skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Verbosity is hardly the problem these UI libraries/frameworks solve. They establish idioms for data flow and composition.

The UI component model’s data flow might vary between libraries, but they’re all generally opinionated and fairly consistent internally. The equivalent in “vanilla JS” can easily become unwieldy even with a lot of discipline, because the underlying APIs are designed with the view as the source of truth. That’s almost always the opposite of how you’d want to design a system with more than a very small amount of complexity. But that’s where inertia will guide you because there isn’t even a notion of state that doesn’t reference the DOM etc.

Once you’ve succumbed to this even partially, composition becomes incredibly difficult because the underlying model leaks implementation details. Tangling them is not just easy, it’s the default. Avoiding tangling them means basically developing a UI library with its own opinions and idioms. Which maybe you want that, but most people are building something else.

Untangling them is an enormous task. I’m maintaining an application that began in the era when this was common, and picked up some notion of components along the way. Even just understanding how things get invoked can take hours or days tracing app code and its interaction with implicit state in the view, and that’s with two years of familiarity with the code.

I don’t even like React or several of its idioms. But stuff that takes me hours or days would take minutes to understand with just the basic assumptions React or any other component library would afford. I can’t speak for any specific commenter, but I think this is the kind of “scale” most UI devs mean when they discuss it in those terms.

And granted, the critique that many things don’t need the scale they take on—that they add incidental complexity to fit a library/framework’s model. That can certainly be true, but I think the “vanilla JS” camp really underestimates how steep that cliff is and how quickly many projects can run off it.
Alas, it's also not quite right.

Eg 'in practice what happens is someone else unknowingly gives you a stock for free':

Someone else willingly and _knowingly_ loans you the stock, and _charges_ borrow costs. As a private investor you can participate in stock lending, just check with your broker. Index funds are often more than happy to loan out their shares, partially because it's one of the few ways they have to make extra money.

(Also maybe partially because it helps offset their impact on the market. If a new company makes it into the S&P 500 and all of a sudden index funds have to own 20% of that company, you might expect prices to go up in _anticipation_, ie before the index fund can buy. But if at the same time the same 20% of that company's stock becomes available for loan and thus short-selling, that might help counteract this move.)

See good old Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_(finance) for more.
Well that was helpful.
CodeGen: An Open Large Language Model for Code with Multi-Turn Program Synthesis
Funny how everyone loves this idea but it only ever hurts small companies. I don't think gov is the solution here and YC asking is a bad look but let's contextualized the "socialized losses" of American companies in 2008. It 100% benefited bigco and the consequence of "too big to fail" was policy that destroyed a hundred smaller banks and further reduced the banking market to 5 mega players.

Market corrections are normal, they need to happen otherwise we just end up with a tiny group of ololigopolies with a free reign from consequences. Bad actors need to be punished.

The only way this sort of hand ours from startups needs to be just like the reaction to 2008 should have been: not punishing small/medium companies for the actions of a $200B bank and their like. YC has a reputation of being wealthy VCs so it does nothing to help this point.
I'm not - I think its wrong and cynical to gatekeep someones usage of a drug : whos to say what is theraputic and what is degenerate junky usage?

You know what is cynical? Putting up barrier after barrier that makes it hard for ANYONE to obtain a medication that can genuinely help people because we dissapprove of how some people use the drug on their own bodies.

Criminalizing the possession if a drug doesnt do jack shit to help people who are addicted - it just drives them into sketchy situations to obtain it and throws them in jail if theyre caught. And to top it all off it makes it incredibly difficult to obtain it even if you play by the rules.
Sure, I understand and appreciate the resourcefulness of the repair as much as anyone.

I just wanted to let people know that making a new one is a viable option both in repair and new hobby designs. It hasn't been that long that it's been fairly easy to do.
Wouldn't assembly be the winner? Think about all the energy spent compiling, how many millions of times has gcc been compiled just so it can compile tcl millions of times just so it can interpret the same script millions of times?
It seems like the point of that comment to look knowledgeable while providing no actionable information[2] and falsely implying it’s too difficult[1], so I’m guessing no, as that would defeat their seeming objectives in making the comment to begin with.

[1] which it isn’t; here’s what legit attempts at explanation look like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35113400

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35113126

[2] if it weren’t, it would explained some of the terminology used, since the asker clearly isn’t deep in the business in the first place
I have experience with their programs and can confirm that they are of good quality. The big thing that can potentially be a big selling point (or turn-off) is that their programs are self-guided- with a few exceptions such as requiring setting a schedule and satisfactory academic progress requirements.

