skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of output, isn’t GPT-4 already able to make this type of reasoning from visual input?
As some people pointed out, Python code could make it better at maths, and possibly more explainable.

However, this reasoning from images is supposed to come with GPT-4 already, right?
These two sentences are at completed odds with each other:

1. "We are a company that promotes openness and transparency"

2. "Let's commit to maintaining complete confidentiality about the company—no exceptions"
Neither of those risks are an issue though if the 'lender of last resort' is doing its job.

Long dated treasuries and F&F mortgage bonds are 'safe'. They will pay out the par value on maturity come what may.

Which means if the deposits run from SVB to another bank, then all that happens is that there is an increase in reserves at the Fed owned by those other banks and a decrease in reserves at the Fed for SVB.

The Fed then just lends reserves back to SVB - offset by the increase from other banks. SVB still had enough income coming in to pay the rate at the Fed.

Now that the Fed is lending against bonds at par via the Bank Term Funding Program, that is what will happen for other banks who find themselves in the same situation. Essentially the Fed has just reduced the long term interest rate.

If regulations were reduced in scope, and the regulator declares that a bank is in compliance with those reduced regulations, then the lender of last resort really need to put its money where its regulatory mouth is. Otherwise we get the mess we're seeing now.

Banks will always try to wriggle the jacket. This whole thing is a failure of regulation - where the left hand didn't seem to know what the right hand was doing.

SVB may have been pushing the envelope. It's the job of the regulator to push back.
I liked this: https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/index.html

It explains the boot process from the cpu initialization to a the end of the linux kernel initialization.
It had an opportunity to take over Twitter but it's just not ready for main stream. The user experience is too confusing and too much for the average user.
I propose a new law - the "Above Law". Similar to Poe's Law, it's sufficiently impossible on the internet to determine if a comment referencing "the above" is referring to a LLM prompt, or is a real human using an unusual way of referencing the content in question.
> Iceland or Switzerland?

Yeah, right.
Switzerland, where contracts with private companies are censored so the public does not see how much money they lose.
That's indeed what's on the logo: https://previous.unixdude.net/images/prev-logo.png
Ask HN: Why is it so hard to apply for jobs?
Why is it that in order to apply for a job as a software engineer I am forced to sign up to a company's online recruitment portal. Where I then upload my CV, only to find out in the next step I have to fill out little boxes with my relevant experience. Then fill out more boxes with arbitrary questions, completely unrelated to the job I am applying for.

I swear I abandon the recruitment page as soon as I see the "workday" logo pop up, or I am redirected to a "careers portal". Just give me an email address to send my info to.

I have spent time building up my portfolio and CV over the last decade. It shows all my experience and relevant skills, in a way that represents me as a developer.

Yet when I eventually turn up to an interview, after hearing back 6 weeks later. The people conducting it have never been sent my portfolio site or relevant work. And I will then be asked some "right or wrong answer" tech questions. Which any dev would just google at the time and do not give an indication of skill, but rather memory retention...

I will then get an email saying that I do not have the relevant experience in a technology I have actually contributed to and worked with for 10 years.

This is a rant, but really the recruitment process sucks, and interviews are pot luck.
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next bit prediction, or long-form autocomplete, may lead to general intelligence.
http://mattmahoney.net/dc/rationale.html
I have looked at about forty instances, most of them being for specific interests. EVERY single one, without fail, regardless of the subject, was flooded with American politics, over whatever it was actually intended for. I went to a music group and had to search through two weeks of American politics related posts to find a single post on music.

In the case of Pleroma, it was much the same, but with way more fringe lunatics and right wingers. I don't want to find a community "aligned with my worldview" that shuts out people unaligned with them, I want to find a community of mentally healthy adults, and that does not seem to exist in the larger Mastodon or Pleroma fediverse, unless your hobbies include pearl clutching about perceived racism or making infographics about white genocide.
"I keep reading these opinions that LLMs are just doing some advanced form of copy paste. Actually, we don't know what they are doing. Are they actually doing some form of modelling and abstraction? Seems likely to me."

This is exactly the problem with AI. For business or government, the answer is as important as the methodology employed. A black box does not work for the majority of use cases.

Until it can show its work, it's a sideshow.
16 is sad and very unfortunate.

There is a massive outcry and countries passing anti-constitutional laws aimed to protect women that are victims of domestic violence with similar casualty rates.

Maybe we should let kids vote so politicians pay some attention to them.
While you are not wrong, the idea that gives me anxiety is that this replaces all programmers. My job theoretically is safe for now. I work on fairly novel stuff, while a lot of my day is json parsing there is a big chunk of it that is domain specific. That said... it's that one day it will just take over all of programming that has me in dread. The only option then in my somewhat middle age is to unironically "learn a trade" I guess?
Buy a U2F USB key.
> And this affects millions of people who are very pissed off and vocal about it.

