skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although you may not find it likely, that is sort of the case. Bond prospectuses are very long (100s of pages sometimes) and complicated with tons and tons of boilerplate language so most people focus on exactly 1 page of that (the "waterfall" describing payout and loss priorities).[1] Things like under what circumstances an instrument will convert are sometimes very complicated and people like Elliot Capital have basically made a career out of actually doing the homework and figuring this out better than everyone else. You can bet all sides have teams of securities lawyers pouring over the conditions of conversion of every single coco bond out there and these most of all.

Part of the calculus for AT1/Coco bonds seems to have been that investors thought the bonds would basically never convert (and were certainly not pricing in the likelihood of being wiped out in this way) so they were getting paid for nothing. That is why the coco bond market has been so spooked by this. Some investors have been saying the cbanks have made a mistake because noone will ever buy AT1 bonds again, but cbanks seem to have gone off the whole AT1 idea and would prefer just real normal tier 1 capital instead so probably wouldn't mind that outcome too much.

[1] Real life example: I was involved in the structuring of a bond and after a team of us working on it for 6 months and having poured over the prospectus through multiple drafts, after it had been in investors hands for 6 months we disagreed with lawyers about a very basic point (whether there were physical bond certificates or not) and ended up being wrong (there were - stuck in a custodian vault somewhere).
Even without Morgan Stanley claims, Greg Brockman and Satya have both said that GPT-3.5 was already internally used by them since the summer of last year and GPT-4 in December. Greg mentions it in https://youtu.be/YtJEfTTD_Y4 for example
The tweet he's so proud of is from January 30, 2020.

While his recent fearhype is despicable, that tweet from 1/30/2020 was prescient compared to what others were saying at that time.

If you have examples of other equally loud voices saying the same thing that early, please share.

For the record, his tweet stated:

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Going viral

What if this coronavirus is the pandemic that public health people have been warning about for years?

It would accelerate many pre-existing trends.

- border closures

- nationalism

- social isolation

- preppers

- remote work

- face masks

- distrust in governments

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Ponzi scheme for sure
i signed up for a test account for a POC i'm developing, went through the whole rigamarole of setting up spf and dkim and all of that, successfully used their API and... nothing. no delivery of any email to my own domain. no response from support, since i haven't paid yet i guess.

seems like they want to eject their more sophisticated dev customers. guess i can't blame them, but why bother, just shut the damn thing down instead of wasting everyone's time.
Mentions, mentions everywhere / nor a link to click

https://www.kleinbottle.com/
I'm pleased to see it come this far. I still need footnotes, table of contents, and indexing, but maybe someday.
Have you seen our warnings on cigarette packaging? Have you seen how cigarettes are sold in France? No branding. Graphic warnings. Same font imposed on all brands. No wonder all the cool kids are switching to e-cigs.

This will most certainly have an effect, especially in these “down” times and when the target of these ads will have heard a few horror stories.
So the Biden administration isn't really trying to cancel student debt? They are faking the attempt, secure in the knowledge that courts will strike it down? That sounds like an A-grade conspiracy theory to me.

> The only citizens whose interests really matter in the US are conservatives, Christians and (of course, because the US is an oligarchy) billionaires. Everyone else is a serf who takes whatever scraps fall from the table.

So all my non-conservative, non-Christian, non-billionaire Bay Area tech worker friends, who are doing very well for themselves, are "taking scraps"? Come on, that's ludicrous.
If you are setting that as the bar for depositor competency, congratulations, you've just guaranteed that every single business and HNW individual will only bank with a too-big-to-fail bank.
Being old and grumpy, there were very few "mouse cursors" in the 70s. The first ones in general use were in the early 80s.
Watson is a . marketing term for a suite of copycat APIs. IBM had a reputation for showing up to conferences with methodologically invalid, grab-bag, overfit models and claiming they had SOTA. Most folks ignored them, and then they used their fraudulent claim of SOTA to sell to AI-naive organizations like banks.
On Monday, the hacker behind last week’s nearly $200 million attack on Euler Finance sent a message to an Ethereum address linked to the DeFi platform, offering to begin a dialogue after Euler issued an on-chain ultimatum demanding the return of the funds.
I'm not an expert on Mexico but none of this has happened in NZ with the TPP.
The problem looks pretty “white” to me already.
seriously? you're being disingenuous

codex being in beta meant it was improving, not that it'd vanish overnight.

it's not about "getting what they pay for," it's about showing some respect to users who trusted the service.
Excellent work. This is good time to remind web front-end developers that you don't need to click a link to bring up a "printable" version of a page. You can make every HTML page print-compatible through stylesheet rules wrapped in @media print { ... } or <link rel="stylesheet" href="my.css" media="print">.
I'm surprised that no one here has talked about the build times yet. As a new user, the first thing you notice out of the box is that even on a relatively beefy system, you spend ~2 hours getting to a working state, even when you're building a relatively modest set of packages. This is particularly surprising since one of the points of Spack is to integrate with the existing system software, and so much of what you're building already exists and works fine on the system.

