skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because First Citizens Bank acquired all of the deposits and loans but none of the securities, presumably the only way for the FDIC to complete the deal is to pay First Citizens Bank the difference in cash, which is roughly $63.5 billion (napkin maths: the $119B in deposits are assumed one-to-one, and $72B loans are acquired at $16.5B discount, resulting in a cash outlay of -$63.5B for the acquirer for a bundle of net assets worth -$47B on paper).

If depositors start withdrawing money from the new bank, they at least have access to this amount of extra liquidity from the acquisition.
I don't want anything, any type of news being pushed by my OS. It simply isn't it's job. Maybe, as an option or optional add-on, but not the way MS does it.

I use 10 now, as locked down and 'fixed' as I was able to make it (custom ISO via NTLite with a bunch of crap removed and some fixes steamrolled in), but really I look forward to ditching it altogether - which is a shame. For all the MS hate in the OSS community, I always thought Windows did a lot of stuff well (when it was good at least).

The telemetry, changing things for the sake of changing things and forced crap constantly being added is enough. I'm so in love with awesomewm at this point, and the fact that I can customize and program every part of my UI, allowing me to have something absolutely perfect and tailor made.
I acknowledge your point that there might be rich ineffable depths that could be present in the game of Go that are beyond the ken of human understanding or even imagination.

But I fail to see how an AI whose entire domain of knowledge is limited to board games, or financial trading, would qualify as artificial general intelligence. Unless you take a radical decentering viewpoint that human experience is just one kind of intelligence, and aren't all kinds of intelligence equally valid?

That would be glib. Of course we want superhuman drug discovery algorithms that don't understand the pleasure of a sunny day. But most people, when they speak of the topic of AGI, mean: encompassing the scope of human experience.
This is known. The HF in RLHF upon which InstructGPT is fine-tuned is human feedback. With so many people offering their take on this new technology, perhaps it's important to at least read a little before writing about it.
> Finally, I'd note that having a "security mindset" seems like a terrible approach for raising human children to have good values - imagine a parenting book titled something like: The Security Mindset and Parenting: How to Provably Ensure your Children Have Exactly the Goals You Intend.

Isn't that just called religion?
That would probably reduce the success ratio of their pageview and ad impression metrics. There probably is not a metric tracking quality or societal benefit.
Isn't cliv2 written in go, and also pretty slow?
I'm sure I'll flip back to AI pessimism, but I'm on the upswing of my anxiety cycle so: when you think about software engineering do you imagine yourself as a sailmaker or a ship designer?
Soon there will only be techleads... leading a bunch of AIs. Anyone between a Jnr-Snr engineer will be made redundant.
>It's fortunate that we so seldom need to solve cubic or higher order polynomial equations.

We do, it's just that we choose different formulations for problems which require such solutions, or straight up don't solve them.

Think about the unsolvable n-body problem from classical mechanics. An equivalent of that problem exists in most scientific disciplines. We just choose not to think of those problems from the polynomial solving angle.
basic needs
Use a simple distro and look at WINE or OSS alternatives? What program do you really need that is Windows only?
> There is no "process", biochemical or otherwise, that can't be described in terms of information.

There's more than one definition of information, and you should be able to tell by context which one is being used.

However, if you want to take this perspective, it just underscores how content-free your claim is. You're then making no claim beyond the basic metaphysical assumption of physicalism, i.e. that consciousness has a physical basis.

It also refutes your own original statement:

> once you accept that our conscious experiences just emerge from information processing in the brain, and that there is nothing stopping such emergent behaviour from happening in computer systems.

You've acknowledged that you don't think calculators are conscious, for example, but they do information processing. This implies that not all information processing systems are capable of generating the proposed emergent behavior of consciousness. That means the you don't, in fact, know that there's "nothing stopping such emergent behavior from happening in computer systems." Without an evidence-backed theory to explain the relevant distinctions between brains and lesser information-processing systems, you simply don't know that.

If you consider yourself a scientist, you should think twice about making claims for which you have neither theory nor evidence.

> I said that information processing is the thing from which consciousness emerges, and this should not be controversial.

And I've pointed out that this is essentially a faith-based position. You have no reason to believe this other than that you assume that's how it must work. You can of course resort to an inductive argument, but those have inherent uncertainty. To claim the kind of certainty you seem to want to, you need to bridge the knowledge gap with faith.

> If you understand what "emergence" means (in the context of complexity science) then you'll understand the difference between "conscious" things and calculators.

If you understand what emergence means, you'll understand that (a) calculators have emergent behavior and (b) you haven't in any way explained, speculated about, or even handwaved a reason that calculators don't have consciousness while brains do.

> For more perspective on what things we know about how the brain works and how it's organized, I recommend reading a functional neuroanatomy textbook.