I wonder how pissed these people would be if the government continued to pretend that everything is fine, did nothing, and in a few years the pension system simply crashes, due to being no longer feasible.

The current system in many european country relies on assumptions that were true in the 60s and 70s, when many of these systems basics were designed: Continuous population growth generating net positives in the pension funds, a certain life expectancy, and taxable incomes rising with economic power.

None of these assumptions hold true any more: Population growth has stalled or even reversed, people live a lot longer, and incomes stagnate despite decades of economic growth.

So the systems can either be adjusted, or they will stop functioning at some point. Even if the budgets are balanced at the moment, the factors listed above are not going to change in the other direction. Sooner or later, adjustments need to take into account the new reality.
Make something people want, and will pay for.
sry. reddit mods deleted the post.
Thank you for your comment with relevant citations. The dominant version of the story in western circles is too often accepted uncritically. There are many other elements to consider. Same for many stories regarding China.
Isn't this built in to either iOS or Android [or was in the past]? I'm pretty sure there was some way of exchanging contact info via Bluetooth or BLE, involving tapping phones together.

Or am I misremembering? I've never used the feature myself [if it exists outside of my fevered imagination]

EDIT: Just checked on my Android phone. In the contacts app, I can bring up someone's contact info > click Details icon > then Share > choose VCF or text > and then, choose Bluetooth as the sharing option and send it to another device. Yes, it's a bit of a faff, but it is there and is built-in.
Just to nitpick, Fortran is pretty much "programming as we know it" and was released 66 years ago (in 1957).
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I don't think Neoliberalism maps onto left/right that well, but is generally favored by people who believe in markets. It's not particularly conservative or right-wing though.
Google also has Vector Drawables for Android [1]. I'm sure they'll also create the other 12 competing successors, because each of their platforms need a new separate format.

[1] https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/graphics/vect...
I think I would love Berlin. It is just very different than all the other options presented, so I was curious why it was listed. It is like someone saying they are trying to decide between several types of dark roasted coffee but also having ginger kombucha in the list. Put more succinctly, I did see a common trait between Berlin and the other locations, so I wondered what it was.
First, these sorts of comments are best left to Reddit, not here.

Secondly, I'm gay and my boyfriend and I play tons of video games together.

Third, even if I wasn't, I'd probably have the wherewithall to find a girlfriend that shares my interests or at least doesn't have a problem with them.

Amazingly, humans (yes, including women, perhaps shocking to you) are complex and nuanced creatures that find enjoyment across a wide range of activities. Women can absolutely enjoy video games, just not when they're forced to play with sexist creeps like you.
Do you have evidence of this claim that it was only unproductive people?(Though I find your definition of who those people are is also suspect) I've read news of large parts of teams being fired, including gutting important groups like curation.
Sweden mostly avoided lockdowns.
Depends which. Chicken or duck hearts, most types of liver, sure, once in a while. Oxtail soup.

Tripe, cow tongues, kidneys, trotters, chicken feet, lungs, brains? Know they're big in some cultures, but no thanks.
Extracurricularly, I coach startups. I work with a lot of university grads who have completed, at minimum, a 4-year undergrad comp sci degree (most have completed grad school), and my experience is a bit different.

Nearly all of them are strong in the areas of design and software engineering principles. They are also strong in SQL, the Git/GitHub ecosystem, and at least one language/framework. And they know just enough about infrastructure to use a simple CI/CD pipeline. But anything beyond that infrastructure-wise (networks, security, tiered architecture, IaC, services, PaaS, etc.) is foreign territory for them because it isn't covered during a typical undergrad program.

Now this is perfectly OK in my opinion because I provide that for them initially and teach them many of those concepts while coaching their projects. There is limited time in any undergrad program, and I'd rather universities spend that time focusing on what they are currently focusing on because that is a foundation I can work with.
Someday they will win. The question is how many of us will be around to celebrate the win and in what conditions they will be living. That's the thing we can still influence.
Almost any human trained from a childhood would be able to do endurance hunting. Human endurance thanks to sweating and other traits is especially advantageous in hot climate: horses can't ourtun humans indefinitely as they overheat and can't cool down as effectively as humans, so eventually a trained human will catch up a horse (and eat it).
Bobby tables (https://xkcd.com/327/)
In other words, F-Droid but for iOS.
If I could pay the corporation for firefox I might. (Unlikely because they keep making it worse.) I can only pay the foundation which gives money to a load of bullshit and puts out stink pieces saying we need less speech on the web.

