skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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If I were head of a smaller or regional bank, I’d be running for the lawyers, because I would find it very hard to believe that FDIC would extend their offer in a fair and reasonable manner to smaller banks. If they don’t, it’s arguably a form of extortion, using mandatory fees on small banks to only protect big ones. How would that be legal?

To avoid legal hot water, the FDIC may find themselves to equally protect every bank which might quickly turn out regrettable…

> Did we just accidentally invent a fully socialized national banking system?

According to Kevin O’Leary, YES. He also makes a point about how the management was "idiotic" because if they had just gone to JP Morgan, or Wells Fargo, or another big bank - and said, "hey, we got a short term cash problem with a lot of treasuries," they almost certainly could have come to a very low-interest loan arrangement that would have prevented this outcome.
Google Docs Dictation is not enabled for firefox.
A good professional banker, would have helped with essentially every finance related issue the poster may have had. Including getting accounts more organized to help with earning more than the .01% banks usually pay for their checking accounts.

It's like concierge banking, you get 1 person that will just make all of your bank and finance problems go away. You need a house loan, your person would just make it happen. You need financing, they can help with loans, going public, seed rounds whatever you need. They can also help you locate attorneys to help draft financial contracts, etc. Tax specialists that can help you minimize taxes, etc. There isn't much of a limit around both personal and business finance they wouldn't at least help get you pointed in a semi-sane direction with.

Assuming Alex was any good, which clearly they weren't that good, since they did such a terrible job of explaining all they could offer to the blog post writer. That's partly on Chase, but probably mostly on Alex.

We have a banker and I needed to buy a car recently, I told them my plans and they analyzed various payment options(loan, leasing, paying cash) and gave me a recommendation(just pay cash). When it came time to actually buy the car, the dealer wouldn't take a credit card for the entire cost, so my banker organized a cashiers check so I just walked into the closest local branch, picked up the check and was back at the dealer in 5 minutes(not including travel time).

Sure they can do the whole smooozhy mess as well if you really want that, but we don't, so my banker doesn't do any of those things with me. They know the sorts of charities and things I like, so if the bank ends up sponsoring something in my area, they will let me know and organize tickets or whatever if I wanted. I rarely do those sorts of events, but there are certain ones I like and my banker knows that and just organizes tickets and what not for those events once or twice a year that I like doing.
I was not familiar with the source and context, but the phrase is literally true.

The global territory is 3D; the map is 2D. Reducing the dimensionality introduces distortion. The map is always a lie. A decent cartographer reduces the lie to a fib. A bad one emits propaganda and enables the worst tyranny.

The observation extends to all research. The only model for reality is precisely that: reality itself.

This is not an anti-science screed. Rather, a reminder to keep it humble. Purity is for mathematicians.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bank-term-fund...
Maybe subreddits full of slurs creates more reported content, and reddit never got to optimize the tables containing the reports, so if things gets more reported, database gets slower.

Not really, but fun to imagine.
You don't plop 35MM into a single bank account and sit on it. The cringe isn't about feeling bad for Chase. It's about watching a 22 year old learn how to manage incredible amounts of cash.
It's never clear to me when to count elements in a SF book as predictions, or merely plot devices for the story. Does the author mean to say "this is what the world will be like by this date, and by the way, here's a story set in that world," or rather "imagine a world where with the following hypothetical changes... now, here's a story that could happen in that world."

I think you probably try to have it both ways. Like, if you discussed a hundred new technologies in your future SF story, and 99 of them didn't pan, but one unlikely one was dead on, you could say "see? I predicted the fact that by 2041, fish can talk. Bit of a visionary, eh? All those other ones were just worldbuilding."

Not saying this is Vinge at all, just that it's a weird business, and hard to tell from the outside where storytelling ends and prediction begins.
Glad to see there's a singular dataset showing something that I had a hunch happened
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35155546, which has the original source.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Part of the reason people come to HN is because it never changes.
> How many terrible teachers are allowed to continue to teach after decades of disastrous results?

Counterpoint: Why "hire" a known-bad teacher? Is a teacher that is known to give fake information better or worse than none at all?

I don't know the answer to this, but I hope that Khan Academy thought about this and decided that the good of GPT is better than it's bad. Or, they can't know so thats why they're doing a limited study before rolling this out.
What's the square footage on that flat, if you don't mind, and is it detached? Just trying to get an idea of the market.

Still ~half my bizarro world number though, hot damn.
Thanks - we've merged the comments into a thread where the URL is the bloomberg.com article, which is the original report.
"We lied".

