skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The unique hard-won skills are what AI can do on the cheap. The more high-level interesting stuff is just creativity, and creativity is a universal human trait. It’s amazing but low value (monetarily).

As you often hear on HN, ideas are a dime a dozen it’s all about execution.

Well we’re rapidly approaching the time when the execution is essentially free, and done faster and better than humans.

A small team of four, over an afternoon, can literally just speak with the computer to generate a new TV ad, or develop a new sass product. There is no longer any skill required, just imagination. The problem being of course that the skills and specialized knowledge are what people have been traditionally paid for.

With all that “work” out of the way there’s not much value anyone can add . You’re probably not any smarter or creative than whoever’s manning the machine.
And throwing snakes; not a reserve currency but apparently a useful talent.
Why? It is never clear in the article - what is going to be better with mug shots?
Probably worth going through all the options for distressed banks:

-1. Sell distressed assets (Treasuies?) into the market to meet withdrawals. This is bad, in the sense that it converts an unrealized loss into a realized one, and if allowed to continue will shortchange a depositor.

0. Sell the company, and use the proceeds to pay off bond holders, and maybe shareholders if lucky. Merger is basically a fast track version of this.

1. Raising more equity. Dilutes existing shareholders but sometimes something is better than nothing. Usually pretty slow, but I bet you could get a direct listing done quick. Arguably announcing a new raise is what caused the SVB run.

2. Issuing corporate debt / bonds. You'd have to be a special kind of person to buy bonds from a failing bank: limited upside, tons of risk.

3. Attracting / retaining deposits. You can raise rates to
retain people, but its very much the same problem as bonds, just slightly less risk of being zeroed out. You can hook up to deposit brokers, but there are rules around them because one decision maker behind millions of deposits is destablizing. Seems like a solution you can only apply before the problem is severe.

4. Sell pieces of the bank / accounts. Retail deposits are valuable in the sense that they are a very cheap source of money for banks. But you kinda have to sell _all_ the accounts, or theres a buyer-seller information asymmetry that Akerlof wrote about. Even if you solve the lemon market dilemma, you are selling a cheap funding source, and need to borrow elsewhere to replace the funding source.

AFAICT, what happens is deposit insurers, bond holders and the potential acquirers sit in a locked room look at financial statements and try to make a guess at how much money the insurers need to pay to get some acquirer to agree to buy the whole bank, with as little disruption to depositors as possible.
Go outside and everything is covered in fucking cars.
In other words: you need less tungsten than lead to get similar shielding results.

But the tungsten costs many times more, and is also much harder unlike lead which is soft and easily worked, which is why radiation shielding is still overwhelmingly made of lead. In applications where its toxicity is a problem, it's used encapsulated inside another inert material.
> The point is that if one is raised believing there will always be a helping hand, it is better to not expect much, even if there is nothing wrong in asking for more help than supposedly more "individualistic" areas

I don’t disagree with anything here, except there is a correlation between the amount of trust liberals and conservatives give to people in their community, and one user up above directly addressed how small towns generate trust between people they personally know. The only thing I would disagree with here is the notion that some people believe there is a helping hand to be had; I think this is more of a political myth. What I was originally getting at is that liberals believe government can and does help people, while conservatives, at least in the US, promote the idea that government should be hands off.
The Iraq War actually made Iraqi oil fields less productive, contributing to a rise in global oil prices - yet another indirect cost of the war.
Related ongoing thread:

SETI@home is in hibernation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35204860

Previously:

Frank Drake, astronomer famed for contributions to SETI, has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32692927 - Sept 2022 (25 comments)
Hacker News is a better social internet. So are niche subreddits and discords. Trying to build a big tent for millions and billions is a dead end. There's almost nothing relevant to all of us collectively, nothing interesting and really meaningful anyway. Attempts to build that global collective culture have failed. It's all a bunch of existential screaming into the void.

Human communication and meaning-making needs to happen on a smaller level. A few hundred people with common values and ideas. People who share something with each other. The social internet is a great place to explore a common niche interest, but pretty much toxic sludge for anything else.
Sure, but as long as the human experience remains unique and beyond the grasp of AI, then there will be human creativity and ingenuity seeking to improve that experience.

But yes, there are plenty of demonstrations of LLMs using themselves to accomplish tasks or even recruiting humans to accomplish a task.
You can, switch the roads to brick/stone, and make it narrow enough that unless you crawl relatively slowly, you are at risk of scraping on things on the sides.
Thanks, this is likely where I read it first. I hadn't realized the actual implementation got more complicated than that. :)
I made an interactive Drake Equation back in 2007, it is embedded in this page: https://www.damninteresting.com/space-radio-more-static-less...

It's not mobile-friendly, unfortunately. I made it in the same year the first iPhone was released. Some day I'll update it for smaller viewports. Some of the default settings are also too low, for example we now know that exoplanets are very common.

