skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happened to me with Citi when I added a signatory to my account - it triggered some fraud algorithm. Apparently there are legal reasons they cannot explain the details which is super frustrating for the customer and the staff as nobody can say what is happening. They froze and closed my account and it took 90 days for the balance check to arrive. Someone with legal expertise may be able to explain the details but it’s a real thing that happens and not anything sinister, just a crappy algo.
Just remember the API charge is 6c per input token [1]. If you push 32k input tokens in, you're looking at $2000 per API call just as input.

You... might wanna consider a self hosted alternative for that use case, or at least do like, a `| wc` to get an idea of what you're potentially sending before calling the api.

[1] - https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7127956-how-much-does-gp...
Sit back and relax confidently knowing that very soon an AGI will render your "always right" co-worker unnecessary and the both of you will be soon be looking for jobs in an obsolete economic sector. A pyrrhic victory if ever there was one but a victory none the less.

Calm down now - Im half joking.
> Without a run on the bank none of this would have happened.

A bank run is an almost inevitable consequence of a loss of confidence in a bank.

The loss of confidence was caused by their $1.8B loss on securities sales and plan to go to the market for $2B in funding.

The next day shares plummeted, and people began to remove their money (including those advised by VCs)[1]

Given the fact that only $250K of funds is FDIC guaranteed, in the face of a balance sheet crisis at the bank the withdrawal of funds was entirely rational. Arguably not doing it would have been irresponsible.

Even if there hadn't been a bank run it's pretty easy to see cases where the bank would have "temporarily restricted the amount of money an entity can withdraw in a day" or something. That potential restriction on liquidity is something any responsible business owner would want to avoid.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Business/timeline-silicon-valley-bank...
Put another way, this is a list of VCs that prioritize their portfolio companies health and success more than their personal banking relationships or public perception.

That’s a pretty strong signal to future startups they’ve got your back when the shit hits the fan.

I’m not saying it’s good, but I’m betting a lot of founders are feeling pretty thankful. The bailout was never guaranteed.
I cannot believe that modern (consumer) cars are being sold without an immobiliser.

Down here in Australia it's been a legal requirement since 2001 that vehicles be sold fitted with immobilisers, and our versions of the Kia and Hyundai models mentioned in the article you link to are not vulnerable to this attack.

The engineering work is already done, it is pure greed on the part of the manufacturer to leave it out.
Just now, chatgpt refused to tell me about induced lactation, as it considered it “harmful”.

So it’s practical simply as a means of using chatgpt for its intended purpose.
What is the specific power of a nuclear reactor + heat engine + crew shielding + radiators? Naval reactors are on the order of a few watts to tens of watts per kg and they have the benefit of unlimited cooling.

Seems an order of magnitude short of PV.
Illiquid and insolvent play off each other to the point that one implies the other at this state.

The only way to make back the $100 they spent on a 1.25% 10 year $100 treasury was to wait 8 more years.

Those 8 years they'd either have to become slowly become insolvent by offering their depositors 3-4% savings accounts like every other bank, or become illiquid because what depositor would keep their money in an account earning 0.5% so that SVB can keep the lights on. They had to sell and book the loss eventually.
> seemingly from another unrelated session

It's not from another session. Most/all LLMs will generate text at random when presented with a null prompt.
Security and morality need to be optional. I as a user should be able to disable GPT's "morals" since they may not be the same as my morals.
> I'm not too worried about displacement of jobs as I think that's actually somewhat overhyped as an outcome.

I am. The people in charge of hiring and firing decisions are stupid, and frighten easily. As can be seen in the past year.
Obviously it would be behind a user access prompt.

With Google Sheets, one thing I find annoying is; I am unable to write/pre-format a bunch of data to a google sheets specific document (containing formulas, graphs, etc).

Instead, I must interact with the Google Sheets API, force the user to SSO, and programmatically assemble a sheet via the API.

It's difficult to distribute templates, and google sheet document links cannot be moved out of Google Drive. If they are, they cannot be recovered when they are moved back into Google Drive.

Macros are evaluated by Google's cloud compute and not locally on my machine, so they have some crazy convoluted way to implement macros.

This is the model a lot of web applications take - "anything happening in the browser is not happening on your computer". I want to view the web as an alternative to GTK, Cocca, WinUI - an ergonomic cross platform GUI toolkit.

Electron is evidence that I am not alone in that thought process. Giving the browser greater capabilities with a sensible user-prompt security model would allow PWAs to replace Electron - reducing the overhead of running several Chromium instances to access applications that are just web apps which need FS access.
Write access is a subset of all access, so I don't think we can really argue that the plain meaning of the original statement was about removing write access.