If you have any questions, ama!
ChatGPT CLI – A minimal assistant in the terminal
A simple CLI to interact with ChatGPT using their latest API. My first attempt to write something minimal in Rust.
There's a lot of talk about AGI, or whether GPT is valuable or not based on its tendency to be confidently incorrect. I think this misses the point made by cs702: GPT is a machine learning model that is available to anyone, with no knowledge required. Plain language in, plain language out.

This is very valuable if you have a vague idea that machine learning will be helpful for your problem, but you don't want to go to the trouble of preparing data / hiring a data science team. Or if your ML model would benefit from having access to all of the data and collective wisdom of the internet. Or if you don't understand what machine learning is but still want to make basic predictions with available data.

It can apply what I've been thinking of as "common sense by api". For example, a brand advertiser can ask "Is it appropriate to show this ad to this customer?" to avoid showing ie, a pregnancy ad to a teenager. There has never been anything like this before. You had to hire a human to make decisions like that or program every edge case into the code.

I've been experimenting with this for weeks. From everything I've seen its a powerful general purpose machine learning model that is valuable in a small number of specific situations. I still don't have a full grasp of the boundaries and limitations, but its really an amazing thing. And its only going to get better with GPT4. I think most of the discussion around the technology is ignoring what its really providing to the world.
Not all businesses are likely to jump on this bandwagon.

For example, take health insurance claim denials (in the US).

Among issuers who reported the highest volume of in-network claims in 2021, receiving over 5 million claims, denial rates ranged from 5.7%. to 41.9% (Source: https://www.kff.org/private-insurance/issue-brief/claims-den...)

In every one of these cases, the insured receives an "Explanation of Benefit" that lists the claims and a "Denial Reason" along with the "Paid, Denied" amounts. On paper, the LLM approach you outlined above looks like it would fit this claims processing workflow. But, it would be another 50 years, if that, before the health insurance industry takes that approach.

Healthcare claims processing is already messed up. Good luck pitching an LLM based system for this.

ps: The simple reason for the resistance/inertia is not technical, but regulatory/legal risk. If the insured sues the insurance company, the company can bring their engineers as witnesses to explain how the denial logic has been coded. There is no way (at least currently) to explain why an LLM model took a certain decision. As long as there is the risk of the LLM hallucinating on the witness stand when prompted by the suing party's lawyers, there is no way the business/risk teams would sign off on that.
Binance announced today they will have USDC/USDT and other stablecoin trading pairs.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-adds...

Individuals in many countries (but not the USA) have access to Leverage Trading on Binance.

You could also use any of the following DeFi liquidity pools: https://nomics.com/markets/usdt-tether/usdc-usd-coin/markets
I reads like they didn't just bury the lede, they completely missed it. The US doesn't have capitalism. We have crony capitalism. The latter having little to do with actual capitalism (i.e., free markets).

So while the public might be trusting in one thing, behind the scenes (and under the table) big biz is constantly having Uncle Sam put his thumb on the scale.
Yes, that's dangling async behaviour for sure.

Curiously, it's also very similar to the example in the beta docs that wokwokwok just linked to.
I especially enjoyed the follow-on tweets in the thread.
I thought it was odd that Google distributed security keys as swag at All Thing Open.

I tossed mine in the trash. Odds that is was legit? 99.99%?

But just seemed like a major oversight to just toss out usb devices en masse
Some rules of thumb I use for estimating this kind of stuff

100wpm: Max typing speed

200wpm: Max speaking speed

300wpm: Max listening speed, max reading speed with subvocalisation

900wpm: Max reading speed without subvocalisation
> These are not "innocent depositors".

Let's be fair. They were innocent in the sense that the failure wasn't their fault.

What they aren't is naive. To the extent that they had deposits exceeding FDIC insurance, they were knowingly taking a risk.
Heh, you’re not wrong.

It was handy to see the outer couple of layers of template expansion, though, so I could know at least which library it came from. I’d be very interested in some way to adjust the displayed format to be different from the “real” type name (which is of course different from the machine-readable mangled name). It might be better to put that functionality in the debugging tool.
Why do banks, whose fundamental job is to accept money and then return it to the customer on demand, struggle to meet the "giving the money back to you" obligation. Why isn't there be a bank that doesn't fuck around with my money, so I can always be guaranteed to be able to get it out whenever I want. I'd gladly pay $20/mo or so for such a service.

Another case of: "If you aren't paying for it, you are the product."

Earning US$500 taxable annual interest on an account with balances averaging US$100,000 isn't particularly valuable to me, especially if the edge cases are that the money I gave them might sometimes not be available to be returned to me when I need it.
That's a very abstract argument, and doesn't take into account any special features of planes.

