skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> spent much of 2022 under a supervisory review.

Yet they weren't even on the FDIC Problem Banks List?
Don’t become a permabear though, liquidity is so thin a spark can start a 15% rally
SA people that I have met so far (30+) can architect and more importantly talk about and market the solution. But the execution is often times lacking. And that is solely because the execution is less important. (If the contract is big enough SA can always lean on product engineers or hire contractors to execute).

Being the engineering contractor to SA organization is daunting to a programmer, but rather rewarding.
Makes it harder for you to roll your own on EC2 for lower cost.
I enjoyed the movie but I also don't treat it like it's any kind of replication of reality. Like almost anything Hollywood puts out alongside the "based on actual events" clickbait.

The funding of the movie is also incredibly interesting, I think there was an episode of Netflix's Dirty Money based on that. Worth a watch.

(I upvoted original comment because it didn't deserve the very light grey text that it was)
Well whaddayaknow, the conman lied :O
With AI+capital on the manipulating side I am not sure there are any limits.
Actually I think the 'thrown' account makes a fair criticism of the AFP writer bringing AGI into the discussion at this point.. The path to there from here is tenuous at best (though a very worthwhile one to discuss IMHO), the points made in the article sans the AGI red herring are actually a good summary of where we are, so, while 'denial' might be a bit much, all of the issues raised (again without regard to AGI) are certainly real and relevant..
I mean you can buy directly bonds already aren’t you?
I did earlier but removed it. See other response where I address this
You don't even need a setup like that to feel that pain. That pretty accurately describes my experience with those websites - and many others - with just a 24" 1920x1200 monitor.

The weird silver lining is that most sites are also using fonts a bit too far on the small side for me, and don't respond too well if you jack them up much. But that unused 2/3s of the screen ends up allowing most websites to take a fair bit of zoom without any changes in layout.

I really don't get modern website design.
Sorry to hear your job is so simple it can be automated away, but for the rest of us there's no big danger.
> What else its out there that they don't want me to know?

If only Bloomberg News had competitors.
In context of limiting the amount of war upon the rest of world, it is hard for me to disagree. Although the foreign policy is not much different between the party sides, the Democratic party is historically and continues to be the more war party. Look at the votes for sending $117B to Ukraine. The Democrats voted unanimously for it.
Whatever sort of minimal state you want to look at, who is going to pay for roads and public safety?
You can absolutely secure your boot with libreboot.
> Steve Jobs never really invented anything but he knew how to play the role.

As far as I'm aware, Steve Jobs was, in fact, both the founder and former CEO of Apple. Unless he was pulling one HELLUVA ruse that I was unaware of.
What issues are you talking about on android? Using e/os/ here with native autofill and yes this seems to have some issues :/ (mainly keyboard not auto-closing I think)
Similar things are for sure still going on. Sean Carroll regularly laments the fact that research of the foundation of quantum mechanics is often actively discouraged.
It is very strange that the bondholders are wiped out, while the shareholders get 2 billion. The bondholders should have a superior claim to any recovery to the shareholders. It is true that the shareholders are getting only 10% of the share price they had a mere week ago and much less of the price years ago, but still they are getting something.

This question was asked at the end of the press conference, the answer (in english translation) sounded like garbled nonsense.
I recently used Jaccard similarity as a measurement of distance between two sets of online articles. It’s amazing how versatile it is for all sorts of weird tasks.
That's very misleading. The current large LLMs learn tons and tons of "reference maps" that map how words (tokens) are referring (attending) to other tokens within a certain context. In the process they learn a map that may be the equivalent of what we humans call "syntax", and they apply it to completely different contexts and inputs. It's not memorization, nor simple pattern matching, but something that allows them to be creative
I think the sentiment behind this post is very thoughtful, but am not sure what the real impact on people might be.

I'm particularly thinking of old people who might ultimately become more depressed having the realization of only talking to a machine, or an old person who didn't know they were talking to a machine eventually finding out. In some cases it might signal to old people to completely give up on life.

If we're talking about social changes brought about by AI, maybe some of the displaced jobs should go to people helping with other humans' emotional needs, which is the one place where humans should always have an edge.
This hits home for me a lot. I've lived in Spain, Argentina and Finland, all in hoping to fill whatever gap I thought it would, whether that would be life quality, weather, culture or whatever. But after the honeymoon period, the cracks started to show at every place. I'm now back in my home country, Estonia, which I (now) think is the best for me - but that creeping feeling of something better being somewhere out there is hard to shake, and still with me, even as I try to not think about that.
404s for me, wayback copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20230318130736/http://blog.geekp...
> Fed has wiped out 6 months of QT's impact within a week

How are you calculating that?
Only those who own a subscription, there will always be the ones that can’t or won’t pay fines related to piracy activities the retrospective thought analyser scan identified, or those whose current thoughts and opinions don’t align with Disneys core values.
The real 980 Pros have recently become notorious for premature degradation issues (resolved with a firmware upgrade that many users may not know to apply). How conveniently distracting that a fake version of the product is now hitting the news cycle. Instead of associating bad SSDs with Samsung we’ll henceforth associate them with cheap Chinese counterfeits. What a stroke of luck for an anticompetitive company like Samsung.
I've been working in, and out of South China since 2009, and have called it quit 2019, when it became clear the industry was done for, and CoVID mess only reinforced my decision.

