skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They probably didn't snd still don't. If JPM buying Bear Sterns is any metric, I would be worried that the government would 'ask' me to rescue another bank, and then take me to court over it for the next decade.

It's understandable people are mad at the banks and don't want taxpayer money propping up for-profit institutions. But what is the rationale for coaxing companies into taking risks at their behest that they basically know is going to be worse than you think going in?
Watts are the right mental model. Your stuff use some amount of power while running. Be it 50W for old lightbulb, or 1kW for space heater. You run this stuff for some amount during the day. Add all these up over a day for a city and you get to some total of power. Multiply it by hours and get to energy spend.

And then you can even multiply the watt hours to get costs.
> effectively lowered the IQ quotient

Yeah, you really demonstrate how it's lowered. Intelligence quotient quotient
Which is just one way of circumventing the pin (keylogger will work on pass phrase too!). But that's not brute forcing the pin.
It’s already been done at Tesla with spaces.
I agree with the first half, but I imagine Facebook is a kindergarten of espionage compared to actual spy agencies.
> A regulator liable for ALL the deposits becomes responsible for ALL the assets. Regulators are generally conservative, and loans to new companies with strange ideas and no track record don't look so good to them. SVB's underwriting of startups depended on regulatory freedom to take risks not entirely understood by regulators, with corresponding risk that those loans might fail. Some career bureaucrat will not look kindly on a bunch of loans to the likes of nextbigthing.com.

SVB wasn't making those kinds of loans to startups and it wasn't risky loans that blew it up.

The problem is that its model of deposits was startups which would get backed by $5M-$50M all at once and then need to draw that down over time.

The problem comes when VC funding dries up completely and then there's no new deposits to replace everyone burning through their cash.

They did take mortgage debt back in mid-2021, but it was not particularly controversial mortgage debt -- however due to rate increases in mid-2022 it went underwater on a mark-to-market basis. This wouldn't have been a problem if they could hold to maturity, which is what they stated they intended to do (and which they probably did intend to do) but the drawdown in deposits forced them to sell some of these to raise cash and forced them to book those losses.

The weird risk here was really the way the deposits all dried up and the cashflow out of the bank became strongly negative due to economic conditions of the depositors. The whole business model of the bank had a baked-in bank run that would happen. That isn't really a normal kind of risk, though, and not something that is typically regulated or anticipated by anyone. The actions to close down the bank and take it over and insure the depositors seems fine to me.

The moral of the lesson seems to be that bigger banks need to have startup-oriented divisions that will accept this business and absorb those cash flows inside the scope of a much larger bank. You can't have one bank that takes all the deposits of something volatile like VC funded startups. I don't know how you regulate that though other than the Fed explaining to the major banks like JPM that this kind of thing can't happen again so they need to start serving VC companies.
It's interesting that he didn't consider the effect of all his employees seeing the email "from:" and "subject:" sitting in the inbox.

That's a tense few moments before opening it for people.
I wouldn't want to be holding commercial real-estate REITs in this environment.
I’m chuckling at the fact Mark thought they had “too much social good to build” to be dealing with leaks.

What happened, did things like this keep distracting them ?
It is when it's every single thread. That's when it gets weird.

As far as PLATO's impact on the world, I think it's underestimated and underappreciated. I don't give a shit about internet-history, I was one of the first few thousand people on the arpanet too. The actual authors of Mosaic were in CERL quite a bit. Usenet was already going on, but newsreaders (rn, trn, nn, etc.) were clearly influenced by the structure of notes and vice versa. dnd, oubliette and avatar were shamelessly ripped off multiple times and were the early foundation for graphical dungeon crawlers.

The idea that PLATO somehow needed to impact the CS department is kind of risible. Like having terminals in DCL was important? What did DCL ever do? PLATO impacted basically every chem, ceram, mech-e, comp-e, edu, edu-tech, geo, physics, etc., student at UIUC, not to mention U Chicago and places like Honolulu and ETH, for more than a decade. Thousands of us who grew up learning TUTOR as /jpr/cerl accounts have ended up having pretty good computer careers, all because of PLATO.
Probably there is a strong headwind?
China’s exports I heard are down and shipping containers are actually piling up at their ports.

I feel artists selling “generic art” for pictures in lobbies and homes are probably going to be out of a job.
Building a phone would actually be a good move. There is just too little competition in this space and the only two players are hiding behind the duopoly so they don't have to deal with competition laws. And for Facebook it means that they don't have to comply with AppStore rules.
False - today none of these companies can even accurately track granular performance metrics in a way that correlates it with the company’s bottom line.

Hence if they can’t do that, he’s gotta send an email about it. Tesla even had to send encoded spaces in letters to get leakers.

If you can’t measure what’s going right, you sure as hell can’t measure what’s going wrong.
If an employee admits leaking they could be sued by Facebook.

