skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dodd-Frank always seemed like a vague hodge-podge of stuff that, sure, strengthen regulators but didn't put many hard limits on banks. Regardless, Frank is correct that the agency that should have dealt with Signature's problems was the State regulator, not the Feds.

The thing is that both SVB and Signature were these large commercial banks that didn't really do many commercial loans, they just bought bonds. That's more or less going to doom you to die sooner or later 'cause your estimate of the future value of a money isn't always going to be better than average. So regulators should have said something a while back, yeah. Why they didn't or couldn't is the question.
Say you've got a 700-page document to send to someone. Printing costs around $0.10 a side if it's monochrome and not too dense. CD-ROM costs about $1.00 total for at least 650MiB.

What do you think is more cost-effective? Your tax dollars at work, remember!
The cofounders also care about their reputation very much

Their reputation has literally had monetary impact on Stripe by bringing in talent more easily because people “like” the cofounders, and it also has turned the company into the default payment platform for many startups.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they had a professional PR consultancy for boosting their individual images

Retaining that rep and goodwill is probably literally considered worth a couple billion to Stripe
Yeah, everyone should think about what kind of company they want to work for. Maybe you want a big name on your resume, a couple years at stripe might not be a bad idea.

Similarly, if they get a bad anti-employee rep, they'll suffer in hiring. The company needs to make concessions to avoid that fate
You're 100% on the money here. One way to use it is to fire off user-provided scripts tied to certain events in your product, similar to webhooks. But it's also flexible and quick enough to make your product extendable in terms of UI. It's 100% deploy-less (and stateless) as well, meaning you can just through whatever code at it, and it will quickly evaluate and respond with the result.
I have been an R/C hobbyist for years and what they have managed to do in Africa seems pretty darn neat. Not just the aircraft, but the operations.

What issues do see with their new design?
Doesn't every language have words for feelings?

I mean, sure there's variations (e.g. not all languages have "saudade" or "schadenfreude") but it seems a pretty basic group of words.
what city is your fivebucks in? It’s like sevenbucks in my city now
Well poodles can be decently large, though I’m impressed with the sheer consistency of breed popularity there, no ebb and flow of top breed’s compared to the other countries
Can Someone Ask ChatGPT4 If This Free Energy Idea Is Feasible
I have this idea on how we can develop free energy and I'd like to know if it would be feasible, and how much it would cost in total. I think chatGPT4 can solve the problem, but I don't have the money for the program. Below is the idea - can someone put it into chatGPT4 and see what it says? Thanks.

The idea.

From a note I sent to another person

I would like us to have free energy though. I think that perhaps the point of life is to make the necessities of life so cheap as to be free so we can all sit around thinking deep thoughts and staring at the clouds. If you have any pull with the NRC I might mention (https://www.nuscalepower.com/en), base grid load capacity (https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Baseload_power), this (https://archy.deberker.com/the-uk-is-wasting-a-lot-of-wind-p...), and Djikstra's algorithm.

In essence, each small scale passive power plant reactor, if optimally placed along the power grid, would produce much higher returns of energy to the grid than just their energy production rating.

You can also make nuclear power plants shippable around the world by putting small charges around the core that would fragment the radioactive material and release a mixture of boron and concrete if the containment unit is opened. Which means that third world countries could have energy independence. The geometries and physics involved is a minor engineering problem, as opposed to fusion reactors that require theoretical physics.

I'd like to know approximately how much this would cost and how long it would take. Thanks again!
In theory, we could reach a complete saturation point for hearing what others think is a good idea and feel and believe. Given a century and a half of this, we might change our minds again.

Maybe in the future, ChatGPTv42.0 has hidden away all books, documents and knowledge behind blackbox LLMs. Our rational base for defining words, is washed away by computing.

One might yearn for speech to have concrete meaning again.

No matter what you feel/believe/emote and no matter what words the computer generates, I mean to follow through on my actions with steely conviction, for reasons known only to me.

People would say what they mean and behave how they desire.

And we could be supported in this behaviour and speech, because words and feelings would have lost their basis in rational reality.
More people should try weed who haven't. Melts that stick up the butt, as if were.
> I don't know if more opaque systems exist that wouldn't give you any access like that

As long as there is there is "server reimplementation", i.e. private registries available, one can always hack together a solution out of self signed CA, DNS and routing to replace "the server" with local registry.
I am a bit triggered by calling them a "amish" puppy mills. why not just call them puppy mills. of course they are run by amish, but they are also run by humans. So even if 90% of them are run by a amish, that does not mean that 90% of Amish people are running puppy mills. Does using ethnicity in this case adds to the definition?
That seems to be the case in the US.

In Europe they are written as you'd read them, so top to bottom.

You'll see STOP BUS.

BUS

STOP

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Which looking at it on page makes total sense right?

