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dstalaon Ask HN: What's the most thoughtful AI product you've seen?

Claude design

dstalaon Alibaba bans staff from using Claude Code over Anthropic spyware concerns

had missed out on discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772443

dstalaon Alibaba bans staff from using Claude Code over Anthropic spyware concerns

Claude Code was accused of logging information about certain users – including whether they were using proxies or located in Chinese time zones – and hiding such data in messages sent back to Anthropic, according to a report by cybersecurity-focused outlet International Cyber Digest.

dstalaon Show HN: I made a tool which fixes broken JSONs

Wouldn't it be easier if we ask chatGPT to fix?

dstalaon Show HN: An Online Gantt Chart

You can share a video or some screenshots may be- to understand it quickly

dstalaon Show HN: An Online Gantt Chart

same here. was trying to set start and end date to see some visual display, couldn't get it right

dstalaon Spreadsheets are all you need

Thanks a ton @ianand

dstalaon Ask HN: What's the "one book" in your discipline?

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Great book to understand Human evolution

dstalaon Finland's ChatGPT equivalent begins to think in Estonian as well

Very much applicable to South Asian languages too, but the problem remains same. Not enough content being available to train. And unlike Finland, Government or private funding is a distant dream for many states in India.

dstalaon Ask HN: Startup founders, how will your banking practices change after SVB?

Some of the banks have started providing higher insurance. Seems promising. Other banks might also have something similar in place

Below is excerpt from the mail that I received from them today.

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We know you’re more concerned than ever about protecting your cash — and the safety of your deposits is our top priority. That’s why we’ve continuously worked with our partner banks1 to offer additional FDIC insurance — first to $1M, then to $3M.

Now, we’ve gone a step further. By Monday, you will have access to up to $5M in FDIC insurance — 20x the per bank limit.

The way Mercury is able to offer customers this expanded FDIC coverage is through our partner banks’ sweep networks, which spread customer deposits across a network of established FDIC-insured program banks, including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo. In addition to the increased coverage, these sweep networks also protect your deposits by holding cash in multiple places, which limits the risk of any single point of failure.

To protect funds beyond your insured balance, Mercury Vault is automatically enabled on all accounts to monitor cash and provide suggestions on how to manage bank risk. For example, Vault can help you move deposits above the $5M FDIC insurance cap to a money market fund (99.5% invested in U.S. government-backed securities and held 100% in your name) through Mercury Treasury.

dstalaon Ask HN: What are some good sites for non tech people to keep up with tech?

https://techcrunch.com/ https://gizmodo.com/

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1 million rows in 10 seconds is impressive. What was the size of CSV?

dstalaon Ask HN: What are you doing differently post-SVB?

- Diversify, yes. Will explore CDARS as marked by @andrewfromx in one of the comments below (https://youtu.be/gerVpi32Y_c)

- We had off shore accounts (in UK & India) & were actually considering to move everything to SVB. Good that we didn't.

- Moving money out of SVB? Yes. But not in a hurry as it was looking to be the case just 10 hours ago

dstalaon Ask HN: What are you doing differently post-SVB?

CDARS : This was something that I was searching for. Any idea about their fee structure? How much does their service cost?

dstalaon Ask HN: Any tips for insuring startup funds beyond 250k in US?

I was mainly enquiring from future prospect- to insure against SVB kind of episode. Last few days have been nightmarish for many in startups.

dstalaon Ask HN: Any tips for insuring startup funds beyond 250k in US?

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/banking/how-to-insure-you...

The article above discusses few options. Wanted to know in general what startup community does in silicon valley?

dstalaon How to Insure Your Money When You’re Banking over $250K (2022)

How much does additional insurance cost? Any rough estimate?

dstalaon How do you take efficient notes?

Try GetOutline (https://www.getoutline.com/) : Though its meant for Knowledge base purpose, I find it handy since I prefer markdown support for taking my general notes

dstalaon Ask HN: How have you applied AI in your life, work or hobbies?

Here are my cases

GitHub CoPilot : I come from embedded engineering background, but now working in web tech space. CoPilot helps as a very good assistant when I am working with TypeScript. Essentially lesser number of lookups now to Google & StackOverflow

Content creation : I take help of ChatGPT to give me some pointers when I am about to write on a topic / blog post. For tech articles, it's a good help. Helps correct grammar, change content to professional tone.

dstalaon Ask HN: Is there a good alternative for a local ChatGPT

https://huggingface.co/

dstalaon Ask HN: Why does OpenAI wants us to move away from text-DaVinci-003?

Here's what they mention:

> Because gpt-3.5-turbo performs at a similar capability to text-davinci-003 but at 10% the price per token, we recommend gpt-3.5-turbo for most use cases.

Is capability to support trained models only additional advantage of da-vinci-003?

dstalaon Show HN: Salesforce Announces Einstein GPT

It's amazing on how even Salesforce workflows can also be designed using Generative AI.

Good discussion about what went behind the scene for Einstein GPT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WBeEaDUo1s

dstalaon Show HN: YoBulk AI – Open Source React SDK for data cleansing

Will it be possible to carry forward context? Like if patterns in my CSV files are persistent, my corrections will be repetitive in nature & can be learnt along.

Looks to be a good tool overall! Where can I find roadmap?

dstalaon Show HN: YoBulk AI – Open Source React SDK for data cleansing

And for hosted solution, is there a provision to configure our OpenAI Key? Or every OpenAI interaction goes through YoBulk's Open AI Key?

dstalaon Show HN: YoBulk AI – Open Source React SDK for data cleansing

What are we using OpenAI API for? Is it only for present & validation rules creation? Or even to cleanse data? If it's being used for latter, what about data-privacy concerns?

dstalaon Ask HN: What's still being funded?

Trend in ShowHN & some recent fundings are definitely towards GPT based applications.

Saw this recently - Chatbot Character.ai valued at $1bn in Andreessen-led funding round https://www.ft.com/content/b230eb4c-ed53-45ff-8b64-c286a4b98...

But I strongly feel, its GPT powered native apps that will drive the market forward. We will definitely see lot of adoptions coming forward.

dstalaon What are your favorite books on Audible?

I am someone who prefers an hardcopy over Audible. But here are my favourite's.

Sapiens [https://www.audible.in/pd/Sapiens-Audiobook/B079C16D4D]

Amp it up [https://www.audible.in/pd/Amp-It-Up-Audiobook/B09QBRCDMQ]

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant [https://www.audible.in/pd/The-Almanack-of-Naval-Ravikant-Aud...]

dstalaon Show HN: Build a knowledge base from your Slack content

Interesting. Does this involve OpenAI (or any other LLM) to process data?

dstalaon Are software engineers working for Google/Facebook incompetent?

Part of the answer is here

"Former Googler pulls back the curtain on a bureaucratic ‘maze’—and lambastes bosses and employees for losing sight of what’s important"

https://fortune.com/2023/02/16/alphabet-google-former-employ...

dstalaon Ask HN: What is the future of social media?

Instagram became popular because of filters. So some revolution of that sort that helps create great videos (with animations or edited stuffs) without much fuzz will capture attention. But I am certain GPT/AI will play a big role in next generation social media application. It already does to a certain extent today under the hoods may be.

Every new generation will move away from their father generation applications. May be younger folks on HN will be able to answer that query better.