skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the bank, it's the banker. Like seriously.

When we were starting up, we were just a bunch of bright-eyed 18-year-olds, with nothing to our name, except $3000. We didn't know the basic shit about opening a business account and shopping around, so we went to the name-brand small private bank we could find that was "sexy", cold called them and explained our situation. We were all broke, still in college, no real revenue so to speak of, and the person handling the call literally did not know where to guide us (or she misunderstood us?), so she sent us off to a relationship manager, to whom we relayed our story. He told us to go look elsewhere.

Actually, yeah, he told us to go look elsewhere because that bank was not suited to handling corporate accounts, but mostly private wealth management. And their minimum deposit was $200,000 for the basic accounts, with a $1 million being the usual expected deposit. Instead, he himself referred us to another bank, which gladly took us on, because of his referral. We thanked him so much, created our account, whatever.

Fast forward to 3 years later, we sold the company and were flush with cash, so obviously y'all know to whom we went to handle our accounts. By then he was in a much larger bank. When he left that one for Credit Suisse, we all followed him. Over these years, he might have received a collective amount of more than $200 million in banking business from our relationship (not from our startup alone, other investments too).
Curious to know how much code is kept from Phlare? How did you merged two similar projects.
I too find Red Hat's poor documentation hygiene a pain in the arse. But as for the disabled system features, I think that they all fall into the category of experimental/unproven sort of features that overlap with other existing RHEL components. Every enabled feature has a cost in the form of support burden.
Came here to post this as well. I was going to start making a replacement for cssfontstack, so I'm glad to see this here. But also feel that the percentage adoption was a huge value to me, as it helped me prioritize fonts in my chosen stack to maximize consistency. I'd love to see stats that include popular mobile OS's as well.
Are they gonna ban most pharmaceuticals that are excreted into the drinking water?
Backups and monitoring are you responsibility anyway! You are making a distinction where there is none.
This is a frustrating reality, but, out of curiosity, did you ever try asking the name and/or department of the person calling you and using that to try to get back to them when calling back?
Imagine if everyone actually did this. Then we would have a myriad of base images hiding even more malware than we do currently.

Not to mention vertically integrating the entire Docker layer set defeats the whole point of using Docker in the first place.
If you're unable to take on a task that has a 30 day deadline in your org, regardless of size, you're experiencing a good amount of bloat.
> We refine our hypothesis of “this is artificial intelligence” once we gain more information.

You're basically saying skepticism is the correct approach and it doesn't matter if we make confident yet wrong predictions about the (lack of) future potential of AI.

I mean, sure, that works too. But I think that's basically admitting the goalposts are moving.
The loan guy absolutely does need to make sure the bank has the cash to make the loan. You can't loan more money than you have. What happens when B goes to withdraw it from the bank to buy a car or house if it isn't there?

If banks can loan more than they have by say borrowing the money at a lower rate than they lend it, that invalidates your basic premise of banks creating money. They wouldn't have created it, they would have borrowed it.
Maybe this is just me being a physicist, but I would have trouble applying the notion of escrow to anything that does not obey a law of conservation...

“Put that idea in escrow”—I assume I have to write it down first? “Put our incrementing page view count in escrow”—uh...? “Put my time in escrow”—how on earth am I going to get it back?

Similarly “escrowing your software dependencies”, hard to interpret if I didn't know the context. Whereas “vendoring” is similarly opaque but immediately recognizable as jargon and has made it into tools (`go mod vendor` and `deno vendor` for example).
Indeed. While I do maintain two of them, that maintenance is effectively equivalent to being an open source maintainer or open source contributor. I do not have any non-public knowledge about the Docker Official Images program. My interaction with the Docker Official Images program can be summed up as “my PRs to docker-library/official-images” (https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pulls/TimW...) and the #docker-library IRC channel on Libera.Chat.
That's great to hear. My comment was more to put into some real numbers the cost of living in SFBA for the grandparent, since they seemed to be under some illusions. In most of the US, that's a very decent salary and would be more than doable, I think in the Bay it's only possible if you already own a home and/or are separately independently wealthy. Which honestly, is fine, more people need to not live in SFBA and live in the rest of the US, even in major cities, which are massively better from a COL perspective.
Something something eggs and baskets
Ah, in places like New York/Chicago/Los Angeles/Miami it wasn't "slow", it was 5 bars of service and zero network access.
The challenge is that, even though those two phrases have very different tones, they quite literally are the same. Compensating for biased sampling is done by saying "well, I don't think this sample represents what I was looking for, so I'm going to pretend that some parts of the sample are less common than they really were and other parts are more common than they really were". The bias isn't an inherent property of the sample, it's an interaction between the characteristics of the sample and the characteristics we'd like it to have.
Welcome to ‘Cerebral Valley.’
When everything tastes almost identical, branding and marketing is all that can distinguish them.
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America Needs More Giant Banks
Fine. Pick your number. Let's be a bit generous:

Ten fully skilled security experts deputized @ 200K/yr. Fifteen assistants at $75K/yr. All personnel grossed up to 140% for fully loaded cost. Hardware, infrastructure, software, hosting services, $200K/yr. Total (((20010)+(7515))*1.4)+200 = $4,575,000/year.