But while driving it doesn't. It reads opposite. Yet it doesn't mean that a bus needs to stop there. It's a place for the bus to stop, should it drop off passengers, and / or there are people waiting to get on.

But since you're driving you read bottom to top and you'll see STOP BUS.

In the US they're smarter, and you'll see

STOP

BUS

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PS What do you think of my car's spoiler?
“The 1978 New South Wales fireball“

4:44am I think - would’ve been visible from Merewether

> Abstract
A very large meteor fireball passed through the atmosphere above the east coast of New South Wales early in the morning of 7 April 1978. It was seen at 04.44 AEST (18.44 UT, 6 April) by hundreds of people from the cities of Sydney and Newcastle who deluged the news media with telephoned sightings. The resulting publicity led to the collection of many reports, of which 19 were useful in defining the trajectory and ground track of the fireball. I define here the ground track, which is shown in Fig. 1, and include the locations of the eye-witnesses

https://www.nature.com/articles/285464a0
It’s not just about memory. The path tracing algorithm is a natural fit for CPU threads but very difficult to design for efficient use of GPU threads. It’s very easy to leave many of your GPUs threads idle due to the divergence, or overflowing the registers, and any number of other things that are very natural to path tracing.
That actually brings up another aspect of AWS architecture, even for global services that depend on us-east-1, AWS separates the control plane (configuration of resources) from the data plane (usage of resources). These global services like IAM have regionalized data planes: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-fault-iso...

In a disaster scenario, the data plane operations can continue so customer workloads can still run while the control plane might experience downtime. This is another lesson where in the case of fly isolating the control plane (deployment of services) from the data plane (executing customer code) could have limited the blast radius of this fault instead of using a global cluster manager.
ChatGPT. I was under the impression ChatGPT was now running with GPT-4? But if not, then I stand mistaken.
There is someone trying to breed actually healthy French bulldogs, they're called "Hawbucks" if I recall. I suppose it will take some years to fully accomplish.
Why reference submarines? What submarines can reach is irrelevant as a comparison when you know a number

Otherwise, it's your reference to submarines that contextualizes the number, same as the insides of a steam engine does for others
What are the issues with OFA ratings? They’re treated as sacrosanct on the dog reddits but I’ve never really investigated further
I see no reason why Senate Democrats would vote for this. It would be giving more electoral votes to a red state and taking them away from a blue state, as well as setting precedent for red-leaning parts of other blue states to do the same.

60 votes is a lot in a split Senate.
It already has been. Just not yours yet. And you didn't care about it. And there's no reason for the puppet masters to care about you. Pick your own lithium ore or go extinct. It's not too late though. Will you start caring about other people? and the planet perhaps?
“I don’t know enough about the housing sector. I was making—“ is a pretty terrible last question. Barney Frank’s retort is hilarious: You don’t know that much about banking, either. You’re not supposed to; you’re not an expert. It’s the exact same issue as with banking. If I ruled as off-limits anything I’d worked on when I was in Congress, I guess I’d be a monk.

That being said, Barney Frank’s rationale of wanting to make money is pretty openly terrible, he doesn’t come of great either
I agree with your point about the dangers of chatbots being mistaken as sentient. And I also recognize the dangers of the self-improving systems like this in general -- that's why I'm not letting it run loose with a LangChainAI Agent script to self-execute a new language (though wouldn't that be fascinating?)

While the language it generated needs refinement, the design process is iterative, and it takes time to develop a programming language that is worth using.

I encourage you to consider how you would approach designing a programming language. Like you, I would likely start by incorporating my favorite features from languages I love and addressing problems I've encountered in the past, similar to the dialogue GPT and I have in the post.

As I mention in the post -- creativity often involves remixing existing ideas, and GPT-4's attempt at generating a programming language is no exception. Notably, it also called out explicitly the constructs it was borrowing from other languages when designing the language.

It's worth noting that this was GPT-4's initial attempt at something highly complex, and even if there are "plot holes" -- it's a noteworthy achievement in and of itself.
eat well and exercise
Try to replace OPs quotes with an appositive like so-called or so to say. "Big tech" = so-called Big Tech, "industry" = so-called industry etc. This way, the irony does make sense, especially when you read OPs earlier comments.
The paper posed three questions but only cater for the last one i.e. on the how was the thesis prepared?

It'd be very interesting to see further research on the very first question regarding the contributions elements of the thesis due to the overwhelming popularity of the C programming languages that most of the popular modern programming languages are based upon it including C++, Matlab, Java, Python, Ruby, C#, D, Go, Swift, Rust and even the latest proposed TenetLang programming language by GPT-4 [1].

