skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These 'startups' include small businesses like wineries and restaurants. They're not in finance and are not going to want to spend time becoming experts in banking due diligence.

If we insist that they take on their bank's solvency risk as depositors, the rational decision for most of them will simply to be move to a systemically important bank that the govt will likely never let fail (Citi, BofA..). There's no reason for them to keep their business at a small bank and take on risk they don't need to. Regional banks would then wither, and the banking industry would become even more concentrated with a few too-big-to-fail banks becoming even more powerful. It would be a bad outcome for everyone.

BTW, for anyone wondering which banks are considered to be 'systemically important', here's a convenient link to the list:

https://www.fsb.org/wp-content/uploads/P211122.pdf

And here's a link to the group that decided who goes on that list:

https://www.fsb.org/
IME npm sucks even more that Java if you really need to change repositories ( not just proxy ).

I was stuck under very old (and deprecated) versions of node and NPM, and at my $OLDJOB lockfiles were respected with a CI under restrictive proxy service and alternative npm repo.

"delete lockfile, npm install everything again with correct repository under VPN" was a very recurring thing on every project where someone thought "it's just a npm install, what could go wrong?".
One great feature is it has server-side crawling, but it is a good internet citizen and isn't trying to abandon the RSS feed podcast standard, and make podcasts proprietary to one particular platform like many other podcast apps.
> Slick draggable scrolling is a key part of many screens in Delta’s in-flight entertainment system (complete with momentum-based flicks, over-scroll, page-snapping, etc).

Then I'm going to have to fly Delta next month -- all the systems I've used have had such terrible latency that none of that was possible. I assumed it was crappy hardware.
It sounds like the issue is probably that I’m bad at using it, haha. Many of you are getting your money’s worth, so I should maybe simmer down and focus on getting more utility from it.
The publishers have a slam dunk case against the National Emergency Library, but this case is about CDL as a whole.
But won't take responsibility, and no government will hold him accountable.

Granny will be shit out of luck.
My lab at work is in the interior of a big building, and has no cell phone service. Hell, they seem to have put some RF shielding on the windows since my office barely has reception...
Literally read the book The Great Reset by Klaus Schwab, it's all discussed there. They literally have a big meeting every year where they invite a bunch of elites to discuss ways they can have more control over the global populace. There's nothing unfounded about it; except for the fact that it maybe doesn't technically count as a conspiracy if it's all done in the open.
Thanks, it helps to know that someone else has similar sentiments as I do in regards to Emacs. By no means am I saying Emacs is bad software (it's not), but;

> claiming their colleagues will spend "many hours" configuring VSCode to get it to work

It's been my experience that you can simply install VS Code, open a source file and it will suggest extensions to help you get going. Even going so far as to be helpful in installing Python if you open a .py file one time, on a fresh install, for me. I just search for a dark theme I like (Dracula is one of my goto) and a light one (I switch when it suits me) and I'm off.

Meanwhile I'm told it's _SO_ simple and straightforward to set-up treesitter and the language servers.

> javascript runs everywhere now

Indeed. JavaScript is a far easier language to work with - it may have a quirks and gotchas, but it's fairly straightforward despite it not being my first choice in a language.
Jesus fucking christ. I gave it these specs and it spat out a perfectly fine CS101-style python program that worked.

Then I told it I wanted a GUI, so it started writing a perfectly fine CS101-style tkinter program. I couldn't get pip to work, but chatgpt solved that for me too.

Then I told it to rewrite it in rust. It generated plausible code, but it couldn't finish the problem before getting cut off. And I was unable to get it to continue where it left off.
free or not, 3 days of warning for any service termination sucks.
Hopefully that $6M is clawed back.
Can't reccomend it highly enough, for a long time it was my go to RSS reader too.
> It would even solve the problem of super human GPT-5 cognition. That would be moot if it's never released and only used to Alpaca-ize their own smaller models.

They would not have a moat from this strategy.

At the end of the day, they still make available a model with high performance. The whole point is that anyone, for very little money, can fine-tune another model to match the performance of OpenAI's models.
> When a flight has both IFE and this "iPad experience," I almost never see anyone using their own device.

I don't like the IFE screens because of terrible hardware (unresponsive screens) and software. I always use my own device.

