skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did some digging and apparently no amphetamine based drugs had been approved for ADHD in Europe back in 2011.(1) Back then the only ADHD med was methylphenidate (ritalin, concerta). This must have changed somewhere between 2012-2014 when dextroamphetamine(attentin) and lisdexamfetamine(elvanse) got approved for ADHD treatment as well. So today in majority of EU countries (possibly in all) it is possible to get 100% dextroamphetamine based ADHD medication. As far as I can tell it seems like levoamphetamine is not approved for medical use at all so that's why adderall isn't prescribed here.

1:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-shire-adhd-idUSTRE7BB0H42...
SOPS has been excellent for us in Terraform/Terragrunt infrastructure-as-code scenarios. Glad to see it on HN.
PHP/Symfony
Thank you! Finally got a definitive answer.

It's very hard to find these answers, as "* * *" is not indexed and cannot be used as a query on most search engines.

Perhaps a more descriptive, search-able message would be better. Like [comment delayed]
Yep. I find it funny - though I feel bad for the small businesses that may have been oblivious - that a VC CEO is complaining when he effortlessly could have hired a financial consultant for a day to look into the first bank he encouraged his customers to use. A regional bank that had an obvious and alarming reputation of being the only place in town that would make high-risk loans to high-risk ventures. If anyone outside SVB was in the responsible position to avoid this situation, it was this CEO, and I’d suggest - if he truly believes in maintaining innovation and having those responsible suffering the consequences - that he personally go first in making his companies whole, rather than the taxpayer.
Essentially, yes.

It's very similar to why we allow cars to crash so much in the first place. To paraphrase JumpCrisscross:

> How does that work when a [car runs me over]?
You can buy specific insurance in case of bank defaults. That's what large businesses do on the regular, it is not a new or strange thing

People here simply decided to not inform themselves or seek appropriate assistance and therefore got bitten
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35111585
Its worth buying a 3060
>Artificial neural networks with backprop is all we need for AI

No. Biological neural networks run many orders of magnitude more energy efficiently, and learn substantially more data efficiently and continuously.

We've got a lot of catching up to do with nature. In my opinion, backprop on today's compute architecture won't ever compete (I can elaborate if you like) - we need some fundamental changes in our approach.
We want more monitoring in the financial system, not less.

Otherwise you could make the same argument you just made, and expand it to: shareholders should be comfortable, it should be regulators (or someone else) that should be monitoring, etc.
Of course they’re not happy. They’re in the business of profit not welfare. If they can convince the government to help out instead they’ll surely do so.
> I can't see this not returning to it's peg by the next news cycle. It's free money.

But isn't this the problem?

If over the weekend billions of dollars of USDC is purchased at less that $1 from people expecting to cash in on "free money" come Monday, Circle is going to have to be able to ensure that that actually happens, which could easily require more liquidity than remotely possible (edit: I just realized that Circle claims that back 1-to-1 with liquid assets).

Volume right now in USDC is at record highs. If all of those people are hoping to make free money on Monday, and it turns out Circle is unable to maintain that, then the entire USDC will crash almost instantly once people realize it's impossible to keep it pegged.

I'm far from a crypto expert so could you clarify what I'm missing?
https://github.com/pedrozath/coltrane Has gotten me thinking about AI for teaching music theory, but I really don't think it is there yet, music theory is far to fuzzy for AI right now. I do think there are niches where it could be quite great, it could absolutely do well in teaching much of counterpoint and classical forms, perhaps even the basics of harmony but it is hard to disentangle harmony from the fuzzy areas and I could see AI doing more damage than good there.
"I'm perplexed, then, to see so many people gleefully celebrate the collapse of an institution..."

Huh? I live well outside SV, and have for over two decades, and I have encountered zero examples of this. Are people inside SV "gleefully celebrating"? So far, no one I have mentioned this to had heard of it happening before I told them.
The site is written in HTML 4.0 Transitional, with uppercase tags and even a bit of table layout at the end.

