skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the core of my argument is that SVB's viability and the damage caused by their implosion are separable concerns, and FDIC has rather neatly separated them. Nobody has to take a bath on SVB's bond portfolio; deposits are guaranteed, so they can just be held to maturity; there's no pressure to sell. Meanwhile: SVB's equity is zeroed out, so they've paid the ultimate price for their incompetence.
> Afghanistan was ruled by a bunch of religio-fascist nutjobs

From an atheist perspective, the US looks exactly like being ruled by "religio-fascist nutjobs"
To the extent that is true, it is true of IP law (and just law) as a whole, not specific to the GPL.
A sizable portion of the entire internet is running WordPress. That’s billions of dollars a year.
At least one tech YouTuber, Naomi Wu (a.k.a. RealSexyCyborg) has in fact already covered this topic and successfully got a company to comply with their GPL obligations.

Her comment[0] at the time directed at other Tech YouTubers was:

> YouTubers- you CAN make a difference by making GPL compliance

> a condition of your product reviews. I'm happy to mediate in

> Chinese if there is any miscommunication. GPL compliance means better,

> more functional, more innovative phones for everyone.

[0] https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/143734308046669414...

And this wasn't the first time she was involved in the resolution of such situations:

* "Creality GPL Update - Naomi Wu Released CR-10S Marlin Source Code" Joel Telling (a.k.a 3D Printing Nerd) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pODH6FR4nU8>

Content Advisory: Joel chooses not to wear a suit & tie to present his videos.
In other news, second life still exists. At a stable ~40k average concurrently logged in users even. Which isn't huge, but then again I haven't heard anyone mention it for years.
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The reality of the legal system is, it often does not matter who is most righteous, but rather who has more money and more lawyers.

There are no provisions of any contract or agreement that matter if you are not prepared to enforce them, no matter the cost.

So, while you can insert a clause like you have described above, but you are still in the same position - drain your bank account paying lawyers to maybe recover some damages after probably many months or years of posturing and litigation.

The calculus on that effort often means it's not financially sound, or worth trying to enforce the contract. Just to see the inside of a court room, you will already be in the hole for at least six figures. If the other side manages to drag things out for years, the costs increase dramatically. So it becomes - pay $xxx,xxx to litigate and take a chance that maybe if you win, you might recover some of that money... maybe.

This is why, again, so many GPL violations exist today. The FOSS projects lack the means to enforce the license.

This is also why organizations like the FSF exist - to help FOSS projects (and others) negotiate and litigate these costly-and-usually-not-profitable conflicts.
That's why the protestors wants to increase corporate taxes, not personal taxes.
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More importantly, there are so many examples of drawn art which intentionally have the wrong amount of fingers that it would make all sense for a model to learn that non-photographic humans may easily have less fingers.
I agree with you about G-S, all it did was separate the Investment banking from regular banking. That doesn't make it boring at all!

But I just can't wrap my head around the decision making process at SVB. I wouldn't expect to be paid high 6 figures to run risk at a $200B bank and I knew not to be in long bonds. hn_throwaway_99's comment about the legality of hedging their HTM book makes me wonder if they just reclassified it to reduce their costs in 2022. (Only credit and servicing risks can be hedged)

And that gets to the real issue. Current regulations actually encourage rate risk at banks <$250B, because you can either pay for insurance or just mark it HTM. The majors don't have this choice and have to eat the extra cost.

It is not that way in EU banking due to the Basel framework and IRRB. At least they have reporting standards and don't allow more than 15% to be at risk in the Supervisory Outlier Test (SOT).

https://www.bis.org/fsi/fsisummaries/irrbb.htm
I had a manager that was like this. Bullet points for complicated stuff, but most of the time the answer was just "OK", "Yes", "No" or perhaps a number if you asked for a quantity. Not even hello/goodbye, just a "Sent from my iPhone".
It should say that in the blog post.

It reads like a ridiculously long list of jobs you took and failed at.
In fairness, rust-in-wasm has pretty complete DOM bindings. You can quite easily write DOM manipulation code in Rust without ever touching JS/TS. Whether that's a good idea is another matter.
No, and that's the point. I understand that banks mark long-term bonds as hold-to-maturity (and only then can list them at par on their balance sheet). But they actually have to hold them. Otherwise, they have to mark them to market, and any sales of HTM bonds flip the entire tranche over to MTM.

So part of the problem is that SVB had a reasonable-looking balance sheet of HTM bonds, then had to sell some at market, which flipped their entire portfolio to MTM and destroyed their balance sheet.

E.g., a simple balance sheet:

Assets Qty. Par Market Total
-----
Mark To Market Bonds 10k $1k $0.8k $8Mn
Hold To Maturity Bonds 1M $1k $0.8k $1Bn
Total $1.08Bn

But then let's say I have $16M of withdrawals. I sell all of my short-term bonds for $8M, but have to cover another $8M, so I sell another 10k bonds at market price.

