skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Distilling business domain logic into a model
I can imagine once you have finetuned GPT4 on all the documents(including code) of a business you have a pretty good repository of knowledge which you can rely on to answer questions, implement features, detect bugs and so on. This was always the hardest part of the game and this technology is much better at it than I could ever be. How does it change the game?
Your bank pays you interest on a transaction account?
Let's make sure, I'll make a callok?
ChatGPT does separate the two, the API has the concept of a "system" prompt which guides its use.

But even OpenAI notes it doesn't (yet) follow the prompt as strongly as they'd like. It's a hard problem to solve.
Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print
I wonder if at some point all reputable entities will adopt some kind of "AI Generated" badge to go on any content, image, video, etc. that's AI Generated.

Obviously there will still be fakes. But if anyone who puts out those fakes is immediately afoul of the legitimate content community, that could create a sharp dividing line.
SVB was insolvent last quarter.
Glassdoor for rent prices
They do say it exhibits this behaviour (they don't elaborate on that). They just say it was ineffective at autonomous replication and i don't know about you but i find that wording vague. Ineffective can mean at least two things. Did it attempt to do so and just couldn't figure it out with the given tools or no ?
Blockchain Association collecting evidence of debanking in the US
Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic
They're only consequences in the sense that definitions are consequences, because that's pretty much what a "right" is: a definition.

They don't exist before they are defined by humans, so in that sense they do not have an a priori existence.
> Call me naïve, but if I put money in a bank I should be able to get it back whenever I want. If I didn't want it to be liquid, I'd buy something less liquid. The very concept of a bank run is ridiculous. If all a bank's customers want their cash back, they should be able to get it back without affecting the liquidity of the bank.

Then the product you really want is a safe deposit box to put your literal cash in. They bank will make its money from the rental fee you pay. It doesn't sound like you're actually looking for a bank account that pays interest.
J Archive – The fan-created archive of Jeopardy games and players
Makes you as a software dev irrelevant for one I would guess.
Give it your password and pipe the output to curl?

You try it first.
At my first programming job they were religious about the single `return' and followed a pattern that was bizarre and luckily I've not seen since--using a `retVal' variable declared at the top.

int foo(int bar) {
int retVal = -1;
if (bar == 1) {
retVal = 1;
}
if ((retVal % 2) == 0) {
retVal = 2;
}
return retVal;
}
One thing we want from banks is to store our money and provide it to us on demand. Another thing we want from banks is provide lending to the average consumer (mortgages in the large and credit cards in the small). A bank can do both of these well, in most economic situations, if it is run well. Those two services synergize most of the time so it’s useful to combine both under one entity, but in some scenarios the sign can flip and they antagonize each other instead.
Giving it to everyone might improve our chances at having a balance of power. As things stand, they're betting that there won't be much competition, and that they can handle it all on their own.
It... is an indie game though?
> when our streaming forefathers spoke of a la carte as the future, they should have specified each individual piece of content and not a la carte channels.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/tv-shows/id32

Previously, this wasn't cheaper, you could get basically all the things with 2 subs, e.g. Netflix and Hulu Plus w/ Live.

Then there was a sort of golden age where Apple TV or Amazon Prime offered brand umbrellas as individual channel subscriptions. You could even add/cancel them right in the iPhone's subscription list (a few are still there).

Now most shows are congregating back under brands, each wanting full freight as if they had it all, the combination adds up.

Doing the math, if you watch specific named shows instead of background TV, it's to where season purchases might again make sense for individuals or DINK type households that only watch prestige TV.
That's what banks choose to do. People depositing their money with a bank don't have a responsibility to ensure it remains solvent though.

If you think there is a significant risk your bank is going to go under, you get your money out. If you think that risk is due to panic about a bank run kicked off by an unfounded rumor, you get your money out. You take care of your affairs, and the bank can take care of its operations and public relations.
This one drives me nuts. We aren't running this web app on a pentium 2. Code complexity is vastly more important than the complexity of running this algo when the N is 12.
Personally, I don't want it stopped, just labeled and controlled. Don't sell me AI-made books and tell me they're written by humans. Don't send me AI-written emails, if it's not worth writing it's not worth reading. Don't use AI to tailor my experiences to be as addictive as possible, oh wait...
Yeah, 100% this. Deviant Ollam talks about something like this (though maybe a bit more high stakes (maybe not)) in his talk here about risk preparedness I found really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihrGNGesfI
Curious analogy, given what would happen to someone caught in a stampede who tries to stop it by standing their ground.
There's a difference between a mistake and no ethics.
Yep, the garbage flood started a long time ago.
New GPT-4-powered business model just dropped.
Texas Instruments MSPM0 Arm Cortex-M0 microcontrollers sell for 39 cents and up
I'll just go ahead and say Readymades aren't art and express my belief that the artistic community will survive the copyright loss of loosely arranged furniture so we can avoid justifying the current state of affairs with avante garde silliness. John Cage made a musical piece 4'33 which is 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence which has as much to do with music as Readymades do with art.