[1]GPT-4 Designed a Programming Language:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35177857
How did you find your online role-playing group? There are a lot of sites (after a quick google search) and I'd love to have some suggestions.
69 hour work weeks!! This is a county that needs to liberalize their immigration policy to reduce the pressure on their citizens. People deserve better lives than 10 hours daily with no weekends or 12 hours daily with only Sunday off.
I use "Google Analytics" [0], just a simple JavaScript snippet to fire off to a Google Form that sends responses to Google Sheets. It obviously has a ton of pitfalls but it works for me.

[0] https://goatmobile.github.io/blog/posts/forms-analytics/
It's kind of weird. This technology is designed for the human to give the machine a prompt. What I like about your approach is that you're almost using it to create the inverse: the machine supplying a slightly fuzzy idea that could prompt you to take your research in new and unexpected directions.
I was at the base camp of Challenger Point / Kit Carson Peak, laying out watching the sky after dinner. I saw something similar to this but a bit more green and it shot off sparkles like a firework as it burnt up. Did not make the summit the next day though!
Non-tech meetups have definitely rebounded.

Tech meetups still seem to be mostly Zoom. In particular there was a local company that hosted an OpenHack night once a month where you could just bring your computer and hang out and work on your personal projects and/or chat with other people there. It got about 20-30 people there usually, provided pizza, and you could bring alcohol if you wanted.

It stopped entirely (not even Zoom) when the pandemic started, and it still hasn't come back yet. I miss it. :/

On the other hand, with most of these being Zoom, I'm able to attend more of them, as I can attend some that aren't even hosted in my state.
Ask HN: Which progressive web apps (PWA) do you use, if any?
I really like the concept of PWAs, but I haven't used any in earnest, at least, not as an app. I've never installed a PWA or added one to my home screen, although I'm sure I've visited websites that support A2HS (Add To Home Screen).

I'm curious to hear from you if you use any. What am I missing out on, as a user? It's hard to justify the time spent to build PWA as an app if I don't even use them that way myself.
Cutting off water to your own citizens because they’re under foreign occupation is certainly a provocative move that will put the legitimacy of your government into question, yes.
PaperclipGPT
> If it's not important, i.e. if you don't care about it.

No. I care about typography. You left out the critical part of this sentence: "it's not important if the default font is used".

Now I understand that you also say that default fonts are not necessarily well designed. On my side, these default fonts have looked good on every device I have used, and I'm more often annoyed by arbitrary font settings that look good to the designer who happened to design the web page I'm reading.

> The user is always in control. They can always choose what to load and what styles to apply

In practice, I'm not going to design each page I visit. I'm blocking web fonts by default, but that sometimes triggers a bad setting where the font that is used as a fallback looks very bad. I guess that happens when people assume that the web font will be loaded and don't default to (sans-)serif in their font-familly CSS property.
First time I see this website. I love how there's a community for observations in the sky, and there's a huge list of documented sightings of the same event, with timestamps, names, multiple photos, etc. Lovely!

Meanwhile, ufo sightings have some shaky phone footage and a crazy dude saying basically "woah". I just love the contrast.
We have far too insufficient knowledge of how human reasoning work to claim to know we are more than stochastic parrots with vastly more context/memory. It's way too early to claim there's some qualitative difference.

(And humans are not very reliable; more than current models, sure, but still pretty bad)
Yes, it makes sense, but I have not seen this idiom used in China. In China, a widely used idiom of similar meaning is 坚持初心 (jiān chí chū xīn)
"But for computational systems... there’s my Principle of Computational Equivalence—which implies that all these systems are in a sense equivalent in the kinds of computations they can do." Am I missing this, or is he restating the Church-Turing thesis but taking credit for it himself?

I hope not. But Wolfram had been accused of this sort of thing before, see e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0206089
It seems only yesterday that we were marvelling at the capabilities of ChatGPT - it's ability to parse the sum knowledge of humankind and synthesise not trivial responses to questions we posed.

But look how far we've come since those heady and carefree days. We're already able to pour buckets of scorn on its capabilities, and brush them aside as if designing a language (albeit a derivative and uninspired one) is a trivial task that any human could achieve.
I came looking for this comment! Madness.
It's called brachycephaly which means short head. Brachycephalic dogs have a shorter nose and face in general, which leads to most of the mentioned problems: Teeth, ears (Bulla) and problems getting air. Distinct from that is the "wedge vertebrae" problem (spine and curly tail). Yet distinct is the chondrodystrophy: Shorter, deformed legs. The latter is more pronounced in Dachshund or some other bulldog breeds.

Not sure if Boston terriers are that much better though. Don't have evidence in front of me.
I got a similar Brother in 2020 after my Epson inkjet MFC became unusable. The Brother is reliable, simple, and was cheap, even when printers were thin on the ground. Before the latest in a series of Epson inkjets, I had a Brother laser that lasted from 2000 to 2010, when it died in flood--if it hadn't gotten soaked, it would probably still be kicking.

