skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are billions of people alive just now because of technology. Poverty is rapidly being eradicated with the help of technology. Child mortality in the third world is rapidly going down due to the spread of technology and the knowledge how to use it. Food production is at an all-time high with the help of technology. The planet is far greener with a far larger forest cover than it was a century ago both due to technological developments which made agriculture far more productive and due to the increased CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere. The potential for nuclear annihilation has kept the (first?) cold war from going hot [1], providing a rare period of detente/relative peace in Europe. This now seems to have come to an end so it is to be hoped that rational minds will prevail where it comes to the use of nuclear weapons as they did for the last ~80 years.

Technology has its downsides as well but often it is possible to use more technology to solve problems caused by the use of technology, e.g. filters on smokestacks, fast breeder reactors to solve the problems with nuclear waste, etc. In other words there is a need for more technology, not less. It is also necessary to make technology accessible to more people than it currently is, not by handing out widgets to "the poor" but by enabling those with the will and the capacity to build up their own capacity to produce and use it. It is technology which will solve any problems caused by a changing climate, whether that be a rise or drop in temperature and the resulting effects on precipitation. It is technology which will keep the population from ever increasing to the breaking point simply because people feel the need to have many children since so many of them do not survive past their early years.

[1] ...although there have been plenty of proxy wars in Africa, Asia as well as South-America
As I see it, the problem is that: (1) react tries to teach everyone new bizarre ways of writing code instead of being a toolkit, (2) web is historically so focused on old-crazy-web <-> new-crazy-web dichotomy that cannot see past it.

(1a) is the web’s desire to mix “ui rendering” with “state management” which are two different things.
No, it’s not different. Y Combinator does want to be be bailed out. The old title wasn’t “Y Combinator wants Silicon Valley Bank to be bailed out.” Depositors aren’t going to get completely hosed by this anyway. And as for the domino effect, it’s scaremongering as a means to an end. Don’t piss down my back and call it rain.
I sincerely doubt that the formation of the Bull Moose party had much to do with this trip. The new party did split the Republican vote, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_Stat...
Because facebook sets the norms.
You are misled regarding the kind of offers SVB was running. They were offering above market returns specifically aimed at startups. I believe the documentation has been offered in another comment, and anybody who has been in touch with SVB knows what their sell pitch is, so I will not copy/paste it there. Most of it is undocumented publicly anyway, but even the public part should inform you enough.
Do you think the seller failed to resend because they lost their funds due to SVB collapsing? Or is this anecdote related to the posted story in a different way I'm missing
Not sure if it's what OP intended but I signed up to the newsletter.
Vinyl Records Outsell CDs for the First Time Since 1987
Has GPT ever told you "let me think" and then you notice it actually pause for a few seconds? No. Its output is fixed cost. GPT can't think in depth because it's not allowed to. This is something I already covered above by noting that current NN models are a DAG. We're already experimenting with variations that can iterate internally, and therefore think deeper, using still their existing knowledge. And the results change dramatically.

You're also not right that GPT can't produce anything novel. Here's a tiny, modest example:

https://sumplete.com/about/

I won't waste my time, as I see you didn't read what you responded to the first time. But you need to start paying attention. You denial & empty confidence in what's happening will only get you so far.
Bill Ackman wrote a great tweet about this: https://mobile.twitter.com/BillAckman/status/163456439891936...
Most startups fail.

Propping these companies up now with government money (that is, our money) will just make the failures cost more, ultimately.

What we're really talking about here is bailing out investors who, of course, knowingly took these high risk flyers.

(BTW, the rising interest rates affects everything about this kind of investment. All kinds of things that made sense in the era of free money are going to stop working now. SVB is just one sad step in the process of this stuff grinding to a halt. It's not the the start of it, and it's certainly not going to be the end.)
People have been running LLaMA in 4bit quickly on cheap hardware with a simple GUI for over a week using https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

Just not on Macs. (that repo does not support Apple Silicon)
He was targeting VCs, not founders. I’m sorry you’re going through this though.
Isn't it likely that this would perpetuate any existing biases against minorities? If so, I hope this becomes illegal.
What you’re missing here is that the hooks form part of the input to the hook/render function. There’s a reason they can’t be conditional (though with a compiler theoretically they could be).

