skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm so glad that this was posted. I, too, have recently been thinking about how the FDIC works given the lockout of funds at Celsius. This is an incredible read.

I've also dived into this more, however. It turns out the FDIC maintains a list of bank failures and summaries [1][0], respectively. These are awesome to read. There have been zero failures in 2022 so far, zero in 2021, and four in 2020.

Most failures in the last few years have resulted in assets being sold to acquiring banks. The most recent failure where the FDIC mailed checks to people (this is what I imagine most people think of when they see the FDIC insurance policy) was First NBC Bank in Louisiana in 2017 [3]. Some of the assets were acquired by Whitney Bank, but a large number of assets were not. The bank failed on April 28th of that year, and the FDIC mailed checks on May 1st [2], which is pretty dang good, in my opinion.

I think what I appreciate the most about this article and the recent failures is just how much attention FDIC devotes to keeping services available for customers, even when the situation is changing. Scanning over a few of the bank failure summaries, they all have a similar pattern: bank closes, all ATMs stay online, checks clear as soon as reasonably possible, and branches remain open. In the First NBC Bank failure, the worst "downtime" was experienced by people who had accounts backing other more complex financial products that didn't have immediacy attached (certificates of deposit, which are predicated on being held for a long time, for example). Everything else was "zero downtime", which is really stellar.

Seeing other bank failures on the list, particularly in 2017, that I never heard about, also reminds me of the fact that this is stuff that matters more frequently than I would have expected (i.e., outside of financial crises, like 2007/2008).

[0]: https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/

[1]: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai...

[2]: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai...

[3]: https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/bfb2017.html
>The only weird one is quantum entanglement, but even then information transfer doesn't travel faster than light ...

For anyone wondering why that is, I found this explanation super interesting:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/01/02/no-w...
Yeah, I want to be there for the podcast/article/blog too…
Yep, this is absolutely a problem. Beginner-friendliness is huge, and we need to keep working on it.
The key to any ambient aesthetic lighting is that the light not be directly visible. I will custom build you server racks that look beautiful for a hell of a lot less than you can buy them. Message me for a quote
You mean the ones where the JIT and AOT compilers, GC algorithms, GUI frameworks, and the IDE toolings are poor examples of the ones controlled by Google (forgot this one), Apple, Oracle and IBM?
Thanks for the link. All these replies are great, but the video from Geoff and Matt is an epitome of modern British communication. They really did stop at nothing!
But that's only because the government as it exists now is the puppet of private interests. But don't worry. Once the glorious revolution comes and the reactionaries are all imprisoned or shot, the government that emerges will act strictly in the interests of the people.

Fun history lesson: look up who the Jacobins were and what they did.
But it does, if you assume constant speed. (I almost wrote that in my comment but decided it was too obviously implied to mention.)

So if we assume that's implicit in my example, how does the Wikipedia page on the contrapositive help now? (It doesn't, as my argument isn't relying on any property of it.)
FedCoin will not be POS. It already exists on the Eagle Cash system we used in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s a bearer token signed by the treasury.

Professional economists have been and continue to be three generations behind reality in their discipline. Ask them today what gives the dollar value and they’ll sound like Do Kwon talking about UST: “well, we trade bonds to stabilize the value, and also we have all this gold to back it up in case anything goes wrong.”

You’re right that Bitcoin has no guns. The question is what happens in a regime change situation, which seems to be very likely in a certain part of the world.
> Didn't know it then, and doubt that teacher has any idea, but it changed the course of my life.

Reach out to him and let him know. It's these kinds of feedback that can really, really make a person's day, and it's what every engaged teacher dreams of/works for.
So now we have this, Innernet, Netmaker, Nebula, ZeroTier, Headscale,…

Getting kinda crowded. I still use Tailscale for my personal networking needs but would like to switch to an open source alternative. Really need to start evaluating some of them.
"VIMEO, INC. revenues grew 38.30% in FY 2021 as compared to FY 2020 to 391.68M. Net income fell 4.22% to -52.77M."
Good pay, money for nothing, chicks for free, tax advantages… I’m in too!
I've spent quite some time on things like cryptohack, and speaking to my cryptography friends, but ECC has never actually stuck as well as this does.

Brilliantly done!
Ask HN: Is it crazy to ask for team specific interview at Amazon?
Hi HN,

A recruiter from Amazon contacted me recently offering a job. I've been through their interviews a few times now and flunked.

He mentioned the same process as usual - coding screen, then a 5 round virtual onsite with a mix of algo/sys design and behavioral questions.

At this point I really just don't want to go through the entire pointless rigmarole again. I am a passionate and talented developer, but I suck at leetcode and suck at behavioral questions.

I might like to work at a few specific teams on Amazon if they matched my technical interests and skills. Like I'm good at performance tuning, databases, networking and ops.

