skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that is really underlining too many "sleezy" things happening, though? Honestly reads more of "regional bank caters heavily to region it is in" to me.

And some of the numbers are high looking in this, but it literally states "its $9.5 billion fund," when the article here is talking about how it had 100+ billion in bonds. Which were deemed safe.

Let that sink in. Yes, they had 9 billion they were investing. But they had over 120 billion sunk in "safe" bonds. That is, the 9 billion was /supposed/ to be the risky part of their portfolio. Yes, they probably took some excess risk there. But that is definitively not the risk that tanked them. And any complaints in that direction is a side show that has virtually nothing to do with what happened. Unless you want to say they weren't doing it enough.
Definitely glad you shared
But why would you supply untrusted input to AI code completion or your private AI assistant? Just treat it similarly as a shell and don't do curl|sudo stuff.
I saw an interview with Ray Kurzweil recently who is a huge driver and influencer of a lot of these changes towards AI everything.

Ray is a trans humanist who believes we’re on the cusp of eternal life via the singularity.

One of the things he is relying on is that people will keep up with technology through computer brain interfaces like Neural Link but faster.

We should be seeing this come to market sometime around now.

It’s not here so I guess that’s not good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykY69lSpDdo

Worth a watch…
I think these issues can be solved by just rendering a spinner or "loading" text on top of the blurred image.
With respect to the Secretary, she's either being disingenuous or being deliberately obtuse with this statement:

> Any losses to the FDIC's deposit insurance fund due to the bank collapses will be recovered by a special assessment on banks, the FDIC has said. Yellen said it was "not obvious" that banks would pass those costs on to bank customers.

The banks are obviously going to pass the costs on to the consumer in the form of fees. Their shareholders will demand it. They won't call it a "replenish the insurance fund fee", they'll add more fees to using the ATM, or "penalties" for going under the minimum balance, or (my favorite) "overdraft" fees, as if the people who are over drafting can afford more of that.

> Yellen, speaking before a U.S. Senate subcommittee, said she believed it was "worthwhile" to look at changes to FDIC deposit insurance, but that increasing it beyond the current $250,000 limit was not being considered.

> When a bank failure "is deemed a systemic risk, which I think of as the risk of a contagious bank run, (we) are likely to invoke (a) systemic risk exception, which permits the FDIC to protect all deposits," Yellen said, adding the department will determine systemic risks on a case-by-case basis.

So the "experts" will sit in a smoke-filled back room and determine on a "case-by-case" basis whether or not to bail out (sorry, "backstop") the "too-big-to-fail" banks? In other words, "we've got the backs of JP Morgan and the like but the rest of you will have to appeal to our generosity".
I don't believe there's anyway that the paper-Ikea stuff was the same quality of the $2700 R&B bookshelf. Do you have any links? Having owned a lot of throwaway Ikea furniture in the past, I was pretty happy with some of my more recent R&B purchases and the quality is completely a different level (and from what I heard R&B that is getting less quality over the years), but it was still night and day better than the Ikea stuff I had.
Maybe when they become much much more sophisticated. Right now they reduce time spent write boilerplate and looking at docs. How much of you overall time is spent on those tasks now? For most devs its not much. Significant time is spent reading code to understand program architecture, investigating bugs caused by obscure edge cases, refactoring or extending functionality without breaking everything. Copilot doesn't even scratch the surface of those yet.
I was really surprised, when we re-designed our kitchen, that the price tiers for cabinets were basically, lowest to highest:

1) Very-bad premade, 2) mid-range custom made(!!!), 3) mid-range premade (worse than tier 2 on quality), 4) high-end custom made, 5) high-end premade.

