skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My chosen stack is React (DaisyUI, deployed with cloudflare) + Node (Hapi is batteries included, deployed using GCP cloud run). One benefit of this stack is that there's no cloud vendor lock-in. The only drawback thus far is that Hapi with Typescript is not that well documented and of course higher latency than dedicated infra.

I'm still unsure about what 'serverless' database is optimal (cockroachdb, neondb, planetscale, mongodb) so I went with what my last profitable side project used - mongodb.

At some point I'd like to compare the performance of psql jsonb to mongodb, I've watched some talks a few years ago stating that psql with jsonb outperforms mongodb. I wonder if that's still the case in 2023.

I've experimented with golang before as I wanted something easier to scale than node + minimal dependencies but then I realized I am just writing my own web framework so I settled on Hapijs, it's faster than express and has less dependencies, it was/is run in prod at Walmart.
> No, its proof that no one has thought that it the best choice given the then-current political situation was to test it.

Yes, finally you understand what I’m trying to say. It is still true that no one thinks it is a good choice to interpret the law this way.

Because if we do interpret it this way, the Republicans don’t get to demand policy changes in return for a limit raise. If we do interpret it this way, the Democrats don’t get to shout that the Republicans are holding a gun to the world economy’s head.

Everyone with power still wants that particular gun to be loaded.

The only folks who think this theory might be real are a few egghead professors and some C-grade political strategists.
What Is a Thai Stick, and How Do You Smoke One?
It's very likely, they are in a race and that's the tech playbook to win the market.
Ah, the byline makes more sense now.

Thanks!
On the web version is it doing that under the hood? I.e. if I have a 10+ follow up conversation does it start from the beginning each time?
This is the HN bubble, which holds that React is "just a fad" despite being one of the few libraries that have now lasted for over a decade.
That's true, but it doesn't take that many leaving to fail the bank, so usually not many are able to leave.

We'll see what happens, but I would be surprised if more than 20% of deposits were withdrawn.
I have this view for a some time already but it is not unique idea. I am referring to Sam saying on twitter we are just "Stochastics parrots".
Ask HN: Best Startup Bank with low insolvency risk?
We are in the same boat as many others with SVB and need to find a new bank. Any recommendations?
The problem is maybe also that humans dont like new food, and cows have been longtime food?
> What lesson is that?

That there maybe shouldn't be as many:

> Basel exempted businesses’
>who don't know the difference between an algorithmic stablecoin and a centralized one.

What difference does it make? Neither work if the stablecoin becomes undercollateralized. Undercollateralized stable coins will crumble if there is a bank run. Tomorrow you will be able to exchange 1 USDC for $1. This will cause a feedback loop where USDC will continually be bought and then burned. The missing or illiquid 3.3 billion will become a larger and larger percentage of USDC's total market cap. Will they really take out a 3.3 billion loan just to pay out people in a dead stable coin? At that point it may make sense to just call it a failure and give up.
But still, what is the problem with it being free?
I’ve been watching that British coffee critic whose name I can’t recall looking at different coffee making means.

I’ve watched just enough of his stuff for him to sell me on the idea that maybe manual espresso presses produce a more consistent cup with just a little practice. Also they seem to be cheaper. Is that what they were using in Italy?
Ha, I fell victim to the same issue (not including my opinion) in my comment! The portion you quoted may as well have been directed at me.

I am indeed being very pedantic here but the parent to your initial comment as you quoted did not exclude the additional context noting the relevance of the link (as per my quote) but rather emphasized leaving out the opinion portion. The difference between "just posted" and the theoretical "posted just" you seem to be implying.

Upvotes all around; cheers!
I did not take his point to be that low powered hardware was superior. Rather, he states that older hardware is fine and good enough. That has been my experience as well. You state something similar above.
I bet with a modern microcontroller you could knock up an ADB to USB converter in an afternoon.
We'll see AWS step in at that point with their own product offering.
Ever since I saw a comment on HN about low information density on the internet, I haven’t been able to unsee it. They were commenting on a YouTube video that had an 8-second bit of content but was nearly 2 minutes long. But it’s so much worse than that.