But you're right -- I generally don't even want to interface with the IFE and either leave it in map mode or off, if that's possible. Occasionally there's a film I'd like to watch, but never enough to watch on the seatback. On my ipad, OK.
I think it's intentional. Dullness sometimes feels reliable.
I think you're misrepresenting the text a bit. It says:

> What’s interesting about solving such a case is how it relies on concepts that may seem counterintuitive to forensic biologists but are quite straightforward to an electronics engineer.

They're only claiming it's "counterintuitive" to biologists trained in other methods.
Crazy he put his reputation at stake over this. We'll see if it pays off
> The iPod Touch Gen 7 lasted just under 3 years from release.

It was released May 2019, and it just received its latest security update (15.7.3) January 23, 2023. Presumably that is not the last security update for iOS 15.
https://archive.ph/VQLAp
Well comments like yours are the ones truly deserving discussion on the topic, just so you know my opinion. <3

> This is why I prefer the term "weak AI". Weak AI is specifically trained to solve tasks whereas strong AI can teach itself to solve new tasks.

Yes, we can call it a spectrum, though I'd think it's more like a multi-dimensional space. Wouldn't contest your definition though, it's as valid as all the others really.

And yeah I agree/think that the ultimate general AI is the one that can teach itself new tasks, utilize past experience even if the patterns don't match perfectly, and have some sort of sentience. And let's not forget that it must have actual goals and motivation (otherwise it'll just conclude that the best course of action is to not expend any effort and just put itself in an infinite idle loop).

> Whether humans are able to create strong AI is a philosophical question: While some argue that's not possible (can we be Gods?), others argue that this is the next logical evolutionary step.

IMO people romanticize these topics too much. The true AI will be "born" as a hyper-optimizing recursive machine (and collection of algorithms) and it will eventually get limited by the physical reality it inhabits so it'll self-balance quite fine. It's strange how much spiritual value people put into these things, though I somewhat understand; that'll be the second truly intelligent and sentient "life form" that we will know beside ourselves so some metaphysical hand-waving seems unavoidable and maybe even desirable (in terms of moral correction mechanism, maybe).

> Let's see if we can at least mimic strong AI when we let LLMs connect to external systems (internet, money, more energy, etc) and specifically allow themselves to fine-tune or train new NNs in general.

I have no doubt we'll eventually get there but my feeling is that the current "AI" area is in a local maxima and it won't crawl out of it easily.
It will still break all apps out there that rely on a workflow with this model. Some will need to regenerate all their data
It isn't contrarian, it is the hard questions that need to be asked.

The current mind set of shareholders is incompatible with this. Shareholding/"investment" nowadays is merely gambling with extra steps. This is not always a bad thing, in that, one can invest/gamble on a business that can grow into something that benefits many people.

The mindset change is that you invest to make better companies, not just to make more money. Invest in companies that make products that don't have planned obsolescence, that aren't hyper focused on just getting 5% profit growth next quarter etc. Or just trying to time the market so they can extract money from the greater fools. It would be an legitimate investment into business that would make the world a better place.

Side note - The mind set of shareholding is very weird when you look at it. I remember back in about 2003/4 reading about the latest quarters reports on tech. Apples shares had dropped on the back of profit being about 5% lower than expected - they still made hundred of millions that quarter but because they missed expectation the shares dropped. AMD shares that quarter went up - why? Because while they took a lose, it wasn't as much as expected. But it will still a loss... the markets are a weird thing!
I really like your point about compression. I have never thought about it this way. BTW, I am curious how much storage the "essence" of one's face take in relation to the ten images required by your service?
Today the default choice for a terminal program is Gnome Terminal
It's entirely 180 degrees backward.

Banks operate by discount. You take a thing to the bank, the bank values it and then a financial asset is created which the bank buys by creating an advance of its own liabilities against it. The bank then books the assets (the mortgage) against the advance. The bank's balance sheet is expanded.

The individual then 'pays' people with the advance - which does nothing other than change the ownership on that advance. When the payment process is complete we stop calling it an advance and start calling it a deposit.

You don't even need somebody else's money to start a bank. The Bank of England was started by issuing shares to subscribers and booking them on the asset side as nil paid.

A deposit 'moving' to another bank is really the destination bank taking over the deposit in the source bank, or delegating that to the central bank via a centralised clearance process.