This is authentic, peak internet; note how fast it loads and how usable it is.
This was my reason for flagging it.

The balls to even try this, I'm enraged and the last thing I want is them getting more eyes.

This truly shows the disconnect we are now living in.

They said the quiet part out loud.
We want more people in the financial system to be aware of risks and pro-actively deal with them. That includes depositors.

(And really skittish depositors could switch to banks that only invest their deposits in eg government bonds. Which are probably about as safe as FDIC insurance.)
No.

This library can have a Python dev up and running in a few minutes

https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/quicktour

It supports 13 applications of transformers and text generation is only one of them!

I have been working on text classification on and off for 18 years, for the most part systems better than ‘bag of words’ have been elusive. I was working at a startup maybe 5 years ago where the technology was not ready and today it is.

You see some blog post where somebody writes a prompt for ChatGPT that makes it do a task with 70% accuracy; often I show a simpler model (cheap to run on my own computer) 1000 examples (a day of work) and I am getting well above 90%. It is true that ChatGPT is a superhuman bullshitter, and it attracts the same simpleminded and indolent folks that were attracted to NFTs but there are a lot of people doing amazing things with transformers and not talking about it because they don’t want competition.
The additional complexity does not bring sufficient advantages. I’d like to spend my time writing content for my web site, not configuring container orchestration tools which will sit idle for years at a time.
“Hell Is Coming”: How Ackman Predicted the Covid Market Crash–and Made a Fortune
The main purpose of banks is to create money, not to give you your money back.
That's not a moon, it's a space station.
ARM doesn't have a concept of anything like the management engine, but remember it's just an ISA and actual SoC implementations like from Qualcomm, Samsung, Apple, Amazon, etc. are free to add their own logic and side controllers.
Silicon Valley Bank’s Meltdown Visualized
Learn Laravel. I use it on all my personal projects.

I have a boring webhost which is sat behind Cloudflare. I push my code up to Gitlab and have a simple deployment script set up which automatically SSH's into my webhost and pulls down my latest changes.

Laravel allows to me dev locally with ease and makes common tasks like form validation, db migrations and various other things a breeze. When I'm done I merge to main, `git push` and my changes are live. It's great.

If you have some experience with PHP and have been a web developer for some time you'll have no problem picking up Laravel. I've always found the docs to be great and it's very intuitive to work with.

Some years ago I was a PHP dev, but professionally I tend to work with Node, Java and Kotlin these days. I wouldn't use any of them for personal projects though. I find I'm far more productive in Laravel and the ecosystem is mature enough that I know anything I write will be good for years. Plus, deployment is cheap and simple. I pay a fix price (around $100 a year) for my webhost and for that I get "unlimited" domains, storage and DBs. It's a bit slow on it's own, but behind Cloudflare it works great.

PHP is super underrated imo. It's perfect for small - medium sized projects on a budget!
I think the most likely scenario is almost all deposits returned (or retained), as you describe.

But I think you are also underestimating the risk and the complexity of how the new bank management gets to that place. Who valued the “assets”? What accounting method did they use? Are the current day valuations based on assumptions about the economy in the near future and the liquidity of money in the finance system? That could become a self-fulfilling death spiral.

The impact of SVB being unable to raise short term funds this week despite being the 16th largest bank in the US and having plenty of deposits is what scared the stock market away from the banking sector Thursday.

> based on what the FDIC can sell the bank or its assets for
This is the big question. SVB had plenty of assets, but couldn’t sell anything large in the market this week. FDIC most likely can’t do it either.

I think the assets are only attractive to someone who plans on holding it for years, and even then this may not be the most attractive bank to buy if other banks have similar issues in the next few weeks/months.
Makes ChatGPT seem more viable.
Yeah, and even lacking appropriate IDs, hashing the object can often (but not always) be more appropriate than a random ID.
College athletes who are going pro are studying their chosen field just as studiously as any other field (and more than most business/communications majors). Athletes who aren’t going pro, which is most of them, do better than average academically.