You'd think the mass-manufactured stuff could win on price, but it only did at a quality level so low that nobody bothers having anything that bad custom-made. Ended up going with some local shop, paid the tier-2 pricing, easily the best bang for the buck. The custom stuff we bought was barely more expensive than getting Ikea cabinets! And it fit perfectly to our floorplan, allowed some custom extras to make better use of space, was exactly the color we wanted, et c.
Can confirm that Ethan Allen is still selling decent, US made, furniture - though at high prices. We got a couch for an awkward sized space from Ethan Allen and were very happy with the shopping experience, installation, and the quality of the furniture.
"...but the real reckoning came almost as soon as the ink dried on the 1999 trade agreement the United States signed with China. Wages were so cheap there that (aided by the occasional World Trade Organization violation) Chinese companies could import U.S. lumber and ship the final product back by the container load and still sell their goods for less than U.S. companies paid in material costs."

It's easy to skim over this section without realizing how insane this is. Example: my brother works in the wood industry for a company producing wooden floors based in the Netherlands.

They source the wood from a production forest in Belgium. From Belgium's Antwerp harbor it would be an extremely short route to Rotterdam, after which the wood can be processed.

No. Instead, from Antwerp it's shipped half-way across the planet to China. There it is sawed into boards, grinded, and shipped to Rotterdam, again crossing half the planet. Back in the Netherlands, they do some finishing touches like sawing custom sizes and applying polish.

Can you fucking believe this? We're talking about trees here, they're absurdly heavy. They're making a full round trip across the planet. Whilst 75% of the work on those trees is machine-based.

The trees and the people/machines are right next to each other. And still we can't make the economics work. That's because the economics are a scam. Trade deals, subsidized shipping, state sponsorship from China. You can't compete on wages when everything is asymmetrical.
I get the impression that 10BASE-T killed ARCNet, and it was the "T" rather than the "10" that did so. Running cheap CAT-5 to a set of interconnected hubs was just so much easier and more reliable than t-connectors, terminators &c.
Anyone try some quantized model with this like llama?
I wish there was something like MRSK for deploying generic Dockerfiles onto VMs from scratch, without the mess of Kubernetes or needing to use Rails.

Like, provision Hetzner -> pass the IP address to the tool + a Dockerfile -> your image Just Works on the server and restarts if it crashes.
Samuel Benner of 1875 accurately predicting cycles in markets (2021)
found this by chance, interesting it has no page in wikipedia..

have fun
I think there might be two or three bottom tiers at Ikea. The absolute cheapest poor quality junk, you get what you pay for. Then up there somewhat reasonable stuff. Not best, not worst. And here you end up paying more for same or the cheaper stuff in other places.
I'm pretty sure that the actual Copilot auto completions are still on GPT3 for speed and cost reasons
Another example: Corporate HQs have world class internet access. No latency high bandwidth connections. If folks building lazy loading web interfaces had to use their stuff in rural North Dakota, much less outside the US, they'd be shocked at how terribly it performs and user-hostile it feels.
Hollywood WGA: Companies cannot use AI to undermine writers' working standards
I ended up combining multiple forecast providers in a single chart and can't use (and don't need to) anything else. There were some good apps but most don't really help orientation within the chart or maintaining the chart scale.

https://weatherian.com/
Wow, the MRSK homepage is truly Web 1.0: https://mrsk.dev/
I'm not attached to having to work, I'm attached to paying my mortgage and buying groceries.
I'm willing a lot of these stories stem from covid times. I had to literally wait like 10 months for some high-end furniture to arrive. Was worth it in the end, but was pretty obvious early on what was out of the retailer hands regarding supply chain issues and such.
Blob Opera (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34194182 - Dec 2022 (11 comments)

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None of these seem to preserve identity well. I doubt stable diffusion is the right model for this. It should be easy to take a single passport photo and then it into a stylistic headshot. Maybe Pix2Pix or similar?
Getting something for free from some rando not wanting to bother with emptying their apartment does not really fit into my mental model of capitalism.
This is the part that annoys me, and has even prevented me from spending money at all. That cheap stuff exists, hey, there's a place for that. But then the expensive stuff is still garbage. Per a sibling comment, maybe it's different garbage of a higher quality, but garbage.