So I can say: I just want planes to be as safe as, say, trains. (Or whatever other form of transportation is safer than individual cars, but not as over-burdened as planes. Perhaps busses?)
Looking at my uploads now, the majority are "Things of Science" booklets from a monthly science kit I was lucky to have received for one year when I was younger.

Here's a space-related scan of mine: https://archive.org/details/orbiting-stations/mode/2up
Pretty sure it goes above 50.
Not sure what you are saying here exactly, but ive heard far more stories of someone ruining their life because they turned to black market subsitutes for drugs they were previously able to obtain legally than stories of people who just decided to quit when it was no longer available.
>risk control

maybe they gave that to Chief Administrative Officer Joseph Gentile, formerly CFO of Lehman Brothers
i guess they should have thought of that before they deposited their money into a business that plays games with money to scam wealth out of the economy
I got a diagnosis. But I figured, I’ve done reasonably well for these 32 years so far, I have a great career, a fantastic partner and am doing fun challenging work. Why change anything, so I skipped the medication.

Maybe that will need to change in the future, but it’s fine for me for now.
This is the second critical thread about Uncle Bob in the last month or so. (Maybe there have been more.)

Why digging at ancient books? Is there something going on here?
I didn't agree with the OP but just noting this is wrong:

> These nets regurgitate the most average possible output given inputs. By definition.

You seem to be confusing the training objective with the capabilities.

For example:

> Why Can GPT Learn In-Context? Language Models Secretly Perform Gradient Descent as Meta-Optimizers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10559
Invidious is a solution: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
>it can run on a typical GPU that gamers likely already have

So a GTX 1060[1] or GTX 1650[1]?

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/
I would bet a fair amount of money that they will not raise prices.

It is better for OpenAI to be a utility that is used by a million companies.

Simon, I share your enthusiasm for llama.cpp (from your blog today) and also Hugging Face models. That said, I like self “hostable” tools as a fallback - I would rather usually just pay for an API.
It's not so black and white and it's not circular. You can consider all of the above and the terms can be useful. The least useful is sticking to a hard definition, deciding noone qualifies, and therefore the term is "meaningless".

In other words, it's fine if you consider a definition of leftism that includes anarchists, Marxists, collectivists, social democratists and many others to be incorrect, but large groups of people use the term that way and communicate just fine.
> I think there's a feeling that traditional banks are de-facto safe places to keep money

Where were the financial advisors for these companies, then? A big part of their job is to strip away "feelings" and talk cold, hard facts.
I have a problem with software engineering use of the qualifiers “clean”, “simple”, “easy”, “decoupled”, “elegant”, among others that only appeal to aesthetic sense but are not quantified at any moment.
Wow, I didn’t realize how shallow that is! It would be super nice to have something like that for my space. I wonder why other manufacturers haven’t followed suit.
Will the Collapse of SVB End the LLM Hype Bubble?
So, question. Given that SVB has collapsed, will this mean that all of the funding for firms that are the chatGPT/stablediffusion versions of pets.com will implode? How much money has the VC/tech industry invested in tertiary firms that are using this technology as a simple plugin to an arbitrary optimization problem? Does anyone have any hard numbers?
When the smoke has cleared, it would be interesting to quantify whether this event affected a (statically significant) higher percentage of YC offspring than other incubator offspring.

Could be a selling point for alternative incubators in the future.

Perhaps being a part of YC puts you at greater risk from these events. Draw your own conclusion about the reason why.
If you didn’t have a $5,000 MacBook, could you run it on a GPU over a long period of time? Would you be able to feed it a list of prompts that maybe take all night to process and have the responses by morning?
Ask HN: Good providers of loans for startup employees exercising options?
Who are the best companies that provide loans to startup employees who want to exercise their options?
Sadly for me, that's the only thing I want it to do- ingest the entire internet's worth of data and make a well reasoned assessment about an edge case or subtle trends based on that vast trove.
> And it's a lot of money (e.g. 30% loss on $200bn is about $600 per US resident household).

I'm not sure where you got this number, but it's different than what I've seen. Yes, SVB had $200B in deposits, but it had $15B in unrealized losses. The FDIC is probably contributing $12B as roughly 6% of deposits were insured. That means the gap is probably $3B if the government is to step in, which is very different than the $60B you're suggesting. If these instruments can't be held to maturity then the losses may be greater as many of them are illiquid and would have to be sold at a discount, but the government has the liquidity to avoid that.
> How will they get it back? The bank is gone. FDIC will only give them $250k right?