Recipes tell you how their great grandmother moved to the Americas and made the first apple pie ever. And then detail the entire history of apples and how to make the entire recipe. And then, 70% of the way down the page, right before the comment section, is what you wanted at first glance: what’s in this pie, and how long will it take me to make?

It’s everywhere.
Oh I see, my bad!

I think I was still in the mindset of thinking adderall pre-existed dexedrine. So I guess I interpreted status quo as meaning amphetamine vs whatever else was available at the time.

Interesting little inversion of logic that can happen when two people have diametrically opposed ideas of the order of events.
This is a fiction novel.
I’ve done this many times and in smaller ribbons with narrower traces, this is a FPCB the substrate is kapton and it should whitstand soldering temps pretty well the trickiest ones are FFCs (the white ones)
The sentiment on Twitter seems to be “tough. You, Etsy seller, took a risk by selling on a platform that used a bank that made a bad investment. The tax payer shouldn’t bail out a bunch of rich pottery artists.”

These sorts of effects (Etsy sellers not getting paid) are going to show up all through the ecosystem if 25% of venture backed companies can’t make payroll next week.

SVB equity holders should go to zero. But it’s in our collective best interest to make sure that depositors have timely access to some meaningful portion of their deposits.
Fortunately, the author seems to care[0].

0. https://forum.rvspace.org/t/work-on-risc-v-dynarec-for-box64...
Working in devtools/infra means converting MxN into M+N over and over again
Dumb question: if this can be used for 200 GHz electronics, why is it not useful for digital electronics? Is the power draw prohibitive or something?
Wouldn't it be better for congress to spend less? That's way better than raising taxes.
Is this the Chris Rock joke... there's a new form of discrimination called 'Price'?

... and it discriminates against the poor?
There you go and very unsurprising to see that happen very quickly, unless you have a Apple Silicon machine and want to download the model to try it yourself.

I still think that open source LLMs models have to be much smaller than 200GB and to be much better than ChatGPT to be more accessible and highly disruptive to OpenAI.

It is a great accident needed thanks to Meta. For now one can use it as a service and make it as a SaaS rather than depend fully on OpenAI. Open source (or even free binary only) LLMs will eventually disrupt OpenAI's business plans.
That is exactly my experience. The brand-name Concerta is a smooth push all day, the generic is terrible.
Are there any online communities running these models with non professional hardware? I keep running into issues with poor documentation or outdated scripts with GPT neox, BLOOM, and even stable diffusion 2. Seems like most of the support is either for professionals with clusters of A100s, or consumers who aren’t using code. I have 3 16gb Quadra GPUs but getting this stuff running on them has been surprisingly difficult
> The day before SVB fell, everybody said everything was fine.

Well, no, people were saying “Get your money out of SVB if its above the insurance limit”, because the run was already happening and that SVB couldn’t handle the run was a pretty widespread opinion.

But, while there are systemic/institutional/regulatory reasons why SVB’s conduct which created the vulnerability was possible, it doesn’t seem that the vulnerability itself is systemic in a way which makes other similar failures likely to be imminent.
With RISC-V having shipped billions of cores in 2022, the latter is unlikely.
Someone made a camera that has this "feature":
https://philippschmitt.com/archive/2018/work/camera-restrict...
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circulating_fixed_exch... the only African country with a currency pegged to the dollar is Eritrea. Not really seeing it.
The reason RCP 8.5 remains relavant despite changes to the mix is that our historical CO2 output is closer to it than of the other scenarios. Its predictions remain the most likely after 15 years from this scenario being created given what we have already released into the atmosphere. RCP 8.5 is the scenario best tracking the actual emissions of the last 15 years.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2007117117

Relevant image: https://www.pnas.org/cms/10.1073/pnas.2007117117/asset/56610...
Me when I saw the steps to try it: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/284/529/e65...
My 2015 MBP sputters and overheats when running Firebase emulator + VS Code + Edge.