I particularly remember standing in a lighting store, looking to replace the piece of garbage that we accidentally bought and put over our kitchen table, and realizing that no matter how much I spent, it would all die in a year. Fancy LED strip lighting? Unmaintainable, unrepairable, unreplaceable.

So I bought a $25 extension cord with some light sockets on it and 5 LED bulbs and wrapped it around the old track. I would have spent maybe a grand on a light setup I could trust, but I trust nothing anymore. I've replaced 2 of them so far. 30 seconds, $5-ish. It's a hack, but it works.

I'm in the same place for furniture at this point. My expensive couch is breaking up years before I think it should and I'm not dropping another several grand on replacing it when I'm aware of no way to trust anyone at this point. I don't know what we are going to do, but it probably doesn't involve giving this industry any money.
You mean build date in .desktop filename?
Next time then, instead of a text post. On the other hand, people will not want to stay for long enough to hear the final argument in the 3rd verse. :-)
Deploys with k8s are faster than most of the competition. When your process is optimized you can expect to go from code change to updated UI in about 5 seconds.
From now on own domain:
https://dh.osowoso.xyz/
Blurring images or doing any sort of maths on the RGB values without first converting from the source-image gamma curve to "linear light" is wrong. Ideally, any such generated image should match the colour space of the image it is replacing. E.g.: sRGB should be used as the placeholder for sRGB, Display P3 for Display P3, etc...

Without these features, some images will have noticeable brightness or hue shifts. Shown side-by-side like in the demo page this is not easy to see, but when replaced in the same spot it will result in a sudden change. Since the whole point of this format is to replace images temporarily, then ideally this should be corrected.

As some people have said, developers often make things work for "their machine". Their machine on the "fast LAN", set to "en-US", and for their monitor and web browser combination. Most developers use SDR sRGB and are blithely unaware that all iDevices (for example) use HDR Display P3 with different RGB primaries and gamma curves.

A hilarious example of this is seeing Microsoft use Macs to design UIs for Windows which then look too light because taking the same image file across to a PC shifts the brightness curve. Oops.
At least "xenon" is missing.
Tangential but I do the same with tools -- when I need something new I buy from Harbor Freight, and if I use it enough that I need to replace it I give myself permission to splurge on a nice version.

Most of the time I don't use it enough to replace.
> there are a LOT less traders than there used to be

That is the core of the problem, which has been iterated several times in this thread.

Where do those traders that used to be there go? Historically, switching careers or positions has not been insanely difficult. But as there are fewer and fewer jobs, it becomes more and more difficult for people to retrain.
Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake have been amazing in terms of producing a huge quantity of high quality reviews and videos over the years. I'm happy that they found new positions at Petapixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/03/21/chris-niccolls-and-jordan-d...
As you get to small image sizes, the relative size of the quantization table and the Huffman encoding table becomes significant. You can easily just pick a standard version of these, leave them out of the image (which is no longer a valid JPEG), and then put them in at the destination to make a valid JPEG again.

I'm not finding a source, but I think I remember the tables being in the 1-2kB range.

Cheap MJPEG USB cameras do this. Their streaming data is like JPEG but without the tables since it would take up too much bandwidth.
What a completely bizarre story and comments.

“Unnecessary lifestyle goods are hard to buy for people who struggle with agency. Market capitalism has failed!”

This is truly one of those first world tinniest violin problems.
I am not sure about your idea here, I'm under 35, own my home, and insist on buying second hand furniture for vastly different reasons. I scour craiglist, thrift stores, and my local flea markets for vintage furniture, and have almost entirely furnished my small 2 bedroom house over the last 6 years. A big part of this simply deals with build quality and real wood. I know furniture built before 1980 tends to be real wood, and I'd much rather have solid wood construction over particle board nonsense that won't last 10 years.

