jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
`Sweden spent 4 percent of its gross domestic product, or 65 billion kronor, the equivalent of $11.7 billion at the time, or $18.3 billion in today’s dollars, to rescue ailing banks. `

Hrmm...so let's see...4% of $14.14T = $565B.

TARP alone was 700B - i.e. approximately 5% and that seems to not have been enough - because the Fed spent an additional $1.4T.

How much more money did you want the US to spend? Obviously if it was as simple as nationalizing every single bank, they would have done that. But the US banking industry is much more complicated than any other country - much less Sweden's (with all due respect).

To whit, so far this year the FDIC has 'nationalized' more banks than they did 2009.

https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html

So they are kinda doing what you suggest, but just to show you how difficult such a task really is, they are still winding them down almost 2 years later.
I'm all for capitalism, but if there are companies which fall into the "too big to fail" camp I want them split up and/or their management put on special notice that if the companies do fail then the taxpayers will be coming after the assets of the the executives should the company fail.

NB I really don't think that applies to Google or Amazon.
> jumping on this thing to milk it to it's full extent and amplify its negative aspects and blow it way out of proportion. Just like the same power structures were last year used to amplify the "positive" message of certain other protests.

Armed people stormed the US Capitol, after being incited to do so by the current US President, in order to overturn a legal election result. People died as well.

You can't "blow this out of proportion" the same way you can't blow something like Chernobyl out of proportion - it was huge, it has huge ramifications, it impacts a lot of people. There are zero positive aspects and there's nothing redeeming in the whole story.
The male Kardashian life cycle.
I don’t know whether that’s been proven, but I’ve always assumed it’s because controversy and rage fuels interactions, therefore Facebook “likes” the content. There’s a difference between numbers and human recommendations “tweaks” by Facebook themselves.
Don’t forget almost 10% sales tax on most things you buy, the most expensive gas in the country, and property taxes that–while low compared to other states–are still applied to much more expensive properties.

At least our public schools are ranked 38th.
I think it's a human thing - it works better with the brain if the money is "physically" in a different location (When in reality it makes no difference). It's the same why people actually use envelopes instead of just having a pile of money and a sheet of paper to note what is what.
RAID 1 is just direct copies of the data onto 2 separate drives. No parity is involved. RAID 5 breaks the data into N-1 segments and then has parity data on the remaing disc. The drive the parity data gets saved to rotates through the drives in the array so that no single drive has all of the parity data. That's what RAID 3 does.

So, if you have a RAID 5 array where 1 drive dies, the rebuild process is meant to be able to recreate the missing data on the new drive using the parity data from the rest of the drives in the array. However, if one of those drives has read errors, typically CRC type errors, then the rebuild cannot continue because the data it needs is not available. Bye bye data!!

Also, RAID 5 can achieve higher throughput since the data is split between the number of drives in the array. We used to build RAID 51 volumes which is 2 separate RAID 5 arrays, but then add the 2 volumes as RAID 1 volume so they are mirrored. The system only sees 1 volume with the capacity of a single RAID 5 volume. That was before RAID 6.
4 there's already a standardized rich text format for emails, called "enriched text" defined originally in rfc 1563 almost exactly 27 years ago, and last updated in rfc 1896 about 25 years ago.

It supports many things that markdown does not (setting font families, sizes, and color for one example), and nobody uses it anymore.
Redistributive taxation would be a good start.
My phone is in DnD mode for several years now, so messaging is the best option to connect to me. When exchanging contacts I always mention that best reaction time is via Telegram because I have it on the phone and on all PCs. I only checking WhatsApp when I am on the phone.
Can someone clarify something for me in that second assembly dump: It does:

xor %eax %eax (2 bytes)
mov $0x0,%edi (5 bytes)

Why does it decide to use 2 different ways to zero a register, the second one less efficient than the first? Or will the second one be patched while linking, i.e. the 0 is a placeholder for some other address?
I write in ES6 every day now, after using Dart for a few years. ES6 is a great improvement on ES5, but trust me, it's no Dart.
I'm glad to hear this voiced in the communities I've attended. Honestly, I'm having extreme bouts of difficulty explaining this to the folks I collaborate with. They are genuinely wonderful folks, but I just can't seem to get across the severity of even minor interruptions.

Sometimes, I will deliberately engage in nothing but research until everyone is out of the office. Then, I start coding. Not an optimal resolution, by any means, but until articulating this amicably is possible, it's what I've got.
>Unless they manage to actually plow your brain, they can't make you like things, though.

they are working on it :) 25th frame of the previous century is a crude example of such brain plowing. There are more subtle ways, known as well as yet to be discovered, to influence your behavior.
Ahhh, I see, so not only does the closure scoop up the value of variables at 'define-time', but each closure keeps track of the state of its variables (its 'free variables?') so that their values may increment over time rather than reset.