But, oh shit, now all my long-term bonds have to be marked to market, so now my balance sheet looks like this:

Assets Qty. Par Market Total
-----
Mark To Market Bonds 990k $1k $0.8k $792Mn
Total $792Mn

$16M of outflows have reduced the assets on my balance sheet by two hundred and sixteen million.
I think there has already been people on this board admittedly using LLMs to generate comments. This theory predated this current AI explosion, but that potentially makes it harder to tell if you are arguing with a person or a bot.
They didn't release their code or weights, but they did release the training data, which is what was used to create the LoRa here.
You're confusing the market for equity with the market for the goods and services produced by the company. The shareholders are optimizing for the former at the expense of the latter.
noncompetes that don't include full compensation for the period of the noncompete are purely a tool for wage suppression. That uncompensated noncompetes are legal, let alone a thing that companies do, is abhorrent.
I think the OP is talking about input/output impedances of amplifiers/guitar pickups, while you're talking about transmission line characteristic impedance.

Impedance of a transmission line is weird: in some ways, it acts exactly like a resistor, and in some ways it doesn't.

In contrast to a resistor, an ideal transmission line doesn't convert electrical energy to heat. Ideally, 100% of electrical energy put in one end of the line will make it to the other end of the line intact.

However, just like an ideal resistor, an ideal transmission line will have a real-valued impedance, not a capacitive (negative imaginary values) or inductive (positive imaginary values) impedance; nor will an ideal transmission line have any frequency dependence in its impedance: 50 ohms is 50 ohms.

One way I like to think of characteristic impedance is that it's the temporary impedance a change in signal will see until current/voltage wave reflections make it back from the other end:

For a 50-ohm ideal transmission line one light-second long (pretending we have velocity factor 1.0 to make the math easy), your ohmmeter would read 50 ohms for two seconds, and after that it would read whatever resistance is connected to the other end. If the other end is an open circuit, the ohmmeter would measure 50 ohms then infinite resistance; if the other end is a short circuit, the ohmmeter would see 50 ohms then 0 ohms; if the other end is terminated with a 50-ohm resistor, the ohmmeter would measure 50 ohms indefinitely.

If you have an infinitely long ideal transmission line with 50 ohm impedance, and hooked up an ohmmeter to it, it would measure 50 ohms. If you hooked up an LCR meter, it would show 0 impedance and 0 capacitance.

This indistinguishability between an infinitely long transmission line and a resistor is why a matched termination resistor prevents signal reflections: If you have some finite length of transmission line, and you attach either a matched resistor or an infinitely long transmission line with the same impedance to the end, the first length of transmission line cannot tell which you have attached - its behavior will be the same in either case: all the energy is passed into the next section.
An article about the team of humans who back up a simulated real estate agent named "Brenda"...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/13/becoming-...
Link and discussion at https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1144vyb/co...
It's been reported [1] (no paywall [2]) that executives were aware of the risk and continued to purchase higher yielding assets in spite of internal protests.

The actions are borderline criminal. To avoid a $36M hit they literally bet the bank. This was a step beyond regular incompetent mismanagement.

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.

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

[2] https://archive.is/HqVWn
If we follow this line of thinking: in the, let's call it, "pre-AI" days all of the ideas that we have of the form "Mixing A and B" are ones that at least one human found to be interesting/valuable (and the ones that become common and get remixed must have been interesting/valuable to many humans). Maybe the "originality" of the idea isn't the thing we care about, per se, but rather that fact that somebody though it was interesting to shine a spotlight on this region of the idea space for the first time.

But now that we have software that can generate massive amounts of "Mixing A and B" ideas automatically... I dunno, seems like we're heading toward a sort of "pollution of the idea atmosphere" where we get a ton of new/remixed ideas dumped into the world that haven't passed through that initial filter of a human vetting them as particularly useful or valuable or interesting in the first place.
How accurate is it in its responses?

Have you had any instances of it writing a load of bullshit to a user, and if so how did you address this issue from a technical perspective?
Yes, I know how sarcasm quotes work. It just didn’t seem to fit all of them, like “go out of business”.
>Not sure what the purpose of the question is.
>
>If you don't want to do the take home test, tell the company just that.

