skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>...and still, no one seems willing to answer if they or their kids should be among the dead/maimed

Why don't you instead ask that of the Chinese? How many of them are willing to go to the bottom of the ocean in order to complete a pointless and petty war? There's a lot of hostile water between the mainland and the sovereign nation of Taiwan that they'll have to cross, many would die. And for what?

The USA has one of the largest and most ready navies in the world, if it came to a fight, China - which has very little naval experience in war as far as I can remember - might find itself massively outclassed between the US and possibly Japan.

What then happens in a war of attrition where China can't win, but won't back down?

The allies will basically blockade China until it chokes to death on it's own hubris, and industrial production will return to the US and Europe.
Since ChatGPT became publicly accessible, I can tell that my use of google has gone down

1. I had an interview for a CIO position - I fed the job description, ask ChatGPT to generate top 10 questions to be asked based on it , I was asked 90% similar or the same questions. Heck I even asked to provide best answers and they were great. It even generated a question on personalization and a/b testing which I thought would be highly unlikely to be asked, but was indeed asked. It was as if the interviewer also generated the same question.

2. For my current company, I am in charge of building a brand new engineering team, for which I wanted to write vision, mission and strategy statements. Previously I would have googled stuff, this time I asked ChatGPT to improve it based on my rough draft. And boy they are great.

I can go on.

My point is that not everyone needs to ask ChatGPT to generate ray tracing code using three.js or whatever. Most of us are just regular folk need regular help and ChatGPT is a game changer for it. Heck it even helped me with some excel macro I needed to write to do some data manipulation.
This has been something I've wanted to make but deemed unethical. Perhaps it would have been better if i made it instead because i give a shit about the ethical aspect
I'd tend to agree that expecting depositors to police their banks is bad policy. It would be better to make that policy change explicitly though, by insuring all deposits, rather than by slouching into it with ad hoc rescues like here.

I agree there's no moral hazard as to the SVB shareholders, since they got zeroed. There is a moral hazard as to the shareholders of other banks, who will benefit from the new lending program in proportion to the amount of bad interest rate risk they took.
How are the failures comparable.

FTX failed but not because of taking slightly bad risks, but because the founder kept treating money as his personal piggybank moving from FTX to Alameda freely. Using users funds for random personal projects. SBF was not doing innocent things.

I don't think SVB did anything comparable to the lunacy of Terra/Luna or FTX.
I wouldn't say that promotional section of a video is "organic" I'd be more worried of sentences or paragraphs being thrown in the reply the same way ads are shown in Reddit or Twitter feeds
Any from Jacobin seems to get flagged regardless of content.
You know Russia is just invading Ukraine to fight nazis right?

Or do we not take press releases at face value, totally uncritically?
I posit there is no such thing as a soul, it is a human hallucination. This is really the question that everything hinges on: are we nothing more than the ghost in the shell of a chemical machine? If so we will create AGI eventually. If not, we likely can’t create AGI.
I don't think they can slow down the genie is out of the bottle.
Distributed Systems and AI
I will have to disagree.

They enable people to buy medicine that is otherwise too expensive to get from official channels.
This title is a bit click baity. The FBI investigated a potential homicide of an unknown individual based on footage found on a super 8 film camera. Once they were informed that the individual in the film was Trent Reznor and the footage was from a music video they closed the case. They weren't obliviously investigating the murder of someone who they could have easily confirmed was not dead for two years as the title implies.
USSR won because of American lend lease and Germany having to fight on two fronts. Modern wars are won with equipment and technology, not human wave attacks (see Russia Ukraine war)
To help new students adapt, some colleges are eliminating grades
From what I understand the average GPU is optimized for meshes which is not the povray way so GPUs tend not to offer much improvement. Quick search for a more informed explanation.

The main problem here is that POV-Ray is primitive based, NOT mesh based.
GPU rendering is heavily mesh optimized. They can process in parallel,
but only if all threads need to use the same base code. With POV-Ray,
there is no universal geometry handling code : Each and every primitive
require different code and GPU just can't cope with that requirement.

https://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3C6115a40a$1@...
So kids can visit 4chan, but not TikTok. Makes sense.
Thanks. I believe there was an article in Nature, or something along those lines, that was about this very thing; old hardware and software being held together using chewing gum and baling wire by the researchers so they could continue their research.
I consider myself a novice Git user. I can debug a merge conflict okay, but don't know the more esoteric functions like `blame` and others. I merged someone's code into mine on GitHub the other day, and they were mixing spaces with tabs in the code, and I'm a tabs-only coder, so I resorted to simple issue-filing where people want x feature or y bug to be fixed, and I fix it myself, rather than weird merges happening.
I don't stay in hostels anymore but honestly don't understand this mindset "I'll spoil other's sleep to save a few dollars".

