skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Is this a new gold rush, and how to make the best of it?
Are we witnessing a new gold rush in the AI space? While some argue that we've been in a gold rush for decades, others see the potential for opportunities just beginning to emerge. As someone who wants to build something in this space, I believe in the value of tapping into the collective knowledge of the tech community. Though I'm aware that some may not want to give away their secrets, I still hope to learn from those who are willing to share their insights.

One useful framework for approaching the uncertainties and opportunities of this space is to consider not just the first-order effects of changes, but also the second-order effects. For example, the gig economy has created a need for simplified accounting apps for individuals who are essentially running their own businesses. By considering second-order effects, we can develop more comprehensive strategies for approaching this new gold rush.

While content creators and indie makers may offer some useful insights, I believe that the tech community can come together to share experiences and insights and build a community that supports each other's growth and success in the AI space. Let's work together to develop more effective frameworks and strategies and make the most of the opportunities presented in this new gold rush.
i use feedly. works well.
I thought it was so cool how a non-profit made one of the most game changing tech products in years. Then I was incredibly bummed when I realized they weren't a non profit anymore.
Or you could just use Nim.
Not every Amish community.
Off the top of my head, CLIP the vision-language model, and Whisper, the audio to text model, have their trained weights and the architectures open. They did not open source the training dataset, although I fear it may be too much of an ask given all the possible legal issues.
I think I'm an outlier/odd-one for liking PowerShell, but terseness hasn't been a goal for me when I write in PS. I typically write and maintain long scripts and spelling everything out helps me keep track of the logic.

It's not the best language for anything, but working a Windows shop, I'd rather bang stuff out in PS than grind my way through Visual Studio/C# for simple tasks.
Urgency is warranted when indecision is an accelerant to a fire. Capital markets in the US are dysfunctional and getting worse. Banks don’t lend to small business in any meaningful amount. Going public takes forever. And if you think there is any financial institution except the Fed that could move fast enough to prevent every SVB client company from missing payroll, I would love to know who and how you know they could and would act.
When I was a teenager, there was a local chain of record stores over here named "free record store"

But guess what, you couldn't just walk in, grab some CDs and walk out without paying.
if this is the way we're going to behave, then cap the maximum size of accounts at the FDIC coverage limit (implement account software in Rust, not C, no overruns :) If you go over this amount, the bank should automatically create a new account for you and put the excess in there. done, you're 100% insured, we don't have to do anything special to protect you.
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Probably that means (I don't know the regs) that the bank will have to hold more of your money as reserves in cash on their books and not put it at risk, possibly pay more in insurance premiums if that's how FDIC insurance works. Probably it would make things really inconvenient for Roku to keep $500million in their bank account. But at least we would then deal with it at the time it occurs, and not in an emergency.
I do a lot of work with what you’d call ShadowIT, or the use of unsanctioned applications. I use cloud broker tools which use firewall logs to identify where these websites are being used.

The use of these file conversion tools is very common and is often used on sensitive information. Heck I’ve seen health companies use these tools to upload god knows what.

Usually there is little to no data sovereignty rules that apply, in that by using the service for free that can own the file you upload and use it to glean information from.

Firstly, employees need to be aware that they are not allowed to use this software and you need to therefore provide a solution. You should then use broker tools to actually block these conversion sites, in the same way that you might block the use of Dropbox and other cloud solutions if these are unsanctioned.

Yes you’re absolutely right to question these services and organisations are having to deal with risk associated with using them. Which is only really an issue if it’s sensitive personally identifiable information.
Back in the 80s and 90s people did not often distinguish between app platforms and operating systems, because back then there were no widely-used portable app platforms like Java or the Web.

Nowadays though, with a few popular app platforms running on numerous operating systems, there is a clear distinction between OS and app platform.

Emacs is an app platform for client-side applications.
FDIC insurance is up to 250k. It's covers the plumber. Any small business (and most consumers) doesn't need to think about this stuff.

The comments above are about companies with millions of dollars. It starts with someone talking about $5 million.
That’s a very incomplete view of science and knowledge in general.

On the one hand, there are scientific fields where most of the work is indeed about observing and describing, and where hypotheses are often not challenged by experimentation but by the arrival of new data and alternative explanations.

But in the other hand, scientific knowledge in that traditional sense is not the only valid kind.