Thanks for you (rather cool) illustration. I tested the code and it also worked :)
> my brain has associated "working hard" with being in "the zone"

This is a problem for me. I try to remember that the company has entrusted me with a lot of details about how stuff works, and providing access to that is a legitimate part of my job, but I feel much better when I can see some commits when I'm done for the day.
And I think this is what the author was saying. In Lispland you don't get something like Rails, you get a bunch of 80% solutions, all different.
I'm aware of the sorting algorithm.

So, worst case, you'll end up reading a new comment with no votes and not know it. This is by design; fresher comments appear at the top so they have a better chance of being read, and up voted if applicable. Do your part and vote on the comments that you think deserve it, not the ones that everyone else does.

I don't see what a comment's score has to do with the structure being threaded: they're still in the same exact place.
Can't avoid reading "_why leaves, really falls off trees"
Doesn't that violates the GPL? I remember reading that it can't discriminate who can download the code...

I know Sourceforge has to comply with US laws, but they still need to follow the GPL too.
If it's important enough to get done, then it's important enough to be done right.
This is well done and worth checking out. The only thing I didn't like is the strictly linear route to all articles, whether you're interested in every article or not. But I don't think that takes away from the accomplishment.
I don't want to be a skeptic, but you need to ensure you haven't cut back on your fiber intake before you assume that you have Celiac disease and that cutting back on gluten was the correct decision.

A lot of gluten-based products are also high in fiber, are they not? If this is the case, the lack of fiber in your diet might be the contributing factor to the reduced number of bathroom trips as of late.

Regardless, I hope this works out for you. Sounds like you're headed in the right direction!
We actually find in our bricks&mortar that it's least expensive to deal with cheques (but only very very rarely does someone pay with a cheque). Customers believe that it is better to pay cash and that we must be charged a lot for card payments (they offer to go to the cash machine down the hill). Reality is that the bank screws us either way^W^W^W^W charge us for cash and card at about the same rate in our case - they make cheques free as we're an SME.
Hi Suraj,

Consider filing a feature request.
Once upon a time you could use ctrl+uparrow to get the previous expression in the interaction windows.
I don't know, why that keybinding disappeared.
Perhaps it was just an oversight?
I wonder how much libraries of congress is that?
The lesson here is how co-ordinated messaging (propaganda) can continually shape and re-shape broad cultural memes no matter how stupid the memes are.

While in the case of diamonds it's a matter of wasting money, encouraging inane consumerism and odious environmental practices for the sake of a few wealthy oligarchs...

When the same thing happens in politics...

It encourages meaningless consumerism and odious environmental practices for the sake of a few wealthy oligarchs.

The Lesson: Distrust messages from oligarchs.
I think 700k (or even 400k+ as estimated in these comments) is still huge
China already knows this, and has known this for a long time, they didn't need recent US actions to remind them.

But I agree with your sentiment on the first point, what a huge strategic mistake.
Maybe they care for THEIR families.

Think it through before you condemn others.

The people that have killed themselves in front of the White House probably think the rest of the USA is asleep at the wheel, too, as a citizenry.
Thank you. We want to develop morals and jurisprudence around the subject for more reasons. Computerization, in particular networked computerization, has introduced problems like "wormable" devices - were impact of a single device or data item is tiny - however at scale they can quickly rack up considerable damages and losses.
Hey Paul, I'm a big fan of what you guys have been doing. Yeah I did see that you went the visual route early on and it didn't work out, but I think there's quite a large landscape yet to explore. I'm also aiming to work with people who aren't currently developers (ie the usual nocode market) - I think developers have already gotten over the hardest hurdles to learn textual programming and thus aren't interested in the velocity for simplicity tradeoff that visual programming usually involves. This is all hypothetical for now though as I'm still building the platform.
it is scary to break that chain as Anki is not a problem if used regularly. but when you first start there is a lot of work setting up and going through all the cards and not just the one you need. more you use it longer it takes to get back in. like entire weekend long. it is number one reason people dont use card system even when it is known it is best study method.
Caffeine is a drug with several benefits (to those who need it) and some people may have undiagnosed disorders and are unknowingly self medicating.
That’s definitely a possibility as well, though your right I wasn’t thinking about it.
If you want to have fun, ask your insurance company and/or PBM (ie Rx insurance company) how they handle this scenario :)
> Why?