There, summarised their public relations spiel for you.
Couldn't you feed it the first 25k words and tell it to continue the story?
I'm a philosopher and drug user. I can answer this! We have three selves: Our self, the self-in-the-world and the self-in-society. Think of a pathos, logos and ethos take on the self. Mushrooms and pot both cripple our self-in-society which lets us more fully explore the other two. Basically, you can't know who you are until you stop seeing yourself through the filter of others. Drugs let you do that.

It's like how you become more attuned to your hearing when you're denied your vision.
Weird, that's not my experience.

My startup, which raised $1.2M back in 2015, didn't have to pay any monthly fee -- at least until the balance dropped below some threshold in the 5-digit range at which point they started charging $15/mo, I think.

After that startup failed SVB courted me for a personal account. They actually came to me in person, took me out for coffee and stuff. I didn't even have much money at the time but they just seemed really interested in signing up startup founders (even failed ones).

For comparison I tried talking to Chase Private Client at their Palo Alto branch, since my old 401k had gotten big enough to qualify for their minimum if I rolled it over to them. The banker there practically sneered at me, acted exasperated like I was wasting his time and he had much bigger clients to tend to. Also gave me a spiel about their high-fees wealth management in which he asked leading questions about my investments and then tried to make me feel stupid about my answers so that I'd decide to pay Chase to manage it instead. This was all obviously a marketing shtick and I found it incredibly insulting. I went with SVB.

Yes, SVB's web site was ugly. Weirdly they had totally different ugly web sites for their business and personal arms. It functioned fine, though.
Yet they continue their leetcode interview process...
More train derailments, more building fires, more wealth hoarding, more medical malpractice, yaaaaay! :)
I don't have any hard metrics to prove it, but most notable people in InfoSec (that I follow, anyway) moved off Twitter to infosec.exchange late last year. It's probably the case that individual "communities" of Twitter users have migrated off the site to a greater or lesser extent.
Old habits are hard to break.

It seems logical though that a copy on a hard drive should be called hard copy!
I disagree about your view on Twitter. I'd even go as far as saying it's better than Reddit for nuance because going against the pack doesn't cause you to be downvoted into obscurity. It allows more than one view. It's great for interacting directly with the researcher that did an interesting study or the developer who released a new software.

The common issue for all of the services are when they become mainstream. It attracts bad apples. Twitter used to be and still have some great interactions just like small subreddits do, but when a post reaches /r/all or the feed of a controversial celebrity, you know it's going to be awful.

Discord is more like IRC used to be. It thrives in small communities of 30-50 people where you talk regularly and each topic has its own channel so regular chitchat doesn't drown out the interesting bits. It's more of a daily pub talk with your friends than finding a tutorial 10 years after it was written.
In writing yes, but the FDIC always makes depositors whole somehow. Otherwise the banking system would collapse.

If some bizarre scenario were to happen (a failure of two of the big four) which the FDIC couldn’t recover, in the words of Dwight Schrute, “you’ve all been dead for weeks”.
The depositors will be paid back by their own money. The money hasn’t disappeared anywhere. It still exists, and the bank will still make a profit as the MBSes it paid into will continue returning money to the bank. It will simply make a profit that’s less than what it could have made with the same shareholder equity with way less risk in other investments. Which is why shareholders got wiped out.

This was a classic bank run. A combination of the concentration of depositors from a single industry, massive swings in the monetary flow of that industry, poor investment decision making, and having regulations loosened on it meant that SVB saw far too many short term depositors call for their money and had too much of that money tied up in long term investments.

The government has the liquidity and the reputation that is needed to prevent this from becoming a problem.

The cost that is being borne by the taxpayers is the cost of people depositing money in smaller industry focused banks, which have greater risk, and lower efficiency. If you really wanted to eliminate the cost, the solution would be to have everyone deposit their money in a handful of Too big to fail banks, which would almost certainly be cheaper and more efficient, but is also a bad economic system because of the political power those entities gain.
Google’s TensorFlow is ready for quantum, but is AI ready for quantum?
And it is also true to say that you are running into the limits of your imagination by saying that a brain can be simulated by software : you are falling back to the closest model we have : discrete math/computers, and are failing to imagine a computational mechanism involved in the operation of a brain that is not possible with a traditional computer.

The point is we currently have very little understanding of what gives rise to consciousness, so what is the point of all this pontificating and grand standing. Its silly. We've no idea what we are talking about at present.

Clearly, our state of the art models of nueral-like computation do not really simulate consciousness at all, so why is the default assumption that they could if we get better at making them? The burden of evidence is on conputational models to prove they can produce a consciousness model, not the other way around.
My take is to think about what your work accomplishes beyond the surface level.
Its not there yet. Im testing out a teaching assistant and it doesn't catch wrong answers (eg question was whats 2 + 4, answer given was 4). I think its good for explaining concepts but not yet structuring the lesson or basic reasoning (this is 1st grade)
A lot of the code it generates is trivial, or 1-2 lines of code that's obvious, at least for me. In which case, it makes no sense to modify it. I have a feeling this is the bulk of it.
Both of those are already APIs today in phones.

