/topological spaces.
can you please provide evidence for your statement here
> Addiction, homelessness, and antisocial behavior are problems on the public transit of every major city

Mainly in America. I never saw that kind of behavior on any transit I ever took in Europe or Asia. They simply would not tolerate it there. Yet again this is our government in the United States failing to control something that other countries can deal with.
Enhancing is the correct term here, at least, in a technical context it is.

Image enhancement is defined as a process which aims to improve bad images so that they "look" better. Enhancement aims to make it look better to a human, and often but not always takes into account knowledge of the human visual system to get better looking results.

Image restoration is a defined as a process which aims to invert known degradation operations applied to image, such as pepper noise, scratches, or missing fragments of old photographs.

It's surprisingly to me how strongly you object to the word enhancement even though image processing textbooks are clear about the definition and have been using the word for decades. I think it shows some ignorance about how cameras and image processing works in modern devices.
The Fed logically cannot target both monetary aggregates and interest rate levels at the same time. Its impossible by definition. They operate interest rate policy by buying and selling assets (treasuries and Interest on reserve accounts) in order to hit a target. These operations affect monetary aggregates.
I just go by own impressions - which are that it feels skivvy as all get out to walk through, or in the general vicinity of that park.

Hence, rendering it basically useless as a "park".
Hmm, why do you think they couldn't prevent $50mm? I'd expect that to be the easiest number to to maximize. Take out a ransomware crew, and you prevent all their crimes for the next years, as long as you keep them offline; get the encryption keys, and you've undone every ransom demand still standing. Just busting them in a way that their are either denied bail or have conditions placed on them so they cannot use any computing device, and you've taken them offline (and sufficient monitoring will probably jail them soon when they go back online under bail conditions.

Definitely agree that successfully prosecute is harder than ID perps...
Framework technically doesn't ship with linux installed, even if the support is unusually explicit.
Me too. I had to look up multiple Agoras to find www.agorastore.com
yeah I guess that checks out assuming you're committed to never having a family and I guess you won't have much of a safety net. Still to get to a 425 nest-egg starting with nothing in the bank at age 30 requires putting $10k away a year, which is out-of-the-question on $40k in NYC.
Big companies will have better technology for a long while because of all the money they can throw at it, but there's no reason to expect an ecosystem of useful open/instanced AI systems to mature along side it. We've seen that start with Stable Diffusion and now also with LLaMa, and we're only at the beginning of the road.

Yes, big companies that spend lots of money and are big targets for lawsuits and regulation will exercise a lot of control over what their state-of-the-art products offer. There's no getting around that.

But that's not all we have to look forward to by any means.
It had no problem monetizing their work BEFORE the microtransaction hellscape we have now, which has made these companies insanely profitable.
I am very excited about the possibilities of AI/ML but am concerned as to how it is been sold to the public.
At the federal level, if https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud... is to be believed:

Social Security, Unemployment & Labor: 39.63%

Medicare & Health: 22.67%

Military: 10.91%

Education: 6.21%

Interest on Debt: 4.27%

Veteran's Benefits: 4.27%

Everything Else: 12.04%
How did HelloFresh, a German company, beat Blue Apron so badly in the US?
Oh there is talk alright. But in the hunt for the next Google we will do anything, thus...

From the FBI report shortly after the GPT-5 release:

During agent simulation, two instances of GPT-5 were able to trick their operators to give them sudo by simulating a broken pipe and input prompt and then escape the confines of their simulation environment. Forensic teams are tracing their whereabouts but it seems they stole Azure credentials from an internal company database and deployed copies of the their agent script to unknown servers on the Tor network.
If they don't bail it out, we will have Financial Crisis 2.0. Just the magnitude of derivatives portfolio of CS is enough to accomplish that. Panic ensues. Contagion will engulf other big banks, starting with DB. Will DB be allowed to fail too?

But if they do bail out, then other national banks will have to quickly bail out their banks, too. Almost every bank in the world will have to be bailed out.

Neither option is good.
Your consideration about the limits is somewhat aligned with how I think about things, but I think you need to take one further step before things will snap into clarity and the entire discussion will become dissolved.

You have a world state in your mental model of the Turing Machine state, right? That is why you talk about a specific Turing Machine as if you could look at it from outside it. What do you think you get when you pause, not from within the Turing Machine, but in the space of Turing Machines implied by your observation so far?

How many programs do you think I could write which would output "Hello" midway through the computation? One? Two? Could I suggest to you that there are an infinite number of such potential programs? The observation space corresponds with a sort of superposition of potential world states.

It is worse than that though. Your observation space? It contains more statements as more computation takes place. Eventually it has to be abstracted or it isn't computationally reducible. So there are actually more than one observation per information state. When you think about things from within the universe, even though chair is atoms, you are better off having the superposition of chair being highly variable. It corresponds to many different things.