You don't think that such a team could stop $50 million in crime in a year? I'd expect that $500 million would be a slow year and stopping $5billion would be more like it. There is so much of it and such low-hanging fruit...

I know of large corporation divisions where $5 million per quarter was literally their rounding error threshold three decades ago (likely more like $15 million now).

The payoff is so great it is astonishing that some large tech companies don't do it just for the general reputation of the industry. Or the banks for the same reason (e.g., I wont' touch Zelle, both because when I first checked it out it was horribly clunky, my bank wanted $20/month just to use it, and all the persistent scams).

Or, just for lulz. This is rounding-error pocket-change for these corps. If it got going, I could see a rivalry between MS, Oracle, & Alphabet execs for who could dunk the most scam dollars, and jail the most perps...
So you took Ventura update I guess. Apple pretty much abandoned QA a long time ago. I try to wait for the X.3 release myself and so far my machines haven't been bricked in a long while.
How do I check man pages for what single parameter of the command does?
Sell Robot Insurance...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Gh_IcK8UM
I'm sure at some point OpenAI will start signing BAAs
Appimages are not statically linked at all.
If anything, LLM's will make it worse.
Thanks for linking to the paper
It's the same thing. Predict the next pixel, or the next token (same way you handle regular images), or infill missing tokens (MAE is particularly cool lately). Those induce the abstractions and understanding which get tapped into.
I don't have to learn a new language to use it and it is integrated with existing GNOME and KDE package install solutions.
LinkedIn expands its generative AI assistant to recruitment ads
It's a fair question as to whether the problem space of "the world" is different in just amount or sufficiently different in kind to flummox AI.

I expect more complex problems will be mapped/abstracted to lower cardinality spaces for solving via AI methods, while the capability of AI will continue to increase the complexity of the spaces it can handle.

LLMs just jumped the "able to handle human language" hurdle, but there are others down the line before we should worry that every problem is solveable.
Which public and private companies are doing well with AI? I’m thinking more along the lines as a long term investor.
I'm trying to wrap my head around this AI future that replaces browsers and browsing. Currently I use a browser to:

1. Browse the internet with places like HN & Youtube
2. Use apps in the browser for work (Miro, Slack, Klaviyo, etc)
3. Ask search engines a question to find an answer

Where does AI replace these? If it's #3 I can tell you that's not for me. I don't want an answer scraped from the internet from an amalgamated source. When I use a search engine I'm able to see what looks fishy and what doesn't.

What am I missing out on?
> Sure, we could say "If it isn't using the unicode roman numeral, then its latin letters".

No, I don't think screen readers should do that unilaterally! That case—where latin letters are used—is legitimately tricky for the reasons you describe. If screen readers get it wrong, I understand.

What I'm talking about is the other case, in which the author used the roman numeral unicode characters specifically. Most of the software in the article did worse with those characters compared to the latin letters! There's really no excuse for that!
Only Russia, Syria and North Korea support this narrative, while 141 out of 193 UN members have explicitly called this bullshit and demanded Russia to get the fuck out of Ukraine.

It's a simple, yet powerful reminder where Russia stands in the world: 3 vs 141. Even Nazi Germany had more international support.
That's the thing about success.. if he can turn it into success at a certain level, oil money will be after it.
I can recommend the book "Losing the Signal".

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/433524/losing-the-signal-by-...
In Venezuela, people pay their rent in the bank branch in cash, often from a bag hanging around the tenant's neck and spacious enough to accommodate the substantial inflation. Then a photo and fingerprints are taken from the depositor (every month!).

The capital Caracas has a tunnel, in which gangs often stop cars and shoot through the window (cost of bullet = $0.10) in order to collect any change the driver or other passengers may hold - if someone was on their way to pay the monthly rent at the bank it would be their lucky day, but if the driver had just $20 in their wallet, it's still a profit of $19.90 minus the cost of the assassin's time.

Good there are electronic standing orders in most countries.
The data broker market is ~$250B, it's not all personal data, but the market for personal data to target these scams is huge. The worst part is many data brokers get their data from government sources like the state DMVs: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/dmvs-are-making-a...
Mozilla is almost the poster child of the rudderless NGO. Every little thing they do, from running an office in the homeless capital of the world, to running a circle-jerk competition like this one (no objective criteria for success), makes me wonder if Firefox is going to go away sometime soon.

I wish the EU decided to take privacy seriously and either fully funded Mozilla or forked it. The cost would be a fraction of the harm done by those cookie popups.