Edit: Oh yes, it slipped my mind that there is a totally stand-alone version here: http://astro.nomical.info/drake/
Why ask on HN? You know who you need to talk to.
Next under 8s in business please!
I think the fact it's so "archaic" or "outdated" is actually a good thing, by increasing friction you make sure only well thought patches make it to the maintainers. Take, for example, how hard it would be to keep patches high quality if they were using GitHub as an upstream instead of a mirror. Also, it's really cool because it's truly decentralized, email is one of the last protocols that are decentralized and well-supported. Overall, I like it and I think it shouldn't change.
I took a car seat onto an airplane on exactly one trip and am glad I will never have to again. It’s nice when it’s installed, but getting it into and out of the plane on top of all the other shenanigans really sucks.

It’s weird that the only specific incidents described are plane crashes. While turbulence issues are mentioned the article doesn’t say how common they are.

I don’t optimize my life based on how likely I am to survive a plane crash and I doubt most others do either. On the flights I’ve been on, the seatbelts feel mostly vestigial.
Another way to look at it: there is no miracle solution.

It´s easy to look at any situation and say ¨If only they´d _just_ XXX¨. It´s never that simple.

Even if you deeply believe your solution is flawless and people ¨just¨ need to be convinced, the very fact that the situation is happening at all is an indication it will be a long and dire fight...

> essentially limitless

oh well
How does your comment explain that smaller communities are doomed to failure? It seems you disagreed and went on a very wild tangent far away from the idea the GP brought up, and in fact may only reinforce it.
That mostly-harmless virus killed upwards of 6 million worldwide
Acquiesce to the nightmare my child. Long Live the Machine!
> We'll be looking for real-life moments and connections that make us feel alive

Dollars to donuts, it's going to be AI waifus with a monthly subscription, if the Replika drama is anything to go by.
I just search Obsidian plugins and there are 3 that might work for you:

- https://github.com/louis030195/obsidian-ava

- https://github.com/brianpetro/obsidian-smart-connections

- https://github.com/bramses/chatgpt-md

I haven't looked into any of them in depth, but searching through a large corpus of text and using that to interact with GPT3 or GPT4 has some pretty good solutions already.
Related:

Erich's Packing Center - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529130 - Dec 2021 (16 comments)
Finally catching up to 1984
True, but to be fair it was only recently that OpenAI really took over with ChatGPT and their api cost. Before that (just 3-4 months ago), the open source models were excellent competitors.
Weird how this thread gained traction, but none of the recent SVB posts did
I only read biz/economic news religiously, like stock market crashes, bank failures, layoffs, etc…because they are more likely to affect me and I can act on that news. Business news also seems to have less bias, since they are judged on their ability to help their consumers make and retain money, rather than just cater to their cognitive biases.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230318024611/https://www.nytime...

https://archive.ph/CGPwq
If and when we detect evidence of technological life it's not going to be from radio signals of the kind SETI is looking for. It's going to be infra-red.

The window in which humanity releases the kind of radio signals SETI was built to find is fairly narrow. We've largely moved on from broadcast signals to fiber optics, directional beams and lower power. Even the "high" power signals are relatively low power and probably not detectable beyond a few hundred light years. That is a miniscule volume of our galaxy. Combine that with the small window and it's like trying to win the lottery 3 weeks in a row.

The limits we have on growing are twofold: 1) living area and 2) energy. These two are actually related. Many (myself included) consider th emost likely path for our species is to build a Dyson Swarm. This is a cloud of orbitals. A so-called O'Neil Cylinder. 20-30 miles long, 2-4 miles wide, spin gravity. Cover it in solar panels for power. This requires a material no more advanced than stainless steel.

Such a swarm around our Sun would have access to something like 10"15 times more energy than we have now and a fraction of Mercury's mass would produce trillions of times the land area of Earth.

Orbitals would have to dissipate heat somehow. The only way to do this in space is to vent material or to radiate it away. At any likely temperature that means infra-red radiation. That's physics.

So a Dyson Swarm around a star would have a huge IR signature that would be entirely obvious from a thousands of light years away. Over enough star systems (eg a galaxy) that distance goes out to millions of light years.

So it's a Dyson Swarm we'll see, not radio communications.
So not mug shots. Using dramatic language ruins your argument when reality doesn’t live up to the drama.
No, I actually implemented it in C++ roughly 8 years ago.
Something weird happens to companies when they hit 150 people (2017)
> The cynics self-select themselves out quickly as there's no likes to be earned.

If these are invite-only communities do they actually self select out or do they get kicked out? My experience has generally been that small groups are often cliquish and won't tolerate significant dissent even when it's civil.

