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theRealMe··on DeepFloyd IF: open-source text-to-image model
Can you provide a source on gpt4 image model being fake? I haven’t heard that before, though I have wondered why I haven’t heard anything about the image part and don’t have access to image processing myself.
theRealMe··on Microsoft / Activision deal prevented to protect innovation and choice in gaming
And I’ll add that this same discussion used to happen with pc gaming vs mobile gaming where purists thought it was crazy that anyone would play mobile games, but if you look at the markets now, mobile gaming is estimated as more than twice the size of PC gaming. A lot of that is because most people don’t have gaming PCs.
theRealMe··on Microsoft / Activision deal prevented to protect innovation and choice in gaming
“Well let them e̴a̴t̴ ̴c̴a̴k̴e̴ play on $2000 gaming rigs.”

I get that gaming like that through a phone would suck compared to a high end gaming pc, but people don’t do that out of preference.

theRealMe··on San Francisco Target puts entire inventory on lockdown amid shoplifting crisis
No.

> The publication also wrote that "deteriorating street conditions around drug use," as well as "crime near the grocery store," were the cited reasons for its temporary closure.

So you’re arguing that “high theft”, while being the stated reason that the store cut its hours last October, wasn’t specifically mentioned using those exact words in this store closing, and so that’s a victory? Even tho the stated reasons were “deteriorating street conditions around drug use” and “crime near the grocery store”?

Lmao guess you showed those SF haters!

theRealMe··on San Francisco Target puts entire inventory on lockdown amid shoplifting crisis
Did you actually read the links that you posted? The snopes article pretty plainly explains that it refuted that the store was closed due to “angry transgender customers”, but that the reasons for closure were high rates of shoplifting and difficulty keeping employees safe.
theRealMe··on GitHub Copilot emits GPL code
True.
theRealMe··on GitHub Copilot emits GPL code
In almost any other scenario this would be evidence. But Fast Inverse Square Root isn’t some tightly held secret. That exact code, with those specific comments included, is found in the Wikipedia page for that algo:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root

theRealMe··on Google employees label AI chatbot Bard ‘worse than useless’
Why do you need or want links for a recipe? ChatGPT(ESPECIALLY with gpt4) will tell you the full recipes in a nice concise easy-to-follow list.

Why are you grading a chatbot on its web search result abilities instead of its answer-providing abilities? It’s like saying that horses are better than cars because the cars hurt when you sit on top with a leg down on each side.

theRealMe··on US savers get savvy ditching and switching banks
The cynical part of me hears this and assumes that they’re intentionally offering better-than-average rates in a new market to establish a base of customers, and then slowly pull back the competitiveness once they’re established.
theRealMe··on OpenAI API keys leaking through app binaries
I’ve had a theory that LLMs are going to increase the prevalence of “shadow it”. Aka slightly technical business users using gpt to create their own apps to handle business processes. These apps will then lead to large increases in security incidents where company data gets leaked or hacked or whatever because the apps will just be random unreviewed code.
theRealMe··on Show HN: Live coaching app for remote SWE interviews, uses Whisper and GPT-4
I’d argue that pieces of that interview could still be gamed using this cheating platform depending on how accurate, fast, and realistic sounding the gpt responses are. And all of those attribute will just get better as new models are released.

I realize that this one project isn’t the only way to cheat in interviews, but I still think it’s naive to think that this tech will only harm what you perceive to be “bad interviews” and not affect your own preferred interviews. At the absolute minimum, it adds additional overhead to performing interviews where you have to also be aware and try to figure out if the interviewee is being coached like this.

theRealMe··on Show HN: Live coaching app for remote SWE interviews, uses Whisper and GPT-4
This “burn it all to the ground” mentality is naive.

There is nothing leetcode-specific about this cheating platform. OP just angled it that way because HN readers would lap it up that way.

Assuming someone was using this cheating platform, how would you run your interviews? Wouldn’t this screw up the actual legit interviews(whatever that is…) too?

theRealMe··on OpenAI has temporarily stopped selling the Plus plan
“But just basic common sense should tell you that they are not operating at -10000% gross margins.”

I’ll be honest, I laughed out loud at this.