In the past when I've talked to people about this, the answer I got was "well, set it up once for your team and don't reinstall it all the time". Which is kind of awful from a "cattle, not pets" perspective. Several other design decisions in Spack (like the lack of certain kinds of configuration isolation by default, and the general difficulty of configuring certain kinds of things) make it feel like a "pets" system. I've gotten instructions from people on using Spack to install things that have been impossible to follow because they fiddled with something in their environment and forgot to tell me.

The best thing I can say about Spack is that all the other systems are worse. I just wish they could get around to fixing some of this stuff already.
Which is usually slower than a real gc and must punt to a real gc when you run out of counter space or have cycles.
Four things of note:

1. I've not seen anyone explain whether this could be exploited by anyone with access to phone lines (i.e. Twilio users) or not and if it would be trivial to try the vuln with every phone number you could find in any DB. If those things are the case, it seems like the chances would be very high that this would be or has already been exploited and affecting every unpatched phone.

2. It seems like Project Zero mistakenly thought that Google devices were already patched when they made their announcement ("affected Pixel devices have received a fix"). Whoops! Thanks for giving attackers a heads up.

3. When contacting Google support (specifically Fi) multiple CS reps told me repeatedly this was all fake news and that Project Zero was unaffiliated with Google. They assured me there was no problem, and if there was a vulnerability, it would be communicated on the Fi website (which has no service status or security pages and has never published any outages or vulnerabilities in the past).

4. The delayed March update for Pixel 6 phones doesn't even show up when you open the software update panel (which shows a checking animation that I assume does nothing). You have to manually check again. Who knows when the folks who are unaware of this vulnerability will actually be prompted to install the patch.

Google have guaranteed at least one person and their family to never purchase another Google product or service.
> There are even far too many who hate that 80% and often will not be scared to share this disdain freely. The trick is to ignore them, fully engage with the whole job and you'll quickly out pace them in career development...

Taking cheap shots at your coworkers is the true way to get outpaced in career development. If OP is looking for career advice, this kind of attitude is not good advice. Humility is the right path.

The 20% is not accurate, at least in the U.S. in my personal experience. Requirements-gathering, software design and implementation is maybe around 60% of your job at most companies in the U.S. At the end of the day, you get paid to connect the business domain to the technical details of software that will solve the problem; the other 40% of the time you are not doing technical things, you are responsible to communicate, attend meetings, give updates, ask questions, and manage projects.

At least, after you've gained some experience. Being a good programmer is how you get the job in the first place. You have to build up the rest of the package, which is very doable if you are humble and join the right company.
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A better way to describe it is that morons lent out 17 billion dollars worth of debt under terms that would wipe them out if the bank ever ran into serious financial trouble.

Whether UBS made any profit on the deal or not heavily depends on how much CS's book is worth. If it's worth more than the deposits, it's a good deal for them. Given the crap that CS invested in, it may be worth much less than bank's liabilities.
>You don't even need somebody else's money to start a bank. The Bank of England was started by issuing shares to subscribers and booking them on the asset side as nil paid.

We discuss commercial banks. The Bank of England is quite far from your run of the mill commercial bank, to say the least. Try to start a commercial bank without any capital, it will be a fun exercise.

As I've said in the post, there are various make-believe games which can be played with assets. My favorite example is the irredeemable gold certificates owned by the Fed.

Your systematic view is certainly valid, but it does not matter much for day-to-day operations of most banks. They do not care about how the system was kick started. For them reserves at a central bank play role of bag of coins, even though, as you said, there are no real coins, just pairs of assets and liabilities spread out between different balance sheets.

>Much of the problems we have with banking and the view against it is because of the persistence of the Monetarist view

Oh, so the current debacle is mostly fault of monetarists? Got it. And here I thought that the "temporary" make believe games introduced after GFC, lax regulation, irresponsible fiscal and monetary policy had something to do with it... /s
That's the trick - to replace random process with deterministic process which is still sensitive to collapse. Or rather make collapse switch from deterministic to random process.
I would say the old internet is everything before about 2000 or so. It was getting pretty commercialized around that time already.
+1 for AntennaPod. FOSS and no ads
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The copy is inconsistent on what you get and how much it costs.