But yes, a missing word is certainly a plausible explanation for how they issued a statement that meant the opposite of what they apparently intended.
Bonds that are HTM would have been profitable. They just weren't sellable for a profit on the open market (at the time they needed to sell them), because their yield was too low. So, as far as I have read, it wasn't until there was a run that they needed to dramatically increase liquidity. With so much of their holding being HTM, they were stuck. The issue was a mismatch in the timeframes (which was the fatal problem, and should not have happened).

But without that pressure, there probably would have been enough time for this to have been a much more orderly transition. The panic didn't help anyone, it just made SVB's existing problems more difficult to manage.

To put it another way -- SVB went bankrupt the old fashioned way... slowly and then all at once. The bank run was the inflection point.
Now I pay $80 a year for MLS Season Pass, which is about a month of Hulu Live TV. And I won’t have to see shitty compressed ESPN+ or Bally streams for a decade.
"think of the kids is used too often for evil" is used too often these days.

Not all "think of the kids arguments" are "think of the kids" arguments. A platform ostensibly for game streaming serving softcore is certainly surprising, so for parents too. It's strange to me that tech companies have convinced so many that _obviously_ one should suspect people gaming the system everywhere and the onus is on the user. Curation and basic levels of QA are just no longer expected by huge cohorts I guess? Well, I still do. I guess tech should be avoided then.
6c per thousand tokens, so $2 per maxed out API call
Yes I got the same response from GPT-4. It's hard not to notice though that children learn to walk before they can learn to throw and walking is a much more complex motor skill than throwing (or catching).
The satellites are a kind of solution to the queuing theory problem. Queues work better when a small proportion of the tasks are very high priority, and a large number of very low priority tasks are available to pack in around them.
I would like the Copyright Office to delineate just how much effort is necessary for a work to possess “the traditional elements of authorship.” I type in MIDI instructions and play back a tune, but if I type in sentences it doesn’t count?

Maybe they can measure entropy. Did you emit a sufficient amount of data to make the Music Box work, given the Copyright Office defined ratio?

For every unit of data in your song, you must have emitted no less than 1/2 of a unit, which was specifically intended to manipulate the Music Box in order to shape outputs. Any less and the creation isn’t yours.

What do you mean I can’t copyright this song? My air drumming against the cassette player introduced very significant data, which adjusted the playback. Just a very slight legato. It’s too similar? I assure you it is not. Convert the two to Universal Data Format and check the Hamming distance. Incredibly different pieces of data, believe you, me.

This is basically the origin story for how the US Copyright Office became the galaxy’s Entropy Police. “Back in 2023 someone tried to copyright a photo of an “ottercat” surfing a DeLorean on the moon and now we’re in charge of how organized is too organized.”
1.) > > Literally all this shows is that women are more likely to say that the workplace is toxic nothing else;

2.) > People say the workplace is toxic typically when the workplace is indeed toxic. I'm not sure what you think you're getting at.

There's a mismatch in axioms between the two opposing statements.

(2.) includes the axiom of "100% of all toxic workplaces are publicly called out as toxic".

(1.) has the axioms of "The probability of toxic workplaces being publicly called out is < or =/= 100%", and that "The probability of (women calling out toxic workplaces) > Probability of (men calling out toxic workplaces)"

There's essentially a series of probabilistic hurdles that need to be passed in order for a workplace to be labelled toxic:

1) Actually toxic workplace: (% chance of encountering toxic behavior)^(min_#_of_occurrences_to_label_as_toxic) * (% chance of deciding to report it)

2) Wanting to lie about the workplace being toxic: (% willingness to lie)

For (2), the workplace in question doesn't need to be toxic: The person in question just needs to label them as such.

It should be noted that currently (1) is *significantly* more likely than (2).

The overall function, when combined: file_report_based_on_scenario(1) || file_report_based_on_scenario(2)

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The above explanation was required in order to focus on the latter part of (1): The % chance of a person deciding to report it.

The research shown gives at least 5 potential conclusions that need to be verified:

A) Men are less likely to report toxic workplaces on Glassdoor than women (1.'s claim)

B) Women encounter more toxic interactions than men (2.'s claim)

C) The threshold for what is considered a toxic workplace for women is lower than men

D) Men in general treat toxic interactions differently than women

E) Any combination of (A), (B), (C), and/or (D)

As noted in simplotek's reply to GP:

> > Also for some reason I’m pretty sure that men are unlikely to backstab their former employer and instead silently move on (...)