My searching and insistence has required a lot of patience, but it's ultimately been worth it for me. My holy grail was a 1970's Danish Teak dining room table (w/ 8 chairs!) that someone locally was selling for $800. Anything modern that's of comparable quality would easily be well above $2500. As of now, almost everything in my house is from the 1960/70s, and made of real wood. I'm willing to spend the money on these things instead of junk from Wayfair.
Correlation!= causation.

Our default is "lots of babies"; women getting more education and economic liberty decrease that number. Poor places don't generally have significant educational budgets or opportunities for women, but as that specific set of things changes — education and freedom, not even always money — there is a corresponding change to number of births per woman.

It also means that rich couples in societies that lack women's lib still have more kids, even where you can infer high intellect without the convenient proxy of the women being allowed to go to university and giving you a test to score against.
I like how you have to make up a hypothetical story about me because you can't say I'm wrong about Apple's pattern of data collection :)
Jack Daniel's and dog toy in Supreme Court showdown
Reminds me of the old "floppy disk bomb" in the Anarchist's Cookbook(which probably doesn't actually work, like most crap in the AC).
>“lack of money buys you misery”

I'd say neither is guaranteed.

What money does is buy convenience, and in some degree, status, both of which are important. But doesn't solve everything.

Nor does poverty break everything. There's poverty that's stable and people are fine with their lifestyle, and poverty that induces stress and uncertainty.

E.g. poverty as a guy in some village in a nice little community with not a care in the world, because you have the basics covered, and poverty as in homeless in Chicago, with health problems and frequent encounters with law and people beating you, etc. Not the same.
No need for the past tense, embedding is still pretty common.

As for the idea of having this on the Web, see

Dan Ingalls (from Smalltalk fame) Lively Kernel,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGw09RZjQf8
i'd imagine at least half of that is shipping and handling and import duties. tack on retailer margin and that seems about right. couches don't exactly flat-pack.

i do a lot of sleeping on my couches so i've always had extremely sturdy units, even when i was sort of poor. i went from extremely cheap ikea metal frame futons to a pretty legitimate solid wood couch when i got my first job.
My annoyance is that it's impossible to tell upfront which parameters are fixtures just by looking at the signature of a test function. I would've much preferred an explicit decorator.
Scoffing might be a better word. It's been ignorable by privileged people like us for a long time because the jobs being lost (and the people doing those jobs) were "unimportant".

I will indeed laugh when the lawyer market collapses shockingly soon.
GitHub’s Copilot goes beyond code completion, adds a chat mode and more
Both are relevant. It’s good to know what your average scenario for a 30 year span is. It’s also good to prepare for the worst case…
Thats why I don't believe in AIpocalypse.
Just tried this with VPN + firefox resist fingerprinting. I cleared cookies and session data and reloaded, it recorded 1 visit 1 ip for the first (obviously) and second tries. I did not change my VPN connection between attempts.

Based on this test I'm surprised Brave's fingerprint resister did not work for you. But on firefox the enhanced privacy protection (strict) and the resistfingerprinting option are two different knobs.
That is both helpful to people and good marketing.

Good work.
Interesting that card/drivers customize so much of ray tracing, like rasterization in pre vulkan/metal/d3d12 or even fixed function gpu days.
Get outta here robut!
The claim being that the act of concatenating some bytestrings together is a massive time sink?
Kallax is ridiculously expensive and you pay for the hip IKEA brand (yes, IKEA is fancy in many regards). Especially for a bookshelf, you can build it yourself way cheaper. Go to IKEA to get inspiration and to check how the fiberboards are put together to construct the furniture. Then you can go to a hardware store that sells fiberboards, cut to your size specifications. In many places you can ask them to cover specific edges too. You buy the screws, the door hinges etc.

A bookshelf is essentially four boards plus a few shelves themselves. Ridiculously easy to construct yourself out of boards and won't cost as much as a Kallax. Also IKEA is often not even using fiberboard but hollow cardboard like this https://www.ikea.com/de/de/images/products/lack-couchtisch-w...