The FDIC opened up a new bank with a different name. On Monday, the insured $250k of deposits will be available and some modest amount above that will also be available. The FDIC announced a dividend will be paid next week to uninsured deposits. The remaining balances depend on how much of the assets are needed to be liquid short term versus long term.[1]

The bank has a massive amount of assets and deposits. They just aren’t liquid and the run on the bank snowballed the illiquidity. They need something like a massive insurance company to offer them an annuity backed by their own treasuries — something to unlock short term liquidity of their assets.

[1] https://www.axios.com/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-governm...
I do this. It works.
I've got the (4-bit quantized) 65B param model running at somewhat acceptable speed on an i9-7900. It uses around 55GB of RAM.
Yes, I'm eager for a usable version of this.
Nah, it isn’t anything all that impressive. I actually just sold a majority of my ownership to pursue other interests. Retained a small stake just in case it goes regional.

I worked full time as a software engineer(remote since 2016) while opening and running the production side of my brewery for about 3 years before I could afford to hire help. Hired a brewer, got him up to speed then Covid hit. We kept him on full time during Covid and I didn’t spend much time there.

Once covid calmed down I still didn’t do much reengaging on production and just managed brew schedule and ordering shit.

Went from pulling 70-80 work weeks prior to Covid to a standard 40-45 hours.

Covid basically made my wife and I realize that our kids learned more with us driving their education for 2-3 hours a day than they were getting in 8 hours at school.

Sold most of my ownership as we plan to move onto a sailboat and travel the world with our kids until they go to college. My wife and I both have remote jobs and plan to continue working.

Yes, we are insane.
This is exactly what LlamaIndex is meant to solve!

A set of data structures to augment LLM's with your data: https://github.com/jerryjliu/gpt_index
I struggle with a similar thing, and I've often wondered maybe a way to counteract it (or to have courage to be more open online) is to think about the benefits I may get from it. I think I can often get stuck in seeing just the downsides of not protecting my privacy.

What benefits do you see, besides costs less money and more full featured?
USDC is now back up from $0.82 to ~ $0.97
Considerations On Cost Disease: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...
Many companies missed payroll this week. But they'll likely all make up for it next week.
With the way things are going, don't be surprised if some silicon valley innovator come with insurance product that can be purchased after the fact. With marketing like "Come, Disrupt the Insurance Industry" it might just work out fine
My point was more an attempt to point at an empathetic response as a possibility. "don't start abusing the drug in the first place", to me, felt like a way to dismiss the reality that it can be really easy to fall into addiction, because most of us are broken in our own peculiar ways and have our own vulnerabilities. What if someone else's response to one's own brokenness was "just don't do that"? It doesn't really help much, because the reasons for it are valid, and the need itself needs to be seen.

My own comment was a knee-jerk reactive comment in reply to what I felt in your post, which may or may not have been a real thing.

Idk. My hunch is that we are all addicted to something, and if you don't see what it is yet, then either you or society (or both) must not have much of a problem with that particular addiction, and that can always change.
I'm responding to the first point:

> Anyone can post anything, but Musk can and has systemically prioritized his tweets over organic content.
Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?
Been a few weeks since last posted. How goes the hunt?
Although humans are capable of rationalizing and they do it, they have other capabilities which is a key point that is missing in this argument.

Maybe no one will admit to refusing a loan based on applicant’s gender, but also no real world aircraft engineer will explain why they decided to design a plane’s wing in a certain shape, purely by rationalizing an intuition without backing it by math and physics. Also, there are a group of humans elsewhere that understand those math and using the “same” principles can follow the explanation and detect mistakes or baseless rationalized explanations.
Honestly, you should be going back to the lobbying drawing board. This is going to be enormously unpopular with the general public. VCs are already very rich, even if they take a haircut. They already have huge resources to be able to extend bridge loans to the companies they‘re partial owners in. What does the tax payer get out of absorbing the costs of this systemic risk taking? Are you going to give the public a stake in your companies, or do you want to just take our money and give nothing back?
I was previously consistantly using a generic that I tolerated well. In the last year I have had several months (maybe 6) where I was only able to obtain generics produced by actavis or amneal. These 2 absolutely suck compared to sandoz, teva (which I think may be exactly the same) or shire.
The side effects are overwhelming
It made a profit 2 years before he bought it. And the only reason it made a loss the last complete fiscal year before he bought it was due to a massive > $1Bn FCC (or FTC?) fine.

Twitter’s underlying business was already profitable.
One of the best Sci-Fi books I have ever read was by an author who had one five-star rating from me for about four years, he went on to write another two books and left the series open without an end which was a real disappointment. I guess his perceived lack of success was part of the reason for stopping. I also wonder how many other books are not turning up on the Amazon radar because of their silly filters you can't seem to shrug away.