skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your only value add is pumping out code that a generative model can generate with a few tweaks, please reconsider. This career is maybe not going to be extremely rewarding for you and your salary will go to 0 in the long run (it probably will for all of us at some point but the question is how much further out in the future).

If this is just fancy auto complete to you then neat.

> you just give the ai the input and output where it fails + the code of the function and it’ll give you a new one which might or might not be completely different from the previous one.

I spent three days chasing down a bug in our codebase with a repro. I’ll run the problem through ChatGPT but I feel like even if I give it the two functions involved and surrounding boilerplate pointing at those two functions, with tests the answer will be gibberish. My basic understanding is that chatgpt’s and copilot’s capability here is doing this for the kinds of things that are toy examples only where the scenario is both carefully constructed and the problem quite obvious. Is that not the case? Don’t get me wrong. I’m 100% on board that this is a fascinating direction and we will get there and it’s going to be great. I’m just saying the base level of competence hasn’t been met yet and so I’d use it as a teaching tool but I’d ban it in a professional environment for most code (not all) until it’s way more mature. It’s just going to do more damage than it’s worth. I look forward to a future where I can give AI higher level instructions of what to change in the codebase and I just need to peripherally review what it did. That and product leadership and upper management is a secure job path. Everything else. Well… good luck? And I am clear. I will go before product leadership and executives. But that means we have AI that’s experienced at building software with minimal input. You can just start your own business and that’s so fantastic. It lowers the barriers to software development so that more people can compete in business. That will be an interesting society to observe.
Wait, you want "of the left and for the left" "journalists" to do research?
And yet node.js scales without threads.
All of this is also applicable to Lua, which offers all the same advantages and has the extra bonus of being very widely deployed, with tons of 3rd-party support, in a variety of different markets.

I've run rings around my fellow Java and C# devs by writing prototypes in Lua that end up being solid enough to be deployed. It really is such an amazing, powerful, underrated technology - especially in the right hands.
Of course not. Why would you put in your own money when you know taxpayer will...

That future expectation created is part of the price paid when you bail out entities.
Pre 2023 “Wayback machine” will be the only content guaranteed to be human. The rest is AI-generated.
Disclaimer: I used to work for one of the big ESPs, but not for any of the ones I'll mention. My old company is more on the enterprise side these days. Not an endorsement of anyone and all that...

Free? You get what you pay for. Like I said, consider how much is this worth to your business. Email is hard work.

I know a lot of people who use Mailchimp for this and seem to be generally happy with them. Also Constant Contact and HubSpot (the latter I know has a free tier of some sort). There are a lot of players these days, many new since I was in the business, and a search for "Email Service Provider Newsletter" will turn up a ton.
What surprised me most about the story is that despite a very unusual pattern of transactions for a business banking account at a local branch, the OP only received occasional calls from the local branch banker. I would have expected at least one call from the bank's compliance department inquiring about the source of the funds, and requesting more information about the nature of the OP's business. Bank's are legally required to know their customers and to report potentially illegal activity. This account clearly did not go unnoticed.

I have received such a call from Chase only once in my 35 adult years, and it was triggered by a deposit much smaller than 35M.
Gren 0.2.1: Testing, Testing
there's no way to win.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DGNZnfKYnU&t=2s
This defeats one of the coolest parts of virtualenvs which is that they can be placed anywhere. It’s just a directory.
The author doesn't understand the topic or the event, and just picked a boogeyman who they perceive is a threat to their activism.
Maybe. If so, that's the _one_ type of marketing that I'll happily support, just doing a good job and waiting for your customers to tell people.
Did SVB do anything irregularly? How would the pre-2018 regulations have changed anything?
> It could be argued that podman is not a docker drop-in replacement

This is an unfortunate part IMHO. podman is not a docker drop-in replacement, but it is advertised as such.
Other countries will do it. You're free to kneecap AI development in your country if you wish.

But do you think that China and Russia are going to do the same?
Self awareness is having a model of self. Having a model of something non-self has absolutely nothing to do with self-awareness.
I don't understand. You complain about coworkers getting high pay and complaining while not producing any value. Do you think a downturn and potentially getting fired will educate them in this matters and getting less pay will make them solve actual problems?
> Depositors are not investors in a bank.

You're saying that like only investors should be exposed to risk.

Everything you do has an implied risk. If I buy a house I am not an investor. Yet if it gets destroyed and I don't have insurance the government won't make me whole again.

Why should big bank depositors be protected when home owners, farmers, cancer patients, &c are not? They are not investors either.
I wonder if the argument is here then to make the browsers as secure as a desktop app by giving them all the possibilities of a desktop app?

