skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, I think they’re pointing out that insurance companies (or counterparties to swaps and similar) try to not be so dumb as price insurance for something that will definitely happen at less than the cost of the thing that will definitely happen.

If the value of these bonds was almost certainly going to drop 10% (say), and that was going to be $x billion - then it’s not like SVB was going to find some way to hedge that and only spend $x million on it once that became obvious. Which by 2022 it was obvious.
Time Management Assistant automates every bit of the time tracking process and generates a detailed log of online tools you use every day
is there videos about networking in lectures format?
I recommend setting goals first. If you know what is important to you (your goals), how will you know that you're moving towards your goals? You need to measure that somehow. These are your KPIs, and data, or analytics. Check out the OKR framework for a popular version of goal setting and measurement.

Furthermore, if you decide on core fatcs about your product, you should monitor whether you notice any changes. Is the display of the footer your third-level page important? Maybe not. Is the number of conversions on your home page important? Probably so. So you should monitor the latter just to see changes early enough.

If you change somethings, you can make experiments and compare historical data to experimental data. Does data change for the better or for the worse?
No doubt there is that ... and, oh yeah, the money.
If it is for capacity issue, they can just say it.

Also cushman is, allegedly, a 12B model. It can be served using much lesser demanding hardware.

Honestly, they can just severely reduce the nodes allocate to those models, employing punishing rate limits, instead of announcing such a short noticed retirement, if resources are REALLY the issue.
Wouldn't the browser and extensions make you more unique?
As I wrote: the IPCC is split up in sections, and one of them is economists doing their thang
It’s photos of your face. Billions of people upload billions of selfies every day. No one cares. If you don’t want your face to be seen, wear a mask and don’t leave the house.
Sure, you can disprove any point if you allow impossible hypotheticals like "if you could perfectly predict the future".

You aren't making a point, you're arguing to argue.
I will concede the theoretical possibility, but, uh...Marxist acceleration theory doesn't have much of a track record.
Depends on the country. For countries with a lot of "black money" and corruption there is an obvious benefit. Taxes yield less because they don't capture the whole economy, as a result taxes are increased and get paid by the "idiots/ethical" which creates a vicious cycle. Now if tomorrow you had everyone paying taxes then 2 things would happen which would result in a new equilibrium. 1. The tax revenues would massively increase 2. People would push for lower taxes because suddenly they care more as their real marginal tax rate is the nominal one.

Would this result in more efficient spending of taxes in a corrupt economy? Not immediately. A lot of shitty people would get reach fast in the meantime, but the system would balance because people would no longer participate in the corruption directly as they used to.

Yes, you remove some freedom, but I am convinced that for societies that have a trust disconnection between the government and the people would be a net benefit (assuming democracy).

Additionally, comercial banks have been pretty shitty on providing liquidity to the real economy throughout the QE (at least in some parts of the west). They had their chance to not be a bottleneck, they missed it. Good riddance.
This is hardly an "advanced algorithm", anyone can do this on a free colab instance. You need a few images of yourself for training on, and you can make a LORA for Stable Diffusion, and use it for anything you wish. The pricing is only for the ease of usage. People have made LORAs for anime characters, celebs, etc and they work pretty well. See Civitai, it has a large collection of models / LORAs / text embeddings.

These days you don't even need to suss out the negative prompts, you can use a negative text embedding (bad-hands, easynegative) to get good quality images.

Dreambooth is practically ancient now. You don't need to lug around huge converged models trained on a few images and a few tags. You can download a much smaller LORA and include it in your prompt and it just werks.
That's a valid concern, but "32 Billion in bonuses" is a poor way to argue for the reasons I outlined above. 32 billion over 9 years works out to be 3.5B per year. Is that a lot? It would depend on how many employees they have. How much of that is "expected" vs "bonus for a job well done"? How does total comp track with jobs at other industries with similar requirements?
> it would be EASIER to get courts to agree on that machine-readable tagging, simply disallowing usage of works for training, is similar to DRM measures

It should be. It'd be really great if it was. Sadly, lawyers wrote the DMCA. It has to be a measure which actually restricts access in an effective enough way, just saying "don't touch this" isn't a measure because it doesn't effectively prevent the usage. 17 USC § 1201(a)(3) and all that.

If training on image sets isn't copyright infringement, "don't use this" doesn't count. It's a license, and you're not infringing on it. If it is copyright infringement, "don't use this" is the default and you can't use anything without explicit permission, effectively requiring datasets to only include CC0 images. Since the first one is way more likely to be true, you instead use the 17 USC 1201(a) which prevents circumvention of technical protection measures, by creating what is hopefully a technical protection measure. Is it foolproof? It was never meant to be. It's an attempt at best. But it's better than relying on a law which is incredibly likely to never apply to dataset scraping.