I7 + 16 gigs of ram and an aftermarket OWC Aura Pro X2 SSD.

I suspect it’s the Firebase emulator running in Java?
I don’t follow. You’re responding to a point about the author not being a climate change denialist by saying that he doesn’t think action against climate change is justified.

What point are you actually trying to make? It seems like you’re trying to equate one with the other, especially given your novel use of the word “denialism”. I don’t want to put words in your mouth, but I’m still unclear on what exactly you are implying.
same, generic vs concerta fells very different, the generic fills like a bomb while concerta it's slow and steady.
The zero shot ability is convenient. But for tasks that you need to get done millions of times, I’d much rather spend $10 on GPU compute and maybe a day of training data generation to train a T5 which I then “own”.

Also, running your own specialized model locally can be much faster than using someone’s API.
that llama is likely much smaller than chatgtp
IIUC, they were technically insolvent and desperately trying for an equity raise first, then people took out their money.
That's true, though most bank failures aren't bank runs. IDK if there's been a bona fide bank run in the U.S. since the 1930s.

The reason this was a bank run is that FDIC insurance meant approximately nothing, as opposed the the usual situation where a huge amount of depositors are fully insured.
Yes, let's put LLM in charge of loan applications. Definitely no financially devastating 2008-like slippery slope there.

It'll be fine.
Actually, you can get some or all of your paycheck auto-deposited there! The Payroll Savings Option:

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/research-center/communication...

Some or all of your paycheck gets sent to a non-interest-earning account that is supposed to be used to buy I Bonds or EE Bonds. But you could, hypothetically, leave the funds in there without doing that step...

But yeah, I see your point about daily use. Perhaps your initial idea and the existing TreasuryDirect could be combined and expanded into the Postal Banking idea that other countries have had for a long time?
College application essays for undergraduate degrees vary a lot by country.

The UK UCAS admission system used for all undergraduate admissions requires an application text. It is much freer in its form than how I understand the US system with a very specific prompt.

As for Norway, to pick another random example, there is no requirement to submit any piece of writing to explain your motivation. Your grades do all the talking for you, so to speak.
That doesn't address inflation. The point is that money needs to be taken out of the system. That used to be done by high tax rates on high incomes, and the estate tax. Both have basically been neutered.

But all things considered, 5% is not really a high interest rate. People are just acting as if it's unreasonable because they'd become accustomed to ZIRP. Personally I hope rates stay above several percent for the foreseeable future, for climate/resource reasons.
In the US you write an essay to send to the college with your application, about why you should be accepted. I don’t know of anywhere else that has anything like it.

Edit: examples https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2019...
What does cheap mean when you're picking between different free languages and frameworks?
In my opinion the Fed should be more decisive and data-dependent. In 2021 the Fed stubbornly stuck to an "inflation is transitory" narrative that meant they did not start raising rates all of 2021 when most people could see the excess and the mania of a bubble. Rates should have started to be raised since the summer of 2021, they could've done a slow and steady pace.

Instead, once things got super hot inflation-wise, then they flip flop and start a very rapid pace of rate hikes, unsurprisingly something broke and here we are once more talking about bailouts, about more QE. We're frenetically going from rapid tightening of financial conditions, to potentially, rapid loosening of said conditions. The Fed is supposed to raise rates in two weeks, I'm not sure if they will change their mind given what just transpired this last week.