Giving web and desktop apps the same access - temporarily or permanently alike, no difference - to local data and system will make both the same secure. Or the web one being even less secure as that is inherently remote centered while the desktop could be restricted to local.

Ultimately nothing is secure with a non-paranoic user nowadays so idealisticly no reason not allowing the same access to a web app. But oh there is! Knowing that one does not need to worry at least about a surely web app digging around in the local system above desktop apps that may or may not send local data somewhere is better. Should mitigate the risks not aggravate!

Btw. desktop apps has no unpermissioned access to everything on your system.
Indeed, and it's not just fools doing "lift and shift". I think a lot of shops do simple "lift and shift" to minimize vendor lock-in.
The docker runtime is not supported by k8s anymore but docker built containers do still and will very likely continue to work for a long time.
How does the "rich" steal what the poor do not have?
The problem with all these banks disappearing is that there are continuously fewer and fewer choices left. Eventually there will be a handful of megabanks and nothing else. I guess this is happening in every industry these days.
I think you’re describing introduction of noise to training sets, which is a staple of training.

Your definitions of “fake” and “legitimate” are circular, and miss the central point of large ML models: they can extrapolate from imperfect data because of the massive scale.

Yes, the predictions will be imperfect. That’s true today, of both ML models and human radiologists. It’s about reducing the error rate, not designing a perfect algorithm that is never wrong. I’m pretty sure Gödel or someone can explain why the later isn’t even possible, for machine or human.
I don't think your #2 is a concern as OHTTP uses HPKE (https://blog.cloudflare.com/hybrid-public-key-encryption/).
That's because people haven't been imaginative enough to use them that way (they're too busy jailbreaking it to say racist things or proselytizing on social media). Even in past 24 hours some people have already found it use in drug discovery using its ability to synthesize and relate different types of knowledge. One of the main ways new knowledge arises is through connecting knowledges in disparate areas and finding relationships among them, and LLMs (especially GPT-4) has been demonstrated to be quite good in this area.
It is a part of the regulation, up to USD 250k, which appears to be a good limit for people who should be aware of doing stuff like this themselves (in EU it is EUR 100k, so the US more than doubles that amount).

I think this just shows the irresponsibleness of people with large deposits.
Why did you use that approach and not a USB video card?
Did you consider using Sunshine/Moonlight? https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine and https://github.com/moonlight-stream
If it’s curated by AI?
Definitely an argument for URL based registries/imports. This is bad, has Docker responded to any of this yet?
its impossible to guarantee all deposits
But Gates doesn't look like a bro. He's more like a Tech Grandpa
People just side with it as a way to get what they want. Crazy how many artists who’s portfolios are full of their own drawings of Disney IP shouting that Disney should use IP law to stop stable diffusion.

The hypocrisy completely lost on them.
First, time to market with the right thing is crucial. Time to market with the wrong thing doesn't matter at all.

Second, time to market matters, but it does not follow that language matters. The GP's claim was that language didn't dramatically affect either your ability to build the right thing, or the time it took to do so. You need more than five words to refute that.
> I’m not placing blame.

> The FED… mitigate swings
> The FED… prevent bank failures
> The FED was instrumental…

It sounds a whole lot like you are placing blame.

The FED has a mandate to keep inflation around some percentage and to keep unemployment around some percentage. It most certainly does not have a mandate to prevent bank failures or “mitigate swings in the economy” whatever that means.

> The Fed was instrumental in creating the inflation.

Can you specify the exact actions the FED took to create inflation? Not that you are blaming them of course.
There is always no panic until the panic starts!

Even if the worst case scenario was only losing 10% of deposits, that's a very good reason to remove your money.

But in reality, everyone knows this will trigger a bank run, which will lose much more, so the only thing that matters is to get out ahead of it.

This is just the inherent logic of the situation, not the fault of whoever realized it first.
Thank you for remembering the etymology... the earliest instance I recall is some YouTube video circa 2010 making fun of mediocre programmers ("brogrammers") at Facebook who got the job based on fraternity connections instead of skill. There were sunglasses involved in the skit. It was at most something you would call yourself ironically (in fact, at least according to my recollection, even "bro" itself was originally a perjorative used to refer to a caricature of fraternity brothers interacting with each other - "ok, bro" etc. - but which they themselves later embraced and adopted).
Not a lot of people pull by hash; they pull by tag. Tags are not immutable, so the image I get from "python:3.11" today will almost certainly change due to security updates and I will be none the wiser.
>So if you’re a programmer like me, you’re probably safe!

Phew!
desert i don't think means deserving. It comes from the latin desertus which means to "make barren or empty/forsake". I think in this context it means to have something fail or be abandoned at a critical moment.
This area - so-called 'AI' - has a long history of malinvestment.