It is likely that the chief competitive advantage of human beings is not our individual skill for rational thought, but our collective capacity for transmitting and evolving cultural knowledge over centuries and millennia. Our cultural legacy is so ancient that it has influenced how our bodies evolved, but also so vast that it is easy to lose sight of it altogether.

We tend to see rational and cultural forms of knowledge as being in conflict with each other, but I have come to understand that as an oversimplified and often misleading point of view.
GPT-2

Here is one cool (and recent) research project using GPT-2 model weights.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cgqh99SHsCv3jJYDS/we-found-a...
I think the article does a good job capturing the history of what happened.

OpenAI started out with the intention of being a non-profit, but realized over time that it made it difficult to compete in terms of salary and hardware, so pivoted to a 'capped' for-profit.

As for Microsoft, my guess is their investment was just another investment in a hot AI 'startup'. It was sheer luck, and being in the right place at the right time, that they hit a gold mine with that investment as ChatGPT took off, but otherwise this would have been just one of their many investments that disappeared into the ether.

The most surprising thing to me is how hard and fast Microsoft pivoted once they realized they had a golden goose on their hands, with the Bing / Edge and other integrations they are doing. Never though I would see them move that fast, kudos.
Hard disagree. Paris is lovely and gets more so every day with reduced car traffic increased greenspace etc. You're mad.
The only place better is Amsterdam
Is it really a desirable solution though? Seems like gaming the system, and if the end result will be that effectively all deposits are FDIC insured anyway, why not just get rid of the $250k limit?
It’s kinda like prisoners dilemma, except the prisoners can meet and discuss a cooperative strategy.
Regular depositors under $250k also benefit from the upside of their "gamble". Yet we protect their deposits regardless because we want to reduce the systemic risk of bank runs.
Why not the character in that case? hehe
Why weren’t they already advising their companies to not put more than they can afford to lose in a single bank?
LinkedIn is a career and promotional tool. Some people use it to discuss their work, some people discuss their work environment.
Treat git directories, recursively. Is especially like the fact that I can use it together with git aliases, e.g. I use this at least once a (working) day like `gr -b /path/to/customer/git/repos fap` (--fetch --all --prune).

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -o errexit
set -o nounset

usage(){
printf "[TRACE=...] %s [-b /path/to/clones/root] (%s/w) -- <git commands/options>\n" "${0##*/}" "$HOME"
}

if [[ -n "${TRACE-}" ]]; then
set -o xtrace
fi

trap 'set +o xtrace' ALRM HUP INT TERM EXIT

: "${GIT_BASE:=$HOME}"
while getopts b:h OPT; do
case "$OPT" in
b) GIT_BASE="$OPTARG";;
h) usage; exit 0;;
*) ;;
esac
done
shift $(( OPTIND - 1 ))

while read -r REPO; do
[[ -d "$REPO"/.git ]] || continue
[[ "$REPO" =~ \.terraform\/modules ]] && continue

tput setaf 8
printf "%s … %s\n" "$REPO" "$( git -C "$REPO" config --local --get remote.origin.url )"
tput sgr0
if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
git -C "$REPO" status -sb
else
git -C "$REPO" "$@"
fi
printf "\n"
done < <( fd --one-file-system --type d . "$GIT_BASE" )
A "sting" of what? People are voluntarily uploading their files. The sites aren't claiming any type of privacy or destruction of uploaded files.

I'd say it's probably immoral for these sites to search through uploaded files for useful or interesting or private information, but I doubt it's illegal.
Mexico's Lopez Obrador orders ministry to step up lithium nationalization
I'm a Principal at a 2nd tier tech company.

My personal projects are more rigorous than my work projects. I don't have time to maintain them, so I have to be sure to not fuck them up.
> Half of the public is below average, in fact.

Not necessary
If a "handful" of external bad actors can completely destroy your financial institute then maybe it's time to consider how these systems are built.
Working as a doctor, even at a lower wage, isn't anything like being a slave. And yes, it probably means dropping the education requirements somewhat. People don't need to take that long after graduation to order some tests and prescribe some antibiotics.
It would have to be a new account at a different bank. FDIC coverage is per bank, per depositor, and per ownership category (e.g. single vs joint account).
> …but it’s not easy.

Yes. I clicked it. So you don’t have to.

I’m doing my part.

Oh you doubt that’s a real quote? Go ahead then. Do it.