Bank capital, either equity or notes, is convincing somebody with a deposit to swap it for another liability that has less security.

Much of the problems we have with banking and the view against it is because of the persistence of the Monetarist view that they pick up bag of coins from somebody and pass them on to somebody else. There are no bags of coins, and there is no passing them on. Never has been, never will be.
For printing parts, precision matters since they likely need to fit with something else. You’ll want to be able to edit dimensions on the model to get the fit right.

So maybe someday, but I think it would have to be a project that targets CAD.
I agree that for stylized, painting-like 3D models it could be very cool. I was indeed thinking of the typical pipeline for a photoreallistic asset.
Seems the Saudis aren’t getting off so easy as you suggest:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/credit-suisse-collapse-burns-sa...
I would like to see stats on what percentage of android phones were exploited in the wild for malicious purposes (ie. excluding cases where the user deliberately is jailbreaking them).

Personally I have never seen any friends or relatives get malware on their phone that gets outside the app sandbox (ie. Uninstalling the bad app seems to solve the issue). Compare that to MS Windows where it seems common for regular users to have malware infested systems.
If this ends up being the second time I get laid off right before the entire financial system collapses then I give up.
> To secure a decentralized blockchain, you need the work to be provably wasteful.

But why does it have to be wasteful?

As I understand it you just need a hard enough computation to prevent the 51% problem.

Obviously if the goal was to compute something which had real value all the failed attempts would count as “provably wasteful” so would seem to fit the criteria.
Isn't it though?

I thought the was the whole point of the free tier: to let people give its responses thumbs ups and thumbs downs and suggest better answers.
This dynamic content is normally a part of a multipart MIME message.
Should be opened with an external viewer in case the e-mail client program can not display it inline.

Regarding the MS teams, plain text messaging covers a huge part of use cases, provided the third party client implementation warns the user about limited rendering support, allowing fallback to genuine MS client.
lol if that is true then why even bother? We are doomed.
Amazon layoffs: Another 9k employees being let go
And what exactly is the benefit of restricting such a tree to two children? Why not just allow an arbitrary amount of children and then only use it with 0,1,2? After all, you might later want to extend the language.
To fix it completely yes, but to fix it sufficiently for the author I think this would be okay
The patches are out so just make sure you update to march OTA and you're fine.
Very nice for people who have reliable cell coverage at home and everywhere they go. I am not going to effectively disable my phone living on the hills, my family may need to reach me. Come up with a fix, VoLTE presumably goes through some server that can do data validation.
Given 5, it sounds pretty reasonable to recommend everyone to turn it off. Given 6, it sounds difficult to follow that advice.
Humans more often use intuition, and then construct axioms to logically justify intuition.
I think it's really unlikely it's the last one. I think it's closer to the second.
> Literally read the book The Great Reset by Klaus Schwab, it's all discussed there

There's no way you read this book. Because I have.

Davos is mentioned once in passing in the entire book. And the whole book is about how we can build a more resilient, more equitable world for everyone, where we respect nature instead of plundering it.
It’s actually not that uncommon for people with the same type and level of job to congregate and discuss - or conference - together to learn and socialise with each other.
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Yeah that's why it seems bad now. But hopefully for them they thought it through and most wanted to upgrade right away anyway the data regeneration will be quick.
I read that with the sarcasm that I hope was intended and had a good laugh.
2008 was bad.

This is much worse, in my opinion.

At least the loans were backed by real property in 2008. Homes that will have value and in fact have came back way, way more valuable than the bottom of that crash.

What we have now is a crash in financial instruments themselves.

It's about supply and demand. The USA has been printing up dollars like crazy since the beginning of the Covid pandemic. Simple supply and demand. More money created, less value money is worth.

History is littered with governments printing too much money, , and their entire civilization comes down.

Even Rome, mighty Rome, was brought down by printing up too much money. Other shit, too, but mainly printing too much money. They don't tell you this, but there ya go.

.

Will we pull out? Hope so. Just like in 2008 - we managed to pull out of it.

But 9 lives, folks. We're using them up.
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It’s easy to comment like this from afar, but would you actually send this message if you were the CEO?
In the prompt he finishes by asking "Do you understand these rules?".