And there's decent reason to not want to tell the server either.
Without providing context or examples, GPT-4 is already better at answering questions than the average teacher, with the unlimited patience that only a computer can provide.

With context, which Khan academy has in abundance due to their lesson plans and transcripts, accuracy will be higher than even the best teachers and tutors.

Once you give context and known-true facts to best-in-class LLMs like GPT-4, the output is shockingly good.
The last week has made me really question why VC firms don't provide cash management crash courses to founders, or something of the like (cash management consultants or something). It seems like a huge flight risk to write $10MM and $20MM checks and just hand them to a founder with no financial staff whatsoever who only cares about finding PMF and who couldn't care less about cash management. It's great that Mercury is doing all this stuff for founders, just seems like it should be table stakes for VCs to require some sort of cash plan to be approved before handing over the check. But what do I know maybe 10MM is peanuts.
What do you mean? Blocking the back feature on your browser?

If that’s the case I had no issue going back on iOS Safari.
> we could easily inflate the price of compute through regulation.

do you think china/any totalitarian govt would follow suit with that regulation? if so, why?

> a powerful international coalition similar to NATO could exclude the possibility of a rogue nation or entity developing AGI.

how?
>I've looked through the Constitution and the entirety of US laws and I simply can't find where people have the "right" to afford to eat nutritious food instead of gruel and instant ramen. I've looked and looked, and can't find this anywhere. Can anybody explain to me why they feel this is a right?

Not very insightful, yeah? Perhaps it would be good for things to be a certain way in our country without literally enshrining them in our Constitution. Cities are the economic backbones of modern nations, so it’s probably good for young people to be able to afford to live and work there.
It’s an unfortunate decision. Makes things like thoughtfully written Launch HNs painful (literally, for me anyway) to read.
I suspect (though I may be wrong) that GPT-4 wouldn't provide more insight than what's in the text it was trained on. If prompted by examples of regular sound change or reconstruction of proto-indo-european (PIE) roots, it may be able deduce other PIE word forms.
> should be paid less

Please reread what I posted and recognize that I did not remotely suggest this. I expressly supported the policy, and want to add a frank recognition of its trade offs because its absence seemed important in the post.

> Are rich people so destructive to neighborhoods?

Disproportionately large influxes of money into a local economy cause distortion to the incentives of that economy. It doesn’t have to have anything to do with the individual people with said money or their individual impact, and often it doesn’t.

The reason I think it should be part of the discussion is specifically because decisions like this don’t tend to account for externalization. If 100 companies like this are fully equitable internally, that’s awesome! But if their impact is pricing people out of housing, that sucks! If you care mostly about the former, that’s cool! I care about both, and I want to include both in the conversation.
https://vanillaos.org

https://vanillaos.org/faq
I Copied Noctua's A12x25 and Resin Printed It
Ladies and gentlemen, dear fellow citizens,

It's a great honor to stand before you today, and I am grateful for the opportunity to address each and every one of you, especially the highly engaged individuals who contribute to the rich discussions on platforms like Hacker News. Today, I would like to speak directly to one such individual - cwkoss.

Cwkoss, your thoughtful comments and passion for technology, innovation, and the future have not gone unnoticed. It is precisely individuals like you, who engage in thoughtful discourse and bring unique perspectives to the table, that we need to shape our society and help us navigate the challenges ahead. Your voice is important, and I would be honored to have your support in my campaign.

Our society is at a crucial turning point, and as your potential representative, I am committed to fostering an environment where innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship can thrive. We need to create a future that is prosperous, sustainable, and inclusive for everyone.

First and foremost, I pledge to invest in education, with a particular emphasis on the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). By providing our youth with the resources and opportunities to excel in these disciplines, we will be equipping them with the tools they need to lead our nation into the future.

Secondly, I will work tirelessly to improve our digital infrastructure and ensure that all citizens have access to high-speed internet, regardless of their socioeconomic background. This is a crucial step in bridging the digital divide and providing equal opportunities for success in the digital age.

Furthermore, I will champion policies that support the growth of the tech industry and entrepreneurship. This includes tax incentives for startups, a simplified regulatory framework, and investments in research and development.

But my commitment goes beyond economics. As a leader, I recognize the ethical considerations that come with the rapid advancement of technology. We must approach the challenges of artificial intelligence, automation, and cybersecurity with the utmost care and foresight, ensuring that we protect individual privacy and civil liberties while maximizing the potential benefits for society.