Do it.
In 1950 40% of people were living in the suburbs. Now 55% are[0]. And that's against a population growth from ~148M then to ~330M now, so 59M suburban people then compared to 180M now and corresponding pressure that would make on size of car parks, moving shops out of centers to places they can have larger car parks, combined with more households with car ownership since 1950 and more cars per household. More population needing more housing, houses trending larger suggests they are more likely suburban or rural than city center, meaning larger overall suburbs and therefore further to travel to get anywhere.

Pew Research[2] says suburbs have grown 6.4 million people by migration from cities and rural populations between 2000 and 2018. Ten fastest growing communities in America in 2021 are suburbs[5].

Car companies made and sold about 58 million cars in the USA in the 1950s decade[3].

Eisenhower's interstate highway act was 1956, and miles of highway has increased by hundreds of thousands since 1990[4].

[0] https://www.insider.com/vintage-photos-levittown-suburbs-50s... and https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/05/22/demogra...

[1] https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter8/urban-trans...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/02/5-facts-abo...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_automobile_industry_i...

[4] https://www.statista.com/statistics/183397/united-states-hig...

[5] https://legallysociable.com/2021/09/19/the-ten-fastest-growi...
Value Is Fragile
I cannot find it now, but there is a twitter thread from January where the guy predicts SVB bank run and implies that his prediction does not cause a bank run itself for his prediction to come true.
Agreed.. It's no more illegal than going to Kinkos and asking someone there to photocopy your files for you.
At Google too many people have the power to launch products to keep all of the products around forever.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yellen-says-no-federal-bailou...

"In a separate announcement, the Fed late Sunday announced an expansive emergency lending program that's intended to prevent a wave of bank runs that would threaten the stability of the banking system and the economy as a whole."

"The Treasury has set aside $25 billion to offset any losses incurred under the Fed’s emergency lending facility."

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
SVB was publicly traded, and it’s not being bailed out.

SVB deposits are being paid for with an assessment on FDIC members. Who do you think is going to pay for that?

Sincerely,

A PG&E ratepayer
What OP might mean:

Technically, your "jerks" don't lose capital (wealth) while the people with deposits in those banks do.

Yes, losing a job is a bad thing but a job is a mere right to a transaction (we exchange labor for money in the future) and not lost capital.
Whisper. Speech recognition and translation. Probably the best general-purpose speech recognition available right now. Certainly the best you can run on your own hardware. Open-sourced code and publicly free and available models. https://github.com/openai/whisper
> Normal/poor people don't put enough money into banks for it to represent much of their earnings.

This is hurtful in more ways than one.
Banks routinely charge all kinds of fees from account maintenance to whatever Wells Fargo did for years.

Retail banks won't let the Federal Reserve open a bank account for everyone by default with the Fed.

Either what you say is true and the retail customers are insignificant, and banks must offer no fee accounts. If not, they can't block federal reserve from creating default USD accounts for everyone.

Or they are an important part of the bank's marketing strategy or whatever. In this case, banks must lose the ability to gamble customer funds.

Which one is it?
if i saw a prominent investor tweeting 'More in the VC community need to speak out publicly to quell the panic about [my bank]' i would close my account there asap, because in a sense a tweet like that is stronger evidence of a bank run than a tweet in all capitals saying 'get your money out now'

so i would say mark suster is one of the people who destroyed svb

but mostly i think it's that they'd been insolvent since september and weren't going to become solvent again unless the fed dropped the prime rate again
I was walking around downtown Toronto and saw some shop with large lettings on the outside saying "Pop Up Shop" advertising wild sales, etc. Turns out, the company is actually called Pop Up Shop. Very clever
France is still in the EU and has lots of former colonies to extract healthcare workers from. Their cultural diplomacy is one of the best compared to any former European colonialistic power.
I think there are probably thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of financial institutions around the world that could be destroyed if a handful plucked from some of the richest people in the world decides you're their enemy. To list of the financial institutions that could handle that would be the shorter list.
> you need to be highly tolerant of things that irritate you or violate things you consider valuable, and in many cases, you must be tolerant of things that violate basic mores

This is people everywhere, dense or sparse—the difference is that in a denser city you have the ability to choose to engage with people who satisfy your standards, unlike a small town or suburbia where it is more about whom you happened to have living nearby (count them on your fingers) and whom you have to acknowledge whether you like them and agree with their mores or not.

I find this much more of an issue psychologically in smaller towns and countryside, where each individual ends up knowing much more about each other because there’s just no way around it (and whom sparseness and subsequent lack of things to do pushes to alcoholism, drugs and other vices). In a denser area I physically couldn’t care what each of the hundreds of strangers I come across every day does in their spare time, people tend to follow a certain protocol in public interactions, law enforcement is more efficient due to constrained area, and it generally feels safer and more respectful of my attention and privacy as a result.