Being an athlete isn’t particularly different than getting a minor or a dual major. Just because there’s sweating involved doesn’t make it not a scholarly pursuit, we should stop being such gatekeepers.
SVB lobbied the government to relax some Dodd-Frank provisions
> When you're a startup founder, you have to focus your efforts on the unique problem you are trying to solve.

When you're a founder, the unique problem that needs to be foremost in your mind is the business. You don't make business decisions based on "this is what everyone around me is doing".

If you don't have the time, talent, or energy to get into the minutia of running the business, you do at least hire good people who are into that sort of thing. Good people who do things like analyze situations, determine best approaches, etc.

> taking a shortcut like "the one my peers are using already" is generally a great idea

No. That's a really dumb idea. Is that really a common approach in SV startup culture?
I wouldn’t say they were greedy exactly. They made the wrong assessment that QE would last forever. In which case a 10/30 year treasury yield @ 200 bps is still a good deal, at that time. If they were really greedy they would have gone all in on riskier assets.

The irony is, eventually they will be vindicated, when the Fed is forced to start QE all over again.
Ask HN: Is React a good idea for simple web forms?
At work we run a mostly RoR monolith, but are slowly introducing TypeScript backends for new capabilities. We're mostly doing this because hiring for Ruby devs is proving very difficult in our geography (Australia). The older UI code was mostly Rails templates (slim), Styled Bootstrap, and a hodgepodge of JQuery for some in browser responsiveness/interactivity.

My history at work was as an early engineer, helping building a lot of the original system. I am very comfortable in Ruby/Rails, and to a lesser extent in the front end using "old school" tech (such as the aforementioned bootstrap/jquery). I now act in an architect role, with my day to day revolving less around the code, more advising on the higher level stuff helping to advise tech direction. Our team is about 40 engineers strong, without a strong back-end/front-end divide in responsibilities.

We have selected React/Tailwind for building our more complex and interactive parts of our application. It's definitely better than the organically grown JQuery stuff. More structured, more opinionated, easier to test. I think this is a real step forward.

Lately people are wanting to start using React to do the "boring" parts of our UI. i.e. the myriad of rarely visited settings forms for all the different features of our system. To create these forms it used to be a simple matter of creating data model, the controller for crud actions, and defining some server side templates. Now it seems a lot more involved. You need everything that was required for SSR, but now you need to be more explicit in defining an API build pipelines, managing your dependencies, and a lot more code.

I am concerned that people are greatly over-complicating things, and that simple server side rendering is a much better fit for these simple screens people are putting together. But I also might be just out of touch, and the benefits that we see in our more complex workflow screens are worth having in our simple crud forms, and a single way of doing UIs is worth it. A third option is that our tooling isn't as good as it should be, that we're not doing it right, and with a few tweaks React is just as quick and easy as the ol' "rails generate" experience.

Anyhow, I am curious to know people's experiences. Is React a smart idea for boring forms? Do you find the experience as quick/easy as a SSR framework? How about maintainability? Is it expensive up front, but is easier to maintain long-term? Or is there more maintenance than SSR long term?
> Once companies have integrated their services with OpenAIs apis, they are unlikely to switch in the future.

The interface is so simple and maintains no long-term state that this doesn’t seem very plausible to me. Competitors will surely provide a “close enough” ChatGPT-compatible API, similar to how storage providers provide an S3-compatible API.
Obviously yes, but not sexy enough.

Also, I think this list is quite a few years old as I am sure I have seen it before.
> Yet overall, this is not only a tech problem, but a compliance / regulatory problem that includes a time differential of sometimes many years.

Hmmm... I see what you mean. You're likely right that regulators won't take kindly to this at first. Adoption could take a long while. The difference this time is that executives will be pushing for it!
In practice it's probably better than a legal contract for a small time depositor in some ways, because there's lots of political pressure on FDIC to make good on that.