Pretty sure I read somewhere that Bing had around 1 billion searches per day BEFORE the hype of bingchat. At $7/query that makes MSFT’s $10 billion investment basically peanuts. Less than 2 days of Bings GPT usage payments. Lmao.

theRealMe··on Tell HN: Google search is getting worse
This post is low effort virtue signaling for HNers. Don’t get me wrong, I too believe SEO garbage is winning the current search engine arms race. But this post has no new information, not even an interesting take or even a source or proof for the vague complaints. It’s as interesting as a Reddit thread titled “DAE think republicans are the worst?!?”
theRealMe··on Douglass Mackey found guilty of election interference
Something being a meme does not make it a crime, but a crime being a meme does not make it legal.
theRealMe··on Douglass Mackey found guilty of election interference
Seriously what’s going on with multiple people in this thread? crystal clear attempt to trick people into not voting

“Doesn’t count because no one fell for it” (as if that excuses it anyways…)

“Well actually 4900 people fell for it”

“ALL 4900 OF THOSE WERE JUST PEOPLE JOKING AND I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I PULLED IT OUT OF MY BUTT”

theRealMe··on Senate Bill to Ban TikTok
“Why are we talking about X when we could be talking about Y” is some classic whataboutism. You really seem to be trying to push a pro China agenda by discounting the importance of this.

You’re stance on this is actually “I don’t believe that the CCP would try to harm the US population”. I can tell that is your stance because if it wasn’t then you are effectively saying “I believe the CCP may potentially feed the US population mental-illness-inducing content via targeted algorithms, but I don’t think it’s worth caring about and we should be mad that lawmakers are even trying to do anything about it.”

I mean, it’s not like we’re talking about something meaningless here. If you believe that there is a chance of the CCP doing something nefarious with their Golden Shares power, then that’s a pretty big deal.

theRealMe··on Show HN: Open AI is not Open – A browser extension
Thinking that google’s decision to not release their tech until forced to by competition was based on morals and not based on keeping secret the tech that could topple their dominant market position is pretty generous.
theRealMe··on The USA Inflation Rate by Truflation Is 4.21%
Inflation was here before the war started. Inflation hit 5.0% in May of 2021. It was already 7.9% in Feb of 2022 when the war started.
theRealMe··on GPTs Are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs
Lmao. Now I’m imagining any questions posted anywhere like Ask Hacker News, Ask Reddit, or Quora being filled with everyone that doesn’t know the answer replying “I don’t know.”
theRealMe··on The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4
One thing to note is that Bing Chat isn’t the straight GPT-4 model, it’s heavily prompted to show you an answer in a format that Bing Chat wants it to be in. Notice how most lines in a Bing Chat response are direct summaries of lines from the source with a link to the source? I’d argue that while doing that is the morally correct thing to do, it does hamper the usefulness of you aren’t looking for website sourced results.

It’s like you’re given a bathtub full of water and you can only use the water through a straw. It’s great if you’re thirsty, but what if you really want to take a shower…

theRealMe··on SVB collapse: Peter Thiel’s role scrutinized as spark of bank run
Remember that we know a lot more about what was happening now than they did at the time. At the time they knew that 1. SVB had liquidity issues and were forced to sell underwater bonds. 2. Needed to raise more capital. 3. Transactions were starting to have issues going through.

So it’s like your modified prisoners dilemma, but also, the prisoners don’t know if there is enough for 1 person or 100 people. That changes the calculation.

theRealMe··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
So many people in all these threads that are doing the Monday morning quarterback of startup founders and believing that they would have done things differently if only THEY had been the CEO.
theRealMe··on Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout
>It's likely startups only exist to begin with due to low federal interest rates. This is true for some startups. Not true for others. There’s some nuance. Painting them altogether loses the nuance.

> It is obvious that if those rates are low investors will look elsewhere. Startups are one of those elsewheres.

I agree.

> Now that rates are on the way up, there's no need for investors to risk their money on startups anymore. So startups no longer have one of the pre-conditions for their existence. Namely, free investor money literally pouring in and paying for all their expenses.

Again, some investors won’t spend as much of their money investing in startups. You talk as if it’s just a single on/off switch. > Such is life in the free market. Looks like the US government disrupted you.

