skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't take a communist to see the inherent conflict of interest between employer and employee, or the disproportionate power in the hands of employers. These are not "invisible forces" by any means.
No price risk. It's both a prop up of the bank and a one-way bet on its continuing existence.
I have two thoughts about this.

First is who cares about large corporations? Sure large corporations have the money to buy licensed software, but I know plenty of small-to-medium corporations that operate on pirated software.

Second is your statement doesn't mean anything at all. Yes, you can enact a policy in your corporation that no one is allowed to use AI tools like Copilot to write code, but how do you monitor this? How do you know if some developer did use Copilot? This all feels like complete lip service with no actual force behind it. I am 100% sure that even my corporation's code base already contains stuff written with help of an AI, but there is also no question that the code is fully copyrighted.
And how will they know?
Hear hear. I don't think programmers - as a group - get to complain about people not learning programming tools while simultaneously making them so unapproachable (especially Linux things).

It's not just the overuse of acronyms. There's also:

* Religious devotion to the CLI despite it having terrible discoverability.

* Really bad naming. Git is probably the worst offender at this, but the whole of Unix is a naming mess. WTF is `usr`? Is that where user files go?

* Generally over-complicated tooling. A good example of this is Node/NPM. So complicated to set up! Contrast it with https://trunkrs.dev/

* Deification of distro packages. No I do not want to spend half of my development time packaging my app for 10 different distros. I guess I'll go with curl | bash then.

* Distain for binary app distribution. I'm looking at you glibc.
It is a loan! Well, a deposit.
I am on the waiting list for therapy for a year. They told me it would be a year. I rang a couple weeks ago and they told me it would be another year. Help is not available. God knows I’ve tried

EDIT: Why downvote? What am I supposed to do?...I'm so tired
In 10 years this could effectively be the end of Hollywood. Imagine if it can write a story and feed into 3d engine and output pitch perfect videos.
If First Republic goes bankrupt, it's still the same, isn't it?
The problem with services such as Uber and Airbnb is that the providers adjust the pricing and the level of service to those of established alternatives. Uber and AirBnB are as expensive as Taxis and hotels, without some of the same benefits.
Well yes, and in the U.S. that "least cost" is slave labor. It doesn't have to be, though. Do you think the EU/western Europe has lower worker efficiency even though we have a five-day week, four or five weeks vacation time a year, and eight hour work days with relatively generous overtime compensation? And businesses pay more taxes on their workforce, the state spends lots on healthcare, etc etc.

Many countries are even talking about doing four-day weeks or six-hour days.

It is in the interest of the company to have happy, productive workers that stay because they enjoy their life and work. That is best done with generous compensation and whatever allows for a good work/life balance.
How do you manage changing state overtime? Do you re-render the whole template?

Can templates be nested?
Can you elaborate on fundamental limits?
I think it’ll probably rebound. I don’t want to speculate by how much though.
Ask HN: How to prevent LLMs from building a profile of us?
Perhaps similar to what Google (implicitly) does with search, but I assume LLMs would learn more deeply about us, our thoughts, questions, .. . What I'm thinking of is to, for example, circumvent it by use a second LLM to rephrase our prompt, generalize it, narrow it down, etc. Is it even possible?

Edit: Quotations-> Questions . Though it would learn our writing style too.
The thing is, using modules it should be possible to create even higher-level concepts, so things should become more expressive --- that's how I work in BlockSCAD.

The problem always becomes such expressions become just a list of names of modules and their inputs, so one is back to the wall-of-text problem which a visual tool is supposed to solve --- the fundamental issue is, "What does an algorithm look like"?

and the solution we need is, "What is the most expressive way to create algorithms"?
Does not look like it, still doing badly after hours:
https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/FRC?qsearchterm=

I would stay out of bank stocks for a while.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/17/credit-suisse-sheds-another-...

Just wait for the middle of the next Great Depression and invest your money then.
Thank you for posting this article. I really enjoyed reading this for culture. This is a fresh breeze from all the AI and VC madness taking over the front page recently.
I think it is better to assume that we are at the beginning of the s-curve, not the end.
>Only 15% of postdocs end up being tenure-track faculty.

It's strange that the most intelligent people don't overcome that limit. There are billions of people on earth who could benefit from education to become more productive. A share of that gain could pay for many more 'tenure-tracks', they just wouldn't be called like that.
Since half the comments haven't read the article and are making knee-jerk responses:

"Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo announced today they are each making a $5 billion uninsured deposit into First Republic Bank. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are each making an uninsured deposit of $2.5 billion, and BNY-Mellon, PNC Bank, State Street, Truist and U.S. Bank are each making an uninsured deposit of $1 billion, for a total deposit from the eleven banks of $30 billion. This action by America’s largest banks reflects their confidence in First Republic and in banks of all sizes, and it demonstrates their overall commitment to helping banks serve their customers and communities. Regional, midsize and small banks are critical to the health and functioning of our financial system."