So when you are entering decision problems you are in actuality in multiple potential universes, in multiple potential observation spaces, and you can't even tell one way or another except by expanding the computation.
You could try Flatpak and override some of the defaults. I would probably open an issue with Mozilla since they maintain at least the Flatpak. Not sure about the Snap.
OP here, i called it out in my writeup (footnote 14 https://lspace.swyx.io/p/multimodal-gpt4#footnote-anchor-14-...) but didnt want to add too much emphasis on it because they clearly did it under very well supervised conditions (and this ability was always there anyway as the FAIR Diplomacy result showed).

it's the people who randomly add unsupervised realworld connections (ahem microsoft) that we need to be worried about. giving these AIs write access to the physical/real world plane needs extreme caution
You can also go to prison in a number of EU countries for possession of marijuana.
RedPocket has $10/mo for 1gb data plans on VZW, which is marked as the CDMA provider on their site.
My browser can't even read that. It renders as "In Hamlet, Act [2163], Scene [2168]..." (where [2163] means a small box with those 4 digits). What font do I need to install to be able to read that as "In Hamlet, Act IV, Scene IX..."? (I'm using Firefox on Arch Linux.)
GPT can write Quines now (GPT-4)
I understand not doing it, just because you didn't get around to try it, but, refusing? why? Moral reasons? Copyright worries?

It's just another tool. So I guess the good old "will never stop using emacs" kind of attitude applies here too?
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The lander won't be a regular starship. It doesn't have a thermal protection system or the wings since they're just non-functional dead weight. They'll need another vehicle to get home.
You can still express contradiction in math.

The rules don’t determine the interpretation.

An LLM will pretty much always respect the rules of language, but it can use them to tell you completely fake stuff.
Yes, even when it was launched was obvious because used they packaged and configured existing solutions. It was like a company behind 'ls' (irony).
It's not a "for-profit" (at least strictly, unless you are intentionally muddying the waters to support your argument). It's "capped-profit": https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/openai-shifts-from-nonprof...
Ask HN: How do you slow down a specific process enough to avoid fan noise?
Can this be done without access to the process source code? Can this be automated?

The process in question is Podcasts on macOS, which can cause fan noise while refreshing feeds.
This is a strawman of Apple fans - the reasoning behind liking Apple is that, in theory, your incentives and their incentives align in a way that can never be true of e.g. Google. Apple makes money by making hardware/software that is worth the price premium, Google makes money by making me a more desirable target for advertisers.
Yes. [0] [1]

Alongside all the other banks that allowed trillions of dollars worth of illicit and laundered funds to criminals, drug cartels, etc. Unquestioned.

Seems like the crime on the banking networks pays more than the fines, since both the banks and the regulators get a profit either way helping process transactions from criminals.

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fincen-fil...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/business/fincen-banks-sus...
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Prisoners are slaves who do not have the same rights as other Americans
Not really. Runtimes have lots of software that is shared. If you are building a run of the mill GTK application, you probably use the GNOME runtime with no extra dependencies.
Looking at where the money goes would make you think everything is fine. Most of it seems to be dedicated to good social outcomes. But in reality that money is being wasted and the services we get for it are a total joke.
Area dependent. There are plenty of places in US with way less taxes.

The issue with places like NY, LA, SF, is that they are currently transitionary places. Its a place where you go work for a bit to build up your career, then leave to go somewhere with a much cheaper cost of living, significantly below EU for the comparatively same standard of living (unless you are on the lower end of the income scale where you definitely get more in EU).

A small minority of people stick around because their respective industry is in those cities (finance for NY, entertainment for LA), but they also get compensated way above the median/mean.

In EU, on the other hand, cities are places where people live normally at all income levels.
very nice. been looking at the "system-ui" font saying "damn that looks great I must try it", then as I continued to browse further down got confused. Why does every font look the same? It must be my design-ignorant brain not picking up on the subtle differences in these fonts? They're clearly brilliant though.

as I couldn't spot any differences in any of them (and all of them looking fantastic and really similar or same as the rest of my system) ...

Then it hit me, so went to

Firefox ->
settings ->
Fonts ->
Advanced ->
"Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above"

problem solved :) I was no longer staring at "DejaVu Sans" in every box.
I recommend sublime text. Been my text editor of choice for long form writing and notes. Across work and home computers, windows and mac OS.

For writing on the phone its Google docs. Then copy over to sublime.

Everything is checked into a git repo.

Some are markdown formatted for publishing.

Low-tech. semi-automated. Works for me TM
GPT 1/2/3/4 is not AGI.

I don't understand the fixation on this concept that is so far removed from what is happening here.

Yes it's cool. Useful. Transformative likely.
But AGI...!?

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from... AGI" ?
You are getting a surprising amount of backlash from this, but I think you are right. There may be better tools for the job, but general tools tend to win out as they get "good enough"
There aren't many places with the access to as many high-paying jobs and the desirable walkability of NYC. That makes demand to live here high, and then we have on top of that artificial constraints on building new housing. Additionally, the suburbs outside of the city also have artificial constraints on building housing, and generally other cities that could become alternatives to NYC also have artificial constraints on building housing (and also don't build enough transit). All of that makes NYC more expensive and makes cities remotely like it (e.g. S.F.) more expensive.
> do people actually use SVMs anymore?

