skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone interested in water and economics, this Econtalk episode is unexpectedly fascinating.

https://www.econtalk.org/david-zetland-on-water/

What blew my mind was how different water economics is from place to place. Availability of water (and the intersection of that with other unexpected factors, like crime) have a huge impact on day to day living. I was surprised by some of the vicious cycles (for example, water 'brown outs' - providing water for limited hours of the day - actually drives up consumption, since people get more than they need and store it for later use, often at great expense). Somewhat analogous to other 'runs' we see, e.g. banking.

It's one of my favourite Econtalk episodes. Highly recommend.
Do bedrooms need windows? NYC Mayor floats office-to-apartment conversions
> Religion bad, Atheism good

In the United States, blue laws have historically been used to oppress religious minorities like Jews and Sabbatarian Christians.
Same! However, popular platforms also have to account for older or disabled users, who often are unable to click buttons fast enough. Or when they do, hold them down for too long with unpleasant results.
In the face of senseless copyright law, avoiding to fund the organizations responsible is a moral imperative, and piracy is typically the way to do that.
Buzz Aldrin (93), although he might outlive all of us
I would only use this if they agree to let me leave my phone out in front face up so I can show off all the notifications I constantly get and let people who enter the venue see how important I must be.
These days I find myself drawn to AP and Reuters as well
I'll donate everything I can if that happens. And I'll call all of my representatives.

I value Internet Archive as much as Wikipedia. And with LLMs set to replace Wikipedia, I think IA will have longer societal and historical value.
But then again one of those notifications could have been from your bank/crypto alerting you that someone logged-in to your account from Pakistan.
Human behavior. When everything is going up, people expect it to keep going up, and their behavior tends to keep pushing it up - until some core limitation gets reached anyway and things get too broken somewhere.

When it keeps going down, same - until it becomes obvious to everyone there is no further down to go.

With lots of head fakes along the way of course.

Humans tend to be kind of terrible at being consistent over long periods of time.
GPT is a transformer model. Transformers use the attention mechanims. The mechanism is entirely concerned with retaining semantic context and semantic "global dependencies" spanning the entire input and output.

https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1706.03762

"Attention mechanisms have become an integral part of compelling sequence modeling and transduction models in various tasks, allowing modeling of dependencies without regard to their distance in the input or output sequences ...

In this work we propose the Transformer, a model architecture eschewing recurrence and instead relying entirely on an attention mechanism to draw global dependencies between input and output."

Beyond that, also note that LLMs are probabilistic machines. Output spat out can vary and there are a handful of knobs (such as temperature) to modulate that output.

Finally, I'm pretty sure we (or the workers in the field more like it /g) don't have a firm grasp on why certain failure modes occur. Likely this is due to the fact that we (they) also don't really have a good grasp on how the damn thing actually works its 'magic'.

What is clear is that a significant subset of our semantic universe is embedded in symbols and their usage by us and this subset is somehow encoded in neural nets. This captured subset in LLMs is what drives their uncanny generative abilities. What is missing is precisely what would make it plausibly intelligent, plausibly a reasoning agent operating in a coherent semantic context.

There are some who claim our minds are just like LLMs. Some of us who pay attention to our minds sometimes catch it making nonsensical noises and correct it. (As you age you begin to notice these things..) So it is interesting to this sentient (who makes claims to being) that my mind is just like my body, it is aging, certain parts are degraded, etc., but my 'whateveritis' that is me, my self, is as timeless as ever, and seems to be a spectator of the aging mechanism ..
When a coffee costs $7 instead of $4, even if I could "afford it" is something any normal human being notices. Rich or poor. Being able to afford such change is a different story.

Do you not even look at your phone/credit card when you tap? Do you really just randomly pay things?
Specifically the recession talk seemed to be an attempt to destroy what little gains labor had made in the past couple years. A banking crisis is not exactly the same but would lead to the same public justifications.

As a personal anecdote:

In the wake of 2008 massive layoffs flooded the market driving down costs for... not necessarily skilled but educated labor. Target for instance suddenly decided that being an ETL required a college degree, a requirement that they relaxed in 2021.

I'm aware creating a public justification for creating a mass of unemployed skilled (read: otherwise expensive) laborers is in their benefit. It's just that the public face of this is destroying their own systems then claiming literally any and everything other than their own actions are at fault while simultaneously positioning themselves to benefit from any attempt at preventing economic disaster.
Further, stealing a car may be more difficult than stealing a phone

Stealing it may be more difficult, but it's much easier to lose a phone than a car. I've never lost my car, but I've lost 2 phones (I got one of them back).
>"The q4 numbers came in showing the US economy was still expanding and now those same papers are telling me we're in a banking crisis on the basis of like two and a half banks, with SVB and CS both being fully rescued."