And remarkable that you cite Microsoft's involvement as some sort of standard of significance. A company that has a long history of non-innovation, alongside its disgraceful history of suffocating and extinguishing actual innovation. Founded by one of the most remarkably unimaginative and predatory individuals in the software industry. I'd suggest seeing Microsoft investing in anything is only a good sign of a potential future rort (Gates' whole history of making money).
Can you elaborate a little on how this works? I have many questions haha, how they verify someone is doing art, how it's not the same as a basic unemployment, whether there is a maximum amount of people who can be on this programme, if so how qualification works etc. It sounds very interesting
If it were “for nothing” you might have a point.

So are you saying that, in the multi-million VC-fuelled start-up climate of the last couple decades, founders haven't made sure to pay themselves at least the same salary as their employees?

If you are, I'm not buying it. And if you're not, i.e. if you admit that they did, your point falls to pieces.
Then why is (was?) there a limit of 250k anyway?
To me, it comes down to whether or not you think the sum total of a human being is language. If your life consists almost entirely of communication based activities then it's easy to see why one would think that is the case but if you spend any appreciable amount of time doing work that deals with physical objects and their interactions with the environment you find that language is only one tool in the box and isn't capable of replacing the others. That's not even bothering with the metaphysics of consciousness or subjective experience.
Ok but cutting benefits just means that baristas are out of work and more $ goes into the pockets of billionaire shareholders who need it even less than you.

The only reason those perks exist is because of the unfathomable amounts of profit those companies make compared to others.
IMHO it’s both. Although the risky investing probably played a bigger part.
Where do you find these plumbers? When we owned our house, we never were able to find any contractor that was reliable, upfront about costs, etc. Hell, getting them on the phone and to show up was hard enough.
I've worked for at least 3 companies using cloud services that could have hosted what they were doing on a handful of boxes for a fraction of the cost.

(The most egregious was a system peaking at maybe 5 hits a second during the month-end busy period living in multiple pods on a GCP Kubernetes cluster.)
I haven't been part of the Ruby community in a few years - Market demand forced me out of full time Ruby/Rails and into React/JS/TS land. Is Pry still a thing? I remember being able to drop into IRB via Pry within a running Rails process was extremely powerful and (IMHO) way better than any debugger I have ever used.
Well spotted, seems I have not posted most recent, will update.

lol's and memories on the YouTube link
I wish HN had more content like this. Thanks for the write-up!
The biglaw firms I’m familiar with still store matter data exclusively on-prem. There’s a significant chunk of floor space in my office tower dedicated to running a law firm server farm for a satellite office.
My hope is the last versions are frozen in place and new versions require the updated accounts. It’s a gentle way to not break peoples setups and instead alter them to it needing to be updated.
Its a business
Image files as input using GPT-3
It’s definitely working with hardware, but more of working with operations that I’m concerned about! What needs to be done at what regular intervals. In addition, what are things to inspect at potential hosting sites, etc.
> CoPilot definitely can help you write code faster(or slower if the output is not exactly what you have in your mind). I see it is a productive positive product.

The actual act of writing code "faster" baffles me. Without tools like intellisense, etc.[0], I am perfectly able to write code as fast as I can type.

There's absolutely zero need for me to write faster.

[0]Intellisense, etc. tend to get in my way, so I turn it off.
It actually seems pretty reasonable to let BigTech host stuff, so long as you know the rug pull is going to come. Let the VCs light money on fire hosting the stuff we use for free, then once they stop throwing money at it figure out a plan B. Of course you should have a sketch of your plan B ready from the start so you are prepared.

If you view all of this "free" VC subsidized stuff as temporary/ephemeral you can still have a healthy relationship with it.
Getty are going to be one of the biggest investors in the space if they’re smart. Why pay photographers when you already have the dataset to create them on demand.
From what I’ve read, they would have to mark the portfolio to market (i.e. report its value in terms of current market prices), not say “we intend to hold this to maturity” and account it at face value. Like, the latter actually makes more sense to me, but only if you actually don’t need to sell which might be true for a university endowment (all assets, no liabilities or at least very predictable liabilities) not for a hedging institution.
Does it matter in regards to what I said?
Tell it to other cases where deposits are lost above the insurance limit, tell them please to their face that the rules are the same and not changed ad-hoc.
> Russia is defending its security against being surrounded by a hostile military alliance led by its geopolitical enemy

This is nothing but typical authoritarian fear-mongering about being surrounded and under attack. It's not true at all, not even remotely. After the Cold War, European countries reduced their armed forces up to 10x. For example, Germany went from 3800 tanks in 1980s to some 200 today, and the US moved its last tanks out of Europe in 2013. This only began to change in 2014 after Russia invaded Eastern Ukraine. What security was there to defend, if Europe was unilaterally disarming itself? What security are they currently defending by shooting missiles into apartment buildings in Lviv, a thousand kilometers away from Russia? If anything, the arms reduction in Europe was seen as weakness and provoked Russia to attack Ukraine in the first place.

