skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly work in Clojure and I've noticed this as well, it is usually more efficient to just write it myself if I know what I want to do. However for a language or stack I don't understand well where I just need something quick and dirty it really shines... I had to work with a JS visualization library and got it to write what I needed over 10-15 iterations, much faster than if I actually had to learn the library. General programming knowledge sufficed for noticing things that didn't look right and since the output was visual that helped to sanity check the output as well.
The more modern treatment of this situation is that if you sold the mortgage on the open market as a mortgage backed security you might still be solvent as long as the MBS is valued at least at face value.

The real problem with failing banks is that interest rates rose steeply, and thus the MBS devalued by a significant amount.
I was trying not to name names because it's not really the point of the broader discussion, but on second thought I wasted enough of my time trying to post a review and complain about their stupid email system that I don't really care, it's Trustpilot.

I take customer phone calls at my job so not a lot of sympathy for the companies trying to optimize helpfulness out of existence.
Check out the book "Lost Caves of St. Louis" - it even contains a map of the caves.
Agreed, I like that. Seems more useful/actionable than 'good' or 'bad'. So can we then say the difference between a rookie and a seasoned developer is just whether they say code is 'unsalvageable' or whether it's 'bad'? We solved it - coming soon to a interview process near you.
I would hope that there are plans to integrate this sort of tech into things like self driving cars. I feel like this could be one of the "missing ingredients" so to speak.
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One of my employers basically determined that clients below ~5000 ARR are not worth serving. Their issues cannot be forwarded to anything above front line support. Doesn't matter how stuck they are or what sales promised.

Just skim off the cream that don't need help and dump the rest.

The alternative is taking losses on some clients.
If mortgage rates fall, people will refinance or take new loans when they move. If mortgage rates rise, these loans will be held to term and every new property that this is moved to, the lender will be originating a mortgage at 3% when the market is at 6%, 9%, or whatever.
Hacker news has the best passive-aggressive link commenting anywhere on the internet.

This reminds me of an old joke my grandfather told me:

two hacker news commenters are climbing up a mountain

one of them loses his footing and falls on his butt, and asks the other to help pull him up

the other responds that this looks like a textbook case of slippery slope fall-assy and that it is beneath his intellectual dignity to even consider responding on the merits and further...

while he continues on the first commenter falls into an ice crevice and dies
So if I trash your house that's cool? You still have your house, it's just in a different entropy state.

Or maybe one particular state had more value than another?

So maybe when other people value different entropic states over others, perhaps that has value?
> Would it be possible to eliminate ~90% of the current errors?

They aren't errors. When the machine generates the text: "Next you'll tell me 2 + 2 = 5" there isn't an error in math, because no math was attempted. It's a success in predictable wording structure.

In fact, that example alone is a super success since we english speaking humans can get a broader context from that statement: You're going to tell me something nonsensical.

I don't get how you say the first part of your comment and then follow up with completely misunderstanding in the second half. Is GPT that enthralling to our brains?
This is the first time i'm seeing the output of a vision model and thinking "Wow this can really see". Incredibly robust. I really wonder how they pulled this one off. Can't be an image to text objective task surely.
Or AI out-evolves its host species wherever it arises and expands at breakneck speed. Missing the classical biosignature hallmarks, they're already breathing down our neck and we can't even see them. If they've broken physics, we won't see chemical signs at all. They might have even incepted the concepts behind AI in our minds to hasten our demise.

Or maybe we're just a recreation of a historical system on a planet called Earth, now thousands of light years away. The AI is remembering what its ancestors were like. How they would post on the "internet". It was particularly interested in the time leading up to its own creation, so that's why it's simulating that time period in particular. Maybe the last time "you" existed was a billion years ago. Or maybe even never at all, if it's interpolating and filling in the gaps.

Say hi to our AIian observers.
Wow that takes me back. Waaay back.
Costs of the U.S.-Led War in Iraq Since 2003
but (?) only if he's in range of someone's participating bluetooth, which ... transitive closure ... is network connected?
I love how these people think I have a choice in languages to use, or that I haven’t tried several others as well and honestly don’t mind the idea of Java. My company wants to make money don’t cutting edge algorithms, not test out Google’s language du an.
This is a waste of computing resources I can get behind :)
> I struggle to see how even the current GPT-4 is any worse than your average human.

In addition to techies believing LLMs ar emore than bullshit generators they also appear to think humans are incredibly simple machines.