The whole idea of the useState hook, is that it’s _not_ internal state to the hook. That state isn’t stored on the stack of the hook function, but against the component.
I think it's moreso the case that people are unwilling to live within their means and would much prefer to massively overleverage their entire life. It is not other people's responsibility to bail you out when the inevitable consequences come around.
A netflix anime used stable diffusion for backgrounds, and the top game on Xbox game pass used it for some props of movie posters ir something.
>they put their money in a bank which was lobbying for less regulations so they could make riskier plays

my bank does that. your bank does that. every bank on the planet does that. depositors don't have any say in what the bank does.
if $250k is nothing then $1k is less than nothing.
If you're right, then you can pick up some easy profits by buying USDC at a discount. The amount you're willing to commit is a good indicator of how confident you are in your assessment.
it depends on your definition of bailout. in my mind, if the government has to step in to do anything to make sure that people aren't fucked, that's a bailout.

i also don't think either average joe or bigco necessarily deserve to be bailed out. if i see a tv on fb marketplace and send the asking price to the seller only later to find out that they're scamming me, should i be bailed out for that? if so nobody has any incentive to take basic risk-aversion precautions in economic dealings.
Which inevitably leads to inflation, requiring interest rate hikes to fix - and here we are.
Using English correctly requires a massive amount of knowledge
I posted the story (was definitely not expecting it to get so much attention) - I know that stories get downranked when they have way more comments than points, as this one did, and they get buried if they are flagged (though it's hard to reconcile the CEO of YC posting repeatedly in a flagged thread). So I think it's probably completely automatic that it got hidden as it did. Somebody would have had to intentionally do the name change though.
It got flagged pretty quickly after the title was updated to "Urgent: Sign the petition now." I think people were happy to upvote it when it had the (IMO) more fair title "YC is asking for a bailout."
This isn't some sort of complex bid call option strategy. This is a checking account, and one choice out of many that founders make regularly.

To my knowledge SVB was never required, and startups always had choice.
I noticed there seemed to be unnecessary use of jargon in the abstract. I asked ChatGPT to rewrite it in plain English and I think it did a pretty good job:

The sharp-edged stone flakes and flaked pieces that our ancestors intentionally made are important evidence of the development of technology in our lineage. This evidence helps us understand how early humans behaved, thought, and survived. In this study, we talk about a large collection of sharp-edged stones found near areas where long-tailed macaques were foraging for food. These stones are almost identical to the ones early humans made, which suggests that the macaques unintentionally produced them while searching for food. When we compare these stones to ones made by early humans millions of years ago, we find that they are very similar. If we didn't know that the macaques made these stones accidentally, we might think that they were made by early humans.
This is totally ridiculous; virtually all of the Ivies offer need-blind funding; if you're admitted, then you're going to get whatever amount of scholarship you need to go.

You can look at Yale's details here: https://finaid.yale.edu/costs-affordability/affordability ... e.g. virtually all families earning less than $75K per year will get a full-ride plus a $2,000 grant in the first year.

Are you seriously criticizing the Ivies decision to prioritize scholarships on the basis of financial need?
What happend to the inner critic character guy at the beginning? It's such a short piece but somehow he got misplaced somewhere along the line and never got a fair hearing.

Putting the pieces together, it probably went something like this. One fine day as OP was admiring a review he just finished (and we're all guilty of this) he had a secret thought that "aah. this is creative work". That is when our friend, the inner critic came in and started with "That's not creative". Now why would OP's very own inner critic say that?

The issue appears to be OP's lifestyle. He is not living a creative person's lifestyle. Which, alcoholism and poverty and what not aside, is rather glamorous and can be fun. Sure beats working 9 to 5. There is the promise of wild sex, drugs, cool friends, and a chance that some lost future generation may begin venerating you and your creative life.

So neither OP nor his inner critic are really being honest here.
You are right of course, but we've established a moral hazard

There will be a cost to suddenly altering expectations, I guess there's a chance we might see what that cost is now (but probably they will just get a boring bailout)
> And it's a lot of money (e.g. 30% loss on $200bn is about $600 per US resident household).

This calculation really put it in perspective.

CEO of HN asks that every family in America send his friends $500.
That's literally what FDIC does it. It guarantees the first $250K, and sells the failed bank's assets to cover as much as possible above that amount. It's not as if all deposits are completely gone now, most commentary I read expects that at least 80% or so will be recovered, it might just take a while.
Any function is a pure function if your consider the entire program state as your input and output.
do you understand the difference between a depositor and an shareholder?
Or not encourage them to have multiple bank accounts so that deposits are fully FDIC insured?

In effect, it encourages concentrating deposits in a single bank. Benefits the bank, does not benefit the depositor.
Hmm, so this is a list of those entities you should take special care to deal with. Maybe ask upfront payment, not extend any type of credit. Just to be safe in general when dealing with them.
You don't necessary have to have all your funds spread out enough that every account is under 250k; you just have to determine how much you are willing to risk. E.g., if you split your funds between two banks, if one of them goes under, you lose 50%. Your risk threshold determines how many splits you need; only if it's 0 do you need to keep every account under 250k.
Pretty sure the first AGI will design its own VM
Do you think the dolls added up to a similar weight of the missing item? If not, that'd be an easy way for Amazon to tell something was off beforehand.
There is no way this is accurate. I've started several bank accounts for the smallest most poorly articulated, poorly documented, businesses you can imagine starting from 18 years old. Never had a problem.
Nobody's telling you to use React when you have a static HTML page. But if you ever worked on an app of even medium complexity, you would understand what React is solving for developers. State management is the problem, and your vanilla JS forms are not going to cut it.
No. FDIC will initially write checks to everyone with an account for up to $250,000.. Once the dust has settled, they will return whatever they recover back to the account holders accordingly.
> actually innovating and building new things instead of giant incumbents.