In one place:

> All photoshoots include

> 120 headshots per person

> 3 unique locations per shoot

> 4K photo size

Then the individual shoots have different counts included per tier, some less than indicated for “all photoshoots” on the same page.
That particular anti-vax theory doesn't hold water when you consider that New Zealand vaccinated almost everyone with mRNA (Pfizer) prior to COVID spreading widely, with excellent results.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1085...
NZ cumulative excess mortality since January 2020 is still negative:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-mortali...
Option D is hoping the mass social unrest will cause enough (of the right) people to die off or actively steering towards that. A final solution one might say.
In other words we just need to wait 6 more months
Wage gap is worse in crime?
Personal conversations aren't documents.
just messy bread making machines, as joel spoelsky would likely put it

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...
I think their realisation was that the models themselves aren't actually that difficult to replicate even in absence of patent or description.

i.e they can't adequately defend their business with trade secrets.

Patents probably wouldn't work either because the structures are too easily recombined to bypass any conceivable patent that would be enforceable.

That said I think all of this is actually emblematic of a deeper problem with the space which is that none of the LLM stuff recently has been groundbreaking but rather just just continual refinement of a given branch. We aren't seeing evolution, just increasing either number of parameters or quality thereof + additional context. Which is why it was so easy for other folks to make the same progress in similar time periods.

Time will tell if we are about to slam into a local maxima or if someone finds a significant evolution or better yet stumbles on a way to properly combine LLM for context + NLP with traditional AI/logic/expert systems to engineer something that actually thinks and learns rather than regurgitating statistics.
So they took in an extra 200 million $ in revenue in 2022, great. Though that doesn't necessarily mean they'll continue to take in more revenue given that 2022 was the year lockdowns pretty much disappeared everywhere and I'm guessing Twitch's model benefits from people being stuck at home.

But let's ignore that, and say they'll keep making that 2.8 billion. Did they hire 1000 new employees between 2021 and 2022? Because if so, that probably means they're making less profit even with an additional 200 million $ in revenue. Assuming the fully loaded cost per employee is ~200K/year, which according to Levels is on the low end (their L4s make 209K, L5s and up make much more)

Couple that with investors now clamouring for returns, and from the business side you can see why reducing their cash out-flows is at least appealing.
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This has DARPA and NSF behind it.

They're not building this for games they're building it for autonomous weapons.
First time poster, long time lurker. I'm a fairly proficient kubernetes admin and developer. I'm using it in depth every day. It seems like that functionality would be really easy to add to the IRSA (iam roles for service accounts). Is it judt that nobody has bothered, or am I missing an important blocker?
Just to be sure. A Samsung Galaxy S2? This phone is like 15? years old and still in use?
Don't get your hopes up too much..
Seems like there is a bit of a gap between “runs at 0.5 fps on a $7000 workstation-grade GPU with 48GB of VRAM” and consumer applications.

With the fairly shallow slope of the GPU performance curve overtime, I don’t see them just Moores Lawing out of it either. this would need two, maybe three orders of magnitude more performance.
> Maybe. Russia's population is falling and Putin is getting older to the extent that such a war may not have happened 5-10 years from now.

We've been trying the "wait them out" strategy with North Korea and it's gone very badly IMO. At some point it's better to grasp the nettle, especially when you're lucky enough to get as clear-cut a conflict as this. There will probably never be a better time to draw the line and hold it.

> I am more worried about escalation, nukes, forever wars etc. Ukraine fighting for pre 2014 borders is one case that triggers this, among many others

Accepting peace on anything less than a return to pre-2014 borders would doom the world in the long term. It would set a clear precedent that anyone with nuclear weapons can take what they want with no downsides, and there's no coming back from that.

> I bet you the rebuilding phase will also involve American cos.

It probably will, and there will probably be corruption and looting and backhanders. It's going to suck, but there's no scenario in which the next ten or twenty years of being Ukraine doesn't suck. Kicking out Russia quickly and getting on with the rebuilding, ideally with international support for all the waste that that will involve, is the least-bad future.
Didn't you say you can't tell whether randomness is true or due to incomplete interpretation? If Copenhagen is incomplete, then it doesn't work, only its one part works - the Schrodinger equation.
This is exactly why kill switches an user-unlock-able boot-loaders should be the norm, not the exotic edge case.