Why would GDP(a lagging indicator) and a current event(a wave of banks over the last two week) be mutually exclusive?

You also seem to have overlooked some significant details and context. To date there have been four bank rescues not two - Signature Bank, First Republic, SVB and Credit Suisse.

The Credit Suisse collapse resulted in 17 billion in AT1 bonds being written down.[1].

SVB’s uninsured deposits(anything over 250k) accounted for 94% of its total deposits and the FDIC took the extraordinary step of insuring those deposit after the fact.

We witnessed the US Treasury Secretary this week suggest that the government would backstop all uninsured deposits at smaller banks.[2]. She then later had to walk that back.

The First Republic rescue saw three of the largest US banks depositing 30 billion dollars into it in order to prop it up.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/credit-suisse-write...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/treasurys-yellen-says-com...
No, shouting whataboutism isn't actually some sort of universal gotcha even if it's the new overused internet buzzword. What you call whataboutism can be called precedent or market expectations. That's even how you usually do market research: you compare a company to its peers and determine the baseline (for revenue, financials and even the percentage of transactions that are fraudulent!)
If someone asked ChatGPT to generate some code, then copy and pasted it mindlessly into their project, I wonder what OpenAI would think about the claim:

"The bug was a result of faulty code produced by ChatGPT."

Using an open source library is like copy and pasting code into your project. You assume responsibility for any pitfalls.
That's awesome, one step forward into democratizing data and LLMs, now, how do we get access to the weights?
You're right, I should more closely mimic Thiel by hiring some talking heads for social media platforms. One to disseminate the blueprints, and the other for the manifesto.
I wonder how this will pan out in the long term, sooner or later SEO targeting AI models might ruin that too.
U.S. energy secretary says it could take years to refill oil reserve
Capitalism means a market based on mutual consent, where all individuals are secure in their person and property.

The most important economist in the history of Capitalism is Adam Smith, whose first book is titled, The Theory of Moral Sentiment. Capitalism is entirely grounded in moral thought, unlike, say, Communism, which is an ideology, and thus grounded in an ideological narrative.

It is no coincidence that Adam Smith - along with every other important thinker of Capitalism, e.g. Frédéric Bastiat - was an avowed opponent of slavery, or that the nations that led the drive to eradicate the institution of slavery from the world were the leading capitalist states, most importantly the British Empire.
I think NPR became way too focused on culture war issues or social issues. Planet Money has been doing a lot of things completely unrelated to finance and economics so I stopped listening.
I think the reason why Nix is hard isn't the language (although lazily evaluated functional language is definitively a part of it), but the paradigm shift, but this is necessary for reproducibility.

Imagine if you had a distro where you couldn't depend on existing state (so you couldn't just compile something to /usr/local). Where you had to create package definition with all dependencies explicitly defined.

Kind of like using FreeBSD ports (or Gentoo) without precompiled packages and you were forced to add every package manually before using. You would also complain it is hard even if you would have to just use Makefile and shell script.

I don't think this will get easier until Nix would get embraced by other package s, making it easy to specify those components as dependencies. Now with flakes with can be composable this is possible.
For reference to anyone who doesn't know : He is the Moore of Moore's law :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law

We lost a visionary and a pioneer. I like to think we have people who not only think like he did, but who can get the message across.
Bias is not propaganda - journalistic standards are about processes and methods that mean you can rely on the factual content of the reporting, and things like who is doing the reporting, who is finding the reporting, etc. That you don’t like what they are saying doesn’t make it propaganda. JFC
> why on earth would anyone Google anything

Because it's easier, faster, cheaper, and gives me qualified results from people I trust. You can pry my search engine from my cold, dead hands.

ChatGPT is a nice tool but utterly useless for many things people use search for. If you trust ChatGPT to read you a recipe from the internet, I prescribe you to 30 minutes of browsing an AI fearmongering subreddit.
If the publishers could push the button and kill digitally lending at their whim then there isn't a reason to pretend it was actually alive and well, in any real sense. I believe Machiavelli observed, "War is never avoided, only delayed for the benefit of one participant or another." Librarians have always had a zealous faction that has even frustrated United States Federal Agents, often at the least convenient time for the librarians who did so. Given the money and influence wielded by the publishers, how would the digital librarians fair better in the future? They're better off winning or losing here and letting the natural consequences of the publisher's decisions come to bite them in the ass than building further efforts on a rug the publishers can yank from beneath them at any time.
Private-sector investment would include such things as water treatment plants, desalination plants, and evaporation control…
Oversimplifiers organize the world into two kinds of people. Mildly toxic ones make one of those kinds into a caricature.
I don’t think they meant security as in taking it into a secure location, they meant security of your own data and software on the phone by not leaving it where strangers could have physical access for hours.
>bailing out the banks

