skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a really American government/welfare-based view though.

I'm in a trade union and here in Sweden we support the Left party because they support trade unions - e.g. in the 80s there were proposals for having union members on the board, having unions own a stake in the companies, etc. - these all would have helped a lot with the current mass layoffs and inflation.
> In no year has Stripe ever made a profit.

This doesn't mean that a bonus structure isn't appropriate. Bonus are supposed to be an incentive. Achieve bold goals -> get bonus.

If anything this is more important in growing companies than in stable, profitable companies, which have achieved a sustaining business model. Why pay a bonus to people just following the algorithm.

No judgement on Stripe's specifics.
That's simply not true and in the case of Switzerland, for this very reason they have their version of Direct Democracy.

I's worth looking up how it works. There is no "well lets just ignore the people".

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/07/switzerland-direct-de...
what are your pain points w streamlit?
*socialism for the rich. The poor get the privilege of underwriting the rich's losses.
Yes of course, sir/madam.. but a penthouse overlooking the lake, and a German limousine - would that make you rethink this at least?
He knew the negative effects. He also knew that other additives worked just as well (eg ethanol). Still he lobbied hard for using his additive
A gallon of gasoline back in 1930 (or 1925 for that matter, pre-depression) cost about 20 cents. So, even 2 cents per gallon would be a 10% savings.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/om030621b has some points of comparison (as well as a lot more historical context of the research that led Midgley & co to leaded gasoline if you're interested).

For what it's worth, per Table 1, ethanol is not anywhere near as effective as tetraethyllead -- it has an effectiveness of 0.1 per mol, vs TEL having a value of 118. Even when normalizing by molar mass (since TEL is a much heavier compound), TEL is still ~100x more effective than ethanol.

"... iodine had a few slight drawbacks. It added over a dollar to the cost of a gallon of fuel and we were afraid that would be considered a trifle excessive by most motorists."

"Further studies with more dilute solutions showed that a one-fortieth of one percent solution of tetraethyllead was equivalent in knock inhibition to 1.3% aniline in kerosene."

"The first public sale of Ethyl gasoline (the name given it by Kettering) occurred on February 1, 1923 in Dayton, OH at 25 cents per gallon (regular gas cost 21 cents per gallon) (Figure 8) before large-scale production had started."
what do you mean by "escaping for content"?
Only for single-threaded programs. Multi-threaded performance continued along the curve unabated.
Explain how this is the workers owning the means of production, please.
>The government requires banks buy their debt and hold it as reserves because it's considered the safest investment.

They don't require it, it is the safest investment. What do you consider a safer investment?

>Oops, they're not so safe after all if you need your money back before maturity,

Golly, it's almost like banks are supposed to know how this stuff works.

It's funny that you relate "safe" to "never changes price". The bonds were safe and are safe, which is why the "bailout" is an okay deal (ethics aside); the government will pay your money back.

>SVB is certainly not blameless here

Who on this planet would consider them blameless? They are 95% of the blame of their own situation.
> But it's fairly established in conversation that dataset scraping isn't infringement, so tagging it doesn't really work.

Conversations aside, laws can adapt to include terms regarding tagging. As said before, there are legal examples for this, eg. in the EU:

https://discoverdigitallaw.com/is-web-scraping-legal-short-g...

Quote:

the new law, that must be applied by all EU countries until 7 June 2021 (Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market or ‘DSM Directive’), in its Article 4 provides an exception from the rights of the database owner mentioned above in case of ‘reproductions and extractions of lawfully accessible works and other subject matter for the purposes of text and data mining’ unless ‘the use of works and other subject matter referred to in that paragraph has not been expressly reserved by their rightholders in an appropriate manner, such as machine-readable means in the case of content made publicly available online’.

End Quote.

Again, I'm not a lawer, but to me that seems like it's up to lawmakers to do their homework, and update existing laws to deal with the reality that

a) data mining exists and is useful for lots of things

b) people want to make their works available publicly, and therefore ...

c) people publishing works need a workable, stable and reliable way to tell others whether they are okay with their work being scraped and used for analysis/training/etc. or not

And as I said above, ideally such a solution doesn't require changing the published data in some way, and works for all kinds of data.
AMD Adds Basic RPC Mechanism to LLVM Libc for GPUs
> Banks only need to hold a certain fraction of their depositors money in liquid reserves

Worth pointing out that in the US and the UK, this amount is zero (0) at the moment. In Switzerland this looks like 2.5%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirement#Reserve_re...
It almost seems cynical to have called it 'Bard'.
There is no clean meat at the scale at which we consume it. Unless you buy it from a old school small farm at the end of your street it varies from very very bad to very bad
Why wouldn't you want that? Do you not take calls in your car?
Physical buttons will become a premium feature.
I think my current BMW is probably going to be peak design for me. All of the driving and climate controls are physical click-y buttons. It still has a touch screen for ancillary stuff that I don't need when driving which is fine, but I don't have to use the touch screen at all when driving.

