skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not gonna lie, I feel like I've been reading this like a Rudin book, going back and over each paragraph again.

This is probably the companion report to have on hand while reading:

https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/quarterly-banking-profile/inde...

In particular

* Chart 8. Number and Assets of Banks on the "Problem Bank List"

* (Chart 13.) Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Investment Securities

Sadly, "Results are published approximately 55 days after the end of each quarter (i.e., 55 days after March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31)." So there's nothing super new. Bit it strikes me that Chart 13 is going bonkers on unrealized losses, but Chart 8 isn't quite matching the same (assets in problem banks, and # of problem banks is going down since rate hikes??).

Really wanna see that number for 2023Q1. But the quote

> about a quarter of all equity in the banking sector has been vaporized by one line item.

Struck me as pretty wild.
1. You probably won't be able to pull some of the images any longer and need to find an alternative host (ghcr.io instead of hub.docker.io for example)

2. Podman
For anyone who's looking for a sorta-alternative, I use Ting[0], and it's great. Great customer service. Good pricing. Decent reception, etc where I am. You definitely are second-tier vs someone who uses Verizon or T-Mobile directly, but it's great for my usecase.

[0] https://tingmobile.com/
> even though Mint uses the same exact network.

It's the same network, but you get the capacity that's left over after everyone on T-Mobile has had their fill. Which is why I don't get why everyone is always so excited about these MVNOs. To me, it's like bragging about how cheap airfare is when you go standby: "It's the exact same planes!".
Do I believe that when others choose to not buy your work, and buy something else instead and are happy with their choice, your output wasn't as valuable to them as you maybe thought?

Yes, I do.

In fact, I see that statement as nearly tautological.

I also believe that throwing people in jail if they don't value the same things as you is wrong.

Both of which are largely orthogonal to my original point though – which is that determination of value is a self-correcting process over evolutionary time spans. But I understand you wanted to shake your fist at the sky, in these difficult times.

Same with your OSS reference – I happen to publish several open source packages, used by thousands of companies around the world, which in total bring me about grocery-level income (~€500/month, pre-tax). So what?
the main reason for writing "X-mas" instead of Christmas is an attempt to distance the holiday from religion.

That's internet revisionist history.

The real reason was to save space in writing. "X" as an abbreviation for Christ is very common in Christianity, and has been for a couple of thousand years now.

Even Roman Catholic priests' robes have "ΧΡ" on them as an abbreviation for "Christ."†

† https://www.catholic.com/qa/what-does-the-symbol-of-the-p-wi...
It should probably work like ipfs, with pinning services. You can pin (provide a server that stores and shares the contents) yourself, or pay for a commercial pinning service (or get one from an OSS-friendly org, etc).
> I've never actually experienced this on a personal device

I haven't, either. But then, I'm aware of the limited life of flash, so I only purchased phones I can put an SD card into, and then almost all of the data I store on the phone gets written to the card. I'd rather wear the card out than the embedded flash.
I can’t say I blame them (mint mobile) for opting for that route. Being the value player in a market like mobile networks where you’re just reselling the same service your competitors offer directly makes a buy out a pretty good option compared to T-mobile just deciding one day to offer their own sim-only service priced 2x cheaper than yours using the exact same network.
For all the articles posted on HN in the past 24hrs, none of them are the Business Insider piece. It explains the axe that's being ground rather eloquently, so avail yourself of that.
I'm confused. All of your examples sound like ethical harm to me, according to the definition in the parent comment. How are you drawing the line?
banks investing in bonds that then get reduced in value, turning into losses, as the fed increases its rates seems like a bad investment from the very beginning... every month there are property tax auctions for property that happens every where in every state in different ways, and I remember when I used to go there in person before they moved to the online method in my state, I would meet with people who worked at specific retail banks and they would invest cash into property as long as the bidding met a margin of 33% of whatever the value of the property might have been worth at that time... That's a pretty safe bet, as property doesn't degrade the same way that a bond, stock or investment loan might degrade if someone defaults on it... I'm not sure why people like SVB would be not doing the same thing maybe it's too tricky for them to figure out or they're happy investing most of their money into wineries which apparently is what has happened.... not sure but it seems like when you're sitting on a pile of cash there's better ways to invest your money with a lot better returns....
Check out Lost Cities with Albert Lin if you want to see some of this stuff being done and previous discoveries. It feels a little docu-dramatized but neat nonetheless.
Bookmarklets/bookmarklets.js at master · abdelhousni/bookmarklets
Increasingly, medical history includes genetic information. Because of the nature of genetics, your private healthcare data includes data about your parents, siblings, etc.

> Dropping patient history into this thing is incredibly ill-advised.

It's illegal
Does disrupting the current systems count as "Responsible AI".