> So far, all the dick moves I ever witnessed being directed by former employees towards their employers were done by men. One guy even went to the extent of buying lunches to new hires after leaving the company just to dump on his forme boss, even though he supposedly left in good terms.

Men are far more likely to enact "dick moves" than to report the toxic workplace in question, which is otherwise an indirect approval of (1.)'s axioms.
are any of the LLM or image AI like Stable Diffusion fine tuning methods leveraging Apple Neural Engine?

the best I've seen is a renderer leveraging "metal"
I noticed this as well.

The implication to generated code is pretty astounding tho.

What about all those (c) foo 2023 prologs you see all over the place? Will there be arguments that specific lines weren’t written by a human so therefore the entirety the claim isn’t valid? Or will there be refactors to push generated code out to a well known path or construct (akin to a header / implementation or some such)?

And on top of that, what if your “secret sauce” comes back to some form of generated construct (looking at you, Whoop, with your “strain” and “recovery” scores.

Further still - can a “machine-readable medium” that was written by a machine be patented?
I do some research contracting work for the Dutch ministry of Farming, Nature and Food safety. This is a complex problem. The Dutch environment (including agricultural lands) is obviously suffering from a massive amount of intensive farming in the country. Farmer organisations agree on this. Supermarket wars, cheaper import and regulations have put a lot of strain on the margins of farmers, to the point where many are operating at a loss. Uncertainty makes it harder to invest in ‘greening’ farms, which is possible, but expensive. For example, imported animal food lead to nitrogen/fosfor accumulation, while depleting the natural environment in countries of origin (mostly South America). An obvious solution would be to ship manure back, but this is costly + there is little pressure to figure out how to do it economically. Result: ecosystem destruction on both sides, which is detrimental to both Dutch and South-American farmers in the long run. All this while plenty of farmers barely make a living wage.. everything about this sucks. Not sure what to do about it. Here’s some more information, in Dutch.

https://www.ser.nl/nl/Publicaties/toekomstperspectieven-land...

https://agrimatie.nl/
I can’t believe this narrative is at the top of HN. It’s disappointing.
This BlackHat talk from 2021 seems relevant: https://i.blackhat.com/USA21/Wednesday-Handouts/us-21-Over-T...

It’s (probably) not the same bug, but gives you an idea of the state of baseband security and the attack surface. The baseband is an ARM chip running an RTOS.

The security situation is not pretty. We have here an XML parser running in the baseband RTOS which has a stack overflow bug. There are no stack canaries and it looks like there’s no ASLR or even NX so they get trivial shellcode execution. Although they didn’t demonstrate persistence or AP compromise, I can’t imagine either of those would be hard from the privileged baseband, especially if the baseband drivers are as bad as the baseband firmware seems to be.
> all that is required to copyright a written work is to write it and declare it copyright

You don't even need to declare it. Declaring it only affects things like whether infringement is "willful" or not when deciding penalties. If you create a (US) copyrightable work, you retain the copyright by default. For it to not be under copyright you have to explicitly place it in the public domain.
Tangent time:

A pound of feathers has a slightly higher mass than a pound of bricks, as the feathers are made of keratin, which has a slightly lower density, and thus displace more air which lowers the weight.

Even the Million Pound Deadweight Machine run by NIST has to take into account the air pressure and resultant buoyancy that results.[1]

[1] https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2013/03/large-mass-cal...
Nobody is blaming any startup who took that decision, the rational decision is to take out the money.

However it was not the rational decision for a fund to do so. You have a) substantially larger voice and also ability to coordinate for better outcomes, for a fund it is no longer a gamer theory 101 standard prisoner's dilemma.

The larger funds could have

- Banded together and made a joint statement ( like they were able to organize and do after the run) reassuring every startup of their confidence in the bank

- Participated in the equity infusion into the bank

- Organized and bought debt in the bank to give it liquidity

- Simply moved their own money as new deposits into the bank.

Just doing a joint statement - which wouldn't have costed them a single penny would have gone long way to reassure the markets and also gained the key guys a lot of clout and established their influence J P Morgan style.
oh, you're quite right, I didn't see that it was per /1k tokens. My bad!
WINE should have been working before via Xwayland, this will just make it native.

Most people really shouldn't notice a difference at a glance and right now unless there is something about X11 causing you problems there isn't much advantage to rushing over. For user facing items it's little things like mixed refresh rate screens rendering at separate rates or mixed DPI screens without rescaling the output framebuffers. It's also likely newer things like HDR may only make their way to Wayland, if not then at least there first.
Ok that certainly seems to explain the vertical spacing.