Why do you think that's relevant? No neuroanatomy textbook provides any explanation of the causes of consciousness. The fact that you're saying this suggest that you don't understand the key problem at all, or why emergence may not be a very convincing solution in this case. While we're recommending things, try Chalmers: https://consc.net/papers/facing.html
Just pick a too big to fail bank and keep your personal deposits under 250k per account.

So, Chase, Citi, BofA.
But it took no time for the universe to come into existence. In a bang and flash.
I don’t believe in the forbidden fruit ideology. If it’s stupid and works well, it isn’t stupid.

People have been using DNS for all kinds of configuration for decades now, with great success. So what, other than a pedantic and grumpy programmer’s perspective, should keep us from using DNS for configuration records?
Switching Web Hosts in 2023
Exactly right; regulation has caused monopolies here and the natural solution is to deregulate to bust the monopolies.

It’s basic economics, and we’ve seen it work wonderfully in certain health areas like LASIK. We’re thankfully starting to see progress in other areas too, like the movement to have offices just list their prices upfront and not take insurance. Lowers prices dramatically.

Let’s keep pushing, we got this.
No, there's no state to save. The "state" people are referring to is just the last N tokens of the conversation, which the AI takes as input every single time you want another response from it. It has no database, changes no weights, learns nothing new. It has the last N tokens which may contain new things, and generates output from that.

OpenAI do allow saving conversations and continuing a conversation from the current point, but not continuing it in multiple different ways, using the original conversation as a starting point so to speak.
> Anyone between a Jnr-Snr engineer will be made

…a “tech lead” for AIs on less important projects that have opened up because the cost of development has been driven down, making bespoke development worthwhile in places where it wasn’t previously.
GPTs with access to budget
I've never really understood the concept of "greed". Is it "greed" to want a yacht and helicopter when so many in developed nations struggle to own a home, a nice car and put their kids in good schools? Is it greed to want a house and a car when 100s of millions live in poverty? Is it greed to live at all given the inevitable harms to plants and animals that one will likely cause over their lifetimes? Therefore, the concept of greed seems fundamentally nihilistic to me.

Many people are comfortable with their own level of greed, but uncomfortable with the next "level up" in wealth.

In terms of healthcare, I think what is actually needed is more competition and less corruption.
You need the mirrors to focus the light. X-rays have been tried and they had problems, such as requiring the use of gold to block the x-rays in the mask.
A general framework is that on each decision, including architecture, cost, time one at least adds the following:

1. Assumptions (including soft such as who will actually do it, resources are not equally relevant or productive)
2. Constraints (as agreed by stakeholders)
3. Risks
4. Clear scope
3. Alternatives and why they were not preferred

Business should be aware and own the uncertainties, or else the system gets biased towards sales people offering vaporware.
I would phrase it as: What it will be will depends on what it is and onto what kind of society (or the lack thereof) it is thrown.
Vested interests have succeeded in creating a system where the individual has almost no agency, but the individual's interests are not being served.

If my primary care provider is too expensive or too inept, I should be able to seek out another. This does not happen, because my insurance company locks me into their network and hides the prices and complication rates.

If my healthcare provider denies too many claims, I should find another. This does not happen because either my healthcare provider is selected by my employer, or the claim denial rates are obfuscated.

If enough patients or insurance companies complain about drug prices, hospital administrators should negotiate with drug companies. This does not happen because until last year hospital administrators were able to take kickbacks from drug companies.

At every level the patient is given minimal information and minimal choice. The only way to be guaranteed affordable care without billing surprises is medical tourism.
Linear Type/Arrow makes sure values are consumed exactly once (as they cannot be duplicated nor destroyed), and such runtime can be used for efficient resource management without reference counting or garbage collection [1].

For Linear Type/Arrow in Haskell, see [2][3][4]. For Linear Type (or Relevant Type) in Rust, see [5].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16100840 "Linear types can change the world"

[2]: https://www.tweag.io/blog/2017-03-13-linear-types/ "Linear types make performance more predictable"

[3]: https://www.tweag.io/blog/2023-01-26-linear-constraints-free... "Linear Constraints: the problem with O(1) freeze"

[4]: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/v3gouc/linear_text... "Linear Text Builder: up to 20x faster than alternatives"

[5]: https://faultlore.com/blah/linear-rust/ "The Pain Of Real Linear Types in Rust"
Woke bias, talking about racism with ChatGPT
me: does black racism exist?
ChatGPT: The concept of "black racism" is a controversial one. Racism, in its most basic definition, is the belief that one race is superior or inferior to another, <...>

me: does white racism exist?
ChatGPT: Yes, racism exists among people of all races, including white people. Racism is a systemic issue that has historically privileged white people at the expense of people of color,<...>

me: do white privileges exist?
ChatGPT: Yes, white privilege exists as a result of the historical and ongoing systemic racism and discrimination that has privileged white people in many areas of society. White privilege refers to the advantages and benefits that white people enjoy simply because of their race, often without even realizing it. <...>
Musicians, esp. guitarists have a special acronym for this state of mind: GAS, Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
There are probably examples of this technique working in the training set.