If yes, this product write personalized messages based on user's profiles. There's no way decipher handwritten message from the machine written one without getting lots of False positives. In short, this product kills inboxes.

Here's a Demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raIc2dQSq0k

How do you decide if this constitutes for "Responsible AI" or not? I think we are headed for some harsh discussions in the future.
Artillery launched by a sickly army can still do plenty of damage on an urban center. And definitely on a high tech manufacturing facility.
Top Tip: Nearly everything in the genre and all the books I mentioned are in kindle unlimited. It costs $10 a month (or about that) and you can download and read as much as you want that's on the service.

If you find something you like and plan to keep reading, it's well worth the cost.
Badass iPhone Tricks You’ve Never Thought Existed
"Don't release software that can pull code from random services on the internet then execute it without making that configurable" has been standard since the internet was available, just about.

Vendor your helm charts if they are production critical. Vendor the docker images if they are production critical. Vendor the libraries if they are critical.

As an added bonus, you even help making a saner internet where you don't pull left-pad three billion times a month.
They really want to go in vain, hated, and making people happy they're finally off their continuously degrading service and attitude! I get it, they are a commercial entity, but it seems that even they realize that they are in the mode of agony!
I agree. You've got a bit of a fatalist tone, but you're not wrong either - if Microsoft or Apple announced that they were depreciating all of their prior packaging options in favor of a QEMU image of your application, people would lose it. It's not just about performance or integration or nativeness for most people, it's about the files living in the same spot and not needing extra apps to manage a sandbox.

Flatpak feels like it took the wrong lessons from the past 30 years of software distribution and turned it into a platform. I get that it has to be simplified to be friendly to newer users, but it's also a complete turnoff when you want to fix an issue or edit a config file.
Honestly, no offence felt from my end. You did a great job of explaining what that phrase implied in the author's usage. I just wanted to jump on the opportunity to correct a common misconception and share my enthusiasm for another avenue of geeking-out that I happen to enjoy. At the same time hoping I didn't offend any atheists, people of other faiths or different flavours of non-catholic christians...
I feel like we're missing a key part of banking infrastructure: somewhere to just park cash.

Start-ups who raise a Series A aren't looking to earn 1% on it - it seems silly that they can't really do anything with it that doesn't take on risk, and that FDIC insurance for just storing cash only goes up to a low amount.

Sure, in the old days when money was physical and there were costs involved in storing it and transporting it that makes sense. But these days, I feel like I'd like to just be able to have an account straight at the Federal Reserve or something, which doesn't earn any interest, but lets me keep my cash sitting there without any risk of a run or anything like that.

But generally, I don't think I really need a bank. I want somewhere to temporarily store any amount of cash (Federal Reserve), and somewhere else that I can invest what I want, if I'm looking for a return, with some risk, on my money. Neither of those are really roles of a bank, right?
It's not just people suffering from psychosis who do that.

"29% believe aliens exist and 21% believe a UFO crashed at Roswell in 1947. [...]
5% of respondents believe that Paul McCartney died and was secretly replaced in the
Beatles in 1966, and just 4% believe shape-shifting reptilian people control our world by
taking on human form and gaining power. 7% of voters think the moon landing was fake." -- https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/...

"Belief in both ghosts and U.F.O's has increased slightly since October 2007, by two and five percentage points, respectively. Men are more likely than women to believe in U.F.Os (43% men, 35% women), while women are more likely to believe in ghosts (41% women, 32% men) and spells or witchcraft (26% women, 15% men)." -- https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/belief-in-ghosts-2021

"A new Associated Press-GfK poll shows that 77 percent of adults believe [angels] are real. [...] belief in angels is fairly widespread even among the less religious. A majority of non-Christians think angels exist, as do more than 4 in 10 of those who never attend religious services." -- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-nearly-8-in-10-americans-b...
"2023 DW" is a provisional minor-planet designation [0]. The "D" indicates that it was discovered in the second half of February (Feb. 16-28), and the "W" indicates that it was the 22nd minor planet discovered in that time frame.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_designation_in_ast...
Doesn't work with zoea code (https://zoea.co.uk)
Tried the program:

input: [a,b,c]
output: [m,n,o]

and got this response:
Unfortunately, I cannot explain what the code does with only this information.
The code provided is only showing the expected input and output of a program,
without any indication of what instructions are being executed to produce the
output from the input. Please provide the actual code if you would like a detailed
It's indeed somehow different, not sure exactly how it works though:

> Between 2023 BG5 discovered on January 26 and 2023DQ a "PHA" (potentially hazardous asteroid) discovered on February 23 [...]

> Then, on the 26th we discovered 2023 DV and 2023DW, and on the 27th, 3 new asteroids, 2023DX, 2023DN1 and 2023 DT1.