I'm curious to see examples where GPT asks clarifying questions on abstract concepts it has been introduced to such as a game like wordle. Depending on the question(s) it asks, I'll decide to look for a different career path or not :-)
The thing with Elon is, he has extremely low EQ when it comes to dealing with individuals. He cares mostly about masses and scale so he's not going to notice that he's caused harm to one person.
If you want to investigate the history of the macOS cursor, and other cursor schemes, I highly recommend this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThelfB2fvg

+

http://www.michieldb.nl/other/cursors/
Candida auris is a species of fungus that grows as yeast.[1] It is one of the few species of the genus Candida which cause candidiasis in humans. Often, candidiasis is acquired in hospitals by patients with weakened immune systems. C. auris can cause invasive candidiasis (fungemia) in which the bloodstream, the central nervous system, and internal organs are infected. It has attracted widespread attention because of its multiple drug resistance.[0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_auris

It reminds me of C. diff (bacterial) which is also highly resistant to drugs and has a higher prevalence in hopsitals.
Some other links:

* Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/cs_kaplan/status/1637996326129393666

* Page on the subject: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/

* Interactive application: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/app.html
Ask HN: How do you prioritize learning technical vs. soft skills?
As a customer-centric full-stack engineer, I've been working with AI product engineering teams for the past few years. I realized that being able to translate eng-speak to wider audiences was helpful, and I became the go-to resource for sales & success. Want to know how our latest model release affects your customer? Ask me. Want to know the potential downsides of launching a new model to production? Ask me. Will our upcoming product be viable for your prospect? Ask me.

I feel like my technical skills like system design have not progressed. I also lack the math background to understand the AI models deeper than input/outputs. And lastly, my full-stack programming skills are great for creating fast MVP's. But I am not perceived as creating high-quality, readable, maintainable code.

I'm seeking to understand how other people navigate the path of picking new skills to learn. Any resources or advice would definitely be appreciated!
I wrote game engine after game engine with various languages and designs. Somehow I’m still motivated today to rewrite navigation in my 15th engine for the 3rd time.
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> I don’t understand how VC funds can be in the billions and yet outsiders must assume they do not know anything about: 1. bank failures in the US in the last 100 years 2. deposits being on a bank’s balance sheet, hence the terms credit and debit cards 3. creditor subordination in event of default

Without offering judgment: VCs are concerned with many things that can kill the companies in their portfolio across multiple different verticals. I would assume a big part of how this happened is that of all the things that could kill their returns, banks were low enough on the list that they weren't regularly thinking about it.

IMO there's a legitimate question about whether we believe it's good for one of the things VCs have to consider is bank failure risk as it will necessarily take attention away from other concerns more related to business and innovation.
Having to type by poking away at an onscreen keyboard would be consistent too but we can all agree that it would suck.
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"The small but real risk of losing your deposits in a bank encourages companies and people with money to invest it into other things."

I'm surprised that belief still persists.

The counter to that, of course, is that the silly instability in the banking system we're now seeing worldwide will destroy risk taking as people scramble to protect their positions.

Look at the damage to stock market valuations. How many banks are thinking about creating loans at the moment?

Banks provide liquidity against real things by creating money. They don't invest, and they don't take in money. All they do is shuffle their balance sheet to try and improve their net interest margin.

This idea that banks will suck up all the money is yet another consequence of thinking about banks backwards. There isn't, and never has been, a fixed amount of money.

Just as you get fancier trapeze moves if you have a safety net installed, you get far more risk taking when the basics operate correctly, safely and without having to think about them.
And loading up on dependencies that include tracking cookies.
This happened to me, almost identical. I was the first hire and an engineer. I worked for three years and some change before I was no longer a culture fit.

Never assume you are on the same level as the founders. There is no “family” and the “culture” is really a “cult”.

Never share your true thoughts or feelings. Tell them what they want to hear or whatever makes them feel in power and exert your true power elsewhere. Err, read the 48 Laws of Power and then apply it.

I didn’t burn that bridge but I burnt every one after it if I was crossed. I maintain a shit list of companies and people to take down in the future.
It's ridiculous. Now we all have to implement "chat" even if we all want is code completion
> It is good to be careful about utilizing memory on your visitors machines, so you better spend a lot of thought on memory management.

Which is why Javascript has a gc.
Nothing plus a mountain of potentially toxic liabilities.

It's not exactly a slam dunk deal.
Or they just close that loophole? Why is that allowed in the first place?