Preventing the usage of the data for a specific application vs total restriction is the big issue here. Is it enough to qualify as a technical protection measure? Maybe, maybe not. The courts may agree, or they may not. But it's fairly established in conversation that dataset scraping isn't infringement, so tagging it doesn't really work.
> Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,- Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

Chapter 94, A Squeeze of the Hand, Moby Dick. https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/42/moby-dick/775/chapter-94-a-squ....

Unforgettable passage about the hand processing of this substance.
Anyone have experience with these nail clippers? I generally buy into the philosophy that it's better to spend more money on a nice object with a superior design and a longer lifespan. But I only see two differentiating features for these clippers:

1. A rounded file that matches natural nail shape.

2. "The highly polished blades cut nails with minimal force, even on thick nails."

I don't file my nails (should I start?). I've never had issues cutting through nails with anything but the smallest travel nail clippers. So what exactly differentiates these nail clippers from the $5-10 pairs you see at drugstores?
This reminds me a little if my own PhD research. Sometimes I had to dig in deep to find out hardly anything. So congratulations to you for your discipline!
hands and fingers are frequently off in the landing page shots, although the example you've highlighted is particularly bad. I found a couple where the fingers are correctly formed but the proportions are wrong, e.g. [0]

[0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmSSw-maAAAaZ0g.jpg
TIL why sperm whales are called sperm whales:

Spermaceti is derived from Medieval Latin sperma ceti, meaning "whale sperm" (from Latin sperma meaning "semen" or "seed", and ceti, the genitive form of "whale"). The substance was initially believed to be whale semen, due to its appearance when fresh. The substance is also the origin of the name of the sperm whale.
Isn't this the whale equivalent of ear wax?
the article began by referring to the man himself, then started talking about the company, all the way referring to both as “Nye”. I’m not sure why they didn’t give the full company name at least once. perhaps to avoid the impression of a puff piece?
SVB-Fueled Turmoil Junks Lessons of the Global Financial Crisis
No Paywall: https://archive.is/dcdc8
> Integration work is really important. Many people don't have the help they need to integrate their experience back into regular reality unfortunately.

It depends on what epistemological status you assign to the experiences of the trip. If the trip is access to a different part of you, or a different truth than you normally know, then integrating it is very valuable.

But if it's just random weird things that your neurons do while being poisoned, why bother to integrate it? Should I integrate the experience of having a stroke or a migraine? (On the other hand, in that case why bother to have the trip at all?)

And, is there any reason to suppose that poisoning your neurons should be a source of truth, or even of access to "a different part of you"?
We're terribly sorry the reality is a bit more complex and doesn't conform to your mental model of an "if then" statement.
Yes I really want a product that lies constantly to do my taxes for me…

This is absurd.
Nice!, piping from and to chatgpt is really powerful.

If you use tmux, you can pipe in `tmux capture-pane -p -S -` to ask questions about commands and outputs you have just run in your shell.

I use a small script that does that, but will probably replace it with chatblade

script: https://gist.github.com/kinfolk0117/7177964818f46407d4c45792...
Couldn't you sub cash for Bitcoin here and have it make just as much sense? Also, isn't bitcoin highly traceable, especially for a sophisticated state actor?
Once a month clipping? I can go about 10 days before my fingernails start looking and feeling dirty.
Bug-wise yes, both Photo and Designer are very very buggy.

Functionality, also yes, but not by much. Only thing I miss from Photoshop in Affinity Photo is content aware tooling. I don't remember anything I miss from Illustrator in Affinity Design and I actually think they have better features than Illustrator (admittedly haven't used Illustrator in almost a decade so maybe they've caught up).

You really can't beat Affinity's price though unless you use GIMP/Inkscape of course, but I like neither of those programs.
Maybe it was ChatGPT itself that suggested this to them
And asking higher level questions than what you'd otherwise look up. E.g. I've had ChatGPT write forms, write API calls, put together skeletons for all kinds of things that I can easily verify and fix when it gets details from but that are time consuming to do manually. I've held back and been sceptical but I'm at the point where I'm preparing to integrate models all over the place because there are plenty of places where you can add sufficient checks that doing mostly ok much of the time is sufficient to already provide substantial time savings.
The main problem with using GPT-3 (and maybe 4 I dunno) in that way is it will happily bullshit you to the point of making up fake references. For example it quoted me "Section 6.2" of the Go Programming Language Specification to support its answer when I asked it how a particular conversion is specified.
The geometry is called mini velo and popular in some parts of the world because of the smaller wheels (tighter turns) and overall volume. Most of them are foldable these days but the two don’t technically equate (there are full-size foldable bikes).
Is not, at all, what I wrote: of course Pakistan is in much need and well deserving of development, and again, I did not write it should not develop. It also has not put any significant portion of the CO2 that's now stuck in our aor, so the major hurdle to its development put up by climate change are doubly unfair. In terms of fairness the US and Europe should have stopped producing any more CO2 last century, China and India should be stopping about now...
That's right, we're talking surface temperature.
That's true. But in the same time I think it will be useful to _understand_ if I can deliver that vision with 10 people or with 100 people. You can start with the assumption that everyone has good intentions and will contribute similarly (in correlation with their experience and capabilities), but I think it's missing the bit that will tell you more objectively if that's the case.
The most frustrating thing about LLaMA "release" is that no one can make an actual product around it. Meta legal department is silent and it's anyone's guess how far the terms of use can be pushed and bent until army of lawyers buries your business into the ground.