I assume Zuckerberg understands that legal jeopardy so he did not honestly expect anyone to comply with this rant. It’s merely a position statement
Oh thank goodness. The system works!
Usually I join in on the hatred for someone like Zuck, but this was a well articulated email that addressed the issue directly. I hope if someone did leak information intentionally that they did resign. Can't feel good to be called out amongst tens of thousands of others and know it was you.
Microsoft's AI Future of Work Event: Everything Revealed in 8 Minutes
have you tried these EEG-based tools? They're difficult to pick up.
The proximate cause might be money printing, but the policy failures go way deeper than that to the cause of a hyper-concentrated economy.
> If I owned a pickup truck and kept it in a garage by my place then I would be far more likely to make last minute decisions to go camping or yard sale shopping or whatever.

You and every other SUV driver share this dream. We all know that last minute outdoorsy fantasy is not gonna happen. And are you buying the entire yard at the yard sale?
That’s entrance fits what I said just fine. The words are arranged in the order that I have frequently seen in the past, so I accept it as grammatical (albeit meaningless).
I believe the key is a strong headwind. I would like to see if this could be accomplished without the headwind. I believe short takeoff is possible but not quite that short.
Why would UBS take on potentially unlimited amount of liability? That doesn't make sense at all.
> Moloch whose mind is pure machinery!

This strikes me as someone following an ideology. The ideology becomes a substitute for thought: an algorithm that's relied upon (obeyed?) when making decisions. Algorithm == machinery.
One caveat here is that even if every outcome is taken in some branch of the world, they don’t have equal likelihood. So while there might exist a world where a person makes that cruel decision, it may only be a small fraction. I imagine we could ask, how do we feel about our expected behavior averaged across all worlds?
Another example: there's a reason the security briefing on airplanes tells you to not inflate the vest while still inside the cabin.
Amazing how quickly things move when dollars are at stake.
What if he's lying when he said he lied about his pathological lies?
Even with the tag, this feels click-bait-y given the current layoff trend in tech. This article is about a leaked, false story, not about people quitting as a result of economic issues.
I cannot get over an image from Dr Dobbs Journal sometime, where a well-drawn set of seven (?) gray beard, pocket protector guys were standing in a semi-circle solemnly considering a poster, meant to be a computer programming problem. The vibe was lots of wise old males deciding on the wisest course. Of course everyone was paid well but most "chose" humble attire.

The reality is that every senior coder that could not put a signature on some legal paper was replaced and outsourced, faster than anything. It continues to this day. "Do not hire anyone over 40" they say, in Fast Company style. Since I was also once in my own early 20s I cant say I blame them entirely, but, you know.. In the 90s it was 50 year old car engineers in Germany.. "oh those guys, too bad no one will hire them oh well" .. but fast forward to the go-go second round of post 2008, and it was the csh coders, Solaris jockeys, Mac and Amiga graphics experts.. and even some of the digital printing people.. "no room at the Inn!" out with you, and hope you saved some of that money you got.

Grady epitomizes the era and standing of those old gray beard guys, to me.
I don't mind that they're offering it and want to be paid for it, I mind them displaying a non-removable UI element as part of their privacy-focused product that forcibly reminds me of that fact. In other words, they are themselves doing via their product that which their users specifically use it to avoid.
The largest terrestrial consumer of oil is road transport (cars and trucks).

https://www.statista.com/statistics/307194/top-oil-consuming...

You can't put a nuclear reactor in a car. You can charge an electric car's battery using nuclear electricity, of course. But if you're just charging a terrestrial battery then nuclear power's attractive attributes for the Moon (like continuing to produce during a 14 day period of darkness) are less salient. Electricity sources like wind and solar power are likely to charge up the car's battery at lower cost.
"to End Crisis" ah it's over is it?
If you have a key object that is not extractable and can only be used and it is password protected, then you can't bypass the TPM. Once the key is unlocked (if you have access to the relevant session, which, you would) you can use it, which is bad enough if the rest of the system is compromised. There's also a concept of restricted keys that can only be used for things like quote signing (for attestation), or credential activation, which means the user doesn't get to specify exactly what to sign or decrypt.

If you couple all of that with running golden/blessed firmwares and OS, and you do secure boot, then you can be pretty certain (early in boot time anyways) that you're not running firmware/software you didn't want to assuming those are not themselves compromised.

Now, for local storage keys you really need those to be in software as a TPM can't perform well enough (not even an fTPM), and even if they did, an attacker could just decrypt local storage w/o having access to the raw keys as long as they can compromise your OS.