In general A.I. safety looks like a scam. For one thing there are all of EY's front groups such as lesswrong, effective altruism, longtermism, etc. Until ChatGPT came along A.I. safety was necessary to make A.I. look more important than it really was. Now, the story that "company X fired some/all of its A.I. safety staff" serves to legitimize the whole thing (obviously they are saying something important and dangerous to power, therefore A.I. safety is relevant.)
The accounting is like this. Bank A is in compliance for the current period of time under examination (capital requirments and reserve requirements). Bank A makes a loan L1 to person B. This is a contract. Bank A has an asset in L1 on its balance sheet(this improves its capital ratio) and person B has L1 on her balance sheet as a liability. Person B makes a deposit of L1 amount into Bank B. Bank B has a liability of L1. Person B has an asset of L1 which is her deposit which she owns. Finally, Bank A makes a reserve payment to Bank B of L1. These reserves come out of the reserve account that each bank has at the Fed. The reserves maybe borrowed in the Federal Funds market on demand so long as the bank is in compliance.
Qt Design Studio 4.0 Released
I wonder if that article has caused more damage over the years than it prevented.
40 years before 1984 the U.S. Army had learned Chinese symbols
It's better than ACH, I agree. But Venmo is not PayPal, just owned by them. Venmo works with usernames, not email addresses. I don't have to give a stranger anything other than that username for them to send me money.
> Lack of IP protection in our culture has made it impossible for 99.9% of artists to thrive economically.

You think we should have 1000x more artists than we do? I think there's another economic problem with that idea...

> The US has chosen relative cultural poverty compared to other cultures that find non-market mechanisms to support artists.

The USA has the largest market in the world for creative products and the most rich artists.

> My work is no AI’s whetstone.

Are you the same way with juniors? "I paid dearly to learn this technique - you should too!"

Aside from overtraining issues, the AI can't store your work anymore than you can store representations of everything you've trained on, it's vastly smaller than the sum of its training data. It distills out features and their combinations.

Some bigname artist is upset because he thinks he's the first one to put certain bat and lizard features on a dragon and that he now owns that entire sort of creature. Turns out though, that given an old picture of a dragon and that single sentence of mine that he could be copied by almost anyone. The only way to keep the AI from "copying" his work is to make sure that, even if not trained on his work, nobody asks it for those features. To satisfy these people it'll have to have a big red sign that says "Dragons are off limits, Bob owns them because you might put claws on the wings!".
That trend is already happening: look at the prevalence of SUVs and gigantic trucks in the States. Many of them are tall enough that you wouldn't be able to see a kid, or even smaller cars, when they're right in front of you.

EDIT: my link was broken. But look it up: these trucks now have front-facing cameras so you can see what's right in front of you.
You must be really lucky then :) My experience from ~2006 to 2014/15 (on and off, different companies, many different servers) was mostly bad, literal "you get what you pay for", with disks in dedicated servers dying left and right.

I've only become a customer again since their vps cloud offering and I've actually been recommending that because it has been flawless for me for years.
I thought about setting up a foundation that mock scams people as a form of scam education after my wife was scammed in a classic tax text scam. Thoughts?
I'm claiming we need less government intervention
ASK HN:

Why should a person that weight about 80kg on average drag along with them a 4000 kg weight just to get around? That is easily 50 times their own weight.

And how does a civilization which claims to be concerned about damage to the environment caused by carbon dioxide, and toxic mining entertain such depraved behaviour if they truly believe that the world is coming to an end on account of environmental damage?

Then the same person moans that fuel costs are too high.

Am I missing something here?
In a constant intereest rate environment the bonds' market value will tend towards par value the closer they get to maturity
The hard part for me was getting the latency low enough that I can comfortably type and move the mouse. But I may look into is as a 4th screen for logs would be interesting
Because you don't like Roman numerals disabled people should be unable to read then? Is this some supervillain origin story?

It's typical 2020's internet moaning: "Stop liking things I don't like."
I use my own custom client since I couldn't find anything that satisfied me enough, and the ones that looked nice didn't work without JS. You can find it over at https://hn.gigantino.dev, while the source is at https://github.com/gigantino/hn
That's hedging against inflation (which is definitely something they should have been doing for long term bonds). Interest rates directly affect the sale price of a bond, and it could have been hedged against, but it wasn't required. They won't do it unless it's required. Banks over 50 billion need to be regulated again (and they should lower it to 10 billion too).
Show HN: Mr. Graph – A graph definition and execution library for Python
What:

Mr. Graph is a python library designed to make composing graphs of sync and async functions easy! Use google style docstrings to automagically create dataclasses and chain together function calls into graphs.

Why:

I like the design of Dagster, but not the latency. For apps and systems engineering, sometimes I want to compose a graph out of regular python functions. I don;t need all the heavy machinery that comes with a full workflow engine.