Telemetry is used as an excuse for removing features but it is really part of government surveillance.
That's strange, the article says that the employees blame remote work for the banks failure, but they don't actually talk about what that means. Why was it responsible for the banks failure? The article seems to go out of its way to ignore any issues with work from home, almost dismissively.
Easily, just like any other passthrough. It doesn't need to know what the application is, just what the application is trying to do.

So application would check the capabilities of the audio sink, compare that with properties of the source, and if they match, just shuffle the buffers without decoding; let that be a concern later in the pipeline (i.e. hardware). Done.
If you only include instances where up = true, it drops to 4.9M.
Its impossible to have a sane conversation about nutrition, especially in a historical context, when addressing folks' anecdotal cultural notions of what foods make their body feel good. Whatever point you're trying to make is meaningless without offering science or anthropological-historical context to back it up.
The cookie directive is great. The fact that companies decided to maliciously comply is on them, not the law.
> common-sense conclusion that junior people need more direct supervision is clearly sugarcoating it for junior recipients for whom the message is intended.

I see this being repeated ad-nauseam. I don't really buy that at all. I have seen junior employees that performed and evolved fine on remote settings, on teams that had effective remote collaboration.

IMO, this is a lie that people that really miss working from offices grasping at straws to muddy the conversation with some kind of plausible deniability.
For the curious:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_interpretations_of_T...
Yet, Curl supports TELNET.

Another potential use case for IRC is scripting a data collector to connect, run /list on a number of IRC networks, and disconnect. Eg, something similar to whatever netsplit.de does to collect its statistics.

But then, given the ability to connect to IRC via TELNET, perhaps Curl can already claim support for IRC.
> I bet my entire life

I would hedge that bet.
https://archive.is/20230320065655/https://www.ft.com/content...
So many people don't check those things before going to college that it effectively doesn't matter. The best colleges will get more applicants than they can handle, and everyone who is rejected will go to other colleges. You'd have to be really, really bad to get a reputation for failing your students.

And the institution doesn't care, but many of the teachers do care, so they do what they can to help the students.

Also, they cook the books. I went to a college that supposedly had a high 90% placement rate. But what they actually counted is if the person had a job soon after they graduated, no matter what field it was in. Because most people who had to pay those tuition prices needed to be earning money to pay them back already, they took whatever job they could.

I called them on it and they claimed that I was refusing to follow their advice and that's why I couldn't get a job in the industry. In reality, they were just horrifically bad at job searches. The interviews they sent me to were for horrible companies, and even then I didn't even get a second interview.

They claimed it was because I refused to follow their advice of hand-writing a note to give to the secretary to give to give to the interviewer. I informed them that seeing my handwriting was a massive turn-off, but that continued to be the career counselor's excuse as to why I couldn't get a job.

My dad ended up going in and yelling at both the counselor and the head of the head of the school, which changed their attitude considerably. They were still completely ineffectual, though.
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That must be so demoralizing to read. Not just from the creators side but the maintainers too.

I've always felt really proud when contributing to an OS project and it's approved and merged etc. But never once have I thought to complain or even give my sometimes bad opinions on stuff. I don't know how OS providers and maintainers do it.
> Do you need to prohibit Java 20 to teach inheritance?

Java20 did not introduced inheritance, nor did it introduced any OO concept. Java20 adds no value to those learning OO. If you're writing java code but are not using any Java20 feature, you are not writing Java20 code.

> Working with an outdated version (...)

It is not outdated. You are not using any feature. You're just succumbing to the misplaced belief that new means more value. It doesn't, specially when the only thing that you get is more complexity.

> Sure, but that doesn't mean knowledge of newer features (...)

Repeat after me: Java20 adds no OO feature. You do not have to use Java20 to learn OO. OO courses are not java courses. Do you understand this?
> The probability for new concepts for any prompt is near zero.

That is actually what the "temperature" API parameter controls - set it to high and you'll get a high probability of new concepts, coupled with a high probability of nonsense. (I assume) It's like facilitating a brainstorming session and offering the participants edibles.
Here are a couple of resources I think can help you:

- old x86 PCs boot in BIOS mode: https://opensource.com/article/17/2/linux-boot-and-startup

With BIOS, your PC initializes hardware and contains firmware drivers for reading disk drives. BIOS loads the first sector (MBR) from the selected boot drive to a fixed memory location and jumps to it. Everything else is up to the bootloader (BIOS still provides methods for reading disk, interacting with the keyboard/moues and text or (S)VGA video output). GRUB2 is saved to the disk in two stages: Stage 1 is <512bytes and is only used to load stage 2. Stage 2 is commonly saved in the empty space before the first partition. Grub stage 2 then loads it's own drivers for filesystems, searches partitions and kernels+ramdisks... Once you select or manually type the path to a kernel and init ram disk, GRUB loads it into memory and jumps to it (still in 16bit real mode).