So, in a way you're right. But a TPM would still give you something that software-only solutions wouldn't: you get to refuse to enter the password and then the attacker has no choice but to apply rubber hose attacks or mount more expensive attacks on the TPM itself.
Good article, but this was pretty well known and documented for years if not decades. I remember briefly looking it up not too long after having seen the movie, and being disappointed that it was all a big lie.
Do people on social media believe that all employees should freely share confidential internal information? Or is it that this is an email from a frustrated person and no one should ever share "bad feelings"? Or is it that CEOs should never be aggressive and "how dare he punish someone who broke the rules"?

Am I crazy for thinking that this is completely reasonable in context?
no, it's 3B Swiss Franks
The basic technique is much older than that, dating to the Cold War era and likely even before.
It seems there are still only very few desktop and laptop motherboards which are supported. Which may not be the project developers' fault, but it can still only be used by rather few people. :-(
Content moderation isn't physically taxing. Presumably you meant mentally taxing, even then it's debatable to what extent that is true.
This has been known for years. Why are tabloid articles suddenly reposted here?
As I recall they did fire at least one person over this. Google had done something similar with the person (who turned out to be a contractor vs a full time employee) who leaked photos of the first Android phone.
At what point do we say "that's her own fault"? How do we evolve to be alert to threats if we just hide them away and take agency from individuals?
The name is part of the problem
You can have shorter alphanumeric password per device for frequent unlocks, it doesn't have to be your typical 4 number PIN that jumps to mind
It would not offer the same protection as your main much longer password, but then that longer password protects against a bigger threat than local access, and it's still much more convenient (and not much less inconvenient vs the 4 digit PIN, like on a full computer keyboard typing a longer word is faster than shifting your fingers to the top numbers row)

And it would be nice if password managers explains the much much bigger risk of these very short numbers-only poorly named PINs so that users can make an informed decision
For code editing, pick your IDE. For mail reading, pick your mail reader. For todo, pick your favorite todo app. They’re all better UI/UX.
x86 is not the only architecture supported by coreboot/libreboot.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=NamecheapCEO

But I doubt you would get a response
Acquired – https://www.acquired.fm
Lawsuit: Elizabeth Holmes owes more than $25M to Theranos
It's buying an abandoned storage locker with potentially leaking chemical waste that has could have been poisoning the ground water and killing people the next town over for decades.
It may depend on one's definition of "not much more". I got my Intel NUC in the barebones configuration since I already had spare 32GB of RAM and an SSD for $387.59. To me, that's not much more than the highest end Raspberry Pi 4 with a case with a heatsink and fan because the NUC: actually works and is usable, has DisplayPort and just generally better I/O aside from the Pi's GPIO, configurable memory, and better CPU and GPU. Plus, you can actually buy one. To me, that's worth it.

My Raspberry Pi's are just unusable for anything other than as high-level embedded platforms. I've started selling them off, only keeping one or two for embedded use cases.
Well, note that partly due to the way variables and functions are declared in C and C++, parsing those languages (especially C++) is a complete mess.

I think the readability argument is pretty subjective. Personally I find declarations in for instance Rust a lot easier to quickly scan than C++. For one thing the names of functions are all at the same offset, which to me is actually the most important thing. I can see at a glance whether it's a function or variable being declared. I've never found the fact that the return type is at the end to be a problem - why would it be?

fn first_function(...) -> i32 { ... }

fn second_function(...) -> Vec<i32> { ... }

const X: i32 = 0;

vs

int first_function(...) { ... }

vector<int> second_function(...) { ... }

int X = 0;
The better question of course is who pays for this? They're quiet about it because it's not the banks. The banks paying it is only a technicality. This additional premium they will inevitably have to pay will come from depositors. So, effectively, people who trusted their money with banks are being punished for putting money in banks that abandoned their fiduciary duty to their customers.

Unless the banks themselves pay it and something is in place to prevent these costs being past down to their depositors this should be a non-starter. It is TARP by any other name.
>Because the 11% became 97% via the New Deal and government investment, not through market forces.

That 11% wasn't a static state. Electrification was happening, government or not.

The New Deal certainly sped it up but it takes a career politician level of dishonesty to take a government program that increased the rate of electrification and give said program credit all electrification after it's commencement.
I'm glad you liked it! I miss the golden age of tracker music/demoscene.
What is the trick, big wheels that don’t hold the air?

Looks like that is what’s slowing the plane when landing, and let it start without a runway
there is 0 guarantees that the binary I install on my system is the exact same binary as I would get if I build the source myself

not true, for years there are efforts in various distributions to make package builds reproducible. there are ways to build a package from source that allows you to get the same results and verify it.

we outsource this responsibility to the package maintainer

which is the point. i trust the package maintainers to do a better job at that than myself.
TPMs are not 'trivially' bypassable. There's attacks on how they're used, naturally, but those wouldn't apply in this case. In this case the main issue is that once you've unlocked your storage keys you get to use them, and since storage keys need to be software keys to perform acceptably, you could even steal them. But if your device is off, a TPM would be more than adequate to protect local storage.
It's not too small, your not limited to just numbers in your PIN on a computer
I was an intern in FB in 2010 and I distinctly remember getting this email. My full-time buddies, some of which included very senior engineers who often work with Mark, mentioned the got the shivers when they saw the title and thought they just got booted :)
Price controls can also be of the form "COGS+5%". These allow profitable operation but limit excess profits.