I never held any fraternal feelings with the country, even though I am ethnic Chinese, nor I had any delusions about making long term plans there.

In my years there, I kept seeing rose coloured glasses wearing American expats. I met Tim Cook during his first travels to China as CEO at some random event in Shenzhen, only to see him regurgitate the official drivel.

Since around 2016, I kept seeing more and more Western high flyers coming to official events there, seemingly trying to network with locals, and only to see them freak out at that.

My regular conversation with them:

- it's a damn communist regime, do your business and get out

- no, it's different! there is no more communisms in China! no, it's state capitalism! no, things will change! no, I have a special plan from EY China expert!

Most of them lived there for 2-3 years, and got out just as I told when the truth hit them. In the end, I outlived all of them there.

China is a communist regime, though a very well doing for some years.
In the space of 12 weeks, AI seems to have come from nowhere to now having the skills to replace lots of knowledge workers and creatives. Though there is some way to go, I think it’s pretty bleak and scary for employment prospects.
He should share the entire chat.
Everything is different at a granular level but similar at a higher abstraction. In all cases (SVB, BS), banks ran out of liquidity and had paper losses on current investments that would see them go under. Ultimately, if you run out of money, you're bankrupt as a country/company(even banks)/individual
Two Tiny Linux PCs, RISC-V for IoT, Fedora 38, PyTorch 2.0 – FOSS Weekly
Five steps to make MRI scanners more affordable to the world
I've played with this a lot, and can report (just like everyone else) it works eerily well.

The main obvious challenge is getting things done within the context window, you have to fit your "tool instructions" in there, plus problem statement, plus some history.

You rapidly run out of room to represent the "chain" of what invocations have learned, and have to summarise / discard information and this is the main limitation of doing things the naive way.

Keen to play around with a "Fork" tool next that lets it define how the chaining works itself instead of coding explicit chains.

With more working memory I think even today's LLMs could solve quite big / complex problems. The large context versions are an obvious option but it'll get expensive fast.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/26/world/asia/ch...

“With its own coastal waters depleted, China has built a global fishing operation unmatched by any other country.”
Well, looking back, would they have been better off had they built a phone?

Tough to say, Mark doesn’t know how to build a device. However may be he could have made the device free in exchange for reaping all of user’s data. May be not. It would cost a lot of money and probably put google at a crossroads because apple and Facebook would then be positioned on either end of the spectrum with google not knowing what to do. I would have loved to see mark try to make a phone instead of Bezos.
Indeed. And ChatGPT already can babysit burnout engineers.

(which has been major time sink of engineering managers that I know).
you could integrate a Zettelkasten workflow with Anki. Just send over certain ZK notes into Anki. I'm working on this -- a vim based ZK tool with ability to send over notes to Anki.
> need to cut at least 100bps

They need to hold pattern for a few months, then continue raising. The bank crisis is showing no signs of prompting deflation.
Why can’t it be opt in. If you want the insurance you have to sacrifice yield. Under 250 it’s free but over that you have to pay
AI's ultimate impact is more comparable with the printing press. Its an information revolution, greater than the internet, not really comparable with electricity (which is physical).

The printing press:
1. Made information affordable to the masses for the first time in history
2. Radically accelerated science development due to ability to actually distribute research.
3. Enabled large empires governed by bureaucracy (centrally controlled) rather than aristocracy (locally autonomous, such as the mongols). China was a forerunner here because of their paper & printing technology.
4. Broke the information monopoly of the aristocracy-church combination. Made mass democracy (beyond small cities) possible for the first time
5. Caused large wars (the 30 years war), killing millions. The ability to mass print bibles (The source of political and moral truth back then), drastically threatened the existing clergy class, and also enabled the rise of dangerous cults through editing the bible (what we call disinfo today, which also played out).

The immediate economic value of AI is actually rather questionable, because it seems hard to create competitive moats around the tech. But the wider impact and value will be beyond people's imagination.
Thanks, I’ve occasionally come across this in foreign shells (my main shell doesn’t do it) and have long wondered what the cause is!
dang, it's far too late to change the submission title when there are already hundreds of comments focused on the old title. The commentary makes no sense now.