I've experienced surprisingly civil and insightful discussion in online spaces that were very nearly unmoderated. It's not for everyone and it's certainly a mixed bag but there's a lot more than just a public/private dichotomy going on in terms of social dynamics.

Even HN is a good example of a solidly public space where I've had countless constructive interactions over many years.
Good neck workout too.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230318031739/https://www.newyor...

https://archive.ph/YjeuX
> When the seat belt light blinks on, every passenger buckles up except for one group of fliers: lap-babies.

That’s not how it works though. At least not on the flights I have been.

We were given a special, additional seat belt, that loops over the adult one, and goes over the baby. And the airlines were enforcing it as much as the adult one.
Community building is excellent way to deter a lot of what is referenced in the blog, but I worry people are taking it too extreme. Infantilizing themselves into only being "positive" where nothing but small talk can occur.

You cannot build a community without understanding one another, through darkest or disagreeable days. Now there's a time and place for everything, you don't have to bring up your divorce at the fishing spot or anything like that. I just don't believe people are building the communities they really want, the profound relationships they really desire, and it's killing them from the inside.

Which in turn leads them to the internet. Hopefully you see where I'm going now ;)
A lot of car seats probably wouldn't even fit into a standard airline seat these days. It would also slow down the boarding process. For that reason I think this change is unlikely to ever happen.
> I love how these people think I have a choice in languages to use

Probably because you wrote, "At my workplace, we’re thinking about using it" and not "my workplace is demanding we use it"

> or that I haven’t tried several others

(I'm not the person who replied and suggested Go, but your comment does make it sound like you are in the language-evaluation phase, not the "we're fully committed to Java after reviewing multiple options" phase)
Well they were even more expensive than DRAM. It is unfortunate we still haven't find a way to further reduce the cost of DRAM. Or at least a roadmap / projection towards $1/GB in Cost.
> There is certainly a lot to criticize about this particular boondoggle

The Iraq War was not a boondoggle. Or, rather, it was a boondoggle, but that’s not the main problem with it. The main problem with it was it was a blatantly unprovoked war of aggression, covered with what were often utterly transparently, immediately not only debunked but with receipts to show that it was impossible for the people telling them to have believed them, lies.

(The secondary problem with it is also not that it was a massive boondoggle, but rather than this completely unnecessary unprovoked war of aggression – a crime, I might note, that we hung people for at Nuremberg – was also that it was launched in the middle of and taking focus from another war, which whatever other faults it might have had, was at least reasonably arguably a defensive war targeting a force that had launched attacks on the US and those actively protecting them – by pushing that war into a holding pattern it intensified and extended chaos and suffering which could have been much shortened, and guaranteed that, if any decent end to the other war had otherwise been possible, that opportunity was pissed away.)
No one wants to pay full airfare for an infant:

> Hoffman recognizes the drawbacks of requiring parents to purchase airplane tickets for their youngsters. The main concern is that families will not be able to afford the airfare and will resort to driving, a more perilous mode of transportation.

>“If they travel by car instead, they will actually be putting themselves at a significantly greater risk, because car crashes are so much more common than airplane incidents, whether it’s a crash or turbulence,”
Feynman was actually quite sophisticated philosophically eg. “The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.” I think when there is a purpose to philosophy eg. understanding science, it works better. When there isn't really philosophers tend to in many cases just discuss what other philosophers have said about each other which tends to get a bit circular and pointless.
I closed my Facebook and LinkedIn accounts and instead started having a personal website. I basically want people to find my contact details and some very basic infos about myself online without having to be on these attention eating social networks.

I really dislike how LinkedIn tries to get you to put your full CV online. Yeah, you don’t have to but it looks bad to have an empty LinkedIn profile.

The trigger for me to close my LinkedIn account was that my then boss asked why I had deleted my CV from LinkedIn. In a bullying tone that implied I had something to hide. Which wasn’t true, I simply never had posted the history of my job positions on LinkedIn because … I think that’s rather private info that I only share when I apply to new jobs. So there really is social pressure to share more than you want on LinkedIn.

That’s different with my personal website. There, I have full control over what impression I want to give to visitors and what information I want to share.
sveltekit is the same, ssr first, i am so sad react now becomes ssr first too, i am forced back to vue,which still has a CSR SPA first, add ssr if you need it approach.

no i dont need ssr at all, internal tools,dashboards,embedded devices,etc etc have nothing to do with ssr,nothing at all
> Hoffman warns that the carrier is not foolproof, especially during severe turbulence. “The child can slip out of it because of all of that force. A plane that falls 4,000 feet in seconds — that’s like being shot out of a cannon. A front pack is not going to do the same as a car seat.”

How common is it for a plane to fall 4,000 feet in seconds? Sounds like it would result in deaths for anyone who isn't strapped in at that moment.