Or you can do post-fact price controls by comparing profits now with average profits over the last years and taxing everything above at 100%.

All it needs is the political will to help the people.
For RaspberryPi
I Never Delete Any Email. I Just Archive It All
> Your efficiency would drop considerably if you moved to a 3rd world country and vice versa.

Not necessarily. A barber in Bździszewo Kolonia earning 5 USD per haircut and a barber in New York earning 50 USD per haircut can work exactly as efficiently and do exactly as good a job. The main difference is in how much money their customers have.
If people stopped buying then inflation would go down dramatically.
Not sure why this is downvoted, that's awesome on NixOS's part.
You don’t think he considered that?
>There doesn't seem to be any compensation for the vastly greater spending on administration in colleges. Yale's non-instructional spending has grown 3 times faster than the cost of tuition in the last two decades.

Maybe Yale is an outlier here because there's another analysis[1] that looks at aggregate data for nonprofit and private colleges collected by NCES, and that analysis showed that support (ie. non-teaching) costs have outgrown teaching costs.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fJvjin8ETkzhFdadC/accounting...
https://archive.ph/WGozG
Purchase price is 3 Billion Swiss Franks.
Kaufpreis ist 3 Milliarden Schweizer Franken.
Where Dominion vs. Fox Could Lead
Related question: any of these podcasts that is available to download In mp3 format on a pc? I want a podcast I can copy to an mp3 player for swimming. But most platforms dont provide mp3 downloads
The past is not so much more knowable than the future. the future is about as predictable as the past is knowable.
Indeed! They should have explained this much better when it was introduced.

But of course, Windows PIN was only needed when they made a local login a login to your Microsoft account, so your local password was suddenly transmitted to the internet.
> Major benefit with GraphQL is you can ask for the data you need and just the data you need. So you don't have 30 different API endpoints that really return the same data, just smaller chucks. Or maybe you just need the IDs... etc.

Most sane REST-like implementations also support this, typically with query string modifiers like a "fields" param or similar.

A lot of them also support deep relationships this way too.

For example, the Directus REST API is completely feature compatible with the GraphQL API.
The steady headwind was everything. The power and STOL mods just made it somewhat safer to do, although, had that headwind suddenly died, I am fairly sure we would have landed very, very hard.

We were young and stupid.
But we can't afford those few bucks because we have to pay the subscriptions to use the heated seats in our cars or to unlock the doors in with the key fobs.
From the Alpaca report (https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html):

> we watermark all the model outputs using the method described in Kirchenbauer et al. 2023, so that others can detect (with some probability) whether an output comes from Alpaca 7B

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10226

> We propose a watermarking framework for proprietary language models. The watermark can be embedded with negligible impact on text quality, and can be detected using an efficient open-source algorithm without access to the language model API or parameters. The watermark works by selecting a randomized set of "green" tokens before a word is generated, and then softly promoting use of green tokens during sampling. We propose a statistical test for detecting the watermark with interpretable p-values
Another thing to consider is that while a utility function may exist, completing as fast as possible may not a requirement. Waiting until biological life is no longer feasible before proceeding to fully optimize the utility function would allow us to both coexist.
Livestream of the swiss govt.: https://www.20min.ch/story/jetzt-informiert-der-bundesrat-ue...
> It’s powerful not because it’s correct – nobody literally thinks an ancient Carthaginian demon causes everything

However an absolute majority of human beings do believe evil is literally spiritually personified. This is of course part of the appeal of strict materialism: once you accept that there are purely spiritual beings that can have an effect on the visible world, it's pretty much an inescapable conclusion that at least some of the evil we see is their work. One can't deny their possibility or even probability without denying anything non-material. Of course at that point you pretty much lose the ability to talk about evil in any meaningful way. Morality becomes nothing more than an expressed personal preference and like any other personal preference you have no grounds for denying others' right to disagree. You can appeal to some vague concept of "harm" or "rights," but others can just disagree that harm is wrong or that rights must be respected.
> Chemical based signals from eyes to brain to muscle are slow

Uh, these are the same types of signals that are happening inside the brain ...
> If we don't, we screw over everyone working their asses off to change the world.

I work at a non-profit and wouldn't dare to utter these words to any employee. I understand believing what you preach, but actually saying you work on "changing the world" in an internal email seems very problematic? Is it just me?
“Piling up” should be visible. Is there photo or satellite evidence of that?