Current features:

- Use with either async or sync functions

- Uses google style doc strings to name return values.

- Creates dataclasses for each function's output.

- Can infer pipelines from input and output signatures

- All directed acyclic graph layouts supported. linear, fan-in, fan- out.

Future Features:

- Better examples for use with async calls (like LLMs)

- Splitting dataclasses, better error handling, logging improvements.

This is under active development. Any feedback, interest, or contributions are appreciated. Thanks!

github link: https://github.com/mcminis1/mr-graph
What about voice quality or prompt delivery of SMS? Its anecdotal but i've had serious issues having delayed SMS on the T-Mobile MVNOs. Voice calls appear have been more spotty but thats harder to measure.
You mind showing the illegals who pay zero taxes and yet get preferential political treatment the rulebook?
Much worse, Ford had a small set of fleet keys where every fleet vehicle of a set of types would have the exact same key for several model years.

I bought an old cargo van which had been a Comcast installation vehicle and they had sabotaged the lock on the rear door because of this.
Not sure what time frame we're talking here but I don't even remember there being any choice of disk.
Lost? These companies may have lost the AI software race, but they have quite a moat. They created a new hardware category, a large 3rd party ecosystem (in the case of Alexa), sold a shitload of mostly useless "smart" devices and now they just need new software and suddenly they're... not mostly useless! Who else can sell hardware right now with "new" AI tech?

If GPT-4 was hardware exclusive, it would be a different story.
More fundamentally it comes to down to deep problems in social choice theory. For one thing you can't aggregate people's utility functions which makes it impossible to prove that any distribution of wealth is more or less optimal, just, or however you want to frame it. You're left with the weak libertarian argument that "any voluntary fraud-free transaction improves the world" because you can show that it raises the utility function of the participants.
It would be some form of emergency credit or something similar to the interbank loans, basically doing what they've had to do with FDIC anyway.

Or the bank could have bought TIPS instead, I guess.
https://julialang.org/benchmarks/
Writing garbage, then receiving feedback on your writing, and progressing to write less garbage is a common pattern of improvement however.

The origin of the corpus matters much less than the quality of its curation.
Interpreting "printing money" to replace the more technical "controlling the size of the monetary base[1]" seems reasonable. How is that incorrect?

Unless you're talking about literal printing press operations, "the fed tries to tweak the money supply to control inflation as one of its dual mandates" seems like an absolute correct, if simple, explanation of why we don't have hyperinflation.

(I know tone is hard to convey. I am serious about learning if I have a misunderstanding)

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2018/july/federal-...
A few years ago before moving into a new apartment, I needed to purchase renter's insurance per the terms of the lease. After filling out the info online with the company, I got a call a few hours later asking to finalize the details, and right before I was about to give them my payment info, I suddenly realized that giving payment info to someone who called me instead of looking up the number myself and calling them is exactly what we're told not to do, so I apologized and asked if it was all right for me to call them back. The person I was talking to said that was totally fine and gave their name and said I could ask for them, so after hanging up, I got the official number and called it. The person I talked to was able to verify that I was in fact talking to someone legit before, but they refused to transfer me to them and instead insisted on completing the transactions themself (presumably for the commission). From what I can tell, the way the reps for this company were paid incentivizes them to call people directly to try to get the sale for themself and by extension _punishes_ them for allowing the customer to take the safe next step of hanging up to look up the number and call back directly.
"Ready, Fire, Aim" by Michael Masterson. It's a bit cheesy, but it has a publishing industry slant which suited me and enough things resonated that filtered into decisions I made that I'm thankful for it. I never went it past the first half of the book as you're meant to be doing $10m revenue before you move on ;-)
> Do you really think the world is going to bend to your whim just so you don't have to add a couple features?

No, but I do compare the amount and importance of occurrences in a problem space, with the amount of work and fallout the solutions to accomodate these occurrences will cause.
That's fair. Maybe Wells Fargo and others were on the cutting edge of this change. But somehow, I doubt it.
see my other reply on the balance sheet operations above.
I remember back around 2009, our org had this horrible open source program, which shall not be named, foisted upon us by an excitable bloke who had heard wondrous things from the university where it had been developed. Well, we had a bitch of a time getting it running. Instructions and build scripts were minimal. We thrashed around.

I noted to someone that this felt less like a product and more like a website and set of scripts ripped from a working system. A few of us were shipped up to the originating university for a week to hob-knob with the people in charge of it. Toward the end, during the ritual inebriation phase, I managed to find out that they had never actually attempted to install it on a clean system. This had truly been ripped from a working system. And I thought to myself, "How horrible."

Now, I am admittedly pants at Linux. No good at all. But there is something about Docker and similar technologies that says, "Yes, we threw our hands in the air and stopped trying to make a decent installation system."