His other works include curated noises such as buzzing blenders, falling objects, and street traffic. The only art is the act of convincing someone these things are art or deserving of copyright.
That's probably the right choice, if there's a firmware update on Monday. If not, it's probably time to buy a new phone.
Yeah, I'm saying real examples may be useful to reduce resistance.
Sounds nice for a solo project.
“Intelligent Machinery” by Turing (1948) [pdf]
You need to re-read those articles. They don't say banks "don't lend depositor funds" At least the first couple on that page explain that banks don't "need" depositor money to lend and in fact they generally lend out money they borrow from a central bank since their loan outlay tends to outpace their deposits.

But outside of the central bank reserve requirements the banks are free to loan our or otherwise invest their depositors cash, which is in fact prudent since cash "loses" value from inflation. Putting that excess funds into loans or other investments can all lead to what happened to SVB if a run on the bank over runs the reserves.
Safe deposit boxes are very hard to come by these days. Banks are moving away from them. Last year JPM started phasing them out [1]. The trade is likely to continue.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-30/jpmorgan-...
Taxes aren't fun or sexy. The users will invariably include a lot of "non-technical" people, which is not going to be worth dealing with for free. Some of them might even try to sue you if there's a bug. A lot of open source software is written by students, retirees, unemployed people, who don't always work or care much about taxes. Pretty much every country has different rules, and I'm sure the US is not unique in having a multilayered system of federal/state and possibly city taxes, so making something widely usable would require a ton of work from people in many regions. Tax rules can also change from year-to-year, placing additional burdens on unpaid maintainers and contributers. Honestly, this is one area where paid software is the best solution if the government is not willing to write their own.
Let me clarify: it's not that some Pixel owners just haven't installed the March update yet. It's that Google hasn't released it it for some Pixel models.
In fairness, it's not like they're not giving people access. I'm sure Google is at least a few years ahead, and you have to wonder what they have been doing with it, keeping it all to themselves.
And before any more midwits play the "Prisoner's Dilemma" card to defend this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma

> Two members of a criminal gang, A and B, are arrested and imprisoned. Each prisoner is in solitary confinement with no means of communication with their partner.

The guilty parties here could communicate with each other, and could cooperate, just like the banks did today by aiding First Republic. Instead, it appears that while they did communicate and cooperate, it was only towards the end of running on SVB. And as others have pointed out, even if the framing of it as a Prisoner's Dilemma is correct, it's not a single iteration variant: if the VC community could have come to some sort of an agreement, any party that refused to cooperate, or worse, that pledged to and then betrayed the others, would suffer a substantial loss of trust from other VCs and startups going forward.
Do modern cars even allow you to step on the accelerator and the brake at the same time?
Well it's indeed one of major SoC suppliers for Russian military, but actually Baikal SoC are used for various civil purposes too: thin clients, servers, network routers, industrial automation/SCADA, CNC and so on.
I really wish I could cash in my HN points for real money, but alas...
Tell me when meta can do legs.

#tooSoon
I keep thinking "nobody is going to have an AI design X" but I couldn't think of X where it was likely...
Yes of course. Optimizing and building the model to the format acceptable by ONNX web runtime will getting this in. On the other hand, we also need to enhance our own runtime (for example for better memory pool management) in the future.
It existed. It was called the iPod Touch. It was a full iPhone without a cellular modem.

It was discontinued, assumedly for low sales as more and more people gave their kids either iPads or hand me down iPhones instead of buying iOS touches like they used to.
Oddly enough, a very similar percentage of homes are owner occupied between the two countries despite the apparently dramatic differences in mortgage availability.

Edit: this is based off a two minute Google I could be wrong.
Strongly agree, we need mandatory retirement at 65 for elected office.
I don't think that's true? SVB was insolvent because they had to sell bonds at a massive loss in order to cover illiquidity that was a problem due to the bank run.
Bing has to be slower since it mixes in context from the web. So technically it does a Web search, feeds the results into ChatGPT, while ChatGPT itself doesn't have this step.
On the flipside, if I'm learning a new paradigm all my new code feels like "Good code".

For example recently learning RxJS and writing a complete mess of state spread across my app feels good because its "declarative" compared to the ugly previous "imperative code".

I think part of it is the reward of the learning process itself, but I can see it being an addictive cycle.
If you are a privately owned bank with a small group of similar minded shareholders who are not looking for a lot of ROI and also the bank should not issue any bonds and raise debt then it may work.