Big highlighter on "deposit". No government or even FDIC money is involved in this.

It's significant that this is a private action. It's basically the exact opposite of the VCs telling each other to get their money out of SVB; it's a bunch of banks putting their own money into FRB. A "hold the line" move.

"We, JPMorgan, are willing to bet $5bn that First Direct does not fail, with no upside to us if they do not" is a rather powerful statement.
Thankfully, they have banned this behavior ("temporarily").

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-po...
This is reminiscent of the Panic of 1907:

>Morgan and his associates examined the books of the Knickerbocker Trust and decided it was insolvent, so they did not intervene to stop the run. Its failure, however, triggered runs on even healthy trusts, prompting Morgan to take charge of the rescue operation.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907#J._P._Morgan
This comment is strange since you seem to live in the EU [1] where healthcare is, reluctantly and depending on each member state's policy, extended to everyone. The EU faces both demographic and labour force problems which can be remediated by immigration. In that respect, investing in a healthy work force seems preferable to the purge you seem to be proposing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35155097
+1 too.
Because you need some people to keep the lights on and shareholders happy (see twitter).
OpenWrt packages repo accepts pretty much all open source packages, would love to see efforts directed there to improve the experience.
A bailout is the provision of financial help to a corporation or country which otherwise would be on the brink of bankruptcy.
I’ve been working with copilot a few months and the biggest surprise is how it has led to much better commented code. I used to comment tricky code to explain it. Now I comment trivial code instead of writing it. Often two lines of comment will get me 10 lines of copiloted code, faster than I could have typed it and with good comments to boot.
Any plans for Alpaca?
Yep, I'd very angry at Yellen right now if I was a shareholder of a small bank.
Man, I'm sorry to break it to you in this way, but it's up to you to make your life and research interesting. Don't waste time with the bullshit. Try to solve real problems and work towards concretising them.
Ask HN: Is how banks work opinionated?
I see well written comments say one thing and the top reply says “No” and says almost the opposite and it’s as well written as the comment it’s replying too. Does the US have a standard of how banks work?
Not really a good comparison. WordPress is comparable because it comes with the same/slightly different tools for building a business. It’s on the same shelf in the grocery store, so to speak.
The goofing off the internet with garbage has already begun if my search results are anything to go by. I have to go 3 pages deep before I get anything written by a human
There's a This American Life episode [0] that mentions this:

> When I was a kid, and I would see the school crossing signs, and there's a picture of the little kids walking, and then it would say "School Xing" And I thought that the "Xing" was a word. And I pronounced it "zing."

[0]: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/605/transcript
The news hit yesterday and got them +10% before close but it seems pre-market they are down currently -23%. Doesn't look like there is much reason to rebound to anywhere their previous levels in the short term.
And a high priced loan! And how will that loan eventually get paid back? Wait and see!
But if First Republic does not go bankrupt, this approach returns exactly their initial deposit, no more, no less. Whereas it's plenty possible for it to continue to exist but at a reduced equity value.

(Edited out "yes", because sibling comment is correct: if they made an equity investment, it could go to zero very much more easily than a deposit)
Creating AI artwork is simply telling the computer the result you want, and picking what you believe to be the best output. There may be something of an iterative process there, but it's really not creative.

Also the photographer is not "guided by a tool". The camera doesn't guide them.
I’m simply not interested anymore
I read that with a British accent and was delighted when I reached this line:

"In festive throngs or solitaire,
A bracing brew brings comfort there,
It's known and soothing, mending, clear,
A balm for hearts, a joy austere."

Reminded me of a way historians find out how written text was spoken (namely by looking at what supposedly rhymes or onomatopoeic words and letters).
An elegant new orchid hiding in plain sight
I think AI will never write good code but can be very useful for very basic stuff, boiler plate or repetitive stuff, like a smart IntelliCode. In fact, I think MS built some AI in IntelliCode but not advanced stuff so they can sell GitHub Copilot.
Thats clearly what the people want...
You get the government you deserve. etc...

Based on last weekend's fun the VCs just want their money insured. The only way to do that is to have the government / FED as the final backstop.
I think programming is very easy most of the time, most time I spend is just typing/moving code around, figuring out the solution is the easy part for me, only the computer<>brain coordination is slowing me down most of the time.

But there are things that are harder for me, or more complex maybe. I struggle with math, and always had, so anything involving heavy math or algorithms is harder for me (I'm a hacker, not a computer scientist, if you will).

For these things, I found GPT4 to be very helpful. I can write what I want, get a WIP version back, work out some kinks with it myself and ask it to rewrite it if it's not perfect, until I have a perfect version. Add some unit tests, find more things that are missing/wrong (sometimes), more back and forward.