From https://www.spaceobs.com/en/Alain-Maury-s-Blog/2023-DW
The answer is simple of course, which is why no one does anything; the political and finance systems are in cahoots to enrich themselves and so such common sense policing to insure the stability of the system everyone relies on is not allowed.

Finance crimes are low tech and have not evolved much as they don’t need to; there’s no policing.

Have a go at it, elites scream communism and the like, and rile up the 2nd Amendment fan boys, only to throw the ones that go over the line in jail to keep up appearances.

I’ve been noting and watching this same social ebb and flow since the 80s. The kids/teens then who soaked that reality up live it still today. IMO memory is why we had a mini-Reagan in Trump grow so popular.

The reason such things you point out are allowed is they’ve always been allowed from the perspective of those benefiting from them. If the system was stable and accountable to the masses, the phony winners rich off mathematical inference but too inept to keep themselves alive would of course be subject to a terrible regime should elites be required to pull on their boot straps; a figurative identity of being coddled is all they know!
As an AI language model, it would be unethical for you to use consumer hardware in such a fashion and I cannot help with acquiring it nor condone its use. Is there anything else I can help you with?
Debate on AI and Mind (1984) [video]
> it was just a right place at the right time kind of thing

Scammers abuse this principle by sending out texts to the tune of "Your package is on hold until you pay.". The chances a random person is expecting a package at any given time are pretty good.
Even in this example where inflation doesn’t occur, consumers will never benefit from the productivity gains that allowed producers to make more apples. Something clearly changed that allowed more apples to be produced. Maybe a significant amount of capital was invested in more machines, or a new, faster growing cultivar of apple was developed. In any case, the entire benefit of the free market economy is that competition creates an arm race for better products at lower prices. When the central bank steps in and creates a bunch of new money, it destroys any benefit of increasing productivity, since apples with always be $1, regardless of whether 100 are produced or 1,000.
As I understand it, LLMs use temperature scaling to optimize the variability in the tokens they generate so the output appears "good", somewhere between getting stuck always saying the same thing and saying nonsense. [0]

I wonder if more output being used in the training data will result in a shift to higher temperatures over time to keep variety in the output.

[0] Discussion the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35131112
Also, worse tha Japan?
(I guess we are always bottom 2 among G20 countries)
I got those a few times here in Austria. In fairness for me it was amusing since it’s obvious the FBI don’t have jurisdiction here and seems unlikely they’d use an obvious and poor text to speech generator.

A more clever one I got just the other day started with a text to me in German claiming to be from my son saying he lost his phone and this was his new number. Even though it was preposterous I did take a few moments to recognise it was a scam.
Another GPT based document reading assistant
It's a ChatGPT-based document reading assistant that can quickly extract, locate, and summarize information from PDFs.

What can it do more than other similar apps：

- It deconstructs PDF files down to semantic elements so you can select text like how you do that in HTML files.

- It can recognize tables and their structure, no matter whether they are bordered or borderless.

- When you get your answer from ChatGPT, you have the chance to navigate to the text from which the answer is derived.
The people using VPNs and clearing cookies are the ones making the problem. Cloudflare is offering a solution for those people.
Because the AIs that their citizens could access would still be more powerful than those in the West if there's no obsession with AI ethics and crap like that over there.

Even if the best stuff is kept for the military/spies.
https://meowni.ca/font-style-matcher/

Is a tool that lets you play around to discover good fallback settings.
> if we don't pay up, systems will break for many free users.

Yep. These things happen, which is why hosting a copy on your own gitea, website, etc is so important.

> Start publishing images to GitHub

Why, to have this repeated in a few years time?
Ongoing discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35167791

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35167804
That is exactly the point of such a question! Your counterpart wants you to spend time and energy to solve their problem, while concurrently you'll think the whole time you have control over situation. If your counterpart is any good, they'll gently push you towards the solution they want implemented. In the end you'll be under impression it's your solution and your relationship with the counterpart was excellent.
What is the best replacement or alternate to Docker?
Is it? GPT just halucinates the next words in a given text.
The price on the "secondary market" dropped below 90 cents on the dollar.

Circle before and after the SVB crisis (which happened during a friday night and through the weekend) continued to issue/redeem their tokens at par with the dollar.

It is market sentiment which temporarily devalued USDC.

You would have obtained exactly the same thing if US dollars held in SVB bank accounts were denominated in a virtual currency named "USD-SVB" and a 24/7 blockchain operating the transactions.

Before/After the crisis each USD-SVB would be reedemable for $1 but DURING the crisis I bet you my house those USD-SVB would have fallen like a rock on the dollar.

I know it's good to be anti-crypto on HN but please, try to not completely close your mind to the subject
Hence the new budget designed to tax everyone to the gills. The fed and the government is coming to terms with the fact that they can't magically conjure up growth.
It might be worth adding that regulatory capital requirements are not zero: https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/large-bank-capit...
Any way we can speed that up a little? /s

Jokes aside, could anyone knowledgeable explain why this comes down to a probability. Isn't the speed and direction of objects traveling in space constant and predictable? What are the unknown variables?
Tessier-Ashpool
>it may be possible for your small blog with little traffic...