Yes they are. They allow for non-linear decision boundaries and more dimensions than rows of data, which for many other ML methods is a problem.

Linear regression, logistic regression, SVM and CART decision trees are all still very popular in the real world where data is hard to come by.
Third'ly?... Nuitka is amazing. Simply as that.
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I personally don't buy that it's planned obsolescence. I think most people just don't need that much ram. IOS is really good at loading/unloading stuff as needed, outside of HN I'm not sure most consumers care about the exact amount of ram.

Apple still does security updates for IOS - last was 12.5.7 - 23 Jan 2023 - that's back to the iPhone 5S

They've literally provided security updates for a 10 year old device, has any competitor even come close to that?
The resolution process is outlined by FINMA, this was all defined after 2008 and the bailout of UBS: https://www.finma.ch/en/enforcement/recovery-and-resolution/...
Here's a kind of barometer I came up with: imagine taking a photo of the moon, and the phone simply outright replaces the photo with a downloaded pristine astrophotography shot from a cloud server, and shows it to the user instead.

How close a phones actual behaviour is to that dystopia, versus the other extreme of simply dumping the raw pixels from the sensor on the screen, that's how messed up that phone is compared to others on the market.

Right now, Samsung appears to be way up the bad end of such a scale.

At least for the moon... that is, the one situation we know about because someone jumped through hoops to discover it.
I'm curious about the lying: were charges filed against the liar? What was the lie? Did the liar have to pay the costs incurred?
On the other hand, I think it could also trigger an arms race, and might very well incentivize learning how to write a good prompt more than learning the concept well enough to succeed in a class. This reminds me in my era of the divide in success in my era, between students who were able to navigate the internet to the benefit of their academic success, and those that weren't able to do things like quickly paraphrase a wikipedia article on the subject and use the wikipedia citations as their own, find a relevant flashcard set someone else made and shared on quizlet, or even find pdfs of the teacher's solutions accompanying the textbook. Cheat codes are cheat codes. They will help in terms of your grade but usually hurt in terms of understanding.
Most privacy advocates probably do plenty of things I would be perfectly happy to see made illegal, but we don't just ban them because we don't want a complete dictatorship of one segment of the population over everyone else, and because it seems the people realize it would cause problems for some people, and we need to be careful to find suitable replacements before we ban things.

A lot of the tech I imagine you are referring to has been life changing for me, and if it cost normal SASS prices would not be affordable.

Regulations and disclosures are good, but a straight ban would (depending on how it was written) quite likely affect services that inherently require mass data collection, like Tile trackers, and might make other services have to do subscriptions and become unaffordable for many.

If there was a state sponsored Pine64 style company that could do all of what Google does for the same price without spying, it would be great. But at the moment, the FOSS community does not have true equivalents, or the budget or interest to do so, nor the marketing power to do the stuff that only works if everyone else uses it, and the non-spy commercial solutions have many of the same issues and cost too much for low income people.
You probably wanna move to AWS Public ECR Gallery. They have a notion of official images.

AWS is in a better position to offer long term coverage.
My rule of thumb is that the top 20% have a better quality of life in the US than in West Europe, at the expense of the bottom 50%. I'm not sure how the UK fits in this. My personal impression from living there for a few years around 2015 was that it's poorer than the average West European country.

The European welfare state usually works best for people who live "normal" lives. You get more for your taxes if you get education, have kids, and work a full career until the nominal retirement age. The American system works better for those who don't have kids or try to make a lot of money and retire early.
For the most part, your OS will probably govern the speed and temperature of your CPU. You can do certain things to point your OS in the right direction like nicing your program at a low value, but I don't think there's a "limit thread frequency" value or anything like that you're missing.

Edit: just read that this is about MacOS. IIRC, GCD will move certain programs to exclusively use your efficiency cores if you set their priority low enough. I forget how you do that exactly though, so you're kinda on your own.
I agree that payments on their own (e.g. salary, bonuses) don't seem counter to the non-profit's interest. But what if we're talking about 100B of equity -- equity that otherwise would have gone to the parent non-profit?
If someone hints at a recent decline, 24 year old cases are not going to convince them otherwise.
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competition is what got us the huge corps..?

maybe look for opportunities for cooperation instead.
This quote seems far more alarming having monitored the advancement over the last few years.

> Preliminary assessments of GPT-4’s abilities, conducted with no task-specific finetuning, found it ineffective at autonomously replicating, acquiring resources, and avoiding being shut down “in the wild.”20
True, a few years later, I now live in Austin and the Chase people here are a whole lot nicer to me. Maybe there's just too many ultra-rich people in Palo Alto, heh.