We’re talking about the startups here. The government “disrupted” the bank. And through no fault of their own, the startups get “disrupted” as a second order effect. My main point and the reason that I felt I should respond is this sense that I get from your comment that somehow startups deserved to lose their money because they kept it at the bank. As if that was the morally just conclusion.

> I thought stuff like this was going to happen the second I saw the Fed raising interest rates to combat inflation. Looks like time proved me right.

Yes. Everyone understood that “stuff like this” would happen. I’m positive that you didn’t know that specifically SVB would go under in such fashion. Without using hindsight bias, what should a startup have done with this knowledge that “stuff like this” would happen?

> Yeah sure. A "minor implementation detail" of the bank... Honestly, this isn't even the real issue at play here.

I said “internal” not “minor”. And I mean, yes it is the real issue at play? It’s what caused them to go under? And was absolutely not something that any reasonable person would expect to know about their financial institution…

> It's really simple to me. People put their money in the bank. The bank couldn't bear to watch the pile of money just sitting there. So it "invested" the money. Then it lost the money. Then they went under. Now everybody is losing their minds and the bank is getting liquidated in an attempt to make everybody whole again.

Missing nuance that they invested in something that is seen as about the most safe thing you can invest in, but they DID mess up with the duration. Again, this is something that the bank messed up that no reasonable(non-financial industry) person could have seen coming. Sure, the bank deserves some blame for this, but the people that kept their money there could not have reasonably seen the risk.

> I'm sorry but I just don't feel any sympathy at all. It's not the first time a bank fails but people never learn not to trust them.

“Don’t trust banks”. Ok. Got it. Now what? Without using hindsight bias, what should a startup have done with $10million? Keep it under their mattress? Invest it in something more risky than treasuries?

> Nope. I say the exact same thing every single time some bank-like institution fails: we warned you.

Noted. Now what?

> When it's some crypto exchange, everybody here on HN gets a kick out of it. Now that it's some startup's bank, I'm supposed to feel sorry for them? No.

You’re comparing losing your money by gambling on something with no intrinsic value, in an unregulated market, that was built primarily as a means of subverting oversight, with keeping your money in a highly respected, highly regulated, FDIC insured bank.

That said, I hope people weren’t HAPPY that crypto HOLDERS lost their money.

theRealMe··on Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout
One thing to remember about your last point is that the startups and VC’s that DIDN’T cause the bank run are the ones that will be hurt by this. So if anyone is in here thinking “they shouldn’t have tried to withdraw their money, thereby creating a bank run, if they didn’t want to lose their money!” You have to realize that there two separate groups of people here: the ones that withdrew their money and caused the bank run, and the other ones that didn’t cause the bank run and lost their money.

That said, I don’t blame anybody for causing the bank run. If I had a reason to believe that my personal bank might not be able to give me my money if I didn’t get it out right now, there is zero chance that I would leave my money there to vanish just to avoid causing a bank run for other people. Morals break down when my life savings and livelihood are on the line.

theRealMe··on Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout
This is the exact lack of nuance that OP is talking about. Do you understand what is actually happening here? A bank is going under and potentially taking a ton of startups with it, not because of any poor decisions or lack of legit business model by the startups. It’s purely due to an internal implementation detail of the (until now) we’ll respected bank that holds their money.

I swear if it was called “generic bank” instead of “Silicon Valley Bank”, we wouldn’t be seeing all of these knee-jerk “good because they’re bad” responses.

theRealMe··on GPT-4 is coming next week – and it will be multimodal, says Microsoft Germany
I’d love to read that article, but I don’t speak German and so have no idea how to get rid of that cookie modal.
theRealMe··on Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs
I understand you’re joking, but surely it’s asymptotic to some multiple of human gestational periods.
theRealMe··on Meta’s AR/VR hardware roadmap for the next four years
Note that it says “track conversions” not “track conversations”. Tracking conversions means that they will know if they displayed an ad to you, that you bought the thing advertised. If that’s not what you misread, then carry on.
theRealMe··on Future Fords could repossess themselves and drive away if you miss payments
Lmao. It’s possible it did happen, but now it makes me realize that the comment is 1 “lesson learned about empathy” away from a cringey linkedin post.
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