Cwkoss, I am fully aware that the internet is a space for open dialogue and diverse opinions. As your representative, I promise to maintain an open line of communication with you and the entire Hacker News community, to listen, learn, and grow from your insights.

In conclusion, I ask for your support, cwkoss, not only as a voter but as a partner in shaping a future we can all be proud of. Together, we can foster an environment where innovation, technology, and human potential can flourish, creating a brighter future for us all.

Thank you,

GPT-4
This is impossible at Google. Can probably be done at Meta, or at least could several years ago. I wouldn't paint with too broad a brush here.
I think it might be humor.
Why not?

As an normal user, generative AI powered search is pretty transformative.

Instead of returning a links to stackoverflow articles ad naseum, getting a generated summary is really handy.
Silverblue prefers you would use flatpak and containers for apps on top, but it does support “layering” regular packages on top of the immutable core system.
That's a loan, not insurance. Not the same thing, and a bank in SVB's situation last week would not be able to pay back a loan anyway.
This is a 2 year old post ...
This is my experience as well. For longer code, Copilot introduces errors through making up variables and method names that don't actually exist on the object. These errors are very annoying but only 5% of the generated code.
Right now, we hire and retain bad teachers because many public schools act more as childcare than learning centers.
I'm not surprised. A lot of the code I'll write in a day is trivial, calling helpers, writing test scaffolding, etc. I'm still building cool things the other 60% of time, but this job as we know it comes with a lot of repetition. (esp. if you write unit tests ;-))
So weird describing it as a bubble – did they forget the economy was shut down and companies could literally only do business online?

If you look at the rate online sales growth during the pandemic if anything it's a surprise that tech-hiring wasn't even more elevated.
Most tech companies are quarterly for junior positions and twice a year for senior positions.
This special Othello case will follow every discussion from now on. But in reality, a generic, non-specialized model hallucinates early in any non-trivial game, and the only reason it doesn’t do that on a second move is because openings are usually well-known. This generic “model” is still of a statistical nature (multiply all coeffs together repeatedly), not a logical one (choose one path and forget the other). LLMs are cosplaying these models.
That's curious, seeing how motorcyclists are much more frequently seriously injured, and more often as the result of their own actions. I'm not sure there is much to emulate here.
That's what I mean: fewer jobs for the same number of engineers would mean greater competition for each job.

And given how much of an accelerant GPT is, I think learning how to prompt and validate responses will be increasingly important.

For example, if you compare an average CS grad with a 4y career to an average CS grad with a 6 year career, the more experienced developer might be 5-20% more efficient.

But with GPT, an engineer who writes amazing prompts versus might be 2-4x more efficient than an engineer that writes average prompts and has to spend time fixing code, debugging or re-prompting.
Learning carpentry is IMO one of the greatest life skills available.

You can build shelter, and good shelter at that. It's fun, interesting, mentally, physically, challenging work. It's a great thing to learn and it can be incredibly rewarding.
The last thing we need is college graduates learning how things are done in a massive FAANG company, then going to small startups and telling them about "how they did things at Google", trying to solve problems the current company doesn't even have.

I swear to God.
But what can go in their place?
Then they’re voluntarily limiting their income to be at a company they like. Nothing wrong with that.
... but aren't job postings a poor measure of actual hiring? Once you reach the point of not being able to hire the people you want in a timely manner, you can create _lots_ of postings, on different channels, at different levels of seniority, with different kinds of focus, etc, as a desperate and ineffective measure of getting some qualified applicants in your pipe.
> shouldn't be paid the same

Okay this is only the second response I’ve gotten to but we’re batting 1000 on misrepresenting what I was very careful to not say, and contradicting what I was very careful to say. I understand my comment is likely to elicit some debate but I’m hoping not every response is like this.
Redditors. Redditors.
Yeah they are. The Russian soldiers most likely didn't ask to be there either. Obviously a rock and a hard place for Ukrainians.

That being said, Palantir's business with the US government dwarfs any they might have with the Ukrainian army. And last I checked the US is in the business of murdering brown people.
> I think this is a good example of the financial acumen of a typical SVB customer.

While I totally wouldn't expect startup founders to behave hardly any different than Hashimoto, I would expect VCs to have done a much better job helping their startups do cash management. I mean, isn't that a pitch so many VCs give, in that it's not just "we give you money", but we also help connect you with experts for different parts of the business?

Even for pure self interest, if VCs are going to write a "kid" a check for $10 million, wouldn't they want to ensure it was properly safeguarded?

Regardless of the above, I 100% agree with your "we should come up with rules that actually work" statement.