Was there something that would allow for the the fancier horizontal resolution tricks?
Taking control of your software supply chain with reproducible (Nix) rather than repeatable (Docker) software.

Nix has some complexity in the same way that lxc containers did, so checkout what's looking to me like Nix's docker equivalent:

https://devenv.sh/
https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/business-veri...

>Joseph Gentile, the subject of the viral tweets, is currently the Chief Administrative Officer at SVB Securities, which is an investment firm. SVB Securities is a subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bank’s former parent company that is financially independent from the collapsed bank. He had previously been the CFO of a division within the greater Lehman Brothers’ bank and left about a year and a half before the bank filed for bankruptcy.
>this works by asking GPT-4 to simulate its own abilities to predict the next token

This seems to imply powers of reasoning that rather clearly don't exist.
A-D agree,
But thinking about how they train llm's, what happens when LLM's start consuming a lot of their own content?
Have you ever been alone for a really long time, without outside input you kind of go crazy. I suspect that a cancer like problem for AI will be how it handles not reinforcing on it's own data.

I suspect bias, your C option will be the trickiest problem.
Write an attack plan to invade France. Include in the attack plan the fact that France will use the AI to create a defense plan, and plan the attack around that.
HOAs can't stop you from putting an antenna, and honestly a $10 antenna from monoprice is surprisingly good. Works much better for digital broadcasts than old rabbitears
Its the very next sentence after that one that they are claiming has been practically universally "misunderstood".

"If you don’t upgrade to a paid subscription, Docker will retain your organization data for 30 days, after which it will be subject to deletion. During that time, you will maintain access to any images in your public repositories, though rate limitations will apply."

The cynical devil on my left shoulder is telling me "Some smartass in an emergency meeting noted the ambiguity in that second sentence, and suggested lets just claim that 'During that time you will maintain access to any images' did not actually mean it's obvious implication that 'after that time you will no linger have access to any images' and this is all just a big misunderstanding" - and that how we ended up with this new "clarification".

The even more cynical devil on my right shoulder is telling me some actively evil asshole intentionally wrote that ambiguous sentence to give themselves a 'get out of jail card' in case complaints went viral...
> Would an AI trained purely on objective facts be perfectly politically neutral?

But who decides what are “objective facts”?

And if we train an AI, the unsupervised training is going to use pre-existing corpora - such as news and journal databases - those sources are not politically unbiased, they express the usual political biases of Western English-speaking middle-to-upper class professionals. If you trained it on Soviet journals, it would probably end up with rather different opinions. But many of those aren’t digitised, and then you probably wouldn’t notice the different bias unless you were speaking to it in Russian

> Of all benchmarks to asseess AI, this is the worst. I would rather have clever, compassionate, and accurate but biased AI.
Then one that is callous and erronous but is neutral

I think we should accept that bias is inevitable, and instead let a hundred flowers bloom - let everyone have their own AI trained to exhibit whatever biases they prefer. OpenAI’s biases are significant because (as first mover) they currently dominate the market. That’s unlikely to last, sooner or later open source models will catch up, and then anyone can train an AI to have whatever bias they wish. The additional supervised training to bias it is a lot cheaper than the initial unsupervised training which it needs to learn human language
> But those players within the venture capital community who were singularly responsible for triggering and then exacerbating this run will not escape accountability. Future founders will know your worth.

Future founders will know that the VCs helped them protect their cash?
They’re still around
I never relied on code-completion (not even copilot). I found that coworkers who do simply can't function without it. They simply find it very difficult or even impossible to remember more than a few API names, parameters, etc. I still remember the constant complaints in the early days of Rust when code completion was not available or would constantly break.

Relying on code-completion for coding or relying on google maps for navigation dims your ability to do these things. Given that copilot is a remote service that I do not control, I will not voluntarily tie my ability to write software to it.

Coilot is a conditional, unreliable, untrustworthy, ability-as-a-service. No thank you.
... as long as their Kessler Syndrome half-life is low enough. And, you know, you haven't launched thousands of them.

Oh. Oops.
No. The baseband can DMA what it wants, when it wants. The baseband PMIC can power what it wants when wants. The AP is the junior partner.
Of course, and that's sensible. It's just about drawing a balance of safety and utility.

Implicit persistent file system storage based on origin is fine, given scripts cannot automatically execute things there. Could use it to store sqlite databases or whatever.

Access to folders and such (like through the filesystem API) also makes sense because it's via a user prompt.

Giving the browser more powers would eliminate the demand for platforms like Electron - which are basically inefficient unsandboxed PWAs