Sadly it seems they are following the crowd on the new versions, it looks like climate controls have moved onto the touch screen. I won't be glad to "upgrade" to that.
> Treasuries are cash,

Obviously not.

[edit to add: this seems a controversial comment, it’s being upvoted and downvoted wildly]
The Go equivalent also mocks you in an effete tone and claims "everybody shaves with a dull blade these days so why don't you?"
Is it just me or is it mildly annoying that I need to press enter twice if I Ctrl-R with fzf, as opposed to once with the regular search?
Ver, the guy is a bot pushing a narrative that will harm anyone following it, contact an HN mod and flag his post. That's all you can really do.
I agree.

"If having nice things is taking away my freedom and would put me in high stress situation - I don’t want nice things."

The problem for many people is, your spouse needs to feel the same way.
Widgetsmith has more than 100M downloads
> ChatGPT keeps track of context in a "discussion", but I found that alpaca 7B has no memory of what was said by the user or the model before

Neither does GPT. The whole conversation is fed back to it everytime. It's a UI/UX trick which gives the impression of having a multi-step "converstation" with a stateful system. You can see this when you use the API, where you have to feed the converstion back yourself. This can be replicated in ChatLLaMA.
Zig has functions/methods/procedures.
Times I've profiled large tests suites / codebases in the past, this has been entirely down to import overheads. Quite a difficult thing to fix ...

I'm hoping this PEP Proposal for lazy imports might solve things: https://peps.python.org/pep-0690/

Try profiling pytest with something like pyinstrument[1] and make sure you invoke it from python directly[2] with `--collect-only` as an argument. You'll essentially then just be profiling the import overheads before tests are ran.

[1] - https://pyinstrument.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide.html#pro...

[2] - https://pyinstrument.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide.html#pro...
Of course a bigger antenna can pick up more power. Just imagine placing two antennas instead of one. Each one receives a certain amount of power. Two will receive the sum of that power.
You seriously can't look at the massive asset bubble all that increased money supply created and blame it all on supply-side.

Housing went up 50-100% within a year. Crypto popped to $3T+. S&P popped 100%.

All of this was led by demand side. There was no supply-side problem of Dogecoin or equities.

It's not unreasonable to expect that some of this also bled out to commodities and consumer goods.
The age of 40 is interesting - is it from the Economist's model[0]? I don't know how accurate it is, but I would say comorbidities look a lot more serious than a general age-based approach.

[0] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/03/13/our-covi...
Dropbox Shares Preparations for HAMR Hard Drives Focusing on Reducing Vibrations
Best cli gpt tool, I've seen, so far. Thank you very much for this.
You're going to rapidly run out of limousines and lakeside penthouses if you need to persuade a majority of the Swiss
> But for those they would have to pay a premium.

Wouldn't that be equal to holding short-term treasuries. In that case, they'd be sitting at billions of "worthless" money. Question is, who is the other bank that took that risk. Because of the nature of the market (ie: competition) they had to produce yield comparing to their peers.

So either their peers were smarter or the big unfolding is yet to happen.
>if you promised the world that your currency can serve as a trusted foundation.

How do people get this backwards?

The US didn't say, "use our currency as the global reserve currency!" Countries chose and continue to choose to use the USD for global commerce. No one is forcing them, the USD really is valuable.

>World order is still fluctuating all as a result of these betrayals.

So raising rates is a betrayal, but allowing inflation to eat away at savings of those with USD holdings is not betrayal?
In a way you can... High karma/follower Reddit/Twitter/Instagram accounts fetch thousands of dollars
Its hard to overstate how true your point is re-bankers responsibility.

The very basic thing you learn when studying banking is durations and how your primary job is balancing that for your debts and assets.

Bankers also have various tools to short circuit any issues, inclusing raising rates on deposits, getting wholesale funding, matching various duration bonds, etc.

Also, while historical data is not an indicator of future data, the average long term interest rates in the US have always been higher than what it was in the past decade.

Yes, hindsight might be 2020, and this applies to even my comments. But we literally are paying these bankers exorbitant sums to know these and do better than the average Joe
>But this requires a PowerPC processor under BeOS so you can’t use this with Haiku at the moment.

Bold of you to assume a forum full of tech enthusiasts don't have PPC machines sitting around.
Growing inequality without growing GDP means you became poorer.

Even if we assuming they magically appeared and you did not become poorer: will never own an asset in your life, they can price you own of a house, land, shares, etc.
> By the time they add support for using this in my country, there's no reason for me to use it anymore as competitors have already swept in.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't ChatGPT and Bing Chat already worldwide releases? So it's not as though anyone is sweeping in after Bard. They were out before Bard and global from Day 1.