My understanding this time around is the depositors rightfully got bailed out (both to maintain peoples' trust in banking, and because losing your money to others' failures fucking sucks), but the banks themselves were left out to dry.
this definition also seems to fit what libraries were doing, lending out their copy, sometimes digitally, sometimes in person, always only 1 copy at a time

the judge said the conversion to digital was not transformative, so I don't see why it should constitute another work versus the original one
Yes: if it’s the sabbath, that’s an argument with which I’m familiar. My counter-argument is that I don’t want to be forced to practice someone else’s religion. If your religion already imposes those rules on its followers, why does it need a secular government to assist?

If it’s not the sabbath, then I’m intrigued and want to learn more.
This seems like a good reason to change the bar color on HN.
There's a huge divide between the senior reporters and journalists doing the radio programming and the younger folk who run their website and handle publishing. While I still have a positive view on NPR as a whole, the online side deserves a lot less respect.
>"I didn't agree with it then and I don't fully agree with it now, but it can work."

I actually do agree with it. Same reason as jury nullification. If enough people (jury members in this case) believe that the law / particular application is unjust then fuck it. In nullification the government must give in. I do not see why it should be any different in general. The key here should be what constitutes "enough"
Is your argument that Thiel is arguing for murder, in a roundabout way? Can you give an example of that?
A lot of people in these comments still seem confused about what has happened here.

This ruling is not about the emergency library at all. It's a ruling that controlled digital lending (one physical copy backing each digital copy lent out) is illegal.
I doubt it. It's funny to think about, but the moment this becomes a real issue, people will revert back to a hashed/archived version of "The Pile" and cherry pick all the updated training material.

I hate to be the cyberpunk party pooper, but it just doesn't seem like a threatening outcome to me.
What kicked this off was they lent more copies than they owned.

Changing format was illegal of course under current law but publishers looked the other way.

By allowimg multiple this was the only outcome.

Without risk taking we wouldn't have any IA so this is all part of what they are. It's hard to know when to hold em.
To be concrete, the concern isn’t that the phone check people are going to steal important data from my phone, it’s that they are going to lose my phone. I have backup and recovery systems but they are not seamless and not complete, something would probably get lost.
How would you scan the menu to order lunch?
Sam 'I altruistically give up equity control in my companies' Altruism

Bit of a mouthful
> "Why not just pass worker protection laws that prevent people from overworking"

Provide your own answer here: why did the system which exists to exploit humans for profit do away with a free day instead of "just" passing worker protection laws? (Why did you frame it as "prevent people from overworking" instead of "prevent people from being overworked"?)

> "It's a stupid idea and a dumb law that it only makes sense if your worker protection laws are too weak."

Humans exist for more than just buying things. You may not like "A Sabbath for God" but "A day for something in life other than shopping" is an important idea. When September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks happened - great big terrorist attacks on American soil for pretty much the first time - President George Bush told Americans to "go shopping" in response. When many American teenagers grew up, they hung out at a shopping mall.

Are you not lamenting the increasing feeling that you can't go out in public without being charged to be somewhere these days? Or the gradual turning of all walks of life into advertising and subscription services? Is any pushback on it "stupid and dumb" to you?
It doesn't even need that really, just wrap it in tissue paper or put a sticker on the screen - enough of a reminder that if you use it you'll be kicked out. (But allows you to keep it on you, and to go to look at something before remembering.
When the new bing launched, I decided to switch from Firefox/Google to a predominately Edge/Bing flow. It it is mostly fine, The Edge browser is a good web browser. But Bing just doesn't display results in the right order, where as Google does. They still have the sauce.

That being said, The progress that Bing is making is wonderful. Bing works great on granular searches though.
Neutral isn't a thing. There is the truth and deviation from it. How much it deviates from the truth is a good criticism. How "neutral" it is says more about your beliefs than it says about the quality of reporting.

Neutral is at best a measurement of the middle of the Overton window.

What is neutrality in regards to Ukraine vs Russia? What is an example of high quality "neutral" reporting in regards to it? How neutral do you think Russians would estimate your example to be?
>>We don't want to pay actual humans, we don't want to deal with the difficult and expensive things like providing a living to people.

It is not about what we want to do. There is simply not enough labor, paid or otherwise, for all the things we want to produce. Automation, through technologies like AI, changes that, by making workers more productive.