Before GPT4 I either just tried to work around having to deal with heavy math, or find people IRL that could help me. Now I'm a lot faster even if it involves math, because of GPT4.
I know that's the Wikipedia top-line definition, but further in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailout:

> However, the common use of the phrase occurs where government resources are used to support a failing company typically to prevent a greater problem or financial contagion to other parts of the economy.

This is not what's happening in this case.
By the time you've formulated the problem as: "Give me the shortest route with a cost of 5 or lower that doesn't go through fire, and if that doesn't exist, the shortest route with a cost or 5 or lower that goes through fire." Then you've basically formulated the algorithm as well.

That's also precisely where one of the programmer's greatest challenges lies, to carefully translate and delineate the problem. I agree it's a bit steep to ask the GPT to come up with a precise solution to an imprecise question, but it's also fair to say that that's basically what the job of a programmer entails, and if you can't do that you're not really able to program.
If there's an extended meltdown I think it has larger ramifications, since this isn't about solvency but instead about people fundamentally not understanding and/or trusting how banks do business.
I think we're seeing the early phases a prediction I made in my first book come true: That computers will be more suitable than humans for most of the functions humans currently use their left brain half for.

Best case, that will have a whole lot more humans using their right brain halves on things like defining the problem. I like the thought of that, it's more pleasant work. But a lot of intelligent people define their intelligence by how well their left brain half works and uncomfortable with how good Chatgpt is at those tasks. I think you're pointing out there's more to programming than left-brain activities, and I think you're right that silicon will never eclipse carbon at those challenges, but I think a lot of people are also feeling threatened by the fact that chatgpt is getting better and better at the thing they used to be better than all humans at.
Can the moderator change the title to "Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a PC?"

It runs great, with no hacking, on my Intel Ubuntu computer. I presume it will work on any system that can run make and has enough RAM.

The title implies it works only on a Macbook.
Many Gen Zers don’t believe they need a college degree for a successful career
No

* Coffee__
Superior hot beverage.
* Tea__
The other one.

__ (two spaces to force new line)
Just pick one to support. You can still visit all 5.

Preferably a local paper.
Only initial cancer or mets as well? When can this be realistically tested on real humans? How long? I have a close relative with potential biochemical recurrence. Could this save him?
They have made it easier. It used to be that you had to call, but now you can do it on the web.
It's currently -13% pre-market, so the news definitely doesn't seem to be driving it up wildly though I wouldn't be surprised if at least some of that 13% is regained once the market opens (but that 13% is just the difference between 29.72 and 34.27 - it would then just need a little 280% increase to get back to $130!)
Also don't confuse "easy" and "simple". "Easy" is subjective and related to familiarity, while "simple" is a more objective concept. Eg. Markdown is objectively simpler than MS Word.
Tesorio is hiring 100% distributed – Head of Data Science and DevOps
I'm suggesting that the boring and menial work making up the majority of your day is, in fact, your job and if it's automated to any meaningful degree, you will be unemployed rather than freed up to do more interesting thing.
Telegram group chats cannot be encrypted AFAIK. This would probably be a show stopper for a lot of companies.
I have a better idea. Let’s call it The Federal Reserve.
This is a very technical definition that effectively makes the word meaningless. Under this definition, most early VC equity rounds are bailouts, initial stock purchases in new companies are bailouts, etc.

It is, technically, true. But it’s not very helpful in understanding why these things happen and which are good vs bad.
This is a pretty big win for Graphene - nice work.
That link mentioned 3/20 as the date Google will release a patch.
I have fun on these HN chats responding to comments like yours .

It’s just fancy auto complete to you? You honestly can’t see the capability it has and extend it the future?

What’s that saying about “it’s hard to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on their not understanding it”.
Probably even done with no reciprocity. The big banks are eager to show their strength during a meltdown to get in good with the regulators and the public. This is one of those times the bankers should feel warm and fuzzy inside.

And... cash deposited at another bank still counts as risk-free cash for your capital requirements even if it's uninsured (hah!).
Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe.
Rain may fall and wind may blow,
And many miles be still to go,
But under a tall tree I will lie,
And let the clouds go sailing by.
I hear this often, that this only happened because of "panic". But people panicked for a reason, and a good one. You know, the way the economy works is that the last one out is the sucker.