Besides that, you're absolutely right, of course.
> on the bonuses of its employees from the last 13 years.

It feels like this is misrepresenting the situation quite a bit. This is not a tax bill on bonuses. This is a tax bill on equity, which is a part of the regular compensation package, and an awkward situation due to that equity being illiquid as Stripe has not gone public.
Philip Greenspun wrote about how looting public corporations in modern societies is the equivalent to kleptocracy in the 3rd world:

https://philip.greenspun.com/politics/israel/
They’re protected. There’s an FDIC for securities. Same $250k limit, same likelihood of going above that in practice.

https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects

> Money market mutual funds, often thought of as cash, are protected as securities by SIPC.
> except for potentially reading them on one of it's ingested webpages

Yeah, that's a pretty huge "except".

Chess literature is just literally hundreds and hundreds of transcripts of chess games. You just need to memorize them.
I think discourse is hard when people don't really define what they mean by socialism or capitalism.

It's fair to say a capitalist system is based on private ownership and free markets. With the first one really being the key that differentiates it to other systems and particularly socialism.

Now, socialism is a bit more muddy because you can either go the state route or the co-op route. Or of course, a mix of both. In a country like Norway for example a large part of the production is owned by the state (because StatOil is state-owned and it's the largest contributor to the Norwegian economy) the state also manages their wealth fund which as well generates revenue for the people. In Norway there's also a large quantity of co-ops, consumer or worker so all in all, in Norway the economy is to a high degree "socially owned". Of course, it's still a country that has private ownership and there are no particular restrictions to it. So is it a socialist country, is it a capitalist country? It's really hard to say, I think it's probably accurate to call it a mixed economy.

But if we were to simply say "socialism is when the government owns the means of production" then... it would still probably be a mixed economy? But an economy that is entirely run through co-ops, I would hardly call it capitalist even though it would have no more state intervention than current economies do. How a state intervenes is as important as how much it intervenes. I mean, I don't think anyone would call Keynes a socialist yet he argued in favour of state intervention.

A lot of people think that socialism might also be tied to planned economies, but that sort of forgets a whole diverse range of economic thinking like market socialism (Xi recently talked about the Chinese economy in this light).

So it seems to me like you're aggregating things too much and not really looking at the system through the complex lens that this discussion requires.
That's like saying the purpose of a supermarket is to convert investment into grocery sales. It might be true at some level, but isn't what people describe as the purpose of a supermarket. Banks are entities for making loans. They are heavily regulated in how they do that, and part of that does come with capitalization requirements, but the purpose of a bank is to make loans.
if you enjoy it, definitely.

if you are in it just for easy faang money, maybe not.
Can we just call it a weapons racket at this point or?
Then you can appreciate a language that tries to make sure the ecosystem does not become a mess :^)
No ad hominem intended. Apologises where you read that. I’m neither PRC apologist nor anti west. China saved millions of people and deserve credit for it. They made mistakes, but their approach was logical given the constraints they had.

You shouldn’t be disappointed in people challenging your ideas. It’s the ideas I’m challenging, I’m sure you’re a great person. Even if we disagree on some subjects.
Is there such a natural level for interest rates?
Wapo article from 1984 [0] asserts that 85-octane nonleaded gasoline was consistently about 2 cents cheaper to make than 87-octane leaded gasoline.

That said, that was with numerous advancements over the preceding 60 years which most likely would never have happened if we hadn't developed engines capable of taking advantage of high-octane fuels.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1984/04/01/c...

"But, as DeMuth noted, the EPA study is concerned about total costs and benefits to society, not just to one group. The study makes no attempt to predict what would happen to prices at the pump. It points out instead that the cost of manufacturing 87-octane unleaded gasoline, according to market prices, is consistently less than 2 cents a gallon more than for making 89-octane leaded gasoline. Average pump prices are about 7 cents more, however."

I believe this is the EPA study: https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPURL.cgi?Dockey=9100YK16.TXT (I clicked the "download as pdf" adobe acrobat icon on the right)

"The DOE model estimates that at current lead levels (1.10 gplg) the marginal manufacturing cost differential between unleaded and leaded regular grades of gasoline is less than two cents per gallon. Retail prices, however, diverge by an average of about seven cents per gallon (Weekly Petroleum Status Report, 1984, various issues)."

7 cents per gallon is right around that 2 cents per liter that you cite, naturally.
I think swathes of free time (which sounds like you had at Amazon) with days on end of no meetings or commitments (or childcare) are the key.

I just did 5 months between contracts. The kids were at school for 6 hours a day. It took a good few weeks for the ideas to start flowing and my curiosity and enthusiasm to build, such that I actually started writing code and enjoyed the process.

It’s something I never experienced before with regular holiday leave, where all-day childcare would usually be involved.