If it was just a legal contract, in the worst case you'd have to sue to hold them to account.

(On the other hand, politics can change from one day to the next; but contracts are harder to unilaterally change.)
Where Were the Regulators as SVB Crashed?
I’d say bank stocks with biggest price drops would be big indicator of which banks are most at risk.

I wouldn’t be surprised if all bank stocks are halted with the market open, to contain the contagion.
A few years ago, I evaluated launching my startup in the US through Stripe-Atlas. SVB was the banking partner at that time. I did not go through with it. If I recall correctly Stripe-Atlas launched around 2017 or so. So, in the last 5 years, many startups that did not already have a banking relationship with another bank and had chosen Stripe-Atlas for launching would have likely lined up with SVB.

So, ease of banking access, for one thing, led to the unique mix of SVB clientele.

Edit: Currently, after SVB's demise there is Mercury and Novo, I believe, that are banking partners of Stripe-Atlas.
You don’t have to do all validation on the server side.

Did the user forget to fill a mandatory field? Is this phone number actually even possible? Does this zip/postal code exist? Is the age entered too low to create an account? Is the password long enough? Does it meet all the requirements. Can we dynamically show which requirements it doesn’t meet.

Even email, which you will want to verify by actually sending an email, can have some basic front end checks (is there an @ in the email entered by the user).

In fact, I bet the vast majority of validations can in fact be done in the front end in real time.
Off topic: I really hate this trend of using verbs as nouns.

"Ask", "Spend", "Solve". It makes people sound stupid.
I've been on various NSF grant panels. One was math / applied math / statistics. Everyone shares their concerns reading proposals, that's how one builds cred. Synthetic data got mentioned.

Late in the decision process, I couldn't resist, I blurted out the joke that had been on my mind for days,

"I can't believe it's not data!"

("Not butter", if you're young for the margarine commercial reference.)

This did not go over well, and probably cost math a grant.
A language model is also capable of one shot learning. Try it in the chat, you tell it something, once, and it incorporates it for the rest of the chat. :-)

You may think I don't know what "one shot learning" means, but I do know, I'm just saying it's a problem of our perspective, not of the model's capability. Aside from it having no long term memory (by design) from the chat. Yet.

Our high-level learning is absolutely nothing like how we learned as toddlers. It took us DECADES to understand complex concepts from "few shots". Only pretrained models can do that, and you're also one, in your adulthood.

What you say about extra complexity from neuron types and neurotransmitters combining with one another to modulate even simple networks is true of course. But it's also true you don't need to replicate all those organic details in a NN, because they're equivalent to just a few more "regular" parameters. Think of an artificial neuron in a network as a Turing machine. A Turing machine can do everything with just some more tape, and a neural network can do everything with just some more parameters.

And yet, our models show that we don't need AS many parameters as we thought. And that's exciting.
I guess only a True Scotsman would know for sure.
The way any other creditor issues loans? Investors put money together, loan it out at interest to make a profit and cover losses.
Seems two different things are being discussed, sort of top-down, vs bottom-up modelling.

I'm sure we're not far from making a high-level LLM-ish model of behavior based on those extensive studies.

But the topic of discussion is not that, but making a model sufficiently accurate that you "turn the crank" and it yields similar behavior without any priors of what that behavior should be.

To do that, at a minimum, we'd need for each neuron, the profile of responses to each of the neurotransmitters at each synapse, the excitatory/inhibitory effects of each signal, the patterns of how each neuron reacts to those inputs (i.e., receiving a signal from upstream neuron 489327 does not mean that it'll just pass it downstream, but that it'll decide depending on rate of firing, other current excitatory/inhibitory inputs, etc., if and at what rate it'll send the signal downstream), the rate of learning in each of those neurons... and a bunch of other variables, fully modeled.

Then, compute all of those running through the system, and have it take an input like a photo and output the same behavior, from the bottom up, without hints from the behavioral studies.