If someone reading my comment does this, please know that in every dorm there could be people fantasizing about your death
This comment is meaningless unless it also discuses the decrease in number of "the guns in use". Or lack of decrease, but I don't think that's factual.
> the majority of teen internet users

This stat can't be meaningfully compared to teen suicide rates because the latter is across all teens, regardless of online/offline status. If the number of "online" teens grew dramatically between 2006 and 2013 (as I suspect it did), then the relative change in percentage of "online" teens on social media would be a fraction of the much larger change in teens in general.

My personal experience growing up around then is that a majority of my peers weren't deep in social media and smartphone use until well into the 2010s. I didn't have a smartphone when I graduated high school in the early 2010s, and I certainly wasn't an outlier at the time.
I don't know if they are or not, but it's an obvious way to disrupt a harmful information cascade.
The trick with French is not to think about it in terms of individual letters, but rather letter clusters, and then it becomes fairly regular. The individual letters can do wild things, but a given combination of letters generally has fairly clear rules about how it should be spoken. This is very different to English where, for example, "ough" can be pronounced in several different ways just by putting different letters in front of it. (oo, uff, ow, uh, oh, etc).
if we agree that crypto != Bitcoin, then yes

otherwise, hfsp ;)
Using Digital Twin Technology to Better Understand Environmental Impact
Check out the cosmos ecosystem/IBC. It's all ran by DAOs
What an entitled, uninformed and privileged thing to say. People who live under oppressive regimes use monero to gain access to information or to pay evade government spying.
Yes, it was just a thought experiment from first principles to get a feel for the problem.

In reality, planes fly higher where the air is less dense, and faster to keep the lift and drag equal.

In a car, lift is not needed. Higher speed doesn't have compensating effects. Higher speed more clearly causes more fuel burn for the distance.
> then they need to provide precise requirements

> They can do that.

Yeah, no, they can't. Not at all.

While some, or a lot of that, is due to incompetence, it is also due to the nature of the beast: Software Development is an iterative process. You have to prototype and figure out what works and what not.

So regardless on how tight your processes are, whether you use agile or waterfall, it will never be possible to give perfect time estimates. You can only improve your risk-management.
> Russia won the Eastern Front

No, that was the Soviet Union. And, by modern Russia’s standards as used to describe the situation in Ukraine, you can’t really credit the USSR either, as it was really a proxy war by the USA against Nazi Germany.
100% truthfully, I wrote it all myself, but tweaked the opening paragraph with ChatGPT to improve my grammar slightly. It’s a great tool, and one that should not be dismissed, just like spell checkers and the grammar checkers of old in the likes on MS Word. Maybe it does come across a bit ChatGPT-like which is unfortunate I suppose.

As for the suggestions of me asking it to write the comment from prompts, then I’m afraid that’s 100% wrong.
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> People suck at prioritizing and love to be fed a narrative.

The loud attention seekers do. They're not a majority unless you measure and determine it to be the case. I strongly suspect they're not.
It is. I can see that it was written in 2003 and discard it. GPT won't tell me if its answer is based on an ancient lib version.

Essentially, GPT is that rando's webpage but with the metadata stripped away that allowed me to make judgement calls about its trustworthyness. No author, no time, no style to see if somebody is trolling.
the only way it takes off is if a cable, mobile or satellite service gives the headsets away.
It's also questionable that they could account for their bonds the way they did. A company isn't allowed to just decide to put something in the "held to maturity" bucket - they need to both intend to do it and actually be capable of doing it. Given the depositors in question, I don't think they ever met the bar.
The important difference is that humans are trained on a lot less data than ChatGPT. This implies that the human brain and LLMs are very different, the human brain likely has a lot of language faculties pre-encoded (this is the main argument of Universal Grammar). OpenAI's GPT 4 is now trained on visual data.

Anyway, I think a lot of ongoing conversations have orthogonal arguments. ChatGPT can be both impressive and generate topics broader than the average human while not giving us deeper insight into how human language works.
I don't know how anyone can say "we're still early" or "we are only at the beginning stages of R&D in this space" considering crypto is 14 years old and has had marquee VC and other investment to the tune of tens/hundreds of billions of dollars for at least half a decade.
Nip (6th largest real-time payments system) powers Nigeria’s digital economy
ChatGPT refunds subscriptions for an unknown reason?
If that worries you, it's not going to stop there. Just wait until the humanoid robots can pick up handguns.

Worse - fragile world here - wait until humanoid robots become as cheap as drones and everyone can buy them. How many irresponsible drone pilots and drivers do you see? Just wait until they can have humanoid bodies walking around at their disposal.

We might have a lot of accidents due to sheer stupidity rather than malice.
This I fully agree with, companies want to move back to very low wages and are doing all it can to force a recession. So far not going well for them.