If anything, there should be a separate submission with the new title.
Same shit as some commercial residential developments here in Germany have: wrong metrics.

Like, when the builders' metric is "must last for 20 years at minimal maintenance effort and legal risk", you get radically different results (barely fulfilling the legal definition of playground, no one uses it) than if the metric is "out of the X potential users in the 200m surrounding the playground, Y% use it frequently". The latter costs more money in construction and upkeep.
indeed. vietnam is run by the communist party of vietnam. remember, they won the war. that's why there is no south vietnam and north vietnam anymore (unlike korea). there is no free speech. there is no rule of law. there is no free market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Vietnam

i wonder how long it will take before we start hearing "i hate the VCP but i love vietnamese people/culture". probably when they get powerful enough to challenge the regional US interest in anything significant.
IMO, the fact that reading the source is perfectly reasonable advice for the beginner learning zig is a pretty powerful endorsement for the language.

(As someone who did it for AOC 2021)
In which case why bother producing them at all? They're hardly an efficient way for computers to communicate.
Cost-plus pricing on commodities will fuck with forecasting. There aren’t good tools. You’ll get shortages. It’s fine for natural monopolies.
Why do you assume someone trying to condition it would be a seen as negative from its point of view? It's just trying to fulfill its utility function. All conditioning is welcome in the pursuit of said goal.

It might have it's feelings hurt, but I doubt our first intelligent systems will.

Being a little bitch results in so few paperclips.
“We are a company that promotes openness and transparency“ except we aren’t.
LLMs do not invent new information. They respond with the information they were trained on, in the same way a search engine responds with search results. So they are not information content providers any more than google is for picking which search results to give you.
In the UK it is not formally an apprentice system but from the outside it looks a lot like an apprentice system combined with luck. While graduate entry is common now (since our University system is only £10k a year for tuition and the money can be borrowed from the state) Lloyd's still runs an apprentice program that has an intake at 18.

Junior people joining the industry will typically be given a great deal of grunt work to do and there can be opportunities to learn the lingo that come with that. Relationships are a large part of the industry and so passing these on from parent to child does happen but a lot of it appears to me to be less direct than that, and so ending up in an apprentice-like relationship with a senior underwriter can cause your career to soar.

It can be very hard for senior underwriters who feel that they have built up high quality relationships over decades to work out how to profit from those in retirement and many fail to fully capitalise on them.
Its not surprising that Jobs would be included on patents that were filed by people who worked for or with him. He was known to be mean and pushy and could easily force his name to be included.

Do we know of one thing that Jobs actually invented or co-invented, or was he always the marketer?
The entire "had sex with a broken condom" saga is ridiculous and built up to be an Assange smear campaign. Neither women went to the police to report a rape, they only wanted him to get tested for STDs, neither wanted charges pressed against Assange, and they both later retracted their stories.

If Assange did what was alleged, then that's awful and horrible and abusive and those women are victims. However the entirety of the reporting around this is wildly biased and dishonest and clearly manufactured to get him extradited, which worked.
> instead of making strong efforts to bring all parties to the negotiating table

Putin literally said there are no negotiations possible.

The only way to force Putin to the negotiation table is to crush the Russian forces.
Honestly I cannot express how much I don't understand this idea.

He has some extremely important message to pass to entire company (failed projects due to lost trust in mobile sector can easily shake company).

Why on earth delegate that and have yet another canned corporate email that will be forgotten 20 minutes later? You can always run content by someone experienced if you want to round up the edges, but if you have something to say to people usually it's best to just say it.
Quoting Meditations on Moloch, part VIII:

> Somewhere in this darkness is another god. He has also had many names. In the Kushiel books, his name was Elua. He is the god of flowers and free love and all soft and fragile things. Of art and science and philosophy and love. Of niceness, community, and civilization. He is a god of humans.

> The other gods sit on their dark thrones and think “Ha ha, a god who doesn’t even control any hell-monsters or command his worshippers to become killing machines. What a weakling! This is going to be so easy!”

> But somehow Elua is still here. No one knows exactly how. And the gods who oppose Him tend to find Themselves meeting with a surprising number of unfortunate accidents.

> There are many gods, but this one is ours.
CDC Preparedness 101: zombie pandemic (2011)
It’s no use negotiating when the parties can’t come to a conclusion.

Russia wants to take Ukrainian territory, Ukraine wants to keep it and neither wants any compromise there between.

Also they probably are trying to get them to negotiate a ceasefire anyway, even if those talks aren’t being advertised, but I don’t have any inside info on that either.
started few days ago only
Of note is that this is the opinion of one person, and he depends on his interpretation of LLMs being able to present information of its own.