- new x86 PCs and some ARM use UEFI: https://hackaday.com/2021/11/30/whats-the-deal-with-uefi/

UEFI works similarly, but is cross-platform (can work on x86, x86_64, itanium, 32bit and 64bit ARM, possibly on RISC-V). UEFI doesn't look for boot drives but for EFI applications (bootloaders) on a special EFI System Partition (uses FAT32 filesystem per spec, but can be any filesystem your UEFI firmware has a driver for). The firmware then loads the configured UEFI application and runs it (it also provides services for input devices, disks, networking, display). GRUB does the same as above.

The only difference is if you are using a distribution that has a signed bootloader (using Microsoft's UEFI CA) probably also check whether the kernel and 3rd party modules are signed using distribution's or your (owner's) signing keys.

- other ARM devices and most MIPS, RISC-V commonly use U-Boot with Device Tree (as without UEFI or ACPI, there has to be a way to inform the kernel of basic non-PNP hardware and how to communicate with it).
I like to think of them as "stand up comedy gigs". You go, you try and kill it in the live coding set and sometimes you do, but sometimes you bomb. It's a numbers game. Get up on stage more and more and eventually you'll kill and they'll make you an offer that day! But it's VERY repetitive. Just like comics are sick to death of their own jokes they'd told 1000 times, boy I do not like to hear my self speak sometimes.
Proof of concept integration of ChatGPT into Unity Editor
Nope. I had a blog back in 2003-2010 I finally just shut it down because all I got were spammers trying to comment.

I now am selling the domain because some celebrity gamer in south korea has that exact match name as my nickname domain and twitter handle.

I was offered 40k a year ago but declined.
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Literally LLMs get much better with chain of thought, feedback, and/or consensus.

Gpt-3 performance on MultiArith goes from 18% to 92% with all three. This isn't some hackneyed anthropomizing. Countless research papers showing massive improvement with these processes.
I thought it was about windows as well :D
https://osdev.org has a lot of resources about this.

Your computer and all of its hardware are built on standards. For the most part, they are adhered to by hardware and BIOS manufacturers. GRUB et al are just abstracting those away because they're obtuse and not very ergonomic to work with from day to day.
> I mean, Java 8 had the lambdas and FP which I would argue are pretty important in modern Java.

What role do you believe lambdas and support for functional programming play in object-oriented programming courses?
> Every single major tech company clearly has bucket loads of data

People (managers and execs in this case) don't primarily make data driven decisions.

They do what's good for themselves personally

Sometimes that means following whatewer the data says -- in other cases they might rather not want to look at any data
No, it's like pulling cash from banks and sticking it under the mattress. Sure the wider cryptocurrency market is a financial wild west, but bitcoin is relatively stable (I don't mean non-volatile) at this point. It's a reasonable alternative.
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They are building exit liquidity to dump on you.

Balaji made a "bet" that cannot be understood as anything other than a pump attempt (since it violates forward pricing via no arbitrage carry, something you learn in finance 101).

He also makes it seem like you should be in BTC as a hedge instead of, you know, actual assets that will be hyperinflating according to him.
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We all know exactly what I meant... people jumping to "muh famine" &co are arguing in bad faith

The bottom line is: if you couldn't grow it/make it/process it a hundred years ago you most likely don't want to ingest that every day

If what you eat contain 50 ingredients, 45 of which you can't identify, and you couldn't make it yourself at home with basic ingredients and utensils it most likely isn't any good for you

> regular people ate a lot of junk as well. If they could afford to.

20% of the population is obese before hitting adulthood, 70% of americans are obese or overweight, the leading cause of death is cardiovascular disease, lifestyle related cancer show no sign of decline quite the opposite, &c.

We came a long way, we now know what kill us, people don't die of starvation, but they still die of malnutrition. There is a systemic, world wide issue with food, a very very bad one
> Which is by and large the entire problem. The right is rarely interested in solving problems.

The right are very interested in solving problems; but they are defined by identifying the plans of the left as the biggest problem. That is basically why they pick up the label "conservative", the right only exists as a political unit to resist threats from the left. Otherwise the right generally favours non-government approaches to problem solving (partially in an attempt to stop empowering leftists who tend to infest bureaucracies). And every faction generally keeps busy dealing with their own perceived problems.
But that's a feature, not a bug. That's your tongue telling you not to eat that food. It's better to find taste and satiation with e.g. fats, herbs, spices instead.
Applying cold to jobs sucks, and need only be done by people new to the industry. Since you've been working several years, ask people you've worked with that are now at other companies for warm intros to their managers. And network outwards from there, to friends of friends.
Close to 190 banks could face Silicon Valley Bank's fate, according to new study
Most horses have it even worse.
OS dev forums and wiki have extensive information on, well, almost everything computer-related.

https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page