Let's not use so much lip gloss on this particular pig.

Many startups are just building some shitty apps that exploit labor in this horrible gig economy while they are kept afloat with VC money until they are dumped into the general public via IPO. This marketing fluff has no place here.

Venture capitalists and startup founders are playing the apex of capitalism. Failure and risk is part of the game. Being saved with taxpayer money is antithetical to that.
Exactly. SVB is well capitalized just by looking at their balance sheet. It doesn't have risky assets-all treasuries. Only problem is liquidity.

It wouldn't fail if these VCs don't spread fears in the first place. Now they want their companies get their money back. They killed SVB and now want to act as victim.
> People in the background won't (for example) suddenly be facing the other way because of the algorithm.

Someone here included an example where it does do something like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35109568
You got the Church part right.

"Michael O Church", who, for some reason, people act as if he's famous or important enough to be identified via an acronym, which isn't true even among HNers...
I can set top_k, temperature and top_p via shell already, but I don't think repetition penalty is dynamic yet. Looking into it.

Edit: This fork ( https://github.com/beiller/llama.cpp/tree/feature/repeat_pen... ) adds repetition penalty via two values, repeat_last_n = 64, repeat_penalty = 1.300000.

Playing with those now.

I wish I could somehow force it to output longer texts. It just stops at arbitrary points, often in the middle of sentences.
Yep. Entirely offensive.

"This nation is a copy of a Marvel concept, but predates it" is also a really awkward framing.

And calling Roosevelt's speeches "cynical" because they were critical was ridiculous, too.

Honestly, the article smacked of someone who didn't know much except pop culture, read about this somewhere else, cribbed a lot of language, and pretended to know something about history.
That’s what I’m waiting for — the real game changer for me was just being able to install a package and run it. Hoping we can see that for LLMs soon.
Bingo. Anyone who has dealt with SVB knows that. And that's just the public part.
In useEffect your code runs at a specific point, where it’s safe to bridge react to the outside world. It’s not about breaking the rules, as much as you have the ability to cause and react to side effects (eg a fetch promise) and inform react about the result (with a setState).
I flagged this post, since meta-discussion of HN moderation decisions are pretty much never constructive. I imagine Dang and Garry do want it on the front page, and will figure out how to restore it while keep discussion under control.
They do, but there is a limit of $250K that the FDIC (taxpayers) guarantee. It's been $250K since 2008, but they should allow it to keep up with inflation, which would be approximately $355K now. The rest needs to come from the sale of the bank's assets, but that takes a while.

I believe the petition is asking that the government cover the difference by paying out now and assume the risk of the bank's assets not covering the difference.
So is this about the VCs money?
I don't see how this could possibly go wrong. Its not like the machine ever outputs superficial bullshit explanations which fall apart under scrutiny but would seem fine to non-technical execs. Utopia at last.
The 250k isn't enough to hold them over for a week until the uninsured partial dividends get paid out?

I don't get how any of these companies are at risk of immediate failure. What I do see happening is these startups may lose some smallish percent of their account balance. These startups banked at a bank that actively lobbied for less regulation of risk and had over the FDIC insurance limit in their account so that seems entirely fair and reasonable.

To make matters worse, this petition is being put forward by a VC company that actively helped cause the crisis by encouraging a bank run.

However, instead of taking any of that responsibility, I see more fearmongering to get people on-board with socializing the losses.
I'll go with the Wikipedia definition of the term, which seems quite straightforward:

A bailout is the provision of financial help to a corporation or country which otherwise would be on the brink of bankruptcy.

I'm not aware of a commonly accepted definition of the term that is restricted to protection for the company's investors.
Are you saying that the more successful you are means that everyone else should cover your losses due to your banking relationships?
> Though perhaps the feds should expedite, for businesses with only one bank account, getting them 15%-20% of their funds quickly.

The FDIC is planning to pay an advance dividend of uninsured deposits next week, per their press release: https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23016.html
Agreed. Apple might have sped up the ram addressing by building it in this time.

The Base mac studio with 32 gigs of ram can be a good value from a ram perspective.