Is it crazy to ask my recruiter to let me interview for team X,Y and Z directly? I'm imagining it more like a real interview at a startup, where I could just speak directly to the hiring manager and team members, present a tailored resume showing my skills at what they need and an interview process focusing on the actual skills the team needs.

Is it okay to ask for this? Is there any chance they will approve it?
VLC was born out of the need of Centrale students to share videos efficiently on-campus. Centrale being one of the top French engineering schools.
And as soon as I said X, I fixed everything.
I thought hypochondria was mostly manifesting symptoms by the power of suggestion
Shinkansen isn't really designed for short dwell time. And since it's Tokyo terminal, the train also need to be cleaned. For commuter train, 15 train per hour is easily doable with 2 tracks.
Cosmetics maker Revlon files for bankruptcy in US
Question for ya,

Why can’t a Mercury wire or ach successfully clear to Circle?

As a Mercury customer what I know is that not a single one I’ve tried has worked resulting in days locked funds.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam

> As of 2014, there were eight Muslim-majority countries where apostasy from Islam was punishable by death,[17][18][19] and another thirteen where there were penal or civil penalties such as jail, fines or loss of child custody.
Of course, PG maintainers will only want to lift what they can maintain and has a compatible release cadence. But it wouldn't be the first time that Citus' work has landed in PG core.
Excuse me? If you're unable to clarify your thoughts enough so others can understand what you mean and why you say what you say, you need to take a step back.

I do really want to understand the "why", I'm not being sarcastic or anything.
The linked content feels very much like a "your first Mac" article. Do we really need this "hey if you bother to actually go into the settings of an app, you can change how the app works" type of content to hit the HN front page?
The Software architect is the most important person on the project because there’s no point in building two halves of a bridge if they’re not going to end up meeting in the middle
What happens to aluminium when hit by 14g of plastic at 24k kmh in space
Just for comparison:

https://userbase.kde.org/images.userbase/4/4c/Spectacledefau...

The default kde screenshot app just has simple dropdown menus for all that. Is command+$, space, option+click really better than PrtScr, click?
They're not "hidden" when you know them.
> today I can go to that near sleep state in just a minute or two

This is wonderful. How many days did you take to come to this stage?

I was not aware of NSDR. I will look into it. BTW, has either of these practices reduced your overall sleep time per day?
Oh that’s cool! I always use QuickTime Player for that, something in the screenshot UI makes more sense
You seem like you are probably in the top 1% of picky customers. The one problem I had in my 3 year old model 3, which was fairly urgent, was fixed in 2 days.

Issues from your list like “tesla mobile app incorrectly identifies car as 100D” and “Autopilot down chime is distorted” are rightfully lower priority than things like brakes not working properly. Most people (including me) would not even notice most of these things on your list. I am not surprised you had to wait a while for those things to get fixed, I have a feeling you’re going to also be disappointed with your next vehicle.
Antwerp has spots with 257 PFAS m(not μ)g per L: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-3m-pfas-toxic-foreve... vs US: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-3M-groundwater-pollu...
I was my understanding that one of the Alphabet Workers Union bigger goals is to improve conditions for TVCs (temps, vendors, contractors) across the company.
I don't think the musicians come off looking bad.

They were skilled employees at a business. The business decided to substantially cut half the employees' salaries from $36,000 to $24,000 and demote the other half to part time workers making only about $10k per year. The employees did not accept this. Nothing about that speaks ill of the employees.
> When I was a kid, I remember my dad throwing out teflon pans once they'd chipped. He believed it caused cancer if the coating got into your food.

AFAIU that hasn't been proven. Teflon cookware is dangerous mostly due to the precursor chemicals used when manufacturing them (so the people most affected by this are those living downstream of the chemical plants, not the end consumers), and noxious gases released if they overheat.

But why risk it; there are certainly situations where teflon is indispensable, but cookware isn't one of them.

> I mostly cook on iron.

Well, me too. The added advantage is that an even somewhat adequately cared for cast iron frying pan will last forever, whereas these teflon things last only a few years. There's a reason why every bigger supermarket over here as a long row of teflon cookware for sale, the market for cast iron or stainless stuff must be tiny in comparison because they last forever.

> I'd support a total ban, but it seems that governments are just chipping away around the edges of the problem.

The EU is working on some kind of broad PFAS regulation, to get out of the vicious cycle of the industry just replacing one banned PFAS with a new PFAS compound.
Ahhh yes, the legendary: chief executive enterprise Senior architect consultant VP engineer.

It’s strange how these people only work at a company size of like one or two though
cmd + shift + . (that's a dot / period / full stop with cmd and shift) is the built in shortcut in Finder to toggle hidden files. Easy to remember as hidden files start with a dot.
What were your reasons for attempting to sell your services to smaller businesses in the first place?