Once you get some routine, it's no huge deal to build more stuff yourself. With my dad, we built all our kitchen furniture with MDF boards, 3D modeled in the SketchUp software by us for millimeter precision. And again, you can ask hardware shops to do a lot of stuff for you, like make curved cuts etc.

Couches are of course another deal totally. But shelves/cupboards/wardrobes are totally possible to build yourself.
My understanding of Exile is that you are rejected by the society you are exiled from, due to your actions or beliefs. Like profound disagreement with the policy.

I have certainly seen the kind of people you talk about, they support (or at least used to) Putin, but don't want their kids to live in Russia. I would call them more like emigrants of convenience.
The third paragraph ends: "With MRSK, we can deploy a new version of HEY in as little as 20 seconds."

They didn't say that they're replacing their k8s setup for Hey explicitly, but they go on to say the reason they wrote MRSK is that they like the advantages of containers while getting lower complexity and being able to use their bare metal hardware. It seems like they want to go in that direction.
My house has one Raspberry Pi 2b for DNS (Pi Hole), and then everything else (including a second Pi Hole) is in docker containers on my file server. Between the two, I've been very happy.

The file server is an old i7 2600k that used to be my desktop PC before I added some hard drives and installed Unraid on it. Unraid makes managing docker containers incredibly easy, especially with the Community Applications and Auto Update Applications plugins.
> Is the professional edition of Windows this bad?

Windows is great! It's only with arch+hyprland I've found something that could widthstand the competition on the linux desktop

> new Air which will push apple even harder to build great laptops.

Wake me up when they offer OLED + Touchscreen + ECC
For these ultra-small sizes, I think I would go with Potato WebP since you can render it without JS, either with an <img> tag or a CSS background. I think it looks better too.
GPT 4 is harmless, but GPT 7 may be extremely dangerous technology.

We cannot trust every random with a laptop with potentially civilization-threatening technology.

Leaving AI under the control of corporations obviously sucks, but there are only three options: corporations, governments, or individuals.

Assuming the technology becomes powerful enough, the individuals option is obviously suicide.

So who should control AI, the government or corporations?
> My ex-friend who cuts in line is clearly a jerk. What studies show is that he’s likely to be highly successful because of it.

Yep.

> if Bregman, Dunbar, and Wilson are right, when he gets found out — when people fully realize what he is — then he will be alone and outcast.

That's a lot of hypotheticals. Maybe the boss is a jerk, but he's still the boss.
Speaking to your computer is just as valid as typing into it! I have auditory processing issues, mentally processing speech takes up a significant fraction of my cognitive resources and I don’t really have the ability to just tune it out. Constantly hearing one half of a conversation would impair my ability to work almost as much as being forced to use a keyboard would impair the person who’s talking. I would be asking to work remote or private so that my needs aren’t in conflict with their needs. (Not that you could have guessed this was the case just from my comment, but that’s why I said “I really don’t want…” and not “People really shouldn’t be…”.)
Social Security in the U.S. is typically for retired people age ~65 or older. There are other social programs for low-income people, but they are abysmally insufficient for what we’re talking about. Usually disabled people are paid by “disability insurance” but you have to get a job first to even qualify for that. So that’s usually for injuries etc.

If you don’t live in the U.S. it’s hard to grasp just how hostile the political/economic system is towards the lower and middle classes. The idea of a UBI program to support people whose jobs get automated and lack the skills to work elsewhere is completely out of the question. A trip to the hospital can easily bankrupt the average American family ffs, but we can’t even fix that. There is zero political will to provide robust social programs here, despite any evidence that shows it might improve society.

Sorry for the rant. TL;DR if you look at the last few decades of politics in the U.S. you can see there is close to zero chance of the solutions you’re describing.
How does Llama compare to the actually open source Flan UL2?