It’s only recently I’ve been in a financial position to be able to create free time like this. It was really expensive though, and I’m unlikely to be doing it again for a few years.
The world needs one
Once we run out of German maybe Austrian limousine, sir? We have enough for you and your entire family. I know the people will talk, but we're discreet and provide it with a driver - for life.
This is how generative AI art should've been done the first time

* get rights to the training data
* keep artists and illustrators in the loop

Could've saved a lot of pain.
Stripe is not guaranteed by the taxpayer and not holding on to other people's (deposit) money.

Banks are different.

One of the greatest coups of lobbying was when the finance industry convinced politicians all over the world that banking ist just like any other industry and thus should not be regulated more than other industries.
That's the future according to Horowitz: https://a16z.com/2020/01/21/every-company-will-be-a-fintech-...

I feel bad for your friend, however. He was not systemic enough.
No it doesn't. LLMs are just a window to the collective sentiment/knowledge of the internet (or rather the training corpus). And a very blurry and distorting window at that.

This is why I have little faith this version of AI will have disrupting level capabilities. The humans are keeping it back.
> America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars

Did those money even exist in the first place?
> Why should we not take up the pitchforks?!

US citizens are too lazy to consider voting for candidates other than the ones lambasted by their corrupt news sources. Picking up a pitchfork and deciding who to stick it into requires even more effort.
What's the killer feature that differentiates Ethernet from other phy protocols?
>No, I said "computers aren't brains, and they don't do the things that brains do".

>and also be rejecting the very premise that AI is possible?

>>Who ever said anything like that?

They certainly do a lot of the things brains do. Lest we forget, "calculator" was once a job title. My understanding of AI as field is that the point of it all is exactly to figure out how to do on the machine the stuff brains can do that still eludes us.

The case you've been making, particularly "because a computer is not human, and it can't see the things that humans can see, it can only compute" is the anthesis of this premise. It implies that there is something about our conscious existence that cannot be understood and implemented as a computer algorithm (as we've done for prior things that were once strictly the domain of man). It implies that questions of emergent properties and the relevance of recursion and so on are futile.

Maybe we just have superficial agreement. On the surface we are both "interested in AI", but dig into our reasons why and maybe there's a sea of difference. I don't think its terribly important that "the model can't do any computation itself, because it's a model and not a computational device." I'm not interested in...whatever that argues against. I am interested in if giving chatGPT the ability to prompt itself recursively results in any surprising emergent reasoning behaviors. With respect to that, it really doesn't matter the details of how it was piped back into itself.
>World order is still fluctuating all as a result of these betrayals.

It seems a pretty basic assumption that someone at SVB did a WHAT IF analysis to game out different scenarios if interest rates started rising. This is not rocket science.

>You can do a regression of interest rates from whenever to now, draw a line that's never violated until 2022 (even the 2020 lows were in-trend) and the 2022 highs were almost 50% higher than the trend

Well, if your bank is relying on analysis like this, it deserved to fail.

Here's how easy this situation was:

"Historically, would 5% interest rates be seen as crazy? What happens to our balance sheet if we see those rates?"
What about 'transpiling'?
Show HN: Particle effect iOS app written using OpenGL
Can anyone recommend some good blog articles or books (aimed at lay people) on how the global economy works, bank interactions with other banks, and government management of inflation and interest rates?

I'd like to understand a bit about both the previous crash and the current banking crisis, but feel I need to do some background reading first.
MuseScore and Qtractor would probably be good, Ardour takes all the attention away for linux/OSS DAWs and the MuseScore and Qtractor communities suffered from it but are still very active and great projects. LMMS is fun and could use the help more than most of the other big projects.
Hasura is also FOSS
I'm not disagreeing that SVB was wrong, but it's easy for us arm-chair folks to second-guess the wisdom of creating a business model that was doomed in a once-in-40-year-catastrophe. But, "Silicon Valley" was in the name and 40 years was a long time ago, so why not.
Mmm, I love this idea! Clear write up!

Something I’ve never thought about, but did from your answer is that “wow does that mean that human knowledge is a smooth function?” That’s such an interesting statement to think about what that means.

Regarding

You can't generate the output of the inverse in stages, because the bit-sensitivity makes it nigh impossible to say you're meaningfully getting closer to the correct answer.

That’s where I’m thinking maybe you could pair it (AI) with one of those statistical solvers for hash functions that tries to exploit correlations and differentials to try, even a tiny bit, to break that symmetry and get a little bit of incremental knowledge about: “are you closer or not?” I think if you could get even a tiny tiny edge then AI could be one way that you could maximize that advantage. Maybe, I don’t know how tho.
WebAssembly for the Rest of Us
Someone ask it, how long has Oceania been at war with Eurasia? See if the Bard gives a different answer each time, insisting that it has always been the case.