Given that you can only accept maybe 20x[1] of the equity investment. Is it possible to raise $15B in equity financing with this model ? Otherwise this bank cannot service the volume deposits of SVB and it would be a just small novelty bank.

Banks have significant costs and expectations of growth, shareholders to satisfy, which is why they take risks. Risks that are regulated - which perhaps not strong enough (Basel III) are still pretty strict

---

[1] Ignoring risk weights etc, you would need at least 5% of the deposits in equity to be "Well Capitalized". The number goes higher depending on risk factors.
> Yet if you define the algorithmic steps to perform addition on 2 numbers

You’re limited by the prompt size, which might be fine for simple arithmetic.
It wasn't as bad as you would expect. The total fallout on Earth from a launch would have been about the same as a single 10 Megaton air burst, which we were doing all the time back then.
The courts are not going to be able to stop the flood of AI generated images.

Even now, when it takes a lot more human effort to generate an image because It has to be done by a human, the courts are ineffective at stopping the rampant and blatant copyright infringement that happens daily on a truly massive scale on the internet.

Now that the floodgates of creativity have been opened by AI, the amount of content being generated is going to exponentially increase, and all the laws and courts in the world are not going to be able to even slow it.
Ask HN: Handle Demotivation
Hello all.

I have had some motivational issues lately with regards to software development. In the past I used to really love programming.

Learning new frameworks, languages, paradigms. Building random things, cutting my teeth into all sorts of things from IoT to blockchain to ML.
It always felt like an endless treasure trove of interesting problems to solve.

However after the whole generative AI thing I am finding it very hard to care. I have come to the conclusion that I like the craftsmanship portion of software dev more than the actual product I am making as odd as it sounds. Which generative AI obviously completely replaces. Is anyone in the same boat? How do you handle it?
They would be soviet era warheads. Most probably don't work.
Cant wait to try it out with KiCAD. Also... No CANBUS? darn...
Bias is a real thing and it goes both ways, both for the interview panel and the interviewees.

It is worth removing bias in evaluating a candidate's ability to do the job, excel. It is why some folks don't include their photo on LinkedIn lest they be subject to filtering because of the way they look.
Cash is basically illegal for many transactions related to financial services and is likely to become illegal for everything greater than $10k in Australia very soon:

https://treasury.gov.au/policy-topics/economy/black-economy/...
People might not be honest. But large organizations, oh boy. There's zero way Disney will want any chance for their materials to not be copyrightable. If the Copyright office's view on this stands, there will be no great disruption of the employability of creatives.
The term for that is a "guard". Swift took it literally and introduced guard statements which force you to terminate the containing scope (return, throw, continue, break) or call a function that is marked as never returning. If control flow can ~~enter~~ exit the body of the guard statement without hitting one of those, it's a compiler error.

EDIT: Exit the body of the guard statement, not enter.
Where's the Link to the actual API?
Pottery is essentially man-made metamorphic rock made from sediment.
Large Language Models Do Gradient Descent at Runtime
It is. But if life has taught me anything it is that there’s enough irrational actors that the sane ones have to act exactly the same to get their own.
Censorship is the responsibility of the downstream consumer, not something it should try to optimize for perfectly.

Perhaps explicitness of imagery and writing, informality, logos<->pathos, and sarcasm can be weighted tunable options in future models.

How much longer before generative AI is writing comedy material better than humans?
I have no trouble on my end scrolling that page.
I think tech skills are still in high demand, but because I've been looking periodically, it is really quite dire. Maybe a good time to work on less commodity skills though.
You can own the copyright to the prompt used to generate the output.

But the algorithm isn’t collaborating, every possible outcome is fixed when the algorithm is finalized and users can’t actually change the possibilities. I clearly don’t own the copyright to my Google search results even if my query is quite unique.
I am not a Swift dev but it seemed like the speed of this release was very fast by Apple standards.

Can anyone in the know confirm that?
It's weird that SVB, or any one particular bank, would be "playing a pivotal role in serving the startup community". Loans are loans. The stories coming out about SVB "sticking with the founders through tough times" when none of the other banks would, well, they sound a bit like what you'd hear about a bank taking reckless risks with its lending practice.
Indeed, but it’s a much more legally dubious proposition when it comes to entire repos. A repo has more potentially creative structure for copyright to attach to. For example the class graph, or the filesystem layout are creative decisions that could potentially be protected. Current LLMs are nowhere near powerful enough to reimplement an entire repo without violating copyright.

For an individual function I can totally believe GPT4 could strip creative expression from it today. For example you could ask it to give a detailed description of a function in English, and then feed that English description back in (in a new session) and ask it to generate a code based upon the description.
Replying to this as it's the top one right now, but also to siblings after:

>I don’t understand how the iterated prisoner’s dilemma makes a difference.