On goes my Tin Foil Hat: So, SVB failed due to a Bank Run by rich people who mainly own their business. Coincidence???

I know people in retail, right now they are job hopping because those wages have risen a lot compared to Tech. Granted, those wages are not good at all, but some are now able to put a little away instead of living on those future payday loans.

Most people let go in Tech, seems there is plenty of work out there anyway.

edit: typos
No idea why you are downvoted. During the cold war the constant question on everyone's mind was: is the US willing to sacrifice NYC for Berlin?

Americans talk big but isolationism has always been a powerful force. And not every president is a Roosevelt or Lincoln.
Sure, but it relates to an ongoing controversial and distracting topic. Basically, “too soon”.
Sorry for the off, but why everybody links pdf even in post urls?
Please use the abstract:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712
> This project was made possible thanks to a collaboration with ... Yandex Research ...

I'm all for global cooperation and fellowship. Are sanctions going to be a barrier for this and related projects?
Those banks collapsed because they held a lot of long duration bonds which lost value because of the recent rate hikes + there was a bank run.
How to make money from generative AI
Couldn't your same argument be applied to stocks?

One idea of capitalism, is that there are indirect benefits to everyone, from the actions of private self-interested parties. If crypto somehow allows more people to work together (I don't have an opinion if this is true or not), then that alone should be enough for it to fit into the western ethic.
Alpaca seems to be the best one, though I'm sure someone will do a GPT-4 fine tuned of Alpaca soon and that'll then be the best one. Most of the other ones I've tried have been not good.
> what can be probed will be probed.

Probably not something I’d say out loud, but yeah. Sounds like a variant of Murphy’s law.
Only libertarians are so obsessed with central banking. It seems to me that crypto people willfully ignore previous history where money was not regulated by the state and people were frustrated by instability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907
> patients were not being warned by many GPs prescribing the drug, and mental health teams were failing to monitor whether people were developing addictions.

Why are GPs prescribing antipsychotics? It sounds like a recipe for disaster.
What is the football?
Definitions are hard. They are pulling them out of banks and investing them in mutual funds which hold T-Bills or maybe commercial paper. Money Market Mutual Funds MMMF and Bank Mutual Funds (a savings account with checks) are different things.
Hah, sorry! I misread your question and have been thinking a lot about that topics lately!
Completely agree, I'm sick and tired of capital flooding the markets until everything else dries out so their products prevail due to the sheer reality that you can't compete against "free". At first it may seem like encouraging innovation but it ends up with stagnation once the battle over land grab is over.
Well... That'd explain a lot of sub par results, tell ya what.
another source

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ow...

all ex socialist countries
This is an amazing idea. What could possibly go wrong?
> It then proceeded to create the four emails. without me doing anything.

I wonder how quickly we gonna put any ML-generated email directly to spam folder? I personally would like to have at least a marking of such content in my inbox.
We should also enforce strict school dress codes so students don't have to see other students wearing new shoes and feel pressured to update their wardrobe right? Kids shouldn't be able to talk about family vacations because it might make other students jealous and hurt their mental health. We need to ban these books because it might make kids feel bad about themselves. Where do these ridiculous steps end?
I do not think we live in a world of abundance. In the US there are more vacant housing units than there are homeless people but we can't home them. We throw away food in dumpsters and toss chemicals on it rather than feed someone. More people would likely garden or raise chickens if HOAs didn't have such an iron fist as to decide what color of paint is allowed on your house. Those are problems we could solve but choose not to. And then there are the resources that we do not have in abundance because we fight wars over them, or will.
An ethical AI should also be forbidden from using "to be" [is,am,are,was,&c] as well.

It's not up to AI to make ontological claims and doing so actively participates in the perpetuation of reality. It's this perpetuation of reality that is the root of all bias claims.

As such, LLMs should be restricted to E-Prime[1] responses only.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
What are the ethical concerns you have?
You are saying that when you stop counting, the diagonal number will be different.

That means that you stop. Which implies you are not going to infinity.

If you are going to infinity, there is no side that “wins” (real or naturals). You can always keep generating an additional one for either side.

The same way, we could continue this discussion forever if we just want to keep going back and forth (although HN does impose a limit of replies). And you could only make an assertion about the length of each side of the conversations, after the conversation ends. But if the conversation keeps going forever, you could never say to talked more than the other. Unless you specify a finite range for which you want to measure.

Naturals and Reals are both infinite. Saying that the cardinality of one is different than the cardinality of the other, is just comparing the ideas of cardinality about them that we have come with, but their actual cardinality can never be known.
Applied mathematics is a branch of mathematics. It's research. Someone studying solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations is doing applied mathematics. An accountant uses mathematics, but their work isn't "applied mathematics" any more than a plumber is an "applied physicist", or a veterinarian is an "applied biologist".
Uniswap labs owns the GitHub repo, domain name, and discord servers. If their domain, discord, etc disappears, the project would struggle because their smart contracts are difficult to use without the web apps and it would damage the trust in the project.