I agree inflation must be tamed, I criticize the Fed's inability, or unwillingness, to start addressing it at least a year earlier. From my cynical perspective, keeping rates super low is a fucking party to the stock market and lots of powerful people want to keep the party going and they closed their ears to the inflation alarms. Now we're facing the possibility of another crisis (we'll see how things play out next week) and we know that the proposed solution will be to lower rates and accommodative policy that actually contributes to inflation. It's a shit show I'm tired of seeing repeat.
>Windows is a product that is designed to get out of the way,

I get your drift but I think your analogy is opposite. I absolutely could not function in windowsland because it's constantly getting in the way of what I want to do whereas Linux just works.
No, you're misunderstanding the point. If the headline would be "Rippling had to switch banks after...", it would be accurate and not clickbait.

The headline is "Rippling has to delay payouts after..." though, which is completely different. They haven't delayed payouts. Some payouts are delayed, because they were in flight when the plane crashed. That's not "delaying payouts", that's "payouts are delayed". They'd would be "delaying payouts" if they said "we're only resuming payouts starting on Friday", but that's not what's happening.

It's like Amazon shipping a product. The product gets eaten by the courier. Amazon sends out a new product. Your shipment is delayed, but Amazon isn't delaying it. The eating delayed it, not Amazon.

Just because they "had to" do one thing doesn't mean a headline can claim they "had to" do other things. Like, a similar headline would be "Rippling had to defraud the government after...". Totally inaccurate, they didn't do that. It's not about the "had to", it's about the "did they actually delay payments", which is an active process and requires intent. They didn't, and that makes the headline inaccurate.
I believe this is battery backed, so it doesn't lose data when powered off. With that said, mmap hard disk file would get similar performance (minus fsync overhead to the persistent disk backing store).
I would say useEffect is not an escape hatch, it's a fundamental building block of the hooks paradigm. You need some way to run impure side effects after your component has been rendered, and `useEffect` is how you register those effects.

The most basic example is making an external request based on props: can't do that in the render loop because it has to be pure, since React may run it multiple times before committing to the DOM. `useEffect` is the only way you can get a guarantee that it will only be run once after rendering, and only when its dependencies change.
> if 25% of venture backed companies can’t make payroll next week.

That percentage seems really high. Is it likely that 25% of all venture backed companies had all of their money in SVB? Of the ones that did, many of the smaller ones could still meet payroll next week and possibly for a few weeks based on $250K that they'd still have access to.

We found out that Roku, for example, had a large amount of money in SVB, but it was only about 25% of their cash meaning they had cash in other banks as well that are still liquid. Will Roku even lose all of that 25%? Probably not. They won't be able to access it for a while, but in the end they'll probably end up getting at least some of that back.
RLHF uses Markov chains as its backbone, at least theoretically (deep NN function approximations inside might override any theoretical Markov chain effect though).
Being a monopoly is what OpenAI is aiming for.
How is the latter suspicious? That's exactly how stablecoins work
Try a mutual fund that puts it in treasuries
Don't they have in the ToS you aren't allowed to use outputs for training downstream? Which is a little ridiculous, considering it's ToS.

But yea, they cheap cost and lack of training is making me a take a long hard look at how I'm implementing more traditional NLP solutions.
For some reason I can't reply to a comment that said

> Author is biased, probably couldn't get to one of those schools...

Ad hominem attack, but I was amused even though the facts don't precisely support the accusation.

It is technically true that Prof. Carter didn't attend an Ivy League school as an undergraduate - he went to Stanford, which (currently) plays in the Pac-12 and NCAA division I. Of course that doesn't tell us whether he received admission offers from any of the Ivies at that time - it seems likely that he would have.

But the reason I rate the implication "false" is because he subsequently attended and graduated from Yale's law school and currently teaches there.
I mean if you set the bar beneath the floor, yeah, sure. but my bar is "not a scam" so hell no. why the hell would I touch tether or any other stable coin following six whole years of reporting on how much of a scam stable coins are? am I supposed to trust their reserve "audits", which amount to a "trust us bro" letter sent to the auditor? are you aware that these verifications of reserves were done by depositing the requisite amount of money into a bank account that was set up for the auditors to have access, with no indication of where the money came from or whether it even belongs to tether? are you aware of their incestuous relationship with bitfinex, a fact that should raise a hell of a lot of questions, especially after the collapse of Alameda and FTX?