> You won’t care what billions of people think. Or what leaders think. Or what experts think.

Speaking of leaders, the only UN members who buy the entire Russian narrative are Syria and North Korea, while 141 countries out of 193 voted explicitly against it. Take a look at the map, it really does speak for itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembl...

You are rehashing Russian propaganda narrative that has virtually no support in the world except for professional contrarians and other fringe groups. How did you get sucked into this? Youtube videos? Social media influencers?
> I’m not saying the web is the technically best platform to implement a native app, I’m saying that users want to use these complex apps on the web. Making a native app that has to be installed is limiting your audience.

As someone who has used Figma since it’s inception I’ve always hated the web interface. I like software being it’s own application with its own suite of tools and shortcuts that are only beholden to the OS, not the OS + Browser.
That's a neat idea but probably unworkable in practice. Container images need to be reliably available quickly; there is no appetite for the uncertainties surrounding the average torrent download
> allowing me to do whatever I desire to them in malicious ways.

Really? You really struggle to see the threat? Really?
Interesting arguments.

On the other hand, perhaps I have been formatted by being in too many small/start-up companies, but my experience is that is no such thing as "not your job". You can entrust someone to do that job while you're working on something else, but if you realize that a tool or process is broken, you should probably do something about it.

There definitely is such a thing as "spending way too much company time on politics", though.
Anyone in the prediction business will make lots of mistakes. If we discount anything a person says because they made incorrect predictions in the past then we will have to discount what everyone says. We should judge the statement on its merits.
Why didn’t we do that before AI? If that’s useful now, surely it would be useful to know what knowledge pre-dates humans learning and repeating it?
They'll make Goldman money
As a programmer, my job is not to write code, but to think. To find solutions to problems. As long as AI can't think, I am fine.
Docker Desktop is not that valuable, docker exploded before that even existed. In fact, it's probably the easiest bit of Docker to clone.

The real value is in the repository, dockerfiles, and the deployment practices they enabled.
I run multiple docker registries inside dokku. It's fantastic. $5/mo for peace of mind.
Ordinary people are evil (YouTube)
Of course.

If the customer is large enough you’ll bend for them

If the customer is large enough Cisco will produce a custom IOS build to your spec. Made some consulting gigs really interesting.
> You cannot guarantee everything, all the time.

But it's not everything, not even close. It's only the amounts deposited in the standard class of bank accounts. Companies with large amounts of cash keep very little of that in bank accounts, it's in money market funds and other cash-equivalents.

It's certainly feasible and possible to have the "risk" part of the bottom of the risk-reward curve to be at the same level as the viability of the federal government. The risk isn't quite 0, but if the federal government collapses you have bigger problems anyways.

Especially in a high interest rate environment. Bank accounts essentially have a 0% nominal rate, which in a high interest rate environment is a very negative real rate so there is lots of margin for implicit or explicit insurance.
I was trying to find a converter for FireWire to usb-c, I wonder if an approach like this could help?
I learned that this year and it's so obvious that it hurts that I didn't thought it myself. [I'm not a Biologist, so I guess it is not mandatory that I make brilliant Biology discoveries :) .] [Yes, I know it's not confirmed, but IMHO it's too good not to be true.]
T-Mobile Reaches Agreement to Acquire Mint Mobile for Up to $1.35B
I had little trouble switching a Django app years ago but the results were mixed. Some complicated views and reports saw a hefty win but most of the app was database-limited and optimized to the point that there was no meaningful difference, except that PyPy used more RAM.
It's always the people we already hated who caused the bad thing!
Then you're a good tech bro. But I don't think "libertarians turn authoritarian" implies "all". It's just how people speak. They usually mean "some".
The client base WAS a risk factor.

It's business 101 that you need a diversified customer base. If you're too heavily concentrated in one industry, you're entirely exposed to any downturn in that industry.

In this case, things were made even worse since SVB's customers were VC-funded startups, and VCs have an outsized say in the decisions made by VCs. Particularly in 2023 when we've seen startups shed more and more equity to VCs.

If I was running a business similar to SVB, I would have asked myself if I was too over-exposed to VC-funded startups, and if those VCs were always going to play nice.
> Docker should have been a neat tool made by one enthusiast, just like curl is.

I have nothing but mad respect for Daniel Stenberg. 25 years of development of great software, for which he had been threatened[1] and had ridiculous US travel visa obtaining issues[2].

[1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26192025

[2] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/11/09/a-us-visa-in-937-days...