Uniswap owners can shut down their website. They can introduce a 100% fee. They can deactivate their contracts.

Yes, people can still use their smart contracts in 5 years, but the adoption of those contracts will quickly decline without uniswap labs.
> [...] but for animals, humans, and many manmade things a mesh-based modeler – or at least the use of third-party meshes – is essentially a requirement.

That was/is not true. It could be even a CAD modeler. In fact, in the 90's, before the advent of subdivison surfaces (sds) in VFX production, everything you saw in blockbuster movies that was organic was NURBS patches. E.g. the dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park". Usually modeled in Alias PowerAnimator and then animated in Softimage.

Nowadays you can choose between polygon meshes, sds, T-splines also signed-distance-based modeling for organic stuff. In fact, even then you could do organic modeling from SDF primitives using the Oranica[1] modeler.

There were also many cheap or even free modeleres that supported bezier patch modeling at the time. Bezier/B-spline patches modelers were accessible to everyone on Windows and Mac OS at the time. And there were many renderers that could render those without artifact. I.e. REYES[2]-based.

You may have to mesh the SDF for further work (and then maybe render a Loop sds if you want a high order surface at render time). So mesh-based being the only choice was neither true when "The wet bird" was produced nor is it now.

I ran a small CGI shop (five people) a few years before this image was produced.
We used Real3D/Alias PowerAnimator with a custom pipeline to do organic modeling with B-spline patches and rendering with PhotoRealistic RenderMan for Windows. No polygons were ever created (or harmed) producing any of the images we were paid for.

So yeah, the humans in that image were polgon meshes from Poser and exported to POV but that was just what the artist knew/choose.

[1] https://archive.org/details/organica-12
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reyes_rendering
That's my point, the broad public hasn't access to a Bloomberg Terminal or Refinitv. That's why if the CNBC data is gone, then it will become very hard to check.

If you search something like "JP Morgan credit default swap" CNBC was the only usable result.
Don't care. It was all inflated salaries from unprofitable companies who depended on pumping VC cheap capital every month. They need to now show that they are profitable.

We also will now see which startups can afford to hire developers at over $350K/yr + bonus + stock options in an adverse, unfavourable market without VC capital. Oh wait...

None.
I don’t know anything about you but this sounds out of touch. When you are coming from a poor family you look to maximum financial earnings, not pursue your passions. Financial security is the top priority and you don’t achieve that with a degree in poetry. You study STEM.
Misophonia filed with ADHD as "Not a Thing, Just Evolutionary Conditioning."
Crypto is a technology that offers just one thing: electronic payments without anything unneessary bundled with it. Crypto is a model of what banking should be.

For comparison, to use a bank card you first need to provide all your details to bank which can share them with anyone they want, and then your application can be rejected for arbitrary reasons. And after this again the bank can share information about anything you bought with the card. There is even an official organization for sharing data about consumers loan history and this is totally not a crime in our weird society.
> like if Steve says he needs just one more day, he always means he needs five more days. So if suddenly Steve says he needs another week, then I know he probably needs over a month.

That is a beyond frustrating even if you have gotten used to adjusting the time in your head. It also probably means it affects other work that Steve is doing and his sanity. (Steve thinks he'll finish Task A in a week, and has already allocated time for Task B in a week's time, but he's not even close to finishing Task A a week later, and now he has to work on both at the same time. Which is fine, we're all expected to multi-task, but if he constantly isn't prepared for this then it's not sustainable.)

In these scenarios do you talk to Steve about what is up with his estimation skills and time management?
People keep saying this, but I don't understand why they don't see the issue. Yes, shareholders got zeroed out of their SVB shares. But since there was no risk to playing with depositors money besides losing the business, which can fail in any number of other ways as well, there is no deterrent to taking on the large risk.

The optimal strategy to beat the competition is to edge toward more risk. And since you can get an edge by playing more risky, other banks will have to do as well to compete.

A traditional business, when edging toward risk, fails when they cannot get their customers to buy from them. Banks fails when they can't get their customer's money back to them. That's the big issue with the risk dynamic.
I am, for one, is preparing for an era of mediocre content in every field ML can be applied to.
> However, the "risky" investments that I have heard described thus far are mostly treasury securities

You assume that all risk is default risk. The risk that SVB took wasn't that the US govt will default on its bonds. It was that the treasuries will lose their value in case of interest rate changes.

SVB bought billions of dollars of US treasuries which lost their value in the last year due to rate hikes. This showed up as unrealized losses on their balance sheet which spooked their depositors and precipitated the collapse.
Very good source, thank you
The key part seems to be not having kids. For me, I feel like I need to keep pushing at least until they are launched off to college.