you can't sell me USDC because I'm not buying. "X scam is more of a scam than Y scam" is not a sales pitch for Y. it's a statement that should lead you to reconsider why you have any money with any of these people. or, you know, you can be another notch on the belt of the grifters, scammers, and vultures that dominate crypto. I guess the second is a more exciting way to live.
Isnt this the case for a lot of web products? Hackers can hack into Adobe and steal my prototypes. They can hack into my Dropbox and steal my files. They can hack into my Asana project and steal my roadmap
Wasn't silvergate the first failure just days before SVB?
I imagined it and my theoretical supervised fine tuning bills are through the roof!
I’m not really sure what you’re trying to say.

The US has been downgraded in the past, but there are no credible alternatives to the USD as a reserve currency.
> They can’t set the rules individually for each “problematic” bank.

Most past bailouts have been sui generis actions with rules adopted for individual or small numbers of institutions currently in trouble, not forward-reaching “rights” that future actors could exploit. So I don’t see why you characterize this as impossible here; if there is any bailout beyond regular FDIC process, the most likely case would be a unique specific plan for this institution that creates no general rule that anyone else could force the government to use in the future.
> Articles like this are especially damning to the execs that sold stocks just a few weeks ago.

You mean the reverse, right?

You can't insider trade if it's not insider information!

This article supports the execs, not damns them.
With this interpretation though, the statement about the UI being a (pure) function of the state loses any concrete meaning. Because what you are in fact saying is that you just want your UI to be in sync with your state. Which any framework will give you, because being out of sync with your state means that your app is broken; and it is the purpose of any framework in existence to help you prevent your app from breaking.
I don’t think most distros compile for i486, minimum is i686 (not too familiar with the jargon though, before my time). Even the kernel itself was going to trash i486 support entirely. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-i486-Linux-Possible-Drop
But llama is the most performant model with weights available in the wild.

Personally I hope we quickly get to the stage that there's a real open llm like SD is to DALL-E. It sucks to have to bother with Facebook's core model, and give it more attention than it deserves, just because it's out there.

If facebook had actually released it as an open model, I would have said that all the credit should go to them. But instead people are doing great open source work on top of their un-free model just because it's available, and in the popular conception they're going to get credit that they shouldn't
You could have saved some money by writing tests. How much text were you sending at a time? I’ve been summarizing multiple 500 word chunks per query in my app as well as generating embeddings and haven’t broken $10 over the course of a couple weeks.
>at least until Monday

I think we have at least another week, they are going to follow the outcome closely unless something else comes up they can talk about. Decent chance that SVB/Silvergate will be with us for the next year, easily could end up election topics.
Pick 2009 as a starting date instead of 2000.
It's not about JS, it's because React won't let you render an inconsistent view of state. `setState` allows it to queue up multiple state changes, commit them all, and only then re-render your component. So you should think of `setState` as "queuing up a change to be applied for the next render cycle".
I love React as long as it has a thin skim of clojurescript over top. Rum is the underdog compared to reagent but is still my weapon of choice - https://github.com/tonsky/rum

Was disillusioned when I had to dive into a pure js project using React.

The real benefit, I think, is that you get the well established Clojure idioms around isolating and managing mutable state.

State is stored in a Atom, which is atomically mutated, and reactive components essentially 'subscribe' to updates upon that atom to re render.

The mutations can be handled centrally by a message queue, but really, event sourcing like that is not always needed.
Synthetic data seems like a potentially useful application of GPT and friends.
Ask HN: How many citations do you need to feel good about your published paper?
By feel good, I mean from an intellectual satisfaction point of view rather than what your academic institution or a funding agency would be happy with.
> their services with OpenAIs apis, they are unlikely to switch in the future.

why is that? If competitor release better or cheaper LLM, it is not that hard to switch API calls..