Problems like degraded mental health (and resulting substance abuse, high crime rate, etc.) can probably be exacerbated and contagious in denser areas but I think they are more prevalent in sparser ones.
Well written. I laughed hard at "he asserts, wrongly".

I wish TS didn't evolve into this complexity. Library types that should be simple turn into a machine you have to understand (for no good reason).
Learn to speak parseltongue.

The value and the danger will both become obvious.
That's what a bank run is. If you don't take it out, there is no run and no problem.

And as we can see, there was nothing to be in time for, because nobody's lost any deposits. If the bank was in that much trouble it could've been wound down in a more orderly fashion than this though.
So if you follow the link that you're quoting there, you'll get your answer:

That said, I do think that this is contrast to the Noordhuis incident. I know that this position is not popular here (and that I will be downvoted into oblivion), and that it's likely foolish to revisit this, but just to make clear my position: I am understanding (very understanding, given my own history) of gaffes made on the internet. The Noordhuis issue, however, was not a gaffe: it's not that he rejected the pull request (that's arguably a gaffe), it's that when he was overruled by Isaac some hours later, he unilaterally reverted Isaac's commit. (And, it must be said, sent a very nasty private note to make clear that this was no accident.) This transcended gaffe, and it became an issue of principle -- one that I feel strongly about. So what I wrote at the time was entirely honest, and it is something that I absolutely stand by -- more than ever, actually.

I wrote that in 2015, and still feel that way in 2023 -- up to and including that I feel that way more than ever. (That is, I feel more strongly about this in 2023 than I did in 2015.) The world has changed quite a bit since 2015, and I daresay that the incident wouldn't repeat itself because I really doubt that Noordhuis would repeat his actions.
Why does this get to override the usual rule of never breaking userspace ever?
You can't use this with Vim anyway, it's for Neovim.

Edit: why the downvotes? This is a Lua based neovim setup that can't be used with vim.
An assessment on banks costs shareholders of the bank, not accountholders. (Maybe it indirectly costs accountholders if banks lower interest rates on customer deposits, but these rates are generally not affected by a small short term shock).

It might seem unfair that shareholders of random other banks have to pay for this but no more unfair than accountholders of SVB paying for it.
The analogy breaks down. I don't shame anyone for smoking. But if you want me to breathe your smoke, that's another story.
> We fought hard to help founders who run businesses and have workers on payroll.

No, you fought hard to save your investment fund. Stop trying to come off as altruistic. It’s fake and disingenuous.
Humans driven by fear create the outcome they are afraid of. SVB managements fear created the loss of investors confidence. Start ups fear of the bank being in danger created the worst danger imaginable. If everyone had acted with more fortitude and confidence this tragedy wouldn’t have unfolded.
Do you really want “put money in a bank account” to be a risky activity? What benefit do you see there for the economy?
I’ve got no problem with people wanting their money out of a bank.
Is that one movie, or four?
Big bank
Motherboards have ram slots?

Most have four and I'd say most people have two free.
Definitely Kopia. I was skeptical at first, it's a relatively new tool and not much is known about it (at least on HN) but it's uber-fast and compresses extremely well. Detection of duplicate blocks seems both more aggressive and faster compared to Borg and Restic.

It's honestly a win on all fronts. It can sync to remote places -- which I don't care about as I have a local directory where it does its stuff and I then distribute that with `rclone` to several encrypted cloud accounts -- BUT many people do care so to them it's an even bigger win.

So yeah, I tried Borg and Restic and Kopia and Kopia wins by all accounts: size of backup directory and speed of operation at least.

(One thing I should mention is that Kopia is also very aggressive at eliminating duplicate snapshots and sometimes you might find yourself lacking snapshots for e.g. five days as it happened with me; however, upon very close inspection -- think unpacking the two snapshots before and after that period, and checking diffs, it turned out that I lost nothing, everything I wanted was still there. But, it's a disclaimer one way or another. Plus, its policy for retaining stuff is not like that of e.g. Borg. Make sure to read up a bit on it before using. Again, it never loses data but it has a different opinion on what is "the last 10 hourly snapshots" compared to Borg.)
As someone who wrote the shell script with pretty much the same functionality - check out mkdir with -p flag! :-)