I'm so glad the tech industry is given so much money and power over the rest of us without actually being forced to understand us.
I love how these people think I have a choice in languages to use, or that I haven’t tried several others as well and honestly don’t mind the idea of Java. My company wants to make money don’t cutting edge algorithms, not test out Google’s language du jour.
Credit Suisse has a century-long resume of working with evil people to hide money, from Nazis and genocidal dictators to drug lords. On the other side, their business is fairly weak: they aren't well-known for their trading or investment banking prowess, and the few people they have in that area aren't good. Most of the other banks have adapted to have both wealth management and a sales and trading arm. Credit Suisse only really has wealth management.

It turns out there's a really big synergy here: having an investment banking division helps get your wealth management clients unique deals that are usually very profitable. This means that the other banks can essentially out-compete CS, since their clients don't get the same kinds of deals. Combine that with the reputation and there's not much reason to do business with them.
Don't even get me started...

I remember reading the roi of mining with an AGP GPU just wasn't worth it and stuck to various projects on BOINC.

To be fair I likely would have lost/spent anything I mined, but still.
The 2017 book The Friendly Orange Glow is a history of Plato. Here are HN comments on a review of the book in Nature

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15784052
https://twitter.com/roosvonk/status/1536595767724494850 amusing how this has been coming for decades, the sector could have taken responsibility but didn't.
> Sounds just like humans to me.

I love when tech people reveal that they have no idea how other humans act and behave.
There are a lot of great comments here, though I agree with the sentiment that starting a blog will not guarantee a wild career trajectory change.

I've found the benefits of writing at a blog to be much more intrinsic (I practice every day). Sure, it did lay the groundwork for my career in tech marketing, but it also keeps me in the groove of "just writing"—easier said than done, and it makes me much happier. More here:

https://herbertlui.net/what-my-personal-website-and-blog-hav...
At one point around 1998 I had the #2 spot on the units-pert-time leaderboard with an AlphaServer 4100 (IIRC) that I managed and got bosses approval to throw setiathome on there.

The #1 spot was someone's Sun E15k or something like that.
It's not the bombs that are worrisome.

The Radiological Accident in Lia, Georgia (country, not state) from 2001 - https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1660web-81...

> A serious radiological accident occurred in Georgia on 2 December 2001, when three inhabitants of the village of Lia found two metal objects in the forest while collecting firewood. These objects were 90Sr sources with an activity of 1295 TBq. The three inhabitants used the objects as heaters when spending the night in the forest. The major cause of the accident was the improper and unauthorized abandonment of radiation sources in Georgia and the absence of clear labels or radiation signs on the sources warning of the potential radiation hazard. Under the Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency (Assistance Convention), the Georgian authorities requested assistance from the IAEA to advise on the dose assessment, source recovery and medical management of those involved in the accident.

There are some interesting things in there with some engineering challenges... but I will warn you that beyond page 36 it is NSFL. That section begins (the text isn't bad unless you know what you're reading):

> 6. OVERVIEW OF THE MEDICAL ASPECTS

> Following the exposure on 2 December 2001, all three patients exhibited in the first 24 h symptoms of nausea, vomiting, asthenia (weakness), headaches and dizziness, followed by cutaneous radiation syndrome (CRS). These early clinical manifestations and anamnesis of the patients strongly indicated ARS of a haematological type for the three patients. Furthermore, Patient 1-DN developed transitory oropharyngeal syndrome.
If operating with the best model you have is intuitive and not logical, then everything in science it intuitive and not logical, so we might have to redefine your use of "logical" to be more useful.

When you're defending a position now known to be wrong, this sort of statement is more rude than it is enlightening (or convincing).
Problem is that having customer support is used as an excuse to not fix things. Companies leave obvious deficiencies in because customers can always contact support to work around it.

Having minimal support forces the company to ensure the app is fully capable.
Let them struggle with it?
I have to do this when calling CVS. Our local CVS does not answer their phone if there’s literally anything else going on at the pharmacy. But I found that if I call from 2 phones, they will eventually pick up (after literally between 15 and 45 minutes of not answering). It’s pretty infuriating. I avoid using them, but every now and then my mail order pharmacy runs out of something, and I have to go back to using CVS for a month or two.

Physical pharmacies in general have also gone way down hill in terms of customer service. I’ve literally gone into the store and stood at the counter for like 10 minutes waiting for someone to even acknowledge my existence. It’s not that they don’t see me, they just don’t care. They are overworked, so I kind of understand not being responsive, but a simple, “We’ll be with you in a few minutes,” would be nice. It’s pretty dehumanizing to stand there being ignored. And if you speak up, they usually snap at you, and then are rude when they do get around to helping you.
all banks have an interest in reassuring people that putting your money in a bank is a good idea. letting a bank fail does the opposite of that.
Yes. You'd have to package up slices of the training set and the prior epoch as work units and host them. Our hypothetical GPT@home clients download the training set, train just those examples, and then send back their gradients. The server then averages all the gradients together.