We've used car seats at times, but also have used an Ergo to strap our kid to our front. It is more than enough for the type of turbulence that we've ever experienced in a combined 80 years of flying, though of course there is a possibility that something stronger could hit.
Sure, if you want to shield a wall or container or something you will just slap lead on it, but this could be used for complex shielding of sensitive components in nuclear machinery and devices. Machining hard materials is extremely expensive and difficult (exotic material cutters or edm, with slow high precision grinding).
Sure, the best way to counter these Sino/Russo efforts is by censoring information that is actually true. That must add confidence and trust to the system right?
Good luck trying to bully someone who can use a killfile.
Ok, but in that case please don't replicate the shittiness and bitterness here. We're trying for something else on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://archive.is/fmjha
I'm guessing you missed this discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35191206

No copyright on an AI if it was machine generated, which the training is. Great catch kmeisthax!
This happened whenever the seatbelt sign was on, or only when it was on because of turbulence? We have never been offered that, and I've never seen other passengers offered such a thing. I've mostly flown in the US though; perhaps you are elsewhere?
> What a pretentious bunch of gatekeeping nonsense.

So you're opposed to people be respectful of the time and attention of others?

What an interesting and unique perspective.

Please go on.
I’m always dumbfounded by people who have been on the site for so long, yet seem to lack any idea of how moderation works here.
It takes 20 weeks for a hen to grow to egg laying age. The h5n1 culling should not still be impacting us to the extent that eggs are up 150% in price.
I was 12 and needed a nickname to play counter strike. I thought about “jeux video” (video games in French) -> “video jeux” -> “vjeux”
Are you just looking at raw numbers? Because the population size is different and in fact the link you posted says this:

> Additionally, the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other ethnicity, standing at 5.9 fatal shootings per million of the population per year between 2015 and January 2023.
I interpret your question as "although ViperGPT is innovative, it is not as radical as GPT-4 or Midjourney 5". Here, "radical innovation" is a term I have used from the innovation literature. (https://bigthink.com/plus/radical-vs-disruptive-innovation-w...)

Although I largely agree with you, I still think this is a massive development as it will likely change the way empiricists use computer vision.
Excellent writeup, timely and pragmatic solution to a real problem faced by many; bravo!
I agree. We need a trend of "America good" on this website.

Dang, I suggest you close this thread also, cheers.
It doesn't really change that because that doesn't really happen. It doesn't happen because one conflict flows into the next as they are all part of the larger game. These things don't happen in a vacuum.
Families with small children board separately, often after the highest-tier flyers, but before the mere mortals.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230318041602/https://papersplea...
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Curious, whenever I’ve taken a flight with a lap infant I’ve been given an extra belt that attaches to mine to restrain the child, but the article suggests they get no restraint at all.

Either way I’d very gladly swap a lap infant for an infant in their own seat. But there’s no such thing as a child fare on a plane so the price difference to pay for the full adult fare is staggering, it’s no wonder people opt for lap travel.
I would like to hear everyone's opinion :)
> How common is it for a plane to fall 4,000 feet in seconds?

It wasn't 4,000 feet, but last month a United Airlines flight leaving Hawaii dropped 1,425 feet shortly after takeoff: https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/airlines/a42887614/u...
‘It is not cut-throat like Goldman Sachs’: SVB’s culture in focus
lead isn't a hard material, and if you need a hard material, this filament isn't what you're looking for either; it will be almost as fragile as pure petg
https://archive.ph/0L9UE
I’ve flown with a car seat. Many are FAA certified. And with families boarding before other passengers we’re able to get the seat installed before the plane gets busy.
The only users of the power in the area are data centers. The power goes directly there. The same data centers you're using to access services on the internet. There is more than enough hydro in the area so they don't have to turn on the gas. Very large river based hydro and the dams were built long ago.
Thanks for the write up. I was planning to look into this on the weekend and now I don’t have to!

A slightly fancier version of this concept is the Kubernetes official registry, registry.k8s.io .

https://github.com/kubernetes/registry.k8s.io

Their registry forwards to a container registry by default. But if it detects if the request is coming from inside AWS or Google Cloud, it forwards requests for blobs to a S3 or GCS bucket near the requester. This saves money on cloud egress charges.
Once I found a theme - detailed reviews of manufacturing books - I get calls all the time that lead to consulting gigs that are fun.

https://fredlybrand.com/2018/10/15/goldratts-the-goal-chapte...

The counts are low for the blog posts and the video views, but what does come in is a qualified lead who already wants to do something interesting.
The unity exes would be the closest thing
If you read the SEC filings, there was a 12-13 billion hole in their balance sheet. The 1.8 was simply accounting rules which say they only have to recognize the giant hole when they sell and they sold some of the assets in question. Marked to market, ie assets marked to real prices instead of fantasy prices, they were toast.

People who looked at SVB financials knew it was a train wreck. They behaved like serious investment professionals and pulled their money.