Phones (as they are today) are a massive exercise in insecurity and privacy violation, to the point where they are actually banned in some settings.
As women started to work for income too, the amount of work greatly increased. Household work is still done primarily by women. So overall, we work much more. But I don’t think we work more because of the money (at least initially). We work for many other reasons: like your personal development, learning, social status… Who wants to be a house(man|wife) instead of a neurosurgeon?
Cellular architecture is a complexity trap that's 100% not worth it unless you're a cloud provider, or Confluent size. I've been at DBaaS companies that wanted to do it and instead ended up with the worst of all worlds.

With that said, it sounds like they went with a simpler design than what is described in the AWS article they linked in their blog post. It just sounds like they're able to spin up multiple data plane cells per region, which is what every DBaaS provider needs to do.
I will still purchase Pixels because they isolate the modem.
Here to say that I hate websites that break the browser's back button.
Yes, except OpenJDK that provided IcedTea, so community patches were possible
Well, in some ways the human brain is a sophisticated system with some input translated into state such as weights and synapses. How could mere matter "comprehend" anything? It just sends some chemicals and electrical signals here and there in glorified pipes.

Perhaps comprehension is not something special, but an illusion that emerges after some level of mass storing information, adjusting weights, and running the "circuit" in a feedback loop. While GPT-4 is much simpler (and not just in scale but also in mechanism, being a "mere" statistical model) than a human brain, it can still exhibit an emergent property analogous to comprehension.

At some level even a switch might be said to have a unit of comprehension, encoded in the open or closed state.
Computer power goes up exponentially thanks to Moore's law. Sprinkle some software optimisations on top, and it's conceivable for that to be running at interactive framerates on consumer GPUs within 5-10 years.
Have you ever been to the Netherlands? I can tell you haven't. It rains a lot, winds are strong.
> When contacting Google support (specifically Fi) multiple CS reps told me repeatedly this was all fake news and that Project Zero was unaffiliated with Google.

I hate CS reps. I used to work as one but I never lied. If I didn’t know something and I couldn’t find it in my knowledge base I contacted the on-site staff to relay the caller’s question/concern.
Just to complete the math from the article - This makes for a total of 27,000 since last November. While this is about 2% of the global team, these are not coming from the warehouse team. It is all in the IT side.
Dry air isn't an infectious entity
Reporter dismissal exposes political pressures on WV Public Broadcasting
Same, it's maddening.
Ask HN: GPT4 is out and Apple's Siri still sucks. What is Apple's strategy?
Apple is known for waiting for technologies to mature so that they can offer them better than the competition. We saw that with large screen iPhones, touch ID, and several iOS features. But Siri and autocorrect in 2023 are as good (read $hitty) as they were a few years ago.

I have been using GPT-3 in a shortcut on my Apple Watch and can't but wonder what Apple is doing to catch up. I now ask my questions from my own GPT personal assistant instead of Siri and it works much much better.

I feel like if Apple doesn't say anything about LLMs in WWDC, it will be officially its biggest loss after the death of Steve Jobs.
well, its getting into the rearview mirror now, but spectre/meltdown-type vulnerabilities are a big motivator for leaving on-prem. even if you later leave the cloud for on-prem, the period without any phys infra means you can start on a clean slate with better equipment + better DC rental contracts.

oh and it really sucks when your brand new SSD's arrive at your main DC, after a 4 month wait, you open the box and the boxes are empty - someone robbed ya. Those expenses are only linked to the infra team, but the effects reverberate through the engineering org.
The issue as I understand it is that there is no way to encode this information in the Kubernetes token.

The pod IAM roles stuff leverages Kubernetes stuff, and the token that’s mounted into the container is a YAML representation of a Kubernetes token object. There are no fields or other way to add this information into the object.

You would need to encode it into the JWT itself, which isn’t possible or something.

I’m half remembering this, and I can’t find the issue on Guthub because everything has been shuffled around since.
was codex API used in GitHub copilot if so what are implications on Copilot as our team depends significantly on copilot for our work in neovim?
86% of unicorns have grown headcount in the last 12 months
Hilarious that you asked a question and then immediately changed that to a statement 20 minutes later when challenged. Why didn’t you just make it a statement to begin with?
Too many doomers in this world. Tilt your head up and stop looking at the ground.
Do you have a grasp on fractions and percentages? If exactly 99% people have not heard of you, you are incredibly famous.
Good to see openAI is in fact still a software company.