Well run banks are not downgraded by Fitch and the S&P (Wednesday) citing risks to its funding and liquidity.
Well, it seems like the answer to what to do with all the useless people. Some had said drugs and video games, but I’m sure that custom VR porn dens will work too.
An example:

* https://tigersats.princeton.edu/cubesatkit

An unrolled tape measure is stiff so that the satellite/weight system will align up and down. As skinny things tend to do in orbit.
This sounds like a reasonable start. Eventually we need to get to the point where we can expose an API for models to request additional information on their own.
Or you can introduce noise and bad data in the dataset. The issue is if it is really an issue at the moment.
This reminds me of the stories from the GFC where the treasury and fed brought together large banks and asked them to sign on to TARP.
But suicide being your only other perceived alternative means something isn't right. Please get some help - your life is worth more than that.
I want to see GPT-4 dealing with this situation:

- they: we need a new basic POST endpoint

- us: cool, what does the api contract look like? URL? Query params? Payload? Response? Status code?

- they: Not sure. Third-party company XXQ will let you know the details. They will be the ones calling this new endpoint. But in essence it should be very simple: just grab whatever they pass and save it in our db

- us: ok, cool. Let me get in contact with them

- ... one week later...

- company XXQ: we got this contract here: <contract_json>

- us: thanks! We'll work on this

- ... 2 days later...

- us: umm, there's something not specified in <contract_json>. What about this part here that says that...

- ... 2 days later...

- company XXQ: ah sure, sorry we missed that part. It's like this...

- ...and so on...

Basically, 99% of the effort is NOT WRITING CODE. It's all about communication with people, and problem solving. If we use GPT-X in our company, it will help us with 1% of our workload. So, I couldn't care less about it.
The point was more in line of RAM bus being faster than PCIe.
Fascism in this century is a very real and growing problem. We all have some measure of responsibility to actively reject it and those who advocate for it. Remember: tolerance is a peace treaty, not a moral precept. Treaties only protect parties who abide by their terms.

By that logic people who attempt to maliciously deprive other human beings of life-saving treatment deserve no better than the same conditions they would have others suffer through.
Ouch, torchlib doesn't have a webgpu target though
I think the psychological aspect of first failure and injustice is rough on grad students.

Hypercompetitive to get into a good enough BS program to get into a MS program yet unlike post-BS tracks like med school, 98% aren't getting that job in academia and will fail out.

Its a pyramid with a very pointy top, much like college football usually doesn't lead to a NFL career.

Meanwhile the "failures" who were not smart enough to get into a good grad program are making incredible salaries etc.

98% of them when they don't get that tenure track professorship "Hey I listened to advice, obeyed, played the game of education, played it VERY hard, put in incredible hours, won top positions, now where's my reward I was promised?"

(I get this emotional response originally from my favorite server at Dennys who did a K12 education degree, busted her butt, got a top half of her class place, back then they were overproducing ed degrees to such an incredible extent she never got a teaching job, came home with her student loans to the same server job she had at Dennys when she was in high school. If you're going to try to climb a job pyramid where most people don't make it to the top, don't take out loans to do it... Anyway she sounded a lot like some MSCS students and grads I've met while programming.)
Ask HN: Please review my article about a ranking analysis strategy for crypto
Hi,

I will soon publish an article about this topic. I know the HN community is mostly crypto contrarian and it is where smart conversations is happening. This is why I consider your feedback interesting since IMHO the article offers a clear perspective on the subject beyond if we see crypto as a pure speculative game.

The draft is open for comments in Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dNh3JWp9mCSp1ywe5WUeqcV5SbkKGWMQF4Re2wNi2JU/edit#heading=h.jti2e4kz80dg

Thank you very much.
> Not knowing one's way around linux is a sign of lack of curiosity and passion for the topic

Complete bullshit. The only thing it's a sign of is that you're not curious or passionate about linux.

Knowing about and being interested in linux may be a positive signal, but the opposite is not a negative signal.

Knowing linux is not a requirement to be a good professional programmer working in webdev.
That's like saying a calculator isn't useful just because you're good at mental math. The ability to adapt and extract value from new tools is a mark of competence.
Issue with these analyses is they compare the best blue collar careers with the worse white collar careers.

Most people who don’t go to college don’t end up starting their own electrician business making $100k a year. They work at Walmart.

Most people who go to college pick a reasonable major and get employed. You don’t have to pick 15th century literature. You can choose an employable career.
I wonder what if First Republic collapses anyways? Will they be made whole anyways even though deposits are uninsured because they are deposits?
> And a high priced loan!

The statement describes it as a deposit, not a loan. Where are you getting this information?
You'll enjoy this AI generated spoken version: https://on.soundcloud.com/1tHgY
I recommend taking all the introductory courses you can find on both AI and ML. If you like the introductory courses, and you feel compelled to move on, then chances are you'll do well in a job regarding AI or ML. There are also several ways into it, either through pure mathematics, statistical modelling, data science, particularly through learning about various algorithms and reading papers, or even through practical application within data warehousing or day-to-day programming. I'd say it helps to have an academic background in either IT, statistics or mathematics, though, but depending on what you're aiming for it doesn't need be a firm prerequisite. Btw. linguists or anyone interested in natural language ought also apply!