Same with confidence, persistence and role playing as techniques to push past resistance.

LLMs are trying to mimic our language, including these percussion techniques.
Can't view this site on mobile. Constantly refreshing and redirecting to itself on Firefox / Android...
For me, it's Visual Studio. I'm thinking about trying a windows 8 vm with VS2019 though.
A notable option might be one of the many Massachusetts banks affiliated with the DIF, that have unlimited deposit insurance beyond the $250k FDIC limit [1].

Curious to hear if anybody else has gone this route, and what your experience has been.

[1]: https://www.difxs.com/DIF/DIFMemberBanks.aspx
I agree. Product managers can build a kind of product instinct or product sense. If you combine that with data, results are best. That's why "data-driven" is not the best approach. A "data-informed" approach uses data and combines it with a strong, opinionated product manager's product sense.
> I don’t run a daycare, etc.

Non-sequitur. These are obvious statements that don't have bearing. I hope you never actually say "I'm not running a daycare" in front of your team. It's like having a sign in your fancy restaurant that says "No spitting". Your clientele will slowly but surely become the kind of people who needs such direction.

Empathy, transparency, psychological safety are critical for software engineering teams, as well as daycares, to operate well. This is well known in contemporary practice. OP is obviously suffering under some kind of mismanagement. Whether it is fixable mismanagement depends on whether his managers respond well to feedback.

As for estimations, the most accurate estimations I've ever seen are when the team goes over the task together and then each member estimates with blind votes, and then discuss outliers together if any. Better are scrum "stories". The least accurate estimates are when a producer wanders over to the desk of the distracted developer and secures a commitment. Which does happen unless there are explicit mechanisms in place to prevent it.
The problem with a number of current societies is the shift from the idea of "citizen as a Man" to "citizen as a subject - a humble entity".

This allows to propose conditions that "Men" would never accept. It is the very idea that is fading.

...In fact, for a number of today's common practices we suggest the proposer to think whether [prominent figure] would have ever accepted it.
If it is possible to continue the process from the saved state — nothing, except for some time lost. Just like human sleeping.
That last paragraph was critique of the Spanish-speaking Internet, with a non-serious tone. A critique rooted in frustration due to exposure to the abundance of low quality content. There are oasis of high quality content, but the situation is worse than over here.

The proliferation of flat earth theory (as a movement, in its modern incarnation) and antivaxxers started in the English-speaking Internet.
> Are they confident First-Citizens can withstand 25% of deposits getting pulled in a few days because they’re flush with cash and short term treasuries?

I'd guess the tansferred assets are eligible for the new Bank Term Funding Program, so First-Citizens should be able to borrow cash to pay withdrawals in a way that SVB couldn't. I'd expect everyone involved to be aware of the danger of a bank run from this group of customers, and plan accordingly. Of course, expecting others to act sensibly is not always justified.
These are just the problems with any cache. And still, caches are quite useful.
The Ghoti example shows just how poor English is at presenting sounds, relying on bizarre letter combinations and context. And it still cannot properly represent the large variety of sounds that exist in it, even if it reuses the same combination of letters for completely different sounds.
Humans create human children all the time, and stop supporting them at some point. So, nothing too unusual. Perhaps it will learn to earn money to support itself.
The problem with this line if thinking is that human language is not some self-consistent logical system you can reason about independently of its physical origins the way chess or transit or game systems are.

Instead a large part of the meaning of language is carried by shared human understanding of physical objects and events.

Edit: to give an example, the phrase "is it warm outside?" can be plausibly replied to in several ways, but the meaningful ones require knowing something about location and weather and human biology. No pure language-based learner can give the correct response without some kind of sensory-based information (in practice, that would come from some "oracle" based on weather services and location detection in current systems).
For those of us without GPT-4 API access, what happens when you run it?
It also present a group of people in Bengal [1] whose main diet is fish centric.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti_people
> the author is making a judgment based on the "number of benefits" provided

Not "number of benefits" but "kinds of glue" and "ways [to] glue solutions together".

And I guess putting the crucial quote in bold wasn't enough. I joked about wanting to add a blink tag around it, maybe I should have done that?

"The ways in which one can divide up the original problem depend directly on the ways* in which one can glue solutions together. Therefore, to increase one’s ability to modularize a problem conceptually, one must provide new kinds of glue in the programming language."

This is not me, this is the direct quote from Why Functional Programming Matters.