You have made decisions capable of inflicting tremendous pain on entirely innocent people eg employees.

How are you to be believed that you will not randomly hurt more people?

Buddy this isn't PR this is proving you're not a dangerous child entirely before you defend your job.
A hot desk is fine if you check email and chat on the phone. It doesn't work for a developer station that is set up to account for the programmer's idiosyncrasies.

I mean, you set up the extra monitors, the good keyboard, the mouse and that takes a while. Not to mention the ancillary devices needed for development
Cross-pollination of ideas is a good thing.

The only problem, what if your language adopts an idea which prevents you from having a better API?

As far as I know, coroutine/generator doesn't prevent you from doing anything.
I remember the moment I realized how fast computers are at uni. I was in an algorithms course, and one of our projects was to make a program which would read in the entire dataset from IMDB of films and actors, and calculate the shortest path between any actor and Kevin Bacon using actors and movies as nodes and roles as edges.

I was working in C, and looking back I came up with a quite performant solution mostly by accident: all the memory allocated up front in a very cache-friendly way.

The first time I ran the program, it finished in a couple seconds. I was sure something must have failed, so I looked at the output to try to find the error, but to my surprise it was totally correct. I added some debug statements to check that all the data was indeed being read, and it was working totally as expected.

I think before then I had a mental model of a little person inside the CPU looking over each line of code and dutifully executing it, and that was a real eye-opener about how computers actually work.
As I was reading it I thought … okay next it’ll go into IAsyncEnumerable and could feel my self start to sweat. Then it was over!
Btw, your observations are perfectly compatible with parental support not actually doing anything for you, and everything being genetic.

The kind of parents who are organised enough to give you support, or probably also the kind of people who give their kids the genes to be organised and productive.

It's still a lottery in either case.
> If you're referring to GDPR and ePrivacy, then there's literally no reason to show that consent form for cookies that are strictly required for the functioning of your site.

This is why I guard against presumption: so I don’t make references to forms of European legislation (GDPR and ePrivacy) as if they are the singular authorities governing internet privacy law, or that legal expectations are formulated exclusively through civil law.

You’re out of your depth here.
That's why you stick with the Trinity Desktop Environment.
You can easily localize where the gravity originates and how strong it is. That part is easy as long as you are moving and can measure course changes as you move.

Then you look in that direction and see what you can see. If you see nothing then it's not a star. So either a planet or a black hole.

Either way, avoid it.

For that matter, avoid it if it's a star. It's a general rule: if it gravitates avoid it.
Amazing work.

For me, I think breaking it up after the Public Keys are generated would have helped.

I lost track the first time after the public keys are computed and exchanged. The exchange is what I think I missed.
I do sincerely miss the Webshit Weekly. Yes, their comments were snarky and contrarian in nature, but really helped bring some balance to the herd consensus
It has worked out alright for Android, I bet you would assert the same.
They are perfectly discoverable, what with the Screenshots being done through an app named - you guessed it - "Screenshots".
These kind of bloggers just like to pretend they're hidden in order to sell their "expertise".
Anyone thinking this is like 2017 and hodling or investing on that basis needs to pay a lot more attention the global economy.
We can't today, but maybe in the future.
> Things which takes minutes in optimized C++ will probably take days in Python, even if I use the "accelerated" libraries for matrix operations and other math

I’m gonna need an example because I do not believe this whatsoever.
I wrote that sort of code on those sorts of platforms ;) The bigger problem was code that assumed INC/DEC was atomic and broke when the first multi core CPUs came out. Everyone knows/knew that a sequence of instructions can be interrupted with multiple OS threads and preemption. So I don't think I'm missing that. INC/DEC give you flags but they don't give you a copy of the value. But you still need to LOCK INC or LOCK DEC for your code to be multi-core safe. And if you're sharing values you need something like "test and set" or a kernel synchronization object.

EDIT: I was basically saying the comment above that was correct because the comment I was replying to seemed to suggest it wasn't. But I guess both of them are correct and we're all in agreement ;)

EDIT2: So really I agree that InterlockedIncrement/Decerement were designed for multi-processing use case since they basically offer no advantage for a single core over just inc/dec (++/--) this is what the comment above the one I was replying to (gp?) was implying and the person responding to that seemed to think otherwise ;) but I think we still found out we all agree.
A legion has pretty strong land rights.
I was far from hitting the limit and I started paying for it either way, this feels like one of those project that should get all the money it can get.
The solution is to kill the process called ‘bird’?
In 1974, Concorde's visit to the Arabian Gulf was anything but harmonious
> any task that speed is even remotely a consideration for anymore

How do you know whether or not speed is a consideration?

Yes, OP delivered impressive efficiency gains. I'm sure he could improve the efficiency even more by dropping into pure Assembly.

But is it worth it?