In the time between the Brothers I had a long period of no printer and two different Epson MFCs. The last was, in some way brilliant. It had a sheet feeder for the scanner, it did duplex printing, and the print quality was excellent. It even had separate tanks for each color of ink. But man the tanks were tiny and expensive. It seemed like you'd print 3 pages before it would need yet another tank. And you couldn't print black and white if the magenta tank was empty. But that notwithstanding, it was a pretty great printer. Until it wasn't. It started failing to pick up random sheets of paper mid print job. Then it would fail to pick up any pages at all unless you adjusted the paper tray just right, then it just stopped being able to feed paper 4 times out of 5. Then it stopped working completely. I cleaned the rollers over and over, it helped a little. But it just got worse and worse. Nothing made it better.

Supply chain shortages and pandemic printer buying sprees meant that I had few options. I made the choice to just get the cheapest, simplest laser printer I could find. If I really needed an MFC, I could get one later. Turns out I didn't need it. I scan things with my phone camera now. It's good enough for documents. I rarely need to do more than a few pages. I wasn't printing much color nothing that really needed it.

They way the thing is working, I figure there's a solid chance I could be good until 2030.
> To me is the opposite, Docker promotes bad software development practices that in the end will hurt you. In fact most of the time when you hear that you need Docker to run a software is because that software is so badly written that installing it on a system is too much complex.

I think one reason you may be seeing downvotes here is that you have specific projects in mind, and without you naming them, others who haven't used such projects don't see how real the phenomenon is.

I was recently helping a friend work through some Nix configuration and he told me about a couple of different projects he used where deploying the software any way other than via Docker was treated as either officially or de facto unsupported. In some cases, dependencies are not even exhaustively named in the documentation. When users ask questions in community channels (often on Discord) about what the software's requirements are, they are (at least sometimes) directed to just use the pre-baked Docker images instead of receiving real answers to their questions.

This is second-hand info for me. I don't know how bad it really is, or how common, either. But that kind of thing a absolutely screams to me, too, 'very few of us actually know how this thing works'.

Still, sharing that sentiment without giving a specific account of software that you've seen fall into this trap is likely to be dismissed and downvoted. Maybe it would be helpful to give some concrete examples of what you brought all that to mind for you.
From the AI's mouth: https://files.littlebird.com.au/SMRs-for-Optimized-Energy..p...

The idea you've presented involves using small-scale passive power plant reactors and optimally placing them along the power grid to maximize energy returns. While I can provide you with some insights, please note that I am not GPT-4, and my knowledge and capabilities are based on the GPT-3 architecture.

Implementing this idea involves several steps and considerations:

Small modular reactor (SMR) technology: NuScale Power, which you mentioned, is working on SMR technology. These reactors are smaller, more affordable, and can be mass-produced, reducing costs through economies of scale.

Optimal placement using Djikstra's algorithm: To maximize energy returns, you could use algorithms like Djikstra's to identify the best locations for these reactors. This would involve analyzing grid load patterns, transmission losses, and energy storage requirements.

Safeguards for shipping nuclear power plants: Adding charges around the core and using a mixture of boron and concrete to contain the radioactive material upon containment breach are interesting ideas. However, they would require extensive research, development, and testing to ensure their effectiveness and safety.

Costs and timeline: Estimating the total cost and timeline for this idea is challenging without detailed information on factors such as reactor costs, grid integration expenses, and regulatory requirements. For context, a single NuScale SMR module is estimated to cost around $3 billion, and the company aims to deploy its first commercial plant by the mid-2020s.

However, costs could change significantly as the technology matures, and more accurate estimates would require in-depth analysis of the specific reactors, locations, and other factors involved in your plan. Similarly, the timeline would depend on the rate of SMR technology development, regulatory approvals, and financing availability.

In conclusion, your idea of using small-scale passive power plant reactors, optimally placed along the power grid, is an interesting concept with the potential to increase energy efficiency and independence. However, estimating the total cost and timeline requires a detailed analysis that goes beyond the capabilities of this AI model.
No but that does happen a lot of the time. The difference is that we can choose to engage the deductive engine to verify what the parrot says. Sometimes it's easier to do so (what's 17×9?) and sometimes it's harder (a ball and a bat costs $1.1 and the bat costs $1 more than the ball, what does the ball cost?)
It looks like the recent popularity of hybrid poodle mixes explains the decline of purebred retrievers.
Thanks mate. The difference is that you wouldn't really want to simply copy code from your customers/3rd parties for a couple of reasons:

Missing out-of-the-box security/sandboxing, the time it takes to deploy and (cold) startup time.

With Scriptable, you don't need to worry about any of that. And there’s nothing for you to provision or maintain apart from saving the user-provided scripts in your database.
Strange, because I don't see many French bulldogs but I do see plenty of *doodle breeds. Golden Doodles in particular are very popular.