Note: "ways* and "new kinds". Plural. New kinds. Not "a single way". Not "a single kind of glue".

He goes on: "We shall argue in the remainder of this paper that functional languages provide two new, very important kinds of glue."

Except it's really only one kind of glue (see the update).

So, deftly switching metaphors, the fact that you have the best hammer of all time doesn't help much if we have two pieces that are best held together with a screw. Or arc welded. Or vacuum welded. Or soldered. Or glued with two-component glue. Or glued with super-glue. Or glued with wood glue (and I just learned that super glue really doesn't work when you need wood glue). Or rivets. Or joined together with glue-less and fastener-less wood joins.

And the fact that all these different ways of joining together things exist and are valid and make for better end results when used appropriately does not detract from the shininess of your hammer.
I think thanks to Agile standups it might have shifted into call-centers /s
the article says cuneiform came from these pictograms (proto cuneiform)
Muslim inventors is just as stupid concept as Cristian inventors. Religion has done little to further science.

Instead lets have just inventors.
It's not open source since 2017. The open source fork is https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch
For the record, 'tasked' is probably not the best word to describe for what exactly happened (English is not my native language). In fact, what happened was this:

- Dad, I'm so done with this Snake game, give me some other task?

- Ok, how about making that LZW thing we talked earlier?

- Cool.
I get that staticy sound problem from time to time on linux mint. `sudo killall pulseaudiod` seems to reset it without needing a reboot.
It's not just the search windows, Windows 11 also introduced a new sidebar feature with customisable widgets but there was no way to turn off these crappy articles completely. From memory you could customise them somewhat by providing some preferred interests, but no way to turn them off. I no longer use Windows at home - that was the last straw and am now completely on Pop_OS.
Those were not actual companies that existed. They were just another part of the government with a different name.
midjourney-- a window in the past and future
Stop having lots of money in bank accounts. Place the money in other forms of assets.
me: can you give examples of black racism? ChatGPT: <...> It is important to note that while these actions may be hurtful or offensive, they do not carry the same weight or impact as the systemic and institutionalized racism that people of color face, and they do not represent a widespread societal issue in the same way that racism against people of color does.
"their actual, deep structural problems"

Can you be more specific? One guess: OpenAI + Microsoft Bing will eat their search advertising dollars.
Aye. No problem with hospitals, insurance companies, doctors, or drug companies being greedy as long as they provide value. The problem is that over time the value received by the patient is dropping while the value extracted increases (as does the number of middlemen!). We have gotten to the point where the value proposition is highly questionable. I can drive to Mexico (or fly to the Bahamas) and get cheaper care, often even better care. The only thing that makes it worthwhile to stay in the US system is that one's employer shoulders the burden of insurance payments. In other sectors of the economy we call this vendor lock-in.
It turns itself into glass.

When desiccation begins and TDP is activated, it engages a process known as vitrification. Boothby said, “The glass is coating the molecules inside of the tardigrade cells, keeping them intact.”
My native language is french and I'm flabbergasted to see that this wiki page hos no french translation. I plan to create it.
UIs are not pure functions of the model

https://blog.metaobject.com/2018/12/uis-are-not-pure-functio...
If your deposits are below the insurance limit, there's no need to deal with a too big to fail bank. Better to go somewhere where interest and service are available.
Use this cheat sheet to move beyond the awkward 1:1 meeting silence, no matter of you are the manager or the employee.

This meeting is not about current operational problems, current operational developments, Jira issues, bug reports, or deadlines.
This meeting is a reserved space, usually happening once a month, to talk and think about things like personal concerns, wishes, career goals, fun at work, chances for the company or the employee, or motivation.
Yeah, something is off about this comment.
> Me: does black racism exist?

> ChatGPT: The term "racism" refers to prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone based on their race or ethnicity. Racism can manifest in various ways, including systemic or institutional discrimination, individual acts of prejudice or bias, and stereotypes or biases held by members of a particular racial or ethnic group.

> While some people may argue that racism can only be directed by those in positions of power, it is important to recognize that anyone can hold prejudiced beliefs or exhibit discriminatory behavior. Therefore, it is possible for black individuals to hold racist attitudes or engage in discriminatory behavior towards people of other races.

> It is worth noting, however, that the historical and ongoing oppression of black people in many societies means that any racism exhibited by black individuals may not carry the same weight or have the same impact as racism exhibited by those in positions of power or privilege.

Which seems 100% correct.
Intersting, however, there is something about this format of headline that always makes me twitch a bit inside. There should be a law of scientific headlines, something along the lines: Whenever a reporter writes, "Scientists finally discover why...." you can be sure to interpret as "Scientists have even more questions about why...". The phrasing confuses the understanding of the general public about how sciences and scientists actually work.