Because you're doing something that often causes major security bugs.

> Why not both?

It's not possible for random numbers to be both predictable and secure at the same time.
Seems like Google made 2 mistakes with this actually: not separating "unspecified" from "other" in the targeting logic and blocking the targeting on these types of ads by individual entries instead of category.
Sorry, what does tokio have to do with "async"? The default implementation uses posix threads, no?
How does having a gender associated with your Google profile indicate being "committed" to finding a job?
I think a lot depends on the environment you're working in / migrating from. If you're working from an on-prem datacenter with VM's and you're not moving to the cloud for whatever reason. I think your point of not having to hand roll config managment, secrets management volumes ect.. is a good one and kubernetes makes a lot of sense in that environment. Or using kubernetes as a target for vendor apps that may need to run in unknown or exotic environments.

But if you're already in the cloud most of the k8 solutions already exist as individual tools, with little operational maintenance needed. "I need 4GB RAM, 2 cores, I need access to the postgres secret to talk to it, and here is my hostname" is all achievable with lambda's or ecs fargate task definitions and parameter store. Managed services for queues and databases lower operational burden. All of this while not having to risk a cluster upgrade bringing everything down or now having to increase operational overhead by running multiple clusters to have some operational blast doors.

All of this to say if kubernetes is working for you thats great! Congrats. But I'm on the hill with OP. Most platform/infrastructure engineers that I've heard pitch kubernetes because they are trying to solve one problem I.E secrets management or deployment ect... not all of the problems at once and bring in kubernetes complexity when there is already a fully managed, safer and cheaper solution to migrate to doesn't usually make sense.

There's no 100% right or wrong answer but I think you really have to evaluate what you're migrating from when evaluating moving to kubernetes
Your point #1 is the inherent problem with rail passenger transport, and why air travel has an advantage. For rail you have to engineer and build both the vehicle and transport medium (rails). This gives you two very different engineering challenges. Building the transport medium between every two points is a new undertaking. Air travel on the other had presents one engineering challenge, creation of the vehicle. (I'm dismissing the airports, because essentially they are very simple structures. Of course the air traffic control system is not simple.) And when you have the vehicle your choice or routes is practically unlimited.
In Germany, there is also a problem that many of these new lines are expected to have mixed traffic on them, meaning both fast passenger trains and freight trains. This makes them much more expensive than they would have to be, as both types of traffic have quite different expectations. Passenger trains need curves with very large diameters (~ speed^2 relation, even 7 km diameters) in order to allow the high speeds. Freight trains aren't that fast, so they don't need such a large diameters of the curves, but they can't handle as steep gradients. 4% slope is perfectly OK for an HS passenger train, but at least impractical for a freight traffic.

French HS train lines are for passenger traffic only, they can be (and are) built adjacent to existing highways and so. And of course. They are built as whole new lines, instead of the (not only) German patchwork.

Btw. you are missing HS railways in Spain, where it is built in a similar manner to France, there are already complete operational routes, and the service seems to be very successful as well.

http://www.trainweb.org/tgvpages/images/cab/ln1rampe.jpg
He makes the same point that PG made on his essay on "Cities and Ambition" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html )

Cringley: "The common link that bound all 28 of my New York meal companions was they wanted money."

"None of the San Francisco donors were looking for money. They wanted to talk about ideas."

Paul Graham: "New York is pretty impressed by a billion dollars even if you merely inherited it.

"What matters in Silicon Valley is how much effect you have on the world."
I just keep a markdown file with links to Twitter profiles from people I care about. Then I visit the links directly despite not having a Twitter profile, I get to read what they have to say. I also added the "Calm Twitter" plugin to my browser that strips out Trending stories, hides like counts, etc. It makes for a better, focused Twitter experience. I don't care about posting, so I get the info I want without needing to participate in the gamification.
I'm sorry, if you cannot see the benefits to running programs inside a container, then you have been reading the wrong article. I have been using FreeBSD jails for years, and now on Linux deployments, docker as well.

Lets say you have a server, it runs a mail server, database server, web server (proxy) and application server.

If they all run without containers, if one service gets compromised, and a root exploit is found, that's it game over.

If you have a service that starts eating up memory, with proper configuration, it can't overload the root server. Basically each jail/container can only see itself and any exploits cannot effect the host system, or other jails/containers (when configured correctly).

It also allows for easy expansion, when one jailed/containered service gets to large for the server, just move it to another server easily and quickly.