SVB isn't fungible, this isn't the case of "a bank is a bank", it was heavily used for a reason and that was it had developed specialized services, expertise, and culture around supporting startups. Losing it may mean that SV as a whole is permanently, or at least temporarily but significantly, impoverished. New startups may become harder to start and operate. This doesn't mean the end for existing businesses, certainly not already grown successful ones with stable income and sufficient size for in-house expertise, so in a singular game it's not a big deal. But to the extent VCs or founders care about the next game and the one after, the startups to come that don't yet exist even on napkins, they may now be worse off than if through cooperation SVB had been saved and reformed.

You're missing the entire point of iteration, that it's not just about this one game. Startups fail for all sorts of reasons, what has made SV successful long term wasn't the success or failure of any single startup but that there was an overall environment where it was straight forward to have new ones try again and again.

tobyjsullivan sibling wrote:

>Any research recommending alternative strategies for iterated games is almost certainly looking at repeating games between a consistent pair of players.

Historically though SV has indeed been relatively consistent players, from VCs to founders to employees to, well, services like SVB! Silicon Valley Bank was founded in 1983, not yesterday. What is that to Silicon Valley itself if not consistent?

The iterated game here is all the startups after the current batch. Where do VCs and founders go to and deal with in Fall 2023? In March 2024? Will it be exactly and perfectly as good as SVB, or better? If so then sure, no problem. If not, they've sacrificed advantage in future iterations for the short term.

RyanGWU82 wrote:

>The Prisoners' Dilemma analogy was covered in Ben Thompson's Stratechery article this week

Thank you! There it is, glad I can read it now. Much better than anything I wrote. And to add on for the future here is the HN discussion on it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35134608
I bought a Motorola RAZR 3G for $0.50 while farting around inside a Cashies a while back

Turns out it was still locked to Telstra, they demanded *$100* to unlock the damn thing, even though they were turning off their 3G network anyway!

Unfortunately all the resources on hacking them has long since succumbed to linkrot, plus getting it hooked up over USB to an XP VM to try and unlock it that way seemed risky
Have a good night. You seem to be going out of your way to misunderstand and I'm not interested.
Oh, I hope that next time you will check this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferatio...

Russia had nuclear weapons since 1949 and no matter the treaties, both it and the US have more than enough nukes to burn the planet surface a few times too many. Those treaties are for posturing and they will sign a new one when China decides to gain some international diplomatic points and join the next one.
Thanks for the pointer! As far as we know the WebGPU development on firefox is a bit lagging behind, so we use Chrome and did not develop this project on firefox.
Most things can only be learned through practice. Students skipping practice makes the whole system useless. Spinning wheels just to spin wheels.
The question for the VCs is not, "why did you advise your portfolio companies to leave SVB?" It is, "why did you not advise your portfolio companies to hold their capital in a t-bill money market?"

This obvious step for capital protection was somehow neglected by venture capital firms who pride themselves on advising their portfolio on a host of mundane business issues. A VC would be considered mad if one of its companies didn't run financing docs through a lawyer, or handled payroll on its own. This should have been one of the most obvious and simple items on the checklist. Yet somehow it was not.

Why not?

The failure of any bank should have been a shruggable matter for every startup funded with capital. Instead it was portrayed as an existential issue for all. (This was entirely and obviously false, but let that pass.) If it were an existential threat that was a lapse of the VCs supposedly guiding these business novices.

I very much suspect that the hue and cry for a bailout was driven in part by VCs eager to cover this lapse. And to suppress attention on the relationships with SVB that lead them to recommend their companies provide SVB with cheap deposits rather than prudently protect their capital.

The answer to a bank run is not "stand by your bank". It is "be indifferent to what happens to your bank in the first place".
The founders represented by the VCs were looking at a company they spent years building and all its money potentially disappearing overnight. They had to act quickly under a lot of uncertainty and took the decision that minimized risk. I guarantee if SVB hadn't been bailed out people here would be questioning the VCs who didn't pull out instead.

I don't blame them. It was irrational if they were omniscient beings with knowledge of what would happen.. they aren't.
2020 Panic buying === 2023 Panic withdrawing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_buying
I think saying "oh it's busy work" without proposing a solution that doesn't involve orders of magnitude more work for teachers probably should spend a a few days in close proximity to a high school teacher.
Seems like a lot of people are missing the point of this website.

90% of the criticism seems to be "depositors are never morally wrong for withdrawing money from a bank, so this website is bad".

But mostly this website's focus seems to be on the hypocrisy, e.g. the VCs who said "don't run on the bank" while telling their portfolio companies to run ASAP. That is much more obviously a moral wrong (to me at least).

I'm mostly basing this on the fact that the website explicitly said "You will be remembered for your hypocrisy." rather than "You will be remembered for running."
non ai content will be drowned out by the massive wave of generated content.
That's straight-up District 13 :)