I was dating someone and after a while I started to feel something was not going well. I exported all the chats timestamped from the very first one and asked a big SOTA LLM to analyze the chats deeply in two completely different contexts. One from my perspective, and another from his perspective. It shocked me that the LLM after a long analysis and dozen of pages, always favored and accepted the current "user" persona situation as the more correct one and "the other" as the incorrect one. Since then I learned not to trust them anymore. LLMs are over-fine tuned to be people pleasers, not truth seekers, not fact and evidence grounded assistants. Just need to run everything important in a double-blind way and mitigate this.
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I don’t understand how a company that has effectively defined modern interfaces, which has the clout to hire the best of the best, has resulted in this.
I fear the apple is starting to rot on the inside.
I tweeted the same thing. Unbelievable. I think this may be the start of downfall. As an Apple's fanboy and UI Engineer this is really sad to witness.
gastonmorixe commented on Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174) · Posted by u/dang
Whether it is $1 or $0.10, it is non existent for young software companies. If I'm penniless (after real expenses), where will I get those 10 cents to pay the taxes?
And I'm not making this up. We are about to get cash flow neutral in our company, and this law will literally kill us and make 20 US citizens unemployed.
Get a loan. /s
gastonmorixe commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Windows Vista vibes gone wrong. What happened to Apple's design lead and taste? jeez
The Basel Capital rules dominate at the moment. If that ever gets rolled back... buy gold immediately.
Oh ok. So there’s a difference between reserve requirements and capital requirements. Capital requirements are still in place Basel III (Basel Capital Rules) 4.5% among other requirements https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_III
It’s a bit more complicated than that.
At the point I make a loan, 2 things happen on my balance sheet: I have a new liability to you (the increased balance in your account), and I have a new asset (the loan that you’re expected to pay back). They cancel each other out and it therefore seems as if I’m creating money out of thin air.
However, the moment you actually use that money (eg to buy something), the money leaves the bank (unless the other account is also at this bank, but let’s keep it simple). Liabilities on the balance sheet shrink, so assets need to follow. That needs to come from reserves because the loan asset keeps its original value.
The reserve comes from the bank, not from you. Added layer here: Banks can borrow money from each other or central banks if their cash reserves runs low.
Finally: it tends to be the case that the limit on lending is not the reserves, but on the capital constraints. Banks need to retain capital for each loan they make. This is weighed against the risk of these loans. For example: you could lend a lot more in mortgages than in business loans without collateral. Ask your favorite LLM to explain RWAs and Basel III for more.
The bank could also sell the loan instead of borrowing if they are in need of capital.
interestingly, the Fed's page on Reserve Requirements states:
As announced on March 15, 2020, the Board reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26, 2020. This action eliminated reserve requirements for all depository institutions.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
I remember this. Have they ever rolled it back?
gastonmorixe commented on Show HN: Open source framework OpenAI uses for Advanced Voice github.com/livekit/agents... · Posted by u/russ
There’s a ton of complexity under the “relatively simple use case” when you get to a global, 200M+ user scale.
80% of the times I’m experiencing choppy audio on my iPhone 15 Pro Max (18.1b) on Voice Mode (Standard and Advanced). My internet connection is FTTH and WiFi 7 state of the art router.
I wonder if this is because bugs or the crazy load livekit may be going through given the popularity in ChatGPT voice modes right now.
gastonmorixe commented on Show HN: Open source framework OpenAI uses for Advanced Voice github.com/livekit/agents... · Posted by u/russ
It's using the same model/engine. I don't have knowledge of the internals, but a different subsystem/set of dedicated resources though for API traffic versus first-party apps.
One thing to note is there is no separate TTS-phase here, it's happening internally within GPT-4o, in the Realtime API and Advanced Voice.
Thanks