It also allows for speedy deployment, with docker you can bundle everything on your laptop, create an image, then ship this straight to an external host like EC2/Goole Cloud (for example), with the addition of pre built containers for Django/Rails/Postgres/MySQL etc, it creates a ready working environment for developers who might not be to hot on configuring systems. The "shipping" ability to docker is a by product of the container which is another added benefit. There are loads more features than what I have stated here, this is just a very brief summary.
Who are you? You want me to give you money but you won't reveal your names or photos of yourselves?

"Who the hell are you to ask for money like this?" was my immediate reaction. No about page, no contact page. Nothing. So you've never done sales, and this is your first lesson. Being on the internet does not mean you can ask people for money without proving yourself to be legitimate.

And I see this 7/10 times on HN projects. The excuse is always the same: "Oh we forgot we just put the site up". The about page is the FIRST thing that should go up.
I'm unsure if this would qualify, but here's the story behind favicon.ico: https://ruthlessray.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/inventing-favic...
If your goal is to help your child get the best outcome they can get from college, its way more beneficial to have them focus on doing well in school and having the time to network as well as possible (especially in a school like Stanford) than trying to make them work what's likely a shitty job while they're in school to help pay for their tuition.
What has a non-integral number of seconds?

I just found out today about Calcutta time, which until 1948 was GMT+05:30:21, but I didn ’t realize it could be even worse than that.
All calculations of this sort are fatally flawed because they assume all the coins in one address are owned by one person. That would be like calculating the US Gini coefficient assuming that all bank accounts are owned by the CEO of the bank.
As I understand wuffs goal is to be good enough for parsers coders decoders. It looks like they can still achieve that by sacrificing some of the nice features of other languages.
However, not a concept new to dog owners.
Not sure if this is "disruption," but I bet the trend in entertainment-focused degree programs is toward deals with for-profit entertainment companies. For example, take a look at the WWE's partnerships with Full Sail. Right now, Full Sail students are producing and designing programs for the WWE's development and training center.

http://corporate.wwe.com/news/2012/2012_05_14.jsp
You seem quick to denigrate JavaScript, and programmers who willingly choose it, wherever you can. But with regard to the kind of complexity the OP discusses, which roughly translates to added cognitive load, it's not at all clear that JavaScript is worse than C++ -- and I have real experience with both.

To avoid dismissing C++'s complexity too easily as simply the price of flexibility and performance, let's review what C++'s complexity looks like in practice. For example, read this:

http://simpleprogrammer.com/2012/12/01/why-c-is-not-back/

Memory stomping bugs; all the ways to initialize a variable of a primitive type; copy constructors; overloaded assignment operators; move semantics; smart pointers; value versus reference semantics; the list goes on. Against the cognitive load imposed by complete control over memory management, and lack of verifiable memory safety, JavaScript's warts seem quite minor to me. I imagine that many programmers who work in "managed" languages would agree.
> You could, and should, do both of course.

No, you should just use the truth, since the lies combat the truth.

If you prevent mislabeling, the rare fish becomes expensive rather than cheap-and-adulterated, the price differences drive lots of the people that think they prefer the rare fish to settle and try the cheaper, less rare, fish, and to the extent that the cheaper fish actually is suitable, people learn and it becomes popular.

If there is a risk of this transition happening too slowly to meet some social good (like, preserving the rare fish), you enact appropriate protections to the rare fish (either quotas, taxes, or outright bans) that restrict the supply or drive up the retail price, which accelerates the process of conversion.

> It also eases the transition from tuna to other fish.

No, it actually delays the conversion of demand by masking the cost and delaying people trying the other fish as itself and learning that it is acceptable.
Oh, and everyone who uses a computer should learn some basic shell scripting, it will make them vastly more productive regardless of their field of expertise.
i knew it! i stopped eating white tuna a while back because i felt it tastes weird, and went to yellowfin instead, but recently i went back to germany and had a tonno pizza and realized just how much different it tastes
Good question. Wordpress is number 1. It is the biggest site builder that has a GUI for marketers and that's open to developers. Only, it is in PHP, so we don't directly compete with them. Webflow, Squarespace and the likes are not direct competitors, but they are site builders that we sometimes compete with for some users. Does that make sense?
I don't know why anyone would even consider GCP with Google's track record of no human escalation points and random product/feature/account culling.

If you need a specific service like BigQuery then that's the only service you should have on there.
The fact that this legislator seriously proposed this, much less entertained the idea, proves we've got some seriously incompetent people running the government.

How can I possibly think Rep. Evans has sound reasoning and is a compentent policymaker for everything else Chicago has to deal with?