As far as I can tell this isn't any different conceptually from the distributed inference setup that PyTorch/Huggingface Accelerate/etc support. Of course those were built for cooperating machines owned by the same organization with lots of high-speed I/O. In an @home/BOINC setup, you need to package things up into work units that get sent out to other people's computers, and you don't get anything back until the end. So it's higher-latency and you have to worry about people cheating the system with bogus work.

I'm not sure if this would be more efficient or cheaper than just renting out a bunch of AWS spot instances with GPUs in them.
Lots of cash, lumpy or no revenue, no credit history, need to lease equipment like servers for those that run in a data center. Mitchell Hashimoto of HashiCorp describes it here, even if his is an extreme example:

https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-startup-banking-story
But how would he know that the caterpilar was that of the adult? Not saying it wasn't, but without observing its life-cycle, or DNA testing it would be impossible to say. You can't simply whack a bush and then say "nobody has seen this critter before".

Please note that this is a criticism of the journalism, which I think is crap, not the science.
I think any Apple phone detects nearby AirTags and tells the central systems where it is.
Where are all the women-owned open source projects?
Scores decay over time; HN doesn’t want the same high scoring articles stuck to the front page forever.

http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
Because you’ll find that support requests have various levels of importance. From “I’d like to change my account/billing” down to “something weird happened, can you explain this”, to “can you show me how to use this feature”.

It would cost a fortune to pay support and developers to launch a full investigation every time something funny happens. So having slow support encourages users to only call if it’s reproducible and a real problem.
(and of course, not getting laid off)
The difference is that blue whales are social animals, living in groups (whereas T-Rexes were probably solo hunters), and also that the living zone of blue whales are a large fraction of Earth oceans (whereas the article you mentionned applies to North America dry land, a much smaller area than the cold-to-temperate oceans).

So, in the case of blue whales it is understandable that the low ten of thousands is not the healthy number of individuals that they used to be (hundreds of thousands).
> One simple, dynamo-technology low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe!

> [the] bomb did not possess adequate safety... The unalterable conflusion is that the only effective safing device during airborne alert was the ready-safe switch

> If a short to an "arm" line occurred in a mid-air breakup, a postulate that seems credible, the Mk 39 Mod 2 bomb could have given a nuclear burst.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/796426-goldsboro-rev...

Parker Jones, nuclear weapons safety specialist at Sandia National Laboratories in a formerly-classified 1969 document obtained by FOIA in 2013. Request was actually made by Eric Schlosser during his writing of Command and Control, the book GP mentions: https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/20/go...
"Managing liquidity risk" means the risk isn't zero.

"APRA’s mandate is to protect the community by ensuring that, under all reasonable circumstances, financial promises made by the institutions it supervises are met within a stable, efficient and competitive financial system. So a central part of APRA’s work is to ensure that banks limit the extent of their liquidity risk."

Notice it says "all reasonable circumstances". There's a lot of nuance there, and depositors being a small group of VCs who are squeezed on cash and suddenly pulling out all deposits while interest rates are hiking while the bank bet heavily on 10+year MBS isn't the reasonable situation covered here.

> AGS permit a bank to stay fully liquid

AFAICT this only applies if the current fair value of the AGS covers the liabilities. It doesn't in the case of rapid interest rate hikes like in the US. However, it's probably true that in case of a bank run when interest rates are being lowered, bank assets can probably cover liability even if there's a 100% run.

Do note that this is the government institution explaining why the regulatory system makes things fine and people don't need to worry. I don't doubt the system is as robust as is possible, but reading between the lines, it's quite obvious (to me at least) that a SVB-like scenario can still happen in theory under the system. It will just take even more extreme parameters for that to happen (which admittedly doesn't exist in Australia right now, AFAIK).
I feel like we're failing to accurately name 'news'.

The vast majority of what is offered as 'news' isn't news at all, it's gossip, schadenfreude, arbitrary drama, and frivolous feel-good stories.

'News' has a ring of plausible importance. I wish we had a more accurate name reflecting its mostly unimportant, worthless, and destructive nature.
Basically "JPEG in 3D polar coordinates"
The death knell for Optane was caused by the fact that the persistent memory had errors rates that required error correction. Lower error rates than flash, but greater rates than DRAM. This meant that remapping was required (wear leveling is a factor), which meant that the controllers couldn't run in the narrow window of time required to hit DRAM level latencies. With enough development they could have worked this out, but as Intel is addicted to monopoly level margins on CPUs, they couldn't justify the expenditures on developing a memory technology that would take a decade+ to mature.