What am I missing here?
Curiously enough, I have been working on a project named after the same person (John Coltrane) as a way to help me practice music: https://github.com/trane-project/trane/

I have been meaning to generate flashcards to teach you the notes of scales and chords so that I can have instant recall. It gets really annoying to not know them when improvising or composing. I have some basic courses, but I found the process a bit tedious, so I have been working on other courses and features instead.

I am going to try to use this utility to help me generate the flashcards instead of writing my own logic. Hopefully it works well as it would save me a lot of time.
I get the impression that people are more triggered by the words intelligence and sentience, than the actual outcomes.

LLMs can make social consequences for us, from creating and maintaining state about opinions of us individually, and we will want to coexist in that reality. That's enough to adjust to and... respect. It doesn't seem to matter what arbitrary threshold of "intelligence" there is, in the face of an entity that creates much less arbitrary and dynamically generated - but predictable - outcomes. I don't have to understand what a human was trained on, or how smart they are, to understand the same thing. The same with an animal.
Yeah, naw. You can state the hypothetical way things are supposed to work in the best case -- and you can state so confidentially -- but that doesn't mean that reflects the real world at all.

Look through the FDA warning letters database for manufacturers of adderall (f.e. the "Auro" family of producers). You'll notice a lot of warnings have already been issued for quality control and adulteration issues (and continue to be issued yearly, ad infinitum).

Yeah, the 3rd world factory where these drugs are manufactured, for sure tested their product themselves and found it to be bio-equivalent and within the acceptable FDA variance of "how much of the active drug is actually in each pill, vs. what's stated on the specs."

And yeah, the FDA for sure trusts these factories which are thousands of miles away are always up-to-snuff -- even when they don't have an inspector around.

Your statements about the illicit market aren't true either (pro-tip: the legal and illegal market for the usual, non-exotic synthetic drugs comes from the same source; with minor exceptions in local markets).

And a final pro-tip: if you think the only reason brand drugs are expensive is branding/marketing/some other bullshit -- some of the cost is in proper quality control (they're incentivized to maintain high standards, so people keep coming back to ask for the brand-name -- instead of some nameless generic any fly-by-night shop can manufacture).
I guess the point is that we might be able to simulate an artificial knee equivalent for neurons. It won’t be as good as a real knee, but it might still be useful.
> Funny how everyone loves this idea but it only ever hurts small companies.

Why does size matter? These VC funded "small companies" are so sketchy that they needed their own special bank to manage the risk, and now their special bank just failed.

It's not the government's job to protect the weird VC funded moonshot "business model."
If possible I suggest the original version, though the CGI in the retouched anime wasn’t as bad as I expected.
for phone backup I use immich, it's self hosted clone of Google photos.
it's not best, does not work well with hdr photos/videos, but as just backup solution it have multiple ways to setup synchronization so you can choice your tradeoffs.
I agree with all of that. But the reality is that if you are the low-key, thoughtful nuanced person all the time, you will get ignored and/or steamrollered a lot, because humans are at least as emotional/instinctual as they are rational.

Intergroup conflict is a fact of social life, and resources coalesce around symbols, rallying cries, and so on as well as around negotiated policy, scientific methodology, and so on. If you are very patient or diligent, then you can help good ideas to succeed on their merits - but it's a slow and painstaking process. Strategic opportunism is how a lot of things 'go viral', and it's a skill that can be learned - and must be, if you wish to act as well to be acted upon. Distasteful in some ways, but such is life.
But why can their investors not cover the costs? Surely the same VCs who lent the startups money can lend them some more for the short period until SVB's assets valuation gets sorted out? Aren't they the ones to lose most if the startups go down under?
It’s mainly an online phenomenon.
Given that it’s literally as simple and inconvenient as using various financial tools to avail oneself of FDIC insurance for one’s entire portfolio, what even is the difference?
What is the book? Link please.