>>We want this robot to be everything LIKE a human except not require the resources humans need.

Nope, this robot would be vastly different than a human. It would lack agency, and with it, autonomy. A truly human-like robot would not only be immoral to own, it would be dangerous. Slavery is not a stable social order.
You are not the first to face such challenges and to consider suicide.

R. Buckminster Fuller, one of the most influential writers of the 20th Century and a favorite of the hippie/Whole Earth Catalog movement, faced such a moment on the banks of Lake Michigan when he considered drowning himself. This was when he was young and before he reached international fame for his ideas in architecture and philosophy.

I recommend reading Chapter 8, “Dialectic by Lake Michigan”, from the book *Buckminster Fuller: At Home in the Universe* to understand the reasoning he himself developed that night that led him to choose life and thus become the global celebrity the world knows him as.

Because of the good fight the Internet Archive is winning to make back-catalog in-print books available for digital checkout, you can visit archive.org right now, register, and read the chapter for yourself.
The prediction wasn't that density would double. It was that "number of transistors on a chip" would double every year, and it was basically just marketing. That actually held up somewhat longer than the density doubling did, since chip area grew to fill the gap.
The judge disagreed with that too. Companies have tried and failed to set up a streaming service backed by physical copies and they were struck down so this really didn’t have any chance either.
This is just a way to socialize water, take it from those who have it and give to those who dont.
Yes. At the moment I expect Facebook, Twitter, etc to be focused mainly on using the data they collect to drive engagement and serve more ads. I expect the US government to have relatively weak and ineffective information operations on those platforms because they don't own the platforms and are relatively inexperienced with internet scale information operations. I expect TikTok to be focused mainly on using the data they collect to drive engagement more effectively than previously feasible and serve information operations. I expect the Chinese government to have strong and effective information operations on that platform because in a real sense the government and by extension the Chinese Communist Party does own the platform and have large amounts of experience in internet scale information operations.
You can use port 80/443. Craft a tcp syn packet and see if you get a syn/ack response back. There might be someone that already has a ping mechanism written this way.
$0.00 is a price like any other. A free service is a special case of the loss leader. How far do you extend this extra scrutiny?
> SVB’s uninsured deposits(anything over 250k) accounted for 94% of its total deposits and the FDIC took the extraordinary step of insuring those deposit after the fact.

Did they need to? It's not clear anyone would have lost anything at all because depositors are senior to equity and bond holders. All the bank's equity would have been wiped out sure (and it was anyways) but losses to depositors would likely be slim to none. If folks lost anything it would worst case have been like a 5-10% haircut, not 100% of un-insured deposits.

The FDIC was using this as an opportunity to say "we've got your back no matter what" to reassure the public.

It's extremely unlikely anyone, anywhere, would be at risk of losing any deposits - insured or uninsured - in this day and age in the US regardless of the FDIC's 'new' position.

> The first republic rescue saw three of the largest US banks depositing 30 billion dollars to prop it up.

The only real issue at banks right now is that they're in long-term government debt which has significant mark to market losses - which are an issue if folks are trying to withdraw since they can't be liquidated for face value. However if they're held to maturity there's no loss. So the Fed provided a facility where banks can borrow against the maturity value of long-term debt instead of market value.

That makes the problem basically solved.
Python for front ends? Sure, it's very neat. See PyTk, PyQt, etc.
I wouldn't be who I am today without Intel enabling what I did in my childhood years, so paying my respects isn't nearly enough to make up.

A big, sincere pressing of the F to pay respects. May he rest in peace.
This American Life, Radiolab are some I like. NPR was basically podcasting before podcasting became the thing.
How much are you willing to pay for the basic necessities of life, life land, shelter, food, water?

If the providers of those necessities possess a monopoly, either natural or through regulatory capture, humans will pay whatever they have to get those necessities. It is important for social prosperity to prevent extracting excess profits through monopolisation, either by destroying the monopoly or by taxing it and reducing other taxes on the individuals.
They haven't been doing so at that rate for a very long time.
In 2 years time, he will have died at 188. (edit for maths failure)
The left has nothing to do with the definition of women. That's identity politics and those are a liberal thing. Liberalism is a right wing movement.

The left is concerned with public ownership of the means of production.
I mean hubris and arrogance are in full and open display pretty constantly. The inability to actually control shit is why its always a moving target.

but the idea that rich people are acting in a manner to maintain/increase their wealth aint exactly a conspiracy theory.
I hope IA does not cease to exist as the result. It's value far exceeds the negatives.
So basically now everyone just outright pirates the books. Great outcome for the publishers.