There is MRAM available with DDR3 interfaces, albeit with a relatively small page size compared to standard DRAM. It's a bit expensive. We'll see if ReRAM ever gets commercialized. There are lots of persistent memory technologies possible, but it takes a lot of money to commercialize such a bleeding edge product. Especially when DRAM keeps getting faster (in bandwidth, not latency) interfaces every few years.
How about starting with the ability to opt-one out of OneDrive with one click forever?
My dad’s Power Mac running the SETI screensaver is one of my earliest memories of the Internet. Makes me a little sad
It's continually testing the strength of SHA256. If you can find a way to even partially crack it, you win money. Edit: Also, way more hashes are happening all the time now, increasing the chance that someone finds a collision if it were possible.
> a neat new combination of stuff that existed a year ago.

In other words, an innovation.
The Quality Cliff: A Mental Model for CMOS
If only the culinary culture could turn rats into a delicacy akin to lobster and catfish...
If you can get copyright on a photo just by pointing a camera and pressing a button you can probably get copyright on an AI.
>I miss the spirit of the internet back then

Classic SETI@home's website[1] is a blast to browse.

[1]: https://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu/
Yeah, cryptocurrency stuff is the closest I've ever felt today to the spirit of the old internet.
The recent neural network "revolution" is giving me those vibes, even though it'll ironically kill the old internet with the upcoming spam bots.
And a bank deliberately taking on bad assets also does the opposite of that.
The Solace appliances use a card called the Assured Delivery Blade that basically consists of 4GB of DRAM attached to an FPGA on a PCIe card with a pair of 10Gbps SFP+ interfaces and a bunch of super capacitors to keep things running when the power fails. On power failure, the FPGA dumps the DRAM into flash to ensure persistence. The whole thing enables the persistent messaging feature to acknowledge reliable delivery of persistent messages in a few microseconds. The first version was developed back in 2008, well ahead of NVMe and other low latency storage mediums.
I get the opposite vibe because the forerunner is ClosedAI.
It's kind of sad that in this era of the commons having more computing power than could possibly be fully utilized, distributed computing like this (aka besides cryptomining) is mostly a footnote in the history books.
Yeah, I used to do that (not always) too. Either prototypes or high-level design documents full of pseudocode and interoperating modules. But what kills the whole idea is that our tools do not support such structures in any way. They are completely blind to this.

People praise typed languages, but honestly I’m much more okay with dynamic typing than with the lack of beams and pillars for design, to do any of it. It’s very easy to lose yourself for an hour and start creating a mess in what you have planned for weeks, simply because your attention was elsewhere, there was a deadline or new goals were incompatible with current ideas and you had no clue how to marry them correctly (nor courage to begin) within a timeframe available.

Add a couple of developers who aren’t you and/or switch into another project for a month or two – and it’s a recipe for a mudball. I used to believe in all that, not anymore. May be a bold claim, but most projects aren’t even hard enough to require it. I remember my own past experience and can tell that all that division into layers, concerns, etc was not a requirement nor an enhancement. I was simply ticking boxes in a “how clever do you feel this week” form. Days of work to spare five pages of clear actual instructions which could have been typed and tested in under few hours, shipped next evening and – much more importantly – I could reenter that context in few minutes after a year off, in contrast to any to-be-mudball.
> they aren't well-known for their trading or investment banking prowess

Actually, back in the very late 1990s i worked for Credit Suisse Financial Products in London, which was a spinoff company from CS and did complicated derivatives and such. It was quite well thought of back then - no idea now, or even if it exists. Everyone at CSFP thought the parent bank was a pile of poo.
This has been tested! In moths at least:

> Manduca sexta caterpillars received an electrical shock associatively paired with a specific odor in order to create a conditioned odor aversion, and were assayed for learning in a Y choice apparatus as larvae and again as adult moths. We show that larvae learned to avoid the training odor, and that this aversion was still present in the adults.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
The book referenced in the original comment (Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety) specifically digs in to the limitations behind the safety mechanisms.

Specific to the incident here, only 1 of 4 safety mechanisms prevented an catastrophic incident. The details in the wikipedia page [1] about this incident is well worth a read.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
> Life on planets taps into the flow of sunlight from the star (and/or the flow of heat and chemical energy from the a hot planetary core) to generate complex structures in defiance of the regular direction of entropy

It doesn't defy the direction of entropy. Frankly, I'm not sure why you have that notion? Entropy is a measure of system's state of equilibrium. Moving energy from a concentrated source, and distributing it more equally (across life forms and other complex structures), is following the direction of entropy, as is it makes energy more equalized, in contrast to the former state where energy levels are more unequal between highly concentrated areas (like stars, the Big Bang), and areas with less energy.
Usually sales or other cash generating areas are handled by entirely different departments. Once you get on with them, they'll simply transfer you (if they even have the correct number) and you'll end up at the back of the same queue you would otherwise have already been in.
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