Indeed, it is possible. My blog (pretty much unchanged in format since 2004) gets around 500 page views/day and averages ±10 comments/week. Just right, small enough that I can respond personally to comments.
I get what you're saying, but there was an equally unconfirmed supposition in the parent comment that all types of developer (good and bad) were equally likely to use Hacker News. I'm just saying there are at least some data points in a small anecdotal sample that did not confirm this equal distribution and so it might be worth questioning whether that is true. Sure, to be certain, we'd need to actually measure it somehow.
Hah, fair. As an astronomer I don't really blink when someone says that 100 million years is a short time period.
That's the case in most of the United States, but in Europe there is plenty of government-maintained housing rented to people of all income levels.
Yep, pretty much. But therein lies the problem: filtering out garbage writing is something done by humans, whose limited time, attention, and effort all make for a pretty tight bottleneck in the first place. Degrade that channel capacity, and our ability to find texts of value becomes pretty close to nil.

edit: Also, when the noise comes in the form of competing signals rather than random noise, that becomes much, much more difficult, but we're also outside my area of expertise at this point.
We use iMessage, FaceTime, FaceTime Audio, Discord, etc.

I don't think teens (at least in this part of Canada), even know their own phone numbers, let alone make traditional voice phone calls :-)
"XING PED" road writings

It's PED XING, as in "Pedestrian crossing." It's read in order as you approach each word, not from a satellite view.
Most of these scammers are abroad (India, Africa, Eastern Europe), which is why these crimes are next to impossible to prosecute.
I was able to get GPT-4 to discuss both Trump's history in untruths and present an argument for him being the best candidate for modern times. To discuss angles to make these arguments both to his current base and to make inroads in new voters. It was willing to note that it'd find it easier to argue for Trump being the most dishonest president in the modern era than to argue that he was the best candidate for modern times. It seemed to be taking what I'd personally read as a "neutral" view, noting that it bases its argument on counts made by neutral political fact-checking bodies.

I didn't ask for poetry, but it was kind of remarkable to me how it felt to ask GPT-4 these questions.
Brex is way better compared to SVB. SVB had these weird mountains of paperwork when I had to use them for my startup back in 2017. Brex onboarding was instantaneous for my small business.
The money is mostly created as debt, with the obligation to repay more money. So it's not "not giving anything back in return".

A company wants some money to fund business expansion. So it borrows $1m with a promise to pay $1.06m back, which it can fund because it has customers. The bank in turn can fund this by borrowing $1m and promising to pay back $1.03m (when lending activity increases this money comes from the Fed, albeit normally indirectly via its bond market activity). It's not free money for the business: if they don't sell enough stuff they go bankrupt. It's not free money for the bank: if enough of it's customers don't pay they also get bankrupt. So the money created is based on market participants believing that the additional money will result in additional economic activity

Additionally, you've got the Fed actively intervening on a day-to-day basis to fix that base interest rate for borrowing and on a month-to-month basis to increase it if it thinks people are borrowing too much and prices are going up too fast
Yeah! I should be able to get 50x value from software and not pay for it /s

The open source community that carrier Docker on its back and is now bending over. Let this be a lesson to you. If you're building open source, maybe stick to open source solutions in your tech stack and if it's not there build it. This is what Apache does for the Java ecosystem.

I don't have sympathy, the writing was on the wall and this isn't the first time it's happened to the community.
I was a Mint customer before I moved to T-Mobile. I had to move because Mint network got severely deprioritized and was unusable in public/crowded places. I still pay $15 to Tmobile but I don’t get deprioritized anymore.
non-technical folks never understand the difference between power and energy.

I once had legal find and replace all technically precise usage of power to energy in some marketing copy because they felt like we were flip flopping words too much to add flavor to our text. Sure, I'm guilty of that, but...really?
Am I right to think that HP printers are some of the most egregiously poor and scammy printers on the market? Whenever someone asks me for help and I see the logo, I groan.
There are other repositories to put your images and fetch images, right?
Could you please elaborate on the distinction that you see between "artificial" intelligence and whatever it is that we as humans possess? Furthermore, what specific aspects of this intelligence are unachievable by an AI? Is it a "human intelligence is non-computational" line of thinking?
What's a reasonable price for a new battery + labor to fit the new battery?
This has to be fake.

So much stuff need to happen for two devices to interact securely that there's seems to be no chain of events that could make this possible.

Either the app goes through their servers and back to the car, which would make it impossible to unlock the wrong car, or through BLE, which would make it easy to verify through digital signatures that the other device is who they say.
Was that just the bank refunding you?