I've seen awful amount of fishy urls, magnet links, and diff files and I guess it works well enough for open source communities. This buzz and flow of amazing innovations building around LLaMA will later be repurposed when a truly open LLM + weights is released, not much is lost there. But it could be maybe x10 times the impact if startups could build their new products with the finetuned LLaMA models.

It just sucks that the price was already paid - 2.6 million KWh hours of electricity and 1,000 tons of CO2 emitted into the air. Now it needs to be done again to get to same result, why?
You are humanizing token prediction. The multimodal models for text-vision were all established using a scaffold of architectures that unified text-token and vision-token similarity e.g. BLIP2. [1] It's possible that a model using unified representations might be able to establish that the set of visual tokens you are searching for corresponds to some set of text tokens, but only if the pretrained weights for the vision encoder are able to extract the features corresponding to the object to which you are describing to the vision model.

And the pretrained vision encoder will have at some point been trained to minimize text-visual token cosine similarity on some training set, so it really depends on what exactly that training set had in it.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.12597.pdf
They do have MDM. But that doesn't necessarily stop people installing their own apps.
Haha that is hilarious, I can't edit my comment but thanks for pointing it out
Netflix Bets Big on ‘The Electric State’ as It Seeks to Build Franchises
But do they want JB to create their own Copilot though? It is surely a possibility with OpenAI's API, that is what GitHub is doing anyway, building a layer upon essentially Codex models.
What's the difference? Seriously, how can we tell?
You seem so poisoned with anti-English xenophobia that you are spreading disinformation.

Denying the existence of The Terror is just weird. It was condemned at the time by fellow Jacobins like Danton/Desmoulins who were then executed themselves as the revolution devoured it's own. Robespierre had lost his mind by this point.

It isn't called la Terreur because of English propaganda but because the revolutionaries openly discussed the concept and deliberate use of terror in the period. You can quibble about what they meant by it and whether or not terror was an official policy or just the reality, but that is where name arises. Robespierre: "The basis of popular government in time of revolution is both virtue and terror".

You are way off on the death toll. The official figures are 17k executed (2-3k in Paris) and 10k died in prison awaiting trial. Historians put the total figure at 40-50k because of there were also summary executions outside the official figures.
Nice, I've found engines that our corporate firewall doesn't block, woot =)
Gave it a try. It is pretty wild https://twitter.com/kuizinas/status/1638173950806200324
Reducing work for humanity is a net positive under two conditions:

1) the profit is distributed to as many people as possible (say UBI)

2) we find things to fill our time with apart from work.

Problem one is likely solvable over the long term. Problem two may become a challenge for many. Work often adds meaning to peoples life. Feeling like you can't contribute anything meaningful to society may effect mental health. On the other hand, we may find time to take care of younger and elder people; spend more time with friends etc.

I think a big question will be, how fast the changes happen. A quick destruction of jobs without 1) or 2) will lead to negative consequences in the mid-term.
Do you have the same localization settings? The same timezone? The same browser settings? The same screen orientation? The same model of bluetooth headset? These are all likely factors in a client-side fingerprint.
The individual himself looks good - a bit of a PUA, but good. One picture with a blurred background is fine (for example, the golfing one) - but all of them is suspicious. And it's important to have at least one picture including other people (although it's acceptable to blur third-party faces in a dating context). Otherwise the guy comes across as a loner; and women are very picky about not dating serial killers.
I dont mind my job being replaced due to AI, I mind that I won't be able to pay my bills because of the replacement.

i.e. I'm not worried about AI, I'm worried about how capitalism will weild it against me.
> good benchmarks ... failure modes and weaknesses is actually quite difficult. Much more difficult than designing or training these systems

Is it? Based on the restrictions placed on the systems we see today and the way people are breaking it, I would say that some failure modes are known.
It seems like many people focus on reasoning capabilities of the GPT models.