The prime consideration is not execution speed but maintainability. The further that OP got away from pure Python, the more difficult to maintain the code became. That's a downside.

Now, OP describes an important technique because in the real world, you have a performance budget. Code needs to execute at speeds that return quickly enough to the user, or long execution is financially expensive (i.e. cloud computing resources), etc. But optimizing beyond what the budget requires is wasteful in terms of time needed to do the optimization as well as harmful in terms of negatively impacting future maintainability.
> While it sounds astounding that you have hundreds of forced bank closings, this is actually a well regulated market working as it should.
I am not sure that todays hyper-consolidated megabanks are a better implementation of a well regulated market.

Who do you think runs the FDIC?

Former chair:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelena_McWilliams

> In December of 2021, McWilliams announced her resignation from the FDIC.[11] Following the election of President Joe Biden, Democrats controlled all the seats on the FDIC except for the one she held.[12] She resigned after expressing her frustrations in an essay published in the Wall Street Journal with what she called the erosion of agency norms at the FDIC and a "hostile takeover" by the other directors.

The FDIC is a captured entity. It is used as a political weapon and as a weapon for industry since it’s inception.

These “inspections” enabled the hostile take over by other banks. The FDIC sells the assets and those assets are purchased by the mega banks for cheap.

Who runs the FFIC? Former employees from these mega banks.
Keep in mind that much of the content of Conservapedia might as well be written by trolls. It's sometimes hard to say.
So if I manage to catch your ear, can I ask if there are plans to allow earlier ACH (or even better, RTP) in the future? It's a mild annoyance that even scheduled ACH transactions don't go out until the last ACH window of the day - especially when I'm paying myself! :)

It's definitely not a deal breaker, but it's the kind of thing I'd be willing to actually spend a few cents on to cover the transaction costs - earlier settlement means better Fridays for me!
Not all of the NYC subway has ATS.

The current signals being replaced by CBTC date from the 1930s, and are mechanically operated. They are literally historical relics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjx3S3UjmnA
I recently got a Toyota in the insane market at MSRP! You can have all 3.
>I don’t understand why you’re still not laying out the new criteria for being a Brex customer?

In a bygone era I'd have suggested that shame came into it.

It's because you can't convince anyone you're competent whilst acting up like this.
Another story of an FDIC bank takeover, this one from 2009: https://www.npr.org/2009/03/26/102384657/anatomy-of-a-bank-t...
The author is just another young guy trying to get attention - but not realizing that there's a big world out there and not everybody works the same job with the same workflows as he and the people in his bubble do.
Oberon was a great experience, for 1990's computers. Now it is only a source of inspiration.
Whoever leaked this without redacting names put lives at risk. Whoever published it without redacting names likewise.

And before anyone jumps in to say, "they should have not posted in slack if they didn't want the world to read!" There are people who will get harassed and doxxed from this purely because they mentioned being queer or having a darker skin tone.

Disgusting behavior in the name of pursuing a few clicks and social credit points.
SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk
Why do black holes look like rings, not disks?
It actually very practically is. Also, doing your laundry is not the kind of work nor time investment that will make you fail exams.
>fantasy worlds rarely have an equivalent of a 'rods from god' type weapon.

I don't have a compendium of every game ever but they usually throw some OP weapon in. Doesn't invalidate the tanks. There is not in the game or real life an infinite supply of the god rod. On a side note I'm surprised there is no weapon called the god rod yet.

Heavy armor will always have a place in battle. What happens when someone makes a slightly better armored swarm and you have to make a more armored swarm to take out their more armored swarm? Yep, escalation leads to escalation and eventually you end up with a......tank. Then you use the god rod to take out the tank and start over again. Battle is not a fixed state.
In Sittard, The Netherlands track 1 was preceeded by track 20 (kopspoor with buffer stop). Track 20 being the train to Kerkrade and the other tracks being for other trains (mainly but not solely ICs).

One such (obvious) exception is OK with me. Its annoying when every train station has random track numbers though.
If it was 32-bit, then it's probable the windows 7 install wasn't using all the memory, so there shouldn't have been a big difference.

And 4GB is enough for a blank windows 10 install doing some OS things and browsing. I don't think more memory helps that scenario.
The article is not _just adding an index_. They are embedding one of the search fields in a table _primary key_. That likely means the whole physical table layout is tailored for that single specific query.

While it can help to win this very benchmark it's questionable whether it's usable in practice. Chances are an analytical database serves queries of various shapes. If you only need to run a single query over and over again then you might be better off with a stream processing engine anyway.
> How can you be that gullible and still be considered top tier talent?

Easily? I don't think there is any reason to think people good at programming are any less susciptible to being manipulated than anyone else.
For this tiny group of people, maybe and even that’s not guaranteed. Not worth giving up collective bargaining power, reasonable hours and benefits for over the long term.