Just a guess, but perhaps they're trying to provide some constructive feedback to the company to let them know that the time estimate they're giving to their candidates is potentially way off. (That said, maybe it's not way off for people with more experience, but the candidate doesn't get that.) It's probably futile, but I can understand the urge. If they company doesn't know a problem exists, they can't fix it (if it is an actual problem).
what else is new, companies also said child labor laws will wreck business.
or sqlite for CSV/TSV, haven't tried it for json.
I used Triplebyte from both sides, as a candidate as well as a hiring manager. I hired some great people from them, but over the past couple years watched as their standards slid, pricing models changed, and sales practices went from friendly to cutthroat :/
So how fast & high would the carrier aircraft have to go for it to make sense?
2048 "tokens", where one token is roughly equivalent to ¾ of a word
Social media is honestly such fucking cancerous garbage... kids wouldn't be doing horrible shit like this if it wasn't for the possibility to "go viral" and make money.
We're already past the point of diminishing returns on "human creativity".

And I would argue that the current (mostly recent productions) Netflix catalog is indeed repetitive and stagnant. Originality in tv production is currently in a race to the bottom.
Public APIs maintainers signaling a corporate sponsor has hijacked the project
A warning flag of what, exactly?
North Korea is dirt poor, but still managed to create nuclear weapons.
The barrier is not that high.

If they could do it then countries like Poland or Finland could do that too. They don't, because they have other security guarantees at the moment. If NATO and EU collapsed - the number of nuclear weapons states would definitely increase.
Gas prices and taxes on the engine's displacement lead to the euro cars having smaller engines.
Noncompetes are an attempt by companies to deny potential resources to their competitors. Nothing more or less than that.

That's why they're unethical -- they're using a former employee as a kind of cannon fodder in a business war.
The talk was great! Thanks for sharing.
This article’s technical content is excellent, but it’s ruined by the creepy analogy between DEFFN’s internals and a woman’s body.
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Hey bing, how were last year's grades of Bobby Tables?
if >90% of your work can be replaced by a machine, it still stands that it's pretty mindless work. If you only need to turn your brain on to handle edge cases then it's off by default. Even if machines handle those cases poorly, it can still be cheaper to use them and eat the loss of a higher defect rate. If that's the case, then the actual value provided by a worker's decision making process trends to zero.

You also seem to be under the impression that our hierarchies are of privilege, not of competence. The actual differentiating factor between people who climb the socioeconomic ladder and those who do not is grit (not intelligence). The willingness to work harder and persevere longer than average (unsurprisingly) makes the difference. Fortunes are made and lost in a few generations. The people who make them earn them, mostly through sheer hard work. That isn't to say that organizations don't grow to become bloated and corrupt. Ideally at this point we should allow them to fail and the cycle to continue. Our main dysfunction seems to be propping up organizations that ought to fail, for fear of the temporary instability caused by their failure.
So that's not removing randomness, it's just grade inflation. I suppose it's also secret range narrowing, since an 3% improvement from 92% to 95% is actually no improvement at all at 1.1 * (random) capped at 100%.
Are you referring to this? https://www.internetvin.tv/i-dont-like-making-the-best-thing...
So there was nothing wrong when Raiser killed his wife to keep his FS in kernel, right? Everybody felt comfortable? But now when "Reds" involved, it's different!
I used to work in webhosting and HTTP logs are full of really weird stuff where you can't even really understand what they are trying to do. We would pass funny or novel ones back and forth for fun in the sysadmin Jabber chat. My favorite one (it became my internal email sig for a while) was something like:

GET ../../../../../etc/shadow.php?redirect=google.com

You try to follow the thought process just end up crosseyed: OK they are trying to use directory traversal to get the shadow file, but...they expect it to have a PHP extension. Well, I guess that could be some .htaccess RewriteRule misconfiguration that's relatively common. Ok but then they expect it to actually /be/ a PHP script and...to understand the "redirect" parameter? Hmm maybe this is possible if some other vulnerability lets them write to the shadow file. OK but if they can already write to arbitrary files on the machine, why use /etc/shadow, and why do any of this just to generate ... a 3xx to google.com?
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You're essentially correct that that effort didn't work.

That pivot was motivated, more or less, by the fact that we'd never found a good way to attract candidates that wasn't "dump tons of money into ads". (Even in the early days, when our branding was good, most of our candidate acquisition was from ads; only maybe 25% was word-of-mouth.) It just didn't work: senior engineers simply didn't find the things we could offer them compelling enough.

Fundamentally, if you're a hiring market paid by companies, you're selling access to talent. And finding cost-efficient ways to get that talent is a core problem of your business. We tried a few approaches to that, but none really took off. (The most successful was our Screen tool, but the problem with that was that companies mostly wanted to screen candidates they saw as low-value - juniors and international candidates, mostly - and were terrified of screening high-value senior candidates. The product worked well, but didn't get the candidates that would let us stand out, basically.)