The me the real value is in the industrial scale pattern recognition capabilities. I can indicate something I vaguely know or ask it to expand on a concept for further research.

Within the last hours I have used it to kick-start my research on the AT1 bond and why Credit Suisse let them default and it helped me recall that it was the GenServer pattern I was looking for in Elixir when you have a facade that calls to an independent process.
Cue the "this time is different" comments around housing supply and how high housing prices and low unemployment are here to stay. This is typically pure cognitive dissonance from people with a ton of equity in their homes.

Housing is at record low levels of affordability.[0]

The last time we saw something like this wasn't too long ago. And we can recall that it ended with affordability eventually reverting back to the mean after some nasty price action.

Even if we don't yet know the trigger, it is very likely that housing prices will fall and defaults will rise.

[0] https://nationalmortgageprofessional.com/news/goldman-sachs-...
This idea you bring up that the jobs will evaporate when businesses are regulated sounds logical, but it’s a trap.

McDonald’s didn’t wait for the minimum wage to go up to be motivated to install automated drink dispensing machines and self-service kiosks. In fact, the minimum wage adjusted for inflation was decreasing during the entire time period in which those innovations were deployed.

On the other end of the labor spectrum, companies like Meta had no problem hiring thousands of excess employees during a period of high wage growth and scarce tech talent.

When labor generates revenue, companies will hire regardless of regulations. When labor is unnecessary for revenue, no regulation will prevent a company from downsizing.

Extra, guaranteed severance pay and a reduced unemployment insurance bureaucratic burden would be a godsend for terminated employees. I argue that for most businesses it would be a minor adjustment to their standard operating procedures.

An analogy to your point: “Cars will be too expensive if safety standards are required.”

While it’s true that cars are more expensive than they would be without those safety features, the market has adjusted just fine and the societal benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
I guess it is in OpenAI's best interest to downplay the memorization aspect in favor of the logical reasoning angle. If it turns out that GPT is memorizing and reproducing copyrighted data, it could land them in legal trouble.
How would law get enforced without taxes?

Clearly the wealthier you are, the more benefit you are getting from taxes because the government stops everyone else from taking your wealth.
Denmark knows a bit or two about programming languages. If they chose .net, its a telling.
Between a Rock and a Cold Place
Install Kiwix and a dump of MDN: https://library.kiwix.org/?lang=&q=MDN
Peak HN comment right here.

Most programmers have never made a LORA and have never used Stable Diffusion. For 99.9% of people outside the programmer class, this is absolutely an "advanced algorithm."

Just because you understand what it's doing under the hood, and just because it can be abstracted into a handful of discrete steps, doesn't mean it isn't advanced.
Ohhh that makes sense! Meaning there's a way for a website to detect my zoom level? I wonder how? Checking calculated font size via JS or something? Ugh
I can definitely understand the attraction of a luxury version of regular nail clippers. But my problem with nail clippers isn't generally the quality, it's just the overall design. In my mind, "flush cutters" made for electronics are a much better design for nail cutting than traditional nail clippers.

If you really want to go extreme, you can buy a little stone or diamond lap and hit the edges from time to time to keep them super sharp.
Cutting nails is for shortening them, not cleaning them; while a month may be on the long side, definitely I try to clean under my nails daily and usually do more extensive cleaning with a nail brush (or toothpick, if I'm out of town) at least once a week.
An elliptical CSS `clip-path` containing a slightly too large spinning beach ball might also suffice. It’d at least stop the edge wobble.
Because we haven't taught them yet.

Allocate time to teach others around you.
Sometimes paying a lot more to get a "for life" item is great... if it really is "for life", and if it's the only cost you'll have.

Sadly, in the last few years many of once very good and reliable brands have gone so downhill, that it's just not worth it. Not sure about nailclippers, but electronics are sometimes not worth the extra price of branding and supposedly higher quality, that isn't.
If you have spent at least ten minutes around post-Y2K computing, you know this is not the case.
Phillips 66 biofuels project will test the industry’s green promises
Well it sounds like, if you haven't, you should start documenting the important things immediately.
Is this hockey stick a factor?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM1NS

In the “modern economy”, “modern economists” seem to say it’s not a factor. But gosh, just look at it.
> Problem one is likely solvable over the long term.

It's not in the interests of capital to solve it.[0] Having high unemployment means cheaper labour. People have argued that capitalism should be replaced for more than a century, yet nobody's successfully displaced it.

[0] Obviously mass unemployment is bad for the economy in general, which would also ultimately impact capital, but for some reason that always seems to be a lesser concern.
You shouldn't perform work that is unneeded. It's a problem for politicians on how people should earn living after that.