Let’s see if the Mac studio is discontinued or updated.
I think it's neutral.. Just as incriminating as true photos can be (at least there might be some moral highground if you're into that sorta stuff), for AI faked pictures.. You may have no choice but be incriminated by photos that lie..
Ask HN: What happened to the YC bailout post?
It was the top post a few moments ago. Seems to have disappeared completely. Was it taken down?

[Edit] Looks like it got flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35114633
that's great, thanks for sharing! (though I'm not enough of a domain expert to know if it's accurate)

another solution to this would be if Science Advances were to require submissions to provide a "Significance Statement", like PNAS does, which would be essentially at the level of readability you provided.
I will sign this for the founders :)
This is not true. I had the same problem with my business at two banks (not BofA). In think it’s related to KYC regulations that makes them cautious. All I wanted was a checking account, no loans.
Well, perhaps not the best example of "not being let down" though...
Why in the world would anyone think SVB needs $150 billion?
Is the chatgpt api paid to openai not private to openai?

I understand azure has its own chatgpt api.
they're both pan-in-hand, over-the-top begging tbh
I disagree, because the other side of more taxes for the rich is more services for the rich eg bailouts. The reason these entitled folks feel they are justified in asking for a bailout is that the services they paid for (government oversight and guarantee of banking) was not the quality they expected. To them, it’s not a bailout, it’s a refund.
They’re working on private and dedicated instances from alleged product brief leaks.

Keep in mind Microsoft is also a monster in selling to enterprise, regulated industry and governments, they will have this functionality to get firms to securely drive AI workloads on Azure as part of their pitch.

https://twitter.com/labenz/status/1630284912853917697?s=20
Yes, there's plenty of devices like that, but they're slower than SSDs usually.

The best thing to do would just make a RAMDrive, but x86 systems are surprisingly craptastic with real world memory bandwidth and latency and I haven't found this solution to be mind-blowing.

On ARM it might be a different story.
> Could the CFOs at these companies known they were making risky bets (serious question)

Banks fail. That's part of life.

Every decade or two there is a wave of bank failures. It's a risk that should be managed.
I enjoyed the Wes Bos classes. They are not free. https://reactforbeginners.com/
In the same way, surely you don't expect taxpayers to agree with what SVB's account holders want, just because they are on this site!
Choice of bank historically has been one of the lower priority things people have to worry about. I think this changes now.

If your personal bank went out of business through no fault or gain of your own, most individuals would feel that it would be fair for you as the depositor should be made whole. That's the same with a business, and as important since this represents the payrolls of thousands of people.
How much in taxes do money losing startups pay?

But, I am sympathetic to the employees and even the owners of the startups. They didn’t take risky bets. I couldn’t imagine spreading my business as a startup (if I had one) to 10 different banks and trying to manage all of the obligations.
Why not let the market sort it out? Maybe these startups need to take a down round, or be acquired for a fraction of their value?

Maybe the VCs should step in and make bridge loans available if they want to keep their investments? If you believe in your portfolio, why not help them weather the storm? Or are you afraid to be exposed to additional risk? Should the taxpayers take on that risk instead?
Considering my former co founder works at OpenAI and we spent years working on and talking about related ML with and around some of the best people in the world, considering I’ve implemented language models multiple times myself, please try and be more specific on where I’m wrong.

I know many people who work in ML share this concern -
people thinking it’s smart, it’s more than it is.

It’s very useful no doubt, but your comment is an example of extrapolation from maladjusted priors.

Your example proves my point, a very uninteresting looking game. I don’t even doubt GPT will find all sorts of interesting stuff by giving averaged out things. There’s plenty of gaps in the averages humans have missed. But nothing new, and until you can show that let’s just call it what it is.
>I suppose that compilers can figure out how to do this in the most efficient way on any type of hardware for which a backend was written.

No, that's exactly the problem. Compilers can't because the GPU hardware and the algorithms involved are such rapidly moving targets. Bespoke hardware specific quantization, inference, attention, and kernel compilation is the only way to squeeze out the performance users are looking for.

Creating one fast implementation for all models on all hardware would be like writing one GPU driver for all GPUs and OSs. It just isn't going to work and if it does it isn't going to be fast on all hardware.
Imagine a large rock balanced on the edge of a precipice, it could be a strong breeze, an ice heave, or somebody pushing on it... but none of those agents pushed the rock out on the edge in the first place.
YC didn’t make SVB’s decisions or cause any of this and most SVB customers were not YC startups.

Your suggestion is equivalent to saying that if I were to support hundreds of kickstarters for various board games and resell them for a profit to collectors over the years and then kickstarter imploded after taking on extreme financial risks, then I should bail out all the new customers of kickstarter who paid and didn’t get their games. It makes no sense. The people running kickstarter should take the hit, not some random other party working in their ecosystem.

SVB owners should get wiped out, not the people or companies who opened bank accounts.