During 2022, we pivoted back to a focus on companies, and actually saw quite a bit of success with our last few efforts in a way that, with more runway, we might have converted into some really good candidate experiences. Unfortunately, this coincided with a collapse in tech that both tanked companies' desire to hire and tightened their belts as they braced for a hostile fundraising environment, and we couldn't overcome that environment even with a product that did seem to have reasonable fit.
There is definitely enough "crime" to go around here. In any other context $6,000,000 is a heck of a lot of theft!
Hi everyone. Though I'd try Twitter API for the last time, before the new price change.

I spent 2 days working this little game to play Tetris on my Twitter banner. Reply to the tweet link to move, rotate the block

Come play and let me know if you have any feedback!
I am sorry, but it tricked you. That is not really a hypothesis.
Right: SVB was incompetent. Their stock got zeroed out. Meanwhile, institutions that have adequate cushion can step in and hold SVBs assets to maturity.

The thread here asks: "who's paying to cover SVB's uninsured depositors?". Isn't that the answer?
https://archive.ph/phePO
No, because prohibition was kind of popular because Americans were drinking ABSURD amounts of alcohol, like an average of 13 drinks a week, or 2.5 gallons of pure ethanol a year. However, prohibition had lots of bad side effects and people decided a government purposely poisoning them for consuming a substance that is as human as farming probably wasn't the right solution.

Nobody thought alcohol was "healthy", and right now, the only people pushing pot as "healthy" are dumb stoners who are just anti-establishment types and think tanks that want to push medical weed as a foot in the door to legalization. It's propaganda basically.

Also isn't this article about SOCIETAL effects of weed, not health effects?
> Much like mechanization was possible by ultra rich at the turn of the last century.

If by "last century" you mean 19th century, then there was a lot of backlash against mechanization being controlled only by the rich, starting with Communist Manifesto, and continuing with 1st and 2nd International. The important part of this was education of the working class.

I think the AI might seem as a threat, but it also provides more opportunity for education of people (allowing them to understand cultural hegemony of neoliberal ideology more clearly), who will undoubtedly not just accept this blindly.

I have no doubt that within next decade, there will be attempts to build a truly open AI can help people deeply understand political history and shape public policy.
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In your view advancement is that in "green threads" they overloaded Thread.sleep(..), so it doesn't call real Thread.sleep() but doing something like Futures + ExecutionService underneath instead.

Java already had tons of non-blocking io/http and many other frameworks without "green threads" but using futures and executionservice. Green threads look like syntactic sugar.
Tokens. Short or common words tend to be one token, while less common words are composed of multiple tokens. For GPT OpenAI gives the rule of thumb that on average you need four tokens to encode three words, and LLaMA should be similar
> The compensation gap between SBF and his underlings just goes to show you that wealth inequality exists even in corrupt organizations.

Related to this is an interesting piece from Freakonomics[1] about drug gangs. They claim wealth inequality existing in corrupt organizations like drug gangs is a necessity.

[1] https://genius.com/Steven-levitt-the-freakonomics-of-mcdonal...
First Republic now has a sweep account that spreads up to $100m across 400 banks in increments of up to $FDIC_INSURANCE_LIMIT.

What's the difference between the FDIC insuring all deposits at US banks directly and US banks doing it themselves by forming a complete graph? (Other than there being a clear upper limit in the latter case, which is currently greater than $1b per account.)
A high say-do ratio would be bad. A high do-say works.
ah, right I did notice that because people were running queries into the training data.

why is there a general assumption that unreleased unreleased weights are better? is that something we can do, a free-weights community that solves this recurring issue?
Not to mention AI has already taken over the economy because humans put it there. At least the hedgehog funds did. There aren't many stock market buy/sell transactions made by human eyeballs anymore.
If anything, that smug disdain is a reflection of the perceived elitism of traditional artists.

A small culture war that was smouldering long before the appearance of generative models.
As an "old person" it still weirds me out to see Microsoft get so much praise for their open-source developer tools
Interviewers actually did scale reasonably well, which is part of why Karat (which stayed focused on that part) was in a position to buy our stuff to begin with.

What didn't scale was the ability to get high-quality candidates in the door in the first place.
I'd also appreciate another hint
Downloaded your "native Mac app"

Turns out it's just Electron

Disappointed. Will stick to TablePlus
Microsoft /did/ go back, once, for an updated version of BASIC-65.

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=46
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Excited to try this out. Was disappointed at how often ChatGPT3 output incorrect formulas for working with Google Sheets data. Hopefully the implementation with Copilot will be more accurate.
Eh? I'm not a customer but TrueBill/Rocket Money seems to deliver a lot more value than Apple for far less of a cost while also being opt-in rather than a platform requirement.
The GPT-4 output still looks like a parlour trick to me. As you say, it is just regurgitating using good sentence structure what it read.

I'd just as soon use F# as-is, instead of this hodge podge TenetLang.