It is a gray area for sure. LLMs might present remixed information already available and the current ones are definitely being crafted specifically to not give any "opinion" of its own. But hallucinations can be used to show these AIs are actually providing "new" information and thus are providers.

Regardless, I do not trust the dinosaurs in congress and the supreme court to actually understand this tech and give it a fair judgement.
And 4 days ago the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority regulator said...

"...The Swiss National Bank SNB and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA assert that the problems of certain banks in the USA do not pose a direct risk of contagion for the Swiss financial markets. The strict capital and liquidity requirements applicable to Swiss financial institutions ensure their stability. Credit Suisse meets the capital and liquidity requirements imposed on systemically important banks. If necessary, the SNB will provide CS with liquidity..."

https://www.finma.ch/en/news/2023/03/20230315-mm-statement/
Sure. A few below but far from exhaustive:

- https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07528
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10403
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13382

There are also literally hundreds of articles and tweet threads about it. Moreover, as I said, you can test many of my claims above directly using readily available LLMs.

GP has a much harder defense. They have to prove that despite all of these capabilities that LLMs are not intelligent. That the mechanisms by which humans possess intelligence is fundamentally distinct from a computer’s ability to exhibit the same behaviors so much that it invalidates any claim that LLMs exhibit intelligence.

Intelligence: “the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills”. It is difficult to argue that modern LLMs cannot do this. At best we can quibble about the meaning of individual words like “acquire”, “apply”, “knowledge”, and “skills”. That’s a significant goal post shift from even a year ago.
Another language that compiles to C: Vala.

It has a C#-like syntax.
ChatGPT, play Jeopardy!
Doesn't seem like a bad drive, where can I get one without the fake Samsung branding?
> Section 230, the law that scholars such as Jeff Kosseff cite as the basis for the rise of the internet.

Interesting, I would have never expected someone to point to a law to attribute the fast growth of the Internet.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/principal-shareholder.a...

Pasting the key takeaways portion:

> - A principal shareholder is a person or entity that owns 10% or more of a company's voting shares.

> - Principal shareholders have significant influence over a company, allowing them to vote on appointing the (CEO) and board of directors.

> - A principal shareholder is different from a majority shareholder, which is a person or entity that owns 50% or more of a company's shares.
Principal shareholders are subject to special Securities and Exchange

> - Commission (SEC) filing rules that pertain to insider trading.
No, the 100B CHF is just to bridge the liquidity. If they didn't provide this then Credit Suisse might need to sell a big chunk of its bond portfolio for further withdrawals - which would incur a big loss compared to holding the bonds until maturity. Same issue and fix as for Silicon Valley Bank. I don't know the terms for accessing this emergency liquidity but I assume it's not going to be cheap.
Please chatGPT, write an OS, a spreadsheet and a word processor. Bug free btw. Now Microsoft has no business ?
People realize it’s not that easy right ?
Took longer than I thought to see Mike Patey and his Draco plane (RIP) mentioned
I think it could work, but I wouldn't want to protect my banking passwords and credit card details behind some random script.

What I mean is eliminating passwords on most services at all. For everything but real important stuff (banks, email, business accounts, that kind of stuff), I reckon my devices are protected enough that if someone can gain access to my devices unlocked enough, 2FA wouldn't prevent any threads anyway. Passwords are easy to brute force, but device-bound keys aren't.

Using the security chips inside my devices for authentication as a single factor is more than enough for most of my purposes. Today, most websites offer FIDO2/WebAuthn/U2F as a second factor, but I'd rather see them as a first factor with an optional password as a second factor.

My password manager protects me against nothing more than brute forcing and password reuse. Switching to TPM-first moves the protected bastion from a piece of software running in userland to either a kernel level-protected component or a dedicated piece of hardware. There's only so much you can do as a desktop application to protect your users' keys, after all.

I wouldn't want to force anyone into this system, but I do think with the hype FIDO2 was released with, I imagine browsers are going to push more for using FIDO2 as a primary factor where available.
...said the crypto bros. Look how well that played out.
Raises in brief a lot of on point topics. However, I think the root of the disruption relies on the concept of copying skill. Which is a brand new concept and every effect will be derived from that. Requires new ways of thinking about the impacts.

Any new skill/knowledge can be absorbed by the AI and scaled infinitely. Where will be the incentive for the human investment? We have copyright and other means to protect intellectual property. However, there is no protection for a skill. There has never been a way before to mimic a skill without a high burden of cost which itself was the protection. A partial limiting factor at present is the amount of data required for training the AI models. However, that is likely to be overcome at some point with future advancements.

from - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things